Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-01-09
Personal.

The Boston Courier, whose late associate editor
was said to be the yeritable Peter Farley, now adj
mits in very handsome manner that Mr.. Good
cb only il entitled TO this old and familiar
Dir. w. H. Harding, delegate from Lancaster
and Northumberland, died in Richmond on Friday
ftem taking, by mistake, fifteen grains OF NOR.
phene.
Messrs Hector Davis aud James B. HargroYe
had shooting scrape on Friday night, on Wall
street Richmond. Nine shots were fred. Dis
lance, across the street Nobody hit.
George Slough, editor OF the Washington pa
Commonwealth, died on the 9th instant.
Gen. Scott has had magnificent uniform coat
made in New York. 1t Is Of dark blue cloth,
lined throughout with black and yellow silk. The
collar and wristbands are embroidered with heavy
gold thread, representing running vine, all Of
which was done with needle, and cost $780, The
collar and lappels are after the style worn by Arch
Duke Charles, in which it can be used standing
or rolling collar, and the appes are thrown partly
over the arms. Heavy Gilt buttons adorn the coat,
but are not made to button. rich gold cord Is
attached between the collar and lapel, by which
the coat can be fastened in front. The epaulettes
that the General had during the Mexican war will
ndorn the coat twill cost $3.50 when finished.
A correspondent Of the Pennsylvania Inquirer,
noticing the debate which occurred in the House
Of Representatives on the presentation of the Pres
dents Message, speaks as follows Of the part Ia
ken in it by one Of the Representatives from Bal
timore city:
a0n this occasion Mr.. Davis made his first eff
n ~ H.. .sIr hsfohl ana
was He il quite young man, but very prepos-
sossing in his personal appearance, fluent and
easy speaker, possessing good voice, clear
head, and withal becoming and graceful mod
esty, which won him many admirers. His debut
was highly successful"
Chas w Snead, of Henrico county, is in Jail for
attempting to kin his wife, the I'd instant. He
was once good man. but became Incorporate,
and drinks often to insanity.
The Frankfort Crescent says that Mr.. Frederick
shaffer died at ,Robinsons Mills, in Clinton county,
on the 10th ult., at the age of one hundred years
and five days. He fought at the battle Of Bunker
Hill, and served in the Revolutionary War as a
scout Thus has departed another Of the links
that bound the present to the past
J. M. Chapman and his servant VIM. Rufus
Tracy, have been arrested in Chicago on a charge
of kidnapping little girl named Fanny, taking her
out of the State and selling her in Tennessee for
two hundred and fifty dollars. 1t appears that
Chapman claims to have brought the girl, who was
only five years of age, into the State; that he
owned her in Arkansas, and got Tracy to take her
down to Tennessee few weeks since and sell her
there. a
Miss Margaret Mitchell, on the last night Of her
late engagement at the Peoples Theatre, St. Louis
Mo-, was presented by the citizens of that place
with handsome set OF sable furs, at the cost of
$500, and also, magnificent act of jewelry.
Rogers, the Poet, and author of Pleasures of
Memory" is dead, in England. He lived far be-
yond the years allotted to ordinary life, and was
probably the richest poet in modern times. He
was born in 1850, and was a young man at the
period of the American Revolution. He was fa.
lneus for his hospitality and his wealth.