The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-11
Personal and Literary.

FRANK LESLIE, at his establishment in
New York, publishes eight illustrated peri
odicals, and keeps forty engravers con-
stantly employed.
GEN. SHERIDAN, after his recent Mexican
tour, stated his opinions succinctly and fore
IDLY, as follows: elf I owned h-ll and
Texas, would rent Texas, and live at the
other place
Mr.. STEPHEN SMYTH, father of Gov.
Smyth Of New Hampshire, has voted for
governor Of that State ffty-nine consecu-
tive years. His last vote was cast in 1865
for bis own son.
Rev HENRY WARD BEEcHER was once
pastor Of a congregation in indianapolis
which was too poor to paint the church edi-
fee, and the young minister did the job with
his own hands.
Mrs. CHARLES, the author of the "Schon-
berg-Cotta Family" is publishing serially
in an English magazine q story entitled
The Draytons and the Davenants: being
the Personal Recollections of Mrs. Olive
Drayton of the Fen Country
THE Rev. Il. Brown missionary from
this country to Japan, has translated the
Gospel Of Matthew into the japanese lang
uage. Mr.. Brown was from Monson, Mass,
and his mother was The author of that fav-
orite hymn, Il love to steal awhile away"
A WASHINGTON despatch of March 2s.
says; Miss Mary Harris, who, it will be
remembered, had trifling difficulty with a
Treasury clerk named Burroughs, some
time since arrived in town to-day en- route
for Richmond where she has established
herself in the millinery business
REV HENRY WARD BEEcHER, in his last
/ ~. ~, Isv,l ovnJ
4 patient Mr.. Lincoln was cudgeled and
patient spirit, reminding him Of some
horses who merely act when cudgeled as
though it was to brush flies off. When they
commenced whacking Mr.. johnson. they
found pair of heels throug the dashboard,
and they left the wagon and took to trees
and bushes, crying Beast, brute, but since
then had cudgeled more carefully"
Mas. LucnErIA Mort. the noted Quaker
prcacheress, in recent Sunday lecture
said the time was fast approaching fol
women to ask higher recognition Of theil
powers in all the various relations Of life
4 She thought there ought to be more equality
/ in the marriage relation that women
\ ought not to be required to promise .'to
1 obey The marriage contract, says this
4 gentle Qnakeress, ought to partake more Of
the nature of reciprocity treaty between
/ the sexes than it does at present.
| A GERMAN paper publishes an anecdote
of President Lincoln, which has not been in
print in this country Lieutenant, whom
debts compelled to leave his fatherland and
service, succeeded in being admitted to the
late President Lincoln, and, by reason of
his commendable and winning department
and intelligent appearance. was promised a
Lieutenant's commission in a cavalry regi-
ment. He was so enraptured with his sue
cess, that he deemed it duty to inform the
President that he belonged to one Of the
Oldest noblest houses in Germany. "Oh,
never mind that" said MIR. Lincoln, .you
will not find that to be an obstacle to your
| advancement"
A New JERSEY editor had occasion, a
few days ago, to refer to Prometheus; and
fearing that no intelligence of this person
age could have come by the only route
known to that State, namely, Camden and
Amboy. he proceeded to enlighten his read
ers as to the antecedents Of the legendary
hero. Prometheus," he wrote, swas q
Roman, who was chained to rock for kill
ing and eating vulture, the ,ulture being
considered, among the Romans, sacred
bird" If the great chief Of fire could have
foreseen that one of the results of his lar
ceny would be the New Jersey editor, he
would have allowed the human race to re-
main left out in the cold