Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-17
PERSONAL

.... Doesticks essays new book called the
History and Records Of the Elephant Club CT
New York, IN which lie in the metropolis is
fully daguerreOtyped.
80. w. Gilmore Simms has a new work in
press. entitled The Wigwam AMI tie Cabin
DR.. Mackensie's Poets and Poetry of Ireland
is in good state of forwaTdness
80. Commodore Paulding, coInmander-in
chief OF the home squadron, and Captain En-
gle OF the abash, accompanied the President
from Annapolis, and are now guests at the
White House.
80. 1t is denied that Ole Bull has taken
the stump for any one of the Presidential can.
didates. he is now in Illinois, and since the
last Of August nc has been unable TO move
about, having had severe attack Of bilious
fever.
-. We think these two lines of Alexander
Smith almost worth TIE price of the book,
though every other leaf were a blank:
90 Give battle to the Ieaauered gorld-Ntbou,r-
worthy, truly brave
Thou shalt make the hardest circumstance
helper, or a slave"
.... jesse Ketchun, Esq now of Buffalo,
but formerly of New York city, has lately
presented to the village OF YOrkville, "a subur
ban Gown adjoining that city, plot of two
acres In the heart of the village for school
site and park. The municipality, in accepting
the gift, gave the donor a sOiree, at which
some of the notables of the city attended.
....Macauiay continues in Venice-the most
insslubriOus ard unsavory Autumn residence
in Europe On his return he will resume his
History. calculation has been made, on
the rule Of three" principle that If il took
four volumes To narrate what was done in
eight years, il will require sixty octaroes to
record the events Of the hundred and twenty
years intended 10 be covered by the whole Of
Macaulsy's history. And If ii took ten years
70 write the four volumes already published,
Macaulay must live exactly century and q
half more 20 complete the work
.... Mrs Stoves new tale of q bred , has
given rise 10 an interesting question Of copy
right in Canada. Separate editions of the
work have been published at Montreal, Toron-
TO and New Londcn; while the American
publishers also 3 ad their edition in the market
Tie Plea set up by the agents of the American
publishers is that copyright in England also
extends 10 the colonies This is a mistake,
as imperial legislation does not in such 10 at
ters extend to Canada She regulates all
questions affecting Der own internal trade and
commerce, &c.
.... Captain S. l.. Fremont, who resides in
Wilmington, North Carolina is said to be the
other Fremont, designated by the New York
Tribune as a Roman Catholic Captain Ere
monts friends are highly Indignant and a
Wilmington journal says Captain 5 l..
Fremont IS not row, and never was member
Of the Catholic Church. There is no shadow
Of resemblance between him and the Black
Republican candidate. 1t is hardly possible
for two Iren TO look more unlike CAPTAIN
Fremont - tall. say about six feet high. will
weigh ut least one huGd red and eighty pounds
parts his hair and wears his clothes like his
neighboTs, ard. ike every other officer Of the
army whom We have ever met, has a thorough
contempt for the Colonel, because be knows
him to be contemplate. "
80. The London Telegraph calls Washing
ton - = hard headed, cold hearted man. - ami
says "ln lis diary which he kept whilst nj
Greenway Court, be never ex pressed the least
sympathy fer the African bcndsrna an: and in
riper years, when he became a slaye-owner
himself, we discover him to be a lust but
rigorous taskmaster. The man who could
not stomach the Stamp Act OF an English
Legislature, could rise up by dawn and tar
his ingenuity 10 wiring the utmost drop Of
sweat from those be held in thraldom He
loved 1.-The peculiar institution Of the South
ern States with all the ardOr with which the
men Of another generation are devoted 10 IL
and prepared in our own day to shed torrents
OK blood 10 maintain +"