Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1858, Page 2

EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON ITY: 107 Advertisements should be sent in by 12 e’cleck m.; otherwise they may net ap- pear until] the mext day. SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS. The Union touches up pangently the con- tradictions and inconsistencies of the coalition- iste who oppose the immediate admission of Kansas. With the great balk of the coalition, the real objection is the slavery clause of the Lecompton Constitution ; with the rest, it is some rankling personal grievance that has driven them into desertion and alliance with the enemy. The Uw1on advises the members of the coalition to abanden subterfuge and plant themselves on their real objections to the measure which they resist, and then they will no Jonger tread on each other’s toes, and foun- der in mutual contradictions. The Intelligencer is occupied with news and miscellaneous matter. i That sterling Democratic paper, the Phil- edelpbia Argus,comes to us enlarged and in a new dress Potiticat —An exciting contest is now pro- gtessing in New Hampshire. Both parties have their best speakers he field. The Democrats are claiming that they shall carry the State. The Republicans say they bave madea thorough can- vass, and set down their majority at 5,700. (D™ On Saturday two men were arrested at Danvers, charged with passing #1, $2, and 33 notes of the Metropolitan Bank of Washington, D.C. A large number of the notes were passed, the men making small purchases at several places, and receiving change in good coin. There is no such bank at Washington as the Metropoli- tan. 10> Her Britanic Majesty's Government have presented through Lord Napier, the British Min- ister in this country, a magnificent telescope to Captain Thomes F Knowles, of the ship Carri- tuck, of Norfolk, for his valuable services in res- euing the crew and a passenger from the wreck of the sinking steamer Flora, of Jersey, in the month of November last. I> The world has lost signt of Mrs. Cunning. ham, of Burdell, Bond street notoriety, of late, bat it is Interesting to know that she still lives. On Friday last she hired a house in Thirty-first street, New York, near the Third avenue, and ‘was moving into it, when the landlord, for the Girst time, discovered who it was that had become his tenant. Mrs. C. thereupon received notice to quit, but she vigorously remonstrated and threat- ened to appeal to the law for protection. Never- theless, next day she found other quarters and evacuated the premises in 31st street. [> The Canadian Parliament met at Toronto op Thursday. Among the measures enumerated by the Colonist as likely to be pressed by the commercial classes upon the attention of the Provincial Legistature at the present session, are a@ change in the rate of interest (six per cent.) so &s to conform to the rate established by law in the State of New York, the abolition of impris- onment for debt, and ‘a well-considered: bank- rupt law.”” Tae Paciric Hore Examination.—The ex- amination of Taylor, charged with setting fire to the Pacific Hotel at St. Louis, was commenced in that city on Friday last and will probably con- tinue through all of this week. Thus far the evidence has been circumstantial, and though strongly suspicious cirenmstances are shown,yet nothing directly and positively implicating Tay- lor has yet been proven. There is 2 large num- ber of witnesses to be examined, and the excite- ment continues. Great crowds collect every. day about the mayistrate’s office, and watch with anxiety every development in the case. i tarahaanemmcaeaiitin an Waat ts to Brecon or Maxico?—The Lon- don Times says: “There is not astatesman who ‘would wish to see Great Britain hamper herself ‘with an Inch of Mexican ground. Let the Uaited States, when they are finally prepared for it, en- Jey all the advantages and responsibilities of ownership, and our merchants at Liverpool and elsewhere will be quite content with the trade that springs out of it. The capacity of the Mexi- @an popul:tion for appreciating a constitutional Tule is not so remarkable that we should volun- _teer to administer it.’? pe ae aes ew Yorx sr Gas Licut.