Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1857, Page 2

Se ene ae The Intelligencer, to-day, discusses the sur- plus likely to accumulate in the National Trea- sury by the termination of the current fiscal year, which, the editors imagine, will reach the enormous figures of $50,000,000! There is now a surplus of twenty millions, and the expenses of the current fiscal year are estimated at fifty millions only; while its revenue is expected to be eighty millions. Such are the data on which the Intelligencer's estimate is based. The question mooted by our cotemporary is—How shall it be disposed of, in view of the fact that to keep it locked up in the Treasury will almost certainly produce wide spread commercial em- barrassment, if not disaster! Of course, our respected friends of that journal are for scatter- ing it among the people by distributing it to the several States, which has long been their favorite theory, if our memory serves us faith- fully in this instance. They are evidently no believers in our doc- trine that the Government, so far as its future is concerned,—the purity, integrity and sound patriotism of its future, we mean,—had better remain constantly pinched for want of money, than to have possession of a surplus to be squab- bled and intrigued over by the harpies and vultures who of late years have learned tomake vast combinations to control the action of Con- gress and State Legislatures upon the subject of the distribution of the money unnecessarily raised by taxation. These combinations elect and defeat candidates for Congress to compass their ends, corrupt political opinion, and pri- vate and public morals; and, in fact, sow the seeds of corruption, public and private, broad cast. Never was there a more forcible illustration of the eternity and importance of the truth of that well-known ancient maxim, “ Money is the root of all evil,” than is involved in the gal- loping increase of the disposition which such ope- tors as we describe have, to get their arms into treasuries up to their elbows. In not a few eases they are persons who have previously been favored by special legislation in their be- half, or have made money by party legislation in their favor. After being thus gorged in their day at the public expense, it is not uncommon to find them inveighing against the injustice of perpetuating laws and customs out of which they have ‘made their jack,” under the pre- tence—not that the public money should be economized, but that it should be distributed widely among hungry jackals. There is not an American State capital where- in there is not to be found a number of pre- viously gorged but now again hungry ones, cry- ing out corruption! corruption!'! monopoly! monopoly‘! in the hope of thus again getting a pull at treasury teats. Whenever they thus succeed in their object, not a word does the public hear from them on the subject until they may be again shaken off the “‘duds’’ by the mutationsof political events— not a word. Until then, they are sucking, suck- ing, sucking away as mute as mice, and as in- dustrious as nine days’ old puppies—as mutely and industriously as ever of yore. * But, so the world wags, we suppose, every- where. So, thiscountry may not be expected to eseape the detriments to flow from the persist- ent intrigues of such patriots who continue in every other land to plunder treasuries, while erying loudest, combination ' corruption!! mo- nopely''! Qur remedy for this state of things, as well as for the serious evil of which our friends of the Intelligencer complain, is a very simple one, indeed. Viz: to reduce taxation promptly, so that the revenues collected will barely cover the legitimate expenses of all American Governments The Union is to-day rejoicing over the eondi- tion and prospects of the Democratic pariy as demonstrated in the rerult of the late elections. It tells of the re-election of the Hon. L. 0. B Branch to Congress, by 6,273 majority, and Mr. Winslow by 4.854, and that out of 507 votes cast in Gillespie county, Texas, the American party received but three! ————_ — +208 iP The Alexandria Gazette contradicts the Teport in circulation that the typhoid fever is now raging in Charlottesville, Va. * perros hour: Skee Scpven Deata—-Wm. Henry Rumford, of Wilmington, Del.,en route for the Springs, was taken ill on the cars at Charlottesville, Va.. on ‘Thursday, and died afew minutes after being taken to the Central Hotel. 7 The American County Convention, which assembled in Hagerstown, Md., August 22d, made the following nominations: For County Clerk, Isaac Nesbitt; for R. ister, William Logan; for State Senator, John G. Stone: Sor the House of Delegates, George Brent. James W. Leggett, John F. Gray, Henry Grosh, George C. Rohrer; for County Commissioners. John Kretzer, John Feidt, Joseph Garver. Daniel Mentzer, John C. Unseld; for Sheriff, Jobn Mil- Jer; for Surveyor, David Brumbaugh. tener {7 In a Know Nothing speech, at Memphis, Tennessee, recently, Colonel Mobertson Topp sald: “Truths make but slow progress with man- kind, however obvious they suay appear to oth- ers. This is equal to General Taylor's message, in which he declared that we were ‘‘at peace with ail the world, and oa friendly relations with the rest of mankind.”’ SE ‘Tar Mystextovs Buriat Case ix New Jer- s8y.