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MORE PROOFS AGAINST THE KNOW
NOTHINGS.
On Friday, the 28th day of July, 1854, at
the 1st Session of the 33d Congress, Mr. Eliot,
a Massachusetts whig, moved to suspend the
rules in order to enable him to introduce a bill
to repeal the fugitive slave law. The yeas
and nays were called on the motion, and the
vote was as follows:
Yeas?Messrs. Ball, Bennett, Benson, Campbell,
Carpenter, Ccrwin, Crocker, Thomas Davis, De
Witt, Dick, Dickinson, Eastman, Edmunds, Thos
D. Eliot. Everhnrt, biddings, Goodrich, Aaron
Harlan, Howe, Daniel T. Jones, Knox, Matttson,
May all, Morgan, Norton, Parker, Pennington,
Pringle, David Ritchie. Rassall, Sabine, Sage,
Sapp, Simmons, Gerrit Smith, Andrew Smart,
Thurston, Trout, Upham, Wade. Walley, Elihu
B. Washburne, Israel Washburn, Wells, and Tap
pan Wentworib?45.
Nays?Messrs. Aiken, James C. Allen. Willis
Allen, Ashe, David J. Baily, Barry, Benton, Borock,
Boyce, Breckinridge, Bridges, Brooks, Caruther*,
Chamberlain, Chastain, ChriMitan, Churchweli,
Clark, Clingmnn, Cobb, Cook; Cox. Craigr, Curtis.
John G. Davis, Dawson, Djsncy, Dowdell, Drum,
Dunbar, Eddy, Edgerlon, Edmundtoo, John M.
Elliott, Ellison, English, Farley, Faulkner, Flor
ence, Fuller, Goode, Greenwood. Grow, Sampson
W. Harris, Wiley P. Harris, Harrison, Haven.
Hendricks, Henn, Hibl>ard, Hill, Houston, Hunt.
Johnson George W. Jones, Roland Jones, Keitt,
Kerr, Kidwell, Kittfedge, Kurt/. Lamb. Latham,
Letcher. Limlley, McMullen, McNair, McQueen,
Macy, Maurice, Maxwell, John G. Miller, Smith
Miller. Millaon, Morrison. Murray, Nichols, Noble,
Olds, Andrew Oliver, Orr, Peckham, Phelps,
Phillips, Pratt, Preston, Puryear, Ileese, Riddle.
Ro}>bin?, ltogcrs, Rufin,Seward, Shannon, Shaw,
Shower. Skelton. Sftmurl A. Smith, William R.
Smith, George W. Smyth, Sollers, Frederick P.
Stanton, Richard II. Stnnton, .Alex. H. Stephens,
Hestor L. Stevens, Stratton. David Stuart, John
J.Taylor, John L. Taylor, Nathaniel G. Taylor,
Vail, Vansant, Wnlbridge, Walker, Wheeler,
Witte, Daniel B. Wright, Hendriek B. Wright,
and Zollioofler?120.
4
Nearly, if not all, who voted for Mr. Eliot's
motion were Whigs?a motion in effect to
abolish the Fugitive Slave law. The Demo
cratic party voted cn masse against it. Those
Whigs who voted for it were Northern Whigs.
We repeat and republish now what we said on
the 30th day of July, when we commented on
those proceedings. It is as follows:
"Nor is this the only contrast presented by
an analysis of the vote. There is nearly as
striking a contrast between the Northern and
the Southern Whigs. The former, with sev
eral lonesome exceptions, going for it, and the
latter in a body against it.
"This vote makes distinctly apparent to the
country two important facts. The first is, that
there is but one sound national political orga
nization in the country, and that is the great
Democratic party. The other is, that in re
spect to the Constitution as a basis of organiza
tion, there is no National Whig party. On the
most vital constitutional question, the Whigs
of the North and the Whigs of the South have
separated. A complete antagonism exists be
tween them. The first have as plainly shown
through their representatives in Congress as
they have in their public meetings and in their
newspapers, that their chiei and controlling
motive is to war upon slavery?to deprive it ot
the protection of the Constitution, and to strike
down the defences with which the founders of
the government widely and justly surrounded
it. Tho latter have stood shoulder to shoulder
with tho Democratic party in maintenance ol
the constitutional and legal guarantees pro
j vided for in the institution of slavery.
j " This is one of the moat distinct and unequi
vocal signs of the times, and should serve as a
warning, if warning were needed, to the Whigs
of the South.
"W hen the Whigs of the North proclaim, in
the lace of the whole country, that the cement
thut holds them together is hatred of southern
men and southern institutions?that they are
determined to outrage the first and to break
down the last?when tfiey proclaim this Vandal
purpose in Congress and out of Congress, in
public and in private?when they make this
declaration at all times and places, it is not
possible to conceive of a continued union be
tween them and the Southern Whigs.
"Men loth to renounce their old party associa
tions, may endeavor to solace themselves with
the thought, that while they are at daggers
drawn with their quondam northern associates
on this great question, there are yet other sub
jects on which they can agree. We tell such
that they would do themselves and their coun
try a grievous wrong. This question is the
absorbing and vital question. The Northern
Whigs have made it the Aaron's rod that swal
lows up all other rods, and unless the Southern
Whigs have determined to give their cheek to
the smiter and their property to the spoiler,
they cannot longer affiliate with their northern
brethren."'
