Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-25

Varieties.
T The Worlds Temperance Conyen.
tion assemblies on the lst and I'd of Sep
tenber.
U Large deposits of coal have recently
been discovered on the bank Of the Ohio
river, near Newburg, Ind, and capitalists
have already purchased the land at con-
siderable advance.
~ The Kaffirs at the Cape of Good
Hope are much pleased with Colts re-
volvers. They call them " God s pistols"
u The New York papers generally
complain of the mismanagement of the
Crystal Palace. From what we know Of
it we believe the complaints to be well
founded.
U The Boston Post of yesterday
morning says it learns from a gentleman
from Portsmouth IN. H. that the U. S.
steamer Princeton has been condemned.
U The Annapolis State Capital Ga
zette states that dysenterv is prevailing
to an alarming extent in many parts Of
Anne Arundel county. The same disease
is prevailing in Dorchester county, but in
a milder form.
SMALL NoTEs.-On and after the first
of August next, no notes of less de-
nomination. than Five dollars (except
those of the Free Banks of the State) can
be legally circulated in Illinois. This
law was passed at the last session of the
Legislature Of that State. Its provisions
arc very stringent.
~ The democrats of the 4th district
of Mississippi have nominated Col. Wiley
2. Harris, OF Lawrence, for Congress.
U Tho gospel is SAID to be preached
from the pulpits of Chicago in seven diff
ferent languages. The population of the
city is about $4,000.
U Fanny Fern, it is said, is about to
commence paper in New York. Don't
you do it, Fanny. Stick to your spark
ling paragraps, your delightful sketches,
and don't blunt your pen with the
drudgery, and break yourself down with
the responsibility of a paper of your own.
U When Sigourney, noted wag of
Boston, was expiring, servant entered
and informed the attending physician that
a man had fallen down the well. The
dying man overheard the servant, and
inquired, with scarcely an audible whis-
per, 81 say, doctor, did he kick the bucket."
U The Pope held a public consistory
on the 9th ult., in which he conferred
the Cardinals hat upon Monseigneur Dom
mott, Archbishop of Bordeaux and Mon
seigneur MortoI, Archbishop Tours, al
ready raised to the dignity OF Cardinals on
the 7th Of March last.
OTLamartine has begun the publica-
ton of his History of the First Constitu-
ent Assembly, and it is likely to create
as great an excitement as his Gfrondfny.
The Gazette du France, in a furious
Philippe against it, says that France is
not saved so long as such an explosive
clement exists in its bosom"
A POINT IN THE NEW STEAMBOAT LAW.
We learn from the Cincinnati Commercial
that the local inspectors Of that city have
notified Capt. Leathers, of the new Nat
ches, who has placed cast iron heads on
his boilers, that unless they are removed,
and wrought iron substituted, the boilers
will not pass inspection. Capt. L. has
appealed. ~r
A DRUNKARD's CHANCE OF GETTING TO
HEAvEN.-An eccentric preacher in the
Methodist Chapel, Gateshead, Newcastle,
in his address to his congregation, lately,
observed that there was as much chance
for drunken man to inherit the kingdom
of heaven, as there was for pig to climb
up an apple tree and sing like nightin-
gale. n.
rTDan Marble, speaking of q young
gentleman with moustaches, said: "He
is critter that wears hdr on his upper
lip to keep the spiders from crawling into
his hollow squash"
HEAVY VERDrCr.-In the case of Orem
S. Bonsteel against Cornelius Vanderbilt
and Daniel Drew, tried in Ulster county,
n. Y, during last week, the Jury rendered
verdict for the plaintiff for the sum of
$4,000. The action was for cruel and
improper treatment of passenger, who
took passage by the Vanderbilt new line
Of steamers between New York and San
Francisco, and for delay on the route.
O'DoNoHoE THE IRISH ExILK.-It will
be remembered that news of the escape of
Patrick ODenohoe, from Van Dieman's
Land, published some time since, but no
reliable mention was made of his destina-
ton. From letter received by one of
the Exiles in New York, we learn that
the vessel in which he effected his escape
was bound for Peru, and we may shortly
expect to hear of his being in that Repub-