Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1855, Page 2

EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON CITY: THURSDAY AFTERNOON..... August 30. SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRES3. The Union criticises the recent letter of Sen- ator Sumner to Passmore Williams, berating Judge Kane for duly punishing Williams for contempt of court and perjury. Sumner re- gards the judge’s punishment of Williams, under all the facts of the case, as evidence of the distinguished jurist’s insanity! The edi- tor, in turn, mgards the recent pro-negro and sweeping “«nti-: aturalization legislation of Massachusetts as embracing much the more palps'le evidence of ‘insanity, of the two. The Union alo exhorts the New York Times to take a common-sense view of the interpella- tion of M. Kossuth directed to the President, and to comprehend the difference between the propriety and duty of answering such an epis- tle when coming from a legitimate functionary, and a private man not a citizen of the United States. We also learn from the Union that the exact majority for Gen. Lane in the recent election for a territorial delegate from Oregon, is 2,149, against 1,570 in 1853. In 1849, the total vote in Oregon was 983; in 1851, it was 2,918, and on this occasion, (in 1855,) it was 10,151. The Incelligencer endorses the recent letter of ex-Governor Hunt, of New York, wherein that gentleman exhorts the Whigs of the Em- pire State to resist the fusion (abolition) move- ment. The editor declares that in that con- nection he stands with Mr. Hunt. We find in the Intelligencer an Havana let ter, (dated August 2lst instant.) from which ‘we extract as follows : ‘It is now over a month since preparation was ordered at the Havana for the private residence of General Santa Anna, by intima- tion received per British steamer of the 9th of July. The steamer ‘ Wye,’ Powell command- er, much out of time, having touched at Be- lize, Mississippi river, for coal, arrived yester- day morning from Vera Cruz, without brin ing the distinguished guest expected. By private letters we are advised that he was near to Vera Cruz, and it was rumored that he wou!d embark on board the British brig-of- war ‘ Daring,’ waiting for him there, on the 6tu of August. The ‘ Wye’ left on the morn- ing of the Sth; on the 4th Mrs. Santa Aana id aconducta of $2,000,000 of specie were d to be twelve miles from Vera Cruz. is stated that some of the news by this vessel was not inp at New Orleans. Fears are entertained here that the retiring President Dictator will not be allowed to leave the coun- try; but, shovld he make good his eseape, he Will be ia the Havana in ail of next week. The Political features, the state of the Federal party, and condition of the country I presime you have, and possibly all else to which I have alluded."’ WASHINGION NEWS AND GOSSIP. Travel—tt is indeed true that “ travel’ makes wondrous changes in a man’s ideas— wenderful changes, indeed. This ancient truism is capitally illustrated in the altered tone of our friend, Horace Greeley, of the New York Lrt)xxe, wpon politi¢o-moral topies, since he left home to start on his iast trip to Europe. Fortwenty years before, he had been (we ask his pardon for having to write the trath bluntly) well nigh run mad on two points: First—on the alleged erying injustice of social distinctions on account of color. He regarded American prejudices against the so- cial equality of the negro as a national sin, to be punished in tims by some great national calamity which would surely grow out of the universal prejudice in the United States against the African sroma. He was, besides, the deadly fue of the loose women of New York. Hundreds, if not thousands of columns of his journal had been devoted to warning the com- munity against the terrible consequences of as- sociating with them ; and time and again were we told how his untainted heart sickened at the proximity of one of the poor unfortunatess even in the sireet. We havo him at this moment in our mind’s _ eye, a8 we naturally picture him—running, white ccat tail almost in a straight line, across Broadway, from opposite the Tabernaclo—run- ning to kill two birds with one stone. To eseape the proximity of a bevy of over-dressed and highly-painted ones, and to meet and frater- nally greet Brother Sambo, Uncles Ned and Tom, and Sisters Dinab, Juno, and Mehetable, Standing with clerical and matronly decorum before that hall door, as is their wont; their very black countenances, coats, broad-brim- med hats, and coal-scuttle bonnets being duly set off with the customary very white neck or shoulder kerchiefs, according to the sex of the wearer. Who so happy as our friend Greely used to be, in first escaping contact with the decidedly nauseating ones on the two shilling side of Broadway, aud in meeting, greeting, and luxuriating in dreams of universal equal- ity and brotherhood with