Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1855, Page 2

Canny EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON CITY: WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.. Angust 22. uy Avveatiseuests should be handed in by 12 o'clock, M., otherwise they may not ap- pear until the next day. ste AGENTS FOR THE STAR. The following persons are suthorized to con- tract for the publication of advertisements in the Ster> Philadelphia—V. B. Patwer, N. W. corner ‘Of Third and Chestnut streets. . mS York—S. M. Partuveut & Co., Nassau Lostor—V. B. Pauurr, Scollay’s Building. fPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS. The Union, commenting on the fact that instead of getting the enormous majority orig- inally announced by the telegraph, first 20,000, then 15,000, and aiterwards 10,000, Governor Morche majo’ ‘ty (in Kentucky) is only about 4,004, says: “ tt secms now to be generally conceded that Mr. Moorehead’s majority will not ex- ceed 4,000. It may possibly fall as low as wajority which Gen. Scott obtained ky at the last presidential election. Atter frduds, the most deliberate and bare- face, atier obstructions and vielence at the polls without a parallel in our history, and ofter atrocities which make the flesh creep at the simplest recital of their revolting honors, the fruits of Know Nothingism at he late election in Kentucky may be summed up in a few words. A Know Nothing Gover- nor bas been elected by a majority not much, if any larger than that given to Gen. Scott, und ene Democratic member of Congress has been defeated through the infamous instrumen- talities already alluded to. Who can doubt what the resuit of the election in Kentucky would now be if it had been conducted in the same spirit of integrity, the same jealous 1¢- gard for the constitutional rights ot all classes of the citizens, and the same faithful obse: ¢- ance of the laws, which characterized the elec- tion; Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alsbama, and Texas?” in thanking the gentlemen. named below for their share in bringing about the recert anti-Know Nothing triumphs, the Union says: + The Democrats, in their felicitations over the results 6f the receat Southern elections, should not forget their cblizations to such gen- th Rayner, of North Carol» \ , of Tenne-.ce; ex-Se , of Alabama, aud their ar- ciates. Douelvon and Clemens kindly under- k t illustr:te the old-fashioned truth that ene wan or no two men can carly a gizat to the ranks of tke enemy to which they desert; and they have admirably suc liu the experiment. They enact:d their part with the utmost fidelity to prece- dent. Loth undertook to show that the Dem- ic pariy wes broken up, or pretty much theix side, and both bave fallen in the ggle, enduring monuments of disappointed volence and ambition. For these ser- we say, ell thavks are due. But for ad voluuteers es Major Donelson and Col. Clemens occasionally to point out to reck- les loaders and selfish ingrat-s the danger of tempts to make their persona! gricis the ct of general controversy, there is no tell- ‘5 what tae end would be. Lvery man who ost a nomination, or who failed to get an office, l set up his standard of rebellion, until emocracy became @ mere tumult of fs- tens, Like their disorganized and querrelsome adversaries.” The Intelligencer pubishes a translation irom @ recent history of the elder Napolcon’s times, by Count Reederer, (privately printed,) whercin an occurrence is detailed in which eur representative in Paris, ia 1800, refused certain valuable presents f:om the Emperor, and says; * We ean never see or hear of a presen’ to cial cunctionaries from a foreign ate without being led to wish that uses of our Constitution could be arded by the same jelous which prohibits the accept- of an old coin or asnuff-box. Were this aso we should hear nothing of the many tions which now so frequently grate our cor from State politicians, and even Legislatures, to nullify acts of Congress eed under the autherity of that same Con- + ___. Kg We have reccived .rom the periodical and stationery establishment of Joe Shilling- ten, The Confessions of a Pretty Woman;”’ We meen net oral revelatious in our sanctum, bat a volume written by Miss Pardee, bearing this, (to bachelors, such as Joe himself,) highly ats Also, ‘‘ The Jealous Wife,” by the seme authoress; 2 commodity, in flesh, met particularly d le to a staid and xo- ber husband. “The Ccnstitution’’ is the name cf a sotten up weekly newspaper, published at eley Spr » Morgan county, Va. It is ted by a Whig ia opposition to the Know Nothings. wa Ls In consequence of the riot among the firemen, which eceurred in Baltimore on Satur- day night, the Mayor of that city has districted the New Market, United, United States Hose, Meunt Vernon, Vigilant, and Lafayette com- papies E> The bencfit for the sufferers by yellow fever in Nosfolk and Portsmouth, given by «Kunkel! & Co., at the Holliday street theatre, Baltimore, on Monday night, yielded’$275 72; which Mr. Ford yesterday paid over. Goverson Regver’s Retury.