Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1858, Page 2

EVENING _STA —_—_————————— TON OITY: balers --+2- uly 30, 1858. be sent im by (07™ Advertisements sheald 11 e’cleck 3 otherwise they may net appear until the mext day. eee SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS. The Union disousses ‘The Court of Ciaims— what it is, and what it ought to be.”” gniek ticle admirably presents the difficulties atte: ing the prosecution of a claim before that court, and the insufficiency of the ouly judgment it is i ive. Itsays cane Govennald must trust to the honesty and intelligence of somebody in passing upon the claims against it. No valid reason ean be as- signed why it may not as well trust to the judiciary when the United States are defend- ant as when it is plaintiff. It is certainly as honest and as capable as Congress; and in this respect the Court of Claims occupies as favorable round as any other tribunal. Let its judgments £ final, and the adjudicated debts of the Govern- ment be paid as others pay. In cases involving large amounts, and in such as the law officers of the Government think involve important consti- tutional or Joual poinciales an appeal should be allowed to the Supreme Court, whose decision should be conclusive upon both parties.”” The Intelligencer in considering the Colonial Government proposed for New Caledonia, thinks it must be admitted that the measures taken in the premises by the British Government ap- pear to have been prompted by a commendable sentiment of liberality and good neighborhood towards emigrants from the United States, who, it is foreseen, will furnish the largest con- tingent to the population of the new Eldorado. < THE WEEKLY STAR. Our issue for the week ending with to-mor- row is now ready for the public. The entire news of Washington city, and a compend of the news of everywhere else, as well as a variety of attractive miscellany, may be found in its col- umns. We invite attention to the following Table of Contents : Wasuhineton News anv Gossip —Unmitiga- ted Demagogism; Like Master, like Man Utab; The Indians in Florida; Judge Crawford; The Postal Revenue; Ex-President Pierce and Lady; ‘The Asiatic Squadron; The New War Steamers; The Defeat of Col Steptoe’s Command, Naval intelligence; Troops for Oregon; The U_S. Squad- ron on the Coast of Brazil; The U.S. Treasurer's Weekly Statement; Hon. J. Giancy Jones; An- other ter from Peregiina; The Oceanic Tele- graph; Another Letter from Monsieur Tonson; The Appropriations; Appointment-; Tleatricals: Political; In Transition; Frazer River; The Wheat Market; The Farmers’and Mechanics’ Insurance Company of Philadelphia; Postmasters ee ed; Untrue; Convicted and Sentenced; The Presi- dent’s Trip to Bedford; The Return of the Ogle Gold. ; An Intelligent Solution of the the Difficulty News; California Sar- vey-; Oregon Surveys; Patent List of the week; To be Absent; Paraguayan Affairs; The Indian Hostilities; Public Schools; One of the Abuses of the Times; The Northwestern Difficulties; The Apaches; A Transfer Locat News—Conclusion of the Trial of Heis- sler and Johnson for the Murder of Stoops; First District Schoelx—Premiums; Barrett and Wil- jiams; Cattle Stealing; Daring Burgia: Fatal Accident; Real Estate; The Steuben Festival—tne Procession—at Arlington; Races; Review of the Police; The Penitentiary; Grand Union Festival of the 1 O O F; the Treasury Building; The Water Works; A Pleasure Part Indeed; Kind- ness Requited; Officers Grand Enc: pment tO. O. F ; * Please Keep off the Gras: Tue Pave- ments; Something Good in Prospect; The Weath- er; The Heissler and Johnson Case; Thrown from a Horse &e . &e Grnzrat News—Haunted House in New York; The Launch of the B-ookiyn; Later from St Domingo; Log Cabin Burnt; Or plection; Recept hes; Stadt Dues; Seving’s Banks in Europe; The Road to the Gold Fiel From Kausas; An Insult; Gold Productions of 1557. The Mormons in New Yor: Phe Vice President’s Speech, and several hundred other mattere of ‘interest Fousten News —From Great Britain, France, ha Italy, Denmark, Arabia, India, and China the steamer Indian; From Mexico, by the Rusk, &c. Pexsonat News —The Star's weekly memo- Tanda of the movements and incidents of some undred potable individuais ComugRciaL News.—The Foreign and Do- mestic Markets MisceLLany —How a Dry Joker was Joked; The English Dead Letter Ottice: Rarey’s Secret; Water Spout in the Potomac; Foreign Fashions for Jaly; Book, a fine article: The Recent Sui cide of a Free Lover; The Propagand at Rome; Sold; Statistics of Great Britain; Monument to the Memory of Preston S Brooks; Jerrold’s Wit and Humor, &e , &c. Postry —The Summer Shower; Good Night; A Kiss at the Door: Fae Unknown Grave; Hush, singularly beautiful This is but a portion of the contents, a par tial “Bill of Fare” of the feast furnished by our isaue of this week The paper may be vb- ‘tained at the counter of the Svar office; price three cents: and of the periodical dealers Subseription price, $1.25 per annum. The ebeapest paper in the Union. Examine it and see for yourself. been nominated by oné majority, as Republican candidate of the second Congressional district of Illinois for re- election to Congress. 