Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-21


to lend you five shillings.
U Is it not better that your friend
tell you your faults privately, than that
your enemy talk of them publicly?
70 The Falls of St. Anthony are fast
wearing away, and it is probable they
will become mere rapids before many
years.
UTMen are sometimes accused of pride
merely because their accusers would be
proud themselves, if they were in their
places.
" For everything you buy or sell, let
or hire, make an exact bargain at first,
and not be put off to hereafter by one
who says to you, 1--WE shall not disagree
about trif1es."
U So vital necessity to all living
men is truth, that the vileSt traitor feels
amazed and wronged-feels the pillars of
the world shaken when treason recoils on
himself.
T A company of gentlemen in Gin
cinnati have made arrangements by which
they will sell wood to the poorer classes,
who bring certificates from responsible
citizens, at fifty per cent. below present
prices.
U Captain Porter, Of Memphis, Ten
nessee, says the Nashville Bonner, the in
ventor of the celebrated gun, has sold his
interest (one-half to Ex-Governor j. c.
Jones for 10000. Senator Jones is in
this city organizing company with
capital of SS00,000
n Ones age should be tranquil as
ones childhood should be playful. Hard
work at either extremity Of human exist
ence seems to me out of place: the MORN
ing and the evening should be alike cool
and peaceful at midday the sun may
burn and men may labor under it.
q Archbishop Whately, of Dublin.
says that, however much people may
laugh at him for avowing it, he is a living
monument Of the truth of meSmerism,
having suffered severely for many years
from rheumatism. When the doctors had
done their best or worst, as the case
might be, he was advised to have recourse
to meSmeriSm as a last resource. In the
course of one week he was perfectly cured,
and has never since experienced any Sc
we're return of the complaint.
CT The Friend Of China, published at
Canton, denounceS the transportation to
the West Indies, as now practised by
those engaged in the business in China,
as no better than the Slaye-trade. No
proper provision is made for the unfortu-
| mates who are crowded on shipboard, and
in consequence they die by hundreds
One-third of the Coolies who were taken
by the Lord Elgin died of debility and
dropsy before they reached the Cape of
Good Hope.
70 Here is good advice. Every man
ought to get married if he can. Every
man should do his work to suit customers
if he can. Every wife should sometimes
hold her tongue if she can. Every law
yer should sometimes tell the truth, If he
can. Every man ought to mind his own
business and let other peoples alone, if
he can. Every man should take news
paper, and pay for it anyhorC.
CONSIDERABLE OF A DEMocRAr.-Mr. J.
D. Floyd, who had announced himselfa a
candidate to represent Hamilton county in
the next Legislature of Tennessee, has
withdrawn from the canvass, and saws -
Il yield the track to Major Cowart with
all my heart, and decline the race. lam
democrat, "dyed in the WOOL" and ifI
cannot get to work in the lead | will
work under the saddle if they will not
let me work there, | will push at the
wheel Of democracy"
ASINGULAR RTAsTE.-ParSonB Brownlow,
the fighting preacher" or preacher
tighter, in his last paper accepts chal-
lenge to fl hit brother editor, and names
the time, place and weapons, as follows:
I'VE select hogpen, Immediately aftera
hard rain, and dung forks as weapons,
and whoever lifts the other out is to be
the acknowledged victor"
Two SHARPs.-An old man picked up
half dollar in the street 'sOld man
that's mine, ," said a keen looking rascal,
$50 hand it over" "Did yours have a
hole in it g asked the old man. Yes"
replied the other smartly. Then it is
not thine" mildly replied the old man:
''thee must learn to be a little sharper
next time, my boy"
The New MARRIAGE ACT.-The new
marriage law went into operation on the
lst inst. According to its provisions
every clergyman shall keep a registery
of marriages, containing the names and
surnameS of the parties married, the resi-
dence age and condition of each, whether
single or widowed" and is authorized to
demand from the parties the sum of at
least one dollar, out of which he shall pay
the fee for the recording of such marria-