The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-06-21

THE st. Louis Republican regards the
appointment of Judge Browning as Doug

THE 81. LOUIS Republican regards the
appointment of Judge Browning as Doug
las successor as a good one. 1t says:
| Mr.. Browning is q man of decided ability.
He was Wing as long as that party had any
integrity left to it. He supported the election
| of Lincoln, and will act with his party when he
thinks it right and not otherwise. Mr.. Brown
ing may, if he chooses. take front rank in the
Senate, and we do not know a man better
qualified than he to take the lead in the pacif-
cation of the country.
Mr.. G. G. Quick, an enterprisiDg Amer
lean gentleman, during recent visit to
England, succeeded in purchasing, at the
cost of about $4,000, the celebrated hip.
popotamus which has been so long on exhi-
bition at the Geological Gardens, London,
and has brought him to Montreal. This
is the only specimen of the hippopotamus
(b4ppopotamus amphibius) ever on this con.
tinent, and was the first one brought into
Europe since they were exhibited by the
Emperors of Rome in the Coliseum, fifteen
hundred years ago, and his advent in Lon
don created the most intense excitement.
INSTEAD of giving $35, 900 to the Michi-
gan troops, it turns out that General Cass
has only loaned the State $4,000, for which
be receives legal interest. Some difference
between the report and the fact.
OLD John Danders was country black
smith, the husband of young wife. John
had labored long and assiduously, and en-
joyed the custom of all the farmers round.
When John was on bis death bed. be called
his wife Janet. "Janet, my woman, I'm no
lang for this warld I'm wearin' AVA like
the shaw of dyke. About the business,
Janet. There's Andrew, the foreman, kens
a. about it, an a. the customers like him
yell just let decent time elapse, and yell
make it up wi Andrew, and yell marry
him, Janet, and keep the business thegither."
"Ochone !" said Janet, bursting into loud
lamentatiOn, "Andrew an mes settled a.
that already"
BLISS, the acting Governor of Pixies
Peak, urder the old, a." Provisional Govern
ment," has issued proclamation in which
be refuses to recognize the authority of the
United States. 1t is said that many min
ers are in league with Bliss, and that there
is danger of a collision between him and
Governor Gipin.
TIE London correspondent of the Chica.
go Journal writes that the Queen paid Hon.
Charles Francis Adams the compliment of
coming to town and giving him an au.
dience at Buckingham Palace, he being the
first envoy her Majesty has received since
the death of her mother, the Duchess of
Kent
FROM a table which the Philadelphia
North american publishes, it appears that
Philadelphia has now enlisted fifteen thou
sand three hundred and ninety four men,
forming twenty regiments.
The Harper's Ferry soldiers sent word
to Washington by travellers that they hoped
the Massachusetts, troops would be sent
there against them, and if so they would
make the Potomac smell of Goldfish for the
next six months. Some of the Massachu-
sets Fifth, who heard of this, sent word
back, if General Scott would guarantee
that, the Potomac should taste of whisky
for the remainder of the year.
In the rooms of the Chicago Historical
Society is recorded the genealogy of Doug.
las, extending back to the first representa-
tive of the family in America, who was
William Douglas, of Boston, of Mass,
proving him to be of Puritan stock.