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| AD of eaght | to the square) f Bawa ee AY: - werers® La. 2 VW, XU. WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1859. REPORT considered this asa tofhis official duty under | clerk being $24; that failing to get the books Of the House Committee to gay reap o the resolution already referred to. In this vii j : a PUBLISHED EVERY AFTER (SUNDAY EXCEPTED, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Corner Penusyivania Avenue and Eleventh Street, BY W. D. WALLACH. ) , Papers served in packages by carriers at $48 year, , &% T cents permoata. To maii pr don hp he ; i price is $3.50 a your, in adrance; $2 for 4X mouths; $1 for three ‘months; and for less than hree months at the rate of [2 ceuts a week. Single copies, | cent; in wrappers, 2 cents. i SSE a 1? Fomaais o 25 per cent. advance; once a week, 0 per DARING PEAT AT NIAGARA-—CROSSING ON STILTS ABOVE THE FALLS. [Correspondence of the Press and Tribune} Nracama Parts, Feb. 12, 1859 —Feeling sure that the readers of the Press and Tribune will be interested in the recital, [ write to give an aecount. however itm fectly. of one of the most reckless feats of daring ever attempted Que evening. about a week ago, while sitti: in the saloon of the International Hotel, I be- ' came interested in an animated conversation which was in progress between two persons, of | whom one seemed to be a Southerner and the other an Italian The latter had registered bis name as Py oy Gaspa Moreli,”’ but Ihave since learned that he is really a Yankee boy: that he was born and raised near Stonington. Connecticut, and was dubbed by his affeetion- ate parents Andrew Greenleaf As he grew clder he was afflicted with an intense desire to beeome & circus performer. and finally ran sway fror home to conneet himself with some strolling company. He was for awhile a mem- ber of Barnum’s immense ‘Show,’ and his astonishing performances upon stilts will be re- Mr. Baley testifies that his attention was Homse Comm there, he ——— them in the general — — oe matter about ie. tant at Mook accounts wm Cullom, late Cler he was undoubtedly correct. and the super wherever could find them, except the Fi- a. * & conversation you(Mr. Cal- the House of Representatives. tendent very chereklne and gladly ccqeame’ nance Reports, whieh Mr. Rives finally sup- | lom) about the matter, and [ told you The commitiee appointed to investigate the | in it ' | plied at ita set, and @ portion of the Diplo- | should return the $1,800, the amount ing conduet and accounts of William Cullom, late | | Ho wrote the clerk. giving him some sugges- | matic Correspondence he could not pro- | tothe Treasury: that the depositing that amount clerk of the House of Representatives, respect- | tions about the matter, and the clerk addressed | cure; that the books were delivered in one of | in the bank Suter. Les & Co. did not answer fally beg leave to re : & note to the tradesman employed, as general | the committee rooms at the Capitol, received | the purpose which you designtd itshould. You Your committee have taken a vast amount | furnisher, authorizing him “to do such uphol- | by Mr. Baily, Mr. Emerich, and others, and | said it was your purpose to have the matter of testimony, extending into various depart- | stery and other work in the new Hall of the every set that was brought in was examined | done correctly. and would so make your settle- ments of the clerk's office, and have procured | House of Representatives and its leries, as | ‘‘ Of course we did not examine every volume | ment at the Treasu I told you that you much information sew to them, and possibly Meigs might designate and direct."" __ | thoroughly to see whether it was imperfect or | should eharge you in the account current to many other members of the House. The nder this authority, he proceeded and pro- | not, we could not do that. If there | with this item of $1.800, the amount withheld committee was raised upon the following reso- | cured the identical carpet selected by the Su- | was any Tfection found, we stood ready to | from these clerks, aud that would make the tion : perintendent, Jaid it awe: and presented make it right, as we do in all other cases.”” account agree. [understood you to say you “Resolved. That the conduct and accounts of | the committee of accounts a bill at two doll: Mr. Bailey, who has been connected with the would have the matter carried out in thai William Cullom, the late clerk be referred toa| per yard, and twenty-five cents for laying it | clerk’s office some eight years, testifies that he | way."” He further states that when the act of Select committee of five, with instractions to in- | down, making ® profit of nearly $1,000 on the | bad charge of the book “business after the Ist | March 3d. 1857, was passed, requiring disburs- quire into the various items of his accounts, and | single item. * of April, 1857; that in the absence of the clerk. | ing officers tu keep their accounts with the pobort thercon at any time. and shall have power tis proper to add, that the testimony shows | and under instructions from him to have every- | Treasury. the chief clerk, Mr. Ingram, in to send for persons and —— that these profits, considerable as they appear, | thing right in the matter, and to see that the | making up his estimates of the amount in the Tuasmuch as a suggestion had been made of | were enj yed by