The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-01-13
All Sorts OF Item 8.

The Delegates elected by the recent State
Convention of Ohio, to the National Demo.
cratic Convention at Charleston, are Hon.
GEO. E. PUGH, D. A. RHODES, GEORGE
MCCooK, and H j. JEwETT.
The New Haven Nesos says that a few
evenings since a fellow named CRoFUr Ia
corruption, probably, of crow.fooD attempt
ed to deliver harangue on the execution of
JOHN BROWN, the martyr saint in the
Presbyterian church in Orange, of this
State" CRoFUT is known in this region.
The people of Orange wouldn't hear WIN.
AUGUSTUS, and Kissed the lecturer and his
wares to another market.
New ORLEANS just now is very gay.
Money plenty; health never better; weather
magnificent hotels overlooking with visit
ors; two operas and several theaters in full
blast.
A LETTER from New York says that, in
December 1856, JOHN G. FREMONT, after
being defeated in his aspirations for the
Presidency, became very short of money,
and sold to BENJAMIN and FERNANDO WooD
one half of his famous claims to gold mines
in California. The WOODS advanced FIRE.
MONT from $4,000 to $4,000, to pay in
terest, legal expenses, &c. &c. The Supreme
Court of California sustains FREMoNr's
claims His receipts now, and those of his
partners, B. and E. WooD, will not fall
short Of $1,000 day.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati En-
quarer, telegraphing from indianapolis, says
that of the three hundred and ninetyfve
delegates Of which the State Convention to
be held on the 18th will be composed, there
will be two hundred and sixty nine votes for
DOUGLAS. He says:
The Convention will pass a resolution de.
claring Douglas to be the first choice of the
Indiana Democracy for President; select firm
friends of Douglas for delegates at large, and
--~SA WV SAS SAAAS uOASSooiOA w FOVC OS q uulGs
The New York Ntws, in its news mis-
cellany, says that an ice boat propelled by
steam makes tri-weekly trips between Prairie
du Chen and St. Paul, on the Mississippi
river" AS we have not seen the boat here.
abouts, it is supposed to be running in con-
nectiOn with the Transit Railroad, at Wi.
mona.
The St. Louis Democrat publishes list
of steamboat disasters on the Western
rivers during the late season of navigation,
from which we learn that e. were sunk. 25
burned, and lost by explosion. 1876 lives
were lost by these disasters, and 81, $685. 900
property lost. Of all the disasters during
the year Q53 in number), 46 occurred on
the Ohio, Sc on the Upper Mississippi, 80
on the Lower Mississippi, 10 on the Arkan-
sas river, and on the Missouri.
The following statistics of bankruptcies
in the United States appear in the N. Y.
Herald:
Failures in 1857. .4,937 1921, 75O.OOJ
1858. .......... ,255 95,749,662
1859. 1913 64.294, 900
Ordinary failures in 1857. 1903 sls2,so5, 500
" 1859. ..2,707 44,47O,OOO
STEVENS, the remaining Harper's Ferry
prisoner at Charlestown, will not be tried in
the United States Courts. He is to be
tried before the Virginia Courts, at
Charlestown, during the present winter.
THEODORE BoRUP, ESQ.,, of this city, has
been recognized as Danish Consul at st.
Paul, by President BUCHANAN.
SENATOR SEWARD arrived in Washington
on the 9th inst.
JUDGE DOUGLAS has recovered his health,
and has once more resumed his seat in the
Senate.
News from the Rio Grande to the I'd of
January, states that CoRT1NAs, the Mexican
brigand, with 500 men, took the city of
Rio Grande on the Oath ult., killing num-
Der of citizens. Subsequently body of
troops and rangers attacked CoRT1NAs, and
retook the city after hard fight, capturing
the guns and 60 Mexicans. Nine Ameri-
cans were killed and sixteen wounded.
CoRT1NAs fed.
DURING the past year. twenty-six persons
have died in the United States one hundred
years Of age and upwards. The oldest was
negro Of Louisiana, aged 1873 years. Two
were aged l29 years. The longest lived
were colored, and from the Southern States.
The shipments of coal from the different
coal regions in Pennsylvania, except the
western part of the State, amounted last
year to 100000. tons, which at $3.50 per
ton, would make its value ever $27, 900, 900.
Adding about 100000 tons more for the
western part of the State, and the value Of
the entire supply will not he far short of
$4,000, 900.