Evening Star Newspaper, February 29, 1856, Page 2

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So, also. bas the Star officea Book Bindery connected with it, bo gre in its capacity to turn out book binding of descripitions to any other in the District of SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS The Intelligencer has a long non-committal review of the documents sent into the Senate yesterday, containing “the correspondence which has taken place between this Govern- ment and that of Great Britain in regard to the enlistment of soldiers within the United States by the agents and officers of tho latter for the British army, accompanied by evi- dence and documents showing the connexion of these agents and officers with the alleged violation of our laws and sovereign rights.’’ The Unton presents the salient points in the history of the “« Enlistment’’ question, as proven by the correspondence, which clearly shows that: ‘Mr. Marcy, after discussing the question with Lord Clarendon for the last six months in @ series of able and argumentative des patches, has elicited from the British govern- ment only persevering defence of the wrong. We have now reached the inevitable result. The President of the United States, in the discharge of his public duty, and for the vin- dication of the national e and honor, has been constrained to require of the British gov- ernment the recall of Mr. Crampton and the dismissal of the British consuls at New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati. “At the last advices the public mind in England was under the preverse impression of certain statements made by the Earl of Clar- endon in the House of Lords. We will not trust ourselves to characterize what he said. It was, from the beginning to end, so utterly untrue, that we are at a loss to decide whether he spoke in total ignorance of the facts, or with deliberate misrepresentation. What he said has been most pointedly contradicted al- ready by several Senators in their places, in- cluding the considerate and honorable chair- man of the Committee on Foreign Relations. We content ourselves with adi ing, that the documents before us conclusively disprove every material thing, which the Earl of Clar- endon uttered in extenuation of the conduct of the British government; and we confidently _— that, when these documents reach don, and come to be read there, they will produce the same conviction in the minds of the people of Great Britain, and will complete- oe any possible danger arising out of this question to the peaceful relations of Great Britain and the United States. _ ‘If there ever was a national controverzy in which a government did wrong, as distin- guished from the people, it is in the conduct of the present British ministers in this affair. They have perpetrated a succession of such mischievous and deplorable blunders as no parallel can be found for in the previous his- bd of England. It was a blunder unzpeak- able to think of standing by the side of France before Sebastopol with a handful of mercenaries recruited elandestinely in Ger- many or the United States. Much has been said in the British journals themselves of the damaging effect of the incidents of this war on the military prestige of Great Britain. The present fact is the most dam: ing of all. Well was it said recently by an eminent mem- ber of Parliament, in a public speech : ‘The whole proceeding is degrading to England.’ “The next at blunder was the inconceiy- able folly of assuming that tho recruiting business could be carried on in the United States any way, without running against the act of Congress. The crowning blunder is the theory on which the Earl of Clarendon has conducted the defonce of himself and Mr. Crampton, in treating it as a question of mero municipal law, and setting up Old Bailey technicalities in response to the demand of national reparation made by the United States. In all this. it is the people of Eng- jand, and England herself, whe are dishonored and aggrieved, by this obstinate struggle of their ministry to maintain a false position, which they never ought to have taken, and from which after it bad been improvidently taken, it was the dictate both of good sense and of true honor to retire at once, with frank rendering of complete satisfaction when it was demanded by the United States.” Spectan CorREsronvents are often terribly out of the way in their telegraphic news, and we are not suprised to find one wind up by saying ;—‘‘My dispatch though may be imper- fect.’’ When we get a perfect one we shal} be ready to believe in “ Gulliver's Travels,” “‘Sindbad the Ssilor,”’ “ Dickena’ Notes,’? and “ Spiritual Knockings.”’ Onio U. 8S. Sgxator.—We learn by a des- pateh from Cincinnati that the Hon. Benjamin °F. Wade bas been re-lected to the Senate of the United States for six years from the 3d of March, 1857, when his present term of service willexpire The vote stood, for B. F. Wade 102, David Tod 36, Henry Stanbery 1. “Prepare ror War.”