—Iu New York, on Thursday evening last, the police made a des- cent upon a model artist exhibition. The Tri- bune says: ‘The girls, who were entirely nude, rushed ‘wildly from the stage, striving to conceal them- selves, while the men made rapid tracks for the doors and windows. The officers, who confronted the men with revolvers in hand, would not al- Jow a single one to leave till be gave his name and address. One offered bis gold watch. and another bis well lined purse for the privilege of making a quiet exit. : “After taking down the names and residences ofthe visitors they were permitted to depart. The keeper of the place, and the female artistes were all arrested and taken to the station- house.”” U7 The Sacramento (Cal ) correspondent of the New York Times says that the Mormons, if they leave Salt Lake City, will return east, to Missouri. He says: ‘Before the Mormons abandoned Jackson County, Mo., 4 chosen number secretly laid the foundation of the future Temple, and then, care- fh ng all traces of their work with dirt, ver. The location of thisspot ix held h secret, The idea of shortly return- mild this temple is continually fostered by new anecdotes, passing current from time to time, to the effect that the Lord is softening the hearts of the people of Jackson County, who de- sire their return; that some of the present pos- sessors refuse to sell the land wrested from the Mormons, professing to only bold it in trust until their return, &e “Those d ferent offshoots from Murmonism, known as Rigdonites, Ktrangites, Wm. Smith. ites, Gladdenites, &e | thongh differing as to the true successor of Joe Smith, look back to him ay their foundation pillar, and forward to the Jack- son County Millenium.’* PERSONAL. .- Young Boothe is playing in Charleston. + Hon. Ellis Lewis, Pa., is at Willards’. * Bishop Whitehouse, of Illinois, is in New York city 4... Bishop Potter is now in Philadelphia. His health is improving +--+ Rev. Dr. Haight, of Trinity church, N.Y., has gone to Cuba for the benefit of bis health. --+-It is sald the opinion begins to ptevail that Lola Montez ix not of the feminine gender, but a male in disguise. --..The Hon A. Jordan, present judge of the ‘Kh district of Pennsylvania, is at Browas’ hotel, in this city. ---- The New York Post saya that Georze Jor- ddan. the actor, has dixappeared, temporarily, from the staye, bis honeymoon bein; interrupted by legal tronbles, whieh may keep bim for seve- 3el days & prisoner Im the Eldridge street jail. -.-.Gow. Walker bas sent a letter tothe indian- lig meeting, In which he expresses his oOppo- ion to the Administration measure as strongly as ever, and says the pisdese be gave ‘shall be redeemed by bir to the latest hour of hix exint- tence, even to the shedding of the last d opofhs 2» The Piedmont Warrenton W hig says “« The Supreme Court of the United States have decided lately, that Mr. Thomas Green, of Wash- ington, formerly of this county and now of the Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, tied to #tract of land in the State of Texas num- dering ninety-three thousand acres, and valued at more than two millions of dollars -+- The New Orleans Picayune, of the 23d Ut, saye Mr. Charles Mackay, the editor of the London [ifustrated News, who bas for some days pest been in our eity, and has de- livered one of bis excellent lectures on ‘ Poetry and ~) to a large and higbly appreciative au- dience, left towg yesterday for Mobile, where, also, be is to lecture. He was accompanied by Col Zz Fuller, = New Yau, his friend and traveling companion ; and our fair correspondent. * Belle Britain,’’ we understand, has availed herself of their joint escort on this her first visit to our sister city over the lake.’ -lectorer and p Ste Sit nmentit ee RIL. Sy Tur Leviatnan.—Captain Harrison, who is to command the Leviathan, writes that he is in hopes to be in Portland with his vessel in the lat- ter part of the month of June, and he prcposes to remain there with her seven weeks — Boston (ewnal WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. Tax Great Oventand Matt.