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WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. —_.—__ Ay Exoguent AppxaL.—General Webb, of the New York Courier and Enquirer, has recently set forth, in eloquent language indeed, the claims of Senator Douglas to the Republican party’s Presi- dential nomination, if it be determined, for expe_ diency’s sake, to go without their strict to find a candidate of greatest ‘‘availability” to them. General Webb, in the same article, makes it plain that the Republican party can not and will not support Mr. Bates of. Missouri, because to him in chief do they owe—according toGeneral W.’s showing from the record—the defeat of Fre- His idea is that Douglas will of course fail to receive the Charleston Convention's nomi- nation, and will gladly receive that of the Chicago Convention, in that contingency. The General further contends that the course of Douglas on the Lecompton question has immeasurably strength ened the Republican party’s cause in the ap- proaching election; and therefore, that to him the Republicans owe a debt of gratitude, despite his recent attitude of hostility to them, such as they owe to no other public man outside of their orga- nization. He argues further, and with convincing force, that, for all practical purposes, Mr. Doug- las’s ‘‘squatter-sovereignty”? theory is best for the future ends and aims of Republican partyism’s claim for power in Congress to legislate directly to prohibit slavery in the Territories of the United States: that if carried out, it cannot fail to accom- plish the anti-slavery purpose of his party, and in a manner, too, that will surely prevent the South from resisting the results of its operation. ‘The argument of Gen. Webb is indeed apropos to the condition of the times. Parties on all hands are changing their relations to public men. public men, theirs to parties. We who remember 80 well the personal relations existing between Senator Douglas and the Republican party leaders at the last and the previous session of Congress, and the vigor with which they rivaled each other in dealing lusty blows against the Democratic party and its cause, see ip this movement of Gen. James Watson Webb buta natural consequence of the events of those times; for, to this very hour, Senator Douglas has emphatically refused to yield an inch of the heterodox (political) ground on which he stood when his advisers and fellows in close alliance were Mr. Seward, Mr. Hale, Mr John Serman, and John Covode. followers gabble about his willingness to leave the soundness of his squatter sovereignty scheme for abolitionizing the Territories to be determined by the Supreme Court—denying, of course, that that tribunal has already decided against its soundness, The latter is the position of the Dem- cratic party—that the Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott case, did attirm the lack of power in Territorial Legislatures to discriminate against slavery by Douglas's darling mode of fixing up the business—by * unfriendly legislation.”” The correctness of this position Douglas con- tinues to deny, maintaining that the point has yet to be decided by the Court. Daily his parti- zans are even now proclaiming through the newspapers, in the South as at the North, that the South must accept the doctrine of Douglas— of the right of the firstgoing horde of agents of abolition emigrant aid societies to exclude slave- ty from United States territories by action of their agents in Territorial Legislature assembled, as the only alternative for the triumph of Seward; together with its author, Douglas—of course. The Sonth will do no such thing. She will not choose between any such parties forthe accom- modation of her own plunder-mongers of all parties, who have rallied under the Douglas banner. She sees by no means as much danger to her institution in the election of her open ene- my—Mr. Seward—against whose violations of Ler constitutional rights—if they be assailed— she can surely rally all her citizens of all parties with inconsiderable exceptions, as she sees in the certainty that if Stephen A. Douglas be nomina- ted and elected with her acquiescence, she of her own volition so fortifies the cause of anti-slavery throughout the South, as that it will be folly atterwards to seek to resist the march of the northern ‘“‘spirit of the age,” though playing into the hands of which it is alone claimed that Douglas is stronger at the North than Dickinson, Lane, and Seymour, who have sternly opposed roo eacruacninents from first to Tost, n — ‘Tne Smeviinc Committer.— The style in which the majority of Mr. Covode’s committee are discharging their duties, is in fair keeping with that inaugurated by the never-to-be-forgot- ten ‘‘ Hiss committee”’ of the Massachusetts Leg- islature. Washington is full of jokes concerning the way in which Mr. C. is peeping under the polit- ical beds he fancies he comes across, and peering into the contents of what he imagines he finds there. So far, however, he has found literally nothing. In finding it, he has exhibited to the world the fact that his purpose is not to seek for truth, but rather, for some god-send of malevolent gossip, out of which he hopes to be able to manufacture some such dirty charge as Hiss was looking up when noseing in the dormitories of the religious house in Charlestown, Massachusetts. His questions asked yesterday of Collector Schell, were as silly Yet it is fortunate that he asked them; because they prove that he is already aware that he has so far discovered nothing whatever on which to base a plausible charge against the President, or his political opponents