—The inquest held at Elizabethtown, N. J., in the matter of the death of Margaret Dale, was concluded on Friday, when the jury brought in the following verdict : “We find that deceased came to her death by some disease of the lungs and brain, and that her death bas probably been hastened by unkind and cruel treatment at the hands of Mr. and Mrs. Con- over; and we further find that Mr. and Mrs. Con- over, by treating said deceased in the manner aforesaid, heve violated all laws of society and humanity, and that in the opinion of the jury the condnet of Mr. Conover is in the highest degree censurable for the unkind manner in which he interred, exhumed and reinterred the bedy.”” ‘The deceased was asister of Mrs.C. She died while on a sailing excursion with them, and was temporarily buried on the beach. ——______ Tur Gueat Terecraruic Exrevitios. —The New York Tribune has the following letter (dated “ British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Compa- ny, (limited,) Secretary's Department, No. 2 Ex- ebange Buildings, Liverpool, August 7, 1837," in relation to the great enterprise now in Progress; My Dean Mus. Fiesty: Thinking you will be glad to have the latest news connected with the Auantic Telegraph, I take the opportunity of writing by this mil, to say that a large party (in- cluding myself) who bad accompanied the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to Valentia, in order to see the expedition start, returned this morning after seeing the shore-end of the cable landed by the Niagara. We left the squadron two miles from shore, on the for New- point of steering awa foundland. The weather was - ea. ané all on board (including Mr. Field and my brotaer) ‘were well, and in the the land-wires are not between Killarney and highest spirits. “Althongh = quite faily completed alentia, { shal! hear day wy way bow per pre arexs, and will write again next mui shall expect to have hares direct from Newfoundiand, announe lig toate le arrival in Trinity bay, in about a fortnight: and aan only sorry that a great pressure of business Las precluded we from accompanying them. With kind remembrances to your faintly circle. J remain, dear Mrs. Field, yours sincerely, - Evwanv B. Buisur. U7” The first camp meeting in the United Btates was beld fty-four years ago, in Kentucky. U7 The Franklin Institute, of Philadelphia, is compelied to dispense with their annual exbi- bition this year, for want of a suitable building in which to give the display M17 The New York Tribune says there is a large busiuess done in that city in the importa- tion of foreign copper coins, worth less than a cent, but generally passed for that sum, with this difference—that t come from behind the coun- Jer and are not permitted to go back, WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. Tae Forore or rae Raturoaps.—The New ork Herald, in recently arguing to show that II the railroads in the country are destined to views on the subject, and perhaps with as much truth as the Herald itself brings forward in its argument, This controversy, on the whole, is an interesting one; insomuch as it serves to en- lighten the world as to the shortcomings of rail- road management at the North, no less than in the matter of using newspapers to decry the value of the property of honest people, as the Herald is certainly being used for speculating purposes in this case. At the South, no railroad stocks—and, in- deed, no other stocks whatever—are regarded as at the North, as simply cards with which to gamble without violating written law. The fact that they are so used at the North by those who habitually trade in them, and therefore own controling interests in them, is the secret of the peculation, extravagance and ruinously low fares and freights which render them un- profitable. But for stock gambling on the part of their owners, and undue competition—the construction of competing roads where the busi- ness fails to warrant building them—there is no earthly reason why half a dozen railroads in the United States should fail to pay hand- some dividends. Everywhere in the land the production of freight and the travel is increasing enormously; even faster than the increase of prices of nearly everything. The business of the country can well afford to stand higher railroad freight charges and passenger fares. Yet their tenden- cy is downward; while stockholders are rarely reaping dividends. We here refer to Northern railroads. Those of the South are doing a far safer business generally, simply because they are in the hands of persons not engaged for the most part in stock gambling. The South will tue the day when her public works fall under such management, which will only be when the business of agriculture ceases to be the con- trolling interest in her midst. We are not un- Prepared to witness the failure of hundreds of competing railroads in the non-slaveholding States from the causes mentioned above, while it strikes us as probable that the business of nine out of every ten Southern railroads must continue so to improve, as to make them, property, more valuable year by year. Wet Saip.—Mr-. Dallas deserves the thanks of his countrymen at large for the straightfor- ward way in which he rebuked the prevailing tendency, in some quarters of the Union, to toady England in the matter of professing that our people are altogether of and from her. As the phrase goes, we are all “‘ Anglo-Saxons’ — which is by no means the truth. The occasion on which Mr. Dallas pricked the bubble to which we refer, was in his speech delivered not long since at Boston, England, at the festival in honor of the memory of the Rev. John Cotton; when and where he spoke as follows : “There are topics, I confess, I should like to touch on, but the advanced hour of the everfing forbids me. There is one, however, 1 must beg of you to excuse me for introducing. { heard the distinguished gentleman on the opposite side make mention of what is called the Anglo Saxon race. Well, that no donbt is a very distinguish- ed race. It is entitled to high praise, fort has accomplished wonders. But i do not think that the United States of America, as they now exist. can be considered as contined to the Beart Saxon race. It is a matter of fair truth to say to you there is a very large proportion of the citizens of the United States who are Celts, not Anglo Sax- ous. If there be any Irish here, they must under- Stand that their fellow countrymen constitute a very large proportion of what may be termed the character of the United States of America. Nay, to voa little further—one of our States is almost exclusively Spanish; another of our States is al- most exclusively French; and the very State to which | am prond to belong, a State which is led the Keystone State, has so many of its - pagers le ~ a ee actual- y obliges oO pul our law t a ‘accommodate them, Now ‘all thane "races Ilended together constitute the national character of the United States of America. That country, therefore, is not exclusively Anglo Saxon. Un- doubtedly some of is most distinguished sources of origin are Anglo Saxon, but as now organized —as it is now fixed—under its present constitu- tion and present population, it is a government and 2 country composed of ail people and races, and Bot confined exclusively to the ‘Anglo Sax- on.?