Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1857, Page 2

EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON CITY: THURSDAY............... «see-Jaly 9, 1857. Ove First Pacs.—The reader will find on our first page to-day, deferred editorials of interest and the weekly list of patents granted. ee SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS. The Uneon argues to show that extremists of both South and North are alike enemies of the people of Kansas, in seeking to mould their institutions to suit their own views of what may be best for the future of the said people of Kansas. The same journal to-day commences the pub- lication of a series of papers on Kansas affairs, evidently in_ explanation of the views of the Government upon them. Its article (of the series) of to-day embracesa history of the Kan- sas-Nebraska act, an exposition of its princi- ple, and of President Buchanan’s pledges con- cerning it. The /ntelligencer’s editorial column is to-day devoted to a letter concerning the ceremonies at the dedication of the monument to Henry Clay, in Lexington, Ky. PERSONAL. Capt. Pearson, U.S. N., is at Willards’. Commodore Perry, U. S Navy, is now at Browns. --.. Gen. V. Best has entered upon his thirtieth year’s publication of the Danville Intelligencer. +++. Choice pieces of the sirloin ot beef sell in Paris at fifty cents a pound. A fowl brings $125. -.. In Chieago they enjoy a piano forte soda apparatus capable of pouring difierent syrups from the same outlet. The Hon. J. C. Villiere, is the Democratic nominee fer Congress in the Ist District of Lou- isiana ---- Healey, the artist, is said to have made $12,000 in six months by portrait-painting in Chicago. -.. The Worcester Spy says that Theodore Parker will be obliged to leave his pulpit soon, en account of failing health. -.-.. Prescott, the historian, is reported to have received $20,000 as the income from his literary abors during the past year. -. The celebrated pas: seribing the future ruins of borrowed from Walpole. -... The Hon. J. Glancey Jones, and the Hon. James Cooper, of Pa.; and the Hon. G. W. Kit- ridge, of N.H., are at the Kirkwoods’. ----J. M. Cooper, Esq., has retired from the Chambersburg Valley Spirit, a paper that he has conducted with much spirit for a number of years past. ---+ The venerable Judge Taney has engaged Tooms for himself and family at the White Sul- _= Springs, where he derived great benefit to is health last year. -+-+ Erancis W. Bowdon. who, from 1815 (when he was elected to fill the vacancy created by the desth of Felix Grundy McConnell) till 1549, rep- resented a district of Alabama in the House of Representatives of the United States, died at his residence in Henderson, Texas, on the 15th ult., of consumption --.- Coleridge, in his Table Talk, relates that Lord Kenyon in addressing the jury ina blasphe- my case, after pointing out several early Chris- tians who hed adorned the Gospel, added : «: Above all, gentlemen, need I name to you the Emperor Julian, who was so celebrated for the Practice of every Christian virtue, that he was called Julian the Apostle ?"* ;--- It is related of R. H. Purdon, of the Port Gibson Reveille, that he is but nineteen years old, bas edited a paper four years, has been en- gaged, a dozen times, at least, without marrying, and, above all, fought a duel with the editor of the Natchez Free Trader, receiving a tyound in the arm, after which he returned to his desk and went on writing as if nothing had happened. ---. Thackeray thus describes a person such as we have all seen in the course of our lives: “A fair young creature, bright and blooming, distribu- Ung smiles, levying homage, inspiring desire, conscious of her power to charm, aud gay with the natural enjoyment of her conquests” Yes, Anna, Cornelia. Alida, Sarah, Margaret, we re- member you wel! --.. The New York Tribune says that Mr. Bay- ard Taylor is about to be married to Miss Marie Hausen, a daughter of the eminent Germar: as- tronomer of that name. The wedding will take place at Gotha, the residence of the bride's fam- sly, in the Autumn, after Mr. Taylor’s return from North Cape. The happy couple will spend the next winter at Moscow. This event will not prevent the execution of Mr. Taylor's plan of an exploration of Central Asia previous to his return te this country -+-. The Albany Argus of yesterday says, in relation to the funeral of Ex-Secretary Marcy = “Col. Berret, of Washington. an intimate friend of the deceased, who had been telegraphed on Monday, but who was absent in Boston, has ar- e of Macaulay, de- ondon, is said to be he several bells in the vill: of South- Mass., the birth-place of the late Wim Marey, were tolled during Monday, minute guns fired, and the flags draped in mourning and placed at half-mast asa token of respect to his amemory."* ---- Wm. Ogden, Niles, a ntleman well known throughout the political circles of the country, died at Philadelphia yesterday afternoon of a severe illness of aday ortwo’sduration. Mr. Niles was 2 son of the late Hezekiah Niles. the founder of Niles’ Register, and sueceeded his father in the publication of that national work. which he edited with marked ability. He was appointed to a position in the Pension office on the incoming of General Harrison's administra- tion, the duties of which he discharged in an ac- ceptable manner up to the time of his death. When that event occurred be was in Philadelphia on business connected with the general zovern- ment. The intelligence of his sudden demise pte = received with regret by a large circle of riends New Peauications.—We have on our book table “The U. 8. Democratic Review,” (new series) for July, Somad Swac khamer, editor and proprietor, New York city. As revived under the management of Mr. S. » (late Navy Agent at New York,) this work is very creditable im its matter, as well as its style. The number before us is graced with an excellent steel plate likeness of the Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, of New York Also, the July number of Littell, Son & Co.'s ** Panorama of Life and Literature’’—the well known monthly republication of the capital things of the principal British essayists seeing the light the month before Weare indebted to the agent in this city for the second part of the ‘Revolutionary Biogra- phy,” published by Johnson, Fry & Co., No. 27 Beekman street, New York city, with illustra- trons, by Chappell. This number, acontinuation of the Life and Times of Washington, contains an engraving of ‘The First Cabinet.’