Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1857, Page 2

EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON CITY: SATURDAY .. -May 9, 1857. THE WEEKLY STAR of to-day’s issue, is ast handsomely got up and readable a paper of its character as the country affords. Please examine its rich show of con- tents and say if this is not so. Price 3 cents for single numbers, or $1.25 per year. +o SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS. The Union understands that Gov. Walker, who is now in this city, will leave direct for Kansas on Monday evening next, or the follow- ing morning. It is his intention to take the oath of office in this city before starting. The Union adds : “<The official and private despatches whieh have recently been received in this city from Kan- sas are of a character not only to remove all apprehensions founded upon the oxag rated re- rts which appear, from time to time, in the nastern waranier but to warrant the hope that the ple of Kansas are about to consult their own Doses by turning a deaf ear to mischievous outside appeals, and by extending a generous sup- Port to their new Governor in his endeavor to re- store unity and harmony ina Territory still un- settled by the division of sectionalism and the agitations of political fanaties.** The Intelligencer discusses the Dallas-Cla- rendon treaty, and its rejection by the British government. The Intelligencer has an interesting paper from Lieut. Brooke of the Navy, upon the * Ocean Telegraph,”’ in which, after discussing the difficulties of the undertaking, the opinion is expressed that should the present cable not be successfully laid, the eventual accomplish- over small streams, which had not been taken into sufficient consideration, will have to be built before any —— headway can be made in the business of transit. These bridges are seven or |) eight in number, of various sizes, say from one hundred to three hundwat fog 3° length. ope rye therefore, been le wit ca ag ie and largely interested parties, the com; Ao ee the construetion SP ieeotridg. es, and the utmost limit ay within which they are to he completed, is the first of oa next. It is expected, howewsy that they will be done before that time. There is one bridge nine hundred feet long, to be constructed near the town of Tehuantepec, about twenty miles this side of the Pacific terminus, which will not be built by that time ; but it is proposed to cross the stream by ferry boats till the work shall be com- leted. =z The company, months ago, contracted for the stages, teams, &c.,to be placed upon the road so | soon ax it should be ready for them, and the con- tract has already been fulfilled, the teams being ready, and stables, &c., in process of building or finished. ‘The compeny has also made the neces- sary arrangements for steam communication be- tween this cityand Minititlan, to be brought into requisition upon four weeks’ notice. e mo- ment, therefore, the bridges are built, the busi- ness of transit will practically commence.’? Upon this exposition, the Philadelphia North American remarks : ** Nothin: unbuilt bridges, when the announcement was made that the road was ready for travel. The object of this concealinent is apparent enough. By the terms of the contract with the Mexican government, the company was obliged to have the road ready for use by the first of April, or for- feit its franchises. The feint of completion and opening was made in order to secure the contract, but as it was not ready at the time fixed by law, the contract is null and void, whenever the Mexi- can government chooses to declare it so.”’ It is sineerely to be hoped that it may be duly finished, with as litle delay as possible; and, further, that by the time it shall have been finished, this Government may bring Mexico to her senses about this Tehuantepec transit ques- tion—making, past peradventure, such an ar- i- ment of this great enterprise can scarcely be doubted wee WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. Postan Rerorm.—Pliny, the younger, is again spouting bogus statistics concerning pos- tal affairs. We perceive from the orth Ame- vicax that a day or two since he delivered in Philadelphia. for perhaps the one hundreth time, that interminable one address of his upon The misstatements of facts, and AS a consequence, the erroneous conclusions of this subject which have been exposed and again exposed, until all who would keep the public properly informed in such matters are tired out in the work of showing them up. One of his pet mares nests, which he never fails to repeat in his stereotyped address, we quote as follows, viz : *- Part of our irregular postal system consists of the vast number of rates of tage on matter. The Leggo rinted exceed all human calculation and rational credul- ity. I will take packages weighing from an ounce fo a pound, and see if 1 can tell some of the rates. Sixteen packages weighing from one to sixteen ounces, would be rated as follows: SENT AS TRANSIENT MATTER. Books, bound or unbound. ~ Not over 3000 Over 3000 Periodi- Sent miles miles cals regly. os wh prepd. epi. anpd. prepa. unpd. No. i I 1 4 2 2 1 % 3 3 1 % 4 4 2 1 5 5 3 1s 6 6 8 i 8 2 7 z 3 2 5 Ww 2 . 