Now, what has become of the Northern
W bigs who in and out of Congress were in
favor of the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law ?
I hey have, with very few, if any exceptions,
united themselves with the abolitiouized Know
nothings of the Northern States. All the re
cent elections prove this. We have, from time
to time, elaborately and in detail cited the Evi
dences of it.
What has become of the Southern Whigs,
who in Congress and out of Congress opposed
this motion? Are they not in the same organ
ization in the South. We fear, we believe, we
almost know, that the great majority of them
are. Nor do-we here, or at any time, mean to
accuse Southern men of being Abolitionists.
I hey quit the Northern Whigs because the
Northern Whigs, after fooling them for years,
at last proved to them by gradual encroach
ments, that they were Abolitionists. Quitting
them, they did not know where to go. Much
to-their relief, the Know-nothing organization,
pretending to " ignoreslavery, sprang up in
the North, at this crisis. They joined that
organization. But after seducing them, the
Northern Know-nothings, bad as "ignoring"
slavery is, at last refused, like the Hon. Mr.
Burlingame and Senator Wilson, of Massachu
setts, to stick to that stifling process called
" ignoring." They grew insolent at the North,
the Know-nothings, and they came out dis
tinctly and rankly against slavery, as they
used to do before they cloaked and masked
themselves under the disguise of Know
nothingism.
Now we behold a great organization that
boasts of its extension from the extreme north
to the extreme south, from abolitionizcd Mas
sachusetts to slavcholding Texas. We behold
Southern Whigs associated and affiliated with
Northern Abolitionists, infinitely worse than the
Whigs from whom our southern brethren indig
nantly separated.
We kuow that objects of these northern
and southern Know-nothings are different, as
regards the slavery question. The first are
false, and the last true. But the true men, we
fear, are stupidly playing a political game of
blind man's buff, and permitting their dishonest
associates to lead them into a secret society
which would disgrace a despotism?a society
which is as much defiled by deception aB it is
cloaked in mystery.
Where, meanwhile, is the great, honest Na
tional Democratic party ? It is in its old place.
It is everywhere, as it is in Virginia?opposed
to Northern Know-nothin^ism and opposed to
Northern Abolitionism. It will die in its tracks
before it will surrender to either.
VICTOR Ilt/OO'H NPKECH-PRENCI1
AND ANKUICAH I OK AS OF L1BKKTY.
All the oppressions of a despotic govern
ment are most melancholy. They are melan
choly in their exactions, in their social sever
ances, in their cold-blooded cruelties, and in
their stifling of noble and lofty impulses. But
they are most melancholy in this?that those
brave and generous spirits, within whose hearts
burn the light of liberty, and who will not be
crushed and ground down, are induced by these
oppressions to embrace distempered views of
liberty. One extreme, in this imperfect world,
begets the opposite extreme. Extreme despot
ism begets in the minds of those who oppose
it?an extreme and a licentious sense of lib
erty. Of France, this is especially true. Her
revolutions have been frantic convulsions,
blazing conflagrations that ""consumed even
those who originated them. They have always,
in their efforts to attain freedom, lost sight of
moderation and conservatism.
We were aware that the celebrated Victor
Hugo was a Republican and a poet, but we
had never dreamed, until very lately, that he
was so lied a Republican, and so wild a poet.
We thought that he had a solid substratum of
common sense. We are sorry to find that we
were in error.
IIo recently delivered an address "to the
exiles of Karope, on tho anniversary of the
French revolution." It is full of poetry, full
of eloquence, and full of humanity. But it is
in many places full of nonsense. He gravely
proposes what some of our Northern lunatics
propose?that women shall be allowed the
right of suffrage. He says:
" We should,everywhere behold the brain
thinking, the arm-acting and matter-obeying ;
machinery serving tho will of man ; social ex
periments on a mighty scale; nil the wonderful
fecundations of progress by progress ; science
struggling with creation ; workshops always
open, whose doors poverty had only to push, in
order to become transformed into labor;
shools always open, whose doors ignorance had
only to push, in order to become transformed
to intelligence ; gratuitous and obligatory aca
demies, where capacities only should mark the
limits of instruction, and where the child of
the poor should receive *he same culture as
the child of the rich; polls, where women
might vote as well as men, for the Old World
finds women equal to civil, commercial and
penal responsibilities; it finds woman equal to
imprisonment, to Clichy, to the bagnio, to the
dungeon, to the scaffold. As for us, we shall
find women good enough for dignity and for
liberty ; it finds woman good enough for slavery
and death, we shall find her good enough for
life ; it recognizes woman as a public person
age for sufferings and pains and penalties, we
shall recognize her as a public personage for
justice and right. We shall not say?soul of
the first quality, man ; soul of secondary quality,
woman! We shall proclaim woman as our
equal, with respect the more. Oh woman, wife,
mother, sister, ctimpauion, eternal minor, eter
nal slave, eternal victim, eternal martyr, we
will raise you up I
We will not gravely discuss the subject of
women's rights, even with so intellectual a
man as the great Victor Hugo. It is beneath
his intellect, and to an Anglo-Saxon, beneath
contempt.