* Bi Desai ccna Sears Yettow Fever at New Onreans —The English papers of New Orleans say nothing about the yellow fever, but the French journal * L’Or- leanois,”’ of June 2th, mentions a well marked «ase which had proved fatal, at the hospital in Circus street. The victim was a Frenchman named Louis Malhos, aged 19, who had been more than two years in New Orleans. He had no communication with the ships in port or any of their crews, and the origin of the disease }s a puzzle for the scientific. ———<—<—<—_____. Sairors he Journal of Commerce states that the prevailing stagnation of freights, and coase- quent idleness of shipping, cause a temporary surplus of seamen in New York, but nocrews has yet been shipped under the new system. The Daniel Webster, to sail shortly, will probably have the first experience under its operations Small vessels have Procured crews readily, but at increased wages. As men do not yet offer themselves freely. it ix presumed they are influ- enced by the boarding house keepers. (>> The number of bodies from the wreck og the Montreal in the st Lawrence is now 242. ‘The wreck has been advertised for sale. Rob- bery of the dead is Practiced to a dreadful degree by the inburpan fellows. who assistin recovering the bodies. The Canadian authorities have not effected the arrest of any of the parties engaged in such proceedings ‘ {7 Since the tirst of January last there have arrived in this country, by four different vessels, upwards of two thousand one hundred emigrants who had espoused the Mormon faith in the Old Country, and were en route to Utah Territory, in the Great Salt Lake basin. These Mormons were composed mostly of Weish and English, with a sprinkling of Danes and Norwegians, ant a few Germans UF" The New York Theatres are closing for the season. Laura Keene's, the Bowery, and Broadway are all shut, and Wallack’s and Bur- ten’s will probably follow suit soon, WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. Wet Doxe.—The Richmond Engzirer de Serves great praise for the manliness and earn- estness with which it strives to arrest the torrent of popular infatuation at the South, upon the subject of Kansas, that so recently threatened to. break into a storm bidding fair to haveruptured the Democratic party. We write recently, be- cause it is already evident, we rejoice to know, that sober second thought has so soon given a turn to Southern- popular sentiment which is fast reasserting over it the dominion of the principle upon which it contended in the late Presidential election. The cause of the South is one of principle and constitutional law. She cannot afford to abandon either, without lesing in the end, through the dangerous precedent she will thus establish, more than she can pos- sibly gain by the momentary ascendency of any peculiar line of nominal Southern policy to be thus fastened for the time being on the admin- tration of public affairs. Being in a minority, her trust, in the Union, is wholly in the admin- istration of the law to the letter, and in its true spirit. For her to proclaim by her acts that she endorses the policy of the violation of the letter or the spirit of a law to the constitutionality and propriety of which she has solemnly sub- seribed, where it may not bid fair to strengthen her, will be to invite the Northern majority to follow her example wherever there may here- after be aclash between the interests of the two great sections of the Confederacy. All who have studied the public history of our country know well that the great struggle of the strict- construction Democracy of the South, has been to prevent the expansion of the tendency of the North to latitudinous views when and where to set law and constitutional obligations at defi- ance seemed likely to strengthen the North at the expense of the South, and to advance the immediate material interests of the North at the cost of the slaveholding States. Under such circumstances we are for a fair, frank and full acquiescence in all the conse- quences of the Kansas-Nebraska act honestly administered, as we are now very sure it is be- ing administered in Kansas, where our friends— the pro-slavery party—have a majority not only in the convention to frame a State constitution, but in the Democratic party convention very recently, if not at this moment, in session there. To believe that those men, who, for nearly two years past, have waded waist-deep in blood, as it were, in defence of Southern rights, have suddenly turned traitors to their cause, is pre- posterous. And, unless adopting that foolish opinion, it is worse than foolish to weaken their hands in these critical times by taking ground in the Southern States against what they are doing in our behalf as well as their own—for their future is more immediately concerned in their action than ours. But we are wandering from our purpose of spreading before the Star's readers the pith of the able article in the Richmond Enguirer of Tuesday last. That journal contends, with power and effect, that we are bound to respect the Kansas-Nebraska act, which contains this clause : “See. 24. And be it further enacted, That the legislative power of the Territory shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation conststent with the Constitution of the United States,’ &c. —and adds: Such is the tenor and « pirit of the whole act , it being the intention and policy of Congress to leave the people of the Territory ‘ perfectly free to form oad regulate their domestic institutions in their own way.’