8 = 16 2 6 12 3 9 134 18 2 7 #4 3. w * 2 30 8 6 rig ul 2 9 Bb 4% iz a cS 0 2 5 13 * 9 HM @ 5x Hn 23 42 R a 6 15 3 45 13 (6 6% 6% 2 hal MN 3B 7 “- Here are 106 different rates on pac! that do not exceed a pound in weight; while the post- age on transient newspapers, or regular newspa- pers, on small pamphlets or small newspapers in packages weighing more than half a pound, and on all periodicals that contain advertising sheets, have each their separate different rates besides the above. Add to these the separate rates on pack- ages of every size up to six pounds and a half, and we have over fourteen hundred different rates of postage on printed matter without going high- er than books the size of Webster's Dictionary! Now we will omit all mention of e except transient newspapers, and circulars, in un- sealed envelopes ; and looking at these alone, and letters, as comprising a degree of simplicity easi- e; ly appreciated. let us see the vast convenience of 'y to the public in simply or telling the rate—and simplicity and uniformit: Tating these—or judging putting on the postage stamps."* Now. the truth is, books or pamphlets bound or unbound, are not admitted unpaid in the mails when sent as transient matter. So one- half of Pliny the younger’s 106 different rates of postage on transient matter vanish into thin air. The reader of common sense, on inspecting his table, will comprehend at a glance that the rest of this mare's nest is of little importance. as it amounts to nothing more than a complaint that under the existing laws pamphlets, period- cals and books are charged postage according to weight and distance—to nothing more what- ever. Postal reform is just now the greatest humbug before the American public, benefactor.”” No Roow ror Tew —The New York Tri- bune, Herald, Post, and other such journals at the North, have of late ceased to publish their accustomed columns of stereotyped slanders tty distinctions, the multifarious charges, and the manifest and untold absurdities rinted parcels and Pliny | Americ: the younger, is indeed, its fit apostle. Never did a humbug of a season afford a more appro- priate hobby for a more utterly useless “‘publie | the s rangement with her concerning it as wi!] assure its use for all time, unmolested, to our fellow- twill be . sections. | Naval louRTS OF Ixquiry.—In Court No. ease will probably be concluded to-day. was said about all these defects, and | to indemnity on this grant, it is understood, ‘& medical is holding a gurvey upon assed Midshipman E.C. Grafton. This is all that is being done in this room to-day. The Court No. 2has adjourned over until Tues- day, at the requestof Lieut. Chandler, to allow him time to prepare his defence. In Court No. 3, the case of Capt. Voorhees was closed after the examination of William Griggs, Chesapeake Pilot. Defense to be given in on Monday. Steamer RoaNoxe.—A correspondent in New York writes to us: fas ct 1 ji _ okt Inabout te prooced to the Baltic; kee on atrial trip of six months.’’ Is this so—for naval officers here say they have heard of no such orders. The statement alluded to by our correspond- ent is unfounded. Tue Teavanterec Transit Roap.—The coachmaker in New Hampshire who lately con- structed the coaches proposed to be placed on the alleged Tehuantepec transit road by the New Orleans, company has been offering them | for sale to other parties, we hear. PERSONAL ++: Gen. J. L. Taylor of Ohio, and Col. B. Byrne of Pennsylvania, are at Browns’. «++. Hon. Caleb Cushing arrived on the 2d at Milwaukie, and on the 4th started for St. Croix Falls ahaa age 7 Sam about to publisha ‘ket edition of Emerson’s Poems, in ‘* blue and gold.’’ .--. Leauzoni, an eminent accoucheur at Wurz- burg, goes to St. Petersburgh before the 13th, to assist in increasing the royal family. «++. Mr. Mason, the Commissioner of Patents. returned to this city yesterday from a visit o: some four or five weeks to his home in lowa. jpson & Co., of Boston, are citizens. No other foreign question is at this moment of greater national importance, and, we are persuaded, none other is receiving more earnest and patriotic attention from the Gov- ernment of the United States. Tae Stirrixe or tHe Horvet's Nest.— Verily the Newburyport speech of Caleb Cush- ing is already accomplishing an infinity of good. It has impelled all abolitiondom that seeks the accomplishment of its unrighteous ends over, around, above and in flagrant defiance of all right—legal and really moral—to flaunt in the faces of the respectors of the constitution and law its purpose of “‘progress’’ according to the whim of the moment actuating the minds of those who acknowledge no responsibility except to their own passions; and it is also inducing those who speak for them through the press to essay to justify their objections toits doctrines, upon pretences <o flimsy as that all the rational and right principled world must comprehend on slight reflection, how little ground the fast uns have to stand on. Thus, the New York Times takes up the cudgels against the Hon. Caleb's idea that the South, asa portion of the North American Con- federacy, has done its share in working out the grand destiny of the European races as com- mingled here—on this Continent—saying : “The brutalities, the uncertainties, and the speculative passions which domineer over the present, and darken the future of such nullifying and repudiating States as South Carolina and Mississippi. afford no guarantee of stability and power Such States may flourish to-day, like uba, only to disappear and waste away, like Mexico. Within the fatal circle of their institn- tions neither honest industry nor high ambition can live and thrive. They breed at once the in- stinctive loves and hates of barbarism; the love of unlicensed power and unlawful display; the hate of legalized rightsand limited responsibil- ity’ $ A refute of these foolish and insustainable de- tractions rose up instantly in the New York Express, which pricked the inflated bubble of Free Soil self-sufficiency in the following so con- clusive reply : “Most of this is an error, and utterly unjust As many brutalities and bad passions daily darken the streets of our chureh-steepled free city as darken any of the slave States of the Union. The barbarism of the Five Points is in closecontigui- ty with the silks, satins, tapestries. laces of the palace of Stewart in Broadway. Trinity church and Wall street are in the very bosom of the ter- restrial hell. The assumption that all sin is else. where than by our own doors only reminds one ot are by our own doors !’ when we thus brutality and passion, and thousand miles off. In St. sound of the St. Paul church bell, and in the sailor streets of Liverpool, more frightful crime and disgusting misery are daily to be seen in summer, every day, from 3 or 4 o'clock a.m. to a. m., than can be seen ina year from the Poto- mac to the Mississippi. Neither freedom nor slavery secures civilization-or christianity. God and the Bible alone bring these blessings upon mankind, and they bring them to the slave region as well as to the region of the free. “Again: the Times is unjust and self-deludi rg when it exhibits such States as South Car. Mississippi, and Cuba. the way and manner here dressed up. ‘The States of South Carolina and Mississippi—granting everything the Times says of them—are far, far ahead, in everything, of the ‘free’ non-slaveholding States of Central rica—New Granada, Venezuela, or Mexico. Mexico— free* Mexico—has fallen to such a state of degradation, that the Indian, the savage, over-runs the white or mixed races of several of of Mexico, depopulates these States, and reduces the ple taken away to savagery or slavery. Then Cuba (slave) is in the same great sea with Hayti (free) and Jamaica (free); Cuba is now prospering, productive, and. in al the elements that make a State, a hundred years ahead of Hayti or Jamaica. Hayti is reverting to barbarism under her black institutions, and Ja- eralize aint themens only a upon the habits and character of the Southern | Mica is doing but little better. States. All the world recollect that their pas- sion has been to get up roorhacks designed to create the impression that human life is essen- tially unsafe at the South, on account of th lawless character of its people ; and, indeed, that society there is in all respects inferior to Northern society. Just now, however, they have full employment, it appears, in publish- ing the details of murders. robberies. poison- ings, tapes, wife aud husband slayings, forger- ies, burglaries, 4c, &c., which occur around their own doors—in the bosom of their own vaunted so much preferable society. No New- gate Calendar’’ was ever richer in the variety, enormity and atrocity of its budget of horrors than ere all the horror- New York city. daily—ii which (the ~ horrors’ aforesaid). it should be noted, occur in the so much purer North. It strikes us as “atopic aa rept with = aflairs as these accounts tell nspiring hourly in their midst, the phi- lanthropy and brotherly love of ayes pulpit must be singularly wide in its scope ; for it can see nothing worth correcting at iene except now and then the manifestation of z stabborn indisposition on the part of some old- fashioned folks here and there, who cannot eo: prebend the philosophy of giv ing money for bleeding Kansas, while it is so immediately and Preesingly needed. as they think, at home, to aid inchecking the growth of the state of morals and religion, which keeps their newspapers so busily engaged in recording the details of such cecurrences as now fill them, to the horror and disgust of all who are not “ fast’? enough to relish the condition to which society seems to be 0 rapidly tending at the North part passu with the development of its tense devotion to “ the cause of freedom.’ Tae Teavaxterec Roap.—It seems that we Were correct in expressing a doubt of the relia- bility of the announcement made some time — that this road had been finished accord- ng seme and was ready for use. A late nae T of = — Orleans Bulletin embraces teresting etails concerning its actual condi- tion, which we extract, as follows: j “We some weeks since nced a stage route from Suchil, on the Contracts the hay of Venstosa on the Pari far completed, a wagon had scionly pamed ves t 3t from one tenainus to the other ed that the road would have been cat: ely dahl but an actual by this time, or before ; mongering papers of in these times—all of | them.”? “*Now, we do not mean to say free institutions are not better than slave institutions,—for that is not our creed, inasmuch as freedom, whenever —: must and should extinguish slavery,. but we do mean to say, that freedom, suddenly given to the African s¥ive, or toa mixture of races, white, black and Indian, creates ‘‘a People”? and a breed of men to whom “Freedom”? is a curse, not a blessing. “The Indians and the Africans have never shown themselves to be fit to enjoy the free insti- tutions of our Anzlo Saxon forefathers. Wherever and whenever this *-Freedom’? js given them, it but returns them to that savagery and barbarism from which even slavery rescued them. Cuba and Hayti, side by side, almost illustrate this, and. so do Texas (slave) and the border (free) States of Mexico. Freedom is not white, black and yel- low men, mixed in all classes and colors,—bit a blessing for our own breed, our own race, our own color. Whoever attempts to mix up races. or to impose f+ sae institutions unfit for them, but makes Haytis, and Jamaicas, and Mexicos of Tax WeataERr.