the black ones stand- ing #0 demure)y on Broadway’s shilling side? Horace ! Horace ! thou art fallen from grace, or thou never wouldst have penned the follow- ing paragreph, from one of the last published London letters irom thy prolific pen. Thua, in giving an account of the visit he paid to the Cremorne gardens (in London.) he says there were over three thousand persons there, dncluding a thousand women, the majority of whom were manifestly lost to virtue, if not dead to shame. Continuing, he says: “The English are not skillful in varnishing vice—at least J bave seen no evidence of their taet in that Jing. I haveendared the specta- cle of men dancing With women when rather beery and smoking, but etlast the sight of a dark and by no means clegant mulatto waltz- tng with adecent looking white girl, while puffing away at rather a bad cigar proved too — for my Yaukee predjudice, and I stare If ever 2 man was entirely changed by trav- el, that individual is the identical Horace aforesaid. Travel has actually made all his pet antipathies—strong drink, tobaeco, and the fomiliar presence of hundreds of such females as he describes—more agreable to him, far more agreable than the sightof social equal- ity between the white and African races— the very utopia of the philosophical dreams of nearly ai! his previous life! Horace! Hor- ace‘! Horace!!! We blush for thee '!!' Something Fit to be Dono.—The Demo- ¢ratic convention of thé Frederick district of Maryland beve nominated Mr. Hamilton for Congress, with really inconsiderable oppo- sition, we apprehend. Mr. Hamilton is al- realy « member of much experience, and being proverbially one of the most attentive and industrious geatlemen in the Hall, he isa yepresentative of great value to his country; being remarkable for his quickness of appre- hension, (a qualification of great importance amid the confusion-worse-confounded so often existing inthe House,) with integrity of pur- jpose in all he does as a representative second: to that of no other man who has ever been in Congrees, and possessing, in an eminent de- Bree, that sw rare Congressional fasulty of saying so and sticking to it. Mr. Ham- itton, in the course of his Congressional career, has not only saved many millions to the national treasury that) would have been squandered uselessly but for his never sleep- ing vigilance in the discharge of aé/ the duties of his trust, but in so doing he has defeated the schemes involved in them for fixing dan- gerous and extravagant precedents upon the statute books, which, once there, would have proved the basis of othensimilar expenditures, adding fearfully to the sum total of the money wrung from the sweat of the faces of the la- boring tax-payers of the country. His’ elo- quence, admitted by his compeers in public life to be of the highest legislative order, has, to his credit be it written, been expended with rare exceptions, upon legitimate business before the House. Were all his fellow mem- bers as ambitious as himself, simply to trans- act the real business before the House, and to eschew blatherskiteing, three months would be sufficient time for the proper disposal of every thing that comes properly before Congress. We have occupied one of the seats in the House hall assigned to gentlemen connected with the press ever since 1843, being absent from it, when the body was in session, hardly more than a dozen hours in a whole session. Our opportunity for judging correctly of the charaster, capacity and labors of the Honora- ble members has been, therefore, hardly sec- ond to that of every other person whatever; and we write in all sincerity in what we say above of Mr. Hamilton, of Maryland, whose failure to appear again in the Hall would really be little short of a Natioral calamity— though the plunderers would shout over it for joy, as they never shouted before. The End On’t.—The following paragraph, from yesterday’s Bultimore Suz, embracing the last ‘‘ Kinney expedition’”’ news from Cen- tral America, (that came by the Daniel Web- ster,) tells of the exact condition of the Kinney expedition in language stronger than our pen can indite, though it is a very brief and sim- ple recital of facts, indeed : “Con. Kixney anv ‘ Presipent’ Watxer. Col. Kinney is now said to be at San Juan with about twenty men, half of them sivk, and the rest ‘lying around loose,’ ragged and in a most wretched condition. This contradicts entirel, the story that came by way of Panama, which represented him as doing very well, and gain- ing reinforcements. The story, it will be re- membered, was told by one of Kinney’s men. Walker is lying off at Realjo. He and Munos don’t agree. His prospects are represented as very shabby.’” We may add, that shortly before the Daniel Webster sailed from San Juan, Consul Neleon, (the man who got the kink,) and young Daniel Webster sailed for New York, heartily re- joiced, doubtless, in being able to