Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1855, Page 2

WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOssiP. The Attempt to take Forcible Possession of the Books, Affairs, Property, &c, of ths Washington Monument Association —On Fri- day last we announced the result of the effort to turn out the gentlemen who have so long and faithfully managed the concerns of the Washington National Monument Associa- tion. On the next day (Saturday last) a moet- ing of the Board was called, to convene at halt-past nine a. m., in their chamber at the City Hall; and at that hour Col. Peter Force, Walter Lenox, J. Carroll Brent, and others of the Board went there and found J. M. McCal- la, F.S. Evans, and, we believe, one or two, others claiming to be mombers of the new management, purporting to have been elected on the preceding Thursday. The Board’s clerk, T. W. Eckloff, was also piBeent. Soon afterwards many other members of the Board came in, among them being Col. Seaton, Gen. Waiter Jones, Capt. Thomas Carberry, P. R. Fendall, Esq , Gen. Henderson, and J. H. & Smith, Esq.; while others, claiming to have been elected on the Preceding Thursday, as we have before explained, also came in, among them being Vespasian Ellis, Esq ; and a crowd of some seventy or eighty persons, with hi ighly excited countenances, assembled around and about the door, who, by their conversation and behavior, gave evidence that they had gone there to ‘‘ back” the so-called * new board’” in whatever the lattershoulddo. The trouble commensed when Messrs. Lenox and Fendall demanded the journal of the Proceedings of the previous meeting of the Board, to look it over. The clerk, T. kloff, who, it will be remembered, was instrument used to publish the illegal call for an election, refused to permit those gentlemen to look at the book, handing them instead a letter from Vespasian Ellis, (who claims to have been elected first vice president,) forbidding him to permit the Board to see or touch their books until after the pretended new Board had determined at their meeting, which was to have been held to-morrow, whether they would grant to those gentlemen that privilege or not. So, Messrs. Lenox and Fendall quietly took the book, (journal,) and, together with General Walter Jones and other members of the board, made the examination they proposed to make, under threats of personal violence uttered with great vehemence by John M. McCalla, and the earnest appeals of I’. S. Evans, that they would quietly resign what they (those gentle- men) claimed to be their rights, in order to ward off the scenes of personal violence which he (Mr. Evans) felt certain his friends sur- rounding the door would engage in, if those gentlemen should persist in setting at defiance the determination of those persons to take pos- session of the association’s affairs. At one period during this altercation, Messrs. Jones, Fendall, Force, Ssaton, Lenox and their col- leagues, were peremptorily ordered out of the Toom by McCalla, with the threat that if they did not quietly withdraw, violence would be instantly used to eject them; so that the pre- tended board might hold 2 meeting, take for- mal possession of the books, and afterwards lock and bar the board out of the premizes! However, finding that such gentlemen as they were dealing with were not to he intimidated by threats of mob violence, no forcible effort was made to prevent the examination of the journal, wherein they discovered an entry which General Jones pronounced a fraud. That is, the clerk had ontered therein, that (at the last previous meeting) the board had been notified of the election for which he (Mr. Eckloff) then designed illegally issuing a call. No such notification whatever had been given, though the clerk, before the board met, said to one of them something in 2 confused manner about some election or other; howsver, he said nothing on that cccasion conveying the idea that Xe designed usurping authority to issue a eali fora new board of managers and other officezs of the association, one year before the term presersbed by the constitution This entry Mr. Fendall or (Feneral Jones ex- pungegd. Tho Voard did not claim tho right to take possession of the books, inasmuch as a conflict of jurisdiction had arieen; but that they should have the right to inspert thom in the presence of their legal custodian, the Board’s{lerk, until the Circuit Court should decide the question in izgue, while their oppo- nents claimed that tke election of tho pre- ceding Thursday had vested in themselves alone, all the rights and duties of the Board of Managers and officers of the Monument As- sociation. They even ignored the right of the Board to make a statement of their twenty years’ stewardship of the Association’s affairs —to take 22 inventory of the property they would leave in the hande of those claiming to be elected their succescors—to require a re- ceipt therefor, 4c. ‘hat iz, they denied the right of those gentlemen to the use of the books to enable