The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-12-30
SENATE CoMM1rTEEs.-Thc correspond.

SENATE COMMITTEES.-Thc correspond
ent of the Herald says there bids fair to
be trouble among Democratic Senators in
regard to the arrangement of the Senate
Committees. The South has had for some
years the craftsmanship of all the leading
committees, ignoring Northern and Western
Democratic Senators. They ask now that
some of the chairmanships of the leading
committees, such as Commerce and Post
Office, may be given to the North and West.
If their request is refused, they threaten to
denounce the affair in the Senate when the
committees come up for election. An effort
is made to put Senator DOUGLAS at the head
of the committee on Public Lands, as an
offsett for leaving him off the committee on
Territories but that will not heal the wound.
There will be sharp debate in the Senate
on the subject"
Gov. MCRAE, OF M1ss1ss1PPI--The N.
Y. Posts correspondent sketches this gentle
man:
Gov. McRae made an amusing speech
last night, in the midst of which the House
adjourned. 1t was rambling, but witty and
gOOd-natured. The Governor is favOrite
in the House among men of all parties. He
is the soul of honor, and never descends to
personalities or partisan vituperation.
Though an extremist he is gentleman.
Unfortunately, he is too much addicted to
liquor, and he is occasionally in so mellow a
condition on the floor that he becomes
somewhat undignifed in his manners. His
speech last night put the whole House in
good humor, and reconciled most of the
members to the waste of time. But the
Governor furnished his reputation in one
particular. He has been held to be ex-
ceedingly frank hitherto, but after asking
Adrian question which he very promptly
answered, McRae lodged Adrian's question,
which was, evil you support the nominee
of the Charleston Convention, if he is a
Douglas man on the Douglas platform?
ROGER A. PRYOR AND WINTER DAVIS.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial says of Mr.. PRYOR
of Virginia:
He looks as though be could hardly be of
the constitutional age He does not wear
any beard, and at distance he does not
look as if he required razor to keep his
face clean. He wears his hair long, and it
hangs behind his ears in the style which
some young ladies nowadays affect. His
intellectual organs are good but his fea-
ture is his nose, which is an extravagant
edition of the beak of the American eagle.
Mr.. Pryor's friends expect him to make a
mark in the House. He is said to be set for
Henry Winter Davis, of Baltimore. Davis
is considered very brilliant man, and the
Southerners accuse him of being traitorous
to them. 1t is desirable, therefore, to set a
young and brilliant man after him.
SENATOR DoUGLAs--The Ohio States
mans Washington correspondent writes as
follow
Senator Douglas is getting we'll. He
has given up his Southern trip. The Ma
tional Committee of the Democracy called
on him the other day not as a body, but
individually. The position of the Illinois
Delegation on the floor of the House is very
acceptable and pleasing to the Democracy
of the Union. No delegation fights Repub-
licanism better than they. Everything in
our party bespeaks union and harmony,
and in my most candid and deliberate
judgment, everything in the opposition de:
notes Indignation and dismay. l am assured
by leading Americans, North and South,
that there will be third candidate for the
Presidency, national and antagonistic to the
Republicans. Notice the course of the
New York Express and the leaders of the
Peoples Party" in Pennsylvania, and
you will see that a combination with the
endorsers of Stewards conflict and Helpers
book is utterly impossible. The next Presi.
dent will be Democrat.