The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-01-13

came pointless, some of the silks were con-
verified into lutte strings, and one of the
victors left the battle field with triumph
ant air and nothing but hoops"
THE indomitable AARON JONES writes to
the New York Herald that Mr.. JEM MAS
sEY is no gentleman, and that he (AARoN
JoNEs) would be delighted to fight TOW
PADDOCK, in England, in the same ring and
on the same day that HEENAN and SAVERS
settle their little difficulty. AARON is evil
IDENTIFY spelling for a fight.
A GENTLEMAN who writes to us from
Paris, under date of Dee. 18th, informs us
that he dined with Mr.. Ten Brock in
Paris, on the Sd inst, and learned from him
that he stood to win three hundred thousand
dollars upon his American horse Umpire
for the next Derby, at an outlay of three
thousand dollars. By this it appears that
Mr.. Ten Brock was shrewd enough to get
all his bets on early, when his unknown
colt stood discredited at the rate of 100 to
1.-Wilke's Spirit.
A RELIGIOUS paper, under the admonitory
heading "Don't Procrastinate," mentions
that young man, who was recently killed
by accident, was just about to join Baptist
church and also to be married. Some might
think he was fortunate.
The New York Journal of Commerce in
its produce tables says the stock of -four in
New York, December 70, 1859, was l,439,
665 bbls.
20" rELEGRAPHs to the New York Times
that the Interior Department has received
evidence to convict one LEE, Mormon
Saint, Of Utah, with having first violated
the person of young girl belonging to the
party massacred at the Mountain Meadows,
and then cut her throat. The Mormon
authorities proposed surrendering all the
murderers, but only on condition they should
be tried exclusively before Mormon juries
This proposition was declined, as such trial
would only tend to screen the criminals from
justice. Hence the. Department urges the
propriety of establishing martial law over
Utah as the only means of Furnishing crime.
The South Carolina Legislature has
adjourned. The Charleston Mercury, in its
review of the proceedings of the session,
remarks upon the action taken upon federal
relations, and says of the resolutions" The
significance of the two, taken together, is
briefly this: that the Legislature announces
secessions as her only remedy for Southern
wrongs-in view of and to further which
she invites immediate consultation with her
sister Southern States. This, then is the
platform on which South Carolina now
stands before the country, and to which she
asks her public men to rally for the common
defence of her rights, letting Northern
affiliations alone"
The liabilities of the Government 10
Indian tribes amount to near twenty-one
and half millions of dollars, and the aver
age annual expenditure on Indian account
exceeds three millions of dollars. The
number of Indians within the limits of the
United States and Territories is set down at
$4,000. The semi-civilized tribes living
on the frontiers, have been for years on tie
increase in population, and improving
morally and socially. With the more bar
barous tribes the reverse is the case they
are fast waning.
AN deliberately prepared return states the
number of ships-of-war of all kinds-line-
of-battle-ships, frigates, corvettes, and
sloops, surveying and small vessels, gum
boats, tenders, &c.-possessed by the
various civilized nations of the world, as
follows: England GIG, France 44S, Russia
164, Sweden 3ll principally small vessels,)
Nor way 143, Denmark l20, the United
States 70, Holland l39, Belgium 7, Spain
81, the two Sicilies III, Austria 1876,
Portugal 81, Sardinia %, Prussia SIS,
Greece 26, Turkey 40, Brazil p, Peru Is,
Chill 5, Mexico 9.
They are having brisk times on the Rio
Grande. Three hundred United States
troops and rangers marched up the Rio
Grande on the l4th of December, and met
portion of CoRr1NAs' band. After a
cannonade from both sides, the Americans
charged and fell into an ambuscade, thus
allowing the Mexicans to save their artil-
lery. CoRr1NAs, on the Goth of December,
concentrated his whole force above Browns.
vile. The Americans went to meet him,
and after severe fight defeated him.
The Pixies Peak express, with seven days
later news from Jefferson, has arrived, and
brings $4,000 in dust. The miners at
Russell's and Gregorys diggings had resist
ed the collection of taxes levied for the sup
port of the Provisional Government, which
created temporary excitement. The amount
of dust exported from the golden region
since May, is estimated at one and half to
| two millions of dollars.
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