Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1856, Page 2

EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON city: WEDNESDAY ......... February 27, 1856, alr eres UF” Advertisements sh, handed 12 o’ciock, m., caer e until the next day. in by they may not appear ————_—=.—— {0 Aczxte vor raz Stanx.—The following Persons are authorized to contract for the Publication of advertisements in Tax Star: pogmere operand B. Pater, northwest cor- ner of F and Chestnut streets. New York—S. M. Pettinett. & Co., Nassau street. Boston—V. B. Patwen, Scollay’s Building. i Jos Ps tntixe.—Our friends and patrons are notified that we are now to execute kind of Jos Printine despatch and in the best manner, at prices as low as in any other office in Washington. Job Printers arealso notified that we are to do every descri tion of press-work that can be executed on dou! cylinder and Adems’ Presses. So, also, bas the Star officea Book Bindery connected with it, equal in its capacity to turn out book bindi Satan te ny other in he Dutt jumbia. SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS The Intelligencer says of the nomination of Mr. Fillmore by the Nnow Nothings : “We are not members of that y, we should conceive that we had no right to find fault with its selection were it in any respect objectionable ; #0, perhaps, it is not particu- larly incumbent on us to praise its choice, free as it not only is from exception, but fit, and r, and worthy as everybody knows the istinguished citizen to be whom the haschosen as their candidate for the si- dency. What course the Whigs may pursue under the present political circumstances of the country, what candidate they may select or what person they may support for the Chief Magistracy, it ie not for us to decide or for any one Row to say. It will doubtless be deemed proper by them to take counsel to- gether as to the path which their duty to the country and to their principles shall prescribe, path we, as unwavering adherents of the party, shall be prepared to tread with- out hesitation and without faltering. Whe- ther they shall resolve upon an independent course or not, and whether it lead to success or failure, belong to the future; but we should be unfaithful to our known sentiments and uniform avowals if we were to suppress now the expression of our opinion of the merits of Mr. Fillmore, and the confidence with which, on trial, he inspired the country in his quali- fications for a wise, and safe, and conserva- tive President.’ The Union quotes the Pennsylvanian upon the subject cf the relations of Mr. Buchanan with the British ministry, as follows: “Wo are well persuaded, says the Penn- sylvanian, that all the late statements of the nglish press, in reference toMr. Buchanan’s personal eourse on the questions at issue be- tween Great Britain and the United States, are either wilful fabrications or ignorant mis- tations. The fact that these state- ments have been adopted on this side of the Atlantic, and have occasioned a deal of uneasiness in all circles, has induced us to make inquiries, and the result is, our full con- viction that they are equally unfounded and absurd. *« It is not true that Mr. Buchanan has had high words with Lord Clarendon, on either of the two questions at issue between England and the United States. “Ofcourse it is not true that because of these — high words Mr. Buchanan failed to attend Lady Paimerston’s reception. ** And, finally, it ia not true that Mr. Bue- henan bas conferred with Sir Henry Bulwer as to the settlement of the Central American question. “The relations of Mr. Buchanan with the present England ministry do not lead us toex- = that he will be called upon to demand is —— The firmness and decision of Mr. Buchanan in the difficulties now existing between thie country and Great Britain have never been abated, nor are they manifested in that spirit which would precipitate war with- out first exhausting all the methods that would continue an honorable peace.’’ Tur Pacrric.—Eighteen days had elapsed from the sailing of the Pacific when the Asia Jeft, end no tidings had been received of the missing vessel. The Baltic left Liverpool on the 20th, and may bring news of her, but we muet recollect that five years since it was forty nine days before we were assured of the safety of the Atlantic. Tue Coronization Sarp.—Ex-Goy John Stevens, of Talbot county, Md., is said to be the gentleman who has made the munificent donation of $35,000 to the American Coloni- zation Society, to be expended in the con- struction of a ship to trade between the Uhes- apeake und the Republic of Liberia. ] Paciric Raitroap.