tho tradesman alone, neither | books should be in good condition, he gave his | hands of Suter. Lea & Co., inended this item delinqueney on the part of the clerk, touching | the clerk nor any of his subordinates partici- | personal attention to receiving the books fur- | of $1.00, and that it was returned to the Treas- the stationery procured and furnished for the paling in them; and in the matter of the earpét | nished for the libraries, aided by Mr. Emerich: uy as a part of the general oe. use of the members of this house, their at-| it appears that the clerk personally had no | that he attended to having the books packed n the account rendered to the Treas tention was first called to that department of es free ! wWoobD! w Serie serace seliaceos Beware Ss ry by | for membered by thousands. He had before this ’ other connection with it than to give the order | and boxed up, and sent to the libraries; that he | the clerk, after the close of his term, fled 2 } time assumed the n: he now hears, as well | the clerk's office in the manner sluted, having one of his subor- | neither received nor sent awa. any books that | the 2d of March, 1898, the clerk is charged MARY N to escape recoguition as te avoid the fate of a Tt is proper to say that the proof establishes | dinates to supervise the laying it down aecord- | he knew were not in good order. Mr. Robert | with a balance on hand, and among others with i! Fr } « He is a hand- | the fact that the stationery furnished to the ing to the wishes of the Superintendent. K. Elliot testifies that from the 20th of October | this item, without date; ‘amount withheld | These Lottories are draw: } some, frank looking man, of about twenty-five, | last Congress was procured. not by the late has a fair complexion. and wears a small black moustache. At present he ix staying here without an engagement. The conversation referred to was a discussion upon the possible feats whieh might be accomplished by a man upon stilts. Signor Morelli (as I will call him) asserted his ability todo many things, a be- lief in which required considerable fait) The | Southerner. who is a well known sporting gen- tleman of New Orleans, evidently thouzht the | Signor was lying pretty hard, and at his last announcement he laughed longand loud. Mo- polli had im fact cxpressed his conviction that be could cross Niagara River, upon stilts, be- tween Goat's Ist md the Falls.” “I will Bet you « thousan lars to fifty that it ean- | not be done!” exclaimed the Southern gentle- Among other duties devolved upon the late | to the 7thof December last. at the instance, and | from Wm. Baley, J. C. Greenleace, J. J. Bur- clerk, Mr. Cullum, but by his predecessor. Mr. | clerk, the House by resolution of July 7th, | inthe employ of. John C. Rives, he visited | nett, and 8.8. Slanton, on vouchers returned Forney; and whether complaints respeciing it | 1856. ordered him to purchase for each new twenty-two public libraries in the States of In- | to the Trexsury on the last quarter of the year uuded or not, no responsibility at-| member and delegate of the last Congress, a | diana, Ohio, New York. New Hampshire, Mas- | 1856, $450 each, by reason of non-performance taches to Mr. Cuallom, the usage under the law certain catalogue of books. This order, tt seems | sachusetts, Pennsylvyanig, and Maryland. to | of service, $1.800."° being that each clerk, after the close of Con- | he had in part executed when, on the 5th of | look for the Congressional Globe and Appendix, Mr. Ingram further testifies that the money gress, and before the next session, shall con- March, 1857, the same was modified so far as it | the Finance Reporte, and the Diplomatic Cor- | was never drawn from the Government funds, tract for and purchase stationery for the suc- | remained unexecuted, by giving a reduced ndence; that he found of the first work in| and on the final settlement at the Treasury ceeding Congress. (See. 17, act of 26th August. | nuniber of books to such public library in each a library he visited from thirty-seven to | was fully accounted for; that he was prevented 1842, vol. 5, Statutes at large, p. 526 | of the districts as the number might designate, seventy-six volumes, some of thom much worn | by this investigation from presenting his ac- With respect to. the stationery furnished to | and at the same time the sum of $138,000 was | and soiled id dampuess, and in some cases the | counts for settlement at an earlier day. the present Congress. it sprees in proof that | appropriated for the purpose of indemnifying | labels off; the Diplomatic Correspondence was | Thus it appears that the snid clerks per- immediately after the close of the last Con- the valerk for books slroaiy hased, and to | in many instances found wanting. but no charge | formed no service during the three months in gress, advertisements wore prepared in the | enable him to execute the pel eye full. had been made for it, ax he ascertains; nocom- | question, and received Lo pay; the amount of clerk’s office by some of the old incumbents, | Soon afterwards, theclerk upon consultation, | plaint was made in regard to the Finance Re- | their salaries reverting to the Treasury, and mpdes. the pemminal direction of the clerk, to | secording to his usage in eases new and doubt- rts. A portion of these libraries were supplied | Your committee sce no ground of complaint on Wertise fu ) e for the kind and