The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-02-24

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THE Democratic guns Of 1860 are multi
plying. On Tuesday, the city of Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, which has always been invet-
erately Black Republican, elected Demo-
cratic Mayor, with gain of more than five
hundred votes. The same day, at the char.
ter election in Binghampton, New York,
the Democrats carried the city by hand
some majority.
The New Orleans Picayune Of the 3lst
ult, says the Mississippi river is now rising
very rapidly along its whole line. Opposite
New Orleans it presents an angry, turbid,
tumultuous aspect. The waves sweep along
with great power. The Pic. does not yet
anticipate great food, but thinks there is
enough of warning for all to prepare to re-
sist serious danger.
FoR seducing Miss CHRISTIE, Of St.
Mary's, G. w., an individual named WEIR
has paid $4,000 as compromise to her
friends to avoid prosecution.
The Montreal Pilot says that former
clerk in the City Bank, convicted eighteen
months ago of forgery, and sentenced to i'm.
prisonment in the penitentiary for FIVE years,
has just come into fortune of 100000
sterling.
The sheriff of Tioga county, New York,
recently took prisoner he held from the
prison to the election polls to vote, and then
returned him to prison. Governor MORGAN
did not take the same view of the case as
the sheriff. He thought that person de-
prived for the time of his civil rights by the
commission of crime, should not be taken
to the polls by the officer having him in
custody. The governor, therefore, removed
the sheriff from Office for official misconduct.
ACCORDING to an exchange, there is a
rich miser living in one of the towns of
New York who has made arrangements to
be buried in an adjacent lake. 1t is re-
ported that he has had cut stone coffin
into which he is to be put when dead, car
ried to the centre of the lake and there sunk.
A queer story.
THE Irish servant girls of the cities of
New York and Brooklyn, during the year
1859, sent home to their parents, brothers
and sisters the enormous sum of one million
three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
The former clerk of the superior court of
Baltimore, EDWARD BOWLING, committed
suicide with pistol on the 9th inst. His
recent habits were Incorporate.
Hon. S. A. SMITH, of Tennessee. has re-
signed the position of Commissioner of the
Land Office, his resignation to take effect on
the first of March.
A BAGGAGE car was consumed by FIRE,
with all the packages of the Express Com
pany, between Macon and Columbus, Geor-
gia, last week while the train was in mo-
ton. The messenger had left his charge to
sit in the passenger car.
ONE of our exchanges contains descrip-
ton of new locomotive, built by Mr. GEO.
GRIER, of Altoona, master machinist of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. 1t consumes its
own smoke, so that instead of the vast VOL
umes of smoke which the ordinary locomo-
tive belches forth at each revolution, little
steam only is seen escaping from that of
Mr.. G.'s invention. In consuming the smoke
a great saving of fuel is effected. She made
the run from Altoona to Pittsburg, dis.
lance of one hundred and seventeen miles,
upon twenty five bushels Of coal, maintain.
ing high rate of speed all the time, evinc-
ing the possession of extraordinary power.
A YOUNG lady in Buffalo had suitor-
most young ladies have. She supposed from
his assiduous attentions, that be contem-
plated matrimony. The other day the
mother of the young lady very innocently
asked the lover, who was dining with the
family, when the marriage was to transpirel
The young man answered that such an idea
never entered his head, and proceeded to
joke about it. The young lady arose
from the table, procured bottle of vitriol,
and coolly threw it's contents into the face
of the jocose lover, putting out one Of his
eyes, and dis6guring his countenance hor-
ribly.
Mr.. SHAW, the defendant in the famous
breach of promise case in st. Louis, has
lately been in Charleston, s. c., with law
yer, hunting up evidence against his quon-
dam betrothed, Miss EFFIE CARsrANa.
T. D. GILBERT, of Grand Rapids, has
presented $4,000 to the Union School,
Grand Rapids, the principal to remain in
tact, while the accruing interest is to be
awarded in prizes to such scholars as may
be deemed worthy of them.
The dwelling house of Mr.. WIZ. NOBLE
of Charleston, Me-, was burned on Thursday
last. and his son, JESSE NOBLE. aged seven