Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1857, Page 2

a _EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON CITY: MONDAY... Jane 15, 1857. — ae Derarsep Letrers.—We publish to-day the first of our two letters from St. Louis that should have appeared ‘im the Star ere printing those deseriptive of the journey from that city to Chicago. The letter appearing to-day is preliminary to the one descriptive of the cere- monies at the great St. Louis celebration. (ee SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS. The Intelligencer rejoices to find the Journal of Commerce taking the ground it occupies with reterence to the insufficiency of the reasons al- leged by the British Government—through Lord Palmerston’s recent speech in the House of Com- mons—for the rejection of the amended Claren- don-Dallas treaty. That reason was, in few words, because the United States in one of these amendments refused to become a party to the treaty ceding the Bay islands back to Hondu- ras, which treaty this Government had never seen The Jowrza/ in the article the Inte/li- grncer quotes, points out with force the fact that the details of the treaty between Honduras and England being matters of their concern only, there was no propriety (on the part of England) in calling on usto endorse (sanction) it: and further, that as the point achieved by that treaty was in strict accordance with the point so strenuously contended for by this Gov- ernment in the Clayton-Bulwer treaty negotia- tions—the point that the Bay islands are the property of Honduras, not England—the excuse alleged by Palmerston is, to say the least of it, a singular one. In our judgment itis a mere subterfuge, resorted to to defend a senseless and weak act—nothing more. The Union rejoices over the result of the re- cent Virginia election as a great Democratic triumph; which it was, indeed. NOTES BY THE WAY. {Editorial Correspondence of The Star} STEAMING ON THE KUAD—PENNED BY STEAM. [No. 14] June 6, 1857. The booming of cannon and the swarming of the hive awoke all on the three huge steamers at an early hour yesterday morning to active preparations for the festival about to come off in St. Louis. At seven we sat down to an am- ple breakfast, provided on each boat, and at its conclusion the moorings were cast off, and, with band playing and guns firing, we were carried upon a steamboat excursion for a view of the city from all points of its water front. Thus, twice up and down the river, the Baltimore, Illinois and Di Vernon swept past this remark- able capital, to be, evidently, in time only sec- end to New York in business importance. From the decks all the excursionists (most of whom were never before so far West) were eagerly stretching their necks to catch glimpses of the streets, at right-angles to the river, as they rapidly opened before us. The windows in sight from the steamboats, as wel! as the Streets and many of the house-tops, were crowded with human beirgs as eagerly scan- ning our company. Among them were the military and the fire department of the city, whosedashing uniforms and fine music added brillianey to the scene. At 10 a. m., we were landed under the direc- tion of the committee, and passing the military in review, were soon seated in omnibuses drawn by six and four horses and carriages; forty- eight of the former and eighty of the latter having been provided, as well as other wagons of various descriptions sufficient to carry the balance of the city’s guests. The procession— municipal authorities, committees, guests, and the military and fire department—then pro- ceeded through several of the principal streets of St. Louis to the fair grounds, the most mag- nificentin all respect in this country. These grounds (situated three miles out from the court-house,) were donated to the city by a Mr. O'Pallen, a St. Louis millionaire. and are fif- teen acres in extent; worth, when given. some 50.000. As much more has been expended on them. Their natural advantages for such a pur- pose are great. On the whole. they are indeed worthy of the remarkable business enterprise and pecuniary liberality of this, by long odds. greatest city of this wonderful western country. Io all their appointments, good taste and a de- termination to excel were apparent. But to return to the proceedings of the ex- eursionists. Our line of march was through a sea of upturned and downturned faces. Even in New York, I never saw a greater crowd out upon a gala day cecasion. In truth, very nearly the whole of the city’s 200,000 souls, either aecompanied us or were stationed at points on our line of march, to view the specta- ele. The native population of St. Louis as it was thus exhibited to us, will vie with any otwer in the Union in all the elements going to make up the best specimens of Americans of the North Its foreign-born population, 2s that of Cin- cinnati,—Germans almost entirely. so far as one could judge from the display in the streets— appear to have been greatly influenced by the difference in the general characteristics of the Americans by whom they are surrounded: being quicker in their motions, more energetic znd intelligent, and less phlegmatic than those of Ohio’s commercial metropolis. They are, however, characterized evidently by the same baneful influences of a nationality within our rationality. whieh so marks the German popu- lation of the West. We went fora mile through one street, where at least fifty thousand persons Were stationed, (not one in ten of whom were, spparently, to the manor born,) whose dress; manners, £c . told the tale that they had merely changed their dwelling place—not their habits ot thought, principles, customs, or any other element of their existence, which must be changed ere they can become bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. Many