Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1859, Page 2

EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON CITY: WEDNESDAY...........--.- March 2, 1859, " 1s PRINTED ON TIE so LARGE A® TO REQUIRE IT TAN EARLY HOUR; ADVER TISEMENTS, THEREFORE, SHOULD BE SENT IN BY ‘TWRLVk o'CLOCK, M.; OTHERWISE THEY MAY NOT APPEAR UNTIL THE-NEXT DAY. SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS. The Union has an article defending the Preaident against recent accusations of the Baltimore Exchange. Also, an article in which it urges upon the present Congress not to adjourn without adop’- ing measures to maintain the credit and honor of the Government. The same paper publishes and comments fa- vorably upon the letter of Secretary Toucey to armed with a five-shooter, every barrel loaded, and at least one, if not two, loaded Derringer pistols. They were of course loaded before Butterworth preceded him from the house; for the time eclapsing until Sickles followed him was not more than one or two minutes. Sey li is sid faneboly | Key lies dead, and his side ofthe me! 4S ike Can never be told. Our chief <y:pathy. | cived tam her we frankly admit, is with his orphan children, who, though they are to be through life as in- tense sufferers from this affair az any others. they are the only parties concerned in it who had no agency whatever in bringing it about. Nor do we deny the existence in our breast of some sympathy with the unfortunate woman. sixteen to an experienced man of the world, who knew well all the dangers to which the virtue of a young and intensely fashionable wife might be subjected in an ill-ordered house- hold, we cannot sequit the husband of all blame for her ruin. Such ruin rarely, if ever, the Naval Investigating Committee. The Intelligencer is devoted to Congres- sional proceedings and news to-day —_—_—_—-see+-—____ WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. | Stee aan Me. Burrerworrn’s Statewent. &c.—The reader will find in to-day’s Star Mr. S. F. But- terworth’s statement of his connection with the recent killing of P. Barton Key, accompanied | by others designed to corroborate him. Its publication, together with the tenor of various | secounts of the deplorable affair appearing in papers elsewhere. satisfy us that a strong dis- m to influence public opinion in advance of a thorough investigation, prevai As er | parte statements to that end cannot fail to dis- turb the course of justice. however disagreeable the task of criticising them may be. such eriti- cism is the duty of a press like ours. thoroughly identified with the present and future of thix community. Want of space prevents us from quoting the statement of Mr. B. here; but we may truthfully sum it up by characterizing it as an effort to induce a general belief. first, that Mr. Butterworth was not aware of the de- sign of Mr. Sickles to kil! Mr. Key. and. next, that Mr. Sickles killed Mr. Key under the im- pulse of sudden passion. While we have no final judgmont to pro- mounce upon the act of Mr. Sickles, it is our | duty, We repeat, if possible, to prevent justice | from being forestalled—to prevent the case from being decided upon ¢r parte statements in ad- | vance of the legal investigation. We have therefore to say that Mr. Butterworth’s plead- ings have not satisfied us of the propriety of | hesitation on the part of the authorities to sub- | ject his conduct in conuection with the affair to rigid serutiny. In his examination before the coroner's in. quest Mr. Butterworth swore distinetly, not that he did not see the pistol placed by Sickle= in immediate contact with the head and person of Key. but that it mrs wot so placed ; the other witnesses testifying that it was so placed When asked whether he (Butterworth) did not know that it was the intention of Sickles to shoot Key, he answered that he did not know that fact—adding in an instant that he would not say what his impressions as to Sickles’a in- tentions were. He then protested against be- ing examined at length on that occasion, de- elaring that he expected to be so examined in a few minutes before the committing magistrate, in his opinion the proper officer—rather than the coroner—before whom he should state all he knew of the affair, adding distinctly that he knew al! about it. In that subsequent exami- nation he disclosed literally nothing. We may here add. that the impression left on the minds of those who heard Mr. Butter- worth’s testimony before the coroner, was that his aim was to create the idea that Sickles killed Key under the impression that tho latter was in the act of drawing a weapon upon him (Siekles.) The aceount of the killing of Key, published in the New York Times of Monday last, as can easily be proved on the trial, if necessary, was written and sent over the wires under the im- mediate supervision of Mr. John B. Haskin, of New York, the nearest friend of Mr kles That account, deseribing the egress of Mevsre Butterworth and Sickles from the house of the latter, immediately before the killing. says : *: