Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1856, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR, FUBLISHED EVERY AFXERNVUOR, x ana SUNDAY,) 41 the Star Buildings, corner ennsylventoa avenues ona aascenth ticesr: By W. D. WALLACH, Will be served to subscribers by carriers at SIX AND A QUARTER CENTS, payable weekly to the Agents; papers served In packages at 37% @ents per month. To mail subscribers the sub- Scription price ls THRE DOLLARS AND FIF- TY CENTS ayearin advance, TWO DOLLARS for six months, and ONE DOLLAR for three months; for less than three months at the rate of 12 cents a week. UP SINGLE COPIES ONS CENT. LL | —Ebening e by VOL, VILL WASHINGTON, D. C., FHERSBAY, DECEMBER 26, 1856. mM. SNYDER & SON, Bankers, Y¥ AND SELL DOMESTIC EXCHANGE, ‘TOCKS, BONDS, and othes Securities, ve Deposits, furnish Drafts, make Collec- tions, and negotiates Time Paper. ; LAND WARRANTS Weare atall tithes buying and selling Land Warrants, and will locate them, on commission, In Nebraska and Mfnnesota Territorys, Wiscon- sin, Lowa, and Missourt. M SNYDER & SON’S Bank, dec 15-tm No 388 National Hotel Building. FURS, FURS, FURS—AT SEYMOUR’S, HE ASSORTMENT LARGELY REPLEN ished with fine Mink Sableand otherses Just received this day, a number of Mink Sable sets; the most beautiful had this seazon Also Stone Martin Marsh Marten Fitch do Siberian Squirtil Rock do French Sable. Wolf and Coon Robes. Every description of Fars worn be ladies and children, all of which will be sold st{ll lower, by calling early, at the Georgetown Factory. W.F. SEYMOUR, dee 15-2w wn. SIAGER’S Improved Sewing Machines. To which was J eee the Highest Awardot the Paris Exhibition, thereby receiving the World’s Verdict of Supericrity. HE IMPROVEMENTS IN THIZ MA- chine hassimplified them in many respects. gad they arecapableof executingtwice the amon’ of work bad did formerly in any given time. They are without question the only Machines ca- pabdle of sewing cvery variety of goods perfect; a shirt besom or heavy trace for harness can sewn > any of these machines by asimplechange of n and thread fn such a manner that the closes' not detect ult. a a families will find them the ouly s2fe Machines to purchase, as they wre dullt strong and du:able, and not likely to Ketoutof order. We ha achines with guazes attached, for bindiag hats, cap-fronts, yalterz, =o. Sik, ‘Fare2a2. Cot: eedles, &o., eonstaxtly @a hand, at th tes Persons des!z72s of infor mation regzrdiag Sew- fag Machines i please address Mi. SINGER & COU., 195 Baltimore street, Baltimore. MN. .—Weare prepared to exclange these me- @hines for old mashinesofany kind Terms ltb- erzl. Persons who have been inducedto purchase afericr machines unter the pretext of being eheap, wil! nd this a benefit indeed. rear 19—ly SORIEES DANSANTE. ROF. H.W. MUNDER TAKES GREAT pleas sre in announcing to his friends, patrons, and public generally, that the above soctal and delightful entertain- ments will commence at Munder’s Metio- litan Hail, corner 9th and D streets, on EDNESDAY EVENING, November 26th, at S o’clo-k, and continue every Wednesday throughout the season. Gentlemen wishing to subscribe for the season can do so upon very favorable terms, by applying at the Hall on Tues- day and Thursday evening from 4 till 10 o’clock. nov 21-tf LA™MePS—LAMPS. TAR, FELLOWS & ©O’s, PATENT KESULATOR LAMP STAND= unrivalled as being the cleanest, safest, and gives the best light of any Lamp of the kind ever invented We have now a very handsome «s<o:tment of the above, as well as all other kinds of Lamps on band, which we will sel! at very low prices. WELL & MORSELL, dec 12 3W No. 323 C st., bet. 6th and 7th. L. J. MIDDLETON, DEALEB IN ICE, Office and Depot—Southwest why proce i eal Le DR. THEOD. HANSMANN HAS pe ah ey OFFICE SOME pried genie bove his old rooms, to No. 491 7th the General Post Office. Office hours as before; from 8 to 10 o'clock a. | m. nov 7-6w* GAUTIER’S FRENCH RESTAURANT, 252 Pa. av , between 12th and 13th sts. T8E PROPRIETOR OF THE ABOVE ES- tabli<ament desires to call public attention to bis increased and unsur, facilities for con- See and supplying everything in his line of ) ‘S. He is prepared to arty at a few hours’ notice prea Si INN om tag ic Eso Fett ES everything pertain: to the most fashion- able enterlainmenis, and 02 the most reasonable ENSIRE DINNERS and DESSERTS fur- nished Families without any trouble to the fam- ily and at moderate charges A FIRST-CLASS FKENCH COOK will be sent to epeivete houses at $2 per day ; and market- ing and such articles as they may wieh purchased wiil be furnished at cost. Also, China, Glass, Sliver Ware, and Table ORNAMENTS. One or more “ dishes” sent to any part of the city at short notice. t my establishment will be found elegant suites of Parlor, Reception, and Dining Rooms furnished in the best manner, always ready. a My ae Soret app ee to gen- ‘emen rooming out; they can be supplied with meals at all ey 7 4 Particular attention is desired to my new style of superb CONFECTIONERY, which for purity and delicacy of flavor are unequalled. C. GAUTIER, dee 9- 252 Pa. avenue, bet. 12th and 13th sts. TO THE LADIES OF WASHINGTUN AND SUKROUNDING COUNTRY. ANOTHER LARGE SUPPLY. Hise OF ALL QUALI- ez and prices,from the finest French! Hats to the lowest priced Fine and Handsome HEAD DRESSES, in great variet EMBROIDERIES of all kinds. TRIMMINGS to match any style Zof Dress goods. RIBBONS of every style. And, in fact, every variety of Goods usually found in first-class Trimming Stores. UF DRESS MAKING, after the latest and most app-oved styles. N.B—The supply is big up throagh the en- ire season. M. WILLIAN, Opposite the Centre Market. P S.