—The parties Tepresenting the contractors for the transpor- tation of the great overland mail between St. Louis and Memphis and San Francisco, are still in Washington. If it be their purpose, as alleged in various newspapers, to'induce Con- gress to legislate the direction of the routethey are to travel with their mails out of the hands of the Post Office Department into their own— or rather into those of scheming railroad stock operators who are said to seek to use them and their contract for their own pecuniary advance- ment—we feel very certain that they are spend- ing their time here to no purpose. Thereis no longer a question as to the wisdom of the action of the President and Postmaster General in the matter of the selection of the route. That is, ag to the fact that they can run it quicker, at less cost, and with far greater regularity, safety, and comfort in all respects than any other route proposed. Those. qho advocate the scheme of taking the direction of this important mail contract from the supervision and entire management of the Post Office Department as all other United States mail contracts are man- aged by it, as far as we can learn, do not deny either of the facts we state above, and hope only to compass their end through the influence of the favor which they fancy a majority of Congress feel for a Northern Pacific railroad route; the impression being that the successful use of the El Paso route for this mail may strengthen it in popular estimation as the route for the Pacific railroad. The subject will doubtless be filibustered over in Congress; to no other end, however, than that of delaying the compliance of Messrs. Butterfield & Co. with their original contract. The chances are, it seems to us, that after being induced by bad advisers to dance attendance on Congress until the end of the session, they will be compelled to apply to the Postmaster General to grant them the favor of'a postponement of the period when their service is to commence. Such is the almost invariable result of efforts to use such engagements with the Government for purposes really foreign to those for which they were entered into. The end, therefore. will be that the public interest will suffor from the movement, te a greater or less degree. Tuer “Wueet anovr, AND TURN ABOUT, AND scup Jim Crow.’’"—A week or two ago, the Re- publican-party and absquatulating Democratic letter-writers were furious over asuepicion that the Democracy designed postponing the admis- sion of the Senators and Representatives-elect from the State of Minnesota. In speaking for their friends in Congress on the subject, nothing to which they could “lay” their pens was too hard to be said of the Democracy of the House and Senate. They were, however, then under the impression that the Minnesota delegation were advocates of the views of Senator Douglas as against those of the Democracy upon the Kan- sas question. Now, however, they appear to have discovered that most of those gentlemen are indisposed to dissolve their connection with the Democratic party. So, they have suddenly wheeled about, and are furious under the idea that the Democracy of ‘Congress do not design opposing the admission of Minnesota asa State into the Union until after the admission of Kan- sas. If ever gentlemen blew hot and cold upon @ question of ‘State, they are these same, in their contradictory publications upon this Min- Besota question. Months ago, we stated that the question of the admission of Minnesota into the Union would be decided upon its individual merits, without reference to its bearing on the Kansas question. The opposition writers to whom we refer above, it seems, have just come to compre hend this fact; and as they have also undeceived themselves with reference to the sentiments of the Minnesota Senators and Representatives on the Kansas question at the same time, they are howling at a great rate, indeed, because, for- sooth, they anticipate that the Democracy of Congress wil! do yhat they were lately abusing them under the impression that they would fail todo. Viz: admit Minnesota as a State into the Union in advance of the settlement of the current Kansas imbroglio. CHanoe tx tHe Patent Laws.—Iin the Senate, yesterday, Mr. Evans, from the Com- mittee on Patents and Patent Office, reported @ bill amendatory of the patent laws, which was passed to a second reading. Thia bill au- thorizes the Commissioner of Patents to estab- lish rules for takitg affidavits and depositiors required, and to issue Patent subpeenas to wit- nesses in any contested eases pending in the Patent Office, and to enforce their attendance ; no witness shall be deemed guilty of contempt, however, for refusing to disclose any secret in- vention made or owned by him. In order to secure greater uniformity of ac- tion in the grant and refusal of letters patent, the bill provides for the appointment of a board of three examiners-in-chief, whose duty it shall be to revise and determine upon the validity of decisions made by the examiners, when ad- verse, or in interference cases; and from the decisions of this board appeals may be taken to the