? Lest they should be embarrassed in the free and unrestrained management of their own atfairs by the Missouri Compromise, Congress, in the Ne- braska-Kansas act, took especial pains to remove that impediment by isclactar it ‘inoperative and void,’* adding as the reason and explanation of doing so, the declaration : “It being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to formand regulate their domestic institutions in their oven way,” §¢ Having thus transferred all powers of legisla- tion to the territory—to “ the territory’ in its en- tirety, and not to its legislature or any particular department of its Government—Congress has from that day to this abstained from all legislation or interference in its affairs. It could at any mo- ment have expressly repealed or modified its gen- eral grant of legislative powers, or tacitly re- sumed a portion of those powers, by exercising them itself; but it has never done so, and from the passage of the organic act of 1454 until this day, ‘The Territory” of Kansas has possessed all powers of legislation in the territory not in- consistent with the Constitution of the United States Among these powers of legislation, are those for authorizing a Convention of the Territory and for framing a Constitution |e eee to its ad- mission as a State into the Union. Accordingly, last winter. the Territorial Legislature enacted a law providing for an enumeration of the inhabi- tauts, and the election of a Constitutional Con- vention. This law was passed with the know- ledge of Congress and by its tacit consent. In- deed the whole country, except the Topeka faction within the Territory and the Black Republican Party at the North, acquiesced in this law and tacitly sanctioned and approved it Thus. not only has the entire power over this subject been surrendered by Congress to the Te1- ritory, that is to say, the people, Legislature and body politic, but the exercise of this power has been acquiesced in by Congress. ‘The whole subject matter has been leftto the management of the Territory, and there isno power but Congress that can interfere to control the manner in which ; to vote und their work shall be conducted ; Congress itself being estopped from interference by the princi- les of the Kansas-Nebraska act, and by its si- ence last winter in the incipiency of this move- ment in the Territory for a convention. Thus, the Territory of Kansas has been clothed by Congress with the same powers over the whole subject of the framing of a Constitution and its pad a by the people, as it would have over the subject, if it were an independent, sovereign State. We, in Virginia, they in South Carolina, or Massachusetts, or Kamskatka, have no more right to interfere with us if we were engaged in — @ new Constitution for our own sovereign tate. The questions whether the Constitution about to be framed for Kansas should be submitted to the people for ratification or not; and, if so, to whom shall it be submitted—are local questions, belonging exclusively to the Territory to decide in the usual forms ‘in its own way.” For ourselves, we are perfectly willing to abide the decision of the Territory itself, on these ques- tions, not merely from choice, but because we could not contro! the decision if we would. it cannot be denied that there are two sides to both of the questions which are the subject of so much idle and fruitless controversy outside of Kansas. As to the question whether the Consti- tution about to be framed ought to be accepted by the people directly from the hands of the Conven- tion, or should ic’ submitted to popular ratifiea- tion, the precedents are variousand the arguments plausible on either side. The first Constitution of Virginia, which was framed in the troubles of the Revolution, was not submitted to the people for ratification. The two succeeding Constitu- Hons of 1530 and 1850, which were framed in the tranquility of peace, were both submitted to the deople for ratification. The Constitution of the United States wax submitted to the constituent States. ‘The early precedents were in favor of re- ceiving Constitutions directly from the conven- tions framing them; bat within the last twenty vears, of ail the States and Territories that have adopted Constitutions, but four have acce; pted them directly from their Conventions; and these were New York, Pennsylvania, lowa and Ken- tucky—three Northern States and but one South- ern State. * * * * The other question of controversy, to whom shal the Constitution be submitted for ratifica- tron—in case it shall be decided to subject it to the popular ordeal—is equally within the abso- | lute control of “the Territory” of Kansas. Here. too, we must say. for ourselves, that we are willing to abide the’ decision of the Terri TY; not, it may be, from choice, but from com- pulsion’ We iu Virginia have ho right consist. ently with the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska act. and with the repeated pledges of the South, to interfere with the people of Kansas in deciding this question “in their own way.’ We would remark, however, that on this ques- | tion as on the other, the precedents are various. In Virginia we have had two opposite precedent:: | for, while the Constitution of 1330 was submitted | to the voters who were qualitied to vote for the | Members of the Constitutioual Convention, the Constitation of 1850 wax submitted to the voters who should be qualitied under the terms of the pew Constitution, itself. We take it for granted that this will be the precise question in the Kan- sas Convention, viz: whether the voters upon the new Constitution shall be those whoare qualitied p nder the provisions prescribed in the Constitati e Convention will frame. The le- xislation nstess has left the decision with the Conveution, and the people of the other States and Territories will be iged to acquiesce in that decision. We fear, indeed, that it will not be @ very con- * servati' se. jon the meinnemerenss wolcrs in. the Verritories as been very loose. ‘‘ Inhabitants’? has been the term generally used, and this with little or no restriction as to length of residence. The ordi- nance of 1787 allowed all ‘inhabitants’? to vote who should own fifty acres of land. The treaty of Louisiana stipulated that the ‘ inhabitants’? of the ceded Territory should have all the rights §n the ceded Territory of ‘‘ citizens."’ So did thé treaty ceding Florida, &c. The Kansas-Nebraska act qualified as voters in its organization of those Territories ‘every free white male inhabitant above the age of twenty-one years, who shall be an actual resident of said Territory.”’ And the resolution of the Democratic National Conven- tion at Cincinnati, looking expressly to the form- ation of a Constitution, ran thus: Resolved, That we recognize the right of the people of all the Territories, including Kamas and Nebraska, acting through the fairly expressed {not implied | will of the majority of actual res- tdeats, and, whenever the number of their inhab- itants justifies it, to form a Constitution, with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union ppoe. terms of perfect equality with the other States. Tue NicaraGvan Emprocii0.