—The House special com. mittee on the subject of a railroad to counect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts is composed as follows: Messrs. Denver of Cal., Woodworth of Ill, Houston of Ala , Mott of Ohio, Wells of Wis., Kidwell of Va., Jewett of Ky., Mc- Carty of N Y., Evans of Texas, Reade of N. C., Wood of Me., Lindley of Mo., and Kunkle of Pa Battimone Buack Repceuicaxs,—The merchants of Baltimomg, having read with surprise a statement made by Mr. Francis P. Bisir, at a Convention of the so-called Repub- liean party, at Pittsburg, in which he claimed to represent the sympathies of large commer- cial interests of that city; and keenly alive tc the importance of vindicating the fair fame of their city from the imputation of Aboliti-n tendencies, hold a public meeting this after- noon to repudiate such proclivities. A very general indignation is felt that a mere handful of persons, holding sentiments which meet with no sympathy from the great mass of the community, should have secretly met together and arrogated to themselves the task of send- ing @ representative of the city to a body all of whose aims and objects are utterly and thoroughly repudiated by it. A Nationa, Worx —We were favored to- day with a glance at proofs of some of the engravings for Dr. Kane’s forthcoming work on Arctic Discovery, which will probably be the most magnificent among our national con- tributions to scientific literature. A portrait of Dr Kane, life like, and exquisitely execu- ted, proves that the score of fine steel line- engravings will be a choice gallery of art Then there are nearly three hundred sketches of Arctic scenery, people, and natural history, prepared from Dr. Kane’s paintings and draw- ings by Jas. Hamilton, Esq, and engraved in the highest style of the art by Messrs. Lou derback 4 Hoffman, and Van Ingen & Sny- der, of Philadelphia. These magnificent jl- lustrations will adorn two Farge octavo vol- umes making nine hundred pages. Messrs. Childs & Peterson, of Philadelphia, will publish this chroniele of the proudest achievement of American discovery, and every one should resolve to have acopy. It will embrace the important discoveries made in the frozen regions far beyond the reach of all the predecessors of the Amerigep explor- ing party, and their perilous adventures, crowded with romantic incidents, which in the language of the Secretary of the Navy, “not only excite our wonder, but borrow a movel grandeur from the truly benevolent considerations which animated and nerved him to his task.” WASHINGTON NEWS ABD GOSSIP. The Message of Yesterday.—Those who recollect that at the last session of Congress the usual appropriation for the repair and ex- tension of the various fortifications of the gov- ernment, and other incidental expenses of the same olags, was refused, under a mistaken no- tion that money so expended was money thrown away, will not be astonished at the message sent in to the House yesterday, which we do not attribute to the state of our relations with England. There exist ample grounds for the President’s recommendations and those of the Secretaty of War in this connection, without going to our matters with England to find them. It has always unfortunately happened that a large number of honorable members, whose pursuits in life have not been such as tomake them familiar with military science, have failed to appreciate the value of fortifications on our coasts exposed to nations that may sooner or latter be in arms against us; while there are not a few who fail to comprehend the importance of any expenditure that may not be required under their own immediate observation. Our political system is such, that gentlemen afflicted with such notions are often sent to Congress. There were many of them in the last House; and the result is that much heavier expenditures on fortifica- tions, &c., than usual, are now absolutely necessary, through their repugnance to the system which is endorsed by every military authority that has so far existed in every civ- ilised country, and the military efficacy of which was recently made so plain at Sebasto- pol as that he who runs may read. We have no reason whatever to doubt that the present Congress will see the wisdom of the President’s Tecommendations, in this eonnection, in the exposition of the actual condition of the gov- ernmert’s fortifications from the War Depart- ment, on which the message is based. Oh! that mine Enemy would write a Book !—The Democratic politicians in this city, who like hunting for treasures among musty documents, will doubtless soon get at the work of searching the files of the Union newspaper when under the editorial guardian- ship of Major Donelson, for that gentlemen's views of the administrative qualities of Mr. Fillmore, his character as a public man, &c. We recollect well, that, at the time, his at- tacks on the administration of Fillmore did not please the Democrats generally; as it was thought by their long heads, that he (Mr. F.) was really strengthening the princi- ples and policy of the Democratic party, as against the Republican party, then looming up in the background, and preparing to take the shape of a distinct political organization, it has since assumed. His violent assaults on Mr. Fillmore and his policy were regarded by them as being exceedingly mai apropos, and as having been couched in terms of per- sonal derogation of Mr. F., not justified by his character ag a man. As unfortunate as they then considered them, they now, doubtless regard them as lucky hits for the Democratic cause. They will quote ‘‘ Donelson on Fillmore’’ from this time to the day of the election in each of their papers, and on every stump inthe Union;— adding, we trust, that however much they may have deprecated Mr. D’s style of war- fare on Mr. F , they quote him only, that the country may comprehend precisely, that gen- tleman’s go recent-candid and unbiassed opinion of his present chief. A Test.