Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-04-26
PIE RSONAI.

PERSONAL.
....Hon. Luther Severance, of Maine, late
United States Commissioner at the Sandwich
Islands, has returned to his home, afflicted
with an incurable cancer, which, it is said has
already eaten away his lower lip and chin, and
is extending among tue glands of he throat,
where the flesh is rotted out and requires con.
slant dressing. He is actually being eaten up
alive.
go. Madame Zsalawszky, a sister of Kossuth
applied lately to the Judge of the New York
Court of Common Pleas for the care and ls-
tody of her little boy-the child being detail n
ed by its father. She keeps store in Broad
way, supporting her family By her own exer-
lions. The husband was much affected. and
gave up the child to the mother. The cause
Of the dificulty is said to grow out of a reverse
Of fortune.
....Gleason, of ssGleason's Pictorial sails
for Europe to-day.
....There is talk that Santa Anna will di-
vorce his present wife if he can negotiate q
marriage with one of the daughters of the
<~SSh Do""SSi VI Cpdlu
go. The trial Of Laban Mercer, for the muir
Ter Of a man named Gamble, with which he
stands charged On the evidence Of ghost, al
legged to have been seen by John Fl. Hindman,
and en- no other evidence, circumstantial OF
corroborative, is now progressing at New Mar
tinsvi!le, Wetzel county, Va.
80. 1t is said that, notwithstanding Secre-
tary Marcy's instructions, Carroll Spence and
the members of his legation were presented tc
the Sultan Of Turkey in rich diplomatic uni
forms, looking as gay as butterflies Just like
him
-. The Journal de Constanfinopie, which
contains the impolitic speech of the new Min
ister resident at Consta ntinople states that tie
Sultan was much grati:ied by the language o.
sympathy held to him ~ the American Min.
lister, and. In a short answer OF thanks, ex
pressed his earnest q esirs to cultivate thu
closest and strongest rel atoms of friendship be
tween his empire and the people of the United
States.
80. Mr.. Tevis, Of Philadelphia, has re-
ceived an appointment in the Sultan's army a
kars, with the rank Of BIN bnsht, or lieu
tenant-colonel, and the name Of Nessim Bey.
THE Washington correspondent Of tn,
Baltimore Patriot says-''A political move
ment in going ON here, and in other sections Of
the country, which has for its object the
thorough reorganization ofthe Wing party and
he running Of General Winfield Scott fol
bo oh polI
President, at the election in 1862
1.-The Petersburg I1i,siItgencer says that
Mr.. Bragg, the Democratic candidate for Gov.
ernor of North Carolina, was called ''Old
Grapes by the boys when they were school
mates together. The Bragg family must be
some on grapes; il will be remembered thai
Gen. Taylor called on Capt. Bragg at Buena
Vista for "a little moro grape"
....Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist Epis
copal Church, left San Francisco for Oregon OF
may visit the Sandwich Islands before his re-
turn to the Atlantic States
....All the members Of Congress from South
Carolina are natives of that State except Gen
John Mcqueen, who was born in North Caro-
lima. Beside these, Senators Thos. J. Rusk
Of Texas, j. P. BENZ ,min, Of Louisiana, s
Adams and Albert C. Brown, of Mississippi
were born in the Palmetto State, making sta
natives of South Carolina in the Senate alone
while in the House are DR.. David A. Reese ant
| Col Elijah w Chastain, of Georgia, PHILIP
Phillips, of Alabama, (Mobile,) and Theodor.
e. Hunt, of Louisiana, all South -arolinian
| by birth. a-r a.s..