Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1857, Page 2

EVENING STAR. "WASHINGTON CITY: WEDNESDAY................July 15, 1857. SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS. The Intel/igencer philosophizes over the ben- eficial effects of Congressional traveling. That is, of journeys by Members of Congress into all the States of the Union. Its theory of the Gov- ernment in this connection, it will be remem- bered, is that they are rightfully representa- tives of the whole nation, rather than of asingle State. The editor contends that they will be better prepared to legislate for the whole Union by knowing much of it by actual contact ; and, so far, it is a sound one. The current New England trip of Senator Mason. of Virginia, and the courtesies being showered upon him, superinduce its reflections referred to above. The Intelligencer also announces that one fourth of the sum necessary to construct the building proposed to be built by and for the Washington Art Association, has been sub- scribed, and that the Hon. Edward Everett is among the contributors; which is good news. We trust that in thirty days the liberality and public t of the Federal Metropolis will have #ecured the balance. The Union, to-day, continues its series of able articles on the Kansas question, and ex- plains that in lately taking occasion to say kind things of the Hon. Geo. S. Houston, of Ala., it designed no reflection whatever on the Hon David Hubbard, who, entertaining a contrary opinion, addressed to the editor a letter of com- plaint, whieh the latter publishes ~~ ———-2+e-—_ Tur Last Specimen or New Yorx Morats. Tue New York Tribune has an account of a Mr. A., a heavy merchant doing business in New York, and residing in Williamsburg with bis pretty, accomplished and (so-called) discreet wife. Young Mr. B., also ding business in New York, gets acquainted with Mrs. A. at a Broad- ‘way saloon, (great places, those Broadway sa- joons ') and, in the sympathizing language of the Virtuous Tribune, ‘the two frequently met at the same place, and finaliy became ardently attached, and feeling that they would be unhappy if sepa- rated, the lady decided to abandon her husband and children and elope with her lover.”* Mr. A. gets wind of the movement, catches B. with his wife in a carriage, stabs B. in the neck, oa the arm and inthe stomach. B. fires a pistol at A., but doesn’t hit him. The carriage is turned back to the house, the young man removed toa room, and the family Physician called in toattend to B. by A., who thereby evinces his grim determination to take the young man’s lite by hook or crook. “At this staze of the atfair,"* in the naire lan- guage of the Tribune, «+ the two gentlemen recog- nized each other as intimate business friends in New York. As the lady remained ineeg., Mr. B declared that he was not aware of the relations existing between Mr. A. and the lady, or he would not for the world have taken this step.” Of course not; but A. was barbarously unappeasa- ble, discarded his wife, suffering her to take one child (probably the worst one in the lot) and retaining the other three in his own hands. Se much for the latest specimen of New York morality NICARAGUAN APFAIRS.—One hundred and twenty Walker fillibusters at San Jose, Costa Rica, have published a card in the Cronica, thanking the Government and People for the benevolence they have experienced at their hands. ‘There are about 200 fillivusters in all yet remain- ing in Costd Rica and Nicaragua. A good many of them have found work on the cottee estates of Costa Rica and in the work-shops and private houses, and the sick are supported by charity. The Panama correspondent of the New York Times says that it is all gammon about Walker's having a party in Nicaragua. ‘The Costa Ricans in the capital still keep up their balls, banquets, iluminations, religious feasts und fandangoes, in celebration of the ter- mination of the war. A great ball was lately given on the return of General Mora, at wi the President and ail the d Ties of the - ment assisted. At supper time. many of the filli- busters made their way into the banquet room, where they were kindly received, and refreshed with costly wines and all the delicacies of the table. The Government of Costa Rica was still in- creasing its armament. and enrolling men for any exigencies that may again call a force into the Reld. The Alum says that the Government ex- pects to be able to place ten thousand men in the Heid, in case they are needed. armed with Minie Titles pe oar eel A New Work —We are indebted to the com- Piler, M. W. Cluskey, Esq., of this city, for a handsome octavo of 640 pages, entitled “The Po- litical Text Book, or Encyclopedia,” containing everything necessary for the reference of the poli- ticians and statesmen of the United States ; edited by M. W. Cluskey, Washington, D. C. 'Wash- ington, published by Cornelius Wendell, 1957. This work is a hand-book for Democratic orators muore especially. wherein they will find all the important records upon points in issue between parties in this country at this era. Mr. Cluskey has exhibited both industry and judgment in his selections, and has certainly compiled a work of great value to those for whose use it is designed During the last Presidential campaign Mr. C. Was entrusted with the duty of compiling sets of documents for those Democratic orators who ap- plied tothe National Democratic Committee for such assistance, to enable them to acquit them- selves ettectively on the stump; and in the dis- charge of that duty he acquired the ex perience he has turned to so profitable account in the hand- some and nseful volume before us << Pamnre, Remon Conxrinmens.