New-York tribune., 1867-03-27
PERSONAL.

II is rumored that Henry Russell, the musial
| composer, is TO be knighted
| II is emphatically denied that Charles sumner
intends TO withdraw from politics at the close OF the
present Congress.
| George Herbert Thompson. Of George IhOnp-
| son the English Aboitionst, died recently IN Lohoi
| He was a writer and speaker OF some note.
Gen David Vickers, brother-in-law of Gen. Kill
retrck ia arranging TO build railroads in Chilli lie
has an exclusive right granted by the Gillian Goern
ment
Gen. Schofield intends to make the Chesapeake
Female College near Hampton. Va. his headquarters,
instead of Richmond The young ladies, however nave
| left IL.
Brigham Young. 80 years ago, boarded at hOtl III
Port Pryor. and left 1t OWING $780, This sum he hh JUST
paid which strong proof either Of honesty repent
| ancc.
Mustapha Pasha is a great favoritc in Paris where
he spends about $1,000 francs week He Is said to be
| polished gentleman, and accomplished man OF the
| world.
A. S. and J. A. Allen of Providence, r. l., tie first
balooniss employed in army, have received emmis-
in the Brazilian army gronauts and have ailed
| for Brazil.
Jeff Davs's plantation with that of his broher
joe have been sold former slave Of Jeffs for $iOOO
on 10 years lease and the coored man Is said Will make
$4,000 this year
The Rev. c. b. Boynton. Chaplain of the House of
Representatives. been compelled, account OF Ill
health TO resign his charge Of the Congregational Cmrch
Washington TO take effect the ist Of June.
Cincinnati papers inform us that ex-POstnIsteT
General Dennison refuses TO be candidate for Gov
and that Mr. Pike, of Pixies Opera House. decline al
low the use OF his name for the Mayoralty.
G. Henry WhitcOmb Of Worcester, Mass, is the
father OF the first boy"that IL, the first boy Of the
class OF 1884, Amherst College and will be hOnored by the
gift Of the siyercass cup al the next commencement
One of Capt. Speke's "fathfuls.' Fry, who served
him his journey through the center OF Afrca,
has arrived I'm England and at present residing In the
Strangers Home for Asacs and Africans In the suburbs
of London.
Two white girls Of good family. according to The
Neic Orleans Bee lately coped with two negro men, ani
on being arrested declared that they loved their com
panons and intended to marry them. The grounds for
the arrest not stated.
The mysterious woman Mrs Perry the recent
heroine Of service In Presidential politics, IA the
victim also OF many There Il story that Mr
Andrew Johnson's Robert was once engaged 10 be
married TO her daughter and appears TO bc plausible
one.
| In letter giving 500 unvugI, Southern theat-
rical manager TO the destitute Of that section, Mr. Edwin
Forrest Is tempted 10 say: God himself only knows the
full extent Of their present sufferngs" lie eKhors his
reader readers not TO question what Is soOnsaOHd
| for charity itself fuliils the law"
in recent article "Lincoln elected by fraud and
bayones His heart not pierced but his brain was,
by pistol ball fired by agent OF God, and that agent
still lives. although mangled corpse Of unknown
man iscd in Washington 20 reward for the
body Of Booth"
Mr.. Alexander Randall Postmaster General. was
to arrive In Connecticut TO stump that State for the
Oeratic ticket. Whether reeyantly irrelevantly.
Hartford paper has the boldness to ask" VIII somebody
beg him TO state how much oil the NewYork and Connect
icut Petroleum Company, OF which be Is President has
struck" An answer is anxiously awaited.
Joel Benton, better known as poet than o
Dutchess County farmer and editor Is speaking in the
West Ltchfleld District in Connecticut much 20 the
credit Of Mr.. Barnums in that vicinity. lie alter
mates politics with literature his lHest lecture being
Rural Affairs and Landscape Art" Another journalist
Mr. JunIus Henri Browne concluded second volume,
entitled " Hocla" romance Of life IN the city.
Isham G.. Harris has written letter detailing the
mlsercs OF his Mexican colony and saying that the with
drawa Of the French troops does not necessate the abb
dlcation OF Maximan the Liberals are divided into
thousand insignificant factions. The sanguinaIy
Governor thinks Mexico "can never be thoroughly
governed until seveneghths OF the present population
have been exteTmnated armed sentinel placed at
the door OF every shanty In the country" He winds up
his melancholy wall by complaining that his comrades
were "mere adventurers"-what was Ishaml-and says:
COLONIZATION is a failure. and am leaving the
| country ia search OF a home"
"A crowd Journalists, representing many sections
Of the country, have sailed for Paris; and the Great
Worlds Far. shortly 60 be held viii therefore have
want Of hstOrogaphers From this city Mr.. Daniel b.
Seymour. the dramatic editor OF TIE Times and Mr.. Re
mack the musical cOnnOsseur OF the German press have
gone together; and Mr. George Alfred Townsend.
OF the most brilliant OF the newspaper men who hold
rowing commissions. has followed Mr. i. o. Halle. of
The New Orleans Crescent another iouneyer 10 the Great
Exposition has set e first thousand ems" typographi
cay, toward the printers fund for monument 10 their
brilliant fellow printer and benefacOr. Aremus Ward
The Democratic ticket for Congress in Kentucky,
described by The Frankfort Commonwealth Is ticket
Of Rebels simply. First the list is John d. Young,
graduate from the Confederate army next, Proctor
Knott, who to Kentucky prisoner of war in the
hands Of Cen Burnside. "Did not John Young Brown"
asks The Commonwealth. advise the shooting Of every
man who joined the Union armyi aud not Asa T..
Grover active Rebeli and did he not jump out OF
back window to escape arrest when he and others
concOcting reasonable plotp Thomas l.. Jones,
another candidate, appears to be whit better for he
boldly recruited for the Rebel army, and still firing
Congress Altogether. the Kentucky ticket is Of scandal
Gus consistency.