Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-25
PERSONAL.

80. The London merch ants have presented
to Col. Aspinwall valuable service of plate
costing FL 900 sterling, as an expression Of
their feelings of the manner in which Col
Aspinwall discharged his duties as American
Consul at London during thirty eight years.
go. Mr.. Samuel Herman, merchant of Bos.
ton, has presented ISL, 900 to the W ashingtor
Total Abstinence Society of that city.
80. Gov. Bigler, of Pennsylvania, appoint
ed Hon. James Black an Associate Judge fol
Perry county, in room Of Hon. Geo. Stroup,
deceased. Judge Black was appointed to the
same Office by Governor Porter, and he held il
until he was elected to Congress from the Perry
Cumberland and Franklin district, in 1s43.
80. Mr.. Daniel, our charge to Sardinia, it
is said, has not left Turin, as was reported, and
has not been ut all disturbed by the populace
on account of the letter written by him in re.
lation to the people of that city.
Mr.. Genin, the halter, appointed by the
,hopkeepers Of Broadway, New York, to have
that thoroughfare, from the Battery to Union
Park, swept every morning before o'clock,
is now attending to the duty ''like good fel.
low
lit is said that among the last words Of
the great and lamented Henry Clay, were
"My NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. -
go. 1t is said that Thomas D. Elliott, of New
Bedford, Mass, recently nominated by the
Wings of his District as candidate for Con.
gress to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
resignation of the Hon. Zeno Scudder, is q
native of this city.
1.-THE silly story, now going the rounds OF
the press, started by the Trenton True Ameri
can, stating that Edwin Forrest, the tragedian
had become convert to the nonsensica al teach
ings of the Spirit Rappers, is wholly nithou,
truth. We have Mr.. Forests own word fol
making this declaration.
80. The speech of Carroll Spence, at Con.
stantinople, is disapproved of by every body
1t appears that he knows nothing of diplomacy
The Baltimore Times says:
g. The remarkable speech of Mr. Spence GU,
Minister to Constantinople, has taken the Cabi
net and President by surprise, and will lead NJ
doubt to the Minister'S recall The studied
silence Of the Union, and the known displea
sure of the President, are too significant to be
overlooked. The members of the Senate also
regard his declarations in regard to the course
Of this Government in the Eastern question a.
entirely gratuitous. Mr.. Spence has, in fact
committed the administration, the Senate ant
the people to u line of policy which, unless, al
once abandoned by the prompt action of thu
Executive, destroys our neutrality and involves
US in the intricacies and dangers Of the East
ern question"
.... Major Gibbs, who has been getting u,
accompany in Chicago, to emigrate to Nebraska
has run away with the funds raised by tn,
volunteers. The Major, we learn, is noisy
freesoiler, and violent enemy to the Ne
braska bill.
80. Late letters from Miss Julia Dean, stat,
that she has determined to forego, for tn,
present, her intended trip to California. Sh,
has accepted southern engagement to play
ten weeks for 81, 900.
1.-The New York Tribune, with great sat
isfaction, arrays the fact that Messrs Bugg
Cullum and Etheridge, of Tennessee, Frank
lin of Maryland, Hunt, of Louisiana, Benton
of Missouri, Stanton, of Kentucky, all South
ern men-and Messrs. Cutting, Wheeler, Wal
bridge and Peck, New York Hards, and Wit
te, Straub, Grow and Gamble, Pennsylvani:
Democrats, voted to scotch the snake, as i
calls the Nebraska bill. Well, gentlemen, how
do you like being claSsed with Abolitionists