The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03
The News.

staid, moral, New England? A despatch
dated Boston July q, says that d" Martha
Allen, aged II years, died suddenly at
Mansfield, and was buried. Circumstances
led the coroner of the county to order the
body to be disinterred, when it was found
that she had died from an attempt to pro-
cure an abortion. An inquest will be held
tomorrow. A young man in Mansfield has
been arrested as instigator of the crime"
AN lrishman named Thomas Whalen,
who had been married only about a week,
residing near Saltwater Bridge, in the town
OF Schaghticoke, Rensselaer, county, New
York, brutally murdered bis wife on the
23d, by cutting her in the most horrible
manner with knife. He had ouarreled
with her accusing her of crime against
nature, and she denying it, he deliberately
butchered her. He is in Jail.
The treaty of amnesty and commerce
with Japan, the notifications of which were
exchanged by the embassy when they were
in Washington, is officially published. One
of the articles provides that the President,
when requested by the japanese govern
ment, will act as foreign mediator in such
matters of difference as may arise between
the government Of Japan and any European
power.
On the 9th, James S. Williams, mer-
chant of Warren, New Hampshire step
ped up toa Mr.. Wyatt and shot him through
the heart. The cause was trouble about an
old debt. Wyatt was young man, and
leaves wife and one child.
A PARTY of seventy international excur-
sionists composed of members of Parlia,-
ment, various public officers, members of
the press, prominent agriculturists, and
Others from the Canadas, arrived at St.
Louis, on the 9th, and visited some of the
principal objects of interest. The excur-
sion was projected by j. B. Austin, of the
Illinois Central railroad, in connection with
the Michigan Central and other western
roads.
JUDGE LEONARD, of New Y ork, has de-
cided that marriages by notaries public, are
illegal, and the Express says the decision
"has created quite huttering among our
German population, who, it appears, are very
much given to patronizing the notary on
marriage occasions"
A LETTER written in the Savannah Meas,
dated Havana, July l4th, says: "Mr.
Fowler, the New York Postmaster, is here
and is going to take house for the summer
at the pleasant town of Guanabacoa."
The farmers in the vicinity of Davenport,
Iowa, have been compelled to combine in
order to get their work done. Many of their
hands deserted them for higher wages
although 1926 per day--in the midst of
their work.
THREE hundred and twelve deaths oc-
Cured in Philadelphia last week. ZAP of
this number were under the age of one year!
The number of deaths in New York last
year was 81 ,945--l2,989 being children
The Metropolitan hotel bill in New York
for the japanese is put at 100000. If this
item is correct, it gives US a fair idea of the
art and mystery of New York charging.
The Japanese were at the Metropolitan for
thirteen days, and at this rate the average
price of the board Of each member of the
embassy, per day, was in the neighborhood
of ninety dollars.
The Benicia Boy has concluded con-
tract by which he agrees to give sparring
exhibitions, in New York and elsewhere,
during the next three months. For the en-
gagement he is to be paid the portly sum of
twenty-five thousand dollars. He is to be
accompanied by Jack Macdonald, and the
first exhibition came off last Monday night.
The widow of Theodore Parker has
waived her right under the terms of her
husbands will, to retain his valuable libra
ry in her possession, and has signifed to the
Boston city government that nearly all the
books will be ready for removal to the pub
lie library on the LIST of December. The
number of volumes thus added to the hi
brary will be between 10000 and 1900,
valued at $4,000.
"WHY," said Prince John Van Buren,
the other day to a correspondent who re-
ports the conversation in the Tribune, "Why
is President Buchanan like a tallow candle 2"
OF course our correspondent could not tell,
and then with more serious face, the Prince
said, because all his works are scicked, and
all bis wicked works are brought to light"
Pretty good, eh ?-N. Y. Tribune.
A LETTER from Key West, in the New
York Journal of Commerce, expresses some
apprehension in regard to rumored pratt
cal expedition, designed to wrest from the
Government its Africans now en- route for
Liberia. Rumors of the same sort have
been current in New York. "Certain it
isl says the Journal of Commerce, that
deliberate calculations have been, made,
within the last few weeks, among some of
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