Evening Star Newspaper, November 19, 1855, Page 2

EVENING STAR, © ASHINGTON CITY: sss-se+-seeeee Novembor 19 SP (RIT OF THE MORNING PRESs. Tho ‘Blellicencer publishes the Attorney @¥ncral’s two letters te the United States Dis- trigt Attorney at Philadelphia, in the case of the United States rs. Mertz, for violating our nettrality laws im enlisting recruits. for the English army in the Crimea, which it is pre- fended by the British press embrace just grounds for national «‘ dudgeon’’ on England’s part, and says of them : * * *® “We confess that we do not per- ceive that there was apy necessity for incor- porating in the letters so fall an exposition of the views and feelings of this Government upon the matters therein referred to. But we aczpectfully submit that as they were merely suggestions from the highest law officer of the Government to a subordinate officer of his de- pertment, and were not addressed to the Brit- ish Government or any of its officers, they are by no means properly cognizable by that Goy- ernment. The ‘demands of public redress end satisfaction’ which are stated in these let- ters to heve been addressed to the British Government were doubtless free from irritating expressions, as we learn by the papers last re- ceived that they were paaplly met in en amicable spirit.” The Unton ridicules unmercifuly the oppe- Fition in New York; and, in another article, argues that the great deficiency in the aggre- gate vote of the State of New York at the late election resulted from the disgust which the Deiaccratie masses there entertain for such politicians as Mr. John Van Buren. The Edi- tor warns those State-party leaders that if they send such gentlemen (politicians) as Br. J. V. B. to the next National Demoeratic Convention, they will be refused the right to participate in its proccedings. oe ____ WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOssIP. ‘The Awful Calamity.—Tho reader will find elvewhere in te-day’s Str, many additional interesting particulars of the sad calamity that oceurred in Alexandria on Friday night dast, with a full account of the funeral ef five of those who lost their lives on the occasion. The mozt melancholy part cf the affair is. that nearly al of the martyrs to the fiendish- ness of some, a3 yet, undiscovered miscreant er miscreants, were men of great utility as citizens, and so situated in life that theirdeath falls heavily upon circles cf relatives in a greet measure dependent upon them for sup- port. We kuew them all weil, and sincerely believe that they were without superiors as inen of enterprise, public spirit, and general usefulness. We thus account for the intense excitement which pervades the public mind in Al ria on the subject. The Koy.—We know of the reception of lot- ity by the Pacifie’s mail, ad- dreszed to Luropeans, which embrace what we believe to be the key to the order directing the 400-gun fleet to visit our waters, and the hubshoo that the Times and Lord Palmerston tcok eccasion to make ever that order-in- seems (according to these letters) that ssul Barelay,in his seal in her Ma- erviee, hurried over to London copies of all the pavers in his aecusation-case against the Larque Maury; probably starting them aeress Atlantic even before the originals were dispatehed to this city for the informa- tien and action of this Government. They reached Londop, as Lord Palmerston con- ceived, in the nick of time to get him out of vane of the very ugliest of all the scrapes in which his mismanagement of his share of the current war had plunged him. We refer to the British admiuistration’s responsibility for Mr, Crampten’s violation ef our neutrality law—which, he saw clearly, kad to be atoned for in some way, unless by some diplomatic coup d'etat he could raise a momentary coun- ter excitement, under under cover of which the other matter might be smoothed over asof Seeondary importance. ‘The news of the fall of the south side of Se- bastopol had just been received in London, and Jobn Bull was pot valiant. He was at that moment just fitted to essay the game ef bluster, on the success of which he based all bis hope of getting out of tho ugly “‘situa- tion’’ in which the faux pas of his order to Mr. Crempton to violate our national law had got him. So Mr. Barelay’s mare's nest was seised pretext for ordering the fleet over However, the Liverpool Times (second of Saturday, the 3d instant —the latest day and hour we could possibly have a word from London by the Pacific’s mails—contains the {vllowing dispatch from London: «The cause assigned by ministers for the etance of our ships et Bermuda, was the ort of a Russian privateer bcinz fitted out the port of New York ”’ Now, Mr. Barelay got up that (barque Man- Ty) story, itmay bein the belief of its truth, but certainly with the view of generating something of a thow of justification for his share in the violation of our neutrality law It is well known that his owncounsel was first to proclaim that he had done wrong in lodging the information against the ship: that, in fact, bis story waz simply a mare’s nest. This has not only served to make § Mr. Consul Barclay’s unwsrrant- proper violation of our law, but to a Bry expose