—The friends of ex-Governor Reeder held a meeting at Eas- ton, yesterday, to make arrangements for giving him a reception on his arrival there. Ta At New Orleans, on the 12th instant, there was not a single vessel in port loading, either for Boston or New York—acircumstance, the Delta says, almost without parallel, during the last twenty years! a man who is seen drunk ved of his vote at elections, next Sunday a.ter the fourth offence, a exposed in the churchyard publicly. Yetrow Fever—A despatch from New Orleans. Augus ays: ‘‘ The yellow fever is again i % in this city. The total number ot deaths during the past week was 17, inclnding 304 {rom the fever. pa attain 5.g°A Tuscan sloop, rigged with only one mast, has arriyed at New Orleans, from Leg- with an assorted cargo, bound to Browns- le, Texas, and Matamoras, Mexico. Morwoxs.—From av Emigration Report lished by the Mormon Organ at Ljverpool, ers that during 1854, 3,626 emigrants, con’ s to Mormonism, left that port for America Por Carirorn1aA —The twoCalifornia steam- hieh left New York on Monday, took out ( fourteen hundred passengers. ig To-morrow is to be observed at Peters- per Va., as a day of fasting, prayer and hu- wiliation. tap The Hon. Pierre Soule bas declined a nom nation for Congress in the first district of Louisigna, saying m the course of his letter to the editor of the True Delta: “I bave borne my full share of the sacrifi- ces which public life too often entails on its votaries, and it is but justice that I be per- mitted to rest, fe bile, at le: from the uuxicties and agitatious which 80 signal- ly marked my political as well as my diplomat- ic career.’” WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. Financiering and Financial Securities in the City of Washington —In nocity of equal wealth and businers is it so difficult » matter for the property holder to raise money asin Wasbing‘on. To raise money, on mortgage on real estate is next to an impossibility; and, in- deed, upon any security whatever, except on the part of persons in actual active business, it is very doubtful, and possibly to a very Kmitod ex- tent, the time being rarely longer than vinety days. Money in Wasbington is at all times ‘scarce; the reason, or achief cause, being, that to suit the tastes of our lenders other than the banks, parties here import for sale stocks and bonds from all quarters of the Union which be- ing sold here the money is sent away to pay forthem. An engrossing stream of the money of Washington capitalists is thus ceaselessly flowing out of the city, while the aggregate aetive capital of all the banks is by no means too large to cover the commercial paper seok- ing discounts. Capita! here thus seeks, or, rather, adopta, these securities thus constantly in the market, and by eo doing drains active business of its ‘needed supplies. Capital ne- cessarily flows into this channel through the ab- sence of other permanent securities as good or better. The same cause afflicts real estate, and causes too great quantities fo be incessantly forced on the market. The general mode of sale has been by notes secured by deeds of trust, the notes running at six, twelve, eighteem, and twenty-fuar months; thus precluding capital from the pos- sibility of permanent invesiment, and com- pelliag it to seek other channels. To say nothing of very strong doubts—declared by some of the lawyers to be weil founded—of the legality of the usual proc::dings under deeds of trust, other inevitable and monstrous evils attend the custom. At the maturity of each note the party is liable to be sold out if pay- ment be not punctual, and when the first note: become due no loan can be had upon the pre- perty until the whole be paid off. The several notes, too, may be in the hands of separate parties, and difficulties arise as to precedence, and right to order sale. The notes, in conse- quence of their not being a permanent invest- ment, sell usually at an exceeding discount, rarely under one per cont. per month for the whole period, be it as far 9s three years ex- tended. This is a loss to both buyer and seller. Tf, inscead of dé ods of trust, property should be let out on ground rent, the permanent s2- curities of the best charaster would always be on hand to eupply demand. It would seep the money here, and beyond a doubt very large amounts of stocK would be sold out, and the money brought back and invested in ground rents to the advantage of the buyer and of every real estat > holder. Again: a very great number of persons can afford to build a house if they have not to pay for the ground too; and when, by a ground rent they can avoid darger of being sold out for the ground, a vast number would build who would not otheriwise. The market would not be incessantly oppressed with sales forced under the stringent terms of a deed of trust. In Philadelphia and Beltimore, we can speak, we think, within safe bounds, when say that more than one hundred millions cf ground rents have been created, their owners encoun- tering little from the shocks so disastrous to stocks