Commissioncr of Patents in person, upon payment of twenty dollars. The bill fixes the salary of the Commissioner of Patents at $4,000, the examiners-in-chief $2,750 each, and the chief clerk of the Patent Office $2,000. The Commissioner of Patents is authorized to return to the applicants or make other disposition of such rejected models as he shall not think necessary to be preserved. In lieu of the rates for patents heretofore charged, the following are proposed : on filing « caveat, ten dollars; on filing each original application for a patent except for a design, twenty dol- lars, and on issuing a patent ten dollars in ad- dition ; on application for a patent for a de- sign, fifteen dollars ; on application for a reissue of a patent, thirty dollars; for extension of a patent, fifty dollars ; for filing each disclaimer, ten dollars, and extra charges for recording. All patented articles are either to be stamped or labeled in packages, specifying the date of the patent. Tax Ocean Matt Steawer Question.—The subject of the future policy of this Government with reference to ocean mail steamer contracts must be definitely settled by the present Con- gress. Its importance, all Amorican legislative statesmen comprehend. There is no escape from the duty of its prompt solution ; for most of the important contracts of the kind are soon to expire. In view of that fact we publish herewith a brief extract from the Pennsy/va- nian of the day before yesterday, which sheds real light upon the comparative servgce ren- dered under our system and that of our great rival on the ocean, and the relative cost of the two, as follows : “Commence —Ocean steam navigafion is an essential condition of the devel: it of of our national commerce and Industry. Without the facilities which fast steamers afford for mail and Passenger transportation, and diplomatic inter- course with the countries with which we trade, our commerce and the various branches of indus- try connected with it, must necessarily suffer. England, France, and other well-governed States, acknowledzing, as we do, the justice of supporting ocean steam companies in considera- ton of the pica derived by the national commerce from their services, have established marine facilities commensurate to the ex‘ gencies of theireommerce, while we are, at this date, more than ever dependent on our commercial ri- val Great Britain, for the performance of our transatlantic pc stal business, and for ocean et am ‘fanaportation generally. To rely for so impo t- ent a service upon foreign steamers, is a Policy full of danger to our interests, which we may beve occasion hereafter to regret. “It is not generally knowa how insignificant our steam marine is, with that of oa eerie aa he ‘ fe to our sai . eof the latter is equal to that of Great Britain; but mark the disparity in the i for marine purposes. The United States possess 5? ecean }, of an ate tonnage of 94,795 tons; mhile Great aad, nai pah ae ay in, that uate steain marine, mmense of vessels is reduced to an inferior rot jency, and that conse- alargesum of money is annually lost to jon om that account. hile it is claimed that ecean steam na’ sion cannot exist without mental pe, while this fact is pretty Galt established, still remains a matter of some consequence to know why our efforts to improve the condition and pros; of our ocean steain ae hitherto been so remarkably unsuc- ‘4 comparison of the action of the British government in this respect with ours, bf serve to shed some light upon the subject. While the ocean mail steamers of Great Britain run 2,532,- 231 miles per year, at a total cost to the Admiral- ty of $5,333.985, the ocean steamers of the United tates run 735,732 miles per year, at a total charge on the Post Office Department of $1,229,733 And while the total income of the British Govern- ment from trans-marine goo ok is $1,957,865, leaving a deficiency of $2.376,150, our Gove: ment derives from the same source $1 ,(35 740, vm but $283.993 less than that granted in sub- sidy. In view of the value of the services ren- dered to the national commerce and eragt & by steam na ion, these $284,000 amount to little or nothing. The entire distance traversed by British steamers is three and a half times than that run by es ee panes ment su; rt rece! e 8 exceeds a times that fy Ain toours. The aver- age compensation paid by the Enylish Govern- ment to their powerful lines, such as the West India Royal Mail, the Cunard, the Australian, and the Peninsular and Oriental, including the Mediterranean coasting service is $2 39 per mile. The average compensation d by our Govern- ment to the Collins line, the Havre, Bremen, Ax- inwall, and Panama, San Francisco and Oregon fines: is $1 80% per mile. The higest rate paid by the British government is #2 52% to the Cunard Company ; the lowest the Peninsular and Oriental; while we paid as the highest rate 83.101, per mile, to the Collins, ro as the lowest $1 per mile to the Havre line. A Fisuy er Convention.