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——— —— “AFFAIRS IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL, | precedent, the business of the Land Convention of the Teachers of the Deaf — by Mesers. Woodruff, Officer and Brown the papet r messengers, and Dumb, ‘ was adopted. The on the Importance of Our Washington Correspondence. | Yiven here will become as complicated and nth: | "With this example belore thew, nevfeaume the | bouk sides of the halle sanong fieees franca’ | ‘This convention assembled on Thursday mora- higher standard, of edu Mevers, Bre deaf ‘and Wasninoron, August 28, 1850. cate as the land titles in California and other ter- | House will the suggestion ‘of arresting Fa- fight, and two pictures representing different scenes | ing, about nine o'clock, at the chapel of the Insti- Officer, and Turner made some observations on thio (Mr. McKennan’s Resignation—Supposed Cause— | Poca The traces to elses. 8 aue 90 nestly and | ther ery ae vis fe very ely they will yet see | in a fox = Chamen! pastime in the Old Do- | tution of the Deaf and Dumb; and, in accordance point, at the sonelusion of which the Paper was Who fillshas Place ?— Who owght to?—E-xecutive | Paty y ty aes ‘settle and fine fnspection before the bat of the Linas eee theblack and dingy key of the Basile ep with a motion passed at the previous meeting, the 4 Sroxx offered a resolution, th: Sessions— What Congress has done to-day—Mr. | them satisfactorily. What the verdict of the court tthe expiration of the morning hour Father | case, nailed up against the wall on the south side. | Proceedings commenced with the exposition of @ oninion of this convention, in consideranen oy - Ogden's Promotion—Quick Telegraph Despatch. | is, 1 know not; but the very trial will advance the | Ritchie was laid aside, and the Senate took up the | This relic of that awful dungeon was presented to | portion of Scripture, and a prayer, read in the lan- ¢ difliculties attending the education of the President Fillmore reeeived to-day, the resigua- | defendant, and poopy ety mee ts wom | Teas heen ee ‘ek ta tecr. Mr: | Ronee aera. Glee tat, an en, | guage of signs. | deaf and dumb and the state of profound ignorance tion of Mr. McKennan as Secretary of the Inte- | Chief Justice Butterfield must have a reporter for | Clark is a,short, thick set good it orey took. oy, Baris hundreds of them tearing’ the ‘Beale inge | 12 sdditin to the number of delegates present at Wicsed ‘ortho enorer, 0b tutertver eaten rior, It is rumored that the resignation contains | his court, and I mean coupe We the place at once. | rosy-faced, elderly gentleman, with a venerable | fragments. The rooms of the building are gene- | the first day’s proceedings of the convention, we Which pupils are maintained in our institutions, no flattering tribute to the condition of affairs in Gov. Young is here, wor! for aaa grey Pas and he Biieatly crown of old age on the mire sragp the coftingn tow, tw — p. an Cis y tee mention the following gentlemen:—Dr. F. oo be very matertlly extended, which wag the whole Department of the Interior, as left by : “He i a r e je orname: . » Superintendent of the Public Schools in , c#rried. his aa oer: There was a sort of free soil Wasutnarow, August 30, 1850. fis pine here the ir ought gree Seeeiate tenets ree ry. a New Jersey; Messrs. F. A. Spofford and E. B. | dene rence tha alneregiace ate Ct here pervading the bureaus of the depart- | The Fuctionssts of the Howse— What they are after ‘ould take him to be a frank, sociable, | ous, with a lofty vaulted ceiling, and commands a | Peet, of the New York Institution; Rev. C. Stone, vention during the afternoon, it was moved and See sci most of the principal officers therein, | and what they are doing—Clark’s mischievous | £°%%> ceeeen Pisin Cid, fashioned codger, | fine opening to the north through ® spacious win- | from the American Asylum ferfthe Deaf aud Dumb, | that the rules of business be laid on the ta hich was not congenial to the high-toned notions | Speech—Futher Ritchie's. Case—The Senate’s | night’s trot, fr igen Pt tena tb. the Wada dow. An immense old fashioned bureau, or book Hartford, Conn.; and Mr. H. Hirzel, Principal of | ble for the present, in order that subjects of greater whic! g = | ‘4 . ; ats reat; au . | case, stands in one corner. Against the walls are . st ” interest may come up first for discussion. and liberal whig principles of Mr. MeKennan. Be- | Course—The New Cabinet Appointee—Gen. John | This opinion Was strengthened by his speech. He | several engravings, onda large painting of a fa- | the Asylum for the Blind, at e, Switzer- On the subject of a periodical, Mr. Srong read sides, the appeals which were constantly made to L. Taylor’s Nomination for Re-election—The ke of the indemnity to Texas asa robbery of land. i 7 r 4 mily group, life- size, of the mother and children of - the following resolutions, as drawn up by the spe- him,” during the few days he remained at the | Great Mail Robber in the Weat—Commussioner | to war witk sone terse He aoe aE Rung | the ent Aor, that gentleman himself ap- | 40" ie Somcailents the Hey. areas | cial committee — wat as A head of the department, to reverse improper deci- | Ewbank, c. he did not care so much about the cake, but he | &‘fine looking boy of fifteen, ‘The mantel pincety | elected to uct in his | place until his arrival. Busi- fa capetionh toeottin es pecteaioc oe Seperate sions, and fulfil untold promises made by Mr. | The action of the House of Representatives to- fad tie may in igh y= ag apr ge a chef d’oevre. It was a present from Italy to Sane! commenced wit ay reading of the minutes the Interests of our ipo vd ie a pati i * u ithstanding the strong tincture o! “1 meet which were some a Periodical shall e American Ewing, were enough to wear out the patience of | day, on the Texas boundary bill and the slavery’ | free ‘suil with which the speech a i seasoned, Wee cp alge et soe Se sexe Sheteelione in per Mobo ‘othe ender’ oF finan Annals of the Deaf and Dum "adopting the name any