Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1856, Page 2

EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON CITY: WEDNESDAY.......... February 13, 1596, pitirneaaneete aia taeeoesstabeease lim dinio i SSS 17 Advertisements should be handed in by 12 o’clock, m., otherwise they may not @ppear until the next day. + i> Acxnts ror tux Stax.—The following Bamed persons are authorized to contract for the Publication of advertisements in Tue Stax: Philadelphia—V. B. Parmer, northwest cor- ner of Fifth and Chestnut streets. New York—S. M. Patrinertt & Co., Nassau eae ¥ B. Patan, Scollay’s Building, es > Jos Priwtine.—Our friends and patrons Bre notified that we are now prepared to execute every kind of Jos Printine with despatch and in the best manner, at Prices as low as in any other office in Washington. Job Printers arealso notified that we are prepared to do every descrip- tion of press-work that can be executed on double cylinder and Adams’ power-presses. So, also, has the Star officea Book Bindery connected with At, equal in its capacity to turn out book binding of all descripttions to any other in the District of Columbia. 4 ae— SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS. The Intellegencer argues that the necessity for the President’s recent Proclamation waz wholly the result of the alleged imprudent and improper repeal of the Missouri restriction. Our respected neighbor is evidently in a bad way- He does not dispute the entire constitu- tienality of the Nebraska-Kansas bill, nor that it is eminently a just law; but beoause a por- tion of the people of the North who openly proclaim a higher law than the Constitution, choose to make the perfectly legal repeal of the Missouri restriction a pretence for setting all law at defiance, he thinks the enactment of laws distasteful to them most deplerable, and likely to lead to civil war. Our doctrine is, that if the prejudices of the Abolitionists are to be permitted to ovér-ride the existing laws or to shape the future laws of the Confed- eracy, the sooner the collision anticipated by the Intelligencer comes the better; as, if much longer staved off, it will come when the two great sections of the Confederacy are s0 es- tranged from each other as to make a peacea- ble settlement of the questions in issue be- tween them impossible. The Unton, noticing the abusive articles of Pliny Miles, formerly an “ itenerant lecturer on mnemotechny,”’ who has turned postal re- form “ agitator,”’ says of him, by way of ex- Plaining the secret of his Propensity to villify the Postmaster General and the Post-Office De- partment : _ ‘*Welearn. on inquiry, that he takes par- ticular care to state in bis pamphlet this Mr. Miles was, a year or two ago, employed several months in the Post Office Department. He was tried at three subordinate desk—first in the Appointment, next in the Contract, and last in the Finance Bureau—and finally dis- missed by the Postmaster General, as totally incompetent to discharge properly the simplest duties required of him. ence the abuse, which we are surprised to see that astute and respectable editors are permitting bim, through their editorial columns, to heap upon the de- partment. “* As to the project of reducing our letter- postage below the present exceedingly low rate of three cents, and of going back to double postage for unpaid letters, &c., we have al- ready expressed our opinion ofits utter folly.’ WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP Bifleman Beecher.—A few days since we had an account of another antic of Henry Ward Beecher, in some of the daily papers, in which that individual appears as being far better acquainted with the nature and effect of rifles than of the doctrine and spirit of the New Testament. We felt, on reading the first notice of his sayings and doings in regard to the business of the rifles, that the moral sense of the Christian community had been out raged ; and when we read his defence in the New York Tri+une, we saw that he added to the former insult a perversion of the opinions of our fathers, and actually travestied the Providence of God., How it looks—a pugilist in the pulpit! Judging from many of his productions, we might have inferred that he knows more of rowdyism and vulgarity than of the preaching of Christ. There is no way to deal with such a man but to descend to his own level, and turn upon him his own wea- pens. Yet his pretensions to the clerical char- acter are the only inducements that could draw us dewn to notice him. The public should know that he does not represent in his fighting propensities the ministry of the Gos- pel, and that there are some of his cloth who will raise their protest against the insane raving of a bewildered fanatic being taken as @ fair sample of the Christian religion. Fancy, then, this reverend rifleman, having just come frow a disgraceful rivt in the Bowe Ty, mounting the rostrum with clothes tat tered, face bedabbled with blood and mire, hair disheveled, eye bunged, and teeth knocked out, proclaiming this text to the astounded audience : ‘+ Ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth; but I say unto you resist not evil.” Hear him discoursing substantially thus : My brethren, such are the words