Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-13
Varieties

United States postage stamps attached to
hem, which makes them as good rs the
government envelopes, for five per cent.
less money. Over the stamp stands the
motto &, Free Trade"-under 1t, "No
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III A young lady, on being asked by
a feminine acquaintance whether she had
any original poetry in her album, replied:
No: but some of my friends have favored
me with original spelling.n
" The Cuban authorities at length
seem to have been aroused to their duty
of suppressing the slave trade. sMr.1For-
cade, rich French merchant of Havana,
has been arrested for participating in the
traffic, with several petty oficers, for con-
niving at it.
~ There are. in the, United States,
SO, 900 houses of public worship, capable
of accommodating 13,S49 500 persons.
tonly half the actual population,1 and
valued at S66,4l6,639 The Methodists
have the largest number Of churches of
any other denomination the whole
amounting to 1000; the Baptists have
nearly 500, and SO down to the Sweden
borgians, who have only l5., -bc-,r
neGrT The Printers Union of New, York,
have drawn up a new scale Of prices, re-
,ducing the price Of composition on the
morning papers from 81 to 35 cents Q
thousand and on the evening papers from
80 to 81 cents. Ul. eea .fl yar-
ICT Julien, the manager Of concerts, is
now forming in Europe musical expedi-
tion for America. He has already. engaged
Messrs. Reichert, the ne plus ultra Hutist,
De Prins, Wmkle, Schruors, and Alp.
Stenelruggen. --..'-d ..AH son
y r. B. Smith, we'll known as the
,ate clerk of the New York city Inspector,
is dead, He is supposed to have commit
tee. suicide by drowning. r,-5,,7E
.1~FAnother Maria Monk is in the field.
Afemale calling herself Saint Agnes is lee
turing at Newark, n. j., on the interior
life Of converts, in which she claims to
have passed twenty years. sni9d a
TBeef sells in st. Augustine, Ala, at
three cents per pound, and four cents for
choice pieces. ~ ID. "|,- '-rf a'GjUs
'oiCrGov! Cobb has appointed the Hon.
Ebenener Starnes a Judge of the Supreme
Court OF Georgia ~ z~o-s:rc ,df -59
.sg ITThe Catholic Mirror says-4Anone
the female converts of Romanism are Mrs.
Ripley, well known for her beautiful trans
,lation of the az Glories Of Mercy s' Mrs.
N1etcalf, lady Of Judge Metcalf, Of Boston;
Miss Macomb, daughter of General Ma
comb: Miss Scott, daughter of Gen. Scott;
and Miss Dana, daughter of Richard H.
Dana, the poet. ,.-.--..-.5.t
-cC CJToAsT TO /" WOMAN. The fair sex
were toasted at Worcester, on the Fourth,
in the following strain: -
Woman-the star tilat shines with bfiehtes, nav,
srf WheEeer our footsteps roam, r.
The only Sovereign we obey, IS
N-s2 The Angel OF our home. rsnt
ARMY BIRp.--The annexed article is
from the Sparta Journal, published in
Sparta, Illinois: y-siF -rrs-s-4q
uc North of us, the army bird has des-
troyed entire fields. These birds, like the
army worm, travel in immense numbers,
and destroy the wheat as they go. In
our own neighborhood, we notice many
acres which apparently would not pay the
farmer for reaping The corn and other
crops are also suffering from the continued
drought and excessive heat" -'---
ABD-EL-KADER THE FUTURE SULTAN
There are rurnors in Partisan circles of q
movement now contemplated in Turkey
by the Mussulmen, which will probably
.eyentuate in placing Abd-el-Kader on the
Turkish throne. 1t is said that this will
undoubtedly be attempted if the present
Sultan, Abdul -Mediid, is not found sufh-
GENTLY exclusive in the ardor of his de-
fence and preservation of Islamism.
z q The new cotton factory at Attle-
borough, Mass, worth forty OF fifty thou
sand dollars, has burned down, the fire
catching from lightning.
20. TAX ON INTELLIGENCE.-TheB British
Government proposes to adhere TO their
proposition of sixpenny duty on adver-
tisetnents, but have agreed 10 further
notifications in the newspaper stamps,
namely, Id. stamp on paper itself; first
supplement, free all additional supple
ments, Id. each. - O. III
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- q Swedish artist, Carleman, has
made new discovery, SO said, which he
calls photochromography, by means of
which he takes from three hundred to
four hundred copies per Gay, of objects in
all their natural colors.
The DARKNESS GoNE.---M. A, Town
send writing from New Brighton, Pa,
under date of June q, says: "A little
boy Ntad from birth, aged about four
years, died in this village few days ago