Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-08-28
PERSONAL.

80. Hon. w. 8. Groesbeck, of Ohio, is at VIII.
lards.
.... Gen. Doniphan, of o,-of Mexican war
fame-is at Browns hotel in this city. u
at the Kirkwood house. -
..SC. Fessenden, Judge of the Municipal
Courts of Rockland, Me, is accused of county
ing at the escape Of man charged with adultery
....J J. Faran and Wash. Mclean have come
into possession Of II. w. Derbey's share of the
Cincinnati Enquirer. Alexander Walker remains
editor.
80. Col Benton has written a review of the
bred Scott decision. He takes ground with
Judges Curtis and Mclean, and against the ma
jority of the court.
-. The American party in that eentleman's
district have nominated Hon. J Morrison Harris
-. Congress. He had no opposition in their con-
Vention.
George Smith, the Chicago banker has pur-
chased a very valuable estate near Aberdeen, in
Scotland, and runior says he is about to be united
in marriage to lady Of quality.
80. nj. Lablache, says the London Chronicle, of
the 10th inst, is much improved in health that it
is not at all improbable he will return to the Ital-
ian opera during the approaching season in Pa is.
-. Ii seems that Senator Sumner is guilty of
the tittleness of carrying with him in his Euro
pean rambles, for the purpose of exhibiting it,
the coat which he had on when caned by Mr..
Brooks.
$500 An exchange says speaking of a grand ball
at Saratoga, "Miss Nj was superbly dressed
in white waist and roses in her hair.'f A gen.
tleman in the full Georgia costume, viz spurs
and shirt collar, should have been her cis a ris
-. The press generally is down on the Knox
vile Convention a frolic and humbuy. Some
Of the delegates at the Montgomery Springs, on
their return, were taken by the walters to be
StTotting play actors.
....A Syracuse paper says that at that pic mic
where thanks were returned by resolution to d.
vine Providence and the Sake Horn Band, the
blowing words were discovered on ladys
underskirt: extra Genesee-i9lbs"
80. In the Florida Peninsular of the LIST inst e,
we find the following: g A letter came to the
postoffice in this place, few days since, bearing
the following inscription: TO Gen. WIN. b.
Legs, Chief of the Seminole Indians; Everglades.
Col. LOOMS, we presume, will deliver this doc
ument-when he catches Billy"
-. On Friday last, Rev. J. c. Fletcher, the
well known lecturer, and author of g Brazil and
the Brazilians,' - while bathing near the rugged
shore of the southern end of Peaks Island, Me. ,
was thrown with great force by the surf against
the rocks. and was only saved from drowning or
fatal injury by the timely assistance of Eng
ilsh gentleman who happened in the vicinity
80. Judge Thomas Settle a distinguished citi-
zen of North Carolina, died on the 5tn instant in
the Goth year of his age. He represented Rock
ingham county in the House of Commons in 1Si5
and again in 1S26: 1927 and 1878; at which latter
session he was Speaker of that body. He was
elected to Congress i'm 1S17, and continued to
occupy the seat until ISL In 1892, he was chosen
Judge Of the Superior Courts of Law and EQUITY.
which position he held with acceptability for
twenty years, resigning it some three years since.