Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-11-08
PERSONAL.

80. James Buchanan is our next Presi.
dent.-N Y. TrtbUne
80. Gen. Jas. Watson Webb of the New
York Courier and Enquirer is now in Wash
ington.
80. Stephen H. Branch received one vote
for Mayor in the Fifteenth Ward, New York
the ward in which he resides.
-. 1t seems to be conceded that the contest
turns on PennsyIvania.-N. Y. T,mes.
Ii has turned.
REV. William B. Walker, for nineteen
years q Methodist preacher of considerable
note in Tennessee re,ently united with the
Baptists
49,. Rev. DR.. g. w. Burnap. of Baltimore,
10 delivering q course Of lectures before the
Lowell Institute, at Lowell, Mass.
80. DR.. Finney, who was wounded in the
recent duel at Richmond, w., is still cow a.
lescing.
go. A sister of Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss
Cation Pyne, has an English Opera Troupe in
London, with Mr.. Rosenthal as bssso, and Mr..
Leigh Smith, as tenor.
80. 1t is stated that VIM. P. Preston, ESQ =,
of Baltimore was knocked down and consid-
erably hurt ut Govanstown on election day,
while endeavoring to get to the Judges to give
his opinion about the legality Of q vote.
go. Robert Lyons shot g. H. Patterson, in
Charleston, s. C., on Wednesday morning
The wound is pronounced dangerous. The
parties had had a difficulty previously, and
on meeting casually the quarrel was renewed,
with the above result.
80. The Hon. Senator Bright of Indiana,
the presiding officer of the United States SEN
ate reached Washington last evening. We
hear that he estimates the Democratic plural
ity in Indiana at 10000, and tho Democratic
majority in Kentucky to be $4,000.
go. Speaking of the rebuke, by his own YES
try, of Rev. Dudley Tying, for preaching pol
itics in his pulpit, the Church Journal (said
to be the organ of the Provisional Bishop of
the New York Diocese) remarks: "We have
but three words to say-serVsa him right"
80. DR.. auckland, tho Dean Of Westmin-
ster is dead. Less famed as theologian
than as natural philosopher, he was in times
past distinguished for his geological re-
searches, but for the last six years he has
been in a condition of mental arrangement
49,. Edwin Forrest, on Thursday, entered
in the United States District Court at Phila-
delphia, for copyright, the following plays,
which be had purchased from their authors
"Jack Cade, >" Oraloosa, !" Caius Marius,'
" The Gladiator {" The Broker of Bogota,"
and Metamora.'
80. John B. Cough, the renowned temper
ance lecturer, ruralzes through the summer
at his residence about five miles from WOr-
cester, in BOylston, Mass He here refts body
and mind for his winter lecture campaign; ex-
temporises at the Boylston rural church on
Sundays, in the absence of regular pastor
superintends the Sabbath school leads the
choir, and addresses the inquiry meetings.
go. Mr.. Arrowsmith, a cotton broker at
Liverpool, avows the authorship Of the horri-
BILE story about the use of revolvers on the
railroads in Georgia, which appeared in the
London Times, and afirms the entire truth Of
his narrative-so say the English papers re-
ceived by the Canada Mr.. Arrowsmith ia
genius Since the PRONUNCIATION of Locke
/" Moon Hoax" nothing approaching this
creamy sell upon the Times has appeared.
80. Mr.. Buchanan's family circle consists,
for the present, of Mr.. and Miss Lane, This
nephew and niece,) Mrs. George Pitt, Of Phil
adelphia, and Mr.. Appleton, his late Secretary
Of Legation in London. Col Ramsay is also
on visit with him. Miss Lane, beautiful
and highly accomplished young lady, does the
honOrs Of the mansion with the same grace
and affability which gained her SO much pop
ularity at the head of her uncle's establish.
ment in London.
80. The Boston Journal states thai Hon.
Charles Sumner, by the advice of his physi-
ciap, DR.. Perry, proceeded to the residence Of
Professor Longfellow, at Cambridge, on cleo
tion day in order to avoid the excitement at
tendant upon the reception of election return.
The excitement on Monday had SO much effect
upon him that he was obliged to take NOR
phine before he could sleep He attempted
the labor of directing some documents to Eu.
rope, but the exertiOn was too much, and he
was obliged to dos.st
80. 1t having been discovered that six
valuable landscapes by the old masters, had
been stolen from the picture gallery of the
Earl Of Suffolk, in London, on one of tho
days, as is supposed, that the gallery is gene
ally opened to the public, great exertiOns are
being made to recover the pictures, and it
being considered probable that the thief would
epdeavor to dispose of them in this country
Instructions were sent to the British Consuls
at the Atlantic ports to be on the lookout for
the pictures, particular descriptions of which
were given. Itis said that Mr.. G P r James,
II y. M. Consul at Norfolk, communicated
the fact to the United States government, asking
their aid, and that Secretary Guthrie has, in
consequence, sent orders to the various Custom
House officers to submit all pictures landed at
their ports to close examination, with view
to the discovery of the stolen property.