leave Central America with whole skins. The public will perceive in this worse than ludicrous termination of the celebrated Kin- ney expedition. a realization of our anticipa- tions from the moment we felt it to be our duty to raise a warning voice against the efforts of Messrs. Kinney and Fabens to seduce the un- wary and inexperienced to venture their lives or money in the desperate speculation of making war on the territory of a neighboring nation, with whom the United States are at peace, and to whom the American public faith is pledged in a proper treaty of amity and commerce, that our citizens shall respect all their rights. We ask the reader to compare the brief and unvarnished account from the Sun, of the ex- isting state of the expedition, with his recollec” tions of the splurging flourishes over its entire success appearing in the Evening Post not long since, which were written “to order’’ by the Post’s assistant editor, who, being bitten with the mania, (being a “‘green’’ young man) went down with Co}. Kinney as a leading member of the expedition. Verily, it proves that the Colonel, Mr. Fabens, the Post's as- sistant editor, and all other active Kinney expeditionists do understand the art of getting up whoppers for what they can effect by them with a credulous public. The Progress of Abolitionism.—Every Southern Journal that really has at heart the defeat of the schemes of the Abolitionists, wiil do well to republish the ‘‘leader,’’ in the Union of yesterday, which escaped our notice until last evening. Its aim is to show that Northern Know Nothingism has become al- ready merged in the new Republican party of Messrs. Wilson, Chase, Hale, Seward & Co. The Union presents facts and names, showing that, with the exception of a few leaders, the entire Northern Know Nothing party, and near- ly every Northern Know Nothing newspaper, of every grade, have abandoned the slavery clause of the Philadelphia platform, (that ** good enough Morgan’’ until after the recent Southern State elections,) and are ranged un- der the banner of the repeal of the Nebraska bill, with its consequence of the repeal of the fagitive slave law, and, indeed, the entire abolitionizing of the government; as when the Abolitionists obtain power to repeal the Ne- braska bill, it is very clear they will have power to work their will upon the South on all other matters in which the question of slavery may be involved. Some weeks ago we commenced to call the attention of our readers to the sweeping way in which the Know Nothings of the North were marching over into the abolitioncamp. Since then, as the Union so forcibly explains, their march in that direction has been in ‘ double- quick time,’’ as they have, with one accord— including all the silver-grey Know Nothing newspapers—thrown uside all pretensions of adherence to the Philadelphia platform, and are now safely enscoused behind the battery of their late nominal antagonist—the new so- called Republican party. So they go. A Mistake Corrected.—The National Era of this week says: “It is well understood in Washington that the distinguished and able editor of the Inte/- ii, , Mr. Gales, has, in consequence of ill health, ceased to take an active part in the management of the paper,” &. We reply that it is not only well understood, but well known, in Washington that Mr. Gales is, and has been for many a day, in thefenjoy- ment of excellent health, with the single ex- ception that an affection of the right hand obliges him to resort to the aid of an amanu- ensis; that he is every day of the week at his office; that all its editorial and business opera- tions are supervised by him, as they have been for forty years, end that, if not given to the wordiness that characterises the flippant dia- tribes of more or less journalists of the day, his genius is none the less exemplified in the in- telligent and high toned manner in which the National Intelligencer is uniformly son, ducted. * We often. conceive it to be our duty to op- poss opinions expressed in their paper, but never in permitting the circulation of a mis- statement calculated to do injustice to our yen- erable and respected cotemporaries, Kansas.—Surveying returns have been re- | The Epidemic at Norfolk and Portsmouth. cently received at the General Land Office from Kansas of tho first standard parallel, thirty miles south of the base line, commencing from point on the guide meridian between ranges eight and nine east, thence east to the Missouri River, a distance of some seventy- | two miles. This standard parallel was sur- veyed by Surveyor Lodlie in July last. One- half of the line runs through the Kickapoos’ tract, which was ceded tu the United States by the treaty of 18th May last. The district of country lying between the bgse line and the first standard parallel south, in Kansas, comprises the lands ceded to the United States by the Iowas, Sac and Foxes of Missouri, and a major part of the Kickapoos, and according to previous advices received from the Surveyor tfeneral of Kansas and Nebraska, the same will be subdivided into sections during the present fall. . About Some of the Injured.