amount of stationery | ful, with the more experienced of his corps of | by the present clerk. Some complaints have | tueir part cortainly, and none on the part of that their experience in the office, extending | assistant clerks, drew a requisition upon the 4 the superintendence of a ‘hey have beon drawing for over years. sons who wish to purchase tiekets can, dence, buy he ‘Marsinad 08, Re never estion as to their or of drawing, no prize sold but was LOTTERIES FOR THE WEEK. To wr Dra NB. Crry Evary Arter- ome Dna artes Bee. WASHINGTON Se eres Classt, 'o be drawn on '. & 7@ numbers—12 drawn “ . wale 3.500) 5 and Cane Tickses G4, Kalvos 8, duartrs $3, olghS 1, b tt been made that in some cases there were dupli- the Government. . maa. “I accept the challenge.” answered | back in some eases nearly ten years. showed to | treasury for $50.000, for the purpose of indem- | cate volumes of the Congressional Globe and Ap- | Your committee have thus of the | Signor Morelli, q uietly. The astonishment of | be necessary; that he himzelf took no other nifying himself for previous purchases, and to | pendix, and in others «volume wanting. This is principal matters of charge inst the late {| bis bearers at thix reply may be iinagined. part in preparing the sdvertixement than provide a fund for future purchases to be made Very satisfactorily explained by Mr. Bailey az | clerk. Some other matters were brought to “When do you propose to attempt it?” on-| merely to give it his official signature: that} in his contemplated absence from the city. resulting from the mistake of the binder, not | their attention, and were investigated with a quired the challenger. --Gm Saturday morn- | with the exception of a siugle instance (a hou: This ree wisition was challenged and dishon- | effecting the contents of the-work. It appears | great deal of Labor to themselves and some cost img, the 12th of February,” tranquilly replied in New York) he personally invited no bids; | ered at the Treasury, and wae followed by @| that the clerk very carly authorized Mr. flugh | to the Government, but nothing appeared that that when the bids were made and samples | correspondence between the clerk's office and | Tyler to purchase the books reguired fur the | is deemed of importance to bring to the notice furnished, the latter were opeued in one of the | the Secretary, not necessary to be noticed fur- | members of the last House. Besides the twen- | of the House. counnittee rooms. and carefully collated by the | ther than to state the vonclusion arrived at. ty-four sets of books already referred to, and It appears that the late clerk, on going into oldest and most experienced employees in the | On the 13th of June, 1807, the Secretary of | commented Eon, it appears that on the 29th of | office, found several persous of standing and office, at the request, by the direction, and in | the Treasury addressed a letter to the First! Murch, 1859, he purchased from Messrs. Gales experience holding places, whom he retained the presence of the clerk, who, having little | Comptroller, reviewing the two reaolations of | & Seaton, of this city, ninety sets of Annals | in his employ; and they are still retained. knowledge om pie the different qualities of | July 7th, 1856, and March 3d, 1857, and mak- | of Congr | | Gaspa } The assurance with which he spoke filled. © with surprise, which waz not lessen- he produced the money for his deposit The stakes were handed over to Mr. Augustus Train. of Buffalo. and the company separated to uwait the result of this singular wager. The Register of Debates, and Senate | They have been examined before your commit- '. j interval was spent by Morelli in constant exer- | stationery, took no part in making the selec- | ing a decision in reference to the purchase of | Land Laws. at the publisher’s price of $32,850; | tee, and without exception testify that th Tick ie ees cise, for the purpose of strengthening his limbs, | tions. but left it to the longer experience nud | books by the clerk under the resolutions. He | that during the negotiation, as Mr. Seaton: know of no fact tending, either directly or i = somewhat relaxed by a season of rest. His | better judgment of his subordinates; that they | says that the resolution of March 3, 1857. | says, “ the clerk placed me in the hands of an | directly to show misfeasance, malfeasance, cor- aay, ‘ane friends expostulated im vain against the appa-| selected from different samples sueh as ap- | “contemplates two distinct objects: Ist. To | agent, who. he said. would arrange with me for | ruption, or dereliction of duty on the part of CARROL, 09 a OF RY, Gases, rently insane hazard. and even proposed to re- | peared to them most suitable, rezard being | indemnify the clerk for books peasy age the number of copies which so be wanted. | the late clerk. This is negative testimony, in- "ms mumbors—18 draws balla | tara to him the amount he would be compelled to both quality and prices; and that con. | chased by him; 2d. To enable the clerk to | He declined giving the order himself, and said | deed, but coming from the source it dues is en- to fork. He seewed sure of winning, and | tracts were awarded to some four or five difter- | obtain anil forward to public libraries the books | he would send a man to me and would give an | titled to much weight. would en to no.one. To avid a crowd. it } so that at seven this morning, there were only ent bidders, resident at different points, and | set forth in the law.” He adds that the object | order to him for such number of copies as he all shown to be first class dealers; that the ac- | of this latter branch of the law was doubtiess | should specify or agree to take. received | of the late clerk respecting the profits of his cepted bids were made known through the of- | to secure the purchase of the books, “as it| the order from My. Cullom directly. The | office, among them J.J. Burnett. 