The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-25

"Pieasures OF Memory, - whose great age NINETY
years havlng rolled over his bald ripe forehead)
disqualihes him from taking his long. acc ustomed
walks about the metropolis. Mr.. Rogers sat in
Westminster Hall when Burke and Sheridan were
pouring out their nvectives against Warren Hast
ings. and all LONDON was ringing with the ap.
plause which eloquent Brinsley ELECTED on thai
occasion He is therefore part and parcel of by
gone days, and very good authority on what hap
pened during the last sixty years.
In large fine house in Tavistock Place, Tavis
took Square, sits Charles Dickens, busy as a BET
over "Bleak House" and "Househoid Words
On an afternoon the loterer in that vicinity may
catch glimpse OF his thin hair, now sprinkied
with grey, as it 10 tossed by the summer vino
which visits his desk he sits writing in his ample
library room. Ills not an nnfrequent occurrence
to meet him in rail rushing out of London for
few days. respite at Brighton or Bath.
Thackeray has ere this got home again, and any
fine day between IL and O'Clock he may be found
at the Garrick Club in King street, Covent Gar
den, porting over a French newspaper or chatting
with Albert Smith over mutton-chop and sherry
additions. II is not an unusual thing to find him
at one end of poor Charles Kemble's ear-trumpet,
or visa Wis with Blackstone, the comedian, discuss
ing old actors and defunct Drury Lane.
Barry Cornwall lives in Harley street, Cavep-
dish Square, where be Is spending the happy eve
ming of his life, beloved by all who are fortunate
enough to know one of the most glorious song
writer's in the English tongue.
Walter Savage Lander is at home in Bath, hav
ing been expelled from Italy on account of bis
dangerous liberty doctrinesH AT rare intervals
be goes up to London, and then his hosts of friends
flock around him, and make bis fine old face ra !.
diant with smiles at the profuse hospitality poured
around him.
In the village.of Twickenham, in a modest brick
house by the roadside, muses. Alfred Tennyson, the
poet laureate of England. His own publisher only
meets him once or twice a year. as be eschews
London and loves privacy. As you walk by the
side OF the Thames on a Sunday evening. at the
sunset hours, sometimes the white hat Of Alfred,
the bard of s'Locksley Hail." is visible
The Brownings are like swallows, fitting from
CLINE to cline, but London is often in their way,
and they may be met not unfrequentlv at The Ma
tonal Gallery in Trafalgar Square. or at the opera
Both are 30 delightful to encounter but this plea
sure, like all exquisite enjoyments, is rare.
the illustrious Thomas Carlyle the great ssSartor
Resartus'' of modern Europe, he would find II a
difficult matter. Thomas likes to be lion, but he
don't want anybody in his own cage beside him
SELL He lives in Chelsea, and often comes to town
but to find him often is not common even to his
best friends.
Macaulay is a club man, and when he is not
among his idols (the books of the British Museum)
be may be met with in the brilliant halls of the
"Athen@um" or the "Reform." On lazy, hazy
London day proper, he might with certainty be
counted on over folio in a snug alcove of the
"British -
Dear. kind, genial old Leigh Hunt, toddling
over the pavement in the Strand towards his son e
newspaper Office, is common occurrence He
lives few miles from the dust of Fleet street but
he seems to love its dingy walls, and grows warm
and eloquent over lite rush and whirl. Is he the
Skimpoe of esBleak House?' The KNOWING ones
of London say he is.
On the left, as you go up PiccadilIy towards the
Parks, stands neat bookshop, with s'Cha PIMA q
& Hall" over the door. The tall gentleman with
the nose, and the waistcoat and the elegant era
vat, is Sir Edward Lytton. or Bulwer, as YOU NAV
happen to call him. He is telling Mr. Chapman,
who has his ear close to the Baronet's bosom tina
the engraving just brought in for his inspection is
not quite right in the direction of the whskers and
the shirt-collar Spite of his dandy aspect and bis
affected drawl, no better. hearted gentleman
Yields the fluent quill than the author of "My
Novel" Whenever be runs down from bis ex
cellent retreat at Knebworth to London he does 90
many acts OF kindness for poor brother authors,
than "Bulwer's guineas'' are sure as morning
suns or evening stars.-Boston Daily Transcript.