—The following report of the weather for this morning is made from the Morse Telegraph line to the Smithsonian Institution, and will be continued daily when the line is in working order. The time of observation is about 7 o’clock a. m. : May 9, 1857. clear, pleasant. lear, pleasant. -clear, pleasant. -clear, pleasant. -clear, pleasant. -clear, pleasant. -clear, pleasant. -clear, pleasant. lear, warm. «clear, warm. -clear, warm. -clear, warm, Petersburg, V Raleigh, N.C Wilmington, N. Columbia, 8) GC. , Charleston, S.C. Augusta, G Savannah, G: ACO: Catenion Ga seat warm. Montgomery. Ala cclear, warm, Laer Peach ‘Tree, Ala. clear, warm. Svoan tne Ne oe reports have also been furnished ‘onal elegraph Line to the West: M THE West. -clear, cool. war, cool. Frederick, Md. | Micmaeotomney Md. erstown, Md. -clear Wheeling, Va. saleas’ Leica At the Smithsonian Institution, the Baromete: at 9 p. m. May sth, was 30.310; at 7 4 m. to-day 7 30.350. ‘Tl er-nometer inthe evening “sie o3, | morning, 55 Wind 8 Ne | prospect of a st n ol Wiscoxsix.—Upon inquiry, welearn thatthe even-numbered sections within six miles of the line of railroads in Wisconsin (for which lands are granted by act of 3d June, 1856) are re- served to the United States, and cannot be taken for the grant under any umstances. The law provides an indemnity for lands dis- | the exclamation, ‘ Hereare the Greeks—the Greeks | iles, London, within | Congress from Ohio, contemplates it is said, opening a banking house at St. Paul, Minnesota. -.-. Com. Salter, U. S. N., Hons. John Smith and D. A. Smalley, Vt., and S$. F. Butterworth, Pa., are at Willards’. +... Judge R. P. Flenneken, Pa., and Major Zeilin, U.S. Marine Corps, ordered to the com- mand of the Barracks in this city, are at Kirk- woods’. .--- Among the distinguished individuals at Barnuim’s Hotel, Baltimore, yesterday were Gen Persifer F. Smith and family, U. S$. A; Pope, U.S. N.; Col. A. J. Glossbrenner, U.S. Ser. eant-at-Arms; Col. Malone, Lancaster, Pa.; Hon. . S$. Duncan, Arkansas. :::+ The Boston Journal of Wednesdays says : “* We learn, on what we believe to be good au- thority, that President Buchanan aa several members of his cabinet will come to Boston on the approaching 17th of June, to perce in the inauguration of the statue of General Warren on Buaker Hill.’ Tur BurpeLry Murper—TRiat oF Mas. Cun- ninGuamM.—On Thursday, the prosecution closed its testimony, and Mr. Clinton made the opening address to the jury for the defence. The ground taken was that the murder was committed not by the relatives or acquaintances of Dr.” Burdell. with most or all of whom be had been on hostile terms. Three or four witness were examined for the defence. Rev. Luther Beecher, of Saratoga Sate s, is the principal of the school where Mrs. Cunningham’s third daughter (Georgiana) is, and he and his brother proved the fact of the atu for Georgiana’s term, in December, by v. Burdell’s di on the Artisans’ Bank. Dr. Carnochan was on the stand when the court ad- journed. Mr. Clinton, in his opening, announced that the defence would call the sons and daughters of Mrs. Cunningham and *+ poor Snodgrass,’ if ne- cessary. The public mind is now prepared for a verdict of acquittal, as far as Mrs. Cunningham is concerned . Yesterday the principal witness examined was Mr. Snodgrass. He testified that he went to bed at 11 o'clock on the night of the murder, but did not heara particle gf noise, nor did he perceive any offensive smell on the following morning. Young George Cunningham testified that Eckel was at breakfast on the morning succeeding the murder, whilst Snodgrass testified directly to the contrary. Miss Helen Cunningham also gave her evidence but nothing new was elicited. A recess was then taken, the judge announcing that ee testimony on both sides would be finished at night. Gn renovating: Helen Canningham said she had no knowledge of the way in which Dr. Burdell came to hiadlesti—the way he was killed or who | committed the homicide. | Augusta Cunningham made a similar state- ment, when the case was closed for the defence. The District Attorney said he should not intro- duce any rebutting testimony. The Court said four hours would be allowed to each counsel to sum up, after which the Court adjourned until to-day. ——$<— ees GEORGETOWN AFFAIRS. Correspondence of The Star. GzEonGETOWN, May 9, 1957. In our Board of Common Council, last night, a message was received from the Mayor, covering communications from Messrs. Hodges and others, Miss Baltzer,and Francis P. Beatty. Mr. Hodges and others represent the new road in some places to be in a very dangerous considition, and ask for the repairing of the same. Miss Baltzer is much annoyed by the sign board and post adjoining her dwelling, and petitions its removal. Both re- ferred to appropriate committees. Mr. Beatty asks for the ottice of Lamp Lighter for the town; Jaid on the table. Bill for the relief of H. Polkinhorn was referred. ‘The Mayor returned the bill concerning Mr. Vanderweiken’s omnibus stand with his objec- tions, and presented the petition of Messrs. Cruick- shank, Welch and others against the said stand. ‘The bill was passed over the veto by the follo’ ‘if vote: Yeas—Messrs. Fearson, Jones, Pick- » Oyster mour, Thomas, and Williams— of Aldermen, was the hite. as amended by the Board A petition from Kate Estelle & Co. concurred in. t > praying the reduction to the same standard as other cities the license on theatricals, &c., was laid on the table Shortly afterwards, Mr. Williams presented an act, amending the act of June, 1805, in relation to theatricals, &c., which reduces the license to ten | rel dollars per week, or three dollars per night; which was passed by the following vols: Yeas— Messts. Fearson, Oyster, Pickrell, Seymour, Thomas, and Williams—6. Nays—Messrs. Jones and W hite—2. The bill for the establishing of the Fayette and other