It is by such extravagances as this that
the French lose liberty and become subject to
despotisms. French philosophers are too often
sublimated poets, who expect, in this cold prac
tical world, poetic justice. They confound
moral maxims with legal enactments, and
think that what they express in beautiful
phraseology, can be accomplished with the
same ease with which the words are spoken.
They confound words with things?ideas with
deeds?visions with realizations. 'flTiat they
want is sound practical sense, and Anglo
Saxon conservatism.
The great Frenchman?for he is great?
as an idealist, thus defines freedom:
"Freedom to go and come, freedom to asso
ciate, freedom to possess, freedom to speak and
to write, freedQm to think, freedom to love, ]
freedom to believe?all these liberties would
form a panoply around the citizens sheltered by
them and become invioable."
Now, we enjoy all these privileges, fran
chises, and liberties in this country, and yet
women are not allowed to vote. But the
French poet and politician thinks that the
extension of suffrage to women is essential to
liberty.
But there are other points in this address of
the great Frenchman that challenge severe
criticism. He is evidently more of the Poet
than the statesman. .He dreams bright dreams
that he thinks may be realized?dreams to ful
fill which, all the French Patriots in all the
French Revolutions have bathed France with
blood.
French Philosophers, the most learned of
all, and French Patriots, the sincerest of all,
have one thing to learn. It is that th^y have
to take human nature as it is. They cannot
accomplish impossibilities. They cannot pluck
the moon or the stars from the heavens. % They
can no more extract rational freedom from
licentious liberty, than from grinding despot
ism.
The address of Victor Hugo abounds in
eloquence and poetry. We might quote manjy
sentiments of that character. We will content'
ourselves with one. He says :
'? Progress is the very stride of God."
But even here he commits what all his revo
lutionary predecessors have committed. He
forgets that progress in the best cause has a
limit. All human things have a limit. If
Frenchmen would observe this law of limit,
they would accomplish far more for the free
dom of their country, than they ever have
accomplished.
A revolution must be a sensible, well consid
ered and conservative revolution?or it will
end in barren bloodshed, and fixed despotism.
LKTTKR FItOM JIB. SOl'I.K.
Some days ago a statement appeared in the
New York IHmcs, which, after mentioning that
Mr. Soule had suddenly changed his bearing
towards the administration, stated that the
change was produced by the discovery, on the
part of Mr. Soule, that Mr. Perry, his Secre
tary of Legation had made certain communi
cations to the Department of State. According
to the article in the Time*, those communica
tions reflected so severely on the official condnct
of Mr. Soule, as to induce him to avoid any
issue with the government, for fear of their
publication. The National Intclligencer copied
the leading statement of the Times, and, by
doing so, called from Mr. Soule the following
letter:
New York, Mktropomtax IIotkl,
March 22, 18*>5.
To the Kditors of the National Intelligencer:
Mkssrs. Editors: My attention has just
been called to a republication which appeared
in your number of the 10th instant of an
article from the New York Times of the 17th,
alluding to a certain subreptitious correspon
dence, held, it would seem, between H. T.
Perry, esq., my Secretary of Legation at Ma
rid, and the Department of State at Washing
ton, and enclosing letters which had passed
bet ween that gentleman and myself subsequent
to my departure from Spain in August last.
Had not the article of the M Times'' gone
beyond that paper I should have avoidea no
ticing its contents; but when the grave Intelli
gencer hesitates not to transfer it to its columns,
I may well surrender what scruples I had
against thrusting myself on the attention of
the public, and be permitted to hazard a word
of answer.
The article of the Times intimates that my
reserve and discretion since my return to
Washington could only be induced by the ap
prehension that the above correspondence
should be sent to the public; and you, sirs,
not only seem to endorse that intimation, but
strive to make it more significant by the remark
that Ihe story narrated in it "is of too much
interest to lie withheld from your readers, for,
although it be calculated to mystify, more light
may soon be thrown on the subject."
I had imagined that your keen sight, Messrs.
Editors, could hardly be obscurcd by the mists
of Buch a narrative, as I have some reason to
know that very early, and long before the date
of the publication in the limesf you had ob
tained access to the very papers alluded to in
it. You ought from their perusal to have ac
quired the conviction that I could in no manner
object to their being exposed to the public gaze.
You certainly might, ut any time, havxj obtained
mu Jiat for giving them entire to your readers.
If it be true that, in my Secretary of Lega
tion, in the very man I had taken to my bosom,
though be belonged not to my political creed, I
had a spy and a traitor, it will never hurt me
to let the world know bow he carried on the
infamous trade.
Please, sir, insert this letter in your next
number, and believe me your very humble and
obedient servant.
PIERRE SOULE.