2-0 O7 Hon. J. P. Farnsworth has U7 A company of about twenty-five persons Will leave Milwaukee this week for Frazer rivers via St. Paul. Small parties are forming in dif- ferent sections throughout the country for the same destination {™ The N. O. Delta of the 224 instant, says that they bave fine weather for the growing crops and ere long we may expect to have accounts of bioom and picking in abundance. &} The operations on the railway between Cairo and Suez have been resumed, and four thousand laborers are now empioyed on the ex- cavations and levelings of the still unfinished portion of the line. Tue completion of the entire railway is not Woked for before the spring of ses Uizs oF Gen Quitman —On yesterday, as we are informed, (says the Vicks- barg True Southron of July 20,) the last sad and solemn rites of sepulture were performed by the citizens of Adams county, including, of course, whe city of Natchez, over the remains of the late iameated bero and statesman, General John A. ultman. ‘Phe people of Natebez. of all classes and creeds, all sexes and condition, the old and the young came forth to pay the last tribute of their homage tothe noble and honored patriot whom they loved and reverenced. Under the command of Giles M. Hillyer, Esq., Grand Mar- shal of the day, the citizens and soldiery of Natehea formed in procession and marched, to strains of mournful music, to Monmouth, the ‘ate residence of the Hero and the Sage. Thence Lis remains were escorted to the burial ground with all due honors; and as the solemn words of “dust to dust, ashes to ashes,’’ fell upon the ears of that assembled multitude, down many a cbeek long unused to tears streamed long and fast the silver drops of feeling—aye, from hearts most deeply touched at the loss forever of the good, the gallant, the viorious Quitman. Tux Sranisn Navy —The Nay sists at present of 119 vesseis, Sscrew-frigates, combining 154 horse power; niue screw-boats, een guns and 770 horse power; frigates, combiniag forty-two @5Ns and 1 soy borse power; seven side-wheel corvettes, com. dining forty-two guns and 2,450 horse power ‘eighteen side-wheel advice boats, combining forty-eight guns and 2,650 horse power—in all.41 steamers, with 305 guns and 8,480 horse power The sailing vessels comprise two sbips-of-the- line of eighty-four yuns each; four frigates of thirty-nine guuseach four corvettes of twenty- five guns each; nine brigs, scxen schooners, and ten transport vessels—together tit -Six vessels, with @ total of 607 gun: a 5,770 tone Strang Besides there, there are {Y-nine vessels of one gun each, s tioned Princioally at Cadiz, Ferro} and Carthayena; thirty-five vessels of one gun each are in service at the Pbilipiues; three screw frigates and sclooner-rigged screw ua boats are in course of conatructioa. ‘Phe mumber of sallors registered ia Spain ix 60,517; im Cuba and Porto Rico 3781, and in the Philipines 33,900, Cadiz and Ferrol 2€ just now the ouly barbors baviog navy yards, ough there are naval @semals at Haveos, Carthagena, and in the Bay of Manilla. Y of Spain con- & foliows: Four uns and 1,080 combining eight. three side-whee} WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. Tax Procress or rae Tives.—Few readers of the Scar fail to be aware of the fact that it totally discards the definition of “ American progress,”’ as the term is used by new lights in politics, theology, morals, &c. It has steadily maintained that the fashionable ehanges of the times in such matters have done far more harm than good to society, corrupting youth, making middle age self-sufficient and presumptuous beyond any possible good end, and entirely crazing old age when overcoming its natura] inclination to conservatism. Neverthe it (the Scar) watches with unfeigned solicitude the march of the true progress of the times— of that “ progress’ in which we outstrip all other nations, thanks to te thousand and one incentives (which we have no room to explain here) by which all are surrounded in the United States. A day or two since, we saw at the store of our neighbor, Woodward, 2 very simple and ingenious little implement, in which was em- braced more sound and useful progress than is to be found in all the new-light sermons preached in New England—‘‘compounding sins they are inclined to, and damning those they have no mind to’”"—though it was but a mere broom for sweeping carpets! It was a covered box containing a revolving hair broom (of stiff bristles,) and a receiver to hold the dust and dirt taken off the floor by the broom. It is worked by pushing or pulling it over the floor, and the effect of its operation is to take up from the carpet every particle of dust, dirt, or “* trash,”’ tumbling it into the receiver, where it is snugly kept until the operator may please toempty it. Not a particle of dust is raised in using it. Every housewife will, on the instant, comprehend that the invention of this simple little implement embraces true ‘ progress.”’ That is, it emphatically improves the morals of studious husbands who, abominating carpet- sweeping dust, are as prone to swear at it as we are; while it involves great economy in saving furniture from much of the depreciating effect of gritty dust, dust, dust—which,-in this city of ours, as in every other city, is the chief source of the “‘ wear and tear’’ of household property. But we are digressing, in our love fur escap- ing from thought concerning the interminable theme about which all the world around us is essentially mad—politics. Our design is to dilate upon a more important thesis than the capital carpet sweeper, though that will very properly gladden the hearts of thousands of matrons and diminish the muttered oaths of half as many dust-bedeviled husbands. In driving around a few days since we had occasion to enter the ‘door, sash and blind” factory of our fellow-citizens, Baldwin Brothers, at the corner of Indiana avenue and First Street west. We were so struck with its exem- plification of the true American spirit of the time—true progress, industrial progress—that, crediting the Scar’s readers with the possession of real soul, we cannot resist the temptation to describe it (Baldwin Brothers’ factory, or work- shop—call it which one will,) in detail. As young as we are (for we yet flatter ourself that we are ‘one of the b’hoys’’) we recollect when the elder Baldwin came to Washington a journeyman Yankee mechanic, with a shrewd head and light heart, anda shilling in pocket. In time, seeing the wants of those around him in his