Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1856, Page 2

EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON City: THURBSDAY.,...0<.2+0+-+-0+.May 15, IMS6. I~ Advertisements should be handed in by 12 o’eloek, m., otherwise they may not appear until the next day. SPIEIT OF THE MORNING PRESS. The Intelligencer is devoted to news to day. The Union argues to prove that the hope of tho Abolitionists is now ‘‘ to make” the ac- tion of the Congressional Committee in Kansas available for the renewal with increased inten- sity of the sectional agitation which swept over the north soon after the passage of the Nebraska bill. Seen e ee oe WASHINGTON REWS AND GOSSIP Nicaragua.—The advocates of the propriety and legality cf the doings of the Fillibuster Walker and his men in Nicaragua, seem bent on “‘sushing through”’ the recognition of his so-called Government by that of the United States, as though firmly impressed with the belief that nought but that act can save him and his echemes of Central American con- quest. Indeed this view of the desperation of his situation is distinctly avowed in a letter published in yesterdsy’s Union. The gist of that communication (and of the outside pres- sure on the Government here to bring about the propesed recognition) is stated therein as follows: “* Let us be done with them; withdraw the outlawry we have so absardly proclaimed aint a friendly State on aceount of her hos- pitality to our people, and put the two gov- ernments gain, and at once, into co ad- ence. This done, we are in the way to take the further steps that our past errors have made necessary ; tmmediately to send succor to Nicaragua, or assume wholly the war with Costa Rica as having been made against our countrymen in @ neighboring friendly State, and consequently agaiust our country. This is the active, vigorous policy that I think due to the occasion. * But, if this be too strong a pelicy for the _—— state of our nervous system, the tak- ng off cf the ban of outlawry against the Government of Nicaragua weil /et in our citi- zens, om their own account, to tts assistance; and this, with a suficsent naval force to in- sure their peaceable debarkation at San Juan and ascent of the river, would probably be sufficient soon to turn the tide—provrded it be not too late. “I eonfess, however, that I look for thenext news from Nicaragua with much solicitude and nosmali misgivings. The late accounts show a lamentable destitution of arms and ammunition among the troops cf Walker. The Government is destitute of money. The country with all its natural riches, is, from its long wasting by civil wars, bare of sup plies. Under these circumstances, and with- out any encouragement from abroad, even from our own country, to give confidence to the native Nicaraguans, the force and re- sources of Costa Kica alone present a heavy odds against Nicaragua and its existing Gov- ernment. But powerful efforts were also mak- ing, and, in view of the partial successes and formidable aspect of Costa Rica, and the evi- dent Europeansympatby which she commands, were likely to succeed, to form a general hos- tile coalition of the States adjoining Nicara- gua. It was under the belief that this had already been done, and that troops were marching from diferent quarters upon them, that the address of general Walker to his gellant soldiers at Rivas was made. My appre- beusion is that the coalition has succeeded ; for what more powerful argament could be urged by those who © fomenting the in- trigue than that the United States themselves, even departing for that purpose from their traditional maxims, had ignored the Govern- ment and outlawed the State ?”’ To sey the least of it, this is very cool in- deed. It is » proposition far in advance of anything ever before essayed in tuis country in the way of fillibustering. We are not only called on to ignore the existence and obliga- tions of the neutrality lew of the United States, but absulctely go iv war to ald Walker and his fillibusters to conquer all Cenira! America, because, forsooth, they are Ameri- can. £0 were more or less of the pirates who infested the Carribean Sea in Commodore Porter’s time ; though we had not then “pro- greased”’ in our national notions of our rights and obligations under the laws of nations, to such an extent as that an article was found in any American newspaper urging the duty of this Government to go to war in defence of the American pirates who fell, in those days, into the clutches of other nations. Not long since General Walker, backed by Just such another band from the United States as is now with him, invaded Mexico. He and they were declared outlaws by both Mex- ico and the United States. On being expelled from Mexico, he came back under the juris- diction of this Government, and having been seized by its officers, was put on his tris for conduct equivalent to piracy. He cscaped through no lack of a disposition on the part of the Government at Washington to punish him to the extent of the law. His next step wasto invade Nicaragua as he hed invaded Mexico; on this cccasion tak- ing eare to essay to disguise the piratical char- acter of his expedition under the plea that he was invited so to do by a zevolutionary party of that country. He succeeds in first destroy- ing the existing Government, and then, in- stantly, in setting himself up as the Dictator there ; governing slely by force of the bowie knife, revolver and rifle. No despotism was ever more complete than his. No professed bandit ever “lorded it” in his cavern or glen