them so to do. In the course of the morning that gentle. man’s friends (MoCalla, Evans, et a/,) sent for Mr. Joseph H. Bradley, their colleague, who, on reaching the chamber, very properly ad- vised them that the viewz of Messrs. Lenox, Fendall, and ¢heir colleagues, as to tho proper disposition of the books until the Court could decide, waa the logal and correct one. So no further opposition was made to this disposition ofthem. When Mr. V. Ellis came into the room, he explained that his note to the Clerk, which involved an imputation on the integrity of the Board, to which we have referred above, was not so intended by him; and that he had ordered the Clerk not to permit the Lvard to examine their books, because there was a rumor out of doors that they intended to carry them off, or to forcibly take them from within the reach of those claiming to have been new- ly elected. We have to say that as for the existence of such a rumor, except among persons who were conscious that they themselves were engaged in the perpetration of a fraud requiring in- stant and emphatic treatment at the hands of firm and responsible gentlemen to prevent its saccess, it is the sheerest gammon conceivable. The Board were without a reason for desiring surreptitiously to take possession of their archives. Their instant production might be necessary for their own vindication until after receipts for disbusements and property had beon passed. They had had posscesion them for twenty years without removing m from their place of dozosit, and, in all tha: ee the breath of slander had not dared el EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON CITY: MONDAY AFTEBNOON..---- Febraary 26. Orrices For Rent.—A number of ad- mirable offices and unfurnished rooms, suitable for gentlemen’s lodging rooms, are for rent in the commodious house on the southwest corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh street. Possession given immediately. For terms, apply at the office of the Evening Star. Srorace.—Sterage will be taken in the fine large dry basement, corner of Eleventh street and the Avenue, “Star Buildings.” The central location and easy access to this store-room makes it. the most desirable place of the kind in Washington. Termslow. Apply at the Star office. THE WEEELY STAR. We advise all who want 8 good weekly family and news journs! to take this paper. It con- tains a weekly bistory of what is going on in Washington and throughout the world, besides much interesting miscellaneous matter. It costs but $1.25 a year. e-—____ SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS. The Intelligencer rejoices over the passage of the Diplomatic and Consular Reform bill and the Court of Claims bill, and urges the appro- priation for the Washington Waterworks, the Metropolitan Railroad, and the enactment of other bills of great importance to the District of Columbia, as well asthe bill for the con- struction of the proposed seven new steam sloops of war 7 The Unron also rejoices over the enactment of Mr. Perkin’s Consular and Diplomatic bill, draws a lesson from the debate in the Senate on Friday on slavery, and publishes a letter from Washington to the general committee of the Baptist Church of Virginia, wherein the father of his country eloquently inculcates the equality of the rights of all religious de- nominations of citizens of the United States. The Richest Thing Out—James Gordon Ben- nett bringing a Suit for Libal. The richest thing we have yet seen is the article in the Herald of yesterday, expressing the determination of James Gordon Bennett to bring suits for libel against Horace Greeley of the Tribune, and the Messrs. Brooks of the Express. Bennett says: «In these trials we shall a character utterly beyond reproach, beginning in the year 1520, and coming down to the present time—a period of thirty-five years.” * * “Ln it will aleo be brought up, in order, all the calumnies that our enemies have been casting upon us, and it will be proved that our character bas been through all this time without the slightest reproach.” Ia not this rich? The man who has slan- dered the dead and maligned the living with fiend-like venom, sparing neither age, sex, nor condition, whose deformed person is scarred from head to heel with the stripes in- flicted by the lash of the men he has libelled, threatens to bring an action against those whu have paid him off in his own coin, and showed the ereature to the world ashe is. It is like the pole-cat bringing suit against the civet, or the incendiary asking for the arrest of the man whose house he has burned. If Bennett, by any accident, should recover damages for libel, or any jary be so lost to decency as to award him one cent, there may be some chance for the “Evil One” recovering damages from all the preachers in Christendom for the dis- respectful manner in which they speak of him from their respective pulpits Bennett’s en- nouncement of his determination to bring suits for libel will be received with shouts of de- rision