of them keep busi- ness places, the signs of which give assurances that they have been in St. Louis long enough to remember when it waa comparatively a small town. Yet they wear the clothes of Germany to this heur, and their children born here know little of the English tongue, and continue to re- ceive their lessons of the fitness of things almost entirely from the class of (so called) “ reform- ers,” who, on landing in this country, set up the trade of modifying the system of the United States, social, religious, moral and industrial. With us of the East, and more especially everywhere (east of the Alleghanies) out of a few large cities, we see little of all this; and from the comparative sparseness of this particu- Jar description of population, eannot easily real- ize the extent of its isolation in the cities of this xeetion of the Union from the native population, nor the civil disadvantages that exist in prospe2- tive from the existence of this German nationali- ty within our own, as here manifested ; and from 3t8 apparent almost entire control by the few restless, crazed, and self-sufficient minds around which it concentrates—which it too frequently makes its gods, rejecting all the controling in- fluences of @ revealed religion, and modeling its views of right and wrong almost wholly upon the false and so oft exploded philosophy an- nounced from the never idle tongues and pens of its teachers, such as I describe above. While I shail ever oppose political nativeism with the uncompromising hostility which, the Star’s readers know well, I entertain towards it as being fraught wth far greater dangers to the State than even the things I have been de- scribing above. I shall certainly rejoice when Public opinion comes to act with efficiency upon this subject divested of temporary political con- siderationy when it is no longer the lever with which unzcrupulous native demagogues are doing their best to reduce the native Amer- ican popular mind to a worse condition tha that in which the teachings of the German pseudo-reformers seek to keep that of the Ger- mans of America, and whon it shall also be di- vested of its dangerous consequences to the rights of conscience in the matter of religion. W. D. W—a. WASHING TON NEWS AND GOSSIP. Coor.—‘* One of the weaknesses of people at the North fs a dislike to see an honest man, earn- ing an honest livelihood in a free State, pounced upon in broad agp tic by United States officers, in the house of his employer, and forced to de- fend himself with deadly Ahan poms to prevent his being carried to hopeless cruel q Another of our prejudices is a prejudice against the arrest of free citizens, under cover of law, for affording aid and ection to wretched fugi- tives, fying from labor without ‘wages, from pur- ishment without trial, from suffering without hope. Our Southern neighbors know perfectl: well how sensitive we are on these polnts, and how apt we are to lose our temper and commit acts of violence, when our foolish lon for liberty and equal rights is roused. W y not deal tenderly with us? Why not respect our weak- ness? “Why does not the South, for the sake of that ce and harmony for which she asks us to sacrifice so much, make some little sacrifice her- self? Why not collect am: the sons of chiv- alry enough money from time to time to compen- sate the owners of fugitive slaves. and thus avoié rousing the fiercest enmities, and convulsing whole States from border to border, by attempt- ing to enforee a law which every Northern mo- ther who has ever read the story of the Good Samaritan, or ever felt a generous impulse rise in her heart, must teach her children to Fag and abhor. Why forthe sake of a paltry $1,500 worth of dam: goods, bring about such dis- orders as have recently occurred in Ohio, and lace the Federal and United States officers in deadly collision? The Fugitive-slave law is law. but so long as all that is best and noblest amongst the white population of the North rises Up against it in bitter hostility, the man who at tempts to enforce it, is the sworn foe of the Union."—New York Times, June i. The above is the language of the New York city journal that, having not long since been a Republican party organ, is now lustily pro- claiming its independence of the idiosynerasies of that organization, and claiming popular ap- plause on the ground that it has turned over a new leaf—has become a national journal—in the sentiments and views it inculcates. We have to say that if such are the views of the xatfonal portion of the North, they are in principle every whit as repulsive to the South as those of Garrison and his followers, who claim the right to force our section of the Con- federacy to do that which this journal thus essays to coax us todo. That is, for the sake of propitiating Northern anti-slavery senti- ment of the era, to surrender our rights under the Constitution so plainly guaranteed that the conductors of the Times make no pretence to the contrary. We are asked to surrender that right because, forsooth, the North is ‘“sensi- tive’’ on the point of complying with the guar- antees it came under to us to induce the South- ern sovereigns of the Confederacy to consent to a political union with it. We. too, are “ sensitive,’’ extremely so, upon the subject of the existence of custom's taxes which accord “ protection”’ (bonuses) to north- ern manufacturing capitalists out of our pockets; for which, we hold, there is no warrant in the constitution. Were the South to claim the right to nullify the tariff law—to supply herself with imported goods such as the North lives by manufacturing—without paying duties upon them, we should at once find every such coaxing journal as the Times engaged in exploding, rather than bolstering this right to nullify