, 1859-10-07
}3rcss Trfhtttte,


Hon. Joshua Z. Giddings, who Is still 10 Var
mont, wa 10 uuNcll last week a. to b. sompel.
led TO forego III appointment to lec:urs at st.
Albaus. He has for some years pas: bssn sub
ject to sudden attacks, wheh his physicians
suppose 10 be atrophy Of the heart.
The cu!ogy upon Rufus cheate, giren By
Professor Parsons before the Cambridge Law
School, on Thursday last, vas not one Of indis.
criuinate praise, as is too often the case en-
like occasions He docs not think Mr. choote's
studies took s6wids . scope as some hare sup
posed. aud is confident tLat lie w.s not q good
student Of metaphysics, or we'll posted in re-
Igious controversies. Mr.. Choate's stability in
the faith Of his childhood, so gratifying TO his
pastor. Dr.. Adams, is explained By remark be
made to Judge Parsons, to the effect that, for
tuna.ely for himself, certain belief had been
implanted in his mind in childhood. There il
stood unmoved. And he IVES unwilling to lis
ten to arguments against it, or to consider the
question rs open, because, said he, II dread
tue laccsation Of mind which must BE- caused bJ
rcnding away fifth once deeply and firmly
rooted" and he quoted from Edmund Burke
passage expressing strongly the same senti.
mcnt.
-E1 President Fillmore mud his vile paid
complimentary visit to Gov. Banks, ut Boston,
afew days since.
-Ker. Dr. Lowell, Of Boston, has been set
tied over his present parish since 1906; and
Rev. Mr. Richardson, Of bingham, has been
settled orer his parish since 1907.
y ~, DtANn
sen, Esq, tic pke's Peak correspondent Of the
Boston Journal, was dangerously i'll at Fort
Smith, Ark. Recent letters have been received
from Mr. Il. announcing his entire recovery
-Four members Of the Vermont Legislature
soon to meet Qhree Representatives and one
Seuator), married sisters, the daughters OF
David Cobb, of Windham, The present Secra-
tnry Of State also taking one Of tile family. Al
though this "pauct il exhausted" there are
lots more Of excellent Vermont girls left.
There is printer in Utica who has just
finished walking six hundred miles before
breakfast. lie commenced 18th April last, and
has walked tvery morning, before breakfast,
from two to ten miles, the average being four
miles per day, twenty five miles per week. at
the least calculation. He has gained both flesh
and strength since lie began.
Among the resolutions introduced ut the
recent Western Virginia II. E. Conference is the
following, which may be sid to partake sone-
what Of = p&rsonal character:
1E'herfas, Drather Clawson has up to this time
been disappointed in bis expectations of aot!ct-
pated fortune, and, uhey<ax. his anticspations
hare been the means Of producing financial
difticulica.
I1.solpd, Therefore, that this Conference
earnestly solicit the brother hereafter to incur
no further detls on the expectations Of said for
tuoc, uutil developments shall be made suf-
iicieut to warrant au assurance that said fortune
will absolutely be realized. i.
Mayor Weaver, Of Pittsburgh, has posi-
tircly prohibited the running of cars upon the
city railroads On Sunday. An extended cores
pondence has taken place between the Mayor,
the citizens md the companies, and the result
is that the Sunday travel Is forbidden.