The National Intelligencer in publishing the
foregoing letter, subjoin* the following com
ments :
" Since Mr. Soulehas thought proper to admit
the existence of the correspondence alluded to
by the article of the New \ ork Times, copied
into the Intelligencer, we might forego any
observations on the Letter which he has done
us the honor to address to us ; but it may not
be improper for us to make one or two remarks
upon it. First, we did not " obtain access'' to
the correspondence referred to. A copy of it
was voluntarily but confidentially placed in our
hands for ^perusal in February, (not, however,
by Mr. Perry, with whom we had no corres
pondence, direct or(indirect,) and we respected
that confidence by abstaining from any refer
ence to the letters until we found the statement
in the New York journal. Secondly, in copyiug
the Times' article, we excluded those personal
passages which we supposed Mr. Soulo could
lake just exception to. rl hirdly, as the corres
pondence was not in our possession, it would
have been as idle as it would have been imper- ^
tinent and unprecedented to ask Mr. Soule's
fiat for its publication ; nor had we any motive
for so novel a step, as we had 110 reason to
doubt that the correspondence would, in due
time, be sent to Congress with the other papers
on the subject of our Spanish relations.
Know-notliingism ami Slavery.
"It is understood that the scarlet degree
binds the Know-nothings who take it to ignore
the slavery question, north and south, and vote
for every candidate put in nomination by the
regular secret machinery. Senator W ilson has
proved that he has taken this red degree.
What a poor soul a citizen of this free country
must have, to shackle himself with such Jesuit
oaths! How intensely that old party hack
must love oilice and distinction, who swallows
all his previous declarations, acknowledges I
himself a political knave, and rivals the clown |
of the ring in the agility with which he can |
turn somersets, to obtain votes! Certainly
some of the members of the secret order must
despise some of the political traders whom they
help to elevate."?Boston Post. j
DIED)
On Saturday morning, March 24lh, at the resi
dence of General Eaton, MARGARE I ROSA,
widow of the late Lieutenant John D. Randolph,
United States Navy.
Her friends, and those of the family, are re
quested to attend the funeral on Monday next, at
4 o'clock, p. m. , _________
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I<? ALLWHO HAVE CLAIMS TO COl
lecl.?1 ant#gam Collector in Fairfax county,
Virginia, tor two years from this day. My official
bond, with ample security, was given at June
court, 19th June. I intend to devote my attention
entirely to my business. From ray long experi
ence in my business, acquaintance with the peo
ple, andJ'aithful discharge of tny duties heretofore,
1 am induced to solicit a portion of the public col
lections from those who intend to place their
(Claims in the hands of an officer or agent. 1 will
tnke claims on any persons in my couuty for any
amounts, and, if justified, will attend to the collee
tious of claims in the adjoining counties.
If any reference is wanting, I would refer to the
clerks of my county and the attorneys ol the l>nr
here. All communications must be post paid.
Claims out of the State should be fully authenti
cated In-lbre sent to me lor collection; 1 will col
lect, in my official capacity or as agent, as may be
requested ; if. as an officer, 1 charge legal lee only,
and which if the claim is made, the defendant has
n!ways to pay; and if as agent, the plaintifl mlist
pay me ten per cent., il collected or sucured, and
anv legal cost I may be at to secure the debt.
SPENCER JACKSON,
Fairfax court-house, Virginia.
Sept 12?lm " _
SHIRTS! SlflRTS!! SHIRTS'!
M. II. FAUI.KNEK, the only practical
tflnrt Maker in the city, would respectfully
miurinfiis old customers, members of Congress,
and strangers, that by lenving their measures at his
Shirt Manufactory they can have shirts made of
the best material and warranted to lit in all cases?
the reputation which these shirts have acquired in
this city, induces the advertiser to invite those
gentlemen who have been troubled with bad lilting
shirts to give him a call feeling assured that they
will, on trial, adnut their superiority.
Sign of the Shirt, Pennsylvania avenue,
between 3d and 4J streets, south side.
p g a good assortment of Furnishing Goods
on hand, which will be sold cheap.
Nov. .'((>?eodI in (Union and Star-1
NI)i:K GARMENTS junt received.?1
have just opened a full supply of Gentle
men s Under Shirts and Drawers, silk, merino,
lambswool. Scotch do., Shaker, and Canton Flan
nels, Arc., which I am now prepared to dispose ol
at the most reasonable prices.
LANE S
Gentlemen's Furnishing Store,
gep 20 Penn. avenue, near 4i st.
"M) SEN ATOMS A N D MEMBERS OF
. the House ol Representative*.- A gentle
man who has had twenty years' experience as a
parliamentary, legal, and general reporter, both in
Europe and America, having several leisure hours
each day, proposes to devote them to the service
ol any gentleman having writing to do, either lor
the press or of any other description. Desiring
some mode of employing those hours until the ad
journment of the present session of Congress, he
is perfectly indifferent as to the character of the
writing he mny l>e required to perform, and will
oerform it upon the most reasonable terms. Com
munications addressed to P. U.T.,at Mrs. Ward's,
corner of 4| street and Missouri avenue, will meet
with prompt attention. References of the highest
order Frb
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W man, American or English, who can come
well recommended ns a Seamstress, and is will
ing and capable of taking care of Children. Apply
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Kl> GLOVES.?A fresh supply of Gent a
I u hi -colored Kid Gloves at
STEVENS'S
24?3tjf Sales Room, Brown's Hotel.
