The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-12-05
NEW SERIES-NO 1863
PERSONAL ITEMS.

Personal ITEMS.
Brig. Gen. Henry S. Briggs has ar
rived home at Pittsfeld, Mass, sick with
typhoid fever.
George B. Upton having declined the
Republican nomination for Mayor of Bos-
ton, F. w. Lincoln has been selected, and
accepted.
1t is reported that Gen. Mcclellan is
about to become permanent resident of
New York, and will occupy house pur-
chased recently at the corner Of Thirty
ninth street and Fifth avenue.
The funeral of Mrs. Hardenburg, Oate
Miss Oriana Marshall, ) the well-known ac-
tress took place in Boston on Sunday.
The remains were taken to Mount Auburn
Cemetery.
"A letter from San Francisco states
that Capt. Freeman, of the schooner Ann
Eliza, has fair prospect of recovering the
treasure lost by the Golden Gate.
Geo. Francis Train has nominated
Archbishop Hughes as the next Pope.
The venerable Judge fancy, of the
United States Supreme Court, is said to be
in the enjoyment of better health now than
for ten years past, and gives promise of
OUTLYING half the judges sitting with him.
The St. Louis Union states, appa-
rently by authority, that Governor Gamble
of Missouri has become an emancipation
list.
-Stonewall Jackson's father-in-law
preached sermon in New York last Sum-
day. His text was, "Come unto me, &c.
People were much disappointed that he
said nothing about Stonewalls contempla-
ted movements.
Assistant Adiutant General Chaun-
cey McKeever, who has been acting lately
upon General Heintzelmans staff in that
capacity, has been assigned to duty in the
War Department, and ordered to report to
the Secretary of War in person.
1t is reported in the London Court
Journal that the baton of Field Marshal
will be conferred on his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge, and Lords Cough
and Clyde, in honor Of the Prince of Wales
majority.
Said General Hooker to-day, as sat
by his side, (writes correspondent 81
do not love to fight bat!les-I had rather
be with my cattle on my farm but I do
want to see one mighty, overwhelming
blow given to this rebellion, right upon its
head, at Richmond, before Christmas"
Alex. H. Stephens, the rebel Vice Pre-
sident, has plan for breaking the block
ade, which is for the Government to buy
the cotton crop, and then pledge it to pay
for iron-clad steamers able to cope with
anything in the world, which are to be used
for breaking the blockade and opening one
or more of the cotton ports.
Some time ago Major Dayton shot
Major Phelps, of the Fifth Virginia, for Sc
ducing Miss Dayton, and Phelps is dying.
Miss Dayton consoles herself by publishing
a card in which she abuses her brother for
his shooting and declares the Majors con-
duct not only agreeable to her, but honor
able She says she doesn't thank any one
for shooting for her-a mild way ofputting
it.
They say President Lincoln pays an
income tax of 1920 per annum out of his
salary, Notwithstanding he is especially ex-
empted by law.
-Herschell V. johnson has been chosen
by the rebel Legislature of Georgia to rep
resent that State in the Confederate SEN
ate He was on the Douglas Presidential
ticket
1t is stated that Mr. O. Cremazie, of
Quebec, has forged notes to the amount of
$500 and his other liabilities are
$14,OO making in all a liability of $780,
900, against assets supposed to be worth
only $4,000. His forgeries are made upon
men of the highest standing in the commu-
nifty, and appear to have been kept up,
with success, for some time.
They have smoked out an abolition
lecturer in New York, one I. Mason Jones,
who is believed to have come here under
Exeter Hall auspices, to keep alive the
strife George Thompson tomented in
America years ago. T. Mason Jones is
the name, and his impertinence was prop
erly rebuked by New Workers, whom he
gathered in Irving Hall under pretence of
talking about Curran, and then presumed
to utter his emancipation drivel A row
ensued, and Jones was much alarmed, but
not hurt.
The New York Sunday Times ventures
to say that if the President will only take
Greeley at his word, and send him and
Cheever, Beecher, Phillips, and five hum
bred of the most pestilent of the abolition
traitor emissaries, to Fort Lafayette, he
would do more to restore the Union than
all the generals and armies on earth could
accomplish.
F.. Edwin James, the ex-Queen's coun-
sci, who is now a member of the New
York bar and whose wife sues for di-
vorce, says he has made up his mind to let
the case go by default, in order to dissolve.
all alliance which is distasteful to both par