line of business, he commenced a ma- chinery-made “ blind, sash and door factory,” with all the advantages of the tools of his time. which, when compared with those of this era, are as far behind the latter in results (ef- feetiveness) as tho ordinary tools of the jour neyman carpenter and cabinet-maker are of the latest improvements in the machinery in their respective lines of business. His perse- vera nce and industry some years ago enabled him to relinquish his business to his sons—men in the business spring-time of life—who now carry on the most extensive business in their line, we apprehend, in all this region of coun- try; manufacturing not only for the District of Colambia, but for a considerable portion of Virginia aud Maryland, selling their wares at the very boundaries of the city of Baltimore, where there are in operation many somewhat similar sets of machinery. “the main building fronts forty feet on First Street and has a depth of 100 feet, and is of three stories. It has an L. building and anout store house connected with it of appropriate dimensions. The lower (basement) story is used us a store room and lumber room wherein unfinished work is kept; aleo tor an engine room, in which the 20-horse engine that drives their machinery works; the boiler of which— one of the latest improvements of our enter- prising neighbors, the brothers Ellis—occupies a wing building large enough to afford room in it for drying atone time many thousand feet of lumber, which is effected by the use of the waste steam of the engine conveyed in all directions around and through it in pipes, with the addition of three huge ten-plate stoves. There green timber is duly seasoned ere being worked up The engine is supplied with fuel, for the most part, by the use of the saw dust and shavings made above. On the second floor, we found the machinery of the establishment That requires, perhaps, the attendance of an average of a single com- petent hand at each piece of it, and turns out— each piece—an average, perhaps, of quite one hundred times as much work as could be exe- cuted by a mechanic with ordinary tools. The machinery at work in this department of the establishment it was, which struck us as em- bracing the apt illustration of the value of the true progress of the times. It is designed to make banisters, sash, blinds, newels, pivot blinds, doors, mouldings and other inner and outward wooden requisites of every house built any where in these times, and to dress plank with mathematical accuracy previous to its submission to the operation of either of the many machines manufacturing those articles. Our attention was first attracted by the huge planing machine in which the lumber received its preparatory dressing mentioned above. It is one of Wood and Gray’s patent (something new) which will, with the attendance of a single hand, turn out six thousand feet of lumber per diem “dressed” with an accuracy we never before saw attained in the operation of a plan- ing machine. Thus it dresses plank or timber trom one eighth of an inch thick to 18 inches Square so correctly as never to fail to make a square joint. The cost of this machi $500. The main advantage in its use is the in- variable mathematical sccuracy of its work— romething new in a planing machine—yet something absolutely necessary in the business of Baldwin Brothers who would otherwise be subjected to heavy additional expense to pre- pare “stock” by hand to make perfect joints after undergoing the oy erations of the different machines to which they subject it. Near the Planing machine they have two lathes con- stantly at work turning by ; attern and other- wise. Their mili or other machine for entting mouldings has two hundred different patterns ” thus enab mouldings It works pctear es tee four hundred revolutions ee wenn pea the reader an idea of the quantity of work turned out by the establishment, we may men- tiom that it requires three huge Power-driven Srimdstones to be constantly revolving to sharpened their multitude of cutting tools. The machine for cutting tenons cats both sides at puce and with iystaat rapidity, making joints with a mathematical accuracy which it is beyond the skill of hand labor to imitate. A second moulding mill, with its two bun- dred different bits, also struck our attention: The demand on the factory for mouldings being greater than a single mill can supply, though one will do more work of the kind than any hundred mechanics working by hand could possibly turnout. Their mortising machineis the patent of Ball & Ballard, of Worcester, Mass., and a beautiful thing, in its way, it is. The machine, however, that struck us most particularly was Smith’s patent blind mortis- ing machine, a very remarkable implement in its way. Lebanon, N. H., enjoys the honor of having produced ii. It occupies very little space, and does its work by the operation of a single wheel of two feet in diameter, which con- nects directly with the driving wheel by means of cogs on its outer periphery, which is a nar- row one. It hasan inner and broade: peri- phery—or a wheel within a wheel. In the broad periphery are cams for about two-thirds of its diameter, so regulated (raised) as to drive the “bits” an eighth of an inch deeper into the “stock’’ at each succeeding plunge or thrust. Two connected rods, regulated in their motions by the cams, drive the chisel, which is in two parts. One set of the cams (on one side of the wheel driving the upper. and the other set on the other side of the wheel driving the lower por- tion of the chisel—the halves of the chisel) operate alternately, except at the last stroke, when they strike together. The inside of the cutting portion of the chisel halves are roughed or lipped, so as to draw the core from the mor- tise. An eccentric on the main wheel works the feed rack. which is drawn a fixed distance