of Christ; but Christ had no pluck—his feelings were pusil- lanimous in the extreme. Besides, he did not understand human nature, nor the relative moral force of rifles. He was, in fact, an old fogy. He thought men could be reformed by moral cuasion, and so he foolishly inverted this divine philosophy. I wish now to put you right, and the rest of mankind. In those glorious old days of darkness and barbarism they understood the true secret, they know that an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth was the true system, and that evil must be resisted. But Christ, who was always imprac- ticable, always so sentimental and beyond the ordinary course of things, foolishly thought that the world was to be transformed by that romantic loveof his. Besides, he lived before the time of Sharpe’s rifles. He had not the benefit and blessing of those wonderful moral instrumentalities. All hail to the power of rifles' Down with the Scriptures! [A voice in the crowd cries out— That's right! Go it Beecher ' you re the minister for me!"’) And, my brethren, is it not right for a man to fight for his own defence, and fight with a rifle, too, if he has one? And if it is right, why, then, is it not right for me as a minister of the Gospel to inculeate that sort of thing as one of the cardinal virtues, and to dwell upon it with peculiar pleasure? Ought wo not to imitate the example of the great Robert Hall, and of the old people in Nor- wich who stacked their guns outside the church and fought against the Savages’ I am of opin- jon that an appropriation should be made to found another armory. Why not, my breth- ren, turn this building to that use? Bibles are of no account now-a-days, but rifles areall the go. You see my present condition, but it results from my not having a rifle. I was thrown back on the arms of nature. Oh! had I been equipped with one of those tremendous instruments of moral power, I would have shot the fellow dead. I would have made the light of salvation shine thro’ him on the spot; but, as it was, I illustrated as well as I could the beautiful simplicity and high-toned principle of this doctrine of true religion, “ An eye for aneye and a tooth fora tooth.’ And now, brethren, go forth, and let your motto be “rifles forever.”” Amen. Such preaching as this is the simple logical sequence of the sentiments uttered by Beecher, and now vindicated by him in a species of so- phistry worthy of Mephistophiles himself. If it seem bold and revolting to every right feeling of the christian’s mind, it is only be- cause of the inherent odiousnoss of such senti- ments. Coming under the circumstances they did, from a pretended minister of the gospel, no language is too strong in denunciation of such clerical instruction. 1. It was needless. Who wanted to hear Beecher praise the efficacy of Sharp's rifles in the city of Brooklyn in coo! blood and in qui- etude? What object was there in passing a eulogy on guns and physical violence, when everybody knows what they are and what they will do; and that if evor a christian has felt compelled to use them, or has used them at any time or under any circumstances, it has always been a grief and pain to him all his life. He never has thought until now of making tho moral efficacy of rifles the leading fundamental} article of his religious creed. But Beecher has set the thing down point-blank. We hope, seeing he has begun to write his articles of faith, be will continue now and let us havo them ; for it was always doubtful what he does believe. He says that Calvinists are first-rate men forcutting heads off. Wonder ifhe would add that they love rifles and believe in their moral efiicacy? Not long since he quoted everso many psalms from his bymn-book to prove that in singing he is a byper-Calvanist— believes in all the jagged points—and now he’s added a new one, more important than all—rifles. Yes, to brimstone he joins salt peter! Saltpeter Rifleman Beecher! What ever necessity thers was in the world’s find- ing out what Beecher’s opinions are of the comparative merits of guns and Bibles as a fundamental article of his moral code, is cer- tainly credited to him in this profound dis- covery. Bnt, otherwise, the world could have got along with its affairs somehow, even if the Reverend rifieman had never been known in it. 2. Again: It was vulgar, exceeding vulgar, under the circumstances. Had he expressed his regret for any and all uccasions of the use of rifles, and only admitted it as a deplorable exigency, he would have copie nearer to the religion of the New Testament. But here he parades the notion of guns and implements of death as on the whole a most superlative and splendid improvement upon all other agencies in the department of morals. We wonder where he studied metaphysics, or whether his peculiar notions were szo¢ched into him by his father, or whether when a child he was ever switched at all, or ever improved upon the Suggestion of ‘the switch over the door,” of which he speaks? If the present fruit is the result of that kind of moral training, we should judge it mot very commendable or promising to the rising generation. Sure it is that a certain sort of theological vulgarity seems easily and naturally to slip out of him, as in this instance. 