streets, as re berry, was Reaver, aad UMP Oo} “ A Bat ferred. A committee, consisting of Pickrell, was appointed to select a suitable place for the accommodation of the night watch. A resolution requesting the committee of ways and means to devise a pian of funding a portion of the debt of the town was reported by Mr. Thomas. Mr. Thomas also urged the report, at an early | day, of the committee to whom was referred the Se of the guardians of the Georgetown school. ‘The bill from the Board of Aldermen author- izing the loaning to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company our bonds to the amount of $5,000 in exchange for their obligations was, for the present, laid on the table. President Maulsby was in for the purpose of makin, wards securing material aid towards repairi: the recent dai es to the canal. He informe: some of our merchants that the damage though serious, is far from being as much as was at fitst - He has examined each of the damaged Portions, and feelx confident that if he can com- mence ab once the work of repair, that he can again have the entire line in navigable order by the first of June. juested to call the attention o7 ide of rted by Mr. Car- passed ; also a bill for the relief of H a bill authorizing the repair of the posite the Town House. for the relief of Jacob Kengla was re- Messrs. Oyster and our city yesterday, some arrangements» to- We have been the authorities to the fact that persons are in the habit of making the southern terminus of Mont- Ty street, acommon place of deposit for filth of almost all kinds, to the aunoyance of per ons living near by. the route has shown that a number of bridges | teen-mile limits of the grant. The selection as f .--- Dr. Edson B. Olds, formerly a member of any of the inmates of the house, but by some of UNITARIAN CHURCH HEvER will preach as usual on E street, petween oth and RNIN SUNDAY (To-morrow) Subject—“ Providence’ CHURCH O} > Epis. He rest Lak = SCENSI DAY atii tx xpply tot c St. i 3 y) held at ROW ( pere. HAWK TRIBE, NO. 7,1. 0. R members ef Nohaw Tribe of Red Men tunl in their attendance on at Ro’clock, as business 0 every member will be may 9-St* => THE XEURBION.O the AM aml LADD! COMPANY, No.2, to the Wiirr House Pa Ne. ri be given on 1 JRSDAY, the 2ist of May, Por ful op ee future advertisement. may 9-5 _ id SEVENTH WARD ANTI- NOTHING MEETIN ters Of the Seventh Ward, opposed to the Know Nothing Party. are requested to attend an adjourned meeting to held on TUESDAY EVENING, May 12th, at 8 o'clock, at Potomac Hall, corner of Maryland ave- nue and ith street, for the purpose of selecting suitable ndidates to represent the Ward in the eee CASSELL, Chair'n. MOE Th perance * joy AL THQ o'clock. desired that every member will be Punctual in his attendance, as business of im portance will be laid before the Company. Persons holding tickets since the last ball, will — yore them. or cd will be published in the tar es. order. 7 OryAMES LACKEY, RATITUDE. SHANKS most grate- fully presents his thanks to the Hook and Ladder Company, as well as to the several engine nd hose companies of the city for thi prompt and ecessful exertion on Songs mori she 3d inst., in extinguishing the flames of fire then raging in the roof of his house, on G_ street, opposite the Patent Office. A neater job of the kind could not — may 9-2t* complete a manner by any firemen. hes i (Nat. Intel) "==> NOTICE.—PERSONS HAVING IN Their ! possession Books belonging to the Library of the Department of State, will confer a favor by re- turning them forthwith to the Librarian. may 7-iw ST. PATRICK'S —A mecting of the Pas. I 3 oners. of this parial hold on SUNDAY AFTERNOON, At 4 o'olock. in the parish school-rooms, corner o! to take the first formal step to" F and 10th the new Church on the site left for that purpose by the Iate venerated tor, the very Rev. William Matthews, D. D. The design of the Church (Goth- ic) is to be seen at the pastors residence. may 6-4t__ HEAD \UARTERS UNTEERS, Ist The Breuer oenpettaninserenc en SN Ge uuired by appointed The hour of ‘0 orclock a. mon the fourth | Mo nday, being the 25th day of this month, as the time, and the usual pa: rade ground, atthe City Hall, as the place of muster for ilo exercine and inspection this year, the eompanies composing the battalions of this regiment willassemble at the said time and place, according to law. The officers of the regiment will, therefore, according:to their rank and position, give the proper notices to their respective commands, | and appear Me ae o parade, as above directed. order of Colonel Hickey. A may 5-lw H. N. OBER, Adjutant. G ENTLEMEN’S DRESS SHIRTS.—Our sup- E ply of Gentlemen’s Dress Shirts is now com- | plete, at STEVENS'S, may 9-5tf Salesroom Browns’ Hotel. RUNKS, VALISES, HAT BOXES, CAR- PET BAGS, SATCHELS, &c.,at very low Prices, and good QuaiNSs TL & STEPHENS, may 9-tf 322 Pa. ave., bet. 9th and 1th sts. PE ! MILL ED Miithe ‘enbeonibar ha ived from Rich- SHORToand BROWN STCBE . 5,000 . § Eb NS§ . mond, 5,000 bush. ct ERD DARBY: #7 Water street, Georgetown. ‘A very superior finished STEAM VINE and BOILER, all in complete work- ing order. Capacity about one horse power. In- quire at HOODS Jewelry Store. nay 9:3t* CLs BOAT FOR SALE.—Tho well-known / pleasure-boat ATLANTA, in fine con- dition, is offered for sale. She is strong and er yep gree er oy = of the i ladege a mits of the kind on the Potomac. For particulars ire at the Blacksmith Shop of ARTA R BA- KER, south side Water street, Georgetown. may 9-dlw HEY SPEAK FOR THEMSELVE SCHWARZE & DRURY’S PICKLED OYSTERS, and if they not entirely different and far superior to any in the world, the money will be urned. Buy . 