— It is reported from Washington by telegraph, that negotiations are tending to the settlement of Nicaraguan affairs on the basis of the Webster and Crampton project of 1852, allowing Costa Rica the tree use of the San Juan river to the mouth of the Serapiqui—N. Y. Commercial Adv. We apprehend that the above paragraph is erroneous in intimating that any such negotia- tions are actually under way here or elsewhere. Nevertheless, the signs point to the fact that when settled, the embroglio will be finally dis- posed of on the basis mentioned. It is clear that while this Government cannot consent to permit Costa Rica to exercise jurisdiction over the Nicaragua Transit route, itean have no ob- jection to an arrangement between Nicaragua and Costa Rica by which the free use of the river San Juan shall be guaranteed to the latter for all her own commercial purposes. The policy of the United States is to encourage the use of that route by all nations. As, the more who use it, the better will its facilities for travel and transportation gradually become. Or, in other words, the more convenient will it become for the purposes of ourcountrymen having occasion to resort to it. It is a matter of prime import- ance that political jurisdiction over it sball be assured to Nicaragua; as notwithstanding the horrors she has of late experienced at the hands of American filibusters, circumstances make it imperatively necessary that she shall hereafter look to this Government as her best friend in the matter of its preservation to her. Our na- tional interests in this matter are closely bound up with hers; while at the same time it is no less clearly our interest that peace and good fellowship shall reign hereafter between the two Governments and people bordering it—the Transit route ; for, without that state of things there the evacuation of Nicaragua by Walker will merely have been the exchange of one set of troubles and difficulties shutting up the route from travel, for another set, to result soon in the same way That there can be peace between Costa Rica and Nicaragua unless the former enjoys the right to the free navigation of the river for her own commercial purposes, seems to us utterly impossible, under present circumstances. Our belief is that this Government will, ere long, charge itself with the duty not only of assuring to Nicaragua the political jurisdiction and prop- erty in the transit route which she has exer- cised up to this time—the latter through her assignees—but also with that of inducing Nica- ragua to remove all cause for future troubles on the route, by according to Costa Rica, that, in connection with it, which is absolutely necessa- ry for the future of her commerce, which, in being yielded under such circumstances, cer- tainly can do Nicaragua no harm Tue Triat or Rearers.—We know not what has of late attracted more of the attention of the agricultural community than the trial of the different reaping and mowing machines now contending for popular favor, that came off on the day before yesterday at Chestertown, Md., under the auspices of the Maryland State Agri- cultural Society. The attendance of farmers of large means and extensive operations as well as scientific acquirements in the line of their busi- ness was very large ; while nearly all the reape®™ and mower patents were represented on the ground. The entries were as follows : 1. R. Sinclair. Jr., and Co., entered Ketchum’s combined reaper and mower, Howard, maker, draft 612 2. Rogers & Boyer, Philadelphia, their Union, with side or back delivery, draft 612 3. R.L Allen, w York, Allen’s patent, 5 Allen, of New York, Al- feet, draft 530. len’s plas 4. Th feet. s Norris, of Baltimore, Manny’s pat- ‘ood improvement, draft 515 5. O. Hussey, of Baltimore, Hussey’s 10 feet f Baltimore, Hus- , Dorsey's patent, - y with self reaper, draft 502. A. Greenough, of Baltimore, Wright's th Atkin’s self reaper, draft 5% & W. Armstrong, Denisville fetchum’s patent, with Hull's improve- raft 505. Johnson & Co., Newark, Delaware, ut, with Johnson’s improvement, h. 10. Mobley & Hyser, Hagerstown, Md., ma- chine injured jn landing from the boat before th- trial, withdrawn. 11. B. Ray, of Baltimore, Ray’s patent, draft 597. The Judges were— Hon. E. F. Chambers, of Kent county, Md; Hon. J. Alfred Pearce, of Kentcounty, Md; Gen George W. Hughes, of Anne Arundel county, Md_; James T. Earle. esq, of Queen Ann's coun. ty, Md., ex-President of the Maryland State Ag- Heultural Society: B. Jonson Barbour, esq., of My county, Va; Charles Pettigrew, esq., of Tyrrel county, N.C.; David Brumbaugh, esq, ex-President of the Py esse ica county, (Md.,) Agricultaral and Mechanical Ass ion; John Merryman, esq., of Baltimore coun 5 Law Rogers, esq., of Baltimore cit! thington, esq., of Baltimo esq , of Kent county, Md.; M . ;E. ; N. B. Wor- ; John Brown, n Goldsboron hb) a , of Baltimore, and Henry Carroll, junior, of Baltimore county. Mr. M. Goldsborough appointed marshal of the judges, and Ss acted as secretary. We presume that a more competent commit- tee of agriculturalists never before met together to discharge such a duty. As farmers, they are known as being among the most prac- tical and successful in the country. The following are their awards as the result of the interesting contest : For the best reaper and mower combined—Man- ny’s patent, with Woods’ improvement, was awarded the premium of $100. For the best reaper, with self-rake attached— Dorsey’s patent the premium of $75. For the best reaper—Allen’s (of New York) the premium of $50. For the best mower—Manny’s patent with Johnson's improvement, $50. For the best improvement for cleaning wheat fields and raking hay—the spring tooth leaning rake by Sinclair & Co., $20. For Ketchum’s combined reaper and mower a discretionary ae of $50. And to O. Hussey’s 10-feet reaper a discretion- ary premium of $50 s Post Orrice Depantuent.