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"The Underground Railroad"

This is the significant title given to an
association Of abolitionists, whose first
business is to steal, or cause to be stolen.
seduced, or inveigled, on promises of the
fairest and most alluring character-which
are never fulfilled or realized-slaves from
the Southern plantations, and when they
reach the borders of the free States, to for
ward them to Canada, with the utmost
secrecy and despatch. They have regular
runners, forwarders, and agents, transact
business Systematically, and hurry the poor
negro from the genial cline he is accus
toned to, to the icy regions of Queen
Vlctorla's northern possessions, with rail-
road speed, and with little risk of detention
or recapture. "The Underground Railroad
Company" use many lines in the North.
They penetrate New York and the Eastern
States, run through Pennsylvania, and
traverse Ohio in all directions.
Queen Victoria will find an Upper-qround
Railroad at work from her Irish. Canadian
and Australian possessions, one of these
long days. The lady will probably have as
much as She can do to attend to her own
concerns, ere long, without occupying SO
much of her time and money in feasting
"Cncle Tom" traitors to America.
Look out, Mrs. Vic!
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BUSINESS NOTICES.

There are great many excellent dry
goods stores in this city, and among them
is William R. Riley's, at the corner of 9th
street. His assortment is varied and ex-
tensive, containing every article in the dry
goods line.
The attention of our lady readers is call
ed to A. Tate's assortment Of flowers and
wreaths for the May festivals. His store is
on the avenue near the corner of 18th street.
keep it before the People, Certainly
we will, and if our friends on the Island
don't encourage Larmour & Bro, they de-
serve to be sent to bed hungry.
The assortment of Jewelry, &C., of every
description at NJ. W. Gait g. Bro, is worthy
Of examination.
William B. Lewis has fine assortment of
Jewelry at his store near 18th street.
Ladies, Mrs. Collissn, on 9th street, near
Louisiana avenue, advertises something of
interest. The new style of Ladies' Hats
will be opened tomorrow morning Call
and see them.
Madame Hunter, next to the United
States Hotel, has opened a saloon for ladies,
where various kinds of refreshments will be
served.
VIM. A. Richardson, on II street near 18th,
will give you some instructions in writing.
We have just had glorious wash. Go,
if you have not already done so, and take
bath at Cops, on Louisiana Avenue?
AS the fishing season is upon us, those
fond of the sport (and who is not p should
give hammond a call, and get one of his ex-
tenson rods, &c.
John H. Buthmann, has received his as
sortment Of liquors. Call at his store on
the north side of Penn. Avenue.
Now is the time to procure your mat
trasses, and the cheapest and most service
able can be found at H. Lemons, on 18th
street, near Penn. Avenue.
Mr.. Scheel gives instruction in vocal and
instrumental music This opportunity to
acquire those accomplishments should not
be lost
F. c. & W. Gerecke have IN assortment
of wines, &C., to which we call the atten-
ton of those in want
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TOO HAsTY JUDGMENT

A Baltimore contemporary, in allusio,
the disposition in certain quarters to ina
certain public character harshly bec.n
he has doubted the wisdom of some Of j.
prsfessed temperance men of this cour,.
says:
"We are sorry to see some of the T.,
perance papers out on him with such vst
mence. A better evidence of his honest
do not want. We're he a mere pretend.
seeker of applause, he would not have
risked his reputation with Temperance fan
He fancies temperance pledge to be q
straint of liberty, and he goes the whole S,r
on the freedom of the mind. 1t is fool
in temperance men, instead of seeking
correct his errors, which are doubtless +,
result of want of information, to eyno,
the vocabulary of censure upon him as
'ranting and vain declaimer.'"
This is good advice Temperance N,
frequently injure their own cause By the
too violent efforts to promote it.
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The Firemen-Correction

