The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-02-10
News and Miscellaneous Items.


Rev. JOHN STRAIT, revolutionary
soldier, died in Galiopolis, Ohio, on the 7th
inst, aged 10l years, months and days.
He was born in 1853, in Rhode Island. He
was in the battle Of Long Island, and was
in the continental service three years. He
removed to Ohio in 1915, was married three
times, and was the father of Is children.
He had been minister of the Gospel for
over IS years.
Our exchanges from all sections of the
country bring accounts of that loathsome
disease, smallpox. In Massachusetts, there
have been many cases hardly town is
free from the infection. The disease still
continue to increase in the vicinity of Bos-
ton. In Newton, large number have
contracted the disorder. In WATERFOWL
many are suffering from either smallpox or
varioloid. In Needham there are num-
Der sick. AUX urn, New York, has also
been visited with the disease in its most vir-
ulent form. Accounts from Macon, Ca,
state that there have been many cases in the
vicinity of that town.
A NEW way to build railroad has been
discovered down South. The House of
Representatives of Alabama has passed, by
large majority, the charter of bank in
Mobile, with proviso which requires that
the stockholders take an equal amount of
stock in the Great Central Railroad from
Montgomery to Decatur, Alabama.
The Senate Post Office Committee have
under consideration plan or system of
greater security for the transmission of
money and valuable packages by mail. The
Committee have also urder consideration
other postal reforms of great importance,
with view of making the department self
sustaining.
The Breslau Gazette relates that in the
session of the 10th December of the Hun
garian academy of sciences, at Pesth,
many prominent Hungarian mobiles being
present. loud and enthusiastic cheers were
given for NAPOLEON HILL, who was
hailed as the champion of European liberty.
The Philadelphia Ledger says that the
ice crop Of that vicinity is larger this year
than last-the amount harvested being some
$500 tons. The capacity of the depots on
the SchuylkiIl is about 100000 tons.
JAMES BoGARDUs, of New York, is at
present engaged in erecting an iron building
in Havana which is one of the largest, if
not the largest, building in the world cover
ing space of 10000 yards.
A correspondent of the Richmond En-
qu,rer states that the number of cases of
shoes shipped from New England to the
South, during the dull month of December,
was l III.
MRS. WALTERS hoops threw her dress
into contact with red no; stove, and in an
instant she was clothed in flames, and soon
burned to death. She was young and
beautiful married woman of only seventeen,
and the accident happened in her own house
in Central Square, Oswego county, N. Y.
las t week.
The report of the bank comptroller of
Wisconsin on the condition of the 100 bank,
of that State on the I'd inst, gives the fol-
lowing aggregates: Capital $7.62000O;
deposits $3,085, 439 specie $4l9,94s; cash
items $64,13O; public securities S4,952,6sO
private securities $8,922,03l.
AN artist friend gives the New York cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Press fresh
and reliable bit of news about Rosa Bon-
heur. That triumphant specimen of manly
woman is about to visit the United States
professionally. An opulent French gentle-
man, an enthusiast in art, some time since
commissioned her ladyship to cross the At
lantic, proceed to the great prairies of the
far west, and paint, from life, herd Of wild
buffalos. She was to take her own time,
accomplish it in her own way, and fix her
own price. At first she declined to enters
tain the proposition, but finally, after turn
ing it over in her mind, and rejecting upon
what an original and splendid work she
could make, she has accented the Offer and