Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1856, Page 2

EVENING STAR. WASHINGTONCITY: MONDAY...................Miarch 10, 1856, oO C7” Advertisements should be handed in by otherwise 12 o’clock, m. they pear until the next day. ane Rt 271 i Aerts ron tas $14n.—The following yng are authorized to contract for the pul of advertisements in Tus Star: Philadeiphia—V. B. Patuun, northwest cor ner of Fitth and Chestnut streets. - New York—S. M. Puttinetiy & Co., Nassau street. Boston—V. B. Pat wan, Seollay’s Building _— i> Jos Puiwtine.—Our friends and patrons are notified that we are now pi to execute Kind of Jos Paintine with despatch and in the best manner, at as low as in any <r Wi le fy tem arealso notified we are prepared to do every descri tion of press-work that can be executed on dow! linder and Adams’ Presses. So, also, bas the Star offices Boo B connected with i in its capacity to turn out book bi it of ail desc to Py pttions to any other in the District SS SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS. The Union notices the fact that Mr. Dela- bay is in Washingtcn claiming to be entitled to a seat in Congress as the representative from the State of Kansas, and says that not long hence of course two other gentlemen will duly make their appearance here, claiming to be entitled to seats in the Senate of the United States, under the Topeka-made constitution. Mr. Delahay’s title to the seat he claims is every whit as good as that of ex-Governor Reeder’s to the seat he claims. They are founded in the same right. If at any moment Governor Reeder’s title was good, that of De- lahay superceded it on the 4th inst. The Unson also calls attention to the fact that the New York Trijune is again beseeching the Abolitionists to pour more battalions armed with Sharp’s rifles into Kansas. The Intelligencer rejoices over the prospect of a speedy peace in Europe, and compliments Austria and Prussia for the steadiness with which they have preserved their neutral atti- tude, to which the editor attributes the exist- ing prospect of a cessation of hostilities. He thinks that the resources of England for the prosecution of the war have hardly been taxed as yet; and that though her success in the Crimea haz by no means been as brilliant as that of France, she is really capable of ac- complishing much more than her dashing ally. or Norvotx Arrarms.—Corn declined 3 cents in Norfolk under the Baltic’s news. “Gray's Saw Mill’’ was seld on Thursday to John Hopkins for $3,525. Elmwood cemetry is to be the locality for the monument to the pbysi- cians and nurses who fell during the epidemic. Tag Crxcinnati Conventiox.—It is now certain that every State will be fally repre- sented at Cincinnati. Senator Butler, in an able letter to some of his conetituents, admits that South Carolina must be represeated, and says. ‘“‘—putting the question aside whether she should be or not—let the State send her very best men.”’ Arr Irgx.—The second annual drawing of the ‘‘ National Cosmopolitan Art Association” came off at Sandusky, lastweek. The splen- did bust of Washington, by Powers, heroic size, and valued at $1,000, was drawn by Dr. Salter, of New York. He subseribed for the Knickerbocker Magazine only twodays before the drawing and there was time only to tele- graph the number of his certificate, which proved alackyone. Dr. 8S. is gentleman of taste, and fully appreciates hia prise. Ma. Evaretr’s Oration.—To-morrow even- ing the Hon. Edward Everett will deliver his alroady famous oration upon George Wash- ington at Baltimore, and we learn from the American that be will be greeted by a larger audience and more distinguished company at the Institute, than his great oration has yet invoked either at Boston or New York, bril- liant as both these occasions certainly were. President Pierce has advised the officers of the Institute that nothing but some sudden emergency will prevent his attendance—his going, however, being attended with the un- derstanding that no public demonstration is to be made on his eecount. Other distin- guished gentlemen from this city will crown the oecasion by their attendance, and the en- tire audience is expected to exceed five thou- sand persons Basies—Tripiets.—A correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch gives the following fruit- ful details from Goochland county, Va. Those wishing juvenile responsibilities should emi- grate to the Old Dominion without delay : “On Monday last, a lady of high respecta- bility, in the county of Goochland, gave birth to three living daughters, all of whom, as well as the mother, were doing well on yesterday Verily, this may be considered a prolific age, ut not.as much so, probably, as we imagine, when we contrast it with a period some time during Mr. Monroe’s administration, when, I was infcrmed by # gentleinan of veracity this native of Louisa, gave birth to four sons, whom she named Washing- ton, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, a!) of wiom lived tomanhood. The same lady be- fore her death was the mother of thirty-zix ebiidron.” Awan who is not ashamed of himself not bs ashamed of his early condition. &@> There