Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-01-20
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80. We are Informed by gentlemen from
Harrisburg, that Mr.. Bailey, of Perry county,
who has just been elected Treasurer of Penn
sylvania, is not political friend of General
Simon Cameron's. Mr.. Bailey was a member
| of the Committee of the Williamsb urg Cor
vention, who unanimously presented reso!u-
| tons denouncing Gen. c. in bitter terms, for
his alleged agency in attempting to bride
members of the Convention with Middletown
Bank money.
-. Hon. Chas. J. Ingersoll, is now in this
city.
80. The venerable Bishop Soule, senior
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, left Nashville for California on the
Goth Of December. The Bishop was to leave
New Orleans for Aspinwall on the 7th inst.
go. The Popc's Nurcio, Bcdini, will be a
passenger for Liverpool by tho next Collins
steamer, which leaves New York to- morrow.
go. The venerable Grant Thorburn has
just been removed from the New York Custom
House.
go. General Pezuela the new Captain
General of Cuba, has declined receiving an
| addition Of $4,000 per annum to his salary, to
which he is entitled as Superintendent of the
Treasury Of the Island, considering himself
already sufficiently we'll paid
Think Of this, ye public functionaries.
80. Baltimore papers say that Gen. Arm
strong, editor Of the Washington Union, is
dangerously ill. This is not so. We arc in
formed that he is but slightly indispo.ed.
-. The remains of Col. Bliss, were taken
to Gen. Taylor's plantation in Louisiana, last
week, to be inferred along side of the old
hero.
80. Lucy Stone asserts that women as we'll
qualified as the other SEX: for all linds of
mercantile situations. 1t is possible then, for
d" strong minded woman" to make good
WfeA partner.
80. The temperance Of Mad'lle Georges
at the Theatre Franchise on the occasion of
her own benefit, which took place on the 18th
of December, created an immense sensation
in Paris. She appeared in the Rodogune of
Corneille, piece which has not been yet
80. The Richmond Enquirer, in noticing
ex Governor Foote'S yaldictory address to the
people Of Mississippi, is down on him in this
wise:
"Mr. Foote is unwilling to abide the judg.
ment OF his constituency on the merits of his
administration. He will not trust himself be.
fore the tribunal Of public opinion, nor can
he await the tardy justice of posterity He
must seize with his own grasp the crown which
be claims, and himself give the signal of the
applause which he covets: I doubt not
says he, that it will be found that have, at
all times, and under all circumstances, at.
tended with diligent and perfect fidelity to
my official duties Of the justice of this
boast We may form correct opinion, when
we recollect that Governor Foote sought to
send personal representative to the Senate
OF the United States without a shadow of con-
stitutiOnal authority-that he abandoned his
post, and trayersed the State on an election
eering expedition-and that the people of
Mississippi have just dismissed him from Office
with the most emphatic expression of disap
probation. In the absence of any indication
of popular esteem and confidence, it is we'll
that he can find in his own vanity an mex
haustible source of consolation
....Mr. G. V. Brooke, the eminent TRACE
dian, has distributed among the poor of all
persuasions in Belfast, upwards Of 100 pairs
of blankets through the clergy of tho town.
of all the churches.
.Caravajal, the Mexican Fillibuster, has
been tried in the United States Conrt at Gal
weston, Texas, for his recent operations on
the Rio Grande. He was acquitted, on the
ground that the jury who tried him were not
house holders
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