more completely by force, and with less pre- tence of law. His fiat is the only law known wherever the bullets of his followers reach. It suffices to take property, li erty and life from all alike—Americans or natives—within bis fatal clutches. The better to disguise the Piratical character of his enterprise, he has some two hundred native prisoners constantly within the range of the rifles of his Gllibus- ters, and calls them his native functionaries and troops His sympathisers in this country re-echo his cry for the subjugation of all Cen- tral America as he bas temporarily subdued Nicaragua by the arms of American fillibus ters. The Gove:nment of the United States did its beet to prevent the necessary succor of men, arms and munitions from being sent to him in violation of the law of the land En- raged at such action here, be openly pro- claimed the purpose of making an European alliance that should injure North American interests on the Isthmus as much as possible. England epurned his offer as one coming from a pirate—the common enemy of all mankind. The Central American governments, justly alarmed at bis schemes, and at the ineffic: of our law to restrain the lawless portion of our population from precipitating themselves upon them—neighboring nations, with whom we sre at peace, and whose rights we have bound ourselves to respect—combine to smoke Walker out of Nicaragua, just as citizens in this country at times combine to hunt a bigt- waymoen out of a forest or swamp to which he has betaker himself for the prosecution of his calling. If ever there were a cass where that Srst law of pature—self-preservation—de- manded such action as that of Costa Rica, it is im this instance:~ Costa Rioa, as we long since explained, is rapidly ‘‘ bringing’? Wal- ker and his fillibusters “‘ap with a round turn ;” and this Government is asked to ac- knowledge the rightfalness of his acts, with the avowal on the part of those who advocate such a policy for the United States in the newspapers, that it is to be a mere initiatory step, first to encouraging all who want to filli- buster to violate our own laws; and next, to lead quickly to the employment of the army and navy of the United States in Central America as auxiliaries to Walker’s fillibus- ters! Verily, we are on the threshold of s very ‘‘ fast age,” indeed ! A Godsend.—All Republican-party-dom in Washington is in extacies over the very latest news by telegraph from Kansas. The cry is that border ruffianism has conspired to” pre- vent the further action of the House Commit- tee, by force of arms, and that a pro-slavery mob is marching to destroy the testimony the Committee have already taken! The truth is, a Kansas grand jury indicted those who assume to be the functionaries of the mock State of Kansas, which has been set up against the territorial authorities by force of arms. This was done during the late ses- sion of the mock State Legislature. The offi- cers of the law went to execute upon the mock functionaries processes of the District Court of the United States, and theyranaway. They have ventured back within the jurisdiction of the authority of that Court, under the shadow and in the train of the House investigating Committee. Reeder, on being arrested for the crime of treason, for which he was indicted before the House made their investigating Committee, essays to escape the marshal’s au- thority by pleading ‘‘ privilege,’”’ he being a party to the case which the Committee are in- vestigating! The majority of the Committee, admitting that they have no right to step in between Reeder and the authority ef the Uni- ted States District Court'for the Territory of Kansas, nevertheless advise him to resist the marshal’s writ. The minority of tho Commit- tee—Mr. Ovlier—very properly advises him to obey the Court. Robinson, not having at hand the plea that he is a party to the case before the Committee, again takes to his hee!s, and is caught and held by neighboring law- abiding people, who knowing him to bea tu- gitive from justice, and keep him to be sur- rendered when a legal demand may be made for him. Such is a true statement of the case over which Republican-party-dom in our midat is now in so great a glee, as embracing a po- litical mare’s nest just suited to their present emergencies. The Protest —As published in the New York Herald, the protest of Capt. Tinklepaugh, of the steamship Orizaba, is the subject of much laughter among Naval officers in Washing, ton; as he says that he invited Capt. Tarle- ton to dictate to him what he should do with his passengers, and exhibited to him his list of passengers without ao word of ob jection, and was then told by Captain Tarle- ton that he declined to interfere with the Orizaba, or her passengers, who might go where they pleased, and do as they pleased The truth is, this ‘protest’? business seems to be but another move in the game of humbug on which Walker's cause alone rests. It was evidently designed to get up a high pressure of sympathy fur him under the notion that Evgland had attempted to exercise the right to search an American vessel at San Juan. Every word embraced in Tinklepaugh’s protest that might lead to tho irferense tnat Capt. Tarleton ded entertain the idea of trenching op American rights, is avowed to be but ‘“hear- say ;”’ while all that Tiaklepaugh says of his own knowledge, shows that Tarleton only in- terfered as far ag he did, with his (Tinkle* paugh’s) consent, and at his request; uati finding that even to express an opinion as to what would be the proper course for Tinkle- paugh to pursue, he positively refused to ad vise him one way or the other. The Tarleton case is the very last humbug of the age, and Tinklepaugh has labored earnestly to prove, in his protest, that he is, himself, the veriect of asses. Cancelling of Postage Stamps.