THE EVENING STAR, FUBLISHED EVERY AFTEKNOUR, (EXCEPF SUNDAY,) 41 the Star Buildings, corner ¢ Pennsyivanis Seenue and Biewonsh ‘ it, By W.D. WALLACH, Wil be served to subscribers by carriers at SIX AND A QUARTER CENTS, payable weekly to the Agents; papers served in packages at 37} cents per month. To mail subscribers the sub- scription price is THR EK DOLLARS AND FIF- TY CENTS a year in advance, TWU DOLLARS. for six months, and ONE DOLLAR for three months; for less than three months at the rate of 12 cents a week. U7 SINGLE COPIEL ONE CENT. THE WEEELY STAR. ‘This excellent Family and News Joarnai—con alning a greater variety of interesting reading than can be found in any other—is published on Satur- Evening Star. ay morning. SSS VOL. VII. WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1856. NO. 1,100. Proposals for Deepening the Outlets of the ‘ississ: i he Gulf ¥ ‘Taxascny DaranrMEnt, May 98, 1866. bs ippi river into the Gulf of Mexico. Notice is hereby given to the holders of the ENGINEER DEPARTMENT stock Issued posta the act of Congress of Melero lm ise 3 PosTMASTERSs Who actas a. commission of twenty percent Petliowed OFFICIAL. PROTECTION = ENDEMNITY FROM Educational. Subscribed eles Surplus. ehanasi 13. SELECT SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, EV E N I N G ST AR : FARMERS ASD MECHANICS’ INSUB- | Friends’ Mesting House, Ist. bet. 18th and 19th. Awenrcan Crock Busixess —Out of thir. ty-one clock manufactories enumerated by us, in articles on the subject, two years ago, four a ° A BRITISH VIEW OF NEW YORK city. | havebocn & 7 fire, nine have sto ROPOSALS WILE BE RECEIVED AT ANCE CO., OF PHILADELPHIA. ioe Hl te elie Pen. FARTIEO~ |. rye Yondén ‘Tikied hns Séut's'spectal on” | by Dileres wah Bee beow toann ranatietier. 24 July, 1846, that suah stock is redeemable by | Pits ome until the fret daar Gott ree | Office nerthicest corner Pennsyivania avenue and 17th | fon will be resumed on the first Monday in = he United States, cod nen n, | ing on account of email profits. There acs 1's terms, and will be paid at the Treasury on the | for ‘opening and keeping open ship channels of sttect,. askinstow City, D. C. eae EE. JANNEY, | penne ented States, and here is | stih thirteen factories making clocks, but only surrender of the certificates thereof, on the 12th | Suflicient capacity to accommodate the wants of STATEMENT, OF BUSINESS FROM THE 18ST a 3 his account of New York : of November next, when in one Dm ope maiue tre toe Mieicit tee of August to the 3ist day of Decembcr, GREENWOOD SEMINARY, “1 would attempt to give a description of cease - the Gulf of Mexice,”” for which purpose there | Amount reccived in marine premiume. .968,242 31 FOR YOUNG LADIES, New York, if, in the lumits of a letter, it This department will continueto purchasesueh | 28 appropriated by act of Congress of Sth of Do fire premiums...... 908 82 | Three miles out om Seventh street Plank Road, | could be done with any succes ; but it would 4 six of them or ees. | full time and with a full complementof hands. These six will produce 95,000 clocks this year. The remaining seven factories will make about 48.000 clocks, so 66, three hundred and thirty thousand be as reasonable to attempt to describe Lon- | that the total productions of clocks this year stock prior to sald day of redemption, and wilt | 4°172,,!° af Total premiums for five months 168.151 13 Is now open for the reception of pupils. don in the same space. PSinking all topo- | Will not exceed 143,000 The Jerome Moca, Pey therefor the following premium, in addition | Bidders are requested te stale the amount for | Caplifl...s.+. ssecerccsccnne 1,250,000 00 Sc ae MRS. WM. RESLEY, Wushingan, raphical details, dates, and history, there- Ts Company in 1853 and 1854 produced to the Interest accrued te the day of purchase, bs ei gee will contract to open each of the Sa au 16-tSepl*_ | fore, @ few of the more prominent character- | cach 000 pe i Thus they must have with one day’s interest forthe money to reach | Channels specified thro: er ieee sivammanraiea: 1,858,151 13 BROOKVILLE ACADEMY, istics of the place are ali that can be at pres- | Produced more than an average of one clock the vendor : ‘level of ordinary low | fonds of Allegheny county, Pittsburg, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND. | ent noted "Thowe who fancy New York a| Per minute, The factory of J C. Brown On such stock reselved at the Treasury between | Water, Which 'evel will be determined bya bench | and Philadelphia City 6? . $78,721 66 THE NEXT SESSION OF THIS INSTI- | @ere busy Provincial and commercial city—a during 1851 and 1852 issued from 80,000 to thet aeret qe mark on the shore, to be established by an officer | Railroad bouds, cost.....