Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-24
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Fanny Kemble took her everlasting leave of
the New York public last Friday evening.
Hence-she won't read there again Her prof
Its for the season have been six thousand dol
lars. She goes to England this Spring to give
farewell Shakespeare readings and returns to
close her public career at Boston next Winter.
free colored man, named Caesar, or as he
was more Familiarity called Pa Caesar, died
near Coyington, La, on the 9th of February,
at the advance age of one hundred and thirty
eight years. Cesar, according to his own ac-
count, was an African by birth, and was
brought to Louisiana, then Spanish province,
when he was about fifteen years ofage.
A writer in Bonner's Ledger, giving an ac-
count of a visit to Kossuth in London, says:
ut is seven years since Kossuth left the
United States-but he looks twenty years old
er now than he did then. His flowing beard,
then jet black, is now plentifully sprinkled
with gray He has grown very bald and con-
ceas his badness by combing his hair over the
top of his head. His face is marked with deep
wrinkles, and the impress of care, and grief
and hopes long deferred, is deeply stamped
upon his features. But his smile is as sweet
his voice is as deep and melodious, and the
light of his dark eye is as soft and as tender as
in the days when they won the hearts of our
people, and made the soul of this nation vi
brate like the strings of the lutte to the touch of
genius and of skill"
Isabel Craig, the authoress of the fifty
guinea Burns prize poem in London, is a poor
girl, about 70 years of age, and, until recently,
supported herself and her mother by sewing
neck ties She is now Assistant Secretary of
the National Association of Social Science"
in London, got up by Lord Brougham The
poem is good, not great, and bore off the palm
from 621 competitors. 1t is published in all
the British journals.
Since the revelation in Hayti, the cruelty of
Soulouque is exposed. 1t is said that at Da-
bourne he had dungeons, where no less than
seven hundred political prisoners have perish
ed within few years. In regard to these
dungeons, it is stated that the miserable cap
tives were chained to the floor, and left expos
ed to'!he tide and the inroads of vermin, to
perish. They generally died in a few days,
but one man was found on the fifteenth day,
and was humanely dispatched by his guards.
severe attack appears in the Savannah Re-
publican, on renegade Northern Professor in
the Georgia State University, named Lee, for
merly of Buffalo. Mr.. Lee wants the South
to reopen the slave trade, and is writing in
the papers about it. The Republican goes at
him manfully.
''Little Ella Burns" read poems and selec-
tons from dramatic compositions, last Friday
evening, at the house of Mr.. Auguste Belmont,
the New York banker When she bid the
banker goodbye, he placed in her hand check
for two hundred dollars
DR.. L. P. Brockett, the literary swindler, of
Hartford, somewhat known as publisher and
contributor to Appleton's Cyclopedia has been
expelled from the First Baptist Church of
Hartford, of which he had long been an active
and leading member.
An English mechanic, named Cotton Math-
er, has just published in London a learned and
elaborate work upon all the languages in India.
1t is reported that over 500 have been sub
scribed in New York, to be presented to the
Misses Begg, the nieces of the poet Burns
Mrs. Stowe will visit Paris in October, in
tending, it is said, to place her children at
school in that city.