are sow living in Massachusetts eighteen clergyuien whose ages range from seveuty-three to niné-two years. £9" It is said the Chartiers Valley Railroad will be completed between Pitteburg and Washington, Pa » by the Ist of October. > The Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate is in- formed by sugar planters from different por- tions of the State that the growing erop of cane bas suffered material injury from the unusual severity of the winter, and there is every rea- son to fear another short crop of sugar. ee A New York Assemblyman bas intro- duced 4 bill into the Legisia‘ure prohibiting the pub: ication of anonymous letters in news- papers, ana another Solon has brought forward # bill to exempt clergymen from paying toll on plank roads, bridges, ‘urnpikes, &c. E> The Cincinpati Gazette, of Wedesday, has the following: ‘‘Yegterday, and the day before, there were twenty-one arrivals of steamboats at thie port from Mew Orleana, bringing 10,000 tons of groceries, amoug which are 5,000 hogheade sugar, and 1@,000 barrels molasses ’’ SA splendid yacht of seventy tons is about to be commenced in Phitad fia, for | John Genin and E. Phalon, of New York. Her stanaing rigging will be made of wi: rope. Her gimensions will be as follows: fength on deck £3 feet; breadth of beam 19 feet ; depth of hola 7 feet. ALETinpara Cevespation.—The annual meeting of Potomac Logge, I. 0. 0. F., of Alexandria, takes place on thg 19th of April next. Rev. James A. Duncan will deliver the ——— it ee Moet more pymber distinguis persous w Present to participate in the ceremonies on the occasion. The N. ¥. Dutchman sa‘ wishes to get along in world has to take a few lessons of a hen chasing a jopper. With a long neck and sharp eye, take a few burried steps, stop short, peep over, peep under, now to the left, now to the right, one fiuw@er andarush acd then you bave him. That's the way it’s done ER ars stam WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOssIP. ————r The Pacific Railroad.—We have no idea that Congress will consummate any pletiwhat- ever for the commencement of the construction of @ railroad to the Pacifico. The fever in favor of such an undertaking on Government account, or by a company with Government aid in the shape of land grants, rages by no means as high in Washington this winter as during the last. However, it matters little how anxiéus gentlenien in public life who de- sire to urge the scheme may be, the sentiment of a large majority of this Congress is decided- ly opposed to undertaking or promising the sid of the Government tu the construction of such a work scross the vast barren and unoc- cupied plains and the mountains of the centre of the North American continent. The indis- position of the National Legislature to the scheme is indicative of no want of due concern for the future of the portion of the United States situated on the Pacific slope. On the contrary, we have every reason to believe that the present Congress will go much further than the last in expending the public money to meet the so rapidly growing wants of the Pacific side. The surveys for a Pacific railroad already made demonstrate the immensity of the con- templated work on any route, and the cer- tain great average oost per mile beyond all precedent, owing to the want of suitable mate- rials, over most of the distance, and to the dif- ficulties of construction in regions wholly destitute of inhabitants except the savage red man, and of animals other than the wild buffalo. Among railroad men, the experience of the last few years has produced the im- pression that, under the most favorable cir. cumstances, as at present managed, very few such works are really profitable; while, un- der the cireumstances which would surround a railroad to the Pacific it is utterly impossi- ble that its business could for a quarter of s century pay its expenses, without beginning te yielda dividend. These are good and suf- ficient reasons why it may not be expected that Congress will do anything in the way of initiating the construction of the great conti- nental work, whieh another goneration—not ours—is destined to see completed. The period of its construction will depend in the main on the rapidity with which the Settlements west from the Missouri frontier, and east from the Pacific coast, may closely Spproximate. Until they do approximate, we shall have no Pacific railroad—except on paper; though, doubtless, we shall have eve- ry winter in Washington representatives of enterprising companies of ‘‘contraption’’-ists around Wall street, proposing to Congress that they will build and own the work, if Uncle Sam will make them a present of the means of sodoing Nevertheless, for a mere song comparatively, Congress can greatly fa- cilitate and insure the safety of the overland ¢ommunication between the Missouri country and that of the Pacific. Thatis, by the estab lishment of a weekly letter (horse) express mail between Independence and some point on the California frontier, with grants of land in single sections, one every thirty miles, or wherever night stations may be advisable over the route. The overland route has been