The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-07-21
All Sorts OF Items.

IN = S>ASN -4AAa Os~S~Ssf
has completed the purchase Of the Collins
steamers, viz. the Adriatie, Baltic, and
Atlantic. II il the intention Of the com.
pany to run these boats, 90 the completion
of their contract With u. 0. RoBER rs, Sep.
TENDER 30, 1889. to Aspinwall, ria the
Panama Railroad, in connection with their
line on the Pacific. 1t is unders TODD that
uniform passages Of eighteen days will be
made from New York to San Francisco.
Ar the trotting match, on Union Course
l. l., 90 the eth inst, between Patchep,
Brown Dick, Miller's Damsel, and Lady
Woodruff, Eve heats were trotted under $50.
an event unparalleled in the history Of the
turf. Patchen took the first, second, and
fifth heats. and Brown Dick took the third
and fourth Miller's Damsel being last in
each heat Time-2:26ii, 2:26l., 2:29
2:253l, 2:29.
Is the Supreme Judicial Court Boston,
on the I'd inst, in the case Of SARAH +.
SHAW Is. the Boston and Worcester Rail
road Corporation, the motion for new trial
was overruled, and Judgment for S22,246
ordered to be entered for Mrs. SHAW. Mrs.
SHAw's husband was killed on the road be.
longing to this company.
A WASHINGTON letter says: "General
PIERCE expected to return home next month.
recent indications in Mrs. PIERcK's health
being less encouraging than heretofore.
This intelligence saddens the hear. of large
circle Of her personal friends here"
The total number OF houses in Boston 10
1923 was about 5000, Of which 1000 were
brick and the rest Of wood, and the popu.
lation after o settlement Of nearly one hun.
dred years, amounted to only 10000. Now
the number Of buildings is probably upwards
Of 10000, while the population is in the
neighborhood of $4,000.
The report that has recently obtained
currency, that Mr.. DouS PIArr will conduct
the National Era for the benefit OF Mr..
CHASE, is eontradicted by Mr.. PIArr. The
paper will maintain the character estab-
lished for it under the editorship of DR..
BAILEY
= THK chief motive that prompted the Nor
mons to commit the Mountain Meadow
Massacre seems to have been plumber.
Atrocities too horrid to be related and
&hich seemed to shock the savages them
sefves, are related TO persons who claim TO
,.hsve been compelled to join in that massa-
ere. The number OF persons in the train
was about one hundred and forty. The
property con6scated amounted TO from $780,.
900 to 5000 counting 200 cattle, horses,
md mules, some very fine stock and forty
wagons and carriages.
r The terrible slaughter in the Italian war
made by the bayonet in the hands Of the
Zouaves, who regard the musket as simply a
"handle,' has excited much attention. An
army order, issued by Gen. Scorr, directs
that greater attention be bestowed hereafter
upon the bayonet exercise, which has been
somewhat neglected of late in the discipline
Of the service.
THs Detroit Free Press says that Judge
GHotsss, the Abolition candidate for judge
Il IL Supreme Court of Ohio, was formerly
slave holder in Mississippi He sold his
slaves st public auction at Pontiac, Miss.
10 1s45, aud with the proceeds OF the sale
emigrated to Ohio. such men generally
make the fercest Abolitionists, and declaln
the loudest against the traffic in human
flesh and the horrors of the slave market.
The remarkable exemption OF the city o
New Orleans from yellow fever this yea
thus far. il Is believed, is due to the Ions
continued overflow Of the Mississippi river
The theory tina: overaows are preven,lves o
this disease is strongly defended in the New
Orleans Medical Review, and is daily becom
ing stronger in the public mind.
The Philadelphia horse railroads carried
l75,7iO passengers on the 18th inst. the re
THs Philadelphia papers record the FAC
that -lf.propelling steam FIRE engine ia'ei.
was run from that city to Trenton, over th
road Of the country, which IS an ordinar,
turnpike, with highly satisfactory results
All the Inequalities Of surface, land som
sharp hills were encouutered) were over
come without difficulty. AZ time the raj
Of speed Travelled was sixteen miles 90 hour
oar New York and Philadelphia eonieu
poraries are anticipating important resul'
from this experiment.
ceipts from fares amounting 70 so''o'' r.
new ep,erfri.c tbs = n very good D9.i