++0s.cssccecee 58,400 00 tution will commence feptember Ist. sort of Liverpool—will be surprised to find it | 100,000 clocks annually, making a total from © Ist day of June and the 3ist day of July,in | or officers appointed the Secretary War; and | Loans on first mortgage of reai estate.. 59,950 00] | ‘Terms: For Tuition, Board, Washing, ete.,|@ great metropolis, unmistakably a capital, | the two establishments of over 500,000 clocks clusive, one-half of one per cent. en the amounts | they are also requ to state the longest Do stocks, collateral... + 80,384 00 | $160 per annum with many indications of immense wealth, | ¢8ch year. The Ansonian Company manu- specified in the certificates ; of time for which they will contract to keep each | Cah in bank and on haad + 11,002 22 | | Catalogues may be obtained at C.H. Lane’s, | and none age, even of the age from which it | factured about 150,000 last year. Ii is esti- On such stock reeelved between the Istand 3ist | {duc of the appropriation after treet a Tee | Co MUMMIES "Principal. | ing. peetescies of the eraete? Every sme bebe ribo etic re Mnewd clocks for Of open: a ing 0} each ¢| —_ ns et a al ut il- Angust, the Interest accrued thereon, and one | unifeem de m ef wot leasiten tweety ohne 1,358,151 13 MISS M. J. HARRUVER’S what it senseehr whethet tbe 4: peer hema 2 | lion of dollars annually. The businecs cn day's additional Interest only, will be paid. — Rybotaeg ceothonhphenel hundred feet.” | ‘Total amountof losses : : SEMINARY FOR YOUNG LADIEs. hotel, or a store. What the last fire spared is | resulted so seqeerry | to those engaged in it, Certificates of such stock transmitted under itu tua Wark apd fe incre ae nat A Boarding and Day School. being rapidly demolished and replaced by | that some time must elapse before capital will com OCeSsary | this notice must be duly assigned tothe United openin the channels, must be stated in the pro- PB seek this chennel as an investment, unless States by the party entitled to receive the pur- each depth. " something more equal to the requirements of PIS INSTITUTION WILL BE OPENED 8 4 4 in | something like a combination can be made ts 4,666 66 onthe first Monday in September, in the | the time. The amount of building now in . 1 b chase inoney ; and when sent prior to the Ist July | , The right to accept the offer which, in the optn- DIRECTORS. house recently vacated by the Mlsses Tyson, No. | Progress is enormous, and for the moment | *ustain the prices. The clock business now a bake yous Gane uae Calas ion of the Secretary of War, Propores the best | tion. Thos. B. Florence, Charles Dingee, 286 F street, between 12th and 13th streets. rather inconvenient. In some streets, par- | Stands in a peculiar position. There bas been the oerren year’s Ini mu as- | method of accomplishing the objec: contemplated | George H. Armstrong, Thomas Manderfield, The services of the best texchers of Muric and ticularly near the business end of the city, | 2° rise in prices, but there appears ey: rea- “signed by the present stockholder, otherwise such | 2nd to accept either proposal of any bidder for | Chaos A Rubicam, Edward R. Helmbold,, | Languages have been secured. every third house appears to have been pulled | £0 to anticipate one. The amount of low- Interest will be payable as heretofore. pee Nit dar raees neces Ln George Helmbold, F. Carroll Brewster, ae Particulsrs see Circulars, at the prin down, and in a few months even a oak hag is | Priced clocks made this year will not supply And notice 1s further given to holders of other | reserved eis ee wtHOMAS B. FLORENCE, Frosident, a surprised at the change. Brick is becoming | the home market, and the exportation of the stocks of the United States that this department fed sent matter Receson: toberemoved | EDWARD R. HELMBOLD, Secretary. KUGBY AUADEMY, marble hes wonderful eaeaiys and the na- — a need cease for a - m the existing channels at the s to be a i tive marble, if well selected, is a beautiful - Said that one or two Englii will parchase the same between the Ist day of deepened, or the distance along either channel to . LOCAL SURVEYORS. Fourteenth strcet, opposite Franklin Square. building material; it is as white Lapras a agents have been to the clock distrists, “and Jans and the Ist day of December next, unless | which the work must extend, in order to obtain wee ee call Ase virgin Jj hte TENTH ANNUAL SESSION OF the Italian quarries, which supply the statu- | bave scoured them th roughly to buy all that the sam of $1,590,000shal! be previously ob‘ained, elther of the specified depths, cannot, for want of ae Thornten, corner First street and Virginia Es Sarapyegearas will commence en Monday, ary, and which we use for rt decora- | Could be finished, but the amounts were emall and wilt pay for the same, in addition to the In- | be stated. Pernion che ee een conaition, | “Yates Williams, No. 22 Fourand-a half street. Number of pupiis limited tions, but have not applied like common stone, | Without a prospact of getting more.