The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-12-02


missionaries were assaulted, and American
and English ladies compelled to flee to the
ships for protection" All was quiet at the
date of the letter, and promised to con-
tinue so.
The Manchester Guardian thins that
Lord BoUGHAM's mind and body seem to bid
equal defiance to the torpid advances Of
great ages. He is verging on eighty, and
yet his physical and mental vigor show no
symptoms of decay.
A METHODIST Church was burned at
Lynn, Massachusetts,, on the evening of the
Dist inst.
A DISPATCH from Philadelphia, of the
22d, states that John D. WINsLow, agent
for SACKETr, DAVIS, & Co., Jewellers in
New York, committed suicide by shooting
himself. He yesterday entrusted a box Of
jewelry worth 100000 to a colored porter
to carry to the Office of DECAPER, Tiff &
Co. The box not being delivered, it was
supposed that WINsLow had stolen it. The
police were informed of the facts, but were
unable to recover the box before the COM
mission of the deed. He wrote to his
mother at Providence, bis employers and
Mr.. ARNOLD. The box was recovered this
morning, having been left by mistake at
another establishment. He was single, and
only % years DID,"
The first mortgage bondholders of the
New York and Erie Railroad, having ap-
piled to the Comptroller of the State of
New York to advertise and sell the road for
the non payment of interest, the State
Comptroller has placed the matter in the
hands of the Attorney General, who pro-
ceeded at once under the act of l045 to sell
the road with all the appurtenances.
The Republican Convention of the city
of New York, which met on the 22d inst,
nominated GEORGE OPDYKE for Mayor.
FERNANDO WooD is the Democratic nomi-
nee.
AT meeting held at the fremont Tenn
pie, Boston, on the evening of the 10Th,
over $500 were collected for the benefit of
the family of JOHN BROWN, the Harpers
Ferry insurrectionist.
The steam sawmill Of THEoPH1LUs CUsH-
ING, and the Frankfort Mills, at Bangor,
Maine, were destroyed by fire on the 22d
inst. Loss $4,000, mostly insured.
The shoe mandatory of ALBERT Hum
PHREY, in East Weymouth, Mass, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 22d inst, and a loss
thereby suffered of $4,000.
ISAAC F. SHEPARD was arraigned on the
22d before the Superior Court of Boston on
four indictments, charging him with the
forgery Of promissory notes. He waived an
examination and was committed to await
trial.
A CoMPosIToR in the Journal office, Indi-
annapolis, named WIN. SMILEY, was found
insensible on the morning of the 22d, on a
stairway leading to the saloon under the
Mental House, where it was supposed he
had fallen. Subsequent examination showed
that he had been struck by a slung shot and
robbed. He died the same afternoon. No
clue had been obtained to the murderer.
The funeral obsequies by the fire depart
ment in honor of the memory of the late
United States Senator from California,
Hon. DAVID G. BRoDER1cK, which had been
for some time contemplated, and postponed
for various reasons, took place in New York
on Sunday, the Goth instant, and was wit.
messed by many thousands of persons.
The Stratford &c. wy Examiner says
judgment has been given in the suit long
pending between Mr.. WHITEHEAD and the
Buffalo and Lake Huron Railroad Com
pany. He claimed damages for breach of
contract and for work done, and the Court
of Chancery awarded him $4,000.
A MAN in Hartford, Ct, has made appli-
cation for divorce from his wife on the
ground of her being lazy. He alleges that
she will not get up in the morning, build a
fire, and get his breakfast at seasonable
hour.
The latest European arrival bring news
that the monster steamship Great Eastern
had arrived at Southampton.
OVER one hundred students have rebelled
at Dickinson College, Virginia, on account
Of the expulsion of four members of the
senior class.
A NEW method of swindling has been
tried quite successfully in Philadelphia.
The honey is extracted from the comb, and
the cells filled with sugar. As sugar can
be bought for ten cents pound, and honey
is worth twenty-five to thirty cents, the
seller is enabled to clear from fifteen to
twenty cents per pound by the operations.
A coLoRED child, living near Keyport