—A great varte'y of articles suitable for Caristmas Gifts. nov 201m ACARD. Cc. ©. aTtZs, Bridge street, Geergetewn, Sowth side, between High and Congress Streets, ESPECTFULLY INFORMS HIS Pa- trons and the public Perr meg that he Is now l ahaer to furnish PARTIES, WEDDIN63, ¢ , in the best and most elegant style, at the shortest notice. He wili give his personal at- tendance, and assume the responsibility of the entertainment C. C. Arzs, grateful for the liberal patronage he has heretofore received, as-ures his friends ard all who may giv> hima call that every effort on bis part will be made to merit a continuance of their favors. He solicits an examination of his large and elegant assortment of CAKES, CON- FECTIONERY, &c , which he offers for saie at he lowest prices. dec 16 2w* BUCK! BUCK! BUCK! (not Woolly Hoss EN ROUTE FOR WASHINGTON, D.C. VHREK ENTIRE DEER, LARGEST EVER recelved in Baltimore, snot with Virginia rifles—not revol-ers. BEAR MEAT, HAMS, SHOULDERS, SIDES, fattest ever recelved from the Allegba- nies. Constantly receiving from the West, via Balti- more and Ohio, Winchester and Potomac, Par- kerabarg, Central Obio Railroads, VENISON, POULTRY, WILD GAME, keg and roll BUT- TER, CAP HUNEY, DRIED APPLES and PEACHES, and counyy produce generally. For sale by Cc. C, O’NEIL, Corner Howard and Pratt streets, dec 3-Im Baltimore. PAPER — AND UPHOLSTER- E SUBSCRIBER HAVING PURCHAS.- ed the Paper Hanging and Upholstering Es tablishment of EN. Worthington, at No. 433 north 7th street, between G and H streets west, res) ‘uly calls the attention of his friends and the public generally :o give him a call and exam- ine bis well selocted stock. He attends nal- ly tothe Paper Hanging and Upholstering busi- ness, at the shortest notice,the best style, and on the most reasonable terms. Awnings made and repaired. nov -2awim GEORGE 8. DONN. ST OF FICE DIKECTORY, OR BUSI ness Man’s Guide to the Post Offices in the United States, containing the names of the Post Offices and Post Masters In the United States on the Ist July, 1856. with a variety of valuable in- formation on Postal Affairs; also, 2 comprehen- sive codification of the existing Postal Laws. Price $1. Just pubiished, and for sale, at TAYL & MAURY’S Bookstore, dee 11- near 9th street. BOUK BINDING. Corner E eventh street and Maryland avenue, mear the Smithsonian Institution. DWARD LYCETT RESPECTFULLY IN- forms the subscribers to Brown’s Bible and Shakspeare, now just completed, that he ts pre- pared to bind those a chon style = legance, strength and solidity, and upon muc =e reasonabie terms than cai be ‘aeun ta Balti- more, Philadelphia, or New York. A letter ad- dressed to him (per post) willenable him to ex- hibit to the subscribers specimens of his style of nding. Every kind of Book linding neatly ex- coun : se27-6m CLOAKS—CLOAKS—CLOAKS, SELLING OFF. AT REDUCED PRICES. ROM THIS DATE, DECEMBRR 15TH, the subseriber will commence to run off bis and well selected stock of Velvet aed Cloth CLOAKS, SHAWLS, &c . at reduced prices, as it is bis determination to keep none over. Strangers before buying would do well to give im a cali before pu ‘ : PRANK A. McGEE, dec i5-eolm 244 Pa.ave.,bet 12th and 13th sts. | dare MUNSON, AT 38 PENN’A AVENUE. is still nfaking those beautiful eontiaueus GUM TEETH, called Allens Patent, for the exceliency of which over aii other styles of teeth, many now wearing them in this city, will ehearfully vouch There is one Dentist in this city who bas been infringing the patent, and made a bad fraltation of it, against wnom { hereby caution the public N Whenever 2 Dentist speaks against Allen’s Patent Continuous ‘Yeeth, when properly constructed, itis because he is ignorant of the process, incompetent to make the work, or illing to pay for the patent. je 16-t£ —— - fb ann od tin TN MANTELS. NEW AND BEAUTIFUL STYLE. Mianefactured frem Siate Stone, =} the West Castieten Slate Company, Vt. i ype MANTELS ARE ENAWELLEDIN {imitation of the richest and most expensive EGYPTIAN, LISBON, VERD ANTIQUE, PORKPHYRY, PYRENEES, BROCATELLA, AGATE, SPANIS& GALWAY, and other rare and desirabie MARBLES rides raves parson perfect that they chalenge the closest scrutiny They are 80 nighly poilahea that they retain their beauty much longer than marble ; are not injured by smoke, coal gas, or acids, amd can be sold much cheapr than any others in market. Price ranging from 8125 to $12 arobitects, Butiders, and others are invited to call and examiae samples at No. 512 Seventh t, Jdoors below Udd Fellows’ Hall, up stairs T.M HANSON, ne 12-ly Ageat. CUAL KEPT UNDER COVER. 