The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-12-21
Personal Items.

JOHN b. OLAY, VINO mas rcturueQ IrOm
Peru, is veteran diplomatist. He went
from Pennsylvania in 1880 with John
Randolph, as his Secretary of Legation at
st. Petersburg, where he afterwards acted
in the same capacity with Mr.. Buchanan
who has ever since been his friend. In 1888,
Mr.. Clay was transferred to Vienna, where
be was Secretary of Legation until l845,
when be was restored to his position at St.
Petersburg by Mr.. Buchanan, then Secre.
tary of State. In 1847, Mr.. Buchanan
obtained from President Polk the appoint
ment of Charge d'Affaires to Peru for Mr..
Clay, and in 1853 he was made Minister
Plenipotentiary.
CHARLES HAML1N, of Orland, Maine, a
son of the Vice President elect, was married
on the 18th ult., to Sarah Purinton, only
daughter of Capt. Dixey Thomson, of
Topsham, Maine.
DELAzoN SMITH died at Portland, Ore
gon, on the 18th ult. He was recently one
of the United States Senators from that
State.
A PARAGRAPH recently went the rounds
that Col. Fremonts mines yielded 5000 per
day. The amount of deposits at Col. Free
mont's bankers, from the Mariposa mills,
was $51 900 for the month of September,
and fraction over 100000 for the month
of October. The cleaning" which occurs
about once in ten days, shows an aggregate
yield per day of So 500.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON discoursed on
Woman, to Theodore Parker's society, in
Music Hall, Boston, on Sunday. He de-
clared that "the sex'' should be allowed to
vote and take part in the government with
the same freedom as the man and he sug-
gested as the motto of the women, mo rep
resentation, no tax"
Rev. P. n. LYNCH, D. D., Catholic
Bishop of Charleston, withdraws his name
from the list of candidates for the conven.
of South Carolina. He says:
1 appreciate the compliment, but must say
that, besides being unwilling to occupy a very
responsible position, for the duties of which I
have not been trained, and feel myself unified,
see that the special engagement of my cleri.
cal position will call me rep eatedly away from
the State. and would otherwise prevent nv at.
tending the convention. Hence most respect
fully beg to withdraw my name. There is an.
other sphere in which can more appropriately
and perhaps with equal efficiency, serve our
State. In that sphere l trust 1 shall not be
found wanting in my devotion to her interest,
in veal and woe.
In st. Pauls Episcopal Church, Phila-
delphia, on Thanksgiving day, in closing
his eloquent sermon, the Reverend pastor
repeated the concluding stanza of the ma
tional anthem:
1.-THE star-spangled banner oh, long may it
Ger the land Of the free and the home of the
brave"
And after the benediction, the organist
substituted the same air for the usual vol,
untary, when the audience roseen naasse and
Joined in the song.
Rev. THOMAS STOCKTON, the venerable
chaplain of the House Of Representatives, in
his prayer at the opening of the session oc-
casioned an irreverent grin on the faces of
members, by the following invocation to
Almighty Power "Oh Lord, consider our
President and his advisors They lack
wisdom, but if they ask Thee, Thou wilt
give them literally and upbraid them not"