The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-03-30

Telegraphic and other Items.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred in the town
OF Black River Falls, Jackson county Wis
consin, last Sunday morning, destroying
forty-three buildings, among which was the
jackson County Banner. All the stores in
the town, with the exception of one, belong
ing to F. F. PARSONS, were destroyed. AS
the fire was discovered in two different pla.
ces at the same time, it is supposed to have
been the work Of an incendiary. Loss esti.
mated at between $4,000 and $4,000.
The total number of persons lost by the
wreck of the Hungarian was 205.
Gov. STEWART of Missouri, has vetoed the
bill providing for the removal of the free
negroes from that state.
A FIRE broke out at Milwaukee, on the
corner of East Water and Wisconsin streets,
on the 10th, consuming all the wooden build
iDgs, fourteen or fifteen in number, making
clean sweep to the Newhall House. All
the brick buildings are uninjured. The loss
on the buildings will not probably exceed
$4,000. Most of the goods were saved.
No insurance. The Newhall House was in
imminent danger at one time, but through
the exertions of the fire department and the
citizens, it was saved without any material
damage.
The London Court Journal announces it's
belief that it is warranted in positively as
serting that his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales will take his departure for Canada
the latter end of May or the beginning of
June. Instructions will be sent out to the
authorities to make the necessary arrang-
ments for the reception of the young Prince.
The names of the suit that will attend his
Royal Highness, and the details of his visit,
have not yet been settled, though we hear
the Renown, 94-gun vessel, has been fixed
upon for the honor Of conveying the Prince.
FOREIGN papers confirm the painful
rumors regarding GARR1BALD1's wife, and
the warriors application for divorce. Pity
he didn't reside in Kansas.
The DEBORAH, Iowa, Rough Notes says
large pack of wolves recently paid the
suburbs Of that usually quiet town flying
visit, and after prowling around, making the
night hideous with their unearthly yells, not
for freedom, but for something to eat, they
attacked poor mule, finished him, and
retired to the caverns in the adjacent bluffs.
THE name of the "White Lady," mo rela.
tive of her of Avenel, described by Scott
of Bridgeport, Conn.,, who married negro,
was Mrs. CATHARINE BACH. She was worth
$1,000, and had two white children. Her
relatives being "high stomached and full of
ire" sent her to the Insane Asylum, but she
was discharged on demand of the Ethiop,
"who wears her as his jewell" The couple
now lead their chequered existence in New
York, where there are SO many odd fish all
ready that they will be quite unnotieed.
AN extraordinary event in the history of
the German Jews has just taken place. In
the free city of Hamburg, where Jew, ten
years ago, was not even eligible for a night
constable, a Jew, by the free sufrages of the
citizens, has lately been chosen chief mag
istrate, next in station to the highest digni-
tary in that republic. The gentleman
elected is distinguished jurisconsult and
writer, DR.. GABRIEL RE1ssER, who was
Vice President of the German Parliament
that sat at Frankfort in l848.
AMONG other stocks sold in Boston last
week was ST. 900 webster Fund" The
Boston Gazette says -" Mr.. HENsHAw
sold, among the variety of stocks, &C., Of
fer at auction, $1,000 of the. Webster Fund
for $3.50. As many inquiries have been
made as to what this is, we can state that
fund OF $4,000 was subscribed some years
ago among the friends of DANIEL WEBSTER,
the interest of which was to 60 to him dur
ing life, and at his decease to his wife, and
on her death the principal to subscribers or
their heirs"
AN act for the protection of property
rights of married women has been passed by
the New York Legislature. The Tribune
says that the "act will enable five thousand
women in our State to earn and save, and
live on their own resources, who are now
living on snfferance, and whose furniture and
even clothing, in the case of each, belongs
to reprobate or drunkard who first de-
ceived, then deserted her, leaving her to toll
in penury for bare subsistence, liable at
any moment to be stripped off her all, by
the brute who has made her life wretched."
A MARRIED man of wealth died suddenly
in disreputable house in New York on
Sunday night. The young woman in whose
company he was, observing his features
change, ran from the room screaming for
help, and when she got back he lay "a corpse
near chair to which he had tottered. He
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