Asking Mr. Butterworth. who wasat iii to follow Rey and en: him in conversi'ion, so that be would not get of sight. he rushed up stairs for his pistols, and quickly following, foun Butterworth and Key tozether, at the corner of Six- teenth street, when ihe tragedy took place Mr. Butterworth, according to his published statement. admits that he went direetly over to where Key stood, though denying his fore- knowledge of the presence of K. there or an expectation of meeting him. He admits that he had previously counselled Sickles that— “There is but one course left for you (Sickles) as a man of honor—you need no advice.”” Was not thatsubstantially advice to kill Key? Ifwe read his statement correctly these were his last words before starting for where Key was standing On meeting Key, instead of at least scorning to hold intercourse with the man whom he pro- fessed to regard with so much horror, as when looking on hi= corpse half an hour afterwards he exclaimed indignantly, in the presence of | fifty persons, that he had no sympathy with him, or “ the scoundrel,”’ we forget which, or of warning him that Sickles might be expected there in a moment, he was engaged in ap- parently friendly conversation with Key—who, being dead. cannot tell how it happencd that he had no susp whatever of the intention of Sickles—which fact is however proved by | the testimony of Butterworth himself. Instead of interfering tu prevent the killing of the unarmed man. it is proved in the testi- mony before the coroner, that he stood looking on bear the parties. but out of the direction of Siekles’s shots. until S. had fired and snapped his weapons at least six times- and then, Key being killed. he joined bis arm in that of | Sickles and secompanied him away. Inde- | pendent of accounts of his advice to Sickles | differing widely from his statement of that ad- vieo, which we think can he proved upon his own admission, the facts and circumstances we present above. make it necessary that Mr. Batterworth’s connection with the homicide, should be as rigidly investigated at law, as that of Mr. Sickles. Nothing that might reasonably be uttered in extenuation of the act of the lat- ter, hae in extenuation of the act of a conspi: TF OF conspirators wi: ii il vs if pa such they were, a ae pom the “sudden passion’? opinion is that much Lng be Pa sora Alga course of the trial not made public in the er parte statemeuts to affect publie opinion re- ferred to above. In Mr Forney’s Press of yesterday—Mr. Forney being as intimate with Sickles and his family. as Mr Haskin or Mr Butterworth—it is said i © It is but just, however. toxay between Mr. Key and Mrs. Siv marked in Washington circles bad bee: ment last Ce that the intimacy les had been re. lor & year past. and | the orcasion of more than one disagree | he fetnilies of the parties. Durine the . Hotes passed between Mr. Key and Mr Sickles on this snbject, which were followed | by a complete reconciliation, and Mr. K #8 usual at the Louse of Mr. Sickles. havin — him at a large party net more than ten days In expianation of this paragraph, we ma: add that Lar pig 2 at currently stated here that ere the Teconciliation referred to took place, articles of separation between Mr. Sickles and his wife on aceount of her intimacy with Mr. Key, were setually drawn up. It is known that on leay; his house and §'Dg over to where Key steed, Sickles was | Cost $157.50 each, while the same kin | same that the | they have not invades the threshold of the husband who strietly discharges the duty of a head of a fam- ily. Nay, we question whether it ever came into the family of a man really careful at all times to protect the honor of his own house- hold. : To our mind. the proper course of the true man of honor was not to vindicate his pride and his ambition by the perpetration of an act which forever cut off his young and really in- experienced wife from any possibility of rega‘n- ing a position in society; nor yet to sacrifice the future of his own child upon the altar of his | own pride and ambition. possibly desecrated in | great part through his own short-comings; nor again to make four young orphans to satisfy the cravings of the same Moloch. It is very certain that Mre. Sickles can tell a story that will throw intense light on the kill- ing. We have ao faith in the account that the sion obtained from her was voluntarily made, beeause. though inexperienced and weak. she must have known that it was a desth warrant, so far as her future in life and that of her child was concerned. She can doubtless tell. too, whether her husband’s conduct has or has not been such as to justify tho allegation that he had a right to protect his “ murital coufe: | honor” by taking the life of an unarmed man— for unless his conduct, as « husband, has been scrupulously correct, he cannot properly plead the justification of wounded ‘+ marital honor.’” Her testimony can only be given in the trial of an accessory to the killing, if such there was. It is due to her and to the helpless and unof- fending children