The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-11-29
PERSONAL.

JonS STUART Mill will DO, In all prcba-
bilty, appointed TO succeed Lord Palmerston
Us rector Of the University Of Glasgow,
though it is likely that the state Of his health
and his philosophical labors may not permit
him to attend to the duties Of the ONCE.
OSr of the best things of tho season is
that of Bishop Simpson, who has declared in
favor of paying the rebel war debt when it
becomes due. viz: after "the independence
of the Confederate States shall have boon
secured"
Tx reception Of Gen. Grant at tho Fifth
Avenue Hotel, in New York, on Monday, the
10th, was brilliant affair, some 1000 guests
being present. Gen. Grant made speech
Of the usual length
| SIDNEY SMITH said Of Lord Brougham
that he prepared himself for his parliament
, tary campaign "by living on raw beef,
drinking oil of vitriol, and spending his spare
time playing with tho tigers in the geologic
al gardens"
Ir is said that Alfred Tennyson has given
two private readings, at q guinea ticket.
full dress, and only the invited admitted.
His two entertainments netted him three
hundred and eighty odd pounds sterling
about seventeen hundred dollars. He once
wrote poem for George Smith, of the
CornhW Magc.ne, at guinea word. He
has also had an American indicted who, in
reverence for the poet climbed into Tcnny-
sons garden and broke twig for keep
sake.
Tux Rt. Rev. DR.. Hawks, North Caro-
linian by birth, and supposed to have, like
the late Hon. John B. Floyd and other par
tisans Of secession, the royal blood Of Poca
hontas flowing in his veins, has lately re-
turned to New j. ork from'a protracted visit
to Virginia. Though his long connection
with Calvary church came to y CLOSE during
tho war in consequence Of the reverend gen.
tleman's rebel proclivities, he again found
auditors on Sunday week in the University
chapel on Washington square.
The Round Table strongly suspects that
Mr.. p. I. Hainum did not write the hook on
the :. Humbugs of the World" which bears
his name as author, and challenges MIR. Bar
mum to make affidavit to the authorship Of
| each chapter in tho book.
BRI0HAM YoUNo has had a new "revela-
ton" He says it is "the will Of God that
the sisters should make their own bonnets
and hats for themselves and their families,
from straw aud other materials raised in the
Utah mountains" The next revelation
will probably dictate the style in which they
are to be made and worn. 1t is said that
Brigham Young has a large lot Of rye straw
. tor sale in lots to suit purchasers, which
! perhaps accounts for the straw hat revela-
| ton.
Mr.. W. VERNON HAncornr, the "I1istori-
Gus" of the London Times, is about to publish
| q letter to tho President of the United States
enttlcd, The Neutrality Of England Vim
Dictated"
Tnn oldest pastor in Massachusetts, is the
Rev. Dr. Emerson, of Salem, who has been
settled over the same parish for moro than
sixty years, and is now more than ninety
years Of age. lie is tall, has full beard
and hair as white as wool, and is in good
health. He attends the church, and usually
rronounces the benediction at the close Of
the services.
1 PIT. BARNUM, in the book on humbugs,
tells a good story Of the Retired physician
whose sands of life have nearly run out. .
Every body, now, knows the humbug, and
that '.Old Sands is a brisk young fellow
who has made a fortune out Of his impu-
dencc. Some time ago some benevolent
friend was SO much distressed about the
feebleness of "Old Sands of Life" as to scnd
him one day large parcel by express
marked &C. o. D." aud costing quite fig
ure. cold Sands" on opening the parcel
found half a bushel of excellent sand.
IT is stated that Robert Heller, the magic.
ian, whose real name is Palmer, has recently
fallen heir to large fortune in England.
PRESIDENT NoTT, Of Union College, the
semi-centennial celebration Of whose ami
versary in that distinguished position took
place in 1864, and who is now in his 92d
year, is rapidly declining in health, though
he still has the enj ,ymcnt Of his mental fac
ultics and Of his characteristic cheerfulness
and serenity Of disposition.
PAUL JULIEN, known in New York, . few
years since, as the 9 wonderful youthful vio
linist," is playing at q third rate theatre il
Paris, and, it is reported, is rapidly retro
grading in his professional career, as well a.
in the social career.
The Detroit Young Mems Society offered
the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher $4,000 for ,
course of six lectures, he to select his owl
time. The offer. nnprecedently large as i
was, was declined by MIR. Bescher, will
thanks for its liberality.
CARDINAL WfsEMAN's memory IL to b.
perpetuated among Roman Catholics ia Eng
land on colossal scale by the construction
Of cathedral of unparalleled magnifcence
for which nearly twenty thousand pounds
has already been collected.
IT is stated that when the dean Of West
minister pronounced the words .sdust to dust
ashes to ashes over the grave Of Lord Pal
merston, the chief mourner, as last pre-
cious Offering to the dead, threw into the
grave several diamond and gold rings
The Hon. Thomas Corwin, lately United
States minister to Mexico, being in New
York, was lately introduced to one of the
English railway magnates recently travelling
in this country as being an Ohioan. This
term evidently mis-led John Bull, who looked
for moment good deal puzzled howev-
er his face suddenly frightened, and seising
the hand Of Mr.. Corwin, he expressed his
happiness in making his acquaintance, then
kindly inquired whether his tribe were at
peace riA the whites MIR. GOWNS com
plexion being rather Indian.
THE most exciting spectacle in Paris on
ike Both of October, was the embalmed body
the French Dick Turpin, Cartouche This
famous thief was sentenced in 1912 10 be
broken on the Wheel One Of his jailors
rendered him friendly service by strang-
ling him with silken cord. The execution
er chose to consider the corpse his perqui-
site and drew the town to the CHASTITY show
of the remains on the payment of two SOUS
But when decay had set its mark upon it,