Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-05-01

She with thy setting has gone to her rest;
And till the cares of the day shall cucumber
My thoughts, will dream of the one love bon.
ID The steamship General Rusk, at New Or
leans, from the Rio Grande, brought Sl3os1O.A
in specie.
III The number of deaths per week in the city
of London averages from twelve To fourteen hun
dred
IL The official report of railway casualties in
England for the last year, states the numberto be
2SI killed, 39i injured.
IL The Reading railroad, the great coal thor
oughfare Of Pennsy lvania, has cost Sls 335 600.
Ii Is 93 miles long, and has cost more than any
other road in the United States per mile.
II The side wall of the Mechanics Bank
Agency building, in Macon, Ga, on Friday last,
fell with a tremendous crash into a cellar that
was being dug on an adjacent lot.
The splendid mammoth steamship Vanderbilt
Ia to sail from New York for Europe this week
She has been visited by immense crowds during
the last few days.
II The twelve guns cast at West Point for the
steamship Fiagara are each calculated to throw
$50 pound shell four miles.
1T The merchants of New Orleans are about
starting new bank under the new banking law,
with capital of S2,CO0,OOO IL will be called the
Crescent City Bank.
II The Legislature of Ohio has just passed an
act making IL penal offence TO use strychnine in
the manufacture of liquors.
III The once celebrated steamship. Great West
eTn, the third steam vessel that ever crossed the
Atlantic built at Bristol, in 1913, is for sale
in London.
u The staunton True American, and Specta-
tor have been consolidated, and only the Specta-
tor will be issued hereafter.
III Blessed are the young fellows that have
no girls TO claim their attention for they get
TO bed early Sunday nights.
IL The County Clerks Office of Searcy coun-
ty, Ark, with all the resolves and papers, was
destroyed by fire on the night of I'D March.
II The Cataract House. at Niagara Falls,
opened for the season on Monday last The In
ternational will be opened about the 5th of May.
IL The people of New Britain, Conn, pro-
pose to e1pend about $50 600 to introduce water
for fires and drinking parposes
II The Savannah Republican intmates that
poor beef is 20 cents per ID in that city, and other
feed" in proportion.
= The Italian Opera in New York is to ter
inmate after six more performances, and Madame
Gazzaniga has determined to return very shortly
to Europe.
II The corner stone of large Catholic church
was on Saturday laid at Clifton. Staten island by
Archbishop Hughes
IL The Pacific Railroad through Texas will
be $50 miles long, and has a grant of s,Ol7 900
acres of land and loan of 100 per mile from
the State.
u The city government of Lawrenceburg,
Ind, resolved not to impose any taxes the present
year. There IS enough money in the treasury to
defray all expenses.
ID The expedition in search of the sources of
the Nile, which promised such rich conquests to
the scientific world, has been dissolved by the
Viceroy of Egypt.
IL The Horticultural Society of Andover has
voted unanimously to appropriate the sum of SIS
in premiums for the destruction Of apple tree cat
efPlllers IN Andover the present year.
IL Hens disappear very rapidly in Hartford
by a disease which they denominate the .sgrab
disease" Many ROSTERS have been made desc
late in single night 1t is said to be catching.
II The Philadelphia Bulletin estimates the
average number OF nightly attendants on theatres
and kindred amusements in that city at about
twelve thousand. Frequently it is much larger.
II New York city is - dead broke, - its bank
account is overdrawn by half million the trea-
surer has cut OF supplies, and bonds at seven per
cent are to be issued TO rePlenish the treasury
u Nathaniel Cromble, a shoemaker of By
Held, was found dead in peat swamp In New
bury, and Il is thought he persisted in the storm
Of Monday night. He was about So years of age
and without family
IT The 81. Louis Advocate SAYS There are
IN this city not exceeding sixty church houses,
ana these, taken as a whole, will not perhaps
average more than five hundred sittings. So there
are seats IN the churches OF this city for 81 900
people, and yet the population is 1iO,OJO''
III The ship John l.. Dimmick, of Bruins
wick, Ne, cleared at Savannah 18th instant for
Liverpool, with 1888 bales of upland cotton
valued at s225.l35. Except that taken by the
ship Wallace, this is the largest cargo shipped
from Savannah this season.
ID The Nova Scotia House Of Assembly has
gfanted monopoly for twenty five years Of the
right 10 land a submarine Atlantic telegraph upon
the shores OF the province to the New York and
New Founda and Company.
ii Chinese woman has arrived in the quiet
little village OF West Chester, Pa, creating an
Immense excitement. She was the servant of
Mrs Professor Wentworth. was accompanied her
husband as 4 missionary to China, and died there
rms woman was commissioned to bring home
her child, and the infant has been safely delivered
to the care of the lady's family
II The Baltimore Patriot states that a lad v
residing IN the western part of the city, formerly
aconmunicant of the Episcopal Church. having
lately been converted to the Baptist faith under
the ninlstration of the Rev. DIR. Williams was
on sunday evening immersed, in the presence of
large congregation. This lady has been affiict-
ed Tor number Of years with the rheumatism so
much so that she was unable to walk without as
ISSUANCE Alter her immersion she ..came I'D out
OF the water, relieved of her all LECTION; and was
enabled to proceed TO her home without the help
she formerly required. r