In our article yesterday on the very
handsome present made to the Columbia
Fire Company by Edward II. Pendleton.
esq, it was inadvertently stated that the
beautiful gft-book alluded to was from
Mrs ?. The reader will please correct the
error.
Surely the gallant Colum6ians are ia luck:
and they richly deserve it. Now, who
speaks first for the honor of making a
splendid present to the independent Evening
Starr We pause for reply.
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Bg When DR.. johnson had conn,
his dictionary, Millar, the bookseller
principal proprietor of the work, could
help expressing his joy upon the occa,
in terms somewhat Incorporate, as APP,
by the following acknowledgment Of
receipt Of the last sheet of the manuscrt
Andrew Millar sends his complims
to Mr.. Samuel johnson, with the mopey
the last sheet of the copy of dictionary
thanks God he is done with him."
To which Johnson returned this r,
humored answer:
Samuel J,hnson returns his comp,im,
to Mr.. Andrew Millar, and is very elud
find (as he does by his note, that AM,
Millar has the grace to thank God for
thing"
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honor to the Mayor.

We learn from the Republic that the Mayor
of Washington, yesterday afternoon, trans
United an interesting communication to the
two Boards of the City Councils with refer
ence to the canal. He thinks that active
measures should now be taken to place it in
good navigable condition throughout its en-
tire length and, as one of the most efficient
means OF doing so, he recommends that pro-
vision be made for the purchase of good
steam, dredging machine. The excavation
remaining to be made, and the removal of
the deposits which are 50 rapidly accumu-
latlng In the canal, can be done with such a
machine more speedily and with less ex-
pense than In any other mode. He has an
otter from the patentee of the dredging ma
chine used at the navy yard in this city,
who agrees to furnish % this corporation
one of the same kind, but Of fifty per cent.
more power, for the sum of $4,000, to be
SO constructed as to be worked either in the
canal Or in the river There will also be
required three scows to be used with the
dredging machine, which will cost about
81 900, and which may be built here.
The Mayor suggests that authority be
given to extend the wharves at the Eastern
Branch, on both sides of the canal The
cost Of extending them, about two hundred
feet on the west side, and one hundred and
twenty five feet on the east side, according
to an estimate prepared by the surveyor and
the commissioner of the western section of
the canal, will be SIS, 705 80. The estimate
is for solid wharyes. The walls to be of
stone, built on piles, and the inside filled
with earth. The Mayor also recommends
that the wharf at the foot of 18th street be
completed by raising the walls and filling
1t up according to the plan and estimate of
the commissioner of the western section of
the canal, at cost of 81, 632. In come x
ion with the foregoing, an appropriation will
be necessary to complete the dredging of
the canal, to finish and repair the walls, and
complete the towpath For this purpose an
appropriation of about SIG, 900 will proba-
bly, he required. The entire amount for all
of the above objects is $24, 937 SO.
The Mayor says, in conclusion, that as
soon as the foregoing works are completed,
the wharves will yield to the corporation an
annual revenue considerably more than the
interest upon the whole expenditure.
The communication was referred to the
joint committee on the canal
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OFFICE House OF REPRESENTA-,
Ma
PROPOSALS

~ this office until l. o'c.ork. H.. on Wcdnas.
eighth Cay nf June next. for furnishing ore b
tons II ANTHRACITE COAL IF the hest Gus
he broken into Jumps about the size Of {
pound wei:hf, to be de iv red ard slowed
vaults Of the Capitol, free from all dust and !
of small coal
Also, for furnishing two hundred and TIVE
CORDS of the h,st quality of seaSorei III
WOOD-two hundred cords 10 be sawed a
twenty five cords 10 be sawed twicc. ar d stowe
vaults. The Wood 10 be corded in lie var
Capitol. and measured al the expensc of tie CO.
The Wood and Coal to b.. delivered and -
on or before the 10Th day IF September next
JOHN ". t0RNEl
Clerk House Of Reps. Of the u tied :
m 10-dtd
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DIED.

