The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-01-11
Personal Items.

u. ". LlTTLEJoHN, OF Osweg0 county, mas
been elected Speaker of the New York
Assembly. The vote in caucus was 46 for
Littlejohn to 81 for Robinson. The latter
was the Greeley candidate, and the former
had the support of Weed and the Albany
corruptionist. This pays Horace for bis
Chicago antics. Littlejohn, it will be rec
objected, has sued Greeley for libel.
| DIR. MITCHELL has been chosen as United
States Senator from Arkansas, in the place
of R. w. johnson, whose term of Office ex.
pires on the 4th of March next. DR..
Mitchell has the reputation of being Of the
most ultra secession school.
The family of Major Anderson, consist
ing of his wife and three children, are stop
ping at the Breevoort House, in Fifth
avenue, New York, where they have spent
several winters.
WILLIAM H. RUSSELL, connected with
the Washington embezzlement, is Yer.
monter, great stage man, and hitherto
considered a Napoleon among financiers.
He is President of the Central overland
mail, which runs ialso the pony express, and
partner in several firms, one of which is
Russell, Majors & Waddell, under whose
contract to carry Utah army supplies these
frauds have been perpetrated. He resides
in Leavenworth, where he is President of
the only bank of issue in the territory. His
property is said to be immense.
The New York; Evening Post of the 31st
ult., says places in Lincolns cabinet have
been offered to Alex. q. Stephens of Geor-
gia, and Robert T.. Scott Of Virginia.
Doubtful.
JOHN DUNNovANT, South Carolinian,
and Captain 10 the Tenth regiment of
Infantry, U. "a, and formerly stationed
at Fort Smelling, has resigned his commits
sion in the army.
The Washington States thus sketches
Senator Benjamin, the leading intellect of
the secessi0nists in the Senate:
Senator Benjamin is q low sized, souare.set.
stout gentlemen, of deniable impartislity. but
undeniable force. He has Dutch body. q Ba-
varian head, Italian intellect, and a French
voice. There are two kinds of faces which
equally indicate audacity-the fat face and the
sharp face. The well-balanced medium head
and face has no audacity-which is generally
nothing but erroneous eloquence-because t
has wellpoised mind, based upon an impar
tial conscience, and consequently is not led into
the acute audacity of the sharp lean face,
Senator Benjamin is good example of the
latter. He has great capacity; and his elo.
quence, when it is not killed by his passion for
legal diplay, is strikingly effective.
The editor of the Baltimore Clipper saw
in Washington one of Mr.. Keitt's franks
as member of the Congress of the United
States, upon letter from South Carolina
December 26. Oh, chivalrous Keitt for
the paltry consideration Of three cents post
age, how could you thus compromise your
dignity as an independent citizen of for
eign government? ss@
A REPORT has been quite generally circu.
lated that Judge Larrabee, of Wisconsin.
had made arrangements to move to the Pa.
cifc coast in the spring. That the Judge
intends to go to California Immediately af-
ter the close of the present session of Con.
gress. is true; but he only goes out as
counsel in case involving the ownership of
an extensive quicksilver mine.