3. Again: asin the circumstances, the speech was cowardly. The Reverend rifleman eloak- ed and defended under the sanctity of his clerical profession away in the City of Brook- lyn, safe from all the booga-boos of real fight, could very easily stand up and talk about the moral efficacy of death-dealing instruments, and tell his hearers to invest their money in them. It was all very witty and very grand no doubt, and the speaker knew that he was all safe. He had no idea of smelling gunpow- der himeelf, but when he uttered those in- flamatory words, he did not know but some poor misguided wretch, taking them as from a clergyman, and trusting them as a yital part of Christianity, might plunge himself and multitudes beside presumptuously into civil war, and set on foot a general conflagra- tion. No, this he did not know. But the public may be satisfied that when that time comes our brave gentleman will most likely not be there. Such men are not usually cour- ageous in areal pinch. There are criteria of human nature quite unmistakeable, and this brave fellow who refers tothe New England fathers and the Pequods, who quotes Crom- well and Robert Hall, will be the last man to shoulder that transcendantly moral rifle of his and march out to Kansas. He may rub the dogs’ ears and set them on, but when it comes to the biting, he will take good care to be where they wont find him We have expressed our mind plainly and bluntly, because the man whose course we criticise, seems incapable of appreciating any- thing more refined or courteous. We have written not as we prefer, but as we thought ia needed; in a style suited to his mental calibre. And we say that his advantages and educa- tion, his family and ministerial associations, his responsibility to the public, and his cleri- cal position, if they do not prevent him from sinking down to the level of the lowest prize- fighters, and proving by his declarations that there is some s:rew in his head-gear loose in- deed, so neither shall it prevent us from show- ing him up in his true colors, We cannot re- sist the conviction that Beecher knows better —knows that he said a hasty and imprudent thing—knows at all events that such instruc- tion is no part of the religion which Christ taught, and is rebuked in every line and syl- lable by the plainest maxims of the New Tes- tament. A man so utter regardless of his ex- ample and the influence of his sentiments and position, may dare do and say what he will, but we design to let him know also that a law of retribution is on his track, and that it will bunt him out at last, as its own pre- eminent and proper victim. The House Printing. —Last night tho wire- pullers of the Republican party were doing their best to bring a majority of the House up to the work of voting directly for Mr. Francis P. Blair, formerly of the. Washington Glode, for House printer, or for somo one who would Permit his name to be used for the benefit of a daily Republican party organ with Mr. Blair at its head, to be published at this point, and upon the slavery question to hold to the doctrines of Messrs. Giddings and Greeley. On other questions, we Presume, it is ex. pected to advocate the views, in public affairs, which characterized the (lose under Mr. Blair's regency, It is to be, politically, just such @ pot-pourrt, if established. We have not heard what success attended their labors at tho time of writing this paragraph. Yet we have no idea that they can drum up even a plu- rality vote to furnish the means of establishing and sustaining any such journal at this point. In truth we do not perccive how this Printer difficulty isto be settled The cost of the time spent by Congress upon it, bids fair to equal at least the whole cost of the session’s work (printing) to be executed by the who can’t be chosen. Ms This fact is worthy of note, insomuch as the huge opposition majority in the present House come here under pledges to work immense re- forms and accomplish inconceivable retrench- ments They are doing so, with a vengeance, (over the left ) P.S. There was certainly an informal Re- publican party caucus or consultation held last night, at which all the members of the party were absolved from all obligations to sustain Mr. Follett further. This is a move in the Blair game, doubtless. - Dudgeon.—We beg the honorable members of the opposition not to loose their tempers. Keep cool, gentlemen, we beseech you To be sure, the Pennsylvanians who bargained to ac- if any conditions have been attached to the acceptance of the bill; wo would have been so advised. It will be gratifying to the holders of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Bonds guar anteed by Virginia, to learn that the inter- est which has so long remain unpaid will now be paid. : LAND WARRANTS. The land warrant market has been quite active at quotations above, which are a shade higher than those of New York. Par- ties sending warrants hore for sale have no doubt realised better prices than those who have sent to other cities, while orders for war- rants have been filled as low as they could have been elsewhere. There is no surplus on our markets, and the supply is about equal to thedemand. The present prices will most probably be’ maintained, and after the Ist prox. we may look for an increased demand. err The Current Operations of the Treasury Department.