The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-20

announces that the bank of Central New
York has gone into liquidation, and that
Hon. JOSEPH BENEDICT has been appointed
receiver, and has entered upon his duties.
The circulation of the bank is understood to
be amply secured.
HEAVY rains in Ohio and Western Penn
sylvauia have caused considerable damage
to the railroads. At Pittsburgh the rains
caused one of the most destructive freshets
experienced for many years, the lowlands
along the rivers being iuundated-manufac-
tories flooded, and many families driven
from their dwellings,. The Monongahela
reached the great height of 20 feet A inches.
The Commissioner of Patents has grant~
ed an extension of the Morse telegraph
patent for seven years from April IL, 1860,
but has not yet prepared written opinion.
1t covers the patent of 1910, including the
instrument now in use and the mode of
transmission. A vigorous effort was made
to defeat the extension, but it failed.
The steamer Sam Yates burst her boiler
100 miles below Louisville on the 10th.
One fireman was killed and several persons
scalded. The boat was towed ashore.
The President, in reply to House reso-
luton, requesting him to communicate all
the information in his possession relative to
the expulsion of Americans from the city of
Mexico, and the con6scation of their pro-
perty by Gen. M1RAMoN, has replied that no
information on the subject has reached the
Department.
ADv1cEs from Vera Cruz of April
LIST, confirm the raising of the siege by MI
RAMON, owing to the want Of provisions and
munitions of war. He had lost 1000 out
of 5000 men. The loss to the city is triAing.
Advices from the City Of Mexico state that
there is strong feeling in the city in favor
of war with the United States. M1RAMoN,
at the last accounts, had reached the city of
Mexico. The French Minister had been
instructed to cooperate with the English
Minister, for bringing about an armistice
between M1RAMoN and JUAREz.
TIE Territorial Committee of the House
of Representatives, on the 18th, ordered
bills to be prepared for the organization of
Dacotah, Pixies Peak, Nevada and Arizona;
the latter bill to include the western portion
of the territory, and not the southern half,
as desired by the filibusters. The other bills
will be very much like the Senate bill so far
as boundaries are concerned.
Mr.. VAN DYKE, recently removed from
the position of United States District At
torney for the eastern district of Pennsylva-
MIA, was before Mr.. CovoDE's committee the
other day, and testified that his difficulty
with the President, resulting in his removal,
was occasioned because he protested against
the Federal Office holders controlling Demo-
cratic policy in the city, and State. He had
along correspondence with the President.
The steamer R. S. Spaulding, amply pro-
visioned, and with about sixty passengers,
including the delegates to the National
Democratic Convention and band of
music, left Boston the 18th, for Charleston,
via Baltimore.
The grounds on which the Commissioner
of Patents granted an extension of he Morse
patent of 1916, are that the invention was
original, novel, ingenious and useful that
it was valuable and important to the public,
and that the inventor has not been adequate
ly remunerated for his time, ingenuity and
expense in originating it.
The Henry Clay statue was inaugurated
at Richmond, Va, on the 18th. The cere-
monies were very imposing, while the mill
tary display was the finest ever witnessed in
that city. The crowd of strangers was
immense. Mr.. BARBoUR's grafton was a
mastery tribute to Mr.. CLAY. The statute
is a beautiful work of art.
At the city election in Albany, on the
10th, the Brown Republicans were defeated
by majorities ranging from 600 to 1000.
GEO. 81. TEACHER, Democrat, was elected
Mayor. Last year, Albany gave several
hundred majority for the Republicans.
A HARRISBURG (Pa.) paper has intelli-
gence of the death of Mrs. P. WEEDEN, the
last survivor of the Wyoming massacre.
Mrs. WEEDEN was twelve years old at the
time, and she retained vivid recollection of
the massacre until her death. She was a
prisoner with her sister in the fort where
every male was put to death by the toma-
hawk. The sisters left the valley with their
father and mother, and Travelled with flag
of truce through the then dense forest till
within forty miles of the Connecticut river.
A WASHINGTON letter writer says of the
Senate prisoner: "Mr. HYATT is feasting at
his quarters, in the city prison daily on
porter house steak, ham and eggs, lettuce
and asparagus, imported from the hot houses
of Charleston, and upon veritable sparkling
Oatawba, imported from LoNawoRrH's villa,
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