the weaknoss of the cause of bis gev- ernment in the matter of its dispute with us over its action (through Mr, Crampton) in un- Jawiully recruiting here. It has seized on the siilicst possible mistake or roorback on which p 2 war panic, in the hope of blustering er! -nt out of the determination to the integrity of eur neutrality law, without even with Mr. Crampton as the offender against it; and ere news of the fact that it hss resorted to that “dodge,” reached dhe United States, all England learns, deubt- less, that Mr. Barelay, in the papers he rent everon which Lord Palmerston essayed his game of bluster, has made a consemmate ass of bis Lordship. We are curiouste learn how Tish pablic will have received the re- u of these two last of the chapter of blaaders of Lord Palmerston and hia agents— the explosion cf the barque Maury roorback, and the 490-zun fleet-finessing upon it. The ite. lties in the Way.—If ever there War au instance of blowing hot and cold out of ‘ano mouths, it is exemplified in the comments of many of the opposition newspa- Pere on the fact that Walker was not prevented fom mahirg his saccessfal reid upon Central vindiext Ameries. While Kinney & Co. were prepar- ing in New Xvc%: Philedelphia, Baltimore, and at this poiat, to de 548! what Walker has done, these same journals could 224 no terms too hareh in which to denounce the allege! disposition of Lhe Goverpment to stretch its authority to prevent its enterprising citizens from peaceably secking theix fortune in for- eign lands. Every one of the multitude of bald falsehoods put forth in denial of the pal- pable purpose of land stealing ond filibaster- ing in which the Kinney schoms was based, was defende] ani justified as trath, by these same journals, until, in the face of the real truth and the intent of the law, a federal court judge in New York was so befogged by them as to let Kinney start on his mission of wrong, against the consent and in spite of the most strenuous efforts of the Government to the contrary. But, as before remarked, these same papers can hardly find words sufficiently strong in which to condema the Government for not pro- venting Walker avd bis men from leaving the United States on their errand of mischief We have no argument to make to those who thus blow hot fand cold in the same breat}; because their purpose is simply to find plausi- bles excuses for condemning their Governmen', or they would not thus berate it to-day for nt doing that which they abused it for doing yes- terday. We may, however, call the disinterested reader's a attention to fasts in the history of the recent prosecutions growing out of the efforts of the English Governmont to violate our neu- trality law—positively the only ones which have occurred with reference to the current European war, though the New York Albion continucs to repeat its baseless charge that the Russian Minister has, in somo unexplain- able way, interfered to further his Govern ment’s cause in this country, as involved in the current war Beaten off from the Enzi- neer-Thompson roorback of Bennett's Hera/. and the no less false charge of the British consul at New York against the bark fitted out for s voyage to the Chinese seas, it now rails at the Russian Minister’s conduet, while utterly unable to specify anything in it what- ever that may be plausibly twisted into a seoming want of due respect for our neutrality law. Butouraim at present is rather to i!fus- trate the necossity for a change in that law. To hold a vessel under it, it must be proved that the évéent is, actually to employ her against a power with which we are at peace Thus, when a recruiting captain in England’s service, not leng since essayed to send cf some fifty men engaged in an American port in violation of our neutrality law, asit could not be proved that the steamer on which they were embarked was fitted out to participate in the war, she could not be held. And when it was attempted to hold the men illegally re- erui‘ed in this country, the officers of the Inw were mot with the presentation of a frauda lent paper, purporting to be a contract b-- tween the reeruiting captains in question, aad Mr. Howe, (one of England’s chief agents in the business,) authorizing the former to employ the men to work on a railroad in the provinces. The subsequent history of these men, who cculd not be detamed under the cir- cumstances, proves the glaring character of the fraud involved in the presentation of that sham cuntract; which, in turn, shows how easy it is, as the neutrality law of 1815 stands, to defeat the suecess of the preventative s- ures of the governments essayed under it. How much more difficult the due execution of that law on the Pacific side is, may be judged not only from the greater disposition of the population cf the new States to violate the rights of others, but from other facts pe- culiar to them. A gentleman who left San Francisco by the last trip of the Golden Age remarked tu us, not long since, that on that ship there were 800 passengers, at least 600 of whom were armed, ‘“‘to the teeth,’’ in accordance with the constitutional American privilege which all have of carrying arms. Of these 600 at least