—On yesterday, 12th February, there were of Treasury Warrants entered on the books of the Department— ¢ complish the election of Mr. Follett in return hed be Mrvarery Departociel — aay = for your faithfully carried out pledge to com- For the Interior Departmen S 14,081 58 pass that of Mr. Morris, are treating you, of | For Customs. ....++0+++00e + 11,039 43 Ohio, shabbily—but that is the very common feet afters received and e: 3,851 64 fate of the side to such “ cohoodling,’’ whose Wa repay neurseaie’ ceah -/ cage comes up last for settlement. You fare entered...... 562 64 no worse than the South Americans, whom you Si peeeliane oe . - % * :, + rom Customs. sought to inveigle by the nomination of our Ga ancoant of the 63,377 03 fellow-citizen, the Rev. French S. Evans, whom you did not support, as per contract. Extra Pay.--In a caso presented at the Treasury Department it was-held that an ad- ministrator, as such on/y, could have no right to payment of extra pay, due a decedent, un_ der the act of July 19, 1848; as that is a gra- tuity, not a part of the assets of the soldier's eetate, and the order in which relatives, and they only, may claim it is pointed out in the act itself. It belongs first to the widow; sec- ondly, to the children; thirdly, to the parents; and lastly, to the brothers and sisters, in de- fault of the other preferred parties. The Milk in the Cocoa Nut.—We are sat- isfied that the real cause of the dolay in the announcement of the standing committees of the House, is the failure, so far, to electa All experience teaches that how- ever they (the Committees) may be arranged, a considerable number of those who aided in electing the distributor of the coveted honors, must necessarily be not a little exrage. much so to be trusted to draw satisfactorily to Measrs. Greeley, Giddings & Co. in the har- ness, in the election of a Printer. Printer. Wrecked Vessels of War.—Ithas been held as settled that any disobedience of the com- mander’s orders, on the part of officers or crew of a wrecked man-of war, involves the samo liability to punishment as previous to the loss of the vessel, as under the act of April 23, 1800, section three, the officers of United States vessels wrecked, lost or destroyed, re- tain their authority and command over the crews, and are entitled to the same pay as they received on board ship. The Spoech of Senator Benjamin—deliver- ed to-day in a very crowded Senate chamber, was a powerful and effective effortin justifica- tion of the action of the recent Naval Retiring It commanded universal attention, and fell with great force on the minds of all Board. present. Elected.—Mr. Cornelius Wendell, of this city, the Democratic caucus nominee, was to- day elected to be the House printer, by ten majority over all others. Monetary and Commercial.—The following quotaticns of bonds, stocks and land warrants were furnished us to-day (February 13th) by Chubb Brothers : ———@(7cf e CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. In the Senate, yesterday, after we went to press, the following resolutions of Mr. Biggs, ere further debated at length by Messrs. Biggs, Adams, Bayard, and Hale. Resolved, That the Senate will, on Monday next, at one o'clock, elect a Secretary of the Senate, Sergeant-at-Arms, and Assistant Door- keeper esolved, That the following shall be one of the standing rules of the Senate, viz 52 The Secretary of the Senate, the Ser- eant-at-Arms, and Assistant Doorkeeper shall & chosen on the second Monday of the first session of every Congress. . The question was then put on a motion for their indefinite postponement; which was agreed to, yeas 33, nays 11—as follows : Yeas—Mesars. Adams, Allen, Bayard, Bell, of Tennessee, Benjamin, Brown, Butler, Clay, Collamer, Dodge, Evans, Fessenden, Fish, Foot, Foster, Hale, Hamlin Houston, Hunter, Johnson, Jones of Tennessee, Mallory, Mazon, Pearce,*Pratt, Rusk, Sebastian, Stuart, Thompson of Kentucky, Toombs, Wade, Wil- son and Wright—33. Nays—Messrs. Biggs, Bright, Brodhead, Douglas, Fitzpatrick, Jones of Iowa, Pugh, Sumner, Toucey, Trumbull and Weller—1!. Mr. Wilson next addressed the Senate at length on the Central American Question. The Senate then adjourned ; Mr. Foot hav- ing the floor on the eame question for Monday next In the House, another ineffectual vote for a Printer was taken. = Mr. Caruthers nominated George Knapp, of Mirsvuri, Republican, for that office. Mr. Wright of Tenn., offered a resolution to postpone the election until December next, and providing that the work be executed in the meantime by the printer of the last House. Pending its consideration, they adjourndd. Too Proceedings of Te-Day. In the Senate, to-day, after the transac- tion of the usual morning hour business, the introduction and reference of bills, resolutions, petitions, reports, &e.