at large Apropos: The Philadelphia Evenmg Journa; slows how proper a man Mr. Covode realiy is for the conduct of such an investigation as that with which the House has charged him, in explaining that for years past he has been the confidential agent of the Republican party in Pennsylvania to disburse the immense amount of money that has been expended in that State for their partizan political purposes; not less than a bundred thou- sand dollars having passed through bis own hands in that way since the opening of the canvass of 1856; all of which he used, according to that jour- nal, with a degree of unscrupulousness that would well nigh make an honest man flee his country. Though the practice is as old as the hills, we see no reason to imagine that in thus “‘setting a rogue (political) to catch a rogue,’’ the Republican organization will make more out of the oper- ations of his committee, than those usually do who venture to work with “stool pigeons” for THE EV. G STAR. WASHINGTON CITY: -April 5, 1860. XXXVith CONGRESS_FIRST SESSION. ——-——_ Preceedings ef Yesterday Afierneon. Is THE SswAts, yesterday, after our report THURSDAY 'h addressed the body at len; oumeatend bill. and was tollowed i cote fall,and incidentally by Messrs. Jo! Clingman, Wilkinson, and othe: adjourned. Spirit of the Morning Press. The Constitution suggests that the political ante- eedents of Haskin, Covode & Co. rubjects of ‘‘investigation.”’ The Intelligencer is devoted to Congressional Proceedings and news, => D7" On Thursday of isst week the Custom House officers at Ncw Orleans made a prize of war boat containing no less than fifty kegs of powder, which they placed in the keeping of police offi- cers. The Crescent asks whether the powder be- longs to Juarez or Miramon? U7 The new Pemberton Mill will, it is said, be completed about the Ist of July next. The building will be larger than the old structure, which was so suddenly destroyed. Wooden pil- lars will be substituted for the iron supports in Nearly all the manufactories have as much as they can do. to supply with sufficient rapidity their articles of manufacture. {07 The Democratic District Convention which met in Easton, on Wednesday, March 2Sth, elec- ted Capt. E. L. F. Hardcastle, of Talbot, and Daniel Fields, Esq., of Caroline, delegates, to represent the First Congressional District of Maryland In the Charleston Convention. The Convention was unanimously anti-Douglas. The delegates go to Charleston uninstructed. 7” At Columbus, Obio, on Saturday, the case of Bowers agt. Preston and others, to recover damages for alienating the affections of his wife, has been again decided in the Superior Court, the jury awarding 2600 damages to the plaintiff. It will be remembered $1,000 was the award on the first trial. An effort will be made to carry the ease up to the Supreme Court on a writ of error. Bunron’s Great Worx.— We are indebted to the publishers, who send us through their Wash- ington city agent, Mr. Jo Shillington, the 1ith, 12th and 13th volumes of the Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856. By Thos. A. Benton. New York: Published by D. Apple- ton & Co., 346 and 34S Broadway. These last- published volumes of the series cover the ground from the last of Murch, 1830, to the last of March, 1839—nine years of the most eventful times in the legislative history of the Confederacy. In them, the seeker after information concerning the early legislative history of mest of the questions that divide the country now, or concerning that of other questions out of which those of this era may be said to have grown, will find it far more con- eleely and practically set forth in them, than in any That, however, has been the Peculiar characteristic of this great work of Benton, from the commencement of the first volume. to the close of the I3th, now laying open before us. We have been more and more surprised, as our exam- ination of his volumes progressed with the issue of each succeeding one of them, to find that not- withstanding the intensity of Col. Benton's likes and dislikes. both of men and measures, he has discharged his editorial duty with a degree of impartiality never excelled: thus making his history of the legislation of Congress in all re- spects a reliable one—standard authority not to be bnson, of Tent.y ‘Sen » afford proper Hoves.—The House having resumed the con- 1 order, ee the bill to Polygamy in the Legis- sideration, as the ‘erritories, and to annul certain lature of Utah— Mr. Keitt, of S. C., addressed the House, It lygamy exists in the Terrl- Le. was in- e would not was charged that tory of Utah, and t! voked to punish and extirpa no v question further the correctness of the char; to examine the policy pro, : The gentlemen from Virginia and Mis- rand Lamar) had, in their theories, {n hi; sissippi (Messrs. devotion to exal rsued atrain of reasoning whic! is Government with a dangerous does not belong to it. amy is a grave and high offence. The well bei grea! intact honor of the household. But it w: high mission, as a legislator, to go forth in quixo- ursuit of evils over which he bad no lygamy was a marriage contract between a man and more than one woman. The law recognised marriage to be a particular kind of acontract, and if there-was no law to Prevent ita man might make thesame contract with many women. In Utah there was no law to limit these lygamy was not there a where was the constitu- power of Congress to declare a crime in the Territories? The Constitution Specified certain crimes, as treason, piracy, seas, and the counterfeiti The power to punish Proper functions of the Governm: were the only penal powers