Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1855, Page 2

EY Paya Paid ING STAR. WASHINGTON OITY: MONDAY ANTERBOQN..--..-+-Mareh 36 - (> Apvarrisemanrs should be handed in by 12 o'clock, M., otherwise they may not appear until the next day. DISSCLUTION OF COPARTNEBSHIP. Notice is hereby given, that the copartner- rbip which has heretofore existed between the undersigned in the publication of the Evening “tar newspaper, is this day dissolved by mu- val consent, W. D. Wauuace having pur- chased all the property and interest of Wat. Hi Hopz in the said Evening Star and its iusiness, will pay all the liabilities of the jate firm of Wallach & Hope, and all those indebted to it are hereby notified to make Peyment to him. W. D. WALLAGH, WM. H. HOPE. Wasarnetox, March 24, 1855. eo SPISIT OF THE MORNING PRESS. ‘The Uxion republishes Mr. Soule’s letter to the Jxcelligencer, and invites that gentleman to make public the correspondence which the Government declined spreading before the world in answering the demand of Congress for all papers bearing on the Ostend confér- ence, which, in their judgment, could be ex- hibited to the world without injury to the public interest. Assuming that the letters of Mr. Perry are wholly private and personal in their character, though at the same time inti- mating tat his opinion on that point is amere eurmice, he deciares that Mr. Soule “ is now fully justifiable in vindicating himself by giving publicity to the whole correspondence.” Now it seems to us that thearticle with which the Juted/igencer accompanied Mr. Soule’s let- ter, ie a triumphant vindication of his conduct us assailed and aspersed in the letters in ques- tion—oue so ample as t> require nothing more to be added on Mr. Soule’s part. With this fact staring usin the face, we fancy that Mr. Soule wii hardly, in aocerdance with the Unton’s advice, adopt a course with reference to she letters in question, in direet opposition to that which the Government evidently deemed proper in the premises. Mr. Perry was the appoin‘ee of the last Administration, and was retained, wo presume, on account of his fawiliarity with the questions in issue be- tweea the two Governments. If, as we sup- Pose, he has proved too much of a partisan for the proper discharge of his official duties, his place will probably be supplied by another when the now Minister goes out. It strikes us that it was impossible to do this until that event cecurs, ag it would mot do to have the United States entirely unrepresented at Madrid | Vis ia times like these. : ‘The Sextinet announces that until (he meet- ing of the next Congress, its issue will be but iri-weesly, and intimates that the Administra. Hon has slighted its claims to patronage, as a prominent reason for the change. It will be recollected that ihe Sentivel was established a8 ap anti admivistretion journal, and that up this time its sympathies have always been erse to those in power, thongh olaiming to be intense!y Democratic. Our neighbor, we may Rot inappropriately add, falls into an error in saying that the Administration has bestowed its patronage here on opposition jevroals, inasmuch as all it has had to give bas beeu accorded to the Union. The law de- clgres that it chall give patronage to one jour- nal only, in the way cf advertising. So far as the Depar‘mental printing is concerned, it can accord that to either or both the printers to Congress. It haa preferred the proprietor of the Union to him of the Sentinel. This is the full aud fair explanation of the case. ‘The lutelligencer says: “in reference to the correspondence which ed the subject of the Hon. Mr. Soule’s erted 1a our izst number the Union day remarks: ue copy placed in the hands of the (of the Intelligencer] came from the tate Department, (which we cannot for a mo ment credit.) the act constitutes a breach ot duty, whick will scarcely be allowed togoun rebused “bo extravegant appears to us the a! i tion that private cflicial Papers should lea mitted to our perusal by the Department of » or by any officer employed therein that the neces-icy of relieving that Department of cach an inter where, so uninformed o; Letween the editors of thi partweat of State, or any other Department of the Government, as to entertain the idea the relations existing 3 paper and the De. suggested by the Union, we beg to put him night by the most unreserved disclaimer. * * - * * “In first alluding to the existence of this correspondence and to its suppression, we re Ta that the President was authorized by but wlon we learned, as we did betore we had examined the Ostend volume, that pa) marked ‘co::fidential’ were included in that volume, and even read in the letter of the in- telligeut Washinton correspondent of the Journal of Commerce that this very corres- poudence