Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-09-26
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So" The Philadelphia Sun announces the
withdrawal of jacob l.. Gossler, (Know. Moth.
ing) from the congressional canvass of the
second district, thus leaving clear field for
Messrs. Tyson and Chandler. The same pa.
per denounces Mr.. Chandler in pretty strong
terms-not because he is a Whig-not for his
want of integrity and ability-but simply and
solely because Mr.. G. is in communion with
the Catholic Church. 1t is not many months
ago. when the Sun held euIogistic language
when speaking of the gentleman they now hold
up to public reprobation. - ian.
80. The st. Louis Republican mentions that
there is one feature about the steamer Illinois
Belle of peculiar attractiveness "a lady clerk
&" Look at her bills of lading, and 4" Mary j.
PATTERSON, clerk" will be seen traced in del
icate and very neat style of chirography. The
Insurance companies under such an arrange
ment, will have to come down q fraction on
their risks. lady clerk on western steam
or! ltspeaks strongly of our moral progress y
80. Mr. Burr Porter, young man of high
responsibility, of Newark, N. j., of romantic
mind, conceived fancy of joining the Turkish
service at the opening of the present war He
succeeded in being made captain of artillery
and recently, in preventing town from being
sacked, was promoted to be colonel. ...,.
80. Mr.. Elliot, of Baltimore, made sue
cessful ascension at Magnolia Springs, Va,
on Saturday evening, in the presence of over
1000 persons. He descended within q mile of
his startin, place. Itwas the most interesting
ascension he has ever made.
80. IL. K. Smith, Of Buffalo, IN. W per-
sonal friend of Gov. Marcy, and al eminent
lawyer and politician, died on Saturday.
Archbishop Kendrick, of Baltimore, has
issued Pastoral letter to the Clergy and
Laity of his Diocese, in the course of which
ne recommends their earnest prayers s.for the
peace, prosperity and happiness of the Unite
States. and of all their fellow citizens"
80. On account of the death of one actor
and further sickness of the troupe, the Pitts
burg theatre has been closed.
....Some OF our "fast young men" manage,
on very small salaries, to live at the most fash
lonable hotels-to patronise the most expen.
sive tailors-to drink the most costly wines
to own fast trotting horses, &C., &c. Bow this
is managed is shown by the following Gin
stance" from New York contemporary
Gan old established iron manufacturing
hrm found itself seriously embarrassed in its
finances, and has just been obliged to make an
assignment to the creditors Upon an exami-
nauon OF the business accounts, it was dis
COVAYAA of thn 0lo rty ~-h
siderable time to sailing yachts and trotting
fast horses, and finally sailed for Eurabs On y
pleasure trip, had been unfaithful to the trust
conhded to him. Among other contrivances
for lining his pockets he had been accustomed
each pay day, to set apart considerable
amount as the share Of wages due to workmen
who had not been in the employ Of the con.
Germ 1or year Past, and apprOpriating the
same as he saw fit" -. -
80. "Uncle SAM is dead. His name was
Samuel Wilson, and be died in Troy, N. Y, in
August, aged 81. He first labeled Government
goods ~. S. for which practice the soldiers
originated the name of"Uncle Sam instead
Of Jonathan" ~.
80. Hon. A. 0. P. Nicholson returned to
Washington this morning from visit of several
weeks to Tenn essee .-.I .t..3
80. In "Alt Berks, )" Pennsylvania, all the
democratic nominees have publicly repudiatea
Know Nothingism.
-. Truth is strange stranger than fiction
The Salem (Mass.) Evening ournal states that
a man formerly belonging to that city, return
ed home on Tuesday, after an absence of forty.
two years. He left wife and child one
year old behind and when he returned, be
found his daughter the mother of twelve chill.
dren, some of whom are married. His wife
lived widow, as she supposed, over twenty
years, and married again some twenty years
since, and now resides in Salem.
80. Governor Wood, of Ohio, has returned
to his home in Cleveland, after an absence of
nearly two years as consul at Valparaiso. 1t
was believed, at the time he accepted the an
pointment, til at the fees Of the Office amounted
to upwards Of $4,000 a year. This was q
great exaggeration in the fees, as for the wear
1853 they amounted to only $3,295-so says
the Cincinnati Enquirer.
....A benefit Is to be given at Niblo's G ar
den, New York, for the widow of the late Mr..
Nichols, of the Sunday Mercury.
go. Judge Bronson, the Hard candidate for
Governor in New York, is opposed to ORC.
hibitory liquor law. -4.-
-. A lady advertising for husband in the
Water Cure journal, gives the following dss-
sription Of herself. She certainly has some
fine ''points - .-...
Il am just twenty, but will not marry be-
tore L am two years older 1 am graduate
Of the Marietta Seminary. I can do, and love
to do, all manner Of house work, from makno
pies and bread to washing Shirts l can do ali
kinds OF sewing, from embroidery to insev
pantaloons; can skate, ride, dance, sing pIay
IN The piano or spinning wheel, or anytbiny
that may reasonably be expected of nv sex
society of the upper toni or the part of =
woman among women. AS for riding, here
allow me to make banter; any man NAV bring
wo horses, give me choice aud ten feet, and |
then if he overtakes me in one mile | am bi,.
not, the horse is mine. Beware Bv fons
am styled handsome; by the young men On |
whom please to smile, am sty led he height |
# perfection; by those frowr upon. Hehe
owls imp by ,he wise and sober I am
J, Led wild and foolish by my female aeouain.
Il nces Molly" and by my uncle am called |