8. S. Stan- fice, and instructions given by the clerk to| had been repeatedly charged that members| agent informed me that he would obtain the | ton, and Hon. Charles Ready. who says: Some carefully inspect the articles delivered. and to | were sometimes in the habit of receiving the | order from the clerk, or would secure the order | few days before the adjournment of the last see that they conformed to the samples, instruc- | money instead of the books.’ to issue from the clerk. Gen. Cullom had pre- | Congress, during a night session of the House, tions that were faithfully observed; ¢! in re- Commenting upon the re-olution of July 7th, | viously stated that he would give an order for | be (the clerk) came and sat down by my desk ; ceiving and accepting the bids, there was no | 1856. the Secretary says: ‘Upon examination | such number of the books as Tyler should stip- | after some conversation upon different subjects collusion nor understanding Letween the bid- | of similar resolutions of previous Houses. I find | ulate for us to Mirnish.”” This agent, Tyler. | L asked him myself, [ think, what his office ders and the clerk or any of his employees; | that they substantially agree in their directions | exacted from them their check on the banking | would yeild him, he stated in substance that he that no margin was reserved, and no bonus was | to the clerk with the one now under considera- houseof Suter, Lea & Co., for seven ‘Gammel had made $30,009, but if the book resolution paid or agreed to be paid or demanded to he| tion. The clerk, to the extent that he acted | dollars, which was honored, and the money re- | should pass, his office would be worth, he paid by any of the contractors. either to the Lepr yer out this resolution, with the recog- | ceived by Tyler tho ed an ht, $50,000. elerk or any one in his employ; that thequality | #= approved precedence of his prei In a communication addressed to the Secre- love this as the substance of the conversa- was announced that the Witnesses have detailed various statements made on the 14th. (Munda: tempt would be instead of to-day; 5 &o., "eee Tickets $5, halves $2.50, quarters $1.25, roxoone 2hNMABrapny. caens ae ae eee sbout thirty persons by the river bank. Pune- tuslly at that hour Morelli appeared. in fine spirits and condition. He had with him a pair of stilts about twelve feet long. made of wrought iron, fist, sharp-edged and pointed—shaped in tact almost precisely like a double-edged dag- er. They were firmly lashed to his legs. and @ walked towards the terrible river with a confideut smile. The morning was clear and cold, but he was attired very a in a dress ust unlike that usually worn 78 numbers—is 1 prige of. seaal| 109 4 : LS"'Sme | 10 do. P & ie ec. &e., ‘&e. ** Tiokets $5, halves $2.50, quarters $1.25, 1,201 20 MARYLAND SRL ORTRRY, tem F ¥_ professional | of the stationery furnished is very good. and | cessors, is entitled to protection, and snc .1| tary of the Treasury by the clerk, July 29,| tion. That was before the book resolution = a en gyinasts, At ten minutes past seven, he siep- | that the skill and judgment used iu making se- | have ne doubt was the intention of Cougross im | 1857, and verified by his atiidavit, he alludes passed. At that or some other time, though my _ OF... -n0e+ on m4 priges of. sp ped into the water, which in another moment | lections have been culled in question, ouly in | framing that part of the law whieb provides | to acharge that had been made against him at | impression is that it was at that time, he spoke | j, °° - ig ,% was boiling, gurgling. and rushing beneath his | the single article of wrapping paper, and that | for his indemnity. He should be required to | the Treasury De ” fect. The iSidest of the lookers-on held his n 2 riment. growing out of this | of haviag bad the advenings, on account of bis to the extent of but a few cents per ream. | produce to your office satisfactory evidence | transaction. in t e following terms position here, of en, ing in some speculations Certain bidders being of opinion that their awa | that he has so acted.” ~ As to the allegation that Gales & Seaton | snd making some investments in stocks and samples were equally as good as those upon Pursuant to this decision, the clerk, on the | had paid Mr. Tyler a sum of money on any ac-| real estate. I do not recollect very distinetly which contracts were awarded. while their bids | 15th of Jaly. 1857, certified that he had pur-| count. I know nothing. I gave Messrs. Gales | what was said upon that subject; the idea was were a triflelower. While your committee, | chased of one Hugh Tyler twenty-fonr sets of | & Seaton the order fur the bux myself uncoi- | that he had made $30,000 in consequence of therefore, find nothing in the purchase of the | books, had delivered twenty-one sets to asmany | ditionally; and my requisition the amount | holding the