Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1855, Page 2

EVENING STAR. ————-——— WASHINGTON CITY: MONDAY AFTERNOON........August 27, Apvertisements should be handed in by 12 o'clock, M., otherwise they may not ap- peer until the next day. SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS. The Intelligencer republishes an article from the Philadolphia North American, which is displeased with the doings of the Kansas Legislature, which in its judgment, illustrate the folly of “ squatter sovereign ty.’ The editor of the North Americau regards the acts of that body, on matters in which the slavery question is involved, as Amourting to a disfranchisement of the settlers from non-slaveholding States. It objects to the enactment, by that Legislature, of the punishment of death for negro stealing; to the provision cf a law barring settlers from acting as jurymen unless they can take such oaths as, to their abstract views, will make it clear that y will observe their oaths as citizens to carry out all the territorial laws—those bearing ou slevery as well as the others; to the police laws with reference to negroes, enacted by the Legislatere, which are precisely similar to sting in Missouri and all the other holding States; and also to the provision -wing Missourians, {who have just come into che Territory, equal rights, in the matter of voting, with the paupers, just arrived, who liave been sent out by the abolition emigrant seeieties. As far as we can perceive, the Kan- sas Legislature, representing a constituency many more than half of whom are for the exis- tence of slavery in the Territory, have merely taken efli.i-nt measures to prevent Kansas from becomg the point from which the Missou- rians may be robbed with impunity of their slaves. The measures taken are effective, be- youd doubt. and will teach abolitionism, we trust, that, if it will continue its work of dis- union, it must recollect that it has men—not children or o!d women—to contend with. The Union's leader is an elaborate and zble paper to prove that those who are now meaning over the burial of the Missouri com- promise, in the enactment of the Nebraska bul, are the parties who first killed (violated) it in voting against the admission of Arkansas, &c., on account of slavery. The Union alsc disposes of Mr. Louiz Kossuth’s ridiculous com- plaicts, because President Pierce elects not te respond to his (individual) interpellations with reference to points connected with the foreign policy of the Government of the United States saying in conclusion : uth) will then, in conclusion, ven- States, to clear for ports in f che insurgents ? “Aod, 2. Whether such ships will be ex- fimpt fom search or ure on the high seas Tr. ed no principle of na e decorum in send the posses- it was just such a *s tight have been penned by an ie, cr a sanguine Irish repealer, or a ublicen of France, or an Italian Kossuth and his disciples can- or will rot acknowledge its ¥ of the United States which tween existing Goveruments irceti¢nary movements—be- and expected independence— i and unofficial persone—be- ary of State and 2 newspaper PERSONAL. ++++Hon. L. Halbert, of Kentucky, is at ard’s Hotel. +++—Thoe President of the United States met with a most cordial greeting on the 2Ist inst., ou the ion of his visit to the White Sul- phur (Va.) Springs. Ex-President Tylor made © spe on behalf of the visiters, which was eloquently responded to by President Picrce. A hberal and patriotic spizit was evinced throughout the proceedings. A cordial re- tion has also been extended to Mrs. Pierce h Jies at the Springs. Mr. James C. Thompson, proprietor of usive machine works on Quay street, has received on offr to assume the eership of the Russian navy, and is 3 the necessary arrangements with Restiaa minister. The offer is made for e2-3 ata salary of $6.000 per annum, cuse rept free, and has been made in of the resignation of Mr. Chan- hman, who has held that position ior the past eighteen years. Mary Williams and her American-born » cent back to Liverpool by the Boston ites as paupers, has been brought buck A man at Cleaves, Ohio, was lately a locust. The effects are similar to uced by the bite of a mad dog; the > fits so violent that it takes five or six old him in bed, and he bas bitten his + A correspondent of the Troy Budget, z from Albany, tays that Mr. Tait, of leeton, S. C., who lost his arm on the Western Kailroad, a few days sinée, claims $100,000 damager. There are, we presume, Yery few persons who would even consext to Jose an arm for that amount of money. Louis H. F. d’Aguiar, Esq., arrived in ‘niou the other day from Rio de Janeiro, ul-General of Brazil, to reside in New It will be recollected that Mr. d’ Aguiar abiy filed the some office several years ago, #inee which time he has been Consul at Monts- video. -+++Boehsa, the veteran musician, who is xew at Sau Francisco, is in acritical state of health, with disease of the iungs, which is ex- pevted to terminate fatally. -++-M'le. Rachel bas presented to Capt. Nye, of the Pacific, a splendid breast pin, setin dia nerds and garnets, as a testimonial of her e It is suid to have been a present to her trem the Emperor Louis Napoleon. Mr. Cues. H. Marshall has recefved from Mlle. Rechel, by the hands of Capt. Nye, five hun- drei francs (3100) asa donation to the Home for Destitute Children of Seamen. ««..The widow of the late Judge Story died in Boston last week Uran.