MURDER BY BAPTIST PREACHER The follow.
ing is copied from the Raleigh IN CO. Register, a
secular journal 1t is a horrible transactjon. T =,
tiers were received here last week from HYDE. tyr
rel, and Beaufort counties, stating that Wasbinp
ton Carroway, citizen of Hyde county some fftv
years OF age, and many years Baptist preacher
lately on some frivolous pretext, knocked his wife
down with a chair, and then seized large stick
and continued TO beat her. until a man named
Lassier, who was boarding in the house interfered
to prevent her being murdered. Whereupon Car.
roway took HE gun to shoot Lassiter; but he dis.
r.
wards, Lassiter CHANGED to go by the house. which
stood near the public road, when Carroway, seeino
him pass took his gun and ran through his field 10
cut him of, and, overtaking him in the savannah
snot MIN dead; then took his victim and carried
him some half mile into the swamp, threw him
face down into the mud, and stamped him below
the surface OF the mud, covered him over with
brush, then ran off, made his escape from the
county, and eluded pursuit. He had been married
three times. and has children by each maria ore
and, horrible to tell, crcumsta have now coInf
out which strongly indicate that both or his de-
ceased wives came to their deaths by his hands.
ANOTHER HEAVY VERDICT FOR RA1LpoAp D..
MAGEs.-On Thursday we recorded a verdict rem
dered in the circuit court of the United States O
$6,bo3 80 damages against the Portland, Saco
and Portsmouth Railroad Company, in favor O
Earl E. Ryder, for injuries sustained in conse
quence OF an accident on that road in September
1851. Yesterday. referees in similar case (anc
for injuries oocasioned by the came accident
against the same company, and in favor of Benja
min F. Williams returned their award into III.
circuit court OF $1,000 damages and all the costs
The facts in these two cases we're, that on the 18th
OF September, 1851, bridge about twenty five
feet wide had been taken up the defendant
road for repairs. and the regular train from Port
land for this city, with about one hundred passen.
gers on board, ran at great speed directly in the
chasm. The engineer and fireman were instantly
killed, and many of the passengers seriously in
jured Among the latter was the plaintiff who
received severe blow on his head, causing CON
cusslon OF the brain, and whose entire recovery,
according to the testimony of several experienced
physicians, is extremely doubtful.
tBoston Transcript, May 81.
A LONG WILL.-Henry A. Hamilton was last
week engaged recording. in the books of the pro
bate court OF this county, one of the longest wills
perhaps, OF record in this State ii not in the Uni
ted States. The will ia that of the late Gen James
Taylor, of Newport. Kentucky. 1t covers twenty.
one and half pages OF royal octave, closely, and
we may add we'll written. The fee for RECORDING
1t amounts to twenty-one dollars and eighty cents
1t relates to property valued at four millions OF
dollars, and gives freedom and property to more
than twenty human beings and their postsrity As
the testator was the of real estate in twenty
Six counties OF this State, the will has 10 be record
ed in each OF them. The land owned by him in
this county lies in Miami township in the vicinity
of Clifton.-Xenia (Ohio) Idrchlight.
Stake AT THE UNITED Stairs RoHDrp WARE
HousEs.-On Wednesday last the laborers and
alongshore- men at Atlantic Dock, Brooklyn struck
for an advance of twenty. five cents per day in
wages. They had been paid 81 25 and demanded
s gu. The custom. house did not accede to their
demand, but ordered new hands to be emp loved
at the bonded warehouses, and also sent men over
from New York. An advertisement likewise ap-
peared in the newspapers of Thursday, calling for
"6ty laborers to be employed ~ Atlantic dock
The appearance Of new laborers exasperated the
old ones, and the consequence has been a success
zion Of confusion and mobs. On Thursday, Fri.
day, and Saturday evenings. the men were even