given to the Federal Government. The attempt was now made by construction to expand those powers, and when resorted to construction t tution at the behest of a majorit was appealed to make {t a penal clare that in Utah or ai laze contract between a man and more than one ‘ainst the peace and dignity Where was the What was the Uni! igniticant thing—scarcely an or political term descriptive een sovereign States, endowed wer mainly to look after our foreign re- Mr. Gooch, of Mass. contracts. and hence felonies upon the bigh ng of the current coin. ent, and they hey put the Consti- ffence—to de- iny other Territor: ‘woman 18 an offence ag: of the United States. Congress to act? In itself it was an insi, entity—a mere name of the relation betw To besure, his » gave notice of a substitute which was read for infor applies only to the Territory of Uta vides for punishment b for the crimes of adulter Mr. G. then addressed the port of his amendment. Mr. Simms, of Ky., said he hoped, asa bachelor, to be allowed to come in as a peace-maker in this tal question in more It was proposed to suppress an abomination practiced by « people who had set up in open rebellion against this Government. He would vote for this bill or one like it, and would rather the Territory of Utah should be an- nibilated than that this evil should be suifered to He read a recent letter from Utah to show the deplorable state of things existing at present in the Territory. The Mormons, he said, set all the authority of the Government at de- fiance, formed treaties with th them to outrages u; y fine and imprisonment » polygamy, and kindred Polygamy was a vi respects than one. other work extant. e Indians, inciting n the Gentiles, and perpe- trated terrible murders and massacres under the sanction, if not by the direction, of the Mormon Mr. Hooper, the Delegate from Utah, denied these allegations. not sit still under such wholesale denunciations of 1 No doubt they wer merely fallible men, but gentlemen had assai them by wholesale, speaking of them not as zens of the United States, an beings, but as Mormons! Mormons! his blood boil within him, and impelled b wish for the power of eloquence that he set these charges before the House in thei jiyht, and that the people of this country m fully understand the nature of the accusati which had been heaped up against his constitu- ents. He proposed at some future time to expose these charzes and their falsity end. Among theaccusations brought against bis ple was the crime of coining money, which It wes true they had coined gold, as a matter of necessity, as had been done also by California. battalion who rallied under the United States flag in California during the Mexican w: to be at work at Suter’s Fort, ani digging his millrace when gold in California. It is justly complained that a lack of informa- tion concerning the legislative history of the country, on the part of its legislators, has given rise to an immense waste of the time of both Houses cf Congress, of late years especially. ‘ince the Convention system has become fashionable, and men are chosen repre- sentatives through its machinery, by and through their capacity to manaye the smaller politicians of their districts seeking office, rather than on account of their superior capacity for statesman- ship, or thelr superior legislative attainments. anything can possibly cure this evil of ignorance of what the American legislator should know above all things, it certainly is this work. He can not possibly hope to learn aught in the pages of any other existiuig history of the preceedings of Congress, without devoting tothe study of each shect far more time than can now *~ dcuicaied to such an enu; au other existing works of the kind being singularly chaotic, undigested, and ia every other conceivable way confused and un- Under such circumstances we cannot teo highly recommend this great work of Thomas Hart Benton to the members of Congress, and toail others having occasion to become familiar with ~vhat bas been said and done in the national leg- islative halls upon any and every question that hastnarked its impress for weal or woe upon any American public interest. on the private book shelves of all such persons, but in every public library, whether of this or that branch of the governments of the Union— Netional and State—and also in all other Amer- tean libraries pretending to contain works of use- ful information. That is to say, from beginning to would notice now. Some of the Mormon d engaged in was discovered ‘These men returned to Utah with considerable quantities of gold dust, and there de mint and coined their gola ey jad uscu Wis Coruaye aga currency, and it was a great convenience, but it was subject ght be put upon it by the ind was only to be It was pure gold, without and it answered their purpose, and he did now that anybody had a right to complain as to what shape he put his own gold into. Mr. Nelson, of Teun., called for the previous question on the bill and pending amendments, which, after a brief discussion upon points of order, was seconded: Ayes 10, noes not counted. ‘The main question was then or Yeas 114, nays 75. to such value as mi United States Government, ai regarded as bullion. dered to be put: Mr. Nelson proceeded to close the debate on the bill, citing the act of Utah proposed to be re- led, ‘incorporating the Church of the Latter Saints, which he contended was violative of the Constitution of the United States and repug- ublic morality. Mr. Nelson, without having concluded his remarks, yielded to Mr. Barksdale, who, 25 miu- utes to 5 o’clock. moved that the House adjourn; which was