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

GEORGE w. CURT1CE was announced to
lecture in Philadelphia, on the 18th, on an
anti-slavery subject, but riot was appre>
hended, and the notice of the lecture with
drawn. Last spring CURrIc lectured in
Philadelphia on JOHN BRowN's merits
and was only saved from violence by large
body of police.
The La Crosse Democrat states there are
in that city "two hundred and eleven mar
riageable girls, sweet, beautiful, and accom-
plished. To capture these fairies, there are
10 all one hundred and twenty young beaus
-forty-two of whom don't care for girls
thirty-seven the girls don't care for-ffteen
who are too busy making money, to get
married, and the balance are engaged" This
is very sad state of affairs.
Mrs. JAMES K. Polk has presented to
the Tennessee Historical Society, portrait,
by HEALEY, of her late distinguished hus.
band.
FL. G. o. MORRISON. of Dakota county,
and HENRY ACKER, of st. Paul, will be the
two leading Republican candidates for
Speaker of the House. They represent
parties advocating diAerdnt methods of set
tling the Railroad difficulty. As the Legis.
iature is unanimous, or nearly so, in politics,
it will probably divide on the Railroad
question.
GAR1BALDI, before leaving Naples, pub
lished the following notice:
The public is hereby informed that will not
receive any letters at Caprera that are not
postpaid. G. GARIBALDI.
INDICATIONS are now apparent in the
Navy, that in case of secession, many south
ern officers will resign. The South Carroll
mans lead in the determination. At present
there are no important posts occupied save
one; the flag officer of the East Indies
squadron being native of South Carolina.
A Kentuckian also commands fleet. The
navy yard have no southern commandant,
except Commodore ARMSTRONG, of Pensa-
cola, who was born in Kentucky.
+ PH1L1P FRANCIS THOMAS, the present
Secretary Of the Treasury, vice COBB re-
signed, is native Of Maryland, where
be was born in 1910, and latter having been
educated at Dickinson College, Pennsylva.
nia,) was admitted to the bar in 1881.
In 1886 he was elected to the State
Constitutional Convention; In 1888 to
the State Legislature; and in 1889 to
Congress as Representative. In l842 he
was chosen Judge of the Eastern Shore
Land Office Court in l843 and AS, elected
to the State Legislature and in 1847, he
was elected Governor of Maryland
serving from 1848 to 1851. He made a
g,od Commissioner of Patents and pos
sesses considerable administrative ability;
but is. a thorough politician.
COL. j. D. REYMERT, late Democratic
candidate for Congress in the second Wis
consin district, has started paper at the
Falls of the St. Croix, entitled the "St.
:Croixian." Rather a jawbreaker, that,
brother r.
IT is seriously rumored in the streets.
that CHARLEY NIcoLs, JOHN j. SHAW, r.
F. Fisk, THOMAS MACLEAN NEwsoN, JOHN
P. OWENS, GEORGE MOORE. and about half
q dozen other gentlemen, are willing to serve
their country in the st. Paul Post Office,
if ABRAHAM is willing. 1t is worth about
$4,000 per annnm.
AN English writer says: "There is rath.
er a prevalent idea, strange to say, that the
ex-King of Naples will come to England.
He has sent large sum of money to Eng.
land, and he has faith in the friendship of
the Bourbon family residing here, who,
however, have prudently kept aloof from
any manifestations of even sympathy for
the dethroned monarch. The neighborhood
of Bristol is talked of as q residence for the
King; as he has relatives by marriage there
"a Capt. Connolly, of Cersham, who mar
ried Neapolitan Princess"
LONGEVITY, democracy, and matrimony,
are the strong points of Mr.. JAMES DOUG.
LAS, of Coventry, Connecticut. He is l04;
has been married over 70 years; and always
voted the Democratic ticket.
A VIRGINIA editor congratulates the
South that Mrs. Lincoln is pro-slavery
woman. The editor is so informed by
gentleman who knew her in Kentucky.
where they both formerly lived, and, on
seeing her some two weeks since, asked her