—While we trust that we may long enjoy a quiet “time of Peace,’’ we are glad to find that the leading journals, without distinction of party, are dis- posed to support measures for national de- fence. Though it is true (as the Philadelphia Sun remarks) that ‘‘tbrice is he armed that bath his quarrel juet,”’ still the advice of Col. Ethan Allen wae strikingly appropriate, to “trust in God, but keep your powder dry ” Individuals lock and belt their doors, barri- cade their window shutters, and take every precaution against outrage, and governments in the same manner should always be pre- pared to resist aggression. We have millions of dollars now idle in the federal treasury, and no better investment of a portion could be made than in preparing to defend our hearths and homes—our shores and ships Great Britain, with that singular Political forecast which justifies the proud boast that “*the sun never sets dpon her flag.” hasa cordon of fortresses at prominent points oppo- site our eastern coasts, and has planted her batteries from Newfoundland to the Oronoco. Let us mount 2 battery against each gun— build a equadron against each\ ship—raise a regiment against each company—and not per- mit ‘Her Majesty’s servants”’ to intagine that they can insult us with impunity. —————_ ee Boston Carsorics.—After the coast of America had beguu to bo settled by Baglish Protestants the persecuted French Protestants, to suméd extent, came hither to find refuge, and mingle with the rope One colony of this character came to Massachusetts and settled at Oxford. Notbeing able, however, to endure their troubles from the Indians, they came into Boston and built a church, which church, strangely enough, was the first to receive the French Catholics who fed from the fury of the Jacobing in the days of Voltaire.—Pose WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOssip. A New Phase.—The Central American question has taken a new aspect. It seems that after the Senate yesterday had determ- ined to adjourn over until Monday, that vote was reconsidered, on the motion of Mr. Mason, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Rela- tions, for the reason that an important Execu- tive communication was expected to-day, and the Senate accordingly met to-day to receive it. This communication relates to the Central American question. At the late opening of Parliament, it will be remembered, the Earl of Clarendon said, that, coming to the conelu- sion that furthercorrespondence on the subject was useless: ‘I lost no time in offering to refer the whole question to the arbitration of any third Power, both sides agreeing to bo bound by the decision. That offer has not yet been accepted ; it has been renewed, and I hope that, upon further consideration, the Government of the United States will agree to it.’’ It seems that in consequence of this state- ment. Mr. Buchanan called on Lord Claren- don for explanations, Mr. B. not being aware of any action of the British Government which could justify the statement made by Lord Clarendon. In support of it, the latter referred to some indefinite conversation which he had had, on a prev day, with Mr. Bu- chanan, not sufficient, either in form or sub- stance, to constitute an official offer of the British Government. He referred further, to instructions which he had addressed to Mr. Crampton, to the same effect, and which, as he stated, Mr. Crampton had communicated to Mr. Marcy. It now appears that Mr. Crampton did not communicate those instructions to Mr. Marcy, although he received them so long ago as November last; and it was only on Wednes- day evening last, that, for the first time, Mr. Crampton communicated this proposition to Mr. Maroy. It is thus conclusively proved that, even had the British Government really intended to make a binding offer of an arbitration upon the construction of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, still it had not been done when Lord Claren- don made his statement in the House of Lords And thus new evidence is afforded of the right{ulness of the United States, even in the secondary and collateral incidents of their controversy with Great Britain. The fact that these instructions of Lord Clarendon remained in Mr. Crampton’s hands three months without having been acted upon, is so remarkable that it cannot fail to awaken attention, and call for the most complote ex- planation, both here and in London. Legislation on Slavery.—In discussing con- stitutional questions much time might be saved, and much mystification removed, by taking a more humble, yet more truthful, view of the charter of our Government than is usually taken. The Constitution of the United States has an imperial sound to some ; they view it as constituting the United States, and full of sovereignty and supreme powers. Now, if it is considered in its true light, that of a mere power of attorney of the several States consti. tuting the Government of the States united their common agent for certain specified pur- poses, then we can see more clearly what powers belong to this mighty sovereign, the Government of the United States. It was formed for two purposes: 1. To take care of and administer exclusively certain common interests; 2. To preserve and protect, by mu- tual and combined strength, the exclusive rights of each State, and of the citrzens of each State. It was not formed to consolidate and throw into common stock the interests of all, after the manner of the Mormons or Free Soilers. The people of one State, or any number of the States, have no more right to decide through the General Government or other- wise, (or even to a voice in the