New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-03
personal.

-" Occaeionsl," CT The Philadelphia Press,
writes:
"Mr Buchanan never had many military tastes, and
not very fond Of fine Psnnsy lvania volunteers Yon will
remember that when Capt Duchman, with his Lancas.
ter Fencblee as fine cody OF men as ever shoudered
a muske4 or marched with the flag of the Union, ac-
companed the chief in his progress TO Washington to
be inaugurated he gave them the slip at baltimore,
and when they asked 20 ia received by their old towns
man in Washington before they returned 10 Lancaster,
ne declined the labor, and sent them, believe, some
fifteen or tsenty dollars to pay their homewsrd ex-
penses Tfis incident may account for the TACT that
while Virginia and New ork we're invited to Washing
ton in the person OF their cit sodiery, the unsur-
parsed repnene of Philadelphia were not telegraphed
20 come hther to receive the Prineety hospteHIy
30 pompously promised and sofrugaly forgotten.
BY the by, ge zee that many Of our exchanges,
while Justly sympathetic with Ge 9TH Regiment, I'M
in sly pursue Mr. John Ccerane as the party respon-
sible for the grea. dscourtesy to Che invited soldiers
It is well understood at Washington that Mr.. Coch-
rans teeaphed 70 the Regiment to 60 on, upon the
specis request of the Committee men, Keitt and Ham
nond 60 to do-and that his promises of welcome
were bit the repetition of their sss1rances, that the
whole OF the $4,000 appropriation skoud be devoted
to the entertainment Of the 7h and the few other com
panies expected from abroad. That large sum could
have entertained five thousand men in aaunceiy man.
ner. What was done with it Who has gotit
Mr.. James Grant Wilson OF Chicago has been
lecturipg in the West Sir Vdltey Scott to general
acceptance. The ChicogO Leader says: 1--WE regard
Mr.. Wilson as one of the most accomplished lecturers
in the West"
Mr.. Taz W. Newman, Speaker OF the Tennessee
Senate, has been charged with forging land Claims
He pronounces tho charge false, and bss resigned as
Speaker and gone on to Washington to investigate the
matter Mr.. Newman was one of the prominent oif-
Gals in the late visit Of the Kentucky and Tennessee
Legislatures to Ohio.
oo--o~-o-Io~. IF The "l 1T
"A correspondent of The 81. Lo1is Republican,
writing from Nauvoo, under date of Feb. u, says:
"Joseph Smith, jr son Of the late Prophet is here,
az also the other members of the family. Joseph ID
understood among the Saints 10 be the successor of his
father in his prophetic office, and it is limited among
the wouldbe wise that he is about to assume the
robes of his sacred Office BE that it may it is true
that he is entertaining a delegation from Salt
Lake, who are using every persuasion In thsr power
to convince the young prophet that he s called OF GOD
forthwith to assume the office and proceed TO Salt
Lake and take the head of the Mormon Council. DO
seph is man Of good strong sense, and should he un
dertake the station, have no doubt wcad endeavor
TO make reform among the people. He % decidedly
against polygamy, in favor Of obedience to law and
opposed in any foim to Mailing the Ge"ies. 1t is to
be hoped that he will undertake the task and succeed
in making Salt Lake the home of upright. law-abidng
citizens instead of "a den Of thieves. Joseph, how
Deeet on tne OtIler sl0e Dy dn
Mormons in this State, who are to meet in Council at
Amboy the 9th of April next to become their head,
and to call around him all the faithful"
The Norfolk argus has the blunt comment,
Served him right" upon Minister Dallsss re-
fusal to receive Mr.. LoDgworths consignment Of his
American wine, and adds:
eve have had no great opinion of Mr.. Nichols
Longworth since it stated in the papers X g
he had sent present of his sparkling Catawba to the
old criminal John Brown as a token of admiration OF
his heroic servces in getting up negro insurrecton in
Virginia I"
"A curious of spiritual manifestations has lately
transpired in Woodford. A full of spirits and
spirituasm put into trance Che being trance
medium and they asked him to call up the spirit of his
departed brother which at done. The spirit
said he wanted to drink, and the medium poured a
large tumbler full of brandy. "Thero there!" ex-
claimed the mother that my SOB, for that is just the
sized drink he used to take when be was alive
-Thos. j. Robinson of Fayetteville n. c., has been
appointed Professor of Mathematics in the United
States Navy.
Tile Charleston Mercury says:
" Tie Mobile Registers Eew-York correspondent |
states that Pink, the funny correspondent of The
Charleston Courier bias got himself INTO tight place.
He has stated that Dan Sckles had got pious The |
father of Dan is George Sckles once printer, but
now a lawyer. lie has sued Pink for libel. The |
idea is that as pious man, Dan would be debaTred
from running for Congress in this District"
Archbishop Hughes arrived in Charleston on Sun |
day last, by the Nashville. He visits Charleston for
the Improvement Of his health AMI the enjoyment Of
short period of relaxation, and viii probably reman
for a week. He is guest of Bishop Lynch.
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