Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-03-31

You have perfectly recalled all the details l
gave you; the account of which that you
have drawn up and read to me is most
scrupulousy exact. l have told the truth
all my lifetime: it is, therefore, not when
l am approaching the end of my days, that
1 would falsify it.
October 81, 1887. LAsNE.
Comments on the Portrait of an Ugly Man,
The editor of the Louisville Journal, after
having seen the portrait of Bennett, editor
of the New York Herald, in the Democratic
Reu,er, comments on it in this WISE
"Bennett's portrait is terrific. Such a
thing ought never to be painted or daguer-
reotyped. 1t ought to be considered penal
offence to make any thing so revolving to all
our ideas of propriety. No man has
right to monopolize SO much uginess. If
Benefits ugliness could be distributed over
a thousand faces, it wo Id make each of
them intensely, hatefully ugly. He ought
not to be permitted to 60 into the street
without blanket over his awful frontis-
piece. No wonder that so many of the New
York children die of commissions, since Ben
nett is permitted to walk abroad with un-
covered face. We once heard of mans
face that was so ugly, that it was placed on
andirons for the purpose of frightening
children from the fire with much effect. No
child dared to approach the andirons, aud
the labil ty to combustion from such cause
was greatly lessened. If Benefits ugly
likeness were stamped on fire places, the
effect would be decidedly bad, for the chill
dren would not dare to 60 near enough to
the fire to keep warm, and would become
frost-bitten and perhaps frozen to death.
We cannot conceive of any reason why any
thing should be as ugly as Bennett. He is
uglier than half starved hyena. He is
ugliness perfected. There is thorough
ness about his ugliness which defes compe-
tition. When Mirabeau described him
self as tiger that had had the small
pox, he placed very ugly idea in every
body's mind but it was beautiful when
compared to Benefits face. When Apelles
made his beauty, his Venus, he took au eye
from one woman, a nose from another, a
mouth from third, aud so on, until the
Venus was complete in her more than
earthly beauty. Now if any Appelles, or
artist of any appelation, wished to make
the most individually perfect representation
of ugliness, he would not be compelled to
take features from several very ugly per-
sons, but all he would be compelled to do
would be to get Benefits face, and the en-
terprise would be accomplished"
THE CASE OF SPR1NG.-The interest man
ifested by the public in the proceedings
against Spring, the murderer, is By no
means diminished by the new turn which
the case has taken. Just as the judgmen;
of jury had apparently sealed his fate,
and retribution for his enormous crimes
seemed certain to be demanded by the law,
q technical error throws doubt over the
whole proceeding and may set them aside
as illegal. Whatever may be the guilt of
the accused, he certainly has the right of
every other citizen to be tried according to
the fixed and settled rules of law
The Court may refuse to set the trial
aside; but, whether they do SO or not, there
is no possibility of escape for the accused
on any mere technically, for the other in
dctment for killing Mrs. Shaw still hangs
over him, and the main witness, young
Spring, is still in safe custody, where he
should be kept until the whole matter is
defnitively settled. There will be no
greater difficulty in procuring jury on a
new trial than at first, for the jury would
be sworn to try him upon the evidence OF
the case.
NORFOLK RAILROAD CoNNEcTIoNs.-The
CASTOR and Weldon Railroad, it is said, will
Le completed by the middle of April, when