Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1859, Page 2

_ EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON OITY: THURSDAY.......-..---.January 27. 1859, hough “ The Star”’ is printed on the nua press im use seuth ef Balti- more, its edition is se large as te require it te be put te press at an carly heur, Adver- tisements, therefore, should be sentin y 19 o’clock, m.; otherwise they may net appear until the mext day. SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS. The Union, speaking of “the American pol- ley of expansion by purchase,”’ says that pre- gress and expansion are the destiny of the Uni- ted States, which we cannot escape if we would; that the acquisition of Louisiana and Florida was not a measure of expediency optional with our Governmest, but a measure . necessity, obligatory upon it; and that our Government having no peace restrain the growth of its population, or to confine it within prescribed boundaries, there ig imposed upon it from time to time, as a political necessity, the policy of aoquiring new territory by the agency of friend- ly purchase for the outflow of adventurous spirits. The same paper contains an article urging the necessity for law in Arizona. The Intelligencer is devoted to Congressional Proceedings and news to-day. I 1(% It is proposed to pay the members of the British Parliament $5,000 each, per annum, and no mileage. ee {The Common Council of New York, have Sppropriated $2,000 for the celebration of Wash- Ington’s birth-day. frcaiee 5 eeaes 17 Serious fears of a forthcoming famine in Mexico are entertained. For over a year very little corn has been pianted or gathered. pee cabo, neonate. ease Ul” The bark Edisto was announced to sall from the Brooklyn navy-yard yesterday with sup- Plies for the Paraguay expedition. pean NE Ns Sy 4% A fire occurred on the 16th instant, at Batesville, Ark , destroying property valued at $50,000, including the Batesville Institute and the Masonic Lodge. UP The “Auburn (Ala) Signal,’’ places at the head of its editoral column the name of Hen- ty A. Wise, ‘for President in 1960,"’ subject to the nomination of the Charleston Convention. UF Scotia’s friends, in Albany, who took part in the ovation to Burns, were in uncontrolabie ecstacy that it was their delightful privilege on Tuesday evening to sing “Auld Lang Syne,” from Burns’ original manuscript. See 11> Capt. John Travis, the great pistol shot, has gone to Huntsville, Ala, to display his skill im the use of that weapon. He proposes, at the Place named, among other exploits, to shoot ata half dollar in the hands ofa boy who travels with him. ———————$— {[7" Michigan proposes to build a new Capitol for herself at Lansing. It is proposed to be fire- Proof, modern Doric in style, 265 feet on its northern front, and 205 on its southern; estimated cost $500,000; material, brick, faced with Grand Rapids marble, provided the latter shal! Sppear durable enough i Six negroes, in the family of Miss Ann Smith, at Easton, were very near being kilied by gas from charcoal on Sunday night. It being cold, they took a small hand furnace in the room where they slept, heated with charcoal. One of them woke and found the others insensible. Aid was procured and they were revived by fresh alr and cold water. ——$<$_____ I> We are indebted to J. Shillington for a copy of Frank Leslie’s “ Family Magazine and Gazette of Fashion,” for February, iliustrated with some forty engravings, and crowded with interesting matter. From Shillington, also, we have the valuable “American Almanac for 1559,"* a complete year- book of facts and statistics. ————____ Up An interesting correspondence bas taken Place in China between the American missiona- Ties on the one part, and the U_s. Commissioner to China, Hon. Wm. B. Reed, onthe other Tie missionaries acknowledge with gratitude and bigh consideration, his successful etforts in be- half of our common Christianity, by Procuring the insertion in the treaty of a clause which pro- Vides for a full toleration of the Christian relj- gion throughout that vast empire. (> Late accounts from Kansas state that a fight bad taken place betweena Party of Missouri men, who went over the line to hunt for Brown and Montgomery, in which one Kansas man was killed and two wounded. The Missouri force Tetired,and their loss is not reported) Gen Jim Lane assumes to act as Major-General of Militia; and bas offered his services to Governor Medary ‘The offer was declined. Brown and Montgomery are said to be quiet—the latter at work on his farm. Gen. Lane is lecturing, and anxious to et into public life again. MARRIED at 7% P.M. and Deav at9ru— ‘The former took place at 7% 0’clock on the even- ing of the 10th inst., and at 9 o'clock on the same evening, or an hour and a half afterward, the husband wept beside the « bride of death.’ Here is the sad record from the N. Y. Express: Married. —In Plattsville, on the 10th inst., b P. K. Salisbury, Esq , John Bivens of Middle. town, Delaware county, to Mii “ry Prattsvilie, Greene county. ne Died —In Prattsville, on the 10:h instant asthma and hemorrhage of the lungs, Mie ’Me A. Bivens, wife of Join Bivens, i 29h year < peng ens, in the 29th year ————— UF The centennial anniversary of the birth- day of the poet Barns, we see by our exchanges, has been very Kenerally celebrated throughout the country. In New York, besides several minor eelebrations, they had a grand dinner at the As- tor house, at which speeches were made by Mr. Bryant, Dr. Osgood, Charles Gould, Esq., Mr. Young, and Mr. Greely. In Boston, the Burns Club gave a festival at the Parker House, at Which speeches were made by Gen. J. 8. Tyler, Raiph Waldo Emerson, Esq » Hon. George 8. Hilliard, Hon. Joseph Howe, N. P. Willis, Esq , Mayor Lincotn, and Hon. Josiah Quincy; and poems were delivered by Dr Holmes, Jas. Rus- sell Lowell, Joha G. Whittier, and Ben. Shilla- ber. —_—___. Cyxviction ov Comriz —As announced in our telegraphic columa, yesterday, the trial of Peter Corrie, at Towsontown, Md., for the murder of Officer Rigdon, in Baltimore, last fall, was ter- minated yesterday, by the jury rendering a ver- dict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Two of the jurors on being polled, recommended the Ptisoner to executive el, mency. The prisoner stood up during the rendition of the verdict and seemed to have nerved bimaself for the result, though me wretched appear- ance that his countenauce bore throughout the at the Smediey House awaiting the dread an- Rouncement. UD The coiorea Population of New York city is estimated st ten thousand Of1 AY adults, 144 are porters, 204 waiters, 150 whitewashers, su coachmen and hostlers, 64 cooks, 438 barbers, 192 laborers, 121 seamen, is Washers, 2 farmers, 1 broker, 3 printers, 6 physicians, 7 teachers, and 16 reverend clergy and 1 Ventriloquist There are nine organized religious Socleties—five Meth- dist, two Episcopal, one Presbyterian and one Congregational There is acolored home for the axed and tofirm, having at present about 200 tn- mates, and drawing annually from the Board of Governors of the City institutions $12,000 towards ite support There is also an Orphan Asylum, which receives $6,000 per annum from the elty. Also an African Society for Mutual Relief; a So- elety for Promoting Education among Colored Children ; one grand lodge and three subordinate lodges of colored Masons. mix colored ward und three Primary schools, in which 2,53 pupils were tanght last year, WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. Penxsrivania Avance Ratwar.—Objec- tion has been mooted to the anon. now ape Sunka prepeses Us -e that it would in Congress. The allegation is, e be supremely ridiculous to build a road on the avenue with a guage of four feet, because it would give us such contracted cars that every person riding in them would be uncomfortable; that in thecity of New York the railways have a guage of five feet two inches, and anything else would be considered a perfect absurdity, &c., 40. Now, the guage of the New York roads 1s four feet eight and a half inches, so the difference is simply eight and a half inches. The width of track, however, has nothing to do with the size of the car. If thonght expedient, acarmay be made as wide for the one track as for the other. Neither has the size of the car anything whatever to do with the comforts of the passenger in this case. That depends entirely upon the room appropriated for each passenger, and not upon the capacity of the car to carry more or less. Out of this particu- lar feature of the bill are developed accommo dations far superior to any enjoyed on the New York roads, or that could be enjoyed here by carsof the same character. The great objec- tion to the New York cars is that they are too wide and too cumbersome. They occupy too much room in the street. They require two horses, side by side, and the foothold of the horses is insecure in consequence of their travel- ing half the time upon the rails So far as the occupation of room in the street is concerned, that is not a question of so much importance in Pennsylvania avenue as in the narrower streets of New York. But there are other arguments in favor of a smaller and lighter carriage,that apply equally every where. The seatsin these horse cars are “vis a vis,”’—oneach side. The actual width, therefore, required for a car, ig just so much as will give convenient passage between the two lines of settees. Any more than that width does not in the least enhance the comfort of the pas- senger; but, on the contrary, very much tends to his discomfort. The New York two-horge cars bave more width than is necessary to give the requisite space through the centre. Tho extra room which objectors seem to think so neces sary to the comfort of the passenger, is gener- ally fall of standing passengers—and it is not an uncommon thing to see fifty persons riding in a car, the actual sitting capacity of which does not exceed twenty-four. Let such objec- tors ride in a Sixth or Eighth avenue car, from Chambers street, about 5 o'clock p. m., and they will become satisfied that the extra foot of width is anything but an element resulting in comfort to the passenger. Those who stand up tread upon the feet of those sitting ; and entering or going out of a car so loaded, is a process which is by no means calculated to im- prove one’s toilet. This has become a positive nuisance, and at times, ladies are completely debarred from riding on that account. The people of the city of New York do not look upon any other width of track than their own, as @ perfect absurdity. On tho contrary, if the whole system of roads in that city were to be destroyed to-morrow and rebuilt, a narrower track and a lighter and smaller yebicle would be adopted. It is admitted there that the accommodations are altogether better in the small car. Quite a number are in use on the Sixth avenue road, and are looked upon with great favor. As. however, a reduction of the standing capacity of the cars in