Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-12-04
PERSONAL.


80. Charles Mackay, the poet, is coming South
to lecture.
.... Gerritt Smith has sufficiently recovered
from his late illness to travel.
i -. Tennysons the, poet, is said to be hope
lees victim 10 the use Of opium. - - 50,
were at the Revere House, Boston, on Tuesday.
49,. Hons. James Landy, Pa, A. 9. WAITING
and A. Johnson, Tenn, are at the United Stairs
Hotel. y
-. Hons. VIM. Montgomery and E Joy Nor
ris and lady, Pa, and c. b. Tompkins, Ohio,
are at the Washington House.
-. Billy Birch, the Snowman, distributed
LOCO loayes Of bread among the poor Of Cincin.
natl on Thursday morning.
-. At great Irish meeting b ED in Montreal
on Monday last, Mr.. darcy MEG ee was unan-
mousiy chosen as their candidate for seat in
Parliament at the coming election.
-. Lola Montez, In late visit to Lancaster,
Pa, turned up her pert nose at her chamber ac-
commodations at Michael's Hotel, which dis
gusted the Lancasterians, that she was obliged
to lecture to empty benches. -....-r
-. Hons. w Lawrence, Ohio, III. M. Shaw,
N. c., NJ. l.. Bonham and L. M. Keitt, g c.,
G. Read Riddle, Del, VIM. BarksdaIe, Miss
Chas. T.. Scott and lady, Cal, Chas. Read and
family. Tenn, and Com. Stewart, U. 8. N. are
at-Browns' " .. .t D..
.... Hons John r Edie and VIM. Millward,
Pa, Aaron Shaw, H., A Hale, Iowa, w. G.
Whitley, Del J. 6 Davis, Ind J. s. Caskie,
Va; J. A. Qutman and family, Miss. are at
Kirkwoods'
San Francisco, whose income used to be four
thousand dollars a minute, has issued prospec-
tas OF banking institution about to be started
to be called Samuel Brannan's Bank"
80. Governor Walker arrived In this city this
morning from Washington. He purposes, we
understand, to spend few DAYS here, and then
return to Washington, where his family resides
N. Journal Of Commerce, Of yesterday.
-. The honors to be conferred on the Anglo
Indian Generals are officially recorded in the
London Gazette Sir John Lawrence is ap-
pointed knight Grand Cross NJ the Bath Gene
nj Havelock, Knight Commander of the Bath
and Generals Wilson, Van Courtlandt and Cham.
berlain. Companions Of the Bath.
-. The Boston Bee says that the Rev. Isaac
8. Kalloch, the Baptist clergyman, about whose
conduct so much scandal was once ahoat, has re-
signed his pastorate of the fremont Temple to
take effect In three months. He intends to enter
upon the practice Of the law, for which profess
sion he has been fitting himself
go. Herman Melville lectured before a charity
association at Lawrence, Mass on Monday, of
LIST week, and again at Concord the next even
ing. On the 4th instant he is to speak before
the Mercantile Library Association OF Boston.
This is the first appearance of the popular author
Of "TyPee" on the lecturing stage.
-. Hons J. M. Kunkel, Nd, Samuel C. A.
mold, Ct, F.. B. Morgan, A. b DIN, Clark b
Cochrane, r. f. Fenton, J. w. Sherman and 5
G. Andrews, N. Y, John Hickman and Galusha
A. Grow, Pa, Linus B. Comns and family,
Mass, VIM ID. Brayton, R. T., Jacob Collamer
VI: and Gen p. F Smith, U. ) A, are at VIZ
lards'.
Rev: DR.. Bellows, in his last lecture before
the Lowell Institute, strongly urged the necessi.
ty OF early marriages as the only remedy for that
RIGHTEOUSNESS so prevalent among The youth (
our large cities, and soundly berated the fair
Tor their extravagant tastes and expensive habits
which, as he alleged, deter young men Of small
means from entering the matrimonial state and
thus lead to Illicit indulgences.
80. Mr.. Ten Brock, who arrived from Eng
Land by the Vanderbilt, proposes to pick up some
fresh horses here, with which he will again 90
to England in the Spring Those posted In such
matters uncomPromisingly assert that Prioress,
IL she remains on the other side another year so
that she can become perfectly acclimated will o
what she has yet ed to do-''take down, all
the British race horses. The loss of Prior how
ever, is admitted on all hands to have been the
greatest disaster that could have occurred to Mr.
Ten Broeck's stable. As compared with Iecomte
and Prioress, he was incomparably their supe-
rior.