Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-12-02

IL Charles Mackay spent Thanksgiving in
Newport, and lectured in the evening.
IL A $500 lump Of gold has been taken from
q niue In Caoarrus CO., NC.
IL Coal II selling at the mines on the Ohio at
from 10 To IL cents a buShel.
IL $1,000 men are employed In this country In
iron castings.
IL Td-kevs and geese sell in Gardiner. Me,
at cents pound, and nice chickens for 5X to
cents.
IL Mrs. Norton, of Perry, Me-, shot burglar
las: week, aud on finding what she had done,
tainted.
IL The increase of paupers at the almshouse
al W a,Tca; Mass Is Wet three, and many Of
them able-bodied mechanics.
III The United Brethren in Ohio have six
conferences, and ~ 3 4 memOers-a gain Of = ,2UO
the past wear.
u At san Antonio. Texas, recently, man
Was she; dead ~ GOV. Bells garden, In the act
OF stealing potatoes.
IL Two shoe manufactures at South Deer
field, y. H.. which tad been suspended for
rrai weeks, have gone into operation again, and
employ So hards.
IL On Monday last. there were sold 81 head
two year cd mules, 81 = iU0 ps- head al Danvill.
Nv. and th. sty-thIee head Of yearling cattle at
81 per head.
IL Committees have been appointed by the
different churches in North BIO 3kf-id, Mass, 10
that town.
III Young brat was recently sentenced to 8
months confinement in the house Of industry for
stealing newspaper from the door Of a house in
Boston.
IL An old silver mine walled ND with ma.
sonTy, is said 10 have been discovered in Han
cock county, Ala, near the Morgan and Walker
lines.
IL Thanksgiving dav was celebrated at the
Poor house in Pc ilaRd, Me. by an excellent din
her, after which the tables were removed and the
inmates engaged in a dance.
IL At the late fair at Stockton. California
among the prizes offered there was $50 dress tn
the unmarried lady who made the best loaf Of
bread.
IL Moses Y. Beach, put an extra hea. in his
furnace to warm his house, in Wallinsford, CT,
for his friends on Thanksgiving day; it took q re
In consequence, and was damaged TO the amount
Of 81 900, and same Of his lod gers barely escaped
IL The Edinburgh (Scotland) News of No.
vemoer 18th contains some rather serious charges
against Peter Sinclair, Esq, the great Temper
ance lecturer, who is, at the present time in this
country.
IL One hundred and ffty-two thousand, six
hundred and forty-fve pairs of wOollen socks
were knitted by the women of Massachusetts in
near $40 ,2s7.
IL The magnificent piece OF ordnance sent as
present by the citizens of Boston 20 the people
Of Piedmont for the Notifications of Allessandria
the 18th ult.
u There are now in New Bedford, Mass
% whalers, II ships, and IL barks, only two of
which will sail this season. There are always
some whalsrs lying by for the winter, but the
number this year is much larger than usual, ow-
Ing to the monetary difficulties.
III DR.. Merle D'AubIgne, the Genevess histo-
rian OF the Reformation, took active part in
the late Berlin Convention, dscouT sing in three
languages. According to the descriptions of him,
be has grown < Eay vii b age and labor. and would
hardly be recognised from the current portraits
IL In one of the midland counties in Eng
land, not long since, clergyman, after prayers,
took out newspaper and read before congre-
CATION, assembled In the open air, summary of
the Indian news, making the subject text for
his discourse.
u gentleman, writing from Lee county,
Ill says: - Good wheat only commands forty
I'VE and nfiy cents per bushel, and will be lower
a. soon as navigation closes. Hard times felt
here as elsewhere; money is almost unatteineble;
collection Is difficult and II is impossible to ef
feet loans on the best paper"
FILLIBCSIERs GOING HOME The Neuces
(feIas) Valley. of the 18th iast says: 1--WE I'M
derstand that those Of Walkers boys who made
q rendezvous at Powdefho:n have concluded, in
consequence Of the tightness OF the times and the
watchfulness Of Uncle Sans war dogs TO aban-
don the expedition and go home''
III The Great Western iron rolling MILL at
Brady's Bend, Armstrong county, Pa, has dis
charged about seven bundled operatives IL has
been engaged in making railroad iron largely
and the demand for that article having fallen off
materially, IL is cuGtailing operations suit The
Pittsburg rolling mills are nearly all running
half time, and the owners storing the PTo-
ducts.
1T On Wednesday evening last barn be-
longing 10 widow Jones. IN Plumsiead Bucks
county, Pa was burned, toHet her with two cows,
some hay and other pope ~. A little girl, about
IL years Of aye, named Rebecca Geddes, was az
rested and examined on charge OF having set Ire
70 the barn, a retail alton for a chastisensnt she
had received some time during the day She was
committed for trial.