of Philip Barton Key, that her testimony be secured. if possible. We have nothing whatever to say in exten- uation of the conduct of Mr. Key; as when a | man invades the marital rights of another. he carries his life in his hand. While, however. he has met the fate he might have expected, it surely is the duty of the law to examine closely whether the act of inflicting that fate on him was under all the circumstances a justifiable one on the part of him or those inflicting it. Tue Rerort or tHe | made the report of this special House commit- | tee on the day before yesterday We extract | from it the following particulars, which will | give the Star's readers a full understanding of | its character and bearing; not having room to | | publish it to-day at length : “It has been found that the books of the late | tinteudent lias been kept ina manner so loose Suny ' negligent as to make it almost impossible to accounts between his office and the nt. The testimony of Dr. Quail shows it it cannot be ascertain from those books, hin some hundreds of reams, how much paper was received nor how much was delivered to the Public Printer, and that neither those accounts nor the a Large invoices of paper were received without any Inspection. and sometimes by an irrespons' party in the employment of the Pablic Printer. A aborer or Watchinan in Mr. Wendell’s office ap- rs to have had. to a very yreat extent. the charge of the delivery of the paper to the Publ Printer. His memoranda were kept on loose slips ot paper afterward sent to the clerk. whose duty it was t atter. From those slips the oithe de up monthly, buts in the accounts, the othicial re- ceipts collected and pasted i y the present Superin 0 a book tor refer 3 Sor * pap described in them is not covered by any olticial | * receipts. * * * * U an investiga! out Weorne W. Bow iW ascertained these facts. iment had yinent rom Mr. Arno Arnold was spoken to « account had been settled by way of a loon to Mr Seaman, that he had refused to make the loan until Mr. Seaman had promised to arrange it in the set! went of his waste-les wut. ‘This. however, was not done, Mr. Arnold paid the amount toMr. Bowman. The same was the case in another bill of less amount. Notwithstanding the fact that $2.791 96 have been collected from various binders on. the :te- counts referred to since the appointment of the present Superiutendeut, there is still aconsiderable discrepancy betweeu the quality of paper required for waste feaves and the amount Which has been settled for by the binders, * * * # In the ex: f the secounts for engravi and lithograp ur committee found that the books of various partics did not correspond with the amounts of the certificates issued and charged to them. In one instance this difference amounted to ab to about $10,000, and in another to In one of the two instances the books ers and Lithographers were balanced by s entries; but In those cases, the aiuounts of money, credited as received from the government. did ‘not correspond with the certiti- cates charged to the parties. 1 to hav and ac of th were € eral belief in th them to pay f that the prac’ belief. Payment was ditterent ways: in une instances. in the Way of loans; in other cases a centage wus paid to agents for attending to | tue receipt and delivery of the work at Washing. | ton, the necessity for Which services existed more | in imagination than in reality, as the plates were always sent directly to the Superintendent. and by him were delivered to the Printer, who arranged or collected them with the sheets. In other cases the per centage was paid directly to the Su Mrs. Siekles. Married at the child's age ot KAMAN INVESTIGATING | | Committer.—Hon. Geo. Taylor, of New York. | ‘with any proper correctness, the condi- | wut of paper on hand can be balanced. | not agree. ‘Tiuuse slips tive | . the present Superintend- | they made it. ex it to be repaid. This same house paid an odditional sum to Mr. Seaman of $750, which your committee find was in consid- eration of con giventoit. #* * * The evidence shows also that there was one con- tract made for the payment of twenty per cent. to in; but your committee has been unable et hether the it was ever actully paid according to the agreement La fi fi nominated to the vacant District Attorneyship for this District. In the judgment of all, ex- cept those immediately interested in the ap- pointment of some other gentleman, we are very certain that this selection of the Presi-, dent will be hailed with pleasore by all our fellow-citizenz, for there ix no one better quali- fied or more deservedly popular among all from whom the selection could properly have been made. - ~ Svpce Taxev.