agreed to aa Preceedings ef Te-Day. In THE SgNatx, to-day, Mr. Wilson offered a resolution that the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire whether any contracts have been made by the War Departmen for public buildings. riages for the army, and if so, the amount furnished paid therefor, and auth send for persons and pa 5 Mr. Mason moved to take up the joint resolution roviding for the reception of the Japanese em- assy; 80 ordered. aad the resolution Was The Indian zppropriation bill being ta on motion of Mr. Hunter— Mr. Latham offered an amendment to management of California Indians to the State of California on proper eouditions and terms p: tcularly advantageous to the General Govern- Itshould be not only --**Cyrus W. Field, N. ¥.; Capt. Dickerson, U.S. A., are at Willards’. ++: W. A. Jenifer, U.S. A.; Lieut. KE. P. Al- exander, U. 3. A., and his bride, are at the Na- tonal. as impudent. *+*:Mr. Douglas E. Jerrold, a son of the cele- brated English wit aud author, Douglas Jerrold, a short time in Charleston, 8. C. nud the prices izing the committee to ---- Hon. Edward McPherson, Pa; and O. H. G. Godon, Jesse W. the Pennsylvania Legislature, are at The Legislature adjourned on George Bates, J Tuesday last. ++++ The Hon. Charles Francis Adams and the Hon Josiah Quincy, sen., are the largest tux- ers in Quincy. “tS $1,110, and be latter $195. As trustee, Mr. Adams pays $150 additional to the above-named +++: The eccentricities of Hon. John Cadwala- der, United States Judge for the eastern district of insylvania, excite comment. mcb are only excelled by those of the !Jlustrious Judge Stump, of Baltimore. ----The Rev. Dr. Richards of Litchfield, Conn., ) is about commencing nst the publishers of the New lent. Hesaysthat slander has gone far enouga, and that it is now time for tru’ begin. Mr. Latham argued at cons{derable length, that the State had the management of the Indiuus witbin their borders, it could manage them in a much more effective and economical the General Government can do it, and at the same time do complete justice to the Indians. the Homestead bill, coming His antics on the the Hartford Courant, The special order, up, our report closed Hovsg.—Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill making appro- priation for the service of the Post Office Depart. ment during the fiscal year ending 1861; referred to the Committee of” the state of the Union. ‘The House resumed the consideration of the anti-polygamy bill Mr. Nelsou,who yesterday vielded for a motion journ, continued the remarks commenced by He argued that Cougress had the right to declare that act a crime,which had so leclared by the law of God; and he ditfered from South Carolina, (Mr. Keitt,) who drew a distinction between malum in malum prohibita, and heid tha was not only a crime in itself, be prohibited by Con: In conclusion, he -*-* A successful surgical operation was the diseased ove of Hon. Jemteleon y. and we are happy to state that Mr. Davis has so far recovered from to be able to resume bis Tur Democratic Conve: ASSEMBLE AT CHARLESON.—The Democratic Na- tional Committee, at a meeting this morning, at which twenty-three States were represented, unan- imously passed a resolution declaring it inexpe- dient under existing circumstances to change the place of holding the Democratic Convention from Charleston to any other place. ton CERTAIN To 30th of June, ‘Stone on Saturday the Whole on ita effects that he hopes Place in the Senate in two or three days. -++* The Philadelphia rs announce the a) in that Saree ee dramatic aon 7, of New York. The In- dy will only read once in pough bat iitie puniienty tae rat le public: tare fact That Late ore uished citizen iss Leonore Asble, Lim ‘at that time. : with the gentleman deen given to this Asbley is the daughter of a disti of New Yerk is known in many circles, and will rarten’ ‘ing bis ——— Tue WeatxeR.—The following report of the weather for the morning is made from the Amer- isan Consolidated Telegraph Line to the Smith- The time of observation is but one that was to ressional legislation. id that the existence of this evilin Utah was a reflection upon the moral se1:- timent of the whole countr the intelligent and virtuo who nursed them in tieir infancy, cared for them in their manhood, attended them in their sick- hess, and strewed fl »wers upon their gra Mr. Hooper, the Delegate from Utah, said at the per time, which would soon come, and when could be heard without prejudice, he would defend the people of Utah from the calumuies which had been beaped upon them. In the mean time he appealed to the dispassionate and unbiased. udgment of the House to think better of the one undred thousand of their fellow-creatures than had been represented by their enemies. not his intention to discuss the features of the bill; but he respectfully gentlemen were they quences. Were we not now em culties with the people at whom this He warned gentlemen that t! the people of Utab were easily ar The suspicion of hostilities against them had been allayed; and he was glad to know there was a better feeling now than formerly. / But if this Dill be passed, if its provisions be carried out, those angry passions will revive, and wither at Propounded by Mr. from an observation sonian Institution. about 7 e’clock. oe ue ‘. ashington, D. Richmond, Va.. has furnisbed Rev. Elies ass . the following facts 2 I was born in APRIL 5, 1860. Whitingham, Windham county, Vt., June 1, 19u1. -clear, pleasant -clear, wind S 'y, and a disgrace to us Women of our land, ounger, and a sister nam: live In the Great Salt Lake City. My father’s He was born in Hopkinton, Nancy, all of whon name was John. Middlesex county, Mass.