Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-03-13
PERSONAL

go. Hon. Fernando Wood, Mayor Of New
York city, IL among the late arrivals at Viii,
lards' Hotel.
go. A correspondent Of the Boston Courier
states that Mr.. and Mrs. Rreckinridgs wsrs
the handsomsst couple at the Inauguration.
DIR B. B. Brsdford denies that he vas
spes ged in duel with Thomas Mundy, IN
Washington, on Sunday last, but admits that
he was unavoidsbly involved In an ARRAY with
Mr.. N. on Saturday last.
1.-THE Alexandra Gazette denies the 70.
port, started in q northern paper, that the late
David Hume Of Alexandria, who was shot BY
Col. Lee, was the man who went to Boston to
reclaim Anthony Burns, the fugitive slave.
....E.Z Judson, known as A" Ned Bunt-
line" has been converted and reformed BY
spiritualism A spiritual paper, giving an
account Of the conversion, says, I" He was
brought to bis knees, and melted like child"
Ned will make an excellent apostle Of the rew
faith.
go. Hons J. Lockhart and Jas B. Foley,
of Ind, and j. Miller, of Ohio, M. C . elect,
are at Browns Hotel; also DR.. 8. N Smith,
l. @. Butler. E. Longdon, T. Tough, j.
Rooney, J. Neal, DR. N McMullen, and B.
f. Reinhatt, the committee who brought the
remains of the late DR. Kane from Cincinnati
to Baltimore.
go. The Hon. Mr.. Venable, formerly a
Democratic member of the q 8 House of
Representatives from North Carolina, Is
among the large number Of Democratic ex-
members Of Congress now in Washington.
His many personal friends In this region will
be glad to hear that time has indeed dealt
lightly by him, judging from his appearance.
....J John G. SAKE, the humorous Vermont
Poet, 10 lecturing in Baltimore. He is de-
scribed % tall and athletic, standing over six
feet in his stockings. A man of the world be.
fore he became o man Of letters, -his address
is frank and easy; he has great conversational
powers and tells story inimitably. He is
just such man as Christopher North would
have welcomed to his heart of hearts-just
the man to have figured in tho Noctes with
the Ettrick Shepherd.
-. The Chevalier Wyckof, the very prince
of volunteer diplomatists and love makers to
ladies Of uncertain age, is among the distin-
guished strangers now in Warrington. Really,
on seeing him We fancied our eyes were play.
ing Us false. Instead Of being the dashipg
bandit looking fellow, with an eye like hawk
at one moment and like Shylock's at another,
as folks are apt to picture him, he appears az
though bashfulness was his besetting sin
above all others, and in dress and air is az
expect to meet in a country clergyman.
go. The story republished by us, and In
thousand papers recently, saying hat young
lady of Elizabethtown, N had been placed
in an insane hospital at Hartford, Conn, ur-
der mysterious'y suspicious circumstances, IL
volving great cruelty, &c, DC proves to
have been manufactured almost out Of whole
cloth. 1t turns out that three Of the first
physicians in New York advised her treatment
In such an Institution, and after Thorough ex-
animation pronounced her insane. We gather
far nhoan
the subject, and publish them as due to tie
mother Of the patient, whose name and family
We know not. -.
-. If the deeds Of Bingham Young, the
great Mormon leader, equal his gospel thun.
derlng, he must be an exceedingly generous
fellow. He thus denounces man named
Gideon who had the audacity to question his
prophetic character and the purity Of the
spiritual wife" system:-" Who is this
Gideon that has come amongst you? He used
TO sell tape in st. Louis, and now he is here to
blsspheme the Lord and to destroy the house
OF Israel. And what should ye, children of
the convenant, do in return for this evil work,
Out With the bowie knifes ye wore like breast
pins at Nauvoo, and in the name of God and
his prophet. give him h-l'
-: The following public men are now at
the kirkwoOd house in this city, viz: Hon.
Messrs c MeKibbin Of Cal Jos Burns.
Of Ohio; R0bt. Smith, Of H.. J. G. Davis
and J. N Gregg, Of Ind members of Con-
gress elect; ex Senator Bradbury and GYM.
o. Moses Mcdonald, of Me-; ex-Gov Wood,
Of Ohio; Col 8. w. Black, Of Pa ex.M q.
W. +: Colcock, Of 8 c: ex.President Mira.
beau Lamar, of Texas; Maj R s. Neigh.
bours, Indian Agent of Texas; N w. Irwin,
U. Marshal of Minnesota; Thos J. Henley,
Tex M q. from Indiana, and now Chief In.
dian Agent for the department Of California,
aud b. q Webb, Esq the former able editor
Of the Pennsylvania.