—The painful surinises respecting the fate of Prof. Mitchell, State Geologist of North Carolina, are thus con- firmed by the Ashville Spectator “About two weeks ago this gentleman arrived here on his way to the Black Mountains. with a view of making further exploration of that region ofcountry It is with pain that we have now to announce his death. He left the Mouutain House on this side of the mountains with the intention of crossing them to Caney river without a guide. it was aserrtuined that he had never reached Ca- hey river settlement, and supposing that he was lost numbers of persons started in search of him. His body was found in the Cat-tail Fork of Caney river, on yesterday, about 3 o’clook. It seems that he was walking on the edge of a Precipice, when his feet slipped. he caught at a branch of laurel, but it broke. and he fell a distance of forty feet.” ‘ D7 The New York Evangelist tells a pretty good yarn, for a religious paper, of a New Jersey thunder storm striking a Presbyterian church, near Amboy, and the lightning knoeked the con- gregation prostrate; but the remarkable feature of all, was that the ladies who wore brass hoops were uninjured, but the hoops were melted! A clergyman tells the Eroagelist this, so it must be so Tne New Yorx Jocanat—FromJ Shilling - ton, Odeon Building, we have the August num- her Of this larvely cirenlated magazine. ope reais dndiasaees hen {17 Since the opening of navigation in Febru- ary, there are ~aid to have been at least two hun- dred persons «trowned in the Ohio river between Wheeling and Pittsburg {7 ‘The North British Review has been sus- peaded, owing to differences among its conduc- — wd — ¥ towards +: free thinking,”’ and its attucks on the “ superanncat i of the churches,” wasthe ame EY Amrricas Lapirs.—Oune of the se: i a tuer <picily, that though a few American Indies dive in idleness, or worse than idleness, the ma. jority as yet work themselves into early graves. #iving meu an opportunity to try two or three in the course of their owu vigorous lives !?* i> There is much talk of passing laws by Which suicide by poison will become more diffi- cuit of execution than formerly. Mr. Alyvernon Jones, « young friend of ours, says nothing shall stop him from killing himself whenever he wants to. If he can flod no other way, he will eat a bit of sponge and drink water till he bursts. Couxtexreits tx Kent County.—The Kent County News of Saturday last states that there is a large number of counterfeit notes in circulation im that county, mostly 5’s and 10’s of the South- wark and Girard Bank, Philadelphia. Wéilliaro R. Boyer and Thomas Anderson were arrested for passing these notes. Mr. B. way held to bail for 4 further bearing. Anderson is still in prison, ; WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP Mivitary Supenintex et eee eay @ paragraph in a late Washington letter (by telegraph) published in the New York Herald, a concerted effort is soon to be made to bring about the supersedure of the military officers of the Government now in charge of the construc- tion of the different Government public works. We think the fact stated likely to be true, and though it may be possible that here and there an army officer so engaged may be ordered to other duty, and his place supplied with a civil- ian if that course should prove best for the pub- lic interest after due investigation, we have not the least idea that any such concerted move- ment can possibly succeed in its objects. The game has been tried in the same way re- peatedly, and bas always resulted in strength- ening the practice of the Government in en- trusting such business on its behalf in the hands of its own officers regularly trained to it at the publie cost, and amenable to it otherwise than through the mere loss of the particular charge. Millions on millions are annually disbursed by the Government in the construction of many progressing public works of various descrip- tions. More or less of them have been placed in the hands of civilians, not unfrequently to result in charges of peculation, collusion, &c., &c., to the disgrace of the public service, the injury of the public morals, and the robbery of the treasury of the United States, we may not un- truthfully add. Whereas, such results of ‘‘mili- tary superintendence”’ asit is termed,are of very rare occurrence. Committee on committee of Congress have indirectly investigated the rela- tive merits of both systems, in investigating charges alleged against both classes of such su- perintendents ; always to the credit of the mili- | tary officers, and as surely. if we remember correctly, to the discredit of the civil system. Hence the failure of the various efforts to induce Congress to interfere against the military sys- tem. The truth is, such combinations and concerted movements as we mention above, are the work of people who have axes to grind in connec tion with Government works; disappointed bidders for work, or disappointed proprietors of lots for public edifices rejected by military superintendants, folks who fail to get places under them, &e., &c. The charges they bring, on investigation, invariably turn out to be based on their failure to use those in charge of Gov- ernment works in aid of their private specula- tions on the Government. The case of Major Bowman, of U.S. Engi- neers, the head of the Treasury Department's Bureau of Construction, affords a fair illustra- tion of our point. By his able, faithful and | incorruptible discharge of the onerous and dif- | ficult duties of his position, he brought upon himself concerted efforts under the late admin- istration to effect his supersedure, on the part of every sinister man who entertained designs in connection with the construction of new cus- tom houses, court houses, or post offices, in al} quarters of the country, which they could not gratify. The end of their labors for his dis- placement, was in satisfying Congress and the late chief ot the Department, that in his present position, he was almost invaluable to the Goy- ernment asa detector of all sinister schemes against the integrity and proper management of the many trusts confided to him, as well asa professional man, than whom the country pos- sesses no other better fitted for the discharge of his duties. We take it for granted, by the by, that when developed, it will be found that the new combi: nations referred to in the Hera/d’s correspon- dence will be aimed at him; for just now he is disbursing heavy sums on public account, and is as unapproachable as ever by gentlemen whose axes, if ground, require to be ground on the “special favors” system, the most danger- ous and reprehensible that ean possibly be re- sorted to in the management of such public business. Our opinion is, that gentlemen who seek special favors in connection with any of the Government works, have been as bitterly disappointed since the 4th of March last, as ever before; and we see no reason to imagine that they will find any one now in the Government more pliable than their flinty predecessors. So Tarr Go '!