On the 9th instant, Mr. FRANCIS A. DUNN in
thu SD year of his age.
&C. His funeral will take place to morrow WED.
nesday) afternoon, at O'clock from his late residence
on Pennsylvania avenue between I'd and Sd streets,
TO which his friends are respectfully invited.
This morning. in the third year of her age, MAR
GARET LOUISA. daughter Of james {. and Marga
ret Mcguire, o: this city.
Re he friends of the family respectfully il.
rited to attend the fuueral to morrow "Wednesday }
afternoon at 4 o'clock
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Protect your Looking-Glasses and PIT
Fr,mes

UST RECEIVED. supply Of that pretty
- CUT PAp!R which very body bought at VI
last summer. and which is already roing raI i
season. having had numerous applications {.
arrived. Different colors and patterns TN han
those fancy CRATE APRONS, which lie WI
tomorrow mtrnrg
supply also ofthe celebrated ENGLISH "
DESTROY Err. in cities at 25 and ID cents 20.
Sc Sixth It, one square from Penn. arenu
m 10-3t
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EVENING STAR.
Is LABOR RISING TOO HIGH!
TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1858.


We answer, No; emphatically, No! La
Dor, like everything else, is regulated by
the great law of Demand and Supply. In
proportion to the quantity of the demand
will be the price of the supply.
1t was reasonably to be expected by all
thinking men, that the sudden emigration
of laborers from the Atlantic to the Pacific
slope of our country, would produce scar
of course increases the market. This in
creased demand involves consequent
advance of wages. For, other things being
equal, the scarcer an article becomes the
greater is the enhancement of it's relative
value.
This reasoning is as true of the labor
market as it is Of any other. Industrious
labor, in proportion as it becomes scarce,
advances in value. And it is right that it
should be SO. The memorable law of trade
is applied by the agriculturist, the mer-
chant, the manufacturer, and the shipowner.
Why should it not be applied by the upright
laborer?
1t is stated to us that certain kinds of
labor are rated higher in Washington than
in any other city. This may be true, and it
maynos We are not prepared to say. But
If it be true, we are quite certain that it has
an abundant Offset in the undoubted fact
that rents, provisions, and other articles of
necessity to the laboring man, are in some
respects higher in Washington than in any
other Of our principal cities. This is q
triumphant answer to the statement to
which We have alluded.
Another position assumed by the oppo-
nents of an 'ady ~ Price of labor is
this-that it w 6y capital from
among US. tn On overlooks the
plain fact that ca - constantly changing
hands, and must always be, in country
where there is no right of primogeniture,
no landed entailment, in the aristocratical
application of those terms. If the capital
lists OF America pay money to laborers which
they would otherwise hoard up in their
Golfers, or invest in land, does that money
therefore lose itself to the community p
Certainly not. On the contrary, it advances
the general welfare; for the very good
reason that the active laborer, as a general
thing, is compelled by the requirements of
his family to keep the principal amount of
his earnings in active circulation. Hence,
therefore, the more there is paid to honest
labor, the more widely are its well-earned
products scattered broadcast in the land.
Is not this plain ?
But We must defer further answers to
questions of objection on this important
labor question to future numbers of the
Star.
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CREAM AS is CREAM.-The Ice Cream Saloon
OF L. NJ. Harvey, on the avenue, near 9th
street, is we'll worthy of public patronage.
The cream is the most various and richest
KIND to be found in Washington The es-
adjustment is quiet, retired, and every way
we'll managed. Give Harvey call.
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ST To Strangers and Glitter

1aompSo7's Do9ucrreotypes are unsurpassed by
for holiness of execution and beauty of artistic f
His assiduous efforts to esta blish first class e.,
III TINS city, and his continued endeavors to p
Vlsiters and patrons, have not been unrewardcd
examination of his pictures Gently made is PAT
larly solicited. He is prepared to take picture
every size and style, at reasonable prices
Gallery, North side of Penna. avenue, between
and 9th streets, Lane & fuckers building.
fab 95-
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Twinkle brightly, Evening Star,
Shine for all, and shine afar.