and bonds; end as ground repts are usually accomparied by policies of insur- ance, they become a choice inves.ment. It requiics only to bave attention called to the advantages of ground rents to secure their more general adoption. We may refer to this here- after. These remarks have been induced by an advertisement in this day’s paper of ‘‘ Lots on Ground Rent,’’ to whi¢h we refer the reader; and to the consideration of the subject we call the notice of all, as being one of great import- ance to the welfare of the city, to property- holders and to capitalists. We know that a large capitalist of the District who has no in- clination for stock operations, is sending his capital to Baltimore to be invested in ground rents. The Republican Party in Washington.— Some wag is surely quizzing the New York Herald in tending over the wires such tele- graphic dispatches as the following in that journal of the day before yesterday : “ Wasutneton, August 19.—Owing to asiim attendance at the meeting of the Republican Association, last night, the officers were not elected. The names of its members have not yet been made public.** We remarked, a day or two since, that the sanctum of the editor of the Era—pre- suming that room to be 10 by 12 feet—will hold the whele ‘‘ Republican party of Wash- ington,”’ including the followers of Mr. Sew- ard, placed in office here by General Taylor, who, having subsequently been removed by the Fillmore and Pierce Administrations, still reside in this city. In truth, no such party has an existence here, upless we take into the account our free colored population, some of whom, in a'l probability, sympathise, politi- caily, more or less, with the new party. How- ever, we call attention to this dispatch, be cause it serves to illustrate, forcibly, to our fellow citizens, (who all know the humbuggery of the idea that any such party has respeet- able strength here,) the stuff of which tele- graphic sccounts of political affairs are so of- ten made up. It equals the caloulations, by telegraph, in 1848, that Van Buren would carry Maryland, and possibly Virginia, based on the blowing of one Dr. Snodgrass; the strength of that distinguished individual’s party in the former State proving, when the voting came on, about a baker’s dozen, and, in the latter State, perhaps ha'f as many. Vive la bogatelle! Business.—As the Fall season of trade is very soon to open, we take the liberty of say- ing to our many readers who live on fixed sti- pends, that they can do nothing worse for themselves and their families than to run in debt. It has appeared to us that more or less very worthy persons, and some very unworthy ones around us, strive, not to economize, but to try to what extent they can stretch and strain their credit. We cannot, for the life of us, understand what a person, with a regular and fixed income, who may not himself be in trade, can want with credit except under some extra- ordinary combination of circumstances. Per- sons so situated who obtain credit, are living in advance of their means, and are, therefore, doing actually nothing in the way of accumu- luting property, one of the chief ends of life with al! classes in this country, as American society is constituted. Within the last ten years those among us who have fixed stipends have become much more thrifty, as a general matter, than before; fewer, much fewer in proportions to numbers, being in the practice of subjecting themselves to the harassment: of duns—to the mortifica- ion of the natural and justifiable importani- ies of creditors secking merely their own. We doubt whether there is a family in Wash- ngton that cannot with the practice of greater ystem, econgmy, and industry, live better han at present for from ten to twenty-five per entum les8 than they now expend ; which ex- ess of expenditures it is, that keeps so many f them always in hot water with merchants, rechanics, and traders. Our object, in this brief article, is to encour- gee m of due econemy, that must ventuate tn better health, longer lives, im- roved character, and more true and rational ajoymeat on the part of those who live on alaries and wages, and all depending on them ‘or ¢uppor.; and at the sime time, if possible, o achieve for the merchants snd others in rade, in the three cities of Washington, toor;ctown, and Alexandria, the great bene- it to result to them from ceasing to sell their zoods and labor on credit to those who receive ‘t the end of every month of every year fixed vay on which they live. There is no other | gion in the United States where credit is ac- | aally of so little real necessity as in this; and ' t is a subject of wonder to us that our fellow itizens—buyers and sellers—have not before his adopted the safe ail profitable plan to all i sarties, of dealing almost entirely for cash in iand. The New York Democracy.