was contained in the volume, we thought it probable that if not there the cor- scspendence would in due time be communi- caced to Congress. Whether it shall ever be Se er net, way be a matter of more interest to tbe public than to ourselves. “We may observe, however, before we dis- miss the subject, that, if our reeollection be not at fault, there is nothing material in Mr. Per- ry’s letters to the Secretary of State which has not been di:closed by the publication of the Ostend documents.” > We bave received from Joe Shillington Putnam's Monthly for April, 1855. Beside interesting contents, it is embellished with a Portrait of Erastus W. Ellsworth, one of the contributors to that magazine. On the first of May, Putnam’s Monthly will be issued by Messrs. Dix & Edwards, the fu ture publishers and proprietors, with an en- tirely new editorial management. Wan os tue Kxow Norsines.—The Demo- crats of Cincinnati have nominated James J. Farran for Mayor. ‘ihe convention passed resolutions denunciatory of the Know Noth- ings. All the candidates for nominations were required to give assurances that they were not Know Notbivgs. The contest between the Know )othings and old line Democrats iz getting decidedly warm. . = GA Mr. Rice of Hallowell, Maine, has in- vented a press by which he can print upon any kind of carpet cloth, any figures and col- ors. It is all done by machinery, carried by steam, ard the colorsare struck through by steam, and are said to be as good as those wove in. About four square yards can be printed by one press each minute. toy" The celebrated trotting mare, Lady Suffolk, died on the 7th at Edgar Hill, Bridge- port, Vt, cfa fit, it is thought. j | from the time at which * WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. Postage on the International Transporta- tion of Pamphlets and Magazines.— We per- ceive in the New York ‘Jrisune of Saturday last, an article in favor of a still greater re- duction of all postage rates in this country; which, if carried out, will make our postal de- partment little more than an establishment to serve everybody without charge; the expense being borne by those who consume imported goods, while the manufacturers of American are enabled to tax the consumers of their fabrics and wares higher, pro rata with the increased taxation on imported goods and wares made necessary by the increase in the cost of carrying on the Government to result from inoreasing the cost of the Postal De partment tothe National Treasury. We are opposed to this scheme, inasmuch as we are for making the Post Office Department self- sustaining. Yet we are by no means opposed to changes in the existing system of postal charges—decreasing them—where so doing will not be likely to decrease the department’s revenues. Since October, 1851, the postal department of this Government has been endeavoring to induce Great Britain to lessen the charges for the transportation of pamphlets and maga- zines across the Atlantic. To this end there has been considerable correspondence between the Post Office authorities of Canada and tho British (home) government on the one side, and ours on the other, which has just been published by order of Congress, as Senate Ex. Doc., No. 67, 24 session, 33d Congress. As this document embraces the history of the whole negotiation and controversy, we advise all who are interested in the postage question to obtain it. The correspondence on our part was through Postmasters General Hall, Hubbard and Camp- bell, and Horatio King, Esq., now 1st As- sistant Postmaster General. ‘he proposition on the part of the United Siates is clearly and succinotly stated in the following extract from a letter from Postmaster General Campbell to Viscount Canning, bearing date August 24, 1853: oa it a that some improve- ment should be effected affording better facil- ities for the transmission of pamphlets (above the bg = of two ounces) and magazines be- tween the United States and the United King- dom, I beg leave to invite your attention to the subject, and to make such @ proposition as I venture to hope may be accopted. “I have examined the correspondence he- tween my predecessor, Mr. Hubbard, and Lord Hardwicke touching this matter; and, pre- mising that Mr. Hubbard’s objeetions to the plan of a book post proposed by Lord Hard- wicke in his communication of 28th January last appear to me to be conclusive against the adoption of such a plan, I now propose that the regulations established by the cynvention of 15th December, 1845, in or aie te pamph lets and magazines, be modified as follows, * For pamphlets of the weight of two ounces and under, let the rates fixed by said conven tion remain the same as at present; but for all pacaphiets weighing more than two, and not exeseding eight ounces, and magazines weigh