Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-01-07
Personal.

80. The Wing legislative caucus at Frank
fort has unanimously nominated the Hon. J b.
]. Crittenden for the United States Senate.
The election takes place on Tuesday next.
-. L. Stcen, late Chief Surgeon of the
Hungarian army, arrived in Richmond Va,
on last Friday.
80. Washington Irving, who has returned
to his seat on the Hudson. in excellont health,
after spending the summer and autumn with
his friend, the Hon. John ?. kennedy, in Vir-
ginia, is preparing, for Immediate publica-
ton, the concluding volumes Goth and I7th)
of the revised and uniform edition of his
works.
80. George Heinbach, late County Com
missioner for Union county, Pa, has confess
ed that he was bribed with $500 to sign the
bonds for $780, 900 to the Susquehanna Rail-
road Company. Of course, this destroys the
validity of the bonds. Pennsylvania beats
any State in the Union for corrupt legislation.
Money will get any bill through the Legisla-
ture.
80. Horace Garfield, editor and proprietor
OF the Democratic Standard, Akron, Ohio,
died on the Goth ult of lung fever. Mr.. Can
field Was one of the pioneer printers of Ohio.
... Messrs. Biger & Laird have not pur-
chased the Harrisburg (Pa.) Union, as here.
tofore stated. The Union appeared, yester-
day, full of Camsronism, and violent against
Col. j. W. Forney. 1t is said that all the old
subscribers are leaving the Umion as they
cennotswallow Cameron's Democracy. Messrs.
paper at Harrisburg.
80. The election of +. 3. Chase, of Mont
rose county, as Speaker of tho Pennsylvania
House Of Delegates, is said to be victory
over Cameron & Co.
-. Hon. Henry A. Muhlenberg, of Penn
sylvania, who has been suffering for some
weeks past by severe sickness, has so far re-
covered as to be able to leave his room, and
may soon be expected to take his seat in the
House. ...
80. Rev. j. NJ. C. Pennington, D. D., of
New York city, ha. been elected President
and Professor in the Woodstock (Mich.) Man
ual Labor Institute. He is q colored man,
and was fugitive slave at the time of
the passage Of the fugitive slave law. 49,:
80. The Democratic Union is the title of
new Democratic paper, just started at Fred
criek, Nd. VIM. p Maulsby, Esq, is the
editor.
80. George Sanders, our Consul at London.
by his foolish conduct in corresponding for
that mendacious sheet, the New York Herald,
is bringing to bear upon himself the heavy
guns of the Democratic press The Richmond
enquirer says:
Mr.. Sanders was known only as an adven-
turer III wall street, when he startled the
country with the crazy inyective of his fill
buster Review. Another did the writing. but
he contrived to appropriate the glory. BY an
indiscrim nate system Of assault on every
man OF eminent station and illustrious char
acier IN the Democratic party, Sanders soon
became quite as famous as Tom Hycr or Yam
kee Sullivan. The Democratic Rcriew was
read and talked about, and Sanders acquired
name, though of doubtful import, in the po-
litical world. In the course of his brief Ca
reer as journalist he did moro to destroy the
organization of the Democratic party, than
he could repair by q long life of diligent de-
votion to its interests With such antecede
it was to US matter of surprise and veiation
that he got the appointment of Consul to
London.
Sanders no sooner got TO London than he
became the confederate and instrument of the
thousand revolutiOnists and conspirators " no
throng the streets of the British metropolis
Instead of a sober and decent discharge of
the duties of his Office, he exhibited the spec
tacle OF diplomatic functionary consorting
with cut-throats and outlaws and conspiring
the overthrow Of governments with which his
country is at peace. And not that only: he
has become the correspondent of tho New York
Herald, and through that medium INDUCES
his peculiar propensities, in promoting the
cause of revolution and yftibHsterism. With
characteristic modesty, he attaches his name