*? Tue Trans-AtLantic TeLEGRAPH.—We can compare the existing popular excitement con- cerning the probable success or failure of the experiment for bridging the Atlantic with tele- graph wire, to nothing short of that for news from Mexico when General Scott was gradually approaching the end of his plans for taking the capital of the Montezumas. We are questioned a hundred times daily on the avenue, to know whether we have anything later from those en- gaged in laying down the cable. The news published in yesterday’s Scar goes to prove the probable success of the experiment, which how- ever, is not yet clear. There are a hundred unforseen contingencies that may occur, any one of which may prove sufficient to dash the hopes of those engaged in the work, and of the so interested public. Everything that science and human ingenuity can do to guard against them has certainly been done; yet no one who has narrowly watched the progress of the grand event and is well informed concerning the diffi- culty of the undertaking, feels by any means assured of the ultimate triumph of the hereu- lean enterprise. They can only wait, watch, and pray. Roemorep Removars.—Our Washington quidnuncs are in a dingling way just now, de- cidedly. They are without the slightest legiti- mate cause for local excitement, and are there- fore puzzling their brains over the probabilities of removals. The city is full of such rumors’ originating with distant presses having corres- pondents at this point. As yet we are unable to say with certainty which of them are true, and which false ; though if some fire does not break out of the great smoke over the matter, it will be high time to write down “‘ Washington News’ appearing first at a distance from this city, as being the very personification of false- hood itself. According to the originators of the prognostications of which we here write, the Government can have little time just now to attend to aught else but preparing to remove heads of Bureaus—some of whom seem likely to be required to give place to others, but by no means as many as the wonder-mongers ima- gine. Corronation Govenxwent ix Amenica.— The following brief paragraph which we find in a late number of the New York Evening Post bears out information on the same subject that has been coming to this city for some months past. The gist of that which we have here in the same connection, is that the subjects of the Hudson Bay Compsny prefer any other con- ceivable authority over them than that under which they now live. That they will, in a rea- sonable time, effect, by hook or by crook, a change in their political condition is very sure. for this is not the age nor the continent in and on whivh any such authority can long continue to exist, that may be essentially repugnant to the popular will where it is exercised. The following is the extract from the Post to which we refer: “ While the sepoys in India are endeavoring to throw off the yo ¢ of the East India Company pe a me ym cor hago that great col nt! redicted, symptoms of insatlnfaction are disceratble among the scanty population over whom the and the di cor Hudson’s Com- many have jurisdiction, whi lead ° some decided action’ sii may pone y ex- [ ercived by the company in any a Ppl tion fora renewal of its charter. Capfain Kennedy, the ent sent by the Canadian government to Selkirk lement, on the Red River of the North, for the parpoay et observing the resources of the hcountry ang the ition of the people under the Pgovernment of the Hudson's Bay ompany, has eached Superiord@n his way home. Accordi: ie the C) vesan Zathuslastic desctipe p Bios ‘The colonists of t gist are highly dissatisfied wit! bthe ment of the Hudson’s Ba ; are anxious to be relieved of the }yoke ration, and to be admitted under ion of the government of Can- ada. That this will be the result of the present agitation of that subject in the Canadas and in England seems not improbable. It was to obtain facts for the use of the government in this contest against the huge eared ae | whose charter will soon expire, that Captain Kennedy was sent on this expedition.” Recruits ror New Mexico, &c.—Captain Thos. Duncan, of the Mounted Rifles, U. 8. A., (who has just been relieved from service on the Board to test breech-loading rifles, now in ses- sion at West Point,) is to proceed at once to Carlisle Barracks, Pa., and from thence to con- duct to New Mexico a considerable number of recruits for his regiment—from 100 to 150—now at that point. A large body of recruits for the third infantry are also now about to leave Fort Columbus, (Governor’s Island,) New York, under com- mand of Col. Chandler, U. S. Army. Their destination is also New Mexico. These two bodies of recruits will meet at Fort Leavenworth, from whence they will proceed together on their destination, under the com- mand of the senior officer. The Hon. Abraham Rencher, of North Caro- lina, the recently appointed Governor of the Territory of New Mexico, will proceed out to his post, accompanied by his family, under the escort of these troops. There will also be some fifteen or twenty offi- cers with the command, going out to join the regiments in the Territory. Not a few of them design taking their families with them. Uxsurnverep Laxps ox tHe Proposep Mixxgsota anv Paciric Rattroap.—All the surveyed lands probably falling within the limits of the Minnesota and Pacific Railroad, by instruction of March 7th and June 22d, 1857, were withdrawn by the General Land Office from sale and location, and from pre-emption, for four months after receipt of the order of 22d June. The attention of that office having been called to the unsurveyed land on the line of this road, instructions have just been issued to the land offices at Sauk Rapids and Minnopolis (dated August 24, inst.,) to apply the interdict of the letter of June 22d to all lands falling within the 15 mile limits of a direct line be- tween the termini, the plats of which may be received prior to the expiration of the four months. Potators.