The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-09-06
All Sorts OF Items.

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As this is the third time he has run of
with other mems wives, he is expected to
be run to the penitentiary for while.
Mrs Emily Ellsworth, the wife of the
Hon. Judge Ellsworth, of the Supreme
Court of Connecticut, died at Hartford on
Friday of last week. She was the eldest
daughter of the distinguished Noah Web
ster, LII. D..
"A great excitement was got up in
Northampton few evenings since on &C..
count of the loss of child. The bells were
rung and a general search instituted, in the
midst of which the child was found where
it had the best right to he-at home and in
bed.
- Mrs. Mary Parmenter, of Rochester
New York died recently at the age of 1929
years. For century she had not known
one day of sickness, except that incident to
thirteen additions to the American popu-
lation.
- Sulphate of salt, or of soda, mixed in
small quantities with the starch in which
summer dresses or ladies' skirts are done
up" on the authority of DR.. Ording, of
Guys Hospital, London, will make them
absolutely incombustible.
- Ii should be the object of supporters
Of the Constitution in the coming elections,
! to make such combinations as will evince
to the world-and especially to the rebels
the hearty devotion of our people to the
Union, and their determination to carry on
the war with the single object Of its pres
ervation. This is undoubtedly the senti
ment OF the immense mass of the nation.
AS proof that girls are useful arti-
cles, and that the world couldn't very well
get along without them, it has been stated
by late writer, as fact, that if all the
| girls were TO be driven out of the world in
one generation the boys would all 90 after
| them.
The archaeological Institute have had
contributed to its museum the gold rosary
and cross which belonged to Mary, Queen
OF Scots, the veil which she wore at her ex-
ecution, and the ring..which commemorated
her betrothal with Darnley.
Taking the statement of our exchanges
and other information, it appears that the
wheat crop in Iowa this year is just about
an average enc.
The New Bedford Mercury says there
is wonderful vitality in Ben. McCulloch. 1t
thought be d0d been. but 10 he Is Ben.
The London Chronicle has correspon.
dent at Richmond, who has been among
the troops in that city, and in writing Of
them, remarks that they are i'll clad, and
that gambling is very prevalent. Faro
! banks flourish, champagne suppers are free,
and the city wnks at the vice it is unable
to suppress.
Prentice says: The Southern Confed
crates think themselves moderate in naming
the conditions of peace. They ask nothing
10 the world except that we give up Cur
country.
The oil fever has broken out in Can.
ada, and the excitement in the neighborl God
of the oil springs is as great as it was in
! Ohio, PenDsy lvania and Virginia before the
| war.
They nave to pay for chicken "tixins
and other good things, down in Mobile
The Neus, of the Goth, in its market report,
quotes:
Butter per pound, 40 and as cents corn per
bushel 81 and 81 10; Oats, 20 and 10 cents
| BeeswaX per pound Is and l6 cents Chickens
per dozen 81 so and So Ducks 81 and Sc
Turkeys SO and SIS; Eggs 225 and % Coffee,
Rio, per pound, 80 and 80 Flour per barrel
50 and Sll Hay per cwt., 81 so; Pork, mess,
per barrel, s27 and ST. so Salt, per sack, So :;
! Whisky per gallon, So cents.
We find in the papers dispatch from
Fortress Monroe, dated the Doth 1t is, in
substance, that an expedition had sailed un-
der command of General Butler, and con-
sisted of the frigates Minnesota, Wabash
and Pawnee, gunboats Monticello, Harriet
Lane, and several steamers and propellers,
schooners and barges. The vessels carried
over one hundred guns and four thousand
men. Destination unknown. Commodore
Stringham, and Coonels Max Weber and
Hawkins, took part in the expedition.
The monthly statement of the condition
Of the banks of \ orth Carolina, made up
on the Goth of July, shows that altogether
they had but S494 900 in specie, and that
they have in circulation bills to the amount
of 81 ,417,O0O.
- Before the first of November next the
government will have on the Southern
coast, besides the transports, one huDdfed
and thrty~three vessels, mounting one thou.
sand two hundred and forty guns.
- The New York Herald published a
communication, signed by all the officers OF
l.