general use would seriously cur- tail the receipts of each car, and force the man- agers to place more cars on the track, and run oftener to accommodate their travel, they very naturally retain all the width they are allowed The effect of reducing the width of car is therefore simply to reduce its capacity to hold standing passengers, and to force the managers to run cars at shorter intervals; and thus their convenience to the public is immensely in- creased. To accommodate a given amount of travel, for instance, with cars carrying thirty- two passengers each, acar running every six minutes might be sufficient; while to accommo- date the same travel with cars carrying only sixteen passengers each, it would be necessary to run one every three minutes. It may safely be left to the Senate to decide which of the above plans would give the great- est accommodation to the public. The more frequently they run, the greater is the conve- nience. To develope these advantages to the fallest extent, the cars should be made light, and of such capacity as that one horse can draw them. They can be run more rapidly than the larger cars. Carrying a less number of passengers their stops will be fewer. The car can be stopped and started quicker. They are less likely to come in collision with other vebi- cles. Their transit will be more regular from these causes. These are the principal advantages or sucha guage of track as is proposed by the pending bill. But one which, above all others, ought to be appreciated by the citizens of the Dis- trict, is the fact that it precludes the idea that the avenue can ever be made a thoroughfare for locomotives, or be lumbered up with un- sightly burden cars. The character of the road is thus fixed as one designed ecelusively for the local passenger transit of the District, and for no other purpose. Tax Taxivr.—It seems to be understood that Mr. Phelps, of Missouri, will very shortly report a bill to increase the revenue, &e., in which the duty on iron and spices will be fixed at 30 per centum, and on liquors at 50 per centum, &c., €0 as to increase the revenue from customs to the extent of $6,000,000. The bill is also expected to embrace authority to reissue treasury notes or to make a new loan to the extent of $20,000,000. It seems to be further understood that the Secretary of the Treasury thinks that such legislation will fur- nish the requisite means to supply the de- ficiency in the revenue, now ca: sing so much uneasiness in governmental circles. As we have not seen the Proposed new law, we are unable to comment on its details, though it Strikes us, so far, as being perhaps the best arrangement that can be carried out in the present anomalous condition of Congress, where the tariff question is concerned. Tho policy of the Republican party thero is well known to be to defeat, for political effect, the enactment of anything whatever designed to relieve the existing necessities of the treasury, in the hope of thus generating necessity for an extra session of Congress. However much we may dislike areturn tothe principle of higher duties on articles competing with American manufactures, we do not per- eeive the possibility of obtaining a majority Vote in the House for any Proposition to in- crease the revenue from customs that fails to embrace that feature so repugnant tous. Ke- garding the cbtainment of the inerease of rev- enue as just now being the matter of most pub lic importance, we should not feel at liberty to oppose such @ temporary cha, ge in the princi- ple of the tariff as we explain above. bitter pill for a free-trader to take; but we really see no alternative between taking it, or submitting to the Practical bankruptcy of the Government for the plitieal advantage of the Republican party. — _- 4 Brigar Eve ox rue Spriagor.— 'Y or two since, the House refused an ap plication from the Postmaster General for an ppropriation of $5,000 tocontinue the services for » yoar longer, of five temporary clerks whose conduct of the Department's business—drud- gery clerks—whose work must be done, if it be intended hereafter to keep letter books for daily reference. This refusal was the result of a sudden spasm of extra economy. So the five temporary clerks must be discharged, and the books of the Department must run behind its current business. The last addition to the clerical force of the Post Office Department of any moment took place in 1849, under the ad ministration of Senator Collamer, if we remem- ber correctly. Since then, the business of the Department has acoumulated so rapidly that it is notorious here that any clerkship in it isa more laborious birth than any similar position in any other Executive Department. The de- ficit in the Post Office revenues grows, of course, almost entirely out of the legislation of Con- gress, most of the members vieing with each other to increase the postal facilities of their immediate constituents. It will be readily comprehended that many honorable members, however keen their vision may be in the matter of discovering extrava- gence in all other propositions to vote money for postal expenses, can see none whatever in any such likely to benefit their own (Congres- sional) household. To such an extent does this obliquity of vision prevail, that no little of the extra labor on the clerks of the Depart- ment, is the result of efforts of themselves to induce the Postmaster General to grant extra allowances to Postmasters in their respective Districts; that functionary having the right under the law to donate away the whole reve- nues of the Department, after that fashion, “if a mind to.’’ In view of the pertinacity with which he is beset by honorable members to that end, and the late refusal to allow him the means of paying a sufficient number of letter book clerks, we cannot avoid the conclusion that the House would serve the public interest better by commencing their postal-expenses reform in ceasing to dip into the extra allow- ances—to Postmasters—bunghole, rather than by going into “conniptions’’ over a fancied. but unreal leak, at the letter-book-slerks spig- got. Tua Boston Navy AGexcy.—The President has appointed Mr. Amidon, of Worcester, to fill that important agency, to take effect at the expiration of the present incumbent’s term of service. The place was stoutly contested by Edward Riddle, Esq., of Boston, who brought to bear faithful and zealous service and the warm recommendations of some of the most eminent men of New England—such mon as Rufus Choate, Erasmus D. Beach, Hon. Jno. S. Wells and a host of others. Col. Riddle bears his disappointment with humorous philosophy, and, like the venerable Father Ritchie's dis- appointed friend, who was as “ardent as a Southern sun could make him,”’ will relax no effort in sustaining the Democratic party and the administration of Mr. Buchanan. Mr. Riddle presided at the great mass meeting recently held on Bunker Hill, and its proceed- ings were highly creditable and significant of the soundness of the Bunker Hill Democracy. We may, however, remark that Mr. Amidon is @ gentleman of high character, deserved in- fluence, and unflinching devotion to the Demo- cratic party, and will doubtless discharge the duties of the position to the entire satisfaction of all. Tas New Loan.—It is said that there has been already paid into the United States Treasury, here and in New York city, nearly one-fifth of the new loan, although hardly suf- ficient time has elapsed for the successful bid- ders at a distance to be notified, officially, of the acceptance of their bids. The time allowed for the payment of the loan is until the first of March next. The promptness with which these payments are made, and the averaged high premiums at which'the loan was taken, (consid- ering that the interest allowed thereon is only five per cent.) clearly indicates that the capi- talists, at least, who are directly interested, are not prevented, by the alleged “deplorable condition of things,” from investing their means in a Government loan, at even less rates of interest than capital readily com- mands elsewhere on the very best individual and corporation securities. Too Good To bx Lost.—Tho Washington cor- respondent of the New York Express, says of the two black cats rumored to have beeu once on a time found into the terrible trap leading up into the Senate gulleries, that “when res- cued, they bore evidence in their insane de- meanor, of the secrets they had overheard in Executive session”’ ! P. 8 —The Herald suggests the propriety of sending the Sergeant-at-Arms after the afore- said two black cats, and having them brought to the bar of the Senate and there interrogated, &c.; and in case of contumacy on their part, of consigning them to durance vile. The editor, of course, demands a categorical answer to the question, whether the Senate will deal after that fashion with those two large black cats. Tax Waatasr.—The following report of the weather for this morning is made from the Morse Telograph line to the Smithsonian Institution. The time of observation {s about 7 o'clock: JanvaRy New York, N.Y Philadelphia, P: Baltimore, Md. Washington, D.C Richmond J V: Lynchburg, Va Knoxville, Tenn Bristol, Tenn..... Chattanooga, Ten: Wilmington, N.C. Columbia, 8 C. Charleston, 8. C Augusta, Ga Savannah, G Macon, Ga.. Columbus, Ga Montgomery, Ala. Lower Peach Tree, Al Mobile, Ala. Gainesville, M New Orleans, La. Frederick, Md.. Hagerstown, Md. Cumberland, Md. Pittsburg, Pa Wheeling, Grafton, Va. cloudy, prospect srow loady, Prospect snow . at 7 a.m. (cor- , Barometer at the Smitbao: Tected for temperature) 30 41 noon 30.366. Thermometer, at 7 a. m. 33 '; at noon 40°. Maximum during 24 hours ending 9a. m. to- day 49°; minimum 2°, re {~ The dreadful telegraphic hail storm in Fredericksburg on the 22d inst. turns out to have been a heavy rain, some thunder, and a slight sprinkling of smal! hail. brass a a {7 Crinoline and hoops are said to operate unfavorably to the starch manufacturers. It is stated that a starch factory in Buffalo has been compelled to suspend operations fromthis cause, and that another very celebrated establishment is running at a very small rate. 17" During the past year Lynn bas manufac- tured more than 16,000,000 pajrs of shoes. The shoe business of Massachusetts is valued at $40,- 000,000 a ye: ind one-balf the shoes made in that State are manufactured in Lynn; so the thri- ving city of Lynn annually manufactures $20,- 000,000 worth of shoes. {1" The Dadeville, (Ala.) Banner announces that William Holland, of Harrelson, Ga., has absconded with the wife and infant child of William J. Ellis, after perpetrating numerous frauds and misdemeanors in the neighborhood, and leaving hisown wife and several children tum \GONGRESSIONAL.. _- GEORGETOWN. In tae Senata, yesterday, after our report | Correspondence of The Star. Gronertown, Jan. 27, 1859 The committee of ways and means (of our City Council) are actively engeged preparing their report upon the