Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-11-13
Personal.

go. The Portsmouth journal says Major
PoJrc should be created a baTroT-net.
.... Hon. Harry Hibbagd, of New HAM,
shire, is in the city, and is guest at tie
White House
Mr.. Bayard Taylor and his sisters are
making a b-.ef visit to Italy-whence he goes
to the north of Europe to pas year.
1t is stated by some ardent Fremou;ers
that Mr. n. p. Banks has been already Sc
Iected SIS tie leader Of ths opposition in the
next House of Representatives.
.... The English Tspers report that the
plain stone which originally covered the
remains of William Cobtett has been replaced
by handsome tomb erected By his son.
80. Every one of the three " ashburnes is
re- elected to the next Congress. Israel In
Maine by 5, 900; CadwaIIa1er in Wisconsin
by ). 900; and Elihu b. IN Illinois by II 55l
majority.
.... Mrs. Moorehouss nee Fancy TsiiRck
died recently in Scotland she was the
daughter of Henry Wsilack, and was a mem
ber of the Broadway Theatre company when
that house opened.
go. forrest. the Boston papers say, Eas
crowded houses every night there, though he is
playing the same stcreOtyPel parts he has
been playing these many years past" Rich
sIieu, - Damon" " Spsrtacus, and all that.
49,. The much talked Of marriage of a GER
tain Presbyterian Divine, late of Philadel-
phis. to Miss Sallie Mcdowell, formerly Mrs.
Governor Thomas, of Maryland, was consum-
mated at Lexington, on the evening Of Mon
day, the 81 inst.
go. The monument TO Kant, the most eele
brated metaphysicisn Germany has given to
the world, is completed. NJ Keuch is the
sculptor 10 EhoTn its execution was confded.
The likeness is perfect, being taken irom a sill
houette given by Kant to the sculptor father,
II is erected a. koenigsburg, in the avenue
where Kant was accustomed to walk.
.... Extract from poem just published in
England:
Farewell, Tanengower, and GanswerTa
Farewell, WagTa BarjeTg and lrrawaTa.
Farewell MsrrimicgO and thee, Burnewang
And thee, Booroondara and Goomalibee
Farewell, Narab Nafab anu BinnomongT
And WimmeIa plains, ny Tongecmungie
If it is all like the foregoing, the poem must
be rich and ingenious Tork-a sort O htsh
art production
go. Genius sprouts up from different as well
"a peculiar kinds Of sOii For instance, Ark
wright, the inventor Of most valuable i'm
provement In cO,ton-s riDning machinery, was
a barber; Whitney wac not q maker Of cotton
machines when he Invented the saw-gig; Cart
wright, tie inventor OF the power loom, was
an Episcopslian clergyman; Forsyth, the in
was q Presbyterian minister; and the Rev.
L. Burt, of Manchester Ct was the inventor
of the FIRST American check-lOom
zee. The Philadelphia Bulletin has the fol
lowing comments on two sisters Of literary
fame
There are thousands Of persons who have
wept over Uncle Tom, by Mrs Beecher Stowe
But there not thoUsandS-nay we doubt If
there have been even dozens, vino have wept
over a very unpTetendIng little volume in ply
siology by Mrs Stoves sister, Catherine
Beecher And yet, in cur humble opinion,
the work IL question lie much better worth 4
few tears. SINCE il details social wrongs, COM
pared with which those Of Uncle Tom and his
brethren are comparatively email We refer
20 the constant slaughter C white iD.2Ocents-
the destruction CT female heath in America
owing to the wait Of proper physical training
go. Mrs. PreEeit editress OF the Yszoo
City mississippi Banner, writes concerning
the fighting editor If that paper as follows:
Come misapprcbensiOn seems to exist about
our editor. MIR. Smith. We are constantly re-
eeiving business letters addressed 20 him. lie
is only the fgating editor, and has nothing to
do whatever with tbo money matters Ct this
concern. Challenges may be addressed TO
him as heretofore and other gar like missiles.
insults, denuncistions, &c, DC. We Ii We 10
objections TO having Ems included Ia the
category, as we regard dnHs as PERSONAL ana
particularly offensive. Persons having bust
ness of this sort with this Office, will pi=ase adj
dress hr Smith, the fighting editor"