—Tho rumor which ‘has been going the rounds of the press that Chief Jus- tice Taney contemplated resigning his judge- ship in the Supreme Court of the United States. we learn from the best authority, is wholly witbont foundation. Chief Justi¢e Taney does not, and has never contemplated taking such a step. PostMASTER GENERAL A. V. Brows, we regret to hear. is just now confined and quite indisposed. from an attack of pneumonia. ferior to the sample, Ing over three cents on the pound, and that little or none of such inferior paper was | returned by the Imtendent. It appears frgm the testimony that very considerable quantities of | paber. which bad at different times been rejected | by the clerk having eharge of the paper | ment. was afterwards received. In one particular | instance. where a large quantity of paper had ac- cumulated in the hands of the Contractor, the eon- | tractor came to Washington, and succeeded in getting bis paper received. It appears that this was pte by an agreement to pay a Commission for the receipt of his paper. =*° * * Y our committee farther find that one of these particular agents for the receipt of paper had be- come object le to one or more Of the parties contracting. aud that they refased to continue him in that business, when an arrangement was made | between one of the contractors aud Mr. Seaman fur the employment of Mr. Wendell, who afterwards became the special agent for all the paper contrac- | tors; that Mr. Wendell employed a clerk or agent { to do the work for the first year (1556) at a salary of $1,000, and for the second year (.857) at a salary of $:,200, while Mr. Wendell received from the ‘pa per contractors for his intluence, without doing any work whatever, three and a half per cent. commission, or about that amount. which, for the two vears specified. amounted in the aggregate to Tae Weatner.—The following report of-the weather for this morning is made from the Morse Telegraph line to the Smithsonian Institution. The time of observation is about 7 o'clock : Marcu 2, 1859. ¥ -clear, cold. lear, cold about $12,000. gton. D.C. -clear. wind NE. Your committee also find that Mr. Seaman was Cees ve z in the habit of borrowing money from the paper Petersburg, V; contractors. as well as engraversand lithographers. Nowe Oa and that large sums still remain unpaid.” ‘To one | Pyncuburg. firm there appears to be due $i2,25¥ and toan individual inember of that tirm nearly $¥.000. No security was ever tuken for these loans. and in most cases no notes whatever were given; and the busi- ness ner of the tirm loaning this large amount | stated to your committee that they had) made no | | demand for the money; did not expect to receive it. and would not have miade the loan had it not Knoxville, Tenn. ghee Tenn hattanooga, Ten. Wilmington. N.C Raleigh, N Columbia Charleston, 8. ¢ Augusta, Ga... Dal been for the oilicial pos rupied. | Savannah. Ga staining, 53°, wind NE In other eases. notes w uted by | Macon. Ga... ‘cloudy. cool. Columbus, Ga., ++ -raining. » say ylcleiy . 4 Montgomery, Ala -raining Your committee have fo connection with | Lower Peach Tree. Ala....raining. contracts. that Mr eacon- | FROM THE one party for $7,000 F. upon the — e which sum to Mr. Sea: that party was to have a contract for all the paper he could supply. In the following December. the contract | for the 45-pound paper was awarded to that party: Dut the agreement to pay the $7.40 per year was | not carried out by reason of the refusal of the se- nior partuer interested in furnishing the paper finally to execute it; and no turther contracts were | awarded to that manufactory. * Your committeee are unanimous ivn. from the evidence, that a Frederick, Md A stow, Ma ar, cool. lear, evol. lear, cool. -Clear, cool. arkersburg. Va. -clear, cool. Cincinnati.O.. -+++-Clear, pleasant. Barometer at the Smithsonian, at 7 a. m_., (cor- rected for temperature,) 30,530; at noon 30,540. The eter y of the opin- nbination existed for the purpose of compelling the paper contrac- |. Max 24 Lours ending 9 a.m. to- tors. and the lithographers and ¢ icravers, > pay day, 44°; minimum 24°. way. either in the character of loans or ~ meee comuuissions. or directly in money, for the con- CONGRESSIONAL. tracts awarded to them. Thirty-fifth Congress—Second Session. The testimony in the ease forces your committee to the conclusion that some intimate and co tial relations did exist between Mr. Seau:s the parties involved, and that they were not izno- rant of the ac’ L interest of each other. ‘Tt is | | direetly in testimony that one of the paper con- trae told Mr. Seaman that he could no le employ a party, who had up to tl an agent itap | agent brother fiden- and Is tux Senate, yesterday, the Post Office | Appropriation bill waz taken up, and various ameudments appended, among these were the | following: Abolivhing the franking privilege; reasing rates of postage; reducing the ser- © on the Butterworth overland route to weekly tri establishing a route from St. Joseph's. Mo.. to Placerville, Cal., vin Great © City; establishing a route from St. Miun., to Paget's Sound. Washington y; discontinuing the mail from Kansas tity to Stockton, Cal.; and authorizing the Postmaster General, at his diseretion, to dis- continue the service on any overland route to the Pacific The bill was passed. The Naval Appropriation bill was then tuken up, when among the amendments offered