The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-12-23
All sorts of lie nae.

INK NeW tork fFfouhs Shvs' III
the vast linen house down town, among an
army OF merchants yet unhedged, there is
no, one who exhibits greater business iptelli-
gence, integrity, energy and tact, not one
who is more popular with employer aud EN-
ployed, or gives higher promise Of becoming
u shining commercial light, than the son of
one who will wear The belt Of one Of the
Oldest earldoms in Ireland"
BAyARD TAYLOR refuses TO make any
further engagements for lecturing the pres
cnt season. lie is engaged for one hundred
nights, at $50 per night, which, Of course.
brings him $4,000.
JUpog PRuDnN, OF Cincinnati, has rem.
dered decision in favor Of NICHOLAS Ran
DoLrH, who had been arrested for an nj
legged iufraction of the Sunday law by driving
an omnibus through the streets OF that city.
The case has excited great interest not only
In Cincinnati, but elsewhere. The Judge
considered omnibus driving rs coming un'
der the exceptional head Of works of ueces-
si,y.
LArE advic,s from Paraguay state that
LorEz is doing nothing, and making no
preparations whatever to resist the Amcri.
can squadron. For some time back be has
made no allusion to the expedition, or TO the
United States, in the Stmanario. The
Buenos Ayrcs papers copied with avidiiy
every detail of the expedition that had
reached them from the United States.
COLONEL TAcuE, the Canadian politician,
has been dubbed Knight lie is the
fourth who has received the same honor.
The Canadian Knights are Sir A. McNAB,
Sir j. 4. RoplssoS, Sir l.. II LArosrAis,
and Sir f. Z. TAonE. The two latter are
French Canadians.
VIZ learn by dispatch from New Or
| leans, dated December eth, that the stern
wheel steamer, Audubon, has been destroyed
by fire. The dispatch docs not state when
or where the disaster occurred, nor mpart
any particulars. She was valued at not
LEES than IS 200, and insured in ~. Louis
She ran considerable time from ST. LOUIS
TO st. Paul.
| Tux Nashville Gazette reviews an article
upon EDGAR A. PoE in the Edinburgh
Rev,ew for April, 1858. After denoun,ing
the review rs refined blingsgate," the
Gazette reproves SYDNEY SMrru, whom i,
reputcs ~ the author, in the following
terms
az the Rev. Sydney Smith, the editor OF the
Edinburgh Rsrutc. had more OF the scholar
aud less Of national prejudice, he would have
| devoted the time expended In the before men
| toned paragraph TO q much better purpose by
| n more critical analysis Of the writings Of Poe.
| In fact, we think that the author OF The Ra
| ven md AnnAbel Lee il above and be ond
the critical acumen Of the reverend gentle
man"
TnE New York Tunes expresses no mca-
surcd Indignation against President BU.
cuAsAs, who is charged with iavoring the
New York Herald, by permitting that jour
nal to have a copy OF the message, before 1t
was distributed to other journals, II is
said that it was in type in the Herald Office,
the day before il was issued.
AN extraordinary trial has opened in the
frs, civil chamber in PARIS. Twelve
homeopathic doctors have commenced an
action for 10000 francs damages from an
allopathic medical Journal, for an attack
upon their system OF medicine. II is the
virtues Of that system which they desire TO
establish, and not pecuuiary claim, for
they promise TO give the money to the
poor.
FERNANDO WooD made spec oh recently
in New York, in which be gave q little
professional advice, by stating on his own
knowledge. that "tbe Comptroller OF the
City could easily pook,t hundred h'ous-
and doiiats Of the p,ibi'e money annually
utfhon teng detected
FIFrgys persons escaped from the Jail in
Rochester. New York, on the 18th, among
whom il NASTY LOCKE, who killed BgsJ.
STARR, at Mendon, in 1857. They cut of
| f,e iron bars with a saw made Of q watch
spring, and let Themselves down into Gene
see river, with the rope with which IgA
Srovr was hung. THY waded some fifteen
rod. TO reach the land. None are recap
,urcd as yet.
SENATOR DoUGLAs ~ NV Yosx-On
the l7,h, in New York, the Board Of Alder.
men ard Coupcilmen passed resolutions com.
planetary 70 Senator DouGLAs, and sp-
pointed q committee 30 extend the hospital