— Tho tesolution of Senator Jones of Tenn., requiring the Secretary of the Navy to fur- nish the charges on which the late Naval Re- tiring Board not long since retired various officers of the service, was taken up. When Mr. Benjamin addressed the Senate at length against the resolution. In the House, as soon as the journal of yes- terday’s proceedings was read, they pro- ceeded with the ninth vote for a Printer, with the following result : Whole number of votes cast 160; necessary to a choice 81. For Mr. Follet 36, Wendell 78, Coombs 9, Farnham 8, Sargent 8, Defrees 12, Morris 4, Banks 2, scattering 3. No choice being effected— BONDS AND CITY 3TOCKS. ———E Par Mr. Stanton asked leave to offer a resolu- tion directing the postponement of the further LAND WARRANTS. See em | rel a execution of the order for the election of a A do 6 do 100 86 6©@ & | House printer until voseahes pat — OUrONS. ‘inti t ouse e Rasemeraees asst tel se 6 | caer cae deen oF tix Meme’ Potosiog Louiaville do 6 do do 1,000 | £3 @ *3 | Committee, by the lowest bidder. wah Cae tele oo Objection bone made, this resolution was fo § do to 1,000 | 69 8 i] ruled to be out of order. a 5 rad Ey Se bareeetace : The House then proceeded with the tenth Bertmgte 4 H = 2 ed 4 g 33 vote for a Printer, with the following result : be do l0pay N.¥. do | 1,000 | 105 (@ 106 Whole number of votes cast, 160; necessary UNITED STATES 8TOCKS | | Mr. Wendell received 91, Follett 21, Sar- Loan of 1866 grees | = | = BIN, | gent 8, Farnham 3, Coombs 8, Defrees 15, Lace of ise s ao = |= G lish ebb 7, scattering 2. Loan of 1818 Sil & : Loan of 1040 (Conpone) do | -— @usy PERS Loan of 18 (Texas ind) 6 do | — @ 106% ONAL BattimorZAILROAD BONDS. ca | i elt +++» Achilli is haranguing in New York. Baltimore & Ohio "do ise | — ;8 3% Chanfrau has gone to Savannah. Beating & do ise] — | oe 3 87 Brougham is playing at New York. Sites Contec 7 as = me ts Bourcicault failed at New Orleans. Uinots peeceustcieee do alll idee ++++ Ben. McCulloch was at the Charleston Bank of Metropole * f= | 196 @i0 races = ed 2 wine Sota zal = 4 +++» Barney Williams recently gave $177 to Farmers Bate 0 Bank. Georgetown - | s a the Can’t-get-Away Club, of Mobile, Ala. auk of the 0! omiuton, jexandris = . . <, . Sea : ) | +++. E. P. Whipple will lecture in Phila- Piremen's(nonsiu mercy | — delphia on Friday. Frankliu (none in the market) | +++» Le Grand Smith, who was Jenny Lind’s Me Stare STOCKS. | ais agent, is in the Pacific steamer. ee 5 recent = ++e+ M. Adolph Adam has written the music mined & G6 i= ‘“ ein for a new Comic Opera called ‘+ Falstaff.”’ ire =F ‘2 @'% ies Mune. Grisi and Mario mara expected in Tenueaser 6 do — | is. tte: A A ae california Yo =|“ ©® | tore,” with Mme. Poucos as Leonora. <= +++. “ Doesticks’’ is now engaged in writing ai “Diet. aeae oe Disc’t. | burlesque of three thousand lines on Long- Eastorn States... $ Richmond. i | fellow’s Hiawatha, for a New York publisher New York State. 4 Norfolk. i ++++ Gov. Izard’s message to the people of New York cit: Petersburg ++ a] Nebraska, gives a very gratifying account of Fredericksburg.. 4 | public and private prosperity in the territory. elphia Winchester... 3 +++» Miss Jane Coombes, who has made a New Jersey.. N. W. States 14) successful debut in New York, is a pupil of Delaware.... i isthe at . 14 | Mrs. Mader. Maryland . i ‘ennessee. an 28 Baltaree . par North Carolina... 2 +++ Sir John Dean Paul, Bart., and Mr. Strahan, the convict bankers, are busily em- ployed in prison, the former at tailoring, and the latter at chair making. Other S. States ..la2 ses ae —— Be ots: 81 a a id 4 +++» Dr. Alexander, pastor of a wealthy 120 do 35 do 2. 102 a 104 | church in New York, is reported to have re- sada a ao - 1 02a 1 04 | jected five rich applicants for admission into 40 do QS. <iciense.. 4000 0 45 oo | bis church, on the ground that they were more For the past week there has been a most bouyant stock market, and prices have ruled higher than for many months past. speculative, as well as the more stable securi- ties, have participated in the general rise. Virginia 6's advanced 1 per cent., Missouri 6's 14 percent Our market, though limited, has been quite active during the past few days, and large transactions in Virginias, Georgias, Missouris, and St. Louis City Bonds have transpired. The rise in stocks and the ease in the money market is attributed to the largo disburse- ments being made by the Treasury in pay- ment of the Mexican drafts, and about to be made in payment of the Texas debt. latter sum, $7,750,000, cannot be disbursed for over three months, as the bill making the appropriation requires the Secretary of the Treasury to give ninety days notice, before making payments. Our advices from Texas are telegraphic, and only state that the Texas bill has been accepted. It may be a condi- tional acceptance, if so, additional legislation will be required by Congress, though we think needed elsewhere, -+++ Francis Durivage, who died in Boston last week, lost the use of his right arm by some unknown disease about five years since, when engaged upon the Coast Survey in this city. +++ In his last Christmas’story Dickens manifests good signs of repentance: he ac- knowledges that the Americans are a sind, enerous, large-hearted, and great people. We did not expect so much of him. +++» Pat Hearne, the New York gambling house keeper, has been brought up for trial and plead guilty. Hoe promised the Court that, if it would sercens judgment, he would give up the trade and never engage in it again, either