was one inereasing the appropriations for the navy yards at Portsmouth, N. H.. New York. Nor- folk, Pensacola and Mare Island in the aggre- gate about $600,000. Without acting upon the bill, the Senate ad- journed. Ix tre Hovse, the mikéellaneous appropri- ation bill, after being further amended in some unimportant particulars. was passed. The bills making appropriations for the ocean mail service, for the Indian treaties. and for the army. were considered in Committee of the Whole, and reported to the House. Adjourned. . k about | eman’s brother was seon | y Mr. Wendell te do tie | 0) per annum his per- work of tats son did the w work, 1 j it was reyulariy delivered to the Superintes H ii tk. For thesescrvices Mr. Wendell 1 ,000, while Mr. Wendell was recor in fact, for which he received larg tinge This testimony betrays the important act, that the employment of an agent for this d | Was a matter of arrangement between the | tractor and the Superintendent, and that the ag | thus en not perform the little work | to be done, but, with the A the paper and saw that lent ndent of any criminal intent, this con- the relations thu ished were un- wrong. Mr. Se the officer of fuinent, Whose duty it was to inspect and i : ject the paper furnished, while | Mr. Wendell the public printer who used the paper, who knew the quality of the articleand was the only person likely to con L itv. ‘The Superintende stant borrower from lost his independence, bee e the hired au Proceedings of To-Day. In tHe Senate, to-day, Mr. Fiteh, from the Committee on Printing, reported in favor of printing the usual number of tabular statistics of U. 5. manufactures, reeently compiled in to printing asx of details not included in the in from the en tractors, ex: the Ceusus Bureau, but adversely the great Y comnuittee ti Mr. Wendell recei 0 ae eee Mr. ‘Thompson, of Ky., presented the ereden- raves a ouraphers.during | tials of L. W. Powell. 1 or elect. see viitasdeney Soot = : mee Mr. Brown, from the Committee on the Dis- e gross sum paid to him as far as triet of Columbia, reported back the House 339,000 Dil in relation to the Potomac water work., Adition to these snms t and moved its immediate consideration j ments unexp! Mr. Bright moved to amend by providing that the interests of the Government be in the hands of # joint ma 1 Washington aud Georgetown; adupte: ‘The bill as amended was thea pas On motion of Mr. Hunter, the appropriation bill was then taken up. Mr. Simm ered an amendment to the effect of } og frauds on the revenue in report oleed, é Seaman dent of Public Printing, has bee ‘oper and illegal practices in the d official duty. and in violation of the late Superinten guilty of im- ven the act a ed the 6th da . the ollection of customs. . . creating fie olticeof S perintendien mi This amendment gave rise to considerable the duties thereof, discussion. That the testimony tn this ease he f Ropre: Kesolred. certitied by Is tux Howse, to-day, a bill to organize a judicial district in the State of Oregon was at- tempted to be reported from the Judiciavy Committee, Lut oljection was raised. Several private bills were disposed of. A Senate joint resolution creating the office of Senior Flag Officer of the Uniied States Navy. on the active list, and bestowing such rank on Commodore Stewart, was ed. ‘The army appropriation bill was then taken | up, with # view to consider the Senate amend- ments thereto. The amendments were generally non-con- eurred in. One of those concurred in was for paying the State of Massachusetts $227,000. being the amount of 4 claim for volunteer services in the war of 1812. On motion of Mr. Houston the bill creating a judicial di in Oregon wax passed. Mr. Davis moved to suspend the rules to en- able him to introduce a bill repeuling the Eng- lish Kansas bill—not voted upon when our re- port closed. Tue RaiLroan’s Coyxeetions Proseet.—It | has been ascertained that an act of Congress is not necessary to enable the Baltimore and Obio Railroad to extend their work to any point in Washington to reach which it may not be ne- eessary to touch a public reservation; the origi nal act permitting the Company tu bring their work within the limits of the Corporation of Washington having provided that the eorpo- | rate authorities may authorize them (the Balti- more aud Ohio Railroad Company) to run any where in Washington city without another ap- plication to Congress to that end, unless it be proposed to touch a Government reservation | with the railroad. We learn, further, that the | railroad company, on realizing the strenuous | objections of our fellow citizens to the policy permitting them, under any circu’ | to locate their water side depot outside of the | | corporate sof Warhington. scquiesee cheer fully in the propriety of striking it out of the bill which Congress will be asked to pass which will be simply @ bill to accord permir- sion for tunneling the Capitol reservation. that the railroad may pacs under the hill to some point on the Potomac between Third and Sev- twee - w man named