matter,) what servants the people of another State shall have, than they have to determine what de- scription of wives they shall have. Slavery existed in the States before and when the Constitution was formed, and if it had been intended to give the Government any control over the institution, it would have been so expressed. Yet nothing is said about it, ex- cept to declare that it shall be protected. So far from being authorized to interfere with slavery, the Government is bound to see that it shall not be interfered with. And yet it is contended by 2 large political party that, in- stead of being protected as the Constitution requires, domestic servitude shall not exist at all in certain Statez. New States, it is true; but they had just as well say in the old States; because the States must be upon an equality— the old States came in as equals, without any questions being asked respecting slavery, and the new States have a right to come into the Union in the same way. As a new State is admitted, the Government immediately be- comes its agent, bound by all the obligations of ite agency for the other States, bound to protect, if necessary, its citizens and their property to the extent of the power conferred upon it. What impudence in this agent to tell his principals what they shall or shall not do in respect to things not appertaining to his agency! As well might the directors of a bank attempt to regulate the mercantile and agriculture! affairs of the stockholders. There is no more sovereignty in the Goy- ernment of the United States than proprie- tary right in an overseer to the plantation he superintends. Sovereignty resides in the con- stitution-making power. The constitution- making power is in the States. For the sake of convenience Congress may propose amend- ments to the Constitution, but they must be adopted by the States; and even this under the Constitution first made by the States. But in respect to slavery: the very cause of the clamor against it, is of itself, a good reason why that clamor must be disregarded. The cause of the clamor is to be found in the fact that slavery is sectional—that it exists in one portion of the Union and does not exist in the other. Now, if it existed in every State of the Union, there might be some reason why Congress could interfere with it. A law in relation to slavery would then be, at least, equal and uniform throughout the United States; but such @ law now would not be equal and uniform. but would be as unwar- rantable, as a law to tax cotton to a sufficient amount to psy the expenses of Government, should the direct taxation system be adopted. The idea that Congress can determine whether slavery shal! exist in the Territories, while they are Territories, or that they can delegate this power to the people of the Terri- tories is simply childish. If Congress could do this, they could determine whether a new State should have slavery or not. For if slavery were abolished during the territurial existence, the State would, of course, be ffee. And if the people of the Territory had this power, one session of the Legislature mizht bein favor of slavery, and slaves would, be brought to the Territory. The next session is against slavery, and it is abolished; and so on, alternating, interminable confusion would exist. itis only in their sovereign capacity when they form a State that the people can deter- mine the question of slavery, and even then, existing slave property must be respected. Slavery is sectional—freedom national, say the party to which we have referred. How then becomes a sectional interest a subject of national legislation ? Lord Clarendon’s Misstatements.—A pam- phiet lately made its appearance in London, (‘‘ published by J. Wilson, George Court, Pic- adilly, London,’’) on the subject of British recruiting in the United States, wherein Lord Clarendon’s apparently unaccountable misap- prehension of our neutrality laws, and of tho facts involved in the conduct of British offi- cialz here in the matter, are ably sct forth by a British pen evidently. We quote the pam- phiet in question as follows : ‘Lord Clarendon's ome may be fairly judged of by his quotation of Judge Kano’s opinion. (See his speech, ante) He gives that opinion as approving the conduct of the English agents. “What are the facts? ‘“« Twomen under prosecution by the United States government for an offence against the law, by illegally recruiting, are brought be- fore Judge Kane on a writ of Aaheas corpus. “Now it is held, under the law of the United States, that to constitute an offence within the meaning of the act of Congress of 1818, under which all the ,.rosecutions have been institut ed, it is not sufficient for one or either of the parties—r. ¢., the recruiter, and the recruit, to know that he, the recruit, is leaving the United States for the purpose of entering the military service of a foreign prince or poten- tate, but both must know it. (This was in view of the pretence of the English government referred to in Lord Clarendon’s speech, that men were collected for the Canadian rail- ways.) ‘ Judge Kane having so stated the law, pro- ceeds, in the next sentence of his judgment, to say, that such mutual knowledge was proved in the case of the men before him, and accord- ingly he remands them to the custody they came from. . ‘‘ Lord Clarendon has the audacity to quote (and how unfairly is shown aber) one sen- tence from a decision on a writ of habeas cor- pus as the opinion of Judge Kane on the ‘‘mer- its,’ which were not before him; and Lord Clarendon so quotes him, with the full knowl- edge that Judge Kane was the very Judge before whom Hertz, on whose trial the evidence implicating Mr. Crampton was produced, was prosecuted and convicted.” The above extract forces on our mind the im- pression that his Lordship has been systemat- ically deceived by misrepresentations of the case in many important particulars. Who could have thus taken the liberty of deceiving him in a case of so much delicacy and inter- national importance ? The Documents.