The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-06

Charleston nomination. In a letter, pub.
lished at Milledgeville, Ca, on the 9th, he
says =" I must withdraw my name, uncon-
ditionally, from the canvass, and this letter
Is written for the purpose of announcing to
all who feel an interest in the matter, but
particularly to the delegates from Georgia
to the Charleston Convention, that have
done So"
A DWELLING house on Fortieth street.
New York, was burned on the 18th. Ten
persons persisted in the flames, namely:
the wife and four children of ANDREW
WHEELER, and the wife and four children
OF MIR. BENNETT. Besides the loss of ten
lives, several persons were badly injured.
A sister to Mrs. BENNETT jumped from
window of the fourth story into the yard,
breaking thigh. She is also badly burnt
it is feared she will die. Six children were
rescued from the upper stories by fremen.
Nine bodies have been taken from the
ruins. The house was tenement house
with but one flight of stairs, under which the
fire was started by an incendiary.
A BALTIMORE paper states that the or,
ganization of the branch of the Knights of
the Golden Circle now numbers nearly one
thousand men, mostly young, and many
from some very respectable families. They
have an armory where they meet for daily
drill under the instruction of United States
officers. The aim of this association is the
invasion of Mexico, and they expect to leave
in few weeks. unmolested by government,
as they will not arm themselves until beyond
the jurisdiction of the United States.
The evidence in the Shaw Carstang
breach of promise case closed on the 29th,
when counsel commenced their speeches the
court has given counsel twenty six hours for
speeches.
GEORGE AcKER was hung at Morristown,
New Jersey, on Friday last for the murder
of /. II. GORDON. JOHN CRUMMINs was
executed in New York city, on the same
day, for murder.
The New York Assembly has ordered
the bill abolishing the Death Penalty to .
third reading, by the decisive vote of 81 to
q. 1t requires IS votes to pass bill on
its third reading. The bill is very brief
and simple, substituting for death imprison-
ment for life, with the effect of civil death.
Offences now capital are not to be bailable.
JAMES A. MCCoRKLE, the defaulting
cashier of the Peoples Bank, of Richmond,
Ind, was arraigned at Centrevill, ILL.,, short
time since, and the jury empanneled, when
thecourt adjourned until the next morning.
The morning came, but no prisoner. He
had run away. The Judge ordered the trial
to 60 ON IN has absence. His counsel objected
and gave up the case. The court appointed
counsel and the trial proceeded. After
the trial had progressed the prisoner was
caught, brought back, and heard the conclu-
sion of his trial, was convicted, and SEN
fenced to the Penitentiary for four years.
TWENTY thousand Swedes and Norwe-
gians are reported to be getting in readiness
to embark for the United States early in
the coming summer. They. will bring much
wealth with them, and what is better, they
will bring confirmed habits of morality, in
dustry and economy.
A FEARFUL catastrophe happened on the
Cd inst, by an explosion of gas in Burradon
colliery, Northumberland, England. About
12O men and boys were at work in
the pit at the time, of which number more
than eighty were killed. Two explosions &c,
CURED, the first about half past one O'Clock
in the afternoon, which was slight, and only
alarmed few of the lads. The second ex-
plosion occurred about three minutes after
wards, and was SO violent that all the
workmen made an immediate effort to escape
from the pit, but only about thirty were
successful. Most of the others persisted
from the effects of the chokedamp.
The appalling intelligence was in few
moments spread through the village and
among the pit cottagers, messengers were
sent off to the neighboring collieries for
help, and men galloped in every direction
for surgeons. An awful wall arose in the
cottages belonging to the men down the pit
as the intelligence reached their families,
and then women and children focked to the
pit mouth, where frightful scene ensued as
the men and lads who had escaped were
brought to the bank. The deputies and
overmen who were not down in the pit COM
menced immediate efforts for the rescue of
the sufferers Hundreds of persons remain
ed on the bank all night, many of them
women and children, shivering in the cold
air, in breathless hope that they would hear
tidings of some beloved relative whom they
were never destined to see again, but as a
blackened corpse.