The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-09-06
All sorts Of Itsnas.

ID. Gallagher ran away from Brooklyn,
Madison, county, Iowa, lately, with his
neighbours wife, Mrs. Sarah A. Turner.
The pair were arrested and brought back.
As this is the third time he has run off
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
Courtof 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 ac-
count of the loss of child. The bells were
rung and general search instituted, Id the
midst of which the child was found where
it had the best right to heat home and in
bed. @' ~ tEI' 'iN-q .oaJ
- Mrs. Mary Parmenter, of Rochester
New York, died recently at the age of lO211 =
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. ... -.
= 1t should be the object of supporters
of the Constitution in the coming elections,
to make such combinations as will evince
to the woodland 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-
Giles, 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 go 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 one.
The New Bedford Mercury says there
is wonderful vitality in Ben. McCulloch. 1t
thought be had been. but 10 be 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 winks at the vice it is unable
to suppress. 4 7,r go -
Prentice says The Southern Coined
crates think themselves moderate in naming
the conditions of peace. They ask nothing
10 the world except that we give up our
country. a 4.e
The oil fever has broken out in Can.
ada, and the excitement in the neighbour God
of the oil springs is as great as it was in
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia before the
war. e:...i .
They have to pay for chicken Atkins
and other good things, down in Mobile.
The News, of the Goth, in its market report,
quotes:
Butter per pound, 40 and As cents corn per
bushel 81 and 81 10; Oats, 10 and Is cents !;
Beeswax per pound Is and l6 cents Chickens
per dozen 81 so and Sc; Ducks 81 and Sc !;
Turkeys $40 and SIS; Eggs 22s and rs +; Coffee,
Rio, per pound, 80 and SO Flour per barrel
50 and sll Hay per cwt., 81 so; Pork mess,
per barrel, $27 and $27 so /; Salt per sack, So );
| Whisky per gallon, IS cents. 1885
We find in the papers dispatch from
Fortress Monroe, dated the Goth. 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 Coionels Max Weber and
Hawkins, took part in the expedition. 2
The monthly statement Of the condition
of the banks of North Carolina, made up
on the 10th of July, shows that altogether
they had but $494 900 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 thirty-three vessels, mounting one thou.