The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-01-04

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Monsieur Belley has published bulky pamphlet Of
ITs pages on his Panama scheme which, he announces
is the herald of bullkier work
Lieut. Strain who died the Isthmus, native
of Wesmoreand county Pennsylvania and was nephew
Of Judge Grier, Of the u. s. Supreme Court
Dir. Holmes, the famous '.autocrat Of the breakfast
table has recently been delivering public lectures Mt
New York, where he treated with high considern-
ton
Lord and Lady Bury, Hon. Marshall Z. Wilder Hon,
Sam Houston and Capt Samuel Jones, u. s A., are at
Wards' Hotel Capt. Inman, IT, s. NJ, is at the Kirk
wood House.
Ullman the opera manager, has stopped his advertise
nent in the Boston Courier because the editor of that paper
will not ''.2ep dredgng-box full of compliments and
dust NTH it every musical notice
John Kelley, the sheriff of New York city and
county has given as his suretes Collector Scel and
james Conner, ftype-founder The office is said to be
the most lucrative one in the United States.
Horace Greeleys friends complain that he is overruled
by Charles A. Dana in the New York Tribune, and made
to play subordinate part when he is ostensibly the head
This it is said may induce him to leave the Tribune and
take charge OF the Century.
j. w Walcott of Boston, who figured here con-
umacous Witness is about to take up his residence in
New York. where he will devote himself to the banking
and brokerage business What became of :. that money
has never been ascertalned
T. f. Meagher win commence his course of lectures
on Central America at Charleston South Carolina about
the IL tn inst. His oonsummate powers of combining
fact with fancy, and of mingng poetry with description
carry one along with him lie travels er again sands
and swamps, plains and mountains cannot fail to please
Mr. Wendell Boman, Of Baltimore is at present en-
gagged in the island Of Cuba in erecting for the Spanish
government iron suspension bridge lie Is also build
ing upon plan of his an immense railroad station
house at Matanza the roof of which is supported upon
the same principle as his suspension bridge.
Rossn is passing the winter in Paris where he gives
weekly musical partyAlboni, Grsi Pence Prezzolini,
Al In,
has lost since she got back to Paris all the Yankee dol
lars she put into her pocket "From delicate attach
men is the engmatcal phrase used in describing the
cause Of her financial ruin
The Countess Montaembert (wife of the French count
is a woman of distinguished grace of figure and manner
aud possessed of considerable beauyhat superior kind
of beauty which consists of intelligence, accomplishment,
and information talks freely and well speaks English
nueny but with decided foreign accent Altogether,
she Is woman who would exert strong influence over
sensible man who loved her. She is niece OF General
lafayette.
Lieut. Andrew Jackson IT, s. army has been appointed
assistant tutor in Spanish at the West Point Military
Academy he retaining his rank This is the first Ameri
to whom such post has been assigned, and it Is
said that Lieut. jackson is of the finest Spanish
scholars in the country He entered the army during the
Mexican war, In company of volunteers from Peters
burg Virginia. his native city.
The Duke OF Calabria of the King Of Naples and
heir the throne is according TO correspondent of tho
Courier dts fds tf"S years oui 10
something Of oddly, Few persons, in Naples,
know him by sight. He lives in very retired way, and
never travels the only excursions he has made 30 far
having been Gta and back of Naples His character
is SO grave and reflective that his pbysognomy would
announce man Of thirty rather than twenty-five years
He talks but little with his father but is less
served with his mother He is presented TO the
foreign ambassadors aud only the ministers OF the king
dom know him. The Neapoitans curious to know i
his approaching marriage will moy the character Of
the Duke of Calabra who may with reason be called
the Taciturn as. a.. t., ~ tt