Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-01-11
Domestic and Foreign Personalities


Domestic and Foreign Personalities
80. Charles E. Ransom, editor of the Boston
Daily Bee, has been appointed one of Council
of the governor of Massachusetts
IA correspondent of The Augusta (Ga
Chronicle and Sentinel states that one Of the
richest gold mines in the South, has been dis.
covered in Hart county, on the land of Mr..
Jas. Brown. The ore yields from $40 to 500
per bushel. Mr. Brown, who owns the mine
has twelve sons and eight daughters
....Sir Richard England, one of the gene
rails serving in the Crimea, is a cousin to Mr..
Smith O'Brisn, and an native Of Eunistymon
In the county Of Clare. He is now second In
command to Lord Raglan, and should the Com.
Inandsr fall, he would succeed to his place.
unless the Government provide for the emer-
geney. The London Times attacks SIR Rich
ard, and asserts that he has not military ex.
perience enough to fit him for the chef com.
mand
80. james Harlan, fusionist, has been
elected L. 5. Senator from Iowa, in place of
ten Dodge. Some of the National Whigs
caVed In, which secured his election.
80. 1t is said that Gov Seymour of New
York, has written to some one here, saying:
Only successor is now in office Our mex,
election will mud the democracy united, an d
victorious"
-. 4 number of the personal friends of
Edwin Forrest, in Philadelphia, in order to
TESTIFY their admiration of the man and actor.
nave presented him with q cane manufac.
-tured from portion OF the timber of old In :
dependence Hall. The cane is elegantly
mounted in gold, with the Pennsy ivani an Coat
OF Arms and suitable Masonic enblems an
graved upon it. Mr. Forrest in his letter, &C
cepting this gift, says:
"Born and reared as it were within the
awful shadow Of that sacred Hall. feel th at
owe to it and to its haiIcwed memories thu
ineradicable stamp of those principles that
formed In me the character which you are
pleased to call thorough American If
these, my American princi pies, are the mere
accidents OF birth, be it so-by this token OF
your kindness l am made prouder OF those
accidents than any which might, upon another
soil, have conferred upon NE tue sceptre of a
kingdom"
.... The g. q Foster, mentioned il our
telegraphic columns on Tuesday as hayip,
been arrested in Philadelphia for having
forged the name Of VIM. E. Burton. is the zen
tleman who figured in these parts a ebert me
since with Madame de Margursttes, aud who
dlddlsd several of cur hotel keepers and tailors
out of sundry bills.
.... The City Council of New Orleans last
year adopted resolution to provide for thu
erection Of monument to the great benefac
tor OF that city, Judah TOuro. Mr. Greenouch
has furnished plan for this monument 1t
consists OF group Of figures eight feet in
height, representing charisy,-placed on
pedestal ten feet high,-to be wrought in
bronze, At cost of SO 900. Mr.. e. requires
two yea TO execute it.
80. Hon. Alexander Stuart, of Virgini !,
in letter to the Richmond Eranirer, denies
that he IL the anonymous correspondent of the
american organ, or candidate or aspirant
Tor the govefn0rship of Virginia The En-
quirer is quite tart ii its comments on Mr.
Stuart's letter Ii SAYS:
Mr.. Stuart may afec. the dignity of a.
statesman In retirement, but We shall criticize
ms public course ard political character at
our good pleasure, and wiibeut his let or hin
drance. An ex-nember of the Fillmore cab
net Is not more exempt from pablo scrutiny
than the huinblest memb Of The Democracy
for whom Mr.. Stuart affects such aristocratic
contempt
we touch Mr. Stuart tenderIy, lest we de.
mollsh him before he becomes a candidate for
the Governorship; but let him step forth from
ms rstsrenent, and We pledge ourselves to
drive him back, as he was driven back by the
people OF Augusta in his last electiopeerinp
enterprise, covered with the confusion of de
feat, and PROSTATE from the blow OF popular
rebuke !"
Pistols and coffee for two
1.-THE 10th celebrs tiop Of Fran klin's birth
day is to come CT this year On a grand scale
In New York. Mayor Wood as Consented 70
Presids Addresses are TO be made by Hon
James Brooks, of the Express, Mr.. West. of
the Commercial Advertiser and by Rev
Henry Ward Beecher, and Rev. DIR. Chsnin
The tste will be at Niblo's
80. Commodore Perry arrived at the Hague
early In December, by the overland rsute from
Chlna, and Is expected to arrive home in tba
Baltic, after deyoting few days TO the in
spectlon OF the Dock Yards in England: which
ut this moment, are we'll calculated to excite
Inc attentive admiration Of all naval mon.
-. Il. ii. Dulany, Esq, Of Loudoun county,
has presented to the poor of Alexandria two
large besves weighing about $500 pounds.
80. Mr.. j. Richard Lewellen Is no longer
connected in the proprietorship Of the South
side Democrat. Henceiorth, all transactions
of the firm will be conducted under the title
Of Banks Kelley.
80. Hon. Richard Rush, of PENNSYLVANIA,
who was Attorney General under President
Monroe, is now in this city attending to his
9ones as one ofthe Regents of the Smithsonian
institution. He il in good health.
80. oince the death Of her father, Fanny
kemble, it is said has decided to return ner.
manenuy 70 America, and live in quiet retire
ment LOT me rest of her life, at her beautiful
cottage in Lenox, Mass
80. The Rev. Septimus Tustin. in aafsna
ing himself from the attacks of Hon Jo.h,.
GiddiDgs, in this mornings MON, gives tba
gentleman sugar-coated pill that is hard to
swallow. " - ~ q - "
80. The New Orleans Picayune Announces
the death, in that city, of Mr.. Pc dmond RYAN.
the well known actor. 49, -. =
80. In one Of the New York courts, Joseph
Harrison is sued for 500, 900, it being the
penalty fer the erection of houses in the city
without the brick partition wall The law
says that the builder Of such hosse shall
forfeit $50 for every day q house shall remain
without brick partitions, and as Harrison built
the houssin 1851, the penalty has reached this
enormous amount. -