—It seems that New York is now as much in the power of rowdies and ruf- fians as ever Baltimore was, and that the police of that city iz also as unfitted to cope with them as ever that of Baltimore was. We care not whether the murderous scoundrels are native born or foreign, they should be curbed at once, at all risks and hazards; and experience teaches that the only way in which it can be done ef- fectually, after they arrive at their present pitch in New York, is by powder and ball. Thousands on thousands of the most peacefully- inclined and humane have of late come to the conclusion that the great cities of our eonntry already require for the due control of the turbu- lent and persistently vicious in them,whose num- ber is so rapidly and alarmingly swelling, the presence of a gendarme, armed and equipped, at every street corner,asin France. It is mel- ancholy, indeed, to refiect that our experiment has so soon proved that, notwithstanding all the inducements which all have in this country to respect the laws and the rights of their neigh- bors, and the almost entire absence of all the disabilities under which so many live in Eu- rope, in point of organized rowdyism, rufianisin and vice, they (our great cities) are fast out- stripping any of those of the Old World, where the Governments are better calculated than ours to protect the honest and peaceable against the terrible excesses of mobs, if inferior to ours in most other points constituting good govern- ments in an enlarged sense of the term. Aw Appiicatiox ror A New Post Orrice— Suicutty Hicuranutix, taovan ix Dean Earsest.—Singular papers are ‘sent to the Departments here at times, not a few of them embracing quizziealities of thought, purpose or expression that would grace the columns of Punch. though penned in.dead earnest. We are indebted to a Tennessee correspondent, | keenly alive to the realization of all good things, for the following copy of a yetition not long since forwarded from the district in which the Postmaster General resides when at home, asking for a new post office. Our correspondent assures us that it was written and signed in dead earnest, and that its style is to the letter that of its really unsophisticated author. As the reader will perceive, it is a very long pole, and should rightfully knock down the persim- ions ; So, we trust that Mr. Postmaster General Brown, himself proverbial for quiet but keen relish for the quizzicalities of the slab side of human nature, has granted its prayer. We suppress the names, &c., attached to the paper, which, otherwise, is as follows : To Gov. Brown, Postmaster General. Dear Sir: We, a portion of your old constitu- ents who delighted to honor you—we truly need afriend. Are youafriend? “Are you? If there is a place on God’ fromeatth that needs or de- serves a post olfice, it is this portion of the - try. Hew long»must it beso’ In our list yen have the names of some old pioneers (and thei children) whose sires gloried in defending a soil that had no government, save that of George the Third. Yes! before this fair fabric was built, some of our own fathers periled their lives for our sake. Our government was formed. T and we have supported it by our hard-earned but cheerfully given taxes ever since. ‘The wheels roll on to 1812. ‘The lion roars n. To whom did our leader say, ‘“ By the eternal, that will never do'** ‘To our fathers and our brothers. They, on the bloody field, shoulder to shoulder, gave the grand quietus to his last growl. Later still we have the names of those i their own lives in Mexico. Nor is thatall. fenot only defend our country, help to fill the t but we come up to the Fight end of the ballon. box and elect the Wright sort of men. We spurn flattery as we do the isms of the day. We know what we say when we ask you to imagine what our bh were not long since when an old, hard- fisted who bad paid taxes to his govern- ment half a century, clerfully stopped his horse and boy to send 12 miles tothe office for his paper to see who was @Jr. Buchanan’s Cabinet. Mast that old man, ‘who has fought the fight, kept the faith,’? given the lie to the sale, (N- Y.,) charge that “republics are ungrats ‘We repeat, must such old men go down to their graves asking their government, not for ‘loaves and fishes,” but the simple pittance of a one- horse weekly mail, that they may point out to their children the bright galaxy, and as star by star take their positions, hear bim exclaim, | was once alinost in despair, but we have at last got the only boon I ever asked of my country. Now boys, read right, think right, live right, vote right, and you will die right. If you doubt one solitary sentence, ask our talented young mem- ber from this district (who all the fates cannot keep out of Congress) and he will tell you. Alas, it is too true! Centra Averica.—We have searched the newspaper accounts by the last arrival from Central America for reliable information, to very little purpose. All wecan find worth lay- ing before the Star’s readers is an Aspinwall letter of the 4th inst., tothe New York Express, from which we make the following extract : “Per British mail steamer, which arrived at Aspinwall on the 25th of June, we have dates from Bogota to June 2. The sudden departure of Mr. Bowlin had created discussion. The papers take ground that Mr. B.*s departure was induced by his ease Fen the dissatisfaction which it had caused in Washington.