ing not over sixteen ounces, let the rate be one cent an ounce, or fraction of an ounce, instead of four cents, on either side, the right being ressrved to either party to return to the ex- isting arrangement on six months’ notice to the other of such intention. “I propose no restriction in respect to dis- tance, because I am desirous of doing away entirely — the objections urged by Lord wicks. “I would remark, that I have recently made an order reducing the postage on pamphlets and magazines to all foreign eoun.ries, except Great Britain and the west coast of South America, to the uniform rate of ons cent an ounce.” ‘The proposition on the part of the British Government, made by the Marquis of Clanri- carde on the 10th of October, 1851, is as fol- lows: Ist. That every packet containing a print- ed book, magazine, review or pamphlet, should be charged according to the following scale: when not exceeding half a pound in weight, 6d; when exceeding half a pound, and not exoeeding one pound, Is. ; when exceeding one pound and not exceeding two pounds, 23.; and so on, increasing one shilling for every addi- tional fraction cf a pound. 2d, That every packet should be sent with- on & cover, or in acover open at the ends or sides. 34. That it should contain one volume only, the several sheets or parts thereof, where there are more than one, being se ved or bound together 4th. That it should not exceed two feet in length, breadth, width or depth. 5th. That it should have no writing or marks upon the cover, or its contents, except the name and address of the person to whom it may be sent. 6th. That the postage should be prepaid in full, and that as respects packets pai in the United Kingdom, this payment should be ef- fected by affixing outsid® the packet on its cover the proper number ef stamys. Th, That if any of the above conditions be pense! the packet should be charged asa let- ir. Sth. That in order to prevent any obstacles to the Wh ae transmission of letters, any officer of the post office should be authorized to delay the transmission of any such packet for atime not exceeding twenty four hours @ sane would other- wise have been forwarded by him. 9th. That the total amount of postage paid upon each packet, one third should be consid- ered to represent the inland British rate, one third sea rate, and the remaining third the United States inland rate, and that the sea rate should belong to that country which effec. ted the marine conveyance. It will be perceived that the main object of the British proposition was to cbtain the fres ingress of British bcoks into this country in the mails, at a mere nominal postage charge nearly two-thirds of which they would take to themselves; inasmuch as they would take due care to send them hitherward in their on steamships, as they send all British letter- coming to New York, as far as possible. I will be recollected that the number of Amer ican books sent to England is inconsiderable when compared with the number of books sent from England to Americas. There was evidently no reciprocity in this English proposition, the advantage in it being all against us. As the British postal authori- ties insisted on it as an ultimatum, the nego- tiation proved abortive; for, of course, all our Postmasters General who were concerned in it declined sacrificing our interest, as would have been done by accepting the book scheme so pertinaciously urged upon them. Kansas Tervitery.—This new and growing Territory is attracting the attontion of omi grants, and we anticipate ere long that its in- vitiog climate and natural resources will be in process of rapid development. It adjoins the State ef Missourion the east, the proposed Indian Territory of Chablahhee on the south, New Mexico and Utah on the west, and Ne- braska on the north, Its area, nearly three times greater than the Siate of New York, is 126, 283 square miles, or upwards of eighty millions eight hundred thousand acres, It lies between the latitudes of 38 degrees and 40 degrees N. L. 1t istraversed near its centre, and almost from east to west, by the Kansas river and its tributaries, and on the south by the Arkanses, having the Mirsouri river on| board tosult.the taste and temper of the times the northeast, only some two hundred miles from the junction of the river with the great Mississippi, or Father of Waters. The office of Surveyor General for the Territory and for Nebraska, is located at Fort Leavenworth and. the Missouri river, in latitude 29 deg., 15 min By an act of Congress approved on the 17th July, 1854, giving authority for the establish- ment of fhe office of Surveyor General, pro- vision is also made for granting pre-emption to actual settlers. The public lands to which the Indian title shall be extinguished in the Territory, is made