New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-17
PERSONAL.

Of King Oscar tBernadottel, c6ifns " dscenu tue
Swedish throne of his ancestors. He has notned MS
claim TO the Courts of Berlin, Petersburg, London,
and Copenhagen. From the King Of Denmark he is
not likely to obtain recognition, inanuch as the last
news from Stookh Dim states the sudden arrival OF his
his Danish Majesty on board his yacht Falk, oa
visit to the new sovereign, Charles AV.>
The sister'of Chateubriand, Countess Marirg, liv
ing at Oman, Betague has celebrated her hundredth
birthday.
Letters from the French Minister report his health
still feeble. He is at a watering-plac at Lorraine
and expects to return to this country
The Professors in the ne Presbyterian University
at Chicago have accepted Their salaries are $4,000
each. DR.. n. L. Rice accepts the Professorship ten
dered him. but declines tor the present the $1,000 He
says he is amply paid as pastor of the North Church,
and his service is to be given gratis.
-Ex.Gov Seymour of Connecticut, late Minister to
St Petersburg writes TO a committee of his fellow
citizens who are making preparations to receive him.
that he leaves Liverpool on the steamer Canada on
the 18th inst.
Actor House.
The City Council Of Cleveland, Ohio have con-
tracted for the erection of monument to Commodore
Perry in their Park and the work has been placed IN
tue hands of Mr. VIM. Walcutt of this city. The
monument to be about % feet high, consisting OF an
ornamented pedestal, adorned with appropriate bas
relies and crowned with astatue of Perry the statue
10 be "a feet in hight On the tablets beneath the
statue are 10 be the arms Of the States of Rhode ISL
and ard Ohio. The whole structure is to be of Italian
marble. 1t will be completed, ready for conmemo-
rstive services, it is expected, by Sept lo, 1861
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statue.
Tile EreniHg Post says, that the announce
ment that Charles Dickens nteads to visit this coun-
try in the Fall for the collection OF new batch OF
'Ameiica Notes, is more then mere rumor. The
distinguished author is under engagements to give
sixty Readings according to a prearanged pro-
gramme at various points, for the very reasonable
remuneration Of s25 900 cash at the start, and one
fourth of the net profits Of the exhibition"
The Boston Journal learns that Mr.. Wetmore,
owner of the Chateau sur Mer at Newport was
stricken by paralytic shock at the breakfast table
few days since, and now lies in critical situation.
At last accounts he was unable 20 speak
Among the notable who were born or who
have lived in NewburypOrt, Mass are the Rev. Drs.
Tying and Spring of New-York Jacob Little, the New
York broker who breaks so often; Prof. Parsons
of Harvard College; Col. Albert Pike, the eccentric
poet of Arkansas the Hon. Caleb Gushing, and Lord
Timothy Dexter, the genius who made fortune by
shipping warming pans and mittens to the West In
dies and once wrote an iterate book without pune
tuation, but with several pages of points at the end,
with directions to the reader to "sst and pepper as
he chused.'
-Messrs Bailey, Webster Sc Co. of Boston an
nounce their intention to issue weekly paper, to DE
called Tie Boston Critic. " Its aim will be to fuhl
its title
-Msj. +. W. Copus of South Carolina has accepted
the SUPPLEMENTARY Of the Georgia Military ln-
stitute.
The Hon. Alfred Conkllng, formerly United States
District Judge for the Northern District of New-fork,
has taken up his residence in Omaha City, Nebraska.
A letter from the Rev. DR.. Randall, dated Lon
DON Aug. states that he Intended to sail from Lv-
erpoo for Boston in the steamer Of the t3h. He was
| III in Italy, but is now well.
A woman named Mrs. Frances Temple OF Boston,
| publicly cowhided Russell X. Rogers, baker, 10
Dudley-strcet, Ro1bury, yesterday afternoon. Sian
der Is .ad to have been the Of the casgation,
| which severe.
"A gentleman killed himself in Florida last week
| for the love of a Miss BuBett. The poor fellow
| cOuI1n i've Win q IpNHc't ~ H' hN@-N'
The Hon. Sherrard Clemens, Of Virginia,
recently submitted TO a painful surgical opera
ton at Eastop, Pa. The operation consisted IN tue
! removal of a portion OF u detached bone ID his
thigh which fad been sousee OF much irritation 10
his limb ever since his duel with Mr.. Wise, a. which
time the injury causins the wound vas done. Ater
the bone was removed por.iOn Of the bal was found
embedded in it.
| The New-York correspondent OF Tie Bo'toH Post
says =,
In former letter have referred to the wealth OF
the ecclesiastical society OF which the Rev. Dr. snes
| w Alexander was the almost idolzed pastor. few
wears sgo the financial managers OF the society voted
TO advance their minister salary from iVoJ 70
per annum. Upon Communicating tns le'o:a ono no
| iptepded beneficiary courteous but hrm defamation
OF the proposed addition 10 his income upon the ground
that his sye OF living already more than fuiy met
| by bis salary ard his preference was plainly eK-
nyessed that the money TINS offered him should be
| made more useful in some needier famiy eucis. Inc
| money however, had been by formal vote approPrl-
| s,ed and must BE- expended In accordance with the
original design. Ii was, therefore, In part put in.o
the shape Of policy upon the pastor afe Tor $oV'
This amount conseq uenty s now together VIA aeeu-
INFLATED savings from he income II A. mummy 20
about $l2,00 legacy to the widow and cnnaien w
| survive The whole-hearted, whole-soued members
Of the church. not ssttfed with tns have dlscussei
and are persctpg q plan % raise suheent sen ~
ADDITION TO tina, shove u2ed, to form tcnd Oh
or 40 900 for the independent support Of Dr. AsAsn'
| der's family.
The following is from letter from NJ. Thos.
CARLYLE to " s. A. AEbone, esq, Book writer, 1c.f
the editor of the Authors Dictionary. The Letter Il
dated a. Aberdour, or the Firth Of Fourth, II that
nsr. Of the est Of Scotland called The Kingdom o.
Fife, where NJ. Carlyle &. work OF his Frederick
the Great:
81 can truly :sy the Labor yor s.ys s'Os ia.o which