The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-09-23
All Sorts of Items.

Oregon, July "a, by the Bannock and Sho-
shone Indians. Six men and one woman
killed, six men and one woman wounded
some of the men MORALLY. The Indians
robbed the wagons of $17O0, and drove off
large quantity of stock.
A TREMENDOUS confagration occurred in
Halifax, on the 10th. Five whole blocks
on Granvill street, numbering fifty buildings
and including thirteen extensive dry goods
establishments were totally consumed. The
damage is not estimated, but it must neces-
sarily be very large. 1t is reported that
three men were killed at the fire.
The city government of Portland, Me-,
made special arrangements to honor the
arrival of the steamship Great Eastern.
The programme includes public dinner, a
grand ball and military display, and other
manifestations of rejoicings.
SOME idea may be formed of the enor-
nous sums of money which are sunk in the
purchase ofpictures by the weather. classes
in England, from the collection of the late
Lord NoRTHwICK has produced no less than
$685.. The late sale extended over eigh-
teen days, and was attended by dealers from
all parts of the world. The picture of the
Birth of Jupiter" which cost his lordship
ESQ, was knocked down at el,OOO. The
picture of st. john" by CARLO DoLc1,
from the Lucien Bonaparte gallery, was
knocked down for 2,O1O guineas. This is
the highest price realized for single picture
throughout the sale.
HORACE GREEEEY addressed a letter to
his political friends in California, urging
them to vote for McK1BBEN, anti-Lecomp-
ton candidate for Congress. Also advoc at
ing fusion of all opposition parties by COM
bining on the best candidates of each, which
he believed would render it practicable to
carry the election to the total defeat of the
Administration Democracy.
THa Rochester Union says: We have a
private dispatch from Niagara Falls, an.
nouncing that SHIELDS, the man who was to
jump from Whites Grounds into the river, is
drowned. We have no particulars, but pre-
sumo he has fallen victim to his expert
ments in jumping, which he was doubtless
making. He has never made a Jump in
public, although he announced himself as
the renowned jumper.
AT the Merchants Exchange, at Nor
folk, Va, on the 18th, resolution was
adopted appointing committee to invite
the steamer Great Eastern to visit that
port. The authorities of Norfolk, as we'll
as those at Portsmouth, Richmond, and
Petersburg, will no doubt cooperate in this
movement.
We have news from japan dated on the
9Th of June. The Emperor had ordered
that the cities of Jeddo, Nagasaki, Simoda,
and Hakodadi, should be united by tele-
graph, and line was being built from jed
do to his summer residence. All the vessels
in the Imperial fleet were to be turned into
steam propellers, and one of them, the Niph-
on, had already left on voyage of discovery,
manned by native crew and native engi-
neers. An American, having discovered
copper mine, was permitted to work it on
promising to divide the proceeds with the
government.
OFFICIAL information has been received
at Portland that the Great Eastern leaves
Holyhead for Portland on the 18th inst.
The ST. Louis Democrat censures the citi.
zens for their general apathy in the matter
of erecting suitable monument to the
memory of BENroN--an enterprise in which
some steps were taken shortly after his death,
since when nothing has been done.
IT is stated in the annual report of the
Commissioners in Lunacy that the number
of insane persons confined in county and
borough asylums, hospitals, and licensed
houses in Great Britain, on the LIST Of Jan.
uary, 1859, was 22,911, and that of this
number only 2773 are deemed durable.
THERE is decided mania for committing
suicides just now prevailing in New York.
j. H.'KEARNEY poisoned himself at Frenchs
Hotel, HENRY F. WooD put an end to his
life by taking laudanum, EDWARD CAssEN.
BROCK, keeper Of dancehouse, committed
suicide by shooting himself with heavily
loaded pistol; all on Sunday. Moreover,
JOHN JACKSON, desperate colored man,
stabbed fatally his father-in-law while the
old gentleman was unprepared for an assault.
A family difference existed between
them.
The auroral phenomena which illuminated
the skies in this latitude few weeks since.
seems to have extended over very wide area
They were seen from Montreal to New Or
leans, and from st. Louis to Cuba and Ber-
muda.
The New York Times learns that Mr..
Scorr RUSSELL, the builder of the Great
Eastern, is to come out on her first trip to
America. Great numbers of tickets have
been sold, and for her trial trip to Cher.
bourg, which was to take place on the 9Th,
an immense number of nlaces bod hoor