The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-11-04
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DURING the last week OF september the
money kings Of the house Of RornscnIlp held
their family council in Paris, and the mem
bcrs from London, Vienna, Frankfort and
Naples gathered round the counter Of their
brother in the French capital. II is their
custom to meet every two or three years to
arrange the programme for future opera
tions.
ANTOINE LIZ CLAIRE, Of Davenport, is
said to be the richest man III Iowa, aud
Ex-Governor GRIMES ranks next
TnR illness OF WASHINGTON Irving turns
out to be only touch Of fever and ague
from which he has nearly recovered. II is
IN old complaint with him. The wonder is
how he contracts the disease in his beauli-
full retreat at " Sunnyside.
BAyARD TAYLOR and family arrived at
New York on Thursday last by the Saxo-
MA. lie has been absent nearly two years
and a halt. lie will devote the winter to
lecturing. His first appearance will be he
fore the New York Mercantile Library
Association. Subject" Moscow"
TnE friends and admirers OF the late Ia.
RENO Ii. SHEPHERD, of New York, have
ust erected a beautiful monument to his
memory in Greenwood Cemetery.
Ok the DIST, we note sale of $4,000
Minnesota s's in New York, nj 1919.
The New York Times correspondent
writing from Washington on the 22d, says
Sir WV. GoRE OusELY, will leave for
Central America to-day. The treaty he is
instructed TO negotiate, drafts Of which have
already been prepared, will be entirely sat
istaciory to our Government.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Vicksburg
True Southron, writing from Livingston
Madison county, Miss, on the 2Sth ult,
says that within mile of his house resides
the grand niece Of OLIVER Cromwell.
This lady is MRs. ANNA MARIA LOWE,
widow OF FEGuKEs Lowe. Her maiden
name was CRowELL. and she came from
North Carolina to Madison county with her
late husband Her father, .JouS CRowELi,
was the son of JouS CKowEIL, or CRoM.
WEI, the brother Of OLIVER CROMWELL.
THE Boston Traveller learns that young
SIDNEY COOLIDGE, Of Boston, has reached
Charleston, S. G., having made his escape
from Mexican prison. COOLIDGE, who
went out 10 Mexico as mn engineer. joined
one of the revolutionary parties in that
country, aud was captured IN one OF the en-.
counters of late so frequent there.
A SINGULAR trial has just been concluded
at Pittsburgh. Some time ago slave, who
called himself GEO. w FERNS, ran away
from Tuscumbia, Alabama. FrRRIs was
SO white that one not knowing him would
not suspect bis having negro blood in him.
He went to Pi'tsburg, where he passed of
for u white man, worked at his trade, which
was that Of bricklaycr, and married
white woman. by whom he had one child
4 white man named Gro. SHAW, also
bricklayer, arrived at Pittsburgh, and hav
ing known FERRIS at Tuscumbia recogniz
cd him. lie informed his master Of it, and
then enticed FERRIS TO Kansas, whore he
was arrested as a fugitive from Alabama.
and taken back 10 his owner SHAW was
tried last week Al Pittsburgh and convicted
Of kidnapping.
Tue 100000 PRIzy-lIySRY Mans,
the clerk in San Francisco who purchased
the ticket that drew the 100000 prize
in the Havana lottery, only day or two
before the arrival Of the steamer, disposed
OF hve-eiglths Of his interest in the ticket,
and therefore be himself holds only three.
eigh,s, or equal 10 S3I 800. The holders Of
the remaining fvecights are all poor I'eo
pie, and laborcrs, either German or French
Some Of them were almost crazy at their
good fortune.
A nesting il 10 bc beld AZ Paris in No.
venbcr IN make arrangements for the cor
s,ructiou Of a cana across the lsthmus Of
Su'z.
CosPLaiSr was laply made by an Irish
girl in New York that a man wa murdered
some week. siDce at a gambling bell in
Broadway. She heard the struggle in the
hall in the night, with crios Take my
money bat spare ny Iife." anl 'he mex, day
IN going 70 draw water, She saw a mans
bead floating Ia the ristern. 4 New York
paper say. that "tI,r description Of 'be man
Murdered correpord, with HAT u Mr. +.
T.. M'DDLFroy Of Goshen. Orange county,
y. Y. vito vent g. New York ab0u, the