Orlando F. Parsons, aged about 25, committed suicide at his boarding in Baltimore, yesterday morning about = while he was in bed. by {shooting himself head with a pistol. It appears that he was iyinally from Alexandria or Washington, hav- ing some relations now living iu these places. as weil as in Georgetowu and New York city. He had resigned a clerkship inthe New York Pot nces, tendent. The engravers and Iithograpbers tify. with one or two exceptions, that they could ford to pay the per centage, and that they made provisions in their bids for the allowance which | u Were compelled to wake to the agents. This fact is established by a comparison of the price | under the late Superintendent and Mr. Bow- | man, the present Superintendent. ‘There is nearly | fifty per cent. difference in favor of the present | prices. This is the testimony of Mr. ‘Towers, chief clerk in the office, Mr. Graham testifies that he would have done some of the work at twenty-tive n fourth of the price paid under Mr. Sear | reduction nearly as great as this has actually been | urade in the cost of the work done on the Coast Survey Re for 1857. The charts done under | contract with Mr. Scarnan on that wg for 1556 of charts, somewhat larger in their te size, for the Re- port for 1557. were contracted for have been | done under Mr. Bowman for SAY YL each. One cr | two lithographers say the prices were about the | received frou pene, bat it) appears that these parties ¢.id not object to loaning | money tothe late Supegintendent, which loans | requested him to retarn. By refer- ence to the testimony of Messrs. Roberts & Bichell it will be seen that {hey avreed to divide the rofits on the Work to be eport of the Pat, igiven at $30 per 5 {4 per page cs the net pre Roberts ayeced ‘The contract: was ch sum they estimate ts. Out of this sau rhell twenty-five per ents was from five to entracts. In some tn- loaned to Mr. Seaman, and ichers Were taken for it. last sum in a loan of fa twenty ee cent. upon the stances the money was no security or v $5,550 was made four has been — upon Mr. tion of it, and it remains unpaid. Your co: - tee found, in another case, Mat stan had made to Mr. Seaman, that a note taken for it been renewed from time to time, that the amount was finally paid by the tirm,’ and { franking privilege, and increasing the postage { rates. Ottice with the expectation of getting a situation in Washington under the Government. but failing in this and finding himself out of employment and unable to procure any, he was driven to the des- perate deed that ended his existence. This young man was employed several years ago, us a clerk iu McGuire's hat store in this city enth streets. It is sincerely to be hoped that ere the end of the session this so necessary mei.- sure will become a law. Reau Retrexcument avo Rerorw.—The Senate, last night. put upon the Post Office ap- propriation bill an amendment abelishing the {>> The Delaware Legislature adjourned sine die on Friday last. ‘The bill releasing the Dele- ware railroad from paying $130,000 to the State within eighteen years, was As concurrence in it by the House will invelve death to Buncombe congressional la- bors and publications, the action of that body upon it will test the sincerity of profeasions of # disposition to economize and refurm public abuses on the part of not a few members who are very noisy and frothy on the subject. Tis adoption will save the Treasury at lexst five million dollars per annum—the expenditure of whieh is now a positive and most glaring injary to the public interest in other ways beside be- ing x dead and wholly unnece:sary loss. | pa chal rea UF They now employ white girls in the tobac- co factories in Richmond and Petersburg, Va. EDICAL COLLE CLUPY —The annual | Metien! College will be wtituiiouon THURSDAY tant,at 7 o'clock, to which vited. 2a eS J. RILEY, Dean, READ AND REMEMBER—FAIR FOR (a FA ORPHAN Boy sis Fae tor tts penefit of the St. Joseph's Male Ocphau Asylum will commence at 6 p.m... on TUESDAY next, 15th | Tur Paraavay Exrepirion.—The State De- at the Axsemlly Rooms,ou Louisiana avenue, partment is in receipt of despatches from Seren. Mind the Assombly Rooms. Commissioner Bowlin, under date of the 28th | > os NATIONAL M WASHING TO SG, the St his i é ne fap ADDRESS, MORE ARTACU pak: e % ihn art f Nation,” December. Ife announces his intention to U3 A oe oun Men of Nations by, proceed to Asscucion on the 30th of December, from Montevideo. Ho alludes to the proffer of mediation by Brazil, which he refused, as hav- ing no authority to accept it. The indications ou WE. 3 PAINTINGS AND STATUARY BY were favorable that an amicable adjustment of AMERICAN ARTIS Ps The tig) aun the Paraguayan difficulties would be effected. Everything in conncetion with the squadron was going on well. i of Pi Srayon Drawings, is ntings, Statuary, W ee Coes pa nd’ spa- ious Galleries of the Assockatl fi lvth and tthe Roan. ayer ween Ith streets, EVER DAY from ) o'clock a. m. to 5o’clock p. m., and in the EVE- NG from 7 to 10 ovelock to the tof print: 4 ito be persone’ pabing the lous aid nt, wing ‘Several fine Picturos in the Exhibition are iF" Kaimiasion 26 ont, jarg-ee NoMINATED.