office. Mr. McClarin, of Carthage stationery to impeach the official conduct either | members, as appeared by the receipts which | of their reeciptod bill was before the Comptrol- | Teunessee, a neighbor and the private finan- ot the clerk or those acting under him, their | he produced, and had three sets still on hand | ler of the Treasury, when L went to Tennessee. cial agent of the late clerk says, that “ when investigation has given them somo insight into | undelivered } and was passed and paid. as I understood. to | with his acquaintances at home he spoke of his Tickets ¢10, halves @5, qparters $2.5, Addross R. FRANCE & COo., LTIMORE, hid. breath in saspense, as the daring man receded trom the shore. He alone seemed unmoved, ssed on, slowly and carefull idi rocks which were made ing current. His steps at first were ery Short and carefully made. but afterwards beesme bolder and longer. The stilts of course Were su _ that the current struck only DOLL4R LOTTERIES. To sr Drawn at Quanrre Brrors 12 O’ctocz M. NBAY. PATAPSCO IN ne Lo: Y, Class 60, be di : ‘ ° Ym nambers--i2 dere ~ lots. against their sharp edge. and produced but | the stationery system. and they dee it proper It was charged that this certificate was un-| Gales and Seaton in my absence What they | office as a profitable one. aud thought be would | i paige of little effect: but the danger from sunken rocks, | to call the attention of the House to it true, and that, in fact, no books had been de- | did with the money I know not Ceriain it is, | make some 330.000 or $10,000 le explained 4 sig and the conviction that @ single falso step| It appears that by usage of the office, the | livered. This charge in three inatances was | [ have not received s& cent of it nor have I| the matter by saying that there ae good op- i fi se ‘ao. would send him to death, producing a feeling | stationery is placed in the custody of one of the | sustained; the facts us they appear in evidence. | learned from Mr ‘Tyler that be ha: If sach | portunities offered to the clerk of the House of Tickets $1, shares in Proportion. Which was horribly psinfal. Onee o he | subordinates. known a2 the stationery clerk, are a3 follows: . | be the fact, I aver that I have no knowledge | Kepresentatives to make mouey by dealing in — seemed to lose bis balance. and a sickening | that he furiishes stationery to the postmaster Your committee examined as witnesses a | of it CRSDAY, PATAPSCO INSTITUTE LOTTPRY, Ciass a1, To be drawn on Ty esday, Maren i. 7é numbers—12 drawn ballots. yrignal ose ie 4 eerie 1 2 10. western lands. stocks, land warrants, reai estate, &c ; that his position gave him credit, * emo averment of the clerk. He says that Mr. | and increased fucilities for information. He fact, members have supplied themselves from | cases the books were in fact delivered as uh | Cullom did not in any way, directly or indi-| was considered one of our wealthy men [ the s@tionery room, leaving the stationery | receipts purport. They have found but thre rectly, receive any part or portion of any profit | have been acquainted with General Cullom for, clork to report the items to the postmaster; | exceptions; Hon. J. H. Jewett, of Ky , testities | or percentage growing out of the book contract | eighteon or nineteen years, and from the time and that in the sickness or necessary absence | in substance: ‘I did not take the books of Mr | with him; nor was any agreed to be paid of my first acquaintance with him, his wealth of the stationery clerk during the session of the | Callom, but that was at my own instance, 1) It ig proper to add that this transaction of | has been annually increasing. As he increased Houso, his duties devolved upon some of his | never had any interview with him upon the | Tyler with Messrs. Gales & Seaton appears to | in years he increased in wenlth, and latterly 2; that « our committee can per- | matter at all. When the resolution was passed | be the only one performed by Tyler while act- | the increase has been larger than formerly.” shudder ran income exch one of the beholders. Recovering himself he still kept on—still re- ceeded, until to our straining eyes he could seareely be distinguished from the forming waters The middle of the river was attained at last, hours seemed to have fled. but it was barely seventeen minutes since he left the shore As be approached the deepest and most dan- gereus part of hix route. the suspense became of he House, who dolivers it to the members | large number of ihe members, whose receipts | Mr. Tyler's testimony fally sustains this sol- and keeps the aecounts with them; that, in| appear in this list. They find that in 3 be drawn 0} PATA, sco inSthteye Uke Gages is nv check imposed upon the sta- | I was about visiting asick son. { had always | ing under the authority of Mr. Cullom It is shown that his means were ample, his 78 numbers—13 drawn more fearfully intense. No word was spoken jerk or those who temporarily act in | understood that to be & sori of additional eoin- t furthermore appears, that Mr. Joba Tret- | credit good, and his character for integrity ir- Capitals. except that one man offered snother $5 fur a e, and no means of ascertaining the | pensation to the members. One day, one of | ler, a book-binder of this city, had & contract | reproachable ace ae : Ose | 2 Priges ot. es #30 moment's use of his lorgnette, whieh offer} fidelity with which they exceute