—We learn that the Post Office Department has reason to complain of the general neglect of the regu- lation which requires that ‘“‘ postage stamps affixed to letters or packages be immediately and effectually éancelled in the office in which such letters or packages are deposited for transmission by mail. The cancellation should be effected by the use of black printer's ink, wherever that material can be obtained : and where it cannot, the operation should be per formed by making several heavy crosses or parallel lines upon each stamp with a pen dipped in good black writing ink.”” As the failure of the postmaster to enforce this regulation opens a door to frauds upon the revenues of the Department, he cannot be too careful in its observance. The Water Works. —This morning the District Committee of the House voted to re- port a bill for the completion of the National Aqueduct, when next culled on to report The bill in question proposes to finish the work upon the plan on which it is now being constructed. Commissioned.—Yesterday Mr. A. Gordon McGrath, of Charleston, was commissioned as juigecf the United States District Court for the district of South Carolina. He was con. firmed on Tuesday, the 12th inst, Confirmed.—Lorenzo G Sales has been ap- pointed Recciver of Public Moneys at Chari- ton, Iowa, vice Nathan @. Sales, resigned. The Current Operations of the Treasury Department.—On yesterday, the 14th of May, there were of Treasury warrants entered on the books of the Dopartment— Forthe Treasury Department... $6 475 00 For the interior Department 26,268 47 For Customs.....-sessees 11,634 20 War warrants received and > ps tored...scsseceees 14,816 00 From Lands...... 99,333 08 On account of the N: 13,150 25 Repayment on ace Navy. 13,390 31 Usgrct Srxorsis.—Roe Lockwood & Son, New York, bave sent us through Taylor & Maury “‘Sparks’ Analysis of French Verbs,”’ ia chart (tabular) form, and a Key thereto: The chart isa phylosopBica!, though simple explanation of the rules governing the endings of the different classes (conjugations) of all the modes and senses of the French verbs. It cannot fail to be of great assistance to persons learning French, as it explains at a glance what most Americans and Englishmen who are endeavoring to learn French usually es- teem to be the inexplicable mystery of the language. Ass work of reference, the mature Frenoh scholar will find it valuable also, CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. In the Senate, yesterday, after we went to press, at the conclusion of the speech of Mr. Foot in favor of the reconsideration of the vote by which the Iowa railroad land dona- ting bill was passed, it was farther debated by Messrs. Jones of Towa, Wade, Jones of i Bigler, ere the question was, put ; re perv was not agreed to—yeoas 15, nays 19 ‘The Benate then adjourned. Im the House, the Florida railroad land donating bill was passed—yeas 84, nays 57, The House next proceeded to the business on the Speaker’s table, and the Senate bill to define the duties of Commissioners of Elec- tion in the city of Washington having been taken uj Mr. Seasbaim moved to put it on its passage, and demanded the previous question on its third reading On the suggestion of Mr. Jones, of Tenn., Mr. Meacham provera to amend the said bill by inserting the word “wilfully” after the word ‘“ knowingly,’’ in the first section, so that it would read, ‘‘that if any commissioner or other person appointed to superintend mu- ig elections in the city of Washington sHall knowingly and wilfully refuse,” &o, Other members having a other amendments, Mr. Meacham withdrew the one he had proposed. The previous question having been seconded, the third reading of the bill was agreed to. Mr. H. Marshall, of Ky., moved to recon- sider that vote, [we now quote the Intelli- gencer’s report—Ep.,] stating that his object in submitting this motion was to enable bim to express the reasons why he wished the bill referred to the Committee of the Whole. He desired to have it so referred in order that he might have an opportunity to offer some amendments which he deemed necessary to erfect the bill. It was known that at the ‘ast election in this city the commissioners ot election mado one decision as to the right of acertain class of persons to yote, and the court intfmated another and a different deci- sion upon the same question. The effect of this contrariety of decisions between the com- missioners of elections and the court was to allow the naturalized citizen who might pro- cure his naturalization papers upon the very morning of an election to cast his suffrage at the polls, while a young man who was a na- tive-born and might never have been out of this city in the course of his life, who came of the age of twenty-one years between the 31s" of December and the day of election, was denied the privilege of voting. He de- sired to amend the bill so as to provide a rem- edy for this unjust discrimination against American natives; and he congratulated him- self that he had an opportunity to show to the country that gentlemen who cast their votes for this bill were knowingly making a dis- crimination in favor of the foreigner against young men who were natives of the soil When gentlemen entered inte a combination to force this bill