here or elsewhere. Judge Capron said he would hold the matter under consideration. +++« Lewis W. Washington has addressed a proposition to Gov Wise, offering to present in perpetuity, to the State of Virginia, the sites of the birth place of George Washington, and of the home and the graves of his progen itors in America, provided the State shall cause these places to be permanently enclosed, and shall mark the same by suitable tablets to commemorate those notable spots. The This man of infinite humor, and nothi: to please him more than to crack @ Mr, Mason, who was bis bar. One day Mr. Magon was sees Judge Sql of New Hampshire, was a peared a . Atdinner, che Judge, addressing Mr Mason across the table, says ‘well, Mr Mason, are you going to get your client off? (| “Can't tell,’ says Mr. pd “could, if it wasn’t for hiseursed name '"’ +++ His Imperial Majesty the» Emperor Leopold of Austria had, like most of the mem- bers of the Hapsburg family, a hanging under lip, and rarely closed his mouth. Riding out one day, he was overtaken by a shower, and said to his chamberlain : ‘* The rainis raining into my mouth, what shall [ do?’ The con- stitutional adviser of the Mare eee whee roperly, “« Your Imperial jesty must shu yet Majest 8 sa and then the Tain won't rain into it.’ ++++ The Duke of Sutherland was recently an exhibitor of a litter of pigs at a cattle show at Birmingham, England, and in order to secure @ prize was compelled to prove the age of his juvenile ers. An affidavit from one of his men was therefore necessary, and the document was drawn up, but unfortunately the free born Briton could not sign his name, and was compelled to put his mark. The London Examiner gives the Duke a terrible scoring for taking so much pains with his pigs and so little with his men. It was the Dach- ess of Sutherland who made so much fuss over Mrs. Beecher Stowe, and who shed such a flow of maudlin tears over our negroes. Her own tenants are known to be the most igno- rant, ill-used and benighted serfs in Christen- dom. Why does she not attempt to amelior- ate their condition? Bee PATRONS OF THE TURF.—AN adjourned meeting of the gentlemen in favor of establishing a Race Course will be held at Flint’s Hotel,en THURSDAY EVENING, February 1th, at 7g o'clock. All gentienwn de- sirous of becoming members of the Club are re- quested to attend. feb 13-2t* Rete PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH —The District Committee. under the canon of 1853, ‘for the miintainance and extension of Religious Worship and Instruc- tion,’’ have os sarap series of convocational services, to be held in the Churches or St. Johns, —sre and Ascension, commencingon WED- NESDAY, the i3th instent, and to be continued for three days. iu the following order : On Wednesday morning, at 11 o'clock, in St. Jobn’s Church, and in the afternoon, at @, in Epipbany Church. On Thursday morning, at 11 o’clock, in Epi- ph«ny Church, and in the evening, at 7} o'clock, ia Church of the Ascension. On Friday morning, at 11 ©’clock, in St. John’s Church, and in the eveninz, at 7% o'clock, in Ascension Church. The Holy Communion will be administered during the morning services. The Convocational Sermon will be preached at ny tred Church on edo erssn d 5 Addresses by members of the'c! and laity will be delivered at Ascension Church, on Thurs- —_ evening Jollections for the benefit of city missions will be taken up at each of the services St. John’s Church, H street, opposite Lafayette The services will be cooducted uare Ascension Church, H street, between Sh and 10th streets. Ephipbany Church, G street, between 13th and 14th streets. fed 12-3 =. A LECTURE WILL BE DELIV- ered by Maj. BEN. PERLEY POORE, of Massach , for the benefit of the of the Fourth Ward, at the Rev. G. W. mpson's Church, E street. between 6th and 7th streets, on TUESDAY EVENING, Feb 19th. Tickets Twenty-five Cents Subject : ‘Foreign Travels, from Paris to Pal- — — way of Constantinople ”* feb 11-3t Bee NOTICE E TAKE PLEASURE in announcing to the subscribers to the ‘*Prize Embroidery Distribution’’ that the draw- ing will | army: | take place on FRIDAY next, the 15th instant, at 5o’clock p m., at our Stores Those ladies and gentlemen who are interested inthe drawing are most respectfully invited to be present. There are yet a number of chances remaining unsold, which we would “ee to dispose of CLAGETT, NEWTON, MAY & CO., feb 11-5 Corner Pa. avenue and 9b st. BR REMEMBER THE POOR —THOSE gentlemen who have promised to aid in relieving the tof the First Ward, as well as all other residents of the Ward who are desirous of contributing to the relief of suffering bumanity in this freezing weather, but who may not have had the opportunity of doing so presented to them heretofore, are respectfully requested to send their contributions to the Treasurer, J. W EASBY, eee 6 street, between 20th and 2ist streets. Bre NOTICE —THE COLUMBIA EN- gine Company No. 1 will give thei: An- nua! Ball on EASTER MONDAY, March 24th, 1856, at the Assembly Rooms. Par:iculars in future advertisement. feb Ll-eo3t COMMITTEE THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE rm a and Mount Vernon Steam- boat Company will be held over George & Thomas Parker’s store, on FRIDAY. Fébruary 15th, at 11 o'clock a.m. Directors will be elected, and the yearly business laid before the meeting THOS. PARKER, President. feb 9—ec6t (Alex. Gazette) UST--ON MONDAY NIGHT, GOING from the Theatre to the Patent Office, a gold Locket, containing a gentleman's likeness By leaving said locket at the European Restaurant, corner 7th and G streets, the finder will be hand- somely rewarded. feb 13-3t® HE UNDERSIGNED CONTINUES HIS DRAWING SCHOOL, at his office, over Gilman’s Drug Store, 350 Pa. avenue, on Tues day, Thursday and Saturday evenings, from 7 until 9 o'clock. W. J. WEST, Architect, feb 13-1t* Washington LSS MURRAY'S AMERICA.