New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-12
PERSONAL.


"A statement that Leigh Hunt the original Of
Harold Skimpole in " Bleak House," which originated
in this country, and has since been copied quite
ttnsiyely into the English press, is denied by Mr..
Dickens in All the Year Round. He acknowledges
thst for The pleasure il afforded him to think Of the
delightful manner of Hunt reproducing itself under his
band he yielded 10 the temptation OF too often making
his character speak ike his old friend. But in
the mere occasional manner he meant 10 be
tous and conscientious that be privately referred the
proof sheets of the frat number Of that book to two
intimate literary friends of Leigh Hunt tboth riii
hvine and altered the whole of that part Of the text
on their discovering too strong resemblance TO his
way"
A correspondent at Syracuse sends as the follow
ing aceoxnt OF the new United States Senator from
MiDnsfofs:
The Hon Morton Wilkinson has been spending few days
here recuDg sbors Of tho Fail campaign and
for Congressional duties He born In Sksneates,
In th, county IL the Of the late Alfred wilkinson,
ling Abovtis and the nephew Of John Wilkinson Of this
pser lie 10 a inches In hight with high forehead
and sharp eyes, and will be IL years old the d Of Jan
nary He Is q lawyer, studied with Beach Underwood OF
81 aneaer and admitted to the bar in this State He
moved Michigan in ls and pracoed Law at Eaton Rapids
m 1884, When he to st. Psn which has been his home TIL
year when be went TO Wauknto 100 miles south wet
fron that town He will take bis the leh lust.
Apother Senator K S. Bingham, born Ia Aaresnus, Ia
onondsgs County"
"A son Of William Nicholson of lafayette, Ind 1,
aged H. on the night before Christmas get up in hs
Sleep ssdGItd horse and rode distance from the
houfe before lie awoke. He was then 80 bewiIdered
that lie was unable 20 retrace his steps, and when
found as TO benuubed with cold that be lived but
short time. TIE horse standing near hin when
found He had before given evidences of somnsnbu-
lsm.
Mr.. Price, of 81. Stephen, in Maine, was burned
out of house twice in one night lie oSned two
houses, short distance from each other. The one he
lived in took fire about 6 o'clock, and his family had
barely time to escape to the other. About 10 o'clock
that also was found be fire, and, tho night
bitterly cold, was laid in ashes.
Dresser, not Walker, nor Patten, Is the name Of
the pirate captain of the Wanderer hs friends say
that blow IN the head from n cotton bale made him
nssDe which accounts for his piracy, his frauds in
New-York and New Orleans, and his two wives in
Maine and Liverpool
--G0hgWaAts Messenger says that the American
Fancy Far at present going at Paris for the ben
eft Of the Chapel in the Rue de Bern, commenced as
advertised, and notwithstanding the severity Of ,he
weather, It most satisfactorily attended, and the
re,eips must have been very considerable. The dis
tneuishing characteristic of the scsne was the vast
amount OF amusement and fun going In every part
of the rooms Right in the center, says Tae Mcssea-
se, as you enter, Is to be wha, is called "Sur.
prize" where for the small sam Of franc you are
permitted 10 draw forth an object from multitude
collected together in a vast receptacle One gentle
man, ss we paused instant before The pretty young
American girl who presided over the distribution,
drew forth porcelain basket and the writer Of these
lines had the good fortune 10 obtain multiplication