New-York tribune., 1871-04-13
PERSONAL.

Prince Ghoolam MahOmed, n son Of the cele-
brated TppoO Sahb. recently made Knight Com
panion OF the Star of India
The late John Tappan of Boston once gave
Professor in Theological seminary $50 for his tobacco
box on condition that he should roll the weed
" as a sweet mOrsel under his tongue
Fanny Butler, daughter of Pierce Butler and
Fanny Kemble reported engaged to an En"lshman
named Leigh who formed attachment for her while
visit To her rice plantation In South Carolina.
Mesdames Olympic EdOuard and Louise Col
let have been time preparing TO publish new
daily in Paris to be called La gazette dcS Fewmes, and
will issue order is restored 10 the distracted
capital
A correspondent from the State Capital says
that The members OF the Assembly alone Charles L.
land of the Delavan House. Albany, COO for board
and that he would be glad to sell his debt for ten cents
on the dollar.
1t is rumored in Boston that James II. Fields
intends to dissolve his editorial connection with The
Atlantic with the June number Of the magazine: and
that Wm. D. Hovells, long his assistant Will succeed
Mr.. Fields as editor.
1t is stated that the Hon. Archibald c.
Powell Of Syracuse has been engaged by the Austrian
Government TO remove the Instructions from the
Danube and has gone to vienna 10 uhdtIke the tash
He will find plenty Of work TO occupy him between
DTenkOva and KladOva.
OF the Santo Domingo Commissioners Sena-
tor Wade left Washington for his home in Ohio few
DAYS ago. President White is in the city his way
a
in Washington to finish up or two points connected
with the final work of the Commission
When Queen Olga, daughter of Nicolas OF
Russia was told by her husband that the accession Of
Wur;emberg to the German Confederation was unavod
able (she had always been stOutly opposed 10 it, she
sad Il thought, when ! gave my hand to Your S
Majesty, that l marrying King, not sardp. But
| We women always deceived III our husbands"
The French Government, when 1t gets itself
established is about to prosecute octave Feuiet for
books stolen and destroyed by the Germans at the
! Chateau Fontainebeau, OF which he had been ap-
in sore about the unjust suspicion. and regards
the whole affair very unpleasant romance oi poor
| young man.
John Q. Dickinson, who was lately murdered
at Mariana Florida by the Ku-Kinz for the crime Of
being Northerner and Republican, was a native OF
Benson W.T. where his parents now live and where his
remains to be inferred. The Rutland Herold pays
generous tribute to his memory, and says: "Whe Yer
mont shall remember her martyred dead the name ot
John O. Dickinson viii stand conspicuous among theh
and as thou-and hall maxi IilTInge m 10 h1 nr1Ho M
name shall remain watchwOrd for liberty and freedom
narrow escape from death the hands Of the KuKlux.
when he wrote these Words " wish TO put on record
the fact that my political action in this state fiorudl
has been upright and honorable, and that do not regret
single step that have taken and that while many cti-
believe and know that not Of them entertain per
sonal dislike want of respect for me. ana have no
ambition to MI honorable grave tan that OF
who falls for the sake OF opinion or conduc hat j..
knows is night even though everybody else tHA' II
WTOns"
Andrew Jackson Davis, the "Seer" Of the
spiruasts who lately reported to have rcnounced
the faith thus states his convictions IN letter to
friend: a. am spritualist 2. have seen ana held
conversations with persons who once lived on earh
g. have, at intervals in my life exercised the functions
proper to several phases Of medumshp, and stI CON
tinue to exercise these functions when occasion requires
and lastly know that death is not the end OF my
personal existence, and believe lHtuuNey .ha, @ am an
immortal In Justice TO me, Bro. WILSON, ask that you
VIII state that the foundation Of my own experience lS
cairyOvance; but that the idea lately circulated hat
have 'recanted wish to eXalt clarvoyahCe at me
eYnense OF mcdiumshp, is wholly erroneous Ny recent
ea1rf was directed toward the abuses and nlsal4hc
tions and absurd doctrines which prevail among pcopc
Who have absorbed the wonders and delights o spltn
alism and omitted the great ideas ana rational llc
nle upon which alone the world can ever accomplish
much religious progress" Reading t1s one cannot
holm remembering a little story. TWO friends Dc.Iihe
one asked the other, Are you Sprli nalist why!
YES" said the other with some hcsl'dlOu, an d
EpiIitualis but I'm not "A ID fOol.'