The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-01-01
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

ANn W AND Vkk2EH xIEMSs
The New York Tribune appears to be
touched more nearly with Senator Hale's in
delicacy" than it was with Speaker Callicot's
little dereliction.
There is place in New Brunswick called
Stockholders Ridge" 1t is where some fifty
towards have gone to avoid wearing uniforms.
Madame Schnell, fortune-teller of Louis
vile, and her two children, were lost on the
steamer Sunny Side. She had accumulated
$4,000 by the practice of her art, but failed to
read her own fate.
The New York Herald gives him up-hear
it: 1--WE abandon Honest Old Abe as hope
less case. We have pulled him, we have prais-
ed him, and have helped him in every way, but
can get no good out of him." We don't know
who will feel the most relieved, "Old Abe" or
the Herald.
"A lady made call upon friend who had
lately been married. When her husband came
home to dinner she sid, 81 have been to see
Mrs. -" "Well," replied the husband,
II suppose she is very happy" Happy
I should think she ought to be! she has a
camel's hair shawl two-thirds border!!"
The Detroit Advertiser says that DR.. Samuel
Duffold, the practical chemist of that city after
two years of studious analysis and investiga-
ton, determined a method of purifying the
product of the exhaustless salt basin of Michi-
gan. The Michigan salt has been to some ex-
tent unmarketable, and almost unfit for packing
purposes, by the presence of large per cent
age of impurities, which it was impossible to
free it from until this discovery of DR.. Duffield
disclosed the way. The discovery is patented.
-Reverdy johnson is the father of the Sen
ate, having first taken his seat there as Sen
ator from Maryland in 1916, but he has not oc-
cupied it continuously; while Hon. John P.
Hale has been a Senator from New Hampshire
since 1S47 So in the House, Mr.. Washburne,
from Illinois, has represented his district
longer, continuously, than any other Repre-
sentative; but Thad. Stevens, of Pennsylvania,
was a member some years before his term COM
menced. The father of the newspaper cores
pondents is Mr.. E. Kingman, who has written
from Washington at least a score of years, and
next in seniority on the roll of service is Ben.
Perley Poore, who has piled his pen since 1913.
One of the women who unseX themselves by
wearing the BlOOmer costume, was prOmenad-
ing Fulton street, Brooklyn, yesterday after
noon. As she approached the ferry, one OF
the imps of the boot black brigade, impelled by
a hint from a boy who was near, pushed in
front of her, and placing his box, containing
the tools of his profession, in front OF her,
piped out boots BACKED shine 'em up" The
woman knocked the boy over, and proceeded
on her way, evidently much annoyed by the
interruption, particularly as there was quite
throng of unbelievers in the street at the
time.-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
The old differences of views between Sena-
tor Hale of New Hampshire, chairman of the
Naval Committee, and Grimes of Iowa, the
most active member on the same committee,
eliminated in 8 request of the latter to be re-
lieved from further service on the committee.
As Hale, in the Chair is in a chronic state of
quarrelling with the Navy Department, it has
therefore to rely mainly on Grimes. His re-
quest produced decided tluttering. The Sen
ate debated and plead off, and finally postpon-
ed decision as to whether it would excuse
him till next week.
"A letter from the Army of the Potomac
says:
A few days after the publication of the Presi-
dents message and proclamation, the fact of
of its PRONUNCIATION having been made known
to the rebel pickets, they manifested great Gu
riosity to hear it, and one of our men consent
ing to read it to them, quite party collected
on the opposite bank to listen. While it was
reading the utmost silence and attention were
preserved by the listening rebels, and after it
was finished one of them called out: "Well,
that sounds about right. Wen go back to
camp and tell the boys about it," Papers are
frequently exchanged by the pickets. but the
rebels tell our men that their officers do not
like them to get our papers of late, as there
is nothing encouraging in them"
The Boston Courier publishes an extract Of
a letter from a gentleman in the Southern
States who has always been Union man and
who has been imprisoned by the rebels, in which
occurs the following: "He says, that during
his confinement he conversed with prisoners
from all the Confederate States but Florida, and
their unanimous testimony was, that if McClel-
Ian and Buell. had been continued in command,
ard the policy which they represented had
been persevered in, the Confederacy could not
nave lasted six months longer than the date of
their removal; for the plain reason, that no
new army could have been raised"
Commodore Vanderbilts golden wedding
was celebrated at his house in New York on
Saturday. Thirty-two grand children and two
great-grand children were present-and in all
four generations were represented. The Conn.,
modores gift to his bride was miniature pro-
peller of pure gold, fashioned after the Roa-
noke, and manufactured in Europe expressly
for this occasion. 1t is twenty inches long and
five wide, with exquisitely wrought revolving
towers, which filled the room with fairy music
whenever the delicate machinery was set in
motion. Near this grand centre gift was a
suberb dressing case, mounted with gold and
lined with silver. All its contents were of pure
gold, engraved with the family CIPHER. This
present was the gift of VIM. II. Vanderbilt, the
eldest son, to his parents.
The Montreal Transcript says that the Ca
thedral organists of Toronto, Montreal and
Quebec, purpose making a tour in the States
during the Christmas vacation. The principal
source of attraction being the large organ re-
Gently erected in the Boston Music Hall.
Quite stir has been made in Cincinnati