—The recent convention or mass meeting of persons in Indiana sym izing with the absequatu- lating Democra: 3, is already being heralded by the in party press asa sure indication of dy dissolution of the National Democratic organization. That they should essay to draw from it such a conclusion, was to have been expected. If any dozen men in any New England village, disappointed about the appointment of a friend to a $200 per annum post office, get up a tempest ina tea pot against the appointing power, the same journalists always sce in it the impending de- struction of the Democratic party, which has been utterly ruined, after the same fashion, at least once a month ever since Old Jackson’s first inauguration, if our memory serves us. So far as this Indiana fishey Democratic demonstra- tion against the Lecomption Constitution is concerned, it is really nothing more than every Demoeratic administration is compelled to con- tend with, almost monthly. Nor is there any reason whatever to imagine that it is destined essentially to weaken the party in that State. ‘The President could not give offices to every body, and we presume calculates as a sensible man should, in such times, that quite a num- ber of the disappointed will essay to war on his Administration on any convenient pretext. {t is fortunate that upon the point on which those in Indiana seek to embarrass it, its strength is such in Congress as they must reap only “‘ their labors for their pains.’ mile, 1.534. to From Utan.—The latest intelligence from Col. Johnston, of the Utah expedition, bears date at Camp Scott, January 4th, 1858. The troops are reported to be in excellent condition and fine health, and no incident of military importance had occurred subsequently to the previous communication from Culonel J., who transmits a copy of a letter from Major Lynde, commander at Fort Laramie, dated Dec. 2d, in which the latter officer states that there will be a great, if not entire, deficiency of draught animals to bring on the three months’ supply at that post intended for Col. J.’s division, and which would be due at Camp Scott on the Ist of June, though it is thought the supply of rations on hand will last some ten or fifteen days beyond that date. Col. J. says it is de- sirable that these supplies shall reach him by the 15th of May, to enable the army, if then prepared in other respects, to advance with a good supply of provisions on hand. He then makes some suggestions in relation to the for- warding of draught animals, to supply the de- ficiency, from Fort Leaveiworth Before closing hiscommunicacion, Colonel J States that from a soldier who had been taken prisoner by the Mormons, and afterwards al- lowed to escape, he learns that the Mormons are organizing a force to ‘‘stampede’’ or cap- ture the horses and mules it is expected Capt. Marey will bring out in the spring from New Mexico. He advises that a sufficient force should accompany Capt. M. to enable him to reach Camp Scott, notwithstanding this con- templated attack of the Mormons. He closes his communication by stating that not a line has reached him from the War Department, and advises that communications should be forwarded from Fort Leavenworth by two or three persons accustomed to frontier hfe, as no reliance can be placed on the mails, and no large party will probably get through. In consequence of the above communication, the following general orders have been for- warded, per telegraph, to Boonville, Mo.: Special Orders, Headquarters of the Army, No. 32. § New York, Feb. 28, 1853, A train of at least 200 six-mule wagons will be organized with the utmost dispatch at Fort Leav- euworth, to gc immediately with Lieut. Colonel Hoffman to Fort Laramie, to transfer thence to Col. Johnstou’s command in Utah, commissary stores, men’s shoes, and such other supplies as may be known to be much needed. ‘Two extra mules to provide for casualities will be taken with each on. The wagons, mules, and everything