Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1863, Page 1

| EB EVERY AFTERNOON, » PRN DAY BICBPEBD.) ° ay THE STAR BUILDINGS, ap 1itm Syauer, Oennsn Prema AVENUE A: w. D. WALLACH. ————_ before 11 o’clock u.; otherwise net uppear until the nex’ day "i NEW THEATER, . ABOVE B. STREBT. fk PHB WEDS SISTER. RMORDAY BVENIN+, December 7th. TT THE Lamhe OF KILLARNBT. With Rew or, Orsganitcent temas. **Tncomparsnie Murit Throwgtout, ONB MoBS NIGHT : th the last reseatation of John sant hace witty Surlesaue, eatl ded PO-CA—SON—TAB, ‘With a most emicent cast, inciading the bent tak a Lise seme te nd Oe a en GROVER’S THEATER, Pennsyeania Avenue, ncar Wilarde’ Hotel. BeOmsaD@ 297: + TROUPR, MABTINETTI ARD = ma akcar el PaMILiag. a ost Tasents: le “OE aboobin awae ruduee: Bembersne Twelve Most Skii/ui Gyamasts. AD BRTIEE onam y PERPOBMANOS. Be ecdertul Bxer ari Me Gorda Tends. wih Artistic Bvolutione by Mester Faul Martimetti. To be followed ty the beanti ul Ballet Divertise- went, produced ander ibe direction of oO M eu, ©! BBILLR OF MAUKID. GRAND DIVERTIASEMEN it the coms pantomime ot wilt 6 comis pant i026 9! OR, THB SRATILIAN APE. OTICa.—Graad Pamily Afternoon Periirmanes Saturday nezt Doors open at two eewer, Unprecedented at raciion, Arabs. Ora- tio Go Double Oroh. admriasion— Le‘ies and Giildren 25 cente; @ lemon 3) cent: | CANTERBURY HALL, B10 CANTERBURY, AWD n'y LL GanTEBeU: THATS, U1BE a ear of National ‘and Metropolitan Hotels. Greatest ANNetTa Unriva’sd, Liviog ALL B: a Unapproachatic, Danseuse ALLETTI, Taimitabie King of the TAPHOP? { Best Dinose in Baliet. TaPhosF, Ameries. JULIA MOBIIMER, JULIA MORTIMBR, Queen of Melody and Boog. MILLIS FOWLER, MILLIE FO *L&k. The Ceieorated London Danses CLAEA FOWLER, OLASA FOWLER The Erglish Beaaty and Pinished Artists. A Mage itcont BeMBRALDA:} lotrodosisg b.llet 83@DBALD4;({ Ronzani fr. OB, 1Ha HUNUHBACK OF NOT DANN, ORANGE GPRLS OF YENICK. ORANGE GLHLS OF VENIOB, Greed Ballet Dao, BOR! UNMB OP Wat: ’ Magan & Gowpany rformence at a 3 and 50 cls. TRDAY APTERNOON P ME. JOHN E @s0LALL, RCPBSSUR And Tessisr of Dancing in the mest floisbed ball room style, acquiring oe | and elegance on emtering company, Uni Ball, 11th street, near Penn. avenue, where indie» anc genilemen can tak ate lessoni bi i en. “dae Boestre and Asdian, Glad Broreise for the ~ a ds shone TEE oor mented by the medieal profession, # of the army and pavy. . ASF cards of terms please call at his roome, 4037 Im* RetOB P. VISHER'S paneer GOTILLON BAND. Mn. Prisuzn takes pleasure his frieuds and pubic. that pe hes organised a Cotillen Band for Bale Parties He re aspects solicits a liberal share of public favoi, Besidence comner of Penn. averue sad BD streets, EBuroceas House or to L, BIOS, 5 Penn. ave. det. 12th end 33 b. no iS lia® UMBIA OORNRT AND STRING BAND— noundees Cy ‘he undersigned respectfully an: to the public, that he is ready to jab Musi fee FePias rine ats isinlan ditions, ete ra it nuaiber of Mus Srtert uation, bY deaving ondors ‘ennsy lv: % avenue p Sommer OO 'MENBY ISBMAN IDAY PRESENTS) ae FOR HOLIDAY PRESBRYS) Jurt received, at P. J. BELLEW & 00.8. 510 Ph etrees, The largest and most elegant variety of PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS Byer ereued in thia city, great portion cf them Dears fully and elaborately ornamented, bound In Perkey and French worceco, every style ia the wade. We revpectfal!y enagert to our Patrens that ‘Weve are ihe mort desirable goods for HOLIDAY PRESENTS, BYER INTRODUCED IN THE MAAERY. We begin to sell down at 75 cents, $2: 92-23. 9 299329 83: $3.50. 94.25, 84.50; §5.73; .20 and all ihe way to $20. Over 5,000 copies of beautiful CARTE DE visite PHOPOGRAPH PIOTURES. OOP] BS OP NEARLY BVERY PICTURE BVER XHIBITED. ~ dust look st the prices. : “91.25 DOZEN OOPIES! We ask the Public to call, just when ft cuits them. above Goods ars bound to Walk on he donhige ax Haris pulivns , bai 3s ln, gong _. wade ne i= res Fuss! FURS! FURS! : yURS! o0rsi LAPIES' REPS at 810, G15, 9M, up te G16. GHILDBEN'S BETE at 93, #5, G3, ap to O13. @reat supply now ready, For sale at ae Bm 1 peo HARPS! MBELODBONB! for Bchomacker & Co 's evlebrated Phila- Gelphis PIANOE. Agent ior Grovestein & Co.'s eclebra bested Rew York Piancs. Agent for Lowis't celebrated Harps. Bheet Mume Forgs with Pisno ‘Sesempeniment, ‘con prising nea: ly everything pabdlishad, Metionai Airs, pos Boboo! Selections, &¢., only Scents per @ Operatic tlections in Book Form, from 29 to 80 eents per Boo Last action Books and Portefolios alwe7¢ oc hand, A collection of new Bongs and Pieoes inst recsived Pitchers fovmtaned at} et rates. re fornie! atlowe: 5 Haye dé Pianos ogtired, at the suortest notice, BCHOMA: KAN & MONTHOMBBY, No, 6 Moract Bpace Pa av, Detweem Eth and Hb streets, no % tf Wernfagtos, B:O_ \LOAKB, CIROULABS, AND BHAWLE, 7 ACKS at 86. BUA OR CLOT ew BO Re io ert 91, mR, PLU MILTON and Abe “awe Ge sa giao eas Pato RSTABLIBHBD 1850, — whieh made arrang ment» é PO, navng mete oe PAWN BBOKIN BUPIN Ess in this city I take this method of in- forming te petrone and the Lorene ral th. vatebes, Diamoads, Jewels Do do ao FROSTED ‘ BBAV at y, Ladies’ it the old established ° johween Gand Gh eta, metiryts HaRZBAR & SON dotlars to ean of || ————— Wearlng Apparel. &c., &@ Band Mo BB '0 sireas Se im the ST Te at the abo: OBBA? AND : ORIGIN Ale CLOAK STORB, ADIEB CLOAK, 1 Oloake from @8 2091), Sari Dames iouns | Sirens from 910 to $15. MissFS’ CLOAKr. from wes DIRS? Barge da EADIE’ CIROULaRs, | ATX +RUL C*HOIOH BaRAMvast s C i KING& Bt soli Cu wr eorner Vermont ave, aa lath ot, 5 78 ; Sliver and.Ger'r’ | jeer LOGAL NEWws. THE CELEBRATION SATURDAY. Introduction of Peiemee Water Inte the is Squeduct. ——~»—— emenies of the Geoation. —>- — juet at the National. cal On Saturday the celebration of the formal introduction of the Potomac water ito the Washington Aqueduct took place with dae emphasis aed spirit, ‘The Mayor and other city