The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-12-28
Personal and Miscellaneous Items.


ANOTHER English Prince will shortly
visit this country. Is it Prince Alfred, the
second son of Queen Victoria, who has left
the ship Euryalus, and will join the st.
George, larger vessel, which will sail early
next year for the West Indies and North
America.
The Worlds San Francisco correspond
ent writes that there is probability of the
election of Edward Randolph douglas
democrat as United States Senator by the
Legislature of California.
Mr.. BENJAMIN MEAD, a citizen of New.
ark, New Jersey, in his eighty-frst year,
died suddenly on Monday morning in the
Union prayer meeting at the First Reformed
Dutch Church. Mr.. Mead accompanied
his wife to the meeting, and, during the
second prayer, was heard to give groan,
and Immediately afterward fell back in bis
seat, dead.
AMONG the indictments returned by the
Grand Jury of Kings county, New York,
was one charging Alderman Green, of
Brooklyn, with misdemeanor in certifying
that the contractor for cleaning streets had
performed his contract, when the fact was
that the mud was knee deep.
NAPOLEON III. is writing a life of Julius
Caesar. Margnand, his Minister of Police,
is writing a novel. All the opposition
leaders of France, Guizot, Theirs, Blanc,
Hugo, &C., are also writing. Nearly all the
Continental statesmen are writers. Lord
John Russell, Disraeli, and Gladstone are
writers. Van Buren, is composing political
history Buchanan and Everett write for
the Ledger and Tom Corwin, it is said, is
about to buy the National Lateligsncer, to
edit it.
DoEsT1cKs is now, it is said, writing
drama expressly for Mr.. Sothern, in which
the latter will appear in numerous DISCUSSES
the "Kinchen" being introduced as one.
The prosecution against J. Egbert Farm
ham, for piracy in connection with the slave
yacht Wanderer, has been discontinued.
IT is said that Barnum is netting $4,000
per week at his Museum.
JUDGE JAMES THoRNE, living near Vim
cennes, Indiana, was burned to death few
days ago, his house having been destroyed
by fire. Mr.. T. had filled several public
positions.
A Mr.. TAss1E has recently died in Lon
don at the age of eighty-three, who gained
much notoriety, years ago, as the lucky win
ner of the great Shakespeare Boydell Lot.
terry. It is understood that the lottery
ticket by which Mr.. Tassie became pos
sessed of the Boydell gallery and pictures
was obtained in this way: A gentleman
called at Mr.. TASTES shop, and, mentioning
the matter to him, asked him if he had ta>
ken ticket. Ending that he had not
done so, this gentleman offered Mr.. Tassie
his own for one of his OWN; Mr.. Tassie
took it and paid his guinea. This turned
out to be the prize-ticket, and broght its
owner pictures and lease for which he re-
ceived upwards of fifty thousand dollars in
money.
CApRERA, the island home of Garabaldi,
is small island just off the northeast coast
of the Island of Sardinia, and is nearly due
west from Naples. 1t measures about five
miles from east to west, and is less than
that distance across. The island affords
good pasturage, but until its occupancy by
Garibaldi had no permanent inhabitants.
The South Carolina papers are discussing
what shall be the name of the new Confed-
eracy. A correspondent in the Mercury
suggests "Apalachia." One in the Column
bia Guardian proposes columbia" The
editor prefers the words "Southern Confed
eracy." A Virginia paper suggests "Wash-
ington."
AT Ballston Spa, New York, John
Blake, a farmer, was fined 1000 for
cruelty towards an orphan boy, which be
had adopted from the Utica Orphan Asy-
lum. He not only whipped the boy on his
bare body in the most barbarous manner,
and inflicted other fearful corporal punish
ments, but kept him short of food, and even
made him eat mice and squirrels, raw and
unskinned.
Mr.. GEORGE P. TRAIN, who has success
fully introduced the American city railroad
system into several British towns, was
passenger in one of the trains that were
smashed in the last railway accident in
England. He had his usual luck, and
escaped all injury. 1t has been cleverly
said that for the time he must have thought
himself back in America.
LADY FRANKLIN sailed from New York
last week for Rio Janeiro and San Fran
cisco.
IT ia semi>oficiallv denied that Miss