a bad one for two reasons: First, because it is not secure from attacks from ezavages; and; next, be- cause, after leaving the present Missouri fron- tier settlements, the emigrant or traveler must trust wholly to nature in the most inhos pitable region within the limits of our country, for any and all supplies other than those he may carry with him. Such is the extent of the present travel over the route, as that the business of supplying it every thirty miles yg £0 with necessary food and fodder, would form & settlement large enough to form a cordon of posts amply able to protect the route from the savages without cost to the Government. Thie idea, it will be remembered, sprang from the sagacious brain of Senator Gwin, who would surely have carried it through the last Congress to the immense benefit of his constituents, had it not been defeated by an untimely effort in the House to make the mail daily, instead of weekly. We hope to see the present representatives from California again bring forward this proposition;it being demonstrable that as a means of frontier and emigration protection, and toinsure the prompt transmission of valuable letters and important news between Missouri, Utah, California, and Oregon and Washington -Territories, it em- braces advantages of economy, speed, cer- tainty, &c., superior to any other plan looking to similar ends that has as yet been mooted in the Capitol As we Anticipated —The reader will re- coliect our declaration a few days since, that the Republicans would strive to prevent the minority report of the House Elections’ Com- mittee from going forth to the people of the non-slaveholding States, with the majority rer port of the same committee. This purpose waa evident in the oxtreme reluctance mani- fested by the majority to acquiesce in the motion to include the minority report in the extra number ordered to be printed for the House, which was suggested as an amend- ment. It prevailed without the active and earnest opposition of the Republican party: only because that course on their part would have been utterly without avail; sonfe of the Anti-Nebraska, but Anti-Republican party members, not being available to carry the ul- tra and indcad shameless measures with which they would consummete their end of aboli- tionizing Kansas by action of Gozgrgss. The New York Tribune’s course with reference to these reports is a fair illustration of the pur- pose actuating its political friends. The report of the majority was evidently forwarded to the Tribune office in advance of its presentation to the House, or it could not have made its appearance in that four- nal’s columns on the succeeding day. A sort of promise to publish the minority report was made ; but up to Saturday last we have been unable to discover it inthe Trijune. In its stead, we fin? ample and virulent misrepre- sentations of the contents of that paper, and groaser repetitions of the falschoods concern- ing what hus taken place in Kansas, which | baving first appeared in that journal, are, in truth, the foundation, and the only founda- tion whatever, for the assumption of facts on which the majority of the committee ask Con- greas to cast to the four winds all law, trath, justice, and precedent, to eid them in the task of abolitionizing Kansas by Congressional -action. Rie te mete No stronger proof of the injustice and ille- geliity ef tho recommendations of the major- ity of the eqmmistes, or.of the want of fout- dation for the statements on which those recommendations are pretended to be based is needed, than the disposition manifested by She Bepublican party to conceal from the eee public eye, as far as possible, this minority report, while falsifying its character by mis- representing it. Vorily, modern Republican- ism is the sheerest budget of false pretences and unfounded assumptions with which men ever essayed to carry a political point. The Navy Retiring Board Question.— The monstrous accusations against the Presi- dent, the Secretary of the Navy, and the members of the late Retiring Board with which so many’ newspapérd have groaned of late, and which have been uttered without stint elsewhere, are fast producing that reac? tion in popular sentiment that naturally re- sults, in such oases, from overdoing things Thus, we have seen of late in the Boston Daily Advertiser, the Philadelphia Budlesin, and the Richmond Enquirer's powerful ar- guments indicating the wisdom and propriety of the action of the Board, the Department, and the Executive in the matter; all of them explaining and contending that the aggre- gate of the changes consummated were im- peratively ealled for, and were conscien- tiously and wisely made; and pointing out the fact that no such reform can be carried out in any branch of any public service with- out generating just euch complaints as those which have been urged on Congress and the sountry in this case. It is very clear to us that nothing will be done by Congress by which the main pointsin the action of the Government, under the late law for the reform of the navy, will be dis- turbed; and we have also every reason to believe that the virulence and vehemence with which that action has been assailed by here and there a press or the friends of an aggrieved individual, stand seriously in the way of the success of efforts before Congress to obtain relief for the more meritorious claims of the kind that are being urged on the Senate. This latter is to be regretted, though the blame for it must rest on the right shoulders. On those of the parties who, inthe face of the facts, insist in effect that the Pres- ident, the Secretary, and the Board did in the matter what was equivalent to entering into a base ‘conspiracy to degrade and injure meritorious officers. - The Vacant California Senatorship.