B% An exchange finds fault with the
practice of putting Latin inscriptions on
tombstones. But what more appropriate
place than grave yard can there be for
dead language?
ag "Thomas, spell weather." said
teacher to a new pupil.
CIV ei b, wealth, o T, er, weather"
"Well, Thomas, think that is the worst
spell of weather we have lately encountered.
You may sit down."
Rs~ An Irish lad, being asked if the
man who had just logged him was bis own
father, replied-"Yis, shure enough he's
the parent iv me; but he trates me as if /
was his son by another father and mother"
COOP LOGIC" Brulder Bones, can you
tell me de difference tween dying and
dieting?'
"Why, OBJ course can, Lemuel When
you diet you lib on muffin. and when you
die you hab muffin to lib on!''
"Well, dats different from what tort it
was-a race atween de Goctorin stuff and
starvation, to see which would kill fust."
One of the best conundrums we have ever
seen says the Southern Literary Gazette, is
the following of Edgar Poe's:-
Why will the geologist put DO faith in the
fable of the fox that lost his tail?
I,
have ever been found in TRAP.
Beat that who can!
"Tom, you sot,' said temperance man
to tipping friend, what makes you drink
such stuff as you do? Why, the very hogs
wouldn't touch that brandy" "That's
cause they is brutes," said Tom. Poor
creeters they donno what's good''
"Did you say, Jones, that your wife had
fts?" EYES, she has them quite often"
"Well, wish nay wife was similarly aff1ic-
ted She has tried dozen dressmakers
within the last twelvemonth, and not a fit to
suit her has she got yet"
A Dutchman who had a brother hung in
this country, wrote to his relatives, inform
ing them that his brother had been placed
in public situation by the government, and
at the time Of his death had several thou
sand people, including the sheriff and grand
jury under him.
At late trial, somewhere in Vermont,
the defendant, who was not familiar with
the multitude Of words which the law en-
ploys to make very trifling charge, after
listening awhile to the reading Of the in
dictment, jumped up and said Them
ERE allegations is false, and that ere alli-
gator knows it"
HS~"How do you spell Feladelfy asked
a small city grocer of his partner one day,
as he was sprinkling sand upon letter
which he was about to send to the CITY of
Brotherly Love.
"Why, Fsl-a, Fela, del, Feladel, ty-Fel-
adelfy."
''Then I've got it right, said the partner
in Ignorance as we'll as business, Il thought
I might have made mistaken"
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NOMINAL ERRoR.-In the article on the
Columbian College, in the Star of the 9th
instant, the name of Dr. Broaddus was in,
correctly given. 1t should be William F.,
instead Of Alexander.
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oHILL1SGroN's Stock of magazines and
weekiles continues to be the pride Of his
numerous friends. His Illustrated Neus
(Barnum's) of last week was one of the best
numbers Joe has furnished the public.
May Joe's shadow never be q hair less,
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BOOK NOTICES.

"Marie De Bomiere-a tale of the Cres-
cent City" "Travels in Egypt and Pales-
tine, and the ''London Quarterly Review
tor April, are received by Messrs. Taylor &
Maury, Penn. Avenue, near 9th street,
A more extended notice tomorrow.
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NOT1CE.-The officers ard meml ers of Mount
Neho Encampment No 6. l. o. o. f., are hereby no.
titled to meet ut the Hall THIS Tuesday EVEN
ING Mt o'cock. for the purpose Of making arrange
ments for the funeral of our late brther Francis
Dunn. BY order Of j. W. McELFRESH, c. 2.
m 10-1t
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taken in the highest perfection of the art. vi
course, call on WHITEHURsT, lie being the rpci,ir
the highest premium awarded to Dsguerrrtyps
the late Fair of the Metropolitan Mechanics I
tute.
His gallery is on Pennsylvania avenue, ncar
and-a-h ilf street n.r ~,
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III "OUSe, NO L l. o. y. F. The
officers and members If this Lodge will meet At their
Hall, on 1th street, TOMORROW AFTERNOON. at
O'clock to attend the funeral of their late bro her.
FRANCIS A DUNN The members of sister Lodges, in
good standing, are cordially Invited to attend.
my lot Int OWEN SOMERS, Sec'y.
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% Joe ShilIington receives all

