Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-01-22
PERSONAL.


.... Cough will lecture in New York on
Saturday.
-. The Hon. J. L. Robinson, U. s. Mar
shall of Indiana, is in this city.
80. Judge Douglas will reach this city to.
| morrow.
-. Losing is preparing an illustrated bio
| graphy Of Ethan Allen for Harpers' Magazine.
49,. Rev. C. W Dennson lectured on Tenn.
peraDco in Boston, last Sunday evening.
go. Mrs. Mayor Wood has a baby. The
Empress Eugenie is yet to be heard from
....Thurlow Weed, Esq has returned to
Washington, and is at Wizards
....Senator BigIer has arrived in the city,
and taken rooms at Wizards.
....IIen. William c. Rives has been re.
| elected President of the Virginia Historical
Society.
....Hon. John p. Kennedy lectures before
the Baltimore Institute this evening subject
IAN Incident in Maryland History"
80. Alexander Dumas, the younger, is writ
ing comedy in five acts, to be called "Sa
Majestic lie Million"
-. Dickens, who has long desired a seat
in Parliament, will probably be elected from
Bradford, at the next election.
....Laura Keene'S Varieties" at New
York, is very successful Last night she gave
The Lady of Lyons" playing Pauline to
Mr. George Jordan's " Claude"
go. DR.. Whitefoord Smith has accented
the chair of English Literature in Wofford
College, at Spartsnburg, S. c.. which was
made vacant by the resignation of Rev. A.
NJ. Ship.
| ,...John Mitchell has repeated in Boston
the lecture he recently delivered in New York
| on the rlpening of the Irish revolution. He
was enthusiastically received, and sttentiyely
listened to by "a large audience.
80. Hon. Henry L, Ellsworth, in a recent
! lecture at Cincinnati, advocated the purchase
| Of Mount Vernon, to be used as a National
| Farm, urging the propriety of appropri ating
| the funds of the Smithsonian Institute TO that
| purpose.
80. Elihu Burritt iectured on the 18th inst.
before the Printers UuiOn of Rochester, n
Y, on the Z" Physiology aud Political Devel-
Opment OF NatlOnalitieS." lie was greeted
with the largest house of tho season, over
200 being present.
Bradley an Irishman, of PHILADELPHIA,
| offers TO fight any nattre Arler,cdn for SO OO0'
The gauntlet has been taken up by Rusk an
American, of the same city, and meetings have
been held, but thus far Intellectually, for the
settlement Of preliminaries
Mr.. S. A. B Gilmer, editor of the Lew
isburg Chronicle, was bOnored last week bv
his friends with complimentary supper on
the occasion of his being married There were
many toasts and speeches, in all of which the
preservation OF the union" was mentioned
IN the most fervent manner.
80. William Russell, the able Crimean cor
respondent Of the London Times, has been
mObbed and forced to leave the camp for bay
ing exposed the drunkenness of tho British
army. The officers gave him no protection,
Tor be had shown up their professional short
comings.
.... kossuth has been enlisted in the Black
republican ranks, and prophetic" letter
from him appears III Mondays New York
Times, expressing very different opinions from
those which he uttered during his mendicant
tour IN the southern States
80. Mrs. Miller, a lady upwards of 20 years
OF age, residing IN Robinson Township, about
eight miles from Pittsburg, has been lying
seriously III for some time. During the past
forty days she has not eaten a morsel of food
of any kind, and her only drink is water.
-. Rev L Hill, of Saugerties, N Y, has
at length perfected his discovery for fixing
the cOlors of the dagucrreotype, and that he
has been offered $4,000 for his right in It,
he values 1t, however, at ten times that
amount, and not too highly, if he has actually
succeeded IN so great an achievement Of sci
ence-a question still open to serious doubt
-. George Steers has removed the staging
from the sides of the gigantic steam frigate
Niagara, preparatory to her launch. The fine
proportions of this vessel Of war are now to be
seen to good advantage. The workmen are
still engaged upon the ways at the stern of the
ship She will have to slide upwards of four
hundred feet to reach the water.
>. -. Mr.: 9rigsby, of Norfolk, has just pub
llshed . History of the Virginia Convention
OF lH6." 1t is suggested that he follow up his
present work with complete history of the
commonwealth. With the finest private Ii
brary in the State, and blest with an annie
fortune, he enjoys tho leisure necessary to the
prosecution Of such q task, and Us the chroni-
cler OF Virginia, he might win for himself a
lame equal In kind to that of Bancroft or of
Prescott.