by every man who reads a newspaper. Bennett himself evidently does not expect to recover a farthing. It is only a ruse to help sell the Herald, which constantly needs bumbugery to keep up its circulation, as the following from the IZercld will show : “The evidence adduced will comprehend the history of the New York press since eighteen hundred and twenty, with ail the changes, chances, circumstances, plots, combinations and conspiracies which have happened durin, that eventful period.”” a = The Diplomatic and Consular Bill. The diplomatic and consular bill which haz jast passed Congress, proposes to give the fol- lowing salaries, with no outfits : To Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Vienipotentiary: To Great Britain, $17,000; France, $15 000; Spain, Russia, Austria and Prussia, $12,000 ; Switzerland, Rome, Na les, Sardinia, Belgium, Holland, Portugal, Den- mark, and Sweden, $7,500; Turkey, $9,000; China, $15,000; Brazil, 000; Peru, $ 000 ; Chili, $9,000 ; , New Granada, Bolivia, Ecuador, enezuela, Gua- — #, aud Nicaragua, $7,500 ; Mexico, $12,- Secretaries of a are to be paid as follows: To Great Dritain, $2 500; France and Spain, $2.250; Russia, Austria, and Prussia, .000 ; Switzerland, Rome, Naples, Sardinia, Belgium. Jiolland, Portugal, Denmark. Swe- den, Chili, Argentine Repubiic, New Granada, Bolivia, Ecuaior, Venezuela, Guatemals, and Nicaragua, $1,500 ; Brizil, Peru. and Mexico, $2,000. A commissioner to the Sandwich islands is to receive an annual compensation of $6,000; an interpreter to the mission to China, $2,500; and a drago: i ‘ Tuckey, $atee a man to the mission Consuls are to have fixed sal of them are to be confined “eipioraaas pes ness alene. Others are to have small salaries and to be allowed to engage in commercial pursuits. None of these officers are to receive com- pensation until they shall hava reached their Tespective posts entered upon their official duties. Citizens of the United States alone to ‘be appointed. eerie Nor So.—It has been asserted that Pat (James) McGuire has beon appointed special mail agent by the Post Office Department. Weare authorised to state that there is no truth in this statement. . Ea" The legislature of Massachusetts has in- structed Ne of its Committees to “report a bill to prevent Raman Catholics from holding an office under the government of the State of Massachusetts.” ~~ EG Cattle are said to be dying of staiPiation in some parts of Ohio, in consequence of the drought last summer, which cut off the usual supplies necessary for their sustenance. Ear The N. Y. Express, heretofore Sleading Whig paper, says:—‘-The Whig party of New York, bas broken up—gone to the winds and waves.” Er The Baltimoreans are talking about running « railroad through Baltimore street. It is too narrow, and will never answer such a SS " Putoam’s Montbly,’’ for March, has been sent us by Frank Taylor. It is a capital pamber, and well worth the price asked for it. é . to bl@#on the personal or official integrity and hgh bearing of any one of those gentle- men, than whom our country really contains no where elee, engaged in any other such public enterprise, an equal number whose minds, character, and invariable conduct have won for them more respect and confidence from their fellow citizens, or higher fame in their several walks in life. The affair was settled temporarily by the adooftancs of the claimants, under the adyice " . of Mr. J. H, Bradley, of the original propo- sition of the Board, vis: that the clerk (Eck- loff) should hold the custody of the Locks until the Circuit Court may determine the rights of the claimants, who, by-the-by, have already elected Eckloff to be their clerk, in cmse they triumph. We have to say, further, that this affair was arranged out of Washington Indeed, it was schemed at the Knew Nothing National Council held some months ago in Cincinnati, letters from that point, from Oarlisle, Pa., and from New Jersey having for some time been in Washington, mentioning the fact that it had been so ordered, then and there. The most important result of this effort to prosti tute a great national patriotic charity or trib- ute, to party polities, is the certain defeat of the bill now before Congress to appropriate $200,000 for the continuance of the work on the monument. It was certain to have been passed by a majority of five to one in both Houses. Now, not one in every ten members of either House would vote for it. The pres- ent Board are for the most part those who have had the management of the work since its inception, and have labored strictly to carry out the pledge on which they have ob- tained the money thoy have expended in raising the monument to its present height of 154 feet—more than halffinished. That pledge is stated in the Association’s constitution to be, that it should be the result of voluntary contributions from the people of the United States, without distinc‘ion or discrimination as to their politics, religion, or the country of their birth. Under this