The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-09-21
All Sorts OF Items.

The Great Eastern, on her return voy-
age to Milford Haven from New ork, via
Halifax, made the passage in nine days
four and half hours-the shortest time
ever made by any steamer, with all the adj
vantages of skill and improvements in ma
chinery and shipbuilding, and this, too, with
her bottom covered with barnacles, and as
foul as that of any ship that ever crossed
the ocean. This fact, we think, fully es-
tablishes the mechanical success of this mon
ster ship. ,se-
GEORGE 81. BARRETT, the comedian
Gentleman George died in New York
on the 9Th instant, aged &c.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Sacramento
Union, writes from Virginia City, that it
is ascertained that party of seven white
men, who had been missing some time had
been burned to death near Pyramid Lake,
by the Indians. Their charred remains
were found chained to trees. The head and
chest of one of them were not burned, and
by this means the rest of them were identi>
fed as the party who left California for the
Washoe mines, in May, under command Of
Norman Garfield, formerly from Cambridge,
Washington county, New York.
The Troy Times is authorized to con-
tradict the statement that match has been
made between Heenan and Morrissey.
These parties have not met since the re-
fusal of the latter to father q challenge
which some inconsiderate friend had made
for him nor has Morissey since changed
the determination expressed then, not to en-
ter the prize ring again, except under cir
cumstances of great provocation."
The population of Great Britain Eng
land, Wales, Scotland and Ireland) by the
census of 1858 was 28,644,362 that of
France by the census of 1858 was 36,205,-
1893. The United States numbered 23,191,-
876 by the census of 1850, and the esti-
mates of the present census, now in progress,
range from 30 to $4,000. In population,
therefore, the three countries do not very
widely differ.
BILLIARD players are in fever of ex-
element. 1t has been officially announced
that Mr.. Phelan, the greatest billiard player
on this continent, has received letter from
M. Berger, the greatest master of the cue in
Europe, and that in this precious epistle
Mr.. Berger declares it to be his Intention to
visit the United States some time next
month. Mr.. Phelan has long been trying
to get his French rival over here. Of course
M. Berger and his friends believe him to be
the best billiard player in the world, and
Mr.. Pbelan and his friends rejoice in sim
liar favorable opinion of their own proves.
The London correspondent Of the Man.
chester Guardian says Lord Lovelace's son
and heir, the grandson to whom will ulti-
mately fall the bulk of the late Lady By
ron's large landed property, and who now
becomes Baron Wentworth by her death,
is, and has for considerable time pastsbeen
working at weekly wages as an artisan in
the smiths department of Woolwich Arse
nal. Lord Lovelace's daughter, to whom
passes the bulk Of Lady Byron's large per-
sonal property, is an inheritrix Of much of
the rare ability of her mother, Ada, the on
ly daughter of Lord Byron.
ONE of the census takers, while engaged
in enumerating the population of Concor-
dia, Champagne county, Ohio, encountered
a veteran, aged sixty-6ve years, named Jesse
Harbour, who is the father Of thirty.two
childred, the youngest being only three
months old at the taking of the census.
Mr.. Harbour has been twice married, hav-
ing fourteen children by his first wife, and
g. eighteen by his second. The old gentleman
is in comfortable circumstances, and thus
far bas been enabled to present each of his
children, on arriving at legal age, with 80
acres Of land.
In the cemetery at Lanesville may be seen
the following epitaph
"This little Hero that lies here
Was conquered by the Dlarrhoe."
A PRUssIAN named Ludovic Joachim
Julius Tode, was arrested in New York last
Monday, on charge of being fugitive
from st. Petersburg, Russia, where be is al
legged to have embezzled, in the month Of
August, 1859, the sum of $4,000 from an
English firm, by whom he was employed as
confidential clerk. It seems be reached
Boston in September, 1859, and has been
travelling over the country for bis health.
Fifty thousand dollars of the money has been
recovered.
A CALIFORNIA Senator named Edgerton,
being, in the language of San Francisco
paper, on bit of STARE" one evening
dropped into the theatre, and became highly
Interested in the play-The Octoroon. In
the scene where the auctioneer sells Zoe,
and knocks her down to McClosky at TWEEN
ty-tive thousand dollars, and the bystanders
are indignant, and he says, II can't help it;
he (McClosky) has the law on his side, and