one-half wore the appearance by which a very large class of returning Californians are known ataglance from any other people reaching our Atlantic ports from any other part of the Lord's footstool. Wo may not inappropriately denominate it the ruffian ‘cut;’' for they seem to take especial pains and to pride themselves on it beyond measure, to costume themse!lyes so az to look as much as possible like those who are written down, on the Atlantic side, to be unmitigated and unmistably ruffians, at the first glance. Though the great majority of them are, doubtless, well disposed citizens, yet they all, in their uncut and unecombed hair and beards, and slouched and unearet-for clothing, and universal accessories of revolvers and bowie knives, look so much “ cf a piece’ that comeihing more than the appearance which would enable the law officers on this side to select out of three hundred of a steam- er’s passengers so rigged out, the 50 or 60 bent on violating tho neutrality law of the land, is absolutely necessary, on the Pacific side, to justify an attempt to stop the departure of sneh persons on a vessel whose main errand is Jegiti- mate commerce and the transportation of pae- sengers on a legitimate route of travel, as can be clearly proved at any moment. The Salado River.—The Navy Department have late adviees from Lieut. Page, the com- mander cf the United States steamer Water Witch, now engaged in eurveying and explor- ing new (river) channels of commerce in the territory of the Argentine Confederation. The dispatches bear date 7th of last August, when Licut. P, had just returned to Santa Fe, (in that country.) from a voyage of exploration of three hundred and sixty miles, by water, up the Salado, the principal river of the Confed- eration’s country. {t was never before nayi- gated by white men The Lieutenant and bis party performed the voyage successfully with a smallor steamer, La Yerba, drawing twenty-six inches water. It was in the dry season, which accounts for the fact that he penetrated no further into the interior. He describes the stroam as a most beautiful one, coursing through a charming country abun- dantiy supplied with game, and forests and other vegetation, though as yet in the hands of Indians, who oppose the navigation of the stream by the whites. At the season in which he made the voyage the water was twelve feet below high-water mark, which satisfies him that at the proper time of the year there wil! be no difficulty whatever in navigating the Salado much further up, for commercial pur- poses, between the months of January and une. _ The Mexican Drafts.—We learn that Major Emory reached Washington Saturday evening last, and that one of his assistants, who is houtly expected, is the bearer of the official assent of Saluzar, tho boundary commissioner on the part of Mexico, to the line a3 agreed apon between Major Emory, the commissioner on our part, and himeelf.. On the arrival of that paper we presume the Government here will at once proceed to dispose of the Mexican drafts question, which we have recently re- peatedly referred to. An Army Officer Dead.—Secont Lieutengnt Joha D MeCa'l, First Infantry, died at Fort McKayett, Texas, the 26th ultimo, of tetanus. THE CALAMITY AT ALEXANDRI®. BURIAL OF THE VICTIMS. Phe sad calamity which occurred in Alex: acdria on Saturday morning about 4 o’¢lock, caused by the fuiling of the gable end of a brick building then on fire, deprived that town of seven of its most usoful citizens, and cast a gloom over it such es was never before wit- nessod there. Our reporter furnishes the ful- lowing additional particulars : RECOVERY OF THE BODIES. On Saturday, soon after we concluded our report, all work towards removing the ruins of the burnt building was stopped, as the bodies of the missing had been recovered, thouch rumors still prevailed that others were be- neath the mass of rubbish; but as the rumors did not appear to be substantiated, it was thought to bo saagerns to prosecute the search furth.r beneat the trembling walls, and go it was stopped, THE EXCITEMENT continued undiminished all tho afternoon. The streets, especially in the vicinity of the accident, were thronged, while public attention was divided between grief at so great a loss and anxiety to get a clue to the perpetrator of the act that led to the awful calamity. THE HOMES OF THE DECEASED. The friends of the bereaved gathered at the homes of the disconsolate, and all that corfi- denees and human sympathy could offer was given—we trust nut in vain. INVESTIGATION AS TO THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRt. In the afternoon the Mayor called together a number of our most active firemen and others, aud commenced an investigation. Tie proceedings were strictly private, and after a short session the matter was adjourned over until this morning. Of course we do not know what transpired in the investigation, but the evidence before the community is, that imme- diately upon diseovery of the flames, the watch tried in vain to effect an entrance on eithor the front or back; upon the back door being broken open, it was discovered the fire had been kindled in the third story, and connec- tions made