New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-15
Personal.

MI j. III. Squier, Astor House, essays to begule
our sometime WEAKNESS by the present OF :" Wash
ipgton Cane" Said cane is not bestu 1ded nor even
betpaDgled with "barbaric pearl and gold, nor
sugtt TO which a severe taste could OBJECT: It's
value consists solely in its rheNble and rectlinear
erectnese-pot to soy stffnes-aDd in the fact tina.
it grew on the estate that once belonged ID the
Father Of his Country. For the present inhertor
and posse ssOr Of that rather diIspidated property
Ike the chlvarous and large ,oulsd Vrsnian that he
is 30 unlike the mean Thrift Of shsrpdealpg Yankee,
has cold and conveyed to Mr. james Couchett OF
Washington City, such Of the timber on said estate IS
was deemed ttest for Transformation into canes, snuff
boxes, &c, taking a right generous price therefor
which price, regret to say is not deducted from the
S 600 per acre which the seamstresses and servant
girls of the country helping to psy said inhertor
for an estate not irtriDscsly worth twentieth part OF
the price. IT, then, this cane is 10 be deemed me-
mento of John A. Washington we should Ike an OPP
portuny 10 return it to the donor; but If it common
CRATES Gen. Washngton-a horse of quite another
color-we prefer to kept.
Gen. Rufus King, Of The Malpoukee Sentinel, has
bean appointed Superintendent of the Public Schools,
with salary of $4,000 per snnum.
Mr. +. S. Cozzen,, in The ~ Y. Ledger, invites
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on the respective merits Of Boston one side and the
re.t of creation on the other. Bostop being accord
ing TO the "Autocrat," the Club of the Universe,
Spsrrowsrass thinks be may not improperly call upon
the DIR. as the " Liucbpin to hold ii up.
The chair occupied by the President of the Harris
burg Convention, on Wednesday, was that in which
John Hancock eat when the Desl@stion II Independ-
ence was adopted, on the 9th of July, l776 May it,
&C.. &C., &C., Nj. Speaker.
Mr. David Page writes to The CsledOsiaa Mr.
curry that Mr. Robert Chambers wss the sole editor OF
the vestiges of Creation" and that he has ample
proof TO sustain that assertion.
"A catalogue of the solid men of Boston" recent
" published, ssys that William Appleton is worth
S75i 900; the Fifty Associates 1872 0Coi the heirs
to John d. Williams Snsw, sl072, 600; Josiah Qain-
cy s6SS 600; John C. Gray, 500 600; and Mrs. Cor
nelis A. Tnayer, s5oo,ooO.
The Hon. A. B. Lopgstrset, the President of the
South Carolina College at Columbia gave to the
graduating class Of thst institution not very cheering
prospect Of the world on which they we're about TO
enter when in his farewell address, he thus addressed
them:
"Yoa are enbarkipg upon strange world, my
young fiiepds IL banshed Aristides, poisoned Soc
rates, murdered Cicero, and crucned the LORD o.
Glory. The spirit of Themstocles, OF Meiius OF
Anthony and CGphss, is stili in the world-grestly
suboued and lss,boond. to be sure, but not extin'
guishec. You may expect therefore, Of Ii mes TO be
depressed by your rivals oondsnned for your pstrot
Ism, ard tormented for your benetsc.iops; 10 have
your cor hden abused your integrity derded, ard to
suffer thousand impos,tons in smaller matters from
those from whom yoa had q right to expect bettsr
thiEgs.'
The Rev. Asa Ballard of the Massachusetts Sab
bath School society received las. Fall from some poor