—We find that Southern gentlemen of this city, of Congress and not of it, are most anxious to-day on the subject of the probable course of the Northern friendsof Mr. Fillmore on the Kansas contested clection case, as it iz likely to be reported back in the course of the day from the House Elections Committee. It is already reduced to a certainty that the next report of the Republican party majority of that committee on the case in question, will be to carry out the most ultra suggestions of the most ultra abolitionists who are plotting and scheming at this point in connection with it. Not content with exporting to Kansas abolitionists by hundreds, Sharpe’s rifles by thousands, and the requisite supply of money, all to shape the complexion ot the institutions of the embryo State, they are doing their best to forestall an unbiassed decision of the voters of the Territory on the all-absorbing issue, by Congressional action; using their majority of the Elections Committee to that end. It is no wonder, therefore, that the friends of the principle of the Nebraska bill from the South, including all the Southern Know Nothing, are nervously anxious to ascertain whether Mr. Fillmore’s immediate men in the House—the Northern National Americans— design keeping the promise of fair dealing between the conflicting interests in the new Territory with which the speeches of the North at the Philadelphia Convention were so redolent. If the gentlemen to whom we refer vote in this matter under the lead of Messrs. Washburne, of Maine, Mr. Gidding, et al, they will give their presidential candidate a ‘set back’ that will amount to something like an assurance that he will not carry a sin- gle slaveholding State. Ex-Senator Benton.—It seems to be un- derstood in Washingten that this distinguished gentleman is very ambitious of achieving the nomination of the Republican party for the Presidency, and that his friends accomplished no little at the Pittsburg Convention, in the matter of bringing him prominently before the leaders of the party in all the non-slavehold- ing States to that end. Mr. F. P. Blair’s errand was not to represent Baltimore mer- chants, as he himself represented; but Mr. Benton's interests. Mr. Preston King, and, indeed, nearly every other ratting Democrat who was on the ground, were busily engaged in aiding Mr. Blair's Bentonian efforts. Un- less we are greatly mistaken, Mr. B. has already put out of joint the nose of Governor Chase, whose friends are also anxious to make him the Republican party candidate, Those who have reached Washington from Pittsburg, seem all to believe that when their nominating convention comes together, Mr. Benton will have but little Opposition for its favor We will see—as the blind man said on a certain occasion. Judge McLean.—Great disappointment in this city was the result of the failure of tho Philadelphia Know Nothing Convention to nominate Judge John McLean, of Ohio, for the Presidency. It is conceded in Washing- ton that hed that been done in Philadelphia, the Pittsburg Convention would have prompt- ly responded by the adoption of a resolution declaring it unwise and inexpedient for their party to nominate against him. This, of @ourse, would have been opposed by Mr. Blair and other premonitories of the Washington city Colonel, who labored to pave the way for the latter’s eventual nomination by the Free Soilers. Yet it would been done, doubtless; as Judge MoLean is more popular with the moderate men of the Republican party—the Whigs among them, especially—than any other prominent man. It is due to Judge McLean that we should state that his immediate friends insist that he is earnest in his declaration of indisposition to be a candidate for the Presidency. We have every confidence in the sincerity of their representations. The Hon. Mr. Boyce, of South Carolina — Since writing the analysis of the committee to which this gentleman belongs, we have great pleasure in stating that we are authorized to say that Mr. Boyce will not vote for an ex- tension of the naturalization laws, nor will he favor any such policy. Mr. Boyce considers the slavery question as the vital question be- fore the country at this time, and urges the policy of uniting all the conservative men on this issue. Mr. Boyce entertains also the opinion that the Democratic party is the only conservative party at the North of any power to resist the anti-slavery crusade; he is there- fore strongly in favor of a firm adherence by the South to that party, and he necessarily disapproves and laments the existence of any other national party at the South, the effect of which can only be to divide, and distract the South, and deliver her, bound hand and foot, to the enemy. Mr. Boyce is emphatically a Southern Rights man, he claims for the South all the Constitu- tion gives her, no more, no less; he is indepen- dent of all party shackles; he co-operates with the Democratic party because he thinks it wise to do so, but he declines to wage bitter war against the conservative Know Nothings, con- sidering their organization as ephemeral, and that circumstances may eventually force a large portion of them to act with the Demc- cratic party. A Very Important Decision.