on account of the “ sensitiveness’’ of public opin- ion. In the case stated by the Times there is no question as to the existence of a solemn guarantee on the part of ine North to do what it now professes so greatly to abhor todo. In the case we state, few at the South believe and admit that we are under the slightest constitu- tional obligation to submit to an exaction of a nny from us by the general Government di- rectly or indirectly, save for its immediate sup- port. But the Times, as the price of a cessation of the Abolition war upon us, not only demands that we shall quietly surrender the guarantied right to the: return of our fugitive slaves, but that we shall tax ourselves, collectively, with the value of each fugitive slave enticed off by the North, to be paid to the individuals among us thus losing their property by way of stopping their mouths! If such is to be the new theory of the continuance of the Union—and it is but anatural step forward in the doctrine upon which the policy of compromising the plainly written rights of the South is based—we ap- prehend that the Times will find the unani- mous South the sworn foe of the Union essayed to be administered on any such principies. It is not “ the Union” made by our fathers—the only Union we are under the slightest obliga- tion to maintain. First, we were called on to surrender rights of co-equality in the results to be derived from the legislation (taxation) of the General Government, for the pecuniary advan- tage of the North. Having, for the sake of “‘peace and harmony,’’ submitted to that ex- action, we are now called on to surrender our right under the constitution tothe return of our fugitive slaves, because the Northern popular mind has become of late ‘sensitive’ upon the point of complying with their obligation to that end! U.S. Mains to Cauirorsia.—The following are the bids for carrying the United States mails overland to California : S. Howell and A. E. Pace ; from Gaines’s Landing, on the Mississippi, to San Francisco; ty commence at Vicksburg, if preferred— weekly, $1,000,000 for the first year, $800,000 for the second, $700,000 for the third, and $600,000 for the fourth year. James E. Birch ; from Memphis to San Fran- cisco—semi-weekly, $600,000. James Glover ; from Memphis or Viecksburg— semi-monthly. $300,000 ; weekly, $150,000; semi-weekly, $600,000. John Butterford, Wm. B. Dinsmore, Wm. G. Fargo, James V. P. Gardner, Marcus L. Kin- yon, Hamilton Spence, and Alexander Holland; from St. Louis—weekly, $450,000 ; semi-week- ly, $600,000. David D. Mitchell, Samuel B. Churchill, Robert Campbell, Wm. Gilpin, and others— semi-weekly, $600,000. John Butterford, Wm. B. Dinsmore, Wm. G. Fargo, and others; from Memphis—semi- monthly, $300,000; weekly, $450,000; semi- weekly, $595,000. John Butterfield and others; from St. Louis —semi-monthly, $300,000; weekly, $450,000; semi-weekly, $585,000. James Johnston, jr., and Joseph Clark ; from St. Louis—semi-monthly, $260,000; weekly, $390,000 ; semi-weekly, $520,000. Wm. Hollingshead, the President of the Min- nesota, Nebraska, and Pacific Mail Transporta- tion Company, put in a bid, but it was irregu- lar, being after time—proposing to perfurm the semi-weekly service for $550,000. John Butterfield and others are willing to stipulate in the contract that the route indicated by them may be modified and changed to the north or south to avoid any obstacle that may be found by experience to interfere with the safe and regular transmission of the mails. Gonz.—Very few strangers remain in Wash- ington at this time engaged in the interminable and disagreeable work of seeking office for themselves or friends. The appointment of a f2w to diplomatic and consular posts announced about the Ist inst., with an intimation from the Executive that he should for the present de- cline making more such changes, caused most of those then here on such business to leave us. The warm weather which we have subsequently had has carried off most of the balance. Office seeking is, of itself, an intensely heating busi- ness; too much 80 by long odds to be prose- cuted under discouraging circumstances in Washington, during the summer months. We congratulate the Government on thus being relieved, so soon, from that most interminable bore of all the many bores to which gentlemen in their positions have been subject ever since it became fashionable to hold that it is the duty of the General Government to do every thing for every body. a Tue New Sreaw Sxoops-or-War.— We hear, on authority on which we have reason to place confidence, that the Secretary of the Na- vy, on the solicitation of members of the New Nork city delegation in Congress, has deter- mined to have one or two of the five steam sloops-of-war ordered to be built at the last session constructed by contract, at some private ship building yard. In a commercial point of view this decision is important, insomuch as the fact that the Government of the United States thus patronizes private American me- chanical enterprise, must tend to induce for- eign governments to look to our ship builders more than heretofore, for the prompt construc- tion of similar vessels. Tae Navau Covers or Inquiny.—To-day, hefore Court No. 1, in the ease of ex-Lt. Reed, Lieuts. Glassen, Berryman, and Surgeon John T. Mason have been examined, all of them having been called on his behalf. This Court then adjourned on account of the absence of witnesses from a distance, whose arrival is ex- pected by the opening of the Court to-morrow. Before Court No. 2, Mr. Phillips, counsel for Lt. Alex. Gibson, read that gentleman's de- fence, and the Court were deliberating on his case as the Star went to press. No businoss was transacted before Court No. 3 to-day, owing to the death of a member of the family of its President, Commodore Newton. Decuixep.