—There appears to be every reason to fear that the country is again about to be cursed with that dreadful calamity—the potato rot. Exchange newspapers from the North and West come to us with accounts of its appearance in various localities of those regions; and an experienced, observing and successful agricul- turalist in this vicinity, who raises large quan- tities of the esculent, assures us that he has discovered incipient evidence that the vegetable is unsound in this quarter also. It behooves potato eaters here to look well to those they purchase, for nothing can be more unhealthy than potatoes in any stage of the disease, what- ever. Tue Speakersnip.—The Huntsville Advo- cate, the leading Houston Democratic journal published in that gentleman’s district, hoists the name of Mr. Geo. S. Houston for the Speak- ership, advocating his election to that position with great earnestness. We judge from all the cireumstances apparently connected with the Advocate’s article, that it may be regarded as an authoritative announcement that Mr. IT has regularly entered the lists for the distin- guished office wo name above. Mopeis.—To-day the models offered by those who have made proposals to construct the steam sloup-of-war which the Navy Department de- partment designs causing to be built by private constructors, are on exhibition in the Bureau of Construction, in Winder’s Building. They are models in their way, indeed, and are al- ready attracting much attention from naval officers now in Washington. Tur Tax CotLector’s Notice.—All our fel- low-citizens who possibly can, should, by all means, heed the advertisement of the Corpora- tion Collector of Taxes, offering the usual dis- count to those who settle their tax bills before the day named therein. In these griping times for money, a considerable per centum of the taxes due on real estate is worth being saved. A Misprin?.—Yesterday, in brifly comment- ing on the state of the Alabama Legislature: recently elected, we were made to say that the Democratic majority on joint ballot is 132. It should have been printed 113. There are about 20 Senators and Representatives only, elected, who were supported as American party men. Tar AtrorNey GeNeRAt is at present absent from Washington city—having left for a brief visit to Bedford Springs. Tae Weatner.—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.: Avoust 25, 1857. New York, N.Y lear, cool. Philadelphia, Pa. lear, pleasant. Baltimore, Mi ‘lear, cool. Washington, D. ‘lear, cool. Richmond, Va. loudy, pleasant. Petersburg, Va cloudy, pleasant. Raleigh, N. loudy, pleasant. pacts Sy N loudy, cool. Columbia, 8. C saggy 8. Augusta, Ga. Savannah, G Macon, Ga... Columbus, G Montgomery, Ala. Lower Peaeh Tree, Ala. Mobile, Ala... Gainesville, Miss. New Orleans, La.. From tHE West. The following reports have been furnished by the National Telegraph line; Frederick, Md.. Cumberland, Md inti elon Md jarper’s Winchester artinsbu Wheeling, Va At Washington ter 9p. m., the barom- eter was 30.2 Ae ee ie . ‘This morning, at 7 gicetts the barometer was 30.378, thergpome- ter 59°, j 1 Persons who remit > stamps bj mail should fold them up in cones blotting sadly U7 Recent experiments in Boston, with coal burning Locomotives, have been most success- al. ? 7* J. C. Richardson, an abolition minister, ‘was escorted out of ‘Tazewell county, Tennessee, on the 13th instant. iL7~ New flour was offered in the Cincinnati market on Saturday at $5 50 for the fore part of September. IL7~ The season at Cape May is over. On Fri- day there were not five hundred strangers in all on the island, and most of the houses had been Onto Annvat Conve: &.—The Ohio An- Church "will meet, at Chiliicetas” Chure! meet to-morrow, (Wednesday,) August 26th. ru wi I" fouma ing irenoble hemp fire hose, wh to work admirably. It is cheaper and. leather howe.” Per lawyer, toavenge hi nent, wrote "word roe Saree cope °FPne owner of the hat took of it, looked ruefully into i hn hte Judge exclaimed, “1 claim tl ec honorable court. i Pounael his written his name in ha Thavea vaprany e suspicion that he he and to make ‘way with i g _ PERSONAL. ‘i -... A. D. Banks, Esq., of Virginia, is now at Browns’. ..+. Hon. David R. Potter, of Pennsy!vania, is at Willards’. +-+-Dr. land isu the ist churches 5 am aan congress. si =f Rev Po Hamar! ag to have said t is great battle with the was in choos- ing @ text. »+».Mr. Charles Turner, one of the best mez- i zotinto vers that Edgland has produced, is dead, at the age of eighty-three. «ss» Eugene Sue died of an affection of the spine. It is said that he has left memoirs which are not without interest, and a romance complete. I Cisret in. Paria. proposes to spend the i arch in i$, pro} 10 sper Shing winter in the United States. Mr. P. T. Barnum sails for Europe igthe on the 2d September. His Sully lon, where he intends hereafter to reside. .+.. Ex-Gov. Myron H. Clark, of New York has an agency in New York city for the payment of taxes on non-resident lands in any part of the United States +++. The report ina New York Sunday paper that Mrs. Mowatt-Ritchie is about to re-appear on the stage, on account of alleged pecuniary neces- sities, is a fabrication cciion of J. H. Harney, of the Louteville Dem. election of J. H. , of the Louisville = ocrat, to the United States Senate, to succeed Thompson, (Amer.,} whose term expires in 1859. .+--John Wilson Croker, long celebrated for his “‘ slashing articles” in the Quarterly, and the rson from whom D’Israeli’s character of voy de , in Corringbey, is drawn, was so ill that he is not scpectes to survive from day to day, at the latest dates. ++. A letter from one of the villages near Gen- eva, Switzerland, says: ‘Rev. Dr. Alexander and his family passed through here yesterday from Geneva. ‘Rev. Dr. Tyng is in Geneva, on his return from Jerusalem. gBev. Dr. Baird — through here a few days Since on his way jo Russia.’” Tur Execution oy McKim.