between the straw-filled cratcs with gua powder and camphened wick—cam laened wick wrapped around the erates; and, in some cases, interwoven in the lattice work. Further evidence exhibits that while the fire- men wore engaged in the upper story the cel- lar was fired; that the fire proof building of the eztablishment—entirely sepzrated from it by a thirty feet public alley—was found to be smoking; all its lower entrances were tried and found fast; the door beirg broken open, the stairef this building was scen to be on fire; that insuranee had been effected in va- rious com to the amount of $20,(0, which it d is far above the value of sto This evidence has been deemed by many sufficient for suspicion, but as no legs! charge has been made, and public opinion is now too much excited to justily an accurate judgment in the caso. PUBLIC MEETING. At night a large public meeting convened at Liberty Hall. The Mayor, @. P. Wise, i:q , cceupied the chair, and R. M. Smith, of the Sentinel, and Edgar Snowden, of the Gazeite, acted us Se:returies. .C. E Stuart, W. H. Fowle, Ashby sey, took part in the consideration of the subjects brought before the mecting, and it was agreed, Ist: That a subscription be started for the purpose of relieving the suffer- ers by the accident, and erecting 1 monument tothe fallen, ($1,095 was subscribed, with a promise, on the part of many, to double their subscriptions.) 24 That the City Council be requested to offer $5,000 for the appreension of the incendiery. ALARM OF FIRE. About 10o’clock, the fire bellsrang, and the flames of the wrecked building were again mounting upward, threatenirg the surrounding Progorty. A stream from the neare and one of the Relief’s suctions, soon dissi- pated al! apprchensicns, and stillness agai! reigned over our city. THE BODIES OF THE DECEASED. All night long, the various corpses were in charge of de tions from associations. The United Brothers watched beside the remains of Keene. The Rod Men over ail that was left of Taylor and Evans Firemen and friends with the bodies of Plain and Appich; while beside the corpxo of Roach, the Cath Sodalities of the Immaculate Conception cited those beautiful P=alms that make up th ‘ Verper Offices of the Departed.” SABBATH MORNING. The light of a lonely Sabbath morning rose upon a city of gloora, and it was not long be- fore the tones of the fire bells of the city, gave a voice to the general gricf. MEETING OF THE COUNCILS. The Councils assembled in the morning in their respective chambers. Resolutions of ro- spect to the memory of the late George Piuin, a member of the Council, and of condolence with his family wero unanimously edopted, and it was resolyed that the Council chambers and the chair recent!y occupied by the deceas- ed should be placed in mouraing during the usuul space of time. They also resolved t> attend his funeral. THE FUNERAL OF DAVID APPICH. At 10 o'clock the body of Appich was laid to rest, with the solemn services of the Epis- copal Chureh, Rey. J. T. Juhnaton officiating; the fire department forming a part of the fune- ral train. IN THE CHURCHES Allusion to the solemn dispensation was made in most of the discourses at the morning service. TOLLING OF THE BELLS. Again, at noon, the bells commenced their mournful requiem. Crowds had formed in the city durieg the morning, and the afternoon boats came down crowded, bringing tho several fire companies of Washington, and in- creasing the denizens of our city about five thousand. d THE LIN® OF MARCH. About two o’clock, the procession (through- out which there were five or six bands of martial music) moved to the residence of Major George Plain, in the following order, so the chief marshalship of Hugh Latham, Esq.: Hapastatendont of Police The Mayor, Prosident of the Board of Al- dermen, and the President of the Common Council. The Seeretaries of the two Boards. The Board of Aldermen. The Board of Common Council. Corporation officers. Vigilant Fire Company of Georgetown. Columbia, Franklin, Union, Anacostia, Per- severance, and Nothern Liberties Fire Com- panies ; Western Hose Company; and American and Metropolitan Hook and Lad- der Companies—al! of Washington. - I. O. of KR. M. of Washington and Aloxan- ria. I. 0. of U. B. of Alexandria ee Fire Company, Hiram Webster, mar # . Friendship Fire Company, Jas. W. Atkin- son, marshal. ire Vire Company, A. D, Warfield, mar- shal. Star Fire Company, WD. Stuart, marshal. Hydraulion Fire Company, James Douglass, marshal. THE FUNERAL CORTEGE. After the funeral services over the body of Major Georey Plain ek conviuded, and the corpse and mourning relatives received, the provession proceeded to the lato residenccs, re- spectively, of Robert J. Taylor, Wi'liam §. vans, and James Keane, deceased, there re- ceiving the bodies, and being joined by the mou:ning relatives and friends. Thence they took up the line of march for the two cemete- ries, where arrangements had Previously been made for the interment. During the progress of those proceedings tho bells ot the dierent eburches and engine houses wero tolled, and minute frnegred b ghyerwr may ong under the command of Capt Geo Duffy. The sidewalks were densely thronged with’ inter- ested