—We have every reason to believe that Col. John W. Forney, on Saturday, sent to the President his declension of the latter's offer to him of the U. S. Consulship at Liver- pool, tendered some time since. Col. F. designs returning to Pennsylvania, where he will be accompanied by the warmest wishes for his happiness and prosperity of as large and at- tached acirele of personal friends as ever a gen- tleman acquired among the citizens of Wash- ington, through an official residence here. » Tae Grapvates.—The following is a list of the Midshipmen who have just passed the usual examination at the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., and have therefore been ‘“‘war- ranted’ as Passed Midshipmen in the Navy of the United States. Viz: 1. F. B. Blake; 2. H. D. Todd; 4. C. J. ; 5. J. M. Pritchett; 6. E. Terry; 7. son; 8. T. M. Mills; 9. M. Bunce; 10. J. W. Kelly; 11. H. B. Seely; 12. F. V. MeNair; 13. A. R. Yates; 11. H. W. Miller; 15. C. Merchant. Tue Navat Courts or Ixquiry.—At the rate at which the cases so far disposed of by these Courts have been tried—and we can vouch for the industry and perseverance, as well as pa- tience, with which they have discharged the onerous duty devolved on them—we see no rea- son to hope that they will be able toget through with the cases of all the officers who have enter- ed appeals to them, for at least six months to come. Navy Orricers OrpereD.—The following Passed Midshipmen have been ordered to the United States steam-frigate Minnesota. Viz: F. B. Blake, H. D. Todd, C. Y. Graves, E. Terry, H. B. Seely, F. V. McNair and H. W. Miller. The following Passed Midshipmen have also heen ordered to the steamship Mississippi. Viz: J. M. Pritchett, T. B. Wilson, T. B. Mills and A. R. Yates. Coronet Joun W. Forvey.—We hear that a number of thig gentleman’s personal friends in Washington, without distinction of party, are preparing to compliment him witha public din- ner, ere he removes finally to his home in Phil- adelphia. It is said that he has accepted their invitation. So the affair will probably soon come off. Ex-Gov. Wrieut, or Inp1ana.—This distin- guished gentleman will probably leave Wash- ington to-morrow, for his home. Though there is a rumor that he will decline the mission to Berlin we doubt the fact, and shall look for him to sail for Europe in the course of the next month—July. Seawen ARRiveD.—A draught of eighteen fine seamen reached this city from the Balti- more Station's Receiving ship on Saturday eve- ning last, under charge of Lieut. Rainey, for the Plymouth, now to sail on an ordnance expi- mental cruise. Tae Wituincton (N.C.) Marine Hosprtat, The bids for the Wilmington (N. C.) Marine Hospital were opened to-day at 1 o’clock p. m., at the Treasury Department. The award will not probably be made for some days to come. Tus Consvt GENERALSHIP To CaNapA.—Our decided impression is, that it has been deter- mined to substitute the Hon. Wyman S. B. Moor, of Maine, for the present incumbent, Mr. Andrews, in this position. Tue Secretary or War.—The Hon. John B. Floyd is expected to return to Washington this evening, or to-morrow, from his recent trip to West Point. Tas WeataeR.—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.: Junw 15, 1857. clear, pleasant. clear, pleasant. clear. New York, N.Y Philadelphia, P: Baltimore, Md Washington, Richmond, V; Petersburg, V: Raleigh, N. Wilmington, N Columbia, 8. C Charleston. 8. C.... Macon, Ga, Coluinbus, oe jontgomer: Mobile, ala’ Gainesville, Mis: New Orleans, La. .-clear, pleasant. +++sClear, pleasant. The following reports have been furnished by the Ngtional Telegraph line : From tue West. Frederick, Md ...,.......clear, warm. Cumberland, Md . --clear, warm. Harper’s Ferry... --clear, warm. Hagerstown, Md. s.cloudy, pleasant. Martinsburg... clear, warm. Wheelfng, Va. clear, pleasant. Winchester... . clear, Warm, At Washington, yesterday at 9 p. m., the barom- eter was 30,115; thermometer 74°. This morning at 70’clock, barometer 30,155; thermometer 74°. From Liseria.—The schooner are, at Boston from Monrovia, brings Liberia advices to the Sth ult. The extra session of the Legislature had adjourned after admitting Cape Palmas as a county of the republic on terms uality with Mesurado, Bassa and Sineo. The Cape Palmas difficulties with the natives had been settled. ‘There was some scarcity of food but the new rice crop was promising. on a it eB nt of U.B. Senator from South Caroling to fill the place of the late Judge Butler, will be tendered 10 Gov. Hammond, t! h it is not’ certain that he will ‘accept it. Should he nat, and Cal, Piel. ens decline the Russian Mission, the latter will probably be selected for the Senatorship. PME ET PERSONAL. .... Hon James Thorington, of fowa, is at the Kirkwood House «+... Ex-Governor E. Louis Lowe, of Maryland, is in this city, at Willards’. ape is ex-Presi- dent Mirabeau B. Lamar, of +.05 The Union gays that aceording toa recent Bc from. Fay lle, N. C., the health of e: Soom: bbin ‘is slowly improving. c ios 1 troublesome, but his easeel health is better.”” { .+-. Hon. John B. Haskins, Memberelect from New York; Hon. H. B. Todd, of New York; Judge Buchanan and Hon. P. F. Thomas, of Maryland; Com. M. Smith, U.S.N.; Wm. Rice, editor of the Pennsylvanian. and Gen. Tyler, of Philadelphia, are af Willards’. oe -... Among the rs from the S says the Panama star, we aniee William F. Nye, Esq., of Valpatiaso, who is on his way to the United States, with the object of building steam tugs for bay of Valparaiso, which he has obtained a special privilege from the Chili government. -+-. Mr. John Newton, a son of Commodore Newton, U. 8. N., a member of one of the naval ee SCRE SET LT Sy © —— — in Fees ene!