The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-06-26

Silver to the amount of $l1 900, has been
extracted from the copper taken from the Su-
perior mines during the past winter.
A census of Cincinnati, Just completed,
shows that city to contain total Of 1868
white male inhabitants of the age of p years
and upwards.
Mr.. Charles Ewell, Of Middlebury, w yoming
county, N. Y, raised last year l65 bushels Of
carrots on an eighth of an acre of ground.
Horace Vernet is employed on picture for
the Tuilleries, representing Napoleon l. in the
midst Of all the generals who persisted on the
field of battle during his campaign viz, Des-
saix, Caulaincourt, Lasalle, Duroc, Espagne,
Marand, Auguste Colbert, Letort, Lacoste,
d'Aautpoul, Sc. Hilairc, Montbrun and G ldin.
Besides these, are the Marshals Poniatowski,
Lannes and Bessieres.
Lavinge, one of the Oldest pensionnairss of
the Academic Imperiale de Mensigne, and the
predecessor of Mourrit and Dupre, died few
days ago at Pau, his native town. He was
much distinguished at the opera for his fine
tenor voice, from 1903 to 1925.
To such an extent did the rage for betting
on the Virginia election prevail in Washing
VIZ wy, .nss Wv VI s'A0 So'SA nnASAS Son'AoS
tors for the capitol extension, after putting up
all the rocks" he could raise, finally staked
the marble blocks which were designed for the
structure he was putting up. Luckily he bet
on the safe side, and is reported to have won
upwards of $4,000.
About the LIST of April, Eve British vessels
of war, carrying one hundred and twenty guns,
sailed from Honolulu with the intention of
joining the French squadron for second at
tack on Petropaulowski. 1t is surmised that
the attack would have been made on the Goth
of May.
The Harpers had the bill for their new build
ing, amounting to 5000, 900, sent in few days
ago for payment, Besides the building, are
thirty-three presses, which cost about $1,000
each, variety of other machinery, engines,
stock, &c. The new premises have been oc-
cupied little more than month. Not far
from 600 persons are employed, and most of
the valuable standard works have already been
reprinted. .ss. .-F.
A writer in the Cottage Gardener says that
plants in sleeping room are healthful, Is they
consume more vitiated air than they create,
hence are good purifiers.
The ship Sunny South cleared from San
Francisco for China this Spring, having on
board the dead bodies Of seventy Cinnamon.
1t appears that there is a company of China
men in that city doing quite An extensive bus
mess in disinterring and shipping the dead
bodies of their countrynen to the order of the
relatives of the deceased in China. The cost
of the operation is about fifty dollars sum
willingly expended by the Weather class OF
Chinese who consider IL n duty "a we'll az
privilege, to pay tribute of respect to the re-
mains of deceased relatives. '
Archdeacon Jefreys, missionary in the
East Indies, states that for one really convert
ed Christian, as the fruit of Missionary labor,
the drinking practice of the English had made
one thousand drunkards in India"
Murders have become 80 frequent in Missis-
sippi that the clergy are strenuously urging
the more rigid enforcement, Of capital punish
ment. Gov. Foote once said that for every
two days Of his term Of two years Is Governor
Of Mississippi, ttere was q murder in the State.