—Dates from Great Salt Lake, te the Ist of July, represent that the third crop of grain has been destroyed, and the prospect of famine was still imminent; while another ac- count states that the injuries to the crops by grasshoppers have not been so serious as was appreherded, and that the Mormons are not likely to be starved out. fim. L Shaver, one of the judges of the Territory, was found dead in his bed on the 20th of Juno, end was buried with great cere- Maury. New Crry Parers.—A new “American” »aper, to be celled the “ National Demoerat,’’ is soon to be commeneed in this city. It is to be published daily and weekly, and owned and controlled by a joint stock company. A weckly paper, called the “ American Sen- tinel,”’ has also recently been started. It is ul 1 by Col. John Cox, and is intended T @ campaign paper.—Balt. American. WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. The Clerkships of the next House.—If there be one, there are fifty active politicians busily engaged in electioneering for the Clerk- ship of the next House of Representatives, all of whom are identified directly or indirectly with one or the other wing of the party claim- ing to have the majority of the body with them. Some of these gentlemen stand on the “Philadelphia platform,’’ while others hoist the banner of the new Abolition-Republican party. Washington is the nominal headquar- ters for all the cahoodling upon this subject, though as yet there is a scarcity of opposition politicians here, in this middle of a long recess. New York is, in truth, just now the point where nearly all the efforts are being made to consummate bargains, coalitions, and conces- sions to effect that election. We are inclined to think that the Know Nothings of this city have very generally adopted John Wilson, Eaq.. as their candidate; while it is very clear that the Organ association are backers of the pretensions of J. W. Brice, Esq., of New York city, a very fine fellow, in his way, who is now among us. Robert Latham, Esq., of the late firm of Selden, Withers & Co., is a candidate on his own hook, and so also is said to be J. C. G. Kennedy, Esq., the chief of the Census Bureau under the Fillmore administration. We, also, not unfrequently hear the name of that veteran Whig, Nathan Sargeant, Esq., mentioned in the same connection. Mr. Ken- nedy aud himself, we take it for granted, have their respective ‘‘ claims’’ on their identifica- tion with the Republican party aforesaid. We might extend this list, ad infinitum—almost But we have recently obtained information oi an arrangement consummated in the famous political parlor of the Astor House in New York since the Tennessee election came off. that strikes us as bidding fairest of all to win— as promising to turn out to be the very iden- tical pole that will knock off the so mucl: longed-for persimmon. Through that arrangement, a new and en tirely unexpected candidate for the Clerkshi; takes the field, in the person of a no less dis- tinguished gentieman than the Hon. Mr. Cul lom. His immediate backers and enterers fo: this contest, are the parties at the North wh took so much interest in his race for Congress, as to offer to furnish the sinews of politica! war (as they are recognized in the arena o! New York polities) to any extent that his (Mr Cullom’s) managing friends at home, migh deem necezsary to make his re-election to the House a matter of absolute certainty. H« was to have been the candidate of their party for the Speakership, beyond all doubt; thc programme having been arranged, and mean: having been devised, (we feel assured withou Mr. C.’s kuowledge,) to buy his election to that post, if any amount of money would accom. plish that object. In Tennessee neither party in politics practices upon any such principle, which is too much in vogue with all parties in the Empire State. This is the first occasion in which it has been proposed to ca out the system in the elce tion of the S er of the Unitel States Hous. of Representatives. It was doubtless to hays been done without letting Mr. Cullom know any thing about the manner in which it wa effected, least he himself might decline to ru: for an office to be so secured forhim. It wa: not proposed to bribe members whose yote- were doubtful, to vote for him, but to use the money with some of their their personal frierd aad associates supposed to be ab'e to di much in the way of influencing their votes However, the over confidence of the friends of Mr. Cullom at home, having completely Spoiled the plan for placing that gentle man in the Speakership, it has already been arranged to run him for the clerkship of the House with much better prospect of success than ho would have had for the Speakership; as very few of the Southern Know Nothings and of the Northern Philadelphia platform Whigs would have voted for him, because cf the great anxiviy of Mr. Seward’s friends te place him in the position. As the clerkship is not, strictly speaking, a political office, he ean poll a much larger vote for it in the Hall, than he would have been able to poll for the other. Though he may rot already know that he is a candidate, he is at this moment by fur the most formidable gentleman in the field fur the clerkship of the United States House of Representatives. The Hards.