pledge, so sacredly given, and up to this time so nobly redeemed by the gentlemen who compose the Board, persons of all parties, creeds, and nativittes have given an aggregate of hundreds of thou- sands of dollars to the enterprise; and an effort by a secret movement to place the work in the hands of a political party, and to pro- scribe citizens of the United States in connec- tion with its affairs on aczount of their reli- gion or nativity, is a palpable and shameful fraud upon those whose mezns have gone to Taise it to its present height. Subjoined, we prescat in parallel columns the names of the present Board, and those of the individuals whom it has pleased the irre- sponsible council in Cincinnati to cause to be attempted to be substituted for them. We need draw no comparison between them, in order to enforce upon the minds of our fellow citizens of Washington and its vicinity, the danger and impropriety of entering into secret pledges to give up to an irresponsible, un. known and far distant cabal, their own right to think and to choose for themselves, as be- tween men whom they know. The parallel lists in question will speak notes of warning, such as types otherwise arranged cannot en- force. To our readers at a distance, we have tosay—If you desire to understand to what resultsthe taking of secret oaths to be gov- erned by unknown persona in all your actions in connection with public affairs—to deprive thoge who worship God in a manner different fiom yours, of their rights of entire co-equality in all the privileges under the constitution and laws of your country—aud to seek to deceive those with whom you hold daily intereourse— just ask any intelligent citizen of Washingtoa, who has fairly earned character by a life of well known probity, to compare these two lists for you, taking up the history of those com- posing them, srriat?m; and you will then realize what Know Nothingiem is likely to effect for the future of society, ii the sober second thought of the people Coes net shortly come to the rescus. We sincerely believe that a vast majority of those who so far have been caught in the trap, are honest and patriotic victims of the art: of the specious and bad men into whose hands they have fallen. So believing, we trust chat they may soon have before them, for their sober reflection, more such examples, as the effort to substitute for the list on the right Land, as the managers of the Washington Monument Society, the per- sons who compose the lists of claimants of the several positions of the others. These lists are ae foliows, viz: Vespasian E leo. H. Chas. C. Tu Joho M.M samuel French ifenzy Joseph Hl. bradley, J.N. Craig, Thomas D Sandy, Samuel a A. Willian W. Coree Philip R. Fendall, Elicha Whittlesey, Johan W. Maury, dee’d, Gen’ Wi ‘Thomas Bi Waiter h ’ E. Douglas, ph Libby, Sen 4, pas A, Brooke. wiord, Benj. Ogle Tayloe. The Condition of the Albany on Sailing from Boston on her fatal Cruise—The fol- lowing is a oopy of a letter addressed by Commander Gerry, late commander of the Albany, to Commodore Gregory, commanding the Boston Yard. The Albany was fitted out at Boston when Gerry first took command, and this letter was writton after her arrival from Boston at Pensacola. It will be read with great melancholy interest by thousands : U.S. Suir Atpany, ) Pensacola, Dec. 15, 1852. 5 My Dear Comopore: I thought it might be interesting to hear a little of the detail of our cruise, afver being put into commission and receiving on board our cffizers and crew at 2.30 p.m. one day, and eailing at 330 p. m. the following day directly for our destina- tion without dropping an anchor!—the first instance of the kind, to my knowlege, in our navy, and a “bright feather in your cap,” most certainly. Lied we been detained twenty minutes longer at the yard, or unsttended by a steamer, we should have lost the tide; for as it was she stirred up the mud and scraped ligh*ly on the sand just where the pilot ex- pected, though without any injury. At six p. mm. we discharged the pilot and made sail with a strong breeze, and at eight a. m. next morn- ing were past Georgo’s Bank, 110 miles from Boston Light, sailing ten, eleve 1, twelve, and, for one hour, thirteen knots, under topgallent sails and foretopmast steering sails, when | took in the steering ssil and got twelve knots out.of her for some hours, and noon observa- tions showed that she had been under- logged and had overrun her reckoning several knots. I am perfectly charmed with thisship; she eails very fast, without being too mach pressed; rolls as casy a3 a cradle, though rather deep ; works very well, has great stability, and bears her canvas wonderfully well, and in all her motions is as lively and graceful asa young lady. Under fore and main topgallant over singlo reefed topzails and courses taught bow- line, with considerable sea, I have seen her take eleven knots fair log. and for hours ten and ton and a half! I have a first ri best orew I have ever seen on board ship—not a man, for the