The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-06-23
PERSONAL.

A series of articles in the Boston Trdceley
are reported to be written by the Hon. Caleb
Gushing. They are decidedly Austrian.
Mr.. Everett has written twenty-six of the
fifty-two papers promised to the Ledger" news
paper. The last one published gives the con.
clusion of Washington Southern tour in 100
Charles Sumner has returned to Paris, much
improved in health. So says the correspondent
of the New York Ereniag Post.
Garibaldis dispatches, written in the true
REM, rid, Uici style, run in this way: | have
been attacked by the Apstrians have beaten
them; | am pursuing them; the populations
rise and help me. g."
The Davenport Iowa. Democrat says that
an official letter from Kossuth to a Hungarian
exile in that place has been received, request
ing him to take immediate steps toward en-
barking for Hungary. From the tenor of the
letter, it would appear that Kossuth was en-
gagged in raising an army.
Miss Nightingale is in very low state OF
health. She is living in the neighborhood OF
London.
The Boston transcript says Mr.. George W
Curtis, in his Trumps," has sketched some
wellremembered characters in this vicinity Of a
past generation, in manner that has given
offence to their relatives. The incidents woven
into the story are said to have occurred while
the Howadji was at school at Jamaica Plain.
1t is reported that Mr. Perry Rigly. for
merly citizen of Macon, Georgia, has lately
been garroted in the city of Havana, on a
charge of carelessness or negligence in running
train of which he was the engineer by which
a run-of occurred, and several persons lost their
lives.
Mr.. MOlineaux, recently of New York, who
has been appointed teacher of gymnastics in
Harvard University, Worcester, Mass, is now
in Cambridge, experimenting the fitting up of
the new Gymnasium. Mr.. Molineaux is we'll
trained athlete of splendid physical develop
ments.
The President, says the States, will make bis
annual visit to his favorite summer retreat, the
Bedford Springs, about the middle of July,
where he will abide for about two weeks In a
few days he will 60 to the Soldiers Home, to
escape the heat of Washington, until October.
The Hon. L. O. c. Lamar, who represented
the first district of Mississippi in the last Con
gress, is quite i'll.
The Albany Journal says that Ex-Pres-
dent Van Buren, was in the State capital to-day,
looking as youthful as he did twenty years
ago. Mr.. Van Buren, is reaping, in his old age,
the fruits of a well-regulated early life
Jenny Lind recently gave a charity concert
in London, which was not advertised, and only
the aristocracy we're admitted by special invita-
ton. The receipts were $4,000. She was in
full health, and sang with all her old power.
Bureau of the Patent Office has Just received a
case of tea seed from Hong-Kong, per ship
Eagle. Another lot, now on the way on board
the ship Romance of the Seas, viii complete
the stock. Numerous applications for these
seeds are received by every mail. Most of the
applications come from the Southern States
The plant may be cultivated as far north as the
southern portion of New York. and some pro-
pose trial of the seed in Massachusetts, In
China, tea is grown in climates that make ice
of ten inches during the winter.