* It was also con- sidered by some of the papers with reference to its consequences, and the occasion was embraced fera rebuke to those politicians who stave off a settlement and defer defence until the impendin; danger is too near to be avoided. Congress hai been in secret session, but nothing of their doings had transpired. A rumor has however reached the Isthmus, that power tu settle the difficulty with the United States had been given to the President, and that the instroctions consequent nm such a measure go to Gen. Herran, New Granadian Plenipotentiary at Washington, by this steamer. We have but fittle else of interést or moment in the Bogota papers. Authority has also been pr to the President to increase the present military force on the Isthmus to one thou- sand men. “ Recruiting is now being carried on jn Car- thagena. “The government is In a prostrate condition, from sheer bankruptcy. The offices of the State and of the municipalities, such of them, at least, as are dependent upon the State for salaries, are vacant almost continually.** The reader will perceive that the rumor re- ferred to above is in accordance with what a few days since we took oceasion to mention as being expected to take place in the Granadian Congress in diplomatic circles here. From Nicaragua there is literally nothing whatever reliable coming by this last arrival. That is, so far published in the newspapers. Two or three interests are deeply involved in the success of continued misrepresentations con- cerning Nicaraguan affairs. First, the filibus- ter interest, whose aim it is to represent the Government utterly disorganized, and the peo- ple divided up into bands of adherents of two or three different chiefs. The story that any native party thero is in secret alliance or sym- pathy with the filibusters is, of course, manu- tactured of whole cloth. The steamship specu- lators are also interested in wisrepresenting the political condition of the State. (Nicaragua.) Those of them who hope to work Costa Rica up to the point of endeavoring to obtain the transit route, jor rather of ceding its franchises to them, are equally interested with the filibus- ters in generating the impression that Nicaragua is in a state of anarchy and without a govern- ment. The probability is that ere long we will be in the receipt of private advices coming by this arrival, which really shed light on the con- dition of affairs on the Isthmus. m Tue Troops ror Uran.—The following army General Order explains in detail the arrange- ments of the War Department concerning the troops about marching for Utah Territory : General Orders,t/ Headquarters of the Army, No. 12. § New York, June 3), 1857, ‘The General-in-Chief, with the approbation of the War Departinent, nes the following orders 1. The 2d dragoons, 5th infantry, and 10th in- fantry, as they assemble at Fort “Leavenworth. will be prepared, with the battery of the 4th ar- tillery now at that post, to march to, and extab- lish @ post at or near, the Salt Lake City, Terri- tory of Utah. Brevet Brigadier General Harney will command the whole force above described, continuing on duty according to his brevet rank—and at the ear- liest practicable day, will put the troops in route— but will, until that tine, retain his present com- mand of the troops in Kansas 2. On the Ist of January next after the Terri- tory of Utah shall have been entered by the troops, it will constitute a new and separate military de- partment, to be styled the department of Utah, and to be commanded by Brevet Brigadier General Harney. or the senior pres®nt, who will, from the time of leaving Fort Leavenworth, be the com- mander of a separate army iu the field; within the sense of the 65th Article of War. Special instructions for his guidance are ad- dressed to that officer. 3. The Sth al? ordered temporarily to Jef- ferson barracks, will, as soon as practicable after its arrival there, be put in route by its com- mander, by water, or, in part, by railroad, for Fort Leavenworth. Requisitions for the transportation and supplies required for the movement wiil be addressed by the commanding otticer to the proper staff officers at St. Louis. 4. The armament and equipment deemed most suitable for the service of the battery of artillery will be selected—and, if necessary, extended in guns and horses—by the commander of the expe- dition, consulting with Captain Phelps. 5. In addition to instructious al y given, it is further directed that all requisitions which the commander of the expedition for Utah m in his discretion, address to the departments of sup- ply, be promrly complied with, without refer- ence to higher authority, 6. Under the authority of the the post at Salt Lake City. en established, aud any other posts, not exceeding two in addi- jon, that may be established in Utah, will be ncluded among the ‘chaplain posts’? aud ++ double-ration posts? of the army. By command of Brevet Lieut. General Scott : Invin McDowett, Assistant Adjutant General. eretary of War, RerRentsstere.—The practice of publish- ing garbled accounts of the testimony delivered before the Naval Courts of Inquiry, now in session in this city, appears to us a most repre- hensible one—one that cannot fail to result in much mischief. In no instance has a full re- port of the testimony in any one of the cases been published; and no one ean possibly come to just conclusions upon any such case, unless having before him all the testimony on both sides. The practice is invariably to publish but summaries of the evidence, or portions of it making in favor of the appellants, where any is published. Ofcourse, as the Courts must de- cide upon the whole testimony, it is not unlike- ly that in more or less cases their judgment will necessarily be against the conclusions nat- urally arising from the testimony in them which the public see in the newspapers. These facts must lead to public dissatisfac- tion with the action of the Courts in such cases, that would not exist were all the testimony known wo all, It will end in the eventual of- ficial publication by Congress of all the testi- mony taken, at great expense to the public treasury, for which there would have been no need, but forthe garbled reports to which we refer, that are so often seen in Washington let- ters by telegraph and otherwise. Ratirication BY THE PgopLE.