The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-31
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We have further reports of Indian dis
turbances pear Santa Fe, New Mexico. At
that place there were only eleven soldiers,
and the Navajo Indians had killed and
plundered white settlers within few miles
of the city.
ANOTHER revolution in northern Mexico
OF course we cannot tell what it was about.
"Aramberri had defeated Vidauri, and Gen.
Zuazua was killed"
AN election has been held in Carson VAL
ley to organize Provisional Government
for the proposed Territory of Nevada, on
the squatter sovereignty principle. The re-
turns indicate vote favorable to the or
ganization.
GORDON, the murderer, who escaped from
the vigilance committee at Denver, has
been arrested and is now in the custody of
the United States Marshal at Leavenworth.
The Louisville Courier says Breckenridge
has written letter authorizing Mr.. Ste
vens, Chairman of the Seceder's Executive
committee, to contradict emphatically the
absurd rumor that he thought of withdraw
ing or desired to withdraw.
TRUMAN DAVIS, at Stockbridge, Massa"
chusetts, killed his wife by beating out her
brains with club and hoe on the 18th.
He was intoxicated The murderer has
been arrested and is in Lenox Jail.
The steamer Hesperian, of the Hannibal
and St. Joseph line, was burned at Atchi-
son, Kansas, on the 10Th. The Choctaw,
from St. Louis to New Orleans, was sunk
at Island "a on the 18th. Loss, $25 900 !;
insured for $4,000.
BRILLIANT meteors are the order OF the
day, or rather of almost every night, and
scientific men are watching for such dis
play of celestial pyrotechnics in the course
of the fall, as our world has rarely seen.
The meteors so far seem to have similar
appearance, easily mistaken for rockets, but
for their perternatural elevation and splen-
dor.
The census is showing great falling OFT
in the slave population of Western Virgil
ria. They are being rapidly sold and re-
moved South. The returns of the census of
Wood county show heavy falling of in the
slave population, and we now have the Gen.
sus of Cabell county, which shows only ZIG
slaves and 10 free negroes, against 3S9
slaves and 8 free negroes in 1850.
The French legation has lately visited
Boston to approve the purchase, by we'll
known horse dealer, of five superb Vermont
horses, for the stables of the French Empe-
ror, who already possesses twenty-four spe-
cmens of the same breed. The new horses
are fifteen hands high, having fine action
and speed not less than ESQ. They are
of the Emperor's favorite color, deep bay
as are nearly all the Emperor's stock of four
hundred, and their tails are of natural length,
with one exception. The cost was between
$4,000 and $4,000 pair. These horses will
be taken to Europe in one of the Vanderbilt
steamers.
The tolls on the New York canals for
the first week of August amounted to $685.
829. This amount is greater than the re-
! ceipts of any corresponding week of August
since l947. The aggregate receipts for
1860, to August 8, are $1,24S,286-an
increase over 1859 of $50O,825.
The Smithsonian Institution has sent MI.
w. L. Nicholson to Iowa and Illinois to
collect information regarding the tornadoes
which have visited those States during the
present season.
MRS. CHARLOTTE RowECRoFT, widow Of
the late British Consul in Cincinnati, who
was dismissed for violating the neutrality
laws during the Crimean war, has just had
a pension of Gl00 granted to her by the
government, gin consideration of the long
service of her late husband, az British Con-
sui in the United States"
A work recently published at Cambridge,
Eng, on the figure of the earth, gives as a
we'll established fact, that the water of the
sea at the mouth of the Indus is elevated as
much as $50 feet above that at Cape Co.
MORN, the southern extremity of Hindoo-
stan. The author, Mr.. George Pratt,
Arcbdeacon of Calcutta, ascribes this diff
ference of height to the attractive influence
of the Himalaya mountains.
IT is said that John Wood, the present
Governor of Illinois, arrived, thlrty-two
years ago, at the city OF Quincy, in that
State, with only twenty-five cents in his
pocket. Now Quincy contains twenty
thousand inhabitants, and Mr.. Wood lives
in and owns residence there which cost
him 100000.
SUBSCRIPTIONS in New York city in aid
of the Pope of Rome, up to the 10th inst,
amounted to upwards of SOL 900.
The committee of invitation to the Prince
of Wsles-Messrs. Wilson G.. Hunt, j. J..
Astor, Robt. D. Minturn, and Robert Kelly
loft nm tho 81 at for Montreal. tn invite the