Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1855, Page 2

EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON CITY: - - FRIDAY... 28, 1855, > Advertisements should be handed in by 12 o'clock, M., otherwise they may not ap- Pear until the next day. 2 AGENTS FOR THE STAR» ‘The following persons are authorised to con- tract for the publication of advertisements in the Star: Philadelphia—V. B. Patwar, N. W. corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets. Mo York—S. M. Pgrtingit, & Co., Nassau it. Boston—V. B. Parwagr, Scollay’s Building. —_——V SS SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS. The Intelligencer jokes over the disorgan- ized condition of the House, and publishes an elaborate account of the suppression of Parker HH. French’s effort to send off from New York @ fillibustering expedition against Nicaragua. The Untox argues that the American party is now essentially an Abolition party; and that it derives its impulses almost wholly from British popular sentiment. ———@9786€0€<8 Not Deav'—We are truly glad to learn that the accomplished Dion Bourcicault is alive, after all. He performed at New Or- Jeans on the 2ist, at the Gaiety Theatre, of which he is manager, and introduced the <‘Fairy Star.” Miss Agnes, lovely as evor, appeared in “ The Chameleon,’’ a little piece written for the purpose of introducing her in Several characters—a young midshipman, an Irish girl, and a French danseuse, all which she performed with that inimitable grace and adaptness which so mark all her personations of this kind. PERSONAL. +++» Hon. Preston King is at Willarde. ---»Duncan & Sherman, the great New ‘York bankers, are at Willards. ++++ Miss M. Louisa Chitwood, a gifted In- diana editress, is dead. +++» Cornelius Matthews has written a suc- cessful drama, called ‘False Pretences, or Both Sides of Society.” +++» Col. Lehmanouski, the old soldier of the Napoleon wars, is lecturing in New Albany before the Mokuna Society. -+++ Dr. Norwood, State geologist of Illinois, has examined twenty counties during the past year, finding coal, iron, and lead, in abund- ance. +++» John Brougham has buriesqued Hi- awatha in a Christmas spectacle at New York. His play is called Pocahontas, and is founded on the life of the Virginia Princess. +-++Mayor Conrad, of Philadelphia, has made himself obnoxious to the juveniles by stopping a gratuitous distribution of toys by the circus manager. +++» Thackeray is expected at Baltimore about tke 8th of January to deliver before the Mercantile Library Association his four lec- tures on the Georges, Kings of England. +++» Don Antonio Garcia Reyes. who was on his way to the United States as Chilian Min- ister to Washington, died at Lima on the 16th October. «+++ Charles S. Henry, Esq., has been ap- ointed Clerk ef the United States District Peart, for the District of Georgia, in place of Col. Robt. H. Griffin, deceased «.++ Mrs. Anna Cora Ritchie’s new work, ‘Mimic Life,”’ it is stated, has sold at the rate of a thousand copies a day, for the ten days it has been in the market. --++ T. Doughty, the landscape painter, we are pained to learn. lies very low at the Na- poleon Hotel, in Hoboken. 11] health, and the privations incident to his profession, have sorely affected his mind and body, +.++ Thomas Cross, Marshal of Columbia, 8. C., (who served in Capt. De Saussure’s com- pany in Mexico.) died last week, from the effects of a pistol wound, received in the dis- eharge of his duty. @.... Rev. W. R. McDonald has accepted the invitation of the Seeond Baptist hurch, Petersburg, to become its pastor. The edifice for the use of this congregation will be com- pleted early in February. +++» General Shields, in a letter dated at Fairbaults, Rice county, Minresota, declines a bail invitation, as his ‘‘whole time and energy is employed at present in commencing the world anew.” +++» Rey. A. A. Willetts, has received a ‘‘call’’ from the North Dutch Church, of Albany. The consistory is in- structed to offer the reverend gentleman a salary of $5.000 a year, together with tho use of the parsonage. +++» Rev. Mr. Haskell, of Boston, died re- cently in St. Petersburg, where he went in = last to supply the ee of the English and Americanchapel. He was a young elergy- man of the Congregational persuasion, and one of great promise. +++.Mr. Calhoun, of the Georgia Legisla- ture, has introduced a bill to incorporate the “Georgia Air-Line Railroad.’’ This bill con- templates the construction of a direct line of railroad from Atlanta, Georgia, to Richmond, Virginia. +++» Miss Smead, the Irish beauty. whose —_ by ay hange at the French exhi- ition between those of President Pierce and Daniel Webster, has returned to Paris. She is in mourning for a brother lost in the Crimea, and is as lovely as when described by Mrs. Piatt, in ‘Bell Smith abroad.”’ ++++ Col. Thomas L. Preston has leased the King’s Salt Works, in Washington county, Va., at an annual rent of $23,000. These works are adjacent to, and will be worked in con- nection with his own. Both together consti- tute the most valuable property of the kind in Virginia, if not in the United States. +.++ Mr. Bellows’ new Lutheran church, in New York, isa gaudy affair, built of light and dark stone, alternating in lines, much re- sembling the drishman’s pig—‘‘a streak of fat and a streak of lean.’’ It is called the Church of All Souls; but the Episcopalians have dub- bed it, “The Church of the Foty Zebra!” «+++ Oliver Wendell Holmes, in his oration before the New England Society, in the Church of the Puritans, on Friday evening, improved the occasion to promulge some very sound and sensible views upon the slavery question. Asa matter of course, the Abolitior. eas “down on him like a thousand of ricks.”’ of Philadelphia, - On Christwas morning, the gentlemen connected with the Arch street Presbyterian eburch, Philadelphia. presented to their pas- tor, Rev Charles Wadsworth, a purse con taining five hundred dollars in gold, as a tes- timony of their high personal regard for him, and their unwavering confidence in his minis- try among them. -+++ Dr. Baillie, after listening with torture to a pressing account of “symptoms,” from a lady, who ailed so little that she was going to the opera that evening, happily escaped from the room, when he was urgently requested to sop up stairs again ; it was to ask him whe- ther, on his return from the opera if she might eat some oysters’? ‘‘Yes, mia’am,’’ said Bail- lie, “ shelis and all.’ +++» Gen. Gibson, chief of the tommissariat of the army (says the New York Day Book) may be seen every day, in the possession of a green and generous old age, surrounded b troupes of frieuds, in the performance of his official duties. Long since we heard an anec- dote of Gen. Jackson, illustrating better than anything elec the character of Gen. Gibson. Daring the Creek war, the army under Gen. Jackson suffered all sorts of hardships. In writing to the Department of War, Gen. Jacksen recounted t things, ‘ but’’ wrote he “when I reach —— I shall find an abun- dant supply of stores of all kinds, such as we greatly need ; (ieorge Gibson has told me so, and George Gibson never lies!”’ Gen. Gibéon has an able and worthy assistant in his nephew Capt. Alex. E. Shiras, of the army. WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. Tho Attempt to Bribe.—One member, at least, has fallen in the present contest for tho Speakership. We refer to Mr. Pearce, of Pennsylvania—the Kev. Mr. Pearce, we be- lieve he is, at home. The statement of his colleague, Mr. Millward, of the facts of the disgraceful proposition made to him by Mr. Pearce was clear, straightforward, and manly, and was imperatively required not only by his own sense of self-respect, but by his duty to the honorable body whose integrity was assailed in Mr. P.’s unauthorized effort to bag his vote for Mr. Banks. We assume that, not- withstanding the denial which Mr. Pearce made of the truth of the statement of Mr. Millward—that he assured him that he (Mr. P.) had Mr. Banks’s promise that he would appoint him (Mr. M.\ to the chairmanship of the committee on binding and engraving, “out of which he could make a good thing,”’ if he would vote for him for Speaker. Every unprejudiced witness to the scene that took place on the occasion is morally cer- tain that Mr. Millward, and not Mr. Pearce, told the truth, and nothing but the truth. The testimony of the concurrent witnesses to the other somewhat similar unauthorized pledges in the name of Mr. Banks, made by Mr. Pearce, though going to substantiate the truth of what Mr. Millward said, was not ne- cessary to that end. His story was a simple unvarnished account of a conversation that took place not more than a single minute be- fore he called the attention of the House to it, and that minute, according to the testimony of Mr. Humphrey Marshall, was devoted to an effort to learn through a reference to the man- ual and the superior information possessed by Mr. Marshall concerning the House commit- tees, the exact nature of the dishonorable proposition that had keen made to him. The instant he comprehended it, in accgrdance with the very proper advice of Mr. Marshall, he brought it to the notice of the House; and those who have at heart the standing of the body in the estimation of the country at large, we take it, sincerely regret that the manly and straight-forward recommendation of Mr. Alexander K. Marshall, of a thorough formal investigation into the afffir, was not adopted. We fear and believe that the House will have cause, itself, to regret its failure to wipe out the stain on its aggregate honor in- volved in passing over the development made by Mr. Millward on that occasion, as a matter not requiring to be instantly mot, repudiated, and stigmatized as it deserved to be. Unfortunately, there is too much truth made in the intimation by Mr. Pearce, that the chairman of the committee having in charge the binding and engraving of the House, may make ‘‘a good thing out of it.” That is, provided the chairman, whoever he may be, may be a man devvid of personal in- tegrity, and that through his machinations he contrives to place the House binding and en- graving in the hands of persons willing to fee him for being false to his obligations to deal honestly with his public trust There are few positions under the House, in connec tion with its organization, through which the Treasury may be plundored to so great an ex- tent; and the country owe thanks to Mr. Mill- ward for bringing the fact so promptly to the notice of the House; as the result of what he has done can hardly fail to make assurances doubly sure, that no gentleman who may be elected Speaker of this Congress will ap- point any member on that committee, other than those who know sufficient of the public business to render it certain that they are thorcughly competent as well as inclined to guard the trust thusto be devolved on them, with the fidelity of scrupulously honorable men. Once more at Sea.