The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-11-18
Telegraphio and Other News Items.


DENVER CRY pixies Peak dates to the
goth ult., bring the report Of duel be-
tween RICHARD WHITTsET and WIN. p
MCCLURE. The latter was shot in, or a
little above, the groin, and the wound is
supposed to be fatal.
A WASHINGTON letter afirns that the
President will not appoint minister to
Paris till the meeting of Congress.
ARCH. /. Cook, one of the Oldest tele.
graphic reporters in the United States, died
at Baltimore on Thursday, the 9th Oct.
THERE was a killing frost in various parts
of louisiana and Mississippi, on Sunday
morning, the 30th Oct.
AN old man in Indiana recently cowhided
his daughter, nineteen years old, for wearing
hoops. Another man in the same State
turned his daughter out of doors for the
same offence.
A DISPATCH from New Orleans, of the
I'd inst, states that WELLS, FARGO & Co,
the great Express Company, have obtained
the privilege from Sonora to run line Of
stages from Arizona to Guaymas on the
Gulf of California.
Tens on the Bank Of Lansingburg; NY;
twos on the State Bank, Montpelier, Vt;
fyes on the Bank Of Commerce, New Lon
don, CT; threes and tens on the Bank o.
Mutual Redemption, Boston, Mass; ones on
the Bank of Mt. Carmel, I'LL, are among rhe
latest counterfeits.
THE celebrated picture, The Duel after
the Masquerade" has been sold to a gentle.
man in Chicago for $4,000.
A BLOCK consisting of about twenty five
wooden buildings on Green street, between
Fifth and Sixth streets, st. Louis, kaown as
the "Robber's Roost," composed of notori-
GUS Irish doggeries and disreputable dance
houses, was burned on the night of the
Sd. Loss, SIS, 900.
Gov. WISE has issued a proclamation
offering reward of $500 each for the arrest
of the following named fugitive insurgents
Owen Brown, BARCLAY, MERRIAM and
ToDD.
A COMMISSION de lanatico iaqmrendo has
been appointed in the case OF Mrs. BLANDI-
Ma DUDLEY, in view of alleged recent sin
gular dispositions made by her of her prop
erty.
A FIRE occurred at New Orleans on the
night of the Sd, in the Fourth District, al
which sixty dwellings were destroyed, at ar
estimated loss, of quarter of a million o
dollars. @
AT Charleston, s. c., on the 4th instant
CHARLES MACBETH was elected Mayor by
800 majority. #
A WASHINGTON letter says that JuDGr
RoosEyELT is prominent candidate for th'
French mission. Mr.. PRESTON is expected
home soon from Spain, and it is said he viii
not return.
LIN the four weeks during which PAGE'
Venus was exhibited at the Dusseldorf Gal
lery, in New York, about $4,000 we're takel
at the doors. This viii give an aggregate
Of 10000 visitors.
The Boston Post, abiding to the expos6r
made by FORBES, states that thecotton spec
ulation of the Massachusetts, " humanitari
ans is likely to prove hempen one. TIL
spectators did not expect to be roped in at
ter the manner indicated.
TIE Legislature of Alabama met at Mil
ledgviile on the End inst, and both branche
were organized by the election OF LEGRANl
i QUERY as President of the Senate, an
ISAIAH IRWIN as Speaker ofthe House. Th
Governor communicated lengthy messag
solely confined to State business, no refel
ence being made to national politics.
Cam, JOIN E. CooK.-The Eale
Blade, aSDemocratic paper published ,
{ Paris, Edgav co., H., says that Capt. J ]
|, Cook, one Of the Harper's Ferry ineurre
+ tionists, is a bsother-in-law of Goyernt
/ WILLARD, of Indiana -also that the Ho
8 DIV yooRuEs, OF Terra Haate, has bee
engaged to defend pim.
4 A DISPATCH from j lbaDy, of the eyeniI
+ Of the 9th, states that TnuRLow VIZ
!. claims the election OF H.M. LEAvESwoRT
e the Republican candidate for Secretary
d State, over JOKES, the Democratic and U
x ca nominee, by {, 900 majority, and Of Rol
5 DESSIsr6s, Republican and Utica can
date for Comptroller. By $500 majority.