The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-07-01

people. Sam Galloway will turn the tables on
his successor with great ease.
II would not be surprising if James B. Gar.
denhire, the Free Labor Mayor of Jefferson
city, Missouri, is returned to Congress in the
election next August, since the opposition seem
determined to have it so. There are now three
candidates against him-Woodson, American,
and present member; Judge Rylsnd, renegade
Bentonite, and now fierce for Lecompton; and
Gen. George R. Smith, " Union" knowing no
South, no North" &c, and nothing in fact bat
hatred to Black Republicanism. Mr.. Garden.
hires election would be happy circumstance,
and We hope the opposition dogs will continue
TO tear one another until after the election, to
that end. Mr.. G. is Q man of brains, courage,
and public experience, and would do credit to
himself, his State, and the country, in Con.
gress. '"
- The Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune discusses Mr. Buchsnan's health
and some of his peculiarities of administration,
as follows:
"The President is really worn out and sick,
and begins TO feel his years seriously. He is
badgered numerically, and the practice which
he has inaugurated, of appropriating the whole
patronage, in almost every shape and form,
necessarily tends to augment his perplexities
and to increase the demands upon his time.
At his age, Mr.. buchanan is unequal to these
cares and harassing opportunities but the love
of power, and the habit of receiving daily in
cense and homage, seem to have 30 far com.
pensated for the penalties which they involved
Constitutionally phlegmatic, he does not feel
as most men would do under such appeals, and
treats them in the most systematic manner, as
if no consideration but that of personal policy
was at stake, and it required elaboration to
weigh carefully all the operating influences.
Much comment was lately excited on the Demo
cratic side of the Senate, upon discovering that
all the recent diplomatic nominations were
drawn up in the handwriting of the President
Whether it was his desire to relieve clerk in
the Department of State of this duty, or it was
40 adroit method of surprising his Cabinet, has
not yet been ascertained, though the latter is
supposed probable, since it is we'll understood
that they were never consulted. He will prob
ably retreat to the Soldiers Asylum, which he
occupied last summer. The doctor thinks he
has all the marked symptoms of chills and
fever"
Yesterday morning, little child in this city
commenced crying without any apparent cause,
and kept it up until late in the evening, when
its cries were succeeded by screams. The pa
rents of the child looked into its mouth, and
iscovered, near its throat, needle sticking
into its tongue, in such a position that it was
evident that it had come from the stomach.
The mother then remembered that, day or
two before, she had given her work basket, con-
tanning needle-book, to the child, to play with.
An examination revealed the fact that the nee.
dies were gone. An emetic was given the
child, and it has vomited several needles from
its stomach, which may or may not be all. At
any rate, the child is better to-day. This incl.
dent should serve as q caution to mothers to
keep such things out of the reach of their chill.
dren.-Hartford Press.
The highest honor of the old University of
Cambridge, England, that of senior wran.
gler," has been taken by Morris Birkbeck Pell,
son of Gilbert I. Pell, of New York-the only
instance in which this his Oh academic dstnc-
ton has been obtained by an American.
Edward Moxon, the poets publisher at Lon.
don, and the friend of Lamb, Rogers, and Barry
Cornwall, has lately died.
The Michigan Historical Society has received
from Lima veritable scrap of the mort cloth
or shroud of Pizarro, the Spanish conqueror.
Miss Burdett Coutts has placed at the dispo
sal of the Bishop of Capetown a sum of $500,
which the Bishop will apply to the commence
ment of fund for the support of college for
the sons of native African chiefs.
The London Illustrated Neos has the follow.
ing reference to the case of Mr.. Charles Dick.
ems
GA great author has this week thought it
nece ssary to appeal in print to his fellow au.
thors against certain scandals - stupid, foul,
and lying enough-which nobody of name be-
lieved for single moment. An appeal from
such q quarter should not be made in vain ; we
therefore Unnecessarily acknowledge his ap.
peal, and, knowing his noble nature-knowing
the facts (better still appeal to him in print
to forget the follies of malice and envy, and
rely as before on the well led affection of
his many friends, who know how incapable his
nature is of aught that is mean-of aught that
is contrary to truth and to his own writings.
And the public (the worldly is of our opinion"
The auburn Advertiser learns that the resi-.
dence of Mr.. s. A. Goodwin, of Detroit, former.
" of Auburn, was struck by lightning on
Thursday morning of last week. The inmates
of the house we're alarmed by tremendous
crash, and falling of mirrors, pictures, plaster,
and timbers, and, on springing from their beds
and procuring lights found the house literally
in ruins. Mirrors we're dashed in pieces, plas
ter was shaken from every room, windows we're
broken, and the chimney was split from top to
bottom, and shingles, clapbosrds, and bricks,
scattered into the streets. The family were
obliged to vacate their house Immediately.
The escape from injury of every member Of
the family was providential. The bed from
which Mr.. and Mrs. Goodwin rushed on hear
ing the conclusion was Immediately filled with
timbers, which would have crushed them had
they remained q moment longer. The injury
to the furniture is considerable, and the house
is very badly damaged. The lightning, af er
playiug its various pranks, made its exit by
running through q sword cane, and splitting it
neatly into two pieces, then following the wire
of the door bell out of doors into the ground.
What is Napoleon abouts is now the great
question in Europe. He is sugmenting his army
and navy to q most extraordinary extest, and
evidently contemplstes some great warlike ad-
venture. The circumstance gives much IN
easiness to the Cabinets of Europe, AID the
English especially ere tsoused with uncom.
Portable specuiati0ns and surmises. L. is limited
by several Paris correspondents that Napoleon
is about to follow up Monsieur Bey's negotia.
lions in Central America by taking formal
possession of that important portion of the
continent; and that if our Government objec's
and resists, he is ready to fight, and on the
whole would rather like to have brush with
us. These hints of war hardly afford basis
for sensation in this lazy weather, but there
is quite as much probability of a war with
France on the Nicaragua question "a there has
been Of contest with England on the right OF
search.
We learn that petition is to be presented
to the city government, that ton OF two of ice
be put into the Beacon Hill reservoir every
morning, in order that the people aAay be ac-