?total anii Jjcrsanal.
Caught ill his own Tjrap.?Yesterday morn
ing, an elderly German complained, at the watch
house, that an Irish hoy had called him hard names
?not pronouncing blessings upon him; in other
words, had curbed and sworn at him, in the mar
ket house. .
The complainant and the defendant wertf soon
arraigned before the presiding police magistrate.
Justice Morsell, who examined into the case with
hife usual carefulness.
It appeared that the parties occupied stands on
the market square, and that the German, leaving
his place of business, proceeded to that of the
Irish boy, officiously to remove a box which some
what obstructed un uil?t to the market. Hence
the difficulty betweeu the parties.
The German swore to the truth of the offence
charged; and the result was, the Irish boy was
tined two dollars and twenty two cents, which his
gentlemanly employer paid tor him, although the
juvenile offender, in tears, protested against this
act of friendship. The German appeared to be
satistied.
It was now the boy's turn to obtain satisfaction;
so he charged, under oath, the German with cal
ling him bad names; reflecting, too, upon the land
of his birth ; and, in addition, threatening to shoot
him ! This the German denied, insisting that his
language, at a stage of the quarrelsome proceed
ings, was, " I'll show you the word show sound
ing somewhat like that of shoot.
The magistrate lined the German in the sum of
two dollars and twenty-two cents; which amount
he reluctantly paid, expressing his surprise that
he was thus dealt with, lie had hastily and volun
tarily presented himself as the complainant, but
was now a defendant, by the oath of the boy. His
joy was turned into sorrow.
Further to adjust and equalize the matter, the
German and Irish boy were severally bound over
to keep the peace not only with eac h other,but
toward all the good people of the Uuited Slates.
A C omplaining Lodger.?-On Friday night a
^ white boy, aged nbout ten years, was found in a
countryman's wagon, secretly, perhaps dishonest
ly, inspecting the choice contents of the vehicle.
One of the Auxiliary Guard escorted him to the
watch house, in orderto provide him with lodgings.
The little fellow complained of the hard bench-bed,
but, to make his rest more comfortable, some old
coats and blankets were furnished forthat purpose.
'?How do you manage elsewhere ?" it was asked,
| " for you have deserted a good home and your
kind parents. " Why,' the lad replied, 4< 1 sleeps
on hay."
Young as he is, he has served a term or two in
the work-touse; there being no other receptable
for juvenile and adult vagrants in this city. One 01
the magistrates in attendance remarked, " I'm
I afraid I'll have to send yop down for ninety days,
again." "Please don't," he responded ; " 1 have no
objection to thirty days ;" bursting into tears.
Imprisonment in the work-house or municipal
penitentiary has eflected no reform in his morals,
and he is now as great a truant from home as
ever.
He was discharged from custody, yesterday
morning, after promising that he would not again
be found lurking about the Centre Market.
It is deeply to be regretted that there is no in
stitution iu the midst of us to which wayward
boyq, who are night-runners, or out-door sleepers,
can be sentenced?where an oversight can be
exercised concerning their morals, and where
wholesome instruction will predispose them to
conduct themselves with propriety, and inspire
them with ambition to attain to honorable man
hood.
Gift Enterprises seem to be"everywhere
popular. Showmen charge n specified amount of
money for a ticket, which secures the purchaser a
chance to draw something valuable, while the pro
prietors of the exhibitions draw large profits from
the credulity and pockets ol their patrons.
Several nights ago. eight hundred or more per
sons, of both sexes, adventured, each, '? a quar
ter" in the scheme of the "Dissolving Views."
While but a few of them found in the little boxes
which they had severally purchased, articles of
value worth speaking of and showing, the others
were provided with soap, or perfumery, or incon
siderable trifles.
On Friday night. the scheme was repeated; and
hundreds of people again tried their fortunes.
A number of Yankee cljcks were among the
ar-ft'el-les, for prizes. As the supply of soap was
nenrly exhausted on the two former occasions,
other things were substituted. The contents of
four of the boxes which we saw opened were,
first, a bone mustard or salt spoon ; secondly, half
a dozen chain links made of thread nndtin-foil;
thirdly, a bmss chain ; and fourthly, a dozen shirt
buttons. The last fell to the lot of an old bachelor,
who laughed heartily.
The scheme, for aught we know to the contrary,
was conducted fairly. Every one who buys a
ticket is assured lie shall receive so.mbtiiinu, and
so he does.
I^amil}' Necessaries.?The best flour is retailed
at eleven dollars and seventy five cents a barrel;
liutter, average price, thiity-one cents a pound ;
eggs, eighteen cents a dozen, a fall of one-half the
price within the past month; best l>eef, fifteen cents
a pound; Irish potntoe.4, the. sound?r nnd larger
kind, seventy-fiverents a peck ; herrings, twenty
five cents a dozen; perch,thirty one and a quarter
cents a bunch; eating apples, the best in the mar
ket, though nothing to boast of, sixty-two and a
half cents a peck ; dried apples, fifty cents, and
dried peaches, seventy-five cents n peck. No
housekeeper complains of over-measure by the
dealers. Plenty of every thing good in market,
and not n few continued complaints of high tolls
on the gastronomic demands of the community.