—The transmission to Con- gress of the ‘‘ Enlistment Correspondence,”’ yesterday afternoon, afforded ample topics for conversation; and it seemed to be universally conceded that the logical reasoning of Messrs- Marcy and Buchanan completely overthrow the shallow reasoning and the supercilicus evasions of ‘‘ Her Majesty’s servants.’’ It is evident that Mr. Marcy, having been on the most intimate terms with Mr. Crampton, “ re- sisted the evidence tending to implicate him in the recruiting project until it become too powerful to be any longer withstood,’’ and that the Government was reluctantly forced to demand the recall of Mr. Crampton, and also the withdrawal of Consuls Matthews, Roweroft, and Barclay, as the measure of sat- isfaction which the United States requires for a serious breach of international law and dip- lomatie courtesy. The special pleading of Lord Clarendon, that Mr. Buchanan had expressed himself satiefied at his excuses, is completely over- thrown, as it is shown that our minister at the Court of St. James did not know that, at that very day, Mr. Marcy was writing of enlist. ments, under British agents and complicity of the British minister and other officials. Upon learning this complicity of the British minis- ter and other officials, Mr. Buchananin a note addressed to Mr. Marcy, dated October 3, 1855, remarks : “T need parcel, say that, had I been in- formed that her Britannic Majesty's repre- sentative at eatin en had placed himself in the position attributed to him by Captain Strobel, I should not have expressed to Lord Clarendon my satisfaction in transmitting to you his note of the 16th July.”’ Capt. Ritchie —The verdict of the Court Martial in the case of Capt. Ritchie has trans- pired. The Court Martial found him guilty, and sentenced him to be reprimanded by the Secretary of the Navy. The Secretary, how- ever, upon an examination of the testimony, decided that the action and verdict of the Court Martial were disapproved, for the good of the service. In this decision the President concurred; and Capt. Ritchie has been conse- quently discharged from arrest, and reinstated in his rank and position in the Navy. General Cushman.—This gentleman, who is Commissioner on the part of the United States, to fix the limits of the fisheries on the Atlantic coast, has made a brief visit to this city, and left yesterday afternoon. The ac- tive duties of the commission will be resumed early in the spring. The Current Operations of the Treasury Department.—On yesterday, 28th February, there were of Treasury warrants entered on the books of the Department— For the redemption of Stocks.... $66,841 04 For the Treasury Department 672 17 For the Interior Department..... 34,884 91 For Customs...... ove 2,362 50 On account of the Navy.......-. 115,340 03 Repayment on account of the BVYocccccces 19,152 70 748 70 5,639 93 From miscellaneous sources...... 31 25 TOO oe CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. In the Senate, yesterday, after we went to press, a message was received from the President of the United States on the subject of enlistment of soldiers by British officials; which was ordered to be printed. A resolution was introduced by Mr. Mason calling for information in relation to a pro- posed arbitration of questions between Britain and this government ; adopted. i The Senate resumed the consideration of the special order—being the motion to print the message of the President in relation to the disturbances in Kansas. Mr Hale replied to the speech made by Mr. Toucey a few days since, and opposed the policy adopted by the President in refer- ence to affairs in Kansas. He also discussed the slavery question at length. In opening his speech he declined to reply to the per- sonal remarks of Mr. Jones, of Tennessee, made a few days ago. Mr. Toombs expressed his concurrence in the policy adopted by the President in rela- tion to the troubles in Kansas, and believed him entitled to the support of every friend of order in the country. He tcok occasion to say that if the emigrant aid societies only at- tempted to encourage the emigration and set tlement of ona fide citizens of Kansas, they had violated no law, but had simply done what they had a right to do; and any one undertaking to prevent the exercise of this ht should be put down. r. Butler obtained the floor, and the sub- ject was postponed until Wednesday next. The Senate then adjourned. In the House, under the special rule, an unusually large number of bills and resolu- tions of inquiry were presented. Among the resolutions offered and adopted, no objection being