—So far as Congress is concerned, the late victory of the Know Nothingsin California has turned to ashes on theirlips By the action of the Senats of that State, the choice of a successor for Senator Gwin has been postponed until another Legislature shall be chosen. General Foote was only nominated by the Know Noth- ings, when so to do was but to offer him a very empty complimentindeed That is, after the election had been thus formally thrown over. Knowing the indomitable energy and sagacity and uniform success of Dr. @win when he sets about such a task as winning an election wherein he is personally interested, we feel assured that he will triumph in this contest. We rejoice over this prospect, because we be- lieve that the interests of his State at Wash- ington aro most deeply involved in his re- election The U. 8. Steam Frigate Merrimac.—It seems to be thought among naval men in Washington that Secretary Dobbin will short- ly order the Merzimac to come up from Nor- folk to Annapolis, so that she may be visited by such mem bers cf Congress as choose to avail themselves of the opportunity to examine the best specimen of steam naval architecture now afloat. The Current Operations of the Treasury Department.—On Saturday, 8th of March, there were of Treasury warrants entered on the books of the Department— For the redemption of Stocks.... $36,605 67 For the Treasury Department... 134,669 27 For the Interior Department..... 41,826 24 Fot Oustoms......cccsccscssesee 223 52 War warrants received and en- War repay warrants received and From miscellaneous sources. + 25,374 76 From Oustoms.........08 + 33,147 58 On aceount of the Navy......... 35,463 94 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. In the Senate, to-day, ere we went to press, many bills and resolutions were introduced and referred. In the course of these proceedings the fol” lowing bills were duly passed, vig; One authorizing the circuit court of the Dis- trict of Columbia to regulate the terms of their said court, provided that they hold three terms annually. One, lating punishment in the peniten- tiaries under sen’ or district courts. As we go to press the Senate are in act of taking up the bill to increase the efficiency of the army of the United States. In the House, on motion of Mr. Smith of Va., the Secretary of the Interior was re- quested to communicate to the House the amount of money that may be required to complete the Little Falls bridge over the Po- tomac, above Georgetown, on the plan adopted. Mr. Wheeler offered a resolution referring to a select. committee the subject of providing nce of United States circuit new Post Offices in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Charleston ; not to. It was then referred to the Post Office oom. mittee. The regular order of business ‘bet onligf for, the House proceeded to the further cuu- sideration of the resojution from the Eleotion committee iting them power to send for persons and papers im the Kansas contested election case. Mr. Crawford, who was entitled to the floor, addressed tho House against the resolution. Very few men, properly speaking, live. Wha, but are retactok to ive at another time. ' EprHerekish says that if his landlady 4nows beans, she wouldn’t buy the article called ‘‘ burnt and ground coffee.” tr A friend of ours has a dipper with which « philanthropist lately bailed out an unfortunate debtor. Er India rubber ladders don’t answer as well as was ni Sa There is a drawback connected with them—you climb all day with- out getting up any. Buriey’s Doveraiting Macuine.—This in- vention is said to execute the common dove- tailing work in a very rapid and effective man- ner, All the mortices or tenons, on end of the stuff are cut simultaneously. One machine will do the labor of 30 perzons working with mallets and chisels in the ordinary manner. A ProrgssionaL Prarerence.—‘‘ How do you like the character of St. Paul ?’’ asked a parton of his landlady one day, during s con- vérsation about the old saints and the apos- tles. ‘‘ Ah, he was 2g , clever old soul, I know, for he once > you =oav, that we must eat what is set before us, and ask no ues! for consciencesake. I always thought should ke iss for 8 boarder. odin ; Experiments wits ALUMINUM. +’ metal meits at adegree of heat’ between re- etn ve eta and moulded fh yas app oan be ¢ ang mol * : . hended for some time, that ajumjo 78, é furmiol secret tah aha ae of oenetmpecone woah de ee faving, alloy with copper, wiith Mr. Deville bad suc- orm eeeded to per soon after hig discovery, is remarkable for its hardness and brittleness. a ee ee é PO NE NR Om PERSONAL. +++ Simm’s “ Charlemont” is in the press. +++» Ralph Waldo Emerson is soon to com- mence # course of lectures in +--+ De. Baird’s leotures on the Waldenses, at Louisville, did not draw, sithot free. -++. Mr. ker’s pl id poems will shortly i re vou S raees. a volu! “.pepRev. Orville Dewey is lecturing at criérten. . +++» Robert W, Fraser, late Consul at Hali- fax, has been nominated and confirmed as Qonsal at Newoastle-upon-Tyne,.Kngland. +++ Harrison Heartwell, a wealthy citizen ouddenly in Macon ‘Branewick, Va., Ga., on the 13th ult. +++» Geo. W. Greend; onde Cofidal at Rome, is publishing a life of bis grand-father, Gen, Greene. “ eee Col. J. W. Forney, of Philadelphia, has been appointed chairman of the Demooratic Btate Central Committee, of Pennsylvania. «»--Matilda Heron has gone to New Orleans. Her engagement at Cincinnati was popular and profitable. +». Richard Kelley, who was arraigned for the murder of Corrigan, at Sylvester, C. W., and acquitted, has been shot dead. E> The Hebrews, lately in session at Cleve land. haye resolved to found a University at Cincinnati, for the education of their pone in +++» Mr. Brougham will publish, earl: the spring, a volume of tales entitled “ Irish Hchoes.’’ It will contain half a dosen stories, in the writer's richest vein of humor. «++» Dr. A. @. Mackey is now delivering at Cherieston his interesting, profound, and well-gigested course of lectures on the ‘“‘Sym- boliem of Masonry.’’ +++» William S Messervey has been elected Mayor of Salem, by a majority of 55 votes over General William Stutton, the K. N. can- didate dee a fy of the Hartford Times, the other day, the curiosity to examine the contents @ plump partridge’s crop and counted seven hundred and forty apple tree buds. ., ++«+Sasan Denin failed at Cincinnati in Toh, a character entirely too poetic for her ca- acities. She and her sister have gone to isville. +++» Sbakspeare well knew that there was no true pathetic—nothing that can permanent- ly lacerate the heart and embitter the speech, unless a woman is concerned. +++» Robert Schuyler, the New York defaul- ter, (who has been killed twice by printin; ink,) is after all alive, in the little tewn o: Brugge, Germany. +--+ Geo. W. Clinton of Buffato, and Robert Kelley of New York, both Democrats, have been elected So doe of the University, by the Legislature of New York. +eee Major Crawley—every one knows the Major,—sued Horace Greely for a libel in the Tribune, and was awarded $50, with costs of suit. Byes right! cece apse B. Oliver, a ae known and highly gifted musician, will shortly open a Masical Institute in Pittefield, Massachusetts, at which a firet rate musical education may be had by young ladies. ++e. Mr. Ewbank estimates the lation of Brazil, at 7,360,000, of whom 2,164,000 are whites, 1,100,000 are free colored People 800,000 are domesticated Indians, 3,120,000 are negro slaves, and 180,000 are free blacks. ++eeCol. DeWitt, Representative in Con- gress from Massachusetts, is quite sick at his house in Oxford, with rheumatic fever, and will probably be unable to leave home for his seat in Congress for the present. +s«+ Misa Adelaide Phillips has taken Mme. Didiee’s place in Mr. Paine’s opera troupe now in Philadelphia. She made her debut in the character of Arsace, in the opera of Semi- ramide, on Thursday evening. +++. We are glad to learn that Mr. V. Me- Kean, Esq , late Chief Clerk of the Clerk's office of United States House of Hepre- sentatives, who has been quite ill at his resi- dence in this city for some days past, is recoy- ering. +++ Sir Allan Park, once said at a publio meeting in London . ‘‘ Of our civilization, our freedom, our laws, we forget entirely how much is due to Christianity. Blot Christianity out of the pages of man’s history, and what would his laws have been, what his civiliza- tion ?”’ ++++ Lieut. Alvarado Hunter’s funeral was attended by Edwin Forrest, and several other civilians, and many members of the service, including Captains Nicholson, Morris, and Rowen, Lieutenants Babnett, Woodhull, Cras- son, and Haxton, Chief Engheer Say, and Purser Hunter. +++. W. H. Aspinwall bas retired from the Presidency of the Pacifico Mail Company, and the agency of his house in man the busi- begs of the Company at New York has been surrended to the Board of Directors, of which Mr. W. H. Davidge, late Secretary, has been made President. ++++Rev. John 8. Abbott is upheld by the N. Y. Independent, that radical of radical sheets, as the author of a “‘ Life of Napoleon” distinguished for “‘ high toned christian char- acter and devout conscientiouzness.’’ Bah! He stole the very idea of the work from a manuscript submitted by another author to the Harpers. sees W. H. Hand, who served his time in the Allentown (Pa ) Demoezat office, has just turned up fighting the IndiansinWUregon He has lived in Philadelphia and New York, been on a whaling voyage, went into business in the Sandwich Islands, moved to California and is now a volunteer im Oregon. He is about 21 years of age. , : +++» Liebig has of late made several impor- tant discoveries in the elements of food. With these he has published an explanation of his well known (and in Germany by no means appreciated) views of lager beer. As beer contributes nothing to the blood, Liebig main- tains that, though it may have its valuc as a source of pleasure, and ag: invi ing the nervous system and respiration, yot chomical- jy speaking, it is almost worthless. ° «+++ Governor Minor, of Connecticut, has ap- inted Friday, March 2ist, as a day of fast- , humiliation, and prayer, in that State. is we regard as a movement in a right diraction, as the day thus designated is the ‘Good Friday of the ecclesiastical calendar— ithe day observed by a large portion of the po in, T death of the Savior, +++ Wm. H. Prescott, the eminent, Ameri- can historian, who resides at Groton, Mass., lost one eye when at college, by a blow from a crust thrown by a ye The sight of the other was so weakened by ympathy, that he cannot use it. He accordingly ures the ap- paratus invented for the blind—a stylus, with tracing paper, and strings to guide the hand. He is thus able to sit up at night and write without lighting a candle. In this way his great historical labors have been perfected, +++» Alexander Stuart, a swift compositor, died at Winchester, Va., last week. Hisdis- ease was consumption, brought on by an un- roved and brutal assault by 9 band of row- ies in New York, more than four years since, in which his ribs were probabiy crushed in upon the lungs, ing him unconscious for several days, and from the effeots of which he never recovered. He was mistaken, ina dark night, for another person, against whom the assaulting parties held a gru ge. <r BypoqnarmicaL Nove ry.—Messrs. Adams & Gee, printers Pee seg el found thes metallic plates of thickness of ordinary sheet tin may be printed gpon with usual printing type, if the plates be first coated with 9 com- position, the secret of the inventor. . If sheets thus printed a afterwards subjected ° & cer tain anning prosess, an even, lustro: hie produced, which cannot be ected upon except by a sheep steel instrament. It uires no great consideration to discover that t nore sary portant chappetar, may he @ in any instance where printed, +63 either 4 be exhibited, 0; be exited may lean sdvantdgeoual mbit far the 4 3. apy af The etal print maybeere Sins ade king, jf can be Pe eae ee placed on covers, casks, or othér parsels can w be affixed inthe same way.— London ournal. Christian ‘world, in commemoration of the | e we 7 sae i Old Bourbon whisky, worth $2 per mm rae shipped from le, Ky., to Beotia: 6 ‘Complaint is the tribute heaven A ae, aad the sine: part of eur devo- tion. in life withegreat stock of fy Ee don Jess and less the farther We go. Unvitiat Wise or 4 Mepicat Strupext — “Oh, that my fa er were seized witha re- mt ? ay Philosopher whohad married a vulgar but afniable girl, used to call ber ** Brown Sugar,’’ because, he said, she was sweet but Inrintrgsiuan.—There are wore animals in carth—-aod © cagie grate ia langer than fous e a ir thousand of — gio A Sue An woman ine room is as bad ag a lighted cracker—for when once she es off there’s no ing her, and whet she does greek te ure be with a bang. GP “ Why,” said an tative gen- tleman, “it is as plain as that two and two make four.’”’ ‘‘That I deny.” retorted his antagonist, “for 2 and 2 make 22.” A questioner is sometimes one who is really desirous of obtaining information ; but more usually he assumes ignorance in order to display his own knowledge. EgrSomé Turkish ladies at Seutari left their homes on account of the telegraphic wires having been carried over the roofs of the house. They imagined that the wire could tell all their secrets! FA remarkable hard drinker, who was expiring, one of his friends to bring him a goblet of water, telling him “‘on our death-beds we must be reconciled to our ene- mies.” EP An English paper says that during the ar 1855 rr Oriental C: y's steamers tp out India and China silver to the value six millions and ahaif sterling. It weighed about 720 tons. f Er The Charlottesville Advocate states that Mr. Marshall Bayliss, of Faaquier, eo wel! known in that section of Virginia, and who left some time since for Kansas, has recently ained a suit in the Court of Appeals, by which fe will realize $30,000 PA letter from Portsmouth, Va., dated March 7, 8 p. m., says that a fire had been raging there atthe wood wharf, for two houre The entire block, with the old saw mill, be- ing in a blase. Cir What is fashion? Dinner at midnight, and headache in the morning. What is idle- ness? Working yellow mountains on a pink subsoil—or a blue-tailed dog in sky-colored convulsions. What is joy? To count your money and find it overrun « hundred dollars. Brora, [xqmatitope.—Scared individual dodging infuriated bull behind a tree—*: You ungrateful beast you, you wouldn’t toss a consistent ny ene who never ate beef in his life, would you? Is that the return you make ?’’ PracticaL Scrence.—-Grandma—-Well, Charley, and what have you been | jing to- day? Charley—Pneumatics, Gran’ma !—and I can tell you such a dodge '!