Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-03-16
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go. Jc. Jefferson, the Comedian, is playing
In Baltimore
80. Hon. N. Clifford, Of Maine, has arrived
In this city, and taken rooms at Willards' Ho-
tel.
.... WIN ID. Kennedy, Eco, "Father of tt 0
CoanciP' Of Tammany Hall Society, is at Will
Iards'.
.... Tho New York Herald publishes tho
following personal" advertisement Board
wanted-by gentleman, where the comforts
of homo can be enjoyed, a la Mormon AG-
dress box -, Herald Office, for thIee days"
go. Hon. Mark TIafton, late M e. from
the Springfield district, Mass, is to return to
the pulpit, according to the Worcester Tran
script, and will become pastor of the Pyncto Ton
street Methodist church of Springfield, over
which he was stationed some years ago.
80. NJ Boileau, late Of the French lsf alton
Benton) are sojourping few days with Mr.
and Mrs. Fremont, in New York city, prepar-
atory to their departure for Calcutta, whit ,r
n. Boileau goes in few days, On diplr m It
ic mission.
80. A dispatch from New Oileans, dated
March 18th, says:
Mr.. and Mrs. Florence are playing the
greatest engagement of the season in this city
They have created the greatest excitement
Florence last night netted the handsome sum
Of one thousand dollars"
go. Mr.. Bissell, the engineer appointed to
devise plans and estimate the cost of rail
road suspension bridge at st Louis has pre-
sented his report. The plan Is considered
perfectly feas: ble-the cost estimated at ST..
300, 900, and toe nett revenue to DO derived
from it is estimated at $685., 900 per annum, or
23 per cent. on the cost.
80. Willie, Of the Home Journal, alluding
to the common custom, at dinners, and on
other public occasions, Of calling out the press
to speak, gays: Accustomed only to express
himself at the points Of bis fogers, an editor
Is called on TO speak, st Iublic meetings; las
II it were the same thing to a lump to give
out Its water from nose or handle ~
80. Hoods Sorg Of the Shirt, in the original
manuscript is said to be in the possession Of q
gentleman of New York. 1t is wholly In
Hood holograph, and has in the centre the
round mark caused by its being on the file,
as copy in the printing Office where Punch
emanated. 1t came to the present pOssessor
directly from Mark Lemon, editor Of Punch
Five guiness was the sum paid for this contri-
button Of the late Thomas Hosd.
go. The histrionic lady who, taking cffence
at something the stage manager did or said 10
or about her, a short time since. at Alexan.
dria, on the Red River, horse whipped him,
and threatened something more condign, CT ed
herself, in the bills, "Gra,e Greenw, oi"
This coming to the ears and eyes of the New
York and Philadelphia editors, WAS set down
as meaning Miss Sarah j. Clarke, the editor
Of The Little Pilgrim - the lady who first
assumed that nom de plume And the result
Is formal and indignat denial on the part
Of her friends, of " an imputation so entirely
false and so grossly derogatory to one of.ths
best AID purest CT her sex"
80. The principal writer Of our national
music is said to be Stephen c Foster, the au.
thor Of Uncle Ned" go Susannah," DC.
Mr.. Foster resides near Pittsburg, whore he
occupies a moderate clerkship, upon which
and percentage on the sale of his songs, no
depends for living He writes the poetry as
we'll as the music of his songs. These are
sung, wherever the English language is spo-
ken, while the music is heard wherever men
sing In the cotton fields Of the South, among
the mines Of California and Australia, in the
sea coast cities Of China, in Paris, in the Lor-
don pIison-every whore. in fact, his melodies
are heard. Uncle Ned" was the first This
was published In 1845, and reached a sale IN.
known till then in the music publishing Iusi-
ness. OF" The Old Folks at Home" 100 0C0
copies have been sold in this country, and as
many more in England "My Kentucky
Home" and " Old Dog Tray each had sale
OF about 20, 600 All his other songs had a
great run. All his compositions are simple,
but they are natural, and find their way to
the popular heart, and link themselves indis-
solubiy with its best associations. 49,