The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-11-11
Geographic and other News Item

Topographic and other News Items.
AMONG the wounded by the late terrible
railroad disaster in Wisconsin, we have
news that the following are in fair way of
recovering: JAS. McCABE, fireman; V.
B. SMEAD, editor of the Fond du Lac Press;
JAMES PAGE, s. M. B. STEBBINs, and j. F.
CRAIG.
A New YORK dispatch of the 9Th inst,
states that a report is given in a letter from
Havana, of Oct. Both, of a conspiracy, or
something of that character, having been
discovered among certain military officers
and soldiers at Matanzas. Various arrests
are understood to have taken place, but no
particulars have been permitted to reach the
public eye.
A WOMAN in Fairfax county, Va, writes
to Gov. WISE that there are great many
persons residing in her neighborhood whom
she suspects to be abolitionists, and requests
Sharpe's rifle for herself 1t is said that
the Governor sent her the rifle, and request
ed her to raise volunteer corps of women
in her region.
The Chicago Press and Tribune learns
from gentleman who left Pixies Peak,
Oct. 9th, that about 5000 persons will win
ter in the mines, where there was an abund-
ance of provisions to supply them till next
summer. The amount of gold got out this
season will not exceed halfa million dollars
Many have piled up large quantities of
quartz for operation as soon as crusher
can be got out in the Spring, and several of
these piles are computed to be worth $685..
900 each.
Mrs HARRIET BEECHER STowE who,
with her husband, has been residing in Lon
don for the past three months, is about to
proceed to Switzerland, where she will re-
main during the winter with her daughter,
her husband, Prof. STOWE, returning to
America forthwith.
A MISS THOMPSON, in Tennessee, has re.
Gently recovered $4,000 in suit for
breach of promise against a man named
PATTERSON.
ON the first of October, JOHN E. BACON,
of South Carolina, Secretary of the United
States Legation in Russia, was married to
Miss REBECcA P1cKENs, daughter OF the
Minister of the United States to the court
of St. Petersburg.
Gov. BANKS inaugurated the Brooklyn,
New York, Mercantile Library Lectures on
Tuesday evening, the LIST inst, by delivering
lecture on Personal Character" He
said, among other things, that the man who
would imperil the Union was not born of wo-
man, and that WASHINGTON was {" leading
Abolitionist." PHILLIPS, on the contrary,
puts " Ossawattomie above " the father of
his country"
The lady to whom Poe was engaged to
be married, at the time of his death. is about
to publish defence of the poet from the
malignings of critics, from the Ed,nburg
Revieav down to the ladies' magazines
The last number of the Sullivan Qnd.)
Democrat contains legal notice to Lucy
STONE BLACKWELL and her husband, that
suit is now pending against them in the
Circuit Court of that county.
A LATE Utah City paper mentions the
arrival of company of European Saints,
who came in fifty-six wagons and numbered
about four hundred souls, mostly from Scan
dnavia. There were six deaths and three
births on their journey of three months
through the country.
SIX of the laborers engaged in the recent
Bergen tunnel riots, in which the United
States mails were stopped, were on Monday
sentenced to two years Imprisonment each
in the State prison.