New-York daily tribune., 1861-01-19
Personal.

have each flower and Ve6epdoio S'uu'", So
bonses bothouses and forcinganes nurseries, Vooi,
bonses and even a carpenters shop. Here the foyal
children pass hours of their time. Each is suPphed
;tb a set of tools marked with the name OF theowher
Mud here they work with the enthusiasm OF aI amateur
and the zeal of an ADgo-SaxOn There Ii no oanc oi
gardening in which the royal children are not a@ JdH
Moreover, on this juvenile property is binding the
oroupd goor Of which ia fitted up as kitchen, with
pantries closets, dairy larders-a complete III ther
arrangements and here may be seen the young frlh-
cesses arrayed Ia cvsniere, Toured to the elbows,
deem in the mysteries of pastry-making ike rosy
New England girl Cooking the vegetables from their
own gardens, preserving, picking, baking-sometmes
TO parake among themselves or 10 distribute TO the
moor of the neighborhood the results OF their handi-
work. The Queen is determined that nothing shall
remain unearned by her children nor are the yonng
people ever happier than during their sojourn at os
borne. Over the domestic establishment If a museum
of natural history furnished with curoEties collected
b, the young party in their rambles and researches-
geological and botanical specimens, stuffed birds and
animals, articles OF their construction, and what
ever is curious or interesting, classified and arranged by
themselves
Our President elect is thus described in Once
Week, the well-known English publication: Poor and
struggling his mother could only afford hin some
eight nonhs rough schoongi and in the clearings oi
that new, unsettled country, the healthy stripping went
to work 70 new hickory and gum trees to graPpe With
demonstrating bears and to LOOK out for the too fire.
ouent rattlesnake Tall, strong 1.-THE, and smiling
Abe toled on as farm lalorer mule driver sheep feed
r deer killer woodcntter and lastly, IA boatmsn on
the waters of the Wabash and the Mississipp AS
aeon bv the Virginia editor Of The PeeTsbarg Iatel-
Ioe,oe, "Old Abe is suspended from the top Of a
tree in Chesterfield CoHnty about three miles from this
city. on Pochs Farm in efgy. 1t If represented as
fricbfn concern, by our informant whose horse was
frightened nearly TO death by it, but still bearp some
striking resemblance TO the original individual partcu-
sry when performing one Of bis great rail splitting
feats.' Can't somebody send Abraham photograph
oft 70 as 10 lei bis reflective faculties be put in motion
and by imagining himself hung may have desirable
effect, and he might d-'-e-d.'
A Washington correspondent says that Senator
Seward, while making his speech, was listened to by
nearly every Southern Senator with profound attention.
Mr.. Crenden being frequently in tears aud most Of
the Foreign Ministers We're present, and appeared
deeply interested not only in the delivery Of the speech
but in several instances anxious alter Mr. Sew
and concluded 10 know of Senators how they viewed
his pOeltlODf dlG ii iOeN Woulu IIouhDil h'h tAt
Guilty TIE Russian Minister among the number.
The families of nearly all the Senators and Cabinet
officers were present. and great the anxiety to
hear the effort of the great New-York statesman, ex-
travagant prices were offered the various doOrkeepers
TO obtain admission. Some Of hs periods were de-
livered with the deepest feeling, and produced upon
Senators and the spectators in the galleries the most
intense sympa,hies with the orator Old men and
al NJ AayKarl aaf
down the galleries that had preserved the most pro-
found silence during the delivery Of the entire speech
with one uninportant exception, manifested s aPPrO-
baton by the most hearty applause.
A correspondent of The London GlObe, writing
from Paris says that the election Of Lincoln has
strangely affected the slaveholdng Americans whom the
labor OF serfs enables 10 exhibit their vugary IN the
French capital At Meurice's Hotel, recently, there
sat 1T breakfast the Hon. NJ. Colbun, son OF Lord
Seton ard next him two African chiefs from Ashantee
wellinformed gentlemen, speaking French ana English
better than most Southern American Ieees, discussing
the affairs which had brought them to France. In
distant apartment, but within view, three Anencan
savedrivers were bresfasting but upon espyins the
natives of Africa they advanced 10 Mr. Coburns table
and vented their preudces in the most coarse and rn
fanly language Mr. ColbuIn and his friends contented
themselves by simply protesting against the conduct Of
the transatlantic blackguards.
London letters say that the Prince Of Wales has
been suppanted in the affections Of his dog presented
by the people of Newfoundland. When on board ship
boy was put 10 look after him. He got 10 fond OF
the boy that he would NOT take notice Of the Prince
The morning they came into Plymouth the Prince
gave the boy 5 and took the dog out Of the ship but
as fast they did the dog jumped on board again
The Prince was at Last Obliged take the boy TO Lon
don. and be stopped there five days. The Queen gave
him { Is and suit OF clothes He returned 10 Pym-
outh, and was there but one day when he had to be
sent for because the dog woud not eat. The boy sold
hi. sailors Clothes and thinks he is gentleman for
life.
The r.lInor that the Marquis of Devonshire had
thrown his daughters lover overheard from his yacht
in Naples and drowned him, is explained by The Lon
don Times as a misapprehension Of the common idiO-
matte phrase thrown overheard" II is said that
letter was written by Of the party On board the Syl-
pLide to q friend Ut Turin in which he described very
trivial disappointment sustained by another of the party
by the words we have quoted. The phrase, however
vague is in such common use, and perfectly under
stood in its restricted sense "foiled OF dsap-
pointed" that no Engfshman would probably have
misappiebended its meaning
-GaIibaldi, at his home at Capresa, is prosecuted
according latest seoounts by hosts Of portrapaint-
ers, who aseail him night and day. The persistence
with which they follow him from rock to food, from
food to fell svpost dishearening and sometimes
discourages pAr Ganbald himself The last arrival is
that Of Louis Gallat the Belgian painter who solemn
ly swears that nothing shall induce him TO leave the
sand without ful-engh picture, in full Garbaldan
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