through the House they should take it cum onere, with a full know- ledge of the fact that they were making the discrimination to which he had adverted. This bill was nothing but a measure of pen alties, intended to operate so as to compel the commissioners to bow the knee to the judg- ment of a tribunal whose decisions they weli knew. Gentlemen well knew that he and those with whom he was associated had never desired either to restrict the number of voting places or the hours during which the polls were to be kept open; that allthey had requested was that they should be afforded an ppporsniy to indicate those amendments which they de- sired to offerin order to carry out fairly and fully their views of the basis upon which the privilege of suffrage should rest. This had been denied them, and the attempt had been made to compel them to take the bill as it had come from the Senate The bill did not provide that if a commis- sioner of elections should knowingly, wilfally, or corruptly refuse the vote of a person pos- sessing the legal qualifications he should be punished; but whether he did it knowingly, wilfully, corruptly, or not, he was made liable to the penalties of the first section He would defy gentlemen to produce a law passed by any deliberate body that punished criminally the defect of the understanding without the perversion of the will; yet this was the ope- ration of the provisions «f the first section. Mr Meacham. We will admitthat amend- ment of the gentleman very cheerfully. Mr. Marshall The gentleman’s concession comes too late in the day. Mr. Meacham I submitted the amendment when I first obtained the floor. Mr. Marshall was not surprised at the course pursued by Democratic gentlemen, but was certainly surprised at the vote given on his side of the House. He had always understood that the views of the gentlemen in regard to this particular subject on his side of the House coincided with those that obtained among the masses of the American people. He then charged the administration with interference with the elections in this city, and again called the attention of the House to what, in his opinion, was an unjust dis- crimination between young men who were na- tives of the country and naturalized foreign- ers. Mr. McMullin, of Virginia, (sotto voce.) Adopt the Louisville rule on these naturalized citizens and kill them off. Mr Marshall. When that question comes up for discuzaion the gentleman will find mo cocked and primed. Mr. Jones, of Tennessee, would say to the gentleman from Kentucky that he had no sort of fears as to responsibility in this case His (Mr. J.’s) qualification for a voter in this Dis- trict and in his State was that he should bea free white man, twenty-one years of age, a citizen of the United States, and a bona fide resident of the place or county in which he niger to vote, whether he mighs have been orn in this or any other land. He was aware that the commissioners of election here had decided that a naturalized citizen must be twelve months a resident of this city before he could vote, after he had been endowed, under the laws of the United Stutes, with the rignts and privileges of citizenship. In his opinion it was a wrong decision, and the court that corrected it would be entitled to the a of American freemen all over the land. The gentleman had said that a native-born had to reside here six months after his ma- jority before he could vote under the present law. while the foreigner, who was naturalized on the day before or the day of the election, could come to the baliot-box and exercise this high prerogative of every American citizen. There was no law, as Mr. J understood it, which gaye one man the right to vote sooner than it did another after he had become a citizen of tho United States. The qualifica- tion of a voter, as prescribed by the act of Congress, was that he must be a free white male citizen of the United States, twenty-one years of age, and a resident for a certain length of timeinthecity Anothercondition was that he should have been assessed for a school tax for the year ending the 3ict of De- cember preceding the election at which he proposed to vote. r. Davis, of Maryland, thought the gen- tleman was undoubtedly in error as to the law. Tho law required a person before he could vote to have been assessed for a school tax. He could not be so assed until he was twenty-one years of age. Unless, therefore, he was twenty-one years of age on or before the 3lst of December, there was no time at which he could be assessed for the school tax prior to the election, which was held on the first Monday in June. Therefore, if he be- came twenty one years of age between the Blt of December and the first Monday in June, he was excluded from voting. Mr. Jones. I am willing to concede that un- der the law of Congress, which I wished to correct; but gentlemen on the other side ex- hibited such opposition to it that we had to drop thgt part of the bill. As be understood the law, no poll tax could be levied upon a person unless he was a citizen of the United States. Then he must not only be twenty-one years of prior toor upon the 3let ef December preceding the election, but he must be acitizen at the time the tax was levied for the year preceding the election at whieh he proposed to vote. sequently he was not taxed until he was a citizen, and he must be taxed and must pay that tax for the year ending the 3lst December preceding the election at which it was his intention to vote. Mr. Davis, of Maryland. Where does the Gentleman get that construction