°’ ‘cloudy, warm. &?, wind SW -cloudy, warm. -eloudy, 71”, wind S$ United States vessels are on their way home :—Marion, from the cvast of Africa, Perry and Bainbridge, from the coast of Brazil, and the Germantown and Powhatan, from China. The U. S.“fteam sloop-of-war Nar- ragansett sailed on the Ist to join the Pacific juadron. She will call at Rio and several other = berber ed —— out. for the and water! ip. how ‘Bg ship. Some New Orleans, La. Barometer at the Smithsonian at 7a. m., ted for temperature,) 29,740; at noon, ‘hermometer 2t.7 a. m., 49°; at noon, 60°. pose of coaling it alterations have ‘reat improve- up to SoU horse-power. prepared to meet the conse- ard are capable of Martin’s patent are exce) sett is Ist feet long, —_—— oo ExciTemENt In Pgrry County, Miss —An Armed Gang of Negroes at Large.—The Paulding ednesday last, says: ‘A gentleman came all the way from Augusta to this county, few days ago, to proc of hunting a gang of outlaw are infesting Perry county, Miss. According to the account given by this gentleman, who is as respectable a young man as any in the county, the gang numbers five or six, and are armed with White men are suspected of ‘ing in league witb them, and one man has been d committed to jail on suspicion. Our informant says that an unprecedented exists In the communit was ever occasioned noted Waves clan, in Perry county.” i ee It wes officially announced in the Canadian Monday that the Prince of Wales hig visit to America ent. The Narra- and 31 feet wide, and teonsists of nine Debigren sbell gus. Her crew aumbers about 320 men, all told. She has a jij volumes of the choicest neennes, recently returned from go out of commission Her crew will ae off next Saturday » ROW at Gos. logs for the pu: wi In reply to a question Clark, of Mo., he said that of ten years res‘dence in Utah, he cou — over one vert of — mists, an heen meee aes fran one wife each. of no church regulation that compelled iv to marry; she was left to exercise her own free will in the matter. The House then proceeded to vote ‘and pending amendments. The first amendment was ‘The second (Mr. Branch’s) amendment was re- Jjected—yeas 47, nays 151. ——_++e- @7-The Democrats have ca: county, Kansas. of Africa, will ulation of Utah were . steam gun-boat ly not more than half of port, Va., will be ready for sea ina and will sail forthwith for the coast of I The Norfolk Herald sa’ (of this bie =~ orde! ipbie dispatch the ship Saturday. ordered ins and weapons. :—Lieut. F.M. Baker to the Narragansett, surpassing anything that the depredation of the Lieut. C. FP. Mm! which operated so extensively R. B. Pegram has been detached ee ee eee ‘The St. Louis Hotel at Fort Snelling bas would not lea: Tried iphan before the 10th of July. Deni AtRociovs Mcrpex— Two Persons Killed. The murder of A. D. Warson, the owner of a fiat- boat, about Meth /. aewtiamated Vicksburg, Miss., last week. and robbery of $3,000, has bee! mentioned. The Vicksburg Whig of Tuesday says: About midnight, Mr. ware awoke his negro woman and told ne to go and wakeup. the bands to stand watc: Pcp oe eer] but when about midway the Mr. W. a her scream, and in a moment wards heard bag ye of a gunin the boat. He jumped out of exclaiming to his wife that ‘the woman was killed, and ere he to the door which separates the store the bed-room, an- other shot was fired, and all was still. He con- tinued on to see what was the matter, but when about the end of the counter he received a shot from some unknown person secreted about the counter, which took effect in the throat, killing him instantly. The negro woman was shot in the left breast, and did not survive a moment After the commission of the deed the two men went up on deck through the hatchway, cut the lines loose, and endeavored to shove the boat outin theriver. It drifted in again, however, and they returned. As they neared the room where Mrs. Warson was, one cocked a pistol, and on opening the door, Presented it at her. She —— would they spare her life and that of her children if she gave them all her money, to which he replied, ‘‘yes.”” She then gave him between three and four thousand dollars, which he took, and they both went forward in the boat, where they remained about an hour and a half. They then went on deck sreia, and made a second at- tempt to shove the boat out in the stream, but failing to do so, unshipped the oars, and threw the an overboard, then got in a skiff and rowed off. Tue K. G.C ‘he chief of this order, Gen Bickley, and Maj. Castellanos, were quite ex. licit as to ir organization at a meeting in Eat Als. State Sentinel explains: “ are three departments of the sae sary means to ish this object; and the po- litical is to establish a healthy Southern senti- ment. “It was stated that already some 16.000 men were enrolled on the military list, and that over $700,000 were already secured. it over 5,000 men were on the frontier of T: ready to cross the Rio Grande, and at once enter into theservice of the Juarez government. On enrolling a name, the person so enrolled takes an obligation or oath, and is instructed in certain signs and grips by which each other is Quarantine Recviatio: The quarantine season has just issue of an order by Dr. Gunn, the Health O! of the Port, the object of the order being to in advance against the importation of infectious diseases by vessels arriving from foreign ports. The order just issued requires captains of vessels trading between New York and West Indies, and other tropical ports, to provide themselves with bills of bealth signed by the heaith authori- ties of the port