The Osborne Murder.?The Washington
Nrir* of yesterday says that "many persons in
this community have thought it very strange that
the proper authorities haye not ollered a reward
for the discovery and arrest of the blood-thirsty
assassins who murdered William Osborne, near
his dwelling, three miles north of this city,'about
a month ago."
We do not know whose business it is to offer a
reward; but we do know that when convicts
break out of the Penitentiary or the county jail,
rewards are offered by Government officials for
their apprehension. Our city authorities, loo,
have frequently offered large rewards for the ar
rest of incendiaries. Hut the murderer is suf
fered to go at large, without an effort being made
10 bring him to justice !
The Evening Star.? We notice by a card in
the Star, yesterday afternoon, that W. L). Wallach
has purchased all the property and interest of
William 11. Hope in that paper.
1'lic Nu>pci?lon llrlcljj*
On Wednesday afternoon, the 14th instant,
the new suspension bridge at Niagara 1' alls
was crossed by a locomotive and train ot cars
The directors of the Bridge Company, several
directors and officers of the New York Central
and Great Western railroads, and many others
werejiresent and participated in the brief ex
cursion ride. The locomotive Milo, weighing
thirty two tons, and three open freight cars,
crowded with men, made two trips each way.
The Niagara Kails International Bridge Com
pany exists by virtue ot charters given it by
the Canadian Parliament and the New ,i ork
Legislature. The first wire suspension bridge
was finished in 1848, and was built by Charles
KUet. It was a light and airy structure, a
mere spider-web, compared with the present
substantial railroad bridge, 1 he first one cost
less than $50,000. For several years it an
swered every purpose and formed the common
highway between New York and the Provinces.
The tolls of the bridge constantly increased,
and last year amounted to over $40,000. I he
stock was the best in the country, and was not
to be had at any price. The completion and
opening of the Great VY estern Railroad to the*
Falls rendered necessary a new suspension
bridge for railroad purposes. New stock was
issued, and the bridge, under the control of
John A. Roebling, as engineer and architect,
is now nearly finished, at a cost of about
$300,000.
It is entirely impossible by words, without
diagrams, to convey a very correct idea of the
suspension bridge; but we will give a few of
the figures relating to it, and attempt a brief j
feneral description:
,ength of span from centre to .cen
tre of towers ^00 feel
Height ot" tower above the rocC on
the American side
" " Cunadian side?. T?> "
" floor ol railway CO "
Height of track above the rock on
ois "
water
Number of wire cables
Diameter of eaeh cable ? ? 10i inches
Number of No. 9 wires in each ca
ble 3,059
Ultimate aggregate strength of ca
bles. 12,100 tons
Weight of superstructure bl)0 "
" and maximum loads 1,250 "
Maximum weight the cable and
stays will support 7,'500 "
Base of towers 10 ft. sq.
,Top of tower 8 "
Length ol each upper cable l,256j feet
?' lower cable 1,190 "
Depth of anchor pits below the sur
face of the rock 20 to 30 "
Outside width of railroad floor 24 "
Inside '. 22 "
Total length of wire in miles 4,000
11 will be remembered that the old suspen
sion bridge was hung by cables passing over
wooden towers, and the whole affair wasa light
and apparently frail structure. This, however,
"has stood all the blasts that rage through the
river gorge for eight or nine years, light as it
was. The present bridge is, however, muc-h
heavier, and has every uppearanee of stability.
It does not vibrate to the foot full; it gives no
oscillation under a heavily-loaded wagon, and
beneath a railroad train the jar is no more per
ceptible than upon any of the strongest truss J
bridges. We stood upon the bridge once when
the train passed and we rode over once, and
each time were astonished at tLc firmness aud i
immobility of the structure.
In building the new bridge the old one was
used as a platform. The wooden towers have
givfen place to solid stone towers, and the airy
old bridge to a linn smooth carriage way.
The immense cables, 10} inches in diameter,
formed of wires, bound together by a wrapping,
also of wire, are deeply imbedded in the rock
on each shore, and securely fastened into great
anchor plates. They pass then to the tops of
the towers and fall away in inexpressible beau
tiful, curves, and, rising again to the tower on
the other shore, pass to their secure anchorage
in the solid rock. These cables, are painted
white, and resemble in appearance a white
birch log as it lies in the woods. From the
cables at distances of eight or ten feet othei
smaller iron ropes drop, on which the wooden
and iron truss work of the bridge is suspended.
Cables cross and recross in every direction
essential to give strength and to obviate lateral
or vertical oscillation, and to equalize as far as
may be the pressure over the whole bridge.
The railway is laid on the top of the bridge,
and is made of heavy iron castings, fastened t?>
timbers of great length and size. This track
is about twenty-eight feet above the carriage
floor. The carriage floor is therefore an enclo
sure. It is the bottom of a tabular structure,
on the top of which is the railway. This tippet
track is securely railed in, and, though on a
larger and more magnificent scale, resembles
the old bridge, familiar to most of onr readers.