whole passage, requiring 2 harsh word from any officer on Lasse I tried very hard to make the passage in our order, but sixteen days, agreeably to lost two dan by calms and fight airs ahead. We experienced no northeast trades, but had the wind very far to the southward, which de- termined me to run through the Caycos Pass- age for fear of light southerly winds in the ‘ona Passage, and down St. Domingo. At'! set Of officers and the very] - 30 a. m. we mado the Cayoos Islands, and at H Pp. m. were through the Passage, sailing the whole day at an average of eleven knots per hour, one poiat free. you can judge if she required canvas to make good the sixteen days’ passage. We Pave found the ship so admirably fitted out that we have had no little difficulty in findiog jobs of work for our blue jackets; but it aforded me a gocd opportunity of drilling the crew at quarters when otherwise they mast have been employed =e rigging * * Governor from his unpleasant ‘ion before the Democracy of Virginia do may attempt to save himself by nice distinctions and men- tal reservations; but the Democracy of the State understand that he was an aspirant for the candidacy of the party, and a nominee before the convention, and they will not ac- quit bim of his obligations on this insufficient ies.” plea . M ile the Democratic papers oppose Mr. conn, the Whig press. which have jenounced him in strong terms, defend bim. Mr. Smith is a candidate for re election to Congress. It is said that Edgar Snowden will probably be the Whig candidate, if so, the latter gentle- man will probably succeed. . +++ In opposition to Isaiab Rynders pub- lished card to the contrary, the Richmond Pansy Post insists that he ‘s about to canvass Virginia for Wise. s+++ They are forming “ Rayner and Stock ton Clubs’’ for 1856, in Ph Eleven wards have already formed associations of this kind. Very truly and respectfully, was _ es T. Gerry. Com. Francis Gregory, Comdt. U. S. Naval Station, Boston, Mass. Lecember 18th, 8 a. m.—I was off the Bar and about coming to an anchor on the nightof the 5th, when it came on to blow a hard gale frem the southward and eastward, aod obliged m2 to haul off and lay to under a close d and maintopsil for thirty six hours, when a northward set in, but by carrying sail we wore off the Bar and took our pilot at7 30 am. r . ask This ship has proved herself to be a first rate sees The Pennsylvanian of Saturday lac vessel in every respect and lays to beauti- | oontains a letter from the Hon. Simon Came- fully. The Cyane had sixteen and a half days} ron to Mr. Kirkpatrick, a member of the from New York off the Bar, and is now in Pennsylvania Legislature, in which he says Havana, where she has been about one month. | he ig ‘opposed to the Nebraska bill, would, if To haste, yours very truly and respectfully, | elected 1o the U. S. Senate, vote for its repeal, (Signed) James T. GeRRy. |for the repeal of the fuzitive slave law, to legislate slavery out of all new territories, to oppore the extension of slavery, in favor of the North against the South, for a high pro- tective tariff, for the improvement of rivers and harbors, and to extend the term of natu- Talization to twenty-one years. Thus ac knowledging himself, among other things, to be an Abolitionist of the ultra school. +++sThe Dubuque Tribune, hoists the name of Hon. Wm. H. Seward, for the Presidency. +++eHon. Joshua Main, Agsomblymaa from Lyme, Jefferson county, N. ¥Y , a partizan oi m. A. Seward, was recently burned in effigy at Cape Vincent. On Saturday Mr. Manda, gave notice in the Assembly that he shoulc shortly introduce a bill declaring effigy burn ing argon, and punishable as such. +++-Tucker, the Brooklin murderer, bar been pronounced insane, and seut to the New York lunatic asylum. «+» The owner of Anthony Burns—the fugitive slave, who was carrie? from Boston to Virginia in a United States vessel, bas egroed to sell him for $1,300, and the money is now being raised in Boston, for his redewption. The Crowd in the Eenate —There was the largest array of beauty, fashion, and distine- tion in and around the Senate to-day, during the ceremonies on the occasion of the delivery of the sword of Jackson to Congress, that has graced the chamber during this session. The remarks of General Cass and the Hon. John Boll ware exceedingly eloquent and well- timed, and were received with that delight Wich an intelleotual and refined aadiene should honor such oratorial efforte. Steamship Surquehanna—The Navy De- partment Lave advices eaying that the Sus- quehanna arrived at Valparaiso on January Ist, in nineteen days and four hours from Aca- pulco, the shortest passage ever made between the two ports. She left Valparaiso for the United States on January 15th. All well. She is expected to reach the United States in the course of two months. METROPOLITAN MECHANICS’ IN. BSP stiri by order of the Booed vi Management, tie net proceeds ot the Fair Thursday next, March Ist, will be appropiia for the benefit of the poor of the city. And also that no depositor be admitted duria, day and night, without a pay ticket. Members and others entitled t» free admission, are requested not to use their privilege on th By order: P. M. PEARSON, Rec. MET. MECH. INSTITUTE EXHIBI- Serr IN.