—The reader of the fam- ous debate and incidental ballotings of yes- terday, in the House, will percieve that all the progress previeusly made in the matter of com- pleting an organization, was then and there abandoned, leaving the body once more com- pletely at sea. At the adjournment they were as far off from an election as before the com- mencement of the series of explanatory speeches on Monday of last week, which brought them, apparently, to the threshold of the conclusion of their late vexatious labors. The withdrawal of the resolution of Mr. Campbell. of Ohio, for the ehoice of a tempo- rary presiding officer, is a public misfortune; as, had it triumphed, the authority of that officer could, and would, certainly, have been exerted to the end of greatly expediting the solution of their present difficulty, which is bringing disgrace upon the character of our government, to say nothing of the fact, that, through it, the House is rapidly and deserved- ly falling into popular contempt. It is to be hoped that Mr. Campbell, in pur- suance of hts well-known independence of character, and the intimation he gave the House on withdrawing his resolution, will speedily again present it for the action of his fellow-members. Mr. Banks's Seven Thousand Majority.— The Boston Bee, of the 26th ult , enables us to throw light upon the condition of popular sentiment in Massachusetts. The reader will perceive, from so much of its article as we ex- tract, that Mr. Banks’ seven thousand ma- jority, when last elected, has dwindled into a very lean minuity, indeed, in the recent gub- ernatorial election in the Bay State - “ One year ago, Robert B. Hall was elected in the first district by about three thousand five hundred majority over all—now the gub- ernatorial vote shows his party to be in a mi- nority of four thousand seven hundred ard twenty-two, showing « net loss to Mr. Hall. in one year, ui over «/vkt thousand votes. The American ticket has a plurality now of over eighteen hundred yotes in his district. **One year ago, Wm. 8S. Damrell had a ma- jority over everything combined of siz thon- sand and righty three—this year his party is in a minority in the same district of only six thousand three hundred and seventy-five. A loss to Mr Damrell of only about twelve thou- eand five hundred votes in a single year. Some thunder there, but wait till next year and then hear it crasu! “* Anson Burlingame - alias “ sleepless Bur ingame’’—was chosen by twenty-two hun- dred and fifty-four majority over all, which majority last year is nearly double the whole vote his party cast this,—it being but the most miserable fizz/e of sixteen hundred and forty votes. His party threw the lowest number of the four having candidates in the district. There is a majority against Mr. Burlingamne’s representing the district of seven thousand two hundred and forty-five. We wonder if he will “listen and cbey.’’ He will next year, if he chooses to be deaf this. “N. P. Banks, Jr., the ‘child of fortune” seems to have been deserted by the fickle god- dess this time, or rather to have deserted her. Perhaps he would call it “the most shurt- sighted political suicide on record.’? He had last year six thousand one hundred and sey- enty-four over all,—now he is in a minority of soven thousand six hundred and seven—a loss of only fourteen thousand votes, or there- abouts. “So with Chauncy L. Knapp; It wont pay to waste ink on him,—where he had three thousand over all in 1854, now the Republi- cans are between five and six thousand be- hind! ** Last year in the aggregate vote of the six Con; ional districts the American Party candidates had a clear majority over all of mty-one thousand four hundred and sixty- five,—now, the Republican Party into whose ranks the gentlemen above named have gone. is in a minority, in the same six districts, of thirty-nine thousand one hundred and sev- enty-nine, or a loss inasingle year of over |* fifty thousand yotes.’’ Mr. Banks —It is due to this gentleman, that we should state, that no one in W ashing- ton regards him as having been in any way, personally compromised by the developments made in the House hall yesterday, of disgrace- ful efforts to procure for him the vote of an honorable gentleman who has not given him ® ballot, so far. All men here, of all parties, agree that there is not a shadow of suspicion resting upon him, personally, of connivance in or complicity with the promises which Mr. Pearce, of Pennsylvania, aseumed to make in his name and behalf. We entertain no political sympathy what- ever with Mr. Banks or those supporting him for the Speakership; nevertheless, we are here to do justice fairly and honorably to and be- tween all public men, and a due sense of this sponsibility resting on us as the conductor b a public journal at the seat of Government, impels us promptly to state the fact concern- ing the unanimity ef Congressional and pop- ular opinion in this city mentioned above. The Bogus Nicaragua Government.