Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-15
PERSONAL

.... Ex-Governor Floyd left New York on
Saturday afternoon for Virginia.
.... Miss Florence Nightingale has been
travelling tneog, through England. According
70 latest accounts she was at Aberdeen.
80. The Louisiana Courier speaks of am
ilton Fish, in connection with his late letter
as GA Wing Fish turned into Black Fish ,"
.... In the death of Mr.. John b Weir, the
New Orleans Picayune says, the Typographi
cal Union, the Military and the Fire Depart
ment have met with severe loss. He was q
native Of Philadelphia, a practical printer
and was for some time attached to the Plea
yune establishment
.... The Madrid 80 illustrated News has
very good portrait Of Col Fremont, and under
Meath it is line stating that the Southern
Colonel with Northern, principles, is The Wig
candidate for our Presidential chair. They
are rather Z" slow in Spain
80. Belcher Kay, notorious throughout the
United states, but particularly in Boston, as
gambler and a sporting man generally, is in
New York city. of course he stops at one of
tie best Broadway hotels, and is quite lion
among the sporting fraternity of New York.
80. Huntingdon, the New York forger, has
been visited in Jail by some Of his friends, and
IN reply 10 some earnest inquiries touching the
extent OF his operations, he replied with a good
deal Of ponchalence that he intended 10 take
the thing cody, and that he supposed the az
gregate would not exceed haiC q million of
dollars.
.... Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe S. at Dun
nobin Castle. Her Grace the Duchess of Suth-
erlaDd met Mrs. Stowe q little to the westward
OF Golspie, and having taken her into her own
carriage, they passed through Golspis by the
back read, by which they reached the castle
Mrs stoves party consists If her husband,
three OF her children IA son and two daugn-
ters,l and Mr.. Thomas e. Perkins Of Boston
....A Paris paper says that "one Of the
largest creditors of Barnum, Ms,Srs Jerome,
CIook d Comp, have cruelty forced him TO
sell at auction all his property, bat that Mrs.
d, has insisted upon her rights, granted by
law, and would save somethingi9 Without
doubt Mr.. CtoeA 10 right, and Barnum will
have to "abide his time The French trans
latoIs often make cOmical mistakes with Amer
can news.
i.' Miss Laura Keene, (says the New
. ho,k herald has, literally, displayed her
No, .ia IN broadway. sign, certainly
Io' .tesant put expressive, informs the passe r,
nst Laura Keene's Varieties will omen
mere Nov. let" Young New York ;s aIropPS !.
highly excited On the subject Nj Wy
pays Washington a flying visit a1a,n IN
Week' commencing tonight with her tronns
.... The New York Herald speak, mos, =
reyerently OF MRS stowe slast work and saws O,
the play founded uponit "'Dred' is bsy;r
Adreadful run in various parts of the con M ~
1t was played last week at two theatres in tbi
city. at two in Boston, by Lanegan's compan,
al Hartford, and Ia various other places I
10. however, so dreamily stupid that it doe
not draw even in Massachus where ,
rnglet Of Mrs. Stoves is held in greater
reverence than the wing of cherub
80; The Richmond Wing of yesterday ba
card from p. J. Smith, the second Of =. b
BOTS IN the late attempted duel between
BOTS and Pryor Of the Richmond En-
4uiTer Mr. Smiths card is a reply 10 tha
Of Mr.. T. p. Chismond the second Of H. Pa
In the correspondence accompanying the s,o
10 o letter from oficerG W nj TyIs, R;ah
mond, who expresses the opinion q tbs, hn,
Tor the extraordinary exertions Of the police
unaer =, the direction Q. the Mayors of Richmond
night and a desperate one at that