—We learn that the Secretary of the Treasury has form- ally accepted the recent action of the Texas Legislature as the full and final release of the United States contemplated by the Texas debt bill; and that the money will be duly paid to the holders of the bonds after the ex- Piration of the required ninety days notice. Increase of the Navy.—Yesterday, Mr. Mallory, the chairman of the Senate’s Com- mittee on Naval Affairs, reported a bill ap- propriating two millions of dollars by way of commencing the construction of ten additional steam sloops-of-war propellers. We have every reason to believe that the construction of this addition to the navy will be ordered this session. Not Accepted.—We hear that the Treasury Department have been compelled to abandon the site selected for the new custom-house and post office at Plattsburg, N. Y., on account of being unable to obtain a satisfactory title to it. The Current Operations of the Treasury ‘Departmont.—On yesterday, 26th February, there were of Treasury warrantz entered on the books of the Department— For the redemption of Stocks $28,358 78 For the Treasury Departme: 68,128 01 For the Interior Departmen: 45,427 73 War warrants received an 110 689 02 9,944 93 33,938 12 From miscellaneous sou: 29 75 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. In the Senate, yesterday, after we went to press, Mr. Bell concluded his speech upon our relations with Britain growing out of the Clay- ton and Bulwer treaty. On motion of Mr. Seward, the subject was then postponed, to give Mr. Clayton an oppor- tunity to be heart further on the wabject ac- cording to his desire. An Executive message asking for an appro- priation of $3,000,000, for the repair and im- provement of the fortifications of the country was received, read, and referred to the Com- mittee on Military Affairs. And then they adjourned. In the House, the Senate bill to continue the land office at Kalamazoo, Mich., with an amendment, was recommitted to the public lands committee. » Mr. Bennett reported from the publie lands committee a bill creating two additional land offices in Minnesota ; committed. Mr. Seward, rising to @ personal expl tion, showed that no portion of the res bility for the election of Mr. Banks to Speaker rested on him personally, as had been alleged by nenepenere inimical to him. A message was received from the President of the United States, transmitting, and re- commending to the able eonsideration of Con; ) & commu: ion from the Secretary of War asking a special appropriation of three million dollars to prepare armaments and am- munition for the fortifications, to increase the supply of improved small arms, and to apply recent improvements to arms of old patterns belonging to the United States and the sev- eral States. oe followin, the Secretary of Was is the communication from War: HINGTON, February 25, 1856 Sir: Improvements in arms and munitions of war having been recently perfected, where- by their efficiency has been much increased, it is very desirable that these improvements should be applied, as far and as soon as prac: ticable, to the arms on hand, both in the gov- ernment arsenals and in the possession of the States. Although our present supply of arms is as good as, and probably superior to, those of the same date of manufacture of any other nation, we should have, in the use of them in their present condition, to cope at disadvan- tage with others who may have been before- hand with usin the actual application to their arms of the recent improvements. It has been our policy heretofore to carry on grad ually and slowly the work of preparation for military efficiency, both offensive and defen- sive; and, in pursuance of this policy, the es- timates of the War Department, from year to year, have been limited to the execution of such work only as accorded with the ordinary means of our armories and arsenals, with but a small force of operatives in employment The regular ates last submitted to Con- gress are based on those considerations. In view, however, of the propriety of assuming at the earliest practicable period military effi- ciency as regards armament and munitions, (we have it abundantly as regards men,) it seems proper that more active and vigorous measures should now be wer eee that we should increase the capacity for production, and the force in employment at our armories and arsenals; that we should prepare more rapidly armaments and ammunition for forti- fications, that we should increase our supplies of improved small arms by the manufacture of new ones, and by the alteration of those of ast dat f fabrication, incl| both the nited States and State arms, and that we should provide ample supplies of ammunition, seccoutrements, and implements for the imme- and most efficient use of the whole, In order to effect this, it is necessary that more than ordinary means be at the disposal of the Executive, and I respectfully a t and recommend that application be made for an early Sppropriation of three mil- lions of dollars for increasing the military efficiency of the country, to be applied, at the discretion of the President, towards the ob- before stated. jects before 5 T have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedientservant, Jgrrerson Davis, To the President. Secretary of War. After some dobate as to the proper