finances of ¢he town, and tax Dill for 1859. They will doubtless be ready He b thetr rman, Mr. Tenney, » te oes eiebning cinoma of the Councils : in their report, this year, the committee closed, the considera: the Pacific Rail- road bill was resumed, and the substitutes and amend s offered by Messrs. Wilson, Davis, Pugh, Potk, Doolittle, Bell, and Rice, wore respectively defeated. Mr. Hammond moved to lay the bill on the pees di to—yeas 21, nays ogee’ Dis expended an upusual degree of pains — lows : labor. Their purpose is to thoroughly examine Yxs+—Monsrs. Bayard, Beniamin, Browa, Ches- | into the financial condition of ovr Corporation nvt.Cling Crittende: ‘spatrick Green. Hun- | iq ali its ramifications, and place them before xf mond, Houston, Iverson, Johnson of Ten- = ter, Ham b, Pearce. Reid, Sebastian, Slidell, | 2¢ Councils and the people in a more full,clear, Prompeon weet thee dar ey. Ward and Yulee—zi. "| and detailed form than they ever have been here- Nays—Mes: Be'', Bicler, Bright, Broderick. | tofore. Cam . C! r, Clark lamer, Dixon, Doo Our informant led us into an error in regard to littie. Fessenden. Fitoh. Foster, Gwin, Hale, Har- | the time of holding the Democratic ratification lan, Jones Kin Seen Sek pene gn is Shiels, Sim-| meeting. It is to take place this evening instead mons, uart, . jo—28. of next Thursday evening The work upon the new Masonte Hill is pro- gressing finely. The floors have ali been laid, and the first coat of plastering completed. We learn, from Mr. Wingate th uperintendent and carpenter, tbat he antici ving it ready for occupancy about the first of May From present indications the stock of fuel in the various wood and coal yards, will be amply sufticient to supply the demand until the close of March next. The article in the Baltimore Sun of yesterday in regard to the management of the Chesapeake and Obio canal differs very widely from ail the statements we have received during the past sea- son from living along the line and deeply interes: in its proper management and prosper- ity, and those engaged trading upon it. Every man with whom we have conversed, without a single exception, have stated tous that the af- fairs of this work bad never, in their knowledge, been more prudently managed than thry were the last season. We incline tothe belief that the main secret of this onslaught upon the directors grows out of the fact thatthe director who re- sides in our city, and two or three others, refused to expel several good officers of the company simply because they were not affiliated with the Political party now holding the reins of govern- ea in the city of Baltimore and State of Mary- ta The political cauldron, as yet, seems to boll Tather slowly. A very large number of our more moderate and sober-minded citizens seem to be decidedly averse to coupling national politics with our municipal affairs. GEORGETOWN ADVERTISEM’TS. TO THE VOTERS OF GEORGE- TOWN.—At the solicitation of oit.- zope | re consented to bencantidate for the msy- raity at the comin, on. care te* = J. A. MAGRUVER OF A eccin RATIFICATION MEETING. Mr. Simmons wished to submit an amend- mant, but he did not have it prepared, and would offer it to-morrow. Mr. Gwin hoped there would be a general understanding to come to a final vote on the bill to-morrow at one or two o'clock. Mr. Mason declined being 8 ay to any arrangement as to the hour for taking the vote. On motion, the Senate adjourned. Is tHe Hovsz, in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the consular and diploma- tic appropriation bill was resumed, the question nding being on the proviso to strike out so Lipo i the ee riation for returning the slave cargo of the Echo to Africa as it is con- templated to use for their maintenance there for one year. This amendment caused a lengthy debate, which resulted in the entire section making the appropriation being stricken out. the committee then rose, and the House ad- journed. Proceedings ef Te-Day. In tHe Senate, to day, the bill making an appropriation for the payment of the expenses of the late House investigating committees was taken up and passed. Mr. Hale offered a resolution calling on the Postmaster General for an abstract statement of all Post-Office returns from each of the States and Territories since the year 1840; adopted. . Mr. Green offered a resolution, calling on | ! the Secretary of the Navy for information in regard to the most practical route for a ship canal across the Isthmus; adopted. Mr. Fitch, from the Committee on Printing, reported in favor of printing 5,000 extra copies of the majorit sal minority reports of the A meeting of the Anti- Know Nothing vo ers sorgetown will be held at Forrest Hall oa URSDAY, the 27th inst.,at7 o'sleck, for the : : i i- tying the nomi oR: K.Craw- permeotpede ‘oreign Relations, on the acqui- pen me ot ave ‘ying ndjonte for the Stayirlty ~Mr. Hale said that the reports had been pub- ova willegan rood isting wai lished in the city papers this morning, and would ina few days clean bad in most of APELE: APPLE: 500 BUSHEL3 BALDWIN A PPLES just the principal papers throughout the Union, | arrived end now instore. For sale in lote tu suit and ie did not see the necessity for any extra | purchasers at from $250 test oT pees = copies . CLABAUGH, _ja3 lw Georgetown, D.C. _ ARMER*, LOOK AT THIS. —We have on hand 250 bbis. of Fastern Herring, 200 pounds in each barrel, which we wil! sel! at 75 cents per ey eee are full of brine, and itis the cheapest 8 uy. MADD