Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-01-15
Personal.

80. Among the distinguished arrivals at the
National hotel, we notice the names of. Sir
George Simpson, of England; Commodore
Jones, q. S, N; General Harvey, u. 8. A;
Judge Kane, Of Philadslphia; Hon John P.
Hale, of N. e.; and General Van Rensselaer,
and General Benson, soldiers of 1872.
-. Capt. Isaiah Rynders, of N Y is stop
ping at Browns hotel
80. It is said that the K. Ms of the Penn.
sylvania Legislature will support Jas. Veatch,
Of Uniontsvn, Fsyette county, for u. 8 Sen.
ator, in place Of Hon. James Cooper.
80. Victor Hugo, W. II. Ihackeray, Douglas
JerIold and Thomas Carlyle arc all coming to
thl' country to deliver lectures
....Letters have been received from Arch.
bishop Hughes which state that his health il
fully restored.
-...Her Majesty the Queen (Victoria) is said
to have wept at tho opening Of parliament,
few days SINCE whom she referred to the losses
sustained by her army before Sebassopol
Ian anonymous letter, purporting to have
been written by female, has been sent to the
Governor OF Missouri, asking his clemency on
behalf OF Arrison, the Internal machinist."
1.-THE rumor which stated that Gen Nye
was attacked by paralysis, is unfOunded.
In Louisville, the other evening, Miss
Kimberley, as "Asmodeus " "carried the house
away"
Powerful actress, that!
....It is said that q commission tie iuuati-
co has been sent out by the family of Miss
Coutts, and that Mario has given his DISPOSE
tion that she is mono maniac.
....G- p. K. James is to deliver an address
before tho Petersburg Library Association OIL
the 10Th Inst. Prof. Washington of William
and Mary College, will deliver an address be-
lore the same association on the 10Th
go. Mr.. Stevens, the Montreal banker. is
about to build splendid sdiace in New York
On the site Of tho Broadway lots, recently &C.
cupisd by Judson's Hotel, at csst Of SIS. 600.
....A Cambridge man writing to the Cam
bridge Independent from Melbourne, saws ::
'Twisden Hodges, who was M. P for Rye two
or .nrse Parliaments, is keeping q public
house herc; nephew Of Dr. Whswoll, Master
Of Trinity College, was walking the streets
last week without shoe to his foot, or a shi!-
ling IN his pocket; and can enumerste many
instances Of the kind. Gsntlsuen having left
the University, come t. Melbourne to make a
fortune, In few weeks are found on heap of
stones, studying stone cracking
1.-The London Athenaum has Mr.. Bent.
ley's authority for saying that the following
sums have been paid by his firm for American
copyrights to three Americans writer-that is,
to Mr.. Washington Irving, e. $50; to Mr..
Prescott 20, 1875; and to Mr.. Fennimore Cooper,
t12, o90-in all, El6,535,
I'm. c. Richards Weld, London barris.
ter, is preparing for publication biography
OF his uncle, Sir John Franklin, embracing
his early naval career, which was chequered
by many remarkable events, and his various
Arctic explorations, with measures taken to
search for his last unfortunate expedition.
....Thedeath is announced at her residence,
Nithbank, Dunfries, N s., of Miss Kirkpat-
rick, in her eighty ninth year. The deceased
was aunt to the Countess de Montjo, and grand.
ant TO the Empr ess Of the French and TO the
DUKE de Berwick and Alba.