2,210 ibs. to the Tom OW ON HAND, THE BEST QUALITIES N of White A-h, Red Ash aed Lenigh COAL. Warranted to give satisfaction Delivered from dit. so, Hickory. Oak and Pine woovn. T. 4. & W.M. GALT, N. W. corner [2th and € streets, No 517, des 2-tf one square south of Pa. aveaue. woup—wouoD—Wvovn. ICKOK ¥, OAK AND PINE OF THE BEST I Gesli'y conastant!y oz bund at . ‘ JOHN W MYERS & CU. Ottice and Yard corner O and 2M streets First Wasa. dec 16 CONFECTIONERY FOR THE APPROACHING HOLIDAYS OTWITHSTANDING THE HIGH PR of sugar, I willsell my CONFECTIONERY at the usual prices, viz: PLAIN CANDY and MIXED DROPS at 25 cents per pound SUGAR PLUMS at 375 cents per pound, usually sold by retailers at 50 cents French BON BONS, including all kinds of French Confectionery at 50 cents per pound usually sold at 75 cents snd @1 per pourd POUND and FRUIT CAKE, of which I shal! have a large assortment, manufactured of the very best and freshest materials, orna- mented fine and tastefully. Please give us a call, and don’t mistake the place, No 316 Pennsyivania avenue, between 9th and 10th streets, next door to Iron Hall. dec 15-1m GEO. NORBECK. CAKES AND CONFECFIUNERY FUOK FOK THE HOLIDAYS. POTENTINI,NO.279 PENNSYLVANIA « ave, south side, four doors we: tof 1th street, will have for exhibition and sale on Saturday, the 20th Instant, the la and most elegant assort- ment of RICH URNAMENTED FRUIT, POUND and FANCY CAKES ever offered in this city, which he pledges himeelf shall not be surpassed in the excellence of the materials of which the same shall be made, or in the reason- abieness of price. Ladies and gentlemen are respectfully invited tocall and view the splendid assortment of the above described Cakes. ‘T. P. requests that his patrons and al! desir- ing him to furnish them with Cakes and Con- fectioaery for the Holidays, will send the orders in time to be supplied without delay. ee as he does an extraordinary de- mand for the delicacies which he offers for sale. jec 12-dtJanl R. DUPRIE’S REMEDIES are the only effectual cure for External or Internal Piles, Saltrheum, Ring-Worm, &c. They are unrival- led for purifying the blood. w omen box Office 76 Nassau street, New York. W4ll be sent by mail. For sale by FURD P@nn. avenue. GAS F'XTUKES. H. MILLER, SON & CO, ALEXAN- © dria, Va., keep constantly on hand a hand- some variety of CHANDELIE S$, PENDANTS BRACKETS, &c , from the celebrated factory of Cornelius & Baker, which they will guarantee to sellat the same prices hae jer to private pur- chasers at the salerooms on Chestnut street, Phil adelphia. A'so, Drop-lights, Cut Glass and decorated Paper Shades, in great variety. Call and examine for yourselves. dec 1- CHRISTMAS PRESENT! UTCHINSON & MUNRO ARE OPENING = e and beeper ventsaity of GUUDS, suitable for ison ap) ing bolidays, such as rpllatyrssty Wateb’ Stands, Card e- ceivers, Work Bores, Cabas, Scissors in cases, Dressing Cases, Card Cases, Portmonnales, Port folios, Tablets, Traveling Companions, Writing Desks, Perfume Cases, Toilet Bottles, Cigar Cases, Cipar Stands, Statuettes, Jet Ornaments, Coral Goods, &c. Also, a fine assortment of French and German Toys, Games, Targets,,Automatons, &c , to- gether with a great many articles not necessary to enumerate, HUTCHINSON & MUNKO, dec 16- 3LO Pa. ave., bet. 9th and 10th sts. NO. 1 FIRST CLASS PRESENTS. ORTH ATTENTION.—TWO NEW and Beautiful PIANOS, warranted and guaran- tied fine finish, rosewood cases, superb tone. will be sold for cash at the low price of $200 each. .--2 Pianos at $225 each; 3 at $250 each; 2 at $300 each; 3 at $3V5 each; 4 at $350 each; 2 at $375 each; 3 at $400 each; 1 at $150; 2 Melodeons at $40 each; 2 at $62 each; 1 at $120; Lat $100. In addition to an extensive stock, we have— Violins tyom $1 to $100; Guitars from $3 to 100; Accorfeons from $1 50 to $37; Banjos from $2 to $20; Violincellos from $10 to $30; Flutes from 75 cents to $30; Tambourines from 50 cents to $5; Drums from 75 cents to $10; Fifes from 25 cents to $5; Bows for Vio"ins from 25 cts to $12. BRO., corner of 11th st or zt ALso, Music, Music Books, Music Folios, Piano Cov- ers and Stools, Italian Guitar and Violin strings, Violin and Guitar Boxes, and everything belong- ing to the Music business. warrentand guarantee every article we sel); and take oid instruments of any kind in part pay- ment for new ones. We order Music twice a week, and send Music to any part of the country by mail, free of e. Our store is No. 308 Pa. avenue, a few doors from 10th street. dec 19-Lw JOHN F. ELLIS. All of Thalberg’s Compositions AT W. G. METZEROTT'S _dee 16 MUSIC DEPOT. NOW SELLING OFF AT CUST, LOT OF FANCY STATIONERY, Pa- pier Mache, Porte folios, Ladies’ Cabas, Gemes, and numerous other articles, ail of which 1 em oow offering lower (ban soey were ever sola for tn Washington. W.F. BAYLY, dec 20 No. 276 Penn avenue. D and E streets north, near | MAGNIFICENT MEDALLION CARPETS. E HAVE STILL REMAINING TWO of those superb Medallion Tournay Velvet Carpets, which for richness in colors and taste have not their equalinthiscountry They willbe now sold, to close them out, lower in price than we have been selling them; they are In the style of Lonis XIV, and will remain beautiful when | other stylesyet tobe invented will have | Qway. Also, a good variety of other new and rich Vel- vet Carpetings, adapted to smaller rooms and in smatler figures, and Tapestry and plain Brossels Ped apts ae with the Rugs and Door Mats match- | Theo, a full and complete assortment of all kinds of Curtain Materiais, from the very richest Satin Brockatelle down to Cotton Namaeke, with all the tassels, gimps, cornices, side bands, &c., requisite to complete curtains. Also, just received 4 cartoons Rich Embroidered Swiss Lace Undercurtains, very cheap. 