for this train will be the best that can be got together at Fort Leavenworth, or within convenient reach of it. Two companies of the Ist cavalry and two of the 6th bogey to be fitted by transfers to the maximum and fully equip; , Will be detailed to escort the trainto Fort Laramie; and thence— with the two companies of the 6th infantry and one of the 7th already ordered f-om that post—to Umb; making four companies to Fort Laramie, and seven beyond that post. on subsistence enough will be taken from Foit Leaveaworth for the escort and teamsiers, so that the wagons may take as much grain— preferably oats—for the animals as possible. Grain may be found in trains on the road, or at Fort Laramie, and used if necessary. ‘The train will march as early as the 10th of March, if possible. The commanding officers of Forts Leavenworth, Kearney and Laramie, and of the 6th infant will give Lieutenant Colonel Hoffman all the aid in their power in the execution of this order. The commanding o of Fort Leavenworth Will see that official copies hereof are furnished all concerned, including Col. Johnston and the several commanders on the line of march; and willacknowledge the receipt hereof by telegraph . By commund of Brevet Lieut. Gen. tt: Jnwin McDowe1., Aasistant Adjutant General. A telegraphic dispatch has aleo been forward- ed to the commanding officer at Fort Leaven- worth, directing him to advice Gen. Garland, commander in New Mexico, that the Mormons intend intercepting Capt. Marcy, and directing that a strong escort be furnished the latter on his return march. Tae Hovse Exprorezs Birt.—The refer- ence of the bill to curtail the pay of the va- rious employees of the House to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union yester- day, by a very decided majority, we take to be the result of the tendency of the times, which is to mako everything they (those serving the House) buy, cost them more, instead of less, than formerly. The truth is, year by year the cost of living in Washington city increases, rather than diminishes, From the acquisition of California te this moment the relative value , less throughout the country—here as else- where; until a dollar will not go at this mo- ment mach more than half as far in payment of the grocer, butcher, or tailor, as thirteen Properly; and it seems to ty! after that thing, that the tendency of the times, as we explain it above, they will deduct s heary Pet centage from the pay. of their employess. ‘e regard the commitment of the bill as satisfactory evidence that the chances are ten to one against its becoming a law. New Newsraren Raoerarion.—New reg- ulations have been adopted. by the respective Post Office Departments of this country and Great Britain for the treatment of newspapers in the mails found to contain writing, the ob- ject being to check the fraudulent practice, which is now prevailing in both countries to a much greater extent than formerly. These regulations prescribe that posted in the United States for the United Kingdom, or vice versa, if found to contain writing or any inclosure, shall, at the option of the dispatching country, either be stopped and sent to the dead-letter office, or be for- warded charged with full letter postage, United States and British combined ; and if the writing or inclosure be detected in the eountry to which such newspapers are sent, a like course shall be adopted. The Postmaster General has therefore in- structed the respective United States exchange offices to forward all newspapers addressed to Great Britain found to dontain writing or any inclosure charged with full letter rate of post- @ge; and postmasters throughout the country are particularly enjoined to scrutinise such papers closely, with a view to detect frauds of this character. Kansas at tax Waite Hovs.—About noon to-day a body of some thirty-five or forty citi- sens of the inchoate State of Kansas, who are now on a visit to this city, waited on President Buchanan. We learn that they were verycor- dially received, and took occasion to express to the President their hearty approval of his course in relation to the affairs of their dis- turbed and unhappy Territory. They are unanimous in the declaration that the admis- sion of Kansas under the Lecompton constitu- tion would effectually cause a cessation of the excitement which already has and will con- tinue to operate adversely to the true interests of the Territory ; and they are all anxious that Congress will decide favorably on this question at an early day Lano Orrice Inteccigexce.