—Letters from the United States, Cuba, and Canada, by the Hen. Amelia M. Murray, $1 The Attache in Madrid; or, Sketches of the Court of Isabella IT, $1 The Neturalization Laws of the United £tetes, 25 cents Clement Loreiner. Angus B. Reach, 58. TAYLOR & MAURY’S feb 13 Bookstore, near 9th st. Printer’s Anniversary Ball. fee COMMITTEE APPUINTED TO make the necessary arrangements respectiully make known to their friends and the public that thelr Annual Bail will take place at the WASH- INGTON ASSEMBLY ROOMS, on F. 22d, 1856, when they assure their friends that {t will be their endeavor to make this Ball the best of the sea-on. The furnishing arrangement will be under the superintendence of au experienced caterer. entiemen wishing invitation cards sent to La- dies will hand their names, with residencies, to one of the Executive Committee. Tickets TWO DOLLARS; admitting a gen- tleman end ladies, to be had of any of the com- mittee. Managers at Large vi or Hou J T Towers *, Jos W Darts Hon W W Seaton Kham © Wendell Hon Peter Force F McNerhany ‘A ePolkinbora Weightman Geo Cochran © G Klopfer AMAL W Howard J Bowen Jeon W Woodward M Caton 38 Gallsher C Alexander J Sessford, jr OW Dunnington EB Robinson RA Waters W W Moore Lem Towers: W G Moore Jobn Dowling JL Smith Geo W Cochran JB Tate RJ Pollard G Whittington James T Crossfield James Wimer S Lamborn JF Halilday R W Claxton ES Cropies. Invitation and Rosette.) F Glenroy Wm Harvey Geo W Schryrer J Bowen eo Caton Andrew Humes FS Waters C Leves Oscar Kepler John Larcombs J Mattingly BJ Klopfer Chaat Canfeld J Hurley David Wiber JHCuuningham FM Detweller Chas Schell Jobu M Jutge Alfred Shaw Jeane Judge P Rodier ose: W i Dennesson John Melson, Commuttee on Refreshments —(Tri-colored Ro- sette.) Wm E Moore CF Lowrey BC Wright Geo Duvall Floor Managers.— (Red Rosette.) Wm L Jones F Dorsett Ww Towers, jr. OC Phelps JT Nicholson Executive Committee —(Blue Rosette.) Wm Woodward — F Dorsett Wm R Mclean 8 Culrer well JH Canvingham H Bowen Jeans Judge BeujO Wright Chas D McP'heron, IT Halleck feb 13 —soat SEASONABLE GOODS. OHN H. G etown, D.C., has SEASO) ABLE Gobpe : nine T gase (1100 yards) fectly undressed Cotton, manufactured to order, and can be re commended, at 12% cts L case (1050 ) undressed and extra heavy do. at 123 cts lcase New York and Bates Mills do. 5-4 bleached and brown Pastas One 10 4 and 12-4 do. a ichardson’s and Barklie’s Shirting Linens eeting and Pillow-case Linens Damask Table Linens, Bird’s Kye & Hucksback White Brilliante, Cambrics and Plaid Muslins Plain blue, pink, buff and mode colors Mouselin French ee sexes — Sets, ‘with other Season: joods - ing to make room for Sprire Goods. op aoa of Winter Goods will be offered anees, ener rice 0” SOuN H.BMOOT. feb 1d-tr Sam! Robertson. man of the name of Smith for horse at THE LAKES Yes, a Speaker! who, by Reerption Committes —( White SMOOT, No. 119 BRIDGE ST., received the following AMUSEMENTS. NsTIONAL THEKATRE Lasser ann Manacrr Penny © Jamenry (Also of the Baltimore Museum.) Mr Jerrrrson, Drese were el conte A . 0 & te. extra cha for Reserved Seats Privaig Bisse can be obtlined Box Offce open Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 watil 4 o'clock, . WEDNESDAY EVENING, Feb. 13, ites, Last appearance of MISSES SUSAN AND KATE DENIN re hich occasion will be presented Bulwer's ial beantiful play, entitled tye LADY OF LYONS Miss Susan Denin +-Miss Kate Denin Claude Melnot ‘After which will be presented the intensely tbril. THE WARDERING BOYS. Doors at o’clock p. m.: curtain rises at rypeveoek precedyT sR FOR TWO DAYS ONLY: AT ODD FELLOWS’ HALL. DNESDAY AND THURSDAY, February 5 13th and . - R. WINTER'S GRAND EXHIBITION OF CHEMICAL DIORAMAS, Embracing numerows ; tLINE VIEWS, CHROMA. CRY ROrES. METAPHORSES, &<. With the favorite Diorama of ‘MILAN Ca- “RHEDRAL.” with the celebration of Midnight Mass and the gorgeous subject, “Belsbazzar’s Feast.’ A Band of Music in attendance Tickets 25 and iS cents. Exhibition commence Th o'clock feb ii KEWARD.—LOST, ON SUNDAY, the $5 3d instant, between Sth street and St. Mat- thew’s Church, a brown Moroceo Care, contain ing alady’s Mourning Breastpin, with — and chain attacbed, surrounded with pear name of the deceased person engraved Inside ~ leaving the sald Breastpinat Mr. SEMKEN’S, Jewelery Store, Pa avenue, the finder will receive the above reward, and the thanks of the owner. feb 12-1w* N ESTRAY CALF, WHICH has been strolling around the premises of the adver- tiser for some months was taken in during the late severe weather, and attended to. The owner ix requested to call at 2°5 H street, between 17th and 18th, Ffrst Ward. and take it away, —Sz for this advertisement feb 13-2" € A. FORGE F KIDWELL& CO , (AT THEIR B Yard, on Fourteenth street, near Pa avenue, opposite the Franklin Engine Houre,) have on band a small quantity or STOVE and other COALS, which will be sold on moderate terme Also, PINE and OAK WOOD feb 12-2 UST RECEIVED AND OPENED, A FRESH invoice of the .atest and best English VAL- ENTINES, at THE LAKES, 501 I'ern. avenue, near Adams’ Fix press Also, FANCY GOODS and —— MILLINERY—M'LLINERY. MADAME DEVOS’ = ILLINERY, BON HEAD DRESSES, CAPS, COPFIEURS.