Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-10
Personal.


49,. Forrest, the trascdian, is starring it in
Philadelphia.
80. Humboldt celebrated the eighty ninth
anniversary Of his birth On the 18th Of Sept
80. Mr.. John E. Ovens the popular come
dian, has been playing an engagement at
Wheeling.
SO. What queer way some people have
of expressing their admiration Byron was
so in rapturss with Walter Scott, that he
said he was the only man in England that be
longed to get drunk with.
go. Judge Magrath, of South Carolina who
withdrew from the canvass Immediately after
the fatal duel which resulted in the death of
young Taber, has again been nominated for
Congress by meeting Of the citizens of
Charleston.
80. The original charter Of the Colony of
Connecticut, the same which was hid in the
Charter Oak, is now framed with wood from
the Oak itself. A goblet from the same oak
is to be presented to Mr.. Peabody, the cele-
brated American banker in Londcn.
-. The Pennsylvania Of W ednesday says
w d. Wallach, Esq now in Centre county,
has done much good by speaking al township
and district meetings, and has displayed a
degree Of energy and ability which cannot be
too highly commended. lie will speak up to
the very day of the election.
.... Mr.. E. F. Paris, after three years Of
solitary labor high up inside the dome of St
Paais Cathedral, London, has at length SOM
pleted, and in handsome manner, his repaint-
ing of the eighth dingy old picture, originally
done by Sir Jas. Thornhill, in the reign of
Charles II.
-. Some time during tie coming year the
United States may be honored with visit
from DR.. Chss Mackay. He intends giving
lectures on different subjects, g. The Rise and
Fall Of Freedom in Europe is one,) and
readings of his most popular and successful
poems His course will be something like
Mr.. Thackeray's
80. Of James Buchanan, a correspondent of
the Puritan Record says. "He has good habits,
clear head, steady frmness of mind, large
experience, and high and impartial spirit.
Presbyterian denomin ationally, he is a reg
ular ch uIch-goer, kind to ministers, and firm
believer in the necessity Of religion as a COZ.
sentative element In the prosperity Of the re-
public"
80. BY the English papers we see Mr..
Murdoch is announced at the Haymarket The.
stTe, London, to make his first appearance in
England soon, in the character of Young
Mirabel," in The Inconsistant," which has
been reduced to three acts The Haymarkct
Theatre is now the leading London Theatre
and our promising American actor has fair
opening to make hit.
-. Amongst the passengers by the Arago.
from Havre, are Col LeibePs family, late
American minister at Brussels, Mrs General
Thomas and family,-J. r. Sullivan, ESQ,
Counsel Mt Bayonne,-Jerome N Napoleon Bona.
parte, of BaltimOre,-Count Frefanilli and
lady OF Italy-Charles Bondesquin Esq man.
ager of the French Opera at New Orleans ac-
companied by Madame Colson, late Prima
Donna of the Theatre LyriGue Of Paris with
nth nr OF, &c.
daoriel Ravel, ESQ accompanied by Mons
Albert Friand dancer from the Grand Opera,
Paris.
80. Mr.. Crawford's equestrian statue of
w ashiDgton for the State monument at Rich
mond, Va still remains at Munich; it will
not be shipped to the United States until thu
coming spring government ship was Or
dered to Antwerp, to receive the statue but
as the vessel could not approach that city suf-
iiciently near to take it on board, and it also
being found necessary to partially remove the
decks in order to accommodate so great
bulk its shipment is postponed as above
stated. Among the works which Mr.. Craw
ford is to execute in Italy, are the four re-
naming statues, with characteristic emblems,
for the Richmond monument.
.... Thalberg, the Pianist, whose arrival
from Europe has already been announced. ia
still in New York. A letter from that citv
oaye' Inc great pianist is none of vour
thin, intellectual, sentimental looking geniuses
but hurley faced, wholesome, farmer
looking fellow, more like one of your w estern
Pennsylvania corn growers than a prodigy Of
art lie speaks English as good as an Engiisb.
man, and has much better Acquaintance
with American affairs than the most ipteII;.
gent foreigners usually have The illustrious
stranger seems to be little nervous amidst
the noise and clangor of our Presidential noli.
tics, so much SO that he frequently ouires If
We think the election in November will mss
Of without battle.'" r,
80. The Editor of the Davenport fDel
has had an interview with the father.
In-law of Col. Lane of Kansas notoriety and |
'ays: "When his precious sOn-i law induced |
ais daughter to 60 to Kansas, he sold her |
property, amounting to $4,000, and. after |
reaching Kansas, no procured mistress, and |
treated his wife so badly that she was forced |
20 leave for home and he told her he had |
paid her passage on the steamboat to Indiana.
when, in fact, after the boat started, she
found such was not the case, and it was with |
iif6culty that she raised money enough to nav
her passage. Lane had robbed her of her /
ortune. been guilty of adultery with mistress,
md sent her home penniless, and, after she
1ad left, tried to get divorce from her |
.nfough the very territorial legislature which /