—if I wasto put you under a glass receiver, and exhaust the air, all your wrinkles would come out as smooth as Grandpapa’s head ! His First Boors.—A youngster who bad juet risen to the dignity of a pair of boots with eels on, laid himself liable, through some misdemeanor, to maternal chastisement. jAfter pleading to get clear to no effect, he exclaimed— ° ‘< Well, if I’ve take off my boots.” ‘‘Why ?” asked his mother. ‘* Because I won’t be whipped in them new boots, nohow. That’s so!”’ got to stand it, I mean to = GREAT ATTRACTION AT ODD FELLOWS’ HALL —The Ladies’ Fair will be continued three evenings longer— THIS (Saturday) EVENING, and MONDAY and TUESDAY EVENINGS of next week Music by the Band and Singing every evening. mar 8-3f ee Bre REY A. A. WILLITS, OF PHIL- S.™adelphia, will deliver a free Lecture to the Young Men’s Christian Association in the Hall of the Smithsonian Institutionon MONDAY NIGHT, at 8 o'clock. Subject: ‘‘ The Man for the Times—a biau ideal of Character for Young Men.” nad are respectfully invited. mar S -2t —————eSSSSSsSsesese Been TBE REGULAR MONTHLY MEET- ing of the Democratic Association of Georgetown will be held at Forrest Hall MON- DAY EVENING, March 10th, at 7 o’clock. All the members are requested to be present as the election of officers will take plare. mar 8—2#t G KROUSE, sec = GEORGETOWN CORPORATION TAXES.—ALI persons indebted to the Corporation of Georgetown for taxes. ofevery des- cription, whether under the general tax ordi- nances, or those imposed for improvemen s. are hereby notified that the same must be paid to the subscriber without delay, as he has been em- powered and directed to close bis collections in the most summary manner. As all per jes so in- debted have long since had their eccounts de livered to them, and thetr payment reqnes‘ed, they must not expect to be again called upon in person. Those who may gn a the ec @xpenses juent upon destrains, will please 1 on either of my fe rwtgr“es re Jewell or Henry C J the corner of High and Gay streets, Georgetown, who are authorised to give receipts in my behalf. THOMAS JEWELL, Collector of Taxes. Georgetown, March 7th, 1856. mar 7—tf DENTAL NOTICE. DB; HOFFAR MAY BE FOUND ON AND after Tuesday next, the 11th inst., at his office, ready to attend to prof mar 10-1t* RRAzAr ee ON SATURDAY Lt. from the subscriber, JAMES CLAGETT., an ap- prentice to the dyeing business All persons are warned not to harbor said boy under the penalty of the law J.T. BERKLEY, BR, DAICTIONARY, by Mrs. Wirt. New and enlarged ediiion, with very nume- rous soearee illustrations, some plain, others beautifully colored from Nature, in various fine and ornamental bindings—price $6 and $9 Bold for the publishers mar 10 FRANCK TAYLOR. CAR D.—THE ATTENTION OF THE ladies and itlemen of Ed i. the ublic in gen is respectfully in’ to the ex Eeasive of fine Fitet Glas, China and Crock. }, Which will take place at 10 spire TUESDAY, the lith instant, at my Auction Rooms, 526 Seventh street, comer of D. The stock is large and of a good quailty, and be rold in lots to suit " ‘or further particulars see advertisement. mar 10-1t A. GREEN, Auet. WiLL LEAVE SHORTLY. ADAMER. RESPECTFULLY INFORMS the public in ee that she will give in- formation in Affairs relating to Life, Health, Wealth, M , Love, peewee law Suits, Difficulties in Business, brent riends, ‘Sickness and Death, and in to all other ‘subjects. She is also able to tell the ages of“ sons by poading numbers. She can be consu’ at all hours of the day and evening. Her name is on the door—at No. 285 1°th street corner of D, on the leit hand side. Gentlemen 50 cents and ladies 25. mar 10 -2w® SINGER’ Improved Sewing erdict ef Superiority. TS IN THIS MA- or. ice of work they did fo1 oly i mar l0—3t* Pean. av., opposite Iron Hall. s.. Machines. highest Award ei any given time, Fae of owing ely Sanat Pelee he iiire bosom haw tack fox harmon can bf sewa by any of these machines by a simple cha of needle tnd thread in pon meee thar the ch iny Cannot detect a fault. m th fe M ore erecta p oe them the only sefe Mac! . are built ‘s and durable, and not likely to ee ee: oe! eedles, &¢., constantly on E ing Meghinge WAL pie INGER & CO, of ani -_ Terms 1b: easier achine under oe re defi non find this a benefit mar AMUSEMENTS. —$——$—$——————————————————_— NATIONAL THEATRE. KL & CO.. ++-0+-se0s, LESSERS. TORN T. FORD --SOLE MANAGER Also of Holliday-street, Baltimore, and Marshall Theatre, Richmon4, Viry'! The Third Dramatic Representation of the sea- son will take place on MONDAY EVENING, Merch 10th. Whose efforts on the last cccasion elicited the ‘warmest praises, will appeer, by permis of Mr E. Foeswer as JACK CADE. In Judge Conrad’s great play of that name Mr. Eddy’s delineation of this character at the pote om Treatre excited so much entbusi- asm as to compel the torepeat the piece three times ; on each occasion be wa- twice called ‘before the curtain by the wild excitement of the large present. On MONDAY EVENING, March 10th, Judge Conrad’s great play of JACK CADE! ‘The whole to conclude with a FAVORITE Faace. ee PRicks oF ADMission :—To Boxes and Par- Galleries Quette 50 cents; Family Circle and 6 cents. No extra charge for Reserved Seats Box Sheet open from 10 until 6 o’clock. Box Office open every day. 2 MR. DEMPSTER'S Second Original Ballad Entertainment WILL BE GIVEN AT CARUSI’S SALOON, On MONDAY EVENING, March 10, Se THE FOLLOWING SONGS “The Rat eM jorning, N. Night,??