offcers, she mow- bers of the City Councile, and a few invited guests left the Vity Hall between if and i? o’elock in the morning, 1n oarriagys, aud pro- ceeded, by the way of Georgetown, to the line of the Aqueduct. The route taken was imme- diately tn the neighborBood of the Aqueduct, and, fora eonsideradle distance, commencing above Georgetown, was by an excellent road directly over the Aqueduct iteelf. On the way the various points of ¢aqueduct) jptrest were pointed out, and at some places pauses were made by the party to give oppor. tunity for special examination. As the par- ticulars of all these bridges, pip e:, tunnels and yeservoirs have heen minutely detailed bereto- lore in the Star, we cmit them here fur want of #pace, and hasten on with the party to Oahin fehn Bridge, where the first main halt was made. Some eensiderable time was spent bere rather pleasantly while waiting for Secretary Usb-r and Scnator Grimes to return from a trip they had made through to the Great Falls. ©abin John Bridge is an imaience span of 230 feet at base—the longest of masonry in the world. we are to d—and when the party w-re at the base looking uy, the sharpangleat which the head was thrown necessarity forced one’s mcuth ajar. In looking down from the pain pevess (as yet)structure the month again came ajar--a fact we mention here as explanatory o1 something that follows. Hereabonts wasa bulein the tunnel, in which Shadder was set, enabling curious spectaturs to descend and see the amazed Potomac writer just introduced to 18 new gaarters, sizzling along towards Gu: powder rvoir at ihe rate of abou. ten milks an hour. We believe it was tacitly azreed that the ex- cursionists should drink vothing but Potomac water throng hout the day in houor of the occa- sion, and thie understanving we Know was re- ligiously carried out by the members of the Hoard of Common Council, aud, probably, by the younger m: mbersof the upper board. Such of the more vei erable of tbe party as claimed ex maption from the rule no doubt had consid- erable justification in the chilly state of the at- mosphere ard the necessity of protectiag the Jungs irom cold while sturing open-moutned, ae above explained, upwards or downward: ut that immense arch. But no one, we are certain, gualifiad nis water more than scuffi-fent barely to take the ebill off, or to destroy any pose:be animalen- Ise in the unclatified Potomac water—s vaiid excuse in itself in the op:nion of Ex President Pires, as expressed on a similar occasion. An employee om the aqueduct, who was tronbled—poor man—with & tremulous move- maeut of the left eye-lid, gave ue some cnrjous information. He told ue, asshowimng whardis- tancessound will travel through tub-4, and especially aqueduct tubes, and more especially Potomac ayueduct tubes,—that it was the commonest thing tochut the man holes in the ductand whieper orders through itirom the Big Falls to Georgetown, or viee versa.. Some of the party qualified their water on the strength of that/ _ fat middle-aged géntlemen of the party varving the tediam of duties ut the City Hall by ecramb- ling about over the rotks in the hollow, or swarming (fcr 4 distance of two or three feet) up the derrick ropes, and it wasa rascally irtck in those youngsters to tumble big 5 ones ating Cer Grand Ba: to announce to’ | down the declivity, embarrassing the shins of their elders who were clambering up tediousiy at best, puffing and blowing under the sour of the information that the hacks were just leaving without them! Returning toihe reservoir. the party found Secretary Usher, Senator (irimes, Goi. Bey- mowr, the engineer in charge of the Pageducs, and others, including a number cf soldier. epectatore of the Ixt Maine and %h New York, trom Fort Sumer and other point: in we vicinity. After come adjusting of Tropes upon a der- tie the gate was raised, (and simuitaneously & flag,) and the water of the Potoma:: shot out to join the water of Gunpowder Ureek. A bottle.fnll of the first water through was secured by Mr. N. D. Larner, chairman of the cenucils committee; designed as a fellow to the first spadetul of earth thrown up in break- ie ground for the aqueduct. The spectators ha ving eatiafied themselves that the marriage of the waters had been duly con- summated; and the letter-on of the water havy- ing emerged from the siream witha magnig- cent air of don’t-care-it-ivenese in regard to \ gathered upon bis spoiled boots, the crowd then she green to Heten to the speech. making. Secretary Usher then came forward, and f#poke as follows: Mr Mayor of the City of Washington end Gen- themen-—We Bave just had the privilege of witnessing the introduction to the cities of Washington and Georgeiown ofan Befailing supply of wholesome and excellent water. It must bean interesting sight to those who have ta&en an intereet ju the enterprise. It is ayreat and 4 glorious affair. and one which poat rity will thank us for. We will have ap unfailing end unlimited sappy whith wilt be groaier than any elty in Union bas ever been able ° Phe idtaof supplying we ct Washington ea of supplying city of Washi With water seeuis to have originated with the reatand good man whose name the capital #, and under whose direction surveys were early made for ee peepee. The enterprise, however, langu: for many yoare. In Scp- tember, 1680 Congress appropriated #50) % enable the secre! of War to cauce the nec- ceseary surveys tobe made. Toth:ssmaileom the Corporation of Washington added $1,000 With these means, brevet Lieutenant Colonel Hughes, of the cerps ef Topographical Engi- neers, undertook the surveys. plan 65n- templated bringing the water from Rock Ure $a pointabout four miles distant from the city @t a cost of 500,000. This pian does not seem to have wet with mach favor. It seems to bare been regarded us impertectund unsat- lafactory. In bis apnual report ‘of 1850 and 1851, the then Secretary of the interior pressed the agbjoct