The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-22
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

/ james Gordon Bennett mas given elU .uUU 10
the Herald Club, composed Of attaches of that
Office, to be used in the event OF sickness or
disability.
General Sickles, it is said, will be offered
by P, esident Grant the choice of lucrative
Office in the City of New York, or frst-elass
foreign mission. His friends say he will r,-
main at home and accept the New York posi-
ton.
Senator Bayard emphatically pronounces
as falsehood the story going the rounds that at
a private dinner, in 1861. he declared that he
would give ten Thousand dollars if Lincoln was
assassinated. The story applied also to ". W.
Corcoran, the ex- banker, who also denounces
it as false.
-"Mack," says Forney, has gone to North
| Carolina and purchased farm there pretend
edly to raiso corn and potatoes, but really to
raise the devil in small way among the re-
constructed by running as Senatorial candi-
date against one Of the carpet-baggers, whose
"term OF Office" soon expires.
Governor Brownlow's resignation is char
acteristic of tho man. BE thanks the Lesis-
ture for their CO. operation in his endeavors to
place upon Tennessee "the crown of dignity
she so well deserves to wear;" complains that
he wasn't fully appreciated by the people; ami
madverts bitterly upon tho fierce opposition
encountered by his administration; fluids COM
fort in the present condition OF the State; pufs
his successor in Office, aud declares his deter
mination to make his senatorial career consis-
tent with his life in the past. The people of
Tennessee can now breathe easier.
Tom Corwin, tho celebrated Ohio lawyer
aud politician, was notorious for impartally
borrowing money from every one OF his friends
and seldom paying them. Having been fined
thirty dollars by Judge one day for disorderly
behayisr in court, Tom looked all around the
court room and then addressed the Judge:
"DIay it please your Honor, SEQ no one pres
ent of whom I cln borrow thirty dollars with
which to pay tho fine just inflicted on me but
yourself. Will you be kind enough to lend me
the amount2" Tho Judge, foreseeins the prob
able result of making tho loan requested, ad-
dressed his reply to the clerk: "You may remit
that fine, Mr.. Clerk. The State OF Ohio can
better afford to lose thirty dollars than can."
-Bronlslaus Szwarc, one OF the most able
and popular Of the leaders Of the Polish nation
al movement of 1852, disappeared mysteri
ously few months after the insurrection broke
out. He has just found means to commani-
cate with his friends, who, after making every
effort to find out what had become OF him, had
given him up for lost. He was sentenced carly
| in 1868 to Siberia, but it now appears that for
the last five years he has been chained to
wall in one of those fatal casemates, lying be-
| low the level Of the river Neva ut Cronstadt,
where so many political prisoners have died
miserable death. Those who have seen him
there, and who knew hira at Warsaw, when he
was handsome, spirited young man, say that
it is now quite impossible 10 recognize him.
lie is a cripple, prematurely old, utterly broken
down by disease and suffering, and without
spark of his old energy left.
An event of somewhat extraordinary
character occurred on Saturday at the jewish
Synagogue. in Chicago. There, in tho pres
ence OF an immense congregation, Miss Mary
Gilmore, who has been brought up in tho
Catholic faith, openly renounced Christianity,
and was received into Judaism. She is describ-
ed as an intelligent and good-looking young
! lady, OF twenty-five years, and on this occasion
was dressed IN n neat-ftting white tarletan
dress, and ''Grecan Bend" hat. The care
mony was conducted by the Rabbi, the Rev.
DR.. Messing. In response to the inquiry
"Whether her adoption of Judaism was the re-
suit of conviction in its truths, and uninfu
enced by extraneous colsiderations?" she an
swered promptly and cmphatically ''Ycs!" A
fow other interrogatorics followed, when sho
was declared in cummHnion with the God Of
Isr ,el and HIS people. In accordance with tho
custom on such occasions, the convert chose
o new name, and transformed herself from
"Mary" iuto "Leah" Following the &C amony
was her marriage to Mr.. Bernard Bcrlian, o
merchant OF New York.
Aaron Jones, the pugist, who diel at
Lcayenworth, Indiana, on Tuesday last, will
be remembered by Charlcstonians as the bury
orderly of General Beauresard. Ho was an
Enelishn.an by birth, and came to this country
after several desperate fights IN England
Here he figured for some years as one CT the
heroes of the prize ring. On January 6 and
February 10, 1857, he fought two battles with
Tom Sayrcs, which made his name famous
in sporting circles. Darkness put an cnd to
tho first contest after siXty-two rounds had
been fought, but at the second meeting hc wls
defeated in elghty-two rounds. Ip 1858 Jones
was the trainer of John c. Heenan for his bat
tic with john II Jrrisscy, the prescnt member
OF Congress. At tho close Of the war he re-
turnei to the North, and on the 91st of August,
1867, fought Mike SlcCoolc, near Hamilton,
Ohio, for $1,000 q sile. Thirty-four rounds wcro
fought in twcnty-six minutes, when the fight
cuded abrupt. by Jones being knocked sense
less. He never afterwards appeared in the
ring. The deceased was man Of about five
foet eleven inches in height, and weighed, when
in fighting condition, about one hundred and
seventy-fvo pounds.
AET1LRS IN TIE STATE.
Union.