The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-10-26

noon on a warrant issued by Justice Beck, charging
John Il. Killmon, the keeper of grocery store on
the corner of Penns yvania avenue and LIST street,
with selling liquor in less quantity than pint
without obtaining license therefor from the corpo-
ration On the hearing of the case, it appeared
| that error in the warrant was apparent, In
stating that license obtained from the ''re
| gister of the city and county" &c.-no such Of
| icer existing-whereas it should simply have been
| the ''rcgister of the city" The magistrate re-
| served his judgment until he consulted with the
Corporation Attorney Joseph H. Bradley, esq.,
who has given his decision that the warrant is de-
fective, and that suit should issue The ma
| gistrate thereupon issued pros. The corpo-
ration thereby subject TO the payment of the costs
| on the first warrant.
The WAsHINGToN CANAL.--A visit to the canal
on Thursday afternoon exhibited to US considerable
progress in the cleaning out and improvement of its
| bed, and the work is progressing rapidly
The extensive basin at the foot of It'll street has
been completely filled up, the stone walls of the
| canal extended in straight line across and two
| substantial and we'll built culverts convey the
water from the of Pennsylvania avenue,
| through what was the basin, into the canal The
| patent force-pump of Messrs Erkson & Bushnell,
now in operation for emptyng the water out of the
different sections, is admirable piece of machi-
| merry, and is capable, when required of pumping
| from $50 to 200 barrels of water per minute The
work is now, with the aid of this pump, progress
| ing very rapidly, and large number of laborers,
horses and carts, &C., is employed thereon. 1t is
expected that the work, as far as Maryland avenue
bridge, will be completed by the first Of January
| next.
| "CAuGHT TARTAR."-A genuine specimen of
olive Yankee 'front.' ipay do,cn East" who halls
under the cognoinen of Flagg, has been perambu-
lating streets for several days selling species
| of manifold writer, with little success His
| mOdus operdndi of drawing in the customers and
| quarters is certainly as novel as original. The
| strangest and most amusing conglomeration OF
prose, poetry, wit, burlesque tragedy and comedy
aresgnificanty rehearsed to the wondering crowds,
in expressing the merits of ssthis wonderful nven-
tom Jonathan's successful operations were not
suffered to be carried on, however, without in
| terruption, he yesterday summoned to ap-
pear before his honor, Squire Dom, for breach OF
| the city ordinance, restricting hawkers and ped
| lars, upon writ sworn out by another mongrel
| Yankee, who it seems had been in the employ OF
said Fagg in days past, sufficiently long to become
boss" and true to his native instincts mmedi-
| ately dissolved his secondary connexion, and be-
came principal. Here was matter involving the
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feelings ensued. The new aspirant, who it seems
belongs to the original Virgins family, having a
little bespatterng of legal knowledge, instituted the
prosecution, but unfortunately for himself his bad
feeling was SO manifest in giving in his evidence
| that his malicious motives became too apparent {,
have much effect, and the original Jonathan, VIII,
| was sup to snuf1'' had taken the precaution {,
carry his factory with him. and had manufacture
his article in the city, thus quashng the Who'll,
matter, much to the chsgrin of poor Virgins. w,
saw Jonathan few hours after in the full tide o
| 80 successful experiment" rehearsing something
like the following
Come, gentlemen, buy
| You certaing oughter-
| sheet take and try
| Twill cost but quarter"
The ALLEeHANy.-The U. S. steamer Allie.
ghany, having been stripped and laid up in ordi
nary at our navy yard, the seamen have been dis
charged and paid off, and slack ashore has been
going it pretty freely in for the last day
or two. A number of them have gone off to Balti
more and other places.
OpD Fellows FUsERAL. Harmony Lodge
|. o. o. F., at the Navy Yard, attended yesterday
afternoon the funeral of their late fellow member
| Mr.. William Murphy, who buried with the
funeral honors of the Order.
Sons or TEmpERAsoE.-The Howard Division %
the Sons Of Temperance celebrated their fourth an
nversary on Wednesday evening in the Methodist
Protestant church, Navy Yard. The meeting was a
very interesting onc--able and eloquent addresses
being delivered by Messrs Upton, Davis, and
other gentlemen, and the proceedings were inter.
spersed with excellent music. The fine weather
and the popularity of the drew large at
tendance of ladies and gentlemen, among whom
were a number Of members of other divisions in full
} regalia
DARING BuReLARY-The Mansion house of Mr.
washine ton Berry, in this county about two mile,
east of the Capitol, was broken into on wednesday
night, and robbed of about 500, principally il
bank notes, and quantity of silver plate, &c. Tn,
robbery was effected by entrance into a window
on the first floor and quietly did the thieves ope
rate, that none Of the family servants were dis
turbed. A jug of whisky and small dog were lief
in the house by the thief thieves, who decampeC
with the booty without detection. Mr.. Berry offer
liberal reward for the arrest Of the robbers and i
is hoped that the vigilance Of the police may soor
succeed in bringing the culprits to justice
THs ErrroprAs sEaENApnRs.-The great success
of the Serenaders drawing nightly as they d,
crowded houses of the beauty and fashion Of tn,
metropolis, and the evident qualification manifested
by our citizens with their delightful performances
have induced them TO prolong their visit for the bal
ance of this week. Tonight and to-m morrow nigh
they announce as positively their last performance
here. We need not advise readers to hear then
before their departure, odd Fellows Hall is to b,
filled and he " who has music in his soul'' will b,
Z" sure TO be there"
wAsHIsoros AsssmBLy.--A literary association
with this name, composed Of young men Of thi,
city, meets every Friday evening at their room on
5th between f and streets, for public discussion
and improvement This evening an interesting
subject will be discussed before the society, to which
the public are invited.
et- Notice.--A meeting of the Washington City
Assembly will be held this friday evening, at II