Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-03-03
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80. Mrs. Julia Dean Hayne, Is performing
with great success at Charleston, S. G.
80. Henry 7. Tuckerman wrote "Chester,"
poem In the March number of Putnam.
80. Catharine Hayes loses se7 600 by the
failure of Messrs. Saunders a Brennan. of
San Francisco.
has no idea of linking his fortune with the
great Snowman, except there Is pro quo stipu-
lation.
80. Grace Greenwood admirers consider
her Forest Tragedy" the ablest book vet
achieved by her pen.
go. Theodore Parker was at Rochester. N.
Y, last week, denouncing the pulpit, the press,
and every thing else that is good
-. Miss Caroline Chesebro will shortly
issue a new novel, the scene Of which il laid
in the humble localities of New York.
.... Major G. w. Patten, of the U. S. arms.
is now striking his Tyre at Fort Ripley, Min.
nesota.
49,. Capt G. w. Cutter lectured ut Cipcin.
natl on Tuesday evening last Subject, poets
and poetry.
....Gen. Tom Thumb has been figuring in
New York, but his patron Barnum is rarely
to be seen in public places. The General
49,. Col. Benton is about to return to Mis-.
souri,, to stump the State, he SAYS. for the
Pacific Railroad-but others say for the U. S.
Senate.
go. Hon. Mr.. Whitney, Of New York, ap-
peared to-day, in his seat in the House hall.
the hrst time since his late severe spell of
sickness in this city. His many friends will
be glad to hear Of his convalesencs.
80. John King, Esq, of the firm of PIN,
Bros 4 Co., the eminent silk manufactur.rs in
Dublin, Ireland, was among the strangers at
the Reception on Friday evening, and was
presented to President Pierce by Col. Shilling
-. Mrs. Ann S. Stephens testified at Rev.
Rufus w. Griswold's trial that his reputation
for truth is so decidedly bad that she would
not believe him on bis honor or his oath She
believes him, she sweares, to be a hypocrite
| in religion, charlatsn in literature, and q
bad man every way"
80. Hon. g. NJ Dallas while in New York,
was the guest Of Col James B. Murray, at
his residence in Washington Place, who enter.
tanned large party on Friday evening, to
meet the new Minister, and to express their
confidence in his ability and patriotism in the
| important mission which he has undertaken
lord Palmerston, of all English Minis
| tiers, Is the least travelled, and has least of
| that cosmopolitan breadth of view which a
| m'ngllng with other nations and men GRE ates.
He is intensely selfish in his affections, and
nis love Is wholly bounded by three objects
nit, nenry, Vlscount Palmerston; secondly,
his wife; and, thirdly, England.
| 80. Col. P. S. Brooks has written a long
| letter which is published in the South Carolina
papers, recommending the people of that
State " to send delegates to Cincinnati, selec-
| ted from our ablest and best men, without re.
gard to past party differences, and that they
be instructed to vote for Franklin Pierce for
| President, and to use all honorable means to
SECURE his nomination from first to last"
-. Charles j. Henniss, formerly an editor
IN Philadelphia and New York, but since 1850
| conductor Of the Chronicle at ST Pauls, Min
nisota, died there on the 14th ult., of con-
sumption. "In a strange land, away from his
relatives, all the attention that could haye
| been paid him at home were extended by bis
masonic brethren during his last illness"