New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-13
PERSONAL

N4licloa. tie late kIig of Samoa, vas COM
par.tvcly anIahlr peISun and very much under the
control OF The American, q. imam and English con-
.ui., ~ many year, the hiuS had bten member
of thC Protestant church.
Lar! Goacou.ird is SAID 20 dislike his "Ll!hair -
and to love ms " EuiymioI." lis noyc!-wuiin.. it
J., rcportrl, - nat easy to MS surprising tx IT
a.. never reads over ms NJ Va,"s bat dispatches
them - Il lI,rnd tor revision.
Genera! Garfield Will b. glad - see his inau.usl-
t!oi-'i"y Il II TlIi gre HIM Ii tie peace Callers
continue L" pour II upon him 10 >tcn an extent that
even Ms stout are affected. and h. has been
UOEh!td with S!'cp.es>iltSS.
Ms, Isabella Bird. che indcfa;Igablc traveller
vino ha, I,eoriiy Iubl she'd Il claiming work on
Japan. u described rs n llttlr. Gclicltr-l looking
woman WHO suil = from some spinal trouble ana
rlnot, Ics on, Whenever sho teens particularly Ill.
81 aior-rl"ct George of Mississippi born in
GrnIsl but na3 lived since he ten yeaIs Old in
the state which has sent him 10 the Senate. His
liir In, been full of hard work In his boyhood MS
widowed mother and his sisters were dependent
upol him and Inc had ht,lc time to spend in study.
lie began IT, plactrc law as soon ~ he reached his
majority. H. IS iitiy-two years Old an athletic man
with bondo barr ANA Whlsacli. and firm jaws.
Mr. Arthur OShaughncssy. the author OF book of
poems called Music and Moonlight and the SON
in-law of DR.. WcStland Marston died in London a
fortnight ago. Mr. OShaughnessy. who WAS only
thirty -ivc. held an important post in tho British
Museum. and had regularly contributed a monthly
attice Oh British literature aud science to the bib
Biographical review. lie LIRE. He poet of deli
cafe taste ana lyric grace. HIS illness began with
chit caught 1T performance Of Othelt0 by Mr..
Booth
The way in which the late Marietta Bey's mind was
turned to Egyptian archaeology very simple.
Nestor l'lI6c. Champollon's companion in Egypt in
1s27!29, was Narcotics COUSIN aud Marietta was
commissioned to set his papers in order. From that
day the young mans face was turned toward Egypt.
He loved tho land of sun aud sand so dearly that he
dsObcyc the commands of his Paris physicians
who two months before his death gave him no hope
and wished him to remain in Paris. lie WAS deter
mined to see BOOlak once more and started OH, hard
us it was to travel IN his state OF health.
Mr. Whittier thus describes his old home in Ha-
verhi-the which is the scene of "Snow-
Bound": "The mantelpi piece was at least ten feet
long, and the fireplace wide enough to take in a
fve-foot log There was an oven with wooden
leg on side of it. The androns were tall
quaint and wide-eggcd. A brass warming pan
shOne like setting moon against the wall of the
kitchen. Nearly opposite the Fireplace stood the
great cupboard, with ts pewter plates and patters
In one corner was the old desk with drawers and
slanting cover let down to write upon. The old
pun s,eye watcn hung over tho mantcl. The charac-
tiers mentioned were all in Friends garb save the
sch0olmaster and the guest, Miss Llyermore whose
Spanlsh-looking face and black eyes were con-
splcuous IN the fre-light How plainly can see it
all" ~ ~
A letter written by General Grant to his father
describing the surrender of Vicksburg was sold at
on autograph sale in Boston last week. II found. -
writes the General 81 had continuously under
estimated the force of the enemy, both in men and
artillery The number of prisoners surrendered was
$4,000 The process of parollng is so tedious how
ever that many who are DESTROYS of getting to their
homes will escape before the patrolling officers get
around TO them. The arms taken are about $50
pieces of artillery and over 10000 stand of small
arms Tho enemy still had about four days rations
OF flour and meat and a large quantity of sugar.
Tho weather is now exceedingly warm, ana the
roads lntoerably dusty. 1t cannot DO expected,
under these circumstances. that the health of this
command can keep up as IL has done. NY troops
were not allowed one hours idle time after the sur
render, but were at once started after other game
My heath has continued very good during the cam
palm which has just closed. Remember me to all at
home Ulysses"
WoRrHINGToN, Mimi. Feb. IL. IL p M-Ex-Gov-
ernor Stephen Miller has so far recovered that he
is now able to sit up most of the time. The physi-
CLANS think DO may now partially, II not fully, TO-
cover from the present attack.
LONDON Feb. 12.-Mr. James Anthony Froude ia
engaged in the preparation Of biography of the