Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-06

CTMlSS Bronte, the authoress of Jane
Eyre, Shirley, and Villette, is coming to
this country.
IFlt is rumored that the ship Jenny
Lind, bound from Boston to the West In
dies, has been lost.
1.-THE Roman Catholic papers of Mon
treal say that Gavazzi is now in Tuscany.
and that the Garazzi of this country is an
lmposter, of course
1.-THE bankers of New York propose
to tender to Mr.. Belmont acomplimentarv
dinner previous to his departure to the
Hague.
fIWm. S. Sharkey, late q. s. Consul
at Havana, has been nominated for Gov
ernor by several county conventions of
Mississippi.
OTGov. Foote has suspended speaking
In several counties of Mississippi, in con.
sequence of the prevalence of the small
pox.
DTJ. X. Billingsbv was arrested at
Memphis for swindling and defrauding
citizens of Nashville of about $40, 900.
TFThe man whow writes an ANONYMOUS
letter is knave-the man who heeds it
fool.
fCTSign for a milkman of the present
day: "NiIk of the first water"
rFIhere is a man living in the back
woods, who being invited to dinner, ate
so much bears meat, that he went home
and hueged hlsritc-a thing he had never
been guilty of before.
CTGovernor Manning of South Caro-.
lima. has appointed thirteen commission
erS to represent that State at the great
exhibition in New York.
BDTSir, want to speak to you," said
lady TO a clergyman, who was buryinc
a corpse. PLEASE wait madam till have
done " g No, sir, ! must speak to YOU
immediately" Well, then, what is the
matter 90 - Why, sir. you are going to
bury a man who died with the small pox
near my poor husband who never had
it -
Mullsh ObstindcyU Dress.-Our Young
men of the present day run about with
black stripes down their legs-not unlike
the legs of mules. Why not carry the
likeness further, aud allow the stripes, as
In the case of mules, TO run all over their
coats Surely he who dresses himself
like mule, must be-. next to donkey"
and, accordingly, cannot make himself
too ridiculous \ sharp young friend of
e Joke Tha dPoh hat it. sta teaas those thick 6esSy
stripes * The bars-sinister of taste"
GT A large quantity of the United
States prepaid envelopes, manufactured
by Geo. F. NeSbitt, have been forwarded
to postmaSters in the Southern and West
ern States.
Nec Democratic Paper. learn that
new Democratic paper is shortly to be
commenced in Portsmouth, Va, by L.
Badger, Esq, 1t is to be called the
Globe"
Philadelphia&Sn6w X Railrodd There
is now strong probability that the COM
pletion of this road from Sunbury TO
Shamokin, is matter very close at hand
the work of but a few weeks. Efforts
are being made to have the entire track
down by the Goth of July, when travelling
will be done upon it.
Losing Business The New York MIR
ror says that $4,000 have been sunk, in
that city, in the endeavor to sustain
National Democratic paper. Where did
the Mirror obtain its information!
1.-THE city of Montgomery, Ala, is to
subscribe S500,000 to the Alabama and
Florida Railroad.
LTNew York with a population only
one thirtieth as large as England and
Wales, hangs seven-ninthS as many In
the same space Of time.
JTIn recent table of the comparative
health of cities, we find that in Charles
ton the ratio of deaths to population is
stated as one to > 6S7, the smallest ratio
in seven cities of the United States, in
cluding all the large cities on the Atlantic
sea-board- York, Philadelphia, Bos-
ton and Baltimore Philadelphia having
the next smallest ratio, one to 2,60S; the
largest ratio being New Orleans, one to
SIS.
GTAn American illustrated paper re-
turns thanks to the different railway COM
panies, saying, in its great candor, I'VE
really don't know what we should do for
illustration, if it wasn't for the railway
accidents"
GJCol. Alexander X. McClung has an
noanced himself as a candidate for Con-
gresS from the Third Congressional Dis
trict of Mississippi.
C@Lewis Cass says, < The fact is in
disputable that England went to war with
Burmah, and annihilated its political ex-
istencc for the non-payment of disputed
demand of 5000"