—It will be seen from the correspondence between the Secretary of State and Parker H. French, which the attempt of the latter to getupa fillibustering expedition from New York has brought out, that we were correct in intimat- ing, some time sinco, that this Government did not entertain the slightest idea of acknowl- edging the supremavy of Walker's authority in Nicaragua, unsupported as that is by any tona fide native countenance or sympathy. We formed our opinion in this matter only on wholly undefinable signs; but being morally certain of its correctness, we published it as our judgment in the premises. The result is evidence, that in such matters the S¢cr is, in publishing correct information, very gener- aily in advance of its cotemporaries through- out the country. The Debate to-day—in the hall, commenced on the obligation of all opponents of abolition- ism to sink every other question for the time being, and unite to install Mr. Richardson in the chair. Mr. Marshall’s point was, that the largest majority agreed in favor of the leading principles of Americanism, and, that, there- fore, Mr. Fuller, of Pa., could be more opprog priately placed in the chair, by resolution, on the principle on which it was proposed to place Mr. Richardson in that position. Another Ballot.—The seventy-third ballot for a Spoaker was taken a few moments before we went to press, resulting as follows : Whole number of votes cast, 207; nocessary toa cheige, 104, Mr. Richardson received 63, Mr. Banks, 101, Mr. Faller 31, scattering 7. Pardon —The President has pardoned Wm. T. Sterling, late postmaster at Sterlingville, Wisconsin, who was convicted of embezzle- ment, and has been some time in the peniten- tiary. The pardon was granted in conse- quence of satisfactory proof that the prisoner would die if not immediately released from confinement. The Current Operations of the Treasury De partment.—On yesterday, 27th of December, there were of Troasury Warrants entered on the books of the Department— For tho redemption of stocks.... $120,722 28 Forthe Treasury Department. 41,892 17 For the Interior Department. 16,868 45 Forthe Customs...eceseseeesesss 47,297 45 War Warrants received and en- COTOd .cevccersercceservenseoce War repay warrants received and entered.. From Lands. ove Bepeymant on account of the DVY.cceccccsccccccccccsccces 4,355 65 Mr. VaLK.—We take the following from the New York Tribune of yesterday: To the Editor of the N.Y. Tribune: Sin: Lhave perused in your paper of the 22d inst.,an attack on Dr. Wm. M. Valk, M.C J am an old inhabitant of Flushing. Ido not belong to the American or Know Nothing arty, and never was at one of their meetings, ut I am familiar with Dr. V.’s political sen- timents, and had repeated conversations with him previous to his election. He always sus- tained the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and opposed the restoration of the Missouri Compromise; and when solicited by numerous letters to take ground against the former, as a means of ad- vancing his prospects of success, he invariably refused. I, therefore, think that the ‘One who voted for Valk,’’ must be mistaken. Yours, respectfully, Nassav. Fuvsaine, Dec. 24, 1855. Foop ApeLteration.—A return has just been made in England, in relation to the adul- teration of tea, coffee, cocoa, chocolate, and pepper, from 1844 to 1854, &c. As regards tea, there was twelve cases detected within that period, and four convictions; as regards coffee, twelve hundred and fifty-nine detec- tious, (whereof eight hundred and sixty-three in 1653, and three hundred and forty-two in 1894.) and eight hundred and fifty-one convie- tions; as regards cocoa and chocolate, there were no detections of adulteration made; and as regards pepper, there were two hundred and seventy-two detections of adulteration and one hundred and ninety-two convictions. In one case only does imprisonment appear to have been inflicted on the guilty party “Kris Krineve.’’—This is a horribly bar- barous imitation of a German barbarism, into which an English ear has led many of our newspaper editors and writers. Christ-hind- lien, or Christ-4indchen, isthe German prop- er for Christ child, or infant Christ. Man (vermans have corrupted it into Christ £intle —particularly in Pennsylvania. This is bad enough, but to corrupt it still more, and re- move it utterly away from all semblance to the original, is too bad” “* Kriss Kringle,’ a: a name for the Babe of Bethlehem, is neither English nor bad German, but a mere jargon or gibberish of the vilest kind—and when the facts are known, sounds like ribaldry. J. Woods Garth, Esq., of Albemarle, has killed the finest lot of pork of the season There were 5 hogs, 204 months old, weigbin, 2424 pounds, making the average weight o: each hog 484 4-5 poumds. This pork at $8.50 per 100 pounds, will produce $206.36, or 341.274 a piece. UA letter from San Francisco, California, says: “The extent of the cigar business here isimmense. A single stand within a large house has been rented for $20 per day, paya- ble daily. I know of another of less note for which $4,000 per annum has been paid forthe last two years. The consumption of the weed in California is awful.’’ Eg The Councils of Norfolk have recently assed an ordinance that any person who shail e found drunk in any of the streets, squares, lanes, alleys, courts, or publié places within said city, or shall upon conviction thereof be- fore the Mayor or any of the Aldermen of said city, be found gailty of any disorderly conduct within the precints of said cit » Shall be fined not over five nor under two dates for each offence. This is “ rather sharp” on the boys just about Christmas, when one feels more like “* steaming up,” than on other occasions, CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. In the House, yesterday, after we went to press, they proceeded to a seventy-firet ballot for a Speaker, with the following result : Whole number of votes cast, 211 ; necessary to a choice, 106. Mr. Richardson received 67, Banks 103, Fuller of Pa, 31, seattering 10. There being no choice, it was moved to ad- journ; not agreed to—yeas 92, nays 116. They then proceeded to a seventy-second baliot for a Speaker, with the following re- salt: . bade number of votes c to a choice, 106 Mr. Richardson received 67, Banks 103, Fuller of Pa. 31, scattering 10. No choice having heen effected, they ad- journed. *, 211; necessary Proceedings of Te-Day. The Senate were not in session to-day. In the House, Mr. Seward offered a pre- amble and resolution declaring that a ma- jority being agreed on the slavery question, the Kansas issue, &c., they should waive their differences on other points and elect Hon. Mr. Richardson by this resolution to be the Speaker of the Thirty-fourth Congress. This proposition was advocated by the mover and Mr. Boyce, and opposed by Measrs. Stan- ton and H. Marshall. Mr. Smith, of Va., and Mr. Jones, of Tern., also made speeches ere we went to press ; the first in explanation of his views on the oon- stitutionality of the Missouri compromise, and the latter on the political rights of the inhab- itants of territories. Mr. H. Marshall moved to strike out of Mr. Seward’s resolution the name of Mr. Richard- son, and to insert in liew therefore that of Mr. Faller, of Pa. Mr. Millson then addressed the House on the resolution. a aaa Accidents by Railroads and Steamboats, and Lozses by Fire during the year 1855. Rattroap AccipEents.—The following table shows the number of accidents, together with the number of killed and wounded, which have occurred on the various railroads of the United States during the past year. The table contains a record of no accident which was not attended with loss of life or injury to person; neither does it embrace the great number of persons who have been killed and maimed by jumping from moving trains, at- tempting to yet on cars while they were in motion, being run over, &0 eg Killed. Wounded. . 16 January .. 9 34 February . «10 2 20 March... 3 30 April 2 19 Ma 5 30 3 4 20 13 9 48 23 27 10 67 13 89 November. 20 81 December... 7 4 12 Total....... enon eld2 116 539 Included in the above, there have been killed during the year, of the employees on railroads, engineers 20, firemen 19, conduc- tors 6, brakemen 16. Sreampoat Accipents.—The following table embraces the number of steamboat accidents | which have occurred on the rivers, lakes and bays of this country, and which have been at- tended with loss of life and injury to person, tegether with the number of killed end wounded. Accidents. Killed. Wounded. January.. 2 69 25 February. tf 7 March 4 25 April 15 12 May 7 -- June 12 22 July 23 6 August 10 6 September 7 - October... 2 4 November. 9 - December .. iL - Total ...0..2000027 176 107 Destructive Finrs.—The following table shows the losses by fires that have occurred in the United States during the year just closed, where the amount of property destroyed has been estimated equal to and upwards of twenty thousand dollars : Number. Loss. January .. 19 $1,093,000 February. 20 1,195,000 March .. 26 1,675,000 April 19 1,450,000 ay 21 1,448,000 16 1,285,000 13 1,217,000 8 392,000 15 1,102,000 “4 503,000 Novembe: 10 630,000 December..... -i4 736,000 Total...es sidescceecseclOS $13,049,000 To which must be added the amount of property destruyed by fires where the loss was less than twenty thousand dollars, which would probably increase the aggregate to about eighteen millions, a decrease, as com- pared with 1854, of seven millions of dollars. The number of lives lost by fires during the year was 171. Navau Irems.—We learn from the Phila- delphia Times that since the launching of the Wabash the Navy Yard there has not present- ed the busy aspect it formerly presented. The steamer Susquchanna, which was taken up cn the dry deck for repairs, has been launched agai, and her machinery will be put on board in afew days. Her stores are all ready for shipment, and it is expected that she will sail for the Mediterranean early in the month of January The revenue cutter Walker, Capt. B. F. Sands, haa been hauled up on the dry dock fur repairs, which are now being made. he revenue steamer Bibb, Lieut. I. L Stellwagen, is laid up for the winter, and will undergo repairs early in the spring, and sent eastward, Quite a large number of hands are now at work on the Wabash, finishing up the cabins, «ec. Her machinery will be put on board next week The new powder magazine and shell-house, at Fort Mifilin, for the erection of which an appriation of $20,000 was made at the last ses- sion of the Congress, is fast ap; roaching com- letion. It will be wholly finished about the rst ofnext month. The gunners’ house will also be completed about the middle of the same month. Parpon or Wa. H. Martin.