—David Stringer McKim, the murderer of Samuel T. Norcross, ‘was hung at Hollidaysburg, Pa , on Friday last, he having the previous night attempted to com- mit suicide. It will be remembered that the crime forwhich McKim has suffered the extreme penalty of the law was the murder, in January last, of a young man named Samuel T. Norcross, formerly of East Lexington, Mass. Norcross had gone from his home to the West in the capacity of a music teacher. After residing there for some time he returned to Massachusetts and borrowed $1,000 from his sisters. This money he returned with to the West and invested it in lands in Dubuque, fowa, and Dunleith, Ill. The property rose so rapidly in value that he comme: the study of iaedlclee with Dr. Burnhold, relying upon the interest of his money to support him. In the meantime an abscess formed on his left side, which became painful, and he determined to re- turn home, McKim, whose acquaintance he had formed, volunteered to eye him Nor- cross obtained his money in Kim's presence, the two starting in company on the journey. McKim treated Norcross with great kindness, until he won his confidence and esteem, an: finally killed and rebbed him, on the morning of the 16th of January last, on the Pennsylvania Railroad track, three miles west of Altona, where the victiin was found in a dying condition by some laborers on the same morning, probably two hours after the commission of the deed. ‘The murderer mana; to evade the officers of the law for several weeks after the commission of the crime, and was finally captured in a wild, mountainous spot in Columbia county by a Mr. Wolfe. A $100,000 Honsz Rack Orrerrp.—The Sa- vannah Georgian is anthorized by responsible gen- tlemen to make the following challenge—which is open to the world—viz: To run a match of four miles and repeat, at such time as may be agreed upon, post entries for one hundred thousand dol- lars a side, the hoases to carry weight for age, to be ran over the Ten Broeck Course et Savannah, Georgia. The Georgian adds : ‘In order to induce our English friends to ac- cept this banter, we are authorized to say further, that in the event they should do so, and lose the race, five per cent. upon the money staked, or in other words, five thonsand dollars will beallowed them to pay the expenses of their horses. “The course at this place is considered by racing men and those competent to judge, one amongst, if not the best Turf in the United States, and its position is so easy of access, that if this otfer shall be accepted, a concourse of people may be expected to gather here which shall far out- number any assemblage, ever witnessed on a sim- ilar occasion in this country. “The gentlemen by whose authority this chal- lenge is published, are all men of respectabilit and Seeatth and the money is ready to be covere by asimilar amount from England or elsewhere.” Ara! in Savinc Garvey Servs —The first bps per peas, or snap beans that appear, save for seeds; the first tock of okra (heb anoee a , let it go to seed ; the first cucumber, squash, or melon, save for seed. In this way we may succeed in etting much earlier vegetables than by follow- ug the usual method of taking the refuse of all our garden crops. Save the earliest and best of everything for seed. Our egg plants might be brought into bearing much sooner if we would save the first for seed. Who can stand it, with all the long year’s dearth of delicious morsels, to save the first roasting ear or tomato that may ap- pear for seed? And yet, if we would bring for- ward the whole crop two or three weeks earlier, it must be done. Let it be a settled maxim of the gardener, the first and best of everything for seed. Coast Survey or tue Unitep Stares.—The Portland Advertiser states that the steamer Cor- win, Lieut. Com. Temple, is now in that harbor, and will continue the hydrographical survey in Casco Bay, and as far east as Cape Small Point. The surveying schooner Gallatin, Lieut. Com. Trenchard, U. 8. N., is hourly expected to arrive there from Savannah, Ga. She will remain some weeks, for repairs and supplies, and will then roceed to survey to the eastward of Cape Small Point, and about the mouth of the Kennebec. The coast survey schooners Meredith and Hassler, under charge of Messrs. Longfellow and Huger, assistants U.S. Coast Survey, are now in Port- land harbor, and will continue the topography of that section. Professor Bache, with the main rty, is cutting a road and measuring a base line In Columbia, Vashington county. Horrors or rHE Maat Piz Trape.—The Paris police having received information that of late reat numbers of cats had been killed in the Fau- urg St. Martin, St. Denis, and Poisonniere, and in the adjacent streets, resolved to capture the destroyers of the animals. Some of them on duty in the Rue St. Martin, in the night of Sunday, perceived a man throw large pieces of meat about, and when, as generally happened, some cat hast- ened to take a morsel, another man who was some- what in the rear, sel on a dog to attack the cat, and soon was able to thrust it dead into a sack. The police succeeded in arresting the man with the sack, but the others got off From the pris- oner’s confession, it appears that the slaightered cats were sold to keepers of low eating-houses at the barriers, who passed them off as rabbits. Remarxas_e Cuance.—We know an elderly and hi, ply Teepenae lady in this city whose gray hairs have suddenly changed toa dark chest- nut, leaving no traces of the frosts of many wjn- ters thi which she has Buta few weeks since her hair was almost white. Now she wears a full suit of dark, glossy hair, such as adorned her head in the days of her youth. The ‘change took place unperceivéd by her, and she never used any artificial means to produce it. ‘This same , though nearly seventy of age, is one of the nicest Tesses in the city, and has no superior in vest making.— Richmond Dispatch. Witt Mattsson Resign ?—Thix question is asked from all quarters since the announcement that Col. Keitt intends to move for his expulsion should he take bis seat in the next Congress. The Rome Sentinel says Matteson hesitates jabout re- saatag. Decause Ye thinks he can’t be re-elected. i Utica Observer has the segriaron 8S “We are informed, on good autbority, that a letter re~ ‘questing him to resign, signed 7 preaninent Re. publicans in the sere. part-of the country, was Presented to Mr. M. a day or two ago. Ilis reply ‘was not made publig.”’ (> At the late ‘1: and enthusiastic’? meet- ing in New York, to raise funds for the returned Wickrairass; the sum of $3 was collected ! ‘The Surrogate of New York has added his. legal conclusions to the popular belief that Mrs. Cunningham was not married to Dr. Burdell. Her claim to the estate of the murdered man ts disallowed. It is a curious fact that in the first Territo- rial Legislatute of Alabama the upper branch of that body, or the Senate, was composed of one mene James Titus sat alone in the chamber and decided upon the acts of the Lower House. | UF" The State of Maine learns that the Great Eastern will certainly make three trips to Port- ving first make an experimental one to, Lisbon, Gibraltar, or some other port, to test her maebit leaving for Portland about the first week of April. » E11 Taayer.—The Providence (R. 1.) Journal is informed that Eli Thayer has ht of the Corliss Steam a Company, seven steam en- ‘Ines equal to horse-; ‘driving saw and > to be used ie and others, in Wi lie porebased " ‘A New Swinpi®.—The Staunton (Va.) Vindi- cator publishes a letter received by a in that sanny: ai “Cc, E. | Albany, N. Y.,”” pape fie sell hi ira eegin flake oceaergea he “ confidentially.» ie peered GEORGETOWN AFFAIKS. Correspondence of The Star. GzoRcrTow™s, August 25. 1857. A called meeting of our City Councils was held last night A message was received from the Mayor, in- forming therm of the onject of the meeting, and accompanied by a communication from Mr. Woodruff, covering an estimate from Mr. Bur- Tengtie of time required to make a sul = = Geo! channel As say akon mac, amougst necessary to va ex- penses of the same. [The estimated lime re- quired to complete the work is fifty days; expense of the survey, twenty dollars per day,—making = cost pecs vel . 5 be message of the Mayor and accompanying papers were referred to a special committer, eon- sisting of Messrs. Cropley, Seymour and Oyster; who rted an ordinance directing that so much of the 31,000 appropriated by erdinence of July 28, 1855, for deepeni the ‘channel, yet unex- be diverted tothe survey of the same, and inting the Mayor and A. H. Dodge to super- in the expenditure of the same, and directing the Mayor and Clerk to issue one or more cettiti- cates of Corporation stock to the above amount, and the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to —— said stock by an issue of like amount of ‘orporation due bills. The ordi passed. both Boards. Both adje: red RUN ARNIS Rey" =< aateebmcals Sometning New.—Capt. Edward Cavendy, formerly of the steamships Roanoke and James- town, but now of the Washi |, has been ex- hibiting in New York a tripod for zenith observa- tions, which he has recently invented. This enables the navigator to determine the latitude or longitude at sea, during a fog, & when from any cause the horizon is invisible. It was tried on the last trip of the Washington, and was found to work admirably. Its cost is very trifling, and it will doubtless come into use.— Peters- burg Expeess. TeLxorarn LINE ABANDOXED.—The present Newfoundiand line of telegraph is to be aban- doned. It has cost more than a million ef dol- lars. A road was cut for it with immense labor through 400 mileg of dense wilderness, and it is now found or aig ee to keep it up through the storms and ice of a Newfoundland winter. ‘The company’s agents are now making soundings of the coast, with the intention of running the At- lantic cable down from the banks of Newfound- land to some port in Nova Scot! ————_—__—§___—____ The Fredericksbarg and Oran; wo Plank Road is undergoing as thorough cas the finances of the company wiil permit. Huno.—A negress named Sarah was hung on Friday, at Louisa C. H., Va., for the murder of Mrs. Hall, her mistress, near Gordonsville, some months since. ————_—__—_—_—==_=EE—a==E VOCAL MUSIC.—C. L. IRVING returns many thanks to his music-loving friends and rons for favors oe the past winter and spring, and announoes his Vocal Music classes at ‘Temper- ance Hal! closed until TUESDAY EVENING tember ist,at8 o’clock, at which time eae prone Evening and Night Classes for ladies and gentlemen will organized. Those desiring a thorough knowledge of the elementary principles or of prac- ticing upon Glees, Choruses, &c., can be gratified by uniting with these classes. ‘erms, 22 lessons, $5. Vocal instructions giving to Schools and Acade- Py ees Private instructions in Singing and upon A pplication can be made to Mr. I. through the post office or at the music stores of Messrs. Elite or Metzerotte, au 15 tSepti* BALTIMORE ICE CREAM DEPOT AND CONFECTIONERY, 3% 6th street, between G and H.—The very best ICE CREAM and WATER ICES at $1.5 per gallon, delivered to any part of the city. Also, on hand #2 different kinds of Cakes. and finest inthe city, which I will seil 8 for 5 cents. Come ofie, come a give mea call. Furnishes Parties, SYetsiogs » Excursions. &c, JOSEPH 'SHA FFI ELD, Foreman at Weaver's, iy 27-Im* Opposite Browns’ Hotel. ICE CREAM AND WATER ICES, of the \ best quality, delivered to families, 188, fairs, and exenrsioniats, at $1.5) peexalion, at the PHILADELPHIA ICE CREAM DEPOT, corner 12th and F streets. anu l-im* NOTICE.—The President and Directors of Georgetown College hereby warn all persons not to trespass on any of the College walks or rounds, on pain of being dealt with according to w. By order of the Presicent : au4 im JAMES CLARK, Treasurer. GJRORGETOWN COLLEGE. Studies will be resumed in this Institution on Monday, the 7th of September next. au 25-im _B. A. MAGUI YREEN G R_ FOR PRESERV 3 cheap Brown and White Sugar, Pickling Vine- —— Ceoemien, Zone, Wines, and Li- t the ver; 3 = PegOs. W. DAVIS Le Corner 9th and F. streets. HILDREN’S Nt SERY CHAIRS, BOYS Wheei- Barrows, low. Bird Cages, Transparent r Soap, Low's Brown Windsor Soap, Hair Tooth Brushes, cheap for cash, at au 25-3 1.AMMON D'S, 7th street. _ 4 5 BARRELS BRIGHT MOLASSES— ©) 5 barrels New No.3 MACKEREL. J ca wooed oregon in good order, ust received and for ie bw au 25. eodt MURRAY & SEMMES._ BUSHELS PLASTERER®’ 1 000 FOR SALE VERY CHEAP. 