| EXCURSIONS, Bo. or WEDNESDAY. iM TRG, tag th ioscan, | FJXCURSION AND Pio-xtc Miele ____, ecretary. Ebenezer Sunday School, ADIES 0) Cuvrcn, aoe fie {on thecveames of PUESD Ay Pborket ce hicke taal ingot ollie ootties wh = lo an then with their The FXCURSION sad PIC-Nic of Soboc!, Navy Yard Wil cake place Ou THURSDAY the, loth instant! it, ee mp a ee Sos. W pen iGTON ebar! occasion. leave her wharf at 8 o'clock a m.: Ovterback'y whet 1o,are earnestly requested t he Ni: ¥ and B ¥ donations and attendance. betes oe roudhige — * — SVASHINGTON Sere ARY Pore on Teturning from the t wn the river. * i to this Institution are nested e m on board. @ payment to the Treasurer before the ist me Ww ithers’ Rand bas beon paenged as ill be placed in t! The ‘Nie to be at Fort Weehi: tends of e colle — = = the return of the boat from a peasure wptere te jel HENRY HOBAN, Treas. NATIONAL GREYS, ATTENTIO ¥ ted _to attend an ned meeting of the Company. HIS (Montay EVEN: ceria ot int pany Ne a R. GRIMES, Sec. THE JOURNEYMEN Blacksmiths of Washington, Cc. a) river. Tickets for Adults % cents; members of the School 25 cents. — es Finsr cnanBSEkeio Ugly Club, TO THE WHITE HOUSE PAVILION. NOTICE TO om mey: -Shores are requested toattend | phe hand 3 4 " courts now in session here, was found on Friday | 2°urcting at the: City Link om WED TSO NS take great plenmure In aa eeegnae) UGLY CLUB night last, at the corner of Front and Fulton | NIGHT next, at 8 o'clock, for business will be | their old and numerous frie: Is and streets, New York city, lying in an peer made known to them at the time of meeting it* the public in Keneral, that they hn t > N chartered the safe and commodious conaieiee. “There was 5 deep’ Gust qver the lf SWE.THE UNDERSIGNED, DRY GOOD | SC'lstr cron and will eive ther FTIR eee head. Foul play is suspected, and a post mortem | 553, Fan pcan at eo" » (Saturda, nights ex for gen ‘Sa ane WHITE HOUSE PAVIL- examination was ordered."’ So says the New| cepted,) from the 15th of June to the 15th of Sep- Withers’ Unrivalied Brass and String York corres lent of the National Intelligenceréd tember: Baud bas been ed for the He was doubtless assassinated. 4 lonNn H. Smoot, W. R. Horoee, Refreshment Departrent will he hands <f avrigLp & Brown, A. F.Orrutt& Co., | an old and experienced Caterer, Cor. Cra: In StarrEp Soxoza ExPEp:- ise Berry, S. Kouterrs, Tickets ONE DOLLAR ; to be had of any of the Tion.—Our files of California papers give full particulars of the sad fate of the Crabb expedition. It seems that Crabb was connected, by marriage, with one of the most powerful native families of Sonora, and that on his visit to that place some ten months ago he had several interviews with the chiefs of one of the paities of the civil war then raging in Sonora. It was represented to him that the people of Sonora were anxious to declare their independence prepaxatory to annexation to the United States, for oppression was the only re- sult of their connection with Mexico, and that with the co-operation of Americans the project was entirely feasible. Crabb returned to California to raise men, but before his return to the scene of action some sort of compromise was made between the contending factions and Crabb’s party, unsupported, perished in the attempt to establish themselves at Cavoca, Sonora. So say Crabb’s sympathisers. A correspondent of the San Diego Herald says > “All was bad management, want of experience and a clear rushing upon a deadly fate. Crabb entered Cavorea with eighty-four men. All of these were killed with the exception of the youngest, said to-have been spared by the Mexi can communder, Garcia. The name of the sur vor is unknown, but he is said to be a boy of 16 or 17. The Mexicans at Cavorca were about 500 strong. “Col. R. N. Wood, late Fillmore elector, is among the dead. “The influence of this affair upon Americans is very bad. Oar prestige is entirely destroyed— the Mexicans are loud in their boasts, our dreaded invincibility is gone, and nothing buta great vic- tory will restore it. Even the Indians now sa’ we are of no account, and they will kill small partes when they meet them. Heretofore Amer- cans have had much greater security than any other people.” GEORGETOWN AFFAIRS. Correspondence of The Star. Grorcrtown, June 15, 1857. An item of ours in the Star of the 11th instant, in relation to what is known as the gag law in our Public Schools, having given offence to the Secretary of the Board cf Guardians, and the said individual having seen fit, in a lengthy commu- nication, to attempt upon us the tanning pee even impugning our motives, &c., you will please permit us,in self defence, to reply as briefly as the nature of the case will permit. his real to draw us into a controversy are subjects entirely foreign to the “gag law,”? be- cause we have seen fit to hold the complaints of rents, and his no-proof assertion of our enmity o the Public Schools for the same canse, shafi pass off unheeded, except with the simple re- mark that we certainly have not in the Public Schools an enemy that we desire to punish, or a paccutee friend to reward. When we penned he article alluded to, our only object was to call the attention of the proper school authorities to the introduction of a rule of discipline which had given great offence to many of the parents whose children attend these schools, and which had be- come a town talk, under the impression that im- mediate steps would be taken to silence the clam- or by removing the cause of offence. But to the card of Mr Hyde, secretary. Mr. A. attempts to make it appear that we in our article have done violence to the truth and morality. In regard to this charge we ask the careful reader and discerning public to peruse carefully both of our articles, and then decide between us. fn our article we simply stated that this Sepa species of punishment had beea