Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-05-04

ID The latest dates received at New York from
Ria are to the IL Of March
u The recent British Parliament was the
fourth in the reign Of Queen Victoria
IL The auction sales of real estate in New York
Ior me stthree months, amount to seven millions
of dollars.
IL According to tie message of Gov. Young.
the population of Utah Territory now number,
upwards of ninety five thousand
IL The Jackson Mississippian contradicts the
report so widely circulated, :. that the laws of
MississlPPi have been sent to Boston to be print
ID The Northampton, Mass, Courier saws
. Inc sugar season has been remarkably produc-
uVe-probaoiy twice as much the average of
years"
H. The fourteen years proposition i'm con-
nectlon with the right of sun age by 10. eirners
was defeated In the Senate of Massachusetts on
Tuesday.
II There is genius in Schenectady who
with skates, writes four months note on the ice
with such perfection, that in less than one hour
the sun liqudates it.
u The Norfolk American saws il is estimated
that thirty thousand slaves were sold and removed
from Virginia during the past year, and two thou
sand more escaped.
VI Rebecca Clapp, ofNew Braintree q majden
lady OF FL, walked to Greenwich and back on the
18th She recently purchased a farm for AZ 3lo
sum that she had saved from her own earnings
IL The critics of the Boston press are unani
nous In their praise of Edwd Booths rendition
Of Hamlet in that city on Monday evening Mr.
Booth appears at Burtons New York Theatre
next week.
IDA sub-edtor announces that the editor If
The paper Is unwell and piously adds:
All good paving subscribers arc requested TO
make mention OF him In their prayers-the other
class need not do 1t, rs the Of the wicked
avalietn nothing, according to good authority
II The Boston Atlas (Republican) said dur
Ing the last Cambridge trial :. 1t is not Mr. Kal
lock alone who is on trial: There is at stake. in
"A
party" :, Well, that let's the woolly- headed
ca; out of the bag :"
" A monster Terry boat was launc he'd recent
!y at Freedom; Allegheny county, Pa. She is
.hily one Ieet Dean, by about one hundred and
tniIty feet on deck; she will have side wheels
which Will be twenty-one feet diameter and six
teet buckets She is intended to be run between
Omaha City and Council Bluffs, Nebraska.
BIBLE REyIsIoN-This work is being pressed
forward with energy by its friends Prot. T.
Conant, OF the Rochester Theological Seminary.
has resigned his Office therein TO devote nj,
Mhole time TO the revision; while Prof H. B.
Hackett, OF the Newton (Mass) Theological
Seminary, will give to the work ali the time that
can be spared from the duties of his Professor
ship.
u Grandmother" said child on returning
Bible true p, % INC
do you ask9i' why
:" Because it says every hair of our head is num-
Cd "
there wasn't number on one of 'emn
w hat heresy. ~ exclaimed the old LADY, and
tainted. -"N'' "''U
TuNSELINs New JERsKY.-A New Jersey cor
respondent of the New York News suggests that
they should stretch the line of the proposed Broad
way tunnel little, and tunnel Jersey also from
the hudson to the Delaware. and thus save the 81
TAX imposed upon travellers crossing her terri
toy- Another suggestion is that the Jersey Dues
% capitalized az the Danish Sound Dues are
sach state OF the Union to pay at once their re-
sPecilVe proportion of the expense for keeping
and supporting" gates at the entrance of her ter
ritory. " vi
SCARCITY OF COTTON SEEDING understand
that commission house in this city received an
order, yesterday, from Columbus for ten thousand
Dushelsof cotton seed. The order was sent i'm he
nan OF planters in that section of the State and
ALABAMA, whose first paintings have been des-
toyed by the frost. In view of the fact that
young cotton is liable to MANY disasters such
Improvidence on the part Of planters may well be
wondered al. No wise man, il seems to MS
would ever be without a double supply of seed
Sarannah Republican
IL Michalet, in a treatise on - birds ,, tell.
the ioiIowing story: A lady, one of our reIa
80, VINO lived In Louisiana, was sucking an
Infant Every night her sleep was troubled 6v a
sahge sensation OF cold and gliding object
wnIch nad been draining the milk fTom her
Dosom On one occasion the same imprexxiop
occurred, but she was awake She spranp from
hei ped she called out they brought a Iipht
searched, and turned down the bed clothes They
round the f1ghtful nursling serpent of large
siIe end OF dangerous species. The horror of
tnis fearful circumstance caused her from that
moment 10 lose her milk -