—We have every reason to be- Weve that Robert Ould, ea was this moruing —____| TREASURER'S MONTHLY STATEMENT, the Treasury, with Astistant Trovewrirs ant doe. returas reerived to As58; Shave been issued, but arn unpaid, and the amount then rom et to draft, @iso, the amount Of future trancfers to nd from depositaries, as ordered hy the Secretary af the za teed Deparivaries, amount Sor heck oem, Treasury. $ ‘ J Ta what pac. *| bet oot Amount. sub- | paad.'though, Jet to drat, } | payable. ofthe tos, Washineton, D.C een | GOES gaan } SE Dw) See 1 17567 <5 Aseistaut Lrea S878 475 ‘S| OH22 SK Sas Assistant O84 we | 82H 6S 43.543 3s Assistan TIER 8 S51 73 1.440 Assistant Tronsucer, N 74.78 | ats 1 vam a Assistant Treasurer, 2,355 14 | TA 84 | 10/888 Assistant Treasnrss, 42m CH le Depositary at Butta’ . 1, 28 85 | som me Depositary at Baitunore, Maryinud 90.574 Be 16 4 sean ostiacy at Richmond, Virgina. 2a be to Bam psitary at Norfolk, Viry : 7 = 6 12,000 ao |, sexe positary at Wilmington, North Carolina... 3.193 72 2,175 42 | Lass "positary at Savanuah, Goorgia.. dese St) Lame Se | 9.218 73 at 10. Alubama.. 58445 WI 2877 Depositiry at Nashville, Tennessee. M26 2 19.555 Ga 54n positary at Cinctuuati, Ohio. . $287 2.590 0 320 2 . positary at Pitt-burg. Penuayly 126 @ | 72 8 a5 4s paitary at Louisyi Fratock: Lae Las oF iss 4 depositary at ton. Texan 3468 B58 Wo) S86 pocitary at Norfolk (Nawyor). 1508 a2 . j 1 ie ae positary at C anati (McLean). an at we om Depositary at Cincinnati (Ce 2). mS 7 positary at Pittsburg (Hastings) - 1S Si) oe, Da we pesitary at Dubog 6,231 5H oN 5.613 oo pesitary at Litto Rock 147.916 6 19.75) 6 128,186 ao spositary at Chicago, 7.212 ae | 4509 72 2a 6 De} ¥ £2 7 | S05 26 Vee 47 Pepositary at Omaha City 2a 18,785 70 3 io positary at Oregon Cit C288 (7 | 5.113 79 1735 3 D. positary at Olympi Sa 2 08 Assay ofhes of the Un 432,513 a4 £2,513 @ Mint of the U 617,64 16 617.6 16 itd Stat sa, Rew oo Rew w ted Stat 27.96) «3 WSs ey rat os ase ia8 46 8287 46 tes, San Francisco, Cul Sw 53 Oo $35 Pss1,"65 4 $1,769,522 26 | OC, s18,007 a2 Deduct overpaymont.. . Deduct overdraft. ...,..... 02.0 ..0+6 . Add difference in transfers... Net amount subject to dealt BOTT Ds uted States, Washington, D. _ * we | Onleans, La asur ‘Tren-arer, at Pattsbu, Tiansters Ite Assist Trausters ordored to Depositary ‘Transfers orleral from Assistant Trea w York, New York... Transders ordered f the U . Philadolphia, Pa. Mar 2it RAN AMUSEMENTS. IR INVIGORATO TASHINGTON 7 BIS CORATS > | WASHINGTON THEATRE. R INVIGORATOR: Decided success of the brilliant combination. MISS VANDENHOFP, Only daughter of the celebrated tragedian, Mr. Jobn Vaudenhotf, Exq., and MR. SWIN BORNE, Who will ear for the first time THIS EVENING, Mareh 2, In Mies Vandenhotfs five-act play of Sold by all fe2-2w WOMAN'S HEART, T a —————— Which has been a both in Europe and ere ICKETS Read —— MORROW b (Thursday,) M iy he npating of the Louse has beon entrusted may be obtain PHILP’S Bookstore, to Mr. Woodward, of tus city, who undertakes to betwee «1 10th ate, mar2 | render it as cory and comfortable as any private 7 fireside, NOTICE. The Orchestra has been strenethened and © Inte firm of How | wr each week a variety of new Mumec™ their accounts are now o future Box-Off: ill beopen at Theatre ng unpaid or sottled on | where seats may be secured. it a bo placed in other Lauds for settle: Sb FELLOSE RAL HOWE = POSITIVELY. THE LAST WEEK OF ws St of N REGISTER, % | po R A uleTrLeatnarions y and uniform binding for sale at $175, 7s Age oF THE RUSSIAN WAR Principles and Acts of the Revolution in a, 1 vol., $3. ORGE O, DEETH, __miar 2-3t* $6 Prospect street, Georgetown, ~ LIPE-SIZ oP PARLEAUX - CHLDREN'S 4 MENTS. —Just recived | OC ENstisu, Faxven, Teaaisit, axo Russay Gev © a SePHER ith and D streets. 8 | rae LARGEST ELUTE ITION IN THE Cottage s % , ; : OPEN EVERY NiouT, ies aut vena tng And on SATURDAY AFTERNOON: at 3o'clock, OF COPARTNERSHIP.—The | Othee for sale of Roserved Seats open fom 10 till rtnership, heretofore existing under the | o'clock. SKINNER & Brow is this day dissolved Doors opon at 7, to commence at a quarter to 8 rautont conaces Te pasinann of ¢ ve late firm will | o’elock. — saat fe 2-tw ssettled by Lee ‘ : : aE a geier. | MPRS FRANCES ANNE KEMBL , suet eee At PHILHARMONIC HALL. Washington, Mareh Ist, 1858. maar 2-St u this city, will take place as tollows: HOOP SktRTS OO 1 vedueoday Svening, Feb. 3- "A Midsummer Just reerived a f celebrated | mn.” stock of M. Don 2 ‘Faraday, Evemng, Feb. 4—“The Merchant of ‘ON HOOP SK e Aso, 3. Saturday Evening, Feb. 3—“Machoth.”” A large axeortiuent of PARASOLS and SUN UM-| 4. Monday Evening, Feb. 3—"Ax You Like Tt.” RELLAS, all of which will bo sold at the very | & reh 1—“Honry the Righth.” BI a hich ery bs el lowest casn prices. WILLIAM R. RILEY, TICKETS ONE DOLLAR F. 5 cornor Sth st., oppo. Centro Market. | May be obta. oly ane Musi : we oe Oi