Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-12-15
PERSONAL.


80. Thomas Delwiler, a we'll known mer.
chant of Philadelphia, died on Saturday.
80. Senators R. W. Johnson of Arkansas,
and John B. Weller Of California, are at
Browns Hotel.
.... The Pyne and Harrison troupe are an
nounced for tonight at Niblo's Garden, New
York. They will sing every evening.
-. Rev John H. Bocock, of Harrisonburg,
Va, has resigned bis charge, and taken q
congregation at Georgetown, D. C.
90. Mr.. Everett. of Massachusetts,, is rec
commended by the Cincinnati Times as a can
didate for the Presidency in 1850.
80. Prof. Whitney, the distinguished orator
and impersonator, has arrived in Washington,
and has taken up his quarters at Willard
Hotel.
80. Mr.. John Lamb, the well known and
very popular Quaker correspondent of the
Northern (England) Wing, died recently of
apoplexy, in London.
80. NJ. Gillardet, Paris correspondent of
Courier des Etats Unis, and New York cor.
respondent Of Paris Constitutional, sailed for
Bavre In the Arago, on Saturday.
....It is not Hon. Howell Cobb, but an.
other gentleman Of the same name, " ho is the
author of the work entitled 60 Scriptural ex-
animation Of the institutiOn of slavery"
80. Angus B. Reach, whose name was ia.
vorsbly known in literature, died at London
on the 10Th ult., IN his thiTty-ffth year, from
paralysis. He leaves widow, but was child.
less.
-. /" Doesticks, - the we'll known humorist,
has been. engaged by the New York Tribune
as dramatic critic for that paper. His notices
OF new plays are replete with his peculiar
humOr
-. The Boston correspondent of the New
York Tribune says Of Dion BOurcicault :
This gentleman affords a curious example of
the power Of a man Of genius to grasp and
sway the minds Of an audience, without the
helps Tor the drawbacks) Of the trickinesses
and staginesses Of inveterate actors"
....M Mr.. Dempster, whose fame as a vocal
1st is spread over every portion Of the United
States, lately returned to England, and has
paid visit to Alfred Tennyson, the poet lau.
reste. The vocalist sang to the poet his cele-
hrated cantato The May Queen" which
Mr.. Dempster made SO popular in the United
States.
80. The Hartford Press has been shown an
English edition Of that pleasant Connecticut
story, Twice Married, y written, we believe,
by Calvin W. Philleo, Of Sufield, in which the
authorship is attributed to - LADY. and the
scene Is changed to England. by putting in
dismantled castles" &c 1t is a compli.
ment to Mr.. Philleo, at the expense of his d.
served reputation.
1.-THE n. Commercial Advertiser denies
the statement made in the New York Herald
tnat Mr.. Du Bots, the Netherlands Minister
has been sent to Denmark, an inferior mis-
SION, In consequence Of his government disap.
proving his course when called upon to testify
in the Herbert trial. The Advertiser "a vs.
that the conduct Of Mr.. Du Bots in the case
referred to was approved by his government
and that his removal from Washington wa:
at his own solicitation.
80. Mr.. Oliphant Says the New Orlean,
Delta an English gentleman of high literary
as well as social position, the author OF a work
which has had quite run in England under
the title Of Shores Of the Black Sea, ;" is in
this country on his way to Nicaragua Mr.
Olphant Is supposed to be the writer Of thC
articles on = Circassia," now appearing in
BlackwoOd, and We have no doubt that hi
visit TO Gen. Walker will result in a graphic
sketch Of the resources of Central America
SO. The question, "Who is Walter B
Dick .! Is thus answered Lists of mis-sen
letters appear IL the papers, that should hay,
gone 10 houses in New York, Boston, Balti
more, dc. The New York News SAYS tha
these lists are made by Mr.. Walter B. Dick
OF Philadelphia, retired merchant, who, fo
the sake OF occupation, takes the published
lists Of letters in the several cities, aud, goin:
over all the names, separates, by his extraor
binary memory, the letters that lie misdirect
ed In the different Offices Mr. Dick knows al
the hrms and directions in other cities "a well
Is his own. Thousands Of dollars have thu,
Oceh sent TO their owners that would else have
gone 10 the dead letter Office If this fact il
correctly stated, it is one Of the most cxtraor
binary instances CT good memory on record u
1.-The cOrrulent bGsso gyofunGo Of the
La orange Opera troupe left New York with
the party (some sixty In number in the Ca
hawos for Havana, where they are engaged
Tor SIX weeks. The baSso, however il seems
mad narrow escape from the Sheriff officers
who were provided with writs against him, a
the suit Of several creditors, as an abscondin.
debtor The Herald states that they wer,
waiting for him on Thursday night after tn,
performance. but Maretzek smuggled him ou
secret way, and concealed him durins
Ine night On Friday morning early he wa
conveyed TO the steamer in q close carriage
ana Locked up by the director The Officer
searched Ine vessel thoroughly but failed Il
discover the delinquent, who was consolip,
himself Tor the temporary deprivation of lib
erty, with bottle Of elaret