The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-01
Personal.


he Boston theatre $4,000 per annum
Senator Toombs, OF Georgia. arr we'd at Ha-
vana, from New Orleans, early this m 1nth and
eit IN tie steamer Gambia for England.
The Empress Charlotte is still in Yucatan,
endeavoring, by every means in her power, to
secure adheren,s TO her husbands government.
-Fitz John Porter is among the ist of passen-
gers by the JdUd, tor Liverpool. He goes abroad
on private business.
Mr.. Southern CDundreary") appears in print
IN London paper, TO deny the statement that
he ever belonged to a spiritual circle, or Off
ciated as "a medium, while in this country,
--Ex-Attorney. General Black, of Mr.. Bu-
chanan's Cabinet, has formed law partnership
IN Washington with MIR. Lamon, formerly law
partner with Mr.. Lincoln.
--Maior-General Weitze has resigned his posi-
tion in the United States Army, and is soo1 eX-
pected to reioin his family in Cincinnati. So
sys the Gazette of that city. .
Mr.. Latin, OF Chicago, formerly Of powder
notorlety, is the inventor of a new process
which saves nearly all the gold and silver in the
ores. 1t consists in pulverizing, as by present
methods, and passing thus reduced through
melted lead. II Is said that ninety-dve per cent
of the gold and silver contained can be saved.
Head Centre" Stephens 10 said not to be in
Peris at all now, but in Scotland. Itis reported
that he was lurking" newhere along the
banks of the Clyde, and that one OF Her Majestys
cruisers was looking tor him.
The Hon. Gerritt Smith has instituted pro.
ceedlngs Tor libel against the Chicago Tribune in
the United STATES Circuit Cou.t at that CITY,
placing the damages at $50, ,00O The libel is SAID
to consist of statement in that paper that he
feigned insanity in order to eyade any respOtsi-
bility IN the John Brown Harper's Ferry raid up
to this.
DIR. william A. Hammond, late Surgeon
General of the United States, has gone to Europe
in charge of grandson OF the late John Jacob
Astor; and gossiping correspondent says that
he receives for his services $4,000 in gold for six
months all travelling and subsistence expenses
literally paid, and $4,000 for each month Occu-
pied beyond the six.
--Cottschalk, at latest accounts was giving
musical entertainments at Lima and Callao. At
his second concert in Lima the crowd was
great that the building gave signs of not being
able to sustain the weight, and at an examine
ton the next day the structure was found to
have been so much weakened as to be dangerous
for third attempt. Consequently 1t was closed
by Government order, AID the other concerts
were so arranged as to be given in another hall.
Rev DR.. 7. j. Conant delivered discourse
last Sunday, at Chicago, upon the necessity and
advantages of a new version of the English
Scriptures. Dr.. Conant is well known as having
not long since issued an able revision of the
book OF Job, a work as highly interesting to
scholars as il is ediying to Christians, and is
at present Chairman of the Committee of Re-
vision OF the publications OF the American Bible
Union.
Not long since, young man In Havana-a
negro slave-was discovered to possess great
talent, and, in fact, to be a poet. Some of this
unlustructed slaves poetry is very ine. His
name is Ambrosla Echemendia, and he bids fair
to rival the famous colored bard OF Matanzas
Placido. A subscription was immediately
started, and the owner contributed with nearly
half the marketable value of the poet. The rest
was soon made up and the poet is free.
Two youths in PARIS were admirers of an
actress at one of the Boulevard theatres. The
other night, as i'll luck would have it, they we're
both at the theatre, and both flung one francs
worth OF flowers to the object of their affections
q 11nO n hOuQUptS
whereupon the sighted swain called out the
favored one and ran him through the body with
rapier The wounded man Is not expected to
surviYe., .,......
Lansing. Michigan, dressed In boys clothei, and
bearing the name of Joseph Howard. Her sex
was discovered Immediately, and she was sent
back to Jail. She says that she is nineteen years
old, that her parents reside in Cleveland Ohio,
and are respectable and pious people, She says
she has worn boys clothing about seven years,
and her sex has never before been discovered.
Her appearance is so boyioh that she remained
in Jail several weeks was brought into Court,
and sentenced and taken to Lansing by the Off
GERS, without being suspected.
The Raleigh Register says that Major Hanni
bal Gee is TO be tried in that city by a military
court on the charge of mGltreatlng Union pr
soners, and that the following named war cor
respondents are to be summoned as witnesses for
the Government:-Junius II. Browne, New York
tribune; S. H. Colburn, New York World: George
q. Davis, Cincinnati Gazette; B. @. Truman, New
York Times; j. A Ware, Washington Chronicle;
Theodore Il. Davis, Hdype1's Weekly; j. L. Forbes,
Frank Lesie's Newspaper; Edward Crapsey, Phi
ladelphia Inquirer; Robert 8. Davis, J.. w. Wal
lazz, j. H. Hendricks, New York Herald; and
others. One of the persons named Is in Utah;
another in Europe; another in Mexico; and a
fourth in the oil regions of Canada. Who will
serve the summOnses for these?
General Early writes from Havana (Decem-
Der 49, to city journal, TO deny that he is an
applicant for Executive clemency. The General
adds:-"I have neither made nor authorized
such application, and would not accept pardon
from the President of the United States if gra-
tuitously rendered me, without conditions or re-
strictions of any kind. i have nothing to regret
in the course pursued by me during the war,
except that my services were not of more avail
to the cause for which fought; and my faith in
the just ce of that cause is not at all shaken by
the result. / have not given a parole or in
CURED any obligation to the authorities of the
United States, and 1 utterly disciaim all ale
glance to, or dependence upon, the Government
of that country ] am q voluntary exile from
my own country, because | am not willing to
submit to the foreign yoke imposed upon it.
All declarations attributed to me which are in
consistent with the above statement are en-
tiIey without foundation, and ! hope there
will be no further misapprehensions as to my
position"