Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-08-08


| Eastern, when they reach that vessel, tomorrow
As we stated yesterday, the distinguished part,
leaves this city in the 7:4O train, a m tomorrow
| Tor Annapolis, from whence they win be conveyed
In the revenue cutter to the great steamship. II h
thought the President may remain over Thursda,
night at Annapolis.
APRoPosED UNION OF THE BELL AND DoueLA.
| TIckET.-It is said that Mr.. Conrad, Secretary o.
| War under Mr.. Fillmore's administration, who |,
now here, is preparing for publication a lette
| urging the formation of joint Bell and Dougla,
ticket, as OF Unionlsts for the sake Of the Union
| and proposing that the successful electors unde
| such arrangement choose between these presiden
tial candidates according to their relative strength
| EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR ADMISSION
| AT WEST PorNr.-A board Of medical officers
/ consisting Of Surgeon General Thomas Lawson
| Surgeon c. A. Finley, Surgeon Charles McDou
gall, and Assistant Surgeon ]. F. Hammond, will
assemble at West Point on the 2Sth inst or a,
soon thereafter practlc able for the examination
OF such candidates for admission into the Mill
'ary Academy as may report fer that purpose.
SOMETHING NovEL.-We were to-day shown,
at the Agricultural Division of the United State,
Patent Once, very large piece of sponge, Of
superior quality, attached in very peculiar man
ner to a shell fish Of the oyster species. Itva,
found on the coast Of Syria by the Rev. Jas F.
Barclay, missionary at that point, and forwarded
oy MIN to the Office where IL is now on exhibition
COURT MARTIAL OF AN ARMY OFFICER
general court martial has been directed to meet
al Fort Dallas, Oregon, on the 18th Of Septcmbe,
next, for the trial of Capt. Thomas Jordan of the
Quartermaster's Department, aud such other pris
oners IS may be brought before it,
First Lieutenant C. McKeenen has been an.
pointed Judge Advocate.
MORE ARMS TO THE POM EXPRESS Official
dispatches from Utah state, in addition to the one
hundred revolvers heretofore supplied sixty rifles
together with the necessary ammunition, have
been furnished by the proper military officer al
Camp Floyd to the pony express riders for defense
against the Indians
DELIVERING NEWSPAPERS TO CLUBs.-It has
been decided by the department here, that deputy
Postmasters are not required to distribute news
papers, sent to one address, among members of a
club from a furnished list of names, unless a
quarters postage IS PAID in adrance
DEATH OF AN INDIAN observation-disclosures has
been received at the Indian Bureau of the death
of sub-agent II. s. Ford, of the Mendocino reser.
walton, by the accidental discharge of his own
pistol
INDIAN SUPERINTENDENT OF UrAH.-The re-
Gently appointed superintendent of Indian Affairs
Tor Utah, Judge Smith, has been directed to pro
coed forthwith to bis post.
II japanese dates to the 26th of June give ac-
counts Of a lucrative trade with the British and
French forces m in hos 10.
armies. AS many 1900 had already been
shipped, and the japanese were also sending ma
tive -four at 80 50 per picul and potatoes at half
cent. per ID. The trade In tea was also active
and the population of Kanagawa had trebled
within the last year in consequence of the grow
ing trade with other nations.
II One of the coroners Of New York city re-
ports the death Of an Irishman, at the Bellevue
hospital, from an overdose of chloroform taken
preparatory to surgical operation. Another
death from the explosion Of a can of burning fluid
Is recorded. So severe was the burn that the Door
woman died in six hours after the injury We,
even this, perhaps the thousandth warning. will
not suffice. Women and children are nightly eI-
posed TO the same peril.
DTThey have another barrel mystery in Chi
cago. woman named Anna Katrina Rasck wa,
on Tuesday found at the bottom Ct an old well
head downwards in a barrel, and with cord
drawn tight enough about her neck to cause,
death. Her husband was arrested on suspicion.
IL The child of Mr. Rice, Of Baltimore. the
possession Of which was contested by the father
and mother, and decided In the favor of the
former, was abducted from private school at
Nahant, on Saturday, by three men disguised,
who menaced the master with clubs
IL Among other incidents of the reception #
the Prince of Wales at st. John was the parade Of
about 900 school children, dressed uniformly.
who sang the British national anthem and strewed
flowers In his path.
1--WE have received from MYssrs. TAYLOR 4
Maury, (who have the number for sale,) the W est
minister Review for July.
IL The republicans Of Fayette county, Ohio.
renominated Tom Corwin for Congress by &C.
clamation at their county convention.
IL The Charleston Courier reports the CITY
entirely free from fever, malicious reportsn 70
the contrary notwithstanding.
HI Mr.. Stewards speaking tour in the North
west is announced to commence In MICHIGAN
SEPTEMBER first
Personal.
'''' Hon. T. Theake, of Ohio; and Randall
Hunt and lady, OF La, are at Browns
---- Major Chase, u =. A. and fimily; T. nj
Mata, Of n. Y and Louis Janin, are at the Ma.
tional
'''' Among the passengers In the steamer A raeo
at New York, is the Hon. Lewis Cass IT, Minis
ter TO Rome, and several distinguished fore pners
- Lola Montez has recovered sufficiently
from her severe attack Of paralysis to be removed
to Astoria, where sine is staying with Mrs Blu.
chanan, wife Of the celebrated florist She is a,
yet scarcely able to lift her hand, and there h
little or no hope Of her ultimate recovery.
/ DRT TINES IN KANSAS Kansas correspon-
dent of the New York Tribune SAYS: Clear me
tell Gods truth. As ] write I'm my house the
wind flaps over mel the sun heats ii so that the
wind almost burns me; my wife Is now roasting
eggs on the stons steps In front of my house; Tie
stove and tin boiler are too hot TO bear nv hands
on them, standing Ia the house where the sun
cannot touch them; they are hot by the wind
| blowing on them through the open door. WHY,
every flap Of the wind Is like the heat of fire from
/ a burning building. have Just shut the door "a
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