4 Do do Muslin do 4 Do new style white Bands for Ur- dercurtains. Our stock in all kinds of Carpeting oat oil. cloths will be found complete in all respects. Now is the time for members of Congress and others who wish to furnish their homes handsome- ly without much cost to themselves. As our goods come to us direct from first hands we can afford to sell them for less than the larger cities north of us. We invite all who see this announcement to ca)l and examine for themselves. Goods sent to any part of the city or 6 free of cost All goods sold to go toa distance carefully packed and hs free of cost to the owner. CLAGETT, DODSON & CO. dec 22-e012t SUITABLE FOR CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS’ PRESENTS. OHN H. SMOOT, No 119 SOUTH SIDE Bridge street, Georgetown, D. C , has received a great variety of useful and seasonable GUOD3, to which he invites the attention of both ladies and gentiemen who may wish to make a Christ- mas and New Years’ Present. EMBROIDERIES. Rich worked Cambric Sets (Collars and Sleeves) Do do Muslin do do Do do Muslin and Cambric Collars A great variety (low priced) do Worked Linen Sets and Linen do Rich worked Muslin Sieeves Black and white Lace Sets and Collars Worked Cambric and Muslin Bands Embroideved Linen Cambric Handkerchiefs Hemstitched, tucked and plain do Black Chantilla and French Lace Veils Worked, quilted and hooped Skirts. ALso— Moire Antique, Embroidered, Satin and other Cloaks lown Double and single Brocha and other Shawls Rich Fancy and Black Silks French Merinos, plaid Merincs Plain and printed Mous L’delaines Br at Paris Kid Gloves, all numbers Kid and Buck Gauntlets Ladies, gent’s and children’s Warm Gloves Do Hosiery, of every kind Portmonnates, and Iedies’ Cabas Gents. Linen, Cambric and Silk Pccket Handkfs Biack and fancy Silk Cravats, Scarfs and Ties Gents Shawls, Merino and Woolen Scarfs Children’s Knit Ta)mas and Hoods Ladiés, gents and boys’ Comforts, &c. With many other desirable goods, which will be soid low to cash or prompt customers dec 23- j.H SMOOT. DRY GOUDS MERCHANTS F WASHINGTON, GEORGETOWN, and Alexandria are invited to call and look through our immense assortment of fine fancy ard staple Dry Goods. Any choice lot of Dress 3 or other articles they may want will be 0 them at prime cost for cash orat5 percent. for notes at short dates We as& their special attention to the folowing : 300 ise Bajou’s Kid Gloves, our own importa- 3a tion 200 silk Robes, of the best styles, imported this season Laree stock of Farcy Silks, in dress patterns 10 whue pieces black Motre Antique 20 do best make Black Silks 25 do black and colored Marsalines, best quali:y 50 do Lupin’s Bombasins ou do best make black Alpacas 10 do Lupin’s b’ack French Merinos 50 do colored French Merinos 50 do fine all wool Moursetines, plain colors 25 do 3-4and4-4 black do 10 nearly whole pieces black Lyons Velvets 5 whole pieces in brown, maroon. mazarine blue, purple, and dark green Velvets,44 wide 200 pieces dotted and figured Swiss Muslins 200 do jaconet and thick cambric Muslias 100 dozen vents’ merfno and lambs wool Shirts end drawers 50 dozen ladies’ merino and fine wool Vests 100 do gents’ brown cotton Shittsand Drawers Large assortment of the best English cotton Hosiery in full dozens Fuli boxes white and black English Silk Hc® siery 50 nearly whole pieces of plaid Merinos lcase French Ginghams, good styles 4) whole pieces 4 4 black French Chintzes 100 pieces Chariey’s Sbirting Linen 10 pieces 8-4, 10-4 and 12-4 Linen Sheetings 50 whole pie:es Welsh and other white F lannels 25 do fine Silecia Table Damasks 100 dozen Table Napkins and Doyleys 100 Marseilles ( uilts, in white, blue and pink 25 pleces extra heavy gray twilled Flannel 300 pairs white and gray servant’s Blankets 10) pleces 4-4 Epelish Long Cloth, all grades 50 pairs 4-4 New York mi"'s Cotton Sbirting 2 cases extra heavy 6-4 Cotton Sheeting 500 dozen best make whites «pool Cotton Large stock of 5-4, 6-4, 8-4, 10 4 and 12-4 cot- ton Sheeting ieces bleck and colored paper Cambric. All the above goods are ia the best condition, and are well acl jhe of the attention of the trade generally. CLAGETT, NEWTON, MAY &CO, dec 22—6t corner Pa avenue and 9th st. SPLENDID HOLIDAY PRESENTS HE SUBSCRIBEK TAKES PLEASURE in announcing to his f fends and the public generally that his stock of Fine Gold Watches, seietes | Silver and Silver-plated Ware, &c., is unusurlly full and well selected, comprising Superior Gold Watches of the best English and Geneva manufacture, for ladies and gentle- men Fine Gold Guard, Fob, and Vest Chains, Chate- e ilaines, Neck Chains with ornaments to at- tach, &c. Beautiful Gold Lockets for minjatures and bair Rich Cameo, Coral, Lava, enamelled Painting and plain Gold Jeweiry, in full and partial 100 sets Splendid assortment of F ioger Rings, Breastpins, Earrings, Sleeve Butttons, Studs, engraved. band, plain, and linked Bracelets, Gold and Silver Pen and Pencil Cases, Gold and Silver Spectacles, Eye Glasses, Thimbles, &c, SILVER WARE. Chased and plain silver Goblets, Cups, Mugs Salt Cellars, pie, cake, fish, and dessert Knives Table, tea, and dessert Spoons, Soup Ladles Napkin Rings, Card Cases, Portmonnaies Pocket Fruit Knives, Preserve and Sugar Spoons Pickle Knives and Forks, &c Silver Knives, Forks, and Spoons, in sets, for cbildren Together with many rich and beautiful articles in his line, saitab'e for Holiday Presents, ail of which he is prepared tosell upon such terms as cannot fail to please. SAMUEL LEWIS, Jeweller and Man zfacturer of Silver Ware, dec 22 6t 250 Pa av , bet. 12th and 13th ats. EW JUVERILE BUOKS.