Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-02-23

III They are crossing the river with sleio bs
on the ice, at Toledo, Ohio.
IL The Kentucky Legislature adjourned sin.
die on Wednesday last
lock, 'S Is ~'''ing lie Oh Have
IL There are forty-s emperors kings prin
ces, grand dukes and dukes now reigning in Eu-
rope.
~ Flour has been selling at SIS per barrel
In Antonio, Texas, In consequence of the d ricul-
~ OF hauling from the coast.
III The French Emperor holds Cabinet coun-
ellis on Sunday afternoon and gives grand balls
In the vening. Sunday night is the great ball
night of Paris.
IL The Carolinian states that the Banks at
Columbia, :. C., are discounting freely for the
purchase Of cotton The Exchange Bank alone
drafts.
IL Three steamers are being built in Dutch
dockyards for the Emperor OF Japan. One the
Jeddo, Is about to paddle away from Rotterdam
on board.
sheheld, Mass, which is supposed to cover
about four acres. IL has been leased to a gentle
man from Canaan, Ct, for five years at 81 900
per annum.
BALTIMoRE.-A call has been issued in Balti-
more for a meeting Gin favor of the immediate
admission OF Kansas under the Iecompton Con-
sututlon," which has already received large
number OF signatures.
IL
Burners White Sulphur Springs, 4" with the ap
purtenances thereto w hich advertised to Ia ke
place. ON the llth instant, brought 81 900 Pur-
chaser James Allen, esq
MouLp.-fhe mould on decaycd fruit stale
bread, moist wood, &c, is shown by the micro
scope to be plants, bearing leaves flowers and
seeds, and increasing with inc redible rapidity;
Tor In Few hours the seeds spring up, arrive al
maturity, and bring forth seeds themselves 80
that many generations produced in a day
III On Tuesday last says the Journal a man
named Edward +. Weston, Of Providence | .
was skating on Jamaica Pond, when he broke
tnrougn the Ice and fell into the water beyond
DIS depth He had remained in this situation
some nve minutes, clinging to the edge of the
ice Tor support, when his perilous position was
discovered by Miss Dunbar, Young lady resid-
ing In Hoxbury, who Immediately fastened to
ms assistance, and succeeded in Tescuing him
from watery grave
oCSNyIcIED Major Morris, Henry B adley and
DICK Bradley, three negroes have been convict
ed for the murder Of James c. Grant, at New
Kent, Va, and have been sentenced to be bung
on the 18th day of March next IL is said that the
SiuLens OF the county have held public meeting
and passed resolution request NO the sister Of
the murdered man to leave the county in a given
time, II being expected that some quarrel about
their respective interest in their mothers estate
led to the murder
u The attention Of the people of wisconsi,
IS nkely TO be turned to the restoration of the
Ssalh penalty Tor murder in the d rst degree The
mllwaukie News is informed hat = strenuous
EFFORT will be made TO accomplish This oh;act :,
tne present session of the Legislature. and that
several members of both houses hitherto onnosed
TO capital punishment, are now fully convinced
OF the necessity for the re-enactment of the death
murder " o'e
"A who'll TEAN.-The Wheeling Intelligen-
Ger gives the following sketch:
wesaw, yesterday, going up toward the up-
Per Terry, team Of four apimals-a horse a pony
= mule, ana bull The horse had the heaves
.ne pony was blind, the mule was lame, and the
haa no provision for ny time In the wagon,
MhIcn was an ordinary one, there sat a white
nan Ian, crippled Niger, and tame skunk srailIy
couno with wisp of straw. TIE white man
aeio the lines the team held its own the niger
heio the skunk, and they all moved forward ;;
ID Readers will remember the horrible story
VI sne nuuiated human remains found in a sact
al waterloo Bridge, London Now the story
.uhs thdt u Is beyond a doubt that they were
Ine remains OF one Of the ators to assassi
mate Napoleon III and that the others suspect
inGl murdered him. Had the suggestions OF the
MAN In the Streets Of the Morning star been
deteo upon the murderers would have been dis
covered, and the awful sacrifice of life IN -
rue LePelletier thus been avoided Our police
don letter. ~ '"'' ho"-