made thereto, were the fol- lowing: By Mr. Florence: That the Committce on Naval Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making immediate provi- sion for the building of ten steam sloops, or other vessels of war. with auxiliary steam power, and to report thereon by bill or other- wise. By Mr. Keitt: That the Committee on Na- val Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a navy yard at Port Royal, in South Carolina By Mr. Dick: That, in view of the great commercial and national interests in the nav- igation of our northern lakes, the Committee on Naval Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a navy yard, depot, and dry dock at some suitable point on said lakes, and report by bill or otherwise. By Mr. Campbell, of Pa : That the Judi ciary Committee be, and they are hereby, in- structed to inquire into, and report upon, the propriety of changing existing laws so that postmasters throughout the United States and the Territories thereof shall be elected by the eople. By Mr. Sherman: That the Committee on Printing are instructed to report to this House the amount expended for printing, binding, and engraving for cach of the various depart- ments of the Government, during the last four fiscal years; and, also, that the same com- mittee inquire into and report, by bill or other- wise, as to the expediency of establishing a Government printing office, under the charge of the Department of the Interior. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, (Mr. Pen- nington in the chair,) and proceeded to cor- sider the bill to supply deficiencies in the ap- propriations for the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1856. After a short time spent in its considera- tion, the committee rose, and the House ad- journed until Monday. Proceedings of Te-Day. Py In the Senate, to-day, a message wae re- ceived from the President, and read. It was in answer to the resolution of inquiry offered by Mr Mason, and passed on Tuesday by the Senate. It stated that no offer to submit the difficulties between the English and American Governments to arbitration had ever been for- mally made, but that much informal conver- sation on thesubjecthad passed between Lord | Clarendon and Mr. Buchanan, which was re- garded by the British Government asa formal offer, but which was not so viewed by our Minister. It also appears that ina note dat-d February 27, 1856, Mr. Crampton had made some representations on the subject. Mr. Seward was glad to see the pacific turn of this controve It seemed, he thought, that the English Government was now ready, at any rate, to referthe matter to arbitra- ment. He should never have consented that this Government shuuld make proposals to re- fer the subject to arbitrators, bat he did not think it would derogate from the dignity of the United States to accept that offer when properly made. He thought the matter in good hands, and that the State Department could manage the subject without the aid of Congress. ‘ The matter was then discussed by Messrs. Pierce, Mason and Seward, somewhat further, when it was ordered that ten thousand copies of this message and the message on the infrac- tion of the neutrality be printod together. Oe i The Lapwing has returned to New Bed- ford, from her first whaling cruise of thirty months, with 2 cargo worth $135,000. Ee A young man named J. J. Rossmassen, formerly of Oswego, committed suicide at Chi- cago last week. iF The Indiana state fair premium list for 1556, amounts to 56000, and is open to all the world. ke Nine murders have been committed in Memphis, Tenn, within a year, and not one of the murderers have been brought to jus- tice. Steet Pens —There are in the whole world but fourteen manufactories of steel pene, nine of them are at Birmingham, four at Boulogne- eur-mer, and one at Pariz. A New Irew.—Tho New York Daily Times has sent in a bill to the Board of Councilmen of $26, for repeating editorially the funeral of the late Councilman Dixon! Sr. Lovrs.—The taking of the census of St. Louis has just been completed, and gives as the total population of the city, 122,252. The increase since 1850 is about thirty thousand. “The number of farms in New Hamp- shire is 47,408; in Vermont, 48,312; in Mas- sachusetts, 55,032; in Connecticut, 31,756; in Rhode Island, 8,398. Ee Women and three-cent statesmen are given totalk If not born to it, they acquire the vice shortly after emerging from the cradle aaa small clothes, and only lay it down at the coffin, (The citizens of Portland have confirmed the recent appropriation by the city gevern- ment of $60,000 or wharf accommodation for the mammoth English steamer, by a vote of 145 to 117- Cutcago.—The Chicago Democrat gives a statement of the grain instore in the different warehouses of that city which foots up as fol- lows: Wheat 116,200 bu.; Corn 51.100 bu. : Oats 14800 bu.—making a total of 182,100 bushels of grain. tp The “ Spring Ride Infirmary,” in Mis- sissippi, was entirely destroyed by fire on the 13th inst. Loss $15,000; insurance aboutone half that sum. {> The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has decided that it has full jurisdiction in the dis- puted Governorship, and the investigation in the case of Bashford vs. Barstow will at once proceed. E* The Chicago Democrat says that some idea of a roligious-week day meeting in that city may be obtained from the fact that on a recent occasion of unusual interest the assem- blage consisted of sixty-eight women, one man and a boy. Twins axv TripLets.