upon Congress, And on the 3lat of August, 1452, the rum of $6.060 was appropriated to enable the President to canse other surveys and plans to:be mede for deterntining the best means of atfording the cities of Washington and George- town ap unfailing and abundant sopply of gocd and wholesome water. The duty of mak. ing these surveys devolved on General Meigs, then a Heutenant of engineers, who presented bis report in the month of February, i853. On the 3d of March, 1953, Congress appropriated #!00,( 60 for the commencement of the work— the money to be expended under the direction of the President, upon such plans and from such places as he might approve. On the 2%tn of June, 1853, General Meigs’ report was laid before the President. Itembraces these differ- ent plans: First. A plan for drawing the, water from Rock Creek at a cost of $1,256,000, affording a | supply varying from about nine to twenty-six million galions daily. Second. From the Little Falls of the Potomac at 8 cost of about $1,597,040, affording a dady eupply of from tweive to eighteen mullion gu- lons. Third. From the Great Falls of tha Potomac ata cost of about $1,921,000, affording a supply. midlion gallene dally. Geners] Meigs, however, cave the preference to the Great Falls project and a condait of nine diameter, thereby Inéreasing the cost to about $2.771%,.and the supply from thirty tia millions to thir, seven tiilicns daily. Tow President ey pro and adopted the iatter plan, and pipes the work under the charge of the War Deparment for the reason, as itis supposed, thatihe surveys and estimaws had berm wade Ly one of many competent officers she srmy afforded fo werks of this character. The work continued’ under the charge of the War Department enuf Jon-, ip to whieh time $2,900,000 had been ape propristd and expended, excep: 2 balanve of about 822.110, The necessity for the cervices of General Meige, in connection with the war, Cansed & cerention of operations on this’ work. Some time im the year 196), of Jane, ixé2, the ewper vision waa transferred. by law to the de- partment now under my charge, and with which I was then associated ip anuther posi. WASHINGTON, BD. ©., | bige: | there, and all sat down (to the number ton; ibe Operations were resuuied ander the direction of the Interior Departmeut, and pre-e: euted ag well as the seasons ani the iimited meee, nd F i'# control, would admit. Much yet remaize to be con-,as you will see by tht teport of the accomplished engineer when it eball Dave been publi: be.’, whi-h will be ip a few deve, for al) which appropriations have bern deked, Gnd wiil no doubt be made ‘Congress. iewes you will perceive that I may ¢laim for the departmert which I repr: seat that, though it bus-not always had charce of the work, yet it exerted wuch indvence ia causing % te Ve commenced, and that ithas falles to ite ‘heppy sot te superiniesd its comp!rtion abd hand it over te yim, whose constituents, ure increasme in pumers, intelligence, infla- erce, 8&0 wenlth ar ime rolls on [ths proper, theretore, that] should meet yon here to-aay, and c&irr you my tincerr and hearty cengratu- lations on this anepictowe reenit. 1 wish to Mingleto night my congratulation with youre to day. ‘Mr? Usher went on to remark upon the econ: my in ccet with which ‘hie great work har been carries on a= com aret with simitar works else wht re, and aaid that when the work ‘was completed in s]) its parte. the water would be pure wi'hout any of the ced:'menta now ob- servable in it. All this bounty was for the c.trzens of Wash- ington and Georgetown, and if no lorking dis. loyalty should betray itself among thm, they might always expect that movey for other im- provements here would be forthcoming from the Government when wanted. Mayor Wailach, in reply, spoke as follows: Mr, Secretary ond Gentlemen:—To the filus- trious petriot whore name our city bexrs, and who to h«ppily conceived the idea o: wis great work; to President Fillmore, un ier whore administration it waa begun; to Pree- ident Pieree, who tarthered it; to the dietin- guished engineer, General Meigs, who com- Trenced it; to Gen. Benham; to your distin. guithed predeceseor, Mr. Secratary, and to yourself and to the eminent engiever ander whore auspices it has been so happily accom. lished, the citizens of Washinzton muke grate. wlacknowledzment. For this magulificvnt gitt of water, almost as free as iis sixter element, air, the nation’s city thanks the nation But while we make these gratefal admissions, Mr. Secrewry, we do not, 48 you suppose, receive itasa@ gratuity. The nation’s city claims this, nud much more, as due her from the Govern- ment. 1t will be recollected, sir, that the question of selecting ® proper Jocation for the parmy- hentsrato Government, was oue that greatly agita’ed the counuy and Uongress bothdannz the Confederation and fubseguently to the adoption of the Constitution. The impression was that it should not be a populona city, bat & spot where Congress could control ihe ar Tangements of the Government and the terri- torial regalation. A bite was to be selected in accordance with the provisions of the Uonstituticn, which pre. ecribed that Congress should have exclusive juriediction in ail cases whatsoever, over #8 territory not exceeding ten miles square, to be ceded by the States and accepted by Congre=s as the p rmanent seat of Government. The site ofthe city «f Washington was ce eet d by General Washington north of tie Potomac and east of the Anacostia river, [rom what pc rticn of the territory ceded by the Stuse of Maryland. It wasin his wisdom eelasted lor teveral reasons: Ist, its central location betweem the North apd Sonth ; 2d, its ready access to the ocenn ; 3d, its position in the in- terior ard Jowards the West. There were a t+ w of the many reasons for fixing the seat of Government in its present location. When 50 selected the Government was in ite infancy, aud readily accepted aid