—SOTICE TO DEPOSITORS — All those persons who live goods in cases deposited for competition or exhibition, ll please leave the keys Gf thejy cases with Mr. 'T. J. Magruder, at the Exhibition loom, so ict the edges may be able t examine their goods. Early attention to this Is requested, or it may Le their goods will not be examined Wh*n They Meet.—The Board of Surgeons for the examination of candidates for admis sion into the Navy as Assistant Surgeons meet at Philodelphia on Munday, March 12th. next So, all interested will please take due notice. An Army Officer Dead.—Information bas reached the War Department of the recent death of Major Harding, of the Ordnance De- partment, U.S. A., at St. Louis, Mo. The Current Operations of the Treasury Department.—On Saturday, the 24thof Feb., there were of Treasury Warrants entered on the books of the Department— For the redemption of stock...... $40,564 86 — hengete het _ ARSON, Ree, See For paying Treasury debts 62,680 12) *8- er For the Customs.....++.. + 4,415 90 THE For the War Department. + 10,686 99 ri For repaying in the War Depart- * of Judges on ¢ MONE 20000000 csecccee.ee 662 87 | competition at the } 5 For the Interior Departzent. . 76,674 00 | tion, will be held at the residence cf Mr. J W. Si se monton, 468 Sixth street, next to the Unitarian Chureh, on TU NING, the 27th inst aid ovelock. ( sical, colt ical and surgical instritcs,ts. Members of the Com mittee are earnestly requested 16 ve punctual at the CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on Saturday, after we went to preeg, the civil and diplomatic appropria- hour stated. feb G—lr tion bill of Mr. rerkins, of Louisana, wasdis | —-—~ Slaw er cussed by Messrs. Mason, Seward, Brown, bg = wo Philadel. Benjamin, Clay and Dodge; and it was then phia, cn i cat pi aye passed. exhibiti uszil Thursday, the Ist of Bills granting additional powers to the Cor- | March. HILBUS & HITZ. feb 24—21 NOTIC Beene er poration of Washington, and to authorize the corporate authorities ot Georgetown to impose additional taxes (in aid of the censtructioa of the Metropolitan Railroad) were then passed A large number of internal improvement bills were next considered and passed, each making an appropriation for a separate work. THERE WILL BE A meet Standing Commitiee of the Fianktin Fire Compyny on MONDAY EVENING, the 26th instant. ‘The officers of the engune and hose division are requested to be present. By order of ROBT E. DOYLE, Pres. The District of Columbia yeaa ett feb 24— bill was then taken up, and the amendments SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LEC- thereto from their Judiciary Committee were SS tere : discussed by Messrs. Toombs and Pettit against them, and Messrs Butler, Geyer, and Clay- ton ja their favor, ere the Senate adjourned without fnasuy disposing of the said bill. In the House, the civil and dipiomatio ap- propriation bill, with Mr. Letcher’s amend- ment thazeto, was paseed; the vote on agrec- ing to that amendment heing—yeas 120, nays Ontver P. Batowrs, Esq., of Richmond, Va. wil deliver a lecture on MONDAY EVENING, the 260 pnited States Agricuitural Society. feb 24—ar A NEW BUILDING ASSOCIATIC Siw being form cf ; . zed as soon as 2,000 shares shal! Le subseribed Shortly afterwards they went into Committee | wyeu cue notice will be given. on the nayal appropriation bill, (Mr. Millsop | avail themselves of the oppor in the chair,) which was debated on amend. | i! find books of -ub-cripaon ments until the committee rose and the House la wites alae: adjourned. Seventh at., opposite Intel feb 23 —h* Prececdings of To-Day. OS T—On Friday evening, the 16th instant, in Tn the Senate, to day, Mr. Mallory called L going to or from the Mechanics? Inst tute (from Up the neva’ reform bill, as amended by the | 7th, and over loth street Bridges,) a larg: GULI Hows ’ BREASTPIN, representi» bunch of leaves and Mr. Pratt proposed to ameai it by adding a | suitaniy rewarded . clause placiog surgeons on x footing in thg | Lumber Vard, Eth street bill with the other oilicets. ee The said bill was then debated by Mesers. Bayard and Morton against the House amend. nents authorizing ofjcers, under certain cir- cumstances to be stricken from the seryicg rolls, and by Mr. Mallory in its favor—by Mr. Pratt, in favor of his amendment, and then ry, nee Morton against the enactment of the aL The hour fixed for the presentation of Jack- son’s sword to Congress arrived, when Mr. Cass, presenting the sword, read an address explaining its history and the circumstances under which be was called on to present it to Congress. Mr. Hell then taking the floor, addressed the Senate at length in a eulogy upon the character and public services of Jackson. In the House, the bill granting the right of way through