their trust. | the clerks came to my desk with « paper, and | with the late elerk to bind the reserved docu- Mr. French, one of his predecessors in office ar 2% 2 passed unheeded. Just #s Morelli reached the | It furthermore appears that a practice had | asked me if [ would take the books under the ments of the last Congress. amounting tu sev- | on being asked what are theo portunities in grown up in the office of allowing each of the | resolution; I said [ would take the books; how- | euty-five or eighty thousand dollars; that he | this city for such a man to realize mouey by employees to use the office stationery fur pri- | ever, immediately upon the passage of the re- applied in person to the clerk, and presented | dealing in real estate, and takin: advantages vate purposes to an extent equal to the amount | solution, I had received a letter from Sherrard | the recommendations of some of the best citi- | in buying and selling. says: *-I should think. allowed by law to eaeh of the members. As it | Williams, formerly a member of Congress, of- | sens of Washington; that he wanted the work. | perhaps. no man could make money faster in appears to your committee. the stationery of | fering me his books at a much lower rate than | and, as he says, Supposing that Mr. Tyler had | any other way.” the House is in much the @ condition as | they were to be furnished; also, in course of a influence with the clerk. he su uently went It appears in evidence that the clerk has would be astock of merchandise of many thons- | private transaction with Col. Stone, nry pre- | to Mr. Tyler and offered to give him twenty- | fully settled his accounts at the Treasury, and and dollars value, sold at retail by sundry dif- | decessor, matters had so transpired that his | five per cent. on the contract if he would secure | that during his entire term of office all monies ferent clerks, to nearly two hundred and fifty} books could also be obtained at a less price | itfor him; that Mr Tyler accepted his offer. | to hie credit ss clerk were drawn only upon different customers, each a part proprietor, in- | than they would be furnished here. I there- ewiftest and deepest portion of the current. he seemed to totter—sink—he threw up his arms! I closed my eyes. Opening them a moment after, I saw that he was still stending: A few moments more and he had reached the Cana- dian bank—he w fe. and fell exhausted into the arms of two , who were waiting to re- ceive him - At this hour (3 p.m.) he was nearly recovered, and. ep still in bed, receives the congrat- &e., &o., &o. Tickets $1, shares in proportion, PAAR ae STTERY, come, 7é numbers—18 drawn Capitals. 1 « : prige of. 1 do. and that he paid him something over twelve | checks prepared by his chief clerk, or the per- capi tiDA Y. > ulations of dozens of visitors who come pouring | terested only in receiving his share of the eap- | fore proposed. through my colleague to Mr. | thousand dollars. son acting for him in his absence. which Let PATAPSCO INSTITUTE mpc ee in. He left the American shore 960 feet above | ital. with uo eye-to profits, no account of sales | Cullom, to take money instead of books, as I Without going at large intg the testimony, | drawn upon vouchers being presented. 75 numbers—12 drawn | the fall, and came out about 1,000 feet above | kept. and no iuvuice ever taken; the sufety of | preferred todo so. Mr. Cullom furnished me the Canadian. The money has already been hended over to him, and all will agree that it wus feirty won. lis generous opponent is able your committee will simply ‘say that it doex Your committee now having completed the ; " not appeareither that the clerk participated | labors assigned them by the tose, pray to be the catalogue prives; 1 gave him a receipt for | in this money, or knew of the arrangement be- | discharged from further consideration of the The sixtionery clerk of the lagt Congress was | the If there was any faul he matter, | tween Messrs. Tretler and Tyler, or even that the stock depending alone upon the skill uud | & list of books which he said he put down at Cap tals. -.-O5/ 7 ZPriges of... integrity of the factor - 1,000 ye smi2 do. ; wetge of. 2 do L ; subject referred to them. ; o &e., = ke. his low, and speaks in praise of Mo- | an old incumbent, continued in office by the | it with me and not with bis ; the latterin any way intervened for the pro- - —— - _ as Tickets $1, shares in proportion. nthusiastically than late clerk in compli with # very numerous Hon. D. >. Walbridge, of Mich., testifies | curement of the contract. It is shown by Mr. BOOTS, SHOES Yours traly Wituras Comins apd most respectable recommendation. Your | that he received money for a portion of his | Tretler, that, at the instance and by the direc- u . &e. L re: t Buchanan committee design no reflection upon him; but | books. “When I went for them, I told Gen. ! tion of Tyler, he avoided the clerk, who ia | Jaa. 4 BOOTS AND SHOES. Decrpepty Pr ould on SATURPAY, ; PAT ARO EE ert ERRY Cums “ they submit that not only the sufety of the | Cultem that I had already bought some of the | vain made re ated efforts to see him ; and it . We sumbere epee uses ee eral Cass drinks no ‘“Bour- pel Lut that of the public pro} im in his | same works, the Register of Debates, the An-| farthermore aS ars that, when an intimation | qjA'pttp MARLOW would inform his custo, ore cee ses ed pci * A e te property ‘ 8 