—Our fellow- citizens of the South who are so intensely ex- cited against the idea of the submission of the Constitution of Kansas to the people of the Ter- ritory, may read with profit the following brief clause of the “ Act to authorize the people of the Territory of Minnesota to forma State Gov- ernment,” &c. Viz: “SkoTION 3. And be it further enacted, That on the first Monday in June next, the legal voters in each representative district then exis: ng with- in the limits of the repens. State, are hereb authorized to elect iso G for each repree sentative to which said district may be entitled according tothe apportionment for representatives to the Territorial islature, which election for delegates shall be held and conducted, and the returns made in all respects in conformity with the laws of the said Territory regulating the elec- tion of representatives ; ant the pric ere #0 elected shall next and first determine by a vote whether it is the wish of the people of the pro- State to be admitted inte the Union at that time; and if so, shall to form a constitu- tion, and take all necessary steps for the estab- lishment of a State Government, in conformity with the Federal Constitution, subject to the ap- proval and ratification of the people of the pr posed State”? The only comment necessary to be made on this so pertinent extract, is to say that it met no opposition in Congress from any quarter what- ever, and, further, that as the bill to authorise the people of Oregon to form a State Govern- ment, passed the House, (which failed subse- quently in the Senat e owing to a lack of time.) that, too, embraced precisely a similar clause. Tae Navat Courts or Inquiry.—To-day, before Court No. 1, documentary testimony in the case of ex-Lt. Dulany was read and submit- ted, and then it was postponed for the time being on account of the absence of witnesses. The case of ex-Lt. Thomas H. Stevens (dropped by the late Naval Retiring Board) was then taken up, and after depositions in his case were read and submitted, Commodore Aulick aud Capt. Powell were examined on his behalf. Before Court No. 2, the case of Commander Sterrett is still under consideration, and Purser Cutter and Lieut. Barnet were examined on the Government's behalf, and George M. Gordon, Esq., on that of Commander 8. Before Court No. 3, the case of Lt. Rhind is still on trial, and Lieuts. Gibson and Maffit were examined to-day on Mr. R.’s behalf. Affidavits of Lts. Truxton, Shattuck, Cooper, Bullock, Schufelt, Badger, and Prof. Bache and others, bearing on the case, were read and sub- mitted ere the Star went to press. Tue Kaw Devecarion obtained the inter- view, yesterday, they sought with the President. Its savage members were duly presented to his Excellency, who held a brief council with them, wherein no details of matters of business were discussed; the President having referred them to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for a hearing on such matters. The visit was but one of ceremony. The principal chief remarked that he had long wished to see his Grandfather, the President, and was highly gratified with the manner in which he had received and treated his red children. Tur Prestpent.—After to-day, we hear, the President will be at his office in the Executive Mansion between the hours of 12m. and4 p. m., daily, for the transaction of such business as may require his presence there. At all other times, we presume, he will be at his delightful retreat for the summer, the Soldiers’ Home, where, if not overwhelmed by the curiosity hunters and office-seekers, he can transact twice as much business requiring careful study on his part, as in Washington. A Correction.+ Yesterday, through a slipof the pen, we wrote down Thos. H. Watts, Esq., as the competitor of the Hon. Mr. Dowdell, of Alabama, for Congress. He was Mr. D.’s last competitor. In the present contest his com- petitor is Thos. J. Judge, Esq. Our private advices from reliable sources in Alabama, by the by, lead to the conclusion that the Demo- crats will surely carry every Congressional dis- trict of the State. Pension Bureav.—A bounty land warrant for 160 acres was yesterday issued by the Com- missioner of Pensions to the Hon. Robert M. McLane, for his services in the Florida war. This is the fifth warrant issued to the members of Hon. Louis McLane’s family—one to himself for services in the war of 1812, one to each of his four sons for services in the Florida war or war with Mexico. A VaLuAaBLE Present.—There is to be seen at the Navy Department a very valuable por- trait of John Paul Jones, in oil, presented to the Government or Department by some gentle- man in Philadelphia. It strikes us as mayne evidently been taken from life. Tae WeatuEeR.—The following report of the weather for this morning is made from the Morse Telegraph line to the Smithsonian Institution, The time of observation is about 7 o'clock a. m.: Joy 15, 1857. --cloudy. cloudy, raining. clear, warm. cloudy, pleasant. --cloudy, pleasant cloudy, cool. cloudy, warm cloudy, wet ‘warm, raining. cloudy, ver sloudy, suliry. cloudy, warm. clear. pleasant, clear, warm. ».clear. +-clear, warm. Gainesville, clear, warm. New Orleans, La. «clear. From THz West. The following reports have been furnished by the National Telegraph line : Frederick, Md..... +-cloudy, warm. Cumberland, Md. clear, warm. Hagerstown, Md. Wheeling, Va.... Harper’s Ferry. Winchester ... Martinsburg... clear, warm. . At Washington, erday at 9 p. m., the barom- eter was 30.124; thermometer 75°. This morning at7 eee the barometer was 30.142; thermome- ter 73.3. New York, N.Y. Philadeiphia, Pa Baltimore, Md@.. Washington, D. © Richmond, Va. Petersburg, Va Wilmington, N. C. Columbia, S. € Charleston, 8. Augusta, Ga. Savannah, G. Macon, G: Columbus, s M corromnery A Lower Peach Tr. Mobile, Ala . clear, very warm. cloudy, warm. clondy, warm. oe PERSONAL. - Thalberg, Strakosch and Parodi cleared 000 by their recent western musical tour, ---- Hon. FE. Farnsworth, of Illinois, Captain Gwathmey, U. -, and Rev. W. O. Prentiss, of S. C., are at Willards’. +++» Lieut. Derby (‘John Phanix,’’) the in- ventor of the new cat-action sewing machine, and superintendent of light-houses, is in New York city. +--+ Ex-Secretary Guthrie, who is now In New York, is to be present on ’Change this afternoon at three o'clock, on invitation of the merchants of. New York. +++. The Ay ee from Cincinnati that the Hon. Mr. Cox had been killed in Kentucky by his com- petitor, the Hon. Mr. Mason, is discredited by the Louisville Journal. ---» Our Consul at Pictou, N.S., B. H. Norton, Esq.. celebrated the National Anniversary among the blue-noses at his consular office, where he re- ceived his friends, and a general good and patri- otic time was had. ;-.