—At length | here is a sirong probability of a reunion of | he New York Dem: :racy. This is apparent | a the tone of the Evcning Post, which is ex- eeding}y lachryms' over the failure of its | fforts to prevent such an occurrence. It buses the ‘ Soits’’ quits as vehemently as ae Hards for being sold to the slave power; seusing them of pertinaciously refusing to vin this new Republican pariy, whose banner { t has hoisted only through love for the ad- ainisiration and the spoils. The route of | now Nothingism at the South is working its | egitimate result in disposing the Hards to re- | ew their party affiliations, it being thus made «pparent to all that no suecess in politics can, »xy any possible chance, attash hereaiter to } now Nothingism, to which Hard‘sm not long | ince exhibited great affinity, If there were the slightest reason Jeft on which well-informed politicians might bass the | oxpcetation of the tiiumph of Philadelphia- Natform Know Nothing‘sm in the next Presi- | jentir! el stion, the Hards would stick to it | ike wax. But thet prospet having vanished | » soon, they bid fair to go be :k to their first | ove, as intenscly as they ha‘ the President; | because they are even more strongly commit- ted against abolitionitm, to which they must | uow adhere if they reject the other alternative H of reuriting with its only 1:moining opponent | fa the field. The j+. »miads of the Evening Post over the obsuna ty of the So..s in refusing to support the proposition to rey xal the Ne- | braska bill is a capite! sign, as it proves the | success of Governor Marcy in bringing them back upon the straight-out Demc:ratic plat- ‘orm, from which they dese: 1 in 1f {8 only to obtain reveng> on the Democratic party for throwing Van Buren and h’s ta”! overboard in the cont >st of that year. Ortolan Shooting.—The season for this de- lightful sport is just now opening, and the sportsmen in this vicirity are already in the marsbes of the Eastern branch at each propi- tious tide. Yosterday, many gunners were in skiffs and at the work. The best day’s shoot- ing, we hear, was done by a well-known amateur, a veteran ortolan-shooter, though still onthe sunny side of thirty. He bagged thirty- four; his rivals in the sport, few of them get- ting a dozen birds. For the information of the uninitiated Who may be ambitious of t.y- ing their guns, we have to give them infor- mation in the premises as follows, viz: Be at the house of the keeper of the upper bridge over the Eastern branch, Mr. Brown, at half-flood tide (which is just now at about 2 p. m.) with a double-barrelled fowling piece, ammunition, aad accoutrements. At the house, the sports” man can procure the necessary skiff and aman to paddle and push him on the water, and through the wild oatson which the luscious gams fved. They fly, singly, at the approach of sports- men, and rise slowly, directly above the perch. Each bird is shot singly as it thus rises. A fortunate and skilfal sportsman often bags ninc- *y or a hundred onatide. Ortolan shooting is ‘ie sport of this particular region, and should be enjoyed by all who pretend to fire e gun for amusement. Mr. Brown, at the bridge, is himself a famous devotes of the sport, and always takes great pleasure in endeavor- ing to make such an excursion agreeable in all respects to amateurs who desire the use of bis boats and the services of his men, who know the best localities during cach particu- lar tide. : Tho Current Operations of the Treasury Department.—On yesterday, the 2lst August, there were of Treasury Warrants entered on the books of the Department— For the Treasury Department.... $2,061 65 For the Interior Department. 167,891 81 For the Custons.+.sseseesesy 7,569 82 War Warrants received and e: tOPed .cecccoscccevececsesseseee 88,237 17 War repay warrants received and Entered. secccseecce.ceceeseses 85,267 27 Drawn on account of the Navy .. 171,771 00 Covered in from miscellaneous SOUTOOE seceseeerereeeceseseece 262 94 Temporary Clerks Appointed in the Pen- zion Office.—We hear that this morning the flowing gentlemen were appointed tempo- rary ($1,200 per annum) clerks in the Pension Bureau, subject to the usual preliminary ex- amination, of course: Imri Woods, Mass.; Walter Harsiman, N. ii.; Henry Major, Philadelphia; Alex. L. Bobter, towa; C. 8. Whittle:sy; J. H. Wool- ford, Md. ; 8. @. Jamiecon, 8. C.; J. C. Mor- rizon, Ala. ; C. Birnie, Miss.; J. A Kayser, transferi:d {rom Census Office; Franklin Wi- mer, transJerred 1.om Indian Office. The Murder of Helen Jewett.—It s:ems that since the death of Richard P. Robinson, recently at Louisville, a Mr. H. Wilson, of New York, appears in the papers of that city, and says that at the time of the trial he could | have given t>stimony that would have con- | victedR. beyond question; disproving the e/isi on which the murderor escaped unwhipped of justice. Though cecupying a respectable po- sition in society, Wilson has almost made him- salf aconfederate of Robinson, in his black and bloody deed, by concealing his knowledge of the caze thus, for nineteen years, “ The Proof of the Pudding is in Chewing the Bag.”—The point of this old adage is hap- pily illustrated in the fact that the Know Nothing papers have redoubled their slanders and abuse of the Catholic clergy, now that five Know Nothing clergymen of Norfolk and Portsmouth have run away from the pes- a tilence, while Catholic cleryvmen and Sisters of Cha.