New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-24
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY SEPTEMBER a. 1859.

been performed By tie mother ara daughters. Tee
eld. st daughter aged 49, p'o~ed 20 acres and one OF
the your ger sisters dragged 10 the gram
We zee that Col. G. W. Harris, of Knoxville.
Tenn. author Of the sat Lovepgood' sketches, has
been appoI,ed q CONDUCTOR 90 the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad.
Warren G.. Smith of Bangor recently slaughtered
AID dressed ready for the market, fifteen heh OF
cattle between tie hours Of O'Clock in the mornicg
ami ) in tie afternoon. lie had 10 assistance what
ever.
-Charlts Barrett, esq, Of Rockport Maine, has
TIE most extensive and most thriving plan orchard 10
the State II contains 23 trees and embraces - va
rietes of plums-the trees being generally in thrifty
and bearing condition.
Hartford, With population Of thirty thousand,
has no single library numbering over ten thousand
volumes. TIE late David Wilkinson, however, LEFT
the sum Of sre hundred Thousand dollars TO remedy
the deficiency and supply the city With good library
The Mercantile Library lectures at Boston open
on Ii, 10Th Of October with an address by Henry
Ward Beecher, and a poem By Z. W. Il. Canning of
Stock bridge.
Nat b. Baker, the last Democratic Governor o
New Hampshire, is candidate for the Legislature in
Iowa. where he lives as quiet farmer.
The Hon Ansen Burlingame leh Boston for Kan.
sas On Tuesday, to be alb ent several weeks.
Raphael Felix, the brother Of Rachel, is playing
at the Porte st. Martin Theater in Paris.
Nothing is talked Of in Paris but the armor OF
Made Vestvali in the part Of Romeo 1t is of alumi
mum, cost To- OOOf and only weighs four pounds. That
worn by Madame Pasta in the same part vas of fine
steel, weighed 81 pounds was made at the royal
works in Prussia and cost nearly two thousand pounds
FL glish money.
MIR. Healy, the artist, arrived in Washington on
Wedr esday, with an urfOshed portrait Of the Pres-
ident Of the United States The portrait will be I'm
ished at the Executive Mansion by the artist.
Mr. Benton, Auditor of the Canal Department,
contradc,s the assertion of The atlas and Argus that
he refrs to take oar al drafts for securities, required
by the Contracting Board. The object Of the false
hood was to damage the drafts.
james NJ. Dyke, whose wife went away from
Nisgsrs Fas some time since, with clergyman, has
been arrested for burglary.
During General SCOTS absence, General Wool, as
eenor officer will be acting Comnander.in-Chief in
the Atlantic States.
The Hutchinson Family all that remains Of
them, are announced TO give q concert in Hamilton
n. Y, next Tuesday evening.
"A tavern keeper of Harrisburgh, Ps has been
arrested ard held for trial, at the suit OF widow
whcse husband had died from the effects of drinking
to excess at the tavern of the defendant. civil SUIT
for damages will also be instituted.
DAVID Dudley Field of this city, gave lecture at
Chicago the other day, at the opening OF the Law
School Ct the University His subject was the " Sci
erce Of Law" and in his own gifted manner be dis
cussed the theme with great dignity and learning.
| On the platform were, the Hon. Thomas Drummond
of the United States Court the Hon. Sidney Breese,
Illinois Supreme Court, and the Hon. Judges J. d.
Wilson Goodrich, Higgins and Manere.