The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-06-09
News Items.

DISTURBANCE IN BROoKLyN.-A small rio
was gotten up in Brooklyn, on the 2sih., in consc
qucnce Of the discourse Of a certain street preacher
few broken heads and bloody were the re
| suit.
GEORGE s. KING, Midshipnnan in the L. S
Navy, committed suicide in Cincinnati on the Both
by Jumping from the window Of the fourth story of
hotel, while under the influence del,ium nemtns.
A RAcE.-A four mile race came of on the 27il
at Lexington, Ky. between Mary Taylo Rube ant
seconds.
The Washington Union says that the Presidcn
teegraphcd to the United States Marshal at Bostor
that his conduct in the matter Of the slave
fully approved ofby the government, aud that tho aw
must be enforced.
Twelve hundred tuns Of Railroad iron was re-
ccivcd Mt Princeton, H., for the Central MiIitar,
Tract Railroad, and is TO lie Immediately laid down
A capital point was made by ono ofihe counsel for
the prosecution at the trial Of Matt Ward, IN answer
u Tom Marshal's allusion 10 Matt Wards travels
and his Writ 10 Mount Sinai, where God delivered
The law to Moses. The counsel wondered IL the
prisoner, when amid the subIimties Of Sinai, where
he INDUCED IL prof.iou Of sacred sentiments, had
ever read ~ the decaIogue, "1hou shalt not KILL"
We learn from Mr.. RIcH, lately from Rochcstsr,
N. Y, that Butler BROTHERS, who were among
the heaviest mercantile firms in that city, have failed
Tor % large amount, and that one Of them IL now IN
nil on criminal charge.
EARrnacAxE.-By tho Pamrcro, arrived ut
Now Orleans, on the 9th May, six days from San
Juan, letter WIS received which stascs that the
destruction Of fo and property by the la.c earthquake
WAS G,r moro awful than Mt first represented nearly
5000 persons having been killed by the catastrophe.
It's most positively stated, by those who have
SUM" "e~" 10 know, that both Hon. Rufus Chontc
and Hon. Robert G. Winthrop pcrc'nptoriiy decline
Icing regarded M cmndidatcs Tor the o. ~ Senator.
ship, made vacant by the regretted resignation Of
Hon. Edward Everett, and that both Of them will
decline II, " appointed. Mr.. Winthrop no longer
considers himself public man. Mr.. Choatc HAVING
gut I'D Of The oncros burden Of the Attorney .tcrc
aI.hip Is now only iawyo, md does no, n,e,e.,
himself In public Affairs. A friend Of ours states
Mr. Choate once remarked 10 him In conversation.
IN allasion having bee" made 10 bis former scnaora
career. that he "knew nothing al,ou. politics."
RUSH or 1MMi8RANrs 70 THE Wssr.-A
trAi" 'sn Albany for Buffalo On Monday las. consist.
Ing eftwsny.Ave carr, containing over eleven hun.
d'ed immigrants, and another train on Tuesday, u
thiHy'Ave ears with about fifteen hundred n,nig
The Louis7iIIe Courier says. party Of ten coolies,
direct from China, passed that ely On the IAN, on
'hr'r why 10 kslly's Iron Mill, on The Cumberland
river, bsiow EddyviIIs. They were u TALL, healthy
booking sst u CsIestiaIs, and have sold thenseIves
iora tsrm u years " work " tho aforesaid Iron
works.
Moses II. dRissELL, the we'll known and emil.
os"t merchant, 10 very likely 10 be dominated the
Wing candidate M Governor VI New York. 1'hs
convention meets on the last week Of September.
ColonsI seHoULER has assumed tbs chief sdto
rial control of the Cincinnati 0ssafsj CRAFTS J.
wH'oMr. Ew many years tho able editor, having
retired on account of ~ health.