New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-20
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Emerson will give his lecture in Boston
next Wednesday.
Colonel II. w. HigginsOn is about going
abroad, to remain six months
Caleb Cushing is the only survivor of the
Mexican War residing in Newburypor Mass, where a
full company raised.
Mr.. Frederic! II. Cowen, the English COM
poser whose OratOrio OF The Dluge" was one OF the
principal works performed at the Brighton Festival this
spring is visiting the United states. He is now in New
York. negotiating for the production vi SONIC VI his eo
positions next season.
fl is proposed to erect n statue to the men,
DRY Of Harvey dscOyerer OF the circulation OF the
blood at FokestOne England, where he was born This,
his Precautionary year. is thought to he suitable time
for raising OF such memorial About S0,0OO nave
already been collected for the purpose
The story that the niece of eX-Secretary
Hamilton Fish Is make her debut at the Fifth Avenue
Theatre Easter Monday proves to be an mpudent fc-
ton The Secretary has such niece and there is no
reason 10 suppose that the debutaae in question re-
lated either him to his wife by even the remOtest
consanguiny.
Minister Lowell says-accOrding to q writer
in Scri5nerthat the King OF Spain Is clever person
Instead OF talking Of American politics, as crowned
heads usually do with Americans, Alfonso talked with
Mr. Lowell OF Spanish literature, criticisng with an
originality which convinced the American scholar that
the King had IN opinion OF his own ana was not crdneu
Tor the occasion
Jefferson = monument III MOutlCClIO ID III 81
sadly dIlapidated condition The inscription is efiaced,
and the brick wall around the grave has been blown
down The house Of Monticello is said TO be a wreck
and 1t is be sold under Judicial decree. Jeer-
sons granddaughter Is now living IN Washngten' sup
ported by the industry OF her daughter VINO Is EN-
pOy ed In one OF the departments
A Western soldier and politician is reported
az saying lately that he one day sitting with Presi-
dent Grant in the White House when Senator Wade came
in and walking the room to window facing the
Potomac said: &" once from this window the rebel
flag flying over there, aud may see it again." "Wel"
said Graz in his quiet way, IF that happens In my
me WON'T at least be anyrebels left on this sde
NJ. Gustave Dor6 is going to place in the
Paris Exhibition his colossal vase, four metres In height
Il terminates straight neck, on the brim Of
which children are seated tanning their equilibrium
with difficulty, being intoxicated by the fumes issuing
from the amphOra The body and pedestal of the
are adorned By little Bacchanalan figures men, women
and children, fauns and dryads led by Silenus
mounted the back of a crocodile, and
entanged in flowers and foliage covered with butter
nes MICE weasels and lizards also ntermingng 1t is
strange almost audacious production, but manifest
ing powerful originality. Every figure is study Gus
taye Dor6 is finishing another scuptura group OF quite
a different and very classical kind, THE Prize of
GlOry"a young hero dying beneath the Kiss OF Glory
Yung Wing the Chinese Commissioner, has
been writing thus TO Mrs Hooker in Washington You
have my full appreciation OF your efforts in behalf Of
the Chinese. must confess that between the movers
Of the Chinese resolutions or bills in Congress, and
the Chinese against whom the bills were directed,
[ have greater compassion for the honorable
legislators than the prosecuted Chinese. Have
YOU seen the resolutions In both Houses bearing the
Chinese question: One would think that. while China is
removing the walls Of exclusion and discrimination, you
legislators are putting up still wider and still higher
around this country to exclude the influx OF the
Mongols wonder IL this country is really going back
on those grand principles OF human freedom ana liberty
as enunciated by the founders Of this Republic when IL
frat assumed "a national existence u