- The *‘ retired clergyman, whose sands of life have nearly run out,’? and who benevolently advertises to senda recipe for curing certain com- petits, on the receipt of postage si pss is said ‘o be a vigorous young man in New York, and doing a fine’ business. +++» The now very aged but yet scarcely vener- able Van Buren was at Mr. Marcy’s funeral, with his old bright, healthy look, smiling as ever; not solemn even in the of death, for so- lemnity seems impossible for his ever-happy face. He does not show over sixty, and his hate is no whiter than it has been for bine rec years. He walked in vigor from the capitol, after the cere- monies were over, to take the cars at the river for his home in Kinderhook. . ::-» Maurice Retsch, the well known German artist, whose illustrations of Gathe and other vets are so celebrated, has just died at the age of «7 years. His outlines of Go-the’s + Faust,”’ pub- lished in 1812, at once gave him a name. aed toms that time his pencil bas been busy in illustrating in a similar manner many of Schiller’s poss; such as ‘* Fridolin,” ‘The Fight with the Dra- on,’? and ‘‘ Song of the Bell,’’ the latter of which as called forth some of his most exquisite crea- peed ie bene rer persian Giocg "s 8, and many or esi t nown Ee Which is the femsus ‘* Chee } Players.”? i[5~ One of the greatest noveities of this “pro gressive ”? was the celebration of the anniver- prs of American Independence within the walls of the Indiana State Prison at Jeffersonville on the 4th. Speeehes, toasts, dances, foot Faces, and singing were hp eal under restraints,and the orator of the day confined himseif to his sub- ject and the prison walls. {[7~ The ladies, now-a-days, are using news- apers ee pet hundred for the manufac- ‘are of bustles ‘To manufacture the bustle, they take a tape and put it between Tal newspay , then “gather? the newspapers at the top tie the tape around them. e lower parts of the papers are, of course, irregular, and when the skirts and dress are thrown over them, Produce the necessary bulge, the leaves of seve- OTICE.—The of the Western Compsny 1, notified to ee crimes ise coansre FRA JAY NIGHT, h_inst., at eight voces fo 9 vers as anos, wil be laid be- m for their Coe IGG LES, President. F.N. Houtama’ 15-zt = —¥ IN GUARDS. —You 3 od to Sttend © we 4 the propriety of gi ‘an excursion, and other JA) LACKEY, Secretary. NOTICE.—The M Guards will ! ive their Sixth A: Excursion to the White House on MONDAY, 17th of August, 1857. Particulars in future advertisement. iy 13-3 BALTIMOREICE CREAM DEPOT, Ne. best ICE CREAM at 8150] = lon. jiver- 2 M al 'y gl ea to any parte of the elle.” Furmahes’ Parties, MWritaee mt Bxcupeet pi SCHAPFIELD. Nemesis ICE CREAM eee ledeionne fh ream '. corner nea Watrenes, ie foe tn the city, at l0cents Pe Cream delivered to families at $1.59 per gallon. je 90-Im* JUST RECEIVED— Green RIO COFFER Fore by te 8 GR RAY © SEMMES. _17 15 eost EMEMBER THE YOUNG FOLKS aT . for them, at Jy igen nd bay Poot SMOND'S 7th street. premey AT GEORGETOWN. is ne eration @ Ferry from George- town te Amsionten fitsmnd. tier country frisoke td be aceommodated at rensonable rates. The arrange- ments are such asto secure quick trips during the tompoary repairs on the Long Bri jy nde. si J. PETTIBONE._ EDWIN GREEN, 0 ap ver MAKER, At his Large Establishment, No. 18 Pennsylvania avenue, between 17th and 18th streets, bas al- wryg ce heads stock of every description of CABINET JRNITURE, CHAIRS, and MATRESES, which he is selling at the lowest prices. a‘ ris holstering, and Varnishing promptly executed. Repairing, ‘Mahogary suitable for Hand-rail for sale. iy 13 Intell and Unior.1 Dssez UTION OF €O-PARTNERSHIP. Notice is hereby given that the Co-partnership heretofore existing between EDVARD J. Wile SON and WILLIAM F. HAYWARD, has, this day, been dissolved by mutual consent. All persons indebted to, and all persons having claims against the said firm of Wilson and Hayward, see eevee to oe yng weer Nae se ade wal - Wilson, he being fully authorized to § AR VI LSO: same. DW. J. W — W. H. HAYWARD. Washington, July 14th, A. D., 1957. NEW BOOKS, Dynevor Terrace, 2 vels., by the author of Heir of Redelit cliff. Life of Mrs. Charlotte Bronte, 2 vols., author of Jane Fyre. Adam Graham, by the anthor of Zadee. ae Of My Life, by the suthor of Margaret Maitland. The Fortunes of Glencore, = C. Lever. Seandal, by Mrs. J. T. Buckford. Home. a book for the Family. iv 15-3t* The Profession, by the author of Jane Eyre. Slavery i ew Light. With all the popular publications of the day. to be had at Miss THOMAS’S Book and Fancy store, High street 1t* near eorgetown. CELPEPE MILITAR NSTITUTE, EAR CuLpeper Covet Hovsez, Va. The second session of this school will conimence on the Ist day of September, 1857. A graduate of the University of Virginia, adopting the mode of in- struction pursued in that institution, will have charge of the departments of Ancient and M guages ; while a graduate of the V. M. In: . who has had considerable experience im teaching. will give instructions in Mathematics, National Philosophy, Chemistry, and lower English branches, The course of studies will be as follow: Spell R rlctaagg ps sn o os tie, © Hing, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Geogra- py, Granimar, History, Algebra, Latin Grammar, reek Grammar. THirp Crass. . . Mathematics, Kaglish