subject to the pre-emption act ef 4th September, 1841, under certain conditions and stipulations. The Government of the United States in a spirit of tender re- gard for the pioneers and actual settlers, has made ample provision in advance for the pro- tection and security of their rights. The office of the Surveyor General, it is per- ceived, is now open, and soon, therefore, we may expect the whole surveying machinery will be in full operation in the Territory. The frequent inquiries that reach us in reference to the landed interests of the country, satisfy us that the rusk of emigration is great, and we have, therefore, taken the pains to collect the foregoing facts, and Iay them be‘ore our readers. The Claims Court will hardly adjudicate cases for sume months to come, as time will be requisite to enable them to systematize the regulations under which they will transact busines. They hold theiroffices for no speci- fied time, and therefore may be expected to act with great deliberation, indeed. Their functions, it should be generally known, are simply advisory, not final in any case what- ever. All claims rejected by the Departments are rejected either because there is no law to authorize their liquidation, if just, or because proof of their jastice to satisfy the accounting officers of the Treasury has not been made. Heretofore the appeal has only been to Con- gress. Now, however, it is to this Board. Such claims as the Board reject, of course, will hardly be urged on Congress; while if the Board acquire the confidence of the country, and more especially of Congress, nearly every claim on which they report favorably will be passed by Congress, with inconsiderable oppo- sition. Not otherwise, however. The interest of those having just demands against the National Treasury, not paid so far because there is no law for their payment, is clearly that the Board shall exercise due caution, and strictly guard the rights and real interests of the General Government, rendering to claim- ants only their just dues The Board wiil not exist a twelvemonth unless ‘they keep this purpose always in view. The Alleged Defaleation of Gov. Ecdman M. Price, of New Jersey. — Perceiving in northern papers allusion to the state of this gentloman’s accounts as a purser in the navy, (which place he resigned, it will be recollect- ed, to run for the Congres: before the last, as the Democratic candidate in the Newark, N. J. district,) which give but a sight idea of the matter, we have to say that various items have been in dispute between that gentleman and the Government ever since he was recalled from California, five years ago, if we remem- ber correctly. Ile claims credit for more than $100,000, as having been turned over by him to his successor, Mr. Van Ostrand, who being his (purser’s) elerk, was appointed acting pur- ser of the San Francisco station on Mr. P.’s Teerll. It these credits be allowed to him, he will have a balance of between twenty and and thirty thousand dollars due to him. It is understood in Washington that he claims to have advanced for the Government’s use some thing like the latter eum, as the most conve- nient way of getting it safely to the Atlantic side. But Mr. Van Ostrand denies that he over received the money which Gov. P. claims to have paid him, alleging, it ie said, that he was persuaded to give the receipts without an equivalent! The fact that Governor Price had these re- ceipte, and that the accounts of his successor (Mr. Van Ostrand) were not ready for settle- ment in the usual course of business, we pre- sume, isthe reason why the lest Administra- tion failed to force the case to a conclusion ere the statute of limitation barred proceedings upon it under the Sub-Treasury law. As it is, acivil suit has been brought in the United States Court for New Jersey against Governor Price. The result will depend upon the ad mission of Van Ostrand’s repudiated receipts ag credits. If admitted, then Van Ostrand, not the Government, will owe bim a balance. If rejected, then he is a defaulter in perhaps $75,000. He can have no claim on the Gov- ernment for the overplus of bis alleged ad- vances to his successor, as the Government did not authorize him to make them, and cannot recognize any transaction between Masars. P. and Van 0. which devolved on it the duty of becoming an insurer of the sate transmission of Mr. P.’s private funds to the Pacific side. Important from Oregon.