—At the last New York State election, it turned out that the Adamantines (men with very hard consviegces) had dwindled down to some 35,000, while their inter-;arty rivals, the Softs, polled 159,000 votes. Those whe note the progress of political events in this country with care, are familiar with the circumstances under which the Hard faction virtually disbanded after that fashion. A large wing—the honest among them—forget- ting their personal (or faction’s) griefs, re-united with the Democratic party of the State on Governor Seymour, and those most hungry for spoils went off to the Know Noth- ings; leaving but 35,000, as before remarked, adhering to the Hard ticket. They have just held their State convention prior to the approaching State election, whereat, through the exertions of Mr. Daniel E Sickles, as is very apparent from tho report of their proceedings, they exhibited more com- mon sense than is their wont of late years. Their address, of course, is redolent with their ancual abuse and misrepresentation of the President and all who sustain his adminis- tration; as without that feature somewhere marking their proceedings, they would at once surrender all claim to individuality of organi- zation and separate (factional) existence. Bat they voted down with littie ceremony the usual resolution of indignation against, and villifi- cation of the administration, expressly on the ground that tho enactment of such resolves had turned out to be a non-paying policy; that is, a policy that added nothing to their strength, while it convineed the world that their opposition to an administration with whose policy on all points, except with refer- ence to the distribution of office, they ovin- cided, was wholly the result of their failure to obtain all of the spoils they assume to be their share. Mr. Sickles, who is by no means deficient in brains, and is by far too thorough and ambi- tious a politician to pursue a shadow long, to be laughed at, fairly brought them to their senses by convincing them that it was worse than folly, on their part, to make their faction’s grievances an excuse for defeating the triumph of all their nominal principles of public importance, in November, and thus se- curing the election of the instruments of Mr. Seward. We, however, havo little faith in the powor of Mr. Sickles to effoct for good results the course, in the eleotion of the Hard managers who buy and sell legislation at Albany every winter. They are a part of the new Regene: that bas sprung up there since the dispersion of the far-famed Albany Regency of times past. That was composed of statesmen and others of great intellect and influence over the State, through the weight of their personal character and the respect of their fellow-citi- sens for their public services. The new Re- gency is one that works wholly by bribery. lirect- and indirect, and is composed almost vholly of men who should of right be in State prisons, rather than hanging around the lob- vies of legislative chambers, and the bar tvoms and gambling houses of State capitols+ {t is composed of Silver Grays, (now Know Nothings,) Republicans, and Hards, in about equal proportiong ; and in the coming election it will sustain the Republican nominations, as reing the only candidates, with a fair prospect f success, that can be relied on, indirectly, to aid and abet its schemes of plunder in return ‘or its favor in the canvass. Mr. Sickles has done wonders in bringing bout the manifestation of something like sommon sense snd integrity of purpose in the action of the majority of this convention, but he cannot accomplish the impossibility of in- ducing the Hard portion of the Regency to vote, with its blind followers, so as to weaken the prospect of stealing with impunity from the public purse at Albany next winter. Gloucester Custom-House.—The proposals for the construction of this work were opened at the Treasury Department on Saturday last. The contract was awarded to Messrs. Cushing, Crosby, and others, of Lowell, for $25,596. The Learned of the Land.—‘Take the New York Tribune, with its host of eloquent and learned writers and staticians, its poets, and its critics, its correspondents, and its law- yers, and think for a moment on the misdirec tion of this disciplined array of talent and of enius against the Constitution of the United States, and many of those settled and essen- tial institutions by which the community is protected, and public peace and private rights secured.”” Thus discourseth the Union of Saturday. For our part, though acknowledging the origi- nality and freshness with which the New York Tribune is conducted, our dull brain has not been able to appreciate the talents, and ge nius, and learning of the host of writers for the Tribune, of whom the Union speaks in so high terms. With the exception of the subject of the existing Russian war, wherein it does exhibit much more reliable knowledge than any other American newspaper, (tor Count