—We have & private dispatch; in relation to the railroad accident, yesterday, near Burlington, N. J., from which we learn that Capt. Boyce, of the Coast Survey, was not killed. Mrs. Boyce was killed, and the Captain and one of his daughters were badly wounded; another daughter was wounded less severely. Com- modore Joseph Smith, U. 8. N., though con- siderably hurt, is not dangerously wounded ; his wife was but slightly hurt. The injury to Dr. Wheelan, U. 8. N., was very slight. Kit- ty, the excellent colored servant of Mrs. Com. Smith, was killed. Appointed.—Alonzo Ridley has been ap- pointed Indian Sub-Agent at the Sebastian Military Reserve, Cal., and H. L. Ford Indian Sub-Agent at the Nome Lackee Military Re- serve, in the same State. The President is expected to return to this city to-morrow, or on the day after. The latest iccounts from him represent his health as being much improved. The Current Operations of the Treasury Department.—On yesterday, the 29th August, there were of Treasury Warrants entered on tho books of the Department— For the Treasury Department.... sor the Interior Department. For the Custons..e+ressee War Warrants received and en- tered .secvsseeceses Covered in from Land: Covered in from miscellaneous SOUFCES ees 18,035 67 Ou account of tl 87,319 00 TERRIBLE RAILROAD DISASTER. Twenty Persons Killed—Sixty or Seventy Wounded! $70 00 2,596 10 19}149 75 69,877 38 245,000 38 it becomes our melancholy duty to record a terrible railroad disaster, which took place yesterday. A dispatch from Philadelphia, August 29, The 9 o'clock train from this city for New York met with a sericus accident near Bur- lington by running over a horse. The train was thrown from the track, and it is reported that five or six persons were killed, including the engineer and fireman. A train with sur- geons from Camden have gone to the assist- ance of the disabled train. The road being blocked up so as to prevent the passage of the trains, the passengers by the early train from New York had to come by way of Taconey. [SECOND DISPATCH. | ParLaDELpaia, Aug. 29, p. w.—The report of the terrible accident on the New Jersey Railroad is fearfully verified. The accident cecurred two miles above Burlington. The up-train waited at Burlington for the down train, which was behind time ten minutes, and then went on slowly. A vehicle at the crossing waited until the train passed up, and then started to cross the track. Just at this moment, the engineer of the up-train hearing the down-train apprvach- ing, suddenly reversed his engine, and comi bxek encountered the vehicle, crushing it to pieces, the occupants fortunately escaping by throwing themselves from it. The collision with the vehicle threw the whole train from the track with terrible results. One car ran completely through the next car, killing or maiming nearly all the passengersin it! The following are the names of the killed, so far as they are ascertained : ‘Tee Kittep.—Catherine Bigelow, Jno. Dal- lam, D. F. Haywood, Thomas J. Meredith, Edw. M. Green, C. W. Ridgway, C. M. Bur- clay, an unknown femaley Kdward °C. Bacon, Wilson Kent, Alexander Kelley, (the above are mostly Philadelphians) M. J. Stoughton, Martin Connell, of Wilmington, Del.; Jacob Howard, of Lebanon, Tenn.; Harry Rusk, of Gecrgetown College; Capt. Boyce, U.S. Navy, and his daughter; James Lincoln, of Ellicott’s Mills; Charles Bottom, of Trenton. The wounded are said to number seventy. Among them are the wife and two daughters of Captain Boyce. (rairp pian The wife of Capt. Boyce, of U.S. Coast Survey, was killed, not his daughter. Thos. J. Meredith and John Dallam are merchants of Baltimore. Edward M. Greene is not killed. Chas. Bottom, of Bottom & Co., Trenton, had Mr. Green’s bank book in his pocket, which occazioned the mistake. More or rue Kintep.—Mrs. it Pres- cott, of Salem, New Jersey, the wife of Rev. Mr. Prescott, Baron De St. Andre, the Frenoh Consul at Philadelphia, and a colored woman named Catharine Brown, are also killed. Mrs. Barclay, who is among those killed, was the wife of Clement C. Barclay, of Phila- de!plia. She was on her way to Europe. r. Ingersoll, son of Lieut. Harry Inger- soll. who was greatly injured, died at Bristol, where he was conveyed. Tuz Wovnprep.