« Lagecutel tbe l-tsh Hank rant,” ©The Barring 0’ the Door,” * Bighia ary.’ “Ob’ pecess cauld and restless jone,” ‘“The Death of arren,’’ ‘‘P'm alone, all alone,”’ “A Man’s a Duncan men Y that.” « Grey,” and “ The Mav » im three parte. The whele sceom- nied on a Chickering Plano Forte, furnished By the poltteners of Mr, vis. Tickets FIFTY CENTS. To commence at 2 o'clock. mar 6-4t A GRAND FIREMEN’S BALL WILL BE GIVEN BY THE Columbia Engine Co., No. 1, aT THe WASHINGTON ASSEMBLY ROOMS, On EASTER MONDAY, March 24, 1856, HE MANNER IN W&ICH THE COM- peny has conducted their previous Balls is a sure guarantee that this one will give plezsure and satisfaction to all who may be - Esputa’s full Cornet and String bave been engaged Supper acd Refreshments will be furnished by “ivickets ONE DOLLAR itting « gentle ds > adm! e > man end ladies. = Executive Committee. Isaac Beers, Jas A. Brown, Jas. 5 Geo. Follansbee, . E. Young. mar 4,6,10,12,14,18ka6t 10 TO ELLIS'S om finer 8 FOR CHEAP GOODS. ——$—$—$__—_ ee Etts’s STORE is 306 Pennsylvania a4 avenue, near Tenth street. mars F° HIRE—A NEGRO MAN, (S8LAVE,) accustomed to running a stesm engine marS—3@ = RICHARD WALLACH. OTICE.—A FINK SET OF ROLLING SCENERY, com twelve , for scenes sale on ressonable terms. Apply at the National Theatre. mar 8_tf OYSTERS. ete RECEIVED, A FINE LOT of FRESH SALT OYSTERS. For stele by the gallon or barrel. at R.SCHWARZE’s o Cellar, mer 6-3 corner of 1ith and E street. HATS! HATS: HE MOST POPULAR SPRING STYLE ee gentlemen’s Dress HATS now “2 All Gentlemen having peculiarly shaped heads can, with the use of @ patent ‘onfor ms teur have the exact size and shepe taken, end bave a hat made to ft the 63 Pleasantly at the short- est notice H. STINEMETZ, Pra: tical Hatter, 236 Pa. av bet. 12th and 13th sts mar S—iw Se een More NEW JEWELRY, WATCHES, Silverware, &c. Diamond, Pearl, Cameo, Florentine Mosaic, La- va, end Plain Sets, ——— Diamond Broochee, Earand Finger Rings Diamond Crosses, Studs, Pins. &e Lad@ies’ and Gentlemen’s extra fine Watches Gentlemen’s Fob, Guard and Vest Chains Ladies’ new style Chatalains and Fancy Guards Puresfiver Tea Sets, richly embossed. Waiters, Goblets, Cups, Spoons, Forks, Ladies And every seco a Fancy SILVER WARE, suitable for The ebove ere all of the latest styles, just re- ceived, and offered ae | low M. W. GALT & BRO, mar 8 994 Pa ay. bet oth and roth sts O8T.—A LEATHER WALLET containing one fifty dollar Piece, of California issue, anf a two-hundred doiler note of hard The finder will be liberslly rewarded by leaving it at this jo 8.8. HURTUN nt Fite THE Sth INSTANT, EITHER in Washington or Georgetown, a carved GOLD BRACELET, with two lockets attached, one of them bearing the initialsof E H. A suit able reward will be given if left at this office, cr with Hartley & Brother, Water street, G - town. OST.—A ROLL OF NOTES S485 Any pergous finding ing it seme, will receive $100 reward wy lea with C.J BURCH, Fourteenth + ,or W. P. HUMPH- REY. mar 6 OOPS FOR THE CHILDREN ; ALSO, Bulldi: Blocks, Graces, Tea Seits, Dolls and Heads, Railroads, with 2 general assor!ment of TOYS, tor sale by mar 7—3t LAMMOND, 8r., 7th street SPRING STYLE HATS, 1556. Noy. READY AT MATTINGLY’S FASE fenable Hat and Cap Establishment Also, a fine assortment of youths’ and gents’ black and brown Felt Hats, at the lowest; Prices. No 391 Seventh street. mar 7—3* FINE WATCH KEPAIRING. ARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO Repatring of fine Watches hen A. WATSON, experienced practical Watch- maker, 58 Bridge street, peor the Post Office,) Georgetown, D.C. Clocks kept in repair by the year. Jewelry mended. arte mar 7—3t* LADIES, PLEASE READ! 4 UST ARRIVED FROM KINGSTON, JA- maica, W.1., and in store for sale by the sub- seriber : 4 doz. PRIME CORDIAL, particvlariy for ladies’ use. Also, fcr gentlemen, a few dozen cf PRUNE DRAM, s0 much esteemed for its virtues for the benefit of health, about eleven to one o’clock Not to be hed in any other store but at JONAS P. LEVY’s, 474, Pennsylvania avenue Wines, Liquors, Segars, ard Ane Groceries mar 7—tf MEDICAL €ARD UCTOR STANISTAS HERNISZ, KEG- ular Practitioner Hol y. Office, 231 corner F and Fourteenth strects. Consulte- tions from 10 a. m , to3 p. m. Dostor Stanislas Hernisz, be’ returned frem Rutipe wh improved hesith attend to (be ‘Le Docteur parle Francais Dee Dover Stee E] Doctor habla Espanol Tl Dottore parla Italiano. mar 7- 3m* crpias THE PEARL of PEARL RIVER, by E. D. E. N. Southworth, $1. Learning to Think, by Abbott, £0 cents United tates, Canada and Cub1, by Miss Mur- ray, $1. Putnam's Magerine for March, 95 cents Harper's do do do Heari Pa livew, or the Comrades in Arms, bY F. Smith, "of Betentise Diseoverter, or Year Book "856; $1.25, Por se} B. K. LUNDY, mar7—tr’ No. 19 Bridge st , A CARD. ALL, BARNARD & CO , AUCTIONEERS akDComminsion Mancuanre,cormer Penn rn will ee usu! hos iad pees, ry Sh oan alae exes tate, or ny other Goods, upon 'the mitash d= SS