Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-12-21
PIE RSONAL,

....lipn. y. p. Tallmalge writes to the
editor of the CAnrcA'aun. denying that he
was ever skeptic. He says he has been
from his youth up, and is still, devoutedly at
'aehed to the Protestant Episcopal Church,
always believed in the Bible and always in
the Immortality Of the soul.
.... The Calas AArprtissr learns by letters
from citizens of Calais at the Sandwich
Islands, that Mr. Severance our Consul to
iiono'ulu. is afflicted with Il cancer on his liz.
which will soon carry him to his grave
....Jula Bonnet has dropped her maiden
name, and for the future is to be known BY
her real cne-Mrs. Barrow. This is sensible
and right. Even a pretty woman canno,
make false pretcnces true
....Madamc Jenny Lind Goldschmidt APP
Pcarod in 4 concert at Dresden, on the 18th
ult., for the first tine for many months. Cne
Of her pieces, the Cradle Song tf Tauber, was
encorei. The critic Of the .Nation,I Zeituup
says that her voice has lost much. especially
III the middle tones. and is no longer what it
once was
Frederic Douglass and VIM. Lloyd Gar
| rison are Ieppering each other severely
Douglass lash cuts the deepest.
-. The Oldest preacher in the world is Rev
Robert Fletcher, of London, who in February
next will be 1917 years old.
1.-The remarks of Mr. Preston, of Ken
lucky, delivered yesterday in the House of
Representatives in reply to Gerritt Sn it'll are
spoken Of by every one in terms of the hi Oh
est con.inendation Mr. Preston has proven
himself a ready and eloquent debatsr
....Thc appointment Of Joe Severns editor
of the Philadelphia Argus, to the post of
Naval Store Keeper, which was announced in
the <i"V yesterday. gives general satisfaction
Apart from his politics "Jo," as he is familiar
II called by his friends, is general fayorite.
Long may he wave.
-. T. G Hammond, clerk for Beck in
Broadway, New York has been arrested for
stealing silk dresses, and Theodore G Nav. a
young Englshman, for selling the same
Other dry goods clerks are implicated in the
same business.
....At Ashland. Ky, on Saturday night at
a iaiing match two young men Quarrelled
abou: seven cents, when one, named Thornton
Hool, stabbed the other named Marks, through
the heart, killing him Instantly.
Fresh shad and green peas at the hotel
in Macon. Georgia, on Sunday Dec. r.
-. Sergeant O,Neal, who accompanied
General Pierce to Mexico, has received an ap-
p0ntment in the Boston Custom House
80. We learn that Miss Julia Dean, the tall
euted actress, is lying dangerously ill near
Baltimore of brain fever.
80. Hon. Greene C. Bronson, OK Collector
Of the port of New York, is at the National
Hotel. ...r . ....
Henderson the tragedian, Is playing ut
Baltimore. .f - ..s.
e. Edwin Forrest, commences an engage
ment ut the National theatre, in this city, on
the nth of February.
Thomas Meredith. Esq, President of
the Commercial and Farmers Bank of Bati
more, died yesterday. i'
-. Emanuel B. Hart and Richard B. Con-
nelly, over their own signatures in the New
York Hetaid, deny that Colonel Forney has
awarded them the contract for stationery for
the House of Representatives .
II is said that the man who iadtes the
editorials for the Richmond Examiner, is a
candidate for the lunatic asylum.