trom any source. The proprietors of the soil, ninetewn or twenty in number, generously gave to the Government uot ouly all the reeervations on which stand she noll+ monuments of American ert and skill, the ce tol, Ke, oe worth bow ilions of dollars, but Mkewise ever. Leni talnctn TUt, 10y{96 in MOmber, most of little value c mpared BET.) 17, when of aud the proceeds repent in erecting that Capital; your Executive Munsion and other public edi- fices. A plan of a city was conceived—not a lan for that time, or for the zreat pation we ve becume, but & plan for the gresier country we @re most rapidly becoming. A plen eatraorainary in its dimension, with sti ees and avenues unparallelled in width and extent; such & plan ne suited the greatest cap- ital cf the greatest nution in the world, and which the then and nuw seaitered population were to work up. This bas the city of Wash. ington, with a rate of taxauon less than any- where else, done. I: bas opened and made troad str ele and avenues, and built pridges ond fchocl. houses, one of the latter of which, +qval to tbat of any older city, is jast being ;ccmpleted near the eastern extremity of Penn- ‘eylvania avenue. So mtch has che done, and while the Governinent, owns thirty millions of property within Ler lin. iis, which has never paid one cent towards her imprevembat except an occasional giatuity of this kind. which the world takes a8 @ Conation, but whic’: the eiti- zens of Washington claim as their right. Our thanks are due to Senator Grimes tor his stendy friguaehip to the District. Much has been said, and with justice, too, of tbe condition of our strepts, und. much has Js tely been done to meet these complaints. All, however, that is necessary cannot be done by Washington alone, oud as the Government aud the city of Washington are jointly interested &nd joins ow ners of all the property in ita limite, they will undertake to pave the etrecis if the Government, as they ought and should, would do its pert— pave and take care of the avenuos, | Whatever Bae been Jntety done in this psrticu- lar. it je with the help of God and 8 prompt poymentof wxes iutended todo ror tn the { Iutere, Upon the conclurion of Mayor Wallach's Trmarks, three cheers were given for Dim; aod Seeretary Usher ang Senator Grimos were cim- larly ccanplimented. The company were then invited by the com- Mitiee to uw very appetizing collation, (in the getting up of which we fancy Onarley Klo- mann had & band,) acd some little time was spent to good. advantage in the discussion of the various edibles and drinkables set forth. And here, as well as anywhers. we may say Shat ihe committee of arrangements did their prt very handsomely, both ap regards the Prcgramme forthe day, sud tor the night, a: tre National Hotel banquet, The comumittes ‘was com) 88 follows: 5. B. Torton, J.F. Brown, N. Sargent. on the pert of the Board of Aldermen; and N. D. Larner, H. ©. Wileon, and W. P. Ferguson, on the part of the Board of Common Council. They were one and all indefatigable in putting the thing through handsomely and with credit to the city, and that they cucceeced, all who preeent will vouch for. THM BAXGuKET. é Si seren oiclock, toe excurelonists reossors® e National, joining come in body! eI Ld y 1303 to‘an excellent eupper, preceded by & good bat rather loug grace, (for hungry men,) by Rev. TEyzon Funderiandd. aycr Wallach presided at the head of the table, supported right and left by Vice Presi- dent Hamlin and Secretary Usher, and with Mr. N. D. Larner, of the Ovnncils, as his vis-a-vis. The Marine Band was present in fall force, muking abundant mnesic during the evening. The tcHowing was the Bill of Fare: Oysters on ibe half eheil. Soup.—Mock tertle. Julienne. Fish. Boiled Saimon Trout, Lobster Sauce, Baked > riped Bas-, Madeira Sauce, oiled,—Turkey=, Oyster Sauce. Ham. Oar pons, Celery Sande Bret Tongues, with Spi- nach. Mutton wi urnips. Loin of Beef, Champagne Sauce. els LDiehes.—Gantantine of Turkey, en Bel- yeu. Lobster baled, American Style. Beef Tovgres, gurpished with jelly. Ham Cronton- ver, &8 Nochello, Beef, .ig Mode Come, with Jelly. Asp of Oysters. Mayonnaise of F¥ytrees —Fricvndeau of Veal, dagdeds gare ed ¥th Spinac. Plevons, gus "in, stuffed, goynished;> ta Financiere. Fairirigges, stated, Sih Salpicom, dp Périg ue. wears a lerded,, lani-es With, Gre: a Pons. Atcadevot POhicken, Tor ucts Canton, taxcle, gare ished aja Potiones. Stal Plitesy garnished wath Oy Filh ts of Beef, pique; tn Roy al. : Roast -Snea of Mutton, Currant Jelly? Curke ye, ( rapberry. Sauce, Rina of Best. Or hens, ttoffid. Ham, Champagne Sauce.Ageceey Obocke ay AinParwan, With ‘@ sevrb-feot condmtiot about thirty-six |! apple -fuuce. ~ 2 co alae xe eme.—Saddle ‘of Verizon: Os rraut<Jellys Ward Tarkeys, Grande "ea Hea, Blick Heady and Male hea ts ve etables Ppt Seitions. "Bollea. Pote- tock: weet Potntoes. Giewed Tomatoes. Fried ast “a T ripe. seen Fenss Splbacn wits Pastry.—Mince Piece. Whortkeberry Pie, MONDAY. DECEMBER 7. 1868. Graye Fiee. Fou d Bev! ‘akes. i art . Quien Cabo. Pench Pi-w Orange Jelly. Ap- rie Pedoirg. Fieativg Ieland. Tee rt.— Vantl a Tee Cream. Grapes. Rale- ey wee Paper Sheil Almonde. “CBee Py Uyen the removal of the cloth, Mr Sergennt Sn) CHECer the yegniar tosste as follows: 1. President Abrabem Lincoin--“An Ronest man’s the noblest work of Goa.” [Cheers.