the public lands for the construo- tion of the Wyandotte and Pawnee Railroad, with an amendment granting to all railroads, plankroads, turnpikes, &c., the right of way through the public lands. Mr. Disney reported back, from the public lands committee, the bill granting two years longer time to those bolging lands by entry in the Virginia military distfict, made prior to January 1, 1852, in which to have them pat. ented ; passed. Mr. pene also reported back frem the same committee the bill granting alternate sections of the public lands in aid of the construction cf the Oakland and Ottewa Railroad, the Grand Rapids and Straits of Mackinack Rail- road, and for other railroads in Michigan, with an amendmont, excluding all the roads em- braced in the bill from the benefits thereof except the Pontiac and Lake Superior, and the Grard Rapids and Straits of Mackinack Railroads. After soveral members had asked leave to move amendments to this bill, proposing to metals appropriations of lands for other rail- roaas— Mr. Clingman moved to lay it on the table; Z & grape vine, with @ The will be ng last, a child’s we. The 48G Seventeen ward. OTICB.—This is w certify ‘was not arrested by officer Ke for insulting ladies in the street. He was arrest d by officer Thomas for fighting. Officers should be careful how they publish lies. NICHOLAS J. PORTER. feb 26—11* $10 REWARD.—Por the apprehension and conviction of the person or persons wi0, on Thursday night, 22d inst :n up aid destroyed a cushion and removed the prop and lead bars belong. 1g to our omnibus, at the stable on Capitol il, ‘ashington, D.C. A fellow (not the proprieto,) was heard to boast that his omnibus made $1: 6 by it. It is precumabie he knows something about it. feb 26—3 LATIIAM & COOK. ral re- f >.6—1" _ ORGANS FOR SALE. SUPER(OK toned CHAPEL, ORG tthe Metropolitan M the monufactory of H of New York. For terms, & street, north of F. teb 26 eott — 40,000 WASHINGTON CLUB SEGARS. ] AM happy to inform my numerous customers that, on Thursday, March Ist, f shall receive 40,000 of those very superior SEGARS—Operas, Tratucor, and I r-nsados Members of Congress and other n metesidens who wish to supply themselves bef ington with fine Segars it fi to call and examine these go or = 1 have alse on hand a choice Jot of Li - dies, Wines, Gins, &e. — EDWARD C. DYER, Pa. avenue, betw. 12th and 13ih sta. ply jo Prof. SCHEE! HENRY “Washington Club” Londres, Cilindrades, re requested son and after that laid on the table—yeas 98, nays 72, feb 26—6r (intel) Mr. Disney also reported back from the Pub- NOTIC: lic Lands Committee, the bill granting lands a E. HE undersigned, haying associated in busines: T under the name of JOHNSON, GU ‘ray Mill keep constantly om hand, at tie old stand of Woodwad & Guy, P: venue, between 10th and llth streets, a geners rim-ntof HARDWARE. consisting of BUILDING MATERIALS, IT. LERY, STOVES, GRATES, &c., to which tiey respectfully invite the atispiion of ¢ Patrons and the public generally, wih an surance that every exertion will be made to please. WM. J. SIBLEY, R. C. JOUNSON, B. FP. GUY. to Florida in aig of the construction of certain railroads. Mr. Dickinson moved to lay it on the table. PERSONAL. ++++ The Demooratis papers of Virginia are not pleased with the corgs; of Hon. Wm. ith, who, it is said. the election of Hon. Honry A. V ‘venue and in the Capitol of this city. If § boldly asserted by many that he is a Know g- The Richmond Enquirer, in Hy falc a lott recently appearing in the co! mns of the Alef- andria Sentinel, says: = “At the request of Gov. Smith, we annex his exposition of his relations to the Staunton Convention. That they are equivocal en none will deny. His letter may satisfy his partisans, but will satisfy nobody else. His explanation amounts to this, that he would feb 6-3 nn annie each THE MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPA. RY OF THE | ISTRICT OF COLUMBI4, Cas by Congress, offers to th+ property owners ofthe District safer and cheaper means of insurance than any other Company ULYsses WARD, President: CHAS. WILSON, Sceretary. MATHEW G. EMERY, Treasurer, MANAGERS. . gladly have accepted the nomination of the Thomas Biagden Pw bene convention, but was unwilling to pledge him. | F. Howard, Mathew G. Emery. self to acquiesce in a resuit unfavorableto his} __J- C- McKelden, rsonal fortunes. He would hazard no stake | _ Office, Columbia Place, comer Louisiana avenue Kimeelf, but was eager enough te take the | “Ofice hours from 3 10 € o'clock purse. Thig letter will y relieve the} feb 20—eott o'clock p m. *ONDAY EVENING, Feb. 26, Knowle’s celebrated play of THE WIFE. t. Pierce + nese ir. 8. Murdoch, To concede ¢ Operatic Burletia of To conclede with ue Op Suan® Limp. Jenny Lind (with songs) .....