The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-10-04


a CROCODILE escaped from travelling
menagerie at Ladenburgh. in the Grand
Duchy OF Baden, few days ago, and be
was afterwards seen in the Necker, in the
neighborhood of Neuenheim. In conse.
quence OF bis presence in the river the local
authorities prohibited the inhabitants from
bathing. Two days back some fishermen
succeeded in capturing him by means of
very strong nets. His owner was sent for,
and when he appeared the crocodile mani.
tested great joy-how is not stated. Per-
haps the beast shed a few crocodile tears.
In the SonthaI district of India singu-
lar custom has long prevailed, by which a
borrower binds himself and his heirs to the
lender, to be his servants till the debt is
paid 10 one case brought to the notice of
the Englirh authorities, a son had been in
bondage four years for debt of seven ru>
pees, contracted by his father In another
lad OF twenty had been working three
years to clear off debt of fourteen rupees,
lent to an absconded uncle, for whom be had
gone security. The lender frequently sold
his debtor to third person, and regular
slave traffic had been established in this
manner. The English government has abol-
ished the usage.
The interior of Australia is an upex-
plored region. Expeditions have repeatedly
set out to investigate its resources, but the
deficiency of water, the extent of the arid
tracts where no subsistence can be found
for man or beast, the impenetrabe thorny
Jungles and the murderous hordes of sava.
ges, have either involved the parties in mis-
cradle ruin, or turned them back alter the
hrst three hundred miles of progress. The
latest OF these expeditions is that of Mr..
Burke, who many months ago set out with
herd OF camels from Victoria. Nothing
has been heard from him, and the colonists
have despatched another party in search of
him, beaded by the celebrated naturalist
Alfred Hewitt, 1.-THE brother OF the English
author, William,) who has long been a re-
sident of Melbourne.
On bis voyage to Liverpool, on board the
Arabia, young Prince Alfred was so tact
turn hat an American asked his tutor the
reason, and was informed that the young
ster obeyed special instructions from the
British Embassy at Washington. Shortly
after the tutor inquired of the Yankee
eo"NhihS AmCiiCdu IlldllSTS, anu learned
that the United States government had par
ticularly requested him to be reserved on
such topics.
In repairing a church in the commune of
Seurre, France, a portion of the wall was
found covered, beneath whitewash, by some
remarkably fine frescOes, including a beau
tiiul delineation of Christ treading on the
many. headed beast of the Apocalypse,
Saint George fighting the dragon, and an
angel weighing the souls of the dead. The
pictures are of date anterior to Giotto,
and create great interest in France.
The King of Denmark, in a speech re-
Gently delivered at the fete of the Royal
Rife Society of Copenhagen, expressed
himself in the following unusually candid
manner !:
"When l came to the throne, my desire
was to extend the branches of the tree OF
liberty over the whole of my kingdom but
the time ead not arrived The fruit of that
tree had not acquired the same degree of
maturity in Schleswig Holstein and
Lauenburg. as in Denmark. Is it my
fault if the sun has sooner ripened
that fruit in Denmark than in the
other parts of the kirgdom So long,
therefore, as the crop remains unripe, it
ought not to be gathered but l hope that
the harvest will soon be got in throughout
the whole of my kingdom"