} Murie—«Piceident's March.” hecponcea to by Reeretary Usher, who, in Shir kted ‘ancvage, depicted the trying abrorg> which President Lincoln psced in #nuticg spon his Adminisirdtion, knd when he hed iit-h military aid he?e, though millions of gle ming bayon: te have since rashed to his eupyort, In trat «npport the citizens of this Duetr‘c: tdve done their part. He thanked them 10F Gi ber bicedeseye fone whole peo; He of the District for the toast proposéd = knowledged that in whatever the Pre<ident Gid he rected with an eye single to carryiog out hie oath of cfice honesily and faithfaliy. The septiment was one that would be responded to endacknow ‘edged astrue every where through outihe countiy and in every home, stately or bumble The spesker could not but respond to it nom the to‘tom of his heart. The people of thie city, when they cast their eyes back, cad- rot bat be gretefui. Through this period of Warnll the publi¢e works have been going on, tnd to-day they celebrated the completion of no Ires a work than that by which every citizen of Woeshington end Georgetown was pnt ip Possersion ofan unlimited supply of pure water for nll coming time, and they should see in this new chuee for faith that this shall endureas the capitol of the pation forever. [Cheers 2d. The Vice President of the Unitad States. The manifi stations of bia Jong continued in- t rest in the welfare of the Inetrictof Golam. bia entitie bim to the gratitude of its inhabi- tants. Pasic— Yankee Doodle. y. Hamlin enid in respense:— Mr. Mayor: The sentiment just proposed @peske of ol bga ions incurred by the citixens ¢1 Warhington to inoividuata tor what has sven dine im their behalf. The language is -ome- whatequivocal. I may reckon myseif a resi- cent of this city. For @ quarter of a ceatury I lave reided here, or during more hours than in the State thateent mehere. 1 am rejoiced to Meet the good x ople of our city. (Cheers.) It ie ours. ltmny be youre, granted; dnt it is oure aleo. We baye xn interest in it as abiding and broad as yon can have. What is there in your Froyesty that ie notof intereat to all in the Jand? ‘Your yoy nlation of 20,000 when I come here, has grown to 100,000—a gentleman by my fide sys 156,10 —rnow population is a godd criterion of proep ry In this consideration the prosperity of the National Uapitol is au ey- dence of the prceperity of the whole country. Mr. H. wentonto mention other ways in which this pro-perity is indicated, as in the completh n of the great work they were now celebrating; the Oapitol building and other works yrogretting cleadily towards compk- Uon Grepite the war—in fact, all along our str ete thee vids ncet of material prosperity were be ver sogTent a8 to-day; and this, he thoagbt, io | be cne of the most instractive lessons of the heur, indk ating the vitality of the nation, and that the Natiowa) Onpital, for the whole ooun- ty, is to he perpetuated here. If he had beon instrumental in siding in the work of improve- ment here, he covld only say be had done itin juctice 10 the good people here, and in eqnal justice to the people of the whole country. {Applavee.) Aud the prosperity of Washing- ton would in the future ve commemorate with ita loyalty. [Applause The sollewing letter State was read: DEY. RTM¥NT OF STATE, Washington, Dec. 5, leo3— Messrs. J. B. Turton, J. ¥. Brown, N. Sargent, NW. D. Larner, 1k. C. Wilson, and W. P. Ferguson—-Gentlemen: I regret that unavoid- able cares prevent an acceptance of your hos- pitable invitation forthe night. I believe that every generous epirit finds 4 melan-holy Ieaeorein stndying the monuments ard °x- Ln anit eee cUE Rome | ts te: how- every ih finitely Ibore satisfactory and perhape even incre ipstructive to observe the progress und witness the development of the capital of ® greatrepublic. The first sixty years of a city’s life is #0 ebort in relation to tts entire rericd of existence, that we practically asenme ‘bat Washington is jnet now entering upon its appointed career. Certainly strangers are suly jue. Low beginning to know that our «country basa capital. Contrasted with other «spiale, hew @uspicious is the beginning of Waurhiigton, ts founder was no obecure ad- Veutulerror ambitions and despotic prince; Lut the farher ct his country, and the repre- sentative man of his race. Its citizens are not crowded unbeaithily between narrow walls und upon un wholesome marshes; but they en- ity ® space rdequate to the utmost increase, .d this ¢pece is traversed by broad avenues ndtireeie, which are relieved b; parks and rerdens, that seem to by rural enjoyments Into the very center of metropolis. We Start, Mortover, not only with enough of air, but with @ mare of light that makes our ways jd as cheerful by night as by day, and fr AS pure as And more abundant than Rime ip her imperial daye drew forth trcm the fompiains of the Appenines. For internal trade we penetrate the continent over canals and iron roads, while foreign com- merce is brought by steam pavigation directl: to our wharves. Our political condition {s even more telicitous. Tustead of having to congner @ country for {he support of our capi- tal, 8eountry practically illimit jperous apd happy, ex:ends the mural crown and pours forth its treasures for the embellishment “bom the Secretary of j Of Wesbington. We have no tyrants to de- throne, no aristocrate to sup) to watch and fear, but the fallest perfection of political and social equality at which mankind ever aimed is bere happily and, as we truet, permBnently established. Free from the fear of toreign invasion, only a emgle cloud Carbs pe heprpepects of our conatry and ite Capital. is cloud, however, has already eiven sorth i's loudest thunders and its flercest bail, -1t js rolling off. Let not ite ehadows, therefore, disturb ‘the festivities eo worthily- gotten up in celebrution of the completion of & new moroment that must command the admi. TAtion of ages. Iam, gentlemen, your obsdient. servant, 114M H, Sawagp. The letter 9) Mr. Seward was received with bfeat applause. 