The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-02-03
All Sorts Of Items.

Gov. BANKS for the Presidency. This opin.
ion is strengthened by the fact of the extra
ordinary attentions paid by the Governor to
BENNETrs son, while in Massachusetts, and
the subsequent visit of the Governor to BEN
NETS country seat, in New York. There
is nothing in the present position of the Her.
aid to conflict with such an idea.
AT New Bedford, case of breach Of
promise of marriage is on trial. Miss Wat.
still Stevens, of Pawtucket, claims $4,000
damages of Elisha G. Fuller, of Fall River.
The plaintiff is maiden lady who resides in
Pawtucket, is very good looking, and aged
fifty-fve years. The defendant is gentle
man sixty.nine years old, and resides in Fall
River, where he is grocer.
DANIEL G.. POTTER was acquitted in Wis.
consin on charge of robbery, because the
indictment read twenty dollar gold pieces, :"
instead of double eagles" the legal name
of the coin.
The Utica and Black River Railroad is
to be sold by the mortgages on the 3lst of
March next.
QUITE curious case came up in the La
peer (Michigap) Court at its recent term.
Two defendants, one of whom was the bus.
band of the plaintiff, were appointed dele
gates in trust, and having Incorporated
the funds, the wife-the plaintiff in the case
sued to recover from the husband damages,
which were awarded to her to the amount
of $826.26 and costs.
HoLcoMB, of Southwick, Mass, who beat
his wife so cruelty some months since, still
occupies his position in the Methodist
Church and choir in that town. Mrs. Hol.
comb is reported better and her husband
thinks her recovery probable.
Grams Mills, at Marietta, Ohio, burned
down on the 2lst Loss about $20,000.-
Insured for $4,000, and $4,000 on stock /;
of which, only few hundred bushels Of
wheat were destroyed. Fire supposed to
have been the work of an incenaiary.
GEO. ALEXANDER, free negro, was fined
$40 at St. Louis lately, and ordered to leave
the State within three days, for being in
Missouri without license.
The principal productions of the State of
Wisconsin, are said to be pretty girls, rail-
road bonds, mink and other skins, seed
wheat, Sons of Malta, tax titles, corner lots,
and white fish.
RHINEMAN, the paramour of MARY HAIR
TuNa, and indicted with her for the murder
of her husband, was acquitted at Albany,
on the Goth, of the charge, as principal, the
jury not leaving their seats. He was taken
to jail to await trial on two other lndict-
mepts, as accessory before and after the
fact.
The general opinion is that frontier
war with Mexico is inevitable. On the
22d, CoRT1NAs, with 260 men, was about
Matamoras, plundering the Texans. The
Federal troops had returned to Brownsville
and the rangers were in Rio Grande city.
u. S. MARSHAL JOHNSON was in Ashta.
bula County, Ohio, on the oath, to serve
summons on J. R. G1DD1Nas, and JOHN
Brown, jr., to appear before the Senate
Committee. GIDDINGs is in the State OF
New York, but was telegraphed, and will
no doubt proceed to Washington forthwith.
Brown could not be found.
A DISPATCH from Washington says the
Government is about arranging for horse
express from St. Joseph to Placerville to
connect with the telegraph to San Francisco,
thus securing the dispatches from the Pa
ci6c in ten days.
A NOTORIOUS rowdy named DAVID HoNcK,
was shot in Baltimore, on the 26th, by JOHN
MCPHERSON.
CORNELIUS CONWAY FELTON,, the present
learned Greek Professor, has been elected
by unanimous vote President of Harvard
College, in place of Rev. JAMES WALKER
resigned.
The intelligence of the disastrous defeat
of the liberals in Mexico by MIRAMoN has
damaged the prospects of McLANE's treaty
it being manifest that JuAREz has no footing
outside of Vera Cruz, and that even there
his tenure is frail
A BODY of loco picked men have been
raised in Texas, and on the 26th, letter
was received New from Orleans to Washing.
ton prohering their services to the govern
ment against CoRr1NAs, and asking for arms
THE Secretary of the American Lega'
ton at Lima, has come home in the Baltic
bringing the peremptory refusal of the
Peruvian government to liquidate Ameri.
cans claims against it.
The California Legislature was to have
elected United States Senator in place O.
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