Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-04-21
PERSONAL.

s''' Ool lngIdudIu, tue UeledIeQ Demo.
cratic candidate for Governor of Connecticut,
is in Washington. He is bluff, hearty and
emphatic looking old gentleman, with all the
points of appearance necessary in the making
up Of very popular man. AS matter of
course, the newly elected Connecticut Legisla.
ture will select one of his two opponents. 1t
is understood that the one receiving the least
number of popular votes (the Wing candi-
date is to be that man. The Temperance and
lsmatic candidate generally, leads the Wing in
the popular contest. The Legislature do right,
however, in throwing him aside.
-. Thomas Bragg, Esq, of Northampton
county, N. c., was nominated yesterday by
the Democratic Convention of that State for
Governor. He is a brother of Hon J. Bragg,
of Alabama and of Capt Braxton Bragg, Of a
little more grape" memory He is an able
man.
The Rev. J. B. Grinnell, who has been
for five years pastor of a Congregational
Church in New York, has started for Sugar
Grove, Iowa, sixty-fve miles west of Iowa city,
where he has purchased 5000 acres of land
for the use of colony of about thirty families
who are about to take up their residence al
| that fertile spot.
....Senor Lorenzo Armeda, Spanish Minis
ter to Mexico, was in Boston stopping at the
Revere House.
1.-THE trial of Stevenson, Parker and 9th
ers, commenced Wednesday morning, at Eas
| ton, Pa. 1t is a case of conspiracy to extor
money from Benjamin Green, an aged citizen
Stevenson pleads guilty to the charge. Con
siderable excitement prevails in Easton, thu
parties being all of the highest responsibility
| and the defendants are among the wealthies
citizens
An acquaintance of ex-Rev Free-soile
Burr, who knew him when rabid Wilmo
| Provsoist, short time since asked him how
| he reconciled his present course with the past
To which Chauncey replied, "why you SCI
| when pup is first born, it is several days be
| fore its eyes are opened go that the ANNA
| can see; when l was free soiler was blint
pup, now am full grown dog and can see.
He could with propriety have added-an
miserable cur at that.
| MIR. W. II. Riley, of Boston, brother
in-law of W. R. Geodall, has debuted success
fully in Cleveland
The Pittsburg Journal says it has re
ceived private letters which intimate doub
whether Judge Pollock will maintain the feel,
as Wing nominee for Governor, as seme strong
and conspicuous Wings are in favor of tn
Judge Withdrawing to leave free field t
David Wilmot to beat Bigler. The Journa
seems taken with this idea vastly.
I'VE have seen the proof sheets of tn
Biographies of Benefits Washington Ca,
riOn Blrds''-the men who collect filth, in thi
city, for the Herald-in which a perfect da
guerreotype of each individual is given. Whe
this publication is given to the public, an e.
pose of the manner in which the HeroM'
pilnps endeavor to get news will be seen, tina
will be perfectly astounding-something here
tofore unequalled in the annals of newsgath
ering
1.-THE Dublin Nation has quite turne
upon its old friend John Mitchell. 1t says:
His brain appears to have been turned
his heart to have grown hopelessly malconten
| in exile, and he sees the world again only t
| SCOT and sheer and make it echo with hi
egotism. Eight numbers of his paper still
| leave doubt whether the writer is merely
little insane, or good deal possessed of
| devil