Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1859, Page 2

HJ™ Asien indication of the late “Dow Jr.,” Mr. cay scholgstic acquirements, itis men- set_up in New York the entire work of > Granada, from Aspinwall, ‘Sunk at her pier at New. York, on Wedues-, , from being cut through by the ice on her apthe Bay. oe i> A medical survey, ‘on board the U.S. the Mth at Semaine coer ae “York meets on Monday next; and the Legis- Intaren of Pennaylvanta end New fi on Tues- day, and that of Marytand on wi y Bext. ¢ fae cameos aaae 1” Quite, panic hasbeen created among tl = men of Philadelphia by the capture ter aceimetntomioen the waters or 3 ORs ict cone eae vated that a number of the Sonthern SL Paies Soman Ps ‘their Visitte Richmond have returned, fay! was ‘to enjoy frolic, and ‘ r mone aac + Pronmma Lesisi.stux¥.—TheG overnor of Flor- ida seat a message to the Légisiature on the 15th, ‘usging the pastageet a law prohibiting thecircu- incendiary publications ‘Dill excinding free colored. persons from. the Siz passed the Senate om the ith, by a Vote of fifteen latter city, has much and the forcible aad speech by Gea. costing ‘theta (the companies) no more. Again, Boakum is accommodated by the late re- Hite i papers are aumerited and the comments upon tertain other persons w! |. Respectfully yours, .H. VERE. « , Washingtea, DiC., Dec. 29,:1850." » 4 te ‘Tas Wratarn.—The following F duction in the postage rates to a point making | Mobile, Ala. the Department necessarily a dead weight.on the continuance, and Bunkum it king. ‘That the Post Oftice Department might be easily made self-sustaining, no one will deny; but, as to make it so, will mash quantities of toes, including those of all the “‘dear people's men in Congress, it will continue-a tax on the Treasury, of millions on millions aanually, of course. The Postmaster General has a thankless task indeed to perform in superintending the affairs of his Department. Entreating Congress to be gov- erned by common sense and a due regard for governmental economy in postal legislation, is like'singing Psalms to dead horses. When they do essay to save in that connection, they almost iavartably essay it at the wrong point: in some connection where to ‘fail to be guided by the | i they invariably bieed the Treasury to the of hundreds uf thousands, if not miilions. Tebuantepec mail contract, as that has re- sulted, according to Postmaster General Holt’s im@the meanwhile if anything goes wrong at either of the twenty thousand post offices, or on either of the thousands on thousands of routes by whith they receive letters and papers, Mr, Post- master General gets duly d——d up hill and down, by our glorious country’s still more glorious free press —' in.these times, in too many cases, to pablish anything conceivable but unvarnisbed tenth. * Iu no other branch of the public service are radical reforms so much needed, as in that of the post; yet, unhappily, the probability of the con ‘summation of reforms in it is not to be dreamed * | Of; a8 the House may never be expected to curtail ite Grn pt vileges, or fo fall to worship Buukum, however enormously those privileges and that de- vation Gr Wofslip inay overtax the patient ox—ttie Gas. Bowman snd tea Senate Paittine — g ship | Teske Editor of the Star—Sir: For somic time past ane» =k mages es, I bave noticed.a disposition on the part‘of the States” to” create’ the impressi Maximum 4 day, 25 ; minimum 13° Persenal. jf Ex-President Pierce and lady are in town. occupy apartments in the Clarendon Hotel. + Maj a. nde and J. H. Whittlesey, shed Robae s. Ditton. 4U. 8. At lor New York, are at Will & Gen. Leslie Coombs, of Kentacky, and ex- Governor Porter, of Pennsylvania, were Austin, Texas, on the 14th inst. ++-+ General Duff Green delivered an address in the Hall of the House of Representatives in Aus- tin, Texas, on the Mth inst. ++>-Col. Lewis T. Wigfall, the new Texas Sen- ator, has been concerned in several affairs of hon- or, one with the late Preston 8. Brooks, of 8. C., in which the latter was wounded. + Alfred Caldwell, who is the member of the publican 'y National (sectional) Committee from Virginia, turns out to be the Virginia State | Senator from the Wheeling district. cord to_newspeper demonstrations, Richmond is getting too het to hold him; Th over, The Governor is Alabama, > jana, Mississippi, South Carolina, snd Tennessee: ‘These maps were such as are to be found tH Argus to inspect these maps, and, from the article in that paper, giving the results of that examina- tion, we glean some interesting particulars. It 1s & noticeable fact that in all the counties marked upon Brown’s maps are these in which the slave Population largely predominate over the whites. In Alabama eleven counties are thus marked. The foot-prints of Brown’s men can be traced from Columbus, Georgia, across Alabama to (uit- man, Mississippi The population of Florida, taken.