Grammar, Arithmetic, His- tory, Latin, Greek, French. Srconp Crass. Mathematics, Nations! Philosophy, Chemistry, History, Latin, Greek, French, Spanish. First Crass. Mathematics, National and Moral tga oe te Chemistry. treology, English Literature, English Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Infantry and’ Artillery z L168, Geography, History, Latin, Greek, French, mush. uvery Student on entering will be subject toa careful examination, and will then be assigned to that class to wnich his proficiency entitles him; and no one will be allowed to pass toa higher class un- less he can give evidence of a thorough knowledge of the subject contained in the preceding. ‘The discipline will b3 necessarily rigid, but the comfort and conveniences of each member of the school wiil be duly respected There will be daily military exercise, but care will be taken that they do not interfere with the Academic duties. Terms: : Board, ‘Tution. Washing, Fuel, Lights, for ten months, $18". Payments semi-annualiy in advance. For f-eommendations and further particulars, see circulars. CHARLES F. LIGHTFOOT, V.M.L., Superintendent and lustructor in Mathematics and Natural Sciences. J. W. GILLESPIE, University of Va., Instructor in Ancient and Modera Languages. We have the privilege of referring to the fi | owing: Faculty of Vir Military Instutute. sen. William Richardson, Richmond City. Prof. Maupin, University of Virginia. Prof. Hauison, do . Giidersleeve, Schell de Vere, z 5 lio Prof. Lucian Minor, William and Mary College. Kev. John Beradus, Charlottesville. lo Prof. do = do rof. MeGuff Mr. John Hart, A. M., Jove Hance Esq., Louisa county. bolfork, oO cou White, D.D, - Pendieton, » Culpeper. rro, Gloucester, BGs, Washingtow City. do. |, U.S. A., New York, Voss. Exq., Rappk. county. “ lo Capt. James Stark, The Citizens of Culpeper. iy 15-eotf OAL! COAL COAL!!! Weare ren peereres to deliver all kinds of W and Red Ash Coals, A deduction in price wil: le when delivered from the vessel. Now landing & very superior article of Leingh Coal. We have, also, a large and well-selected stock of Wood—ail of which we promise to sell at the market price. We. therefore, solicit a cail from all who buy for cash and pay Promptly. Offices corner of I and 2ist street, Washington; Green strect, Georgetown. jy 8-d2w BARRON & STOVER. OAL. !—COAL !!—COAL "!— . 2 Now unloading fwrocarroes of COAL, egg size, WHITE AND RED ASH:— = i Constantly on hand, and will he receiving durin the season, Stove, Eeg, and Furnace sige, bot pel wee bon Ash, which will be sold at the lowest suible rates. Pealto a well selected stock of HICKORY, OAK, and PINE WOOD, at lowest rates. Persons in want of fuel will do well to give us n call immedi- ately, as we are determined to sell at the very lowest Prices that fuel can be obtained in the district. All orders left at either of our yards corner of I and sts., Vermont avenue, Washington, and cor- ner of Water and Green streets, Georgetown, will hite | be meet wi it jt * with PrompT eRRON GORDON & CO., jy 6-eotf (States) Georgetown. MNIBUS ON 7TH STREET.—The under- signed intends starting an Omnibus from the Park Hotel, along 7th street to Centre Market. It will leave the Hotel St 734 and 10 o'clock in the morning, and frou in the afternoon until night. Returning at 8% and 1 in the morning, every hour in the afternoon. elise son 0 to the Park can make ar- rangements wil river. iy 1d HARLES SCHUSSLER. VIRGINIA ILLUSTRATED, containing a visit tothe Virginia Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his sins, illustrated from draw- ings by Porte Crayon; price $2.3). _~ i zi —_ D’Orea, a novel by G. P. R. James; price cents. Just published, and TAYLOR jy 14-4t (int. for sale at & MAURY’S Bookstore, Union) near 9th st. ANS !—FANS !—Selling off our FANS: low, H. J. McLAUHGLIN & C iyi __Pa. av.. bet. 8th and 9th sts, _ HE LARGEST STOCK OF PIANOS IN the city always on hand, at No.36 Penn. ave- nue, between 9th and loth streets. ay l4 JOHN. F. ELLIS. 12 GOOD SECOND-HAND PIANOS IN store, for asle or rent upon reasonable teri at our great Piano Warerooms, 36, between 9th loth streets, yi CS OHN F. ELLIS, Te LARGEST STOCK OF PIANOS. lodeons, Muse, Musical Instruments, and sical Merchandise at ie 6 ME Mu- general in Washington City, ee TOHN Fel LESS, ‘4 Noa. 96 Pa, avenue het. athand loth’sts, EE rrrte Det Shand With ate. EONORA D’ORCO. G. PLR, ; L ec _ |, by James ; price Rete Ne Miss Mi ew, 3 fe Fortune of Glencore, by Chas, War'Tril, by Capt, Rei New York {eager fon Sune es is Mapaciecnel Wactl Papers received soon lished. Books or Peposs sent by pail, Iron of cont cid ©, On receipt of price. A good assortment of ers. fant _iy4- No. 13 Bridal a een ene , W .>: EICHLER, SEVENTH STREET, Dand ce aide, PRAC- ¥icare SAT CHRIA WER Roepe natn TRWEERY, Wilkie Collins; price 50 cents. loch; do 5) do, aD We. SE WICK ON STATU RY AND CON- SISPRUHON ST CAM epee Prager Cogs aPON FE wh tlt ULT: rk & DUNGER'’S V aed OP OL ITA Y CONCERT SALOON, ennsy! jonnee aeenue and lth street, THIS EVENING, and every evening during the The EBERBACH FAMILY will appear This 7 WATKINS will appear and open his pir ISHER, the Dansevse, will give New Arrractions Every Weer. r. s & Jeouneman’s Celebrated B . wikts Th POMS CIGARS ker ons be haa Admission Drinks 1 cents ; inside, Sete. No boys adm |. Officers always present to serve order. iy . N EOR WN COL) £ Pic Nic IN GuaneRTOWN COLLEG The 0! Chai iba Natimace oi ote ry Hill, whick, with ite fi water and del sel HI, of ightful shade, makes it Sent ot. tractive spot in the District for spending & pleasant day. best Music bas been engaged, and ampli. The beet Music for supplying Visiters wi frechments. t ficent Sets of Silver, on which « few 'chntcea ate Yet to be taken, will be exiwbied and raftied. Those having chances wil! plevse attend. ‘The object of the Pie Nic being to provide furnaces forthe church, it is hoped that the Ladies im thew Te Will be liberally patronised. iy 15 Gt T° OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS. EXCURSION st oF TRE National Guard i on TAC, ne mee WEDNESDAY: July 2, 1057, The National