—STORIES of an O14 Maid, translated from the Frencb; Sedgemoor’s or Home Lessons, by Mrs. Manners; Douglass Farm, edited by Gousin Alice; old Whity’s Christmas Trot, by A. Oakey Hall; About Common Things, by Jacob Abbott; Au- dubon the Naturalist, by Mrs. St. John; New Stories for Children, L. Maria Child; A Child’s History of Rome, by John Bonner, 2 vols ; Dia- logues, by Jacob Abbott; The Great Elm, by Jacob Abbott; Merry Uld England, by Miss Ju- liaCorner; Tales from Ssxon History, by Emil! ‘Taylor; Stories of the Canadian Forest, by Mrs Traill; Mary Howitt’s Picture Book for the young; Young Humphrey Davy, by Henry May- hew, and others recently {mported from England and France, by dec 19- FRANCK TAYLOR. MADAME PRIBRAM & CO aa the ladies that the: ber, the BON- Nr TS and finest HEAD-DRESSES ever offered Washington. i esae 277 Pa. ave., bet. 10th and 11th sts. a FOR CHRISTMAS. 7p comne GLASSES, ALL SIZE8, WILL be rold low for cash JOHN WAGNER. 255 Pa avenue, dec 17-06 Kirkwoodgticuse. EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. Cabinet Rumors —The Republican prees continue: very busily engaged in making a cabinet for Mr. Buchanan; or, perhaps we should more justly say, in speculating upon the probability of the selection of particular individuals. Asan apt illustration of the way in which the thing is done, we quote the fol- lowing brief paragraph from a Washington letter in a northorn journal : * A hard aevt is going on here between the friends of J. Glancy Jones, and those of Judge Black, of Pennsylvania, with reference to a seat in the Cabinet from that State. Bets are freely offered against Jones.” We entertain the idea that no one secs and hears more being said and done among the Democrats in Washington than ourself. Yet this paragraph is the firat we have seen or heard of this hard fight! Apropos: The Star has carefully steered clear of interference with Cabinet making, being content to let the wisdom, experience and patriotism of the President elect work out the puzzling problem. Yet so many newspa- per assaults—among which there is no reason to class the above quotation—on Mr. J. Glan cy Jones have of late appeared in connection with speculations as tothe probability that he may go into the Cabinet, as to make it our duty to explain the sentiment of the public men of the Democratic party assembled here on the subject. We do so with no little pleas- ure, because we can announce the existence of a happy state of things in this connection unprecedented in the history of American politics. That is to say, however much the Democratic members of Congress and other leading Democrats who may have been in Washington this winter may be divided in sentiment with reference to others, we have to find the first ono of them all who would not hail the selection of Mr. Jones to hold a Cabi net portfolio with great gratification. The truth is, all the public men of the Democratic party place implicit confidence in him, the re- sult of his extensive experience in public life, and the remarkable sagacity, good temper and capability in all emergencies he has invaria- bly evinced. Wecare not how wide asunder gentiemen may be upon open questions in the Democratic party, all are willing to trust J. Glancy Jones, and appear anxious that in the difficulties by which, as well informed men know, the new administration is to be sur- rounded, it may have the benefit of his inti- mate knowledge, not only of the requirements of the living questions, but of the men of the party from Maine to Oregon. Whether Mr. Buchanan does or does not cal! him into the Cabinet, must be a matter of very little mo- ment to Mr. Jones, for he can hardly fail to be aware of the existence of this state of things here, which, toa gentleman of his well bal- anced mind and honorable ambition, must be more gratifying than aught else conceivable. The Italien Political Reiugee Colony.— The abolition press to the contrary notwith- standing, the people of Virginia will not per mit the eettlement ameng them of Italian or other colonies of European political culprits or refugees. While every Southern State has gladly welcomed individual emigrants settling each for himself on his own resources, and not coming among them under circumstances lead- ing to the conviction that they are to prove little else besides political agitators striving to revolutior‘se their governmonts and the in- stitution by which they are surrounded, these aro not times when Virginia will willingly harbor any euch population as described above; more especially when, as in the case of this effort to settle Italian political refu- gees in the Old Dominion, the scheme to that end is notoriously an enterprise of pseudo- philanthropic abolitionism, which hes been boasting for a year past its purpose of warring on slavery in the States by means of just such emigrant aid operations. Since the