—New Post Of- Sices Established. —Cream Level, Parker coun- ty, Texas, Wm. G. Veal, Postmaster; Plascide, Tarant county, Texas, Wm. L. Burnett, Post- master ; Cedar Bluff, Anderson county, K. T., Sam’l Anderson, Postmaster; Ohio City, Frank- lin county. K. T., Wm. E. Kibble, Postmaster; Lexington, Johnson county, K. T , N. L. Simp- son, Postmaster ; St. Helena, Cedar county, N. T., Michael Jones, Postmaster; Zeandale. Da- vis county, K. T., Dan’l M. Adams, Postmas- ter; Palmyra, Douglas county, K. T., Newman Blood, Postmaster ; Newbury, Parker county, Texas, Ezra Mulkin, Postmaster; Shafford Blue Hill, Strafford county, N. H., Robt. W. Foss, Postmaster; North Huron, Wayne county, N. Y., Smith W. Chase, Postmaster; Boyden, Ire- dell county, N. C., Edmund Mitchell, Post- master; Twelvepole, Wayne county, Va., Thos. Preston, Postmaster; Pigeon Trace, Logan eyunty, Va., Calahan Runyon, Postmaster; Kingsville, Nansemond county, Va., John 8. Milteer, Postmaster; Forks of Twelvepole, Wayne county, Va., Andrew Wilson, Postmas- lemington, Taylor county, Va., James W. Bartlett, Postmaster; Glen Arbor, Lebanon county, Michigan, George Ray, Postmaster; Buchanan, Haralson county, Ga., George R. Hamilton, Postmaster; Hazelton, Shiawassee county, Mich., John D. Newell, Postmaster; Alma, Gratiot coppty, Mich., Ralph Ely, Post- master. Names of Post Offices Changed —Dunean, Wood county, Va., to Williamstown; Bagdad, La Fayette county, Mo., to Hempland. Post Offices Discontinued.—West Bigler, Clearfield county, Pa.; Industry, Beaver coun- ty, Pa.; East Brook, Lawrence county, Pa.; West Eaton, Wyoming county, Pa; Dawson- ville, Montgomery county, Pa.; Lindnerville, Schuylkill county, Pa. ter; Fl Tue Ruwored Massacre or U. S. Troors. Our investigation into the truth of the story of the recent massacre on the plains by the Chey- ennes (the Indians they started out to chastise) satisfy us that there can be no truth whatever init. Thus, it purports to have been brought in by emigraats traveling east. They travel the South Pass route, by forts Laramie and Kearney ; and report that the massacre took place at a point 200 miles west of Fort Kearney. Now, Col. Sumner was in command of two companies of his own regiment, (the First Cav- alry,) two companies of the Second Dragoons, which joined him at Fort Kearney, and three companies of the Sixth Infantry that were to have joined him from Fort Laramie. His route was by the Valley of the South Platte. and the point at which he is represented to have been defeated (and all his command slain) is at least 100 miles from the nearest point on the route traveled by the emigrants who brought the story into the settlements ! The two companies of his own regiment that left with him for this special service were com- panies A and B, and of the Second Dragoons, companies E and H. It is not known in Wash- ington which three companies of the Sixth In- fantry formed the infantry portion of his com- mand, as they were to have been furnished by the commanding officer of Fort Laramie, who had, at the time, four companies under his com- mand—B, C, D, and G. Tue U.S. Steamsnip Niacara.—The com- mander of this ship, under date of the 24th ult., reports that, on the 27th, they were to be ready to give her one ship-load of the cable (marine telegraph) at Birkinhead, when he would com- mence “coiling in.’’? A second vessel load was to be taken in during the next week. Together the two vessels to bring off to the ship (the Ni- ugara) about seventy-five miles of the wire. A subsequent dispatch announces that the load of the first vessel had been taken on, and that that of the second vessel was to be coiled in the wardroom. From the two, they would coil at the rate of 100 miles per day of 24 hours. The wire is to be coiled in tiers. James Pierce, a coal-heayer of the Niagara, was killed by a fall at the dock-yard, Portsmouth, and was subsequently buried ashore, with the usual ceremonies. Tur Navan Covrts or Ixqviny.—Before Court No. 1 Lieut. Rodgers continued his tes- timony on behalf of Lieut. Maffit, who subse- quently read his own defence, and the case was thus concluded. Mr. Dulaney’s case was then resumed, and as we went to press, documentary evidence on the Government's side was being considered. Before Court No. 2, the case of Capt. Ster- rett being up, Commodore Perry, and Com- manders Sartori and Middleton were examined, the first on behalf of the Government, and the two latter on Capt. S.’s behalf. Before Court No. 3, the case of ex-Lieut Rhind (dropped by the late Ketired Board,) was taken up, and their session of to-day was devoted to the consideration of documentary testimony in it. Tue Paciric Wacon Roaps.—The Interior Department regard it as certain that the wagon road to the Pacific by the southern route will be so far completed as to be used by the emigration as early as the Ist of January next, and that the other (more northern) roads will be in the same condition as early, if the season favors the work upon them. The Indians of the Plains, by the by, predict a late fall and an open win- ter. There is a vast difference between the cli- mates upon the northern and southern routes designed to be opened under the act of Congress to that end—a difference of perhaps three months of working season, we apprehend. Coxvicrep.— William Browning, of New London, Connecticut, one of the parties arrest- ed on a charge of forging Bounty-land claims, has just been tried before the United States Court now in session at Hartford, and by tele- graph we learn this morning that he has been convicted. Tue Hon. J. B. Bowxty, United States Min- ister to New Grenada, has arrived in Washing- ton city, and has apartments at Willards’ Hotel He appears in fine health, notwithstanding his long sojourn in Central America. ArroiNTeD BY THE PresiveNt.