from which they vely sailed, for presentation on their arrival in New York, under penalty of detention at quarantine. The same requisition extends to coastwise vessels arriv- ing from ports south of Henlopen. To insure certsin compliances with the injunction referred to, all United States Consuls at the ports alluded to are notified in advance by the State Dey nt at Wasbington, to instruct captains of vessels leaving their ports after the ist of April, of the sors d of supplying themselves with clean bills o s at New Yorx— commenced by the Two brothers living about Warrenton, Lewis and David Castleman, were arrested on Sunda on suspicion of having committed the deed, an were brought upto thiscity yesterday. Mrs.Wars- ton recognized them in a large crow: out Lewis as the one to whom she 2 money. They were then taken to jail, to await a requisition from the Governor of Louisiana, when they will be removed to Richmond for trial. ee Murper 1x Fioyp County, Va.—A cruel and deliberate murder is reported to have been com- mitted in Floyd county, on Sunday night last, by aman named Ambrose Cox. A correspondent of the Wytheville Times gives the subjoined partic- ulars of the affair: Capt. Luke Cox, the father of Ambrose, had recently divided a tract of laud be- tween his two daughters, one of whom married a gentleman by the name of Moore. Ambrose be- came angry, it is said, on hearing of the division, and swore that Moore should never enjoy any of the advantages of the land; that he would shoot him, and putan end to itat once. These threats were made coolly and deliberately, and at differ- ent times, and a few days aco he determined to carry them into effect. He invited a brother-in- law of his, in presence of two witnesses. to go home with Lim that night, and remarked that he ‘“in- tended raising the devil on the creek that night * He visited Moore's house, and the fainily seeing him coming with his rife on bis shoulder, and knowing of his threats, barred the door against him. He knocked, and they refused to admit him; he thereupon forced the door, and taking aim at Moore, shot him through the heart. Moore's wife sprang before him, and he actually fired over her shoulder. He then proceeded to load his gun again, after which he went away He was arrested the next day. and is now confined in Floyd jail. Mr. Moore died in the course of an hour. Cox has shot at men before, and stabbed others; among them members of his own family, not excepting his father, whom he has maltreated time and again. . a eae Tur Staver Orion at Bostox.—The officers of the slaver Orion have been beld to bail in the sum of $5,000 each by the United States Commis- sioner, for further appearance. The principal witnesses for the Government are Martin J. Wen- deli, sailing master of the Mystic, and two ofthe crew of that vessel, who were on the Orion before the slaves were taken on board. The seven or eix bt hundred negroes found on board the Orion were to be sent by the English authorities to Trinidad or Cabanes for the plantations. Capt. Morgan is apparantly about forty years of age, short, and inclined to corpulency, with Leavy. overhanging eyebrows, coarse dark hair and whiskers. The first mate, Byron J. Chamberlain, is about the same age, sallow of complexion, tall and very thin, with black bair and whiskers, and coarse heavy overcoat. The second mate, Wm Dunning, is younger, and js of a small size, with red whiskers, sandy hair, blue eyes, and «-smil- ing countenance.” U7 The Albany correspondent of the N.Y. Commerc’ Advertiser say thut the divorce bill, which is ina fair way to become a law, is perti- naciously pressed by an old gentleman whose daughter has had a desirable offer of marriage during ber husbands temporary absence in Cali fornia, (though hew amarried woman should elicitand listen to such an offer isan enigma,) and a desire to gratify her. and perhaps his own covetousness or vanity, affords him sufficient mo- five to spend bis whole time at Albany in en- gineering the bill through, without a thought about the principle of the bill, or the harm its enactment may do to society and to morals. It t= also said that the bill prohibiting persons from devising their property as they choose, was con- cocted and put on its way by relatives of a weal- thy lady, who expected to be overlooked in her last will and testament ee NTERFEIT ON A Battimore Banx — & Bicknell, publishers of a Bank Note ter, sent the following to the Philadelpuia x Bulletin of Tuesday : We have this morning detected acounterfeit $5 note, purporting to be the true issue of the Citizens’ Bavk, Balti- more, Md. Vignette, large 5, medallion head on each end; red tint 6,000 LiGiHTS SASH. various -izos. 9 terials, clazed aud nnelazed tory of BAL. BROTHERS, sts.. Washington, D.C. HE LATEST Wisk anp Hunter 1x Vircinia.—T welve of the fifteen districts in this State have now elected dei- egates, and the result is as follows: For Mr. Hunter—Brannon, Fitzhugh, Russell, Broun, Hoge, Funsten, Garnett, Buckner, Glass, Hubard, Coles, Clark. Harv’ oss, Barbour—15. For Mr Wise—Kindred. ith, Fisher, Book- er. Crockett, Cecil, Davis, Hoge, ‘Thompson—9. ‘The majority for Mr Hunter, therefore, thus r, is six, and of the remaining three districts the friends of Mr. Hunter are certain of carrying two, and expect all three. If we only carry the two distriets, about which there is nodoubt, and Wise delegates are elected from one of the’ three dis- tricts yet to elect, the result cannot now be worse than— For Mr. Hunter. For Mr. Wise... Majority for Hunter. This secures for Mr. Hunter th AND MOST FASHIONABLE the fifteen electoral scene WS ete See Charleston Convention, as long as they may be apS-2t 326 Pa. betw. 9th ard 10th sts. necessary to secure his nomination.