—The General Land Office is in receipt of the following ap- -proved township plats from the Surveyor-Gen- eral of Washington Territory. Viz: Townships 3, 4 and 5, nerth of range 2; town- ships 2, 3, 4 and 5, north of range 3; and town- ship 2, north of range 4—all east of the Willa- mette meridian—comprising, together, upwards of 140,000 acres. By the last mail there has been received by the Department, from the Surveyor-General of California, a plat of the rancho El Corte de Madera, finally confirmed to Maximo Martitiez, containing 13,316 45-100 acres, and situate in townships 6 and 7, south of range 3 west, and townships 6 and 7, south of range 4 west. Rumors or Appointwents, &c.—It is ru- mored that the following appointments are among those sent into the Senate on Monday. Viz: Major Means, to be Register, and Major ‘Holden, to be Receiver, at the District Land + Office at Warsaw, Mo. Mr. T.J. Bishop, to be Register of the Land Office at Springfield, Mo. The name of Col. W. A. Linn, the present incumbent of the Custom House of St. Louis, is also said to have been sent into the Sena for confirmation ; and Maj. Bryant, of St. Louis, it is thought, -wiil be reappointed U. S. Mar- shal of Missouri. Tar Masority Rerort.—The powerfal and convincing report of Senator Green, with which he introduced the bill for the admission of Kan- sasasa State into the Union, is already viru- lently assailed by the regular opposition and fishy Bemoeratic newspapers. The eagerness whieh they display in pouncing upon it, em- braces the best possible evidence that it is a state paper worthy of the distinguished repu- tation its talented author has already achieved in the discharge of his Senatorial duties. Marsuacsuip oF ILutsois.—It is currently reported to-day that the President has ap- pointed Mr. Iram Nye to be Marshal of the Northern District of Illinois, vice Mr. David- son, removed. It will be remembered that Mr. Nye was appointed by ex-President Pierce to the same position, and after filling it for some twelve months resigned, and Mr. Davidson waa appointed in his place, on the recommendation of Senator Douglas. 2 Tue Recusant Wirxess.—We learn that the Hon. Reverdy Johnson, the counsel of Mr. Walcott, the witness before the tariff investi- gating committee of the House, who lies in the Washington juil for contempt of the authority of the House and its committee, designs ap- plying to-day for a writ of Aaheas corpus, un- der which, we presume, he hopes to procure the libergy of his client. APPOINTMENT BY THE Presiosnt—By and with the advice and consent of the Senate.— J. P. M. Epping, of South Carolina, to be Con- sul of the United States at Elsinore, in Den- mark. Tax Weatner.—The following report of the weather for this morning is made from the Morse Telegraph line to the Smithsonian Institution. The time of observatien is about8 o’clock a. m.: Makcu 3, 1858, clear, cold. clear, very cold. Wheeling, clear, very cold. Washington, clear, cold. Richmond, Va clear, th 2,wind NW. Petersburg, V: alear, cold. Norfolk, Va clear, wind W.th. 22. Lynebburg, clear, cold. Bristol, Ten cloudy, ther. Wilmington, N.C, Columbia, 8’ C Charleston, 8. clear, cold, clear, cold. clear, th.27, wind W. clear, cold. Montgomery, Ala ..... Lower Peach Tree, Ala. Mobile, Ala.... Gainesville, Miss New Orleans, La... : Barometer at the Smithsonian, rected for temperature, ) 30,137. Thermometer, on the Smithsonian tower, min- imnm last night, 14°; near the ground, 16°. Mean temperature iyenterday, 3". 10™ The small has from Rappabannock coun’ at7 a.m , (cor- mlex., on Thareda Sarat er cone itting ich., on Thu ona cha & rape'on his own sister, a married lady. we In a town not far from the line which d’- Essex and Middlesex counties in Massachu- setts, one night last week, a hen house was enter. ed and robbed of its contents The owner of the , on ing into the ben-bouse in the Goran , found the feathered tribe Perey bat the floor lay a wallet which was found to con- in sixty dol! in current bank bills, with Le pame of the man to whom it Wi told that be passes for a respectable and honest citizen, but that he bas mot yet galled for his CONG 0 Thirty-fifth Congrese—First Session. In re Sesatz, yesterday, after our report closed, the consideration ef the bill for the ad- mission of Kansas was contigued- tks in opposi- Mr- Seward then obta floor, when, —— r. cp genet st t ite Submitted by that tleman on Nona ‘ ay. - Pui atten ba at the —— time be abonidd a it an amendment to the that the admission of Kansas and Minnesota under their it constitutions should not impair the right of the people of those States to alter or amend the constitutions at any time. ee netey executive session, the Senate Is tae Hover, the vote referring the bili axing the salaries of the employees of the House was adopted —yeas 100, yeas 85. -§ 'd, of Ga., then called up the motion bi the vote committing tot e Com- mittee of the Whole the Senate resolution to ex- tend and define the authority of the President under anact approved January 16. 