ppe and the public in general that he ju Seed bon. Senator Douglas uses no pepper. and the | gare, requires that his official conduct should | pals. and also the Congressional Globe and Ap- | was given to the clefk of the reason why 'Tret- | received a splendid lot of Lad ool : Tate | 3 y aeepaatns Fostuaster General cats but two meals a + | be subjected by the clerk to constant revisal pendix, and they were at my house in my | ler kept away, he went to his establishment. GAITERS, which he wail sell at $1.25; &o. . pihd ke. ad N- P. Willis cuts bis own hair, Caleb Cushing | fy {hie connection. your committee deem it | library; and I proposed, if it suited hina, that | and not finding him there, left a message for Soiree BOOTS gaa aie a propost Tickets 1, shares in proportion, shaves himself and wears uo heard. Rafus! proper tocall attention to the mattér of up- | he should give we the money instead of these | him with his son, who superintended his busi- I Dou't forget the! number—4a5 Penn. —— . Choate and Henry Ward Beecher are dear Eottery, furniture and repairs for the House, | books, of which [ already bad copies. He said it | ness, denouncing the suspected agreement, if | between 31 and De sts. fe orders address B-PRANCE & CO. jovers of colfee. E. P. Whipple rarely break- | gumnished by the direction and authority of the | made no difference with him, and he did not | any such existed. se ton, Nv fasts befure ten. though he begins business at | york. know as it would make any difference to any| At the close of the second session of the last For THE BALLS.—I have just received a splen- JOHN E MAE ‘JOD Sa eight; Edward Everett: wri S$ extempora- By House resolution of January 20, 1846. it | apy one else. Me accordingly gave me the Congress, five of the employees in the clerk's | did assortment of Ger lemen’s French im- ah en continues to give ry Ly neows addresses; Ralph Waldo Emerson often | ig provided that * all contracts, bargains, or | money instead of those books.”* office requested leave of absence during the re- | Frisia, Moaitare sett the Bate ee sole 1 ungie pupils oc Aaath eS dines at Parker +. but rarely t ; Wil- agreements relative to the furnishing of any Hon. John Williams, of New York, testifies | cess, all, with one exception, to engage in the | Shoes! For Ladics—White Satin and Kid ge idieiyrs s terms are Orras. Faso, Cullen Bryant finds on in Gro oF | water or thing. or for the performance of any | in substance, that on the 5th of Match, 1897, pending Presidental canvass, c wand Lace Gaiters aud Slippers; alo, | commodating, and bis ettentees we three cups of green ten. and Longfellow smokes | jator for the House of Represontatives he made | one of his colleagues undertook to procure for! The clerk granted the leave. but informed | Fancy Glicerous Siipp: i t a meerchaum. The rmailest-sized poet America is Holmes, the best looking o: (aud he is #2 guod as he looks), the * hs “4 a rol 5 ay. wade by the com- | that he signed a receipt at Willards’ Hotel and | sent, they should be considered out of office : > & _——=— =e with the clerk, or approved by him, before any | him his books, and to have them sent to iim; | them that, during the time they would be ab- allowance therefur shal! by mittec of accounty.”’ assid: So tie Re Geaee The disbursements for | enveloped it tothe clerk; made no examination | assigning for this course the twofold reason that F STREET, ; inquiry at the Music corner oue Pike of Arkansas.—Gleasox's Line of uphulstery, furniture and repairs of the receipt, and remembers nothing of its | he Said to bestow a portion of his official 373 ERE grieeares oP 373 Benn. avene, or at his gy a tle Shup anally to many thousand dollars contents; fiuds the same receipt on file in the | patronage upon others of his friends, and that | Ladies “4 sean’ and Chil BOOTS and z Hla Sy a a The practice of the office Treasury Depurtment, dated July 15, 1856; had | he decimed it incompatible with the duties of | SHOES, at reduced press, of our own make Ee ieee ke sat aie employ some tradesman who supplies avery- | no interview or communication with the clerk; | salaried officers of the Governme: tise Meyer. 63 Abigail-street. for commiting an as- sult on hiv mistress, Frederika. Both persons wre in the vicinity of seventy years old. and are pertectly willing to confese the uature of their iatimsey. They lived in Germany nine years, : to committees or otherwise. without any special] | the freightof his books, and had not received Objection was made by some of them'to being | Misses ant Children’s Moroceo and Un- pentract or agreement as to the igre ad mits | them, but had been assured by the clerk on the displaced, and it was proposed by them that I may ge es laste ba iurtbe. Rnticll his account to the committee of aecounts, which | morning he gave his testimony, which was the | their names should be continued upon the pay- | Kid, Iutton Cloth Baplich Pata 4 a tatiog” when approved by that committee is paid by | fir*t time he saw him. that the books were | roll, as being in office, that ou their return they | eais, Moroceo, and Cndrens Marocso TS, nt to onga: lack and White Sativ Slippers, $1.25, thing of the kind that is required either by the | gave no directions, and made no provisions for | in the strife of a political canvass. ie Eigse oo Ladies Shiver , “Fil oe : a . Sz CARRIA: could not mai % band | the clerk. awaiting