The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-30
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All Sorts or items.
THE Springfield Journal gives the follow
ing notice "To.day, and till further notice.
Mr.. Lincoln will see visitors at the Execu-
tive Chamber in the State House, from 8
to II A. NJ, and from 31a to 51 Pm, each
day."
The expenses of the New York city gov
eminent, including the Aims House, Board
of Education, Fire Department, City Courts,
&C., for this year, up to the first instant,
amounted to $4,860,l48 48.
JOSEPH S. WILSON, commissioner of the
General Land Office at Washington, on
Monday morning received telegraphic de-
spatch from Portland, Oregon, via. Sacra.
mento, California, dated November LIST,
1860, thus reaching Washington within
twelve days, an unprecedented achievement
in magnetic telegraphing, and striking in
stance of the progress OF the age.
EDWARD EVERETT, at the suggestion OF
Messrs. Sheldon & Co., publishers, is about
to write Life of Franklin, and hopes to
complete it in the course of the next year.
A BROTHER of Charles Dickens is emu
pIoyed in the land Office of the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad. He does little in the
literary line.
Mr.. FORREST has been rendered an offer
of an engagement by MIR. Blackstone, OF the
Haymarket Theatre, London, for fifty or
one hundred nights commencing in the Fall
of 1861, but declines making any profess
sional engagement for that city.
By rather circuitous route, through
means of private letters published in the
Newcastle (England) Chronicle, we are
informed of the death of Alberto Mario,
the husband of Madame Jesse White Mario.
He was sent by Garibaldi at the head OF
party of troops to put down refractory
movement, but being attacked by much
larger force of Neapolitans, Mario and bis
men lost the day. Out of the party of one
thousand, only forty survived, and Mario is
not among them.
The New Orleans Picayune, OF the 9th
inst, says this morning the remains of the
late Mrs. F. A. Lumsden, with those of her
adopted child, who persisted in the Lady
Elgin, September 8, were deposited in the
same tomb with those of her husband-a
victim of the same terrible disaster, There
are still missing the bodies of Frank, the
only son, and of the female attendant of Mrs.
Lumsden, of the restoration of whom no
hopes are entertained.
IT is noticed as sign of the approaching
millennium that the Rev. DR.. Cummings,
priest of st. Stephens Roman Catholic
Church in New York, lectured on Sunday
evening, in Boston, before the Young Mems
Christian Union-a Unitarian Association.
AMONG the winning men on the Presiden>
tial election, one of the most successful is
Morrissey, the pugilist. The New York
correspondent of the Philadelphia Press says:
81 was conversing on Friday with an &C
uuaintance, who stated that be acted as
stakeholder of a bet between the brawny
John and another party to the amount of
eight thousand dollars, and bad only an
hour before paid over to said John that
amount in good current money"
The President has subscribed $100 for
the relief of the sufferers in Kansas, and
promises to appeal to Congress in their be-
half-Cincinnati Commercial.
Where is Old Abe? He subscribed fifty
dollars to buy Sharpe's rifles to send them.
How much will be give them to buy bread?
-New albany Ledger.
The London Morning Post says that a
new steel gun, invented by E. Lynet Thomas,
has Just been tried at Sheerness. Here is
the result of the trial The gun, loaded
with twenty eight pounds of powder, sent
ball weighing one hundred and sixty pounds,
to a distance of ten thousand yards, or FIVE
IL he hor
taken to have series of experiments in the
presence of the members of the committee
of the Woolwich Arsenal.
JOHNNY" HEENAN, Aaron Jones, and
Ned Price with Croppy Dick, Flat Nosed
Ned, Billy the Bulldog, and other assis-
tantS of less celebrity, gave sparring and
boxing exhibition at Auburn on Saturday
last. The bills announced reserved seats
for ladies and gentlemen accompanying
them!" The "lades" could not have been
very reserved" if the seats were. &.
THERE were in the port of New York, on
Saturday, twenty-eight steamers, one hun
dred and twenty.three ships, one hundred
and one barques, one hundred briggs, and one
hundred and thirty -four schooners. Fifty
two were loading for Europe, three for the
East Indies, two for the west coast of South
America, and three for Australia. There
were seven fine ships on the berth for San
Francisco. ~
TIE New Almaden Quicksilver Mine
case on trial in California, and which
drew to the Pacific, Reverdy johnson and
Senator Benjamin, has closed, and an i'm 1.
preston prevails in San Francisco that
Judge McAllister will decide in favor of
the Government rendering an appeal to the
Supreme Court of the United States neces-
sary, before the injunction can be dissolved
and the working OF the mine proceed.
PETER SrUYvEsrANT, one of the oldest
citizens of New York, tagged 85) with a
name identified with the Knickerbockers,
died last week, after a long and painful ill.,
ness.
UNITED STATES Troops AT THE SOUTH
As some interest attaches at present to
the compliment of United States soldiers
stationed South, we append a correct list
of them: At Fort Monroe, Va, 8 compa-'
MES of artillery at Fayetteville Arsenal,
N. c., company of artillery; at Fort