Litchfield enquirer., 1860-03-22
PERSONAL.

s&- Horace Greeley and Robert Dale Owen are engaged in a controversy, in the columns of the Tribune, respecting the subject of Marriage Mr. Owen sustains the provisions of the India na Divorce Law-that for cruel treatment, de 1 sertion, habitnal drunkenness &c., man and wife may be separated by law. and allowed to marry again to other parties. Nr. Greeley holds, or the other hand, that nothing is good cause fol entire separation except adultery, George W. Curtis editorial relations to liar
 pef's Weekly and Monthly have not been inter l rupted by the publishers as reported, to concili ate southern support nor for any other cause He continues constant contributor to both pub
 lications. and it will be a sad day for them wher
 he ceases to be.
 DA-The Princess Clothilde is not very bret ty. but she speaks fuently five languages, and k | thorough Greek and Latin scholar is well ac quainted with the works of all the ancient and
 modern poets, and is particularly fond ofauotipe
 Shakespeare. Her character, in spite of her ex
 treme youth, is very ,frn,-this her face ind
 cates. The Empress Eugenie is very fond oi
 this her young relotive, says gossiping Paris
 Correspondent. =.
 @- Notwithstanding Macaulay's reputation
 for conversational power, he appears to have ut tered few 6oa nsoks, to have made few converse.
 tional points which are repeated and remember ed. One of the very few good stories current of
 him is the following: It is said he met Mrs Beecher Stowe at Sir Charles Trevelyan's and rallied her on her admiration of Shakespeare (Which of his characters do you like best!" said
 he. "Desdemona," said the lady. "Ah, of course" was the reply, " for she vas the only one who ran after black man." s0-The Rev. Dr. A. F. Peabody, just nom mated as Hummer Professor of Harvard Col
 lege, graduated at that institution at an earlier age than any other of its alumni He was of the class of 1926, and at the time had just reached his fifteenth year. Hon. Edward Ever cit was also youthful graduate being only seventeen years old.
 SUDDEN DEATH OF AN Ex-coseREssnAN OF NEW YoRK.-Mr. David A. Bokee, x-Cen- tgressman from New York, March 16, was found dead in his room. From facts and cir cumstances it is supposed that he died suddenly yesterday while preparing for dinner. He had previously appeared in his usual health. n4- It appears that the twenty-third of April, the day fixed for the Charleston Convention, is the birthday of Senator Douglas. A Richmond paper observes that it is one big with events Shakespeare and Cervantss hasilg.departed this life on that day. It will be refaembered in fu- ture as the occasion when the little Giant gave up the ghost politically. sss
 n.Gen. Tom Thumb who had settled down into quiet life in his native city of Bridgeport finds he can't stand that style of living excitement, &c, and is going to start off on an other trip through the United States. He starts with a magnificent equipage. He is now twenty two years of age.
 
 DA A Loco Foco orator. one Rickard, speak ing about these days, in the eastern part of the State, has threatened to whip Mir. Bromley of the Norwich BuNetis, who denounced the inde- cent language of the speakerin that city. Islk" advises him to go on with the performance. He thinks, perhaps, he may feel interested enough in the proceedings to take part therein.-Coau ant
 1@- Professor Alonzo Gray, Principal of the Montague Female Academy, Brooklyn, died on Saturday, aged B. He was the author of very good elementary work on Natural Philoso- phy.
 n0- WIscoNsN.-A. Scott Sloan, formerly lawyer in Central New York, has been nomina- ted for Chief Justice by the Republicans of Wisconsin. The Democrats have as' yet made no nomination. No use to do 80.
 DGc Speaker Pennington has appointed MessEs. English of Indiana, Stanton of Ohio. and Gartren of Georgia, regents of the Smithso- nian institution on the part of tte House. They Es the old appointments of SpsSk~ Or.