New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-11-25
PERSONAL.

Messrs ID. Appleton & Co. have presented the
pulic library of Haverhil Mass, with 450 volumes,
valued at $1,000.
Gen. Mcclellan has secured apartments in
Baltimore and will take up his temporary residence
there about the 9Th OF December.
Ex-Goy. Clifford, President of the Boston and
Providence Railroad Company requests the directors to
emf down his salary onehalf rather than reduce the
wages OF gOr,men on the road
Col. Forney says NJ Laboulaye's speech at the
in favor Of the proposed centen-
NAL statue in NewYork harbor aroused such enthusiasm
that 10000 was subscribed on the spot
The ladies of the Mount Vernon Association
of Richmond are going to hold grand centennial ball
IN the Odd of February which all OF the dresses are
TO bs in the style OF one hundred years ago
Thirty Chinese boys, who are to be educated
In Hartford and Springfield arc now on their way to
those cities from san Francisco They will remain there
IL wears for the completion Of their education
Gen. Garibadi thus returned thanks for
media. awarded him by the City OF Rome: Thanks for
the most beautiful neutrality-suspicious. record OF heroic
period-and Tor the many other inaniestations WIN
which the noble City OF Rome wishes 10 HONOR me-
Prof. Victor Hammered of Paris, who spent
eight months in preparing Miss Annie Louise Cary for
her debut in Mcso W. is now in Providence He told
correspondent OF The journal recently that he found
Mis- CaryS voice almost perfect and that among the
many bundled voices he has professionally tested before
appcaring on the boards Of the Opera Conque and he
has had that office to perform FOR the LAST eight years
a
Mr. Charles Dudley Warner receives this
patcrnal advice from lie Springfield Republican:
There is only one reason why Mr. Charles Dudley
Warner shouldn't retain his literary reputation-Dut
there ia one He dfuses he ought to condense " he
gIiage al 2 time he would often say something AZ 1t Is
IL surprising how often he just misses IT, II we could
only fling his ideas between the jaws OF steam press
aud them closer together!"
A citizen of Lexington has in his possession
= Quill Of n condor which has history 1t was given 20
Henry Clay in 1924, with injunction never to cut it
until he was elected President when he was to write bis
first message with it. IN he not elected il
not TO be cut until constitutional Presdent wrote
constitutional message for all the States Aftcr Mr.
was likewise unable to it, During the last campaign
the owner determined to give it TO Mr. Greeley should he
be elected. The quill which is stu uncut is over three
feet long, aud as large rcuud az u mans thumb.
Lord HoughtOn did not propose sailing for
Europe yesterday, currently reported at the
Union League Club reception. On the contrary he
started for New. Haven in company with Mr. Henry Holt
bopinc 10 see something of Yale College and t surround
pes From NewIIayen he 10 Boston, and VIII either
sail thence after few days return "a WORK 10
New-Nork busy one. Beginning win a luncheon
di incl At DR. rorlyce Barker's then went To Inc re-
cpption Given him at the Union League Club. and was
taken thence to the reception given by William T. Dodge
To his new daighter-inaw The daughter OF Postmaster
General Jewell
Gen. Sherman saws in letter to friend in
Cincinnati that he objects to no criticism whatever that
tends 70 elicit TRUTH" and that he will hail the publica-
ton Of any work that treats OF civil war;" OF Gen.
Thomas he adds al assured by many who have read
my Memoirs that they contain high tribute 20 Gen.
Thomas for therein Is recouned that we were school
fellows and associates in the army and that il made
LITTLE difference 20 which commanded, provided the
GOOD cause prevailed. Ny Memoirs contain many III
sOns him rather 10 illustrate his personal character
and the wherein attribute sOwness In attacking
Was reported to officially, b. the highest authority,
after the event The same OF Mcpherson, whom We I'll
loved and admired. In recording the event about
Resaca, could not help stating. what be himself Ofeu
did that he there had the best opportunity offered
10 achieve himself brilliant success. am sorry his
friends think | did this from sinister motives No gen
eral can achieve fame without some mishaps. defeats.
and mistakes. No general can De man without the
accidents Of manhood. Washington himself the br gt
cat character known 10 history, made mistakes and
ained reyerses. think Gen. Thomas one OF the grand
est characters I'm history but even the may have
spots without detracting from Its perfect fitness the
center Of the 81 stem OF the worlds"