Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-01-16
miscellaneous Items.

miscellaneous Items
DEATH OF TIE MARCHIoEESs WEIIEsLEY-
The Marohoiness Wellesley died on the 18th
inst, ut Hampton Court, after short Illness
She was a daughter Of the late Richard Cation,
esq. of Maryland and grand daughter of the
celebrated Charles Carroll or Carrolton, one of
the signers of the Declaration OF independence.
One of the Indy Wellesley's sisters is Mrs.
MacTasish another is Duchess of Leeds aud
another, the Dowager Lady Stafford. Lady
Wellcsley's first husband Robert Pattson,
esq. In 1895 she married the late Lord W Giles
ley, eldest brother OF the famous Duke of Wei
lington. Her ladyship was for muny years Lady
Of the Bed-chamher to Queen Adelaide.
\ story was going the rounds of the Ameri-
can press, some time since, that the faculties Of
4. h. Mncaulny. NJ. T., the celebrated Reviewer
and Historian, were failing under an indulgence
in opium. The attention of Mir. Macauny was
directed 10 the matter ly friend in this country,
and he gives the story and indignant denial. lie
snys all the opium he has swallowed in his life of
hity-three years does not amount to ten grains.
Miss Fredcrika Bremen has written II letter,
which is published i'll the National lntclgencer,
staiing TINT there misconceptions and mis-
takes III the translation of her work, CLONES of
the New World" and expressing the kindest feel
ings towards this country.
The reported escape of Smith OI}rcn from
Van Deimans Land Is doubted, Sir Lucius o. Bri-
on, of Dromoland the exc's brother having had
no information of the fact at the last time the
steamer sailed.
In Albany they are blessed with n female bar
Der who has 1.-THE form Of Peri, and is perfect
paragon of beauty" Boards have to be cut twice
day in the vicinity of her pole. Such passion
Tor Glenn tnces WIS never known ON the Patroon's
plantation at the mouth of the Eric Canal. as has
sprung into existence since this young lady went
into the athor and ponatum trade.
The \. \. Tribune announces that the Hon
Edward Curtis taken to the insane asylum
on Saturday. His health has been failing for
some time, and during the past year his intellect
! Las been scusby affected The malady began
! with partial loss of memory, mn inability to
! recognize persons and remember names. and
murc lately cXhihtod itself in the Authorization
| that he VA, possessed of boundlcs5 riches which
| he was eking To bestow with lavish profusion.
The case Is deemed to be n soicning of the brain,
aud but faint hopes exist Of his recovery.
The Astur Library was opened to the public,
on Monday, i'll New York. The number of vol
tunes is about $4,000, and is expected to reach
! 10000 when the entire sum appropriated by Mr..
| Astor shall have been spet. The library is inten-
ded principally AS one OF reference and many of
the books rare and of great value.
\ son of the late Richard Henry Wilde has in
preparation the Life Letters and Literary re-
mains Of that accomplished gentleman and ele-
CANT scholar Mr.. wide is known to have left
nearly completed critical memoir of Dante
similar in character, we presume, to his work on
! TasSo, md besides his graceful and original po-
ems II collection of Italian songs which he had
translated while residing in Tuscany.
The insult offered to Mr.. Soule, our Minister
to Slan was the remark of the Duke of Alba, in
| reference 10 the wife of Mnstcr-''there
goes Mary of Burgundy" The remark was i'm
pertinent and i'll brod-but really compliment.
Mary Of Burgundy died, Bayle says, IA martyr q
her modesty, prefcrring death to revealing the
nature of hurt she had received by fall from
II horse.
The Charlottesville Advocate says:-'The Al
cNandro railroad viii be completed to Gordons-
Vile Ivy the month of March, thus bringing us
within four and half hours ride of Washington
City. Would it not therefore be wise in our citi
2cns To petition the Postmaster General to permit
our Washington and Northern mails to be trans
ported over that road! 1t would save time, rid us
OF the uncertainty of winter travel on the Poto-
mac, and of the delay and irreguarity of the
change of mail in the City of Richmond. We
mako this suggestion for what it is worth"
A otter from Genoa, dated the 18th Dee, and
published in the Newark Daily Advertiser, states
that the Government of Turin has positively de
olncd to recognize Mr. FeleliX Forest Us United
States Consul nj Genoa. The letter says ut
Is alleged that he was concerned III the Italian
movement in New York last spring against the
guees sent there by its frigate San Giovanni
which is held to be just for offence. 1t is
moreover said that Mr.. +. is implicated with the
friends of NJ. Muzzn and others in their hostile
movements against the present authorities OF
constitution OF the country"
Lieut.. Davis L. ). N, thrown from his
carriage in Washington, on Wednesday, and his
seull is fractured. He will probably not recover
1t is reported that letters have been received
in New ork from parties connected with Wal.
kers's Sonora Expedition, written subsequently,
10 the affair at Enscnada which do not speak al
all dcspondingly of the prospects of the expedi-
ton. The cutting off of portion of their men,
is alluded to, but not in terms that Justify the
Inference that the whole party was cut up. We
are not prepared to state whether the report is
reliable not.
/ Paul julien is said to be lying dangerously il
ut Buffalo with brain fever Camille tTrso has
been engaged in his place by Madame sontag
who is in Cincinnati.
Seed Ntare.