New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-03
PERSONAL.

| The statement which unfortunately crept int,
the Week in Society" column yesterday that an
engagement between Miss Katharine Sands and
Mr.. E. l.. Godkin had been recently announced.
was unauthorized and without foundation.
The original of the curious and interesting letter
from the Countess of Selkirk concerning the sez-
ure of her plate by Paul Jones and his privateer
crew, printed in yesterdays TRIBUNE. is in the
possession of Robert Gordon, esq, of this city.
Now that Alexandra Dumas's memory is made
perpetual in Paris by public statue, people there
have remembered that no monument has yet
been raised to Balzac, and a committee has been
formed to collect funds for the erection of one.
General George A. Washburn, of Hartford Conn.,,
has been obliged TO remove to Aiken s. c.. for tho
benefit of his health. He was Major of the 10th
Connecticut Regiment at Antietam, aud received
many serious wounds in that battle, from which he
has been a sufferer ever since. He and Colonel #.
w. Cheney-Of the well-knOwn silk manufacturing
tm-are said to be the only surviving field officers
of the 10th Regiment.
The Rev. J. H. Appleton has resigned the rector
ship of st. Stephens Up. e. Church, Brideshurg
Philadelphia, thus bringing to an end the trouble
that has existed for several months between him and
some of his vestrymcn on account of his rituastic
ideas and practices He has taken this step in ac-
cord ance with the decision of the Standing Com
mittec of the Diocese and the yestrymen who sided
with him III the dispute have alsO resigned their
places.
In accepting the resignation, taking effect last
Friday, of the Rev. DIR. William Il. Huntington who
succeeds DR.. Potter at Grace Church, in this city,
the wardens and vcstry of All Saints Parish Wor-
cester Mass, adopted an address, in which they
sincerely congratulate the church and parish 10
which he is called on tho great blessing which they
believe will come to them from the ministraion If
godly and gifted a man. aud they commend him
loving aSt Friday marked NJ Clo
of DR.. HuntingtOns twenty-rst year of ministry in
Worcester. He will presently visit ST. Louis. AMI
probably will not come permanently to this city
for several weeks yet.
The statement that General Frank Wolfod,
Representatiye-elect from Kentucky, was rebel
officer is contradicted by The Washington star which
says: He was Union soldier. He belongs to tho
mountain region of Kentucky, and deserves more
credit than any other man for holding that section
firm In Its loyalty to the Union. When war became
inevitable he took the field. Thousands of tho
mountaineers followed him. BY gallant services he
to be brigadier-general. Then came Emancipa-
tion. He refused to fight longer. He said he
tered the Army to maintain the Union. not to free
the negro; that if he had supposed tho war
waged in behalf of the negro he would have joined
his fortunes with the South. Finding lbs
could not conciliato him, Mr.. Lincoln had Wolfori
brought to Washington in irons"
correspondent Of The Manchester Examiner says
that he once received from Dean Stanley the most
inscntable cpiste he ever beheld. 1t was written
upon poor blue paper and in two kinds of ink the
latter portion in black and the former ia ink about
the color of brown vinegar. The writing had
thin, timd scratchy look, and suggested hcthOught
that it had been written with an old pen with only
one prong, or with the point of an old stocking.
needle. There distinct letters as such, but
q series of nervous pecks at the paper with some
thing smeared with ink. 81 tried Overland over
again for several days." says the conespon-
dent, to decpher the missivc, but to no pur-
pose procured magnilYing glass, and WAS srn-
ply disinayed at the result. ] held it up 10 a
strong Gas-lght, and tried to, read the front
through the back and the back through the front.
| tried to read it perpendiculary horizontally and
from each of the four corners diagonally, and at
last flung myself full length upon the hearthrug,
spread the taptalizing document upon the fender,
and sought a friendly revelation from the glow Of
the fire. but in vain As a last resource took it 10
a clever schoolmaster. who, after looking carefully
over il from beginning 10 end, somewhat diseour-
aged me by asking me W no il was from and what 1t
was about. He labOred at it more or less for five
weeks, and then gTayely assured ne that the MAJ
who could read such writing was not yet born.'