—S. H. Par- ker, to be Postmaster at Geneva, N. Y., vice J. 8. Lewis. Il. F. Feeney, to be Postmaster at Wheeling, Va., vice G. A. Cacraft The details of foreign news received by the Arabia are of interest. The dispute between Spain and Mexico looks very threatening at the present time, and we have reliable information that the Mexican Envoy was preparing to leave Madrid We have news from India dated Calcutta the 18th, Madras 25th, and Bombay 27th May. The mutiny in the Bengal native army had progressed to a fearful extent. Three regiments were in open revolt at Meerut, but having been dispersed by European troops, they fled to Delhi, and, having been joined Wi? three other regiments, they took possession of the city, and proclaimed the son of the late Mogul Emperor as King, after having committed many murders and outrages. Govern- — troops were being concentrated around i. In the British House of Commons, on the 25th ult., the oaths (Jewish disabilities) bill was taken up for athird reading. ‘The Marquis of Bland- ford moved that the bill be read that day six months; but after some feeble opposition from a portion of the Roman Catholics and others, it was ordered to a third reading, and passed by a vote of 291 to 168. The bill now goes to the House of Lords, and a presumption is abroad that there has been sufficient moditication in the views of some of the Peers to render it probable that the measure may pass that body. The work of shipping the submarine telegraph cable on board the frigate Niagara was expected to be commenced about the 29th of June. The American Chamber of Commerce in Liverpool had invited Capt. Hudson and the officers of the Niagura toa dinner. The invitation had been accepted, but, pending the expected arrival of United States steamer Susquehanna in the Mer- sey, no day had been fixed upon for the banquet. Ata Cabinet Council. the title of ‘Prince Con- sort’? had been conferred upon Prince Albert; | thereby making him legally, as he already was actually, a member of the British Royal Family, and assuring him of a high and definite position abroad, but without giving him any authority at home. The new Cotton apply movement was attract- ieee attention of the London press. The Times c Is on the Government to pave the way for the Lancashire manufacturers to carry out their pro- ject in India. The annual commemoration of the Oxford Uni- versities took place on the th of June; amongst his son, for the murder of Bed Ne itn aes each aa once jestrong agatoet the prisoners. it 3 The accounts of the grain and potato crops in land Di; - The pet es in France had nearly died out. inces were members returned. The isterial journals nerall express reat nati jon at the result, and declare hat itsourpesses all the hopes of the friends of the Empire. On the other Teg eee ever, the eS a Gee f loud in their expressions of ion. e new elec- tions in cases where an absolute majority was not obtained by either candidate were to take on the Sth of July. Gen. Cavaignac was in this edicament in Paris, while in the seven other Hhaasenmtnone pres where he was ee, he was de! by very large majo! - ‘The Paris correspondent of the Times gives a rumor that a plot, of a most serious mature, con- nected with the recent election movement had been discovered, and four Italians, whom paper and fire arms were found been ar- ited . x Berlin letter states that considerable agita- tion prevailed in the Elberfeld and Berman dis- tricts, in consequence of a strike for in- creased es among the operatives employed in the cotton mills. No disorder had taken place. It was Inferred that this was one of the systems of strikes regarding which the police made a dis- overy recently. % We have an Yadirect and rather unreliable rn- mor thata a st fired on ~ aie ——— at Gaeta; that the was 5! and that the soldier destroyed himself immedi- ately afterwards. The Naples correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says that the report is doubtless founded on the fact that the soldiers stationed at Gaeta surrounded the King on one of his visits, to complain of grievances in regard to the withholding of their pay; that they retired on a promise that their complaint sheuld be con- sidered, and that ismmedtate orders were given for their arrest, which could not be carried out without the interposition of a strong military force. Government suspicion against the Neapolitian troops was daily getting stronger and sweeping charges were mye His The Criminal urt of Parma had acquitted the political prisioners handed to over it for trial by the mixed military tribunal on the raising of the state of seige. ‘ Another address to the Pope 4 his reaching Ferrara had been resolved upon by the citizens of that place. Grievances are complained of in far bolder language than in that adopted in the ad- dress presented at Bologna. a . Oporto letters state that the vine disease was again making severe ravages. . he new Russian tariff went into operation on the 22d of June. A Tviesta despatch dated the 25th of June, the authenticity of which is doubted. says it was re- orted that the Porte had demanded explanations Fon Lord Radcliffe respecting the occupation of the English of the Island of Perim in the Red Sea ; and also that another Circassian victory, in which 1,900 Russians were lost, been re- ported. Tue Stave Trape.—tin noticing the measures about to be adopted for the suppression of the slave trade, the tion Times says : “The deputation named by the inhabitants of Jamaica, : Mr. J. W. Cater, Mr. W. W Mackeson, and Mr. R.L. Valpy, was received on Wednesday last by the first Lord of the Admiral- 6 to enable those gentlemen, in accordance with the suggestion of Lord Palmerston, to explain their views in connection with the plan of sta- tioning a new class of cruisers on the coast of Cuba to act in the suppression of the slave trade. The courses usually ioisared by slavers and the points at which vessels intended to intercept them zht most advantageously be stationed were dered, while considerable attention was given to the fitness of various classes of vessels for the special service. It is gratifying to learn that, since the deputation, headed by the Earl of Shaftesbury, waited on Lord Palmerston, the government has been far from idle in that branch, at least, of the suggestion offered, and Sir Chas. Wood frankly declared the intention, as soon as the necessary arrangements could be made, of in- creasing the West India squadron, and of adopt- ing some energetic system of cruising on the coast of Cuba.”? ————— ‘THe WEATHER aT SAVANNAH he Savannah Republican, of the 26th ult., says : ** ‘The weather for ten S past hax been delightful, and at no time too warm for comfort. We have had two fine rains during the present week—on Tuesday and again yesterday—and we learn that crops of all hie in the low country are growing off finely.”