Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-15
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80. Gov. Shannon and Mr. Calhoun o
Kansas, are at Browns
\ 80. K. A. Pryor, ESQ.,, writes interestins
letters from Egypt to the Richmond Enquirer
| 80. George Law has been incourt, and some
serious defects have been laid bare in the
| "Live Oak" q = -
| -. Laura Keene has brought out several
old English standard comedies with entire
successAt New York.
-. Madame LIE Vert and her daughter
Octavia were at a Mardi-Gras Masquerade
Ball at the st. Charles, New Orleans.
| 80. Benz. Elliott's house, near Lower Mari.
ooro calvert Co., Nd, was destroyed by 6re
| on the 9th inst.
80: DR.. A; g. Mackay, of s. c., has deliv-
cred four public lectures in New Orleans. ON
the Symbolism OF Masonry ......
80. Meyerbeer has been ordered BY his
physicians to spend the winter at Venice; he
has the consumption.
80. Queen Isabel II. cannot be maintained
upon the throne for long time, by either
"Moderados" or any other party in Spanish
politics
-. Mr.. Lewis, the Janitor of the Philadel-
phia American Philosophical Society whs was
injured by falling upon the ice in Indepen-
dence Square, has since died.
80. Duychinck brothers are I'D up in
their attempt at chronicling American Litera-
ture," by long criticism in Wednesdays N.
Y. Herald.
.... James Sheridan kno wles recently de-
livered lecture in Hope street Baptist Crap
ell, Glasgow. The house was literally cram
med, several hundreds being unable to gain
admission.
80. Mr.. Price, of Chicago, lately travelled
from the Copper Mines at Green Bay to Chi
cago In a sleigh drawn by dog. He travelled
at the rate of thirty miles a day during the
journey.
80. Samuel Wells de LavaIetts has received
the order of Leopold. His father was of the
old firm of W ellis x Green, the Paris bankers,
and his mother, with her fortune afterwards
married the gay Count de Lavalette.
80. Prince Paul of Wurtemburg, an own
cousin Of the late Emperor Nicholas, told a
tall Texan last spring, at small log tavern
on the Brazos, that he had no earthly object!
ion to sleeping with him at all, provided he
would take off his spurs.
80. Howard Tilden, Esq, of Philadelphia,
has just completed the most beautiful and
gorgeOusly furnished residence in the United
States. 1t is situated in Broad street, few
minutes drive from the noise and hustle of the
city.
80. Thomas Davidson, Of Philadel phia. has
invented a steam paving machine, to ram the
stones in the streets, and which is illustrated
in the Scientific American of this week. This
machine can be made at little cost, and will
save the labor Of from fifty to hundred men.
80. George III. Campbell, a New Hampshire
Journeyman printer, who left his stand in
California to take q seat upon the judicial
bench, died recently in Nicaragua Never
fhara hoo tod +bon G..
George"
....Joseph A. Collier, of Geneva, Ny has
gained the premium of $500 Offered by the
late Rev. Thomas A. Merrill, D. D., of Mid
dlebury, W. to the author of the best treatise
on 'sThe Right Way, or the Gospel applied to
the Intercourse of individuals and Nations"
80. Parodi arrived at Vicksburg on the I'd
inst. at nine o'clock p. m, and her concert
took place at half-past nine O'Clock .. IN be-
fore a large and fashionable audience Bets
had been made to a large amount on her ar
rival or non arrival. .-
-. Thackeray is an intense realist. He
sees life as it is, and depicts it in its true colors
Many novelists have painted for the world
ideal men or women, heroes or heroines, but
Ihackeray paints real men and women There
Is no illusion about his sketches They are
life pictures.
go. Longfellow' 'Hiawatha" was recently
discussed at a meeting Of the Minnesota His
torical Society, and although it received great
praise for correctness, so far in advance Of any
preceding work on the Indians, yet various
incoDgruities were pointed out; such, for
instanc, as introducing the customs of the Da-
kotas, as existing among the Fjibways.
-. Gen. Dodge, the American Minister at
Madrid, gave grand dinner, on the 9Th Jan.
uary, to the various foreign representatives at
that Court. Some distinguished Spaniards
were present at the dinner, and among them
Senior de Cueto, late Minister Of Spain at W ash
iDgton, and Senior Don Jose Ololaga In the
evening, Mrs. Dodge gave a reception to the
entire diplomatic body and to a number of
emenent ladies of Madrid, and the dancing
| lasted till quite advanced hour. 1t was
understood that Mrs. Dodge would give a ball
ON the 22d of the month
.... Edward l.. Carey, a celebrated pub
| Usher of Philadelphia, found his greatest
| solace during long confinement to which
| sickness had subjected him for a year or two
previous to his decease, in the works of art
which his taste and munificent hand gathered
| around him during his early business career
lie would have his pictures (among which we're
gems by Eastlake, Stan6eld, Maclise, Cooper,
| Wilson, Lawrence, Stuart, Inman, Hunting
| ton, and Leutz,) placed alternately before
| him, and sit for hours gazing upon their vari-
| Gus Misunderstanding the landscapes, like
windows in the wall, through which he could
look out upon perpetual summer!
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