—The following are among the wounded: Dr. Willlam Wheelan, of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Wash- ington; Commander Joseph M. Smith and Spencer McCorecle, of the t Survey; Mrs. Hasta of Jersey City; Dennis O’Kane, of the District of Columbia; H. 8. Hughes, Shank- land express agent; and Charles W. Olden- burgh, Sas William C. McClay,ex- member of Con, rom New York, serious) wounded; Mr. Fisk, of Connecticut; John F. Gillespie and wife, of Natchez, both seriously; ding, of Charlestown, Virginia; r, Sowerback, of Pittsburg; John Kelly, of Pittsburg, badly; Mr. Kent, of Mississippi. [rouRTH DisPatcH.] The vehicle which caused the terrible acci- dent was driven by Dr. Hannegan, and con- tained his wife andtwochildren. All escaped with trifling injury, but both of the horses were killed. driver was hard of hearing, and did not perceive the train returning. Having seen the train pass he supposed that all was safe. Drs. Gaunt, Trimble, Chaloner, aud Butler, of Burlington; the brothers Bryant, of Bever- ly; Longstreet and Cook, of Bordentown; Reed and Stratton, of Mount Holly; Roscan and Cullum, of Camden ; Pugh and Wetherill, of Philadelphia, were in attendance upon the wounded, administe: all the aid in their power. The ladies of Burlington were also most —— in extending assistance to thy wounded. The down train from New York, when it stopped, was within one hundred feet of the oe wrecked by the collision with the ye- icle. Pawapetraa Suave Rescun Case.—A despatch from Philadelphia, dated yesterday, says: The case of the six negroes, char; assgult and battery on Col. John a in oapturing from him his with . Wheel- three servants at Walnut street — yaks since, Pie sions. “Bot. ecler was sworn testified to the fects of the assault as previously nar- rated, The accounts from the infected yellow fever districts continue to be of an alarming char- pacter, threatening the entire depopulation of ‘the two towns. gs > The following are to be added to the list of deaths, occurring since our last report: a ward Seymour, Wm. 3. Pitcher, (died at on Mr. Proby, J: Treanor, Frank, slave we H Hayne, Miss Eliza Todd, Dr. m, Miss Lester, Miss Hendren, Jesse The latest information from Norfolk repre- sents. no increase of the fever, and that the éases continued to become more’ easily man- aged than at any previous time. Miss Lucy Andrews (who, by the by, is a Louisianian, and but s sojourner in Syracuse, New York) has been slightly indisposed, but not from the epidemic. Her contributions to the Howard fund are said to amount to $1,000. Drs. Huger, Williman, Covert and Rich left Charleston on Monday for Norfolk, accompa- ‘by eight nurses. To record all the siek, dying, and dead, throughout the city, (says a letter from Nor- folk,) would be a matter of ry saprege The deaths are not all reported by the Board of Health, and number 25 daily. Abovt 600 persone are sick of the fever. Itisno uncom- inon thing to see two or three coffins in one hearse, and not a soul but the driver accom- an} 4 The Howard Association continue to relieve the sick and needy with a liberal hand. Crowds of applicants for the society’s bounty, of all colors and sexes, throng the doors con- tinually, and their conversation frequently leads to. painful recitals of sickness, destitu- tion, and death. The Irish appear to be the greatest sufferers. In Portsmouth, we learn, there is some abatement in the ravages of the fever—the number of deaths daily having considerably decreased. A correspondent writes as follows: Porrsmouta, Va., August 28. This is one of those cold, northeasterly rainy spells of weather, which are so common to this section of country, and must prove disad- vantageous to our present suffering sick, and will no doubt increase the disease so soon as the hot sun beams upon the wet earth. At this time there cannot be less than one hundred patients at the United States Naval Hospital, some of whom are doing well, whilst others will not live through theday. The dis- tance to the U. S. Hospital is so great that but little communication is had from it, we there- fore have but little means of ascertaining the condition of the sick at that place. The surgeon and his assistants deserve the very highest praise for their noble and self- sserificing conduct in behalf of the suffering sick committed to their charge. At all hours of the day and night they are at the bed-side of the convalescent, sick and dying. When and how they sleep, no one can tell, for they are always at their posts. Their names are Minor, James, F. Harrison, and Steel; names to be remembered as long as the present generation lasts. These gentlemen having been 0 long ad- tainistering to the wants of the suffering must necessarily be worn down by the constant dis- charge of the duty imposed upon them, and would it not be well for the Navy Department t> detail some experienced surgeon with assis- tants to relieve these gentlemen. No eee in the Navy, or private individ- ual need have any fears in inistering to the sick at the Naval Hospital, for I can as- sure them thst no surgeon or attendant has ever taken the disease at the Hospital or ever been sick. Dr. Minor and his assistants, have not the slightest fear of contracting the fever from @ patient carried from any infected into such a healthy place as the Naval Hespi- tal. Dr. Minor has been through two yellow fever epidemics in the West India Islands, and ought tobe well conversant upon the sub- ject. At present there are but three stores open. The market consists of three carts with a few chickens, and five wheelbarrows with vegeta- bles. The ple live entirely on salt provi- sions. To-day the railroad brought from Bal- timore via Bay Line to Suffolk, some lemons and oranges for the sick. John Woodley, agent of the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad, and nephew of Dr. Wm. Collins, was taken sick yesterday ; he is com- fortable to-day. Ned Curtain, boas at the railroad depot, died yesterday. 