Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-01-14
PERSONAL.


80. Gen. Houston was at Louisville on the
80. John Van Buren, is at New York man
aging the defence of Edwin Forrest.
49,. j. w. Wallack, jr., is performing in
Boston.
-. Archbishop Hughes will lecture at
Baltimore on the 18th.
go. Rev. DR.. Ives will lecture at New York,
on the Oath.
80. Edwin Forrest plays Metamora at Bal
timore tonight.
-. Miss Matilda Heron appeared at St.
Louis on the 9TH.
-. Theodore Parker had but few hearers at
Philadelphia.
80. Thackeray is expected in Charlie ston
about the 1st of February.
49,. John Mitchell will lecture in Boston
next Friday, on the "Ripening of the Irish
.... Rufus Choste will lecture in Boston.
next week, on the old age of the poet
Rogers"
-. Rev DR.. Murray, the author Of the
celebrated Kirwan Letters, has lectured at
Plttsburs on "Ireland and the Irish"
49,. Nicholas LOngworth, of Cincinnati, has
PAD into the treasury Of Hamilton county
sZo, Ooe, being his tax for the present year
-: Bayard Taylor will make, it is said
s9;OOO this season by lecturing. John G SAKE
Will net -, 600 if sickness does not break up
too many of his engagements
-: Usual knapp, the last survivor of
Washington Life-Guard, died at Newburch,
N. u, ON the 10th inst, aged ninety. nine
years.
-. George Sumner will lecture in New
YORK, on Wednesday next, under the auspices
OF the Mercantile Library Association, on
"Old Europe and Young America
go. Mrs. Lucy Estcott, of Springfield, Mass.
recently performed Lucia in the opera of
Lucia di LammermoOr," at st. James S
Theatre, London.
80. Miss Anna Pleut and Mr. Robert Ark
having lately became one in Cincinnati, wag
lnqslreS II their offspring may not be consid-
ereu new edition OF " Plutarch's Lives"
-. Ellen Hayden has been fined $50, in
bunaio, for purposely pouring a dipper of
boiling water down the back Of a pretty little
girl who was playing before her door. She
should have been treated to the same sauce
80. Gen James Watson Webb, in partipp
with Chase, the Abolition Governor of Ohio,
previous to his leaving this city for home, said,
dod bless you and success attend you in ali
your efforts" Just think Of that.
80. His excellency the Persian Ambassa
dor, Self ool- Nook Miri- Pindj -Abbas- Kouli-
Khan, arrived at st. Petersburg on the 9th
ult, and was received with all the honors due
to his rank.
-. Hon. Geo. Pugh made powerful speech
at Columbus ON the 10th inst in response to
this toast: "The Democracy of Ohio-de-
feated, but not dismayed-wine from the trod-
den grapes-the iron blistered into steel"
n
Rev. Thomas Smith, of Portland, Maine
was the first American who made meteorolo-
gear observations, by noting the poisoning of
trees, and the migrations Of birds His OBJ
servation extended from ISL to 1773.
go. Hon. Stephen A. Douglas remains at
Cleveland, Ohio From last accounts his
health was not as good as his friends expected
II was. His labors in the canvass of Illinois
were OF the most extraordinary character and
his constitution is somewhat shattered
80. Lord Ardmillan remarked, in deciding
case before him respecting the legality of
| a deceased wlfe's sister, that he was surprised
none OF the counsel had referred to Jacob
marrying two sisters, and to the fact that our
Saviour was descended from one of them, =
go. DR.. Rehman, a German Missionary.
has sent map to Europe showing the exist.
ence OF great sea in the centre of Euuato.
nal Africa, between the Equator and 10 de.
grees OF south latitude, and between the 23d
and Both meridian
-. Mayor Wood, of New York. went a.
slelghlng on Monday. His horse ran off and
pitched him upon one Of the corporation snow
banks, which, being less hard than the wor-
thy tunctionary's caput, admitted him into
Its yielding bosom, whereby he and the CITY
were saved the grief of mourning for a head.
80. Gov. Lyon, Of Nd advocates the es.
adjustment of State farm, for agricultural
experiments. The adjustment of the boundary
lines between Maryland and Virginia, and the
erection of n monument in @ INDEPENDENCE
Square, Philadelphia, by the thirteen origi-
nal states, IN commemOratiOn of the Declare
ton OF Independence, are presented for con-