Daily national Democrat., 1858-08-18
1ailg National 4rmotrat.
Items from .hc Atlantic papers.

H..
Hawthorne and family are among our pres
ent American visitors Mr.. Bryant and his
family have passed on to Venice, after few
days sojourn. The season isunusually sultrv
and many of our foreign visitors are seeking
relief at the Baths of Lucca, one of the most
refreshing rural retreats on the Continent
some six or eight hours from Florence.
Professor Haven, of Amherst College. has
accepted the appointment to the chair of doe
trinal theology in the Congregational Semi.
nary at Chicago, ILL.,, recently rendered to
him. Ex Professor Fowler is about to leave
Amherst.
Horace Mann, President of Antioch Col.
lege, has been elected President of the Facul
ty and Professor of Ethics in the North West
ern Christian University at Indianapolis
The Washington Union denies that Col.
Kane has had any authority from the Presi-
dent during his recent journey to Utah, and
asserts that his mission WAS purely personal
and individual, made at his own Impulse and
on his own responsibility,
MIR Paul Morphy, the American chess
champion, has arrived in London. to follow
up his challenge to play with Mr.. II. Stan
ton, the great English champion. Mr. Nor
ply has already astonished the Londoners
by some extraordinary exhibitions of his
powers He will attend the annual meeting
in August of the eDess savaRs, at Birming-
ham.
j. A. Weed, well known Episcopal cler-
gyman of Richmond, Va, has become a con-
vert to Romanism.
Madame Vespucci who resides in Ogdens-
burg, N Y, is said to be the descendant of
Amerigo Vespucci, from whom the American
continent takes its name
Mrs Macready, the distinguished reader of
Shakespeare and other poets, has recovered
$500 damages of the city of Alton. ILL.,. for
injuries received by falling off sidewalk in
that city in the spring of 1857. She claim
ed $4,000, and as she has to pay costs, the
suit will be rather an expensive one to her,
she having four lawyers to support her cause
The Alton Courier, in its report Of the case,
says;
"The principal witness for the plaintiff
was her agent, Mr. Eyre who was designated
by the defendants counsel, as her man of all
work He gave most graphic and har-
rowing account of the injuries, both mental
and physical, sustained by the fair prosecu-
triX. He testified that Mrs Macready was
star of the first magnitude in the theatrical
world; that her net profits were from $4,000
to $4,000 per year; that the injury received
by her was permanent one, and of such a
character rs to prevent her from appearing
before the public but seldom; that the DANA.
yes already sustained by her were at least
S20000. This witness occupied the stand
about two hours and underwent a very Sc
we're cross-examination. The witness and
jury differed very widely in their estimates
Jt the damages sustained by Mrs Macreadv
and it is feared that the jury either did not
believe all the witness said, or that their no.
tions of theatrical talent arc exceedingly low.
Among the recent arrivals at Montreal are
mentioned Srnator Brown, of Mississippi.
Hon. 0. r. Singleton, of Mississippi, Hon.
John Wentworth, Of Illinois, and Sir w. o..
Gore, of England.
Hon. jefferson D wis is in Portland, with
his family where it is said he will pass the
summer
Mr. A. W. Thlyer, of Cambridge, sailed
Wednesday in the ship Athens for Bremen.
This is his third visit to Europe for the pur-
pose of making researches in musical history
and biography His special object now is to
visit Vienna, and complete a life of Beeth-
-oven, upon which he has been engaged for
many years
ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION Worcester
Transcript says about III O'Clock Monday
night, young person called at tbs house of
the widow Knapp, in Sturbridge, (whose
husband recently committed smcide,) and
said he was Charles Morse, the son of near
neighbor, whose mother he said was sick,
and desired the immediate attendance of Mrs.
Knapp's daughter Julia. Miss. Julia imme-
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the suspicious of the mother being shortly
aroused, she also started for the house of Mr..
Morse, and upon arriving there found, as she
feared she SHOULD, that her daughter was not
there. Mr.. Morse and one of his dodgers be
ing informed of the circumstances, started in
pursuit of the abductor He presently found
II horse hitched by the roadside, and sus
pecting that Julia was near, called her name
when she answered The abductor escaped
but was identified Nathan Harris, to whom
the horse which was found had been let was
found near the spot, arrested aud committed
to the county Jail at Worcester to await the
action of the Grand Jury at the next term Of
the court.
TERRIBLE RENooUNrER- AT Lawrenceburg
KY, on the 9th ult two young men by the
name of Miller came into conflict with Others
by the name of Lurcy, when two of the Lur
cys were shot dead, and another mortally
wounded by the Mlers, A third man was
also shot dead by the Millers. At last ac
counts the Millers were in Jail, which was
guarded by large body of men, there being
much excitement in the community in rela
tion to the bloody affair.
Mrs Brooks, who deserted her husband al
Hartfort, and was in turn deserted by her
paramour, died at the house of Thomas Good
win in New Haven, from the effects of the
arsenic she took when she found she had
been betrayed.
A writer from Kansas says After briet
season of quiet, politics begin to grow warm
again Mr. stanton is still "atumping" the
Territory against the English juggIe. Mr.
Parrott has reached home and will address
the people of various localities during the
present month. A few other speakers are in
the field but their labor is superfuous. II
is the overwhelming popular sentiment Of
Kansas that will strangle the English bill
and none of the usual election appliances are
needed, so great is the intensity.
A most interesting and important paper
was lately read before the New York Histori
cal Society, 10y the librarian, NJ George IL.
Moore, which proved beyond question, that
Gen. Lee of the Revolution was a bold and
well nigh successful conspirator against
Washington and the liberties of his country.
rhe matter is lett no longer in doubt, and
that which has seemed strange and doubtful
in his conduct is fully explained.
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY IN AMADoR.-The
Amador LedJer an organ of the Democracy