Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-08-29
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

REMOVALS AND APPOINTMENTS This being
the last business day of the current month,
Pennsylvania avenue is again rife with ru-
mors of the removal of the heads of various
bureaus-none of which, we feel persuaded,
have taken place up to the hour at which we
indite this paragraph. Our impression is, that
the changes which it has been determined to
make in the incumbents of some Of these places
will follow, rather than precede, the appoint
ment of a new Commissioner of Patents, and
that they will be made (alD on the same day.
OF course, those who will 60, and their immedi-
ate friends, will be essentially impressed with
the profound injustice of the policy working
after that fashion upon them. On the other
hand, those who will be appointed in their
stead. and their immediate friends. will be quite
as thoroughly satisfied that it is the policy of
all conceivable policies destined to keep the
Democracy victorious; while the most of the
party and people who neither ask nor expect
office will not care the toss of copper who may
be in and who out of such places, provided the
duties appertaining to them be properly per-
formed.
The SCARCITY OF SEASEN continues, not
outstanding all the heavy ship owners of the
country, boards of commerce, and commercial
journals of the land have been puzzlng their
brains for months to remedy the evil. The
truth is, the demand for them in this country
has increased faster than the capacity of the
commercial world to supply it; for the hands to
navigate American bottoms are drawn from
every nation, the sons Of which venture to fol
lou fha No Of N of,,l ~
eminent scheme to induce more Americans to
become seamen, and also of similar efforts on
the part of associations. The life is very
hard one, and science, industry and enterprise
in the last quarter of century have opened
up SO many more profitable and agreeable en-
Payments in this country as that the proportion
Of young persons who take that inclination has
been year by year diminishing, and will SO con-
tinue. 1t seems to us that the almost universal
abandonment of sails for steam, by which a
given number of hands can do vastly more bust
ness on the ocean than with sails, is most likely
to prove the remedy for the serious national
evil that is certainly involved in the current
scarcity of seamen. The scarcity, however, can
hardly fail to result in reforms in the prevail
ing method Of treating and dealing with sea-
IASu, WHICH, dTt Sredlly ueeUeQ.
The COURSE OF TRUE LOVE (oF THE RHINo)
NEVER DID RUN SMooTH.-They have ways of
doing things at the North entirely unknown to
us God-forsaken" folks in the slavehoding
States. There, according to their newspapers,
everything is done with an eye to profit, from
numbering man in cold blood to clutching his
estate on a false claim to be his better half, as
in the case of widow Burdell, down to the case
of the salve which the deeply wounded Mr..
Inglee proposes to clap on his injured "phee-
links, with the help of Boston judge and
jury, as narrated in the following romantic tale
% A breach Of promise case, pfp6nising the most
curious and extraordinary revelations. Is now the
talk ofthe town-and as the subject has obtained
notoriety through the newspapers we shall be
held blameless for telling what we know of the
matter. The parties all rank among the fashion
point, enjoy the highest responsibility, and the
profound regard Of the best people in the city.
Some years ago, Or. Amos Bnnby of Mount
vernon street, married an accomplished lady, a
cousin, bearing the same surname. The families
OF both Were wealthy, and the united fortunes
sweiled the aggregate to highly respectable
monetary fgure-sufficent, at all events to place
the pair beyond the prospect of future want 1t
Is true, unfortunate speculations at one time re-
duced the fortunes of the Doctor some 5000 900
but he rapidly recovered that amount in other
Mr.. and Mrs. Binnby lived in all the endowment
OF COMMUNAL felicity for many years, when il
pleased Providence to call away the Doctor to
another and better world. The widow was left |
with all the charms OF a ripe and graceful vo-
manhood, and all the golden beauties of an am |
pie and unincumbered fortune. The season for
mourning over, in due time trip 10 Europe was |
proposed. The party was composed Of several |
Boston ladies' and gentlemen distinguished for |
their wealth and social poSitOn-the names of |
whom il is unnecessary TO give Il is sufficient
no . TO off
and our readers may imagine the style of the en-.
tire tour. In the course of their rambles they of
course, visited Italy, and the widows heart was
touched with a youthful and und wing attac hment
to one Moses lnglee, Bostonian, now living in
Dorchester, we believe, and hearty good .look-
ing specimen OF lankee gentleman, numbering
an existence Of some forty five summers Letters
passed between the parties Of a sufficient warmth
10 attest the character OF the attachment that had
sprung up in that love- burthened eam-an open
avowal took place; MIR. Inglec proposed was ac.
cepted, and the inseparable knot was to he tied
on the return home after the European tour Mr.
lnglee, In expectation Of the reward in store for
him, proceeded, Immediately after the DECLARE
ton, to assume the responsibility Of several little
PEE unay Liabilities, and indulged in several ex-
cusable fancies that the truth of the Scrptu-al in
junction, Cast thy bread upon the waters and it
shall be returned unto thee after many DAYS ,,
could not be doubted.
He planned excursions, led parties, took his
hand at the SOULS in the little fairy-like sks ON
the Lake Of Como scaled Vesuyiiis peeped into
and took drop of the q crater =; fee and cursed
the lazzaroni pummelled the positions expostu-
lated with the landlords, kicked the man-ser-
wants, petted the maid-servants. and, in short
made himself generally useful as the guide pro-
tec;or, and exclusive friend Of the bewitchinp
widow. So far, SO well. The widow was doubt.
less grateful for these unmistakable tokens Of
:ef-sacTifcing affection, and her accepted suitor
but too happy to be the means of afiordinp the
slightest pleasure to one for whose personal
charms and real estate he entertained such pro-
found devotion.
The party returned home. The widow came
TO Boston. Tilted Moses, and married. some six
months since, the venerable physician and sur
2eon, George Hayward, of Pemberton Square
Very naturally, after concluding not To blow his
Drains out or take to the intoxicating bowl the |
disappointed lover sworc vengeance. But how
was IL TO be accomplished?
lie engaged the Hon. Rufus Choate and the |
Hon Pele9 w. Chandler to commence a suit |
at law against Dr.. Hayward, in behalf of his
wife, for breach of promise of marriage and laid
damages at SIS COO. The papers all prepared
ana unless the affair be compromised, il is in
timafed u Will be, the case will be tried on the
return OF the happy couple from Europe whittier
they have gone TO spend the hours of a full and