Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-01-03

trade for the past week has been fairly active
We are in the midst Of the HOLIDAYS more is
doing than could be reasonably expected. The
question between the operators and the working
been established at s.. Il per ton. which reduced
the wages from the prices paid on the three DO
lar basis "a cents per ton. The dificu lty of
the November wages. involving difference OF
ss per cent. reduction, WAS ALEC settled. There
10 much talk between operators and the repre-
sentatives of the Working Mems Beneficial A.
recitation Is to the mode OF adjusting wages for
the year 1871. but, no satisfactory conclusion
has been reached, IL 10 scarcely worth while TO
follow the various undgested propositions.
Enough 10 now apparent to warrant Just apprc-
hension of difficulty the coming season In any
and all the coal regions, and there Is also
already evidence OF a vigorous competition
between the several carrying com panIes-
FhiId Ledger I yesterday.
RoHATI, STORY OF A -.GIRI-SRwsRoy"-
somewhat curious case was recently heard
before a New Orleans court, in which a suit
was brought for the property left BY a certain
Henrietta Newsham, whose history while in the
flesh was not without its romance. This per- on
came 70 New Orleans from Vicksburg on a fla.-
boat during the var, accomp inied by her
cousin, Who was said al-0 TO he her lover. Upon
the srrival OF the tram i'm New orleans, Hen
netfa adopted the garb of boy, and became a
newsboy. She continued TO .ell papers and to
dress IN male attire, unsupported bv her ascot
a'es, until an order from General Banks order
NJ draft in New Orleans induced her TO
resume the tsbiiiments of her sex. She there
ave, ave .h See a Known as the srlnewsboy In
her cousin died of the same disease. and in 1856
her aunt, with whom the two lived, also died.
Some thousands OF dollars were left by the girl
ncwsboy, and the suit nov brought is by
person assuming to be the mother OF Henrietta
and Who claims her estate.
TKRRIBLB MORTALITY AMONG THE Grill
DRBh In PARIs-COrrespondents represent
tfat there is great mortality among children in
Paris They are diving by hundreds and thou
eands. One writer says that in the neighoor-
hood Ok Pere-la- Chaise, Montmsrtre and Mont
parnasse, one can hardly take fifty steps with
out meeting TINY coffin, wrapped in q cloth OF
white wool. Many Of these innocent little ones
60 to their last resting place unaccompanied
except by the two carriers; the father is at the
rsmparts, ard the mother is standing YEARLY
outside the butchers shop, o at the municipal
''cantine." Sometimes half q dozen or SO re'a-
tons follow the procession Of the humble vic
tim, and this is what is heard said 81 saw il
born, in October last and q fine, we'll made bay
it was" What did it die of. them "Of
more nurses. and the ewes are all sent to the
slaughter. En- try and rear q child in q be-
sieged town.
A NEW JOAN OF ARC.-Some of the French
papers give flaming account OF a heroine fIorn
Colmar, who IS eaid to command q corps OF
fIee6oofrs in tie Nosgcs. The daughter of An
old Guardsman, she lost her mother early lived
from youth as boy. worked In the field and
with horses, and summed all feminine tasks She
was taught by some nuns At the Rippolts weller
and was 20 have become novice. but became
governess to Polish counts family and on the
breaking out OF the last Polish revolution being
then nineteen, acted, in mans dress, as lieuten-
ant at the head OF some hussars. Being wound
60, che was admitted into Q convent at Warsaw
and protected by Bishop Felinski. On return
Ing to France she became cashier in shop and
managed the foreign correspondence. but
owing to complaint In the chest. again assumed
YnSY of3i ~lar
at Lamotte. There she collected band of VOL
unteers, and is Carrying on guerilla Marfare.