—As we stated a few days ago, efforts have been making in Baltimore to obtain from the President the pardon of Wm. H. Martin, convicted of pur- joining money which fell into his hands while a clerk in the post office of that city. At the time of his conviction the jury recommended him to the meroy of the Court, and several of them then signed a petition for his pardon. The effect of his imprisonment has been the breaking down of his health. and a short time since the District Attorney for the United States and Judge Giles before whom he was convicted, joined in a memorial to President Pierce, and the Baltimore American expects that either to-day or to-morrow the unhapp man willbe restored to family Caroaek the Executive clemenoy. His conduct sinee his imprizonment has been unexceptionable, andjhe still persists in his innocence of the crime for which he was convicted as earnestly as before his trial took place Kg The ship Emerald Isle is on her way New York, from Liverpool, with four heed ua with four hundred Mormons on board, who will upon their arrival, go at once to Utah. THAT RAFFLE.—GENTLEMEN holding chances in the three splendid Oil Painti are notified that it will take place ats o'clock FRIDAY NIGHT, Dec. 28, 1855, are a few chances left. HENRY K ms Fa. avenue, between 12th adie ee winginonnw WASHINGTON CITY SAVINGS’ BANK .—Notes falling due in this Bank on the 25th instant, Christmas - poy le oh 3 sda , and Ist Janu. LEWIS JOHNSON, dec 22, 288206 of the ¥: Catholic’s Friend Society will bedelivered by L. SILLIMAN IVES, LL. D., late Protestant op of North oon ed Odd Fellows’ Ha’ — street,on MONDAY jastant, Ycloc! m. tee te ceri = scPhe authority of Christi anity over Society ”* 25 cents each—may be obtained from eiberet ibe officers of the Society, at Ellis’ Mu- sic Store, and at the door dec %B—1t (Intel& Union) Orric METROPOLITAN signs a L. = THOSE SUBSCRIBERS TO T ‘stock of the Metropolitan Railroad Com- pany who bave not res) led to the call made the 12th of April last for the payment of the sec- apd instalment are requested to do so within thir ty days from date, toenable the Company to meet their obligations to the contractors who are now engaged in prosecuting the work. By order of the of Directors : dec 24 J. W. DEEBLE, Treasurer — ICE.—A FAIR AND FESTI- ei will be held by the ladics of the M. K. Church, at the Union Hotel Building, George- tewn, commencing on the 24th instant. "The pro- ceeds to be applied to the co! ion of the West etown Church. An excellent supper will be every evening. Everything like rafling positively prohibited. dec 22—7t TICE.—MUTUAL FIRE INSUR- ANCE COMPANY OF THE DIs- TRICT OF COLUMBIA.—AIl policies issued by this Company will expire on MONDAY, Dec. st. 1855, at 6 o’clock p.m. Persons wishing a re- newal will please attend to it on or before that day ‘2 CHAS. WILSON, Sec., Office Columbia Place, cor. La. av. and 7th st. dec 18—d2w NOTICE TO THE VOTERS of th oe tiry OF WASHINGTON —No per- son can vote at the next election in this city whose name is not returned by the Board of Assessors as subject to the school tax for this year: ‘herefore, every free white malé citizen of the age of twenty-one y this city, whose name is not on the 1 list, and all other persons, are hereby noti that the Board of Assessors will meet daily, at their reom in the City Hall, from 10 o’clock a. m. until? o’clock p. m., from the fifteenth to the thirty first day of December, inclusive, (Sundays and Christ- mas day excepted) for the purpose of revising the poll lists of the several Wards, and of adding thereto the names of such persons as may have been omitted and cf making corrections jn the same; at which time and p! they are hereby invited to attend. . THOS. F. Secretary to the Board of j—dt Dec = n HSONIAN LE RES —Prof. . M. MITCHELL, of Cincinnat!, will ive a course on sevhngan | eng MON- fay WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY. Lectures commence at 8 o’clock. Admittance free. The public are respectfally invited. dec 21—M W&F3t be CARD.—The Washington Trade and Benevolent Society of Journeymen Tall- ors would respectfully recommend to the public peer Merchant Tailoring Establishments as very way worthy of their patronage. They alone pay the bill of prices established by the above-named Society, viz: H. F. Loudon & Co. Edw’d Godey, Is, residing in P. J. Steer, Jas. T. Mcintosh, Wm. Tucker, Thos. Boyne, Duvall & Bro., Matlock & Griffith, Jos.R. Thompson, Wm. H. Stanford, Edw’d M. Drew, Thos. K. Gray. I. 3.—Sttangers designing to work in this city through the seuson will take nolice that those are the only shops that Society bands are permitted to work for. JAS. LACKEY, Rec. Sec. Wasutneton, D. C., Oct. 6th, 1655. oc S—eo3m EW YEAR PRESENTS At 306 Penua. avenue, between 9th and 10th streets JOHN F. ELLIS dec 28 NE DOLLAR REWARD.—Strayed away last evening, from No. 519 Thirteenth street west, near C street sout! toise-shell) FEMALE C sland, a favorite (tor 1 One dollar will be paid for ‘- Pussy’? if bro: above JOTWITHSTANDING THE cedented great rosb at our store during week we have a few more fine Fancy Goods, Toys, Work Boxes, Books, Card Cases, &c., left, which we are determined to iun off atour usual low rates. JOHN F. ELLis, No. 306 Pa. avenue, near 10th street dec 28. WO SUPERB PIANOS RECEIVED this week, which, in dition to our usnal large supply, makes our stock the most complete in the city. Give us a call if you wish a good and cheap instrument. JOHN F. ELLIS, 306 Pa. avenue, between Sth and 10th sts dec 25 NOTICE. d be-are IS ON THE FARM OF M R.P and Allen Di , known F Jackson city Farm, in Alexandria co 54 é> Va., the