mar 2-Im EW ne cesnceee ak eee ok tee i ‘ - > . . Subscriptian tickets for the Six ings may he ROORA Son 182, lad Gor FIVE DOLLAKS ench at the Music tors o w. G. Metzorott, coraer Ponu. avenue and 1h street. An carly attendance is solicited, as no tickets will be sold (to insure quictness)attor the Reading counuences ; nesthor will seats bo reserved, tah course of Readings will be positively last Mes. my i give fom public lite. P- m5; Resse ANTS & PERSIAN CLOTHS “9p blo styles of SPRING {88 GOODS, all of bh will bo sold at ihe very lowest cash prices, WILLIAM-R. RILEY, ar 21m st. oppo. Coutre Markt. HE NAPOLEON OF VIRGINIA BEATEN BY Tis COUNTRYMAN iIN'PAT CATTLE Balding beaught to Drovers’ ast Fridays, th th ultimo, D OF CAYTLE, the ad 41 jer tau fad by MT county. ‘“ for the Wash verage weight being soar 2-2t" zette copy and charge Star.) corner at 7th, tus, ckets 5) cen! » Admitting it* DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHI \D GRAND COTI ARTY HE Pa-taership ae between ow ae St AS LS oe on o THA Sara im tin vs mutal con- i a atl, a wt.. bet and 13th, All p-raons who ar ed to wnid firm wil! on THURSDAY NG, March &, orge Small, who alone is entitled | 183, . Payment, aud those persons to whom Tickets, admitting a gentleman and ladies, ity said firm 15 indebte Cents. ed will call on FRED. GEORGE SM ‘MALL. E. Broder oF CARVI Floor Managers.—3. T. Kownody, 3.0. ack. fe WE ARE SoCIa 4 ig ALL. HE Third Grand COTIL PARTY of the 4 will be eu: SOCIAL CLUB st 7th straet, and, No. 63 Pont | CR WEDNERDAY . 2d, La, i. Tickote Fi Ye Admitting a gon ESMALE. | Geese Sees. _ OF THE DE- | fo'2,24,.96 2k Mar2* eee IRESS, re i - ths ih ° PART street aud Peansylva DAY, the auth Februar ays Rand ouge Tickets ONE: DO! Committee of Arrannements. John Vessey, Tyler Southall, J. T. Graham. fe 21-0 New York. | { sati-factory Po the United Statex, and the best four orators and great stat simon. sof Congress have been aceruing for !1 120 farce volumes, cost 3500, and is fo “Llavianserther te rend KE COMPANY. KCOND COTILLON r HE is ONR GOR PARTY OF THE omy litiea! History Biographi Pp ith analytical Ine jeetor toany speaker. The acgune both sides of the eres fully stated, fresh as th cir integrity, a ut access to any sy WANTS. TED—A goml COOK. Address Box 14. at silo. mi a“ 0 | politician inte the | mstitution; the pow he Su SITUATION ent, Ilas yood WISHES A araaly Ww. k 1 pproprations tor Pal tional Improvement and De n important subjects which were suecesyively debated in all the forms of eloquener. are, by menus Of this from 17389 to the present time, pine i aut, 0 foctly, and Address HV. €., Post Othe ANTED—By a respectable x a SITE A- A TION a3 cock ins privat: famtign Aaavoss 1 kno welod, stwnon and Hf steeota Noe Pe” NTED—A good J R. towhom Toe waxes White man pref. ‘avor pri is powars were at the of Gar ao . Such biographios are given in th-se vo'e Ata tithe of the bulk and expense of labored personal historios by partial friends. he # cont: 1 1s about four years of Debates, nv 33; n price that puts it within the reach of all who aspire to any im the Government, State or Federal. or who wish to understand the his” EVERAL DRESSMAKER vod Seawstcesses. Apply at 276 Pounsylvanis Avoune. fo W-2teo* GENTLEMAN AND lls WIFE, or two tory and working of our National fustication. | BOAR pepe pereper bale aged mite Book er and zoe | aud loth sts, Set sR WANTED TO HIRE sty the year, an aotve Kirred. Apply at Noes itbretreot, SOUR AAA | ferred. at No. et - by Kaien?” “X° fe 2-et" A NOTICE. | W- 3 WELL-KNOWN Family HORSE aud BUG- aven ription od the bate fice . SC etree GY for wile bs a zentlenuan who leaves the the patrounge country, Inquire at KELLERWER © tue compa tuveihe ol anek sine PY WETS Livery Stable, th street. Wanted Rovenal good Cooks, Chasbermceras., mar 1-tt and Farn, Hands. nos Ty Or TUE PORMS ~ . BCMPLOYMENT ROOMS —Porscus socking F THE LATE JOHN 8. MOORE Ca? ployment will pl 7 lad at Miss FROMAS" Bookstarec in Goorgeay a | Od ee Picman call At our Tururance alno-at J.B. MOOI mae . Office nod register their 'S Drug Washiugton marie tetas pias tif iene Seppe whet egies BERS OF CONGRESS AND STRAN- | rd, winy examine the se ee We and { AUIDE the ctty, and in want ofe chcap | ‘ill cmicavor to mect the rearouable wants of the BLANKET, will find a good assortisent. at very | Public, sud Worefora sultetts its sup} Shisae low prices, at éHas Te LANES cl A LANSDALE, Gentlemen's Furnishing Store, | 5830 _Nv. 507th xt, wear De taar 1-St me —— ~~ = = Hass at Re soe mon get pe on W:dnee- | _____ BOARD DIN G. ——s= day, March Ot, for tho’ boneit of Hadice tcav-ouat\ | SOUR OR FIVE SINGLE TLEMEN ing the city, others wishing to pureha.« can be atl with BOARD, on rea-on~ their HATS en a very ston aud baad RE | abletorme, by applying at S29t2th xt. war lat 0 ” ESS TS. wil = = =m oats _ = aw. ATS, wo which abo tio J SPRING HATS. ‘7h ~~ See marist |S UST introduced the new Spring style of HATS, maak, h style. ©) Sed cuainine thous at ne Prewee style. 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