of the law? 80 far, on the recent homicide of Thos. Keat- from California, and directin; Committce to investigate the facta of the homi- cide, with power to send for persons and pa- pers. Mr. Cobb of Geo: lution was one of p province to decide whether the resolution was or was not one of privilege, to put the question to the would or would not receive the resolution, the table—vyeas 79, nays 70. tion to reconsider the third in; Washington City elections bill, and cham was addressing the House as we went to press. N. York, are at Willards’. is etopping at Willards’. has been killed in battle in Nicaragua. sailed yesterday for Europe. bad. the good will of the 1 has hit w rents of the lodgings of the Parisian mechan- ios He has purchased 18,000 metres of land in the Boulevard Mazas, at the southeastorn extremity of Paris, where he proposes to erect model lodging houses, the rents of which will be proj whom sorrespondence Particuliere du Precuseur, Paris, April 22: tion. Sheissix months pregnant. You proba- bly suspected this, when after her return trom Awerica she retired to a little country house in Normandy, and refused all the offers from the Comedie Francaise. But the public would have known nothing had not curiosity pushed M’ll Rachel to attend the recent performances of M’me Ristori. On the occasion of her visit she was, of course, seen and recognized. and her condition was a0 apparent that it could not be mistaken.”’ land, Maryland, on Monday last, the Demo crats elected three out of six members of the Council, and the Know Nothing candidate for Mayor was elected by only five votes. Two tea ago the Know Nothings carried both majority ; one year ago by fifty-two. Terre Haute, Ind., on the 6th inst., which resulted in the election of Chambers Y. Pat- terson, Esq., the old line Democratic nominee, for Mayor, Terre Haute has always been the banver Whig city of the State up to the com- eleoted the Mayor by a large majority. The slavery question was the issue. annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Mr. Jones. I derived it from residents of this city. : Mr. Davis. I think the opinion is erroneous —‘‘auy resident.” Several Members. That is the } . Mr. Jones then moved to lay the wm 2 to “ie pele oe table. ir. Davis, of Maryland, hoped the motion would be voted down, as he desired to disouss the subject. question was taken, and the motion to reconsider was not laid on the table; and the House adjourned. Preceedings ef Fe-Day. In the Senate, to-day, the Florida railroad land donating bill from the House, and the bill forthe relief of the widow of the late Gen. Roger Jones, Adjutant General U. 8. A., were passed. Mr. Mason offered a resolution forthe print ing of an extra number of the map of Central America, La msi by the officers of the Uni- ted States Survey; referred to the Printing Committee. The Naval Retiring Board question was then taken up, and Mr. Mallory was address- ing the Senate upon the subject when we went press In the House, Mr. Knowlton rising to a question of privilege, offered a preamble and resolution reciting the action of the courts ing by Mr Herbert, a member of the House the Judiciary my denied that the reso- lege. The Speaker decided that it was not his and being about House whether it Mr. Stephens moved to lay that question on The question then arose on the mo- the r. Mea- PERSONAL. «+++ Hon. Moses H, Grinnell and family, of ----Com Sands, U. 8. N., isinthe city and +e» Mr. J. H. Lane, of Petersburg, Va., +++» Hon. John P. Kennedy was to have His health is «+ Louis Napoleon, ever anxious to recure aboring clases of France, m another scheme for reducing the rtionate to the incomes of the class © proposes to benefit. ++. The subjoined paragraph is from the “ Mlle Rachel is in a most interesting posi- Political Intelligence. At as municipal election held in Cumber- ayor and Councilmen by some two hundred An election for city officers took place in mencement of fusioniem; and last year they Tue Bisnor Haxuixe Casz.—On Saturday, the Methodist General Conference, at Indiana- polis, inthe case cf the Rev. Mr. Harlan, adopted the following resolution by a vote of 139 to6: Resolved, by the delegates of the several Church in General Conference aseembled. That the decision of the Cincinnati annual conference of said church, in the case of Lorenzo D. Harlan, be, and the same is here- by affirmed. Rev. Mr. Harlan, it will be remembered, was expelled from the church by the Cincin- nati conference,—the charges against Bishop Hamline not being substantiated. Th sult of his appeal to the India the re-affirmation of the Bishop's The charges against the Bishop were that Harlan’s wife, (whose maiden name was Mary Baker,) had, before her marriage, in 1840 or °41, been an inmate of Bishop Hamline’s house, aud that Mrs. Hamline had complained to her of the Bishop’s infidelity, and related in- stances of improprieties with ‘tps et She regarded it as a monomania in the Bizhop, and alleged that he lost all self-control on certain occasions. In this belief, Miss Baker said that after further acquaintance with the Bishop, she was obliged to concur. Testimony was given by the Rev. Mr. Sunderland and a number of others, establishing the truth of the allegations. On the other hand, Mrs. Ham- line, the wife of the Bishop, testified most positively that she never told such things to Mary Baker, and that such things never trans- ired. 4 The Gasette says that— Ever since the trial commenced, parties of young ladies have appeared in the rotunda at the opening of every session, and either sent for or stopped clergymen of their ac- quaintance, to ask admittance. These ladies know fall well the nature of the trial—they know that it has been stated in conference that it was a case not proper for them to hear. If they did not know the doors were closed, they would walk up to the entrance as usual, and not send for some one to ask if there was no way in which they could get in. These are not wantons or gossips, but highly respectable ladies. They are, however, true daughters of Live, brimful of curiosity—a de- sire to know good and evil—which, if un- checked, may lead to tasting forbidden fruit. This curiosity is one evidence of their inex- perience. They may have less of it when — of knowledge bas becn plucked—all’s Own ; And life yields nothing more. Bass Woop Pargr.