—The Governmont have information that the Legislature of Oregon have passed an act to change their seat of Government to Corvallis, a flourishing town about thirty-five miles south of Salem, the present seat of their Territorial Government As the Government has already expended some $40,000 on publio buildings at Salem, we take it for granted that Congress will be likely to put its veto on the proposed removal. A Lieutenant of United States Marines Dead. —Secend Lieutenant George W. Camp- boll, (of New York,) of the United States Marine Corps, died at Norfolk, Va., a day or two since, on board the frigate Columbia, in which versel he recently returned to the United States. He was among those down with the fever on the arrival of that vessel from the West Indies. The Current Operations of the Treasury Departmont. —On Saturday, the 24th March, there were of Treasury Warrants entered on the books of the Department— For epayae txt Sreseucy Gobte $48,785 11 For the Interior Department...... 38,798 29 Vor the Customs....eccesss, 59,185 20 For the War Dopartment.......+. For the Navy Department.......+ for covering into the Treasury from miscellaneous sources.... For covering into the Treasury For covering into the Treasury from CUStOMNS.+.+..0.eeeeeseece 32,619 90 3,001 55 22,203 22 2,029 34 The Proposed Removal of Judge Loring. It will be recollected that an effort is being made to compass the removal of Judge Loring of Massachusetts, from his position as a State Judge, bocause, as an United States Commis. sioner, he has caused the fugitive slave law to be faithfully executed. Those at present in power in the Massachusetts Legislatare, not long since ‘ refornifed the board of managers of Harvard University—i. e—put in a new “fall and large, and the turnips as 119.383 69] 1 Their first acf worth of note, was to turn Judge Loring out of bis position in connection with the law department of that time-honored in- stitution, with the avowal that his head was brought to the block, because, as United States Commissioner, he adjudicated the fugitive ‘slave lawin opposition to Massachusetts sen- timent. + “Two reports, a majority and minority re- port, have been made to the Legislature upon the proposition to remove him from the State judgeship he now fills with so much credit to himself and advantage to the community. The majority report, of course, goes for his instant removal. Mr. Devereux, of Salem, made the minority report, which closes as fol- lows, vis : “If Massachusetts is prépared to deny or resist the authority of the Union, let her do #0 in her sovereign air Geer there may be honor, if not wisdom in theattempt, To shift a nsibility, eo delicate and éo grave the thoulders of one of her citizens, is er magnanimous nor just. She should not re- quire a feeble individual to solve a trying question, and to meet a risk from which she herself has shrunk, as yet, in painful reluc- tance.” The above pithy extract tells the whole story. Massachusetts desires to nullify a Federal law, because it is xngopular with the mob within her limits; and she is without the courage or character to shoulder due reepen- sibility for her act, knowing well that it cannot be defended in common honesty, in law, or in good faith to the southern members of the Confederacy. She proposes to accomplish her purposes of nullification by forcing her legal officers to violate their oaths, under the pen- alty of losing their places, and yet designs keeping her Legislature upon the record, s0 that she may exclaim, when charged with abolition perjury and treachery, that the Bullification sought to be achieved was the work of individual judges—not of those con- trolling the Legislature The attempt to punish Judge Loring for executing the fugitive slave law in accordance with the solemnly pronounced decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, is to be a stunning blow at the independence of the Judiciary, the great bulwark of the rights and interests of the community sgainst the usurpa- tions of the wild fanaticiams of the hour, If]? we “ progress”’ for the next quarter of a cen- tury asin the last, the fiat of a hypocritcal demagogue, or of a drunken vagabond, an- nounced from a stump, or from the head of a barrel, to a crowd inflamed by demagogue ap- peals or the funes of bad rum, wil! determine not only the citizens’ right of property, but of life. It is high time that “public opinion” was again taught that it must necessarily be obedient to law; not law, rubservient to sudden ‘public opinion.” Whenever the principles in- volved in the effort to punish Judge Loring for his fidelity to his trust become in the ascendant throughout the land, our present government will have proved a most complete failure to answer its end—the protection of the rights of the citizen and the promotion of the well being of the community. Ez” The rumor that British agents were re- cently recruiting in New York, for service in the Crimea, proves true. The Courrter des Etats Unss virtually admits it, and adds that by merely paying the passage of such suitable persons to Halifax as manifest a willingness to enlist after they arrive there, an