forward with each revolution of the wheel, by the operation of a small ratchet. A clamp, worked by another eccentris and connecting rod on the other side of the machine, seizes the stock on the rack at the precise moment it is brought to the proper position for the com- mencement of the operation of the chisel, and holds it firmly in its iron grip the precise time necessary to perfect the mortise, when it lets it loose to pass on, and again seizing it at the right time to perfect the operation of making the next mortise. It will work stuff in any length, from one toot to one hundred feet. The beauty of this little machine is in the many complicated effects it produces, each with mathematical accuracy and great rapidi- ty. It is next to intelligence itself, asit were, in its operations, ’and demonstrates the won- derful results of the application of mathemat- ical principles to the supplying the mechanical wants of man with directness and clearncss, which must be seen to be appreciated, for it cannot be satisfactorily described with the pen. Wright’s scroll saw, which they use, is also a Leautiful machine, as well as a machine for tenoning slats for pivot blinds, which cuts the tenon on both ends at one operation. Jt cuts by circular saws, the stock being inserted in a gauge which regulates the diameter of the pivot. The saws cut with perfect ‘‘justice.”” There are four saws operating to fiuish each tenon, and each of them performs its allotted work, which is different from the work per- formed by any other saw of the machine ; one cuts the shoulder, the next two round the pivot or pin, and the outer one cuts it off to the proper length. Ofcourse this machine works with great rapidity. A machine for boring pivot-blind holes, to be seen there, is also a matter of no little in- terest. It works sixteen augers at one time, each of which is geared by a belt on acommon drum ; as many of the augers as are required may be worked at one time. We noticed, by the by, a large lot of their pivot blinds being finished for Willards’ hotel. These blinds embrace great improvements over anything of the kind manufactured until very recently. They are really beautiful to look upon as well as remarkably cheap and conve- nient. We believe the brothers Willard have ordered them for the whole of their immense house, or that portion now in use as well as for the addition they are constructing. The third story of their establishment is used as a finishing shop wherein the machine-made Work is put together by hand. In that depart- ment most of thei: thirty journeymen work If the reader desires to comprehend at a glance the triumph of art and science in this country over material matter we advise them by all means to visit the factory of Baldwin Brothers which, in all its machinery and other arrange- ments, is behind no other similar one in this country in its capacity to execute orders of every variety instantly with mathematical ac- curacy, and at as little cost to the consumer as in any other city in the Union where the wages are not less than those paid in Washington. A New Rocte to tue Paciric Sipg.—The discovery of gold in the Frazer river country has already brought to light the fact that there exists a route to the Pacific side hitherto ut- terly unknown to ninety-nine in # hundred of the people of the United States, which offers more facilities for overland emigration than either route traveled up to this time—a route of inland water carriage, for the most part, with but a few hundred miles in its whole length upon which steamboats cannot ply with speed and convenience to the traveler. As a matter of public interest, we quote from New York Lritwne the following description of the route in question and its attributes : The new route which it is proposed to open from Minnesota to the Frazer river gold mines would appear to be very feasible. It would seem to present not only much the shortest, but, as soon as the Led pete arrangements xhall be com- pleted, the easiest means of reaching the new old fields, From St Anthony, the Mi-sisvippi « navigable for large steamers us far as the Sauk Rapids. ‘Thence to tad Je at the bead of navigation of the Red river of the North, isa distance 25 miles. ‘This part of the jour: must be made over land, but already this distri is being fast occupied by settlers, and a good road may be easily constructed. At Breckinridge @ settlement has also been established. Here commences the fertile valley of the Red river, and from this poiut.as appears from Capt Pope’s survey, the river, whick runs due north, is navi- gable for steamers all the way to its mouth, at the southern extremity of Lake Winnepeg. It begins with four feet of water, and gradually deepens to fifteen feet. Lake Winnepez, which is long, narrow and deep, receives near its northern end tbe Saskatcbewan, flowing from the west and having its sources in the Rocky Moontains. This river and the country on its banks have recently attracted attention as being well fitted for colonization. ‘Taking the climate of the eastern portion of the conti. nent and of the region round Hudson’s Bay as a standard, it was long supposed that all the inte- rior of North America beyond the forty-eigbth or forty-ninth degree of north latitude was too cold to prodace grain cropx, and unfit, therefore, for the habitation of civilized men. Recent in- vestigations, however, have fully established the curious and very important fact that, west of the western end of Lake Superior, at about the hundredth degree of west longitude, a rema:ka- ble change begins to take place in the elim. ite, to such an extent that, as we proceed Westward, the limit of vegetable growth and of the produc- tion of grain is extended far to the erik so as to include the whole Valley of the Saskatchewan. which is represented as in other Tespects well fitted for