European revolutions of 1848 a considerable portion of the emigration to our shores has been of this dangerous and unde- sirable class. Hence the late strength of the Know Nothing party, notwithstanding the many more dangerous and anti-American principles, features and associations of that organization. These latter, and the fact that some of the very worst classes of the natives of our country instantly assumed the direo- tion of its affairs and maintained thoir places at its head in most cases up to its death or disintegration, caused the conservative men of the land to eet their faces against it. They wisely determined to put up for the time be- ing with the admitted evils of the undesirab/e immigration to which we’ refer, rather than risk the greater evils to result from placing the United States Government in the hands of such men as those who openly encouraged such outrages on popular right as have marked the conduct of the Know Nothing party in St. Louis, Louisville, New Orleans, Baltimore, Washington City and elsewhere, and its on- slaught every where on the constitutional and legal rights of all members of the Catholic Church on account of their religion. But for the turn Know Nothingism took from its birth, we sincerely believe that effective measures would by this time have been taken to guard against the admitted evils of the late heavy emigration of continental political refugees to this country. The remedy as pro- posed (the installation of the Know Nothing party in the Government) however, promised to prove more disastrous than the disease. So, conservative men wisely preferred to submit for the time being to the least dangerous al- ternative. In the late election, the South saw clearly that the class of emigration now sought to be injected into Virginia by the abolitionists is fraught with dangers to the future of society in the United States where- ever it may be aggregated. Throughout the North it eagerly and impudently took part with abolitionism, and has thus warned the South in time against permitting it to obtain a foothold in any slaveholding State That warning will not be lost on the South, which under the impulee of the first law of nature will repel it all hazards and under all circum- stances. If it suite the North to encourage it, that section may do so, and take the conse quenceson its ownfuture. It is the only dan- gerous and undesirable immigration except that of violators of penal statutes, who are two few in number to be considered im such con- nection. Wherever all the other emigrants from Europe have settled they have in ninety in every hundred cases proved industrial bless- ings to our land, and as such they have been welcomed ti:roughout the South and will con- tinue eo to be welcomed. Nearly every po- litical refugee who has come hither is an atheist and notorious scoffer at christianity, and the idea of encouraging this class to come among us is quiteas repugnant to the Catholic church, as to any other christian cfgevization. Mr. Buchanan on Squatter Sovercigéty.— The editor of the Southside Democrat, who recently visited Wheatland, thus gives his impressions of the views of Mr Buchanan upon the Squatter Sovereignty question : “« Ho has planted himself immovably on the elementary principles of self-government em- bodied in the Kansas-Nebracka acts, and is prepared to follow whithersoever these princi ples honestly carried out shall lead, whether it be to slave or free territory. “The opinion he entertains is that the ter- ritories of the Union are the common property of the States, equally open to settlement by the citizens of all; that when these Territories are ready for admistion as States, then, and not until then, their people hawe the right to meet rn convention and to define and to de- termine, in thetr organic laws, the character of thetr domestic institutions. This is the aoctrine held by Mr. Buchanan now, and is not newly conceived inasmuch as it is identi- cal with that contained in his letter to Mr. Sandford as far back as 1848 It is the same opinion repeatedly announced by his confiden tial friend, Mr J. Glancy Jones, on the floor of the House of Representatives—a gentleman who by the way voted in committee at Cin- cinnati to incorporate a distinct expression of this view in the national platform of the Dem- ceratic paniy.”’ List of Patents.—The following is the list of Patents issued from the United States Pat ent Office for the week ending December 23, 1856—each bearing that date: Jonathan Adams, of Eatonton, improvement in plows Harry Abbott, of Huron, N. Y.—For im- provement in cider mill John Armstrong, of New Orleans, La.—For improvement in steam boilers. G. H. Babeock, of Westerly, R. I.—For improvement in printing p: Wm. W. Bryan, of Schaghticoke, N. Y.— For improved mode of securing brass ia the snath of a grain cradle. Wm. B Barnett, of Lyons, N. Y.—For im- proved portable field fence. Chauncy 0. Crosby, of New Haven, Conn — For improvement in machinery for folding paper. Xalph Collier, of Baltimore, +) assignor to Alfred H. Reip and Ralph C of same place —For improvement in rotary egg bsat- ers Theodore Cook, of Springfield, Mass.—For improvevent in stoves and furnaces ifenry Davenp For improvement rubber thread Platt Eveng, Jr., of Cincinnati, Vhio.