Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-03-20
The Adventurs Of an Actor.

/ The Adventure Of an Actor.
! The New York Times relates the history oi
Charles Edward Bingham, an actor, who was
attached to General Taylor's staff in Mexico
as orderly, and served throughout the cam
paign meritoriusly. He then married the
daughter of an American officer, a widow,
and remained two years in San Louis Potosi,
whence he removed with his family, increased
in numbers by the birth Of twins, to San Fran
cisco. They travelled one thousand five hun.
dred miles, and endured much suffering
At San Francisco. Bingham resumed his pro-
fession, and built q theatre, his wife becom
ing an actresa- Twice his fortunes were ruin
cd temporarily BY FIRE. The Den,ns, with
whose fame, IN this region, most people are
familiar, went to California, and the eldest.
then married to Mr.. Woodward, Of Syra-
cuse, induced Bingham to accompany her
party to New York. The incident ON the
Passage, in which Bingham exciting the zeal
ousy OF Woodward, was attacked by the pas
sengers on the steamboat, at Panama, and
shot in the back, will be remembered. He
was permanently disabled by this wound,
having lost the use Of bis lower limbs. His
wife and children were then in one of the At
lant'c States, and Bingham was brought to
New York, where he was joined by Mrs. B..
who had been playing at some interior thea
tre. She procured employment as an actress
and for while maintained her family. But
sh's resource failing, they were reduced al
most to starvation. Two Of the BOYS were
taken charge of by the proprietor of a travel
ing circus, and another child was added to
the circle Of dependents. Mrs. B., while seek
ing work, noticed advertisement of the Mica
ragua agency, offering passage to that coun-
try, and certain number of acres of land, TO
each emigrant. This was regarded as likely
to keep them from straving, at least, and they
accepted the terms, sailing from New York in
October last. In the report of Hennincsen
to Walker, relating the destruction of Grana
da, DC, he states that Mrs. Bingham, the wife
OF the actor, g noble woman, and the might
ingale Of the army" was suddenly cut of,
with her child, by fever. Thus ends an event
ful history Of life, which, says the writer, has
been full Of suffering and heroic endurance.
Tit for Tat-The following notes passed
between two Of our young "belles:"
Dear Anna: Please send me the collar you
wore at Mrs. P-'s last night, as wish to
get one like it ELLEN b.
Dear Elten: l make it rule never to let
any Of my apparel go out Of the house unless
worn by myself. ANNA G.
7. S.-If You will come round to the house
you may look at the collar as much as you
please.
In few days afterwards Miss Anna had
want OF her own, and expressed it to Ellen as
follows:
Dear Ellen: have an engagement to take
ride on horseback this evening; will you
lend me you, ,sddlel ANNA G.
Dear Anna: make it rule never to let
my saddle 60 Cut of the house, unless used
by myself.
p. S.-If you will come around to the
house you may, ride it As much as you pleas
in the house.
Hoo Coffee came to be Used.-It is some
what singular to trace the manner in which
arose the use Of the common beverage of
coffee, without which few if any half or wholly
civilized country in the world, now make a
breakfast. At the time Columbus discovered
America, it had never been known or used.
1t only grew in Arabia and uper Ethiopia.
The discovery Of its use as beverage is as
cribed to the superior Of q monasterace in
Arabia, who desirous Of preventing the monks
from sleeping at their nocturnal services, made
the drink the Infusion Of coffee uppon the
report Of shepards, who observed that their
hocks were more lively after browsing on the
fruit Of that plant Its reputation spread
through the adjacent countries, and in about
two hundred years it had reached Paris A
single pant brought there in l7l4. beeam
the parent stock Of all the French coffee plan
tations IN the West Indies. The Dutch intro
ducf.i Il into Java and the E ,ast Indies, and
the Fr ''sch and SPA in al over South America
and the West Indies. The United States
alone annually consume it at the cost on its
lsnding Of from fifteen to sixteen raillions of
dollars That Of tea is q little over eight
millions Of dollars. You may know the Ara
bian or Mocha, the best coffee. by its small
bean, dark yellow COLOR The Java and
East Indian, next in quality, ate larger 81. Z
Of paler yellow. The West Indian and Rio
have blush or greenish gray tint.
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ES Archibald Campbell, Of New York, now