his orders. No money was received | should receipt the pay-roll and endorse the | SHOBSand GAL 5, $ hs pre : gp shan camahig Moma paneer During the last Congress three diferent per- CP ig ier to be receiyed by him. -, | Cheeks for their pay to the clerk, or under his oie amy M eco SLIPPERS made to bow Oat br patel gorsnis here he would make her his wife, | sons were thus employed, whose evidence be- ho First Auditor, on the 6th of August, 1857, | direelions, To this arrangement the clerks as: | fe i5-im THOS, CREASER. busiret, where « pounien which be probably forgot, they have | fore the committee shows that upon the articles | certifies that ‘the rates charged for books in | sented. Wagot ey Gh RRL tus: long ox tads “ ; deen sojourning together after the old fashion fr x nA SiS SPCRrninges ant Light Wagons kept oa fur tbe inst twelve months. She says her lover wishes by sbuse to compel her to leave him, furnished by them they realized a profit of | this account have been compared with prior| ‘The absentees appear all to have understood | GELLING OFF! SELLING OFFY from twenty-five to thirty-three and one-third | accounts, and have in no case been found to ox- | that substitutes were to be employed and their BOOTS, SHOES, AND RUBBERS, per cent., which they aay is no more than they | ceed the prices heretofore puid for the same.” | pay was ee to the compensation of such sub- f every description, for o of every ¥ ’ ) ; . charge private persons for similur supplies. Your committee have attempted to give a| stitutes. substitutes, however, were em- Lavizs, Mixsxs, Yours, awp CuiLonen, AUR FAIRS neatly done,andall orders prompt. Se hn ey eee ee akees nag tan'|' Curtitath le, tut the acgrerata of profita is | syllabus of the faots connected with this aauch ployed. In fact, during the recess of Congress LADIES’ SHOE STORE, yy honk Gonsingns bien inl ae shey c ald well afford to abandon their frse: vary conndeeabia, and does not seem to be at- te! iseneoerecrell din'ty. the’ Hbrasies wade aoe by AS ae be Liners ae the ee No. 16 Penn, avenue, bet. th and Sth’ Streets, ae ‘NDR WS JON Gr. ns = ~ > = with corres; i Jev- ‘o furni ii ress at the 1s! em| follow- " a corner ———— a ee Beery Sacer IEA es the second branch of the resolution of March ing ware thoes five clerks returned to their Fn inet wigan pr oh tn we Tuomas De Quexcey, report says, hasoffered| Por example it appears frqm the lateclerk’s | 1857, the clerk employed Messrs. Taylor & | dutics, carried out this arran nt by reeeipt- | Seouring ‘them at est Sorts, which, To MY Egrexds aD his body, after his death, to the surgeons for ex- | report that for furniture, £c., in the committee | Maury, and Mr. Shillington, well known book ing the Pay-roll for their ies during the | course, rex ts to the benel tof the purehaser. beon adding to my amination as ® contribution to physiological | room on public building: and grounds, ordered | sellers in this city. Mr. Taylor testifies that) months of September, October, and November. pas edn ee SUPCTIOTI eee Meality » hw Seakeor teen x soieuce. Post mortem examinations often throw | by that committee, was expended $1,439.25, | ho endeavored to procure from Johu @Rives, | amounting in the aggregate to $1,800, endorsed | 3°XE0™/OuE Mor and Hid Boots ora OB — light upon mysterious diseasos, ond should peyer | and in like manuer in the committee room on | the Congressional Globe and Appendix, the the chocks drawn for their pay, and left them | Gaitors, &o., &o., for winter wear, ‘only 3 eft *% 315 Poona eoeen: be objected to by frieuds of the deceased, but | expenditures of the Navy Department, $457.50; | Diplomatic Corr lence, and the Finance | with Mr. Engram, the chief clerk. they on their part, have a right to be informed of the exact nature and extent of the di reaiss ga Wtas, Sit in the committee room on expenses of Post | Reports; but that Mr. Rives refused to sell loss | That officer testifies that “st that time they hee — ts Office and Treasury Departments, $633.25. But ere etre volumes to the set of the Con- kept yard funds deposited at the banking-| no sd gressio Be. ie ing. , _ sadleazens withholding of this naturally desired | « more striking inatence of the working of the Globe and Appendix, while thirty- | house of Suter, Lea & Co., or rather with Mr. eon leads Snareldahly to rns seer system par aian in furnishing the gives De apd | seven volumes was all that the clerk, us he un- | Suter himself. Tuo x F Ce) i that there been mistakes and maltreatment. | cushions of the new hall. superintendent | derstood the law, was authorized to buy; that} The checks were drawn payable to the par- ‘to oe Is estack We know an instance of this want of cour engaged upon the Capitol extention, supposi for the Diplomatic Correspoadence he charged | ties, but seommsons uent settlement at the red jRnNary, Aro ROW, on the part of a member of s Medical College. | that this fell wi his province, had cata $25 e set, while the clerk was allowed ta bank thee that has ocessioned a deal of hard feeling, a: d * 3 of1.25par yard | but $15; and for the Binance Report hacharged | {he clesk tw my Denk aecouat, Tuten thie et in this ei the : it $15; for e Repor! my a t taid down; but wesintorened by the That be | $24.60 « set, the prive Bxed to ‘be paid: by the ‘wee not long atierwacds; sfow days or woots | e . islikely to Jead to its prolongation on both sides, a Wass a. sabg w