New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-23

think that is IA mild name as the transaction will
bear misdnectien-am0uRts to $3.50, 900, divided
in this way among the different corporations: By
State Mills, S225, 600 ; Middlesex, S2S000O;
P.mbcIiop, $75, eco.
Mr.. Lawrence is the youngest Of the famous
Lawrence family, and The only surviving member,
at IL asst Of the male branch-his brothers, Luther
William, Abbott end Amos, being all dead. lie
commence biz business career agent of the NJ =
dlesex wooden mills at Lowell and for msny years
gave bis personal attention to the details of the
business. u me years ago he removed to Boston.
The transac tlOn III which he has low been engaged.
whatever may turn out TO be its precise charsc
Is likely to he blot in the 'scutcheOn of fim-
lily hitherto celebrated for commercial honor aud
.tbity.
Mr.. Somner arrived home in the Niagara ysster.
day sfse noon. Hi, general health is much i'm.
proved. but be still suffers to some extent the in
firmly of the spine which csuses him TO wsk some.
what hesitatiDgly and t. be easily fatgued. His
case was easily understood abroad by physicians,
who express the opinion that he will gradually but
slOWy recover. He heard of some similar instances
Of infrroity to CriDean soldiers, caused by blows
upon the head. Mr. Sumner suffered much from
Sickness on his passage home, but looks well
and is in good spirits He will be 10 his seat at the
opening of Congress He wrote no such letter as
that which was published in bis name just before
the election, but he congratulated Mr.. Banks upon
his election.
The friends Of Neal Dow cave him reception at
the fremont Tempe last evening, and breakfast at
the Adams House this morning. The Pr0hbiory
Liquor Law is enforced much more successfully
than at any former time In Essex County some
thirty or forty rquOr-seers have been actually cent
to the House Of Correction within the last moath
At the ]ate term in Lowell a milar expectation
occurred. AT breakfast this morning the Rev. Mr..
Miner suggested mat the sureat way of alternating
the distress which is likely to prevail in this city this
Winter was for the City Government 30 enforce the
law. But our city officials are slow to take such
hints as these.
The "Citizens' movement" in municipal affairs
has got INTO a sDarl. Perhaps before this reache
cIats pIe'e 1t Mr.. John r. Heard; the Republicans
Mr. Henry b. Rogers, and secret order, consisting
Of tie worst elements of the Old Know Nothing Or
ganizaoD. go for Mr. Jon 18th an Preston, the worst
man OF the three. Mr.. Moses Kiuball is talked of
as compromise candidate. He is Republican
Among the recent deaths which have attracted
notice, is that Of Deacon Nathaniel rockingham Of
Salem, most worthy gentleman of the old school,
who was born in CharlestOWn in 1770, and in escap-
ing over Penny Ferry into Maiden, with his lather
and mother, at the time of the battle of Bunker
Hill lost bis hat. II is rather rare, now a-days, to
meet man 80 nearly connected as this with the
great battle. Deacon f. was leading mau in the
Universalist denomination and John Murrdy's frat
sermon in Salem was preached in his house. His
golden wedding celebrated last year, and it
is singular that the wife with whom he had lived
fifty years, was his second wife and he was her
end husband. She now survives him, as do seGeral
children, three or four Of whom are merchants in
New-York. GILBERT.