Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-09-07

most remarkable career is DrIsraeli He is one of
the rev literary men who have succeeded in poll
tics. He has written love novels and mystery
novels, and all that sort of literature which was
calculated to damage him among the representa-
lives OF pounds, shillings and pence yet his q &
nancial statements in the House are said to be
clearer and simpler than those Of Goulborne's,
baring's, or Words, and the superiority Of his
capacity as anancier recommended him to the
Derby administration for the Chancellorship Of
the Excheqner. But this is not his greatest tri.
umph. D'fsraeli is a Jew, Jew in race, name,
features and figure, the latter by the way, SUI
perb; Jew who has written for his relig ion, and
gloried In 1t, yet, fought his way against all the
prejudices which hedge round the upward path
Of every son of Israel in Great Britain-fought
and conquered-until he has become the recOg-
missed leader in the House Of Commons of the tory
party Of proud England. His Toryism may be
but a sham-a Jew and a Radical leading the
great Protestant and Tory party-but as the Eng
fish journal says, It is a magnificent cheat-sucb
triumph of brains against banks and blood as
no career in the history of all mankind paral-
lei he has mastered the mobiles of England and
leads them in spite Of their dstrust.
"The Tories and D'Israeli each other-he
to crafty his favorite ambition for doing every
thing and astonishing everybody, and they to
have brilliant mouth piece In the House Of
Commons. The Tories have no reason to COM
plain Of their champion. D'Israeli is thorn in
the side of the Ministry: He is a ready debater-
a watchful, active, dashing leader-eloQuent sar-
| castle, fearless, aggressive. The reader OF the
debates in the British Parliament cannot fail to
observe MIR. D'Israeli's excessive solictude as to
the manner in which Palmerston IL conducting
the foreign affairs Of Great Britain and the bland
but thorough style in which he refreshes the
| memory Of the noble lord at the head of the Gov
ernmen as to any little mistakes he may happen
| TO have made. The mutiny in India has fallen
like another Delhi arsenal into the hands of this
prompt and relentless leader Of the opposition
and what with the Grand Mogul in front and
D'Israeli in the rear, Lord Palmerston is likely
q "A 81 4 for no iY thg
AWEDDING JAuNr.-A Washingtonian writes
US as follows:
HARPER's FERRY, Sept. 3, 1857.
Our party consisting Of the happy couple, Mr..
L. p. s., his wife recently Miss A. G. and others)
left your city on the LIST for this place
At the confluence of the Potomac and Shcnan-
doah rivers, which wash its shores, is Harpers
Ferry, built irregularly and running back among
| the upland bluffs. The place desives its name
from a ferry crossing the Potomac at the locality
where the river breaks through the Blue Ridge.
| The original name was Shenandoah Falls, dis
tant 173 miles from Richmond and 81 from w ash
| ington City. There is over the Potomac here a
| curving bridge, eight hundred feet in length,
connecting the town with Maryland by railroad,
which crosses over II.
which occupies the level river margin Of the Po-
| tOmac, extending a half mile in length up the
| river. In entering the buildings, we saw the
busy movements of the workmen, and heard the
chnery, and their wonderful working, from the
| ponderous tilt-hammer to the most delicate that
the power OF a hair can put in motion. We were
shown a new-constructed rifle, with Maynard s
recently-inveGted primer lock- containing a mag
azine filled with coil of fifty four primers. The
| feed finger, by cooking the gun, projects the
primer and brings it in contact with the orifce
of the cone. II is substitute for percussion caps
The so-called expelling ball used for this gun
| weighs five hundred rains, elongated, with con-
zeal point, having no patch in the charge. There
Is rnIuno ther H.s
| range sight, having d scale Of graduations from
one hundred to Thousand Yards; also an ar
| ransement for placing sword bayonet, answer
| ing the purposes of d side-arm, and is used as
such, except in the case Of charging.
| Tie Aimory employs about three hundred men
and turns ont 900 rife muskets and 300 rifles per
month. We were informed that musket con-
sis.s of sixty different pieces and the number of
| operations in completing one is upwards of three
| hundred. To some extent all the parts Of a gun
| require separate trades and capabilities to con-
| struct one of these instruments of death.
At the National Arsenal Is usually kept from
$4,000 to 90 900 muskets on hand.
For the purpose of getting the best view posi-
BILE we climbed the rugged piles of rocks that lift
| their heads to the blue heavens, and in the
"Meanwhile we gain the heights from whose fair
The bursting prospect spreads immense around -
When our attention was riveted to the bold noun
tain gap" which, to the eye, presents wild as
pect, and away in the distance is stretched in full
view river, hill and forest in lovely contrast as
II intended to enhance the picturesque scenery
that nature has been somewhat partial in lavish
ton for rousing the dormant feelings. What
sight for sublime poetry, What thong hts crowd
the mind when beholdng this grand sight More
anon. ia w
Irs EFFECT.-0ur remarks Of Saturday last
concerning tho effect of the letter of the Presi.
dent in reply TO the Connecticut cIergymen
continue to be borne out by all we see in the
press and all we hear in conversation on the
subject, The New York Republican papers
denOunce it as infamous, while the American
party papers not tnctured with abOiitionism,
Ito say nothing OF the unanimous Democratic
press) praise it as embracing soundly patriotic
and eminently sensible views upon the most
important question now in issue before the
American public. Yesterday morning, while
in the interior of Virginia, we heard distin-
guished politician not long since bitterly de-
nunciatory Of the Administration on account OF
what he enormously believed to be its policy
| concerning Kansas, declare that if President
Buchanan had neither written nor spoke pre-
vious sentence concerning, or performed an &C,
in connection with public affairs; before writing
the letter in question, that paper would be suf;
fcient to prove that his elevation to the Presi
dency was the most fortunate event for the fu
ture of the United States that had occurred in
the last quarter Of century.
The MCLAUGHLIN LOT.-We were somewhat
in error, on Friday, in stating the precise ques
ton recently before the Attorney General with
reference to the lot offered by Mr.. Andrew Nc.
Laughlin for the site for the proposed new
| United States court rooms in Baltimore The
| question of the validity of Mr.. Mel s title to
| the property was not before the Attorney Gen.
eral; but that of the right of the Secretary Of
the Treasury to close the previous conditional
| purchase, was.
1t seems that previous to the enactment Of
the law authorizing the construction Of the pro-
posed new Government building in Baltimore
the lot was purchased for site for it, on con.
dition that Congress should approve it's selec
ton at the price agreed on. Instead of so doing
| in frornino hot law Con1roso dacI;nod an IN IL