Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-12-28
PERSONAL,

80. Hon. Preston King is at Willards.
80. Duncan d Sherman, the great New
York bankers, are at Willards.
-. Miss NJ. Louisa Chitwood a gifted In
diana editress, is dead.
80. Cornelius Matthews has written sue
cessful drama, called " False Pretences, or
Both Sides of Society"
80. Col. Lehmanouski, the old soldier of the
Napoleon wars, is leeturing in New Albany
before the Mokuns Society.
80. DR.. Norwood, State geologist of Illinois
has examined twenty counties during the past
year, finding coal, iron, and lead, in abund-
ance.
80. John Brougham has burlesaued Hi
aNatha IN Christmas spectacle at New York
His play is called Pocahontas, and is founded
on the life of the Virginia Princess.
-. Mayor Conrad, of Philadelphia, has
made himself obnoxious to the juveniles by
stopping gratuitOus distribution of toys by
the circus manager.
.... Thaekeray is expected at Baltimore
about tie Sth of January to deliver before the
Mercantile Library Association his four lee
lures on the Georges, Kings OF England.
go. Don Antonio Garcia Reyes who was on
his way to the United States as Gillian Min
lister to w ashington, died at Lima on the 10th
October.
-. Charles S. Henry, Esq, has been ap-
pointed Clerk Of the United States District
Court, for the District of Georgia, in place of
Col. Robt. III. Griffin, deceased
-. Mrs. Anna Cora Ritchie's new work
Mimic Life, it is stated, has sold at the
rate of thousand copies a day, for the ten
days 1t has been in the market
80. 7. Doughty, the landscape painter, we
are panied to learn, lies very low at the Ma
poleon Hotel, in Hoboken. Ill health, and
the privations incident to his profession, have
sOrely affected his mind and body.
80. Thomas Cross, Marshal of Columbia,
3. G., who served in Capt. De Saussure's com
pany in MexicO,) died last week, from the
effects Of pistol wound, received in the dis
charge of his duty.
-. Rev. W. r. Mcdonald has accented the
invitation Of the Second Baptist Church,
Petersburg, to become its pastor The edifee
for the use of this congregation will be com
pleted early in February.
.... General Shields, in a letter dated at
Fairbanks, Rice county, Minnesota, declines
ball invitation, as his % whole time and
energy is employed at present in commencing
the world anew
80. Rev. A. A. Willetts, of PHILADELPHIA.
has received "eall' from the North Dutch
Church, Of Albany. The consistory is in
structed to offer the reverend gentleman a
salary Of $4,000 year, together with the use
OF the parsonage.
-. Rev. Dir. Haskell, of Boston, died re-
Gently IN st. Petersburg, where he went in
May last to supply the pulpit of the English
and American chapel. He was young clergy
man OF the Congregational persuasion, and one
Of great promise.
80. Dir: Calhoun, of the Georgia LegisIa-
ture, has introduced bill to incorporate the
"deorgla Airline Railroad This bill con-
templates the construction Of a direct line of
railroad from Atlanta, Georgia, to Richmond
Virginia.
80. Miss smesd, the Irish beauty whose
portrait by Healy hangs at the French exhi-
bitiOn between those Of President Pierce and
Daniel Webster, has returned to Paris. She
Is II mourning for brother lost in the Crimes
and is as lovely as when described by Mrs
Piatt, in Bell Smith abroad"
49,. Col. Thomas l. Preston has leased the
King Salt Works in Washington county. Va
at an annual rent Of $4,000 These works
are adjacent To, and will be worked in con.
nectiOn with his own. Both together copsti.
tute the most valuable property of the kind in
Virginia, If not in the United States
80. Mr.. Bellows new Lutheran church
IN New York, is gaudy affair, built of light
and DARK stone, alternating i'll lines, much re
semohDg the drishman's pig-'a streak of fat
and streak of lean" 1t is called the Church
OF All Souls; but the EpiscopaIian. have dub
bed 1t, "The Church of the Holy Zebra"
80. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in his Grafton
before the New England Society, in the
Church OF the Puritans, on Friday evening
improved the occasion to promulge some YER,
sound and sensible views upon the slavery
question. As a matter of course the Abolition
papers are "down on him like a thousand O
bricks"
-.. On Christmas morning, the gentlemen
connected with the Arch street Presbyteria,
church, Philadelphia, presented to their pas
tor, Rev Charles Wadsworth, a purse con
tanning hye hundred dollars in gold, as q ties
timony Of their high personal regard for him
and their unwavering confidence in his minis
try among them.
80. DR.. Baltic, after listening with tortur
To pressing account Of symptoms" from
lady, who allied 50 little that che was going L
the opera that evening happily escaped iron
the room, when he was urgently requested t
sep up stairs again i. was 10 ask him whe
ther, on his return from the opera If she nigh
eat some oysters? yes, ma am, ," said Bail
lie, shells and ALL"
.... Gen. Gibson, chief of the commissaria
OF the army (says the New York Day Book
may be seen every day, in the possession of
green and generous old age, surrounded b,
troupes OF friends, in the performance Of hi
otlclal duties Long since we heard an anec
dote of Gen. jackson, illustrating better thar
anything else the character of Gen. Gibson
During the Creek war, the army under Gen
jackson suffered all sorts of hardships Ii
writing to the Department of War, Gen
jackson recOunted these things "but'' wrot
he "when / reach - shall find an abun
dant supply Of stores of all kinds, such as W.
greatly need George Gibson has told me 50
and George Gibson never lies!" Gen. Gibsol
has an able and worthy assistant in his nephe