Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-07-27
PERSONAL

80. Senator Mason arrived at home in w inches
ter, a few days ago.
-. Commodore Wilkinson. Captains white
and Gardiner, u. :. N, are at Willards'.
-. f.. 4. Marshall the noted theatrical man.
agdT, has married Miss Emma De Haven of Phil
adelPhia, and gone on Northern tour.
-... Francis a. Ellis has been elected Repre-
sentative 10 the Grand Lodge of the United States
l q. @. F., by the Grand Lodge of the State Of
Maryland
80. religious (Protestant) paper says th-t
Archbishop Hughes, of New York, is going to
Rome, en- business of the church, expecting to be
absent for year.
80. Mr.. Sanford. late Secretary of the United
states Legation at Paris, and b. F. Angel, of N
Y, the newly appointed u. :. Minister resident
at Stockholm, are at WillaIds' Hotel.
.... The Fayetteville Carolinian regrets to state
that the health Of Secretary Dobbin is very pre-
oarous at present. He is debilitated to extreme
and 80 very weak that it is impossible to leave his
chamber.
very i'll in Paris. He is constantly attended by
NJ. Perrotin his publisher and old friend. His
door is crowded all day by eminent authors and
people of all ranks of society, who call to make
inquiries and subscribe their names.
fremont Temple Boston, is crowded every
Sabbath to hear Rev. Mr.. Kalloch. Deacon Con-
verse. who lives at Jamaica Plain, and who is
one OF the wealthiest men connected with the
Baptist denomination, feels il his duty to come
in every Sabbath to the Temple church, and thus
give his influence in favor of Mr. kalloch.
Otn J. iuulsOn llOIldS, late Assistant
Secretary of State, was passenger on board the
AragO on Saturday last, from New York for Eu-
rope. The General, with his family, will visit
Russia, spain, and the less travelled portions of
Europe, in addition to London and Paris He
Will be absent about two years.
49,. The wife of Senator Fessenden, of Maine
died suddenly, on Friday last. She had been in
feeble health, and on the night of her death Mr.
Fessenden was awakened by remark of his wife
that she felt very fatigued. In few moments
MIR. +. spoke to her, but obtaining no answer he
felt her pulse and found no sensation-she was
dead.
-... The Crayon, in noticing the doings of
American artists in Rome, SAYS: Among the
sculptorS, Bartholomew is engaged on a statue of
Washington, for the city of Baltimore; it is still
unfinished, but il promises well Rogers is
closely occupied with the models for the bronze
doors for the Capitol extensions; il will be six
months or more before they ready for casting
This important work will add grea thy to his rep
utation.''
The authorship of - Nothing to Wear is
questioned. Ii is claimed that precOcious child
OF IL years of age, the daughter of Rev. Mr. Peck.
an Episcopal clergyman, wrote the opening and
closing part of the clever Jsn d'eSprit, and SUBJ
sequently lost the manuscript in omnibus
the inference being that il was found by Mr. VIM.
Allen Butler, who added to and altered it, MIR
Butler. in reply says, that he had not previously
claimed the authorship of the piece, but that his
name now being coupled with the charge of steal
ing the literary production of a young lady =. not
out Of her teens" he declares that the poem was
written by him. and that no line or thought in il
was suggested to him or derived by him from any
other person or source, and that - any assertion
to the contrary is entirely false