The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-10
The News.


I'D inst. One of the messengers of the
State Savings Association had in his charge
$4,000, of which $4,000 was in a carpet
sack, and the balance in other packages.
During the night of the 21st and 22d, the
state room was entered and the carpet sack
containing SIS 900 was stolen. On arriy-
ing at st. Louis, detective officer found
the money secreted between two mattresses
where the alarmed thief had placed it.
FIVE persons, Mrs. J.J. B. Prineau and
Child, Mrs. j. j. Nj. Prineau, Mr.. Beaus-
Tell, and Miss Louisa Bedand, went over the
Black River Falls at WATERFOWL, New
ork' on the 18th, in a boat, and all were
drowned. The body of one lady was to be
seen next day hanging upon a rock below
the Falls, and efforts were being made to
reach it.
RANDALL, the Republican Governor Of
lsconsn, has granted an unconditional
pardon 10 Leahy, the "monk OF La Trappe,"
who was sentenced to prison for life, at the
September term of the Columbia County
Circuit Court, in 1853, be having commits
ted murder and the laws Of the State
unfortunately preventing him from being
hung.
MAINE does not gain more than about
10000 in It's population since 1850. 1t is
now about 100000. A few places like
Portland, Biddeford, Lewiston, ROckland,
Bangor, and Calais, have made considerable
gains, but nearly all the villages and vast
majority of the agricultural towns are either
at q stand still, or exhibit decrease.
SENATOR DOUGLAS has made donation
OF $500 to the Lexington Monument Fund.
The Chicago Zouaves visited Indepen-
dence Hall, Philadelphia, on the 30th. In
the evening they drilled at Paramount Park,
before $4,000 spectators, among whom were
large number of ladies' AS the drill took
place on the hill, an excellent view was
afforded Their movements were closely
scrutinized and loudly applauded. The corps
is gaining much favor in Philadelphia
They were first looked upon as cyclists.
Two abolitionists have been hung in
Texas, for distributing arms to slaves.
LORD LYONS, English Minister, left Bos-
ton on the Both, to join the Prince of Wales
in Canada.
THE exhibition of the Great Eastern in
New York closed on the 28th She left
New York on Monday for Cape May, with
a large excursion party on board at SO
per head Dodworth's band of 20 instru>
ments accompanied the party. On her re.
turn from Cape May, the Great Eastern will
leave New York for Baltimore, where she
has been promised 10000 tons Of coal by
the citizens of that place, on the condition
that she would pay them a visit The Tn
b,ne says that as soon as the proper guam
tity of coal has been taken, and the BaIti-
moreans have had fair chance of inspect
ing the ship, she will come back to New
York, receive her passengers and leave for
England, via Halifax. She will probably
return from England Immediately, and 90
to Norfolk, Va, where 10000 bales of cot
ton have been promised as a return cargo
Over 100000 people visited the ship while
she was lying at New York.
THE census of New York city just COM
pleted, shows a population of 862,257
The Tribune says this number will fall
short, by from $4,000 to 100000, of the
actual population. The value of the real
and personal estate in the city, is set down
at $702,0O0,000. The Tribune says:
On the present basis of representation, this
city would be entitled to nine members of
Congress, instead of six, as now returned uu.
der the appOrtlonment of 1850, Gncludng part
of Williamsburgh). Seventeenth Ward alone
would return one member. and the Eleventh
Ward would be entitled almost of itself to
another. The figures show very significantly
the result of the uptown movement of our
people. Nearly all the downtown Wards have
decreased in the number Of their inhabitants,
or are at stand still.
A LATE Texas paper contains the sub,
joined: "The troubles that have been brew
ing for some months among the Cherokees,
between the Shareholders and the non-slave-
holders, and which were melted by abolition
missionaries, have come to that pass that
the nation is in arms; and one Evan Jones'
an Abolition;st leader, and his son, have
enlisted two thousand of the Cherokees for
an attack on their brethren. \ requisition,
it is stated, will be made on the State of
Arkansas for aid to assist in quelllng this
insurrectiOn."
Rooms have been engaged at Davenport,
Iowa, for the Prince of Wales. We could
not mention the name of the Hotel, for
worlds, as the telegram announcing the
startling fact is evidently shrewd adver-
Using dodge.
We have Santa Fe advices to July 10.
News had reached Santa Fe that Manuel
Chavis, with fifty Mexicans, had gone in
pursuit of large band of Navajoe lndi-
ans, who had run off herd of sheep from
the Rio Grande. They overlook the Indi-
ans, and had fight with them, in which