Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-27
PIE RSONAI.

-. Judge Nelson of Maryland, is at the Kirk
wood House
Hon. Henry Stump, of Maryland, is at the
KiTkwood House.
heard from. and had there delivered lecture on
Humor and Charity for the benefit of the widow
and children of the late Angus b. Reach.
- Rev: George Brown. ID. ID 8, President of
Madison College. Pa. is in the city and preached
last night at the Methodist Protestant church,
Ninth street.
go. John Leech, the principal artist of Punch
announces volume OF plain and colored sketches
under the name Of Master Jackey in Love; or a
Regular Young Troublesome being a SEQUEL to
Master Jackey's Holidays by the same lively
artist.
go. William II Russell of The London Times
was asked by the prOprietOrs to 90 to China as
special correspondent, but was compelled TO de-
cline, as he was previously engaged to lecture
during the next twelve months in the leading cit
les OF Great Britain and ireland on the Crimean
War.
-...M Mrs. TrollOpe's son, Anthony. has a new
novel in the press. called =. Barchester Tours .:
Among the new translatiOns announced as s'near-
ly ready is - Valisneria, a Midsummer Days
Dream," by Emily Pfeiher-who must not be
confounded with, or mistaken for Ida Pfeiffer
who has gone round the world as 4 dead head,
and Is the most entertaining and instructive of
travellers
80. While the salary attached 10 the Attorney
generalship of Virginia is only 81 coo per annurI
yet Selden Withers' Indebtedness to that State
lcdCulilB over Is about To be paid, and
upon that sum the Attorney General is allowed a
commission OF five per cent. for collecting max
ing In the aggregate over S30,OOO for two years
salary An Office worth having, that
80. George Augusta Sala whose writings In
Household Words are so generally accredited TO
Dickens by the reading public. has commenced a
new srrial story, with wood-cut iIlu ,trationsi n
the illustrated Times, a low priced and not We "
well got up London weekly. IL is called The
BaddingtOn PeeTage. with his I.ordship's Life A
story Of the Best and Worst Society,"
80. Mr. Montgomery, the member elect from
the 18th Congressional district of Pennsylvania
whose death was announced in the star Of SatuT-
day, was the successor of Hon. II. NJ Fuller
We learn that there are already number of can
dda;es in the field for the Democratic nomina.
ton in this district. among whom are Hendric K
b Wright, Chas. Buckalew, Ellis b. SchnabeI
and - Piatt; all strong men, indeed.
--.. The London Atheneum. which seem; 10
make point Of saying unkind things of Ameri.
can productions. has deviated from it's usual
course and has devoted four columns 10 n yery
iaudatoTy and analytical critique upon Mr. Oar.
ley ecently-published series of thirty etchinos
illustrative Of Mr.. Judd's Margaret, II con.
cludes by earnestly recommending MI barley 10
prepare Illustrations, of like character of Haw-
thorne "ScdIlet Letter -
go. Rev. ChTisiopher ColumIus Io,as At n
physician and preacher. had eloped from Paris
Texas, with the wife of a res ectable citizen ~
left wife and two children, and his attinitv,;
left husband and 'hree children. The expIo1er
had great reputation for piety and an ertraor,Ii
nary faculty of getting deeply in debt His ser.
mons were pTOllX, verbose. and arrogant Inn, ,ha
people could have stood all that if he had Ict his
neig hboris wife alone.
...- The Boston Post speaks of the grafton de-
Iivered by the Hon. Caleb Gushing upon his 10
ception by his friends and neighbOrs al Newburv
port Thursday last, at once elegant and
statesmanlike. and adds 80 Were not Massachu
sets preoccupied by sectionaliSm and her vision
narrowed and distorted, her attention might be
arrested by the broad and striking views, and
measured and musical sentences with which her
distinguished son greets her upon returning TO
the repOse of private life within her borders"
The Journal of Commerce OF SATURDAY. says:
Lord Napier dropped in upon the New York mer-
chants yesterday at the hour Of high Change
he was accompanied by WIN. Butler Duncan,
hsq whose guest he is during his brief stay in
thls city. The British Minister'S expected Visi.
having been limited at in some OF the papers,
neIe was an unusually large attendance OF our
,,oulhS business men. His IO dship was intro
dused oy Mr. Duncan to gentlemen desiriny II
a a having bis hand earnestly aud honestly sha
nen ioi Quarter CT an hour, withdrew leaving
Wy pledsdht impression of his amiability with
al who succeeded in getting a glimpse of him,
~hleh was no easy thing in the dense crowd.
4 III a SDOOnfuI of ,yaa.,