Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-06-16

II AIRS Rufus Townsend, of Reading, CT,
was burned to death last week.
IL I'm August the people of Iowa are to vote
on the question OF allowing negroes to vote in the
elections on the same terms as white men.
II Coroner Connery,s bill of expenses in the
Burdell investigation amounting to $3.50, has
been allowed by the Board of Supervisors in New
York city.
VTwo of the sons of the postmaster at Mil
lersburg, in Ohio, have been arrested on the
charge of robbing the mails, by special agent
Shalcross.
II A petition for the abolition of teachers
Institutes has been presented in the New Hamp-
shire Legislature. They are considered institu.
tions for 'courting' at the States expense
III One day last week, break I'm the Erie
canal occurred, and before il could be repai red
over 1900 canal boats, 5OOO men, and 3OOO'horses
and mules Were gathered within ten or fifteen
miles of Montezuma.
IL According to the London cores pondent of
the New York Times, it is said that Sir Robert
Peel, rashly and wildly backing his own horse,
Anton at the Derby, lost f70,0OO, and is in a
state that might be expected, in consequence.
IIJ-A split stick was fo~pd in the woods near
Philadelphia, bearing slip of paper on which
was written-'' have committed suicide have
consumption on the lungs-John Latham, Of New
York" The corpse was found adjacent and
post mortem examination showed great disease
of the lungs.
TO Horse shoe nails are made by machinery in
Providence, and the manufacturers have Just
ment. The Post says one man and a bow with
three machines will do the work of fifty men in
the ordinary way.
II The first cargo Of new potatoes ever
brought from Antigua, arrived at New York a
few days since. part Of the cargo was sweet
potatoes, aud they were the largest ever seen in
New York, some of them weighing Is and 20
pounds each and all perfectly sound.
II few days since, Mr.. James Trainer, of
yicksbuTg, Miss, was quietly sitting in the Of
flee or friend, when camphene lamp overhead
exploded, and the burning fluid enveloped his
head face and portion Of his body He lived
couple Of days and died in great agony
ID New York city has now two rival police
organizations That under the State law num-
bers $50 men, and that under Mayor Woods rev.
olutionary dominion about 900 men. OBJECTIONS
from the latter to the former constantly taking
place, and the new board has established sepa-
rate police stations of its own, with all the ar
Engagements for complete system. While this
fight is going, roguery has free scope. Since the
beginning Of II, seventeen murders have taken
place in that city.
III Dickens new novel of Little Dorritt is AZ
last completed. The correspondent Of the New
York Times furnishes few business statistics
about 1t. None Of his series ever fuctuat-d so
much In sale. Starting with circulation of As.
0D-the highest ever reached, excepting Bleak
House. and equal to that--it has been as low as
3oOOO, being fall Of Is, 600, equal to that Of
Blackwood, Frazer Bentley, the New Monthly,
and half dozen others put together. 1t several
times rallied nearly up to the original number,
a"u tho Dttn Sucn as 10 Justify his
assertion In the preface that he never had more
readers for any one of his serials.
UThe w ashineton correspondent Of the Bal
timore American says:
"General Walker left the city this afternoon
for New York, having, as his friends think. been
quite sighted by the President and his Cabinet |
Fearing rebuff he did not attempt to seek an
Interview with the President, and left without |
The private dinner which he |
attended on Saturday evening was given by Ten |
nesseans chiefly; among them Senator Jones, |
Major Heiss, Major Arnold Harris, and others
Senator Jones presided, assisted by Col. Burnett,
of New York. Eighteen or twenty gentlemen |
were present. General Walkers remarks in re.
ply to friendly greeting by Senator Jones In be-
half Of the company, were substantially that he |
preferred the appreciation of the people TO that
Of the Government, and that he was confident he
had the mass Of the people in favor Of his move
ment.n