Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-02-12
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Personal.
-. Mrs Farreu Is at Portland, Me.
80. DR. Achilli, is now on tour through
Indiana. He was in Lafayette on the 3D.
80. Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, denies, In
letter to the London Critic, the story put
forth, that he had written to q gentleman in
Boston that ho had ''closed his career as Q
writer Of fiction, was gloomy and unhappy;
had expended the powers of life in chasing
plasure where it is not to be found, &C."
He says he knows no Bostonian to whom he
could write on personal matter, and that the
whole statement Is complete fabrication.
80. shoulder hitting "heavy" perfor-
mer at the St. Charles Theatre, New Orleans,
named Howard, was passing group of gentle
mon on his way home the other evening, with
his wardrobe and his wife, when one Of them
remarked "Is that Farren or Bourcicault!"
"hs carries his bundle like Farren' cit il
neither, gentlemen" put in the actor. drop.
ping his wife and his bundle, at is only NE,
and he then went ct them ga la'' Tom Hyer,
manning one and putting the others to fight.
He was arrested and conveyed to the clock
up" but speedily released. 800, ..... ...
The following foreign personal items We ret
from papers brought by the last steamer:
80. Cardinal Wisemau and the other pre-
lates of Great Britain, now at Rome, have
suppl lated the Pope, and the request has
been backed by the Bishops of other nations
that the devotion paid to the venerable Be1e
may be extended to the whole Church.
....Dr. Ruth, the late learned President of
Msgdalen, has given his library, amounting
to some 10000 volumes, to the University Of
Durham.
80. The Shakespeare and Garrick goblet,
made from the memorable mulberry-tree that
grew in Shakspeare's garden at Stratford on.
Avon, was sold last week at Sotheby and Viii.
kinson's, for f32 Garrick drank out of 1t at
the Stratford jubilee.
80. Col. Benton, in acknowledging the re-
camille Library Association of New York, in
forms his young correspondents that he at
tributes whatever of ment al and bodily vigor
he now has, and whatever ofbusiness appli.
cation he has ever shown, to a resolution
formed carly in life to abstain from all intoxi-
eating drinks.
-. The Kinney expedition is considered
abandoned.
The K. Ms Of Greenbush, New Y ork,
on Wednesday last, burned Speaker Little john
| of the New York assembly in effigy.
80. Tho Baltimore Patriot says:
"Gen. Wilson, the newly elected S. S. SEN
ator from Massachusetts,, on his was to Wash
ington, address d an abolition gathering at
Worcester. He n said to be of the most ultra
school of abolitionists.'
And yet the Patriot apologies for Mr. vii.
sons election
80. DR.. Newman, the famous Romanis.,
phn bod h.
the apostate catholic, arrived in the Africa
last week. Achi is also in the country,
and leading know Nothing"
.... A Mr.. Tumerelli, gentleman who is
said to have travelled in Russia, has been lee
turing in London on the Social and Moral
characteristics Of the Russian people" lie
related the following anecdOts:
when Madame Taglicni Quilted st. Peters
burg she left pair Of slippers at the hotel
The landlord soon made his good fortune
known, and so, 100, and even 200 roub,es
GEO were offered for the forgotten slippers
1 he landlord, however, finding the public en-
thusi asm increase as he raised his demands,
pereDpterily refused to part with the slippers
under /, 900 roubles (f10O) This sum being
rather more than any individual appeared
willing to give, thirty five persons dubbed to-
gether and purchased the slippers They
then wanted to know what to do with them
After many suggestions, none of which gave
general satisfaction, it was proposed by one
of the spectators, more enthusiastic and orr.
ginal than his fellows, that they should eat
them! The landlord of the hotel pronounced
the idea to be excellent and proposed to make
fricasse of them, which was accordingly
done, and the thirty six enthusiasts, with the
lecturer as their guest, did actually eat Tag.
lionis slippers, and washed hem down in
bumpers OF champ agne, in which they drank
to the health Of the charming danseuse."
80. The correspondent of the New York
Evening Post, who is probably correct, says:
1T may be well to state here that Mr. John
B. Miller's name has been withdrawn at his
own request, and Samuel X. Cox, Of Ohio,
nominated in his place to the Office of secrsta.
ry of legation to Peru. A statement that tho
withdrawal was owing to the opposition of
members on the ground of Mr.. MilIer's anti
n cdr aska views is entirely wrong.
The President is de- ermined that no dis
elimination shall be made on that account,
and so do Nebraska-democrat generally in
Congress, in fact; it would not be healthy for
them to adopt any other course. But Mr..
Miller had the misfortune to write an ungRard-
ed letter during the anti Nebraska excitement,
rejecting with severe personality on Douglas
and other prominent Nebraska men, to Mat
teson, Seward whig, in the House, and who
is now Miller's bitter enemy This letter
was shown to the senators. Miller aIso adop
ted in his paper, the Utica Observer, the in
situation elsewhere made that Mr. Westbrook
was ibed to vote for the Nebraska bill, by
the promise Of the District Attorneyship, in
place of O'Conor Mr.. Wes:brook's friends
were accordingly stimulated by some unhappy
influence to avenge his personal griefs by re-
questing that the nomination be postponed -
Between these two oppositions, the nomination
of Miller has fallen thrnuRh: hut IL In dina To