&c. &c, still at THE LAKES, 50) Penna. avenue, near Adams’ Ex Lediies son y be suited to their tases with the latest and most fashionable MiLLINERY , direct from Madame Devos’s princi; binents at New York and Paris needs no recommendation from us, as i's ex- esta Madame Devos's Milli- inted in e is known and ap; rope and America, and will upon inspection speak for it- self. Caillat THE LAKES and wee. feb 12 “A SPEAKER KLECTED: means of certain ama- epistles, speaks annuelly to the hearts and understandings of all the Lads and Lassies, and Bachelers, Mi: Susceptible Wide and Sighing Widowers, In this and the adjoining cities; and cxpecially on that interesting day of all days in the year, the ever-welcome and memorable day of the good 2 Saint Valentine! Which has from time to time been 1 shered in with an eclat unsurpassed io this or any other age by the Ssint’s well-tried and specially ap pointed it, TOE SHILLINGTON, Whe dispenses the Saint’s favors as in times past, at that favorite resort of Love's Votarier and Polite Literature, The Odeon, corner 1 strect and Penn arenwe Where he invites all his friends, both male and female, to come and select a candidate of their own, who will represent their views during their pilgrimage of a loving constituency to the eagerly sought for ultimatum of domestic happiness, appoint committees of bridesmaids and grooms- men, who will act upon all matters brought be- fore them without unnecessary delay, and to the satisfaction of the members of their different fam- illes generally. No objection, no pipe-laying or lobbying allowed, the parties being considered elected for lile, after having first rece!ved the blessing of a very important member tn clerical robes, who Is empowered to act as chaplain on the occasion, the only difference being that be is appolnted by the parties most interested instead of being elected, as has been the rule in all legis lative ies in this or any other confederacy since the formation of governments JOE SHILLINGTON, Chief Clerk and Private Secretary to the good great St. Valentine. Given under his hand and sez, this 1th Moon at the Odeon, corner of 4 etreet and Pa. avenue, » feb 12—3t VALENTINES, COMIC and Sentimental, and a great variety of Fancy Notions and Toys for sale as cheap as can be had in the city feb 11-3t LAMMOND, Sr » 7th st VALENTINES: VALENTINES: Ss. A RTMENT OF COMIC and Sentimental VALENTINES, wholesale and retail JOHN F. ELLIs, 306 Pa. avenue, betw. 9th and 10th sts. feb 11-tf PAINFUL DUTY OBLIGES ME TO notify the public that my son, A Lawmorn, Jr, has no interest in, er connexion with, my store, and I hereby warn all persons from letting him have money on my account, or bis own, be having no means of paying it UL feb Li-3t A. LAMMOND, Sen’r_ STRAY COW.—A BUFFALO COW that has been stolling around the premi- ses of the advertiser for some months. was taken in during the late severe, weather, and atiended to. The owner is request: ed tocall at 5i6 L street north, between 9h and 10ih streets, give evidence of ownership and tehe her away. feb Li- x JUST RECEIVED. = ADIES’ FINE CALF DOUBLE-SOLE BOOTS, with quilted tops Ladies’ fine double sole Wellington Boots, high Morocco Boots Ladies’ hi rocco Gent's pateak leather Dress Sboes and Gaiters Do calf double-sole Shoes and Detached Gal- ters With an assortment of misses’, boys’. youths’, and children’s BOOTS and SHOES, all suitable for the season. HARMON BURNS, No. 408 Pa. avenue, a few doors east of the Na- tional Hotel. feb 11-3t_ TAYLOR BROTHERS. - E PIANO USED BY THE TAY Lor Brothers in this city, isa sample instramen from the celebrated manufactory of Lighte, new. ton & Bradbury, New York, and ts ape by these eminent musicians to be one of the ~ instruments, as rds workmanship and ~ Mancy of tone, they have ever e This beautiful instrument, in oe SS asample Piano, and sent to us 02 ae ve are enabled to offer at the low price of $250. : will givea written guarantee with the Instrument. Also, always on hand, Pianos from the long ¢*- tx’ lished firms of Hallet, Davis & Co , Hosion) Knabe, Gaeble & Co., Baltimore, and peng Raven, New York, Old instruments of any ki taken In part PAYMERt: sou F_ ELLIS, 306 Pa avenuc, between 9th and 10th streets feb li—tr ALENTINES. . A assortment of Comic and Sentiment alV. ines for sale low, by E. K. LUNDY, __ 198 Bridge street, Georgetown _ VAs ENTINES—VALENTINES! vst phdwwe poms! = SNES BANE 4 opened one of ti eat 2 stocks of ese grrr odpad before offered . this city, end are prep» furn! pera (half the prices ‘usually charged, et thet Fancy end Perfumery Store, tween 9th and 10th streets a tf ! VALENTINES: AS a Somes eae ase fobs f ; - Prank EP oy ITI ——— _——