The carriage floor is nineteen feet wide. The
inside width of the upper floor is about twenty
two feet. In the centre of this is the iron
track-way. The track-way is arranged for three
guages, while in fact it occupies only the space
of one. It is in this wise: An ordinary track
is laid, the rails six feet apart. This is the
Erie guage. Between these rails are two oth
ers four feet eight-and a half inches apart. This
is the New York central guage; and from the
south inside rail to the north outside rail is five
feet six inches, or the Canada guage. The ar
rangement is simple but ingenious. The
switches are distant from the bridge on land,
and unless the trains that are to pass over the
bridge are switched upon tlioir proper guages,
of course they come to a stand-still remote from
the bridge. Thus there is no possible danger
from this source. It is proper to say that there
are three tracks upon the bridge. At the same
time only one train can occupy them at once,
as they are all in the compass of a single six
foot track. It is this track-way, and this alone,
that is leased to the Canada road for forty five
thousand dollars a year, which they underlet
to the New York Central and such othfcr roads
as tnay desire to use it. All the rest of the
bridge, the carriage-way and the foot ways that
are beside the track-way, are reserved by the
Bridge Company. These last will give an in
come of many thousand dollars above the forty
five thousand dollars lease.
The loads that have passed over the bridge
thus far have been comparatively light, but for
a long time past a weight of some two hundred
and fifty or three hundred tons of stone has
been lying upon the bridge as a sort of make
weight. There will be a formal celebration of
the opening of the bridge about the first of
May, to which "all the world" will gather.
| linrhtsier American.
8CHONENBEKG tfTlilTN,*
R KC IIT9-CON&I! LU R T K N,
GKNKRAL AMKHICAN AND KOKKION AOKNCV,
For the Collection of Claims, the Procurement ol
Patents, Bounty Lands, and Tensions.
BUREAU OF TRANSLATION
From the French, Spanish Italian, and tt?rman
Languages, and lor Topographical and other
Drawings.
No. 495J, 7th Street, Wasa igton City, D.,C
Nov 18 tf
MME. SC HON EN BE KG1
TEACHKR OK PIANO AND SINGING,
257 Pennsylvania Avknuk.
&d?pap[ric.
Later front California ?A rrival of thr
Utoryc liutv<
Nkw York, March 34.?(From Sand// flooi )
The <ieorge Law arrived this morning, with Cali
fornia date* ol'March 1st, three days later than
those brought by the Northern Light.
The mail* and passengers were brought down
by the < tolden Gate in eleven days and lour hdurs
/unnmg time.
The George Law left Aspinwallon the morning
of the ItJih. She brings 2.'M passengers.
The following are the principal consignees:?
Drexel A* ( o, $100,000; Metropolitan Hank, $10,
000; \ Hich Bros., &2(^b00; We I In, Fargo &
Co., $! .i.OOO ; Adams & Co., $10,500, and others,
amounting in ull to $317,800.
Colonel J. C. Fremont is one of the passengers.
Well*. Fargo, Ac Co., resumed payment cn the
27th, and all the demands thus far have been
proiupiy paid.
Adams <te Co., have filed a petition for insolvency.
Their schedule of assets and liabilities shows a
balance on the right hand side, of about $100,000.
Mr Wood's has given up all his private property,
estimated at $250,000, which goes to make up the
above total of assets.
The iailue ol Robinson & Co., is a bad one.
Baltimore Markets.
Baltimore, March 24.?Flour is tirm ; sales of
300 barrels Howard street at $8 87 1-2. City Mills
is unchanged. Wheat?sales of 5.000 bushels :
red at $2 10 a $2 17; white, $2 20 a $2 25, the
highest price since 1837. Corn?sales of 29.000
bushels ; white, 87 a 88c ; yellow, 88 a 89c. Oats
5-1 a 50 cents.
New York Markets.
New "i ork, March 24.?Cotton is upward and
tirm. Flour is upward, and a trille higher. Sales
of 5,500 bbls*. good Ohio, at $9 37 1-2 a $9 75.
Wheat is upward and firm. Corn is upward, but
not quotably higher; mixed, 100c. Fork is up.
ward, and prices are a trille higher; old mess, $11
| .il I I a $14 37 1-2. Beef is upward and tirm.
I Lard is down ward and dull. Ohio whiskey is quiet.
PUKE SI1A ERW AHU.?A Magnificent
assortment?M. W. GALT & BRO. call at
lention to their unusually large assortment of Sil
verware, consisting of?
Solid'silver Tea Sets, complete.
Silver Pitchers, solid silver Castors.
Silver Cups and'Saucers, Goblets.
Silver Fish Carvers and Forks, Crumb Scrapers
Cake Knives, Fruit Shovels, Sugar Sifters
Jelly Spoons, Cheese Scoups, Pickle Knives
and Porks.
Olive Spoons, Salad Tongs, Vegetable Forks.
1'ruit Knives, Ice Tongs, Desert Knives.
Soup, cream, and gravy Ladles.
Ice Cream Knives, Salt Cellars.
Napkin Rings, Butter Knives, Tea Strainers.
1 ea, 'I able, and Desert Spoons, and Forks ot
every variety.