32 o'clock p. m.—John D. Cooper, acting as a member of the Sanitary Commitice, was taken down to-day. About twelve new caace to-day. Dr. Trugien is very ill. Winchester Watts is thought to bo better, butis quite sick. Nathaniel Brittingham has just died: he was the mai! carrier. Dr. Maupin is better to-day. Dr. Bilisolly has just had two of his family taken down. Thomas Wren is dead. Sam Yeat’s negro child died last night, and a number more whose names I do not know. Up to 30’clock there has been eight deaths layor D. D. Fisk is thought to be better to-day. The family of Mrs. Robert H. Tatum is also sick, and two children of Mr. James Totterdell. In Norfolk, James H. Saunders, secretary of the Howard Association, was taken down this morning. Dr. Higgins is better. Sixty three new cases yesterday, and three physi- cians did not report. Dr. Trugens’s temporial veins have been opened. Portsmouth is in want of meal, butter, flour, &c. There is no abatement of the fever. Some of the imported nurses have been dis- charged from Norfolk. W. B.C. The Portamouth Transcript gives the follow- ing list of deaths in that city since the 22d instant : August 23.—Peter Galilee, Mrs. Gaines, Mary A. Beasly, Joseph Dunton, Elijah Jar- is, Lucy Y. Pace, Jue Young, colored, and 4 at hospital—total 11. August 24.—Mrs. Wm. Moore, Dr. Lovett, negro of D. Scott, negro of F. Herbert, Miss E. Boutwell, Mrs, Anderton, Susan Ross, colored nan of W. Bohannon, Mrs. C. J. Rey- nolds, Peter Galben, Mrs. Avery Williams, colored woman of Mrs. Riddick, "Bre, Whiten Hutchins, Mr. W. Hudson's wife and child, and 6 at hospital—total 21. August 25.—Mrs. Gates, Mrs. Mathias, —— Lane, colored, —— Fops, colored, ——- Hushen, colored, Caroline Baker, Mrs. Heatley, Wil- son Williams, Mr. Smith, Miss E. C. Herbert, Mr. Brener’s child, Herbert Grimes, Mr. Grimes, and 13 at hospital—total 26. August 26 —Charles Myers, John Myers, Miss Margaret Manning, Mrs’ Tatem, Miss Williams, child of W. Sobbs, negro man at James White's, negro woman at Avery Wil- liams’, Dick Gordon, colored, Morning Larence, cojored, F. Fowler, black child at ‘Dr. Mau- pin’s, Mrs. Atkinson, Mrs. Spratt, Mrs. Bu- chanon, none at hospital—total 16. August 27.—L. W. Boutwell, son of Malachi Williams, James Powers, Miss M. Dunham, 2 colored children, daughter of H. George, 5 at hospital—total 12. From the Argus of yesterday, we clip the following items: AHasry Summary.—The dreadful epidemic is still doing its work of death; the weather rainy, damp, and unpleasant ; copious show- ers of rain; physicians dashing in every di- rection; aid for the suffering still coming in; very seanty supplics of fruit, vegetables, &c., in market ; sad, gloomy and thoughtful coun- tenances to be seen wherever a human face ap- pears; good nurses for the sick in great demand immense flocks of Loe and'squares in search ; the hospital-wag- ous passing slowly and frequently down to the covered lighter, with the sick for the hospital; seyen Sundays in a week, at least in ay - ance, no store seems to be opened, bat there are several; four or five who kept open last oped aromer bat aya death of our excellent or general conversational topic; peers there were 62 a pigeons in the streets on persons in the ch: which there has heretofore boon te largest regation; the hands in th ihinned ot a ingly, but no death as yet, ‘e could go on ours, but compel us to throw down our — ee We t to announce thet Rev. Mr. of the Cumberland street ‘Methodist eter the fever. He was e tigen’ pe anerans ered. One or two of his servants are also down. a ; ! a THE CAMPBELLS ARE COMING! We arg hep © be Wile to ciate ‘hat Dr ST & PEEL'S Francis L. Higgins Seow 2 eb wn AND ORIINAL of deaths for Tuesday shows « coast le deerease in the number, and we do hope we have seen the worst of this terri- Dut the divease,ioust be of milder form. ot but the ase ml . perhaps it is better understood = 4 aod co cians. The weather is cool, win theast, with considerable rain. What cffect this may have upon the fever, remains to be seen. Campbell Minstrels, Under the management of the renowned MATT FELLOWS’ HALL Comme acing OND, cat SVEEMEI, augues 2 « When they will presents gboice selection of new . Dances. a&c., thelr INIMITABLE BURLESQU Tickets 25 cents Portsmovts.