—Fur hand printing press. Andrew L Fuller, of Clinton, Mass.—For improvement in looms John T. Garlick, of New York, N. Y.—For improved spring hinge. C. B Galentine, Samuel Galentinc, and An- drew J Russell, of Nunda, N. Y.—For im- proved hoof ander Andrew M. Hall, of West Falmouth, Me.— For improvement in mowing machines. Edward B. Howe, of Lowell, Mass.—For improvement in trimming card clothing. Sandy Harris, of Philadelphia, Pa —For improvement in bedstead fastenings actob Heckeedorn, of Elkton, Md.—For improvement in plows Joseph Kingsland, jr., of Franklin, N. J.— For improvement in paper pulp engines. Edward W. Lacy. of Oak Park, Va —For improvement in hemp brakes. Jesse Ladd, of Holderness, N. H.—For ‘m- proved machine for pointing shoe-pegs. Wm. KR. Landfear, of Manchester, Conn.— For improvement in sewing machines s Letori, of Wytheville, Va.—For im- proved door fastener. Wm. Maher, of Slack, Ky.—For impr.ve- ment in blacksmiths crane Wm. Mason, of Warren, Mass.—For im- proved device for operating fluid meters by hand William H. McNary. of Brooklyn, N. ¥.— For improvement in the manufacture of ho- tier, ie Pusey, of Downingtown, Pa.—For ar- rangement of railroad platform scates. John H H. Perkins, of Utica, N. Y.—For improvement in hot air furnace Hermann Schroeder, Lewis Salewski, ard Wm Schmidt, of Bloomington, [1!.—For im- provement in breech-loading fire arms. Scligmart H Strouse and Joseph Strouse, o! New York, N. Y.— For improvement in shi Levi Skeels, of Ostrander, O —For impro’ ment in tinner’s shears Edgar M. Stevens, of Boston, Mass.—¥or improvement in corn shellers. | Sylvester J Sherman, of New York, N. Y. For improvement in truss pads Werner Staufen, of Prussia —For improve- mentin preparing vegetable fibres for stufiag mattresses and cushions. Patented in Enz- land November 2, 1855 Alfred E Smith, of Bronxville, N. ¥.—For improved mode of eonnecting shafts with the axle trees John Stowell, of Charlestown, Mass.—For improved method of hanging reciprocating gig gaws. Gideon 0 Spence, of Elmira, N. improvement in melodeons. Clark Tompkins, of Troy, N. Y.—For im- provement in knitting machines. Joseph Welsh, of Philadelphia, Pa.—For improvgment in lubricating spindle steps. A. FP. Warren, of Brooklyn, N. ¥.—For fountain’ pen Allen B. Wilson, of Waterbury, Conn.—¥or improvement in portable head rests. m. Hannah, of Middlefield, N. Y., as- signor to LH. Bowen, and Wm. Hannah atoresaid.—For improved machine for trim- ming bolts. Elnathan Sampson, of Vergennes, Vt., as- signor tothe ‘Vergennes Scale Manufactu- ring Company’’ of Vergennes aforesaii.—For improvement in weighing scales. Sam’! Gissinger and John W. Kellberg, of Alleghany City, Pa , assignors to D. A. Mor- ris, of Pittsburg, Pa.—For improvement in converting reciprocating into rotary motion. And’w Grimes, of Lancaster, N. Y , assignor to Charles Day, of same pees improve- ment in burning charcoal. Sylvester H. Gray, of Bridgeport, Conn., as- signor to himself and Francis Ives, of same place.—For improvement in machinery for sizing hat bodies. Benj’n G. Dawley, of North Providence, K. I., assignor to Z Allen, of same p!ace.—For improvement in looms. Sam’! Comfort, ot Morrisville, Pa.» me to Edw’d S. Renwick, of New York, N. ¥ — For improvement in automatic rakes for bar- bbe of Bridgeport, Conn — J . Goodell, ee irl machine for cutting veneers f % crs be Worrall, of Lowell, Mass.—For heed method of adjusting the bits of car- penter’s planes. Ga.—For in machines for cutting india Y.—For ae) THE WEEELY STAB. This cxeclient Famfly and News Journsi—eon} alning 2 greater variety of interesting reading thax ean be found ta any ether—is publirked on ‘Setur- day morming. (> Cass, inv I[7PSinglecopies (in wrappers) can be proc ured atthe counter, {mmediately after the issue of the Paper. Price—T is Cants Elkan Adler, of New York,'N. Y.—For im- provement in spring bed bottoms. Moses 5. Beach, of Brooklyn, N. ¥ —For machine for feeding paper to printing presses. James Bolton, of Richmond, Va.—For im- provement in horse fastening. Jos. Carpenter, of Yorktown, N. Y.—For unprovement in harvesting machines. Jy. © Shermenand J Mason, of Hasle Green, Wis,—For improvement in seed plant- ers. A. F. Johnson and F. A. Houghton, of Bos- ton, Mass.—For improvement in sewing ma- chines Jos. Kingsland, jr., of Franklin, N. J —For improvement in the process of grinding paper pulp : John Case and Isaac Soules, of Amsterdam, N Y.—For improvement in smoke consuming furnaces 4 John J. Squire, of Saint Louis, Mo.—For improvement in hay rakes ohn Worsley, of Providenso, R. I,—For improvement in manufacturing callender rolls. Charles Winsiip, of New Haven, Conn.— for improvement in refrigerators Jerome B. Woodraff, of Washington, D. C. For improvement in sewing machines E.K Hayares, assigoor to A. M. Mowe, of Lebanon, N. H,andE K. lisyares aforesaid. For improvement in machines fer sowing seed broadcast James A. Bazin, of Canton, Miss.—For im- provement in counting machines Additional Improvement —AbnerN New- ton, of Richmond, Ind.—For improvement in breech Joading fire arms. Patented June 27, 1854; additional im provement June 17, 1656. Re issues —Henry A. Chapin. of Spring- ficld, Mass.—For improved machine for ream- ing and tepping gas fittings; patented July 1, 1856, Edw’d Lindner, of New York, N. Y¥.