‘ty are flocking thither ‘om all quar- t<28, at the risk of their live s, in nursing, and ‘a ministering to the spiritual wants of the sick and dy.ng. ’ The Yellow Fever. The fever is inotsasing in Norfolk and Poissmouth, rather than abating, if the ac- counts 1 veived can be reli: 1 on. The follow-ag are the names of some of the victims for ihe 48 hours eadirz on Monday at 2p. m, reported by the Norfolk board of health : : Mrs. Murphy, Mé:. John @. H. Hatton, Miss 33 Ch. 'sian, Wm. Wallace, Mrs. E D. F. Kes'*q’s chitd, Eliza Sutton’s child, R. C, Barsiay, Mrs. Samuel Diarmond, Mra. M. Hv>cs, Mi+3 Mehone, Two e:rvants, « dlor-d,) at K 2 e's hotel; <ar- vant of T. R. Lee, Mr. Gibbon’s ch*ld, Mrs. South’s child, Mi :K. A’war. G. ge Som- mers’ child, Wsl'-r Jor », (U.S. N. mester) dic 1 at hespite'; Thomas Jern'res. A letior from the Preside xt ox the Howard siation says that ‘what ‘+ mosé wanted is the common neve: ai! sof Ife, and . ome few ‘ilile articles forthesick. Orar, sand lemons m3 much woo! 4; °3 well r+ cand! send soap. ioy'sions aud g2xeral sapp'*s are moe nm sded than money.”’ ‘The Howard As \ciation has opea’ 4 a pro- vision s.ore. A! thes3 who axe in diveress aia i2quest 1 to make epplicaiion at the office of the Howerd As :cia on. A soup hou: hes leo been establish 1. A coriespondeat of the Baltimore Sun, wri- \ og from Noolk on tt > 20th inst., says: “Glcomv inde od is the = :pect of ovrcity. It st ns a3 it every day wei > Sunday, and, with the exc 2ption of the ringiry ot church bells yesterday, we cov'd not have dis. ‘anguished it .com any other day ior the past week. “The: « ond thuade: storm on Saturday after- noon was att :ad« 1 with floods of rain, which continu: 1, almost without int srmission, during the night, ond, witha strong northerly wind, the temperatais was duced to an average of 68 degrees. It is s.'1 cool, unusaally so for the :s:ason, and bids fair to continue so for this dav at least. Last nicht a blanket was decidedly comfortable. Tne efftst of such weather upon the ‘ever is thought to be favor- able to its abatement, while it acts injuriously on the case : under t. >a .aent. ‘Drs. Stone and Per ton, of New Orleans, ! ere constantly makirg the rounds with our physicians, and have « muibuted largely to their late exp nier:s. Dr. Freemen, of Phil- adelphia, *< also 1 e: 2. “Nur: sare daily asivir7, and much relief has be sn afforded the : ck oy their employ- ment by the Howard Asc sialion. The Sist2ts of Chaiity atcend to the hospits' at Julappi, white the mr’e and ther feme'e nur ss are disuibut 1 about the city; and well it is for many an urfurtura’> that they have come Whole fomitic. s + led up together; friends have either A Lor have their own families to nurs, «nd monev, po! nt a3 it génerally is, | de 3 not tempt atvendanc .”’ The Rey. Messrs. Jackson, of St. Paul’s; Walke, of Christ Church; 4 strong, of the Pissbyterian; Wil's, of the Cumberland street Methodist; Dib: -, of the Granby street Methodist; O’K« sfe, of St. Patrick’s; McClel- land, of the Methc jist Prote tant; end Jones, of the A .ican Methodist, are the names of the pisachers who kave : «maine 1 in Norfolk, and a:» »mong those bvsily and u. cially en- gered in the'r ¢ fur. 3{>, \2 console ‘on tothe sutterers. Some of them ais in regelar at- tendan > at the Ho-pital; and none of those mention 1 mavif sc a de ire to fly from tho s:ourg —pre.ei..ng to d’e in the faithful dis- charge of their known duty to leaving the saCoring and sict 1 members of their docks in the midst of d° case and death, without these words of comfoit and Christian consola- tion wrich it becomes them especially to im- part in the hov- of extraordinary calamity and tsir’. The mortatiy in Port nouth (reported by “egeaph yc .2tday) is fear.ol; twenty four bavirg¢° lout of a population of but little over a thousrnd, in iorty-c’ght hours. Pri- va's le. o13 repre-vat the deaths as: .om ten to twelve por day, or one out of every hundred inhabitants. Mrs. Pobiason and Stephen James have died. John H. Myere, Mary Grimes, and Em- ma Snead havea iecorere b. The following lever from Cal. Watts, the President of the Common Council of Port- mouth, has been received by Mayor Hinks of Baltimore, and submitwd by him tothe Board of Health : Porrsmoura, Va.. August 20. To His Honor the Mayor of Baltimore : Dear Sir:—Several of our physicians are sick, and the others nearly broken down. Can we get medival afd fcom your city for the re- lief of the sick? Write me on receipt of this. Tf any of your surgeons will come, they will not only be hospitably received. but will be amply remunerated. I do not wish, and shall not conceal the fact from our citizens abroad, that the fever is raging to an alarming extent. With sentiments of the highest respect, I have the honor to be, yours trulv, W. Warts, President Common Council. A letter froin Portsmouth say: : “Tn relation t> the condition of the towa, it