The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03
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the publishers of the New YORK morning
and Evening Express, for alleged infringe
ment of copyright, in reprinting, from the
book published by said De Witt, the con-
fession of Hicks, the pirate. The confession
is alleged to have been thus reprinted verba-
tim, and on the same day the copyrighted
book was published. Damages to the amount
of $4,000 are claimed.
Hon. DANIEL w. WORRIES mas been
nominated for Congress by the Democrats
of the Seventh Congressional District in
Indiana. 1t is now represented by John G.
Davis. This is capital nomination. Mr..
VOORHEES, is one of the ablest and most
promising young men in the nation and as
his election is sure thing, we predict that
he will take high rank in the House of
Representatives. He is, in the true sense
of the word, an orator. His address to the
Jury in behalf of Cook, at Charlestown, Va,
who was the second in command in the
John Brown raid, was one Of the most
beautiful and eloquent pleas that was ever
made upon criminal trial.
Hon. SYLVESTER MowRy, delegate from
Arizona, has been appointed by the Presi-
dent Commissioner on the part of the United
States to run the boundary line between the
State of California and the adjoining Ter
ritories. Mr.. Mowry takes with him Lieut..
Ives, of the Typographical Engineers, and
another surveying officer from the regular
army.
Mr.. BRECKENRIDGE did not support Gen.
Cass for President in 1848, but bolted his
nomination, as he now bolts the nomination
of Douglas He was in favor of Gen. Tay-
lor as a no party candidate. He did not
vote for him finally, but stood neutral, aid
ing to that extent Gen. Taylors election as
the Wing candidate.
The Abolitionists have called conven-
tion at Syracuse, n. Y, on the 9Th of Au-
gust next, to nominate candidate for the
Presidency and Vice Presidency. Also. to
nominate candidates for Governor and Lieu.
tenant Governor of that state. They invite
the men and women of New York and other
states, who may occupy radical positions
upon the questions Of anti-slavery and tenn
perance, to attend and take part in the con-
vention.
A LETTER from Saratoga says the season
is backward, but the writer expects Sc re-
vival of the old glories in the way of society
by the arrival soon of many who visited the
Springs last year for pleasure returning now
for health" That's dismal.
WESLEY HANE, the fat man of German
Valley, Morris county, N. j., when be died,
a short time since, weighed about GOO
pounds. 1t took 90 feet of lumber to make
his coffin. BE leaves wife, and if her grief
equal her person it will be heavy indeed
600 pounds!
The father of the late Jacob S. Harden
has sold the confession of the criminal for
$4,000. Such fine bit of money is almost
an inducement to poison ones wife, and
thereby secure domestic peace and the abil-
ity to relieve distressed parent. How
beautiful the filial tribute! 1t is awkward,
though, that the happiness would involve
the necessity of being hung.
The n. Y. Tribune, without any special
effort to make the list complete, ascertains
that in little more than three years fifty-fve
murders have been committed in that city,
the perpetrators of which have never been
detected.
A TURIN letter says Louis Napoleon's
pet idea is that the Bourbon of Naples and
the Pontiff of Rome should decamp. The
Pope he thinks, might inhabit the island
of Sardinia, with the nominal sovereignty
over the Island, but allowing it the full en-
,oyment of its present free institutions. The
Pope would enjoy a civil list of 10,00000Of
of which 5000 ,O00f. would be contributed
by France, and the rest by other Catholic
States.
Mr.. r. TEN BRoECK's horse Satellite, by
Albion. entered for the Stamford Plate of
200 sovereigns at Newmarket races, on the
4th inst; won the race after gallant strug-
ole with Mr.. Saxon's Brown Duchess, and
nine other famous horses. The betting was
three to one against him. Satellite is en-
tered for the Goodwood stakes, with the
odds of ten to one bet against him.
Mr.. SUMNER, in bis next speech about
Barbarism," as illustrated by crime, should
quote list of the most horrible offences
against life, property and chastity, perpe-
trated in New York, and recorded in the
Tribune of July 81, filling column and a
half. Read it Charles, and then run your
eve over what the Evening Post admits,
namely, that New York is the greatest slave
trading port in the world, and say if it be
any more absurd to charge all these moral
obliquities to Freedom, than it is to charge
all the misdemeanors committed in the
South to Slavery.
The atlas and Argus says, among those
who, without reference to party, courteously
paid their respects to Senator Douglas, in
Albany, were Gov. Morgan, Thurlow Weed,
ESQ.,, and many other Republicans.
The Chicago Times says: cit is not
true that Hon. T. L. Clingman, of North
Carolina, has declared for Breckenridge.
At proper time after the State election in
North Carolina, he will take the field for
Douglas and johnson. Another Roorback