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

IT has heretofore been stated that Gov
Stewart, Of Missouri, had refused to sign the
nj passed BY ito Legislature, for the exclu~
sion Of the free colored population from that
state. It appears that Gov. Perry, Of Flor.
ida, has also declined tosisn q bill Of like
character excluding the same class Of per-
sons from Florida.
A cokDucroR onA citYrsilway in Gin
cinnati ejecteda colored woman from the
cars, and was fined 40 and costs. The
company, it is said, inteDds carrying the case
to higher tribunal
The principal contributors to Vanity
Fair, the comic and satirical paper lately
started in New York, are said to be John
Brougham, Fitz James O'Brien, T. B. AL.
drich, {" K. N. Pepper" Henry Clapp, Jr.,
George Arnold, Frank j. White and w.
A. Stephens. The illustrations are by Me-
Lenas, Bellew, Eytypge, Stephens and 9TH
ers.
A NASHVILLE paper says the free colored
persons now in the Southern States number
about 100000, distributed as follows -
Maryland $4,000, Virginia 10000, North
Carolina 10000, Delaware 10000, Louisiana
10000, Kentucky IL 900, District of Colum-
bia IL 900, South Carolina 10000, Tennes.
see 5000, Georgia 5000, Mississippi 5000,
Alabama 5000, Florida 1000, Missouri
1900, Texas 1000, Arkansas 1000.
In late case of breach of promise of
marriage, the strongest evidence of the de.
PENDANTS affection was the fact that he once
gave two cents for an orange and presented
it to the fair plaintiff.
A NUMBER Of letters were received at the
Post Office Department in Washington last
week from mail contractors in different
parts of the Union, declaring their intention
to break off the lines if no appropriation is
made by the first Of March. The House of
Representatives, in SO long delaying its
organization, is assuming fearful respon-
sibility. o.....l t-.....
IT is stated that nine thousand seven
hundred and thirty barrels of whale oil, and
eight hundred and sixty-eight thousand six
hundred and ninety-one pounds of whale
bone will be shipped from the Sandwich
Islands this season. This is much less than
the usual shipment.
A PARIS letter says the race of crinoline
appears to be nearly run at last. The mode
has gone out as it came in-at the fat of
the imperial mistress Of the Tuileries, which
seems to be hint that future additions to
the Emperor's family are remote possibili-
ties; everyboding knowing that the "ampli-
tude came into fashion at the identica.
moment when Napoleon III was anxiously
looking for the advent of Napoleon w.
Ell GIT persons we're drowned near Rhine
beck, N. j., on Tuesday last. A party of
twenty or twenty-five persons were crossing
on the ice in large covered sleigh drawn
by four horses, when the ice gave way and
the sleigh went down, carrying with it eight
of the passengers, who were drowned.
The forest still supplies the largest item
in the exports from Canada. In the Ottawa
valley there are some hundred acre lots so
thickly timbered as to yield, at cent per
cubit foot, timber to the amount of $4,000.
The Toronto Leader suggests that a source
of wealth so productive as this should be
husbanded with care. e.-...
The Supreme Court Of Appeals, in Viz
ginia, has affirmed the judgment Of the
Circuit Court of Richmond, which decided
that inspectors of flour, spirits, cotton, and
other articles of freight have no right to
retain samples as perquisites Of Office. The
decision was called out by suit against
-four inspector, who, it appears, had, in the
course of few years, accumulated from
drafts of -four taken from barrels, a quantity
valued at 1925, 1000, including interest.
Snow has fallen to considerable depth in
Algeria. The Algeria Nouvelle states that
all the mountains round Bongia, and that
city itself, are covered with it. This is the
case also at Phillippeville, and almost all
the towns on the east coat, thing that has
not happened for more than fifteen years.
The cold has also been very severe on all
these points.
STREET railways are about to be intro
duced into Detroit. An ordinance has been
passed, giving company privilege to lay
down rails in the streets of that city. Ex-
elusive privilege is granted the contractors
for thirty years, and they are required to
pay the city five per cent. Of all their re-
ceipts.
DIR. HIRAM Cox, the official inspector of
whiskey, says an article he saw sold at
tavern for whisky was analysed by him, and
be found it had II per cent. alcoholic spirits
by weight, when it should have had 40 per
cent. to be proof, and the difference in per
| centape made M by sulnhuric arid rod