is complelely deserted. A gloom settled and thick hangs over the community that is left, The adjacent country—all along the line of the road, is occapicd by our people, many of them at least, whose iimitsd means you are well aware of; many of these honest and working people lert, I’m sure, without the means of sustaining themselves, depending upon circumstances, and yielding to the en- treaties of their wives aud childien t» fice from the pestilence. I anticipate a most try- ing winter. There is no calculating what the suffering may be when the whole tide of popu- lation pours inte town again—without funds, and I fear reduced both in mind and body. I send ee herein a number of the Transcript, which has not been issued for many days. I went up in the office, and there found Fiske, our Mayor, alone at work at the prers, and throwing the numbers off ss fa:t as he could. All his hands are gone. Maupin’s, Bilisoly’s, and Neville’s. are the only groceries open.”’ Canurnex Laup Exerosion.—About a quar- ter past eight o’clock last evening, as Mrs. Lawrence, residing at No. 50 James street. was trying to fill a lamp with burning fluid while the wick was still burning, the fire com- municated to the fluid in the can, causing an instantaneous explosion, and — fire to the PERSONAL. .+.-Richard Welsh, Esq., recently the - jisher rin New York, called “ fisher of eee died in that city, on Sunday. Deceased was long known as an active friend of Ireland, and was a writer of some celebri- ‘Y: Mhomas D. Board, of Wilmington, Del., has volunteered bis sery’:.3 a8 a nurse to the Sick with fever at Ni a + ...Ool. J. H. Wheeter, United arora ister to Ni left New York on inet, in the steamship Northern Light, for San Juan, Nicaragua. .++.Information has been received at Savan- Feeder eg ed poem -B. t ie District of Florida. He was a cousin of Judge Bronson, of New York. +++elt is stated that one hundred persops have died from cholera at Fort Riley. ‘ ++++Madame Maubourg, the eldest daugb- ter and last sai viving child of the Marquies Lafayette, dicd at her residence, in Turin, 1°- cently, in the 75th year of her age. +-+»Rey. Dr. Sears was yesterday unani- mously elect-d president of Broun (R. 1.) University. «++.We learn that Messrs. Robot Copeland and Thomas Briggs, have rccently left this city for Norfolk and Portimouth, to assist in ++++ The Sultan of Turkey has ordered mag- nificent necklaces in biilliants to be made, as resen*s for Qucen Victoria and the Empress Tagatte, and saddles, all embroidered in bril- liants, to be made for the Emperor, the King of Sardinia, and Prince Albert. EEE OFFICIAL. DerartMeEnt oF Starr, } Washi , Aug. %, 1855. The following notice from the “London Ga- zette’’ of the 27th ultimo, bas been officially com- municated to this department for the information of the citizens of the United States: Forgicn Orrics, July 27, 1855.. ite for Foreign Againe has of State received from the Lords Commissioners of ihe Ad. acopy of. acomm miral the Honorable R. S. Dandas, in-chief of her Majesty’s naval forces It is hi the Earl of cipal Sec: commander- in the Bal- tic, a copy of a joint notificatian, issued by him and by Rear A 1 Penaud, command- er-in-chief of the naval forces of his Imperial Ma- jesty the Ei of the French in the Baltic, which notii jon is as follows: “It is hereby notified, in the name of her Brit- annic eg ped Queen Victoria, and his Imperial st 11, Emperor of the French, a leon that, Od the f2th day of July instant, all Russian ened roads, haveas, and creeks in the Guif of othnia, from Tornra, in latitude 65 dez. 46 min. wich’ a ed “in latGade 60 deg. 46 min novth, wich, to a a in 5 longitude 21 deg. 20 min. east of Greenwich. in- cluding especially the ports of Uleaborg, Branes- tad, Gamia, Carleby, Nya Carlehy, Wasa. Chris- tin prise Raumo, were piac’d in @ state of strict by a compe! fozce of the allied ficets. And it ish further notified with refereace to the of the coas! of Fin land between Nystad ard Heago Head, and af the islands and islets fronting the sald coast, es- tablished on the 15th v'timo, tnat, on the 14th day of Jvly instant, 2/1 other Ru:<ian islands in the Gulf of Bothnia, including esp -ially the Aland Islands, were prac d in a siate of blockade by a competent force of the allied tivets. And it is hereby farther notified, that all measures au- thorized by the laws of natiors and the respective treaties their Majesties and the different neutral powers will be and exccuted with respect to all vessels which insy attemptto violate the said blcckades. “‘Given under our hands, at anchor at Nargen, this 16th day of July, 1855.» “C. PENAUD, “Rear Admiral and Commander-in chief of the naval forces of his 1 Majesty the Emperor of the French in the Baltic “R.S. DUNDAS, “Rear Admiral and Commander-in-chief of ber Britannic Majesty’s naval forces in the Baltic.”’ And it is hereby forther notified, that all the measures authorized by the laws of nations and the resp’ ctive treaties L-iween her Mr <.y and her all s, and ths different neutral powers will be adopt i and ex: cuted on beba'f of her Majesty and her 2"tv, his Majesty the —— the French, with resp {to all ver ols which may at- tempt to violate the +aid blockad+s, or any or either of them, ee eo » PRESIDENT’S Mounted Guaré.—You are hereby noti- fied to meet atthe armory on THURSDAY, Au- gust 2d, at 3% o’clock p. m. precisely, in full uniform, with pompon, arms, aceoutrements and keno teapyions, in complete order, for parade. By of the Company : Capt. JOS, PECK. W.H. Haywanp, Ist Sergt. au 22—11* BS sEVENTH WARD UNION ASSO- ciation will meet on TO-MORROW (Wednesday) EVENING, ay o'clock, at Po- tommag Hall. Wa. COOPER, Sec. au 21—: Roe orice: —The members of the Eagle Club of Georgetown beg leave to inform tbeir numerous friends and patrons that they will ive their second Annual Ball at Forrest EDNESDAY. October 3, 1855. Particulars in future advertisement. an 20—e03t* Re or CE.—The Mechanical Club re- spectfully announce to their friends and the public generally: that they will give their first Grand Pic Nicand xcarsion at Arlington Spring, on WEDNESDAY, the 5th a Particulars in future advertise:nent. au 17—eo3t (Organ) CAMP MEETING. | JPESSONS eine to attend the Camp meet- ing near Bladensburg, to commence on the 24th iastant, can be comfortably accommodated by application to JOHN ZIMMERMAN, au 22—2t at McGregor’s Store, 7th st. RS. BURR WILL RESUME her Classrs for Young Ladies on the 17th S:ptember, at her residence, 364 C street. au 22. il, on MR. BUSHNELL’S SCHOUL, No. 441 Thirteenth street, between Fand G sts IHE next session of this Scheol will commence on the first ogee L in Se; ber. ‘The course of ins{raction embraces all the branches of acomplete Academica! education. Circulars, containing terms and other particu- lars, may be had at ihe Bookstores ana at the Schoolroom. au 2—eo3w* Ae attention of the public is re- spectfully invited to the extensive sale of Fnr- niture which will place on THURSDAY, the 23d instant, at 10 o’clock a. m., at the south- east corner of 7th and D streets, opposite the Pa- triotic Bank. ‘Wi'l be added to the ssle— 5 rolls good I prin em The Furniture is of fine q y and of every va- riety. For particulars see advertisement. GREEN & SCOTT, room. Mr. L. was lying on the floor at the | _8¥23—It Avotiencers, time, having been recently disabled with a COACH ESTAB iT. sore kuee. He immediately seized his child, | Pennsylvania avenue, betwen 4% and Gth sts. about three months old, and ran to the door, calling his wife to follow, but as she did not do so he returned and found that she was lying on the floor, burn(d very severely about the neck, face and arms. She was taken imme- pag to the hespital, where the dostors gave it as their opinion that she could not possibl: rveover. ‘Lae fi:e was soon extinguish: d wit! i Wedge ta thouch the sheet of flame which burst from the w.ndow creat: 1 an alarm and brought many fitzmen tothe spot. Mr. and Mrs. 4. were but : ently maniied, and were much esi: smcd by a'l who knew them, and this double misfortune to them is much regretted —NV. Y. Sun. Tux Kxow Nota ses of New York city have made the fol’owing nom‘nations : Sherif—James 8. Tc me, £.:ond Ward. Compt: Nler—Jobn 8. Giles, Tenth Ward. City Clerk—Rol 1.4 Beatiy, Fourth Ward. on Inspec! or—Ge orge W. Moi ston, Kighth Counsel_to Coa poration—Lou's N. Glover, Hien let : e a rest Commissioner—Joseph G, ar Gee = Taylor, overnor e A's Hou: »—Isaac J. Oli- ver, Eigh’ onth Word. — “Shae es Commissioner a " Southworth, levee ht sag startling Coroners—@yrus Romsey, € .yenth Ward; John Wether shi, £ :venth Ward; 1 Perry, Twenty-fi st Ward; Frederick he tweet Ward. Hill, Twelith ‘New counterfeit two dollar notes on the Farmer’s Bank of Wilmington, Del., in circulation. Se & HALL have removed from Sixth avenue, between x streets, where they“are todo all kinds their line. 7 The old stand on Sixth street is for rent. En- quire above. au Rf in A CARD. TT THE SICK AND INFIRM.—ADELINE BOWMAN offers her corvices as Nurse, and submits the commendations from some of our most eminent physicians. Her attentions will be unremit and charges moderate. Res- idence No. 432 I street south, near the Navy Yard The following —— a men were given her, original of which isin her possession : * ‘The bearer of this, Adeline Bowman, is well known tome. She has had much practice and capeionte Sa teking coneet Genie: She is hon- » sober and industrious. Any one in want of 2 Nurse or attendant would find her kind and atten- tive. A. W. MILLER, M.D. Miller, I believe in the above. au 23+ y anugherr, Lady Holland. witha’ alec T, a from is Letters edited by Mrs. Austin, 2 volumes cloth, The Jealous Wife, by Miss Pardoe, rT. SOc Confessions of a Pretty Woman. F M - doe, paper, 50 cents. weed mee utes TAYLOR & MAURY, near 9th st. REV. SYDNEY SMITH, - Austen, 2 FRANCK TAYLOR. : JOE PENTLAND'S With Batire New end Brilliant Equipment: 3 708 THEI eeRNOON AND, EVENING, me tryed Admission 25 cents. This Company is distinguished for the Fan DUESTRIAN GYMNASTIC AND PAN c, highest of and Among sone « Domestic Talent: tbis | = Sistas