+ Mra. John Weaver PRICES OF ADMISSION. Private Boxes $4; Dress Circle and Parquette 50 Tickets admitting 3 lady and xendeman 3 ond and Third Pier and C lored a GQ TOLEN—A perfectly black DOG, of the New gh oie id breed, calied “Sancho,” was taken from my house at the junction of the New ¢ ‘ut and Drover’s Rest Road, on or tbout the lst Pebruary. ‘A liberal reward will be paid to any one who will ng lun to the sutseriber or the spandent of bring inun to the swiser 2 gupenpentent the Star in Georgetown. teb 21—3t YALT-SALT ee gs : der. in d for sale low by S Salt, in ee at “RIPPS, G1 La. avenue, betw. Cin and Tui sts, feb 24—3t 10.000 ee & COARSE Liv. ton, in store and for sale at - y feb 2i-dlw LT, &c. A200 sacks G. A. Salt 500 sacks Jeffry and Darcy do., fine 309 do Ashton do co 200 bbls 1, 2,3 and 4 Mackerel do Herring jo Shad For sale by Southweet cor. High feb 23-6t __ BOYS’ CLOTHING. er to sell off'o -r present stock of Boys? and hs? Winter Clot we bave determined to + our large and fine asso: upent, consisting of ev- and quality 0: fashionable Ready ile tor dress and s:hool wear, ed prie S. HW. HOWARD, and Water st., Geot'n, JL & STEPHENS ext to tron Halt feb2s EWARD. between Aguia ure, conta Ke. 31 & Vanuxem ; Tenn. Do 0, endorsed by Horace May nard Do do $200, endorsed by C. Wallace and McPherson Do do Do co Io de Any person fiuding the same and returning them to Messrs. Rey! & Vanuxem, No. 20 North Pourth Hi he above reward to the finder, as pay. feb yt A LARGE NEW BRASS KEY. THE liberally rewarded by leaving i feb 23 ‘RENCH SHIRT BOSOMS.—A large and complete assoriment cf French Shirt Bos oms this day opened “T i 8 HO- TS.- STE Nel, isnow opening a fresh and at's Undershirts and Drawers, nt of silk and cottoa Halt CERTINA®’. ‘Two of the above tine Tu asic Depot cf H. SEMKEN, No. 330 Pa. avenue, for sale a wi 1 Chains, Seals, Lock- ets, ey articles are warranted as represenzed and sold anusually low. fen 19 hag MEMBERS OF CONGRESS & OTHERS. ets, Pej ‘Al SILV SPOONS, FORKS, &.—M. W. GALT . invie speciay atenuen ty thes stock of pure Silver Table, Dessert, and Tes Spoons und , Ladies, Butter Knives, and ail other ay- ticle pure Silver Ware. which i iargerand more varied than ever offered to ther customers. M. W. GALT & BRO., 324 Pa. av nue betw. 9h and 10ih ets, feb 23-1 nr D FANCY GOODS, PERFUMERY, &c. CHINSON & MUNRO are now selling at then new store, 320 Pa. avenue, between nh etreets, next door west of Messrs Wal per & Co's, the f and che=nest stock % ug the City Should see Hun scription of Powell's great ¢ Gurvsipics of the Patent cfice, feb 23—1m* BURGLAK AND POW DER-PROOF LGOCKS. sted in secure Locks are in- an Institu- jeropolitan ing “ Jones’ P: nd “Hall's Patent Ant (the key uo larger than a tw phanics? combir m Leek powder Lock” pick.) $1,000 was pioced in tering’s Base, secusged with the above Locks, whea on extibition at the World's Fa emi in 1851, aud aifered as a re- ward to any one ould pick the locks or open the safe with th 8, but no one was fou! ful enough ia th of jock-pickinz to ob:ain the money. The jury uwarded sepa: Medals f Would’s Exhibition in New York, in 1853-4, which can be scen with the Safes at the above exhibition, and M lacturer, New York. FITZHUGH COYL: SLO Seventh street, Washington, D.C , Agent. STEWART’S DACUERREAN ROOMS. VER Ca U's Jewelry Store, Pa. avenae, Pie ces from 23 cents upwards. We invite the public to call. actica always given, Accounts with the liouse of Representatives. = CLeRk’s Orrice. February 16, 1855. Berring’s Safe and Hall’s Lock also SILAS C. HERRING, Patentee feb 23—1w* € tures iaken in all weathers and at reduced pri feb 21-1" ving bills or other accounts against ‘seutalives, are respectfully ™ prior to the 28th instant, Seton by jhe Commitiee on the adjournment, J. W. FORNEY, & House of Reps. United States. requested 80 us t0 allow Accounts befor feb 17 - dt BANKING HOUSE OF PAIRO & NOU Opposite United States ‘salesnag = > Stocks and othor securiues purchased ON Tht { the rate of six per cent per annum al lowed on denosits when Eft bor wo pha ret (ett for 30 days or longer. $$ FRUIT AND EVERGREEN TREES. bd The undersigned has a splendid stock of all the standard Fruit Tr: large, vigor ous and thrifty, viz : idilite Feach Trees of very superior quatity, all the lead ing kinds Pe: Apples, Plums, Cherriee, Apricots, Grape es, Be. 59.000 Engiist Lancashire Gooseberries, the large show Kinds fine and strong * 20,000 Currants, Victoria, Red and White Dutch, Red and White Grape, Black Naples, ke 10,000 Raspberries, Pastolff, ed and Whae An- werp, &e, 10-0 Rhubarb Roots, Prince Albert, Victoria Cham- paigne, Se. Shade Trees of best gar Maples, Luropeai Evergreens in > Sesuiase Ash, ke. Variely and rarest kind Arameari. is, Arbor Vite, Cedrus des d a, c. Libeni, Pune bral Cypress, Cryptomeria Ja- ouica, ‘Titz Roya Patagonia, Librocedius ‘hilensix, Pinevs Chmbra, P. excelsa, P. Ger ardiana, We P. pindrous, P. oe Menzienii A. Morinda, Irish ‘and ‘ews, with e pans — ei beautiful Ev JOHN SAUL, Seed Store corner 7) Vasbington bees: ae th and B sts. Washi 5 Sg HE NEW ciTy DIRECTORY.—Washingion T _ and Georgetown Directory just published, con- taining the Con; onal Directory for the Second third oy TAYLOK & MAURY’S Bookstore, near 9ub st,