2d door east 14 may 9-3t_ PRIVATE FAMILIES, HO- tel keepers and others in want of a good quality of ALE ean be supplied at the Istand Brewery, Maine avenue, between 434 and 6th streets. BOYD & MASON. Persons in Georgetown can be sufpplied by leaving their ordersat Mason’s Clothing Store, No.81 Bridge street. may 9-3t LL ALIV. On next we will re: 2RS. day, the 12th inst. at 11 o'clock e another lot of fine LIVE LOB ARS. ey come by thé night express, and are as fresh as those sold inthe New York markets, A few will be cooked, if desired, for the accommoda- | hed plies or LOPS 80, fresh > aha! to ; SCHWARZF & DRURY, 204 Pa. ave,. 2d door east 14th st. LEMEN’S READY-MADE CLOTH- NG OF Fine Quatit¥.—Our present large and extensive variety of Ready-made Garments of all grades, for Spring and Summer wenr, offers great inducements to citizens and strangers, Wishing on moderate tates, iamediate ome g : j Under-gariments in great varie- Also, Shirts a ex. Clothing made to order in superior manner at short notice, much cheaper than the usua’ sity prices. WALL & STEPHENS, 922 Pennsylvania avenue, may 9-eod6t bet ween ot Rand tot streets, HE THEA T RE.—The Relation of phic. Amusements to Public Morality, espe@ally of the Theatre to the highest interest oF humanity 5 an Address delivered at the Acadeiny of Music, New York, by the Rev. Henry W. Bellows, D. D., pastor of Ail Soul's Church, New York. Priee 2) cents. on’s Essays: with annotations, by Richard Whately, D. D. F the second London edition, st published, and for sale at 'AYLOR & MAURY’S Bookstore near 9th stres revised. Ju may 9-3t HAMMACK L Akg HARD His Bar LIQUO:! G servants polite and atten- nd always find him at his post ready for duty Liperts HALL, three doors west of “Willards Hotel. may 9-3t* NV ERCER POTATOES. — Just received 100 is prime white Mercer Potatoes, select- ed expressly for family trade. ae jot of sugar-cured Maryland Hams, (small 1. 81: ‘ugar-cured Breakfast Middling, Smoked Beef, Shoulders, &c. My customers and others would do well to call early and examine the Potatoes,as I wishto close ore ~ ata smal! advance, to make room fer an- other lot. * | FRANCIS MILLER, Family Grocer, may 9-2w 50 F street, cor. of 12th. AR D.—The attention of the public and persons wishing to make a good investment in property 1s respectfully invited to the sate of beautiful Build- ing Lots, w h will take place on Monday, the Ith Instant, between the hours of 4 and 3 o’clock p.m. property fronts on Ni Jersey avenue, at the corner of north E street, and divided into six hand. some Building Lota, being part of square The above mentioned property is considered ve: desirable, fronting. as it does, on @ beautiful thor- oughfare-in the most rapidly improving part of the oy. its immediate proximity to the Capitol, railroad depot, and business part of the city. Sale peremptory. : For Tnether particulars see advertisement. may 9-2t A SEN, Auctioreer, NG OF PIANO thanks for the . nity of this city that he is always ready to! attend, at the shortest notice, to all orders left for him | at Joux F. Eviis’s Piano Store, Pennsylvania av- between 9th and 10th streets, Was! dagton olfe’s celebrated method, by which he tune: acknowledged the best in Europe, combint correetness with d 3, many of t! it formers of this city have testified to its éxcellenee, and one trial has always been found sufficient to e: tablis! may 9- c, 18 extreme RESUGIRS Cais Nicteis no spectful PED S to our friends and the [aoe that we have on hand and are receiv: th kinds of the best and nroved REFRIGERATORS con 8 and price: ‘aterman’s article for ventilat: before superior to any hide had of walnut, mahogany, or rose- anew articlo, and a littie introduced, can be The offerings of beef cattle at the drove yards yesterday were very limited, amounting in all to only 70 head, 55 of which was purchased by Dix- trict butchers at $5 25a87.123¢ on the hoof, equal to $10.50a314.25 net. ‘The remaining 15 over. Sheep 5c. per Ib.; but few selling It is sup; that some fifteen to twenty thou- sand barrels of flour left Williamsport and passed dam No. 5 during the high water, and if the boats were fortunate enough fe act by dam No. 4 we may auticipate their arrival as soon as the repairs Sp the culvert at the old Mason fourdry is com- pleted. one ae ares ws Fecs!f firm with an upwa'd ndency ; ver t, small brands ni 'g6.75ag0° Wheat @100081.08 for white, and $1.50a$1.60 for red. Spectator UD Numbers of young whales hav appeated te nent bg Reged whales have recent) ireiy finished | posed of in the granted sections, to be selected Passage over | in alternate segtions between the sixth and fif- ete New York, aod the stat pemger fishermen are Tivaling the Nantucketers jn Killed by thee ‘Three whales have been yield from 30 prt she: theme wil oon eae 16 40 barrel’ Thi ‘ck eget prices are than others is lot_ of T is b'CAGES of fy Bes oo pe riaip how pinch pies ope Quick sales and sial! roBiLBEY & Guy, hand Ith si: may 9-tit 329 Pa, ave. BUFFALO COMBS, wood. We have al: a COOLERS and BIR patterns. i only way to asce’ NDIA RUBBER AND BUFFALO COMI Tooth, j at rang ee oe and Nail BRUSHES ot onNps: iLLINERY, MILLINERY.—J an sales of standard Miivisgant seectimeut OF MILLINERY, hong mayer’ ta Pe aee hee: CASED ita costes ONT NEGLECT THE CHILDREN —¥. Tove GAMES, BA TTLEDORES, GRA. tied LAMMOND’S, 7th street. ANS WHO! LE AND RETALL, AT y 1G iwoeusth and [Ordered to be inr being the Koglebright, Mise kiwoed, Mre Fowke, Luci Fowke. Kilen T Flich, Eliza Amery, RL Avery,OM 2 Atking, Hiram abbott, Ccl Joho Anderson, John ders, J Mi J McCarty, EM McDowel McCardie, in the Evenine ving the largest ciron! Parker, M. A es in mre Mre E joods, WH Gangren, Patrick ovum rourt, JG +, Jno W ? 