3d. The Braailian Empire—may the steam- ferry soon be establie! between the outiets ' of Amevon and the wrens Uniting the great powers of Norih end of South America in friendly Union. Sencr Lisboa {the Brasilian Minister) said db responee to the toast that there wae certains Jy @ great community of in ts between the two countrirs—Brasil and the United States, The people of the United States could net breakiest Without she cuffvarer Dicail, alu HIS conntrymen conld not bi fast without the bread ot the United States. /[ Laughter and ap« jeuEee f Li He excused himself from prolonged remarks en Accountof the difficulty he experienced in expressing nimself adequately in an nofaril- liar language; and aftey an expression of thanks for the favorable tion of the Amuzonian navigatien, concluded by offering good wishes jor the prosperity of the people of Waehineton, 4th. The ccmplefion of the Potomac Water » NO slaves Works :—Ap impértent era in the onward pro- polis. of What is soon again . OC. Meiga, the first Engineer of the Potomgt Water Works :—To his skill, en- ergy and’ perseverance we are this day in- de bted for the blessings of an abundant supply of pure water, i. Silas Seymour, Engineer in charge of the Water Works :—Coronat Opus: his praise shall te ponred.jorsn throngh ® thousand ehan- nels while the water rung, Col. Seymovs; in reply, made @ humorous apolcey for substituting @ toast for a epeech. He-¥ ould give thém— = oThe Seceetary of the Interior, under whose dire: tion this day the water ofthe Potomac wap wA-eted sbrough.the Washingon Agneduct,” (Lavghter rnd applauee. Mr. Usher, tae a he conld claim no Be hag qeait in the maiter. simply performed |, je duty. wes isl Mayor Wallacherieing, sia, the afMidence of the Secret Dp’ duty. Secretary ne tuily Rppaiee Ls due the: ts ou him an agreeable » WAS tov modest to say of imegelf ‘deserves; butit isto erent that to him and his energy is tat whrt we bave so long loaked and hoped for haeBeen brought to a s 3 oc: omplishment Fiom this day f rth -t who drink good liquor will have good water £0 with it, aud those of us who drink water only will have ‘good water ‘forthat parpose. ‘The Army and (Laughter: yt a Na‘ A-neble Snimates: deeds of fk ei marries siory. + Honor to the Soldier aad satlore very~ where who braveiyte ara his country’s cause.” Muste—«Star Spangled Banner.” > . Responded tg by Gen. Martindale. He spoke containing a grenter \ ariety of interesting 1Bg than can be found in any other, te published on Friday. morning it invariably contains the « Weshingtea Rows” tha: bas made Tie Daily Beehing Mer circulate 80 generally throughomt the country, G7 Singic copies (in wrappers) cam be pro eared at the counter, immediately after tid'ig= 7 : Of the neceesity in. these times of ware and ctvil convuiefone that all should be obedient to the at the beim, and at night don't forget ‘to -thank God tbat we have an honest leader! rm) It wae d sight ta behold @ ne- fener ‘reemen fo submit cheerfally cette the people of the country. B: ly recognising necessity and a4 vi Premp ety.of such restrictions they made sory representatives of the city and. its worthy inhabitante. God grant tist through- outour whole lard there muy be thé same cognition of the necersitics of the times, and the le be willing to eyspend the exercies of ibe rent of pri e Jndgment, And fall iato the :anke in the way of obedience to orders as cheerfally as do the volunteers of cur Army -and Navy! [Chreers.} Sth. The City of Wastington—«" Magnificent distances” have been auiibilated by city ruil- reads, and magnificent structures now. adorn the eity bearing the aos: illustrious name on ike page of bistory.. Mussc—Washington's arch. a‘ é Gen. E. ©. Ca¥rington, District Attorney, replied, and in doing so gave an interesting bis‘ory of ihe law portion of the Aqueduct’s history, und the obstacles thrown in the way of the progress of the work through the claim upen Re Great Falls -water-power set up by tLe crazy visionary, Hall Neilson,:;whociaimea three millions of dollars to, compensate hira for the use of the water, and who thro! the ‘extraordinary v-rdict of a et gl jary ac- teally got the amount of €300,000 aw: him against ihe Government. The epenser, acting gs counsel for Govem- ment ir the case, got a new trial, and through an appéal to the egies and Perie spirit of the Jury in tebalf of the capital of the nation, succeeded in * fixing” one old man on it. who bung the jury, and thus Jung Mr. Hall Neilson. [Langhte 7), Mr. Carrington proceeded to pay an eloquent tribute to the putriotism of the people of Wasi- ington, as shown in the manner in which they rallied @round the Stars and Stripes whem treason raised its herd here, The Secretary of tLe Interior had to day epoken of the water as & dovation to the city Of Washington. Mayor Wellach, however, came to the zescme, and cluimed that it was ourdue. (Cheere.) It was cue ibat the nation at iurge should beautify and acorn the National Metropolis. Mr. Carrington enlarged apon the needs and r quirements of the capital city of the nation, and ib thie copnection urgedthe want of a new «barter. The city of Washington had been running rnder the old charter for a time beyond the memory of men, and & new one was imper- atively required. [Applause.) Ip conclusion, Mr ©. noted the fact that they had noticed to.day that the name of Jeff. Davis bad beer stricken from the inscription upon the greaterch at Cabin John. May the name of every traitor be similarly dishonored | [Ap- Tlaure.} He offered, in conclusion. a toasy complimentary to Gen, Meigs and to the city | of Washington. A sentin ent complimertary to Gen, Bonban, at one time in charge of the Aqneduc: work, brovght that officer to his feet, In the course cf his remarks he spoke of the ability, with which the work had been executed, aod sald Le could do ro disinterestedly, as, from soma vee, his own name had been stricken from the structure, $ Col. Seymour, 8! this point, rose amid mnoch lnughter, and said it was evident there were treitors in the camp, se the follc wing toast had been rent by a lady: “The Gentlemen of Washirgion.—May the water of the Potumac effectually quench their thirst.’ {Drank standing, wiih immence re- spect—sn champagne /) gh, The Prees—The great moral motive power of the world. May it ever be directed by wisdom, intelligence aud virtne, so that it may be a blessing and ray as P, esp y t aj, Ben Per! core. foresee dpiosky, Me Be in the Potomac a significant event.