introduced into a portion of our public schools. We did not say upon how many it had been in- flicted ; what kind of stick was used for the pur- pose—whether long or short, thick or thin, rough or smooth, pine or oak. We only esscrted that law had been resorted to in the schoals by of the teachers, and this charge Mr. H. bon- stly and fully corroborates in his card of Satur- day last. So according to Mr. Hyde’s own showing, We have not been guilty e€any breach of moral ty in uttering the charge. Mr. H. further say: that we were appealed to to retract what we had said. This we must emphatically deny. He is the only interested person who asked us any questions in relation to the paragraph, and he can bear us witness that he made no such request. Not he. Mr. H. is a man of too much good sense and prudence, to ask of us or any one else the retraction of a statement, which he himself has publicly corroborated as true. Again, Mr. H. says: ‘But two children had this punishment inflicted upon them,’ and that “ in less than one minute’? the gag produced the desired effect, viz: secured silence. We suppose it did while in the mouth of the child, but not in the sense in which he would have us helieve itdid. This we think is setting the pegs up rather too straight. Now, £0 far from there being only two, upon whom this ainishment was inflicted; we think we can find Bim ten times that number, and some, where the children have been taken away from school, by their parents or guardians, and afterwards were rmitted to return upon the solicitations of the leach and the assurance that the gag should no more be inflicted upon them. As to the cure being eifected to the extent Mr. H. would have us believe, in ++ less than one min- ute,’’ all that we have to say is, that it wasa won- derfal achievement ; and that ‘“‘a little soft clean pine stick,’? is certainly a wonderful charm. Again: Mr. H. endeavors to make it ap; that we acted reprehensibly, by not making pro- er inquiries about the matter. To whom would fo have us go for the truth? To the delinquents. Surely, he don’t sup us verdant enough to ursue such a course as that Does not Mr. Hyde imself assert that this odious rule had been the subject of town talk two weeks before our article was penned? Aud, notwithstanding, he seeks to make it appear that our item raised the clamor. He acknowledges that the complaints had become so geperal that some of the Guardians and one of the City Fathers deemed the matter of suificient importance to demand of them an investigation, such as it was, the day upon which cards of merit were awarded to the pupils, viz: Friday, the 5th inst., just six days before our article made its ap- pearance. We regret the necessity which compelled us in the first place to notice the matter, but so much having been said upon the subject, as Mr. H. ad- mits in his communication, ed parents who had either sent or were sending thejr children to the ublic schools, that we felt it our duty to notice ft We could not say to the parents what Mr. H. tells them in his communication, ‘‘ you are mis- informed, every ninety-nine out of a hundred who make a complaint know nothin; it,’? for the simple reason that that the one hundredth parent would come for- ward (admitting that that number send their children to the schools) after the ninety-ninth one had been thus treated. Neither could we consent that parents should accuse us of conniv- ing at the before-mentioned punishment, or of being a simpleton or coward, one of which thi certainly would, had we, as ‘the only chaanel to the public mind,”? kept silent upon the subject. Under all the circumstances, we deemed it our personal about did not thiuk duty to bring the matter to the attention of the School G ans, but Little dreaming that in so” doin; ‘we were to be the object of a violent attack in advance of any action of theirg. One portion of our article to which the gentle- man takes particular exception J withdraw, for I feel confident that I wronged the Chinese, &c., by asserting that such a mode of punishment might suit them. Such an ingenious le would only study out some such punishment for their Stut? officers, and not their children. The name of & gag, even admitting that it is no longer than one’s little finger, has to freemen, ‘or those desirous to be such, so repulsive and dis- ce a feature, that we doubt whether the gen- leman could succeed in getting up a ‘‘card of thanks”’ in any community under the sun, tothe teacher, male or female, as the case may be, who saw fit to first introduce it into a school as a mode of punishment for little children. In conclusion, if itis such an admirable rule, and produces such wonderful effects in so short a space of time (‘‘ less than one minute,’’) and if it is a rule of the children’s own adoption, as the gentleman declares it why was it not k up, made general, and car: into the senior partment of the male schoolelso?. Echo answers why. We might however; give a why it was net. Either the children would not eubinit to it, which would be tantamount to saying that the teacher is unable to rn them, a t! Mr. H. would not like'to tell him, or else! the teacher’ is of too much humanity to infliet any such odious punishment, SPEcTaTor. Mie Artheas eilbeereihe atts wiesfatntc i'd ‘ will leave the city w ‘at 834 0'clk: ind Alexandria ‘4 Second boat at 2 avy Yard;3 Alexandria. Retuta Pavilion at 6 and 10 p,m. ynmitier of Arrange ts. STRAWBERRIES.