spectators of the solemn scene. nan Pe THE CEM Fa e line oO m sali played pede et, , as the hacks fuer d es then with ali sad pomp of us service, Red Men and Brotherbood ritual, they were committed earth tovearth, dust to dust, to sleep til the Aréhangel’s alarm shall awake them to je contlagtation of the wert { MEETING OF THE Y_C a FRIEND SoctETy. - At nigit the Young ©; riend met and matured —— for the Paria of J. A. Roach, sa ing at the same THE FUNERAL OF J. A. ROACH. This morning ut 10 o’clock, the bells tolled again, and once more our firemen gatherod in the craped habiliments at their engine-houses. Soon the Vigilant Firemen of Georgetown, and large delegations from the several Washington companies arrived. The tine formed and pro- ceeded to the residence of the late J. A. Roach, where tho body in charge of pall_bearers se- lected from the Sodalities of the Immaculate Conception, Young Catholic’s Friend, and Hi- bernian Societies, awaited them. The proces- sion then formed, the Sodalities following the corse ag mourners, to St. Mary’s Church, (whither the funoral of Mrs. Harriet Violett, relict cf the late Edwin R_ Violett, who was killed in quelling the St, Louis election riot some mouths since, had preceded them,) where the remains wero deposited in front of the altar. AT THE CHURCH. wale asolemn requiem mass, sung by the « B. Donelan, during which all tho | members of the Sodalities received holy com- munion, and the choir srng the plaintive re- quiem of the Roman ritual, the funeral dis- course was pronounced by the Rev. Pastor, John E. Blox, 8. J. The reverend gentlemen dwelt eloquently and earnestly upon the life and character of the deceased, and was sev- eral times so overcome with emotion as to be almost unable to proceed with the discourse. THE PROCESSION. From the church to the Catholig Cemetery tho sed procession moved, with the sad plain- tive ceremony of the Catholic Church; the graves were blessed, and the bodies laid ia their narrow home to rest. PREPARATIONS FOR THE FUNERAL OF J. CAR- SON GREEN. The firemon are now preparing for the fu- neral of Carson Green, whose remains are to be interred at 2 o'clock. THE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE Are yet in session, but thus far no action has been had, and the proceedings remain private. DOGAN NOT DEAD. The incorreet dispatch, which announced the death of Dogan, did not proceed from our Alexandria roporter. Dogan is still alive, though in great pain, but his condition im- proves. PERSONAL. +++eThe Messrs. Cloud have Cisposed of their weekly paper, the Baltimere Dispateh, to Messrs, Gebright and J. Cloud Norris, by nora it will, hercofter, be edited and pub- lishel The first number, under the new aus recieved on Saturday, affurds striking ev’ of both tact and talent, rendering the journal worthy of increased public patronago, apart from tke sterling merits, of the above named proprietors. ++eeThe Hon. Hiram Walridge and Hon. Zadok Pratt, of New York, and Hon. J. C. Broadhead, of Pa., are at Wiliard’s, and Hon. Thomas @ Pratt, of Maryland, is at Brown’s hotel. +eeeW. L. Garrison refuses to deliver one j i-slayery lectures in Boston, because | were invited! ++++The Roy. F, W. Thomas, formerly of thiseity, and more recenily of Illinois, has called to the pastoral charge of St. Paui’s P. Church at Louisburg, North Carolina, and has accepted the same. ++.-Gvorge FP. Evans, an actor, was sud- denly killed while walking down Genesseo strect, Utica, on Friday morning, by the fal- ling of @ ladder upon him Evans was walk- ing at the Foster, manager of the theatre. ++++Roy. Harvey R. Hitchoock, for twenty- five years missionary at Kaluaaha, Molokai, Sandwich Is'a there on the 29th of August. He was originally from Great Bar- rington, Massachusetts. -+++The lest steamer from Earope brought out an agent from the London Journal, whose sole business in America was to negotiate with Mrs, Aun S. Stephens and Mre. E. D. E. M. Southworth, for the advance sheets of all their writings without reservation, and on their own terms. +-+»Nicholas Sucillon, who was charged with forgery, and for whom an extraditicn was sent from Franee, necording to our treaty with that country, to deliver him up to justice, was ordered by tho President to be seat back. He wos taken in the steamship ‘ Arago,” whieh left New York for Havre on Saturday. +++On Thursday evening, in Newark, N J.. Mr, Givers, envoy extraordinary, and min- Het pempoaliary. of ais majesty King of the Netherlands to the court of St. Peters- burg, was married, by the Bishop of New Jersey, assisted by the Rey. Dr. Henderson, to Miss Catharine Maria Wright, only daughter of the Hon. William Wright, United States Senator. ++++The venerable Rev. Thaddeus Fiske, D. D., for forty yeare Pastor of the First Con. gregational Church in West Cambridgo, dicd en Tharsday, at the advanced age of 92 years and 5 mouths. The deceased was a graduate of Harvard College in the Class of 1785, and at the time of his death was, witha single ex- esption, the oldest person living in the order of graduation. He received his degree of Doctor of Divinity, from Columbia College, Now York, in 1821. Soaeneennnnneeeee The Carrent Operations of the Treasury Do- Partment.