1857, entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to pro- mote the pee of the navy, respect to dropped and retired naval officers.” Mr. Seward desired that the vote should be re- considered, and the resolution printed and made the apectal order for some day. Mr. Smith, of Va, submitted a substitute, which he desired to re printed. Mr. Davis, of Ind., and Mr. Sherman, opposed the resolution; and it was advocated by Messrs. Miles, Chapman, and Millson. ‘Without any action being had the House ad- Preceedings of To-day. In THE SxxaTr, after the presentation of a large number of petitions and memorials, a debate took Place on a resolution to print an extra number of copies of the report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey; but the question was not taken ‘when the morning hour expired, and The bill for the admission of Kansas was taken up. Mae. Seward was speaking against the measure when our report closed. Ix Tux Hovsg, after some discursory debate, the resolution authorizing the President to re- store to the active or reserved list officers affected by the action of the Naval Retired Board was taken up. Mr. W bitely made a zealous and lengthy speech in favor of resolution. He took up several indi- vidual cases, on wbich the Board had decided adversely, and endeavored to prove therefrom tuat their decisions bad been unjust towards the parties. He thought the cases alluded to showed rapicuously the necessity of Executive inter- lerence Mr. Bocock op the resolution on the te first, that these retired officers after being ecided as unfit for naval service by the Board, had been permitted to have their cases investi_ gated by two courts of inquiry, and now, when all of these tribunals have decided against.them they desire to fe to the President for reinstate- ment. Secondly, should this resolution > the time of the Executive would not allow him to examine the merits of the case, and hence he would be less able to do justice to the petitioners vase the Courts Martial or Naval Courts of In- quiry. Previous to the organization of these courts the power was vested iu the President to remove off- cers from the naval list; but subsequently be is able to assemble fifteen officers of the navy, and after they have considered the matter, he can act on the result of their deliberation and inquiry. Mr. B. contended that the effect of this Board placing officers on the retired list, has not been to disgrace or injure them, but simply to remove them so that competent and able men may fill their places, white their pay ix the same as ceeny they were placed on the leave of absence st. OO Justice Bardwell, of Buffalo, has sent fifty gitis to the work-- ouse since last April. U7 A considerable reduction has taken place in fieight on the Great Western Railway, for grain, amounting to about three cents per bushel. 1. O_O. F.—COLUMBIAN ENCAMP- MENT, No 1—The officers and members of this Encampment will attend a special meeting THIS EVENING. at 2% o'clock. t+ make the ne- arrangements for the funeral of Patriarch B.Tatr. WM. P. PARTRLLO, C. P. WASHINGTON LigHT INFANTRY. A special meeting of the Corps will be held 18 (Wednesday) EVENING to inaje arranee, ments to attend the funeral of our late Ex Capta:n, Joserx B. Tare. tt B. FP. BEERS. Seo._ THE HENRY MARTI Monday’ riot on the 7th Henry W. Marti House oornerof D SMITHSONIAN LECTU# ES.—Rev, J. \ H. mcitvaine, 1). D.. of Rochester, N. V., lecture on WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY NG - of this week. Subject: ““Comparat.ve ‘hilology in some of ite bearings upon Fthnology. embracing some account of the Sanscrit mad Persian Arrowhead languages.” m essary Tae “AVE IITS. Witninetow THEATER, Immense bit of the “WILLOW CCPSE” THIS EVENING. March 2, MR. C. W. COU. DOCK . MISS SAL! 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