1 wich to close out this lot of Hair at avery low price, and on the best terms, for cash, or short credit. lasterers and housebuiiders wiil do well to give me a cali before purchasing elsewhere. ee C. SHAFER. Leather Desler, gu 25-3t* t. 13th and 153% sts.,on the Avenue. GPECIAL NOTICE TO SPORTSMEN. J would call your Particular attention to Du Pont’s No.4GUNPOWDER, which for strength, clean- liness, caer singing. behecpepos | of sone 1s uu- ‘owder ever in! ‘uced. eee ee Ow TO ALBERT KING, ja Agent for the District of Columina, No. % High street, Georgetown, D.C. E T WASHINGTON SEMINARY, Cor. Va. ave. and 5th st-east, Masonic Hall, ary Yard. The daties of this School ‘will be resumed Sept. Ist. The course of stu embraces ail the branches usually taug' best schools of the cones For og ga information, terms, &c., see rs oF a 0. pir PPNOW. P. BATE: au25-eot{* (Successor to Dr. J SEWING MACHINES. . — Our Agent, Mr. John Porter, visits the city of Washington for the purpose of exhibiting tothe La- vicinity the justly celebrated WAT- DOLLAR FAMILY SKWING and also make sale for Territorial right et of Columbia, Machine will be on C W. Boteler’s, fron Hali, No. 313 Peneeyivenianvenns, teloenp riae — invite all per- sons interest .O witness ils o; Ae. OBBINS & CO. Rol au 25-tf H.MARLOW’S + CHEAP BOOT AND SHOF STORE, Ltak MR shed Lier for ee gnanal Saacliaie @ this opportunity o! ing my cu: aud the public in general that I have on sale, a lot of first rate f skin Gaiters at $2.50, and a French Caif-ekin ent Leather! fr &t $3.50,48 good asare usually sold and a good Calf-skin Boot at $*.50. Ladies ere at § 25, fine Morocco Buskins at$i.and Fy eigenen en as Boys ue = Chil- rens, cheap in proportion. jor your- selves. Don’t forget the piace, No-496 Pennsylve- nia avenue, between Sd 4% streets, au 25-2aw3m OBSON’S RUDIMENTS OF THE ART OF Building, Se. Ing, 5 ilen’s » Buniding, Ste. linsen' and Ventilation, 75c. Dempaey ‘Drainage’ and Sewag’ 2 oof Towns and uildings, 56ce. psey’s Drainago of Lands, 3?c. mn on Foundations and Concrete Works, Sic. jurnelion Lames, Cements, Mortars, Concretes, Mastios, &c.. &c., 37e. . poe on Well-di ing, Boring. stg tg "s Masonry ating, 750. Githons on the Law of Contracts for Building and » Sic. Leeds on ine Orders _ Styles maf tebe een inerples «| Desi tecture, esse Fuel. Furnaces, &0., 310, 7 urgoyne lasting and Quar: Stone Sc. Wal or Works for Cities an Towns, by :. Haghes, Civil Engineer, $1.12. a o Rian fac i ture end Distribution of . 68, $1.12. Imported Bes don, each volume with numer- pus eagraviags. FRANCK TAYLOR. OSIERY, GLOVES, &o. The spheeriter rospectialis informs $poee ose por- sons wis! Oo purchase pS GLOVES, SMALL WARES, Soe thai paew will pon ric ong wel meron ee store: ns undoing ex: a fash business, he offers great i jucemonts purchasers to call and Sarees ies themselves before Pie is alte cloning aut his stock of SUMMER ea dopsarescet be mom ot SUMNER li stock, tkerefore those who have not their summer pu C. F. PERRIE, Au 20-6t 375 7th street, near T. EN’ COVERIE:! sEOLOGY RGANE Riya teas WaceOLocy. ar Met: x )» Sewer- ‘and Water Supply, by A: Sayers Ml Deleon 07: Ste ply, er, Al. - rele Pearse ET 5 aay Engineering wing, London, 1857; “ Os *a Di if mes and mes 6 Ragliah Can azo, Luondon, 183 Soe, of the guage, di Von cies CP asta et ie forthe ee akties ieee: Palmerston ears, | vol., Loudon; % Remintioenonn of Capt Crawford, Royal Navy, 1 d FRANCK TAYLOR. A Naima tears tae i our own for the ther ‘which, we will to keep any, length of time, sven a ventas. | PRICE GIVEN FOR OLO Pi DRRESE Stier. emai F. ELLIS, oO” FELLOWS HALL. COMPLIMENTARY BENEFIT to the talented young actor MR. FRANK BANGS, On SATURDAY EVENING, August 3th, i877. The following host of talent will appeng : The popular Hanwonian QUARTETTR Sip Haa- 2 and J. W. Mansmati, of Marsiail’s Opera Troupe. Hagar Inciepos, the favorite ballad singer, . Le Perite Rosa, the young danseuse. . CHURCH the 2ethor and voonst, Duval, the chempion jue dancer. ‘Adimssion, 2% Cents ; Children half price, oak open St 74s; performance commence at & 2; Salas i} = OPP FELLOWS’ HALL. “ We come with Songs and Mirth to greet vor.” The amusement season in Washington will be in aueurated on THURSDAY EVENING, Se tember Sd, by the appearances of the ETHIOPIAN SERBNADERS under the managemont of Mr. Jxo. WEiis, HUMOROUS, MUSICAT-£ INSTRUMENTAL CENTER TAINMER TE UGHT ACCOMPLISHED PERFoRMER®. They will appear every Evening during the week, Admission TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. Doors open at 7% o'clock ; performance commence ing at 8. ave Mr. ‘ EXCURSIONS, &. [* XCURSION.—The Boone Rifle Co ps respect fully announce to the public that their Pith Anuual Kxetrbion to the gia Aiea IN Wurte Uovse Parition will take’ ince THURSDAY, September et in futore advertisement. A PIC-NIc, PIC. NIC willbe given i the VOL ohics FRIEND ARTY OF Hig Gh TOWN, on WE Y, Sept. od. (if far, if not, the next fair day, eTI£’< SPRING. As the object of the Society ts to educntennd clo h poor children,the S. ci@ty hes resorted to this method to replegush the funds of the trensury. nod earnes. - ly xolieit the patronage of the community tonid them to their charitabie object. Two e and comimedious Reats have been pro- cured to convey passengers from the Aquaduet to the Spring free of charge. and will leave at 7% and 4 o'clock, 8. m., Bud It, and 3}; o'elock p. m, Tickets 25 Conis, Chuldren 10 Cents ; to be pro- cured at J. J.. Kidwell’s. Georgetown, and John F. Elis, Washington, and from members of the Socie ty. The best Cotilion Music has been engaged for the occasion, GCATH- A ements have been made foren abundant supply of Refreshments, which will be sold at city Prices, A ificent set_of Silewe will be exhibited da- — y,andraffied. A chances yet remain to be sold. By order of LEWIS CAR au 24-8t POURTH PLEASURE EXCURSIOD ” OLD POINT, PORTSMOUTH, & NORFOLK. The steamer Marys.ann will leave Washington upon an Excursion tothe above places on SATURDAY, August 2h, at 9 > o'clock A. m., arriviny Norfolk’ early next morning,and lenve agai at 1 o'clock for Old Point. where she wiil remaim until 6 0’elock fn afording ample time to visit Hampton,Fortress: jenroe the Hyceia Hotel, to enjoy the Sen Breere, to