The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-06-16
PERSONAL.


Hon. R. c. Winthrop declines being can
didate for reelection to the Presidency of the
Boston Tract Society, because it allows the
publication of Anti-Slavery tracts. No doubt
we shall soon have some National Conserva-
tive" director to the publication of Temper
ance tracts. In many of the Northern States
the publication of Temperance tracts by re-
ligious society is just as much "mixing of
politics and religion" as the publishing of
tracts on Slavery can be in the Southern States.
The London correspondent of the National
hteligencer says:
Mrs. DIR. Elizabeth Blackwell, of New York,
is delivering course of lectures on physio
logical and medical science, to ladies at Man
chester. The attendance is highly respectable,
and the lecturer is listened to with that respect
full earnestness and attention which the import
ance of the subject demands"
The papers announce the conversion to
Catholicism of Mrs. Blount, daughter of Mr.. F.
s. Key, author of the Star-Spangled Banner.
The Western Christidn Adrocate says that
all the preachers of the Methodist Episcopal
Church North, except two, have been driven
out of Texas by the shareholders.
Mr.. T. Buchanan Read is at Cambridge, a
guest of Mr.. Longfellow, whose portrait he is
engaged in painting.
We observe, in an exchange paper, that at
a late term of the Circuit Court of Laurence
county, Mississippi, Edward Langsford was i'll
dicted for selling hoop skirt to negro, with
out permission, and sentenced to pay fine of
500 and costs Of suit. A year or two since,
paper printed in Lynchburg, Va, was greatly
exercised, because the slaves of that region
were getting on too fast. They actually taught
their children to call them "pa," and ma, I"
instead of the old-fashioned daddy" and
nanny" Something, it is thought, should
be done to keep them in their proper places.
There can be no better illustration of the level
ling tendencies of the age. Even shareholders
find it difficult to keep up proper distinctions
in society.
The Pendleton Is. c. Messenger says there
is a man buried in the graveyard of the " Old
Stone Church " in that town, who knew Junus.
His name was John Miller; he was printer,
and was expelled from England for publishing
the Junius letters. He knew the author well
but carried the secret 10 the grave with him
he came first to Charleston, thence removed
to Pendleton, and, using the press which Gen
Greene had in his campaign, started the Pen
dleton Messenger, the second newspaper estab
lshed in the State.
Mrs Ann NJ. Dickinson of Plaquemine, La,
has contributed $4,000 to the Presbyterian Ma
och. n = Il
erection of parsonage house.
1t is said that Lord Napier will not go to
the Hague till October; and in the event OF
the displacement Of the present English Minis
try, will seek restoration to his old post here
The French Academy has unanimously
awarded its great prize of poetry to young
lady, MademOiselle Ernestine Drouet, a gov
erness in a school in Paris. The title of the
poem sent in by her is g The Sister of Charity ,
! A slave, ~ years of age, died at Hogans-
vile, Ga, on the 20tk ult. He retained his
mental faculties and his eyesight up to the day
of his death.
| The " Recolectons of Washington by G
W. Parke Gusts, is in press.
The Pope is said to look most placidly on
the present war. Cardinal Wiseman recently
related little speech of his Holiness which is
worth preserving. Here it is whether in
Rome or in exile, whether free or in prison,
am the same. ] shall still be the Vicar OF
| Christ and the head of the Church"
| Francis C. Woodwork late editor of ''W God
worth's Youths Cabinet" died of consumption
on Sunday morning, June 5, ON board the
steamship from Savannah, in which city he
had been during the winter for the benefit Of
his health
The Spectator of the 28th ult. announces the
arrival of Senator Seward in London. He il
| at Fentons Hotel