Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-03-07
PERSONAL
Ole Bull is at Louisville

| - mr. Louis Tumbro, died at Raleigh
N. e., on the Oath ult., aged 100 years.
.... Thomas H. Davis frose to death in Cal
houn county, Miss, on the 1lth ult.
| -. Gen. Almonte, en- route for Mexico, ar
rived at New Orleans on the 18th ult.
| ....E p. Whipple is lecturing before tn,
anti-slavery lyceum in Boston. He never wa
able to create " sensation at the South.
80. Capt. Rynders has been elected Presi
dent Of the Empire Club of New York, JUS
organised.
....Hon. Edward Everett will lecture before
the Mount Vernon Association at Richmond
on the 14th inst.
-. DUPONT Walkers steam sawmill al
| Wilmington, Del, with it's contents, was de.
stroyed by fire. Loss $500, no insurance.
-. DR.. Snow, of Providence, R. l., esti-
mates the annual value of the products of the
industry Of that city at S14, Aisle
80. Commodore Perry read a psper last
| evening, before the N. Y. Geographical Socie.
ty, on Geographical science, conseq uent on
| commercial extension
80. M. CalderOn de la Barca and his gifted
lady are residing at Passy, near Paris They
were at the recent marriage of daughter of
Queen Christine.
.... d BOxant, who had held several posi.
| tons of official trust in New Orleans, commit
TED suicide on the 18th ult, by plunging q
dagger in his breast
80. Rev. Mr.. Jope, recently attached to the
theological Seminary, at Alexandria, has re
ceived q call to take charge of ST. Johns
Church, at Portsmouth, Va.
80. Abbott has come out in his own defence
against the critics of his Napoleonic romance
but his argument is not specific enough to
nave weight with those competent to Judge.
80. Francis Bolan, Of MinersyiIle, Pa
drew the T" Genoa Crucifx," at the Sandusky
cosmopolitan Art Association distribution of
prizes There were "a, 1873 tickets.
-. Leverton Thomas, an old man of 20 re.
centiy convicted OF forgery, was sentenced on
saturday, at Pittsburgh, to the penitentiary.
lie protested his innocence. An application
has been made for pardon.
80. Or. Spaulding, the Catholic Bishop of
louisville, is delivering his course of lectures
on The Elements and History of Modern
CIVILIZATION" before the Catholic Institute of
New Orleans.
80. Peter Cooper has petitioned the N Y.
Legislature to appoint Board of Trustees to
lnaugurate his magnificent donation of Free
Educational Institute in New York city,-
which has cost half million.
80. Fiske P. Brewer, tutor in Yale Col.
iege, lson Of the reverend "Sharp rife" advo-
cate OF the same name) has been thrashed bv
the students for having acted the part of
spy.
80. Capt II. Whitaker has made a sue
cessful experiment on Lake Erie, in the pro.
pulsion Of vessels, and which is looked upon
as matter of special interest. The plan
consists simply in the application of the COM
mon propeller to the sides of the vessel.
80. Judge Marsh of Boston has sentenced
Edward Coburn to ten months Imprisonment
and fine, and Benjamine Dalton to five
months Inn prlsonment, for the assault upon
young Sumner, Of which they were convicted
when tried for his murder
go. Major McCaslin, the Indian agent in
Kansas, is famous fiddler. Those who have
heard him play the Arkansas Traveller"
and are familiar with his bland and genial
manners, will not be astonished at his power
to "soothe the savage heart and control the
turbulent spirits Of the far western prairies.
80. Mr.. r. G. Parder, in his revised MAN
ual of the Strawberry says that during the
last year New York city consumed from
Al 900 to 1000 bushels of this delicious fruit:
Philadelphia, from 10000 to Ia, 900, Boston
from 5000 to 1000, and Cincinnati from
II, 900 to $4,000.
80. John NJ. Bell, sheriff of New Orleans,
was required to give security to the amount
va enOueSAu twenty we'll known
gentlemen of that city, of different shades of
politics, have placed their names on Mr.. Bells
bond, each for twenty-five hundred dollars,
the said twenty signers representinn a capital
OF at least four millions of dollars
80. Daniel Webster once said that the
sin OF America was the sin Of suretyshipn
There Is written in mournful letters in the
history OF every man, the record of suffering
by endorsements. 1t would make the most
extraordinary chapter in human experience
II the incidents of this feature in business
were written.
49, Henry Bedwell, surgeon, and Augustus
r. Turner, assistant surgeon of the 18th regi-
ment, have been committed to Maidstone jail,
England, upon finding of corsner's jury that
they were guilty of manslaughter in giving
William Stinson, private, opium instead of
SIENNA, by mistake. Another man, whom the
had treated in the same manner, was in DIV.
ing condition.
'..' captain Hunter, better known to the
world and the newspapers as Alvarado Hun
ter, died recently in New York at the hospital
OF poverty, privation and disease. This off g..
Ger, while under the command of Commodore
Ferry, captured town on the Mexican coast
contrary to the rules and regulations of the
routine system Of naval tactics He was well
known in this city, and has left many personal
friends
go. Senior Portfolio, of the Convention of
d fsru, has presented the following project for
and elsewhere, viz " The Republic to annuI
all existing contracts for the sale thereof on
commission, and sell it hereafter at the several
places of its deposit, at $40 per ton, to be paid
for Sl5 cash, and the balance in rateabls pro-
portions of the bonds of the House and For.
eisn debt, with the object of extinguishing the
National Debt"
80. Prof. Hitchcock, of Amherst College,
has just returned from tour at the West,
where he has been giving lectures on Geology
as connected with religion. He has publish
ed very interesting account of his tour in the
Boston Congregationalist of last week, in which
| long article, he gives birds eye view of the
unbounded hospitality of the W estern people,
Of the growth of theiricities, of the geology and
railroads of the West, and of that section Of
the country generally. He speaks of suffering
with the cold at Cincinnati and generally in
that latitude much more than he has in New
England, where the dwellings are constructed
| In view of severe winters