* < others who were introduced for degrees was 5 Dallas, the American minister, aioe reception by ee geaios is said to have been somewhat uivocal. ‘he London Star sy that there is at length a prospect of some public movement being attempt- ed in favor of Parliamentary reform. a cansidera- ble number of leading Reformers having held a meeting and taken the preliminary steps bring the matter before the public. Advices from Gibrahtar to the 19th of June, re- port the arrival there of the American bark Ne- vada, having onboard a ange gun, ted by the city of Boston to Sardinia, for the fortress of Alessandria—being the first of one hundred guns to be raised by pul subscription in different cities of America. The Police of Dublin bas arrested a painter N OTIC E.—ACADEMY OF MUSIC.— There will be no Lecture this evening. F. NICHOLLS CROUCH, Lecturer and Singing Master. eS, NOTICE.—1 hereby forewarn all | oma ‘S$ from employing or harboring my son, Alexan- = eee or trmating him on ~ accountas he has tm a se without my consent. Sapfelwe SO VILLIAM Sk CENTRAL ICE CREAM SALOON.—At \ I 3 the Philadelphia foe Cream Depot, corner of 12¢] ant F streets, the best in the city, at l0cents er te. Poop Cream delivered to families at $1.50 per gallon, Be ho a = ae es DO YOU WANT TO SPENDA \em leasant day? Then do not fail to go_to the Nit of the English Lutheran Sabbath School, ee given at Arlington Spring, on Wednesday, July th. The boat will leave the lith st. bridge at 8 o'clock precisely. : Refreshments at city prices Tickets for passage 25 cen! WA cents; It Passage and dinner be had of A. Noerr, lith st, of @. Wen. Hotel, and U. H. Ridenour, ~ jy 6-eo3t* CH consignment of 2 / boxes PRIME CHEESE, direct from North Western Agee Sct Rand to the yeate at Balti- re pri * ots ularly ex) 5 ia aes rogues’ BE MORSELL, iy-3t__No. 69 La. av., opp Bank Washington. _ OING OFF AT COST.—As the season hax ad- as d we wii! sell our remaining stock IGERATORS at cost. of FURNITURE and HOU: G GOODS is very large, and er than ever. Just receive McGREGOR & CO., _ivSeobw CN. 59 7th street. EA4ste PLUMBING AND GAS WOR The undersigued most respectfully announces to his former patrons and the public in general, that he is Again prepared urnish and execute all work in huis line of business, at the lowest prices, inthe build- ing adjoining his old establishment destroyed by fire a morning ed the Sd 1g . - rompt attention, he s to give gene: satisfaction, MTOUN REESE iy 9-!w* _next to cor. 6th st. and Pa. WO BILLIARD TABLES FOR SALE.—By virtue of adeed of trust, executed by Henry Ei- dred to me, as trustee, dated the 7th February, 1857, and recorded in the County Court of Alexandria, 1 will sell, at public auction, to the highest bidder. for cash,on MON DAY, the 20th July, 1857, TWO BILLARD TABLES, with all their fixtures com- plete. The sale to take piace in front of the Mar- shall House, in the city of Alexandria, where the tables can be seen by any person, desiring to pur- chase. B. H. BERRY, Trustee. Jy 9-Steo ] Have JUST RECEIVED, direct from Paris. cases of Veivetand Gold and White and Gold PER HANGINGS, of the latest and richest de- joe persons in want of Paper-hangings would do well to call and examine my st before pur- chasing elsewhere, as | am confident that I can please them both in er and in price. Paper put up in the best manner, and in all cases guaranteed. JOHN ALEXANDER, No. 240 Pa.ave., between 12th and 13th sis, jy 9-StawSw T RECEIVED another lot of Hart- Patent Portable Elastic CANOPY nd NETS, for the protection against flies, &e., which for uty, durability, ence are“unsurpassed by any thing of the kind now in existence, The frames are made portable by means of joints, so that they may be taken down or put up in the space of five minutes. In case of travelling or stor- axe in the winter they are readily packed in boxes or trunks, occupying little more space than an um- brella when cloxed. When put up they forma large, airy, and beautiful canopy for the t bedstead, and, in- stead of detracting from its appearance. ther seaty form an elegant and graceful ornament. In winter the frames may be covered with heavy bro ony other heavy drapery if desired. 7 Seen ee ‘o hotel keepers they are especially recommended for their durability and convenience, and also fami- les who want the most sloxant canopies at the leas: cost. J@HN ALEXANDER, No. 240 Penn, avenue, between 12th and 13th sty. _ iy 9-2awSw HE ORGANIZATION AND MANUVRES of Steam Fleets, by Captain Moorson, oval Navy; | vol., London, 1857. The Marine Steam Engine, by Nain & Brown; 3d edition, enlarged, 1 v. lon , 1855. Questions on the Marine Steam Engine, and Exami- nation Papers, by Nain & Brown, I vol., London, Bourne's Catechism of Steam Engine, new edition, enlarged, London, 1857. . x Murray on Marine Engines, Steam Vessels, and the rew, | vol., London. Armstrong on Steam Biolers, | vol., London. Sewell on Steam and focomotion, | vol., London. Bourne on the Screw Propeller, 1 vol., % Boiler Enginoering by Armstrong and ‘Bourne,t vol, jon. The E fe Clones woke atiag tite! Mon, by Hann and Th Indreator and Dynamometer, by Nain & Brown, The Marine Steam Engine, by Lieut. Gordon,Royal lavy, 1 vol. y wson on the Screw Propeller, | vol., London. par ar s, Capitaine de Mecanicien a Vapuer, par E. Paris, Vi Ley Sug Bon e nistonu, Peok, Pane . Vaisseau, | vo Victionnnire de Mari Paris, Capitaines. AB ‘Teaste des ey = ‘Messrs. Bataille en, 2 vols. JAR, in. Burn’s Steam Engine. illustrated Hohiyn’e Manual ef the Steam Engine; Russell on Steam and Steam Navigation: Pambour’s nny 2 of the Steam Engine; Reid on the ogine ; Wooderofi's Progress of Steam favieation ; otor of the Sooam Engine’ Seige tes see, others, ee RANG ‘AYLOR” io TS AP aD ORA Ren z= White House Pavilion will come of ee ef, oan et aise hnrendvertigoment. jy 7-0 7TH y GIV PcaNsc oF ST. PRTER’S SUNDAY ah Wika on we BES : AY Aprest 12th, 1857, atthe WHITE HOUSE in future advertisement. _j7 3-eust ‘TED—A WO to Cook, Wash, 4 waste a sinall SAN One who is well a3": fied will receive liberal wages. Appi: No. 284 street. jy 9-20 oO = WANTED—F ora small family, bet weep now and the isto! next month. Rent not to ex- $225. iy 9-3 JATION WANTED—By two respectabie eA Gidavonees NURSE: aed the peas CHAMBER MAID. Can be seen xt 401 avenue, be: ween [sth and I4th ste. W Ad TED ST e bey. or rent @ neat and comforts than New York it ble BRICK Swett 4 Ng ag sy! net fone 6 rooms, in a reti locality in the northe: rt of the city. Address M. 6. Box 16. Post Biice. is 9-3* ANTED-—A respectable, steady German WO- Wank! middle-nged perferred, whn can Cook and Wash well, and of a smail family. good home offered, at No. and 13th. ssist in doing the references 44 H street, Housework ured, anda between 1th jy 8 com ast ANTED-— An energetic ood habit! i address, as Canvasser and liver Ere Periodical Store. Address. through Cay Post Office. ‘Periodical Store,” giving TAME. Age, and reference, wht WANTED—a WHITE COOK: one who tay make bread preferred. Ap, at No. 26H street. 