—Aichmond JUST THINK OF IT! SERENE: A coon riko Hans on monthly pay- mcants for $15, and one for $3+, and one for $0. JOHN F. EL! IS, 206 Pa av., between Sth and 10th Melodeons for sale on monthly payments, ap CHICKERING & SONS' SUPERB PIANOS, rom $224 upwards —Terms easy Pianos the best; f3ct largest; 40 gold and Tue Passencers ann Crew or THE Huxca- RiaN.—The official list of the passengers and crew of the Hungarian has been received by the agents of the line in Quebec, from which it Sa eee that by some inadvertence on the part of the Li J news reporters, the number on board has n very much over stated: The number of cabin passengers. ‘The number of steerage pussenge The Captain ... Officer in charge of ina Other officers and crew the « er medal: a has made 25 piano; employ 400 workmen ; use thi b st matoriais; the terms easy, and. the instru a only at JOUN F. ELLIS'S, 306 Pa. av., bet, 9th and 10th ste, DUCATION.—Prof. BROWN will open the tho Washington Iostitute, (a boarding ardoay schoo!, with malg and female departments,’ in the Epacious rooms of the old Capitol. on MONDAY, Sthinst Parental care for the pupi'r, the great- est experience and tact in teaching, with the beouty and na ionality of the lovation. invite te anext n4- ed patronage. Terms and references at the Ln wena ee ap Sim WEDDING PRESENT2. 4 The latest novelties in FANCY SILVER, Me in the unique styles, ani designed ally for Weed res Total number on board... Peon) ‘This, we may assure the public, is a perfect. re- liable account; and asa partial mitigation of the calamity, it is right to make the statement public. Quebec Chronicle. Tue Harrer’s Ferry Commitree.—The Her- ald correspondent says that an old man, named Walker, from Vermont, has gone to Washington and called upon the Chairman of the Harper's Ferry Committee, saying that he is in possession cf w. sT & BRO., important facts connected with the affair which rellors, 354 Pa. avenue, he wishes to unfold. ap 5-6t Four doors west of Brown's Hotel, “SPAGNOLIA HAMS a “MAGNOLIA HAMS!” We have now in store our firat supply for this aca soa of the*Macnolia Hams.” They are rich, tender, xu of fine flavor. The Magnolias are now in excellent oondi- ton for baking. KING & BURCHELL, aps Corner Fifteenth st, and Vermort av. W aren SPECIAL NOTICE. —In addition to our large stock of very superior Watches by all the more distincuished makers, we open this morning an invoice of very CHEAP yet very RELIABLE TIMEKEEPERS, for beth L Gentlen U>~ Portland, Maine. has gone democratic by giving forty-eight majority for Joseph Howard for mayor. The Democrats elected four out of seven aldermen, and twelve out of tweve out of twenty-one councilmen. ilJ- The Democrats carried Cincinnati. tri- umpbantly at the municipal election on Monday, electing their entire ticket by an average majority of 20. The democrats elect nine councilmen and the republicans eight. il7- The Republicans carried five wards of St. Louis for councilmen in the election on Monday. The other tive wards went democratic and inde- pendent Serene eee WASHINGTON LIGHT INFANTRY— (em he Company will mect TONIGHT. Dar ticular business requires the ettention of the mem- bers, By on WV. GALT & BRO., lors 34 Pa. avenue, ap 5- Four doors west of Brown's Hotel, IVED THIS DAY, AT THE LADIES’ MANTILLA STORE, Thirty-five Elegant and New Styles Sux BURNOUS. ” CLOAKS, &eo. 328 Pa. av. 5 MOUNT- eeting will ba NING, at 73 e members are respectfully requested +as there wil be arrangements neees- fh regard to target practice and pa- JO=EPH PECK, Capt. ARD, ATTENTION.—Tie al- eting of the Pioncer Democratic othing Association, of the First ; ake placa on TUESDAY NEXT, tho 10th instant, at half past 7 o'clock, at Stott’s Hall, corner of Twentieth st. and Pa avenue. B. RANDOM, Pres’t. I . TsKE NOTICE HAVE This day received a Jarge st-ck of Le- dies’ and Gentiemen’s fine Sole Leather; and vood Frame TRAVELIN CGR TRUNKS, which I can sell twenty par con! cheaper than any house inthinavity. All wishing to purchase TRUNKS.VA1I ICES, CAR PET BAGS, &c., wil! do well to call and examine m: Call ot soot, Sha and Tose Hebe, . nd Tran i apS2w Paar 490 het och ‘avd 10th ats. New OPENING, ‘NEW SPRING GOODS. Y i sa . P. J. STE*R. Mencuanr Ta'tor, No. 488 wx. Bioorns, Seo'y. SP 5-t_ | S-venth street. near E, ia now opening New KE FAIR FOR TUE BENEFIT OF | SP*ING G00 DS—Cloths, meres, Dl: Minceat’s Orphan Asylum, will be opened | Vestings, and rurnishing Goods—which he on TUESDAY, April lth. a lock p, m.. in the | is prepared t» make Assembly Rooms, Louisiana u A great va suheantst cheap r riety of u elias ornain a ticles wi. i] A displayed, ‘Ph ors and Cady managers of this | A fine lot of WHEELER & WILSON’S IN- instittitinn. appeal to tiewell kuown charity ct the | COMPAR (BLES FAMILY SEAT Ne MN public, x3 well as strangers visiting our city. ap 4-4 FIRST WARD. ATTENTION—An ad- ae ess meeting of the Pioneer Democratic and Avti-Know Nothing Association of the Fing pee rama be, gee Stott’s Hall, 1 THURS A teth street and ‘enn. avenue, on T) Bi = " EVENING. April sth-at ve o'clock = Rk. RANDOM, President, WM. RIGGLES. Secretary. Ap 4-2t* DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMIT- A TEE.