Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-06-26
PERSONAL,

MAJOR OeneIdl W lnueiU CCOteI anu
Senator Weller and his bride, are among the
guests at Cozsen's Hotel, West Point, N. Y.
.... The CANCEL Gabriel" was blowing his
horn at Lawrence, Mass, on Saturday last
The Tribune had the yagabond shot-proba-
bly, in the neck.
-. The Richmond papers, noticing the
death of General Peyton state that his disease,
which was paralysis, was of very short dura-
tion-letters having been received from him,
by friends in Richmond, which were written
tne day before his death.
80. Among the passengers who left in the
Pacific for Liverpool, on Saturday last, were
Baron Gerolt, Resident Minister of H. NJ. the
King of Prussia Jas. Riddle, E. Fabroquette,
Jr, and Chas. Resiland, bearer of dispatches;
A. w. Scharit, q. S. Consul for F Falmouth, and
James Anderson, the tragedian.
go. Archbishop Hughes, whose health to
all appearance was so perfectly restored by his
trip to Havana, has relapsed so as greatly to
interrupt his pastoral ministrations.
90. The talented London correspondent Of
the New York Tribune thus speaks of the per-
sonal appearance Qf Bulwer:
81 saw Bulwer the other day; he is looking
all the worse for wear, but his hair, which bias
sandy tint, does not seem to be turnin z
gray He might have been something like
his portraits when he was younger, but he is
gely little like them now. There is a certain
nobleness of look which is recognizable. A
phrenologist would have no difficulty in de-
lineating the Dulwer of his novels in tho man.
lie has large language; his eyes are large and
rolling He can have very little of what we
call Aeayt-perhaps less than be might have
have had but for domestic unhappiness But,
now different he is from Dickens in this re
spect, and how different are their works.
.... Miss LAURA Keene has taken the French
opera House at San Francisco, and Mr.. Dor.
iing, her manager, is engaging company to
sail by the next steamer. Messrs. G. Wheat
leigh, Rogers and Aitenus are among them.
....Madame Thillon, as beautiful and as
blooming as ever, arrived at New York, from
California, On Saturday last, with her ''pocket
full of rocks
....A Mr.. W. w. Boyden, of New York,
must be bold man, if big betting is any evil
dence Of it. He offers to name two American
bred horses, which he will run against any
two foreign bred horses, at three and four mile
heats. The three mile race he will bet $685.
900 to $50, OOO the four mile race he will bet
900 to $4,000. The races to be run next
fall. ..r ... a~s...
80. The Philadelphia correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun has the following paragraph
in relation to the great rush for Office under
Mayor Conrad's regime:
The rush of patriots and those DESTROYS of
serving the consolidated city continues at the
mayors office. Up to the present time, nearly
one thousand have presented themselves and
had their names recorded by the mayors clerk.
Notwithstanding all this, as soon as the hour
of reception arrives, the anxious expectants
form themselves into line like mendicants
about soup house in cold weather, and wait
their turn. ."f1
-. T. F. Meagher and John Mitchell,
Esqs., are among the guests Of the National
Hotel. They arrived in Washington on Sat
urday evening last