The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1861-12-20

Personal News. ,agO
Hon. VIM. 81. Ludlow, ex.Speaker of
the Assembly Of New York, has been ap.
pointed upon General Dix's staff.
George Kent, Of Maine, has been ap.
pointed Consul to Valencia, Spain.
Florence Nightingale, writing to
friend, says of herself: II have passed the
last few years between four walls, only va
ried to other four walls once year, and I
believe there is no prospect but of my health
becoming even worse and worse till the
hour Of my release"
John Vanderzee, the member elect ln
the first district of Albany county to the
New York Assembly, died on the 4th inst.
The Rev. Calvin Pease, D d., has ten.
dered his resignation as President of the
University OF Vermont, DR.. Pease sue.
ceeded the late Worthington Smith, DID,,
of st. Albans, and for the last five or six
years has been the able and acceptable Pres
ident of the University, giving to it the
rare advantage ofgreat administrative. abil.
ity and ripe scholarship. DR.. Pease has
received call to become the pastor of a
fourishiug society in Rochester, New
York-an invitation which be has felt
bound to accept.
The Hon. David Russell of Salem,
Washington county. New York, died on
the oath ultimo, in the eighty-frst year of
his age. Mr.. Russell was lawyer of COM
siderable ability, rival of the Hon. John
Cramer, when both were young men. At
the time of his death he was the oldest men,
ber of the bar in Washington county, hav-
ing commenced the practice of the law in
1905.
Prince Napoleon has associated at the
Imperial mandatory an elegant service of
Sevres china, which is now on its way to
this country, as present to the Secretary
of State, in acknowledgment of the atten-
tions which the Prince received here.
The vestibule of the Astor House,
New York, continues to he thronged with
persons anxious to see the "Path6nder." !"
One urgent gentleman, who had come all
the way from Pittsburgh to do little bust.
ness for the sake of seeing Gen. Fremont at
the same time, said: " am no man wor>
shipper, not bit of it; but I do want to
refresh my optics with sight of the man
who marched an army to Springfield, Mo-,
from St. Louis, when Gen. Thomas report.
ed that it was impossible for him to move
for want of transportation. We understand
these things in Pittsburgh-we do"
Hon. VIM. A. Ri chardson, of Illinois,
will, it is stated, resign his seat in the
House in few days, and accept Briga-
dier Generalship of volunteers rendered him
by the President.
The famous McCook family of Ohio is
rapidly concentrating in Kentucky, which
may be considered an omen that fighting is
near at hand. After Col. McCook arrives,
no less than six members will be in the
State, comprising General, Colonel, two
Majors and two Captains.
Mr.. Corcoran, the millionaire banker
in Washington, (who has amassed fortune
as Government broker,) has made ample
provision for the comfort of his sonsin law,
Eustis, the Secretary of Slidell. Eustis is
the son of Massachusetts man, and was
educated at private academy at Jamaica
Plains, near Boston. A nephew of Mr..
Corcoran's, named Hill, (whose father was
Northern man), is in the rebel army.
The Rock Island papers announce that
VIM. F. Chadwick, the attorneyS who was
indicted with j. w. Bissell for conspiracy
to burn the Rock Island Bridge, has left for
parts unknown, probably California. He
leaves his bail in the lurch for So, 900, be-
sides victimizng many others who had put
their confidence in him.
Those who know General BENJAMIN
Franklin Butler will enjoy the cool, delib-
crate severity contained in the following
paragraph from the New York World:
General Buffers expedition, the command
of which was given him by the administration
at his urgent solicitation, will probably settle
upon some thinly populated and unprotected
region and form camp of instruction, which
the Generals soldierly qualities and total alb.
stinence from intoxicating liquors eminently
fit him to command. The expedition will not
be under way for some time. The four Penn
sylvania regiments destined for it are still in
camp near Newport News, one of them ardu.
ously drilling with sticks.
The marines and sailors of the U. s.
steamer Hartford marched to Independence
Hall, in Philadelphia, last Saturday, to
present the city splendid flag, made during
the voyage home, which is made of silk
purchased in Canton. The flag was raised
at noon, on Independence Hall, and a salute
frod hu the Hartford at the Novv Yord Of