—Those wanting fine Strawberries can get them either by the sau cer or in large quantities at the Philadelphia Ios Cream Depot, corner 12th and F streets, je 9-lw NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS—The Tax Nicholas B. Willets, W.C. Drury, ! Lists for the present year (1857) are now in my _ Thowas 8. Denham, J. Acton. is for collection. ‘hose who shall pay their je 15,17 198 2" taxes prior to first day ot July next, will be allowed ~ it of six per cent. — Pec. F. SHEKELL, Collector. WANTS. Georgetown. D.C. je 3-Im* EE WANTED—A WOMAN, to Cook, Wash, and LX. LIME, LIME, Tron fora sinall ly. Apply at No, 4% C Je 13-2" AT ® CTS. PER BARREL. Pure Wood-burnt LIME, fresh drawn from the in every aps parowad sale at the above price i i sere, re nema BURROWS é'Witert, jot New Jersey avenu Jots-st bet. Daud E sts, south, near the Capitol. TRE COMET. PASSED.—The artist, Signor STAHLIN1, of Schwabeno, in Italy. os iow fin- ed fresco oil-painting, after the ofd Italia jen street, corner of north Capitol street. N_ ENGLISH WOMAN wishes te obtain a Situation as Seamstress or Child’s Nurse. Al- gly at No. 43 I street, between itn and 2th, next T but one tothe Quaker Meeting-house. ‘it™ ANTED—A first-rate COOK, WASHER and IRONER for 8 larze family. One who can come weil recommended can find a good piace, and liberal wages. None need apply talons the above 1, th at Charlies Werner's. Anyt od qualifications are complied wit at No. 443 E gone to isan on totake a glans of Huinphres’s | Street between sth nit Ith. 15-1w uensman’s cslebrat er- ecominer ant-daNo. 1 BREAD BAKER all Doctors as the healthiest beverage of the sea- md od = 4 som cat noe it without extm chance, S* Geisss | AN,Wid whe inalnea good fisenst Moulder. “Appi SEMLANNUAL NOTICE —We nro busily ex 2 a RAMEE EGE © gaged making 01 open accounts on our books. ANTE A CHA 3 AID SEAM- and shall as usual make an indiscriminate issue o! Ww STRESS. One who thoroughly understands the same up to the 27th of this month. Meantime all who are aware of having an account with us and would as soon anticipate it, will confer an especial favor by calling at our desk and paying the amount. and thereby raving them the annoyance of a eal! and bie them, eistyl GLACETT DODSON & CO. Ber Dasinces and is well recommended — spply at Ws LAN (for the Kitohon of a Resta rrant, anda CHAMBER MAID to assist Washing and Ironing. Also,aCOLORED MAN p had Good references required. Appl, EX the ye wd je I. 1 Je 15-tiy: Star = Sachs view of gedgng oy rary Invest ot | emai Bate a ens P Sea eae a rote (oval wal omer at prime cost the follow- Mathew"s Chun . oy Swiss and Cambric Setts 3D.—Fo : 5 Swiss and Cambric Collars, from Sle. to §10 i hte gh RD Lig Penn, avenue, between lth and 7th sts. Also, Swiss aud Cambric Sleeves one on 7th street, between E street and Penn. ave- Handsome q brie Rufiling nue. Possession to be given not later than the 27th of this month. Persons having stores to rent may ess Box 5, Star Office, stating terms, &c. je 13 wax, ).—Both LADIES and GENTLE- MEN. to learn several of the most besutiful Ornamental Arts now in the world, for sdorning par- lors and saloons. Also, every style of Lettering, in silverand vold, taught to perfection in two hours. Tt can can be done in the best parlor, at a small ex- se, and certainly paysfrom $3) to $49 per woek. lease cailand examine specimens at No. 24 7th street west, one door above H street. LEVI BROWN Embroidered Hukfs, Infants Bodices, &e. ALSO, a lot of piain English, Florence, and Swiss BRAID BONNETS at cost. tbe pat ce ear a EE Ee ErcHisoN’s, No. 12 Market Space, 15-3t Between ath and 9th streets, HE FIRST EXHIBITION iF WASHINGTON HoRAcuLTURAL so- will open for theadmission of visitors on TUESDAY i 3 je13-1w* PERKINSON. next, the 16th mst Mr. Corcoran’s Building, | ——"—*—_____ —— - on H, between 18th and 14th streets, at | p. m., and A COMPE SPER wants » will close on Thursday afternoon at $ p.m. A Situatio: at this office. The following Schedule of Premiums, will be 4-tf aE eee —sonimiagtidirn a ANTED—In the family of a gentieman residu Ricz the bast collection of green-house singe? ed two miles from the sty, acood pin COUR, Six best r One who can bring recommendations for skill, honesty, and cleanliness will find 264 situation and regular wages. Apply to J. P.CRUTCHETT, corner of 6th and D streets. je i-tf WANTED, TO PURCHASR—A BRICK DOMELLING, cee & ~ or, and wort $2.50 to about $4,000, by paying $500 in cash, and the balance in annual instalments. Also. For Sale—On ensy terms, two desirable BRICK DWELLINGS. each located within two squares of the Patent Office. One of them can be bought by paying $1,000 in cash, and the balance im 12 balf yearly instalments. s , POLLARD WEBR, y 14 th No. 512 (2d story) 7th street. WANTED-At 3:7 Penn. avenue, south side, corner of Sth street. s CHAMBERMAID end WAITER. |The waiter 8 boy of from 16 to 18 years of age. Both must be able to bring satisfactory rec- ommendations. may 14-tf ___ LOST AND FOUND. day Inst, between 12th street, Peiavoniums—be: Gloxinias—best six. Calceolaries “* lve best varieties. . Roses—best twelve in pots. . 328585 33 ee ‘or the best econd For the best twelve bloom: For the best centrepiece. collestion of Cut Roses.. ; UL ERebouubit g 293 $882 °! LES, without case. 5 % 00 | eral reward if left at r o | _ ie 15-8t* o Lost x0n, Sunday afternoon, 14th inst., on M ten rey street, between Tenth and Fourteenth, xa oval Gannae | Percelain ‘set BRE PIN, larze size, female Gripes, “ 60 | figure, (head and bust.) rim plain. gold, with wreath Rhubarb “ st 0 | Of oak leaves and acorns. finder'will be libe: - Cucumbers—one brace 00 | ally rewarded by lexving it with the owner. at the mabe, pec «0 | Cottage, corner of M and 13th sts. je 15-21" Banch Beans—oue pec! = ANAWAY, ON SATURDAY AF TER- Spinven—one = ; noon, at 5 o'clock, from Capitul Hil, on Grapes—best bunch. 