Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-10-12

THE ADVERTISEMENT Duty IN Eng
LAND.-The act for repeating the adver-
tiscuent duty received the royal assent
on the 4th Of August, and went into op-
Grafton on the 5th Trade advertisements
not exceeding five lines are inserted for
IS. cd, being one half the lowest charge
made on this class Of advertisements
during the existence &C the duty. The
cost to the advertiser increases according
to the length of the advertisement, the
charge for eleven lines being Is. After
the first eleven lines, Cd will be charged
for each additional line. Servant want
ing places" are allowed four lines for
Is. The London Times and some other
papers charge much higher rates-their
large circulation giving greatly incrcas-
cd value to their space, yet making the
advertisement actually cheaper to the ad-
vertiser than if in q paper Of small circu-
lation.
SINGULAR STATEMENT FOR A RELIGIOUS
PiPER.-The New York Independent, a
Congregational paper, Of which Henry
Ward Beecher is stated ontributer,
holds the following remarkable language
OH sccpticism and reform:
Among all the earnest minded young
men VINO are at this moment leading in
thought and action in America, we ven
ture 10 say that four fifths are sccptical
even of the great historical facts Of Chris
tianity.
What is told as Christian doctrine by
the churches is not even considered by
them. And Furthermore, there is among
them a general ill-conccalei distrust of
tie clerical body as q class, and utter dis
gust with the very aspect Of modern
Christianity and Of the church worship.
This scepticism is not flippant: little is
said about it. 1t is not pcculiarity
alone of the radicals and fanatics; many
of them are men of calm and even balance
of mind, and belong TO no class of ultra
lists. 1t is not worldly and selfish. The
doubtcrS lead in the hravest and most
self denying enterprises of the day.
- Rev. J. ODonreIl, a Ga hoIic
priest at Portland an active temperance
man, and formerly a strong supporter Of
the Maine law, is out in letter upon
that question, in which he states that
drunkenness, misery and crime, among
his people. have increased rather than
diminished, by means of this statute.
There is more sold and used among the
Irish population there now than before.
1t is a singular fact that in this city,
where there are fifteen hundred Catholics,
and no temperance agitation has been
L. &c 4 los, lo,,
into liquor selling. We do rot know Of
an IriShman in town who sells rum
Ner5uryport Union.
SUICIDE FROM EXCESS OF MoDESTY.-A
young man committed suicide in London
recently, from excess of modcstv. Mr..
George Stanley Smythe, yourg man
nearly thirty, was to be married 10 a
young lady, bat he had strong impress
sion that he was unworthy of her. This
feeling drove him mad. He went into
the Cathedral Hotel, st. Paul's, called
for half pint of sherry, and drank it. In
ten minutes he fell On the floor, and died
in few hours. He had put essence of
bitter almond in the bottle. In his pocl;-
ct book were found lines bewailing his
want of merit.
- The Louisville Times tells of
newly married couple who went to Mag
ara in August, on visit, and while there,
the gentleman, in order to convince his
dear that he was brave as well as gallant,
resolved to go down into the - cave Of tie
winds" Size, of course, objected, but
finding that he was resolved upon the
decd, she very afectionately requested
him to lcarc has rockct-book nnd trcteh be-
hind