Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-03-10

| 80. Ralph Waldo Emerson is soon 70 COM
msnce . cou rse of lectures in Boston.
...Dr. Baird's lectures on the Waldenses.
at Louisville, did not draw, although free.
| 80. Mr.. Geo. b. Boxers plays and poems
vail shortly Be issued in two volumes
SO. Rev. Orville Dewey is lecturine at
| Chasieston.
-. Robert w. Fraser, late Consul at Hall.
fax, has been nominated and confirmed as
Consul at Nswcastls-upon- Tyne, .England.
-. Harrison Hesrtwell, wealthy citizen
OF Branswick, Va, died Suddenly In Macon
| Ca, on the 18th ult.
-. Geo. W. Greene, once consal at Roma
i Publishing . life Of his grand father, Gen.
Greene. ~ -
4.... Col: J. W. Forney, of PHILADELPHIA, has
been appointed chairman of the Democratic
State Central Committee, of Pennsylvania.
....Matilda Heron has gone to New Orleans.
Her engagement at Cincinnati was popular
and profitable. -.I :. :. -. r. :.
-. Richard Kelley, who was arraiened for
the murder of Corrigan, at Sylvester, C. W,
| and acquitted, has been shot dead.
q The Hebrews, lately in session at Cleye
land. have resolved to found University at
Cincinnati, for the education of their people
-. Mr.. Brougham will publish, early in
the spring, volume Of tales entitled " Irish
Echoes" It will contain half dozen stories,
in the writers richest vein Of humor. z, .
-. DR.. A: 6. Mackey is now delivering at
Charleston his interesting, profound, and
well-digested course of lectures on the 'sSym-
bolism of Masonry" ..s..--..
-. William Mssservey has been elected
Mayor OF Salem, by majority Of IS votes
over General William Sutton, the K n can
didate H @E
-. Cyfax, Of the Hartford Times, the other
day, had the curiosity to examine the contents
Of a plump partridge's crop and counted
| seve't hundred and forty apple tree bids. !:
-. Susan Denim failed at Cincinnati in
Lon, character entirely too poetic for her Ca
pacities. She and her sister have gone to
Louisville. ~. ...... 70 --,-.
-. Shakespeare well knew that there was
no true pathetic-nothing that can permanent
ly lacerate the heart and embitter the speech,
unless a 1oman IS concerned
80. Robert Schuyler, the New York defaul-
ter, (who has been killed twice by printing
ink. is after all alive, in the little tswn Of
Brugge. Germany. ....-...--
go. Geo. w. Clinton of Buffalo, and Robert
Kelley Of New York, both Democrats, have
been elected Regents Of the University, by
the Legislature of New York.
-. Major Crawley-every one knows the
Major ,-sued Horace Greedy for libel in the
Tribune, and was awarded $50, with costs of
suit Eyes right
go. Edward B. Oliver, we'll known and
highly CITED musician, will shortly open a
Musical Institute in Pittsfeld, Massachusetts,,
at which first rate musical education may be
had by young ladies. E-s
80. Mr.. Ewbank estimates the population
Of Brazil, at 1850, 900, of whom 2, 160, 900 are
whites, 100, 900 are free colored people,
100000 are domesticated Indians, 3,120, 600
are negro slaves, and l80, 900 are free blacks
80 Col. Dewitt, Representative in Con.
gress from Massachusetts,, is quite sick at his
house in Oxford, with rheumatic fever, and
will probably be unable to leave home for his
seat in Congress for the present. 'r-
go. Miss Adelaide Phillips has taken Nine.
Didiee's place in Mr.. Paine's opera troupe
now in Philadelphia. She made her debut in
the character of Arsace, in the opera Of Semi
ranids, on Thursday evening. b..
.... We are glad to learn that Mr. ". Nc.
Kean, Esq late Chief Clerk of the Clerks
Office of the United States House of Hepre-
sentatives, who has been quite i'll at his resi-
dence in this city for some days past, is recov-
ering. --.....-
80. Sir Allan Park, once said at a public
meeting in London "Of our civiliz alton, our
freedom. our laws, we forget entirely how
much is due to Christianity. Blot Christianity
out of the pages of mans history, and what
would his laws have been, what his civiliza-
tom" r..
80. Lieut. Alvarado Hunters funeral was
attended by Edwin Forrest, and several other
civilians, and many members of the service,
including Captains Nicholson, Morris, and
Rowen Lieutenants Babnett, Woodruff, Cras.
son, and Haxtou, Chief Engineer Say, and
Purser Hunter. 49,. -.
-. W. B. AspinwaIl has retired from the
Presidency of the Pacific Mail Company, and
the agency Of his house in anaging the bust.
ness of the Company at New York has been
surrended to the Board Of Directors, of which
Mr.. W; H. Davidge, late Secretary, has been
made President
REV. John s. Abbott is upheld by the
N. Y. Independent, that radical of radical
| sheets, as the author of a +" Life of Napoleon
distinguished for "high toned christian char
acter and devout conscientiousness Bah
He stole the very idea of the work from a
| manuscript submitted by another author to
the Harpers. .... ...-'
-. W. II. Hand, who served his time in
the Allentown (Pa) Democrat Office, has lust
turned up fighting the Indians in Oregon He
has lived in Philadelphia and New York, been
on whaling voyage, went into business in
tuo pauu "lSn Asiauus, moved TO CAIll0rnl8 ana
| is now volunteer IN Oregon. He is about 81
years of age. ~
-. Liebig has of late made several impor-
tant discoveries in the elements Of food. With
| these he has published an explanation Of his
well known land in Germany by no means
appreciated) views Of lager beer As beer
contributes nothing to the blood, Liebis main
tains that, though it may have its value as
source Of pleasure, and as invigorating the
nervous system and respiration, yet chemical.
~ speaking, it lie almost worthless 81
SO. Governor Minor, Of Connecticut, has an.
pointed Friday, March 2lst, as day of fast
ing, humiliation, and prayer, in that State.
This we regard as a movement in a right
| direction, as the day thus designated is the
Good Friday of the ecclesiastical calendar
the day observed by a large portion of the
Christian world, in commemoration of the
| death of the Savior. ..--.
-. VIM. II. Prescott the eminent Aneri.
can historian, who resides at Groton. Mass,
lost one eye when at college, by blow from
| a crust thrown by boy The sight of the