The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-03-31

SENATOR DouoLAs has issued . pamphle,
containing bis remarks in the great debate
in the Senate, on the subjec, Of the Terri.
tories, with some Of the remarks Of others.
lie has given to the work u taking title, to
Wit Speech in opposition to the PROPOSE.
ton to enact Slave Code by Congress Tor
the Territories. and in defense Of the rights
Of the Territories to legislate on the subject
Of Slavery for themselves, &c"
A HAVANA correspondent q the Hart
ford Times writer
A Spanish friend asked me yesterday. "whM
II the Spanish aeet should 20 and lombard
New York;" ! could not imagine such All
absurdity and told him SO. He said TO Creole
with me What would they do in New York II
10000 Spanish soldiers should land there 4"
A Yankee captain sitting by says. II the
soldiers behaved themselves they would not be
troubled, but II they made any disturbance
they would he put into the station houses.
Spaniard says, Quisn 'abs.
A BILL for the incorporation Of the Trans.
Atlantic Telegraph Company has been in
troducoi into the Canadian Parliament by
Hon. u. o'BRlEs. Itprovides for line to
Labrador, with n capital Of Sl,0O0,00O
which may be increased TO $4,000 900.
The work il TO be commenced within one
year, and completed to Labrador within
three years
1nE Boston school difficulties, rowing
out OF compelling Catholic children TO join
In certain biblical readings still continue.
On the 2lst, at meeting Of the school
conmiitce, n communication from Bishop
FrzrArRicK, the Catholic prelate, was read,
stating in temperate language, the ohjec-
tions entertained by Catholic parents to re-
citations from the Bible in the schools.
The subject was indefinitely postponed. The
excitement among the Catholic pupils Of
the schools appears to be dying out.
A MAN named BRAMwEtI, ind his wife,
aged respectively about 20 years, were killed
at Madison, Indiana. They were thrown IRON
buggy into railroad cat. The unfrtu.
nate victims were found early on the morn
ing Of the 2lst. An inquest was held over
the bodies. which elected the above facts.
A DISPATCH from Augusta, Ga, says that
II is rumored that the Barqsc J. A. Rawl.
ings, has landed GOO Africans on tho coast
Of Florida. The report is considered doubt.
full, an the Rawlings sailed from Havana,
Dec. 18th for Hsvrc with cargo Of rice
and tie intermediate time was quite short
for trip to the African coast.
THERE are TO be three more State cleo.
tons this spring The Connecticut Flee
ton comes on the 4th Of April the Rhode
Island Election on the 9th Of April and
the Virginia Election on the 10th Of May
Governors and Congressman are TO be cho.
sen in each Of these States.
TnE brig Caroline and tho schooner
Grand Trunk are announced TO sail from
Detroit 10 Liverpool in April. They 90 out
with cargoes Of slaves and lumber. There
are q, least dozen Lake vessels now getting
ready for the Ocean, and We presume no,
one will longer deny the practicsbiliiy and
suctess Of this new and important extension
Of our Lake commerce.
Hos. WV. r. HASKELL, OF Tennessee, dis
tngui.hed IN brilliant orator, and brave
officer in the Mexican war, died in the u-
matte asylum at Hopkipsvile, Kentucky,
last Sunday lie was formerly member Of
Congress, and was attacked with insanity u
year or no ago.
TuE Secretary Of tho Interior has up.
proved 20 the State Of Iowa, under the act
OF May 18th, 1856, selections Of lands 10 aid
in the construction OF railroads, as follows
For the Dubuque and Pacific H. u I,I52,l3s 20
Mississppi and Missouri Railroad. 3j3, t3s Is
Total number Of aeres....... z, iJG, 100 o.
An indication Of public sentiment 10
Washington 10 reference TO the Sickls
matter. occurred al the theatre on Tuesday
night, Tor when My. I. H. ALLgs, in her
role 81 MARruA GiBBs, launched her Do
nnncia,ions against the acts Of the unprin-
cipIcd libsrtne who psr"ned her, the entire
house broke into spontaneous vehement
applause, which for q moment, interrupted
the business Of the stage.
LosD ElGis, the representative Of the
British Government 10 China, bias recently
made an excursion. with fiot Of war
steamers, six hundred mies up the great
river Yang Tse KiaDg, which had never
bciore been proiaDed by the unhallowed
ks,ls of British nsyigstor. One Of these
yesels vas Of thirteen bsbdfci tons burden,
and drew sixteen feet water. The graf
nes. Of the river may be judged from thu.
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