3 nay ‘i K-nt, W Kelly, Obas Kotght, C8 Col Collins, J Creighton, Collahan, Jesse john JR cae Feclon, James Flagg, Jno L Foreyih, 143 W Mc Nickies, Devia, Segastes 2 Meder, Mitler, McCarty, JL McInt eb, Lt ure, Dr We PF < aaa a AR, il lation of 3 following A) TISED. ca » a STORY OF TE Harris Ni ait 2 volumes, Pomc Cooper's Navy, 2 volumes octa’ Sir Johi 1es, OCIA London; $1. a ie o volu Sir Joh thies of the London; 33. 1,400 pages, London: The Last ett, . Memoirs of the R. Navy, ! volume Life of Viee Admiral Brenton, Naval War, by th 8, umes, La Despatches and Official Li HE ROYAL NAVY jcolas, 2 vols. octavo, London; story of (erent britain, by Captain Bren- , octave, London ; $5. fo of Admiral Sir vo, London; tus son, ava reand | rc ress of the juarto, lon, 4 History of the Cuited States Sidney ral Lord de Saumarez, by Sir John » Lvol., 1 Wor- times of Queen Elizabeth, 1 volume, aval Biographical Dictionary, 1 vol., Hon. Captain Plun- 33.75. ters of Military and Naval Officers ofthe United States during the War of 1812, 1 volum: Campbell's Li London; $1 ai. Gutlord’s Anecdotes 2.25. ofthe British Admirals, 1 vol., of the British javy,l volume, ‘al Annual, London; 5) cents. ry of the National Fiag of the L volun Fuglish } for six years. Maiham’s Na’ voluny il Ga: jeal Magi me; 75 cents. 18, finel zetleer, 2 vols. octave: Naval Chronicle, 24. 25, And other books of the same class and on Naval and by Military Science and Service in all th FRANCK TAYLOR. AMILY CARRIAGE FOR SAL by Wood & Co., New York, in com. plete order. Suitable for one or two hot ‘Will be solda bargain. Can be see: ‘arious MAD &" the stable in rear of 345 I street, opposite Franklin Square. y f-3t OL len’s Single and Elasks, Shot Pouch Gun Worms. ners ercusion Caps, EF ing, Wad Cutter Hie “Barrel Pistols un Na ‘5, Walkers, Cox" and Trimmings, for sale by may 8 "S NEW MODEL, WARNER'S AND Allen’s Revolvers, Self Cock ing Pistols, Al- ule ng is, Al. P ‘owder Head: G and Baldwin’s Gun Wad anda good assortment of G: E. K. LUNDY, No. 128 Bridge street, Poveda un UMMER MILLI \9 DONALD wonld friends that she will 0 9th.a very handsome MER MILLIN wari Als general assortment of the season. Her ci are respect ful! Georgetown. ERY of new and ‘ahandsome assortment of fine Nen Tissue, and Straw of various sty! r customers: ly invated to callat N. Y.—-MIiss i respectfully inform her pen on urday. assortment of beaut! 2} les, of the 0.71. ‘Trimmings blic g AY PARTIES AND BALLS. ICE CREAM and uality and of all flavors WATER ICES of t kb. MM T! furnished to May Part; politan, sopethes witha all kinds to suit 1y »Bridge street, may 7-3t the best 108, =xeursionists, Pic Nics, Hotels, and Families, at the low price of $1.9 Also, ” grent varie! r gallon. of PLAIN and F. fy ANCY CAKES be fe tantly o1 the PANCADELPHIA STORE, corner of Ith shai? Streets, __may 2-Im*__ HITE HOUSE PAVILIO’ he under- Lf sianed een romps his friends = e public in general, e has leased §/ the WHITE HOUSE PAVILION for the de season, with the c., that vhest ITQUORS: EDIBLES the market affords, at "Washing i ate Gunning and Fishing Parties will be provided for Day or Ni - B. Fis at the Pavilion. may S-lw hing Tackle and Boats to be procured B. SCHAD, VV ASHINGTON HALL R corner 6th St. and Pa. Av., (south side.) B Sof & bd aby by tte | P. M. DU spect; nnounces t! a terest his former solicits x continuance of fie ae o will spare no reputation of his ho and the be: trusts that re} ied perience of fi ' i aid ren expos AA pemighemfpaac basi: he will be "Tis mot in the success: but I wili s been so generou: partner in es busi: stowed on or ex: nta: ‘and with this deter that ‘able to justify the ESTAURANT, confidence xT) the ronage which here- . them. wer of mortals to command lishment has been The entire Establ and renovated, Every. del marie caNee Sox always Be kept ant and the stock en can be supplied with Meals at. is fur i ae ef UahNNa Liquors as can be enced Bar-te; —s and Proved In short, the prop: rands and fest da ry waiters wil ~ Cigars, P. wae OM pecenaeti » Service on tand to good and likely men, acks, Washington copy) Pao more Tit deseree ars iv YSTERS, . M. DUBANT. Lj STATES MARINE CO: t Re “Two hundred able men. Pay from with Tawaed wud clotting, PARBWELL CONCERT AND Las APPEARANCE vt a THIS (Satarday) EVE take this opportuni <n hd e thi neere > the citizens of Washington for their ae port, would announce one more C; Introducing those pieces twhich have popular during the stay of the company. 1. CARUSIL RETURN rv anabone, the mont nt jeave toannounce that, at the earnest xo lietation apm he will repent this Festival on FRIDAY, May isth. ‘The children will please come to his Saloon this and every other evening until the night of may 9 Pre; MUNDER’S EXHIBITION & MAY FESTIVAL BALL TO BE REPEATED. Prof. MUNDER takes great pleasure in arnowne ing to bie, that, at the -oleitation many ds, he consented to repeat 1 every particular his Ex ‘RsTIvarL Bart on Tl jay 12th, 1857, (ioxtead of Monday. To add additional sas to tl ular entertainment, Warde of 153 of his best Dress Bact for vadging from the extensive pre} young ilies and gentlemen, and wardrobe af Mr. Marshal he will (at the ous: t ration of many |, the Baitimore Costinmer, he superior new gives every assurnnce that this will be one of the most brillant entertainments that hn ven inthis city. Mr. Marshall brs » rmors, many new Court Suits, gv expressly for this oecasion, and will be on ex! atthe Assombiy Rooms any time after 2 0’ Movwday next, lth instant, P. &.