OUc SHIIIIhStOh receives All
ne" DOCKS and newspapers fast as publ shed
is agent tor liarpers and all the other Magazine
our readers will alwa, find large and good 3
mrnt of blank books and stationery at his book
Odeon Building, corner of ~ street and Penn
feb =
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Go to Roots! No matter whether
1t be clear or cloudy weather
Still, with equal truth he traces
Multitudes of lovely faces.
Roots Gallery, Pennsylvania avenue, near Sew
street. mar .,
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f. o. of L. Ran adjourned meeting of Jehu
Epcampment will be held TOMORROW (welnes-
day EVENING, in the Hall corner Of 9TH and SITS
Business of importance demands the punctual attend
ance of every member at the usual hour
i0-lt TTCKFR RacorJor
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IL ~ u F.-Mt. Nebo Encampme emit :,
No. 6.-The officers and members will meet at the
Hall TOMORROW "wednesday AFTERNOON at
oc ock for the purpose Of attending the funeral Of
their dec ed BROTHER F. A. Dunn. Bv order Of
m lot j. W. NCELFRFSH. C. p
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BY r.. n. sTRATTON, Auct'

- Il
pennsylvania avenue, near 10th street. souii
INTENSIVE SALE of New Rosewood. Nal
Ia Walnut. Maple. AID Cherry CABINET ,
TURE. PIANO F0RTES. Splendid MIERoRS.
Catalogue On MONDAY, May 10th. al 10 .
on the first end second floors IF nv Aucti'n
/ shall sell, vii hout reserve, for account OF M
turers, very extensive assortment OF ne"
Furniture. viz:
Seven octave rosewood Pianos
Splendid gilt framed Pier Mirrors with braeSe
slabs
Rosewood, mahogany, ard walnut Nardr"fr'
Do do. do. Dressing BU
with full marble tops
Rosewood. mahogany, and walnut SecretaT
Bookcase
N.booapv and walnut French and Colt &c b.
SIS Of Ornamental Chamber Cottage Furnitu'
Nahorany enclosed Washs'ands, with marble
Soft, Centre ard Side Tables, do.
Extension Dining Tablss. Whist and Gard Tat
Rich Velvet Plush-covered Sofas, Divans
ST. Redsteads Tete-a-t'-te Sofas
volt.ire nd other Rockers, Lounges, brocatel CT
psrlor Springteat Chairs,
Mi. Cane seat do.
BOSTON Ror kers. all sizes, Office Chairs,
Wood seat Chairs, &c.
Terms: $50 and under. cash: from go 10 10
and nirety days; over 800, two and four %
credit for notes satisfactorily endorsed, hear
.arcst N u
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The regular monthly me eting of the
METROPOLITAN Mechanics Institute will be held on
WEDNESDAY EVENING, the 18th instant at the
Smithson ian Institute. at o'clock
m lO-2t CHARLES CALVERT, Rec. Sec.
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Attention, Continent al G. La rds Am
adjourned stated meeting of the Company will he held
at your Armory on THIS Tuesday, EVENING, at S
O'Clock 1t is necessary that every member be present
as business of importance is to be brought up. BY
order m lO-1te
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CTRAWBERRiES and Ice Cream
~ THIS EVENING at Madame HUNTERS Saloon.
served up with other refreshments, for Ladies and
Gentlemen. m lot
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IN SUMNER NJ ILLIN ERY-On
~ ITHURSDAY, May 18th, Mrs. NJ. A HILLS
will open elegant assortment of the above
Goods. call from the Ladies is 6 licited
Penn. avenue, between 9Th and 10th streets
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