reference of the communication, whether to the Com- mittee on Military Affairs or the Committee on Ways and Means, the House adjourned. Proceedings of Te-Day. In the Senate, to-day, Mr. Butler reported back from the Judiciary Committee the papers in the case of the disputed seat in the cham- ber held by Mr. Trumbull of Illinois, with information that the committee could come to no conclusion on the subject. Mr. Crittenden offered a resolution afirm- ing Mx, T ’s right to the seat. . Pugh intimated his purpose of offerin, appease declaring that he is not’so Sard The subject was then postponed until Mon- ay next. ‘arious reports were made by Mr Johnson, from the printing committee, which were be- ing disposed of before we went to press. In the House, the Committee on Territo- ries were instructed to inquire into the ex- pediency of providing libraries for each of the Territories, and the Committee on Military Affairs were directed to inquire into the expe- diency of providing for the delivery at Santa Fe, New Mexico, and at Great Salt Lake City, Utah, of the arms to which said Territories are entitled. Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, reported the annual Indian appropriation bill from the Ways and Means Committee; committed. Mr. Ready asked leave to introduce a bill to refand duties on railroad iron; but Mr. Grow objecting, leave was not granted. Mr. Barbour reported from the Judiciary Committee a resolution referring the claim of a citizen of Washington for damages done by the Government in grading a street to the Court of Claims. This resolution was op by Messrs. Jones of Tennessee, and Haven, and advo- cated by Mesers. Clingman and Wakeman. Mr. Jones, of Tenn., moved to lay it on the table; not agreed to. The resolution was then adopted. Mr. Perry moved a resolution directing the Speaker to appoint a committee of five to re- port amendments to the rules for the consid- eration of the House ; agreed to. —- +e ——____ APPOINTMENTS OF Recents.—Mr. Speaker Banks yesterday nominated Hon. Hiram Warner, of Georgia, Hon. James Meacham, of Vermont, and Hon. Wm. H. English, of Indiana, as regents of the Smithsonian Insti- tution on the part of the House of Represen- tatives. Mr. Meacham subsequently declined serving, the duties of that position being too laborious, and he not approving of the present course of the Institution. A Perrumed Brratu.—Whay lady or gen- tleman would remain under the curse of a dis- agreeable breath when by using the ‘Balm of a Thousand Flowers’’ a3 a dentrifice would not only render it sweet but leave the teeth white as alabaster? Many persons do not know their breath is bad, and the subject is so delicate their friends will never mention it. | Pour a single drop ef the “Balm on your tooth brush and wash the teeth night and morning. A fifty cent bottle will last a year. For sale at Shillington’s, agent for Washington, and all Druggiste. PERSONAL ++«+ Hon. T. B. King is in New York. «+ Mrs. Elizabeth Demumbrance, of Nash- viile, Tenn., died on the 6th, aged 116 years. «++. W. V. Wallace, the American compc- ser, is in Paris. ++++ Hon, Roger A. Pryor, of Richmond, has returned from his mission to Greece. +++. Mr. Thackeray is announced to Lecture in Columbus on Monday night next. +++. Sol Brown, the negro convicted of murder, is to be hung at Cumberland, Md., on Friday next. +++» W. Hubard has succeeded, at Rich- mond, in casting a perfect statue of Washing- ton, in Bronze. +++» Russell, the Lodon Times Crimean cor- respondent, has been created Doctor of Laws by Trinity College, Dublin. +++ Jozoph M. Field’s remains have ar- rived in Boston, and been interred at Mount Aubnrn cemetry. see» M. A. M. Chandler, in Willlamsburg District, South Carolina, recently killed forty- seven partridges on the wing, out of filty single shots. +++» Mr. Martin, chief engineer of the “ Merrimac,” was delighted with the working of her machinery as she went off, making nine knots per hour. ++++ Queen Victoria, (who ought to know,) advised the Emperor Eugenie to usechloroform as an alleviator of pain in her hour of trial. But the Parisian doctors protested, saying that she must retain her faculties. +++» Mr. Carter, collector of Portland, has seixed sixty-five thousand cigars on board brig Zone, for alleged violation of the reve- nue. This is the largest seizure of cigars ever made in that district. +++»John Quincy Adams Fellows has been elected grand high priest of the royal arch chapter of Freemasons in Louisiana The spirit of the departed ex-president is likely to be rapping round his paraphernalia. +++e Mr. Francis, of New York, has exhibi- ted his iron military wagon to Louis Napoleon, at Paris. The Emperor was delighted, and presented Mr. Francis with a gold snuff-box, richly adorned with diamonds +++» Linngwus, the great botanist, had in hia house an ingenuous and singular contrivance —a “floral clock.’’ Ina half cirele, round the table of the great botanist, a number of pene were arranged, which, opening their lowers at acertain moment, told the hour with unerring exactitude. +++« Barnum was brave, for he sold his ‘life’? as dearly as possible, yet it appears that in aiding a Clock Company, the Napoleon of Showmen has been going at somewhat ex- tensively on tick. Notes on time have been fatal to him in more senses than one. But it is really somewhat extraordinary that in at- tempting to make Jerome’sclocks go, Barnum should have wound up himself. ++++ Rogers the poet once said: One day I was bea drive with lady Jersey in her carriage, when I expressed (with great sinceri- ty) = regret at being unmarried, saying that “if I had a wife, I should have somebody to care about me.”” ‘Pray, Mr. Rogers,”’ said lady J., ‘‘ how could you be sure that your wife would not care more about somebody else than about you.”” + +++ Caleb B. Atkins, the teller of the Wash- ington Bank, Boston, was arrested on Satur- day on the charge of embezzling from that Bank $7000 in January last. and an equal amount on Saturday Atkins had loaned $7,000 to his brother with the expectation of tting it back and returning it to the bank behets the April examination of accounts. The accused is about 24 years of age and un- married. «eee W. 8. Lindsay, Esq., M. P., for Tyne- mouth, England, was in very early youth a “printer's devil,” in an office in Glasgow Some time ago, when in that city, he called upon his old master, kindly inquired how he was, and how times went with him, ‘Oh,’ said the old mar, ‘very hard, and I can suey make ends meet.”” The worthy M. P. looked at his old governor feelingly, sat down. and wrote a check for £300, remarkin that in aiding him in his distress ho really felt a pleasure. or Florelli, of Naples, is engaged work, in which he Reopens to give lie full-sized copies of the inscriptions at Pompeii. They will be arranged and pub- Yished according ‘to the language in which they are written. The first part consists of. ten gigantic Y peg in lithograph, which con- tain all the Oslan inscriptions, marked by all their natural peculiarities and defects. ‘The on second portion, containing the Greek inscrip- tions, is ready for veniiadlion «++» Dr_ Raphall,ithe well known Jewish Rabbi in New York, says: “I as a Jew, do say, that it appears to me@hat Jecus became the vi of fanaticiem @mbined with jeal oucy lust of power in Jewish hierarchs, evén afin latter ages Huss and Jerome of Prague, Latimer and Ridley, became the vic ro- test against being identified with the zealots a Sore concerned in the proceedings against Jesus of Nasgareth, we are far from reviling his character or deriding his precepts. «+++ Spalding & Rod, are fitting up a monster cireus, to start in the spring from this city, with railroad cars built expressly for the transportation of the troupe, horses and pro- perties of the company, and with adjustable axles to run on any guage, and so conatructed as to be hauled daily from the track to the exhibition ind, there used as dressing rooms, ticket offices, refreshment rooms, museums, &c. They have a new fashioned tent, perfectly water tight, and ventilated in summer, with new fashioned seats with backs, foot boards, air cushions, and many other kindred luxuries never before seen with these itinerant companies. Britise interests 1x Persia.—The cor- respondent of the London Times in Constanti nople, writing on January 21st, says the news from Persia relates almost exclusively to the Herat affair. The official gazette of Teheran, which has been for some time past busy with Herat, has in its last number the report that Dost Mohamed Khan was marching with an army on Herat in order to expel the Persians from there. According tothe Teheran Ga- zette, he was already one day’s march on the Herat side of Candabar. How he came there so suddenly is not explained, nor how he got possession of Candahar. [> The steamer Roanoke arrived at Rich- mond, Va., on Monday, from New York. with a cargo of merchandige. The steamers Belvi- dere and Pocahontas, of Baltimore, which have been lying near Norfolk for several weeks also arrived at Richmond on the same day The opening of navigation seems to have created much rejoicing among business men. Grarg CuLtunr.—Capt Campbell, residing near Knoxville, Tenn., produced, last sum- mer, from one hundred and fifty vines ef the Cahawhba grape, twelve barrels of wine, equal- ing about four hundred gallons. Three or four gentlemen around oxville have com- menced the cultivation of the vine in good earnest, Expiosioy.—On Saturday last one of the boilers in a paper mill at Louisville exploded, killing Thomas Ganon, a girl named Melnot, John Price, the colored fireman, and Daniel Dail-y, Ben Stump was badly scalded, and his son had a leg ee and a gash about four inches long in his forehead. E> It is estimated that 96,000,000 pounds of lard are annually made in the United States, of which 20,000,000 are made in Cin- cinnati England and Cuba each take annu- ally 9,000,000 pounds of American lard. JOHN B. GOUGH WILL GIVE A BE eae on Temperance in thenew Bap tist Church, on 13th street, THIS (Wednesday) EVENING, at 8 o’clock cate Also, on THURSDAY and FRIDAY NIGHTS et’ the same place ‘Ti of admission 25 cen‘s—to b2 had at the door feb 27-3:* NOTICE TO ALL TAVERN-KEEP- Ree ies —A chance for rare 8 Fer sale, the new American Table, at REYNOLD®’ El Dorado House feb 27-1t# A LECTURE WILL BE DELIV- ered atthe M.E Church. G: town, WEDNESDAY EVENING, the 27th instant, at 7% o’clock, by 5. Mortimer Kitcovr, Esq., of Maryland. Subject: The mission of woman in America. feb 26-2t* NOTICE.