ERRTLEY & BRO., ja 25-lw 99 and 101 Water street. LEWIVES AND POTATOES —100 bis. No. 1 Alewives on ' and, warranted prime; also, 500 The motion to print prevailed—yeas 34, nays 21 Mr. Brown introduced a bill conferring cer- tain powers on the Corporation of W in regard to the public water; also a bill con- ferring certain powers on the Levy Court of the District of Columbia, on the same subject; both referred. ‘otatoes. di - In rae Hovse, an Executive message was pected vorksunsr tieteeemniaiborent forsale in received concerning the consular and diplo- —* “yy HARTLEY & BRO., matic service ; also, communications from the js te ‘99 and 101 Water street. Secretary ot State, for the relief of certain com lar officers, and relative to the duties of min- isters and consuls; and from the Secretary of War, concerning the sale of Rock Island, Il. The House then resumed the consideration of the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. The question was on concurring with a recom- mendation of the Committee of the Whole to so reduce the diplomatic corps as to have minis- terial representatives only at the courts of Great Britain, France, Spain, Peru, Ruasia, China, Turkey, Brazil, Maxico, aud Nicara- gua, and reduce the appropriation for their salaries from $214,000 to$105,000. The House refused to concur. Mr. Stanton moved to reconsider the vote; and on motion of Mr. Millson the motion to reconsider was laid on the table by a vote of 99 yeas. 39 nays. The next amendment was that by Mr. Craw- ford, to reduce the appropriation of $75,000 for enabling the President, under the act of 1819, (for the suppression of the slave trade,) to re- turn the slave cargo of the barque Echo to Africa, and pay the Colonization Society for their maintenance there for one year, to MERICAN CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR. HENRY ADDISON will be supported for Mayor of Georgetown by the Amevicsn party. in 12 4w? LOCAL TELEGRAPH. The Magnetio Telegraph Company have estab- lished a Telegraph Station at Georgetown, whiob is in direct conn: ces in Washing- - Thus she publ c of the turee tant communication upon all easure.or convenience, with- slow and old-fashioned means ‘couree, The rates between any two of the above men- tioned places will be 20 cents for the first ten words and | cent for each additions: word. The address and signature are not charged, J. KENDAL jn 2)-eotf Geveral Superintendent. NS) KOHLBERG, 140 Bridge street, Georgetown, + D.C., is selling off his entire stock of Dry, Fanoy,and Millinery Guods at Suction, commeno- ing on the lith instant, at 10 o’clock a, m tinuing daily until the 29th. and oun- (DER!—CIDER : de 29-1 CIDER" ARNY & SHINN, OHLBERG & CO., 109 Bridge street. George- . Ms % town, DU. C., manufacturers dealers in $45,000, the latter being sufficient to Pay only | Boots aud Shoes; also dealers in Hate and Caps, for the expense of their return, and expenses| de 29-Im* incurrel prior thereto. [The Committee of the Whole had reported JHE AMERICAN ALMANAC for 1859 for eale a recommendation to strike out the entire ot SHILLING TON’S Bookstore. Braithwaite’s Retrospect of Practical Medicine sad Surrery for January, le53. Send for any thug y Newepaper, or Station SHILLING js 27 3t Odeon Building, oo: clause making the above appropriation, and the proposition of Mr. C was an amendment to the proposed amendment of the committee. | The amendment was rejected by a vote of 48 yeas, 145 nays. The vote, then, being taken on the amend- ment of the Committee to strike out the entire appropriation, it was rejected by the following vote—yeas 23, nays 163. — Want in the Book, 2 N’S Bookstore, ba #t. and Pa.av, T TAKE NOTICE _ O Al L WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.—This 1s to notify the citizens of the District of Columbia, and city and county of Alexandris. Va., that I (on the 16th day of January, 1859.) purchased from J. H. & M. A. Chester, of Cinoinvati, OLio, the sole and exclusive rant to manufacture. ven?, ard use PERSONAL. CHESTER'S. PORTABLE GAS-HEATING RADIATORS (patented 13th July, lose) tor ie 1afaz) Co! D- D- Tompkins, U.S. A., isat Wile | above named pincess and do hershy forswan sug ards). forbid any person ‘sons from manufacturing, Veutiug. or Using the said Gas Heating Radintore inthe District of Columbia, or city and county of Alexandria. Va.. without my consent, otherwise the law will be fully enforced upon ‘the infringing 18. c. WOODWARD. WHY is It that ANTHONY can urd “to sell HATS BOOTS ot than an: the city? Beoa: ‘end meets with no onet ! -+++ Miss Hinckley, an American singer, is ex- citing the favorable attention of the critics at Florence. +++» Stegar is the name of a new tenor of Vien- na, who will visit this country soon. He is said to have the most powerful voice in existence. -+.. Miss Laura Keene is said to have cleared $10,000 by “Our American Cousin” already Sbe says Tom Taylor trash pays better than Shakspeake. --+. A. K. Marshall, formerly a representative f om Kentucky, now of Missouri, and Hon Rob- ert McKnight, representative elect from Pennsyl- vania, are at Kirkwood,’, «++. The Mr. Shultz, who recently, in London, led blusbing to the altar Madame Anna Bishop, is a well-to-do German merchant of N.Y. city, who, it Is said, has followed the lady in her world rovings, and whose assiduous and ambu latory devotion hax at last been rewarded by ber hegrt and hand, or by her band a! least. -... Mr. Spurgeon recently preached at Exeter Hall, and in the cours of