The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-10-14


The Harriet Lane, OF the Paraguay
squadron, sailed on the S,h.
A GENTLEMAN who has just arrived from
Fort Union, says that the Indian agent,
REDrIELD, was at Smutty Bears Camp,
eighty miles below Fort Randall, on the
oath ult. The Indians were saucy towards
the whites, any serious trouble was appre-
hended with the Sioux and Ricarees.
TIE New York Times says that saga
ciow observers predict vote of 10000 for
Omar SMITH, one of the Abolition candi-
dates for Governor of New York. The
Times thinks that half of that number is a
force not to be overlooked by those who
undertake to predict results in November.
AxAN named SAMUEL SwIrr, ofAuburn,
N. Y, heard woman scream who was be-
ing beaten by her drunken husband, and
went into the house to defend her, when the
husband ordeded him out of the house, at the
same time drawing knife and inhicting
stab in his right breast. SwIFr died in an
hour. The occurrence caused much ex-
citement in Auburn.
The N. Y. Times Washington cores
pendent says that the President has com.
menced the draft Of his annual message.
JACKSON, the pedestrian has been walk
ing in Burlington, Vermont, on queer sort
ofwsger. Speed and distance were not put
into the game but be undertook TO walk at
such pace as he might choose, without ces-
sation for l05 heurs-saving only forty
minutes for rest. lie concluded the feat,
according to the programme, at IL o'clock
last Saturday night having spent thirty
minutes out Of his forty in sleep and the
other ten minutes in taking lunch in
sitting posture.
A MAN named HEssEY, 20 years of age,
has been found guilty Of seduction, in Spen-
Ger county, Kentucky, and sentenced to pay
$4,000 damages.
CART. WEBB, Of the schooner Thomas +.
French, from Suffolk, Va, arrived at New
York recently, states that it was reported
at Hog Island that schooner from the
West Indies had put in there on the 18th
ult., and ran ashore on Ship Shoal Inlet
with all hands dead of fever, excepting the
captain and cook. Assistance had been
sent to her.
NJ. GARNIyA, a French machnist, has it
it is said, perfected his arial ship, at cost
Of 100000 francs, and made a voyage to
AIgiers, Africa. and back with it-a dis
lance Of fifteen hundred miles from the start
ing point. The average speed was almost
one hundred miles an hour. NJ. GARyISA
is to make the attempt from Ilavre to the
city Of New York as soon as he has tested
the character of his ship by few short trips
over the Mediterranean and its neghboring
provinces.
A SUIT was decided before Judge Curu.
RKR, at Mineral Point, Wisconsin a day or
to since, 10 which the defendant was muct-
60 in verdict TO the amount of $1,000.
The offence was the seduction Of another
MAS wife.
:. A TELEGRAPH operator firms that the
HCGHys instrument will work over the leaks
In the submarine cable where no other in.
strument can, and cites as proof of this
the success which ATTENDED it in working
the New York and Brooklyn wires for many
weeks through two cables, both of which
were leaking badly.
THE people of Pittsburgh are proposing
to celebrate the one hundred,h anniversary
Of the surrender Of For, Du Qnesne by the
French, which took place on the oath of
November, 1853, and terminated the al.
thority Of France in the Centre West.
The Davenport Gazette states ,ha, an in
junction has been issued BY Judge Lowe
restraining the Rock Island Bridge Compa-
ny from making such repairs as they are
very much needed, and the neglect Of which
may be the cause Of serious disaster.
VIZ learn from the Rochester Democrat,
that the narrow gusge On the Niagara Falls
and Canandaigua Railroad is now complete,
and On Friday the first train passed over it.
The sudden appearance Of the prize fight
ers, MosRIssSY and HEEs.s, in Buffalo, is
said TO be owing 10 the fact that warrants
we're out for their ARES, 10 Troy and New
York.
The exports OF specie from New York 10
foreign ports for the week ending the 2d
inst, were 81 016,404, making total since
Jan. lst Of s2095l 500. zane time in
1851, s32.977,072 same time 10 1856, s27.-