Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-05-13
PIE e SONAL.

Xxx Senator Simon Cameron, of Pennsyl-
vania. is at the National Hotel
....Gov. Stevens and family, of Washington
territory, are in this city
....Letters from England allude to the seri
Gus illness Of Charles Kemble, the actor, who,
it is thought, will not recover
....1tis rumored that Bennett, of the Her.
aid, is about to leave for Europe. Mr.. BIS
much the "better half returned from Europe
in the last Cunard steamer.
-. 1t is said that Horace Greeley. of tho
New York Tribune, will be arrested for urging
the abO1ition:members Of Congress, and those
who herd with them, to burn the Capitol.
....Late advices from Texas state that the
citizens of Waco had rescued DR.. Steiner from
Lieutenant Anderson, who was taking him n
Fort Graham to be tried before Court Mar
tial
go. Mr.. Green, the American Charge to
Ecuador, has resigned
80. Hon. Charclden Ellis, a we'll known
lawyer of New York and formerly member
of Congress, died on Wednesday, aged 50.
go. The Home Journal says: 1.-THE wife
OF our new Secretary of Legation-does the
public happen to know who that is, None
other than the brilliant "Bell Smith''-tbe
correspondent of the Home Journal a year or
TWO ago, and quite the most dashing and agree
able Ietter-writer of the western periodicals,
we sincerely used to think" Willis refers to
Mrs. Piatt, the wife of Judge Piatt lately ap-
pointed Secretary of Legation to Paris.
80. Lord Cockburn is dead He was one
OF the Scotch judges, and is known to the
literary world as he biographer of Lord
jeffrey. lie was an inveterate Wing, and an
associate Of the brilliant circle of reviewers
and spirited whig partisans of Edinburgh.
80. Clara Hays, recently tried at New Y ork
for the murder OF Dr. Sutner, has been acuuit.
ted
The Louisville Democrat saws =" We
see 1t stated by some of Mr.. Crittenden s
good natured friends, that it was at the So
licitation Of Mr.. r. j. Ward that he under.
took the defence of his son. Do they wish to
place Mr.. c. in an attitude which his worst
MIR. c. stated emf4atically to the jury that he
had = volunteered his services in the case-be
is too well acquainted with the meaning of
| words to use them in any other than their true
sensa''
...' The Rev. &. N. Adams, who has been
advertised all over the Union as having un-
dertaken to collect $4,000 from a Railroad
Company tor poor widow, Mansfield 0. Tenn
pleton, residing in Henniker, n. H., whose
husband had been killed on said read. ia likelv
to turn out mythical character. The Rev.
D. NJ. Il. Eaton, who is the only Congreea-
tional clergyman in Henniker, has sifted the
story, and shows that no Rev g. Il. Adams has
been seen in that town, and Mrs Mansfield or
or Iempleton is questionable Parsonage, and
her Lost husband still more so.
REV. j. G. Weber, travelling preacher
in New Hampshire, who has wife and seven
children in Manchester, and is fifty years old,
has been arrested for adultery with Miss
Nancy Mead, to whom he promised marriage.
She is also in the hands of the law
80. Mr.. Harvey Foster, healthy, robust
farmer, Of Springfield, entered his house on
Wednesday and sat down in chair to take off
his boots, when Mrs Foster observed that he
looked strangely, and on stepping immediate.
ly to him she found that he had ceased to live
80. The Richmond Enquirer, in aliasion
to Horace Greeley's incendiary articles says ::
$50 spoke the apostate angel, though in
pain, vaun.ing aloud, but racked with deep
despair"
The parallel between Satan and Greeley ia
very remarkable. but the latter wants the
courage never to submit or yieId,' which
impeiled his prototype to wsge hopeless war
against the hosts Of Heaven.
go. The other day we spoke in fattering
terms of the speesh of MIR. Eliot, the new
member from Massachusetts,. The following
from the correspondence Of the Richmond En-
qutrer shows that there is no accounting for
tastes
The maiden speech of Mr. Eliot, of Mas
sachusetts, was a remarkable one. 1t was
pretentiOus, destitute Of facts, shallow in ar
gument, without dignity, and delivered with
ridiculous grimaces and gesticulatiuns it was
replets with weak attempts to be witty, which
were, in vulgaiiey, unworthy of o cross-road
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