settlement The Saskatchewan inga river larger and longer than the Red river of the North, and, according to Gov. Simpson, of the Hudson's Bay Company’s service, in his notes its exploration, it Is na’ v its nort branch, with only one raj to obstruct navign- tion for for seven hundred miles in a direct ie to the foot of the Rocky Mountains. How serious aa obstruction this may be does not clearly appear. it can hardly be a perpendicular fall, since, ac cording to Gov. Simpson, canoes and fiat-boats pass over it in safety. From the head of naviga- tion, it is only about two hundred mites acri the rocky mountains, of whieh the elevation bi 4s much less than in Oregon and California, to =a gold digging on Thompson's and Fra- zer rivers. The distance from Breckenridge to the mouth of the Red River is estimated at four hundied and fifty miles. Thence through Luke Wtune- Reg to the mouth of the Saskatehewun is-two undred miles. Allowing for windings, the thousand m! 5 Sree st lane, al wi a distance of about two thousand miles from t! starting point on the Miss . boots, that river may be set down ata Add a bundred and twenty- carriage at one end of the ronte hundred at the other, making in the ‘So im are some ente! ng ple‘of Minnesota with the practicabill caked eprcrct thier, that measures have been y taken bi ‘ing a steamer at Breeken- desi; 1 Pa to mavigate the waters of the Pisa SO ae id to be ready for that urpose by the of next Spring. Meahwiile. as the g' of the route is within the territories of the Hudson’s Bry Company, bave been ste] tak@ito open a communication with the Gover- nor of that Company, and with otber persons re to assist in putting a line of steamers on t waters. At all events, we are in 2 fair way to obtain some distinct and positive knowledge ide extent of country, as to which our cer- t information is stili very limited, though great expectations have lately been raised in Tegard to it. From Key West.—We received the follow- ing interesting letter from a friend at Key West by this morning’s mail : Key West, July 25, 1858. The U.S. steamship Colorado was towed out this morning by the steamer Madagorda. The C. sails for Boston for repair of machinery, having broken her main crank. Qq the 23d the Constellation sailed for Boston, and the Saratoga and Plymouth for Greytown, via San Domingo. The Plymouth from Grey- town goes to Vera Cruz to receive Mr. Forsyth, our Minister, with orders to convey him to any Port in the United States he may desire. On the 23d the sloop-of-war Jamestown and brig Dolpbin arrived from the coast of Cuba. The Jamestown bas some thirty cases of fever on board, and a medical survey having condemned the Ae she sails to-day (25th) for New York. The Dolphin sails to-morrow (26th) on a cruise off the north of Cuba, touching here occasionally for orders The want of dispatch steamers is severely felt by the Flag Officer to meet the aaoyes, J demands of the public service, particularly at this season of the year when calms are frequent The French and English have a large force of efficient third class steamers, of light draught, on all their im- portant cruising grounds. The Granada arrived on Saturday night from Aspinwall, and on Sunday morning at 6 a.m the Philadelphia from New York. Key West is very healthy, thus far; but there is much anxiety among the inbabitants for its Preservation, particularly since the steamers to and from Aspinwall and New York have made this a stopping point for clean bills of health. Weather is exceedingly warm, and severe storms are prognosticated by the weather savans. ‘The brig Dolphin will have rather hazardous cruising during the hurricane months—August, September and October. The vessels, belonging to the Home Squadron, now on the cruising ground are the sloops-of-war Saratoga, Commander Turner; Plymouth, Com- perl Dahlgren ; and b ig Dolphin, Lieut. Com. aftitt. Tur Inpians 1x WASHINGTON TeRRITORY.— The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says that the President has re- ceived a communication from a late Superin- tendent of Indian Affairs in Oregon Territory, “who has had a long experience of the tribes now engaged against Col. Steptoe, suggesting that the war should not be forced on, but that the troops should be withdrawn at once, and throw- ing some new light on the causes of the diffi- culty. This communication’’ (continues the Herald's correspondent) “ states that the tribes now in a hostile attitude are a docile, friendly people, with whom there is no necessity for any trouble. ‘The real cause of the difficulty is the presence of the troops at Fort Walla-Walla.”” The correspondent further asserts that the communication caused considerable sensation In the Cabinet, as to what policy snould be pur- sued. It may have had that effect, and it may have been received as is asserted; but we can hear nothing of the communication from any other source, and it has not induced the President to countermand the order for sending an increased number of troops to the scene of disturbances, nor otherwise interfere with the previously-made arrangements for suppressing them ; nor is it probable it will have any such effect. From Caixa.—The Navy Department is in receipt of recent dispatches from the United States squadron in the Chinese waters, from which we glean the following particulars of intelligence. The Powhatan arrived at Hong Bong on the 12th of May, and on the following y Commodore Tatnall transferred his flag to er from on board the San Jacinto, which bad previously been the flag ship of the squadron. The San Jacinto, Capt. H. H. Bell command- ing, sailed for New York on the 14th. No change had taken place in the positions or relations of the belligerent powers in the vicinity of Canton, nor had there occurred any interference with, or molestation of our commerce in that neighborhood. The authori- ties of Hong Kong had received information that the Emperor had so far agreed to the wishes of the peace commissioners us to appoint an official of satisfactory rank to confer with them at a town situated on the river Pei-Ho, just within its mouth. This is regarded at Hong Kong as an important step towards the amicable arrangement of the difficulties be- tween the contending parties. Tue Teteoraru.