5) | E atreet, between 34 aud 4th streets, a iittie Peaches—best six. wo | Sitl, named LETITIA SHELOO, about ten Apricozes 50 | Years old. She had on a brown frock and Strawverries—best g | hood when she left. All persons are mal Second a = harboring ber; and any formation conerrning her Cherries oA 6, | canbe left at her father's on E street as alowe. Second tf ace PAT. SHELOO. For the best design fora Suburb Residence nore tong PE Pee abe ti Premiums wi otheratisee an enumersted in the above schedule. Allarticles for competition must be deposited be- iLa.m, . P xiatenease cme JOHN WATT, Chairman Com. of Arrangements. je 15-3t NEW YORK AND LIVERPOOL HE NITED STATES MAILSTEAMERS RELWAR D.—Strayed or stolen, on the 30th of 3 May, very fine large white nnd red ‘OW, with horns ; had on the neck a coliar with the name of Dr. Boy le, with the Ne. of house and street on it. The above reward w ll be given for information that will lead to discov: ry or retarn of the Cor _ie15-3t*__ CORNELIUS BOYLE, 43; street. wt bb ig THAT AF- OTICE IS | ter six weeks eation Comm ss: ‘ t Il be made to th of Pe nsice The Ships co for the issue of aduplicate of LAND WARRANT No. 15.282 for 120 acres, act 31_ March, 1855. istued to The ATLANTIC enjumm Grimes, private . Jones Company, The ADRIATI Toate Volta Creek We Ee (ote is easwee peti. in their construction, as also in their engines, to in I OST.—A CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSITE, gure strength and speed, and their accommodations | Is daiod Juno Ist, 1as7-issued by Pare & Nee for passengers are uncqualled for elegance and com- | for 2,0. It ean be of no use to the finder, as pay- fort mont of the same ting been stopped. Ry returuang it to me the finder wiil receive maay,t hauks. Selsee ______ J. B. DODSON. OST—Y esterday evening,in Washington. some- Where on or in the neigborhoed of i4th street, & x-barrel REVOLVER. some of the berrels of rice of e from New York to Liverpool, ir frat coin, Gide in second de, Oras exaluenr oot extra si: te rooms, $325. From Liverpool to door elie tach Sip No forint cated ttached toeach ship. No r Tatil paid for. ‘The ships of this line have improved oH ér which wasloaded. The finder will receive $3 re- water OPOSED DATES OF SAILING. ward by leaving if nt this offiors ee 1s FROM NEW YORK. ! FROM LIVERPOOL. - [Ww = tol he Saturday, June 20... 1857) Wednesday, June 24.1857 $5 Bey tine ee) Bese Co ee ee Saturday. July 4..... 1857) Wednesday, July 8.1857 | shout three years Old. ‘She leche mee, Saturday, July 1 857 | Wednesday, July 22. 1857 | 9 white face und white stroak oe nn turday, Aug 57 | Wednesday, Aug. 5. 1857 | ‘A ny one bringing the slve Gon te Saturday, Aug, 857 | Wednesday, Aue. 19.187 | tion so fean get her.) te my residence Saturday, Sept. 1857 | Wedaesday, Sept. 2.1857 | Hill. will receive the above reward Saturday, Sept. Saturday, Oct Saturday, Oct. Saturday, Nov Saturday, Nov Saturday, Dec. EDAD! SOELIRY No. 56, Wall stree’, ew” York. AVN, SHIPLEY & CO., Liverpool. STRPHEN RENNARD @ COO, Austin riars, London. z, 2 HT & CO., Paris. The: aan utes ships will not be accountabie for gold, silver, bullion, segciey, ovelrs. | nless bills ing are thecefor sad the value thereof expressed therein. je 15 i De 3E.—Purchasers at the Nationa! Hotel sale IN Ge ccseted eo call and Fet their goods. The sale having closed, there will be no in getting their goods. = JOHN BOHLAYER. 5 RE WAR D.—Strayed or stolen from the 2 Capitol Hill, x SORREL HORSE between 1] and 12 years old. Any one bring ing the above Horse (or leaving such infor mation as will lead to Lis recovery,) to my residence on Capitol Hill, will receive the above reward. je 12-3t* JOHN BOHLAYER. BOARDING. ISS BOWIE’S Boarding-House, lorated in? MS} known and healthy village of Brookville, Montgomery conuty. Md., will be ready to rece: & Summer BOAR DERS fora few mouths. commenc- ing from the ist of July. je 15-2w* BoAkvine BOARI ING—at rensovable raters cxu be had “dl some ten or twelve persons at No. 286 on New York avenue, near 7th street, a few doors vast of the Market House, je ie-3t* ; 8. Cc. =, Auot. KS. EF. BAGBY’S (late Miss Keno rd SUBANT HAS JUST RRCBINED arora: | 4 etismrert Soca is Peon ttm, at UBANT S JU! ci 2 - at rect, Washington. wil! rama er 7 Ke AY SEA TURTLES date families and single persons with BOARD oa direct from Nassau. ‘They are young Accommodating terms. je 3-e0lm* _ tender,none of them weighing over 85 pounds. ‘hey will be served wu} southwest corner Street, in Steaks, je 13 3t 1 0 FY, 12 PE CENT. INVESTMENTS. RS. E HE AF at tne extablishment | MIR FO 84 TES, AT HER BOAR Avenue reet, has mad © ° 4 je arrangements to accommodate numberof with Meals throwghou vad Lod at any time tl =e athe te. offer for ‘ —— Bonds of the oity of Bartinaton, Towa WASHINGTON BRANCH RAILROAD. Be do abuque, $ Do do eokuk, lo Do do St. Louis, Missouri be Bes iloines pat yp Fr WARS \t connect) ‘The above annual are all well secured, and Reler witha wnt ad igh LAS andi at latotere we offer them as favorable investments. with those for Philadelphia and New York: at & 1a CHUBB BROTHERS, &.m. for Annapolis, Baitimore. Philadelphia, and Baas ae anal Roley with Frederic ae? am Norfolk, NFANTS’ POWDER, LILY WHITE, | *4 nas 7 DUAL a fos! if ALT, EXPRESS at 4.20 p.m.at Relay for the West, seni Bat Saf OLOONE, BAbube gud for Aunapolis, Baltimore, Philsdelgin’ and ASHINGTON BRANCH RAILROAD. Qn Sunday at 7a. m., and 4.20 p.m, W From BALTIMORE for WASHINGTON at jeleet T. TL. PARSONS, Agent On and after SUNDAY, 14th June, the Express: Train which now starts at’s.30 will lea’ at 4.20 p. m., com! ncing On . A i al A! NG st? 9 md HU PIMO RES MAPHENGEON 070m Aa Deretofore. Wai ae aren — eae = . = inion& Ini Agen! . P. 2 MAcuine SEWING. _8P 4-203 6th st., bet, La.ave. — 8, pind Ws RC . 5 R SMALL TYSSOWSKI'S SEWING ROOMS, | ing to waned erie deen eT prooke .( ey tele at £7. na Co. t style, ‘Avenue. “ae Wilkie WHALES . 3-lm* may 23-eol:m* CARBIAGES-CARRIAGES—CA RRIAC Pie er eS 8, &c.,to wl Prices moderate. ma A fine assortment aud UNDER-GARMEN' kept constantly on hand.