Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-06-11
THE EVENING STAR.

DANIEL WEBsrfR's PoETRr.-A sslady who
knows" has given US from memory the following
lines, which, she says, were written by Daniel
Webster for a lady who had requested his auto
graph on the same page with that Of La Fayette:
Dear LADY, q little fear
His S SfS Ss3 &c our eagle se as-
Trpst his young wings and mount tho sky
Has traced in hines Of trembling age 'sa'
Higher than that eagle soars,
Louder than the cannon rosrs, .---.,
HIS name shall through the earth be sounding,
And Per the wave OF time be bounding.
While thousands as obscure as !,
Cling to his skirts, he still shall fy
And spring to immortality
~ has name write my own,
He'll take me where am not known; oil
5s cold salute VII me IA ny aSs Come bsre,
~ The friends Of George w. Kendall, for
merly Of the New Orleans Picayune, have an
nounced him as candidate for Goyernor OF Texas
At the ensuing August election.
" The Hon. Edward Everett delivered his
Washington Grafton at Lynn on the 3lst ultimo
which resulted in adding ss5u to the Mount Yer
non Fund. .---.... ...
IL The Independent of Turin announces that
the ladies Of Turin have sent the Empress Of the
French splendid bouquet of flowers gathered at
Uenoa. I'D
IL The Little Giant Douglas met the eele-
brated Scotch giantess on Mssissi ppi steamboat
the other day, and the contrast between the two,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer, was remarkable.
FASHIONABLE DRRssEs-An Ohio editor asks,
- What can be more captivating than to see a
beautiful woman, say abont four feet eleven inches
high, eleven feet four inches in diameter, and
tnirty-four feet in circumference, passing along
the aisle just as divine worship coInnences!'
II Rumor announces that Messrs Smith and
Elder have secured the services of Mr.. Thackery
10 edit new monthly magazine, for which he is
also To write tale, to be published in numbers,
the terms for which stated at the liberal of
IS Co., the story TO run over twenty numbers.
The PoPK AND THE WAR.-The Pope is said to
look most placidly on the contest. Cardinal Wise
man recently related little speech of His Holt
Eess which is worth preserving. Here it is:
- Whether in Rome or IN exile. whether free or
in prison, am the same shall still be the Vicar
Of Christ and the head Of the Church"
IL A rascal In Cincinnati, short time sin6
shipped for New Orleans what purported to he
5000. On the down trip he endeavored to fire
boat, but failed, and it was then ascertaned that
his cigar boxes contained nothing but chips and
shavings.
IL Bishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, publishes a
letter calling attention to the encyclcal letter OF
the Pope, ordering prayers throughout the CathO-
lie world ito avert the scandal of three Catholic
nations, armed with all the murderous appliances
or modern warfare for mutual destruction" The
Bishop expresses the opinion that there will be no
necessity for the flight Of the Pope.
IL The successor Of Count Buol, De Rec berg.
Is red-hot partisan. He had the impotence, two
delegate Of Prussia, Dannhaver, into signing an
order for putting the Federal fortresses Of Germany
on war footing, proceeding which the Prussan
Envoy, DIR. DE Bisnark, in open Diet. denounced
as unauthorized, and was ON the point of having
10 fight duel with the President thereupon.
IL A report is afoat that Proudhon whose
illness was announced some time ago, has had a
relapse of the brain fever. and is in confinement al
one Of the model asylums Of Belgium He was
writing, 1T the time. pamphlet TO be called Pom
~ Cosfrs. the question of war-from which his
friends had expected great addition to his fame.
Whether, under the circumstances. il will ever be
completed, is now doubtful.
IL Charles Dickens having purchased Brad
bury Evans's interest in Household " ords will
merge his elder venture in his new one, All the
Year Round, and will employ the concluding
number OF the former to announce the fact to the
public Bradbury Il Evans are about to issue a
long statement Of the OF their recent
and announce that on the ID OF July, they will
publish the nrst number Of new illustrated peri
Odical entitled ''Once a Week"
IL The Rochester Union states that the mother
OF Ira stout the murderer is in suffering condi-
ton IN that city. Her son executed and dauy hter
IN the state Prison. Mrs. Stout is stunned by
everybody. She has lived retired life and en-.
deavored TO obtain livelihood as a iaundress but
her discovered who she was. She adopted an as
sumed name. but the fact Of her being Ms StoUt
transpired, and those who had employed her re.
fused to give her any more work.
u " Captain de Riyiere, who figured large
~ in the papers last wear is in Charleston pHb-
iishing fierce cards in defence Of his honor The
Ang usta Ca Dispatch contradicis his statements
and says he was recently in the town of Aiken
under the assumed name Of ''de Russy' The
captain had been carrying on a new iirtati on
with some Boston girls, To whom, when he left
the town, he addressed n note stating that he had
been summoned hack to France 10 Ioin his reyi-
ment, and would sail from New York by the
nrst steamer. When last heard from, however,
he was in Charleston.