—The Navy Department has received a communication from Capt. Hud- son, commanding the U.S. steamer Niagara, bearing date at Queenstown, Ireland, July 15. Captain IH. announces that the expedition was to sail on the 17th inst., to the plateau to renew the efforts to lay the submarine cable across the Atlantic. “‘ Under the blessing of Provi- dence’’ he hopes for a successful termination of this attempt. If the expedition sailed ac- cording to Capt. H.’s anticipation, they will very shortly have made their further attempts, and we may, therefore, soon expect to hear from them in the region of their operations. Tue Suir Date.—The Navy Department is in receipt of dispatches from Com. MeBlair, of the U.S. sloop-of-war Dale, dated at Santa Cruz, Teneriffe island, June 9th, in which that officer says : \ Tt gives me great pleasure to report the officers and crew in good health ” This is the vessel on which so much. sickness was lately reported to exist. Tax Weatnen.—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: JuLy 30, 1858. New York, N.Y clear, hot, wind W Philadelphia, P: sees Clear, very warm. Baltimore, Ma... clear, very warm. Washington, D.C Richmond, V: Petersburg, clear, ther 82. Norfolk, Va.. clear, th 82, wind SW Wilmington, N. lear, ther. S4. Columbia, 8. C. -clear, hot Charleston, 8. C. «clear, th.79, wind SW Augusta, Ga.. lear, warm. Savannah, Ga lear, th 80, wind SW Macon, G clear, warm. Columbus, Ga .clear, warm. Montgomery, Ala ., Lower Peach Tree, Ala. Mobile, Ala ..so0e. Gainesville, Miss, New Orleans, La. Staunton, Va «clear, warm. -clear, warm. eclear, ther 53, lear, warm. «clear, th 80, wind SE, sclear, warm. Lynchburg, Va.. clear, ther. $0. Bristol, Ten...... cloudy, ther. 75. Barometer at the Smithsonian, at 7 a. m,. (cor- rected for temperature, ) 29 912; at noon, 29.715. Thermometer, at 7 a.m.,90*; at noon 90°. Max- {mum yesterday, 95; minimum last night, 75. —————_-2- eo if?” A man named Jacob Weaver was instantly killed on Wednesday, anthe Lehigh Island, near Allentown, Pa., bya sand bank caving in upon him. He leaves a wife and two children. CanapDIan AFFAIRS —The goverament was de- feated on Thursday in Parliament on the question relative to the seat of Government, the House an- nulling the decision of the home government making Ottawa the capital. The ministry had resigned. Soeeeeccetininn gtd bees {D> Alvin Gibbs was knocked down and dan- gerously injured, and robbed of five hundred dollars, on Tuesday night, at Wareham, Mass His life is despaired of, The two men who robbed Gibbs have been arrested in Taunton, and a portion of the money was found in their po it the@6th of August. other evening, in the Empire City? she will re- main in town for a few days, and then proceed to Lake George, where she has a cottage denly in Toronto on the 2ist instant PBRSONAL. -;-- Commodore Latimer, U. S.N., is at the National. the retired tragedian, died a few days ago. The only daughter of W._C Macready, ++-- Hon Jobn P. Stockton, Minister to Rome, ts to leave this couatry for bis foreign post «--- Madame Parodi arrived in New York the -... Mr. Charles Dunl . for the last 21 years Editor of the Toronto (C ) Mirror, died sud- He was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to Canada in 1831. . An accomplished and beautiful young En- lish woman—Miss FE. Soutball—bas fallen in and mocatly. married Juan Fernandez, d bull-fighter at Madrid ---- The Tremont Temple congregation, (Bap- list church.) by a vote of seventy six to seven, have extended a call to their former pastor, Mr. Kalloch, who appeared before them and an- nounced his acceptance. -... George Thompson, the celebrated E anti-slavery orator, wll known in this country, has returned to London after nearly three years’ absence in India. He is in feeble health, and came near dying on the voyage. r++ Itis that Achmed Pech, who so unfortunately met his death by the accident on the Nile Railway, bas left a legacy of 1,000,000 , and diamonds to the value 500,000f , to Baronne Vigier (iate Mdlle Cruvelli.) He hed never spoken to her in his life, but made his will when in a state of enthusiasm produced by seeing her on the sta e at the opera. ---- Sir Fitzroy Kelly, the English Attorney General, bas justly scandalized the fashionable world by avowing bis marriage some time ayo with his dairy maid The fact bas been con- cealed until further concealment was impossi- ble, the lady having presented him with a son and heir, to the intense disgust of bis only child by his first wife—a daughter, who is berself mar- ried, and bas afamily. The Attorney General is in bis 62d year. _ 12s oo I The Naushon House, at Wood's Hole, Mass., was burnt to the ground on Tuesday. nglish UL The Persia’s last run across the Atlantic occupied exactly nine days, six hours and twenty- two minutes. D> The steamer Kangarco sailed from New York yesterday, for Europe, with nearly $200,000 in specie. ARES aed 2 eee 0 Cox and Williams, convicted of murder on board the brig Albion Cooper, have been sen- tenced to be hung at Portland, Me., on the 27th August. aS ee Ly i" The steamer Falls City, when thirty miles below Memphis, on the upward trip, on Tues- day, broke a pistun and drove out a cylinder head. Five deck passengers were scalded and two drowned From Kansas. —Advices from Boonsville state that a man named Scroggings, alleged to be the leader of a band of horse thieves and robbers in the South, has beea arrested in that city, and Messages