man. The fact is, Mr. McKennansoon found | question, was in perfect consonance with its | there was a vein of fun, and a string of jokes run- ‘ q ‘The reports from committees being now in order, | %#¢, price, time of issuing, and thet the post bad no charms for an unambitious | action yesterday. Never has the Union appeared | ping through it, which kept the House in flow of = | omer erry Hee eR KY | Dr. Harvey P. Peet, as ehairman of the Committee | $b¢,publication of that name recently lerued at Hart ie | s f, » 5 6 by being considered as # contiauation of . man. Therefore, he gave it up. tobe in such peril as now. The House could | /2¥ghter all the way, and lett them in avery atmia- | its face. In the centre is re sented a group of a | 00 Business, submitted the following re; to jommenced. and unasp = pale a eee rsh te 2: | have acted at once on the adjustment bills from ble disposition. Master Brooks came in for a good | milk maid, bearing upon heh eat a gavtakin full | 1. Anarticle on significant action im the pulpit. ‘ical shall partake of a scientific Who wil PP Post | ad) shere of the criticism of ‘his colleague ; but it was of milk, a cow is at her side, and aclosely collect- | _2- Some considerations, why deaf-mutes are not character, embracing the widest remains tobe seen. He should be a men from the | the Senate,—and the belief is general thateach one | in that jocular vein which expends itself in a ed flock of sheep in front, with a shepherd in the | More subject to insanity than the blind. range of subjects connected with the education of the South, so a8 to balance the members of the ad- | of them could have been passed. But this was | hearty laugh instead of a race from the constables ‘ ground. is leadi il 3. Plan for a syllabic manual alphabet. and dumb, and articles of # narrative or imagina- ministration equally between the two great sec- | not what the disunionists a fire-eaters wanted, | VS" the fields of Bladensburg. ppt ae the Tights attended pees ae 4. Deaf-mute instruction. é Rive cash ach o¢ wil be intasneting 00 educated’ Goat tions of the country. As to progress in business, there was none. P| boy, after a good day’s work, is unhitching his} _ 5. Moral state of the deaf and dumb previous to issued in the city of ‘The best arrangement that could be made, and | They desired that action might be further delayed, | House appears to have fallen back like plow, which is turned over in the | ducation, and the result of religious influence aw. ‘ - ¥ the charge of an editor appointed by the one that would give the greatest amount of | even though Congress had already delayed it for | Weight upon the old horse-mili tramp of hes | furrow—to the left is represented irl at | @mongthem. x The'New Verk Tustivusion til the next meeting of the patisfaction, wou Id be for Mr. G yraham to be trane- | eight months. They wished to have time to still by the hones $0 BM ge 24 im ja the well, pouring out a Recker of wider tae anos Sp for pis herp pe invtruetors ot he deat and dumb, ov ola at t rtment of the or, bl : “ ; -day. AA gon " ‘ a shat Butler cing cog pe paypal ona | further rouse up their constituents at home to | some difficulty about the Poundary of Texas, and pap Tas in cnn tee foe 2. Resolution relative to the introduction of a suderintead the printing and pul of the paper, 5 Ni Department. Then all things would | ®trike for disunion. They yearned to get the | about the money, and itis possible the House may iate all this. manual alphabet into the common schools. his office as editor shall be simply to deeide upon the an snvoothly and well, both as it renards the | Northern free-soil_ members furious for the ap- | Yet be driven to the appointment of commissioners may at adjoining these, are | |, 3. Information by the principals of the institu- | jiterary merits of the articles for the work, Whig sdmnietration and the Wile panies ss lati tion, of the Wilmot attachment to the Terri- ni, Fan SHR erations’ of the Ties and the iadeee- eB cor eis of the delice ch pinealies Hn vale ere Anal ae, Gontained’ in the | gigaattree, for the sentiments they contain °™ and to-day, but no important heads were struck off, | torthe aaa things they desired and panted for ‘he Senate to-day have ordered to a third read- Sicoss of in 9) France; ‘and a faded p inting | Deafand Dumb, and Blind. Many confirmations of second and third class ap- | have been, yesterday and to-day, conceded, grant. | 28,the bill grunting 500,000 acres of land to the | of some colonial landing scene, sits upon the man- | __4. Resolution relative to the establishment of a [a isang took pla at took among them that of Mr. | ed, voted to them, by Northern members of the State).of Mie! , to aid in the construction of a telpiece. Against the back wall of the fireplace Lae srspeent rop, Oo} is N Agent. In Ty- | veld ship canal around the Sault Ste. Marie, a fall ef 21 lief, ii ‘i ¢ anonymous communication, the subject of ler times he wee the Coll tor of Buffato, a shrewd, | Falmere's: aittemsiee Meee Fei in ine Bima onan “g ting Lake Sc et “a gifin upon a ‘veal coronety whieh rests ojo t pee, “ay ieee lnstruetiog,” pon eieea aad thould exeeed two hr a dollars per annum, the ox: q | i k uron. nt cuts off the navi- iti Ww. eet. Caine Senite, today, hai under consideration the | MEB,WHO, have, by their votes, done so much | gation with Lake Superior; and the canal,intended | OMA,WiA she mitialsof GW. by | ‘The Hon. Jauzp W. Brxxaan moved that | cose shall go to detray the expenses of the pul bill from the House, granting bounty land to all the | ‘Texas bill amended, they will vote for if as ‘@ | (20PEM the steamboat trade between Butfalo and | ¢he family, is closed ageimst. the putlicn Hot the | this communication, as it was presented with- | ‘These, resolutions were read and passed sepa- s ce i ion. ) . a 4 cial ‘ions. mi . He ji i t jotion Was secon: carried. , t 0 u Hiltiand pe ie loge eee ‘motion, andia | ig 5 is sag = yan! ots hs tage fo Maxwell and Ewbank go over to next week, but aay Poem Sega ght mye per rageeman