Breakfast and dinner Coffee Spoons, &:c.
Also, a very large assortment of Fancy Silver
ware, suitable for wedding, birth-day, and other
presents.
The above is by far the largest nnd most varied
assortment ever offered to our customers. Being
of our own manufacture, it is warranted pure sil
ver, and oflered at as low rates as similar good*
can be purchased lor in any city in this country
M. W. GALT 6c BRO.,
Sign of the Golden Eagle,
Penn. av., between 9i|i i?ud 10th stree'ts.
SPIiENDIK PIANO?, Circa* Harpralns!
The subscriber has ju?t received two more ot
those very L odsuuio Rosewood Piaacs, iion
frames, si , <>? :ives. which, for richness of tono
and Utiisti. uh. compare most favorably with anv
other instruments lor *nie in this District Those
heretofore sold bv the subscriber have given per
<ect satisfaction, ami the manufacturer intends to
put them at sneli u low price as to place th?tn
within the reach ol every family of moderate
meant*.
i I!frs<T^,*lVng to Purchas<! ? superior and
really reliable Piano of warranted durability are
respectfully invited to give these instruments the
most critical examination. They will be dnpo?ed
of on accommodating terms, either for cash or
approved notes, and in every instance a guaranty
will be given. * J
As there is a growing demand.for this narticu
lar manufacture, the subscriber has made arranau
me ills lor a constant supply.
Great bargains may t e expected
W. C. ZANTZINGER.
Nov 12?6td
THE MISSISSIPPI AND ATLANTIC
CONNECTED!
UNITED STATES MAIL. ROUTE'
ONLY 56 HOURS FROM ST. LOUIS TO NEW
YORK! AND 36 HOURS TO CINCINNTI-'
CHICAGO MISSISSIPPI RAILROAD
Th* only Railroad Route from, the Lower
Mississippi to the Atlantic '
TIME FROM FT I/)U18 TO C1IICAOO ONLY 30 TIOtTR^l
r a^T"hThcSt1e,amer WINCHESTER leaves
the Alton wharf l>oat at St. Louis
;k',VW1w'v.te J'V>ep,<'d),at 7 ?'c,ock> ?? m". anJ
the REINDEER leaves the Alton wharf boat at
St. Louis daily at 5.30, p. m.
The steamers connect at Alton (only 25 miles
from St. Louis) with express trains for
SPRINGFIELD. BLOOMINGTON, LASALLF
CHICAGO, AND THE EASTERN CITIES
Passengers leaving St. Louis by the steamer
Winchester at 7, a. in., take the cars at Alton at
10, a. m., and arrive ut Chicago the next morning
in time to take the earliest morning trains going
Passengers leaving St. Louis by the Reindeer
at .>.30, p. in., take the cars at Alton (Saturday ex
cepted) at 9 p. m., in time for the evening trains
rest.
This line via Chicago nnd Mississippi, Illinois
Central and Chicago and Rock Island, or Chicago
and Aurora railroads connects with all the rail
roads at Chicago, and affords the most spcedv
route from St. Louis to points on the Mississippi
river, at and al>ove the Upper Rapids, as well as
to points on the Illinois river at nnd al>ov? IVL.n.
1 he trains of the C. and M. railroad connect at
Carlinville, Virden, Springfield, and Bloomington
with (rood Stage Lines for Htllsboro', Waverly'
Danville, Terre-Haute, Pekin, and Piona,and also
with the Great Western Bailroad at Springfield
with the Great Western Railroad for Jacksonville*
and Decatur, and at Bloomington with the Illinois'
Central Railroad for Lasalle.
p?-THROUGH TICKETS, and.Tickets to
Chicago, can be had at the offices of the Michigan
Southern, the Michigan Central, and the New
York and Erie railroads, St. Louis.
'&4U- riCKETS TO CHICAGO and all the in
termed ate places, can be had at the wharf l*>at
and on the railroad packets, and at the ofRoe.* of
the Chicago and Mississippi, Illinois Central, and
Chicago and Rock Island railroads.
E. KEATING, Sup't C. ifc M. R. R.
TAKE NOTICE,
I HAVE now on hand a large assortment
of every description of Spectacles, from the
lowest price to the very best quality used, and
having been for a long time engaged in manufac
turing. and adjusting Glasses for the most difficult
and defective visions,therefore can with confidence
guarantee to benefit and improve the a ghtof all
who need.
Call at 418, Pennsylvania avenue, Sign of th
arge Spread Lagle- A. O. HOOD.
Feb 7 (Organ.]
Land for sale.?Tiie Subscriber will
dispose of thirty acres ot land,being part of his
Iwrm known as Delcarlia, situated near the Little
balls, in Montgomery county, Md., and adjoining
the eontetTiplated water works. It is an excellent
piece ot land, and both from its fertility and lo
cality is admirably suited for a market garden.
Apply to the undersigned, or to his overseer ou
the larm.
WILLIAM B. SCOTT,
Sept 17?tf On 11 between 19th and 20th sts.
> HE CATHOLIC ALMANAC for 55.
just publmhed and tor e at
TAYLOH At MAURY a
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