Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-11-06
PERsONAL.

80. Judge Staples has been elected Chief
Justice, and Alfred Bosworth and Sylvester
Sherman, Associate Justices of the Supreme
Court of the State of Rhode Island.
80. Mr.. Prentice, editor of the Louisville
Journal, who is on visit to Memphis, has
been rendered public dinner by his friends
in that city. Mr.. Prentice accepted of the
invitation, and Wednesday the 25th ult was
appointed for the entertainment to take place
Senator James c. Jones was tho chairman of
the committee who gave the invitation.
80. E. 8. Riley and A. Ridgely have en-
tered into partners as publishers of the An
napolis (Md) Gazette.
.... J. w. Barker, the Know Nothing can-
didate for Mayor in New York, endorsed the
platform of the " Practical Democrats" This
gave some dissatisfaction to his friends, when
Barker very coolly publishes that he signed
the circular without having read it.
80. Delmonico, in New York, pays hand
some, sum, at his place down town, to young
men for eating oysters every forenoon. The
example afforded is profitable during the tenn
porary prejudice against the bivalves.
80. The New York Mirror says: H. J.
Raymond made four column Abolition speech
at Wing ratification meeting, at Brooklyn,
on Friday night, and published it in his paper.
....Tom Thumb purchased lot of English
Pheasants at tho fowl sale at Barnum's Mu
scum, New York, on Saturday last.
.... The London Weekly News says:
1t is positively affir med that Mile achel
Is about to try her fortune in the United
States, and that she has six months en-
gagement-the sum mentioned is 10000
just 81 900 less than the amount secured to
Mario and Nine. Grisi for the same term.
80. The Know Nothings of the Sixth Con-
gressional district of New York have nomina.
ted Hon. Jno. Wheeler for Congress.
80. Know Nothing Convention at Law
renee, Mass, has nominated the Hon. N. P.
Brooks for Congress.
On Friday evening last, the Hards of
the 4th district of New York held meeting
to ratiiy the nomination of Hon. Mike Walsh
Hon. w. II. Wittee, of Pa, Charles w. CARR.
gan, and Judge Morton were among the
| speakers.
80. The British Minister, Lord Howden,
| has addressed note to the Spanish govern
ment, demanding that the slave trade shall be
| treated as piracy.
... William Smith O Brien, one of the Irish
| State Prisoners, recently permitted by the
British Government to leave Larmania. was,
at last accounts, in Italy, and John Martin,
| one of his companions in exile, is now in
| Paris. Kelvin Izod O'Doherty is said to be on
his way to New York, accompanied by P. J.
Smyth.
go. DR.. Otis Hoyt, who was surgeon of the
New England regiment in the Mexican war,
Is the Democratic candidate for Congress in
the Second District of Wisconsin. His oppo-
nent is c c. Washburn, Wing and banker +"
go. The religious belief Of the fourteen
persons who have filled the Presidential chat
| IN the United States, as indicated by the at
tendance upon public worship, and the evi-
idence afforded in their writings, may be
summed up as follows: Washington, Madison,
Monroe, Harrison, Tyler and Taylor were
Episcopalians; Jefferson, John Adams, John
Quincy Adams, and Fillmore, were Unita-
rians; jackson and Polk were Presbyterians;
Mr.. Van Buren, was of the Dutch Reformed
Church; and President Pierce is Trinitarian
Congregationalist