Professor J. A. Cany then read an able article | resumed in a spirit of compromise; and, in Giaoe of favor of doing something to preserve the Union. | on that kied teen pursuit’ of. their. darling Ses hare Sate roee a ae of the rapid descent of the wooded hill-side, against upon the en fest econ ben an pagal ie eae Me apowing An ‘when fred ah hates | EAESY tg tn, Bae ence, ure beaks | he's Seger ie ue and ee lr cal ely | Temaoeseamanonk te wtheke melt oe | Abb pores avenge yk Sage, | "Rea Bat Met acnts pyeat the ee against rejecting it. A pretty tall show of opposi- | pat by the Southern di verre td hip vetaa | such a tight rein over the department of the In- | well are caving in, and the summer-house over it | lity, was the acquisition of language. Professor | %s.zropened pertodioal. | 4 inted, eonsist- i Ma inad’s tection, 3 | put by the Southern disunionists. Every day they | terior in its judicial affairs, that it is found to be | } i . H C. W. Monzis also read a long and interesting ar- 4 pone 4 ceomggrst] tion to Mr. Ing in. i" 0 on as they are going, they are but adding stren au ; is gray with age. A hundred yards to the right, in | © ‘ ing of one delegate from each institution, to act asm Mr. Linn Boyd moved a compromise amendment | £9 the trai Heauee of che disunionien Bee g | exceedingly difficult to get 'a man to go into the 3 coll field, whieh wea planted this year im broom | ticle, giving some considerations why the deaf | committee of. , and as the authoritative to the bill, by proposing to tack on to it the two | ip 1 ¥ aap oe e disunionist ut @| said department. This, however, we suppose to | Corn, and amidst of old oaks and decay- | mutes are not more subject to insanity than the | representative afta courealion when not in session. territorial bille'for New Mexico and Utah. Bat | Hive ote Will tirtke the anions Unk when the dis- | be gammon, as Mr. Webster is certainly compe- ing cedars, is the origin! tomb of Washington.— | blind, After some remarks of a statistical nature, Brhat an executive committee of three persons be before uny test upon this novel proposition could be | be ecayr strike I e mighty blow of secession | tent to understand the limitation of the powers and | Here, too, the walls are caving in, and with the | Made upon this subject by Dr. Peet, Messrs. Pet- spectatol, fe whom such matters as may be required had, an adjournment wes moved and carried. Impossible” Blood will flow ta torreon Then is | functions of his office. And we suppose that Mr.’| failof 1 corner of the arch, a cedaz lies. prosrate, | tingill, Morris, Cary, Henty and Turner, Mr. Bant- | shall be referred by tho editor, yom the kigi tanks waar teeapier toa evekes Wea ae my A - = Bsa omen rhe it) McKennan went home simply because his Depart- | half cut in two, the negro, perhaps, having suddenly | “21 moved, that, as it was a point of great import- oer} h portation a he Sous in to-day, it is inferred that the adjustment bills | GY thisday to make amends lor ther present nage | MEMt could not pay for a two years’ term—the | thought of something slse before the jobof remor, | &2Ce, the question be referred to the consideration | ¢hATE imesting of the next convention ‘of will speedily pass that body, without any material geeds and suicidal course of action. spoils being appropriated by Mr. Ewing, who, in | ing it out of the way was completed. A hundred | °f 2 special committee, which motion was adopted. | torg of the deaf and dumb, snd that it be issued in the ion. f 4 : ineie | OiNS Out, is kith and kin at least comforta- | y, Dr. Per moved that the resolution on the sub- | place where the editor slMtr Ogden, Auditor of the New Yark Custom. | 4,Noprevious Foran Sgt gga pdr Fiy'tread and buttered, like « good Christian and a | 7&8 6" 80; rough the iron grates the sarcophage | Jectof the census be considered, which was then | shat thecxecuveromantie, under the editor, house, is here; and, ttmor supa, is to be appoinced, | Het pome ot C m hae Hote, ot Will do, the | oetriot. of W eablanten Gun lis cout ate coun Ang Teed by the President. tender such aid, counsel and advice as he may require; by Governor Corwin, Assistant Secretary of the ischief that the speech of Mr. Charles E. I = ide. To the right, enclosed by an iron raili Mr. Cary made some remarks in reference to | and that they be empowered to elect an editor to per- Be » Ass y of New York, delivered this day in the House, wil Wasmixotox, Aug. 27, 1850. h 4 oe bell er a k os a wh the the imperfections of the census,which were con- | form hisoffice till the mext meeting of the convention, eo y- th j in which do. _It delighted the Northern abolitianists, and Trip to Mount Ve ani poe wr fir ie be nere rey Wash. firmed by Mr. Brown. in case of the death of the editor elected by the con- ; See "4 me ae in bai nn uoreens | the Southern disunionists. The orator’s homely ip to Mount Vernon. Peerecag hd! TB. scone ee ran — : ash- The resolution was then carried. Another re- | Yention, or im case of his resigning the office. in : - ington an s ae orl as ce oe Hake | illustrations, and grotesque appearance, kept the ace “ What, that hallowed name . an ves e = o ghee 257 h the present |. jution upon this subject was also ¥ After the passage of these resolutions, it was — a " M lemons yorertsys at e ae | House ina good humor; but the sentiments the ; ‘hie! Kobra ad ae ae we nope the same cretary of War. enn ‘ush lie in the im- A plan fer a syllabic manual alpaabet by Mr. moved that the convention proceed to elect the & le of t A ethene _— AK . city. i. oe short, equare-built old gentleman uttered, and the | Fer outworn Europe: With t podiriar Imp a mediate yenty of the tomb, the remains of trees | ,o Ren at then reed. ’ editor by ballot, and the editorship was eonferred bessmont as e me » Bain § Co. ave = q agai doctrines he avowed, caused the abolitionists and | the prophets of young Freedom povchrsads y and shrul na cut Sawa, giving even to Sg Dr. Peet moved that this subject be referred to | upon Mr. L. Ray, Conn. ss seat wtheome friends