—All those who ir be wg cwesend ——— 7 ae er The Exhibition will positiv: com: o’elock, and eeneral dancing at Toy. LOWS’ HALL. oP FEL: SIGNOR DONETTI’S GRE.'T PARISIAN TROUPE OF Acting Monkeys, Dogs, and Goats, v1,1 performance, comic peculiarities whose wonde "ls Find natural droliones hereoe’ cited the mirth aud 4. “Umiration of the youne and oid, graveand ray .of beth Continents, aud who held the supremacy overall othe. maable cutertanments in Paris one whole sense "fed at the Astor Mace Opera House in New York <e 1 Consecutio. Pees edly the peincpat and whose recent success thr, : cities of the United States has _DEGh wupresedeutod in the annals of amusements,—w. Proay se their first appenrance in fonr years m this o. * Pe Series of their Serio-Comic, Melo-Dramatie, a Pe ntomune Representats together with Scone,‘ 4 the Curcin or Circus Performances, & On MONDAY EVENING, May 2.'th, and will most positirely remain but for SIX NIGHTS ONLY. ral R mence with the Monkey the most amusing and lanchter- pro Te be sneceeded by and Equestrian Perforinances, grand Military Spec tacles, laughter-exciting Melo Dramatic Represen tations, mirth-provoking. Pantomimic Soenes (with inagnifient and appropriate costumes Gaualied onony etnae. borwinch wile present. DONETTI’S KAI-EIDESCO ICAL VIEWS, oe HANGES. f Fire Works. HE DOG JOBN BULI surrounded a terrific explosion.of Admission 3 ce: parents, 25 cents. Doors open at 7: @ In order to ave open in the evening, Tickets cured in advance at the hall fi an. 2 mall detache Na EE ELEBRATION OF THE. FIRST SETTLEMENT OF VIRGINIA. The Jamestown Society of Washington, m con- junction with Citizens aod Military commences of Virginia, will ce the fifth semi-centennial anniversary of the first sottlement of Virgima, at Jamestown, on the I3th day of May, 1857. The Anniversary Address will be pronounced by Ex-President TyLER, and an Ode suited to the or- casion will be delivered by James Baxrox Hors, e Society have chartered the steamer Powna» AN. which will leave Washington at six o'clock on MONDAY EVENING, the Lith instant, Alexan- drin at half-past six, arriving at Old Point Comfort early the next day, where an opportunity will be nf forded the company to visit the numerous objects of interest there; thence proceed to Norfolk, where the residue of the day will be spent, leaving in Lime tor Jamestown early on Wednesday morning, where suitable ceremonies will be observed, and re- tarn to Washington on Thursday afternoon. Arrangements are in progress which, it 1s antic: patel. will secure the attendance of a very jarce concourse of the people of Virginia upon this inter- ing OccAKION. wey of Music has been engaged for the Excur- “Tickets, including mehis, for Gentlemen, 810; for Ladies $8; for Children or Servants #5. Committee of Arrangements. P. R, Fendall, President Gen. A. Henderson, Vico Jno. T. Towers, Treas, President, C. W._C. Dunnington, Beverly Tucker.Cor.Sec, Cor. Secretary, Jnmes M. McRea, William Towers, A. H, Cooke, Thos, Lumpkin, Stk J. Massie, Tickets oan He procured of either of the Commit- tee, orat the stores of W. F. Bayly. Taylor & Mau- ry, Hinton & Teal, and Jos. Shili ungton. Wasting- ton; and at the offices of the Alexandria Gazette, and Virginia Sentinel, Alexandria. i inel, Alexandria. may 2-STuWS&M QUND.—At Carusi’s May Festival, & BRACE LET, which the owner eu have bye RICHARD CROCKWELL., Stationers Hall, next to Kirkwood House, and paying for this advertise- ment. may 8-3! OST OR STOLEN—From the possession of the Hon. Francis 8. Edwards, at the Washing ton Honse in the city « Washington, on or about the 10th day of February, 1257, LAND WARRANT No. 51.233, dated December 2th. 169. Smad Warrant Was issued taj&zra Reed, under the act of March, i AS perstes me Rarety Mom ‘rary ae st pe gotiating say ‘Arrant as proceedings have been in Stituted by the helder, Ezra meat. SRS ite same. SZRA ap 3)-tw ______WANTs. i WANTED.—A SITUATION, by 1 first-rate ¥¥_ Cook who undersiands French and bngisi Cooking. Can give references from some of the best fomilies in New Yorkand Washington. Call for ose week at 2% F street, or address a note to E. L.. 8 F street. n° Ww, NTED.—A COLORED WOMAN to do the Cooking and Chamber work fora family of fonr persons. Apply at No. 14 Oluo avenue, between lth and 15th streets. may 8-30" Cook WANTED.—A respeetable Woman cen i} ona ine g00d situation by applying painee hong ANS. AVenne. AN .—A YOU ‘ W. Al ie A YOU NG MAN. os Salesman is * that some know ¢ of the bu: tofion ints Cu Past eee Adress imme eter A Ww NTED TO HIRE—Por a tern of yenrs,§ neat and comfortable DWELLING HOUSE. to be occu by ccorefal aed tees Cole tenant. pied with a family of three no ctuldren. Ad dreas Box No. Sid. City may 4 iw ANTED. ven! ous about WwW 30. Ronn avence’ Nesost With location and rent, ap 2-tf WANTED.—Three good ¥ MEN REWERY TaN B DS, to whom regular work wages will t Pisses TLS CFOREY Maer? aN jos. me atthe Washington Brewery, ‘Washing - ton, D.C. apie OAR DING. with BOA, E streets. 9-3" fine large PARLOR, hand- e CHAMBER at #88, for rent on moderate Nie front ROOM witha ARD IT, at ay i 10th may 5 8. on thes T HER BOARDING- Serene nee corner Ne Penn. number. NEW GOODS JUST RECEIVED. The subscriber jae just received the followins ry Oe waver Raising, fresh x0) “whee shell Almonds, —— Currants, and stone j do. approvi oi Be dONaS LES. np 9-tf ium SE ALTIMORE CITY MALT HOUSE. MALT FOR SALE_—7 recently Mie CLEY MATE Hole Sorner of West Falls avenue and treet. iL, RunOURCE to his friends and the public, that be Brat Pice niet ‘with « large supply of ny gy NNTP RANCIS DENMEAD. )PlANOS FOR RENT AT JOHN F. ELLISS herwrenSth and ‘th ste. twny NeW Mesic ras pay AT ELLIS MgO ever herp me In tiene pleasure.