The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-08-27

present at the United States Agricultural Socl-
esy's Fair at Louisville, KY, September !,
which promises to be on even more msgnifi-
cent scale than the one at Philadelphia last
year. Mr.. Leonard Wray expects to be there
with the new sugar plants, sorghum and i'm
phee, to make sugar and strip each day of the
Fair. The awards of the Syracuse reaper trial
will be announced; and the great national trial
OF plows, cultivators, threshipg machines, steam
plows, and all other agricultural implements,
will be made. The citizens of Louisville have
guaranteed $4,000 to cover all expenses, and
our Kentucky exchanges anticipate a grand
time. The occasion is an important one, and
will call together an immense crowd, beyond
doubt.
Washington correspondent of the Charles
ton Mercury thus describes the personal appear
ance of Mr.. Buchanan, formerly and at pres.
eat: 81 remember the appearance of Mr..
Buchanan in the olden times, when Jackson
was President, when he was broad, firm, strong,
and energetic in appearance, and quick in
motion: DE Is now quiet in his movements,
gentle IN his manner, and seemingly conscious
OF the necessity of constant care of himself as
we'll SIS of everything else. His features are
longer. and his skin has that soft, white appear.
ance, which we only see in elderly persons of
temperate life and abstinence from outdoor
exposure. The pictures represent him as hav.
ing crooked neck; but this proceeds only
from difference in the foci of his eyes, which
he ought to have had remedied by the optician
in early life. The eye of lesser power he ad-
vances toward the object he looks upon, and of
course depresses the opposite side of the head
L often pass him in the evening hours, within
or near the Presidential gardens. His honors
rest 80 easily upon him, that those who talk with
him, like himself, forget that he is President,
and they think only of the urbane gentleman"
The death of the son of Mrs. Stowe, who was
recently drowned in the Connecticut river. in
New Hampshire, has painful sequel to it. A
fellow student at Dartmouth writes as fol.
lows:
"Young Stowe, in company with three of
his classmates, all Freshmen, SWAN across
the Connecticut, and landed on the Vermont
side. Straying into field some distance off.
they commenced picking strawberries. The
owner OF the field, seeing them on his grounds.
gave chase to them, and drove them into the
water. Though exhausted by their long run.
they attempted to re-swim the river, but ali
failed, and sank. The owner of the strawberry
held refused for some time to allow his boat to
De sent to their rescue, until a young man of
this city cut another boat from its moorings. and
succeeded IN reaching three of the party before
they sank. But Stowe, who was the hindmost.
failed before the boat reached him, and, though
his body was recovered within fifteen minutes.
life was extinct"
The prospectus has been issued, in London,
of the Mediterranean extension telegraph. with
capital OF 100000, and guarantee from
the English Government of six per cent. for Is
years. The object is to carry the line, which
has already been laid to Sardinia to Malta and
to Corfu, where communication will ultimate
ly be effected with the Euphrates line to India.
Its length will be about 7O9 nautical miles, and
contract has been made for its completion
by October next, the manufacturers taking all
the risk of laying it down.
The Memphis appeal learns that DR.. Quinn,
highly-respectable citizen of Arkansas, was
murdered near Pine Bluff in that State, by
runaway slave, belonging to Louis Bogy ir.
The remains of the murdered man were found
In the river, horribly mutilated, with his skull
broken, as If by some sharp instrument, in sew
eral places. The appeal says
:" The slave was afterwards arrested, and
confessed to the preparation of the crime, as
we'll as many other atrocities of the most re-
voting character. He stated that he had kill
ed his former master, before having been pur-
chased by Bogy, and that he was guilty of rape
and theft in many instances.
"The excitement was intense during his re-.
lation of those horrors, and the brutal manner
in which he had performed his last act of vii.
lainy, and it was feared summary vengeance
would be taken against him upon the spot. 1t
was agreed, however, that the law should have
its course, and the culprt was placed under a
strong guard, to be escorted to the jail at Pine
Bluff. But such was the intensity of the feel.
ing against him, excited by his many villainies,
that ne was seized by the mandate of Judge
Lynch before reaching his Jail, and hung to a
tree. His victim, DR.. Quinn, was universally
loved and esteemed in the neighborhood."
The latest intelligence from Europe announces
the decease of DR.. Thomas Dick, LII. D. He
expired the Dundee Harden says, at his res
ldence IN Broughton Ferry, where he had lived
for the long period Of more than thirty years,
quietly prosecuting his astronomical studies, en-
gagged in the labors Of an unostentatious benev-
olence, aud enjoying the warm respect of all
around him. Recently he suffered the be-
reavement of two grandchildren, and never thor
oughly recovered the blow which he had thus
sustained. 1t was not till Friday last howeve.,
that he became seriously i'll, but from that pc.
Rod he gradually sank DR.. Dick had attained
the ripe old age of eighty-three. The removal
OF one who had go far exceeded the ordinary
limit of human life is scarcely matter of sur
prise; but the example of his calm, genial, hon.
orabe, and useful history, is one that should
not be without its sslutary influence. A year
or two ago, his services in popularizing science
were acknowledged by the gift of one of those
scanty pensions which are allotted to the reward
of such lsbors. he was thrice married, and a
widow survives him.
"SAM" SUED IN KENTUCKY, AND P1EIns
THAT HE is DEAD.-On Friday, suit was tried
in the Circuit Court of Campbell county, Ken.
lucky, Judge Moore presiding, which was
brought by Shipley 4 Brothers, engravers. for
seals engraved for the Know Nothing Grand
Council of Kentucky, and other Councils of
that State, against A. D. Smalley and Major
Caldwell, who were the agents of the Council
in ordering the seals. Ira Root and R. M.
Webster appeared for the plaintiffs, and John
W. Stevenson (recently elected Democratic
member of Congress) for the Know Nothings.
large amount of correspondence between
the litigants was read, all very afectionate,
commencing "Dear Brother" and ending
4" Yours fraternally."
Mr. Stevenson, counsel for the Know Moth
ings, contended that, as Sam was dead. the
suit should be brought against the administra.
tor of Sans estate, and not against the agents.
The court, however, overruled this, and gave
judgment against the defendants for 1892 so.
The original bill was for $3.50; the balance
was interest," Cincinnati Gazette, Aug Is.
The trial of the "Talbot Divorce Case" in
the English House of Lords, created much SEN
sation two or three years ago. Mrs. Talbot
was the mother of children, lady of refine
ment, of unassuming manners, and domestic
habits. 1t was alleged, that during the alb
sence of her husband she INDUCED in illicit in
tercourse with an ignorant groom of the stable