—We know our friends from our en¢miet: the one we welconie, the other we Tepel. {Music ] é lith. The Queen and the People of Engiana. Our hearse are warm to those whose hearts and cymperers are with us, (Musi:—«jod Save the Q pi ixth. Our Bieter Republic, Mexico.—She has our warmest sympathies in her hour of trial. May ehe come firth purified, renovated, and di-enthralied. [Music. 13th, The Union Men of the South ; to these we }Yeeent our hearte aud sympathics; to the Frkels, bullets and bayonets. Music:—“The Red, White and Blue. i4th, American Women ; while their domes. tevirtures entitle them to our love and re- spect, the ardent patriotiem they have shown, nd the nuwearied devotion they have ex- Libited toour suffering soldiers on the battle field, in the hospital and elsewhere, entitle th: m to onr highest admiration. Mayer Wallach here withdrew, and the head e janie vue taken by the Vice President, ofth Mr.N. Tne. = Volunteer toasts ‘Were thea pronounced. in fe order, and Mr.-N. D. Larner offered the fol- owing: The Supreme Court of she District of Colum. bee 3 cure. member ee our community, may it, as increases ears, increase ip favor with the people of the District, Judge Fisher, answering to the toast, made elogucn: allusion to events in connection with the outbreak of the rebellion and the rush of patriotic men in answer to the President's proclamation. His own little State, number- Ing less than 100,000 men, cent five regiments in tnewer to the call. She was the first to the Constitution of the country, and would the last toabandonit. (Applarse ] This, he caid, was our ¢ity—the city of the leyal people of America—an 5] wouldstand by it to the last. TApplause. i Mr. herd, of the Uity Councils, offereda tomet complimentary toNecre! Chase:—May gieenbackseverbe worth more’ ereybacks! (Spree and i hter.} iderman J.¥. Brows gave @ tomat to the city of Wachington, and in recognition of ite remarkeble prosperity. # : Mr. Cazrington, in some remarks apropos ta the toast, eluimed for Washington (in reference to alineions made by speakers during the day 88 to the loyalty of Washington) that, judging & tree by its iruite. Washington was not be- hind any city im the country in Tegard to triotism. The District has raised more soldiers bys ey oe State in proportion to popalation, plause. ” Larner proposed the health o® Dr. 0. Ri Nichole, which was drank, and thet gentleman, after acknowledging the compliment, paid a warm tribute to the non-commiss:oned officers and privates of the volunteers, who had come Hone, many of them Deviog left their occupa- pont Many, of Wer having beer engaged tp strove todo their duty fearlessly. . Thoee who bad been under treatment atthe hospital where he is stationed had always exhibited patience to & rare degree, ond their deeire to return to duty ehcwed. that bow f were men of which any country might well be preud- In concinsion, he proposed, “The wonscom misaioned officers and privates of the volunteer army,” which was drank with enthusiiem. Mr. Sargent, replying-ta the thast’ complt- mentory to Secretary Bate, BRid ‘shat peace bas its victories gs well 88 War. Mr. Chase bad triumphantly sustained the finances ofthe country, commencing at time! whens our credit -was low and our finances exhaust- ed. “With patriotic pride in ‘view ef the " of the Londen, Times @t auPfinancial condition, Secretery Chace revolved that he-would asic no savors of ae foreign power. He.had euc- ceeded in hrivging.erder ont of chaon, and as a- bnancier had no pecr save Alexander Hamil. ton. ma Mr. J. F. Brows offered 's toast to the néw Cohgrese, and im the si AO ea made some for ible rewisrke, urging. the justice of granting the prayer of the city for a.new char- ter, We ere now, with a population of 130,000; working under ach only for pdpulation of 20,000. “Give ns;"at feast,’ the seme Fights, pri and‘ es given 7 ther cities of ihe " Mr Larish Biepecsetee a ware aides ni “ond cali? me dwelt wish no }i which een for a cc pt distan: "SEM Marie; ihs duncenee, died wt Ator- andrie, Va., on Friday lest” [ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATOHES) FRUM NEW ORLEARs,. riftient Success of Unton Cavalry in Fy td eCaptares of Priseners, ‘Arms, Herses, —Gaerritia Werk on the Missiasippi—Porticulars of the Firing inte the Steamer Black Haws ie hw Xorg, Dec. 6—The steamer Eve: ad Mav arivea pag NS ati the 28 ok, vie Havana on ir is' Among passengers are Gen. Var Dever, Col. Slack, Maj; Vedder, and Maj. A-gus. She Jeesec He Cahawbs.a,d the \azoo, bound ap the Mississippi. = . On the 25th Gen. Lee, with 800 Federal ¢av- alry and a section of artillery, attacked the 4th Tezae.and 2d Louisiana revel cavalry, and drove them from Camp Pratt to within four milee of Vermillion you, Here the 2d and 3d THinols ma @ gallant sabre charge and broke the enemy’s ranks, captering one com- mi-sioned officerand sixty-nine privates, most- ly from the 4th Texas, with ir arms and borees. Eight rebels were killed aud a large number wounded, Two dtye previously Gen. Lee surpriced a camp of rebels twenty miles from New Ibéria, capturing cix officers and thirty: five men, with @ large number of hor-es and mules belon; tothe let Lovictana Mounted Zouaves. rebels were killea. We tet no loss. ‘Thcre is vo news from Texas. vo eveamer Oolumbia had strived from New ork. The Razle, from St. Louis, was fired into @boye Bayou Sara on the 26th, and rec-ived abont forty balls. A negro cook wis Killed. No one else was hurt. There was no injury of consequence to the boat. ‘he eteamer Black Hawk was fired into near the mouth of the Red river, on the Zist alt, by six or seven rebel cannon, from the weet ban’ of ihe Miesiesippi. She took fire and ran to the opposite side of the river, where the flames were extinguished by thecrew. The gunboat Choctaw soon after arrived; the boat was eaved, and the heavy gune of the Choctaw pdt the rebelsito flight. Twopersons were killed on the Black Hawk, two wonnded, and the boat badly damaged. She had, hows ver, reached New Orleags under escort of come of our gunboats. ‘wo FROM EUROPE. Bar! Russell has not Resigned. St. Jonn’s N. ¥., Dec. 5.