New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-22
PERSONAL.

Gen Geo. Il. Mcclellan is now in Switzerland,
and will soon to this country.
Congressman Jones is the richest Dan in
New-Hampshirc, and pays tax three times as large as
that of any other man in Portsmouth
Herbert Spencer, in paper lately read before
the British Anthropoogical Society, on Comparative
seryatiye than men,
Admiral Worden has not left st. Petersburg
with the American fleet. stated in cable dispatch
yesterday 1t the Swedish fleet which sailed bearing
The King of aeden, who accompanied to Cronssadt
by tue Car.
An ex-Consul Of Belgium has presented the
National Museum 1T Brussels with a collection of 700
coins, gathered in Japan during residence of
years of them said to date back TO the second
century before the Christian era.
Capt Cook of the Yale University crew, states
that made before the In still water twenty
seconds better time than the winning crew They were
rowing the time In the shell made ia New Haven, with
which Capt. Cook expresses his entire satisfaction
1t is said that Miss Julia Sraith-Onc of tie
Smith sisters OF Glastonbury Conn., whose resistance to
taxation brought them prominently before the public
at tiInehis just completed and will shortly publish
translation Of the Bible from the original tongues.
NJ Penne, the famous restOrer of objects of
antiquity TO the Louvre Museum has undertaken the
task Of restoring the statue of Napoleon for the Column
vendomc He has also been charged to reproduce the
small satuete Of Victory, which Napoleon held Ia his
hand and which DISAPPEARED when the column WAS
thrown down. The whole is to be completed IN six
months.
Bishop Coke of the Diocese of Western New
York, in a az Rochester sunday, spoke dis
approvngly of the aims Of persons who desire the
prcss recognition OF God in the National Constitution.
lie also argued in favor of retaining the Bible in the pub
liz schools the ground OF its influence conscryator
OF morals and lis identity with tho traditions and nsil-
tutions OK the AngiO-Sa1On race.
Mr.. III. j. T.. Carcw OF Boston is preparing
to cut monument for the OF the late Gen. j. G..
Foster at Nashua, n. II. 1t will be In the form Of an
obcss eleven feel high including the base. The latter
will be OF the finest Rockpor granite, while the monolth
will he cut from thepurost Cararra marble garland of
laurel leaves pendant from walfOwer on either side.
after the antique, will be chisccd the OF the
obars Wilde below squa sunken Gothic cha actes,
Will appear the following inscription " To my husband,
John Cray Foster, Lout.CoiCnel u. s. Engineers and
Bfcyct MoIt cncral L. ;. Army Died at Nashua sept.
., 1874, aged d.
Since his return from the West Indies Mr..
Edmund c. StcduaS has been experimenting the pub
LEGATION hs book the Victorian Poets' which will
appear early in the Autumn from the press OF j. H. Os-
good 4 Co. II viii make handsome volume Of about
$50 pages The original plan has been extended to
include the MINOR British poets Of the last 40 years, with
statistics notes %c ~ rna In addition ~ It's value as
acute thu c-..rnt criticism II VIII supply awan los
itIi =. ,gc library guide book To the entire range vi
kish poetry during the present Reign IL Is understood
that the English edition OF the work will DO prepared by
Mr.. NJ. ID. conway.
The Hon. George p. Marsh, United States Min
lister to Italy, has been made the agent through whom the
University OF Vermont has received valuable collection
of manuscripts OF the thirteenth, fourteenth and if-
teenlh centuries. part OF the MSS. are handsomely
fabricated. In his note to the librarian. Mr. Marsh
says: some OF these writings possess historical inter
est and In country where all Mss. in the