—For improved magazine, repeating and needle gun. Patented June 27, 1854 Edw’d Lindner, of New York, N. ¥.—For improved magazine, repeating and needle gan. Patented June 27,1554. Re-issued on division. John G. Macnair, of Norwich, Covn.—For improvement in manufacturing carpets. Pat- ented August 7, 1555. Thos. D Worrall, of Lowell, Mass , assignee through Mifflin Paul) of Thos. Worrall.—For multiform moulding plane. Patented August 29, 1354 Designs.—S.W. Gibbs, of Albany, N. Y., assigoor to G W. Ball & Co., of Cincinnati, O —FPor design for cooking stoves. Garrettson Smith and Henry Brown, of Philadelphia, Pa—For design for cooking stoves Johu T. Davy, of Troy, N. ¥.—For design for parlor grates John T. Davy, of Troy, N. ¥.—For design for cooking stoves John T. Davy, of Troy, N- ¥.—For design fur parlor cooking stoves _Joha B. Wickersham, of New York, N.Y — ign for metallic bedsteade toine Glomiaski, of Lansingburgh. N Y-, or to Deborah, Albert E, and Nath’l - Powers, of same place.—For design for floor cloths 3 ree white population of St. ; free colored, 1,239; slave, 1,649 i, 125 201. To this 15,000 is added for tho estimated floating population, com- poced principally of those who follow the river, making the total population 140,000. Nicetigs or tat Law.—In the Municipal Court at Boston, Mass, a few days since, a nian was under trial for stealing certain har- refs of mackerel, ard diccharged on the ground of a flaw in the indictment, as the tes- timony went to prove that they were haf barrels! Tar Sonpimity or Iuevpence —The plea of insanity is set up in defence of Huntington, the New York forger, and, to stren mn it, his counsel states that his operations in forged paper during the year amounted to near 320.000 000 Such a plea is a flagrant insult to common sense. ta The navigation of the Ohio river is now greetly impeded by ice, if not actually suzpen . at many points of trade connection with Baltimore Wheeling and Zanesville at last accounts were suffering in this respect, and there is httle doubt that the same may be 3 of the Western ports generally D Saue.—Mr. James McClure, living about s from Fincastle, Va., sold his farm at p uction, on the llth of this month, to Mr John Brugh for the handsome sum of $50.05 per acre. This is said to be the t price ever paid for land in Botetourt ty f= Toe North Carolina Legislature have passed an act repealing that clause in the con- stitw of the State, making a property in the ole>tion of State The act submits the change to the t the general election in August next. iimington Journal 2says there is no dé of ite ratification. Arraorriations From Tae Nonra,—The bill of fare ofthe Pulaski House in Savanuah, where all the delegates t> the Southern Com mercial Con on diaed, contained “ New York beef, Round of New York corned beef.’? and “Philadelphia Mutton.”” The delegates had no scruples about receiving ap- propriations from the North for such internal improvements. Es A committee appointed to examine into the grounds of the reported negro insurrection in Harrison county, Texas, found “no evidence of any concert of action, or any definite ideas among the negroes of what they intended to do There bad been some “loose talk’’ based upon the *‘ belief that they would be fres if Fremont was elected.” Ee The Reported Wreck of a large ocean steamer off Barnegat, started by the New York Herald and telegraphed to this city yesterday morning, is contradicted by a later despatch. The European steamers duo at New York are the Hermann, which sailed from Southampton on the 3d, and is consequently overdue, and the Laltic, which left Liverpool on the 10th, and is now fully due. > The Churchman reports that Bishop oane, acting upon the provision adopted at the late General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal! Church, has instituted a shorter ser- vice in addition to the usual evening and mor- ning prayer, which service includes the Mag- nificat andthe Nunc Dimttis,—the former, the Song of the Virgin Mary as given by St. Luke; the latter, the Song of Simeon, as also given by St. Luke Suear.—The Thibodeaux (La.) Minerva arns that all of the planters without excep- tion, are making a most excellent article of sugar, though the yield from the cane per acre is quite small. The saccharine proper- ties of the cane are said to have uever been better, weighing, in many instances, as high as nine sj ten degrees. The crop as pre viously stated, will be unusually small At Stillwater, Minnesota, Rev. A. G. Neison, Methodist minister, broke down in his Sunday morning sermon, snd was 80 con founded by the unaccountable and awkward dilemma that he regi | dismissed bis con- gregation and ran home ile got there just in in time to save his house from destruction by fire, which was well under way. He consider- ed the event providential, and preached as easy as usual in the afternoon. A gentleman who had bee. «beent for a considerable time, and who, dering bistrey- els, had cultivated a at crop of whiskers and moustaches, visited a relative whose little irl bad been his especial pet The littl gr made no demonztratioa to saluting bim with « kiss as usual ‘Why, child,” said the mother, ‘+don't you give your old friend a kiss?” “Why, ma,” said the child, with perfect sim plivity, “1 don’t see any place.”