Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-25
PERSONAL,

fEhSUNAL.
go. Prof l.. Turner, of Va, and A. Brous.
seau and family, OF New Orleans, are at Will
lards' hotel.
80. Robert G.. Scott, of Va U. s. Consul at
Rio is among the distinguished strangers now
in Washington.
80. 1t is whispered that the Belle Brit.
tan" Newport letters are from the facile pen
of Col. Fuller him.
80. Gov. Wise and the Virginia Board Of
Public Works, ard other gentlemen, are on q
visit to the Blue Ridge Tunnel
80. The Boston Transcript says that Rev.
DR.. Z. Ii. Nevins, Of Massachusetts, has ac-
cepted call to become the pastor Of the Cor
gregational church in this city.
80. The inhabitants of Waltham, Mass
are making arrangements to give their towns
man, Speaker Banks, public reception on his
return from Washington.
80. The Albany correspondent of the New
York Herald says professor Henry's paper
on acoustics and Professor Bache's on the
tides, are the subject of general conversation
Both are considered to be striking efforts -
49,. The Hon. Mr.. Oliver of Mo who left
this city for his home On Monday last, ere the
Presidents proclamation converting Congress
on Thursday last was issued, returned (havng
proceeded as far as st Louis in time to par
ticipate in the proceedings of the House on
Saturday last.
80. Hon. Mr.. Greenwood, OF Arkansas, has
also promptly returned to this city, having
retraced his steps after proceeding good part
of his way home on learning of the pressing
necessity for his presence in Washington.
80. Miss Amelia Bloomer denies being the
originator of the celebrated Boomer costume,
and gives the credit C) to Mrs. Miller, daugh-
ter of Gerrit Smith. She says Mrs. M. had
been wearing the brooches some two or three
months before herself and others were induced
to adopt the style.
....Captain Charles Rowley Plat assaulted
DR.. James Lawrence in Brigh ton, England,
for saying that he had heard that Captain
Platt's wife, late Mrs Louisa Howard, the
actress, was not immaculate. DR.. Lawrence's
fingers were badly hurt, and Captain Plat
was I" bound over" in flOO
-. The news of the nomination of Muscoe
K. II. NJ. Garnett, by the Democrats, to rep
resent the first district of Virginia for the bal
ance Of the present Congress, vice Thomas III .
Bayly, deceased, has been received by the
States Rights men in Washington with the
deepest qualification. The cause of the polit-
ical principles, of which Mr. G is so powerful
defender, requiring, at this time, the SER
vices of as many more men of intellect, rank,
and vigor as possible.
.... A correspondent Of the New York Jour-
nal Of Commerce, writing, from Marshfeld,
Massachusetts, says:
"Visitors still continue to make their pill
grimage to this Mt. Vernon of the North,
scarcely a day passing without record Of new
names in the register kept at the mansion
The register was opened In July, 1853, the
Hon. Edward Everett heading the list. There
are now from three thousand to four thousand
names Of persons from all portions of the world.
This list does not include the names of those
who have visited the grounds, and not the
house.
49," Father Sawyer" Of Maine, as he is
afectionately called, although hundred
years and several months old, it appears is
The Manchester, N. III +, American reports
that the Rev. Laban Ainsworth, senior pastor
Of the Congregational Church, Jaffroy, New
Hampshire, is now in his one hundred and
third gear, having been born July I6. 1854
He is the oldest graduate of Dartmouth Col
lege, and probably the oldest clergyman in
the country.
....The Washington ID. O. Star, fe DAYS
ago made the following statement: "'Beile
Britain, who writes the piquant letters to the
New York Mirror from Newport, Is no other
than the redoubtable Fanny Fern alias
Mrs. Parton, wife of the man who doesn't be.
lieve in a devil.' In a recent letter TO the
Mirror, the lady denies that she Is Fanny
Fern, or that she is the wife of anybody. Mr..
Parton also, it ia said, most emph atically re-
jects the skepticism imputed to him, and saws
that he has never so expressed himself-stnee
hts marriage t-E1chanSe.
80. The Paris correspondent of the Nav
York Times writes follows respecting the
daughter Of the New York ex collector Of Gus.
toms, and the army officer with whom She
eloped ga gentleman and lady in high life
lately left New York in company, and under
circumstances well calculated to give rise tn
disagreeable scandal. The same psrtv stonned
for few days in Paris under circumstances
little calculated to relieve them from the sus
picions which already followed them.
brother Of the lady has passed through Paris
in pursuit of the fugitives, declaring his in.
tention of shooting the destroyer of his family's
honor at first sight"
80. 1t is announced on good authority. that
the correspondence of Mr. Webster, edited bv
his son, Mr. Fletcher Webster, will be issued
in October, in two volumes, by Messrs. Little
d Brown, and to correspond with the rest of
his works already published by the same
house. The editor has had the advantage of
the quiet man sion at Marshfeld, of his fathers
well chosen library, and of all necessary as.
sistance in preparing these volumes and thew
are looked for with much interest. But com.
psratively few Of Mr.. Wsbster's letters were
ever published and the few familiar letters
already given to the public, such rs those to
his farmer Of Franklin, John Taylor, and that
composed at Richmond, Virginia, on the morn
ing, give striking evidence that he was not