Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-10-02

cleBty hlled by recruiting as to permit them
to start rom Fort Leavenwarth for duty tour
on the pluins.
PERSONAL.
80. Washington City has at last given 10:
the musical world a prima donna Of rare &C
compliments, and still rarer natural gifts,
In the person CT Mis- Juliana May. After
years of careful instruction under the best of
masters in Florence and Naples, she has at
length made her debut at tho third concert of
the Rio Philharmonic Society of Verona. A
letter from that city, dated Sept. LIST, says:
"A slight timidity marked hor delivery of
the FIRST few notes, but after that she sang
courageously and without embarrassment,
having become accust ,med to the gaze of
the large audience. Her voice was clear and
silvery, and her execution unexceptionsble
She was raptuously applauded and repeatedly
encored The managers of the society pre-
sented her with flowers, and every mark of APP
prevail WAS literally bestowed
THE Now York Commercial thus notices
the newly elected Provincial Bishop of New
York:
CDR. Potter is considered moderate church.
man, and probably no o'her could have been
selected, since the death of DIR. Wainwright,
better fitted to conciliate and harmonic the
different parties in the church For tho last
twenty years or moro he has been pastor of
the oldest Episcopal parish in Albany, whore
he is greatly esteemed aud beloved. We be-
lieve he graduated at Union College in 1895,
and is now over fifty years Of age His brother,
the 1t. Rev. Alonso Potter. b. D., is Bishop
Of the Protestant Episcopal church in the
Diocese of Pennsylvania, and it is a remar ka-
BILE coincidence that the two important Do
ceses of rew York and Pennsylvania should
for the second time be placed under the Epis-
copal charge of brothers; formerly the two
Bishops Onderdonk, and now the two Bishops
Potter
.... Major John II Milburn, Of st. Mary's
county, Nd, has within the space of some
three weeks lost four of his children, whose
ages ranged from - to FL years, from dis.
case resembling cholera.
.... Mr.. Hackett has taken tho new Opera
House on Irving Place, New York, and opens
it tonight with Grisi and Mario When 1t
was understood that Mr.. Hackett had taken
the theatre the stock rose FROM $500 to 81 900,
the par price. Several shares offered at that
were instantly taken up. Tho new Opera
House cost upward of $500, 900.
80. Willis has resumed his " Idlewild Let.
ters' to tho Home Journal
.... Rev. DR.. Hall. of Alabama, has been
elected president of Miami (Ohio) University
go. The question has often been asked of
late, ibid Commodore Perry sec Yeddo o''
This question is thus answered by CORES
pondent of Now York paper, writing from
Ga board tho steam figate Mississippi.
The day We left Yeddo bay ne sailed I'm
sctthtm three miles of the city and pioinIv
saD 1t, but the Interpreters who were On board
he two steamers said, if We went any nearer
they would b, obliged to commit the shari
kari which is to commit suicide, ripping up
their abdomen and disen boweling themselves,
as the Emperor had given positive orders not
to permit our ships to como any near or to the
city. and that order disobeyed, the Emperor
holding them responsible, t. ey would have to
kill themselves to save their honor-that boing
tho only way it can be preserved in this coun.
try Knowing such to be the case, tho Com
modore gave orders to return, and 20 saved
the honor and lives of the poor fellows"
....Among the passengers by tho U. g..
mail steamship Pacific for Liverpool, was Hon.
Reverdy johnson, Of Baltimore.
....Hon. Henry A. Wise has gone to Nor
folk, Va, to attend the trial Of Rand the al.
legged robber Of the Bank of Virginia in Ports.
mouth.
80. Young Booth, the actor, has been nomi.
mated for tae Legislature by the Wings of San
Francisco.
....William Shepherd, Know Nothing,
has been elected Mayor If Louisville BY ma
jority of $50.
go. Eighteen thousand people in the city
OF New York live under ground,-that is to
soy, in cellars, vaults, and holes. So Rev. Mr..
cuyler, of that city, tells US, and his informa-
tion is derived from actual Investigation. He
tells Of one neglected quarter-a single lodg-
ing room, or denim which one hundred out
casts of both sexes herd together indiscrimi
natsly, every night That may be called life
in New York under ground
.... The new English opera company, e
by Mr.. Harrison and Miss Louisa Pyne, open
at the Broadway theatre, New York, this even.
ing.
80. The Cleveland Herald Gays that eight
| members of Fosters Theatrical Company, in.
GLIDING supernuneraries, have died of cholera
in Pittsburg; and on Saturday morning a ser.
want girl in his family died.
80. The Boston Bee, of Saturday, says
The Peabody Institute was dedio ated at
Danvers yesterday. Hon. Rufus Choate do.
livered the address. which was one of consum-
mate eloquence and beauty
80. The Wing Convention of the Second
District in Wisconsin, mot on the 18th and
nominated C. c. Washburn, Esq, for Con-
gress. Mr.. Washburn has two brothers mem
bers Of the present Congress.
80. The following is from a late number Of
tho New York Mirror:
On Wednesday, the 18th inst, BY tho Rev.
| Mr. I. A. Eaton, Mr.. William Inslee of New
| Orleans, to Miss Theresa Birch, of this CITY.
Strange. what he hated y, est when young.
| lie dearly loves IN Iilcr years:
ANA b'rth, wnIch once his boy heart wruny,
NO" owes his sOlace, caInis his fears,
In Birch he finds his earthly bliss,
Nor hestaes The rod to kiss.
SQUIRREL HUEr.-One of those murder.
| Gus sffairs yclept squirrel hunt, by forty
six young mon of New Boston, Mass came of
last week. II was of two days duration, and
the results of the hunt are thus stated in a let
ter to the Springfield Republican
81 wild cat, red foxes. 20 raccoons, 76
wood chucks, 10l rabbits. 81 owls, 43 haW ks.
lo3 paItridges, Ia quails, 80 crows, $40 gray