Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-11-07

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NEWS ITEMS. -,
The Free Democracy" Of New York
have a resolution before them look;ne -
impeachment ofJudge Grier. for his words
aud actions in the late Wnkssbarre Slave
Case. 's'.'.' ...a. .-.-;; g.. -.
The Governor Of Illinois, in capital
and comprehensive little proclamation of
fourteen lines, recommends the oath inst,
tor Thanksgiving Day. This is the elev-
enth State that will observe that day.
In the matter in dispute between the
st. Louis church, Buffalo, and Bishop
Unions, in regard to the control of the
church temporalities, the Pope's nuncio.
Bedini, has decided in favor of the Bishop.
b Massachusetts elects State officers and
Members Of the Legislature, and decides
uponthe adoption of the new Constitution.
on the l4th.
The Pacific Railroad Co. have purchased
four blocks in the City of St. Louis, at
cost of Sl20,Oo0 -. .-a .. .
On Tuesday last. at st. Peters Roman
Catholic Cathedral, at Cincinnati, two
new bishops were consecIated, with most
imposing ceremonies. They were the
Right Rev George Carroll, Bishop of
Covnston, Kentucky, and the Right Rev.
ih'. Baraga, Vicar Apostolic of the north.
ern peninsula of Michigan, and shore ad-
jacent: to Lake Superior. Archbishop
Purcell ofliciated, assisted by the Bishops
of Milwaukee, Detroit and Louisville.
The Newport Nrrs says Capt. Joseph
Comstock will resign the command of the
Collins steamship Baltic on her arrival
in New York, to superintend the build
ing and take charge Of the mammoth
steamer Of the Fall River line when com.
pleted. Captain Eldridge succeeds him
in the Baltic. ~. 80, ,+.,..---., ...-....
A catamount weighing los pounds was
shot in Lee, \. IL, on the Cd. by W. F.
Chaplnan--the only animal Of the kind
which has been Killed in the State for
several years. Mr.. Chapman's gun was
loaded Onl Y with shot for ducks, but he
brought the varmint at the first fire,
hitting him in the BRAIN. -'
"Uncie Tom" is known in Greece as
Omarpus Thomas. '-----i '5-F.
An extensive coal field has been dis.
covered at Bellingham's Bay, Washing
ton territory. - ~. - .--....-..
Mr., ,Gallegos, a Spanish Democrat, has
been elected to Congress from Santa Fe
by about 500 majority over Gov. Lane.
- Ii you don't want to be troubled with
your friends in the street. just dress in
your shabby clothes. - " -..- s'.s
Among the bodies striking, or on the
eve of striking, in London. NAV be mum.
bered the female cloak and mantle makers.
They have held a meeting to express their
opposition to the American sewing-ma.
chine. -s-: --
The Worcester Transcript states that
few days since boy Of about Is years.
having been turned out of mill at East
Brookteld, procured a bottle of cherry
rum, and, in company with another bow,
went into the woods and drank nearly
the whole of it. - Que of the boys sue
cecded in getting home. bat the other,
when found, was inSensible, and died at
10 o'clock the next day. $50.
For the year ending November lst.
16,5l5 hhds. of tobacco were sold in Lou
iSiana. -.-=.- .--~
THE SPHERE OF FWoNAN.-Despise wo-
man? No! She is the most admirable
sandiwork of God, in her true place and
character. Her place is at mans side.
Her Office is that of the sympathiser-
the unreserved, unquestioning believer
the recognition, withheld in every other
manner, but given, in pity, through wo-
mans heart, lest man should utterly
lose faith in himself-the echo Of Gods
own voice, pronouncing, 1t is we'll done :"
All the separate action Of woman is and
ever has been, and always shall be, false.
foolish. vain, destructive of her own best
and holiest qualities, void of every good
effect, and productive of intolerable mis-
chiefs
Man is O wretch without woman-but
woman is "a amonster-and, thank Heaven,
an almost impossible and hitherto imag-
inory monster-without man as her ac-
knowledged principal. AS true as | had
once mother whom | loved, were there
any possible prospect of woman,s taking
the social stand which some Of them -
poor, miserable, abartivs creatures, who
only dream Of such things because they
have missed woman's peculiar happiness,
or because nature made them really neither
man nor woman,!-if there were chance
of their attaining the. end which these
pettcoated monstrosities have in view, l
would call upon my sex to use its phys
lcal force, that unmiStakeable evidence Of
sovereignty, to scourge them back within
their proper bounds But it will not be
needtul. The heart of true womanhood
knows where its own sphere is, and never
seeks to stay beyond it -Hawthorne.
The LoTTERY.-Before that national
evil, the lottery, was abolished in France,
q village curate thought it his duty to
address to his flock a sermon against
their dangerous infatuation for this priv
ileged form of gambling. His auditory
consisted of crowd of miserable old
women, ready to pawn or sell their last
garment to secure the means of purcha-
sing tickets. Nevertheless the good man
fiattered himself that his eloquence was