Worcester daily spy., 1859-03-04
PERSONAL.


dyptheria. Until within very brief period of
his death, he continued his active habits, rising
at five O'Clock in the morning and devOtlng the
day to literary labors. His body was carried
to the church of St. Philippe to receive the
last rites of the Romish church, of which he
was a member. In Paris, almost his adopted
country, for period of y years MIR. Walsh
occupied distinguished position IN political
society, and enjoyed the familiarity OF great
numbers OF eminent Frenchmen. He was at
once one of the oldest resident Americans in
that city, and the most generally known and
intimate in French circles. For many years,
his kindness, urbanity, intelligence, and keen
enjoyment of conversational and social pleas
ures, caused his salon to be the rendezvous OF
all the most celebrated both of his own coun-
trymen and of the country he had chosen for
his retreat. He died at the ripe age of 76
years, having retained his intellectual powers
undiminished to the last. What is still more
consolatory to the many friends he has left be-
hind him, is, that his last end was peaceful,
tranquil, voluntary so that feeling his time to
have been accomplished, and weary with the
length of his pilgrimage, he literally "tell
asleep"
On the occasion of the birthday of James
Russell Lowell, number of his friends in
Boston gave him a dinner at the Parker
House. which came off on last Wednesday.
Agassiz sat at the head of the table, and Long
fellow at the foot. Lowell himself sat on the
Psychological Professors right hand, while
Emerson occupied the seat on the left. Au
reSte the guests were; Stillman, the author
and artist Dr. Holmes Underwood the au-
thor of ''Buls and Bears" now publishing in
the Atlantic Monthly Edmund Quincy, Pro-
fessor FELTON,, Mr.. Dwight, of The Journal
of Music; with others equally agreeable or
distinguished. Emmerson read strangely
beautiful poem, suggested by the event cele
brated DR. Holmes read another, and Mr..
Lowell replied to these compliments in verse.
Several charming birthday gifts were presen-
ted to the Poet Professor by his friends, among
others, picture by Stllman.
The London Times presents a formidable
list of elderly gentlemen in the House Of Com
mons. Seyenty-one members claim exemption
from serving on election committees as being
above the age of sixty years. The roll of
these worn-out veterans Of the Senate includes
the names of Hon. Gen. Arbuthnott, Sir De
Lacy Evans, Sir James Graham, Sir Z. Napier,
Sir j. Owen, Viscount Palmerston, Lord John
Russell, Lord j. Stuart and Gen. Wyndham.
Sir Charles NJ. Burrell, the "father" of the
House of Commons, is no less than eighty-tive
years of age, and has sat for Shoreham
and the Rape of Bramber since 1906, the
memorable year when the Ministry of "All the
Lord Lyndhurst of the Upper House, is in his
eighty seventh year. The Marquis of Bristol,
and Viscounts st. Vincent, and Combermere
are older than Lord Lyndhurst; the former is
in his ninetieth, the second in his ninety third,
and the last in his ninetieth year.
The shouts with which Soulouque was re-
ceived, on landing in Jamaica, were more de-
risive than wrathtul. One of the crowd, in an
excess Of pleasantly, offered negro sixpence
if he would give his Imperial Majesty trater-
nal hug, right there in the open street. Slim
ulated by the reward the African attached
a knot Of ribbons to the breast of his coat,
and leaped upon the step of the barouche.-
Soulouque, cheated by the silken rosette,
which he thought was the badge of public
functionary, benevolenty submitted himself
to be hugged and kissed. The crowd was
thrown into an excess of delight by the success
| of this impudent trick Soulouque quickly
saw that he had been trifled with and retreat
| ed into the tarthest corner Of his carriage,
swearing furiously.
Sarah Mellory, slave belonging to the es
tate Of the late James Gilbert, died in Norfolk
on the 22d ult., in the one hundred and twen-
| ty-eighth year of her age. Her youngest child,
who is the last of the family attended her fun
eral. He is eighty-seyen years of age. The
| old woman (so says the Day-Book) was a dis
| DeIGNcT III lHC scriptures ullll neI OlG null-
| dred and eleventh year, when she became con-
Continual chariVaris disturbed the imperial
repose of Soulouque in the Date-Tree Tavern
Kingston, in spite of the watchfulness of the
authorities One negro song, in particular the
Emperor has never been able to endure-Bou-
Gamer Jean Louis. When he was in power, the
wretch who dared intone this popular Haytien
air was sure of Imprisonment. The refugees
In Kingston, whom he had exled would
nightly surround his rooms in the Date Tree
and avenge themselves by chanting in chorus
this hated song. On hearing its detest ted
notes, the ex-Emperor ragged up and down his
apartments like tiger. His landlord hu-
namely applied to the authorities for a guard
of honor to watch the environs of the hotel
The request was peremptorily refused.
Grattan's book on America, lately published
In London, is not complimentary when speak
ing of Daniel Webster. Grattan has the au.
dacity to say, that, in public, Webster ''was
ponderous rather than powerful in society he
had none of the lightness of man of the
| world, nor the weight of man Of genius ;"
and, further, that, "as to the statesmen law
yers, and orators of Europe = OConnell
Brougham, Peel, Macauay, Shell, Guizot
! Thiers, BeTryer--he cannot be ranked with
them at all. In elegance of style and diction
he was inferior to Everett in fuency and
quickness, to Judge Story in bold persua-
siveness, to Clay in sententious and anttheti-
cal terseness, to Calhoun in feryor and COM
mand of language, to Preston"
A Western paragraphist makes up an item
about Plccolomini, the gist of which is, that a
youth kissed PIC. one evening in a hotel entry,
thinking her his sister; but discovering his
mistake, sent note apologizng for his rude
ness, upon receiving which the humbugging
little princess laughed immoderately, and said
she had supposed, perhaps, kissing pretty
girl there she looked very archlyb ON meeting
her, was an American custom. 1t had fright
ened her at first, but now she did not care
for, said she, in her attractive English-Tus-
can, ''ze keess deed me no 'arm-indeed, it
vas not so dees-vat you say ect is ?-deesa-
gra-ble." The whole story is undoubtedly
pleasant fiction.
MIR. Phebe Washburn of Lenox, aged 92
years, was visited on the 10Th, her birthday.
by nve children, fourteen grandchildren ten
greatgrandchildren, and one great-great grand
child. Little two-year-old of the fifth genera
ton kissed ninety y-twoy year-old of the first and
thus sent telegraph dispatch across the sea
of ninety years, which was far more of a sue
cess than the Atlantic Cable effort. The old
lady emigrated to Lenox S9 years ago, and
lived in log-cabin.
The author of "Chilie Harold" while in
Italy, had helmet made for his own use in the
battle field of Greece. That identical article,
never worn as originally intended, but which
must have covered the brain of the great poet
many time and oft, (" is now the ornament
of house in South Boston. 1t is so small
that nine heads out of ten trying it on would
more than fill it. But flesh is not brain, how
ever.
A Mr. Fuller who has lately obtained n di