—The new paper mill at Little Falis, N. Y., for the manufacture of paper from the pulp of wood, owned by Mr. Beardsley, formerly of Albany, is now, it is said, in successful operation. "The Gloucester News tells of a man 4 lost a favorite son, and te a =e is eulogy on her sayin; © was a! pecaitas a a dd It mnst bea great relief to know that the question of a schoolmarm’s beauty can now be so easily de- cided. Invnparion 1x Mississiprt —Accounts from the interior of the State of Mississippi inform us that the water courses are all swo! toan unprecedented height, flooding the lowlands, sweeping away fences, bridges, &e., in their , and submerging the young crops of cotton and corn. ~ te £Br The Louisville Courier states.that a singular freak of nature is notiseable year in the strawberries of that neighborhood. The variety called the Longworth Prolific has been remarkable as having stamens and pistils on the same flower, but all the; plants of that variety are now in bloom near Louisvjlie, and all destitute of stamens. The flowers/are all slike, fine larg e 7 without stamens. = i culiar fastening, rendering them stronger, sightly what otherwise are delightful to’ ad- purity of breath, they would spare no expense to chase away these fatal blemishes Balm of a thousand Flowers will embellirh and preserve the dental structure, and impart @ grateful fragrance to the broath. For sale at Shillington’s Book and Stationery estab- lishinent, Odeon building, Pennsylvania ave- nue, corner of Four and-a-half street. Boe EST WARD PIONEER CONSTI- Tembers of this Association are earnestly request ed to meet on FRIDAY EVENING, at 7 o’clock, at their hall. portance makes it the duty of every member to be punctual in their attendance at this meeting. Nothing EVENING, in the Franklin Building, corner of D and 9th street. which will be addreised by Dr. Wa. B. Macruper and others. The voters of the Ward are requested to be punctual in their attendance. brought before them 1 juested to be Social as bu the Seciety will come $e ee eee oerneentinenoenease Ke it THE DEMOCRATS of Geo town favorable to the election of "the nominee of the Demrecratic Convention to be held in Cincinnati in June next, are meet at Forrest Hall on THURSDAY EVENING, the 15th instant. at 8 o’clock. will hold a Fair at Carusi’s Saloon commenc'ng on MONDAY, the i2th of May. this Fair is to provide the poo: class of clLildren ag decent ap) in. will meet with the same favor an rage- ment that similar charities have. To make the time as agreeable as possible, good music bas been provided for every a week. Doors open at 7 0 clock ~Inpnisomwnrr vor Dest rx Exoraxn.—Ac- cording to the official returns just issued on the Ist of August last, there was no less than one thousand and ninety eight persons confined in the various in England for debt. In the prison at ene man, whose o1 de ae nine a - for twenty beeause be could not pay the ex- nees of the suit brought cab him. amounted to £1 9s., or more than three times as much asthe original debt. In anoth- er case, a man was in prison for ten days be- cause be could not ten shillings and four. pence, being the of a debt of three shillings and sixpence. Ina third, the debt amounted to £1 7s. 3d., and theoosts £2 8s 74. These, and many similar cases, have attract- ed much attention, and the policy of abolish- ing imprisonment for debt is now openly dis- cussed. Dagan rromu Starvation.—We learned yes- terday from a a who arrived here from "aitoona, , that a boy and girl, named Cox, aged ‘ively six and eight years, were Jost for upwards of ten days inthe Allegheny mountains near Summersview They were found a day or two ago, side side dead. The right hand of the little boy was partly torn off, and the children hed the appearance of having been dead about a week. A large number of je continued to search the s from the time the children were miseed until the finding of the bodies.—Pitrs- burg Gazette. New Macaixe vor Picxixe Frprovs Ma- TERIALS —This invention, by Mr. R Kitson, of Lowell, has a main cylinder, on which the picks are a: » and the cylinder is both self-sharpening and self-cleaning. This is done by an ingenious mode of drawing sir into the cylinder box, and then causing the air to impurge against the base of the teeth, pass away at their points, and thus blow off the material. The teeth have a new and pe- while their form greatly cheapens their cost. _ Tae Teetu axD Breata.—If those who are blerred with well formed teeth knew how soon decay steals into the mouth, making un- mire, and designating unhealthiness by im- The TUTIONAL ASSOCIATION —THE jay 16th Basiness of much im- Pee B. RANDOM, President. JOS. P. SHILLENN, Sec. m 15-it* THIRD WARD MERTING —There will be a meeting of the Anti Know voters of this Ward on TO-MORROW , a8 business of importance will be m 14-2 JOSEPA LYONS, Chetrmsn. WASHINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.