-from the census of 1850, was pasted on the side of the map, but_there was not the slightest trace of a mark upon tt. Twenty-five counties in Georgia ate matted. The populations of Kentucky and Tennessee, taken from the census of 1850, were pasted on the sides of the maps, and although it fs knowa from letters found on Brown and his followers that NT. Re ere ees | EW YSA4R'S OFFERINGS, PARIS FANCY enasan BONE Meee canoer MAVOMU SeeTaer “eos” LANMOND’S, 7th ét. LEIGHS So eae See One Wo0q-body etHOR 4 6, de 2 st* No. 546 ‘Sst., near 9th st. © McOARTY'S h and Ambrotype GALLERY, P localities in Kentucky and Tennessee were visited : for the purpose of carrying out their cefarious de signs, yet not the slightest trace of a mark is to be found on these maps., ‘The population of Louistana, taken from the Cenaus of 1850, was pasted on the side of the map, but there was no locality marked: The in this State a short time since of Richard Realf, Brown’s Secretary of State, and a member of the Canadian Convention which framed the Provi- sional Government, may have been for the pur- ce pose of ascertaining the-disposition of the slaves de 29-3t LA "S GI. y Tours ani Rae UR Baoeoy 240K we he yack AND ARRY: aa slesnat gxtt, A corner 7th and D sts., ity returas his thanks to his nds for their very liberal patronage istmas to ‘ho grate’ in the different: parishes. We are inclined to M4 believe that Brown had his emissaries in every alave-holding State in the Usiion.. Realf ‘hes teceatly turned up in Texas,-in the garb of a Methodist preacher. yey, sensationist, and of course net reg nr pe r does the thing—as, glaringly indeed, in this case. The bh in testion we about the most re- markable oratorical effort to which American public affairs have so far given rise. Joun Browy’s Cagese in Kaxsas—We copy from the Cincianati Gazette of Monday last the subjoined extract from the Kansas correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. It will attract atten. tion as associating the late John Brown with en atrocious act im Kansas, concerning which there has recently been some controversy in a portion of the public press: " of the Indianapol!s Journal.} Lawrence, (Kansas,) Dec. 17, 1859. A “John Brown” anti-cla' meeting was ii reftittasels iG SU, msn be + pany posted in regard to the disposition of the slaves. There are marked localities in eleven districts in South Carolina. The Argus says: “From letters to Brown seen by us, we.came to the conclusion that the localities marked were those that had been visited by Abolition emjssa- ries, and were found to contain slaves Teady for insarrection. It would be well for the. magis- trates rage | in these localities in Alabama, Coorgins Mississippi, and South Carolina to kee; 8 strict look out w cause the immediate Gaelomor on ¢ raptors whe cannot give a good account of ves.” IA man named Cresap, was run over by the train from the W: pipeoed morning last, near Cumberland, 34., and killed instantly. ‘The Missouri siver closed at St. Charles on . Foot Crossed it on the ice Shore to sore, on Saturday. J J. Shunk, 2 young iman some twent: re Mize. the troneh to Se the of age, was tod on Saturday nig’ 10th instant, in Venango county, Pa. 17 No less than three million—three hundred thousand M the new nickle gents ‘Were coined at the U. 8. Mint during last month. mwa ae of New York Friends have chased about $100,0W0 worth of lots in South Eeikawons; K.T. The jalatare of Georgia have In prohibiting the post mortem manemission of YOUNG CATHOLICS’ -PRIEND 80C1- COUR Rega oe Bechet bie th UNDAY APTERNOON Lext, Jeunary lity ot > P, J. MoHENRY. Reo, Se. ar patina ano fu ETALITE OP EVENING: at 7 o’o! on iccie, Beare ats ania Rec atthe donr, a | Shain SLI, f sts, de 29-st* KNOWLEDGE Is POWER. ‘Volnme of A: on oy + pene Cer ia is pubushed for very. in- ud nomads earmestiy ss to — are. . with data on every sub- eit SANDOR vec naar Ose ee oe eek Sing hig ees = the Debater mi} @ &o., st the ‘atrest, between sta THOS, BAVENNER. SENNEY 438 CIGARS. Uur by ep celeristiers ae Sue ae ‘haser’e skill in“ va.” mio ie} tare wey Hetttae” RR4o, ie is s Wala [Pion rer 6 AND Balu apn ERIS AAAI ro, tig ates rep = Orese ABTA on UNION BUARDS, “ ~ ALAA ai ae ea ————e LOST AND FOUND. 3 Loge arses ving them at the Library ment ae'-1t* 5.7 TAYLOR. 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