The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-01-21
Personal PARAoRAPHs

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the beautiful watering -paoe IN ths south q Fmhce
Hon Samuel A. Foot, Of New York. Hon. Charles d
Hodges Of illinois, and Hon. Isaac Davis q Massachu-
setts, are al WillArds Hotel
Mr. Robert stgpel although lie Lost 5000 by the pro
ducOn Of his Hatr1d oantat intends 10 rsrt IL short
y at the Music Hall, Boston.
VIM Atson writer in Memphis. Tenn. has lust pub
lshed book entitled Heart Whispers or Peep Be-
hind the Family Curtain"
Hon. J. r. DowJsIl, Of Alabama. has written letteF
70 his constituents declining nomination for recollection
10 CoAgpzs,
Miss Mary Fay Is young lady pianist who has Just
appeared IN public at Boston At concert Of the Men
dessohn Qunette Club she played successfully Beetho
yen's piano THO in fat.
Bishop MeIlyaine has written from Ryde Isle Of Wight
that he wiz return home next month He preached re-
Gently in Trinity church, Cambridge
Gen. aver has declared himself candidate for Con
gTss 70 succeed Mr. kett in the South Carolina dclega
ton, the latter having declined a reelection.
Hon Jas H. Thomas has announced himself as a cand
date for Congress from the district in Tennessee now rep
resented by Hon. Geo w Jones
Mr. Morphyr to silence ali cayil in regard to the Eng
hsh champion has ofered to give Mr. staunton pawn
and move, and play him for any sum he pleases
Lsmue shattudk, a wen known statisticiau and his
torcal writer died in Boston, the I7th in his 65th
year. he prominent mover in the Sunday school
caase and meInber Of various historical and scientific
societies
l. B Parsons esq has resigned his position as tre.s
urer OF the eastern division Of the Ohio and Mississippi
railroad Mr.. Parsonss connection with the Ohio and
mississippi railroad has been in which he has display
ed great ability and he bears with him the best wishes
OF those whose interests he has so ably guarded
Mrs Lily N. Spencer has reoently finished charming
picture, which is M attraction Of Williams Steyens
window in Broadway, entitled Pat-a cake pat-acake
baker snan 1t represents curly headed infant seat
ed on bus marmas lap practising Mother Goose popu
lar paStme The cooring Of the picture is brilliant the
drawing good, and the picture itself gem.
Lord Elgin the British Minister in China has pract
Cd an expedition up the Yangse river which promises
many interesting results With a squadron of steam
oorvettes and gunboas six in number and with the
sent Of the Chinese authorities he is going as far as
Hangchow the principal commercial emporium on the
river, Eve hundred miles distant from it, mouth and
more than three hundred miles above Nankn hitherto
the utmost limit Of outside barbarian navigation
The Nangtse is called the Mississippi OF China but as IL
drains about third Of China the population on its banks
must be eight ten times much as that on the Mis-
sssipPi-
Mr. Gerard Stuyvesant well-known citizen of New
York, died Tuesday, At the age Of ffty-four Mr.
stuyvesant was descendant Of the old Dutch governor
OF the same name Being ot the three heirs among
whom the bulk Of the late Peter O. Stuyvesants prop
erty divided be enjoyed during the last ten wears Of
his life very large fortune which he dispensed literally
In acts of kindness and hospitality Mr. Stuyvesant had
always been in robust health until about n wear ago.
when he seized with some internal malady which
finally terminated his life. His wife and two children
both survive him BY his generous and genial tenn
per he had endearcd himself to many friends and his
death viii be widely lamented.
DR.. NorienslIolds and Messrs TorreII and ovenner-
skas all Swedes, returned Stockholm about the he
ginning of September from cruise in sptzbergen They
made various interesting scientific discoveries especially
IN the department of zoology At English BAY however
they found singular addition to their collection Of GU
rosincsa tin containing several visiting cards of
English tourists in good state of preservation upon
examination they proved to be the cards of Lord Duff
fern and his party whose interesting YACHT VOYAGE has
lately been published. Upon his lorIships card was
written invitation to dine with him. Mr.. Torren who
designs visiting Ireland next summer promises TO present
this card in person to Lord Dutfern-
Young Prince Alfred of England, having chosen to
enter the naval service, has recently made his first
age MILDLY and has received royal receptions and
other welcome demonstrations various ports where the
ship in which he sailed has touched The English press
take exceptions to such honors being paid to hum
bic MILDLY The London Times expresses its desire that
the Prince, instead of being strange compound of Mr.
Midshipman Easy and of the princely hero of Court
Circular, should become skiful and seIfrelant sea-
and adds He sent out TO be trained to salt
water and is upon that his first lesson in
navigation is taking place. What has young mildly TO
do with royal receptions and royal salutes and roy
hddleddes of every description! fine be treated from
the first the Queens son, and not as a midshpnan of
the Euryalus, he may be nominaIly promoted in the
service an incident of his birth, but he will never be
fit to take the royal yacht from Portsmouth to
Osborne without real sailor at his elbow
The Princess DORA PamphiI an ancient Roman lady
is dead She English lady the daughter of the
sixteenth Earl of Shrewsbury and in 1889 married the
Prince Dora OF Rome, whose family has for centuries been
celebrated in Genoese history Fer twenty years this
lady, well her sister who married the Prince Bor-
CHEESE, has identified herself with Roman society. Like
the Shrewsbury family from which she came she was
firm Catholic, and most Of her time spent in charta-
BILE and religious duties At the Doria Palace one of
the most striking of all the palatal residences the
Roman Corso though one by means unexceptionable
in Its architectural features the visitor in the
galleries literally thrown open to the public
qusite marble bust of the late Princess which proves her
To have been fair type Of AngloSaXon beauty She
buried at the Church of st Agnese in the Piazza Navuna
Of which church the Dora family patrons and which
viii be remembered by tourists of the most bizarre
and curious in Rome