New-York tribune., 1875-11-30

Mr. Douglass hi, arm escortodbm the table, and per
was Mayor Of Baltimore in 1861, and when the Mssa
ehisets Regiment marched tLrsugh tha Guy on IT'S "@
TO the front he walked at head Of IT, aud brayed the
peril Of the outrageous attack which ensued Mr. Brown
rewarded by being held for more thah year Plo
oner OF war in Fort warren II. has again shown him,
with the increased respect Of all sincere persons
Miss Julia f. Smith Of Glastonbury. Conn,
explains in The Springfield Union how she came to make
translation OF the Bible. She says: "Tbs transatoh
made for the public but for the gratihcauoh
OF persons, the five sisters Smith and one friend
They were all much interested 20 or 30 years ago.
in searching the Scriptures, after the notorious Miller
doctrine out and they met weekly for that purpose
They all anxious to know the literal meaning Vi
every word God had spoken. and as had got Know
ledge at academy when school girl OF @ GreeE aa an
ment As put the English word for the same worn
In Greek It gave much clearer view oi Tue tsnt ,' S
rendered the Sepuagnt into English at the advice Oh
most learned friend. who said the Hebrew WAS very
simple language easily learned, as there was 0ns one me
book Of pure Hebrew in the world, and that was thg
Bible He also that If would learn tIat tongue
eGp1 % Y ,ee T my 1T eed his advice and most
ghtful work il was making tho whole agree, tnns W"
was suliciently paid aud wrote out the Greek aud
Hebrew twice each, and the Vatican Bibe' the 'us"c'
once"
Anecdotes of the late President are
multiplying every hand One illustrative OF MS well
known kindness to soldiers comes from Michigan
Of The Detroit kews writes that in the "n
ter Of 1923 there was great suffering in camp OF
$4,000 conyaescents near Alexandria, va In re-
sponse to petition to President Lincoln, quietfaced
man visited camp and examined its condition. bring
ing him ambulances loaded with blankets ana
provisions The writer adds The quet-fsced man
had been making a memorandum of some OF the worst
cases and was Just departing when weak voice IN
dired for postage stamps God bless you, yes, siu
our quiet gentleman. heres r low s ahu PTodcj1q his
wallet he placed in the hands OF the sergeant IN chage
Of each division GIdp prnng rem ~ bs eraaed audi
ence, he added in his cheery way NH DE mere again:
BOYS Monday and will have different state OF tilDSs
Monday came and with the quie;,aced man ana, ana a
board OF surgeons with orders TO discharge or iu9g
every man VINO was not ready for immediate actiye duf
New barracks were bnlt aud camp Misery Hlli
ceased to exist. The qnietiaced man was Hehf! VII
SON"
Thomas Jefferson's views on dueling and
dancing are given in old letters which have just
been published in The ST. Louis Repubiican He wrote
them In 1925 response request to have rooms set
apart in the University Of Virginia for instruction In the
use Of the small sword and In dancing He refused to
grant the first part Of the request, and added: Ihe
other part OF your request for the use OF room Tor IN
strucng them in the art Of dancing stands on more
favorable ground. Its object is the embeishment and
not the destruction OF the lives OF our young citizens, and
the visitors seem to have provided for it in the statute
which enacts that OF the ellpca rooms on the mid
die floor Of the rOtunda shall be used for schools OF IN
strcOn in drawing muse or any otner OF the innocent
generaly--and Justly, Ithink-cOnsidered among inno-
cent accomplishments while cannot so consider the
art OF stabbng and pistolng friends dexteIity IN
the practice of an instrument exclusively used for killing
our felow-ctizens only, and never against the public
enemy. Dancing, therefore. viii be admissible IN TIE
way 0f private lessons in one OF those rooms SO soon as
nnishcd but not being yet it would be premature
now decide the order OF preferences which shOud
be established among their different use when claimed
simultaneously more than or To prescribe resua
tons FOR their preservation while in USE"
OTTAWA, Nov. 29.--The Hon. r. j. Cart
wright Minister OF Finance. has returned from England