— Veer Ha- terestaccrued from he day of the last dividend | workare expected, therefore, to inform them: MARINE SURVEYOR. Cireulars may be obtained at the residence of except in the exceptionable extravagance ot | %# Journal. of taterest, eid one day’s additional interest for | Of itsextent, and of the best means of accomp Capt J.P. Levy, No, 474 Pennsylvania avenuc, | the Princlpal, on N, between 12th and 13th sts. | the Marble Arch, and this ie but a dingy af ‘ : ae ney to reach the vendor, the following rates | !%& 1t- GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT. G. H. MOXRISON, fair. Tue smoke and fog of London soon re- | | SiXGutar Erraect or Evecraicrry ox Ne- the —— < dong > ing Teo a coutrant hae been bole the place John Thomason, aa 1s-te Principal. | duce everything to hue of mud and brick, or atten) i oe open a fow ae of premium : rections of the channels to be opened will The busi f this C ill com; GS.) te a. LL b 1 ii oi town, recently carried home a small elec- On stock of the loan of 1942, a premium of 10 | be designated to the contractor by an officer or vorably with the raost accesses Of simmer Dealt THE COLUMBIA INSTITUTE, i, — oom Carag lassen Saas per Bar trical machine for imaking some experiments per cent; pone pl peg arg Dee med AG engees peat m = Ee eee ‘a0 FOR YOUNG LADIES, pele sdls Yack tun'parest enstariel canbe As soon as he got home, the negroes, as usual, £ may tom the Ist day of August, 1855, in five months, No. 446 Eleventh street, between G and H. § :, tapers flocked around him, eager to sce what master On st ek of the loans of 1847 and 19498 premium | agreed upon for opening each will be paid after | up ¢) Ist Ja 1856, the premiums ed 5 a 4h 4 A used with the certainty that it will preserve ? SILVER WARE. 4,4 Kendall, over R. Morrow's Exchange Office, N. B.—If renters desire to carry on any businéss door W. ‘odd’s Ha! the most fragile looking things ever put to | There is an edition of the Bible called the widenowene & Thomas Parker. sass ae Tea sets, Walters, Pitchers, Goblets, Pena Seatnayouue. EU Tears ua eames om a bes ine auaniag titcenen te tos soe aneene: gether for locomoticn. With their fast trot- | « Vinegar Bible,’ from the parable of the res iments on boat. uy, orks, 3 f i i re. ” ‘ii “ yi . apitt SAM’L GEDNEY, Captaia. Ps, EXTRA PLATED WARE ma 87-7em DAVID MYERLE, Agert. | erful engine of the Star Newspaper and Job | ting horses, to which the youth of the city | « Vineyard’? being printed “ vinegar. ce Baske’ iz Printing Office, manufactured the Messrs. | are much addicted, they fly along with per- HY PURCHASE PIANOS FROM orn, Ooiens alien Forks, co os Engle ond HIS LACE O. Py RESORT WILL BE | Ellis, and arranged 90 aso furnish ample power, | ilous speed, quite in keeping withthe national} Scrgxtiric Facts.—The London Lancet Ww irresponsible traveling ett an Americ«n Table C cere T open on the 3 day of July for the ac if required, to renters of the premises edvertised | vividness of life—with something, too, of the says that thore are a quarter of a million of whea you can get in Washington city Spectacles and Eye Glasses of every fo-us | commodation of visitors. The subscriber Am bove. Je 20-tf equally national disregard of it. I shall have | persons living in Great Britain constantly un- the very best quality at prices which will be guar- | in wold, Silver, and fine Stee! frames has engaged a first rate Cotillion Band for sol The lease on the above property will be | to notice many other points in the external ~ ground in the darkness of mines The aatied to be as lowasany thecountryfrom JOHN | All goods warranted ted the season, and with bt and spendid Kall aspects of the city hereafter; the subject is| average age of Shefiield workmen is thirty- PF. BLLIS’S. Room offers vast inducements to the lovers of the M. Ww. = OF ~ | not easily exhausted, neither is it old. What | gye years; the ave! e of the d in- 4a bee —— Srom 98 to Perey of a Jy30 tf 324, Pa. ave. Sth and 10th

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