at thepublietuble, hewrote | dsunionists to rejoice—no doubt with Satan him- | From climes of Washington aud Bolivar.” Rs megrocied sad westetal appearance. THOct- | ', o51ce ocmuntiiee, 00 be appointed by the chair, As the general committee, the chair selected the cae cand « mcomage to's friend in New York, and | Sclt;im the immest recemes of their not altogether | 10 oo ese believer in the Prophet | Chater te hs esa, saicising, and cove Tgeacral |, The gentlemen ‘composing the committee were | Superintendents of each institution, and for, the rene ul le Incumbent im the fe ‘3. je handed it to.a waiter. In lees than fifteen minutes, | “Corsenial souls. tars P ’ Dr. Peet, Professors Bartlet and Cary, and Mr. | ¢X€cutive committee, were selec! ” i an irre. |. We are all at sea again, in regard to the settle- | to make at least one pilgrimage in his life-time to | ™onotony and decay, by the bountiful crop of fruit | 5 ner. Peet, and Brown. before he and his triends had half finished their re- ‘ 30d pte with which the trees were loaded. pe 4 dings of t it, a reply from the gentleman r raphed in | wasn, eect ee ee lameenee the tomb of tne founder of his religion. The bones While it cannot be denied that the first impres- A metion was then made, that Mr. Barnet’s re- | | Mr. Brows moved that the proceedings of this i 7 vention be published in an extra number of the ew \ork wns received, and read at the table, @e- "During the morning hour in the House to-day, | Which whiten the desolate sands of the surround- | sion of the visiter to Mount Vernon, is the aspect | ™#tks be enrolled in the minutes of the conven- | Com . 6 i annals, which motion was adopted. companied with several quiet bravos for Bu the subject of bringing Father Ritehie, of the | ing deserts mark the routes to Mecea, and confirm | all over it of neglect and decay, he ‘cannot fuil to | tom. It was now moved thacthe convention take a | SUTt Spe mon Ce Morgan, offered the elegrayh line. Union, before the bar of the House, and compel- | the Mahometan’s devotion to his faith. If the Temark in all the arrangements of the build ngs, when tease iatigaciemied won following resolution Bic IE “ ¢ -, y e i lb P = 0 ne garden, ra’ ay to the . - 5 0 re Wasinvatos, August 23, 1850. | ling him, to give up the names of his gorrespond: | false creed of un impostor has conquered the East, | statics, the ruins of the brick wall: crevow the | , A. communication from Me. Wetmore was read Py hated To pontmerhacbenryre wb ual report of the instituts onvention, the ' Political, Pers , together with the Lina Boyd, the ol has undertaken the to nal, and Local Affairs. fused before Mr. Stanley's Investigating Commit- | and holds it in subjection, and its believers to a | lawn, and in ell the details of the homestead, the | PY the President, and the invitation it contained | the proceedings of t af wee m . Ee and 's : f unanimously accepted. r rs read before the convention. member of th grees tee, was discussed by Mr. Mead pire yeni ag fidelity fearless of death, why should we wonder Seas sachet, celveretinkee Dr. Peer then read some resolutions from the | ? his resolution was unanimously adopted. k of putting the d edof. The preivowe quest atthe expansion of the great truths of civil and | chara, s Committee on Business, which were laid upon the || Mr. M i ing fe 5 = t dthe di ti blishi t of Wash- e8, W ’ iP ir. Mornis then submitted the following for cated fregments of the old omnibus t oe ar esi. ie meres canes hae moves religious liberty, established by Washington and ington mncmnE teow Cm gs ai table, to be taken up for discussion at the proper | consideration -— order to shove the whe #8 through in @ | ond then the matter will be disposed of—no doubt | his compeers, under the guidance of the Ruler he view from the mansion of the broad Poto- | "INT: 5, ww offered a resolution she ee a ert onme é . ing F shis’s ¥ 7 mac, here a mile wide, of Fort Washington, and ~ = ago ee taatenenen, yy A, mad lump. Before this reech telegraph will | by approving Father Ritchie's very proper course | Supreme? When we meet at the tomb of “ Pater the surrounding hills of Maryland and Virginia, ig | 4 2bat on the demand of delegates from two institu- | tions of the country, witheut any means for their im- probably have told the story of the success or bal sy today bidding him go forth at his pleasure. rally, im ” j 7 r . tions, te shail be taken by institutions, each bei provement, either physically, mentally, or te spent some time in consideriag the | Petrie,” the disciples and teachers of liberty from | fine. | ‘The eummit level of the hill being a hundred | entitied to one vote and an additional vote from every Consequence of mental inoepecity, bel failure of the scheme land bounty bill from the House to-day, and then | all quarters of the round earth, we can recogaise in presto gud p som _ yi! commands a fine pros- teenty papil attending the some, i a deep amleoe at n, oe crip is rising Holders not willing tc vent tiv ion— cl ch pileri ine i pee! a and down the stream. fhe resolution was adopted, after some discus- ely and abuse, Ani er heer “alg Face 8 a adie sheep 5 Fa ‘after which, that body such pilgrims to such a shrine * the diffusion of the But enovgh for the present of lame description. | sion. ; sen Whereas, they must remain in that condition, unless ” The heads of Maxwell, Lewis and Ewbank are | *Ublime principles of self-gcvernment, which, in | We can perhaps account for. the tumble-down ap- | "The following resolutions were then submitted | the tortering care of the Legislature is extended to sell. Good sign. The fact is, Texas want the disputed teriitory,and has im ai on, end wilh-ee a e d d he di f thi M vi Th ’ soavention :: their relief, no effort having as yet been successtul ia ym, n , until Monda next, atall jue season, are destined to sweep even the deep- | pearance o! J hings at cunt Vernon. e constant | to the consideration of the convention :— for the ten milliovs. 