Fish and Bsthe. The next day can be agreeably spent in visiting Norfolk and Portsmouth, the Navy Yard. Dry Dock. Navai Hospital, &. eturning, the Maryland wil! leave Norfoik for Washington Monday afternoon at 4 0’clock. The table will be abundantly supplied with all the delicacies of the Washington and Norfolk markets, Good Music will be im attend: at ance, Passage, amepeey Np for the round trip, 86 for > seston and lady $10. an2? WM. MITCHELL. XCURSION AND CONCERT TO BEGIVEN BY The Washington Orpheon Quartette, TO THE WHITE HOUSE PAVILION, On MONDAY, August 31, 1387. The Oxprrox QuaRrtetre, composed of four gen- tlemen of Washington, take pleasure in announcing, nt the solicitation of, Eye friends, thi ive @ EXCURSION sud CONCERT to the Warr Hover Pavitiox on MONDAY, Angust Sst, 1857, when no pains will be spared to make it one of the myst agreentic Excursions of the season, The comfort and pieasare of their patrons will re- ceive particular attention, The Concert will consist of Choice Glees, Quar- tettes, Solos, &c. fine steamer Gro. Wasiine ton, under the command of Capt. Job Corson, having been charter ed for the occasion will leave her whart as follows. making two trips each way: Leave at a.m. and 2 P. m.j returning at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. An Excellent Baud of Cotilion Music, furnished by Mr. Geo. Arth, haa enraged The Tabies w;ll be nbundantiy supplied with sll the delicacies of the season, furnished by Mr. BR. ge Particular attention has been paid to the Bull of Fare. Tickets, admitting a gentleman aud two indies, THREE. DOLLARS, iwciading Dinner, Supper. Concert. &0. Tickets may be obtained at the nu stores of John F. Ellis, ; Metzerott ; bookstores of Wessrs. Taylor & Mi ty aud A. Adamson; at the drug stores of J Moore, J, H. Stone, and J Tth street, Washington. and Georgetown; Mr. ( of the Quartette. at will -Cruit’s Jewelry Store, 3. R. Barnard’s & Co.’=, Navy Yard, or of any ively no tickets will ba sold at the Boat, t 18 reqpested that all ‘Will procure them at the above named pinces. where thore who have not received cards of invitation will an leave their names,and they wal be attended 0. Omnitmeses will leave the Orpheon Quartettea Rooms, 7th street, between G and H streets, et 745 and 1 o'clock, and will beim wasting when the Boat returns to convey pagssengers b 5 Orpheon Quartette is composed of the ful : gentlemen: Wm. Edgar Morgan, . W. W. Griffin, F, A. Patterson, Mast. H. M. Teasdale. an 31-7t* M 3 —GEORGE JOHNSON, ; Kalorama on Saturday night, and has not sinee been heard of. Any information respecting him will be thankfully received as above. au 25-3" 10 REWARD.—Strayed or stolen from the subscriber, on the 16th of August, a Wight sorrel MARE two white hind foot aid SM binze faee,one mark ow her back from cart: saddie. The above reward will be paad if delivered to meat my residence, between Sth and 6th streets, on Maryiand avenue. fu 25-3t* WILLIAM MAYH 5 RE Ranaway on Friday oD instant, RO GIRL FE RA NOR. She ran off from the residence af Mr. James Ball. in Alexandria county, Va., to whom she was hired. She isadurk mulatto 18 years of age, about Sfeet Ginches ingh, and looks pleasant when spoken to, She had on. when she left a calico dress and blue hood. She has been seen in the Market Hoase in Washington, 1. Sag BH she and where she probably may now befound.. ‘The above rewned will we eiven che to = and returned to the subscriber, near Alexan ria, Va. au'25-3i* THOMAS W. SWANN. REWAK D.—Raneway from the subseri ber, near Beltsville,Prince G: "e ust, 1857, NEG N, Adam Sm Shout ¥.’ Hight 5 {eet «or ¢ inches: Wikek bushy hair, and well dressed. He has . moth living at Mr, Hamelton’s, on Capitol Hult. Iwill give the above reward if taken in a Free State; Gof taken inthe District of Columba or Counties of Montgomery and Prinee George's. or $100 af taken elsewhere and secured so that Leet him. ISAAC SCAGGS. Au 25-2w* es OS T— On Saturday afternoon on 14th street, L somewhere in the neighborhood of Columbia College, aisrge Calf skin POCKET BOOK. con- taining notes and bilis of no use te any one but the owner. A liberal reward will be given for the return of it to me at the corner of 10th N streets. au 26 2t ____ DICKERSON NATLOR. AKEN UP ASTRAY.—TWOCOW with winte face, right ho the tip of the Jef horn sawed off ; t era white andred speckled. horned Ce with no other particular marks. The owner or own ers are requested to come forwani, prove property, pay charges, and take thom ever HEINLINE au 22-31" near ion Yard Bridge. REWARD —Strayed or stolen, thrae ch $9 BENSRD dieappeared about these firstof this month; a young Cow, whit» muxed witn red all over her body, with horns, tips eut off—one old Cow, brindie or red, white face, horns. The other a young red Cow, ite fxoe.horne,tips out off :the two ins: were missed on Sunday, the ivth instant; ct in all gave m.Jk whea missed. 1 w turn of each Cow, and if they w heve) i will cive #10 for sneh convict the thief before the Crumma! Court. an 22-5 JOHN HARRY, Georgetown. “ST.—As L have been legaily noteined by the Commissioner of Pensions tim a BOUNTY LAND WARRANT for one buudred and twenty sores, No. 99.421 was issued on the Ith of January, 1857, in the name of James Grithaas Private in Cap- tain Pierce’s company, Virgiwm Malitin, War 812, sent to my address of Bonin. Vieginia. sno such Land Warrant*ims never come to my enor to the owner, and as every reasen exist that saad Warrant has been Jost, micsent, or stelen from the mail on transient [rom Washiugton city, D. C., to in, Virginia; apd the ubject of this ndvertiae - ment is to cive due notice t ail make apples - thon at the an Othce of the United States for a duplicate af by law, nied _ fu 18-w6 W. Attorney, 200 B Rv. fron the subser - ving near aariborou, $20 "= count: rma on the ‘aah i + | eb Sane. ears age, Aue! Led uiatto—has « large bushy head, with A if = 4 i bt) cE F Hy = i rem ‘on ont of t oniats S10 } county» lu Crther case he WILLIAM J. BERRY. ConGne — AND Wise nag FOR THE Aine Semnery. of tee f ‘ar, Ong volume, Ik, bound in tain on of letter press, and iF 2 z : | ¥ if gi EFe i £ S Be zl eae CR vine 3 price $1.(pablished at $3) or volume is to be