have been sent to Fort Scott to procure evidence against him. Several murders are said to have been committed by Scroggings, both in Fort Scott county, and on the Big Blue. {> Just as the steamer Europa was leaving for Liverpool, intelligence was received that the steamer New York is asbore on the Mull of Can- tyre, and bad become a total wreck. She parted on the 14th inst. at a point twenty feet before the after-bulkhead in the afterhold. Nothing was visible of her from the rocks except the top of her engines. {>> The crinolines cannot boast of originality Among the Greek ladies a long time ago, even a better fashion prevailed than that which is now kept up by whalebone, rattan, brass rods, watch springs and hogshead hoops. They could enjoy Stone petticoats! The amyantbus, or abestos, a native fossil stone, could readily be split into fil- aments, and woven like any other threads into cloth suitable for the sacred purpose in question. Moreover, they were exempt from all waxhtub immersions ; for, when soiled. they need only to be cast into the grate, whence they come out un- harmed, and whiter than snow, ‘by consider- able.’ * YOUNG CATHOLICS’ FRIEND SOC! BETY.—The regul if verety will NDAY t, at 5 o'clock p. m., at S ‘ch. A general attendance of members is requested. jy S)-2t JAS J. MITCHELL, See. ATTENTION, LADIES axp GENTLE- MEN! e “Merry Bachelors” would resvect‘u!ly in- form thzir numerous friends and the publ:egencrally that their annual Exours on Pic N nll be ce tothe » bite House Pavilion. on THURSDAY, August Bh, 1858. The particulars wll be given in S futureadvertisement. By order of the Committee jy 3 -2awtf ‘COLLECTOR’S OF FICE, CITY HALL, JULY 19, 1958, TO TA AYERS.—Abat-ment for Prompt Payment that the taxes for the year and ayable st this abatemen' of eight Tr cent. for the curre .t year if paid on or before the stday eptember next. j nt the inconvenience of being dalayed in the crowd usually in attendancs during the last Tew days of the abatement ers are invited to oa'! or send for their bile at an @arler “7, JAMES F. HALIDAY, iy 19 eodtd Colleeror. DR. WM. P. YOUNG th offics to the northeast cor: removed by f 9th and H iy 28-e02t* THE UNION GUARDS take pleasure in W$ announcing to their friends, both mili ary and eivic, that their fourth annual Excursion will take place to the White Houxe Pavilion, on Monday, Aueust 9th For further particulars see future ad vertisements. if streets BELL BRITTAN ON A TOUR xt Newport, and Here and Tnere Just published and for ante by TAYLOR & MAURY, jy 90-3 $3: Pa. av. Se hen I ELLE BRITTAN ON A TOUR at Newport, and Here and There; price $1 Free by mail On receipt of otherwise, For sale at w Bookstore, ¥ |. avenue, between (Uniov& Int.) Sth and lth sts. NT’S SCOTCH ALE, rthe Amerio-n market. ND, SAP SaGO 1.20 in stamps or - PHILP SS f APPLE, HOLLAD YERE CHEESE. F: SHEKELI. & MILLER. 274 Pa avenue, reer ys Kirkwood House, jy 9 6e Untel&S'ates.) WE WILL WAIT ON YOU! Itis our intention to call, between the Ist and eth of August, on all persons baving account’ mn our books, when we wish them to be ready to settle the same, by cash or notes. at short date. Those desir. a euse with Our courtese will p ease call e tthe : fice, northwest oorner«f l2thand C streets, No. 547. T J.& W.M.GALT iy 9 3t Dealers in all kinds of Fuel, T TH NION ACADE: . HE Exerci: es of this we!l krown Academy will be resumed on the Ist of September. 1853. Z. RICHARDS, Principal. THE UNION FEMALE ACADEMY. The Princes Mrs. Ricwarps, that the exercises oft on the Ist of Septembe I ADIES’ SHOES !—LADIES’ SHOES 4 I am constantly receiving sdditionn!, supply best English Lasiing Gaiters, #1 25' rocco Kid=nd do. Kusk . | Slippers guns —— sg M ; Slippers a joota. at t lowest prices. ROSENTHAL, No.2? Pa. av., » ROSE) iy S-ec6m_ Market Space, 2d door above 8th st. WE HAVE JUST RECEIV celebrated manufactory of Fa! rico. in Paris.an invoice of first ciass ACCOR DEONS and FLU- TINAS, which we can sell in quantities to dealers the lowest rates. They are i other sodinthis country. Also. iters, other musics! merchandwe, wholesale atthe Music Store of . G6. METZEROTT Corner lith strect ard Pa. ‘ect from the iy TS THE PUBLI en Justios of the 5 Pennsylvan' e. for the tranzaction of ane busi is. taking acknowled<m-nts, collecting notes, drafis, and act- ing &8 A general agent. - ‘there is also connected with my offic- two of the most expert and vigilant d-tective officers, A. R len and John H. Wise. slesy: ready ve th peedy ieturnof cnre. roe patronage of all otlivers having busi- ness in my line is respectfully 8 lioited, Office hours from fa. m.t+10 pm. iy wee JAMES WARD, I. Pp QTOVE Maher er i yerebent =) to weet es i team Fire lis, foot of 17th oe Offize, N. W corner 12th se é atreste o jv Se Crvkine CUAL, Superior article this day reesived. Also, ll other kinds of Coa ; guaranteed to give Coal kept in floored nud rovred yards. T.J & W.M GALT. INDLING WUOD. ‘The reai Resinous Pine cxn be had at GALTS’ STEAM FIREWOOD MILLS, eet. Otfice N. W. esate ibe Rene streets, No. 547. A No l assortment of a.) kinds of fuel constantiv on hand, ay 3-6 At Sis reer Excvasion TO GL Chor and TAoFRIDAY. Auge a and “in er wi city prices. Good Comonitter, w med &b, procee s of which tote devoted to making certain DAY, The iy 38 The form évery ok Chiidrea, 15 Georgeto the abov a Moroirg CUR SLUN te GLYMONT on MONDAY, Avgust 9th, Particulars hereatier. Recessary repairs to their ‘The steamers Grr ant © and wi'l leave their wher on the leew | noe btn, at At A seasonal e hour. ete—Geatiemen, 50 cents ; Ladies, 35 cen 8; ceatts. ewman. Gane EXCURSION Tis have been secured foot of 7th street, o'clock ; returmog Comsnitter, Wa. Warder, Geo. W, He mang. XCURSION TO THE GREAT FALLS. The Choir of the Methodist Protestant Church, |. Will give an excurs» te toni will leave the wharf precisely at eisht © Tiokets 50 cents ; to be had of any of the Commut- tee. All wishing to go will please procure tickets, as the number is limited. Commuttee. john E. Cox, George Orme. jy 8 St TO THE WHITE HOUSE PAVILION, Return: Hy nse &. 