The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-06-09

TIE Nsv Orlsas Della thinks it an abb
surdity to sh tlesastom house in that city
Dew" whiss, tAosgA still incomplete, was
conmeoced thirteen pears ago, and the build
ingof whish be- nsvived the original arch
iteet, the engineer Who Constructed its foun-
datiou, the Govsrncr Of Louisiana who laid
the corner stoos, he Collector Of the Port
who aided in the nne, and at least three I'D.
ministrations Of the Federal Government.
TIE appended notice" which actually
appears among the advertisements in the
Jameaorn (Chautauque Coz Journal, beats
any exhibition Of Young Americanism in
Punch
NorrcE.-w Whereas my father, Newton Sails
bury, has forbid me his bed and board, for the
reason visited and assisted at my sisters
house during her husbands sickness and death;
therefore, forbid his hatboring any other boy
in my stead. WAKSER A. SALISBURY.
GERRY, April l6, lsa3.
The Chwthman Of May &c, is pleased t
learn that the painful accounts Of the unim-
proved state Of the health Of Bishop POTTER
Of Pennsylvania, now in Europe, are iDcor.
rect. Recent letters from him speak en-
couragingly of the almost entire restoration
Of bis physical energies.
The Attorney General has given his
opinion that the Postmaster General cannot
legally reduce tie overland mail service from
semi-weekly to weekly. Could il have been
done, the saving to the department would
have been nearly 100000 annually.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER has recently pur.
chased twenty-seven acres Of land in West
chester county, N. Y. They form part
of the estate formerly known as the Trow.
bridge farm, situate about q mile from
Peekskill, on the road leading towards
lakes Mogegan and Mahopac. The price
was thirteen thousand dollars.
OVER GOO persons, mostly young ladies',
were confirmed and took Of their communion
on Thursday, the 26th ult., at the Sixteenth
street Roman Catholic church. New York.
The cattchumcns, dressed in white and en-
veleped in long white wells, marched in pro.
cesson to the church from the convent in
Sixteenth street. An immense crowd gath
cred to see them pass. The sacrement of
confirmation was administered by the Bish-
op OF Puebla, Mexico, now an exile 10 New
York. Among the catechumens was a
young bride, Protestant lady, who had
married Catholic week ago.
JUDGE DOUGLAS reached New Orleans on
the oath ult. The n. o. Delta, says the
Judge looks as hardy, vigorous, joyous,
and don t-careish AS his most devoted
could desire. 1t adds:
He laughs. as well he may at the amusing
fabricatons of the Buchanan press, that rec.
oncilation had taken place between them, (Bu.
chanan hmself,) merely to cover up the aban-
Comment OF the anti Squatter Sovereignty doc
trine. which the former and his satellites had
formerly maintained, or affected to maintain at
the north, and which they still pretend to up.
hold, by such conspirators as HouMAs SLIDELL
IN this region.
In the State Of Connecticut, during the
year 1858, there were l. ,299 births, Sc less
than in 1857 1916 marriages, 60 less than
IN 1857; and 6,5lS deaths, eghty-seven Of
which were by accident, and 30 by suicide.
Mr.. LAMAR, our incompetent and drunken
minister to Nicaragua, is to come home,
and his place is offered to GEORGE TAYLOR,
late member Of Congress from New York.
The New York Herald says that the ex.
else commissioners of that city have the
names of six thousand persons who sell
liquor there without authority or law, and
three hundred Of them are to be Immediate
" placed into the hands Of the sheriff, with
avlew OF institutiug proper legal proceed
ings.
IT is stated that the receipts Of the United
States Treasury for some weeks past have
been equal to its current expenditure, the
amount OF means on hand being slightly less
than the last loan. According to the States
the Secretary anticipates surplus Of ten
mil lions Of dollars on the LIST Of July, the
opening of the new fiscal year.
WE learn from the California papers that
lot Of csuels belonging to the United
States government. lately strayed away
from BEALE's ranch on the Colorado and at
last accounts had not been recovered. There
were over twenty in the herd, and it was
feared they had dropped into the hands Of
the Mohave Indians.
CHrRcH, it is said, was offered $4,000
for his landscape, the Heart of the
Andes
The Rev. J. 7. HkADLEr, whose pen has
described 50 many Of the exploits Of the