infraction of our neutrality law is avoided. United States District Attorney, John McKeon however, shows that the subterfuge is of no avail, as the law in question imposes a fine of $1,000 on any one who shall send another out of the United States to serve in war against a power with which we are at peace, even though the formal enlistment is to be consum- mated without the jurisdiction of this Govern- ment. Our readers may rest assured that the pres- ent Government of the United States will be a8 prompt and successful in putting down this English fillibustering, as, recently, the Cuban. In view of the fact that all in the interest of England on this side of the Atlantio, and all the press of England have been howling for a year past against the United States Govern- ment for its alleged sympathy with flillibus- Russia, is as impudent as the pretensions of the British Government to philanthrophy or respect for the rights of weaker nations where those rights are antagonistic to British inter- esta, We have open markets here for the sale of arms, equipments, steamers, and nearly every thing a Power at war may want, and sell them indiscriminately to the Russians, French and Engliah, the purchasers taking the risk of de- livering them themselves. This is legitimate, and violates no law, national or international. But we can have legally mo such market for the sale of men as food for the bullets, like unto those Britain has sought in vain to cre ate of late in some parts of Europe. PERSONAL. +++-Hon. Henry Wilson, Senator from Massachusetts, was attacked with a lex: on Friday evening last, whilat engaged ‘a od livoring an anti slavery lecture at the Trement Temple. +++.Dan Rice, the celebrated clown, who has always managed to fill a place in the to ics of theday, reseed a citizen of Pen i vania, and is now located on an estate in the western part of Pennsylvania. ++++The editor of the “Ancient City,” pub- lished at St. Augustine, as early as the 16th inat-nt, luxuriated in early vo es, havin, teceived as a present, a basketful of new Iris Potatoes, green peas, and ruta bagas. The potatoes he says, were remarkably fine, meas- uring at least two inches in diameter, the peas good as can be seen any where, -++-Ex-President Tyler and lady passed through Norfolk on Saturday on their return from Baltimore to their residence on James River. +++-Frederick J. Fenn, for many years are- rter of the proceedings of the Pennsylvania : gislature, died at Harrisburg, on the 24th bss. +++eMr. Joseph Warren who had been a compositor in the Boston Saree | Gazette office for thirty-six years, died on Wednesday ast. \++.Gov. Wright of Indiana, has appointed ex-U. S. Senator Pettit judge of the new cir- cuit on the Wabash. ++++Gov. Pollock has appointed Thos. F. Bell, (dem.,) Judge of the district composed of Monroe. arbos, Pike and Wayne counties, in place of Judge Porter, resigned. «eee Mr. J. C. Zimmerman, the Consul for the Netherlands at New York, died at his resi- dence on Friday roe of congestion of the junge, after an illness of but an hour’s dura- ion, +++» Rey. L, L. Hamline, late Bishop of the = Church, has donated $25,000 to- t of a university at Red Wing, Minnesota, to ma semece ‘ «eee The Hon. J. OC. declines meking & canvass for Congress in the Ashiend | tering, this effort to fillibuster here against | 35. Er A Mr. Angus McDonald advertises in the New York pspers that he is prepared to forward men to Nova Scotia who are desirous (97 Lend warrante are in good demand i New York, and worth $160 to $165—parts in| in’ ptoportion. THERE WILL BE A FAIR HELD IN ic Weatyae Hat teiand in the rear of th Charch, on the instant, for the benefit of the same, by the members of said Society. mar 26+1t* wae INSTITUTION LEc- M&. RUSSELL will give the lecture of his course on Meteorvlogy, on WED: Storms. mar 26— 2 4 ATTENTION, SCOTT GUARDS.—YOU m., in full uniform, for 5 By order ‘APT. JAMIESON JOHN KEYWORTH, 0. 8. mar 26—11" OTICE.—The Secretary of the Treasury ac- knowledges the receipt of $376 in an envelope /ESDAY EVENING, 28th instant, ae : The Action of European and North sire hereby ordered to meet at your armory on TUESDAY, the 27th instant, at 7 0’clock p Treasury Derartuent, March 24, 1855 marked “ove r-paid.”” The amount has been paid in.o the Treasury. mar 26—1t ID GLOVES —Just received a superior lot of Kid Gloves Also, a fine article at 50 cents. New style of Gent’s Summer Cravats. WALL & STEPHENS, 322 Pra. avenue, next door to Iron itan. mar 2%—2w RETURNED TO BUSINESS. O MY FORMER CUSTOMERS AND TH PUBLIC. —I have this day opened a new stock and am prepared to get up all orders in the very best style for those who may cpt ee with their tronage. fo i Merchant Tailor, D street, 394, next door to the Suuthern Telegraph Office, Seventh street. mar 