—The members of the: Democratic ational Committee. composed of one from h State, are requested to meet in ASHINGTON CITY, at the Rooms of the Democratic National Campaign Committ-e. No. 8 43 street, on THURSDAY, April 5, 1860, 19 o’clock a. m., for consultation on 1m} it business. A fall apd promet attendance is desired, i . A. SMALLEY, Chairmac. J, H. GEORGE. c YALLANDIGHAM,> Secretaries. SSE. § mar J. <2 aie CONFECTION RY, x: 5 ‘esh Cak i shah crv fer Benton rg a and Ornaments of all kinds and si Kuss, Jal ies, Blanc Mi Pu imbery, Cieamn, bee ‘Roman » $1.25 per gallo: LY JOSEPH SHAFFIELD, CH'NES just received, at all prices; from $50 to S10, : Seotw EW SPRING GOODS. The notice of my customers and the public gener- ally is re repays ise to my very extensive assortment of PAPERHANGINGS and | PHOL- STERY GOODS, which [am now receiyi- &, and which I confidentiy assert to be the pretties? and cheapest stock ever brought to this cil ence in the trade, acd buying, as I pe > od a = we retry cheapest. To the incredulous | would sa: where—then give meacall. L.F.CL r¢ ap 5-3t Pe ates Union.) 12th and 13th ets. OOTS AND SHOES J E B Pats, T° SUIT Ta! Weare now manufacturing al! kinds of BOOTS and SHOES, and constantly recei a supply of eastern made work of eve: e scription. @xpress'y to order, willl be sold af a much Catal ae than been heretofore charged in this city for much Persons in want of Roots Shoes of eastern or city made work, will alwaye ey in store and at the lowest prices. ve GRIFFIN & aps-r 314 Pennsylvania i 8 purest now i into ket. Itcan be oo m ‘Whe if = <= B oy niton & beach R jackson. eall, Ed as stand best 1s E, 80) stocks of STAPLE ANCY G lected with great from New - Adeiphia Markets, at unprecedontally: tow prices, - which he respectfully invites the PUBLIC inspec” 01 PALM-LE4F FANS, at New y, 10,000 FAIILESE FANS, at New York Remember the address— rices. to be seen at FT MADDOX, DEM sx sob ELE RASSIRE,. | epee so aed eiahie WEopInc INVITATION: ING NEW SO.) AND BEAUTIFUL. wen Pipes grpours, pty iE & i IN. a AMUSEMENTS. WAs8INGTON THEATRE. ENTARY BENerit aE saat, * i 7th, TSMENT. Partiou'srs in fetore isement. ap AINTINGS AND STATUARY. THE FOURTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION ASSOCIATION, Toth end Lith sts.) WASHING TOW ARE ow Orex ERY, (on Pa. av., bet. Seri cnr ieee ~~ paesaadenemedinerduegeespsencloaer eer hibition of AMERICAN ART contains Sop tg es ‘Several of the most meritonous in the on are for sale, BALLS AND PARTIES. TIONAL BLUES Have the hi their friends and the publ: ¥ = request, they intend Sti wokiahy soit a « Brase and Cotillon Band has been en- erickers ONE DOLLAR, admutting s gente = Committee Of Arrangements. ee cn Part of the Military Ria). L. J. Miadieton, Maj. haward Towers ieut. J. BE. Powers, RK. Drinkard, Capt. J. ¥. Davy t. J.Peok, Cort. 3 TP ike President’ciMomred Otend. Lieut, Bishop, Of the National Guard. Lieut, Shekeli. Capt. Towers. Capt. Sohwarzman, Acut Sylvester, Of the Union Guard. of ee Moutcomery Spat rth, © Potomac t. Int tre, of the National Rifles Lieut. J, Ward, .. Lieut. MeGlectn. iter on Part of the Citizens ret, ; if ssor Mol od, Lieut. Watkine, Lieut J. Kelly, Mr. Wm. Brown, ~Rishard Wallach, 1 WANTS. PWO WOMEN- done mx waiter and ¢' amberme renees required. between 9th and loth, TANTED—A SITUATION an teapectahle iarried wenan Apply corner of First an EP—A WOMAN to cook and wash. «nt GIR'. to agsist in chamberwork » F.POURTALE™, D street south, > tw 4 6th and 7th strects enet, Navy Yard. at” ANTED TO HIRE—A steady WOMAN « cook. wash and iron fora small family, im the country, about two miles from the Ge " f accompani.d py acu! ey Inquire immediately at jo. 379 1th street west, between G SALE AND Ri “For Sale and Kent wn front BRI Rees HOUSEHOL, o most reasonable terms, between H and I «treets north OR RENT-—A two-story BRICK HOUSE. « Fourteenth * rert. between Rand 8. fn JOSEPH P. SMITH. above. = menth. Possession immediately. OR RENT That very ING HOUSE between 43% and wth gas and gas fixtures |. To a good and permanent te be male moderate. T, 407 Tweltth street, between | au ‘Apply at 342 Sint 4 nm Apply to THOM A~ nandsomel three- front DWELLING HOUSE, No chusetts avenue, north side, between Ii sta, Apply on the premises. RENT-—A fine three-story Rr ck HOUSE, basement and cellar, N: 10. ST Kast Canite) For terms #0!) T—T wo four-sto: on L, near 15th street, nor ree ent $2” each. Brick HOUSES, . Inquire at the W. H. PRENTIS: OR RENT—A FRAME HOUSE, on 1 | ear L street north, with 10 room, oguireo Mr Al.B A. BOo LAND, 362 L et. nortan. west, 367,) FOR SALE-A two-s'ory BRICK HOUSE- ‘No. 398 L street, betw. en 14th aud 1sth et: . ood cellar, and water in the ly st the premises, J$h ON THE ISLAND ron EXCHANGE, 1 subsovi ner has a tw House contsining 6 cod 436 Gnd F etreets th, change for a house © with 8 rooms and a yard,and stable. Ap; tory and atte brick sch he wishes to ex the «ame size aad va.ue avenue, between 6th and lth *ts. iy to A.G, FOWLER, 600 N st., or Wind Apply to JONATHAN T. '—HO SE No. 463 Ci be ralc low for cash, or rtou ressonabie termes, WALKeR, L ar eagd T AND FOUND. FROM MR. GEORGE Crandel!’s store, Rridge street, Geor MARE. atout 7 years old; tail: “white spot on her: ‘part of her i? town, a hittls ba id ito hi ie TE. THOMSON ond ard E streets, near City Hial.. BOARDING. _ W BOARDING-HOUSE._MRS. PAYNE Ging house nesrane | Kirkwood House. routh Cae permane: renr) nd oomfortahie acoommodationt Rooms to let, with cr without Board. |G.—Several desirable CHAMBRE efor families or single gentiemer, are now Pp atJ.N.Stusrt’s Roardi the most d: be wu misone wal the hows supp ied wi! a 4 i the bers, bath. Terms moders' Boarders accommodated. OARD.—A rentioman end indy. or two os three resting Hed! Ba Post Offce, Waahinetos or ICE Lig’ ¥ R HT-HOUSE Cs Marek 2, ill be reosved a! pep rmoresats will pe reee of Ce ag ay BAG more screw-pile light ‘om time to time as they may cificstions may be obtained ** Sige oh MEH, Bue