Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-11-09


For the Navy Department.. 12,191 50
For re paying in the Navy Depart
partment. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. SAL ~
For tie Interior Department. !, 1926 OF
PERSONAL.
80. The Union Democrat Germany has
placed the name of Hon. James Pollock at
the head of it's columns, as q candidate for the
Presidency in 1856. The Union County Star
(English) also runs up the Pollock flag. Who
is James Pollock
go. Jas. j. Strange, the High Priest of the
Mormons ut Beaver Island, in Lake Michigan,
denies most stoutly in letter to the Buffalo
Republic, the truth of the story that the
schooner Robert Willis was plundered and
her crew murdered by the Mormons of that
island. strange says in his letter that Beaver
Island furnishes to steamers 10000 cords of
wood yearly, and that the annual sales Of fish
amodnt to $l75,0O8.
80. In Montville, Me-, Felix O'Doughty
was found dead with an empty rum jug beside
him. Felix was man of great muscular
power, but rum was stronger than he.
.... The report that Messrs Campbell Il
Moody, of New York, had failed is contradict
ed by that firm.
80. Hon. Jos. Lane, of Oregon, is in this
city, at the United States Hotel.
80. Hon. Rich'd Brodhead, of Pa, has ar
rived in this city.
80. The Richmond Enquirer says:
cit has been ascertained that Miss Ellen o.
Hay, highly accomplished lady, tho mis-
tress of five different languages, native of
Va erford, ireland, relative of Mr.. Pc er
Mcklnney's family, residing at Port White
hall, was among the number of victims of the
Inflated Arctic"
80. We regret sincerely to hear of DR..
II. Brooke Powell, of Alexandria, Va, who
departed this life on Tuesday last, in tho 18th
year of his age, at the residence Of his father
in-law, John II. Brent, Esq, in the city of his
residence. DR.. Powell leaves a widow and a
large circ.e OF mourning relatives and friends
to whom his untimely death is an overwhelm-
ing affection. He was one of the most prom
Using physicians in the country, and thou III so
young enjoyed the confidence of his fell
citizens to degree which gave him a very
large and highly respectable practice.
80. 1t is rumored that Hscket has disposed
of his contract with Grisi and Mario to a Paris
manager, who wants them to supply CruvelIi's
place.
80. Forrest, the tragedian, received an i'm.
promptu serenade on Monday evening, after
tn Q performance at tho Boston Theatre at his
rooms At the Winthrop House. Several hun
dred persons we're present.
80. Chas. Stearns the advocate of civil So.
of United States works, is can
Iidate for Congress in the Sprindfield mass.
district. He will poll large vote.
.... George w. Morrison has been unani-
mously nominated for re- election to Congress
by the Democrats of the second district of New
The Convention was held at
Manchester on Tuesday.
80. The Democrats of Massachusetts,. on
account of the fierce battle now waging be-
tween the Wings, Abolitionists, and Know
Nothings of that State, calculate on electing
Mr.. Bishop Governor.
80. The Journal of Commerce learns that
John F. Raymond, the Wing member of As
sembly from Richmond county, is pledged to
oppose the reelection Of Seward for United
States Senator.
....Rev. Sherman Hall, for twenty three
years past a missionary of the American Board
amrng the Ojibwas, has entered the mission
airy field in Minnesota, having located him.
self at Sank Rapids. The Methodists and the
Baptists have respectively established de.
nominational institutions Of learning in that
territory, under encouraging auspices of sue
cess.
IAN American riaeman, named Doss, who
had done great service to Chamorro, President
of Central America, by his skill as q marks
man, was early in August mortally wounded,
and afterwards died, Protestant. At his
death he was refused burial in the Catholic
cemetery, but Chamorro had him buried with
great military hOnors and forced the Priests,
under penalty of death, to say twenty five
masses for his soul.
SCHUYLBRrsH AT THE SOUTH Considerable
excitement was created in our city ON Monday
by the announcement that Samuel
U, Scovill, book-keerper in the Agency of the
Marine Bank at this place, had absconded with
$40, 900 of the funds of the Institution. 1t
b as subsequently appeared, that he left the
city at O'Clock, Sunday evening, on the train
Of tho Macon and Western Railroad for Atlanta,
but beyond that poin it is has been impossible
to trace his progress It is supposed, as tho
Of fugitive usual y read, that
no is making his way to free State" Mr..
Mr.. ScoviiI has heretofore borne q very good
for industry and sobriety, and tho
announcement of his small Schuylerism as
every ono His parents, we believe,
we're Northern people, who resided for some
time in Twiggs county, Ga, where he himself
was born Robt Slappy and Haywood Hughes,
Esqrs., OF that county, we learn, arc the SO
curlties upon his bond for $7O0O-Maeom,
ia , Messenger, Nov. Ist
HARD TO OwN.-Mad. Pfeiffer was obliged
to aVow that she was old and indigestible, to
save her life. Some ladies would sooner have
died:
From Java she next visited Snm atra She
went into the interior of the island. and re-
manned four weeks among a tribe of csnni-
bals-one of the most savage of the East
Ipdies-knoWn as the Raitakar Hauinn q