—Ou Saturday, 17th November, there were of Treasury Warrants entered on the books of the Department— For the redemption of stocks.... $14,118 84 Por the Treasury Departmen 29,502 00 For ths Into 14 25 Forthe Customs. 10,935 85 War Warrants vered .. 69,035 61 Covered i, sources... 105 00 Ear The Ixtellszencer joins the Philadel- phia Ledger, in ridieuling the childish hope of the London News, that incase of war be- tween the two countries, New England will jcin Old England against the American south- ern States—and all that sort of thing. [The South Carolina State council of the Know Nothings have voted formally to dis- band all their lodges in the State, and dissolve “the order.” (Bob Butt,” (a colered man) tho well- known grave-digger of Portsmouth, buried, during the late terrible epidemic in that town, upwards of e/evex inndred persons. Men oy AwericA—MEN or tne Ace.—Tho greatest man, “take him all in all,” of the last hundred years was George Washington— an American. The greatest Doctor of Divinity was Jona- than Edwards—an American. The greatest Philosopher was Benjamin Franklin—an American. The greatest of living Sculptors is Hiram Powers—en American. The greatest living Historian is Wm. H. Prescott—an American The greatest ornithologist was J. J. Audu- bon—an American. The greatest remedies known to the world for popular use,—Ayers Cherry Peetoral and Cathartie Pills, were invented by Dz. J. C. Ayer—an -American. <i The greatest Lexieographer since the tine of Johnson was’Noah Webster—an Aniéridan. The greatest inventors of modern ‘times, were Fulton, Fiteb, Whitney ‘and Moreé—all Americans. St . UNoengkcoxn Rartroap ar Worx —Two ig fal ct ce yee ‘ ’ ’ - ove, of Norfolk, Va., have at Be un- known—supposed to have been car: on t board of « vessel to Mew York. < : ¢, Atchison, Douglass, Mason, &c., | EAT ATTRACTION —THR ierian Chateh _ gp inform their col- ored frfeads th: we secured the rervices of Mus. Greenwocp, the celebrated vocalist from Ne# York, who, asfisted by a Quartette from the Sui s'reet Cho!r of Baltimore, will give her first Concert in — Choreh to-night, and her sec- | ww zit. “Cabat yy conan ee 2t7 o'clock. Cards of Admission 25 cents. Yrof West will preside at the Plano Forte. nov 19--l1+ hes SCOTT GUARDS RESPECTFUL ly annonnce to thelr friends and the public poner that their Second Grand Annus! Carusi's Saloon, ot MONDAY KVENING, 2855. at December 17, - Particulars in fature ad: Lt. nov 17,20 22.21,27,29& Decl ,7 MR. WALLACH, EDITOR OF THE — STAR-—Siz: I grt freer thirty-three rs Nice, ive ‘wor! every uality of stome material on this side of (he Atlantic. I have worked for the last thirteen years of that ‘Ime in the United States: two of them on the Capitol extension, 2nd I have been a resident cf Washington tae end the lest four years Now, sir, I consider myself entitled to joy- ment tn this city in the above named capacity, a= there are at present three li stone -cutters in Washington — can wey i= 6 that I am se mechanic; and, moreover, I am an ‘s charged volunteer from the United States army. and consider myself entitled to the pristene of employment on the Government works of this o: any other city inthe United States, in orderto earr my bread honesily an@ industriously. Kind Sir [ request to know how itis that any member cf the present Administration would len@ his con sent to have an officer of the law to remove me or Friday, the 9th instant, from my work on the Treasury extension, where I was fairly employed’ ‘They took meand cast me on the pu! streets of Washin-ton, and leftme there to starve, in a free country like this. Now, sir, I cannot believe tha: any member of he present Administration woul: lend his consent to such an unbecomi lece of outrage, zs to treventan old United States volun | trer from curning his bread in this free country he loves, and offered up his heart and life as a sécri- fice on the altar of thiscountry,aud who bas a ror at present serving in the navy, abcard the United ‘States ship Cy anne, not twenty-one years of age ‘ow, sir,amI to treated thus’? To tx taken by the hand of an oill er of the law, and cast on the public streets of Washington, and there lefttostarve and die? After working twe days on the T easury extension, my employer dis missed me without a legal cause, and neither ve turned me my ti me nor pay: 1 now Invoke the honorable members of the Administration to pro tect me, and I call for an investigation. I cast lf und+r their prot ction, hoping they wi!” reinstete me where 1 was last employed—on the bare extension, where 1 may earn my bread onestly. Grant me 2 place in your Star for this, and vou will be entitled to the gra‘itude and heartfeeliny thanks of a New Jersey volunteer. * OHN O°’ FLANAGAN THIRD ASSEMBLY or THE BEN FRANKLIN TARGET CO, AT HARMONY HALL, ON TUESDAY EVENING, November 20th HENRY K. SCHIEBLER, Secreta: enerall alt will take nov 17—2t ry. Ree THE FIFTH MONTHLY MEETING ef the Columbus Building Asscciation will be held on MONDAY EVENING next, No- | Vernber 19th. Panetual attendance of each stoc':- holder is earnestly requested, as business of im portance will be brought before the Association G. A. SCHWARZMAN Scerelary. eee THIRD ANNUAL BALL OF THE | AMERiCUS CLUB, T TEMPERANCE HALL, On THURSDAY, Nov. 29h. Particulars in future rdvertisement. nov Li- (Organ) a4 ph canialins BSE eee a } ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—The mem- bers of Mr. William Palmer’s VOCAL CLASS, A, (gentlemen) are requested to meet 2! the Academy of Mosic on MONDAY EVENING Novemb: t 74 o’clock, punctually. nov 12 RY PALMER, Diteotor. RANGE OR STOVE COAL $5.50. LARGE SUPPLY OF WHITE ASH COAL (nut sire) at the above low price. 