26—eo6t Cc. WARRINER, WATCHMAKER, NEW WHEELS, PINIONS, AND EVERY KIND OF REPAIRS TO WATCHES, No. 330 Pennsylvania Aven Between Ninth and Tenth streets, WASHINGTON, D. C. ODD FELLOWS’ HALL. FREE GOLDEN SHOWER THOMAS & CO’S DISSOLVING VIEWS. ON MONDAY EVENING, Merch 25, FIFTY VALUABLE ARTICLES! Consisung of Naat ei &c., amounting to Will be presented to the audience FREE of any charge beyond the small admission fee of TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. Thoze desirous of attending the exhibition, and securing a chance for one of the handsome and cost- ly gifts, are advised to purchase their tickets at the jail during the day, as most positively no more than £00 will be sold. A plurality of tickets may be pur chased by any one person, thus securing a yariety of ore de sf hich is of the best Ni e Jewelry, which is quali-y, ae er with the Clocks, have been purchased of Mr. Robinson, Pa. avenue, and the fancy articles of Mr Lammong, 7th s'reet, at whose stores they may be seen during the day. LIST OF GOLDEN AND OTHER GIFTS. 1, Splendid Oil Painting, git frame 2. Handsome Gothic Clock 3. Ladies’ Work Box 4. of beautiful Gold 5. Handsome China Cara Receiver 6. Ladies handsome Bosom Pin 7. Handsome Cornelian Seat 8 do Gothie Clock 9 do Gold Finger Ring 10. Ladies’? Watch Stand +1. Gentleman’s Guid Breast Pin 12. Terra Cotta Segar Holder 13. Gentleman’s Scerf Pin 14. Fine Fan 15. Pair Gold Cuff Pins 16 Ladies’ Leather Reticule 17, Beautiful Pearl Portemonnaie 18. Handsome Hair Brush 19, Gold Head Pin 20. Handsome Papier Mache Portfolio 21. do Gothie Clock 2. do Gold Studs 23. do Parian Marble Vase 24. do Ladies’ Gold Brooch do China Inkstand 26. Pair beautiful Gold Ear Ringe 27. Do @ornelian Sleeve Buttons 28, Gentleman’s Scarf Pin 29 Hand Mirror 30 Pair Gold Studs 31. Chinese Fan 32. L=dies’ Gold Brooch 3%. resigns R HA. Fine G inger Rin, Bronze Basket : Ladies’ Bosom Pin Handsome Papier Mache Portfolio Pair Gold Studs . Black Cross Pair beauti/ul Gold Ear Rings Do Gold Cuff Pins Beautiful Pearl Portemonnaie Ladies’ Gold Bosom Pin G.atleman’s Gold Breastpia Genuine Jet Bracelet Ladies’ Gold Brooch Handscme Hai- Brush Do Gold Finger Ring Pair beautiful Cld Ear Rin, . Gentleman’s Gold Finger Seerspseeesessssy ra MODE OF PRESENTATION. Exch ticket sold is marked twice. with a certain number; the purchaser tears off one number, or half the ticket, which he drops into a sealed box at the door, reserving the other half, or number, which he must exhibit to the Door-keeper, and retain til! the end, in case such ticket should be entitied to a Gift. After the performance, a child is selected to draw from this Box, and nog morgen the cor- responding number of the First Drawn is entitled to the First Gift, and 80 on through the mar %6—lt A BOOK HICH EVERY BUSINESS MAN IN THE DISTRICT WANTS.—The Wa-hington City repay f only 75 cents a copy, half pice, can be had at ALEX. ADAMBON?S, on Seventh street, Opposite to the Post Office, where he keeps con- stantly on handa fine assortment of Blank Bocks, Pens, Ink, Paper, Playing and Visiting Cards, Gam: he’ His ia squat ro te pe publications? Magazines No pers. London Illustrated News, Bell’s Life, Times and Punch received by every eteamer. = New York Herald, Times, and Tribune received every ep delivered to subscribers mar —————————— —— RDNANCE MEMORANDA; Percussion Locks and thee can Bx f Lt. Dahlgren, U. 3. N., in charge of experimental department, 1 vol, with en gra i; Bice gi 25. FRANCK TAYLOR. mar OLIAN PIANOFORTES. Another of these beautiful insuuments made by 'T’. Gilbert & Co., Boston, can now be seen at our jusie Depot. Also, a splendid papier mache case Melo- deon, made by I’. G. Gardner & Co in. HILBUS & HITZ, mar 26 Star Buildi GW BOOKS at SHILLINGTON’S BOOKSTORE. ngs. ate Aylesford, the t Revolutionary romance Putnam's Magazine for April Chamber's Journal do New York do do Yankee Notions do Ladies’ National M: , do laa oes Fe oy aang jen Fever, city and Georg-iown Director, with bape 4) ‘Travels in the East, by Prime Everything in the Stationery ‘in? = . SPECIAL CARD. NATIONAL THEATRE.. COMPLIMENTARY BENEFIT M’LLE ROSA, TheGREAT EQUES] RIENNE of AMERICA, Asa token of esteem the citizens of Washi: g- ton for her talents as an , Vocalist, and Daaseure ! MONDAY NIGHT, March 26th, 1855. A SPLENDID SILVER GOBLET will be FOR THE BEST Sonunpeum, To be read in the of the autience, and their applause te decide who is the winner. PORT FOR THE MILLION. GREAT FOOT RACE. I ctoltne SHEPHERDESE, lt tne ber beautiful act of the » ‘ in a Favorite Mine Beiite ROSA in a Pas il, M’tle ROSA as the Engtich Huntress, Ist time, ee costume in her celebrated = ‘EPLE CHASE ACT. ° A HOST OF OTHER NOVELTIES, for which see bills of the day. og Box Book now open—sests can for the occasion. be secured mar 24 PEOPLE’S THEATRE. __(UATE VARIETIES.) — Teeas00 «200000200 Acting & Stage Manager vate Boxes $3 a) a n'PANRY MORANT MISS PA y TT jienne, from the Drury Lane ‘Thratres, who has been engaged for six nights only. THIS (MONDAY) EVENING, March 26, presented Know lés's celebrated Tragedy “ees THK HUNCHBACK. Sir Thomas Clifford of conclude > wBORTY BWIRKs; OR, THE KNOW NOTHING, Tobias Hornblower, (1 Yankee button ms- ith the laughable farce of ker,)......