, 1859-05-07


hr. Golden was in Cincinnati on Thursday
last.
The Hon. William Slade, IT,, Of Clereland, !
il spoken Of asDoandidate for the Republican
nomination for Lieutenant Governor in Ohio. t
The Hon. John Scott Harrison declines to |
be the Democratic candidate for Governor Of |
Ohio.
1t is said that Sir E. Bu1wer Lytton will
make about &l5,ooo our Of his last novel,
What Viii lie Do With IT.
The Memphis Eaquirtr expresses the con-
hdent belief that the Opposition will gain two
members Of Congress from the Western disi-
sion of Tennessee,
Her. ". F. Mc1,arcn, formerly attached to
the editorial corps Of the Cleveland ha"6t"ft'',
il preparing to depart for Japan, where be will
hereafter deyotc himself to missionary service.
Gen. Fan Antwerp, Of hcokuk, has been
appointed one Of the visitors to the West Point
Nilitnry Academy next June.
Mr.. Charles T. Congdon, the prince Of cdi-
toriI wits, has retired from the New York Tr1-
time, and gone to live in Lynn, with the inten-
ton Of writing for magazines, not newspapers,
hereafter.
Within the past two weeks upwards Of
thirty young Germans have left Cincinnati for
Europe, for the purpose Of taking hand in the
coming tnabroyiio between their countrymcn
md the French.
The Forner Democracy, Of Pennsylvania,
have concluded not to nominate ticket # pres
| ent. This probably means an union with other
branches of the Opposition.
The Louisville Couritr declares that when
the North refuses by sectional vote in con-
| grcss to protect slavery in the Territories, it
| will be in favor Of a Southern Republic.
| The National Era says it is not for the gen
| Grafton among whom Elizabeth Browning has
sung and Charlotte Bronte spoken, and Harriet
| Hosuacr chiseled, and Rosn Ronheur painted,
and Mary Lyon taught, aud Florence Nlghtin-
gale lived, to despair of woman's achievement
Of her highest destiny.
The Washington kstpublic names as pronai-
nent candidates for the nomination Of the
Charleston Convention, as President, Generals
llarner, Wool, Jesup, Commissioner Bowlin,
and Secretary Cobb. Mr.. Orr will, it thinks, If
he cannot get the first place on the ticket, take
the second.
The will Of the late John Hancock is to be
contested by some Of the relatives who were cut
off with shilling; and unless all the parties
will join in release, negotiations for the pur:
chase Of the Haucock House must await the
conclusion Of the suit.
Mrs, Mary Cuthbert, widow Of Captain
Anthony Cuthbert of the Revolution, was visit
ed on May l, at her residence in Arch STREET
Philadelphia, by some fifty of her children
grand children, and great grandchildren, who
assembled 10 congratulate the old lady on at
tanning her ninetieth birthday, in tue full pos
session Of her mental faculties.
Una, the daughter of Hawthorne, the no
yelist, was in the last stages Of rapid con
sumption.
Col, Foruey, in an elaborate article whicE
appeared in the Press Of Tuesday, deGntrg hi
position, says:
) The President aud his Cabinet, stimulated b,
the extreme men Of the South, huve taken thci
ground in favor Of Intervention in the most o!
fensive ahupe-inffrreation for stdrery-1irst b.
. tho Territorial Legislatures, and if they shout
fIil next by the Congress Of the United States
, Iat no iatfrrt~fion aqtinst siueery, 1syritoria
Or Congressional
The Memphis -4ra|aach< has the following
"reminiscences concerning the brothers Of til
late Mike Walsh
The children consisted Of four brothers I'LL
| a sister, Of whom Mike was the youngest, an
. | had been scattered in all directions upon til
death Of their futhcr- Mike alone remained wit
: his mother. a most singular fatality beiel tler
all. One Of the brothers was shot in due
> | across table in Southern city; another fe
by the side Of the brave Crockett at the mass1
| ere Of the Alamo; the third brother Was burne
!, in the Ben Sllerrod, and his sister perished i
| the ill-fatcd Lexington, The mother soon 70
: lowed her children, leaving poor Mike to meet
death, under the circumstances, more teyribl
than any Of the rest.