CRG IN tA SHERWOOD, Mr. GEO BACHE Mr. DAVIS RICHARDS, Rc ih, &e. CLOWN, JOE For particulars see bills in principal hotels. AWN on TUESDAY, A oe cepncenaaess Sweat August 29th. TOURNAMENT AND FANCY BALL FAUQUIER W. S. SPRINGS. ig ome ng of the 3ist. a distance are invited to enter the lists with the sons of the Old Dominion. On WEDNESDAY, the 29th ‘there will vea Chase ; the Venison (two: ) to be eaten t au iw d ALEX. BAKER. PLEASANT RESORT. SPRING GARDENS, FORMERLY FAVIER’S GARDEN,) On G Street, between Seventeenth Be ee (pret every day in the week, on Suan- day. Nospiritous liquors pony ape Cof- fee, Chocolate, lee C: &c., will be for sale. aay and Facretay ereniog, bagioning sien 7 even’ att "Admiddecetect Shea NHE LARGEST STOCK OF PIANOS IN this city cam be found at JOHN F. ELLIS’ Fancy Sie, Pa. avenue, near 10th st. ac JITRANGERS AND CITIZENS in search of ‘ Fancy Notions or Toys suitable for presents, can find a large collection at au 21—3t LAMMOND’S, 7b street. EW MUSIC received weekly at 306 Pa. eve- aN mue, near 16th st. J.P. ELLIS. au2t rr BASKETS. —y ey bel au 21— fumery, &c., at ELLIS’S, 306 near 10th st. NEW FRENCH SILK DYEING ESTABLISHMENT, UNDER THE FIRM OF BELL & MONS. GRANDIEAX, At iect ecaians Dye yo gh m1 Pa. avenue, south side, next door te the Emery Brownstone Building Mons. Grandjean, 2 Practical French Silk Dy- er, from France, pledes himself to dye in Sifts “Satins, Merinos, Mous @c Laines, Alpscts, Silks, Satins, jous * &c., which cannot be surpassed im Philadelphia or New York. ST RECEIVED AT JOE SHILLING- ton’s Periodical De) ~ Panama in 1855, an account of the Panama Rat!- road, of the cities of Panamaand Aspinwall, with sketches of Life and Character on the Isthmus, by Robert Tomes Letters to the People on H2alth and Heppines>, by Catherine E. Beecher. Memoirs of James Gordon Bennett, aud bis Times, by 2 Journzlist Bankers Boagier, 0 wal, ly Repestis ers Daugi.er, epne! Rose Milton, a remauce. ” J. SHILLINGTON’S, Odeoa Building, commer Pa. av. and ij st auzl— betriber wevld Rapetthlly annome 4 5 sul res, an e to consumers of Coal ‘Wood that they have recently established themselves in this city, as jealers in Coal and Wood, and hopes to receive a liberal share of their pr- tr 3 We have now on hand a good y of Oak and Pine Wood. A supply ‘anthracite Cost of various sizes, both Red and White Ash now afloat, which will be ready for sale and delivery tais week. Coml of the best quality for family, smithing, and manufacturing pur- Orders filled promptly and satisfaction gueran- tied always. CASTLEMAN & BRO. Corner of B and 6th sts., on the Canal. au 2i—2w ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD. ANAWAY from the estate of the late Daniel Clarke, near U ‘Marlboro’, Prince George's county, Md., on Sunday, the 19h August, negro boy ANDREW. He is about 15 of age; a dark mulatto; about 5 feet h; hasa wide mouth with good welb, and is ite when spoken te He had _on when be blue coat, and blue striped summer . I bave rea- son to suppose he will first make his way to Wasb- ingtoa Ewin ‘ive twenty-five dollars reward for him iftaken in Prince "s county ; fifty if in the District, or one hu if north of Wasbington In either case to be delivered to me or secured in jail, so that I get bim again P a BOWIE, Upper Marlboro’, Pi Ge "s county audi st J ne sheryl. OST, ON SUNDAY MORNING, a Terrier Puppy, body black, tan color, and white under the throat; on chain collar, but no mame on it. A liberal re-, ward will be paid for the return of the to N 310 New York avenue, between 9b and sts. au 20—eo3t* -ASHINGTON CORPORATION 6 per cent Stock for sale by RIGGS & CO _au lw MES: 4,6: REDMOND'S NEW GaL- “lery of uerrean Art.—| service of sn cupertonted sitet, inflly prepared to take pictures equal to any in the city, and at reasonal No. 290 Pa. avenue, northwest corner Lith st., over Ford & Bro’s Drug Store. au6— WwW GOODS. We bave just received— 1 case New York milis shirting Cotton 1 do 4-4 Bartlett steam mills do 1 do 4-4 Warmasutta mills do 1 do 4-4“Young America” do 1 do 4-4 Prize Medal do 1 do 4-3 Howard do 2 do X& Old York and Bartlett do 2 do 12-4 Hamilton cotton Sheeting i do W-4 do do do 50 pieces Merrimac Calico, fall styles, warranted Gad style English Prints, 12 50 pieces st cents i case Denber, Dickens Co.’s er bn. shirt- Also, on hand— “Richardson’s”’ and ‘‘Gray’s”’ Shirting Linen, from 37 gc to $1 per yard agar Selisia table ct, Pom ‘Sheet- Wecyflattstn Renee wen Sek, oats tet to buy their Goods from us; we keep the lar- gest stock to be found in the District, and are willing to sell at a small advance on whole- sale 5 pieces all wool, white Flannels, from to ‘will offer it is GLAGETT NEWTON, MAY & CU. au 20—3t $e Aptos OF JAMES GORDON BEN- nett and bis a Journalist ao li— ANCK TAYLOR _ AVING ABOUT Ht : HAYES TWO HUNDRED Acres and of which 1» finei watered meadow, will take itmnned numver of horses to pasture. —— of ENRY BIRCH, au 15 —eo3t® at his Livery Stable ah Le FR NCH DRAWING PENCILS from tie several of Bausch, —— imported direct from the 18 FRANCK TAYLOR /