The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-12-09
Tclegraphic and other News Items.

not recover. He is very old and was APP
pointed by President VAN buren,.
A YOUNG farmer living in Du Page
county, ILL.,, named AvERILL, quarrelled
with his wife, few days since, and she left
for her fathers. The next day the husband
killed himself by cutting his throat. The
suicide had been married less than year.
The Louisville Courier says that CHAs.
GRorE, an extensive flour dealer, absconded
from Newport, KY, on the 5th inst,
leaving his creditors in the lurch. His
liabilities are large and his assets small.
The House of Representatives of Georgia
have passed bill inficting the penalty of
death on any white person who shall procure
a slave to commit an offence which by law
forfeits the life of such slave.
A FIRE in the stable and lumber yard of
HARDY & BROWN, in Williamsburg, N.
Y, on Thursday, destroyed $4,000 worth
of property.
The Legislature of Alabama met on the
18th ult. Governor MOORE, in his message
makes no allusion to federal matters The
balance in the treasury on the Both of Sep
TENDER was $63l ,679. The affairs of the
State, generally, are shown to be in a condi
ton of unusual prosperity.
A YOUNG gentleman in Bath, Maine
complains, and apparently with reason, of
uncivil treatment from two rowdies in that
city. He was taken to retired locality of
the town, robbed of his money, stripped of
his clothing, choked, kicked and knocked
down with a stone, and then an unsuccessful
attempt was made to drown him in pond
A LATE London letter says the gold sunk
with the Royal Charter has not yet been
recovered, and the rate of insurance for it
has advanced to 40 per cent. The amount
is about $2,5OO,0OO.
Mr.. DEXTER, carpenter residing in
Cranston, Rhode Island, was robbed about
five o'clock Monday evening of his pocket
book, containing 500. He was proceed
ing on foot when he.was seized by two men
one on each side, when third came up in
front and demanded his money or his life.
To save the latter. Mr. DEXTER surrendered
the former, and the robbers escaped into the
woods.
ACCORDING to the sporting oracles in
New York, HARLAN, the colored patron of
the turf, who went out to England with sew
eral race-horses, with view of beating the
Britishers, has himself been pretty we'll used
up. Neither of his three horses, Lincoln"
"Ds Chiles" or Cincinnati" have yet won
race. There is rumor in sporting circles
that HARLANs horses have been seized, on
the other side of the water, by his creditors.
A VERY important seizure of diamonds,
jewelry and watch movements, amounting in
their aggregate value to 100000, was made
few days ago on the arrival of the steam
ship Asia at Jersey City. The property
belonged principally to two Spanish gentle
men. Another party is also implicated in
an attempt to smuggle some ten dozen sets
of valuable shirt.studs.
The vote of Kansas at the late election
was $4,000 AS not over two-thirds of the
electors were at the polls, and thousands of
Others had not acquired residence in the
State to make them voters, it can hardly be
doubted that she has population sufficient
to entitle her to admission into the Union
under the provisions of the ENGLISH Bill.
The Perrysburg (Ohio) Journal has a
letter from Browns Corners, giving an
account of the elopement of man named
BURR SMITH and girl named MELvINA
BENNER. SMITH left on the 9th with his
paramour, deserving wife.
The exports of specie from New York
to foreign ports for the week ending the
10Th inst, were 81 ,991-making a
total since Jan. l, 1859, of $67 OF SOL !;
same time in 1858, $23,S48,946; same
time in 1857, $34,8O3,926; same time in
1856, 1913 .8O6,l IA; same time in 1855,
$26,555 sol +; same time in 1854, 36,544,-
281 same time in 1858, $22,3l3,l 37;
same time in 1852, $23, 307 SOL.
IT is reported in the fashionable circles of
Rome that the Prince OF Wales, during his
recent visit, when at the Palace Cafarelli,
the King of Prussia's residence he opened a
Irritation with the Kings niece, the Prin
cess ALExANDRINE of Russia, which is likely
to result in matrimonial alliance.
The New York Times says d" Our from
tier expenses cannot be less than 5,O0O,-
600 per annum, and this amount might as
well be thrown into the sea, for all the good
it accomplishes on our frontiers.
In Memphis, one day last week, gentle
man from Arkansas lost SIC. 500 dollars al
cards. The game upon which the money
was ventured and lost is known to modern
card players as seven up" and will be re-
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