—The steamship Columbia, from Galway on the 25th, arrived this evening with dates two days iater. The steamship Canada had arrived out. The question of a Europein Congress re- yasined unchanged. The Alexandra case fs still progressing. The London Morning Post says there 1 no truih whatever in the reported resignation of Earl Ruseell as Minister of Foreign Affairs. It is reported at Madrid thattwo American | ships, with arms for the St. Domineo inear- ; Bente, had been destroyed by a Spanish yeas} off that island. The German Polish questions had@ a threat- ening look. The Poiieh insurgents continued to be very Sctive in their eflorts for independence, The London Morning Postcays Englaad will not give her adherence to an European Con- grees. There was an upward tendency in the cotton market, with sal-s on the day of the departare of the Columbis of 60,000 bales. Breadstufie firmer. Provisions quiet. Gonsole for money $24 A92%. The London Morning Post says there is no- truth whétever in the reported resignation of Earl Koesell. The same journal announces that the English Government is about (with Tig Bt) to decline giving adherenee to the Furo- pean ( ogress. The purpose of the Emperor is regarded with somuraiioss but the means are not considered eBectual, FROM ARKANSAS Development ef U of a Member ef hansasto bea Free State. Wxupuis, Dec. 3—The Little Ro-k Demo- erat of the 2ith ult. snys a successful scout, under Col. Culdwell, into the mountain coan- ties westof Arkadelphia, has returned. Sev- +rn) hundred Union men came into our lines with Culdwell, A large Union meeting was held at Little Rock on the 21st ult., the Union men all work- ing bard for restoration of rights under the old Government, and the people from the coun are caily coming in and taking the oath of ih Jeziance ard enrolling themselves into com- e 8 for home defence. Recruiting for the Birved States service is also quite active. Various parties in the State—Unoconditionad t hinged bl haere twenty counties in Western Arkareas, held a convention at Fort Smuk, Arkansas, on the 30th ult, at which patriotic eperehes ‘were made and resolutions asred. Col. Johnstop, of the ist Arkansas infantry, was nominated to represent that dis- jongress. The trict in the next ‘Federal 0. eles. ton. Oceurred 02 the 23d of November, and Col. Johnston was elected. The convention also voted that Arkansas be declared a free State after the war. Owing to numerous guerrilla attacks on steaers, Adjutant General Thomas ‘has is- Sued orders to furnish all boats in the Gov- ernment employ, plying on the rivers, with urms and ammunition to protect themselves. SteamDoat Burnt. Naw York, Dec. 6.—The steamer Isase New- ton was burned Inet night. She was valued nt 250,00, and was folly inebred. The sire was cauted by the bursting of one of her flues. No lives lost. 2 202 THK WAR IN EAST TENNESSEE! Further of the Confederate Attack en Fert: Sanders-Repulse of the Assailants with Fearfel Slaughter. The Knoxville correspondent of she Cincin- nat! Gazette im the following dispatch gives tome further particular of Longstreét's attack on Fort Saunders, of which the telegraph bas hitherto made brief mention : KxoxviLz, Nov. 20.—The great rebel blow anxiously Shucwmated aolong, was strack this morning. Reinforcea by the of Sam, Jones, Jackson’ and ‘illiams, Lonpstreet sought to annihilate the army of the Ohio by one blow: for which purpose he selected seven Picked regiments. Ski ishing commenced last night at ten, and continued sharply until near daylight, on our | lert front, before Fort Saan- Say We TH New “York, Benjoma inns a 08. artiilery and Buckley's R. I. betters. -Our pickets were driven in, and the enemy pos- setced themscives of some rifte-pits, but the Macrachusetts boye drove them back, Sad- denly the rebel storming party, led by the i¢ih and 17th Georgia and 13th Mississippi, under cover of our retreating men, came tothe as- sauit,and approached to within 100 yards of the tort unharmed. Then ensued a scene of desperate daring, stubborn resistance, death, carnage and horror, scarcely onnaled. during the war. These men, veierans of the Potomac and the flower of Longstreet’s army, confident of the promied victory, plunged into a hailing hel of jead. Wires had been stretched from stump to sicmp, in front of the works.by Oap- tain Poe. Over these the advancing enemy fell in hesps with the Killed and wounded aronnd them. Our artillery-men buried shell by band torward upon the fallen aad doomed. tena botter came the storm of shells.-The ground over which they passed was carpeted with the sisin, The ditch was tilled wi b the d: ad, wourdedand dying. Not oneon their side feltered; not @ score of the gallant stormcrs escaped. The sun rising looked down through the cold mist and ¢ha:! of that November morn. ing, Dpon the remains of anarmy. One thons- and killed apd wounded and prisoners, wag. the.costof the aasaultof Fort Saunders, No- bly fies it custaineéd the reputation of its name. eake. fearfully revenging his fall, + Amorg tho killed were Col. Girard of the ‘Tbirteenth Mieeis-ipni, and Lieut ol. O"Bricn, the Lrother of Mrs, Brownslow, isa prizouer-.. ur Joss will not rach 80, all ~ Over 50 of thix covsitts cf the members of the @7th erated) ‘who were captured: othe evath of river. 3 > Re - Whetber Lonzstreet is. satisfied e im-. pregnabiliy of Knoxville, sete wie arnne his kext ‘movement will be may “U6 predicted idence. Besides the have thrce: battle flags, one “prisoners. wa of which wae ooo : 87° A man in Barnstable, Mass, did Tait Week of jing at the nose. " ¥ a? ‘French, of Weeuntastr, E has been made. Of Debiiso2 12