—We failed to get the regular to commence at § o'clock. of deaths last evening: the number Dr. F. A. JONES, 5 did not exceed 5 for the last 24 hours ending | _MATT PEEL, Manager. au ateunset. The number of new cases, how- JOE PENTLAND'S witueg hig tinadae | OlLROUS! THE LATEST. With Entire New and Brilliant Equipment | We learnfrom a passenger who oame through from Portsmouth this morning that the fever ison the increase. Dr. Trugien died yester- day, and was buried at 3 o'clock. Dr. Bili- soly is the only resident physician that is able to be out—all the others either being down with the fever, or so over-worked that they cannot visit their patients. Five men were compelled to leave the navy-yard yesterday morning, each having an attack of the fever. Gloomy in the extreme is the condition of this ill-fated town—seven-tenths of her population are absent, and nearly all of those remaining suffering from the influences of the epidemic. PERSONAL. -+++Dr. George W. McBinger, Col. John Thompson, and Mr.J. Dougherty, -;20om- mittee of gentlemen from P! Aa ei bus- iness with the Executive Departmen’s, are at the Kirkwood House. We hear that the result of their visit is quite satisfactory. .++»The immortal Botts is out in aletter for a reform of the Know Nothi: rty in Virginia. He is for abolishing all sie aad oaths, and all religious distinctions in the order. Or, in other words he seems to us to be for abolishing the order itself. The Alexandria Gazette ‘goes in’ with him for the changes he pro- poses. --+.Judge Pettit, of Indiana, has decided that the temperance law of that State is con- will exhibit R 5 AY. FOR THREE pens 5 ; THR PTERNOON AND EVENING. Doors at2and7 p.m. hat an hour Admission 25 cents. This Company is distinguished for the a >. ts UESTRIAN oymnastié AND PANTOMIMIC, the highest — of —— . Among pri are Madame VinGinta SHERWOOD, Mons. NICO. of At GEORGETOWN on TUESDAY, Auguct 23th, and ALEXANDRIA on WEDNESDAY, ugust 29th. au 1S—disep LEASANT RESORT. SPRING GARDENS (FORMERLY FAVIER’S GARDEN,) & Eighteenth, on Sun: tous liquors allowed, but Cof- form every Mon- day and Thursday event: Coeecney rons o'clock. ‘Admittance free” au 16—3m LL STRANGERS sein yap ties bape see Hunter's Cata- stitutional. logue of the curiosi of the Patent Office. Al- ++-.Joseph Robertson, of Philadelphia, who | * bis of Powell's Great Pictures HUNTER Ie to be seen st 460 Tenth suver” has had considerable e: iow | may 3i—3m* fever in Cuba, volunteered to go to Norfolk as a nurse, and started to that place on Tuesday morning. Edwin Forrest, Esq., the tragedian, is on a visit at Nahant. -+++Com. Stewart is rapidly recovering from ro injury he received @ few days since by a au. +++.Fifteen thousand Germans have left Hamburg, Germany, for Texas, and are ex- pected to arrive at Indianola within a month or two. rience in HE wilbe recumed on Monday, the 3d of Sep- tember, at her residence, No. 7 south side of First street. Her daughter, Mies M.J. Good. returned to the Disirict, will give lessons in , (on the Piano) to a limited number of pupils. an 29—4t* GovERNMENT DOCUMENTS.—Any one —— small quantities to plvtome. ' ALFRED HUNTER. au 2—3t Vestibule Patent Office. pry weigh BIRD.—Escaped from its on Friday afternoon, a light colored Canary Bird about 10 weeks old, and was shedding. The bird possesses a value to the owner by being sent three weeks since from Ohio, A relative. Any one —— it to this office, receive as a reward anot if desired. aus E“Astic core, tor ing Bracelets, Elastic Ribbon for U: § Cushions, Sewing Birds, Jett Bracelets, Combs, Fans, Porte-monnaies, &e. for sale at au 38—3t LAMMOND’S, 7th st. IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT-—SEL F- SEALING CANS! UDLOW& COS IMPROVED AIR-TIGHT SELF -SEAL!NG CAN, for preserving fruit, vegetables, &c. The only Can ever made requir- ing ne waz, solder or cement! by a)l who see them the neatest, safest and most con- venient Can in use. fla pe be a genera! the members TO-NIGHe at 7K o'clock at ‘heir rooms, over Lied Siphon Bank, — ot: Tenth emp bp take leps towards a general subscription for the relief of the Norfolk and. Portsmouth mers. JOHN F. ELLIS, au 30—It Secretary. Boe TBE GERMAN YAGERS INTEND an Pic Nic and shooting on MONDAY, September 10, at the Park. oa in future advertisement. aa Ms. LUNDY will resume the duties of her 4¥E. School on Monday, September 3d, at No. 46 Louisiana avenue. ST. JOHN'S ACADEMY, 57 South Royal street, corner of Duke, au 30 ALEXANDRIA, Va. are easily sealed and o , and never PTE Seventeenth Annual Session will com- | tail to’ Tuits, Vegeabion, &t., ina per- next. "They can be cool your af ‘bey can a r after . Directions for putting up ‘al Kinds of Proits, Vezetables, &c., will accompany the cans. iL?” Patent ied for. 17> All we ask is to call and see them. mence Monda' Board and Tuition per Session of ten months, Si Tuition only, per quarter of eleven weeks, For circulars appl