Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-10-06
PER SONAd.

80. John Hamilton, Esq, Democratic can.
didate for the Second Congressional District Of
pennsylvania has not Withdrawn from the
contest as has been enormously stated
-. The "Softs" Of the twenty-sscond Con.
gressional District IN. " have nominated L.
Babcook, of Oswego, for the full term, and T.
s. Fairchild, of Madison, for the vacancy.
80. The New York Post says: "Myron
Clark, the wing candidate for Governor, is a
member of the Order of Know Nothings, and
applied to be admitted as delegate, but W as
rejected
-. B. r. Bradford, the Native American
candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania says,
in letter from New Brighton, that, having &C
cepted q nomination, he would be "worse til an
traitor to forsake them in the hour of peril -
He adds:
II shall, therefore remain In the field. and
let the people, on the second Tuesday of Octo.
Der, decide BY their votes who shaIl ell the
Gubernatorial chair of this, my native State -
.... Cadwallader Evans, we'll known as the
inventor of the safety valve, extensively used
on Western steamers, died of diarrhea at
Pittsburg, on Monday.
....Dr. Schif, to whom the French Academy
of Science referred the subject of Spiritual
Rappings for Investigation, as reported that
they are owing to the partial dislocation of the
tendons and joints and their return to their
natural position again. He describes the pro.
cess as the swapping of the peroneus longus
over the external malicious. We hope our
| readers understand it now.
go. Judge Nelson, of the Campbell county
(Ky.) Court, on tho 25th ult, at the insti ga
ton of j. X. Hallam, Esq, of Newport, de-
| cided that his Court had no jurisdiction to nat
urslize foreigners, claiming that Congress has
no power to confer jurisdiction on State courts,
and that the county courts of Kentucky are
not courts having common law jurisdiction
The Judge is Knoto No,hing.
80. Mozier, an American sculptor at Rome
has lately finished statue of Truth, in which
| the personifcation is a female figure, armed
with two-edged sword, wearing upon her
head helmet and pointing with her sword
| to mask near her feet, just struck from the
wearer, whilst with her left hand she gathers
| her garments about her to avoid com tact with
Falsehood. On the front of the helmet are
serpents supporting ring, emblematic Of wis
dom, and on her breast plate lily, symbol
| izing purity. @'- 't'sf
80. The Rev. Dr.. Horatio Potter, newly
! elected Provisional Bishop Of New York, and
! the Right Rev. Alenzo Potter, Bishop of Penn.
sylvania, were the sons Of Joseph Potter, of
Duchess county, N. Y, q devout Ilember of
| tho Society of Friends. His eldest son, Parac-
| lete Potter, became bookseller and an editor
at Albany, and was the FIRST to join the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church, of which he became a
| Jealous member. His two younger brothers,
| Alonzo and Horatio, soon followed the same
course.
-. A man named McElloy has recovered
So, 900 damages in Calhoun county, Mass, of
another, named Thompson. for Islander.
80. The Rev. John E. Massey has been very
successful in his present field Of labor, in Am
herst and Nielsen counties, Va. The Rocking
ham Register says he has baptized eighty one
persons, and received twenty more, in about
four and half months
How MUCH THEY EAT IN NEW YORK Dur
ing the three mont s ending the 1st instant,
Says the Albany Register,) two hundred and
nineteen thousand six hundred and thirteen
animals were slaughtered for food in New
York city. During the nine months of the
year, the total number of animals offered up
N a Tar of in hat ;t
seven hundred thousand seven hundred and
fourteen, or, at the rate of seventeen tn ousand
nine hundred and sixty six per week, of nearly
one million per year, The population is about
i've hundred thousand-that is an average of
two animals per year to each inhabitant. Not
much starving in New York, at this rate.