2,240 Ibs. to the ton. COAL of every description at the very lowest market prices. J E SHIELDS & Co., Oitlice at corner cf 9b and H streets. nov 19—lw* ' GENTS FURNISHING GOODS. N OUR HOSIERY AND GLOVE DEPART- tment will be found a full assortment of evi ry sin that line. of the newest styles ard sizes A'so, Lambs Wool, Merino, Cotton and Silk Undersbi ts and Drawers, Silk and Linen Cam bri> Hdkfs. Stocks, Neck Ties, Scarfs, Suspend- ers, Umbrellas, Traveling Shawls and Blanket :, Gumelastic Over coats, Gumelastic Leggins, Gumelastic Caps, Gumelastic Sou Westers, at ird less than usual prices. W. EGAN & SON, No. 323 south side Pa. avenue, between 6th and 7th sis. “NOVELTIES IN FURNITURE DRY ops. Ge UST RECEIVED AND ON SALE— 1 piece Roce flue Cioth, for Piano and Tab’e ar I piece Burgundy Cloth, for Pianoand Table Cov- ers 1 piece Myrde Ctoth, for Piano and Table Covers 1 package Vandyke Piano Covers 1 do do Tatle do learton rich Vandyke Bordering, in claret and gold, crimson and gold, blu: and maroon learton Greek Bordering. in red and black, buf and chocolate, red and black, wide, white and green Trellis Porders 1 package Turkish Towels 4 do Tarkich Counterpanes, tn 10-4, 11-4, W2-4,end 12-1. This is entirely a new art'- cle, and delightful fer comfort and use, cheap 1 case clegant French Piano and Tabie Covers, in blus, green, claret and drab grounds. These goods are rich in the extreme Also, 6 carons Tidies, all sizez, for divans, sleepy hollows, reception and arm chairs, card plats, and tea ma's 6 packages white, pink, and blue Toilet Cove-s 1 carton pretty Httle Berlin Mats, for the teullet, in tire wocls and colors, werked in tlowcrs Also, a fall —. Toilet Quilts, Towels, Blen- kets, and en Damasks, for table use Also, 6 cartons vant and new style Lace Cur- tains 6 cartens Muslins, in rich lace borders, very cheap 1 do Vestibule Lace, very rich and appropri. ate for inncr vestibule doors. Also, dai cted from the manufactory, one case silver-pl. vestibule DOOR RODS, to be used with the abeve This article is now, in the Northern cities, found to be preferable to en- graved glass, besid«s cheaper and pre‘tier, be- cause the styles can be varied oftener and at less expense. Ron sckeepers who desire to furnish their houses with goods which may be relied on as to quality, etyle, and durability, are respectfully invited our store, that they may see for themselves. CLAGETT, DODSON & CO., Dealers in all kinds of F urniture Dry Goods, nov 19—co2w No. 4 Market Space ELEGANT CAREETINGS FROM auc. & NAVE THE PLEASURE OF AN- nouncing to our customers and the public that we have just re-elved from the late auction sale of Messrs. D. Hadden & Sons’ imported stock CARPETINGS, 100 pieces of the most choice and elegant styles and qualities ever offered for salein ‘this market. The Patterns are generally all new, and are of the manufac Messrs os Croply & Sons, Halifax, Yorkehire Eng- na Thove who are familiar with the fatterns by their numbers will ise in the foilowin: many which have, up to the receipt cto bern very scazce, any cf which we are now selling at less figures than hereti : a aol Velvet, 815, £56, 651, 619, 120, 556, 744, and 412 Tapestry Brussels, 615, 856, 651 659, 833, 659 744, 701, 246, 312, 109, 320, 169 and 232 All there yoods are of the very latest importe- tion, and, as they were bought at unusuelly low figures, cf course our customers sha'l kave the benefit of our success Also, 5 bale: 1 import we Base 3 real imp od Scotch Ingrain end from the % And 19 bales 12 4 and 16-4 rich Droggets, beau- and ve cheap. And one 3s it Crumb Cloths, in new medali! le el and rich colors, in borders and Hons, sizes and others who intend to from 12-4 by 13-4 to 16-4 by 20-4 Members of Congress 2 ate pest own Susrfns te: onsestien ‘will find > their advantage to maketbeir from our stock, as wots cusbled to calor indpoetncant not to be had elsewhere. We ha 9 just received, direct from Lowell, twadaiciors les ent! new and elegant Im perial Three-p y, and 10 do. do. Extra doubie In- grain Car, wi now our stock ai of watch taste, the lowest. IN & co., ASKETS, BASKETS. 0; ‘Nureery - suet b rami Koife, T at satan Sear ae gevar'r at tes 2 heen - fUSE CHINA ORNAMENT of every style, class and » on exhil great Sng and fn on sl. aa nov 17 306 Pa. avenue, THER VARIETIES. KUNKEL & CO.......- as.