7, and the Page at kets ONE DOLLAR Market, andthe Navy Y Cc H. King, jy 3-% tne ess ue friends, they and On WEDNESDAY, Avcust 4th, 1838, By the Ladies of Washington, presel Baw *o the Mombors Sf Omienrat, Loses, No. 1b, 0LO-Fe The steamer Grorok Pact will leave the 7th street whar! at hair st 7 w'clock, and Alexandria at hall past 8a. m. weed The Taom as Colt ER will lenvé ati 7th street wh o'clock, p and slexandria ‘ng. the Co.lyer wii! leave the White "olock, mitting & gentieman wul be in attendance. ogetown, the Northern » At 7 and 12 o’clock. mittee of Arrangements. P. Emrich, A. Eberly. Se ee eee GUARD would inform the have concluded to gry. request of their Atvernoon EX By order: COMMITTEE, EXcorsion TO GLYMONT BY TH Eastern Lodge, No. 7, I. 0. 0. F., On THURSDAY. August 5, 1.50, ittee of Arrangements respectfully in- The boats wiil lea’ he o'clock, a m., aud it: p. ™.. retu.ning about 10 'owek in the eve ing Ompibusses wil leave Georget. w: Market, and th 'h the boats on each tr) to the points of starting on t ithers’ cele! Tickets, ONE and Commit the friends of the Lodge. that Or pot of Tth street ats e Navy Vard gate 1 convey passengers if return in the ove. Bard will be in attendsnoe. ILLAR, admitting « Gentie- two Ladies; extra tickets for indies 25 ets., maa to be had of the committee and members of the Committee of Arrangements, _iy 2-7 Geo Bamberger, G S.Hepburn, J HM 4.R.Fivans, ‘Thos. Milburn, J. D. Huw’ J.J. O'Neal, Chas. Vernon, W.J. W. v. Wa. Ti Chas. Gesford, M.H. Grimes. Trek: E*Xcussion TO GLYMONT. The Gorsvcn Cape: Suxpay ScHoot will eve an Excursion to the above named Ease WEDNESDAY, August ‘The boat will leave her wharf, at the foot of 7th street, at 8 a. in. eden's wharf, Navy Yard, at 82, and Alexand: 9. efreshments and Dinner at city prices. cents; Children an: price—to be had of any member of the sch servants ha'f Comanittee. H. N. Sipes, -D Thoms Mockabee, Cc.E. W.R. Hunt, The the Pa prices th er THOMAS CO! LYER rane r- jet every Tuesday aud Friday next day, RAND PIC Nic OF THE Monumental Club, LAKISTONE’S PAVIL AC Pleasant, Cheep, and At ARLINGTON, ou TUESDAY, August 5. ‘The managers pledge themselves to use every ex- ertion to preserve ood order and that no effort shall be spared to make (ie is oes Occasion pleasxnt and agreeable I leave Ith Street Bridge at #0 clock a. m.and 2 0'c!"k arrivifig and soratns every hi P.m. Sinall boats will ply betw Bridge throv-out the day— MS oe Fifty Cents, adiusttng a gentlemen and “COMMITTEE of NGEMENTS. paw eee EE of ARRANGEMENTS. sthout loss of tome, Sart Warer Lexveies ann Sane Waren ATHING, Fish, OysTexs anv Crass, fast and vilion at -m 1 ard sn been jy Z-d OR PINEY POINT. OLD Pp FOLK AND PORTSMOUTH, For the secommodation of families and others ‘Wishing to enjoy t Finn. cine, Usste ink, or tho: safe, and commodo leave Washington m , for the above Bathing season. wharf, foot of 6th street, ar a ingron Bt 10 & m. om enme day. neludi iy 2-d TA NY wpe ig chen > +o wilh given to WHITE HOUSE PAV LION. ox! THURSDAY, August 12th. For part.co'ars, see K ANNUAL Nortuik, $5; und for the _——. ch Tee Passengers wi | be taken up aed landed at landings «nthe Potomac. oe commodious stesmtoat THOMAS COLLYVER will leave her wharf at the foot of 7h street, on SATUR AY. the Sist instant, at 1 o'clock! Alexendria at 15s p.m. for Biakistone’s Pavil- 108, Brriving there até svpand lodge that evening and breakiast and dine (Sunday.) Returning. the boat will leave P. m., Where passengers will 4p m. Sunday, arriving at Washing To those des-ring to enjoy sat water It water bathing, and to view the fthe majestic Potomac, a like opportunity offered. Boat f.re forthe r und trip $2. Meals and lodgings at the Pavilion at the usual SAN’L BAKER, Capt. NT, NOR- he | RKDAY.at Ga, inte, and coutinue during the ‘om her berth, at the con pan.'s ng at Piney Point at Old Point img menix) to Piney Point, @2; Old nd trip. #8, * hali- price. rooms extra For tickets and further infe jt i office of the Great Southern ‘and Ses western trelept oties, Ne. me a. avenue. three doors enst of Brown's Hotel, or to the C Boat, foot of 6th street. nes ae CHARLES F.. MITCHEL 1.. Captain, GEORGE MATTINGLY, Superintendent P. S. B. Company. CURSION OF THE CUOMPA- future Sdvertizeme jy 26 OUNT VERNON AND THE oF Mwasuindron a, BE TOME OF lount Vernon and the tubo! Wes! inet, leaving the wharf, at the foot of 7t turning about 24% p.m, ye ing it at the 3th street, at s!. am. re Fare gt. nwo LOST AND FOUND. _ OST—Last my 0 et. jy 9-3t Drog Stere of Lew Averne. south side, opp: consist some smaller mstr be paid for their re b- tween LOBRACEL The tinder will nt Th ve re’ urn, Within three day questions asked. s POLEN from the store. f ihe pie two wi iF ACO. R pe od ea Fou ‘tve eavy slide, eagle on Lc Thre enain had been br . With e three Moke cad whee siclen was ted Lost. at Giymont, onthe 26th ini 4 GUARD CHAIN, witn » heart slide basting the iitinis M A suuatle reward wiil Le paid and re nnd Gree me reets. Georectawn esked by leaving it at the Stuer office, +f Mr. R. Fowler, ec reer of Bridge jv at <ood Board and large hundres yac's of he pplica’.on °s made iwned: etn toa! tom Was: thing that ccu d b+ desi-ed thes is Pply to BOARDING. BYASMNY AL BLADENSBURG — Two or three mor milios Wil be accommodated With or three an = mr —S those having PR ness w.s E, Biadersburg. ——__—————— histones! intr dew. aud ei ost im m VIL LAW OF SPAIN AND MEXico. With notes sod’ ref renses. preceded odmetion to the Rpamicll una aes bodying m nan of pergant sets of the oye wl tee me Mexiean C- reset tr fox : 3 udt; Lvol., 8vo.; price $2 Darees® FRANCK TAYLOR, © 3 on t George 7a * ow) a