Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-01-02
PERSONAL.

&c. v. Brooke is expected at San Fran
cisco from Sydney.
80. Hon. Henry A. Wise was inaugurated
as Governor of Virginia yesterday.
80. Thsckeray has been lecturing at Buff
falo.
80. Mexican Buchanan realized 50, 500 for
performing month at San Francisco.
..-.J. NJ. Fields (Straws) has recovered his
health, and is now in Mobile.
-. Adrien, the magician, is at jackson,
Mississippi.
80. Ballou has greatly improved his Pic
torial, which now has an immense circulation
.... Rev. L. D. Huston delivered a public
Masonic installation address at Nashville, on
st. Johns day.
-. George Peabody, of London, has made
an additional donation of 5000 to the In
stitute in Danvers, Mass, bearing his name.
.... Marion Beckwithe, said to be a notori-
Gus character, was shot dead in Louisville on
Monday night, by E. Williams, a Waterman.
80. Gen. Wool remains at Fort Vancouver;
his health has been anything but good since
his arrival in Oregon.
.... s. g. Goodrich asserts that he is the
veritable Peter Farley" and that the late
Mr.. Kettel was only his amanuensis
.''sDulke tOIu Uarrlck al Hampton that all
bitter things were hot. Indeed" replied
Garrick, "then what think you of bitter cold
day."
go. DIR kane's discovery of an open Polar
sea will stimulate further, and lead to a new
expedition. The fact is certainly curious
enough to stimulate further searches.
.... Hon. Chas. ]. Mcdonald has announced
his determination to accept the Office Of Judge
of the Supreme Court Of Georgia to which he
was recently elected by the Legislature of
that State.
80. Mr.. Dye is giving a series of lectures in
New York on cOunterfeiting, and il is stated
that they furnish very large amount of in
formation In reference to the subject. 1t is
STARED that nearly one sixteenth of all the
bank bills in circulation are counterfeit
-. Mr.. 6eer, the distinguished artist.
whose dramatic and other portraits, inclusive
of those Of Edmund Kean, Julia Dean and
other great stars, has completed a fine like
ness OF e. ID. Eaton, the renowned Young
American tragedian, who met with a fatal az.
cldent in Pittsburg in lS43, in the 10th wear
OF bis age. 1t is an oil portrait, representing
Eaton IN citizens dress. This artist, it will
De rememb ered, painted the full length like
ness Of Julia Dean, for which he received
$1,000 from ]. Thompson, ESQ, of Boston.
...' Benjamin Champney, Of Boston, has
returned from his summer sketebino tour
among the White mountains, and presents as
his nrst fruit Of winter work, "a beech-nut-
ting Scene" The canvas CLOVIS with an
tumn's richest tints, and the foliage on the
distant hill side seen through a vista Of noble
oeeehss Is sOftened and subdued by the mel
lowing influences Of the hazy atmosphere, so
peculiar to our autumnal scenery, and which
IS here depicted with such cunning skill, ID at
one can almost fancy oneself snuffng the
smCxe-laden air Of the mountains In the
foreground, party of merry ut-gatherers
are pursuing their sport, gsrnering where
withal TO while away the tedium Of many a
long winter night. Here and there gigantic
bouiders, real mOss-cOvered antediluvfans. lie
strsnded-huge, isolated, conveying to the
CARERS mind well-defned ideas of the rocky
treasures Of that region