The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-06-15
The News.

the remains on board of JOHN M'DoNouGH,
the celebrated millionaire, who bequathed
his property to New Orleans and Balti-
more. 9- f-ari raas.i-b . soil &
The steamer Sciota, laid up at Shipping
port, Kentucky, was burned on the 4th.
Lost, $4,000. bog" -aa .aa..o--
The election in Washington City on the
4th inst, for municipal officers, has resulted
in the choice for Mayor, of WALLACE, IN
dependent, over the present incumbent,
BERRErr, the regular Democratic and anti
Know Nothing candidate. There were dis.
turbances at the polls, and pistols fired, and
several persons wounded and beaten. A
number of Baltimore rowdies participated
in the disturbances. a.-+''
The New York Tribune, of Monday,
published certified copy of the account
current between Isaac V. FOWLER, the late
postmaster of New York, and the United
States, from which it appears that the exact
balance due the United States is $685..
554.3l. i.
AN informal meeting of the Tammany
Hall General Committee was held, in New
York, on the 3Oth at the Wigwam." The
question of the successorship to ISAAC v.
FOWLER was considered. Upon a call of
the wards there was an almost unanimous
expression in favor of ELIJAH F. PURDY,
Esq, and Mr.. PURDY will undoubtedly be
installed as chairman at the next regular
meeting of the committee.
HICKS, the New York oyster sloop pirate,
has made full confession. He admits
killing Capt. BURR and the two WATTS
boys, giving details of the circumstances
attending the murders. He also acknowl-
edges he was one of the mutineers of the
barque Saladin. He is debating story of
his life and adventures, which is to be pub.
lished.
SAMUEL D. INGHAM, member of General
JAcKsoN's cabinet, died in New Jersey, at
Trenton, on the 9Th, aged 81.
The cattle disease now raging in eastern
Massachusetts, prevailed in England from
1744 to l755. In Nottinghamshire 40, 900
head of cattle died in six months; in Cheshire
80 900. During the third year Of the disease,
el35, 900, we're paid out of the public treas
ury as a recompense for slaughtered cattle.
In 1857, in forty~three villages in Holland,
$4,000 head of cattle died or were killed.
From the last number of Porter's Spirit
of the Times, we learn that certain class of
the Washington populace take great deal
of interest in a cock fight that is to take
place on the 10th inst. The stakes are
$500 and 81 900. The combatants on the
occasion will be no others than general
Concha," red cock of the Spanish breed,
belonging to the Hon. JOHN B. FLOYD, Sec.
rotary of War, and General ORTEaA," a
Spanish cock, belonging to the Hon. JOHN
c. BRECKENRIDGE, Vice President. 1t is
believed that this cock fight will draw the
largest concourse of gentlemen and ladies
that ever assisted in pastime of this sort
in the United States. What next?
The Governor of Ohio has appointed
commission to visit Massachusetts, and in
vestigate the nature of the cattle disease.
The n. Y. Tribune thinks Mr.. HYATT,
with an income rated at something over
SlOO per day, and the society of devoted
and genial friends, who are constant and
regular in their calls at his hotel, can afford
to be "contumacious."
The Rhode Island General Assembly ad-
journed Friday the first, after a pleasant
session of four days, during which the new
government has been very successfully in>
augurated and put in operation. The legis-
lation has been mostly of private nature,
though a statute concerning the cattle dis
ease was enacted.
The BURCH divorce case is agitating the
city of Chicago. Mrs. BURcH's published
statement alleges her innocence of the charge
of adultery, accuses her husband of cruelty
and infdelity, says that on January 10th,
he compelled her to sign confession, stating
that unless she complied he world turn her
out of the house. He promised never to
show the confession, and finally forced her to
sign, after he had dictated every word, SIZE
continually protesting that it was untrue.
He compelled her to acknowledge her guilt
by threat of thrusting her out of doors. He
tried to make her acknowledge herself guilty
at fifteen different times, but she would not.
ALBERT SMITH, the most lively and suc-
ceesful of facetious lecturers, and one of the
most popular" of contemporary English
popular writers, born in Chertsey, in Eng
land, May "a, 1916, died May %, 1860, in
the flower ofhis years, and in the very spring
time of happy domestic life. s,l.,s
GEN. GIDEON j. PlLLow, of Tennessee.
has written long letter which appears in
the Memphis Appeal, favorable to the claims
of Mr.. DOUGLAS to the Presidency. romiji,
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