following stray Cattle, viz: 3°25 J red he!ffers, two of which have white feces ; and oneredcow The owners are requested to call at the premises, at Dodye’s Brick Yard, near the Co- lumbia Bridge, in the aforesaid county, on Rich- ard Jones, prove property and pay charges. dec 28—1t* GRAND SHOOTING MATCH. HE PUBLIC IS RESPECTFULLY@N- formed thet a Grand Shooting Match wiil lace on TUBSDAY MORNING next, Jan- vary Ist, 1856, on the vacant land known as the Common bey: the Railway Depot, for a hand- some set of jand Pipes, valued at $50, SRS. =e continue 200 shots are fired ‘Terms 25 cents per shot Arms and ammunition furnished gratis dec + NE LISKARY EDITIONS of Campbell! Hilton, Dryden, Bryant, Hal'eck, 1.0 - low, Shak«peare, Byron, _— Moore, Hemans, Joanna Baillie, Cowper, Thomson, Willis, Si ourney, Herbert, Shelly, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Ricees: Goldsmith, Scott, Hood, Swift, Chaucer, Spenser, ‘lennysou, Southey, Rogers, Young and many other Poets, may be found at (he most mod erate prices, at the bookstore of the undersigned, fine editions, in morocco and calf bindioys, many of them beautifully illustrated ; most of them im- ported direct from London, by the undersigned, and bound there FRANCK TAYLOR. dee 28 PRIVATE MEDICAL TREATISE ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL VIEW OF MARRIAGE, BY M. B. LA CROLUX, M. B., ALBANY, N. ¥., 250 Pages and 130 Fine, Plain, and Colorst Lith- ographs and Piates. Price onty Twenty Five Cents. Sent Free of Postage to al! parts of the Union. CaESPEST BOOK EVER PUBLISHED— and containing nearly " double the quantity of read- ing matter in that of the FIFTY CENT OR DOL- LAK PUBLICATIONS It treats on the PHYSIOL- Y OF MARRIAGE, and the Secret infirmities and Disorier of Youth and Matority, resulting from ex- cesses, which destroy the physical and mental pow- ers, with Observations en ~- ~ Marriage, its duties and disqualifications, and their remedies; with Lithographs, illustrating the Anatomy and eeraeey, and Diseases of the Re- productive Organs of both sexes, their structure, uses, and functions. A popular and comprehen- sive Treatise on the Duties and Causaltles ef sin-. gle and married life anpprana fruitful alliances, mode of securing them—Infelicitous and infertile ones—their obviation and removal —imporiant hints to those contemplating matrimony, that will overcome objections to it; none, however, shoul4 take this important step without first consulting its Ppages—commenta:ies on the diseases and medical t-eatment of females from infancy to old age, each case graphically illustrated by bea: ful lithogra phic plates— nervous debility, its causes and sure, by a process at once so simple, safe and effectual that failure is impoestble—rules for daily manaye- ment—an essay on Spormatorrh with practical obsefvations on the safer aad more successful mode of treatment—precautionary hints on the evils re- sulting from empirical tice—an essay on all diseases arising trom indiscretion, with nand simple rules by which all persons can cure them- relves without mercury—remedies fur those self- inflicted miseries and disappointed, hopes so un- fortuna’ely prevalent in the young. It ts a truth- ful adviser fo the married and those contemplatin, marriage. Its perasal is particularly recom: S ed to persons entertaining secret doubts of their eens condition, and who are conscious of hav- ing hazarded the health, happiness, and privileces to which every human being is entitled. Price TWENTY-FIVE CENTS per copy, or Five “ye for One Dollar. Matied, free ‘of post. e, to rts of the United States enone ‘hose — = may consult oe LA qj any iseases upon which thins book Prelther Vv or oy mall Med! cine sent fo any St ee to di- Tections, safely packed carefully secured from all observation “ Address Dr. MB LA CROIX, No. 31 Maiden Lane, or Ome Box 579 Albany, N.Y. ; y, to9 an = i rom 9am pm 0: REMOVED from No. 56 Beaver st. “tecmeay Lane, Albany, New York, NATIONAL THEATRE. Leecemn any Manacen.... Hawa Also of the Baltimore Museo tn" ™*? Stace NAGER... Mr. JEPZERLoy The Menager leave to announce ing spent some meni nrg pre! ster wav. Uminarics for THE Finst ACTORS OF THE pay. that, having accomplished the object proposed, is to eee to tbe wes vee OF EOPLE THE UNITED sr, through perk entatives, the memberot eb ES OF CONGRESs, Sherida it Comedy of THE SCHOOL F&F OR SCANDaL, Ube names oft ne MOST DISTINGUISHED ARTISTES of the ane who have selected from the PRINCIPAL CITIES IN THE UNION to sent ~ the public a Pisy chosen for its Ee. as a literary composition, and the a@ possesses for presenting a Host of Talent in equal array of character, each part being sustained by an ackno’ 4 GREAT REPRESENTATIVE of DRAMA Mr. James E. Murdoch, Mr. Hepry Placid Mr. James W. Wal Mr.T in a style hitherto characters embracin, THE Mach, homas Placice,’” Mr. J. Jefferson, Mr. W. Ellis, Mr.J B. Howe, = re eT © R.P.S = — etme yg * rs Baeckland, (former) ins Kate ‘Miss Mary Devlin, ae will appear in the 4 ON NEW YEAR'S EYE, MONDAY. Dec. 31, AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE, Commencing at 75, o'clock, will be formed THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL Str Peter Teazle . Mr. Henry Placide Sir Oliver Surface -Mr. Charles Bass Charles Surface Mr. James E. Mardoch foseph Surface rt. James W. Wallach, jr Urabtree. Mr. Themas Pracide Careless. Mr. AH Davenport Moses. . --Mr. J. Jefferson Sir Benjamin Mr. J.M Mir Harry Lady Teazle Mrs. Candow Notwithstanding the great pecuniary cvtlay in- curred in securing such a GALAXY OF 8TARS Far exceeding the amount ever before expended ou any single Dramatic Production ever offered to the pubiie, the management has determined t adopt (he following Liberal Scale of Prices. Dress Circle and Parquette....