Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-01
PERSONAL,

PERSONAL.
Rev. II. S. Spencer, highly respecta-
bic clergyman Of the Bspsiss dsaoninstiensi
committed suicide in the Insane Asylum at
Utica, New York, on Sunday last He had
been in the asylum some months.
....Wm. Hayes and his wife have been ar-
rested in New York on . charge of nurdering
Doctor Lutener, Who was found dead in his
Office in New York, some weeks since. They
had been indicted by the grand jury. !
2 ut isssaid that Judge Cady, in writingte
Mrs. Stanton, the woman's Rights woman,
commenced with my dear sir'' Mrs. s. is
a daughter of the Judge.
up. T. Barnum is up for President of the
Crystal Palace Association. 3
Major Louis Schlessinger, the Hunga-
rian exile snd who accompanied Lopesz to
Cuba, where he was taken prisoner and sent
to Spain, is on trial at New Orleans on charge
of larceny, preferred by a Mrs. Bryan, who, it
is said, took an active part in securing his re-
lease from prison in Spain. caas
Elliot Cressor, the President of the Penn
sylvania Colonization Society, died at Phila-
delphia. on Monday, Feb 20.
Tho Alexandria Sentinel and Standard
have been consolidated under the proprietor
ship of the Editors of the Sentinel. Mr.. Cor
don, the Editor of the Standard, retires from
the press with high reputation, won in very
brief editorial career. 1t is his purpose to de-
vote himself to the profession of the law.
80. The colossal statue Of Jefferson, of the
model of which Hiram Powers is the author
was cast on the 25th ult., at Munich. It is
thirteen feet high, has taken ten tons Of metal,
and is one of the five statues which will sur
round the equestrian one of Washington, at
Richmond, which is twenty-five feet in height.
Mr.. Powers was present at the casting.
80. Mr. Ira Aldridge, the African TRACE
dian, continues his successful performances on
the Continent.
....Jenny Lind has suddenly changed her
mind, and does not come to sing in London, as
had been announced. The great case, Lum-
Icy VS. eye, in which Lumley claims 100000
damages for the loss of Wagner's services,
comes off soon. eye will open Convent Gar
den Opera House in March.
Mr. G. W. Held, of the National Thea
ire, Boston, has come into the possession of
$4,000, by the dissolution of the Edinburgh
Dramatic Fund Association. His parents, also
members of that Association, have been the
recipients of an equal sum.
1.-THE Philadelphia Sun don't seem to
like our remark about the unropularity Of
| Alexander Cummings, of the Bulletin. The Sun
says we speak from prejudice and not from facts
| and that our insinuatiea falls harmless in the
community where Mr.. Cummings is known
The columns Of the Argus, Pennsylvania
Register and News, journals of all parties
published in the community where the editor
of the Bulletin IS known, upon examination
J will prove the truth Of what We have said about
his unporularity. There was time when he
| was not as popalar>with the Sun men as he
| appears to be at present; but then he did mo-
hold office.
THE Boston Post says Horace Greeley:
pants are an inch shorter than they were be-
fore he discovered that Messrs. Toombs and
| Stephens were the actual authors Of the Ne
| braska bill
THE Wall Street Reporter says that tn.
Emperor Louis Napoleon has recently invested
between seven and eight millions of francs il
various public securities in New York city.
1.-The Washington correspondent of the
Richmond Inquirer says Mr.. Consul Saunder:
has made ha If a million of dollars since he
went to London, by the sale of muskets and
speculations in Lake Superior copper stocks
The Hon. John NJ Botts is out in a lettel
in the Richmond Mail defending his position
on the Nebraska question.
..."Potomac, the reteran correspondent
of the Baltimore Patriot, is quite severe or
Senator Toombs for his castigation of Messrs
Sumner and Seward, and among other thing,
| says:
eff Mr.. Seward and Mr. Sumner had re-
torted upon Mr.. TOombs, that it ill became
him to denounce political coalitions of the
North, whilst he was the creature, and the
| Senator of a coalition himself and that be
would do we'll to settle his unadjusted difficulty
with Jefferson Davis, who had published him
as falsiGer, before he undertook to brag and
buster at Northern Senators, whom he might
suppose were non-c0mbatants, they would
| have received the plaudits of everybody, in
Congress and out Of Congress; and they would
have been in no more danger of the puns Of