The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-15
Personal Items.

position at West Point some time since, has
received commission in the Southern army
under President Jefferson Davis.
BROWNE, late of the w. M. Constitution,
has accepted the Assistant Secretaryship
Of State of the Southern Confederacy.
The New York Worlds Washington cor
respondent telegraphs: Miss Lane celebra>
ted the close of her uncle's administration
by being married to-day to Mr.. James Car
Isle, the most brilliant lawyer in this city.
DR.. JAYNE, of Springfield, Trumbull's
brother in-law, has the unanimous endorse
ment of the Illinois delegation for Cover
nor OF Dacotah Territory. So says the
Cincinnati Commercial.
"OwEN MEREDITH" (Bulwer's sony is soon
to be married to German lady of rank as
well as fortune.
IT is said 10 be highly probable that Gen.
A. S. johnson, late commander of the Utah
army, will be appointed Commander-in-
chief of the Army of the Confederate
States.
The Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle of the
9th instant, says: "Mr Yancey has resigned
bis seat as member of the Alabama State
Convention, having accepted the position of
head of the Embassy of Three to be sent to
European powers to negotiate the recogni-
ton of the Southern Confederacy by the
European powers"
ANDREW JOHNSON, the patriotic Senator
from Tennessee commenced life al a practi-
cal shoemaker. Chicago Journal.
Yes; be made the first pair of Sunday
boots that we ever wore.-NashUiAe Patriot.
Mr.. Cisco, the Assistant Treasurer of
the United States at New York, has res
ceived notice from the sub-treasurer at
Charleston, Southern Confederacy, that he
had sent by Adams & Go. the balance re-
naming in his hands to the credit of the
collector of Key West. One of the States
of the Southern Confederacy, it appears
from this, does not steal the Government
funds.
AT camp-meeting recently held near
West Baltimore, Montgomery county, Ohio,
Bishop Russell forbade any one with hoops
on to partake of the sacrament, affirming
that they would not be welcome to the
table of the Lord. Two or three years ago
a Western Conference passed resolutions
that the wearing of hoops by females is
inconsistent with truly Christian charac-
ter, and is by some considered as indecent,
and that therefore we, as a Quarterly Con-
ference, disapprove of the wearing of hoops
by our female members"
IT is said that Lord Brougham will, ere
long, publish the first instalment of his au.
photography.
SENATOR SEWARD has taken for four
years the Washington Club House, directly
opposite the White House, on Lafayette
Square in Washington, for his private res
idence. 1t has been closed since the
Sickles tragedy, but will now be re6tted for
the immediate occupancy of the new Secre-
tary of State.
RACY JEST.
Quite popular reign, sirs,
s'Old Abe" has begun,
For no man to the White House
Fer made sucha run.
IN. Y. Sunday Times.
BOB. LINCOLN, the son of the President,
has returned to his studies at Harvard.
w. S. KING, of Minneapolis, was one of
the Assistant Marshals at the Inauguration
ceremonies. "He can ride horse with
ease and safety" and hobby too.
In the United States Senate the other
day, while the tariff was under considera-
ton, Mr.. Collamer proposed to raise the
duties on Havana cigars, as Injuries.
WhereupoL Mr.. Seward remarked: 81
desire to know of the Senator Of Vermont
if correctly understand him that he re-
CARDS cigars as luxuries; because / have
come to regasd them as necessaries of life?"
Mr.. Seward is an inveterate smoker.
BouLrGNY, the New Orleans Union MEM
Der of Congress, when in the senior class at
Pennsylvania University, Lexington, Ken.
lucky, in April, 1924, was selected to make
a speech of congratulation, in French, to
Lafayette. The eloquent grafton so carried
away the hero that he threw up his arms
round the young orator, ard held him in a
long embrace.
DURING the New Years making. present
season, in Paris, Baron j. de Rothschid
sent Mile. Emma Livry, the star" dancing
girl Of the Grand Opera, a butterfly as large
as stevedore's hand, which was made en-
tirely of diamonds, rubies, opals, and gold.
A husband, whose wife has made his life at
home wretched, although they have been
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