New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-18

himself and the rest of the Cabinet and Of any other
distinguished men with whom be might be in cor
respoDdencel
There win be appeal to the civil courts for the
relief of Bishop Onderdonk. The Church Journal says:
"Runo1 have prevailed In instances getting into the
daily papers thst the Bishop EewYork 4 about sppesl 10
the civil courts to obtain relief The Bishop has long had in
bis possession the opinion Of distinguished jur,s that such
peal would probably be successful and thousands Of dollars have
been placed command desy the expenses Of the
But be has al times steadily refused to take any step Of the
sort pTeseng the whole question where the Church has
placed Tin Of hs RI; Rsv Brethren in the House Of
Bshop From this position be has dreamed Of departing
now bow the temptation may have appeared to
some hs friends The story that he eontepiase different
course Is utterly unfounded He 10 suffer and 10 wait"
Miss Sarah Jane Lippineott of Philadelphia, bet
ter known as Grace Greenwood, delivered, Tues
day evening" al the fremont Temple Boston, lecture
on " The Heroic Of Common Life" The building was
crowded, and the lecturer introduced to the
dience by Mrs. G. NJ. Severance, of the Committee
of the Fraternity Lecture Association under whose
auspices the lecture was delivered. Mira Lppincott
in Calculating her subject auded to the Norfolk panic
in 1858, and spoke of the late DIR. Kane, Leutenan
Herndon Rosa Bonheur, Harriet Hosmer, and other
true heroes.
The PreemaR's Journal has the following hard
hit at Dr. Potts for his " demcan'or:
Lavins the wordcrtcs to have their little discussion tho
point we must say tina. Dr. Potta remark provoked
hosnies which he the who afford 10 continue
Have the been ssons him Il he pesered with in
y,aios lecture that take up hi time to refus7 Some en
~ years ago having for dismal forty
half minutes. under front shiand side
only other In the Dor lecture from Dr. Potts Pres
byeriansm; and unless he greatly man. he ia In no
danger Of being asked to denean himself speaker any
where Of the routine functions Of his calling We
recommend the gentleman be little modest in ercisng
performances Of which nature has not fitted him to be judge
Archbishop Hughes publicly acknowledges the re-
ceipt Of $l95 III through the hands of George Kreser
ESQ., No. "a Pearl street, from charitable gentleman
of Malaga, whose name though known, he does not
feel AT liberty 20 publish without his previous consent
This amount il for charitable purposes.
Col. Ben. Shelby, a prominent Kentucky lawyer,
is about entering the ministry of the Baptist Church
The State Department gives notice that the only
passports that viii admit American travellers into Prus-
STA are those issued by the general Government at
Washington. Such is the decision of the Prussian
thorities.
MIR. Baily, the proprietor Of Tie Free South news
paper Office which was recently destroyed at Newport,
Ky declares his determination TO buy press and
type and resume the publication of his paper.
The RI. Rev. Bishop Williams, of Conn, and the
RI Rev. DIR. Potter, Provisional Bishop of New-York,
are making brief visit to Troy.
The Boston Courier learns that so much Of a re-
cent statement in the New-York EUeHing Post as
attributes to Prof Huntington Of Cambridge sympa-
thy with the peculiar ecclesiastical views lately pro.
pounded by DIR. Bellows, and known as Broad
Church, is entirely without foundation in fact.
1t has already been stated that Mr. Burnham, the
Massachusetts Liquor Agent, expressed his Willingness
to yield up his business books in order that he might
be released from Jail. 1t now appears that he merely
wanted 70 make an explanation, with the hope that it
would purge him of the contempt for which he was
committed to Jail by the Legislature. His explanation
wis that the books would crimnate himust the thing
that the Legislature wanted to find out.
The following is list of the surviving widows
tout of about 5000 admitted who were pensoncd un
der the first act that passed by Congress, viz;
July 1S36-or the services of their husbands in the
Revolutionary war. To entitle them to pension, the
act required that the marriage should have taken place
prior to the completion of their husbands services in
that war; II is remarkable that in nearly all Of them
they applied for and received their pensions up to the
18th of March last the date of the last return and still
more SO that in several cases. they should be living 81
wears after their marriage and have enjoyed their
country's bounty for 80 years:
kous Of oeHgioafr. County Present Year