—The members are earnest- t_at the meeting of the TO-MORROW (Thursday) EVENING ness of vital im ice to the existerce of them J... CLUBB, Pres. W. P. 8. let m 14-2t Tequested to m 13-3t THE LADIES OF THE ISLAND respectfally inform the public that they The object of parel to attend church and school The lnides trust this laudable object of theirs encoul through the continue epen until ten. m 10-1w " Dyrsirnnel BIRD CAGES, BIRD NESTS, Children’s R Horses, Hair Brushes, Combs, Transparent Bar rae &c., at _m 15-3t LAMMOND’S, 7th street. R SALE—A BUGGY AND HARNESS, Saddleand Bridle, all but little ured. They ean be seen at ARNY & SHINN’S Bottling De , 57 Green street, Georgetown. m 15-1f OST-—ON MONDAY, THE 12th INST., on the Sunday School Excursion tothe White House, a Gold Necklace and Cross, carved on one side, and the initials ‘‘V E H’’ ontheother The tirder wil be liberally rewarded vopon leaving it atthe Dry Goods Store of R.B.HALL, No 3:3 Seventh street m 15 3'* SUMMER MILLINERY. RS. J LANE, BRIDGE 8T., GEORGE- town. D C., will open, on ms =) May 17, a fashionable assortment of SUMMER MILLINERY. The Ladies are iavited tocall before purchasing elsewhere. m 15-3t street yesterday, a small BOOK. with yellow paper cover, having in i charger for work as_carman. belon; ing to WILL'SCARTER. The fin ex willcenfera favor and receive a suitable re. ward by leaving it at the Furniture Store next to Odd Fellows’ Hall, 7th street. m 15-31 ROPUSALS WILL BE RECEIVED, with plans and specifications, for re building the Brick House on Bridge stree’, west of Fred- erick street, and known as the+ rey » Builders from a distance might find it ir In- tere-t to examine tbe work, which can becom, menced immediately. Apply at ‘‘ Columbia Mills,’? Geor, , DC. m 15 3t BOVCE TAYLOR & CO. Cras Sun copy and tend bill to the Evening Star. LL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE late Ladies’ Desositery are informed tht such articles as were left there, and have not been called for, may be found at Miss ROLLAND’S Store, on 7th street, where they will remain until the year closes, in September ; they will then be given to the Benevolent Society, if application is not made before-that time SUSAN R. COXE. mis New NEW GOODS. LARGE ASSORTMENT OF FRENCH and American Gold, Velvet, fine Satin, and common PAPERK-HANGINGS of every variety id price. or ine Landscape Views, Fireprints and Curtain Papers ay large sssortment of Smite pttterns of Window Shades, Shade Fixtures, Tassels, Cords &e Also, a large stock of Chinese Floor Matting just rereived, ard to Rebeca per tfully call the attention of my customers and others. cat seterer ate CLARE Upholsterer and Paper- er, 248 north Hide Pa. avenue, Tetwess iath m i5-3:* and 13th sts. LARGE mets! oF ween dot ped act) Combs, Fane, Perfumery, &c., very low at JOHN F. ELLIS'S, 306 Pa. avenue, _m 14-tr presse FOR RENT, by menth, quarter end year. Old Pianos taken in part payment fornew. Pianos sold on monthly payments, at the Piano and Music Store of JOHN F ELLIS, mn l4-tr 306, between 9th and 10th streets. R SALE—A VERY FAST NORTHERN MARE, with Buggy Wagen and Harness. The mare is young, sound, and handsome, and ean trot a mile in less then mintes. Apply to 240 Penn avenue. m M-32® $1 REWARD.—STRAYED OR 8TO- len.—On Monday, the 12th inst , asorrel MARE, the right hind foot whit-, end shoe off the left hind foot The above re- ward will be paid for her delivery to meon N street, between 9h and 10th. m 14-30, JAMES WESTERFIELD. SUMMER MILLINERY. = E. McDON. NO. 70 BRIDGE 8ST. E. Ae. would respectful- : ly inform the ladies of Vebae | gf interes chats yoteow ursday. era anf arhaged SUMMER MULLIN an: RY, of he eet approved shape, most choice terial, and atest styles of the season, togetber with a variety of Tit of every descrip- tion. The ladicgare: ly Invited to call. m14-K* E. B. McDONALD. 8 inches in beight. CF NATIONAL THEATRE. KUNKEL& Co -»;-LESSEES JOHN T. FOR SOLE MANAGER 408. JBFFERSON STAGE MANAGER. a> Ming oF ADMISSION Box UCL.» +» sence Family Circle sod Galieris... An entirely new Spectacular Drama, THE SEA OF ICE, OR, A MUTHER'S PRAYER, ‘will be produced (for the third t me) on THIS (Thursday) EVENING, And every evening during the week, with its WONDERFUL MECHANICAL EFFECTS, DRESSES, SCENERY, $e. Caries Mr. @. C. Boniface | Morace Mr. Wallies Barrabes§ =r. J. Jefferson | Georges Mr. Bemiivn De Lascoure Miss M Deri ‘Mr. K Adams | Overita Medoe Mr-J.@. Burnett | Mad. Theringer Mre Germos {J On SATURDAY AFTERNO@ON, for the accommodation of Families and Children, the great drama of “THE SEA OF ICE’ will be performed. U7” The Bex Sheet for the sale of Reserved Seats will be 07 tween 9 a.m. 5 p.m. ARIETY HALL!—THIS ELEGANT AND newly &tkd Hall is now offered for rent for Bal's, Concerts, Fairs, &c. Every care will be eye to make this ie = a Hall most attracti:e place in the a er and eilicient management. Apply W. Wal of Wall & Stephens. ap 35-im —$————————————— CARD.