7 moaey will events. ‘The nomination of the pre Mor at Har- | rooted fenaticiem ef the Moslem from the minarets | ®ream of visiters is, necessarily, a source of coa- Rerolved, That. as the cause of deaf mute instruc- a although Saeoeis taanie cperation in Bae ceptable, and she will not gtumble if you take | risburg, Penn., was confirmed. of Stamboul wad the deserts of Arabia. stant annoyance to the noe and must continue | tion would be very greatly promoted by having a pee | POM UiQBr OGY St" twenty or thirty thousand square miles more of |, The President hus tendered the office of the Se- | As the believer in Mahomet leaves the tomb of | to be. Col. Washington would readily dispose of | fodical speetally devote oo ne coe ee ee solved, That a committee be appointed in eaclt ey Ses erty _ cretary of the Departinent of the Interior to the | his Prophet with a deeper coaviction of the divi- | the estate to the government. It has been reduced, control Gad tabulenenioy crak Whe Sarasa for the | State represented in this convention, to meso. her frontier desert t Hon. Mr. Jenkine, of Augusta, Georgia, an emi- | nity of his faith, ¢o the believer in man’s capacity | PY division, from its original 7,500 acres, with ag | Gopirel and managem ps" the atures of their respective Btates to oxta She is not quite so gre lendid | nent lawyer, @ distinguished citizes, an upright | for self-government, and in the beauty, glory, | Much more adjoining, to about 1,200 acres; and | “Resolved, That a special committes, composed of | 2” **ylum for the education of idiots, perhaps $100,000 would buy it. Ge ticadle. ernment ought | one from offer of Mr. P 1 you | Mum, a perfect gentleman, and a sterling whig of | prosperity, and beneticence of this Unien of ours, h institution represented in this conven- ree’s c a se | It was moved that this resolution be laid over 7 the Union stripe. He was warmly recommended | leaves the tomb of Washington, with his patrioy. | t© take possession. It can only he an incumbrance | tion, be appointed to consider the expediency of estab- . we 7 a say? Take the cot to President Fillmore by the whigs in ‘Congress | ism a1 his "ah, revived “and il} - nated—his | © ®family; and goverument alone can afford to | Ushing such m periodical und to consider the best ee ee ene t the money from Georgia. Mr. Jenkins, some yearssince, was | heart expanded, his prejudices dissipated, and his | Préserve the property from total ruin. We do not | of our effecting this object Mr. Barrier presented the following resolution: Mr. Fillinore is drumr the Speaker of the popular branch of the Georgia | purposes re-established to labor to preserve the | 80 much blame Mr Washington for negiecting the | These resolutions were also seconded and be i A EL Finvestion of th — Legislature, and mode a very efficient, firm and | grand fabric of a fr n empire, which it is our | Preservation of his property, when the incessant ee. : , Structors of the deaf and dumb, the members ef this D e partir ‘ 7 at Wi P| — ” olat — “J Home Departinent popular presiding officer he accepts the de- | blesced privilege to inhat to posse visits of the public render it almost valueless. r. Orricer then offered a resolution Gonuention hase douh canes teh seinen congratule- patronege has an up-h partment now tendered to him, he will, in the esti- | Fi foundation of the government down to | Government ought to buy the estate. The land | That it is inexpedient to receive deaf and dum> ‘ouragemt for the future, it is desi- of Virginia; mation of those who know him well, make a splen- | he only available approach te Mount | Could be devoted to the support of the widows and | children, as pupils. into our tustitutions, exsept in spe. tion of this body should take pixce heed: ef es did cabinet intalater. | Vemer m Washington city, has been by the | Orphans of Revolutionary soldiers, and the house | *ia! eases, afer Fs heptane Mace typed mee ally, at some convenient tuue and place, to be de- us % s ¢ : . - i opinion, twelve would bo a more suitable age for ad- The Hon. Joba 1.. Taylor, of the Chilicothe dis- | high road, over the rorgh hills, from Alexandria. | it#e!f could be given into the custody of a corps of | Dirsion, unless it would interfere with the ieagth of | *§nated by the general committec. trict, Ohie, has received the nomination of the whig | They who have tried the experiment of hiring a | invalids from the wars. What a delightful retreat | time spent in school, eT his measure was adopted. n of his district for re-election. He is a | hack, in Weshington, for the journey to Mount | for our invalid soldiers! This resolution opened a wide field for discus- Mr. Tuaxer then offered the following res olu- seems to go ‘ very r 2 We t that Gen. Davis will push forward his | ¢j ji rhi tions :— ed, a nded gentleman in every sense of the term, | Vernon and back, have found it almost as expensive, e trust ll push sion, and after a long and animated debate, in which oy x a faithful Representative in Congress. While | and more laborious, than a journey to New York, | bill for the purchase of Mount Vernon for this pur- | almost every phir ne of the convention took aa eT bem meld yoy | thi someth h Je here Cpe his = ay whig friends alpoes) the Scone to bee oy menses Tathle ve " re, Lee! octet aan setive part, ‘was carried. a tual, on geliaions er “4 Lay res aaewatnae ‘ at home will not fail to see that he is again ium: | miles. Trae enough, steamboats jaily passer jee Ms e place to public, a r. Cooxe then presented the following re- ” “ ng phantly elected. = | by this classic ground; but the river ia wide, the | may visitit without the drawback that they are | eotdfiom . © Te" | tance, and calls for the most vigorous efforts of those a Ay rom talyrrsnn: I Depart Information has been telegraphed to the Pos? | channel fe om the opposite shore, and passengers | intruding upon a private family. It is wrong in 2 Tet the tnstrecters ef the deaf and dand- be ses eiikhe Office Department to-day, from the West, that a | have been forbidden an entrance from the river | Itself that a private family should be taxed