Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-01-23
ODDS AND ENDS.

Thirty thousand men are EMPLOYED
in the United States in Iron castings:
twenty-five thousand in the manufacture
of pig iron; and fourteen thousand in
wrought iron.
1t is said that facts have lately
been brought to light that show that the
British colony of Sierra Leone, in Africa,
has been largely engaged in the slave trade
for many years back, but the whole ar.
rangements conducted so secretly, that
the officers of Government had no sus.
picion of it.
The total number of vessels de.
stroyed last year was 100, and the number
of lives lost nearly two thousand. Those
who 60 down to the sea in ships and do
business upon the waters have perilous
time of it.
There is said to be great demand
in jackson, Tenn, for carpenters, brick.
layers, painters and plasterers.
The timber seized since Julyl, ON
the Wisconsin and Chippewa Rivers, as
having been feloniously cut on Govern
ment land, amounts to sixty million of
feet, and is valued at from $3.50 900 to
100000.
At Dan Rice's Museum, on st.
Charles street, says the New Orleans
Crescent, can be seen creature which is
supposed to have been the result of
strange marriage between a bull and
barnyard bantam-nothing less than
horned chanticleer. That's what we call
bull story.
BY imperial decree, all the linen,
and so forth, of the French army, is to be
washed by steam apparatus. The pro-
cese has been essayed with manifold ad-
vantage in some of the military hospitals.
The economy of time and money is con-
siderable, also the sanitary benefit for the
troops.
Wild pigeons are abundant in
Louisville, and sell at 60 cents per dozen.
-Venison is plenty in Buffalo. 1t
is selling at shilling per pound.
There are about 100 steamers living
side by side at the Cincinnati levees, some
frozen in by the ice and others aground.
-"Land speculation" says Horace
Greeley, sis the scourge Of the West.
Rome is now lighted with gas, by
an English company.
The smallpox is prevailing in In
dianapolis, Ia, and along the route of
the railroad to Madison.
False happiness renders men stern
and proud, and that happiness is never
communicated: True happiness renders
them kind and sensible, and that happi-
ness is always shared-Moatesquieu.
- Among the imports at New York
last week of other than dry goods, were
81, ASS, 236, neutrality-suspicious. 1856, 600;
Copper, $67 900; Coffee, $142, 700;
Glass, $38, 800; Hardware, $31 900;
Hides, $l29, 500; Steel, 1886, 900; Sugar
$133, 500; Tobacco, 1871, 900; Tea, $97,-
800. The exports of breadstuffs, during
the week amounted to $l,100,0O0.
At sale of imported stock in
on the 31st ult., Cassius M.
Clay purchased two COWS for $4,000.
S. Meredith, of Cambridge, Iowa, brought
two others for $1,000. They were all
high bred herd book Durhams. The re-
were withdrawn for want of
sufficient bids.
Temperance, open air, easy labor,
simple diet, pure water, are good for a
man all the days Of his life.
There are one hundred and fifty.
four papers of all kinds published in I'll.
inois, of which thirty are issued in the
city of Chicago.
-HopE.-The sentiment exhibited
in the wag of dogs tail, when he is
waiting for bone. i
Massachusetts, is the only State in
the Union that can claim Wing Cover
nor. There1l be q change SOON. The
course of the Hards in Congress will give
he Wings several.