Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-09-12
PERSONAL.

go. Hon. C. Nj. Conrad, La is at Kirkwoods,.
go. Hon. John s. Phelps, Mo-, is at Browns.
-. Arson Buriingame is engaged stump
speaking down in Maine prior to the State cleo.
, -. Hon. Caleb Cushing and Sidney Webster.
(ex-President Pierce's private secretary have
formed law partnership in Boston
-. The New York Daily News denies that
Edwin Crosweii Of the Albany Argus, is to as
sumo its editorship = :
-. Mr.. Fillmore, special correspondent of the
London Times in this country, has been spend
ing the last five or six weeks In New Orleans.
80. 1t is stated that there nineteen hundred
sermons. by John Calvin, extant, and that not one
Of them has a text taken from the four Gospels.
80. We learn from the Louisville Journal that
Bayard Taylor has " lost his subjectivity" why
doesn't he advertise for It!
49,. 1t is suggested that Proverbial Philosophy,
Tupper's last sonnet on the Atlantic cable was
the real cause of the break. Nothing on earth
could stand such strain as that
-. Geo fellott, Esq has withdrawn from
the editorial control OF the Southern Egis, John
Cox, Esq hereafter to have sole control of the
paper.
-. Mr. Samuel Bowles has retired from the
Boston Traveller, and II is init mated that the
paper will hereafter be less Z" Republican, in its
80. Captains H. Ashton Ramsay, T. A. Hunt,
2. L. Windsor, X. Page, and DR.. J. nj. Foltz, U.
s. N; Capt: Garland, U. s. NJ. c., and Capt II.
H. Worke, U ). A, are at Willards'.
80. The New York Herald calls on Gen. Scott
and N p. Trist (now residing In New York cityJ
to make clean breast in regard to the diplo-
macy Of the Mexican war; conducted on Mexican
ground.
.... Mr.. Mann, formerly in the Portland Custom
House, has formed partnership with Mr.. Lord l.,
OF Gorham, and, judging from the name it must
be strong hrm-L0rd j. MAN,
80. CORES pendent of the Charleston Mercu.
~, writing from the Greenbrier White Sulphur
Springs, says that the r edmond Enquirer is now
under the editorial management of r H Aylett
and son OF Gov. Wise, recently Secretary Of Le-
CATION at Paris.
-. Jacob A. Dallas, cousin of the Hon Geo
Nj Dallas, and an artist of great merit, died in
New York OH Wednesday. He was one of the
chief illustrators of Harper's, Mrs. Stephens,
Frank Ieslie's and other popular periodicals,
while many of the larger volumes issued by the
best publishers We're wholly indebted to his PEN
Gil for the valuable engravngs which they con-
tanned.
go. The Southern Iitherary Messenger. in
some comments on work upon which Mr..
Thackeray, il Is understood Is engaged, entitled
:. The Virginian," says 1t has reason to believe
that this work will have no reference to the Vir-
gtnia OF our day, which Mr.. Thackeray saw In
part on both his visits to America. but Il will
be sequel to the history Of Col. Esmond, in
which the two sons Of that parsonage will be
represented involved in the onary strup-
gle, one patriot and the other loyalist.
go. FreZZolini the newly imported cantatrice
made her debut at the New York Academy Of
Music on Monday night. The criticisms Of the
papers various, particularly in respect to her
personale. The New York Express calls hers an
accommodating face q, 1t says: "The astute critic
Of the Herald says Frszzoinis face is Of the He
brew type The Times, that IL is OF an 'Oriental
mould The Tribune calls il a fine Roman
face While the Mirror says: Everybody is
struck with her remarkable resemblance to the
accomplished wife of one of the leading members
Of the New York bar Now how MANY other
faces has Frezzolini got and what other body's
wife is she like ~