bis discourse alluded to crinoline, saying that he did not go in for the *‘broad brim,”? but he would rather dress him- self that way than he would wear the things some men did; and he would rather see his sis- ters in Christ habited as the Quakers, than they should magnify, enlarge, and increase as they now did. --+. Bennett, of the N. Y. Herald, must have been in love with a red-haired girl at one time, jadging from one of his “ pomes’’ inthe N Y- Ledger. Hear bow he begins bis apostrophe to his © Mary Ann:”? “Thy golden hair, thy golden hair, T cannot speak, I cannot think! ms cash ANTHON for the Ma oture ia 3t 7th st.,wppo. Avenue Hou WASHINGTON ANP ALEXANDRIA, ON THE ROUTE AGAIN. er GR RGE Pawk willjon FRIDAY, sumé her trips between places. Leavine the foot of King streat, Alexandria, at the foliowing hours: 3%.8,10e.m, id 74 p. m. taveid a tedious omuibus inconvenience of being de Ss wel:asthe dangers of the ene Bridge. ai from Pa. avenue to Alexandria 1€X cents, do. set of 7th atreet 12! ja 27-1 AYER'S SARSAPARILLA,. COMPOUND REWEDY, tn which we have labored to A produce the most enectual alterative that can ve made It Deep in every heart, I fear, & concent extract of Para Sareaperilis, so comhnaae The magic of those curls will sink.”” ee tances of still greater ai atord an fective antidote for the disease, Sareaparilia te Te tesenuted to cure. It Is believed that suck a r. medy le 1” Perpetual insurance—a new feature—to | <*.. ed by these who svffer from Strumous complaints, and x Ln lo: a 0 that one whi: h will accomplish their eure mast prove of 1 wit: Insuring dwel ccgflacrises. ne a0 service to this large clase of our afflicted fellow clt!. shall stand, by the payment of a ay premi- How complete y this compound wili do it has been Proven by experim: ut on many of the worst cases to be found Of the f lowing compla' PoKOFULA aud Bomurc TIVE Dinkames, ULorne. um, and that only at 25 per cent., guaranteeing a return of 80 percent. We see it stated that this method has been in practice in Philadel- phia for several years, and that it has recently been Introduced in St Louis. —__—— SMITHSONIAN LECTURES.—Prof A CasweLt, of Brown Upiveraity, (President of the American Association for the Advancement ¢, =clenge,) will commence 8 course of tectures on RIvAY EVENING on Astronomy. First leo ture—The Magnituds acd Figu e of the Karth. n Monday, Jan. Sist—Tne Law of Gravi- nird, on Wednesday, Keb 2d—The Di- = ns of the Solar System, or the ae our knowledgs of p.aneta: ‘ourth, on Tid y, Feb. 4th—S1 ia 276t PAINTINGS AND STATUARY BY AMERICAN AR risTs the third annual hibition of the Washington Art Association, Cousisting of Paintings, Statuary, Water Colors and Crayon Vrawings, is now openatthe new and a, BLorowrs, Tom Lis AND SYPMILITIC AP; 10%, ERYSIPKLAS, Sand iuderd the whole clase cf Tux Boop. great promoter of health the foul hemors which the y complaints arising ‘rom Lar This compoucd will be found when taken in the Spring, to © ex. ulsion of them many rankit bed Multitudes can, by the a selves apare rape ‘and nicervus th which the ayst-m will sive to cid itself of if pot awisted to do this throogh the natural the body by an elerative medicine Cleanse ont ting health. Souuer « sumethine must go wrong, and the great wach. wery of life is or overthrown, mn DA fall the Association, op Penn. Bate bas, euu deserves much. the Avenue, betwoay 1ity aul Ith streots, RVEGUY | sccouptainee hissemnnc: Serra wach the ropetat ‘om ton elock 8. m. to 5 o’clock p. m., and in ously deceived by preparations fof it, aprt'y bees: php iy Tag a ak rhe: : drug e’one has pot all t © virtoe that Is claimed for Admgsion 25 cents. ja 19 tf eee nae 000 CUBA 18 OURS! waring late Years the pallic have teen meted by large 30 sees" Pretendiog to Ex bere. ‘the $30,000 vated the Presiden’ for one dollar, afoat Tee tone i aon ween the better Cubs Cle eee BACH “4~ 13th street and Pa. AUM PIPES, ( States Stw) ar oi at k, for they not only coptats little, if euy, Sareparitir, but when uo curative. proparties whatev F fence bitter sud painful extrarts dhappointinert has followed the tre of the vartors patil Sareaperta which flood the marbet. wnttl the Rame iteelf is justly dispised, and has become synonymous SHE HOpertion end cucet. Si We colt tne woup und Se saparilia, avd {utend to supply such avenue. i Styles, 18 27-eo P. 3. USL Ore ist and | renxuste the load <fcbleqey which At wineanat hs y ‘iow to give fare Ta fe thi have greuud for bet g When vir ther to single pupils oF in Vi or; tues which are icresletible by the ordinary run <f the + ig- fastramentel he ran, Piano. e- Saves it is lutemded to cure. Ie order aeons Beir c &o. ses sre r% - eradication from the wae a, the rem i, shoud be ing, and his attentions iduous. He wij! | /dictously taken according to directions on the butte, with pleasure the best mus PREPARED BY | Og pierecce ia, Wy: Wigton sity to the euccers of DR. J.t. x ina” *s caress: tare ie 1th 4 Seid ~e ta F arate pice i Sopot, D. @ m5 nad Poaucoveneey or at his rendonoey No-® Pera. | Pc, Sutcvaten, asd op alton very” avenue, near - deit-im |! pa tieommr 3 ae Sausres Per ——$—$—$< ON THEATR Wee Wasccre e MRLSM. Dawson, THIS EVENING, Jan. 77, 188, That tr haat artest. MISS JANE M DAVENPORT. wit Pox Weffineton im Reade’s beauti- itl appear as Pox — a PEG WOFFINGTON. Who, in this pe sonation. THE DEBUTANTE. In whieh Mr. J. M. Dawson and Miss Manuere will sppear, P_ices as usuel U7 The Ae fice. tor the snc of tickets and Stars soroseof