Garowsky is its writer in that department,) we find little genius displayed, except in the matter of urging eutopian theories, which the experience of society has black-balled, some of them centu- ries ago. The talents cf this famous corps seem to us to be little more than fanaticisw, self-sufficiency, and bigotry run mad; and the independence little more than evident efforts to cram dowa the throat of society, by dint of threats, bluster, and misrepresentation, its tsms, at which society's stomach revolts, as whenever it has been attempted to dose it with them since civilized sceicty existed, which has ast been unfrequentiy. As for the solid in- formation of the corps in question, shat is eapitally illustrated in a paragraph from the Tribune that met our eye the moment before we read what we quote above from the Union, as follows—(speaking of the Presi- dent’s indiposition at the Virginia springs)— vin: “His speedy recovery will be anxiously hoped for, not the less so from the ugly fact that in the event of his demise at the present time, David R. Atchison, the ruffian leader of the Missouri invaders of Kansas, would be- come President of the United States!’’ We have had the Tribune for more than a year past laying down the law with reference to the Kansas question, claiming to be alone right in its knowledge of facts bearing on its and abusing the Hon. David R. Atchison in this connection without stint. The eum of its pretensions upon this point is, pretty much, that nobody but the Tridune’s brilliant corps knows anything worth knowing with reference to the Kensas question. Whereas, if the little office boy who sometimes helps to do the Star’s slipping, should announce that Mr. Atchison would, by law, become the acting president in case of the demise of President Pierce, we should feel very much inclined to spank him, for & numskull—very much so inclined, in dced. As every boy who knows anything of American public affairs, should at least know that there is no law under which a private citisen—a gentleman not now in any way con- neoted with public life, or with the Senate of the United States—could be at this time seated in the Presidential chair by any means short of a revolution. Ordered.—Purser Levi D. Slamm, U. S. N., has been ordered for duty at the Boston yard. A Bad Speoulation.—It will be perceived, from the news from Mexico in this morning’s Star, that our anticipation, expressed some days ago, that the advices from Vera Cruz would settle the question as to Santa Anna's ‘urther reign in Mexico, was correct to the let- tor. The foreign—American and European— creditors of Santa Anna’s government did their best to sustain him. Parties in New York, who have been furnishing him money without stint of late, are doubtless to be badly burned through his abdication. They have ¥een working manfully to induce the govern- rent of the United States indirectly to guar- anteo the payment of Santa Anna’s obliga- tions to them, the amount to be taken out of the payment to be made by this government, to Mexico, on the completion of the boundary survey. The United States Sloop-of-War Saratoga. The following is a complete list of the officers ordered to this vessel, now at the Boston Navy Yard, and about tosail to join the Home Squad- ron, in place of the Falmouth, returned on ac- count of yellow fever on her: Commander— Edw. @. Tilton, Lieutenants—Wm. Rogers Taylor, Francis Winslow, John Wilkinson, and James Higgins; Surgeon—J J. Brownlee; As- sistant do.—Michael O'Hara; Purser—A. A. Belknap; Acting Master—Greenleaf Cilley; Passed Midshipmen—Bancroft Gherardi, Geo. E. Belknap; Midshipmen—James M. Todd, John 8. Barner; Boatswain—Francis A. Oliver; Guoner—James A. Lilleston; Carpenter—Geo. Wisner; Sailmaker—John J. Stanford; Second Lieut Marines—John 0. Payne. The late Capt. Folsom, Assistant Quar- termaster U. 8. A.—This morning the War Department received official intelligence of the death of this gentleman at the mission of San Jose, California, on the 19th ultimo. Though the richeat man in California—his income from real estate being $200,000 per annum—he con- tioned, ap to the time of his death, to dis- cherge the duties of his post in the army. He wos w native of New Hampshire, and going out | daughter of Capt. to the West coast early, acquired all his vast property by speculation since the commence- ment of the Mexican war. He was about thirty-six years of age. The Current Operations of the Treasury Dopartment.—On Saturday, the 25th August, there were of Treasury Warrants entered on the books of the Department— For the redemption of Stock..... $7,415 06 Sp ae ‘or the jor For the Custons...