Franklin prospered in his business
until he became ’Ho most famous ed*,
itor and tho most, flourishing printer
in America, which gave him the
pleasure of relieving his wife from
the cares of bssiross and enabled him
to provide for her a spacious and
well furnished abode. She adorned
a high station as well a*- she bore a
lowly one, and sho presided at her
husband’s libera! table as gracefully
as when ho atehis breakfast of bread
and milk from a two-penny bowl.
Late advices from Cuba show
tho continued success of the insurg
ents. Tho colera is said to be plac
ing sad havoc in the ranks of the
Spaniards, who were moreovor being
beaten back at every point. Six bun
drod men had landed at Nuevas
Grande, and had joined the Cuban
army.
®HL.Oommodore Charles Wilkes, of
“Trent” notoriety, since his retire
ment from active service, has been a
resident ot Rutherford county, N. C.,
on the eastern base of tho Aileghanies
where he has au estate of sixty
square miles, being fifteen miles in
length by four in breadth.
BSL. Gen. Canby has written u re
ply to the article in tho Richmond
State Journal, defending his course
in requiring the iron-clad oath to be
administered to all members of the
Legislature. He says he is acting
under tbo reconstruction acts, and
will enforce them.
Johnson is in Wash
ington. His mission is said to bo to
secure certain private papers in the
departments, to enable him or his
biographer to write a history of the
last administration.