at 60 King street, or at the Aentamy,orsaites’ . RICHARD L. CARNE, Jr. ivery Can warranted. _an 20-3 Principal Formale by | oS; SROWLER & Co., MISS HARROVER’S SEMINARY uv nn For Young Ladies, Corner of New York avenue and Thirteenth st., WASHINGTON, D.C. lees Institution will be opened on the second next. JOE SHILLINGTON has just received— Putnam’s ee for Frank Leslie’s Fashion Book do Monday in Se; bs Godey’s Lady’s Book do Most capable and thorough instruction will be | Peterson’s ine do ven in the English branches, , | Artbur’s do lassics French, German, Music, Embroidery, | Baliou’s Dollar Monthly do and needlework. A lady of large nce Chataber’s Journal do the ighest quelifinetions bas been employed in| Frank Leslie’s N.Y. Journal do the School. Yankee Notions do For fall particulars see circulars at Bookstores. au 30—iw ‘CHOOL BOOKS. GRAY & BALLANTYNE, 4% Seventh st., have received a very large end complete assort- ment of the Books used in the various Public end Priva’e Schools, Academies, and County Schools in this vicinity, incl thy new series recently introduced into the public Bchools of this city, viz: Cornell’s Primary and Iatermediate \- Bhies, Perkins’ Arithmetic, Bullion Grammars, ee Path, by Marion Harland, author of Light and Darkness; or the Shadow of Fate—a A memsir of Rev. Byaney Beith, by bis ax ev. gh: ter, edited by Mrs. Austin wf _ complete works of Charies Dickens. 12 vols , octavo size, in large type, beauttfully tlustra- ry Nar pas ea in cloth. Sold separately The Yellow Mask, a new story, by Charles Dick- ens c., Which will be sold wholesale and retailat the | The Escaped Nun very lowest prices. au 30—3t All the new books received as soon es published FIRST GRAND PIC NIC aa dardsione 7 INGTON's, OF THB Odeon Building, corner - and 43g st JTACESON CLUB, au 29 ‘ntel 3t) Will be given at Spring Gardens, (formerly oc- cupied by A. rompet of Street, between 17th | Pp AND DARKNESS; or the d fashionable and 18th, on MONDAY, September 10th, com- of Fate. A story of Lite Paper 50 cente—cloth 75 cents hes 4 mencing at 5 o'clock p. m. TAYLOR & MAURY’8 (THE JACKSON CLUB take pleasure in} _#% 77 i mpnouncing to the Clubs, their friends and the public rally that they will give cel po Pic Nic at above named . They use every effort to make this one of the most pleasant, gay = recherche pic nics erie ap oy “a 9 im) is admitted on 5 Scott's celebrated Brass and String Mand bas b=» engaged for the writge eo efreshments will furnished - enced caterer. i Sogn BE verges 50 cents—admitting a gentleman and jes. to eeorapene otbers may fishing. Pingy Post, Aug. 26, 1855. Committee a Arrangements. W Delaway, , JB Brown. au 30 NEW FALL GoopDs. J Bare now peeling our at Fait eupolior of | pais ples fat teuived at Su Pesaran ‘anc: to we near ally 2 bere to cal can bated — 10th st. JOHN F. ELLIS. before making their selections. -- We name a few leading articles— MUSICAL CLASS. maT Cloths the bik Al od a ae HAYNe been y urged by many fam- Ginghams, English and American Calicos, su: ilies to establish a class or classes for instruc Tior Shirting Linens and Cottons » SUP | tion on the Piano Porte, so as to it within Sheeting Cottons and Linens, Table Dia: the means of every parent to cultivate « musical Russia and Scotel Di. taste in his family, and being desirous of meeting Napkins, Towelings, apers, Fiannels of the best brands, fine and medium Blankets, Shawls ard Scarfs Black and colored Cloths, Cassimeres, and Vestings, all of the We shall continue to sell off our entire stock of fancy Dress Silks at cost, for cash. 10 pieces su jor black Dress Silks ft an oe oats ee oe peat gpethe epee ace ag Fae lp any A far as lies in my power, lam now mak: arrangements to open such ¢ ne umiclent inducements Persons desirous of a an know to be very cheap. of these classes will apply to me, by nity... or o‘herwise, at Mrs. iT, All articles warranted to prove as repre- | O:os ue sented, SPECIAL NOTICE —Aui persons ha: bills Beek BINDERS PASTE BRUSHES 4 peenerninl elmore ne Moghete are GLUE. bi - most earnestly requested to close them thout Also, Patent Paint Oil for roofs, &c. further notice. COLLEY & SEARS, 5 bbls , in bladders, for sale No. 523 street, Pa. avenue. HOWELL & MOR~ELL, _ au 30—eo2w No 323 C street, between 6th and 7th. wre em JEWELRY, MOUNTAIL SILVERWARE, gc. M fe dont oe are constantly ving voices above—and offer article iter line at the lowest rates tee GOLD AND SILVER WORK of seription made to order, such as TESTIM ALS, poy embellished with de- signs, SILVER TEA SETS, DINNER SER- —_ CRESTS MOTTOES. aes ‘in Stone and Metal. deri M. W. GALT & BRO., 324 Pa. avenue, bet. 9th and 10th sts. gu jt pg i Ty or six weeks English MOC’ G BIRD. A reward dollars will be paid for its return Marcy, Vermont avenue. OST.—Last night, avenue, Hoth and ach sa hisck Lace rat the Star offes. i CRALE 4 @ Ner. BOUNTY LAND AND CL4IM Warrants and OBcoent sess, 10a Ww