+ss.. 6,095 36 War Warrants received aee@e 10.375 40 Covered in sources .. sees 121,167 40 On account of vy 15,046 00 Repay Warrants on account of _ Ws War ycieae co ciesiecr 28,000 00 ——_—__ oe The Epidemic at Norfolk and Portsmouth, The accounts of the progress of the yellow fever in Norfolk and Portsmouth are of the moit gloomy character; threatening the de- population of the two towns. The number of deaths each day is very large; and the num- ber of cases rapidly increasing. The following are the names of some of the dead: Child of Wm. C. Barnes, Job Halsey, John Martin, Mrs. Thomas M. Martin, Mr. McLane, George Higgins, John Conrade, John Mehe- gan, Miss V. Stallins, Mark Mattocks, John, slave of William Taylor, Mary Welsh, Mary Haywood, Samuel Cooke, George North, Su- san, slave of R. Gatewood; Mrs. John A. Hall, Elias Guy; Lucy Foreman, John H. Hall, Gideon A. Strange, Mrs. Jane Brooks, Miss Wieland, Capt. Bunting, Mr. Hanberry, Miss Harriet Fullghain, Mrs. Dr. Friendeman, W. H. Lohman, George Jacobs, C. De Boer, Mrs. Wm. White, Mr. Alphonso, Frederick @. Roberts, Mr. Henby, F. Roach, Mrs. Virginia Robertson. The Rev. Mr. Teeling, who has visited much in the two places, estimates that there are between seven and eight hundred cases in Norfolk, and about five hundred in Ports- mouth. In answer to letters from this point, asking for the details of the ravages of the yellow fever, the number of cases, deaths, &c., the following letters have been received. A member of the Common Council of Ports- mouth, writes as follows, on the 24th : Lhave just this moment received your let- ter, and am sorry to inform you that in many cases your information is too correet. In the first place, B. W. Palmer has been a little sick, but is better. Horatio Moore, R. C. Barclay, Capt. Chambers, Patrick Williams, Dr. Lovett, young James Will'ams, wife, child, and ser- vant, Nathaniel Manning, Colin Reynolds’ wife, and Mrs. Potts are dead. Avery Wi!- liams’ wife will dic before night. I have not time to write more, but will merely say that [ am in the public store doing all I can fer the public sey and that, thank God! my family are yet all well. Send us, to my order as store-keeper, anything like goods that youcan collect, and the sympathies of this distressed people will follow you to your last a! place. P. S.—Colonel Watts and J. Gustayus Hol- liday have been sent to the hospital. We have four or five modical gentlemen among us who have just arrived, and we hope things may prove better, as God knows it is bad enough now. Mr. Thomas Briggs. who left this city some time since to assist the physicians of Norfolk in nursing the sick, is nobly performing his arduous duty, receiving on every hand the praises of the sick and well. He writes us on the 23d from Norfolk, as follows : “I buried young James last evening; and went out to the Cemetery for the first time. The undertaker that went with us, told me it made eleven he had buried yesterday, andjth i he bad fvur mere to take out before he went to bed. Recollect this is but one firm, but the principal one; this does not include the hospitals. I aim at Prof. Strange’s, opposite the Academy, waiting on young Strange, u cousin of the Professor, who was left here, and has been neglected until it is too late. He was left three days without taking medicine— |: the family are up at Charlottesviile—and when he is gone, [ am to go to Mr. LePage’s, near the National Hotel, where there are two sick. Mr. Guy's tamily are all down. I have no time to hunt up names, but they reckon at the office that there is between three end four hundred cases in Norfolk, and a little over that in Portsmouth, although in Ports- mouth there are not more than 3,¢90 people from a census taken last week. Yesterday was by far the worst day of the panic. hake body looks wild at you, if they find you are nursing the sick. Rev. Dr. Armstrong goes every where; he visited Jennings’ family yes- terday, and told me they were very much dis- tressed at their loss. I have not ‘been to see Mr. W. since Saturday, as no one wants vi ters at this time, but the sick. A woman die last ape next door to Strange’s, aud another, Miss Kennedy, sick on the other side this morning. Seg bee perceive itis all over the citys yet you hear people going about saying, ‘oh! don’t go in the infected district.” “I ge everywhere myself, but don’t go out at night unless I am obliged. I never saw such hide- ous looking corpses as they are. This youn; man is looking at me while I am writing, an his eyes lovk as though he was dead. [tis a Comunon thing to see them carried along the street in blankets, taking them to the hospi- tal. Stevens’ hat store was opened until yes- terday, but that frightened A te off. There is a man dying next door now, I hear him groaning—the same place they took the woman from last night. ‘Times are very squally.”’» A gentleman (a clerk in one of the Depart- ments) who left this city, last week, to aid in nursing the sick, writes us from Portsmouth on the 24th, as follows : “Teannvt give’ you the state of disease at this place. One “hears so many reports and does not know what to believe. “Jnu. W. Col- lins is doing well to-day; Colonel Winchester Watts is sick at the hospital; Miss Emma Boutwell and Dr. Lovett died this morning ; Avery Williams’s wife is very sick. Three doc- tors came down with me from Baltimore. Dr. Trugien is sick, and has gone to ihe hospital. You can form no conception of the looks of the lace. Should the disease hold out much onger, there will scarcely be a white man left to tell the tale of wo. Many of the negroes have it. Yours, &c. W. B.C. A telegraphic dispatch from Petersburg this morning cenfirms the report of the death of the daughter of Captain Elias Guy (Mrs. John A. Hall,) and states that the rest of the