+e0+-sPROPRIETORS Also y street Theatre, T. SEED. as eae BOLE Mawactr P ‘Stack Maxacer -PRomt TER pendrerneee 4 art Ber. Cae. 8 INAUGURATION OF THE SEASON: This popular and fashionable resort has been en- RE-DRCORATED, and beautifully appointed, at a cost of OVER ONE THOUSAND Ee ins FURNITURE and Stageadjunets are goa costly and recher he desorption. The COSTUMES, SCENERY and Properties excelled for tasteful elegance and ef ect. NEW AND COMFORTABLE SEATS: inv intended for rey have been behei eclee ted from the oe pees and F STANDARD DRAMATIC LITERATURE And wil be presented in style of DRAWING ROOM ELEGANCE! rst introduetion to the citizens of Wasking'on, 3 of our great ; Star Company ! ia Atl of Whom TREE BEAUTIFUL PLAYS Incloding the new and Comedy wrtre by Tom a — of “Masks enc STILL WATERS RUN DEFP: BEST OF MODERN COMEDIES! MONDAY EVENING, Nevember 19, 1855. At? o'clock Overtare by Orchestra. 3 ADDKESS, — Spoken by Mrs. J. B. PHILLIPS. hich the chaste and di Comedietia After whic! verling t WHO SPEAKS FIRST? Captain Charles (his first appear- : in this city). G C Boniface Ernest Militant. “ JJ Wallace goes this city)...... Mrs akan — J 8 Philtips Smart apperrance gt oe " Miss M Newton To be followed by Tom 's new and bril- lent three act comedy, ited for the dirst time ia Washington, entitl STILK WATERS RUN DEEP: Mr Mildm: Mr. @. C. Bonifece Captain B . A. Langdon ang ord B. Clarke J. Germon S. Drake Servant Oxborne Mrs Mildmay, with asong, her fr.t appearance tn this city.. Mrs. B.S. Chapman Mrs Hector Sternbold—a strong- minded women —ber first ap- pearance in Wasbington...... MrsG.C Germon To conclude with the new and laughable facce of THE ARTFUL DODGER! Timothy Dodge (with songs, doetts, and a comic Pas de Neux—his first appearance in Wasbington) .. . --Mr H 8 Chapman Harry Love... W Hi Briggs Old Hardiage. JB Sack Quicksilver. J B Phillipe Nab ’Em. Germon Grab’Em. Clarke Emily (with anew song). -Mics Ellen Morant Molly (with songs, duetts, and acomic Pas de Deux..... --- Mrs HS Chapman Do rs open a! 6% o'clock —curiain moves al 7 i. pov 163i (Urgau,iutel,AUnion) " NATIONAL THEATRE. Lester AnD MANAGER wegen C. Jaeuetr. Famfly Circle, secont Gall CTY..-.cerreneeersnece No extra charge for Reserved Seats Private Boxes can be obt.ined. Box Offcecpen Saturday and Monday from 9 until 5 o’clock. Deors open at 63g o'clock p. m.: curtain rises at Tg o'clock preci-ciy. aa Seo Thirteenth Dramatic Entertainmeat ! MONDAY EVENING, November 19. Furst appearance of JAMES W. WALLACK, Jr., the eminent and highly-gifted Tragedian. Critics, Scholars, rnd Artistes openly aeknowl- edge his superiority; and upon the very boards were the creations ef Avon's Bard were &ret represented, he indelibly stamped bis name amor THE MAST&R MINDS of the preseut and Te will, on this occasion, eppear ns E AMBITIOUS THANE akspeare’s great Tragedy of MACBETH: which will be produced with Locke's orix'nal Mu:ic, Soles, Ma-ches, Chorures, Tries, & He will be supported by MRS. MELINDA JONES AS LADY MACBETS, and the WHOLE is Mr. WALLACK’S rendition of this choracter is justly deemed his chef d’ouvie, having, in the Old W orld, craated as unparalleled furere. In France, the Emperor, forgetting the cares of State, and dashing the glittering show of and R walty aside, wen’ o the theatre, to enioi the In’ | Repasi farnirhed by this g! follower sespis. The perfoctrance will comelude with the amr yr arce © AN AFFAIR OF HONCR. Mejor Limky..... seeeecesecs-seveeeMr. Jefferson nov 16. . CONCERTS EVERY EVERING AT GERHARDT’S SALOON, Capizol RK rant, Maryland e@venue, “2. N ENG NT HAS BEEN MADE with ‘he tiful and charming MISS FANNY FORREST, whose sweetness «and power of voice bas created such a sensation ja New Yerk, Philadelphia and Baltimere, whe wi!l ay ir cvery evening in conjunction with Mr. 3. YMOND, the celebrated Bufo Singer, end other artists. Monday evening, November Commencing on 19%h, at 8 o'clock. mission 6x cents. A tov 17—Iw* TYLER’S COMPUUND SYRUP OF GUM ARABIC AS A REMEDY FOR COUGHS COLDS, HOARSENESS, ASTHMA, WHOOPING COUGH, CROUP.Ac., posse: ses the greatest ac- van'ages, with the leest objections of any other in use, having been extensively used the last twenty years with unpare|leled success, not trumpeted to the wor'd as a specific or cure all, but recom- mended as a valuable ard scientific auxiliary in PULMONARY CASES, 1etdy at bard. and one that has been generally found to afford relief where most others have been tried without material ben- efit As such itis a by numbers of our leading physiciens, who know its composition, and brve been eye witnesses of its superior + f- cacy, as well us by thousand: of our most respec - tab'e citizens, who all endome its claim to being safe, palatable, cconomical end cflicecious. Price 25 cents, or three bottles in one 50 » Wholesale Agests PATTERSUN & NaIRN, and STOTT & CO , Penns, avenue; PEELA Alexandria; CISSEL, Georgetown TYLER’S M ARABIC COUG CANDY DROPS, the same lozenge form, 12 cents a box. a in now 19 DRESS CAYPS!_DRESS CAPS! HAVE THIS DAY OPENED A NEW AND large lot of the above Goods. Rich and five Styles, with prices to «vit all who are in want of CAPS. I invite my customers to call before they are picked over. A. TATE, TEACHERS, PHYSICIANS, AND Others —The undersigned hes on Private sale a chcice assoztment of Philosophical and mb ee 5 tog ee Sero- RST WARD OYETER ESTABLISHNENT, -orner ores. 5 0} Familie: supplied nov 9-1m* = Mg ore MES FRENCH MILLINERY. ML. DAVISON HAS JUST RE- 2 cases of handsome f RENCH we Will open on Tue d os )