—A few days since the wife of the Rev. Horace James, of this city, gave birth totwo children at one time, and since then the wife of the Rev. Geo Bush- nell, also of this city, hag given birth to three children, all at one time.— Worcester ( Mass.) Spy. West Point harbor on York river, cold as the winter has been in Virginia, has continued open, and navigation has, in consequence, been unobstructed West Point is the selected terminus of the Richmond and York River Railroad, and is situated at the junction of the Mattiponi and Pamunkey Rivers. Eg One firm in New York has sent seven cargoes of ship-timber to the port of Kenne- bunk, Me , within a short time, and is supply- ing timber for the construction of about a dozen ships. Up to within a comparatively recent period, very little timber was furnished to Eastern ship-builders, except keel pieces, or afew other choice sticks. Next we shall hear of shipping whale oil to New Bedford, and long clams to Long Island. Upset —As the wagon, conveying the US S. Mail from Washington to Alexandria on its way down on Monday night, when about two miles from that city, it was upset, and pre- cipitated down an embankment on the track of the railroad. Several pereons were on the wagon at the time, but fortunately no one was seriously hurt, though all were more or less bruised. CoLp.—A gentleman who was born in De troit, and is now 74 years of age, informs the Monroe Commercial that the winter of 1812 was colder than the present. The ice in the lake was three feet thick, and closed up some of the harbors tili May. Ten years previous to that time the winter was still colder; and one winter, he recollects, the snow was three or tour feet deep on a level. ATIONAL THEATRE LAST NIGHT OF THE NALtAD QUEEN. GRAND COMPLIMENTARY BENEFIT TO HENRY C. JARRETT. tendered by many Members of both Houses of Cony and the Citizens of Washington. SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 1. 1°56. will be formed THE NAIAD QUEEN, with other attractions. (7 Particulars in to-mo:row’s advertisement feb 29-1t GREAT TEMPERANCE MEETING. Bm ii the request of several Members of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution has been ted for a ‘Temperance Meeting THIS EV E- ING. The Hon Mr. Banxs, Speaker of the House, will preside. Addresses will be made by Mr_ J.B. Goven, and two Members of Congress Commence precisely at 7% o’elock. For the promotion of the cause 26 cents may be received at the door. feb 22-11* NOTICE —A MEETING OF TERP- sichore Club will be held on MONDAY EVENING, March 3d, at Columbia Engine House, at 7 o’clock. Every member is reque-ted mt be punctual, as there wiil be an election of of- cers. By order of MaRcELLUs MaRcERON, President ite PHILLIP J. ENNIS, Sec’y. WASHINGTON LIGHT INFANTRY, ATTENTION —Meet fordrill on SATUR- DAY NIGHT, March Ist, at7 o’clock p fet A full attendance for this drill is par ticularly necessary. H. RICHEY, 0.8 By order: ar meeting will take place oa MO’ 54 3d. feb The DAY NIGHT, Marc’ Ke" vl UOALLTAVERN-KE. ERS.—A chance for rare sport For sale, the new American Table, at REYNOLDS’ El Dorado House. feb 29-116 A LECTURE WILL BE DELIV ered at the M. E. Church, Georgetown, on MONDAY EVENING, March the 3d, at re — by J. Montimer Kireoun, Eeq., of i Subject: The mission of woman in America Admittance 12}¢ cents; tickets to be had of Mi-s Thomas and Mr. Kemick. feb 3 o1* Boe es FAIR FOR THE BENEFIT of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, corner of H and Eleventh streets, will be beid every evening during the week, commencing on MUN- DAY, March 34, at Odd Fellows’ Hall, 7th st As usual birt | accommodation usual at Falr: will be provided. A Band of Music will be in attendance every evening. Come one, come all. feb 23—dt7mar SAINT ANDREW’S SOCIETY, Washington, D.C.—The lar quar- terly meeting of the above Society will be beid a’ ere Hallion MONDAY BVENING, 3d March, at 7 o’clock Punotual attendance !s re- quested. JAMES McWILLIAMS, feb 29—4t Secretary OHN B. GOUGH WILL GIVE A Lecture on Temperance in thenew Bap tlst Church, on 13th street, THIS (Wednesday) EVENING, at 8 o’clock precisel: Also, on ‘THURSDAY and FRIDAY NI HTS at the | — | , Tickets of admission 25 cents—to be had at the ; door. feb 27-31" cS SMITHSONIAN LECTURES —A { Course 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 27th. SUBJECTS. Lecture 3. Tuesday, March 4. ‘‘Louis XV and the causes which undermined the Monarchy.’ Lecture 4. Wednesday, March 5. ‘* Mirabeau and the eee eae of the French revolution.’* Lecture §. Thursday, March 6. -‘Na) Bo- naparte and the results of the revolution.’’ The Lectures will commence at 8 o'clock. The public are respectfully invited. feb 26-10 Le ‘T.—AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE, last evening, a PORTMONNAIE, contain- ing only a few pa cept the owner. Ts of no value to any one ex ‘he finder or thief, edgar ever he may be,) by leaving it at No. 211 Pa. avenue, will be suitably rewarded and no questions asked. feb 29-11% /SHUW CASE FOR SALE VERY LOW fa at ELLIs’s, 306 Pa. avenue. feb 29 uf brows BOSTON YEAR BOOK OF Tracts for 1556, an Annual of Scientific Discovery, just received by FRANCK TAYLOR. feb29 yeas AND JET BRACELETS, Pearl Cad Cases, Portemonnaies, Buck Purser. supertor Pomade, Combs, Hair Brushes, &c.. for sale cheap by LAMMOND, Sr , _feb 29—3t 7th street. A HANDSOME, GENTLE- spirited, sound HORSE. Paces, can- ters and trots finely, draws ta single or double bsrness, will be sold cheap at a WRIGHT’S Siable, Union Hotel, Georgetown feb 20-30% , " nee etepenesenaeiaticaicinieaactiehi ce NNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY or Year-Book of ‘Practs in Science and Art, for 1556, edited by David A Wells A.M , 1 25, just pabli-hed and for sule at TAYLOR & MAURY’S feb 29 Bookstore, near 9th st. S X DOZEN VIOLINS JUST RECEIVED WO at ELLIS’S, 306 Pa. avenue feb 29 P.\HE LARGEST MUSIC ESTABLISHMENT in Wasbington, is at No 306 Penns} ivania avenue JOHN F. ELLIS feb 29 Cones. BRUSHES, PERFUMERY, SOAP, &c.,at ELLIS’s, 306 Pa. av., between 9th and 10th sts. feb29 | Etat edeg PRACTICE, Vel. 2.—THE Practice in Courts of Justice in England aud the United States, by Conway Robinson, in two volumes. Second volume this day issued. feb 29—tr FRANCK TAYLOR. ACKEREL!—MACKEREL! 20 balf-barrels No. 2 Mackerel 15q’r do do In store and for sale low by HARTLEY & BROTHER. fed 29-1w 101 Water street, Georget’n. MERICAN HAMS 100 sugat-cured American Hams, warranted of supericr flavor, and superior to Westphalia Hams. For sale by W.H. TENNEY, Wholesale and Retail Grocer, S.K. corner Bridge and High sts, Georget’n. feb 29-e03t TRAYED AWAY FROM THE SUB scriber, on Friday, the 22d instant, a light Brindle BULL DOG, about 2 years old, answers to the nameof Ponto. All of. his feet, neck, nose, and between bis eves are white; has a long tail and cropped ears. When he lefthome had a leather stray around his neck I will give two dellars reward for the return of the above described Dog or for any information which may lcad to his discovery. J. H. TUCKER, feb 29-31% City Post Ottice. GRAND MASQUERADE AND FANCY DKESS BALL AT FORREST HALL, GEORGETOWN. iA Seene MASQUERADE WILL BE given on THURSDAY, March 6th. at the above named Hall, under the personal direction of Sig. MONTPLAISAR. No pains ee — spared to make it one of the most pleasant e season. Tickets ONE DOLLAR—to be had at the door rincl, otels. ba! “ police will be in attendance to rve order. feb 29—tb NEW SPRING CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, AND VESTINGS. E ARE NOW RECEIVING OUR FIRST supplies of new Spring Goods for yentle- men’s wear, of late and jonable styles, select- ed with great care, from the Philadelphia and New York markets, which we will make to order in the most superior manner, at much cheaper rates than the usual city prices. WALL & STEPHENS. 304 Pa. avenue, 34 door east National ‘Hotel, and 332 Pa avenue, between 9th and 10th sts. feb 29 (Int&Globe) HON. THOS. H. BENTON’S | GREAT WORK Thirty Year's View of the U.S. Senate. SUBSCRIBERS TO *“ THIRTY YEARS’ VirW,”? and others, are informed that the | paeeene (Messrs. Appleton & Co., New York) ave made sufticient progress 4n the printing of the second volume of this work to enable thein to appoint a time for its publication. ‘The second volume will bably be more in- teresting than the first, mH oar eiten the same number cf pages, embellished with a steel-plate illustration of the United States Senate chamber. Subscribers to this work are informed that I will have the assistanee of two or more active gen- tlemen in the delivery and sale of the work. I Will be pleased to receive orders for the second volume from citizens or » who have not yet subscribed, in the District of Columbia and Alexandria, Fredericksburg. Warrenton, Charies- town, bardstown, Harper’s Ferry, and Mar- tinsburg, Va. Copies of the first volume for sale b: ad JOHN 8. HOLLING AD, : feb 29—3t E street, near Eighth. ‘OWA LAND FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE for pepreg! in the District of Columbia, and I will give the difference, if any, in CASH. feb 26-46 JOHN D. CLARK TRE. NATIONAL TGEA KUNKEL & CO... JOHN T FORD -... LESSEES MANAGER would res pectfully convey to the citizens of Washington their +arnest determination to render the National fn ail ts worthy the patronage of an intellectual and disceruin? public MONDAY EVENING. March 3, 1858, The celebrated and yentus-ecdowed American actor, MER. E. EDDY, who has just concluded at Holliday-street They. tre. Baltimore. an engagement remarkalile for its brilitancy, will make bis First and Posittocly Only Appearance in Washington, in Bulwer’s great play of HELIEU: es Ba lene De Mauprat. ...W.H BRIGGS. Concluding with the delightful farce of A HUSBAND AT SIGHT: Catherine........ -Mrs H S CHAPMAN. Paicrs oF Apmission:—To Boxes and Par- quette 60 cents; Family Circle and Galleries 25 cents. No extra ch: for Reserved Seats Box Sheet open from 10 untilGo’clock. Box Office open every day. Un WEDNESDAY EVENING, March 5, the loveiy and accomplished young American Actress MISS MAGGIE MITCHELL! will appear. Untel&Union} feb 29 —a NATIONAL THEATRE. Laser AND MANAGER.... HENRY C. JARRETT Also of the Baltimore Museum.) ANAGER..eceee+seeeeesMI. JEPFEREON, PRICKS OF ADMISSION. Dress Circle and Pargnette. Family Circle, second tier. Gallery... o I> Box book open Menday, Wednesday, from 9 a.m until The public of Washington, Georgetown, Alexan- ‘ais, and Bladensburg, are most respect. fully informed that the Sublime BS) tacle of THE NAIAD QUEEN; R. THE REVOLT OF THE Warten NYMPHS; Balt 76 oe ity weil we periracee , WEDNESDAY, non RSDAY, AND FRIDAY February 27th, 2th, and 29th, whenallt-e MAGNIFICENT SCENERY, SURPRISING MECHANICAL EFFECTS, Grand Marches and Military Manceuvers, SONGS, DANCES, TABLEAUX, §<., will be presented—together with THE TROUPE UF BEAUTIFUL niewitee | jon who are engaged expressly for its represen “~— the Federal City. Notice —On THURSDAY APTERNOON, GRAND DAYLIGHT PERFORMANCE when the Spectacle will be produced with all the Splendors that distinguish the evening represen - tations For Synopeis of Sce: , Incidents, Songs. pastes, a ack ie ak the Theatre. , Doors o 7% 0’cloc! Stacx at 634 o'clock p. m.: curtain rises at precisely. feb @-a D*® ON OF TH E SUPE EMECOURT of Wisconsin in the cases of Booth and Ky- craft (Fugitive Slave Law) con portion of vol. Wisconsin Reports, in pamphlet, 25 cents feb 33 FRANCK TAYLOR. ————— Fo SALE—A STEAM ENGINE. OF three horse , fitted with W M Smith's patent valve, forsale. It bas only been worked one month in the Maryland Mechanics’ Institute at their last exhibition, when a silver was awarded to the patentee. Apply to WILLIAM M. SMITH, Patent &c , Seventh st., tlie the General Post Ofice feb aaa OTICE TU WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. 1 have an application pendt before the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, to change the direction of Delaware avenue, near the Borthern boundery of the City. Any bav- ing objections may fle them tn writi: persons ing, with the Clerk of said C committee at any time within two o] By order of said Committee : feb —2we J. M. GILBERT AROLINE LEE HENTZ’ NEw » Earnest Lynwood, just received . * of Mrs. Caroline Lee Mentz ov hand and for sale. Romance of the Harem, by Mies Pardoe All the Megazines for March. All the new Books for sale as soon as published at the Statlonesy and Bookselli it of JUVE SHILLINGTON, feb 24-3: Penn avemue, corner 4 street HATS HATS, JUST RECEIVED, A FULL SUPPLY OF those splendid New York HATS of Beebre & Co.'s Spring Style. [sell the very: vest Drees Hat for $3 50; equal to any usually sold at $4 or $5. 1 have = first-rate Fashionable Hat at $3; equal to any at $4. 1 also have a good essortment of French Cait SEWED BOOTS, of Philadelphia make, which T am selling for 83 be warranted quite as good as those usually sold at $5 or $6. ‘Terms positively cash ANTHONY, ent for the Manufacturers. av., opp. Dexter's hotei. 7th st., near feb 3%-3t $20 REWARD.-—I will give the above re- ward avd ask no questions, for the re- turn of 2 lot of — consisting of warrants, ——— notes of hand, and bills for collection ‘hey were left by me in care of Mr. H.W. Tur- ner, the Clerk of the American Hotel, during my employment there, for safe keeping. They were seen by him on Monday evening iast. in the desk at 9 o'clock, aud were missing on Tuesday morn- ing. They may be left at this office, or at tae of- tice of J. H. Goddard, Esq., on Louisiana ave- nue. All persons are hereby cautioned against b ying any of the said papers if offered for sale, and will please give information of the same to the eran pee Should they give me informa- tion so that I may get them again | will give the above reward. A. E L KEESE P Spry deer concerning the above papers will be considered strictly confidential feb28-tf (Intel) CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS, & CIGARS, WHOLESALE AKD RETAIL; AL#o, SUPERIOR OYSTERS FOR FAMILIES, No. 291 Pennsylvania avenue. ULIUS DE SAULES, HAVING €OM- pleted his arrangements fu rprocur- ing regular supplies of fine FRESH OYSTERS, is now prepared to fur- nish families with the same may Sef the quart or gallon—werranted and supe rior, acd prepared with scrupulous cleantiness Housekee can at any time be eg a with Oysters by leaving their orders at the Winestore of Mr Buthmann. or at the Shoestore of Mr. H. Burns, No. 408 Pennsylvania avenve, or at the store of J. De Saules, corner of Pennsylvania avenue and 14th street. Orders so left (giving the streets and numbers of the dwellings) will meet with prompt atten- tion; and all parties so ordering may rely upon re- ceiving the finest O.sters in the market Mr. DE SAULES keeps a Lorse and vebicle in readiness, and will deliver Oysters to any part of the city from 10 o'clock in the morning until 9 o’clock at night. Cash on delivery. 1,000 bottles of superior TOMATO CATSUP, for sale by the single bottle or dozen. Constantly kept a choice supply of WINES, LIQUORS, and CIGARS, at his store pear 14th street and Pennsylvania avenue, mostly selected from Mr. Buthmann’s stock. Also. FRESH FRUITS, PRESERVES, and JBLLIES, &. feb 7—3t L. J. MIDDLETON, DEALER IN ICE, Office and Depot—Southweet corner of F and Twelfth streets. feb27.u eect LEBE’S NEW YORK HATS, —Fashion for Spring this day opened at eee STEVENS’S feb 27-3t Salesroom, Browns’ Hotel. OST, LAST NIGHT, (TUESDAY, Fev 26th) pr-bably at, or going to, or returning from the Smithsonian Institution, « black moroc- ¢o POCKET BOOK, confined by an elastic strap. containing $8 in gold, and a note of $800, signed by waa Faller. The finder will be suite! rewarded by leaving it at Mrs. JAMEn’S, #1 street. 27 st EW MUSIC received pone f JOHN F. ‘Store of Jando