family re improving at the hospital, whither they had been removed. The Norfolk Beacon states that the Collector ef the Port had disappeared, and that the Deputy Collector has removed the archives to Hampton, a town out of the district. The citizens of Portsmouth have organized | a Howard Association, and David D. Fiske, (the energetic mayor, who has lebored man- fully throughout the existence of the epidemic, doing all that man could do to arrest the pro- gress of the disease, and ministering to the sick and dying,) has been elected President. At New Orleans $3,400 have been raised for the sufferers, and six nurses have left there for Norfolk and Portsmouth. Contributions are being daily received by the Howard Association ; still there is great suffering consequent upon the want of pro- visions and neeessazics for the sick ; and there is much yet to be done by those cities which have been spared from the visitation of this awful pestilence. The mayor of Norfolk, Hunter Wooiis, is down with the fover ; though the latest ac- counts represent him as better. Tn Portsmouth, Drs. Trugien is down with the fever, and has been sont to the hospital ; upwards of one hundred sick are thus deprived of medical attendance. Mrs. D. D. Piske, the lady of the mayor, is also sick. Among others who have volunteered their services in Baltimore for the yellow fever dis- trict, is Mrs. Wilson. She has been accepted by the committee, and will probably leave for Norfolk this afternoon. ; A correspondent of the Baltimore American, writing from Portsmouth, on the 25th, says: Our position seems not to be well understood at a distance, from which we are suffering some inconvenience in the present exigency Some charities, I fear, contributed by those who suppose that Portsmouth is a part of the city of Norfolk, have missed their intended destination. They have been forwarded to tho proper recipients in Norfolé, supposing that our own afflictions would be proportion- ably relieved in their dispensation. We can- not of course blame the authorities of Nor- folk—we do not in the least—for whenever, as in some cases, she has received donations, de- signating that a portion was for our town—but without specifying the precise proportion—we believe her generosity has relieved her neces- sities—we believe we have received more than our share. But, if there is no such designa- tion, of course, we receive nothing ; could not e tt todo so. Her exigencies, are, we fear, fally ual - ane own ; = without oa outpourings of public sym) our con oct be ei iab le indeed. se! That the public may have some ides I wil) mention the fact that our disbursements for charitable purposes will, for the past week, exceed $400 per diem, and what we may yet reach, God only knows. There is no abate- ment of the fever. It is —— to convey any idea of the condition of things here now. Pen and pencil alike fail to portray a commu- nity scourged by such a pestilence—a city re- duced from active prosperity toa state of com plete stagnation in every department of trade —a people in the habitual enjoyment of health and cheerfulness and easo—toa state of dex titution, disease and death—everything wear- ing the gloom of overwhelming and indeseri- bable affliction —the silence, loneliness, deso. lation and despair—of complete and hopeless desertion. The few remaining here whore condition would allow them to leave, do so from a sense of duty, a feeling of humanity ; and may God, in his mercy, spare their weariod bodies, sustain their sinking spirits, and en- large their hope of Heaven. The Physicians who have 80 generously come to our assistance are constantly employed, and we fear over- worked, but they do not complain. Such men are men, whose humanity will bless, and God will reward. From the Beacon and Argus of Saturday, we clip the following items : A1v.—Drs. Thompson and Morris, of Balti- more, Drs. seal 3 and Nath’! Thompson, of Philadelphia, R. H. Graham, Baltimore, Mrs. C. J. Jones, Washington, arrived here yester- day, and took lodgings at the National Hotel. Tur Fever ix tae Two Townxs.—Sad to say, the work of death goes on fearfully and increasingly! We know of no parallel to the malignity of the terrible scourge that is level- ing down the powerful as well as the weak, throwing out the fairest and the strongest of the remaining families in our two awfully afflicted towns. It is heart-rending to contem- plate, and why should we attempt to coneeal the fact’ In our city, yesterday, there were nearly twenty burials. There ere now about five hundred cases undertrextiment. In Porte- mouth there are no less than four hundred sick, and for 24 hours ending at 5 p. m., sia- teen burials! On Thursday there were nine burials in Portsmouth. The sufferings and grief of the people are beyond the power of language to describe. AnotneR Heroive.—Mrs. C. S. Jones, a lady of fine ch er and ability. arrived yesterday from ington and tondered her services as a nurse of the sick to the Howard Association. She was gladly received, and eatered at once upon her laborious duties in the infected rooms of the sick and dying. Suot.—Mr. Thos. Clinton, formerly of this city, was shot dead by aman named Sykes, yesterday, on his farm near Great Bridge. OLUMBIA ROYAL ARCH CHAP- er.