The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-01-01

meet again and pay the balances against them.
If this balance is not paid by bali past twos II
is reclaimed and the bank suspended from the
privileges of the institution. The Central
Bank did not conform to this rule, and was
suspended accordingly. The suspension was
followed by rush of note-holders and deposit
tors, which would be fatal to almost any Bank
in the CITY, The balances however, were paid
at 8, P. NJ, but on Wednesday, the bank was
closed, but the directors intimate possibility
of its rcsuming on Monday. This Bank, as
well as the Empire City, viii probably be OBJ
liged to wind up its affairs. Its circulation is
well secured, but the depesitors must lose
something. IL = -''- s. 4
Enough Of bankruptcy and starvation y, -
The topic Of absorbing interest is the war, the
extensive detail of which, furnished by Eng
lish papers, bring the battlefield almost befol g
our eyes, The prospect of rupture between
the Allied and German powers, and eonsc7
fuently of new revolutionary outbursts in Er-
rope. produces considerable excitement among
the exiled patriots in this city, and they arc
probably holding themselves in readiness for.
any opportunity. There are republican secr,t
societies of French, Germans, Poles, Hungari-
ans and Italians, and no one knows what com
bustibles and explosives may be piled up,wait-
ing for the match. Singular advertisements
appear now and then in the dailies, which read
like the rawlings Of an idiot. They are said to
he ciphercommunications ineligible only to
the refugees. What episodes of romantic his
tories might be written out from some of the
advertisements in our vehicles Of commercial
intelligence, as they have wcdgcd in between
notifications of soap, hats, fddlcsticks, and all
the humbug OF Vanity Fair. Lost friends,
found fortunes, disconnected words which have
deep meaning for two eyes out Of fifty thous-
and that read them! A wonderful thing, IL
deed, is a newspaper. 1,". .,...,~5slM ....
The murderer, Tasker, formerly editor of the
Brooklyn Advertiser is now on trial Proba-
bly, he will escape Gu plea of insanity. He
was, no doubt, mad with drink when he MUIR
deled his helpless family, but it is doubtful
whether constitutional insanity can be proved.
Human life is one of the few commodities that
seem to cheaper daily. Men are hewn down
daily in our streets like cattle, by the axe or
the deadly dirk stealing silently to their hearts,
and we are growing hardened and insens;bic to
slaughter and death. Those terrible details of
the Alma have not tended to makelus less so.
And Oh! that Tread should be so dear, and
flesh and blood SO cheap!
A new church was lately dedicated in Brook
Ign, for the use Of the Centre Presbyterian
church, Rev. j. f. Rockwells. 1t is a fine,
commodious edfcc.-The butchers have alter
ed market day. to Wednesday, in order to pre-
vent breaking the Sabbath BY preparations for
Monday as before. A few stick to the old day
Councilman Wild, famous as an amateur
ducffist, lost yesterday about 81 800 by fire
in lis confectionery shop, which his chivalry
has helped to advertise. The sun is coming
out gradually Beehan, the murderer ito he
executed to-day. A speech of Kossuth is pub
lishcd i'll the papers on the present crisis of
Europe. ~