without duly impressed with a sense of their daties and re- The cit 7 more this | late mail contractor, residing in Ohio, who formerly | side. The result has been thet hundreds of persons | Compensation, for the public benefit, The thanks | tance only to their intellectual. « + | sponsibilities, and should bring to their work the un- ia then dusine @ x yeur of itgex- | Carried on a very extensive mail-carrying business, | annually visiting the capital, have failed to reach | Of the public, however, are due to Col. Washing- | aid it should form a distinct department in all insti- | divided energies of mind and heart, po 6 Ad , but failed in it, has been detected in robbing the | Mount Vernon, becaute of the time, the expense, | t00, for his consent to the opening of a steamboat | tutions for the instruction of the deef and dumb. They were passed ashington Mail, but has absconded, The department has | and the diflieuity in getting there, communication from this city, which cannot fail to Auother resolution was oflered by Mr, Woop A vote of thanks was passed to Hon. C, Morgan, {sent telegraphic orders for his apprehension and are | — We take pleasure in announeing to the public, | increase his visiters 'by hundreds; and the public bg ATi el “~~ “ar to Dr. Peet, Professor Gallaudet, and Mr. Wet« rest, to the proper quarters i forbear giving his | through the world-wide circulation of the New | thanks are also due to our enter, i citizens who FR age a o morhd pate nnrstae . wn tes on more, which was reeponded to by the geatlemem name, until more is known on the subject of the York Herald, that ali these impediments are at | have evtablished the medium of an easy and quick a= tae Sa ee dies, named. The Smithsonian Tost Monument, the nw the Potent Offic tion, the W. wing of solidity, pm hed igh oy robbery r levgth removed. trip 1o Mount Vernon, occupying a few hours only, | re smission in seaouse shonid be deviant t0/bas- ‘The convention then closed its session for this Who gonad te nen Articles, impeaching the official conduct of Mr. | A company of our citizens have recently put | 8nd the sum totai of one dollar for the round trip. | yide for earlier instruction aud rmoral culture. year, with the usual ceremony. Commissioner Ewbank, have been sent to the Se- upon the siver a swift, | Iso passed, embodying a vote ight draft steamboat, the | Strangers will learn when to go by inquiring at | Jt was carried. A resolution wa ‘ nate, and are now in the possession of that body ai Brown's Hotel. Mr. Brown offered the following resolutions, | Of thanks to the representatives of the press. They charge that Mr. Ewbank has, unlawfully and ” We toke the liberty to extend to Mr. Bennett | which were adopted :— egainst usage, prostituted his official position to fa- | ington, the proprietor of the Mount Vernon estate, | nd his family, should they come to Washington Resolved, That a petition be presented to the hono- ‘cresting from Fort Laramic. Yor certain parties connected with Goodyear's pa- | have obtained the privilege of erecting a wharf at | this season, an invitation to visit Mount Vernon by | rable Secretary of the Interior, setting forth the im- (Prom the Missour! Statesman, August 16] - | the foot of the hill, and fading passengers within | the steamer Thomas Collyer. It will pay for seve- | portance and value to the gpese of the Oe and dumb, The ferry company of D. H. Hickman & Co., a did structure Teer lille e'e tents. The charges bring home to the Cor New churches r i and all these things together look dissolution of the Union, or a removal of the seat | #onerthe proof of gross violation of the 1 nshot of the house. The wharf is nearly com- | Tal hours, in those associations of the visit which | Of baving & complete list of all the tes, with | reached home in good health on Sunday last: of government. Congress and the rules of the Patent Offi Gined.. The steamer made her fist trip yesterday, | Will last for a lifetime. ths age, Sas, sommasten, Bo jaan abstract te be pus. | Their location on tie Platte river was about one fecterday afternoon, a most superb twenty-two | . The Comuissioner is adoomed man. His rejec- | and, a occasion of @ lull in Congress, and of “ Dulee et decorum est pro patria mori lished by the authority of the government. hundred and thirty miles west of Fort Laramie, Passenger omnibus eral Taylor, _ tion by the Senate seems inevitable. the beautiful day, we went down, in company With | It is the sentiment of a thousand years. And we | 2. That the President be requested to warrant the | and seven hundred and thirty miles from St Joseph. drawn by > o d Like military Sraee - some sixty ngers. They were mostly stran- | cannot but envy the glorious immortality of Wash- | *#!d petition in the name and ofthis convention. | They left the ferry for home on the Sth of az: officers in full. fe t n the Avenue Wasuinoton, August 30, 1850. ers, who gladly availed themselves of so delight- | ington, whose life was devoted to his country; and | Mr. Buown also presented the following series | Previous to their leaving, the great body of At is apother addit Union line, which has The Iowse to-day—Jethro Wood's Plough laid on the e U et on their homeward excursion, for the trifling expense of a dollar i of resolutions, which were likewise — emigration had y \strangers | Table—Father Ritchie—Bundelewel and Mr, | the round trip. “lige penere ages yp toe = yy ig By ge essives, Titus this convention, Roving wmoceed wish | SP ibap murs beet five handeed wagons before “uo scu aie Sart Putt; wre Sony—The | wis aa nny iit | Kaen, Ws dm ene eon an Meh | etanaraaaha ncn rank cia | fre ferry, eng ued and Vander- | Semguack, inter, versus Mr. Stan! y— water, the undu ~ softly variegated hills of | ceremony, saying nothing of the pic-nic with the Spent oe tee “o pal ely {hy | between the latter place and Fort Kearney. Of been such a conve: during this long se: ef the invesiment k in thie line yb rmed from the Slavery Buls—Texas Bowndary—Canal arownd | fields and forest would compensate the tra- len + " t * | this number, about seven hundred were Mormons, Rest that they ten. come “rwenty omsibuses, the Falls of St. Mary, §c. veller, till passing the frowning battlements of the | tunity of a tsip te Mount Vetuon fore della of a law securing to theinsane a fund perpeta- | om rouse for the Giteat Salt Lake. ‘The mortality more or less; that they have 18) horses in | ‘There was a good deal of sport in the House to- | he®vy fortress on the left, when his attention is w. That considering the relative numbers of the | from cholera, or a disease much resembling it, has their stables, and are ealarging them to accom- - directed te the poplars, on the hill, to the right, for 2 their strong claims on public benevo- | BOt been exi correspondents of the Re- modate fifty more. They have expended an im- | 4¥. The patent, or rather the bill for the exten- | that is the where Washington was at home, Our Baltimere Correspondence. cident to their instraction — other ness, mense ameunt of money here in filling this public sion of the patent, of Jethro Wood, for that plough, | and hard ashes repore. Barritone, Aug. $1, 1850. | and preparat of life, they are entitled ever, had very much abated before the emi- desideratum, nd iis gratifying ‘ere that they was Iaid upon the table. This we regret very | 42H “Uy a difficult cork ronnng,the com | Mail Robber Arrested—Terrible Accident— Inde | *°,$¢ from the general © eA et jt e had the pleasure, . imme, yesterday, of a fide vognd the heights of « much, on account of two or three interesting young | manrion—an avenue of approach totally inhibited, pendent Greys— The Bank Fuilure, §c. pw AEA Mine tatigees tae wife of M. J. Lamme, and daughter of Mr. Thomas Taylor, with an agree ladies, the heiresses of Mr. Wood, who have been heseeatong, 0 (ao public. Ascending from Bo A young man named Stephen Morgan has been | Ynege of thorough education. pha ght county, a route fer Cale ok the ordeat little cot- i ts - —— 7a here waiting for the moving of the waters for half Es Seetieny ‘of the hill ¢ Saoumine r hy arrested at Chaptico, Md., and committed for trial 4. That for the indicated, no less than holera louse Rock, ore. The situation isfine, | © ¥e8™ But if it were not for regrets on account of serted plantation run to seed, we come within the i cording to the register of the & view for nearly twenty miles dowa rese young ladies, we should say that the House | area of the demesnes immediately pertaining to the sta it Fe Laramie, the number of wagons had eighty-five ‘miles this side of Fort Laramie. Ac- a dat Mount Vernon, with had done a good thing. establishment. There are the stables going to passed tha: before the tery company lef, was ¢ f cities ids, fo- wreck—a half dozen neatly built brick and wood to grant to the deat and dumb in as large a measure | about ten hundred. . Number of Feats, and the broad river, wil its long bridge, and |<, Some time ago, as an offset to the Galphins, Mr. | Negro houses becoming hoary and dismantied—-the | Partment, Dr. Pitapatrick, was sent to ferret the wy shore indented 1 te renect ally wagavatsd that fe pp yt the white sails enlivening the stream like scattered Stanly got up @ committee to make a good many | lines of brick walls, originally surrounding the | matter out, and suceeeded in trapping him with a Shots bo pemstetsted Up oop aay cctditen ewan tie as one twelfth of the ; but t sta litle box inquiries against the late democratic administra | | half buried in the earta, and rank with a | decoy letter in his possession, and also discovered | jmmedinte ure of the same bd shundoaed their wagons, and m find , just su ~age ~~ = xe, | tions and among them, they were to inquire who pan oan io ppm hread| among his papers other evidences of guilt. He isa) Mr. Burner next presented the following reso- & I ia. or between "is, of Mr Bennett, at Hasings, onthe 8s the author of the “ Bandelcund” (anti-tanff) | beautiful Jawn, sprinkled’ over wi member of one of the most respected and wealthy ws Sitti the stew of Clo. ceases ie Martial was in session at Fort Laramie, i S ‘ vege » castle compared to this G town Peperspubliched in the Union, some three years | tation, and even the negroes, piccaninnie: families in St. Mary's county, and hitherto sus | general introduction of » manual alphabet into the point of size; but the President is only b oe he committee called Father Ritchie before looking antique and venera + a8 if belonging to | taimed an unblemished character. tee pee of ly there of nights, during the fever and | e™, but he refused to answer. They called Mr. | the time. The drowsy aimoephere of ruin A ible accident — yesterday on the in phy sad aque season, when the Potomac fogs are apt to deste wrcka neeee palates, @ Gemeoter, who hasa bongs over wares, except the memory of railroad. tes, ‘on | tager to deaf mutes, in facilitating the necessary com. bring vp the disease the White House fiager in the movements of the democratic clubs of | Washington, which sanctifies and beautifies the | crossing a bridge, a few miles beyond the city. was | munication with Let us get happily over thisslavery question, and "ME city, and he refused to answer. desolation. observed by the conductor to jolt very heavily, bat | "te iilogenion of sock We expect to see such re-unions at the White Mr. Stanly, ney fA ae 4 resolution pro- | jt would take more time than we have at com- | on looking back nothing could be seen, and they cal en ae sucl 6 ee House, next winter, as we have not had for many ¥iting for the arrest of Ritchie and Seagstack, and | mand, ‘and greater space than a business daily | carne onto the city. On arriving, the wheels of the cg” crpeced by r. pee a Ceo 4 long day. pb 'y be brought beiore the House for contempt peret can spare, to describe all that is to be seen | cars were examined and spots of blood discovered, | ' iscussion, it was mov ies uosclogy 0 H ide | H i i i u z istei A] 3 comaate the select committee of the House. ‘& walk about Mount Vernon. The mansion | with a part of a man’s coat ia the gearing. The | it