—THE OUTSTANDING accounts of the Clerk of the Circuit and Criminal Cours of this District, for (he years 1851, ’52, ‘53 and °54, have been placed in my hands and I am directed by the Secretary of the Interior to collect them immediately, according toiaw. J therefore hereby notify all persons in- debted for fees which have accrued in either of the Cou:ts aforementioned, that their accounts will be presented in a few days, and that thesame must be paid within 30 “Ex after presentaticn ; otherwise I shall preceed to collect them as di- rected J. D. HOOVER, feb %—3t Marshal District of Columbia SMITHSONIAN LECTURES —A BS coune of Lectures will be delivered by the Rev. Joun Lorp on the Grandeur and Fall of the French Bourbon Monarchy, commencing on Wednesday Evening, February 27ih. SUBJECTS. Lecture 1.Wednesday, Feb 27.‘‘Cardinal Rich- elieu and the foundation of absolutism in France.” Lecture 2. ee, Feb. 28. ‘‘Louls XIV and the grandeur of the Monarchy.”” Lecture 3. Tuesday, March 4. ‘‘Louis XV and the causes which jermined the Monarchy.’’ Lecture 4. Wednesday, March 5. ‘‘ Mirabeau and the developments of the French revolution.”’ Lecture 5. Thursday, March 6. ‘‘Napoleon Bo- naparte and the results of the revolution.”’ The Lectures will commence at 8o’clock. The public are respectfully invited feb 25-10t L, J. MIDDLETON, DEALER IN ICE, Office and Depot—Southwest corner of F and Twelfth streets. feb 27 tf for Spring this day opened at sige : STEVENS'S feb 27-3 Selesroom, Browns’ Hotel OUST, LAST NIGHT, (TUESDAY, Feb 26th) pr-bably at, or going to, or returning from the Smithsonian Institution, a black moroc- co POCKET BOOK, confined by an eiastic strep. ntaining $8 in gold, and 2 note of $300, signed by George Fuller. The fin will be suitab!: rewarded by leaving itat M®&. JAME=’S, 291 street feb 27 3t [ Sypar DOLLARS KEWARD —Renaway, on the 25th instant, forno cause kuown, a Mulatto Boy, 14 or 15,years old, well grown. I strictly forewarn all persons from ays the said boy under a penalty of thelaw Said bey commonly drove alargeroan mule Hisnaeme is Jobn Wheeler. ALFRED JONES, feb 27-3t® Feed Dealer. THE NAIAD QUEEN. 8 THIS MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE presents 8 grand array of female beauty and the most corgeous and startling scenic effects, LORGNETTES will be absolutely necessery for many of those wishing to enjoy it with any de- of satisfection. For sale at from $3 to $20, at T api & “~ nie, Dealers in Fancy Goods, Perfumery, Jew 5 &c , 370 Pa. avenve, under Browns’ Hotel. feb 27-3t NGLISH PLATED WARE. TEA SETS, COFFEE URNS, DECANTER AND FRUIT STANDS. CASTORS, WAITERS. CAKE BASKETS, DISH COVERS, §¢ , $c , Being decidedly the largest stock of Plated Were in the city, which we have determined to sell at nett cost. Those in want of a good article will do well to give us a call. Also, a few pieces of sterling SILVER WARE, which we will sell at a small advance T GALLIGAN & CO. Dealers in Fancy Goods, Perfumery, Jewelry. Fine Fans, &c., 379 Pennsylvania avenue, under Browns’ Hotel. f.b 27—ee6t ———_$$—$—$ 5 ____.__ CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS, & CIGARS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL; ALSO, SUPERIOR OYSTERS FOR FAMILIES, No 291 Pennsylvania avcnus. A federal SAULE a » HAVING GOM- leted ments fc r- ing lar supple of fine FRESH OYSTERS, is now prepared to fur- nish families with the same daily, by . the quart or gallon—werranted Treeh and supe rior, and prepared with scrupulous cleanliness Housekee) can at any time be supplied with Ae pone leaving their orders at the Winestore Mr Buthmann, or at the Shoestore of Mr. H. Burns, No. 408 Pennsylvania avenue, or at the store of J. De Saules, corner of Pennsylvania a and ray street. an ne eonthens rders $0 givin; streets ae oe mere tae tion ; iL 80 1 Seana O-sters in the market. ceivii a LES he=ps a horse and vehicle in par fa per pe deliver Oo; to any part of the city from 10 0’clock in until 9 o’clock at = ht. on very. ,000 bottles of superior TOMATO CATSUP, for = by the single bottle or dozen jonstantly kept a choice supply of WINES, LAQUORS. ani CIGARS, at his store near Mth street and avenue, mostly relected from Mr. Buthmann’s stock. Also, FRE*H FRUITS, PRESERVES, and JELLIEs, Xe. feb 27-3 ‘ a IMMENSE SUCCESS OF THE FAVOBITES, THEE NIGHTS LONGER OF KUNKEEL’'S GREAT OPERA TROUPE, AT THE VARIETIES, MONDAY, TUESDAY, AND WEDNESDAY. VING JUST COMPLETED A MOST Hinson tour through the South oe wil teach lady’ vieltor with enuttfal JaL EN TING Doors open at 6% o’clock—commencing at 7 o 5 Admission 25 cents feb 35 d JOHN T. FORD, Agent NATIONAL THEATRE. - Dp ManacE Laseze an —_ Staex Maxsoxn Museum. -+-Mr. JEYFERSOF, Box book 0 Menca) iepnlaseaay, toma Oe m until 4p. ma. The public of Wasbington, Georgetown, Aleran- Blad mort respect- “tally informed tit the Sublime THE NATAD QUEEN; OR, THE REVOLT OF THE WATER NYMPHS; has been ed in Baltimore 76 nights. ca 3 esos ‘will be performed on f WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, AND FRIDAY EVENINGS, February 27th. 26th, and 29th, ‘when allt e MAGNIFICENT SCENERY, SURPRISING MECHANICAL EFFECTS, Grand Marches and Military Mancuvers, SONGS, DANCES, TABLEAUX, €c., will be presented—together with THE I herent tt =r ee vl ex ly for who are engaged ae hyd represent i otice —On THURSDAY AFTERNOON UT RAND DAYLIGHT PERFORMANCE," when the £pe-tacle will be with all the Splendors distinguish evening repreren- tations. For Synopsis of Scenery, Incidents, Songs, pizen Re. see bills of the Theatre. . Doors at 6% o’clock p. m.: curtain rises at ™%* pei ped v feb 23-4 Y ee SPARENT BAR SOAP.