$1 60 Reserved seats. ‘30 cents extra Family Circle. cents Upper Boxes. 50 cents Proscenium xes and Orchestra Seats can also be secured Performances will commence at 7 o'clock pre cisely. ‘ — can be called at 11 o'clock @ec 27. i aeeEneREESRESEREREEEEREmEneenneee {UUND—ON THE 2th INSTANT, a lerge size Package, contents unknown, which the owner an bave by proving property and paying for this advertisement ited to ARK Y¥ & SHINN, Union Bottling Depot, 57 Green st dec 27—2t Georgetown BROOK EVILLE ACADEMY. (PE DUTIES OF THIS INSTITUTION wiil be resumed on MONDAY, Dec. 3ist, afford a favorable opportunity for the entrance For catalogues apply at Charies 4 e's, Pennsylvania avenue, or address the Prin- cipal at Brookeville. Ma E. B. PRETTYMAN,A.M., Princtpal OST THIS (THURSDAY ) MORNING, the ‘27th instant, on Pa. avenue, betweeu 13th st and the Dry Goods Store Of George F Allen. a small Box, containing a gold cross and ring. The finder will be libera! hy rewarded by leaviug the at the Dry Goods store of GEV. F. ALLEN, ae Pa. avenue, nest 10th st COTTAGE FAR + NURSERIES. PPLE PEACH, PEAR, CHERRY, AND other fruit trees grafted and budded from »- lected varieties, for sale at the above meutioned Nurseries, situated five miles out trom Alexan- dria, and 56 rods north of Mount Pierce lost (f- fice and the Little River Turnpike. dec 27—3t* LEVI DEMING m= REWARD—WILL BE GIVEN FOR $5 the return of a Baker’s WAGON, green dec 23-iw body, and a sorrel MARE. ‘Thev can be leftat M RUl PEL’S, Seventh etreet, opposite Centre Market. de> B— {OR HIRE.—BY THE YEAR, A YOUNG Servant WOMAN, who is 2 good cook and house servant, and strictly honest. Preference Will be given toa privete family, and references required. Apply to EK. STOVER Corner 2ist and I streets, No. 235. dec 23—3t* JEW WEAR’S PRESENTS.-AT LA\- i% MOND’S, 491 Seventh street. can be found a beautiful collection of articles suitable for Pres ents, and at very low prices dec BH CCOUNTS READ respectfully notified Our customers sre thelr accounts will be made off up to the 30th Instant, and will be presented during the following week, when 4 earnestly hope (hatall persons indebled to us will take pleasure in settling their bills promptly —— WALL & STECHENS. 322 Pa avenue, next to Iron Hall dec 26—3t JUTICE.—ALL PEKSONS INDEBTED to i yi are respectfully notified to come forward and settle their accounts, either by cash or notes, y ol y next by the 10th day of January — enue, Corner of Sth and i sts., Navy Yard dec 6—* CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS’ PRES- ENT Ss. - " sil- REAT SALE OF BOOKS BY the WAS! G ington Book Company, at the store under 4 Dexter Hotel, sovond doer west of Seventh strer' on Louisiana avenue A Book and gold W atch for one dollar A Book and sliver Watch for one dollar k and gold Locket for one dollar k and gold Pencil for one dollar and gold Ring for one dollar and gent’s gold Pin for one dollar and lady's gold Pin for one dollar ‘ k and lad:’s gold Ear Drops for one dv!ie" k and gold Pen for one ik and Pocket Knife for one dollar ‘ook and Stationery for one dollar A Book and elegant Gift Book for one dollar Come qpe, come all, and give us a call. Sign a red . - WASHINGTON BOOK COMPANY dec %—1w — INE FRENCH EDITIONS—OFr ROUS- seau, Racine, Sevigne, Corneille, Moliere, Dt Stael, Ducis, Froissatt, Bourdalone, Le Sage Schiller, Guizot, Bossuet, Moustrelet, Mall Descartes, Barthelemy, Voltaire, Chateaubriand, Florian. Rabelais, Scribe, Malebrancbe, “1 Pierre. Fenelon, Thierry, Machiavelli, Regnard, and other writers, may be found at the most r] erate prices at the bookstore of the undersige’s imported by himself direct from Par!=, i» oe a and morocco bindings, some of them with bee Uful illustrations ** Also, a small collection, various, of French Books for youth, Paris editions nian dec FRANCK TAYLOR. + CARD.—W THIS OPPORTU nityto return a to oar fr tbe public gencrally for the large reeds : eetrons we with hich we have bees vored the past year. ing and strict attention continuation of the same “ those of them who bave unsettled accena books that the same will be made out by instant, and they will greatly oblige ™& will call and settle. Those not paid 3d January will be —— upon, as plose ou for the past year. Le NUTCHINSOX & MUNRO, No. 310 Pa. avenue, between nee streets. N uublic in general, that she will s tion fn a 9 — a Weatt jarriages, Love, Jou Ditticulties in Business, Absent F gare and Death, and in respect to all o' pene” She is, also, able to tell the age* - to cons reading numbers. All those whe W" be will Madame R. will please call soon. 8° "2. cap main in the ct jt a short thine © si consulted at = poy of the day Her name ison the door—at No corner of B, on the left hand side nd ladies i HE 3 hd dd od FF - 50 S20 10 We would #h e aent the ist af they we wish 10 TADAME R. respr. —LADIES IN Tt mine sets of FUT est lot yet recei which we are very lowest cash prices, nested examine our atthe new street and Pennsylvania avenue dec 2i—1w BU prior wo the © at |