GUARD respectfully announce to their inends and patrons that they have completed their arrangements for an Excursion to BLAackis TONE’ s' Pavition, the nlar watering pince, situated on the banks of the Potomac, about 3° miles from Washington. They deem it unnecessary to refer particularly to this far famed rural retreat. They have chartered the safe and commodions mail steamer PownaTaN. She will leave her whart at the foot of Sixth street, on the morning of the 2d nt, at 7 o'clock precisely, and proceed down the river to the Pavilion, arriving about 12m. The comps. guests will then disembark, and give a GRAND BALI. AT THE PAVILION. After which the guests will e an opportunity ot enjoy. t water Bathing, watic lNXUTeS ot the P iy rambinge the beautiful groves which surround the ion. Returaing, boat will lenve her wharf enable the guésts to and st Washington at a sen as mable hour. The boat will stop, going and return- At Alexandria, Va. “hine Guaxp assure their patrons that proper order wl be 5 and all nnproper persons excluded “"Gemibeses will leave the Navy Vard, Sonth gate of the Capi'ol, Northern Market, and Twenty- strect, (First Ward, )at6', o’clocka m. Omnibuses nee be in waiting at the wherf on the return oi i en provision has been made for the wants of the “inner men.” Profeauor Withers’ Brass and String Band has been engaged. tt tleman and two indies to the Hacursion ant Bilan the Portia FO DOLLARS. therently early to C ttee. James A. Tait cut. Thomas E. Lloyd, ay - Graham, Jas. E. Johnson. | AF aa Capt Liew Wm ‘Cammack, jr-. ae __ jy 18-4 >} OF GOOD CHEER, WE WILL NOT BY °F 6000 ERT vor. FIRST GRAND FIREMEN’S EXCURSION or THE Metropolitan Hook and Ladder Co. The Company beg leave to anneunce to their friends and the public in general, that they will give their First Grand Ex- cursion to the White House Pevilion' THURSDAY, July l6th, i857. 1. . "The safe and commodious, steamer GEORGE: WASHINGTON, has been chartered for the occas sion. She will leave her whart! at 20’clock, Navy Yard at 3 past 2, Alexandria at 3o'clock. The Company piedge to make this an excursion of pleasure to all who wish tospend a day of nies myeue on the banks of the beautiful Potomac. A Masic will be in attendance, also the Metropolitan Glee Ciub will favor the excursionsts with some of their fine Glees and Quartettes. Tickets ONE DOLLAR, to be obtained of any one of the members, or at the Boat on the day of the excursion. Stages will leave the Track House on Massachu - avenue between 4th and Sth streets, and at the Northern Liberty Market House at 4; past | o'clock. Commitice of Arrangements, Maxwell Thomas Stone Andrew Bain herwood, John Lea: jy Mat Fest GRAND ANNUAL EXCURSION of the EMMETT CLUB, No.1, to Fort Washingtonand White House, on THURSDAY, August 6th, 1857. See particulars in future advertieements. iy 13-e03t QPCOND GRAND EXCURSION ‘ov Central Lodge, No.1, 1. 0. 0. F., WHITE HOUSE PAVILION, The members of Centra) Lodge take pleasure in announcing to the public that they will give their Second Grand Exeur sion to the White House Pavilouon' MONDAY, Juty 2th, 1457. The safeand commodious steamer WASHING- TON wulleave Eleventh street whart at 8 o'clock, Alexandria at 8%. The evening boat will leave Eleventh street at 2 o'clock, Alexandr at aie gclock. Returning the first boat will leave the WwW bite Houxe at five o'clock, the second Luat at ten o'clock. Withers’s Washington Independent Brass and ‘String Band has been Le pap for the occasion. — and Supper will be served by an experien- ct caterer. Omnibusses will be waiting at the of Sev- enth and |. street Northern Libert; ca. Twent eth street Pen ARIA AVENUE. ANd Oppos ae Hall, Navy Vard, to convey persons to Tickets ONE DOLLAR, admitting 8 Gentleman and ea, to be liad of any of the Committee, or at the boat on the day of the Excursion. Coramittee. W.B. Wilson W.W. Wood J.H.McChesney &. R. Sylvester ~ Me. "Walker J.Edmonston A. J. Borland Ri. Hunt a ~j G. W. Robinson Wm. Scott : dmon - WV. Barneclo W. Dorothy ber jGiaitgienson 3s Borat Wag: Phalps vi alker Basi ensou rather. FP: B. Lord Sehr aga JR NAME 1S OUR MOTTO. THIRD GRAND EXCURSION OF TRE TO THE WHITE pM VILE z SE & N, THURSDAY, July sad a7 ON The Goon Witt Cuve having made all Recessary arrangements, take great pleasure in announcing to their numerous friends and the public in general, that thei third ANNUAL EXCURSION and PIC-NIC will take pince as abo: ‘The committee piedge themselves that no effort will be spared to make this one of the most pleasant Excursions of the season. ‘Withers’ Bras: St Be brass and ring Band has been engaged The Refreshment Department has been piaced in the s of an experienced caterer. The steamer Groner WasntxoToN will leave her wharf, at the foot of lith street, at 8 o'clock s.m., Nav 84, Alexandria 9, " will leave the city wharf at ovslock Nave eect aes and Alexandria at 3 p. m,, returning at 6 aud 10, A Line of Stages connecting with the it leave 7th and M streets; foot of the Capitol, and 15 b freee: oct and Fenn. avenue at 7% v'clock a.m; also, at ™. ickets ONE’ DOLLAR : to be had of any of the committee or members of the Club, ' ommuttee o| a ted by wearing a pink tad paket Committee of Arrangements, enry, KA, ee jy1S-MFEW! m. D. Elwoxd 1C_ NIC OF sT. STE SUNDAY P% HOOL.—Sr. Peres ETER'S SUNDAY - 5 PAVILION. Particulars UND—On the morning of Sd of July.on Ge Fed <7) a POCKET Boon. wien ne 7 ean have by proving property jug for this ad Yertisement, Apply at the Soap ee Candie ane factory on 2d street east, betwee: and H streets. is ae b. MERMANN. Lost the 12th instant, s sual! SPANIEI- DOG, with loug silky bair. (white). ears very |; ebeys the name of Prince when 80 called. A suitable reward will be= paid on bis retorn to the subscriber jy 14-3 G.SAUR BOARDING. nace OA RDING.— Mre. BATES, at th of Rar Demee Ly seperated and its aoc todatee larger number of permabsont neal tressvenk sey Satara etapa, bana. yand, rt nowW second to no ot. . ton. re by the month “week, felis enters setae taken. 10 COFFER, 6 Db COFFEE R SPARCH AS 7 75 WHITE GREEN RIO COFFER, y Sbones PEA aan CH. rare UR & SENMES,