Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-03-23

Mrs. Adam Isaacks Mcnken, has been engaged by
one Of the New York Sunday papers IS q coItTibu-
tor. Her first iustalment Is prose poem called
fragments of q Heart
The Sturgiss michigan ReDubIca, contains the
extr 2Crdinary intelligence that q very fortunate
Mrs E. B. Day, of that village, heretofore LADY IN
moderate circumstances. has inherited, as an heir
Of the late Sir Francis Drake, princely fortune Of
torgg-siqit million If dollars. Mrs. Dayis widow.
WHICH IS JosH--Whats that picter on; said
a countrymaa In our hearing the other day il .
print store 10 the PROPRIETOR who was turning over
some eugraVings.
chat, sir, said the dealer, lis Joshua command
ing the sun to stand sUin."
sDu tel Wall, which Is Josh and which Is his
his son. Commercial B,LetiI,
The challenge Of Mr.. Secreiter the billiard player,
against the whole world. 20 play match for $1,000
side, has been accepted by Nm. Daniel Lynch, Of
san Francisco The terms are to the following eff
feet: The match to come Oft in san EranclsC0-Mr.
Lynch paying Seereiters passage TO thai city It is
10 be for S. 600 side, and 20 consist Of 600 points
TO be made with four balls on g carom table
At an intimate a0iree' given recently in the En-
press private apartments in the TUIeries the Prin-
cess ClOthildG and Eugenle qUarreled. The Empress
has pretty feet and ankles and is not averse to show
ing then. After Jolly supper. she was so prodigaI
in the display Of her combinations, notwltlstand-
ing the presence OF many gentlemen that Miss Cloth
ildes m0destv was shocked and she left the room in
a huff-savs a Paris letter. which intmatcs, a
consequence, danger Of renewed political trouble
HEROES or TEE REvoIUuoS.-Among them
were thinkers and c5bblers. What then. We're they
not patriots. We're they not meng
Washington was a surveyor and farmer
Franklin was printer.
Greene was blacksmith.
Warren was physician.
Sumptcr was q shepherd.
Roger Sherman was q shoemaker.
Marion was a farmer. as were also Putnsm, Allen
and Stark.
Hancock was a shipping merchant
Trumbull was an artist
Arnold the traitor) was bookseller and drne
gist.
Robert Norris was a shipping merchant.
Samuel Adams was a taE-CathereT.
humphreys was g historian and poet
Wayne mad Anthony was q surveyor.
Benjamin Lincoln was a farmer ard justice Of the
peace.
Morgan was droycr.
BurtOn-thc late William u-:nycuteI sherry
CObblcrs II Is related that when actor in Phil
adclphia he frcquented famous resort Tor theatI-
cal personagcs and their friends, known as "Dickey
HarbOUrds s. "Jucps, but then recently imported
from the SOuth were hepOpular tpplc on the warm
Summer days, but Burton and his English friends,
Of whom Dickev was an old one, esChewed them as
too heating for heightened sitting. decOctIOn Of
sherry wine. hot water. sugar and lemon peal IA
vcrite Engshdrin had been introduced by DickC V,
and served well for Winter evening sociaty but On
the approach OF warmer weather cooler substitute
was needed. In this dilemma Burton suggested the
use of ice instead Of hot water, and DicEey was
callad upon to try his hand at the new decocton.
The result was vinous coup etat and the cote
RE Of bibulous wits were required to name the new
nectar. Burton once suggested that as Dickey had
in his own established his fame and fortune as a
''cObbler' that the name should be applied to his
last lob and forthwith the christening was con-
summated in sherry CoJbers' all round for the
party. The article at once met with public appre-
citation, and "cObbers" universally sUpplanted '.iu-
Iens- for the leated term