The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-13
Tuesday,

did here. The real contest was settled last
Tuesday.
Mr.. Septlmus Tennyson, q brother of the
Laureate, died on the 7th of September at Chel-
tenham. Like other members of his family, he
wrote poetry, or verse. 1--WE know" says the
Reader, "he had written much, but, with the
exception of two or three sonnets contributed
by him to the clever revived, Literary Gazette,
which perished after eight or nine numbers,
and two or three pieces in amateur publications,
we are not acquainted with anything he has
printed. He was a gentle, trusting, lovable
man, and all who knew him knew his great
worth, and will lament his loss"
DR.. Holmes, who wrote a poem-or. more
strictly speaking, copy of verses-which AS
sistant Secretary Fox, if that be the official
title of the gentleman, read or presented to the
Emperor of Russia, is making a sensation in
st. Petersburg, where his verses were published
as by Oliver Wendell Collins
Mr.. Edmund Yates, at the last accounts,
was at Braemar, the seat of the Earl Of Fife.
His new novel, "Black Sheep" promises to be
widely read in this country, the New York
Albion and Eoery Saturday -reprinting it in
instalments.
MIR. william Gilmore Simms, of South Caro-.
lima, is in this city, correcting the proofs of his
collection OF Southern War Poems,' which will
soon be published by Mr.. G. B. Richardson.
MIR. John r. Thompson, formerly the editor
of The Southern Literary Messenger and more
recently man of letters in London, is about
to return to this country, after an absence Of
several years.
Mr.. Baysrd Taylor contemplates lecturing
again, we hear, during portion OF the fall and
winter.
The Emperor Napoleon will, it is said, CON.
mence the Life of Charleuagne" on the COM
pletion of his Life of Caesar"
Mr.. Wilkie Collins, who is reported to be
threatened with consumption is travelling in
the South of Europe tor his health.
Mr.. Thomas Carlyle is running the gaunt-
let Of the press in England and this country, on
account of his recent letter in which ne defends
Governor Eyre of Jamaica.
M. Dentu is said TO have paid one hundred
thousand dollars for the privilege of publishing
the Exhibition Catalogue"
Mr.. Richard H. Dana, Jr., who has just
returned from visit to Europe, has resigned
his officegof United States District Attorney for
Massachusetts,.
The health of DR.. John Brown is said to be
so much improved that he is about to resume
his professional duties.
Major W. 7. Thompson, author of 'Maior
Jones' Courtship," has become one of the editors
of The S0Udaaah NeloS and Herald.
Mr.. Charles Maclaren, formerly editor and
proprietor Of the Scotsman, died recently at his
residence Moreland Cottage, Grange.
M. Jules Janin, the feuiitetonist has recently
published a new novel, entitled LIE Tails
man."
M. de Carne, member of the French Aca-
dsmy, is writing history of Brittany.
M. Provost Paradol is about to publish a
treatise on Democracy and Liberty" 1t is poll.
tical, of course.
M. Victorien sardou has written new
play, entitled Nos Bon Vt7a9eois, which Is soon
to be produced at the Gymnase.
The Faculty of Yale College have begun
the year by establishing some new rules OF a
very commendable character. Students are for
hidden to sit on the fence on the corner of
College and Chapel streets, under penalty OF
receiving certain number of marks and they
are also forbidden to collect on the same corner
in a crowd of three or more. The custom of
initiation is, it seems, also to be done away.
Two women of the town attempted suicide
in Boston on Monday by drowning. Maria
Cavansugh and Hannah Mclaughlin were
were their names. After jumping into the
water together, the spirit of the woman Cava-
naugh tailed her, and she screamed for help.
Some sailors put off from vessel lying ne ar,
and rescued Cavanaugh, but the other stub
bornly kept her mead under the water until she
was too far gone to be resuscitated.
"A letter from Sante Fe in the Honi e,,r
states that General Mosquera, President of the
republic of Colombia, has made that state
present of a magnificent statue of Christonhar
Columbus which the Congress has decided
shall be placed in the principal square of the
port of Colon. The following verses of Seneca
will appear on one face of the pedestal:-
'Venient annis secula seris,
Quibus 0ceanus vincular erum
Latet, ct ingens pateat tellus,
Tethysque novos detegat orbes
Nee sit terris ultima Thule.n
"A man in Louisville whoI found out last
week that he had been ouckolded, instead of
making an unpleasant row, took his two chill
dren and furniture and changed his boarding
place.