- Mr J, Weaver Per-evi rance Bountilul mar 26—It NATIONAL THEATRE. Increasing popularity of the Splendid Circus Company. OF MYERS & MADIGAS, The best Equesirian Company in America. AFTERNOON PERFORMANCE Every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY: EVERY EVE , Grand change ot EQUESTRIAN NOVELTIES, {n which appears M’llc Rosa, Mr. Thos King, Mons Le Ruen, A. Aymer, W Odell, Marters Madi gan, and Charles, Mr. H. P. Madigan, William Foster, and the THREE FAMOUS CLOWNS. Jim Myrrs, Carlo, snd Sam Long. The performance baggie 3 with the fairy spec- CINDERELLA, OR, FAIRY AND LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER, Characters by the juvenile troupe of Thirty Little Children, REDUCTION OF PRICES. Private Boxes, @4; Dress Circle and Parquette, ntlemen with ladies, 25 cen's; Single gentlemen, ex cents; Family Circle, 25 cents; Colored Gallery 25 ce: ts. mar S MATIEMATICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND OPTICAL INSTRUMENT MAKER. | pe ee in the line of his profession ong and repaired with accuracy, nestness, and ‘MODELS MaDE FOR PATENTEES. Also, for sale, rare and Scientific Boks, Minerals, Possils, Shells and Coins. No. 275 Pa. ave., betw 10ch and 11h ets. mar 24—3r 2 —— A eee ee HORSE AND BUGGY, &e., for Sale,—The subscriber offers for sale, on & credit of four m_ntks, with interest, for paper, a very fine bay Horse, five years old, wit! biem- ish orfault ; 50 gentle that a child can drive him, and of good style and acton. Toe Buggy is neariy pag agar ten sey the most ane a fiae je gray young, in fine cole without fault ith ogee Carriage and Harness complete, the Carriage bemz nearly new and fashionable. “The Horses I have owned for a year, and can guarantee their qualities. T will sell the horses and carriage on a long cre¢- it, say 6, 12 and 18 months for good paper, eatis ac- torily endorsed, with interest, or the whole at a lib € al discount for cash. JNO_H. JOHNSON, Grocer, Cor. 7th and E sts., opp. Gen’l Post Office. mar 24—dlw COPARTNERSHIP. HE subscribers having og dl ewe g for the transacticn of the I business, under the name of JOHNSON & BUTTON, will keep a well selected stock of Dry Goods, Shoes and Clothing, in the new store formerly occup ed by T. W. Johnson & Co, where they will be pleased to serve their former patrons and the public ity witb all articles in Weir iine, on ae termes as the can be had in any part of the city. GEO. J. JOHNSON, KOB’T M. SUTTON. All persons indebted to te late firm of R. M. Sut- ton & Co., are requested to close their accounts by note or otherwise, ut the shortest period. mar 24-3" RM. 8) ‘ON & CO. SPECTACLES. OLD, Silver, Light Steel, and Silver.plated Spectacles, suitable for atl eyes and all kinds es. Also, Gold, Shell and Horn Eyeglasses, Pebbles, Perifocal, near sighted and all other kind of Spectacle G arses kept constantly on hand, and sop paper &t short notice and at a " expense. For very low No. 128 Bridge gi os jo. street, ° mar 24—1f i . INGLISH LITERATURE. Lectures on ‘ish Literature, from Chancer to Tennyson, by » Henry Recd, 1 vol, $1 25 ‘ Wanderings in Corsica ; or Ci t que, hiswurical and »ocial, with a sketch of earty life of Napoleon, 12mo, §1 50 Travels in Europe and the East, by Samuel f. Prime, with illustrations, 2 vols, ‘The Minister’s Family, by Dr. Hetherington ae faint’s Re-t, 6vo, §2, only unabridged ition. Rollo’s Tour in Europe, by Jacob Abbott—Rollo in London, illustrated, 50 cents. : Mareo Paul at the Springfield Armory, by do., il- 50c Anew sup,ly of the Pootsteps of St Paul, and the other books of this most popular of religious wri- ters Just received and for sale by GRAY & BALLANTYNE, mar 24—3t 498 Seventh street. TRUNKS ! TRUNKS! a make room for a new supply of ‘Trunks, Val- ises, Hat Boxes, Cary » &e. we er for sa'e without sed Womn pare ie r Persons wish: give us an call, WALL & STEPH 325 Pa. ave., next to fron fan. Also, three doors east of National Hotel. mar M—3 (Intel & News) FR: PATENT AMERICAN ACCORDEONS. Several of these new and i instruments just received and for sale at the Music Depot of HILBUS & HITZ. Also, 6 dozen of Faa’s new and cheap instruction Books, prive 25 cents. The public are invited to examine these Accorde ora, having reeeived the first " in every «x- hibit on exhibited, _ HILBUS & HITZ, mar 24 Sole Aeents BANMELS Tam 100 barrels ROSIN a ; ‘