New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-07
PERSONAL.

George W. Hopkins died in Richmond Va, few
DAYS since He was in Congress from Virginia from
lsg TO 1916 when he was sent 10y President Polk
Minister 20 Portugal. lie was subsequently Speaker
Of the House Of Delegates. and upon te frs; election
Of judicial officers under the Constitution Of lSO-5l he
Was ELECTED Judge Of the circuit in which he resided
which Office be filled ill 81 when he resigned for the
purToS Of accepting the nomination y! bis party for
Congr,,s lie was elected 10 Congress for the seventh
tme embracing period Of fourteen years, closing on
the I'd March IS2. He one Of the seventeen sons
OF Charles Hopkius-in hs day wol-snown clergy
man oi the Protestant EPis opal Church.
R. T. Pennefather Of Canada, Secretary TO the
General has been appointed Auditor General
Of Ceylon. The Office is q very lucrative, honorable
aud important one emitting ts holder to seat in the
CouncI and the Legislative Asse mbly, and giving him
rank after the Chief Justice who Is the third fourth
official percentage in the island. Mr. Pennefather has
been secretary Sir Edmund Head since lie was Gov.
ernor # New brunswick, and bs long services indus
triously performed justify this signal mark Of favor
TIE Boston 7'rorrter gives M incident in the life
Of Lola Montez
Abou os ys+I. -, and soon asT bs ate .o, M0I
the Guy Reg.rs on e. and asked tina, officer he could
record marriage without hA'iDs certificate Of the ohei.hs
oloTmst pom being question ed for futLe Particular the
iaan said lola G.d recently been married 10 young q this
city who had been infatuated with her but that she had the
bad been performed by heraseni Mr. Bur who fomer, was
clergy and his friends extremely alhous hat should
De recorded Amer consultation Il decided that the man
should send to New York Tor the certificate and Few days .Ner
he returned with What purpored to he copy stating that Lo.
refused w the original 1hs purpoed 20 be signed by
Mr. Burr and certi6es TO the marriage o. gentleman OF TINS
city with Lola Monte under the OF HEAD that being ne
by which she then called Afer consultation with the
City Solicitor who Advised the City Rer-trsr not TO rscotdn
marriage upon the authority Of copy OF ceihcaie the docu-
ment I'd to the who bouht It, and the kog
represented 10 him to be about twenty years Of age
who belonged respectable family living To the yaint! Of
Essex street"
Solomon Willard highly esteemed citizen Of
Quincy, Mass. died on "Wednesday last aged II years
He Of the earliest projectors Of Bunker Hill
Monument and contributed largely toward Is erection.
The original models Of the monument still i'll his
Office. 10 1896, with the advice and aid of the late
Hon. Thomas IL. Perkins and others, he designed and
surveyed with his own bands tie Quincy Granite Rail
way, the first ever built in The United States.
:" Antelope the New-York correspondent of The
N. o. Peayune, had look Of President Lincoln while
he here ard concludes that "whe there is genial
ty and mered worth speaking wildly from that face
there 10, at the same time iron cast presented and
an indomitabe will. Indeed, ct first glance, he re-
minded mo Of one Of my sledg.-hammers, with which
break rocks al home--his body slender like the han
de- but topped of with head all solidty, all firm en-
dunnce all iron. His hands too are all muscle, and
a strong grip from them must be like the grasp OF
vice.