New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-02
Personal.

-. se,,;o,;s,s he save may BE- the hrA to introduce
ho,Se- ,e,faom than is vet known, unless indeed,
a.. .soua ,bsuseIvee be compeled TO sell themselves
e. hrsad and suer the proper ehastisemeEt of their
s,hers sins r their rebtliUn against the government
- pod." The edror Of The fndepende7t Democrat,
- Concord, himself graduate of Dartmouth, says
sAas Or Lord is insane, and has been for years.
Some Of the Southern papers are reporting &
ssaehing story about neglected daughter of Mrs.
LYDIA Maria Child. The story is Bogus as Mrs. Chli
has never bad & danghter son. She wrote the
Mothers Book" but never was a mother; is the
ssshOr of 1.-The Family Nuise," but never had
Amily.
The most astonishing Wettern hunter was Lord
Gore who remained nearly three years the Plains,
and ,be plateau of the table lands between the Sierra
hsdIe ard Sierra Nevada His retDue consisted OF
dirty men, sixty hOrres, large baggage and provision
hane tuns of ammunition, and $4,000 worth OF I'M
PoveO firearms.
Miss Swissbelm, the editress of The 81 Cloud
tAiin Democrat has been apo nted Surveyor of Logs
ana Lumber. The appointment having been rdiculed
abe replies that have as much right 70 employ
menis in which the pay lie than the work as men
have and that for one she declines the honor Of work.
ss for the wages Of wifehood that she would rather
zsw logs into boards with a banosaw, for her bread
ost womens souls in,ide their BODIES; and that not
sse msn in FIVE hundred wOuld Object to any woman
DONG the work of Snrveyor-Genera.
The Rev. H. t. Lewis late of La Grange, and
de RENTED sutbOr of the "Hsrp of Thousand
Stripcp. Sverits O. Just Men Made Perfec'," is at
prs,ent running on the Memphis and Charleston Rail-
read as conductor. In filing this position the rever-
end gentleman is but acting in accordance with the
s6viee Of his ply sician, who recommended running
on q railroad constantly conductor as cure for
bzoBcbitis
Last week while the youth and beauty Of Centre
vide H. were gathered at q tocia party at the Cen
heville Exchange, an old gentleman who was subject
70 spells of walking his Sleep after going 70 bed,
fell into slunber ia somn0m6Itay. he arose from his
bed sttied IN pothing but shirt and walked directly
among those who participating in the scenes of
feevity. The surprite was said 10 be astonish
iag than sgreesbe.
An advertisement Of William II. Seward, as
sehOOlteasber 10 Georgia. is hardly copgruous with
bis present political relations the South Here is
though, revived from The MiAedReptle Journal of
March g 1875
UnoS AcApKMr The friends science respectfully IN
ped private Academy hiss lately been estsbhei 10 the
peshbolbood Of Major Wh.m Alexander, Mr. William Walker
end Col William Adams In Putnam County, on site OBJ
tssed from Francis Ward ESQ., not far rom Gamers Ferry aud
viii 20 opposition the 9h Of the April The Academy ed
Zee which win be ready cT the reception OF students BY that day
be spacious and eommodous adapted 10 the accommodation
ofso 10 lc0 scholars sch ,Ol The Rector Mr WIN H.
Seward "a late om Union College, NewYork from which nst
tuition he h,hy recommended young gentleman Of
good moral character and distinguished industry aud literary
qusDenE he viii teach the Latin and Greek languages tneo
rssesl and practical mathematics logic rhetoric natural and
moral IhnOophy chemistry geography, English grammar, and
s1ch other brar heS usually taught Ia northern colleges
The branches Of educuVn, spelling reading wiins
&C., WI Of csu'e, be augb in this institution The price Of
tauc viii be el5 S2 $50 according to the branches
tsueh Board be had in respectable families suo NOT
sxcee6g sl25 From the rsspectsbiy and acknowledged
AeaDes. Of the neehbohoed the chesPoe Of board and TUT
t and the qualifications Of the Rector the Trustees feel
Isned ending this infant establishment to the attention
sfhe public Persons disposed send their children will enter
them wibo delay with the Treasurer Major William Aexso
ar degDsnhs the studies they wish them in order
Mat he requisite aid may be procured for Mr. Se~srd-t being
urSeood aIo that students excluded for want Of
poo they be from among those lsst entered Communities
ors directed through The medsm Of the Po0ce In Eaton
ton H. Seward Rector Of UuiOu Academy to VIM
rsp4r Secretary or TO William Alexander Of the
Board of Union Academy, the postage being dy
-d receive prompt enon BY order Of the Trustees
civilian TURNER, Secretary"
Such was the late DR.. J. A. Alexander's love of
study when a child and bis ability to acquire know.
ledge without assistance that be was great extent
seh.educated. At twelve years Of age, finding an
Arabic grammar in bis fathers library, he commenced
studying it, end at fourteen had mastered the Ian
.pe that he read the Koran through In the original
He then proceeded with other languages THE Pers4n,
Greek and LstD) in the ordinary course Of study,
and was well acquainted with Hebrew before he en-
tered the seminary as a student. From Hebrew be
proceeded to Syrae Chsdee and the eognate tongues
The acquisition Of the modern languages of Europe
was mere play TO him. All Of them in which there
any Of literature, the French Spanish,
hsEaD, German DaDish, &c, he was master of. BE
was not however, mere linguist or polyglot, but
philosophical philoogan. His principal interest 10 all
this variety Of languages the literature contained
h them. For stores of knowledge bees-l.ttres, his
tosical and antiquarian, he is said, by competent
judges who knew him we'll to have bad superior.
He pOssf ssed most extraordinary intellectual gifts
wonderful tenscity of memory for words and things,
q cOmpreheDsiveDess of mind, and was equally dis
angushed for power of logic and vgor and fertility of
imsgipation He presshed oiscourses magnificent for
Imagery and dicon evncng in them, he did also in
osdDary conversation bis mastery bis tongue
always using the right words in the right place. Dr.
Hedge 10 mean judge it will be allowed, said in the
hearing of the writer that he had never in Europe
America met with superior TO DR. A. ia variety
of combination Of pc wers and extent of leaning
The Boston friends Of Charles Sumner sent him
besutIful present Hew-Yesrs Day. IL was a set Of
knives forks and spoons which formerly belonged to
Count Batbyany the Hungarian patriot who was
AhOt by The AustIisns few years ago. His property
was eonfseaed and sold ut auction and these articles
were purchased by an American who happened TO be
m Austria at the time. They very magnificent
made Of gold, with handles of onyx Get with tur-
suonfs