The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-23
All Sorts Of Items.

Michigan Canal, which comprises ship
canal of sufficient capacity to float the largest
class of vessels that could navigate the Hi
nois river, but which was given up for the
want of means, after considerable portion
had been constructed on that plan, and
completed for ordinary canal boats only.
The probable cost is estimated at from ten
to twenty millions Of dollars.
TIE complete census Of New York city
with two districts estimated) gives total
population OF 82l, 1l3. A gain of 19l 1903
since 1855, and of 3O5,667 since 1850.
Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Hoboken and
Jersey City, which are so many suburbs
of New York, make the aggregate popu-
lation upwards OF million and quarter.
GEORGE P. FISHER, M. c., elect from
Delaware, was Private Secretary to John
NJ. Clayton, when the latter was Secretary
of State.
The Swedish Government has abolished
the passport system. Anybody hereafter
may enter Swedish territory, travel through
or leave it without any mo!estation from
the civil authorities or any police inter-
rogating him. Russia has also modified
her passport system. These steps show
that Europe is getting tired of absurd re-
strictions.
The literary man who has made the pen
profession longest now alive, is Cyrus
Redding, OF England, who has been just
ffty-fve years in activity, and has probably
written more than any living contemporary.
He was personally acquainted with Lewis,
Wolcot, Topham, Sheridan, Canning, Scott,
Wilson, Hogg, Moore, Campbell, &C., with
numerous distinguished foreigners, and cha
racters, not literary, but eminent in the
arts and natural philosophy. He may be
called link between the past and present
in the same profession. His first printed
essay bore date 1904, and be is yet in good
health.
The one Democratic member of the
| Vermont Senate makes as much fun as did
the Democratic member of the Massachu-
sets Know Nothing Legislature five years
ago. In the election of Chaplain he an
nounced that the Democratic party, in eau
Gus at his desk, had decided to raise no
partisan issue, and he therefore voted for
Rev. Mr.. Lord. There being tie vote
between this gentleman and Rev. Mr..
Howard, the casting vote of the Lieutenant
Governor was given in favor of the former,
when the Senator gravely congratulated
himself and his party upon this glimmer of
Democratic success.
AN application has been made to the
President by Mr.. Booth, who has given the
federal authorities of Wisconsin so much
trouble, for remission of his fine, on the
ground of poverty, but the application is
accompanied with insolent defiance and
determination On his part to repeat the
offence upon the next opportunity.
The first man who discovered gold in CAL
ifornia--it now turns out in consequence of
Investigations by the San Francisco Society
of Pioneers--was Captain Jedediah s.
Smith, chief trader in the employ of the
American Fur Company, who found gold
in the valley of the Sacramento as long ago
as 1926. On second expedition to the
gold fields, the following year, the enterprise
ing pioneer was killed by the Indians.
Rev. J. D. TORY, minister of long
standing in the Oneida M. E. Conference,
has brought disgrace upon himself and
discredit upon his denomination. Charges
made against him that be had used the
church where he oficiated as place of
designation, have been so far verified that
be has been suspended from all ministerial
functions until the next session of the
Conference, which will be held in Utica in
the spring.
A CURIOUS case of longevity is noticed in
letter from Key West, Florida, to the
New Orleans Picayune: 1.-THE curiosity of
visitors to this place may be grati6ed by
witnessing a connecting link of bygone
times, in the person of negress aged one
hundred and twenty seven years. She lives
with her son, aged sixty nine-who owns
her-in comfortable little house outside
the limits of the town. Aged as she is, her
faculties are good, and she walks every
Sabbath distance of a half mile to attend
church."
QUEEN VIcToRA's departure from Brus-
sells, and her return to England, was delayed
for two days by cold which she caught in
Germany. 1t is striking proof of the ex-
cellence of the constitution of Queen Vic
toria, and of her physical training and
regularity Of habit, that during the twenty.
three years she has been on the British
throne, she has never been confined to her
room from sickness for single day, ex-
cepting upon the occasions when she has
added to the number of the Guelph olive
branches. ,..-.. "a