3d door west of 18th Jy 8-3t* WZ NURSE WANTED.—Wanted immedi. ately a healthy WOMAN with fresh breast of milk to nurse a young infant. corner of G and 2ist streets, ____jy8 V ANTED—Between 15th and Tth streets, of K xtree small neatiy furnished TAGE or HOU with yard shade trees, or Apply at southwest jy & orth IT- partofa House with use of Kitchen. Reference given. Address Box 184 City Post Office stntwng terms and location. je aut ANTED-—In the family of a gentieman resid) two miles from the city, good plain COO! One who can bring recommendations for skill, honesty, and cleanliness will find » Kos situation and reguinr wages. Apply to J.P. CRUTCHETT, corner of 6th and D streets. je 1-tf V TO PURCHASE—A BRICK LING, containing 8 or 9 rooms, ang worth from $2.5 to about £4,000, by first $5 in cash, and the balance in annual instalme: Also. For le—On easy terms, two desimbie BRICK D LINGS, each located within two squares of the Patent Office. One of them con be bought b a in cash, and the balance in iz an % — LLARD WEBB, may 14 tf No. 512 (2d story) 7th strect. REWARD.—Loat this morning on Penn « $2 ETTERS addressed to “Mrs. Rebeors rows The above reward will be paid on leaving the letters at this office. ay * OST—T wo mivistore OIL PORTRAITS. t sameto 8. al ae oman Oe ail, will be rewarded jy 92 trait Galiery, Odeon ré OST—Yesterday afternoon, a small COLORED L GIRL $ 7eare Ct. wanes —— tec lad on_a plaid frock, ok shoes, white stockins, light bonttet, lined with red, and’ a piece of whts flannel tied around her jaws. Any information cw cerning her whereabouts will be thankfully received George Randall’s grocery, corner of D ont streets. AME TO THE PREMISES OF THE SUR / scriber,a Red COW, with white face white tail; one of her horns broken. The owner will please cai! at the Rock Creek Soap Factory, near a Bridge, prove prop- erty. pay charges, and take her away. ‘ mse JOHN MeBRIDE._ Was TAKEN UP, on Monday afternoon, July 6th, an Iron-gray MARE. The owner will please come forward. prove propert ay charges, and take her awny. Apply a! No. 362 llth street, between L and M. AME TO THE PREMI: OF THE SUB seriber, residing at the for! th strony Seven and Finey-branch roads, two HELE aor Zoe suppoxed to be two years old, without any individual mark. Persons owning the same, are requested to come forward, prove property, pay charges and take them a’ 7; ovis BRUNETT NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, THAT AF ter six weeks publication of this notice, aaplics tion will be made to the Commissioner of Pe sxins for the iseue of a duplicate of LAND WARR &NT Bo. 15,282 ont 12) acres, act oe 5 i ucite njamin Grimes, private - Janes Com Georgia Vola Creek. Wary the’ aii having tome 4 NNETT. je 13-law6w Attorney. S, at the corner of street, havin her house entirely renovated and its accomn tions greatly increased, is now prepared to accom- medate a larger number of permanent and transient rders. Her location is the most central in the city, and, as rea ed and improved, her house # now second to no other boarding-house in W aehirg- ton. Boarders by the month, week, or day, may rely on reoriving every attention. Terms modersie. Table boarders also taken. je 24 Bistro = FOR SALE AT J. Cas. PARIS’S ‘on Capitol Hil. jy'8-0" ARASOLS—' Selling bes 2 iy 8-colw AREGE ROBES—BAR ORG ANDIFE: Selling off at low fig F.A.M jy 8-e02w M&S, BURRS SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LA- DIEs . 391 H street, between 13th and lath wo west, will re-open on MONDA > 1 Ho™ery, Glo GEM now offered tor sale at reduced price: i "A. MeGEE'S. 2 Pa. jy 8 eo2w between 12th and 13th sts. ACE AND SILK MANTILLAS, . REAL EMB'D SW LACE SHAWLS and SKI F.A.M _iv 8-eo2w Hee SKIRTS diy 8-eo2w_ EMETERY RAILING.—The advertiser wish- 08 to sell three different patterns of CEMETE* RY RAILING, with stones complete, for hmniting 1a the ground. ‘They areat the Congressional Burie nnd Whalebone, st 244 Pa. av., Grounds, and any information can be obtained of the on the Ground ay Sat OAL! COA COAL" Weare now prepared to deliver all kinds of White ani Red Ach Cask, A deduction in price will Le made when delivered from the vessel. Now landing & very superior article of Lehigh Coal. We lave, also, a largeand well-selected stock of Wools of which we prowine to sell at the market price We. therefore, solicit a call from all who buy © cash and pay promptly. Offices corner of I and 2ist street, Washington : Gree: aga Georgetown, iy BARRON & STOVER 304 FINE CONFECTIONERY, 304 Having erected a Bake-oven and Bake-house on my own premises, 1 this day commence t an facture ol al! kinds of Cake. in Pluind ins by a Philadelphia baker, someting yew which the pubhc are respecttuliy invit Lard try. From this time forth all miy customers wil be supplied with fresh Cake daily, and @ as low rate ns ean be purchased in the city, and all made of the best materials. Parties of all kinds supplied with all kinds FANCY CAKE, LADY. CAKE, PYRAMIDS ANCY CAKE, LA Py ICE CREAM and WATER » plain io malty and sent ‘1 parts of the city, at $2 per cai. +t pa ask 18,—Give men U.H. RIDENOU 3S Pa. av.. between 9th and ot —I have a or Ladies. QBANGEAND ALEXANDRIA RAILROAD. GREAT SOUTHEKN MAIL LINE Twice Daily, (Sunday nig cepted,) b stween WASHING TON CLEV aad the Sate ee ARAN DRIA, GORDONSVILLE anp RICH- Leaves WWashineton at 6 o'clock a. m. Ashington at x Fare from Washington to Michtnoah, 5 50, For LYNCHBURG and the SOUTHWEST. Leave Washington at 6 o'clock a.tm., arrive i LYNCHBURG next morningat 4n, me connecine Witlethe trains on the Virginia and Tennesse RA. Road for MEMPHIS. Mail Stages from Chat lottesville to Lynchburg a distance of @ miles. Fare from v ashington to Ly nehburg, $7.75 The most expedit me vin Xpeditious route the Vircms Springs— ni; stag ireen- lag +e onl jin eames @ travel to the (ireen ington at 6a. m., ITE = same night. occopeangiiedes a aaa ea a ari & distance of six miles, allowing for meals. Alexandria, July, tase A+ EVANS, Arent: ————— 0 TO. Gone NeLAUGHLIN’S FOR NOTIONS.