Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-04-12
v WASHINGTON D.. c.. THURSDAY APRIL - 1861

=, IL A young lady in the last stage of consump.
tlon, was baptized by immersion, at her own
sarnes. sha request In Dr. Magoon's church, Albany
brought to the pool in the arms of her uncle. at.
tended by her mother, and lifted in the arms of
tne pastor, who gently immersed her head after
repeating the usual words. The scene was very
anectlng, causing some Of the spectators to sob
with emotion. 'o'
III "Ain't there no exceptions to your law
ABOUT punching fellow" said a scamp to a
Judge. ~
mo, sir no exceptions whatever
'Now, Judge, guess you are mistaken lust
man, what then,''
man to the atmosphere
ID In novel at Margate Library, this passage
was marked and much thumbed:
Ihere is no object so beautiful to me as cop.
scienIions %; young man. watch him as do a star
That is my view exactly,n sighed Miss 10.
sephlne Hoops, as she laid down the volume
In TACT, think there's nothing SO beautiful as
young man, even If he amt conscientious,D
A DISTRESSING CAsE.-A most distressing case
OF smallpox has proved fatal in Mortified Mass
In the death of Daniel Crosby, who was buried In
silence His wife lies at the point Of death from
oonsunP Ptlon, ana his three little daught who
their parents.
IL At Brownsville, Texas a Kentucky horse
drover has purchased 900 horses and mules. which
ne intends driving to Spring field, Illinois, and
shiPplng thence by railroad to New Haven Con-
nectlcut, from whence they are to be shipped to
the West Indies
IL Mr. Rosenthal, merch hant of New Orleans
Is strongly suspected by his friends, of whom he
mas borrowed Sl3,Ou0 of an intention to defraud
thein OF II: Tbs suspicion was so strong that
'hey had him arrested but they failed to hold him
- UNION STATE CSNvENTIoN.-The Constitutional
'hloh STATE convention of Pennsylvania will
meet at Lancaster on the 25th inst to elect dele
gates to the National Convention to be held in
Baltimore on the 9th of Nav
NW. w. Phillips and his son. Jas Phillips,
who killed c. r. Ayres at Rectortown, in Eau.
quler county, on the 1lth of November 1859, have
been convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to
three years imprisonment in the penitentiarv.
u The Missouri Republican says that everv
leadlng Wing and American paper in the State
has abandoned Mr.. Bates, and asks what chance
he has Tor the vote of Missouri under such crcum-
stances.
H. RUSSELL Jones & Co. are about to remove
thelr express, freightng, and Quitting establish
ment from Leavenworth to St Joseph: whereat
the people of st. Joseph are highly exultant
DF Rev. Clemon Frachon, principal of the
Catholic Institution at Sanwich c. w . known
as as l. Assumption College, has disappeared with
the funds of the institution.
II Boston, says the Traveller, has two bunded
and fifty ships in the Indian and Pacific trade al
the present time.
IL 1t is stated that Mrs Burton the first wifi
OF the late w f. Burton, and her SON. are expected
10 10 arrive In the steamship Niagara now due al
Halifax. "' "'
H. An exchange says that "seven hundred in
dus'rlous individuals gain livelihood in the
mOney!'
III Abijah Bigelow, NJ. c from the Norces-
ter district of Massachusetts at the time when
WEBSTER was d member, died recently