—A superior article for the toilet for sale by feb 26.3 LAMMOND, 8r., 7th st ARRY’S TRICOPHEROUS, warranted vegas < feb 36 3 MMOND, ®r , 7th st FA 8e¥ Goons AND TOYS for sale by LAMMOND, 8r., 7th st. fel) 26-3t OWA LAND FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE for property in the District of Columbia, and I will give the difference, if any, in CASH. feb 26-4t* JOHN D. CLARK. Ope STOCK.—$58,000 Cerpo- ration of Washington Stock for sale at feb 25—tf CHUBB BROTHERS. NO HUMBUG: GREATIMPROVEMENT IN ETHEREAL : OIL LAMPS. E RESPECTFULLY CALL THE AT- tention of our friends and the public “4 ally to cur hn ae od imy THEREAL Or LAMPS, the bes: of the kind ever offered to the public, one of which can be seen at any time burning at our store No 23 C street, between 6th ane 7th HOWELL & MORSELL. ETHEREAL OIL 58 ceats per gallon. fel, 25-2w POLICE INTELLIGENCE, J hires citizen* and strangers may be at no loss to know where theycen obtain the services of a Police Officer at any hour, they are informed that the Central Pelice Office, E street, near Sth, is — a ay Aas the week omS A. M.tihs3g P.M. Where the eid of officers of the regularly aw therized Poi.ce department can be obtaincd to ferret out robberies, &c., and to attend to any vio- lation of the laws of the United States and of the Corporation. JVHN 8. HOLLINGSHEAD, Justice of the Peace feb 25-3: and Police Magistrate, 3d District. Wert HAVETHI* DAY (FEBRU- Mth) associated with me in co) ip Joun T Mitcuxtt. The business hereafter be conducted under the firm of HARPER & MITCHELL. I wovld take this opportunity to say to my friends and customers who are indebted to me by note or open account that they will confer an es- pecial favor by making en early settlement. asi wish to close up the business of the late firm feb 25—3t WALTER HARPER ———— FRESH VENiI£ON, WILD TURKEY, &c. ILL RECEIVE FROM THE MOUN- tains on Tuesday, by eee FRESH VENISON, WILD TURKEY, BUT- TER, EGGS, &e , at KING'S Family feb 23 corner 6 > and 15th sts DENTISTRY OCTORS J. F. CALDWELL, LATE OF Virginia, and STEPHEN BAt- LY of this city have formed a con- nection in business to practice in all the phases of Dentistry Their rooms are on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenve, w doors east of Fo rieenth street and Willard’s Hotel. where they both will aL. devote them- selves to their profession, promising the ladies and gentlemen of this city and the public gen- erally, that from their long experience will a execute all kinds of their work faithfully, satis- factorily, and uj terms with which the most pleased. 2 WILL LEAVE SHORTLY. i po R. respectfully imferms the Wealth “Nar wrnge Ponape Ba ieee 4 5 ares. ou! iw Suits, Dificulties siness, Absent F rien She i ues p tall t the. aod of cae 8, also, to e reading num ar al hours of the day and evening Her name is on the door—at No. 285 13th street cents and ladies 25. a een a FRUIT TREES, &c. offering a t piendid collection of FRUIT, TREES, of su jor growth and guality,' CHERRIES, &c.. large and vi orous, and varie- ties suited to this latitude. Also, many thou- CURRANTS, red, white and black, thenew lon bunched varieties; STRAWBERRY PLANTS, GREENS, &c., with everyibing aining to the Nursery and Seed business, of first quality JOHN RAUL, Seed Warehouse. 300, 7th street, cor. H, Washington, D C fastidious will feb 3—1w blic in that she will give informa- and Death ecagens. numbers. She can be consi corner of D, on the left hand side. =a joan SAUL HAS THE PLEASURE OF consist ng of PEACH, APPLES, PEAR sands of the large Lancashire 6 OOSEBERRIES; RHUBARB ROOTS. SHADE TREES, EVER- and very moderate prices feb 25—eo6t* BUTTER, CHEESE, &c. 19 EEGS GLAD¥s BUTTER 40 boxes EASTERN CHEESE, 75 boxes SCALED HERRINGS. 2000 pounds PRIME NEW #HOULDERS 10005: cs “HAMS, 7hhds. New Crop N.O. SUGAR, Wbbis. N. O. MOLASSES, Just received and for sale by BARBOUR & SEMMES, No. 65 La. av., opp. Bank of Washi: » feb 25-co6t cil between 6th and Sth FIRE WOOD: 4 be UNDERSIGNED HAS SOME HUN- dreds of cords of the best Osk WOUD. at the Cross Roads Tavern Farm, nine miles from Washington, on the 7th sireet plank road, which he is sellii rtwo dollars a cord. Enquire <f Mr “James W. Fling, at the fork of the road GEO. TAYLOR. feb 11-w3we Chapel Hil HE NEW BLUE BOOK, or Governmen! Register 1°66, just issued, giving the names, salaries, locations, &c., of all postmasters amd er , ublic officers and pnts, civil, military, @ naval, in the service the United States; with. the names, forces, and condition of all ships and vessels belonging to the United Btutes, and where it; and the names and compenuss- tion of all printers in any way employed by Con- gress, or an’ it or officer of the Goveru- ment. 1 octave volume, Price 83 50. Can be sent by mail to any part of the United States. For sale in Washi: TAYLOR & MAURY, feb 22 Booksellers, near Xb * aonereaetee at , seven years old, * ; the Aral {maum, of M out of a mare, ey Can be seen on BURCH’S STABLE, near 22-70% ! | id barness