Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-05-17
PERSONAL.
80. The Washington correspondent of t

-. The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Pe'ansyluanian says:
Burton Craige, of North Carolina, believe
has no handle to his name. IF he is Judge,
general colonel, doctor, or divine, am not
aware of the fact but do know that he is a
gentleman of decided ability, of great energy
of character, of unquestioned personal cour-
age, and a soundly orthodox member of the
Democratic Church. He stands six feet six
inches ip his stockings, and has the appear
ance of man who could hold more than his
own in s.bear fight -
Mr.. Hunt, of Louisiana, is trife below the
medium height, but is firmly put together
He formerly resided in Charleston, but has
made New Orleans his home since 1884. He is
gentleman of fair abilities, although not an
effective public speaker, and belongs to the
ultra old line whig school of politics. He is
said to possess disposition which rather courts
than avoids "a gentle passage of arms" This
is both Mr.. Hunts and Mr.. Crsige's first SEES
sion.
80. Sanford J. Ramey, Esq, formerly del
egate in the Virginia Legislature, has come
into possession of an estate valued at $50, 900
by recent decision in the Loudoun county
circuit court. =
80. At Bridgeport Connecticut, there was
recently hotly contested election of State
Representative to supply vacancy. Philo
T. Barnum and Rev. Mr.. Siniat were the
candidates. When the polls were counted,
great was the establishment at discovering that
Thomas II. Oakly, whose name had never been
mentioned for the Office publicly, had been
elected by a majority Of $50 Where the
tickets came from, and who voted them, re-
mains a complete mystery. "We don't know. -
-. W. W. Curran, Esq, superintendent of
the reporting Of the Globe, appears in card
In the Globe OF THE morning, denying tho
rectness of the reports of that journal in
reference to the difficulty between Messrs
Hunt and Craige. Of the reporter, Mr.. C.
says
1.-The Reporter who was upon the Chair
taking notes is of such temperament, and
possessed of such moral sensibilities that he
always fails to make u perfect record of what
occurs amidst such scenes"
....Gen. Smith, "the Hero of Chepultepec"
has surrendered to a widow-so did Julius
Cesar, SO did Belisarius, so did Marlborough,
so did Washington, SO did Napoleon, so did
jackson and Madison.
-. The Washington correspondent of the
Richmond Enquirer, says:
A portion Of the "Army Of friends of free
dom, to burn the capitol and act, as emergen-
cies may require" have arrived, agreeably to
the recommendation of the Tribune. But
Mike Walsh Says they won't fgltt and offers
to whip the en- ire army with so pug1,acious
apple ~omem from his district
80. The libel case of DR.. Spooner against
John NJ. Daniels, editor of the Richmond
Examiner and q. S. Charge to Sardinia was
terminated in the U. S. Circuit Court at New
York, on Monday, with verdict of s., 600 for
plaintiff. Spooner is the proprietor of " Boy
dell's illustrations of Shakespeare, and the
libel consisted in the Examiners pronouncing
both Mr.. Spooner and his ' illustrations" as
" humbugs" Mr.. Daniels let the matter 90
by default, no one appearing for the defence
80. Hon. Joseph L. White, of New York,
has purchased the farm formerly belonging to
j. Fenimore Cooper, on the east side of Otsego
Lake, in the vicinity of Cooperstown, and is
about to erect a summer residence thereon. q
80. Gen. J. Watson Webb returned from
Europe in the Atlantic. He is said to have
succeeded in interesting British capitalists in
tho Guyandotte Ohio coal project