Pun, avene and tik sirest nad enn, * wit Peeves betty from 96. m until 5 p.m. HILHARMONIC HALL. LABORDE. FORMES. Mr. Ulimann respectfully informs the public that GREAT ARTISTS OF BIS COMPANY, . wr THE ORCIESTRA, ‘will give most posiuveiy an only CONCERT, On their way to New Orleans, On TUESDAY BVENING, Feb. ist. The folowing siiats wi Lerpcar: Ez ™’ PUINSOT. “ti. GBIONIL, rte CARI. FORMES. R ORI FLORES ZA, MA SOND FLORENT. COLI ETT, WITH AN ORCHFSrRa composed cf al! the SOLO PLAYERS OF — ITALIAN 0) or NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC, gy 0. The omy Pr 13 GuSTAV BATTER, aed ‘will sppear on the same occasion. a Prockamus—Part I. a Overture— 7 if Windsor 1. jure—Merry Wives 0 4 a T a —Traviats. Sic. Fiore: 2, Remains Oi Poovees leomemese: na—Trovatore. .. : . Cr f Vi * by .M'me Laborde ct io c meee ol co Se cw he Mage, ) Deeten Nozze di F HO—PIRNO «wee... yed-( Ths Wanderer wartette ~( Lucia. pee 5, 6, Overture—( Martha) Musical Director... . IT Price of edmission ( Reserved Seat.) $2. {5 The sale of seats commences on Satui . Bt 9 o"clock, at Metzerott’s Music . Aq ; to commenee at 8 o'clock, ja 27 td HILHAKMONIC HALL. THE CAMPBELLS’ ARE COMING! SIXTEEN TALENTED PERFORMERS. ONE NIGHT ONLY! THURSDAY, Jan. 27th, 1858, MATT PEEL'S ORIGINAL CAMPBELL MINSTRELS From 4 Brosdway. New Yorke will Appear ae rosdway. New orl above stated with New Songs, Choruses, Operatic Burieseues. Dances, &c. pi morn For ful! particulars see bills of the Doors open at 7; to commence at *%. 2" Da. F. A. JONES, agent. BR42rs COLLECTION OF THE ILLUs- TRIVOUS DEaD! ON EXHIBITION FOR A SHORT TIME T BRADY'S GALLERY. Twenty-five Portraits of anquished Ameri - Cans, whose names have become * feailiar as house hold words.”” To properiy nupresiaze this collection, it must be seen and siudied. Apart from ite crest Value os @ collection of portraits, as a fine art collection it has never been equalied. 7 Open, free, from2a,m.to6p.m. ja25 6t DD FELLO HALL. Now Open, axo Exmisrrixe Nieutty, SANDERSON’S COLOSSAL DIOKAMIC ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN WAR AND SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. sing Battles, Sieges, Bombardmente, Shipwrecks, Tornadoes, v ht Views, &e., & enerved Seats Hcente, for Children exoept on Saturday alter- ‘Oltice for esle of Reserved Seats open from 10 to 128. m., and from 2 to 4 o’clock p. m |< open at 7, to commence at 7% o’olock. BALLS, PARTIES, &. __ FIRST GRAND COTILLON PARTS @ Americin Engl ub will be e:ven Teh at Thorn’s Buiiding, 7 treet between D and E,on MONDAY EVENING, February 7th, Purther par ioulare i future advertise m By order of ja 27-3t COMMITTEF. HE SEVENTH GRAND ASSEMBLY OF the Hibernian Ciub will be givenat Tem- iss Hall on WHDNESDAY EVEN- NG, February 24. 1859, See partioulars iu future advertisement, By order of n35 eost* THE COMMITTEE. + Phapates ouT Fora MONUMENTAL Grand Assembly of the Monumental Club at Prank in Hall, corner of ath and D streets, eg MONDAY EVE N&, Feb. 7th, 1e93. iokets FIFTY NTs, sdmitung 8 gen- tleman and ladies. By order of THE COMMITTE. js 3-Tu,Th,S,M,W,F,S&M* For ce trac ~~~ :ce QECOND GRAND FRENCH FANCY DRESS MASQUERADE BALL TO BEGIVENATTHE WASHINGTON ASSEMBLY ROOMS, Gn MONDAY, Fepevany 14, 1853. ets $2. admitting ® gentleman and isdies, ir inciuded.) supper wil! be under the direction of 00k noy Costumes apply to Mr. Fargitr, eet, between H aod I, formerly Costumer Comiq 4 ja 22 eoddb* syivanis avenue, Certre Market Or 8te street, large SHIKT STUD. tdemen, nfoukey's head.) The finder will be well rewarded ar gutaruing tae same to 3i2 F street, Setwaan, 21th and t2th. p O8T—On Tuesday, thr 25th instant, between the Heights of Georgetown and 13th street, ou Pe ‘vans avenue, or in an omnbue, a GOLD BREASTPIN. with three white sete. A suitahie Teward will be civen if left at tnie office. orat HEN RY WEAVER'’S, No. 377 High atreet. Geerge town. jest 2 —District of Columbia, County if ton, to wit >—1 hereby certify Phipps brougit betore m=, as an estray,2 small sorrel MARE, supposed to = er of ree: very poor; no eXoepting & +mail white star im tne forebead. Given under my Land aud sen thie 26tn day Janu- Sry, 1853, UMAS ©. DONN, J. P. wz, =e OWNER ~ | the above desoribed ere is wert eome forwar propert: Pay charges, and take her nw cele - I AM PHIPPs, ja%-3t* First Toll-c: t. Torppike Road. OST—Yesterdsy, somewhere in the Cavitel. (Supposed in t: a lery, A. oar! green morocco EFERO Nate, ined muslin, having a chain, aud Biring sbeut $35 in notes and silver, (the exact ai Bt net reo- ie reward wil be given if left at Stiected, tabi DR. HUNTS: Ro Se rae te eiven Leb : N A‘ INK EMPO- Stubbs TON'S VALENTINE a an P tor of this estabiushment pot oniy to pruduce better Valentines end im mech greter Variety, but also tosellthem at from 25 to 4 Cent jower than say other howse sp thie city. stock for this season is ee pecially recommended for ‘*+ -vaat richness, novelty, cleganee, sad variety of sty! colved' by male 3 SHILLING TON kselter, Odeon Buuding, ja2s St Corner 43 street and Ps. avenue. 5 G OF F-SELLING OF _ SELLING OFF NTES Day Goops At greativy reduced prices—many st jess then sxatgsgseners a, fll stock of Srat es soners! a UBL & ® Staple Goods fur family use, which soffer'st the lowest cash prices. We shail be ed to those whose remain uusettied 1 aes sal! and be 4 let Febr as we ex al bills prompt! tothe retake ee Hee pay ead in 9 ow san tih wizect- novtt Pavevente. EER Rae } UKB ry JEWELRY—I re- : ood Largeins at S38 H. ©, ROOD ?