—A special communicaticen of this Chapter will be bheid at Mosonic Hall THIS EVE- NING, at 73 o'clock. The notices making the call for Wednesday evening are erroneous. LYNDE Et ior, au 27—1t* Secretary. A Asc: GUARDS.—The members of the Company are requested to attend a drill and other purposes on TUESDAY EVENING, the 28th instant. Any one wishing to join are respectfully invited pape vl JOHN SHEA, Secretary 3 2 . ‘ at! 25—2t Bem EN TER TAINMENT. The members of the Sabbath School of Sixth Presbyte- fan Church, corner of Md. avenve and 6th street, Island, will give the first of thelr new s¢ries of Entertainments on MUNDAY EVENING, the 27th instant, commencing at 7 o’clock ose who are interested in the cause of Sabbath Schools and feel the imporiance of educating the heutrt as well as the head, should encourage by their pres- ence and approbation these efforts to ‘‘raise the genius and to mend the heart.’’ an 2i—3t Admission 1245 cents. POLITICAL DEMONSTRATION — Feet Jackson Democratic Association of the Sixth Ward will hold « public meeting next TUESDAY EVENING, at 8 o'clock, at Odd Fellows’ Hall, Navy Yard, in celebration of the recent Democratic victories in several of the States. Distinguished speakers from Alabama, Tennes- see, and of this city will deliver addresses. The Hon. Hi May will probably be in attendance. A fine heed of manic has been engaged. Citizens generally are invited to attend. id A.W MILLER, President. au 2—tt (Union) or the Shadow of Fate. A story of fashionable Life. Paper 50 cents—cloth 75 cents TAYLOR & MAURY’S Bookstore, near 9th st. POTOMAC PAVILION. ib hgtss Proprietor respectfully informs the public that the Pavillon will be kept open dur- ing the running of the Potomac Steamers. ‘There are many families bere who intend: to remain throughout September, and he hopes that others may unite to enjoy the fine bath and fishing. W. W. DIX. Pingy Point, Aug. 25, 1855. au27 SELECT CLASSICAL AND MATHEMAT- ICAL ACADEMY. mre duties of —<f Academy will be resumed on Monday, September. The number cf pupils being limited to25, my former patrons, who wish their sons or wards continued wi b me another session, are requested to inform me by the Ast of September, in order that the places left va- cant may be filled by others who have already ap- plied or may yet apply. Bowed AND DARKNESS au 27 Terms, $12 50 per quarter of 11 weeks T. W. SIMPSON, Principal, au 3 No. 161 West st., ecrgetown. GEORGETOWN CLASSICAL AND MATH- EMATICAL ACADEMY. THe ey me having rented the in which the late Wn. ke Abbott, Esq , so and so favorably conducted his Acadeny . cal having thus secured more amp'e arcommoda'ions will receive an additional number of pupils. Early applications are particularly reqnested, as it is important that all the scholars sho: be pres- -_ ~ the coreg of the classes. e exercises will be resumed on Monday, Se; tember 3d. PLA. BOWEN, Principal, i au 27 No. 94 West st., Georgetown. INDEPENDENT POLICE. J bs undersigned have entered into a firm for the purpose ef attending to all criminal and other bi which may be entrusted to them Any communicaticn from any part of the United States will be promptly attended to. One of said firm will be found at all times at John D. Clark’s United stetes Police Ottice, No. 527 Twelfth at. WILLIAM H FANNING, JOHN H. STEWART, J. NORWOOD SOLOMON GODDARD. au 27—lw (Organ) ——— ——___ ee possiw AROUND, GRAVE OF UNCLE TRUE, AZEL DELL I Dream of Home, Hard Times. Good News, Do They Miss Me at Home, You will Miss Me Then, Home of My Childhood, Dearly Doi Love Thee. Few Days, Jordan, and a host of other new and 5 nee received at 306 Pennsylvania —— near 10th st. JOHN F. ELLIs. BROGKEVILLE se ¥, ‘omery co. "TE Fall Session of this Institution will com- mence on ‘Monday . eee wie oy nade ec Feneipnl at Brookeviie, Md., or from Chas. H. ” be ue. EL B. -M ae B PRETTYMAN, A. M * AMUSEMENTS. 4 THE CAMPBELLS ARE COMING! 4 WEST & PEEL’S FELLOWS’ HALL Commencing MONDAY EVENING, Augen 7 4 bts When they wil pe ae ice selection of Songs. Dances. . wit thelr INIMITABLE om" Tickets 25 cents. mmence at £ o'clock. = Dr ¥. A. JONES, Agent. MATT PEEL., Manager. aa JOF PENTLAND ormRouvus! With Entire New and Brilliant Equipment! Il exhibit emer tor he Sept. 1. : August 30 EE DaYs ONLY: . FOR THREE TERNOON AND EVENING. . Doors at@and7p.m. Performance an hour afterwards. . Admission 25 cents. This Com: is distinguished for the novelty and variety sf tte entertainments, UESTRIAN GYMNASTI AND PAN TOMIMIC, oF Di the highest order ‘oreign peer tte Among principal this Trou ’ the Artists of are Madame VIRGINIA SBFRWOOD, Mons. NiICOLO & PUPILS, Mr. GhO BRACHELDER Mr. DAVIS RICHARDS, Mr. C. SHER WOOD. FRANK PASTOR, &o. CLOWN, JOK PENTLAND. For particulars see bills in principal hotels. At GEORGETOWN on TUESDAY, Augus asth, and ALEXANDRIA on WEDNESDAY August 29th. au 18—a PLEASANT RESORT. SPRING GARDENS, FORMERLY FAVIER’S GARDEN,) On M Street, between Seventeenth & Eighteenth, OPES ED every day in the week, on Sun- day. No — Liquors allowed. but Cof- fee, Chocola'e, Ioe Cream, &c., will be for sale. Weber's Brass Band will perform every Mon. day and Thursday even’ ing at about on . ‘Admiutance freee’ au 16—3m LL STRANGERS visiting