New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-02

,.ad 10 move along the streets IN small cart pro-
r.spg himself by hsrdles. lie played on the accord
.on and with such skill as to attract the attention OF
a, eccentric lady who now introduces him for the
FIRST time into fashionable society
c,rre,pondent Of The ErtHiag Post, writing Of
A., prescott's ceath ssJs that
dan hour before he fatal stroke he had been con
r.,ng With irien6s. Baving retired TO another r0om
his aospuepsis after heard him grooming, aud on
hprstinc open the door found i'm with his head thrown
h.ek entirely upcOnscOus ard IN about hour alter
he died The previous pfemonIGon which be receivei
A fes months tince, had accustomed his fanny anu
friends when parting with him 10 do so as II lucy
feared for another meeting on earth Bat ths Ciicun
stance by DO means diminished the pOgancy OF tneH
erief nor in any way apphes h- place, for whom the
greater solcitUde ana love were iet on account Va ~
own precariOns situation. n,,.,,
Il" OF the work on which ne was engSgep, imp ii.,
six volumes ere dssigned-hroe OF wnlcn nave oeeh
nnhlshed. mart Of the fourth is now written, and the
other two will probably fall 20 the tn1s OF some other
master Of Spanish history to conpie'ei put Ihe louen
NJ the GREAT painter c46not but be missed, and the
line clearly de6nei where ne finished and another
began
-Burke's "Peerage and Bsronetage" for 1853, just
bublished at London, states 10 the article on Lord
Saw and See that second brother Of that nobleman
married on May 10. 1852 Ellen, daughter OF the late
" Hon. Edward Ds1ghi, ~ p. for the Province o
Massachusetts
MIR. Adolphus Ackernann. the welLknown book
and print publisher lately carrying on business in the
Strand, London committed suicide on the 18th.
Vice Precedent Breckenridge has gone home to
Kentucky on account of the l-health Of himself and
family.
-" Inspector" writing from Washington, says thst
Il ia there rumored that proposals have been made to
Mr. Charles Dickens to induce him to favor the
United States witt a visit for the purpose Of delivering
a course of lectures and public readings. As the com
pensstion named il very high is thought that he
may consent.
Gen Cass has been sttscked twice lately with apo
plectic symptoms and the other night had the doctor
with him all night aOd till late in the morning His
friends were much alarmed; yet, however the fact
has been kept out Of the newspapers.
The Washington correspondent Of The Phiiadel-
phio Press says:
"Mr james Gordon Benz EFT is to be with in a
day or two. The exquisite Chevaler Wikoh IS with
US now, negotiating the terms upon which MIR. Ben
nett will agree TO receive the ANCIENT regime There
is TO be a great rush 70 meet MIR. Bennett. All VINO
desire TO get into society must call on Bennett The
old fam les will struggle for the preference ana we
suspect that no one can survive who Is omitted Gen.
Cbss called in his ,Irage to see young Bennett on
has last visit b. the city, by command OF the President
IL is now arranged by the Chevalier that when old
Bennett reaches here the whole Cabinet is to Visit
him. j. b. Henry Is 10 announce them. Appleton Is
TO utter the euOey, and Col. Johnson, of The Union,
is to sing Mary AuD,' from the Bonner version'
On New-Yesr's Day, Senator Houston, in famil-
lar conversation with friend, announced his deter
mnstion to 60 to work for Texas in the way of rails
ing Improved breeds Of sheep Said the old soldier;
az can thus enrich and do for my State in the
"few remaining years of my earthly pilgrimage, than
Hbv Ali the governing or office holding that exists.
The Michigan Legislature has very properly voted
$40 acres Of land to Mrs. Rogers because che pro-
duced four little ROgerses at one and the same
,sme, a precedent which may cost the State thou
sJands of acres OF land The Detroit Free Press says
{AIr Job Burnsp of Sumpter, Wayne County, has sp-
piled to the Legislature to divide its fsvOrs.
set forth that Mira Burnsp he's given birth to nine
"chdren at four births three of whom were born ten
"months after marriage" that he is poor man, and
therefore prays donation of land as in the case of
xfra