be laid upon the table ; which y company, without interruption, Wasmisotox, August 30, 1950 The resolution coming up this morning, Mr. | needs no description. It is sufficient to say, that condacter humeaiessiy started back with a loco. | ne. thet Ge a Ttienced no loss or de- San. Mag-—Crim. Con, he. & Schenck amused the House with a serio-comical | it jg a two storied house, weather-boarded, and | motive, tnd on arriving at the bridge, the body of « Se Tee tee qos Se ee A large number of - speech, in ridicule of the resolution; and Mr. Meade | stuccoed ro as to represent a building of cut stone, | man was discovered in the water beneath, horribly | JOUrn until nine o'clock next 1 nemnnebe + for the Salt I. There has been a new court sitting in the Gen" followed, indicat 9 ie’ tion was unanimous! the proceed- , : , in vindication of Father Ritchie's con- | even to the seams between the several stones, | crushed, having, on being run over, fallen through | ° y Sites boon . Yet it is thought eral Land Office, investigating a case of great deli- tempt of the committee; all of which, we think, | horizontal ané vertical—that it has a wide the sotings mate bridge. The body was brought | ings closed with a prayer in the age of signs. as the Mormon emi- cacy. The court was organized by calling in a Sopose epee And tho thse of ee and the in font extendin the Whole, le th (os feet) of | to the city, and all to identify it proved THIRD Day. rromice has been im- D v d + - 4 prisoner | ¢ ji 5 to height of eaves, al e. who late very distinguished = wird es f ae “ | of Father Ritehie, for contempt of the House com- ported ee ee square columns of wood, rig’ TS faspentont Greys, which company visited Laer ae an — to tear Pod fornia, intend wintering in the ‘ictuity of Balt sociate Judge to the Commissioner of the General mater, is a simple absurdity, when so large a pot: | naily stuccoed to represent stone, and that New York fa the Spring, ‘have at last split, thirty | USU4l hour, proceedings ee Lake city. Land Office, as Chief Justice. The crier notified | tion of the public press regards the whole louse is eurmonnted by a light halerstrade ; and | of the members having last night withdrawn. The | the day previous Hon. C. Morgan, in the chair :— weather was pleasantly warm, and the water the West End, that a secret inquisition, or star With some degree of contempt, as a factious, disor- | {hat on the summit of the building there is’ cu- | secedere will form a new company, calledjthe Law 5 minutes of Cd — Cpe were read of the Platte river cool fine up to about the chamber court, resembling one of Mr. Shandy's | OR ee of r. Ga ee to prove that Mr. Viet Me oy tis att a weed, Serve br termed eonmesaie of “4 1 Yo- ry i a - he — ——hy i ile ported, the 4 1 ' . we 7 “beds of justice, was held, touching certain matters | Burke, while Commissioner of the Patent Office, at Pala og Tye storia of halt ry. " abies . = Mountains, which appeared in pon Mr. nis wished full view eight or ten miles south of "a . " On id | Was guilty of wasting the public time ia writin leo tw fortable tail 5 per, giving some considerations why the deaf m ‘wetween 0 cortalajolerk: in tho onld land Oitios the | ‘ undeizend” free trade arteice for the Union, | onte Sete tite vata is'aee aad avis one "Tie Sarneymen lors of thie city, numbering | Pet, eat Paretons , pment. Many portions of the & very pretty wife of another man, against the | ang to this extent operated to bring the patronage | rear of the main building, yet standing out par+ ferine fore irite who work for slop shops are sandy and barren, while others, ae the val- Al i 5 j 3 i b F 3 F ' as Icys between the adjacent hills, a laxuriant of the good people of the city of Washington, | of the government into conflict with the freedom of in relief, and each connected with the that they cannot make more than $3 50 per whether the deat pexanhsarecmtpncgeeaanentt § 4 -—y~ ppd To aren violation of the seventh commandment and | eirehons 0 steer infor istormation tevecting tg on ty 8. covered very. mupported by week, whan they — - 3 —-5 ein bt ie Pex as chairman of the Committee on Eo: oom pet ene: of Faanbower the rights of Congres. It is said, as an apology for | Core of letter writers under the official pay of wie segment of a circle to the maia ‘ m, identical" ‘ New ‘re The ian he =] sgn Seaened san this be) pocentiag on the part of the Commute. cou the: \- = moner Land J} * identical with that of the York fol! reports :— ance, and destroyed almost all the ve Clayton, Ewing end Co. rangement leaves an open reat, in | talons’ Proteotive Unto. propose toes | 1. The importance of a higher standard of edu- | tion vide, aad and his associate, the ho- Noe the official corps of letter writers | | Ss pose By + in wi pe for the deat and dumbe bis ‘Geen tt J bie net the od elert, 00 06 veonme the eentre of which is lar carriage way cugens r he Platte, so that emigrants were com- Protas seca uemia ea v rrpatadon wih fh Sekenes, the topatree of the House ten tap iepvot Woshingion tite ee ff TA eh of otteh belay aie Mr. Stomm Shoo grea the communication of the ion te | dn for hele aon 74 avon . an examination; and that ther a amall potato os : " to consider the ¢ 4 pel = ebeter, requested an examina ion ty « wh business, tered from the notes of some broken bank, in no Southhing "ported mpediency of | Laratie 10 the Miseourl tive the compray, on ke “4 ‘a periodical. ite return trip, found the a lift, by c the venue from the | pewspapers for contempt ‘on the moral state of the deat and en ey fi Hal the Digs So anes | Se once tried the experiment upon a corrempom: | "The doors being thrown open upon both sides of i" oching ne hasbeen henrd from the Havre de dmb, tnt themenne tad Polo reign nm designed fof pepeune ta Soheever costoas ot proceeding On wach a subject’ it ins to bea | buying tm eleyaaat—they eveld do. wothiag wis Getemony,, to taapect the rooms’ open ve" tes | cae wate wibheds forthaat near? sion. After eome’remarks upon this eubject, mule | Staycg "Stems owever, for the Weetera