the City should see Hunter's Cata- logue of the curiosities of the Patent Office. Al- 30, bis Description of Powell's Great Pictures. HUNTER |s to be seen at 400 Tenth street. may 3iI—3m* WASHINGTON SEMINARY. HE exercises of this Institution will be re- au —Iw ni " ‘President. KUGBY ACADEMY, Fourteenth street, west of Franklin Sqware. HE daties of this Institution will be resumed on the second Monday in September. Num ber ¢f pupils limiced. Circulars of the Academy can be obtained at the residence of the Principal, on N, between 12th and 13th streets. G. F. MORISON. WASHINGTON LADIES’ DEPOSITORY. HE Managers of this Institution give notice that the store on Fourteenth street will be mu for the transaction of businesson MONDAY, 2SDAY and WEDNESDAY next, from tla m.to 20’clock p m.,and all persons indebted are reqnesied to make Immediate payment in order that the «ums due to depositors may be paid with- out furti. or delay. S. P. CHILDS, 5 Secretary. A edly urged by many fam- t lass or classes for instruc tue, wv asto place it within y perent to cultivate a musical taste in his fon nd being desirous of meeting the wishes cf ‘he community as far es lies in my power, lam now making arran, ts to such classes, provided sufficient ineducements offer, and in such ca .«, my object being to givea thorough mosical foundation to my _—— ° pills. I should pro to take a limited num! atthe low rate of 35 per quarter, of 20 lessons. Persons therefore desirous of availing themselves of these classes will please orev to me, by note or o‘herwise, at Mrs. Smith's, No, — F street au 25—tf W. HENKY PALMER LD THEOLOGY.—The ondersign-d has laid aside from his stock. to be sent to auc- tion at the season, a la ge collection of Bvoks, oid editions in some cases, in otbers du- jicate copies of the best edi fons extant, which, in the meantime may be bouzht at Auction prices at his store. Many “patente on ee oe amongthem. Also, History, clue am 1 » General Science; nove s and miscelianeous Toes: also a few French Books » 4 au — FRANCK TAY LOR. _ YSAND FANCY NOTIONS, chesp at au 43) LAMMOND'S, “th at. SINGING AND FLUTE LESSONS. R. WILLIAM PALMER, Professor of Sing- ing, &c , having been induced to accompany his nephew (Mr. H nry Palmer, the eminent pi- anist,) on his return to this country, and to we up his residence tu this city, will be happy to te- yy celve pepils for instruction either in Singing or iu the art of Flute p'aving, having been associ- ated with the best Professors in Europe, studied i under Crevel.j, the great vocal master in London, and under C Nicholson, the renowned flutist For terms, &c., apply to him, bv note or other- Wise, at his residence at Mrs. Smith's, No 233 F street. au Mf Book BINDERS’ PASTE BRUSHES & GLUE. Also, Patent Paint Oil for rocfs. &e 5 bbis Putty, in bladders, fcr ssle by ae HOWELL & MOR ELL, No 323 C street, between 6th and 7th au 2i—Im ACKEREL! ‘0.3 (bay) Mackerel per **Marietta Burr,”’ from Boston, for WILLIAM M. CRIPPS, { 61 La. avenue, bet. 6th and 7th sts au 2—3t F° SALE —The Subscriber baving no fur- ther use fora No 1 Single Harness HORSE, of fine style and action ; per- fectly gentle. Will dispose of him at vate sale if early application be made The horse can be seen at Lathagn’s livery stables Alexandria, Aug. 23. A. G. NEWTON an 2-3 MOUNTAIN HOUSE, CAPON SPRINGS! HE undersigned having been solicited by many souibern friends to extend the present ‘ +eason, have determined to keep the Mounistu louse open for thelr accommodation until the 10th day of October, The three tournaments for the season will take = of August, the 12th and Qutb of otem| The fare will be reduced $5 per month and $2 per week, after the Ist of September BLAKEMORE & INGRAN. PIANO FORTE INSTRUCTION. ME HENRY PALMER begs to inform his friends and pupils that he is now pared to resume his professional duties. rmitted to refer as heretofore to Messrs. R! eco ,» and any communicetion left for him at bin residence gt Mrs. Smith's, No. 233 F street, will have immediate attention. au 2i—iw NOTIC Hayne understood that an individ~al has been rej ting himself as Agent for “HORNER’S MIXTURE,” and a an article rting to be the same, we take method ing the public we have no trav- eling Agent whatever for the sale of our Mixture, and that it can only be procured of the Druggists ¢ of Washington, and of ourselves, and those who purebase from any other source will be impored upon by a —— article, the effects of which w not be responsible for. . HORNER & GARY. The Mix'ure is for sale by the agents H. A. MUELLER, Pa avenue, between 4s a o. WELL, corner avenue st and 4 ard E st south. ‘ KIDWELL & LAURENCE, corner 14th street and Pa. avence. J. B. MOORE, Pa avenne, opposite the Seven Bu'idings. CHAL LES STOTT & CO., corner Pa. ave, Sud 7Uh street. W. H. GILMAN, corer Pa avenue and 4 | street T.C. McINTIRE, No. 370, corner of 7th and 1 streets. F.S. WALSH, Novy Vari, Wash’ * eorgetown, D. C. N Va. a2 : J.1.. KIDWELL, HENRY COOK & CO., Alexandria, ~m - eae e S iz FOR SALE—A VERY SUPERIOR SEC- ond handed 6 octaves Pianoforte will be sold ie is FOUNTAIN & CO.,2 King strest, dria, Va. r : J.J. HUNT, Frederick, Ma. au A—He very low by to ilies Mrs. H. CLITCH, aa Pa. avenue, betw Sb and Leh sts