—THE PUBLIC ARE HEREBY forbid cautioned and a a House ard Lot in square No. 756, by 160 feet, ad on Capitol Hill, fovting on C street, and4th. A deed of this p-oper'y bas been fraud - ulently obtained by 8. Strong from Samuel Scott and wife. (m 14-3:#) WM.H SWAIN. BROWN, AGENT AND GENERAL COLLECTOR, will attend to the Collec. tion of Accounts, Drafts, Notes, and Judgemenis. All business entrvsied to him will be promptly ard faithfully atterded to, and puncteai returns made. The of references can bs given. Office 202 Pennz. avenue, near 15th street. m 14-3* ANTI-ENOW NOTHING MASS MEETING. LL THE CITIZENS OF WASHINGTON ge to the Know Nothi: and its edmin on of the aSairs of this city ere cor- Aisily invited to attend a MASS MEETING at the CITY HALL, on FRIDAY EVENING, the 16th instant, rt § o’clock. Addresses will be delivered by the Hon. A. G. BROWN, Hon. T. F. BOWIE, Bon. THOS. B. FLORENCE, Ron. C, J. FAULKNER, J. M. CARLISLE, Esq, Dr. WM. B. MAGRU- DER, ond otber distinguished friends of Civil (Int-Unton.Sentinel) WOOD AND COAL. E HAVE NOW ON HAND AT OUR yard, corner of G and 22d streets, First Ward, a superior article of White and Red Ash COAL. Also, Comberiand lum> COAL, witha gord stock of Hickory, Oak and Pine WOOD, en Will ceil at the lowest market s. Pell orders ieft at P. J Steer’s Store, 488 Severth street, beiween D and E, will a JOHN W. MYERS & ©O. 2,240 pounds given to the ton. m itm $2 REWARD .—RANAWAY FROM the subscriber,en the 12th instant, mulatto Girl, named LUCY, about 4 She is well set, basa round face, biack wi ken to; 2 com eult of hair, and Keeps it cmcoth and well dremed. Hed om when she left a pink bonnet, clothes not recollected. I will give the sbove reward if she is taken In the Dis- trict, or $50 if taken out of it, so that I get her again. G. A. MES! m 14-3t Bc. BARGAINS. HAVE ALOT OF GOODS WHIC@ [ WILL close out chesp. ‘They consist of Straw snd Gimp BONNETS, FLOWERS, DRESS CAPS, KID GLOVES, TRIM- M'‘NG, BUTTONS, and a lot of notions ‘oo nu- merous to menticn. A. TATE. m 13-3 and Religious Libert NEW JEWELRY. UST OPENED A MAGNIFICENT 48- sertment cf elegant JEWELRY, embracing all the Jatest styles. We name io tart— Complete sets of real Stone and Roman Cameo, Florentine Mosaic, Neapolitan Coral, and Pearl Diamond Brooches, Ear and Finger Rings, Gold Chains, Cromes, Necklaces, Signet Hugs, Sleeve Buttons, Studs, Pencils, tcals, Ki &ec. The atove, ail just selected, with every other article in our line, are offered at the lowest rates M. W. GALT & BRU , m 13-3t 324 Pa. av. bet. 9th and 10th sts. ISTRICT UF COLUMBIA. Wasting- tom County, to wit:—I hereby cer- tify that J. W. Darnes, of said county, brought before me, as a stray trespassing on his enclosures, a sorrel HORSE, supposed to be about 15 years old; 15% bands high; a white slip in his forebead; white hind feet, and shod all round, and bas been worked in gear. Given under band of me, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, this 12th day of May, 1836. ROBERT WHIT e ewner of the above described Hers is re- quested to prove wi pay c es, and take him away. JAMES W. DARN&ES. m13-3t* Bridge strect, Georgetown, DB. c. MEDICAL CARD. R.H. PERABEAU, GERMAN BHOMEO- eee eee services to inhabitants of Wasbisgton and vicinity. Dr. P has been during the mst three years assistant of the cclebrated Dr. Hoffendab! in Boston, end feels confident to merit a share ot ublic patronege. Children and femaie diseases, Bowel and Summer complaints, fall especially under his treatment. Office on D street, two doors west of 9th, where be will be found from 9 to 12a. m , and from 4 to 6p. m. Residence on] strect, No. 168, between 20th and ist streets. Rererences.—Dr. Hoff-rdabl; Dr Wessel- hoeft; Hamphrey R. Storer, Professor of Mid- wifery inthe M M. College, Boston; Dr. Wm. Schmoele, Philadelphia; Major George Bender, bea N. B—Homeophatbic medicines for sale, which the Doctor prepares bimself with the greatert care, for Fever and Ague, for Bilous and Bowel complaints, &c., &c. m 13-2* CARUSI’S SECOND MAY FESTIVAL. BY REQUEST, LEWIS CARUSI HAS THE pleasure to announce a Second May Festival, at his Saloon, on the 16th inst. Ladics who received invitations to the first will, he hopes, do him the faver to be present at the second, and those whose invitations were not received will much oblige him by attending, without further solici- tation, in honor of this Festival. m 13-3\¢ UST ARRIVED— 50 cares Turner Brothers’ Ginger Wine. Rasp- berry and B’ackberry Brandy, daily expected a choice lot of Syrups of all flavors, for oda Wa- ters. No. 57 Gree RNY, & SHINN, 0. reen street, Georgetown. m 13- (intsi & Organ) ee A PERSONS WHO HAVE TRIED Turner Brothers’ Gin, Wine and Biack- neve 4 Prandy say thrt it the most plearan' rin! they ever tasted ARNY & SHINN, mii (Iniel & Organ) _ Bole Proprietors. SPECTACLES AND EYE-GLASSES. IST RECEIVED A LARGE ASSORT- ment cf very sw jor Gold, “Sve Invite particular st'ention to our as oriment M. W. GALT & BRO.., Jewelers, m 12-tf Pa. av. bet. 10th ste. OMNIBUSSES FOR PIC NIC PARTIES. HE PUBLIC ARE RESPECTFULLY IN- formed thst 1 am p-epared to farnish large end comfortable OM NIBUSSES, with good horses and careful drivers, for Pic Nie Parties. Arrange- ments can be made with Mr. Rosr. Kine, at ¢. J. Hall’s Cigar Store, next to Adams’ Exprers Office, or Mr. Thos. Thoxwas, at the West i- tol Gate. = [ml2-lw) HUGH LATHAM. patie Carnet = ik SER nnd me “3 75 NEW STYLE SPRING MANTILL‘5S Ora 2 AT Ae IN prices 5U, . 20 ren bieck ‘Chantilia Lace MANTILLAS Black Lace ne AND soases aS A astortment of Barege Stella inge 150 new style PARASOLS, for ladies and chil- dren, at reduced s. The ladies ry are invited to call examine our before making their COLLEY & SEARS. No 522 7th street, 34 door north Pa. avenue. m 12-6t BR SALE—THE FAST SAILING yaTcH CYGNET, 22 tons burthen; 4 years old ; in good order, and well found in every respect. Will he sold low for cath. Apps 10 HENRY MANKEN,No. 65 Thames strect Feii's Point, Baltimore. m 3-8we ' ‘