Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-07-03
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

ever attained to its present circulation, which
continues steadily to increase. While it has
some fifty thousand daily readers in the Dis
trict Of Columbia and the surrounding coun-
try, it goes to every quarter of the Union in
large numbers, and beyond the limits of the
United States to wherever there are Ameri.
cans residing who take interest in American
public affairs.
As matter of course, it is now the main
advertising sheet of the region, as whatever
it publishes in that way cannot fail to meet
the eye of nine-tentbs of those around the ad-
vertiser who read any newspaper whatever.
Our business customers tell US wonderful sto-
ries of the results of advertising in the Stars
columns. 1t not unfrequently happens that
ere the sun goes down upon the publication of
the Star, patrons whose advertisements ap-
peared in it for the first time on that day,
will rush to the Office and order them out;
because overwhelmed with applications at
tracted from reading this journal. bust
ness firm whose address we have, advertised
not long since, in another city paper for
fortnight, for a storage room within certain
limits, without obtaining an applicant. Con-
Guiding to try the Star, six premises were Of
fered to them on the evening of the first ap.
pearance of their advertisement in its COL
umns,
While we claim credit for the industry and
energy with which the Star has been coz.
Quoted, and without which its fate would
have been that of all its predecessors de-
pending upon the patronage of the pub
lie of Washington especially, as it does,
we have to thank our felow-citizens of all
parties for the kind sympathy with which
our efforts to make journal especially in
dispensable to them have been greeted, and
to assure them that we shall continue to fur
nish them daily with precisely what nearly
all of them are eagerly anxious to know.
P. S. As illustrative of the result of adver-
Using in the Star, We have to mention that
after advertising for some time for the heirs Of
certain John White, in other city papers
without receiving reply, Washington mer.
chant inserted similar advertisement in the
Star, in answer to which be has received,
through this Office, at least two hundred ap
plications by mail from all quarters of the
United States and Canada; not yet having re-
ceived the first application in reply to either
of his advertisements for these heirs published
elsewhere! His address is at the service of
any one who may question the truth of this
statement.
The Rational AUTHORIZATIONS
being tho great national holiday no paper
will be issued from this office, in order at
all connected with the Star establishment
may participate in the celebration of the
day in city or town, up river or down, as suits
their several inclinations.
We are now On the eve of the eightieth an
niversary of the memorable day upon which
the birth Of American liberty was first pro-
claimed to the world, and we believe, notwith-
standing the gloomy auguries of approaching
national discussions and calamity put forth by
those with whom, in many cases, "the wish
is father to the ht'-notw
some few clouds lowering around the political
horizCn-we believe the coming anniversary
will be more earnestly and generally cele-
brated than any previous one, and that at no
time has the inestimable political blessings
secured to US by that days work been so tho
roughly understood and appreciated.
No public celebration Of the day is to be
made in Washington, but an unusually large
number Of private reunions aud demonstra-
tions are on foot; and taking into considera-
ton the intense heat of the weather, we are
not sure but that our citizens exercise a wise
discretion by INDUCING their patriotism in
select groups, quietly, and in the shade rather
than by any collective display in the glare of
the sun.
In the neighboring States of Maryland and
Virginia, the day is to be celebrated with un-
precedented spirit, and we presume many of
our citizens design participating with their
neighbors in their several gatherings at va
rious points. Ample facilities are afforded
for this purpose in the various excursion trips
advertised in the Star, and to this depart
ment we refer our readers, and take leave of
them until Saturday. when We hope to be
able to record the enjoyment upon all hands
Of an undoubted good time, unmarried by &C.
cident or unpleasantness of any description.
The Last Dodge Of the Humbug
&c American" State Convention in session very
recently at Worcester, Massachusetts,, having
by large majority, for Colonel
Fremont, the reelection Of Mr.. Sumner to
the U. S. Senate has become matter of Ger.
tainty; as, combined with the Republican
party, there can be no doubt of their power to
return him once more. 1t strikes US, there.
fore, that the game Of desperation in the mat
ter of his bodily injuries at the hands Of Mr.. |
Brooks need not be played much longer In.
deed, nothing more is to be made by playing
postum. So We presume the trial of Mr..
Brooks, under the pending indictment against
him, will shortly come off Mr.. Sumner. it |
will be recollected, was well enough to testify |
before the Grand Jury few days since, and
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