The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-06-30

LEWIS q. LEVIN, = noted Native Amcri.
can politician In Philadelphia, has become
u confirmed lunatic. lie Is now in au In.
sane Asylum.
Tux Masonic Fraternity Of Erie. Penn
sylvania, propose to perform the ceremony OF
rc-interment 10 those who fell In PssRy's
Victory on Lake Erie, on the Fourth Of
July.
Tas proposals for the five millions srca'
sary.no,e loan were opened In Washington
on the 10th, by the Secretary Of the I'rea-
sary. There were upwards III forty bidders,
and about thirteen and . half millions bid
for. Two million seven hundred thousand
were awarded under six per ceutum, namely.
from 5,s to ga per cent, and one hundred
thousand dollars at five per cent. All the
bidders proposed six per cent, among whom
the remainder Of the loan will be apportioned
pro rata.
MAJOR BKN McCuLIocn, lato United
states Marshal Of Texas. Is . prodigy. He
not only resigned his Office, but upon settling
his accounts, the Government found due him
SlS. 06 more than he claimed. During tho
seven years he WAS Ia Office. no disbursel
Sl60 900 for tho Government and collected
under executions aud Judgments about half
a million more, and yet he did not steal u
dollar nor hold on to large sum under the
prctcxt that he had offsets against the Gov.
crnment.
GARlnALDis dispatches. written In the
true rem. p,d,, p,a style, run in this way
IL have been attacked by the Austrians |
have beaten them; ] am pursuing them
the population rise and help me. o."
Tux New York Commercial Advertiser
says PAUL MoRrny contemplatcs taking up
his residence in that city, and entering upon
the practice Of law, Of which profession be
IN already member, having been admitted
in New Orleans.
Ir has been estimated that tho number
OF private carriages maintained by New
Workers IL not less than from fifteen th0us
aud to twenty thousand, without including
the great swarm Of light. fancy vohiclt'
driven by fast" men on the Bloomingdal'
road in tinc weather.
Tnm Ieavcnworth Daily Herald, OF III
7th inst, states, in M article upon tho rccen
election in Kansas, that the majority In tn
convention will not be more thar one or two
either way, and II is as likely to be with tn
Democrats ~ the Republicans
Tux Albany Statesman gives an accoun
Of the tarring and gathering of guilt!
couple in X Undertook last week by the vii
layers. SyLvEsrKR GRoAr was taken iron
his bed. stripped, aud had tar poured owe
his head and body, and II coat Of feather
applied. EvAsoxliSs Fot.Msny was serve,
In the same manner, barring the head 1h
villagers deserve Imprisonment Tor life.
Tue possibility Of the nomination O
Senator Douglas at Charleston, extrem
Southern journals are prepared to bolt
The Charleston kevs indicates cx.Senato
Dickinson, Of this State, us ib man In sncl
an emergency:
Let II be presumed that thla event occurs
n the southern Democracy submits TO H. -ti
Douglas could not be- elected, ~ he could ~
carry more than two " three Of tho N0itbes
States, and halt Of the southern states woul
either withhold from him their votes or thro'
them In favor Of any reliable third candidat
who was started. II, for instance, Dickinson
Of New York, was united with a strong sonti
erD statesman. such ss senator Brown, Ia
President aud Vice President, the ticket woul
carry nearly every southern state, and poss
, bly, some Of the Northern states.
, TnE 81. Louis papers contain the Con
, fcssion" OF GsoRGE II. LAME. hung there 10
the murder Of his wife. lie first gave be
strychnine, bat il was Intellectual lie the
! induced her to embark IN u boat on III
river. When st O suitable distance iro,
. shore, he says
then laid my oars In the boat. seizsd bol
right hand, and pushed her head down undo
the water held IL there about minute Longer
then | lifted her partly out of the wster. al
found she VA. dead took of her two shaw
and bonnet, and tied some twins two or tire
times around = stone, and attach the other en-
TO her neck then lifted the rock over the ski
and let II down into the water, slipping ID
cord through my hands iii II was all out
then threw the body into the river. and th
weight Of the rock carried II down Instantly
tho rock was . little larger than this book ths
vised Ststutss); II would weigh ten or tweIr
pounds.
The only reason be gives was that b
could not live happily with her. lie uar
ried again.
Mn. CHuncH, who has 20 superbly paint
ed Nisssra and the Andes, has gone u
Halifax. in company with Coles biograpber
the Rev Loss l.. NosLK, whence they vii
cruise on the Newfoundland Banks for Ice
bergs, which Mr.. Church Intends To sketch