New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-03-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
The National Naseum and Patent Oiice-An
Antldote to ClingmHn Congress and the
Right OF Petition.


passing through the upper apartments descended
b the basement. and clerk or messenger having
unlocked q door . show some one a machine.
followed then. and fond machinery and mod Is
enough b q the - hole Of the upper floor huddlec
~ u heaps. piled withou, order. unarranced, like
boarding house furniture on 2 May Day removal
su3 his % tho great Inconvenience Of inventors
VINO have been specially taxed 10 tVld the Patent
Oaice-ths is have been taxed more on their pa
tents o. applications than the service done til n
cost or vas worth. and are now deprived OF tic
use Of their own building and $4,000 more 81
their funds distracted 100000 additional being
graspod st. by Government that IS spending
s2I0ODDoQ aud more, yesrly on Army and NAVY
Officers and Contractors. many Of them the undc
serving lsyorites OF cour,ly politicians, and pro
posing % spend during The year ending Jane
1881 over $40 600 900 IN addition 10 the 80 01I o00
Of State and District Taxation. very lthe Ol
tho cxncndi,urcs OF the National Government
going toward useful Improvements OF any Kind.
IIt0 % 10 Hamc tooHni Is there no Member OF
Coprrcss able and willing to rouse his brethren OF
the Two Houses sufficiently - an investigation
Much # what is rare aud curious in the upper
gallery consists az The collections of the Explouus
Expedition, but there are many other rare things
and among them FRtNKtISs Press, on which bee
worked when iolrncyman IN England owned
Que MT unlike IL many years since
What q moral that press might PRINT, what O. tale
II might adorn Z ARTHUR should take 10 uy
The machine-ls 1t not like tie lightning lu it,
powers may be 90 years old. but only 20 have
elapsed since the Doctor used a.
Like the British Museum, tie gallery IS free.
Except nm old man who told me he was go years
from ireland saw no one IN charge, Yet cvcry
thing in the gallery aud in the patent rooms below
was ian excellent order The shoes which Dr.
VESSEL, saws he took of the feet Of a Chinese
woman sre really curiosity That She was 81
woman do not doubt. but ! suppose the doctor
would not expect the Apostle Thomas If he worc
alive or anybody else, 20 believe that she was more
than five wears old Board OF Cnspus. % as
senb,d al Lynn. Mass. would scarce allow her o.
have been as old as that
What queer fantastic shapes Dame Nature. 90
her " sdOm 1t you viii, elects Ia assume Iht
Bats hooked ON TO a twig hy their capacious
claws. and sleeping head downward. The Tat sea
leopard. sort O.. mammoth ph0cd, as Hector, iu
the Autiquary, would have SAID had he seen one
ct Broulhty Ferry The stuffed baboou, carrca
ture on humanity and yet not much OF carrca
ture neither on some specimens OF II that ]
have seen here the sea lawer-the profession VIII
pardon me some Of is members are so dull ant
Hat as 20 have good cause Of action IN libel suit
when named IN connection WITH a warrior OF NE
deep. AIflerS
TINS land II loving wives and faithful BeuediCts.
but such A stag as spOrted the noble head Of
horns deposited IN the Museum, should like 90
have seen st a safe distance. guess such spccl
mems are rare on both Continents. When Prince
Cbarley's men while on a rebel planning highaDd
hunt, near the Bsmoral scenery which Victoria
loves found herd of these creatures. stays aud
kinds pushing on toward them down the narrow
glen they fell fiat on th9 ground as We are tod DO
Wavor'y. and the deer passed over them. They
knew there was i,,s danger ga NE toofs than ~
the harms
might 20 on for half a dozen columns talking
about curOsities, but You would not publish m1
unweilly epis,le even If were 20 "revsc II and
rctouch and hate even g. read bad manuscript
Washingions leather Brooches. however must
briefly refer to. an elegant garment. truly con
spicuously displayed and ia state Of excellent
reservation He We born lis years since, an
must have worn them some 20 years ago This
venerable relic Illustrative OF the fashions seen on
the streets OF New York. in military professions
on a gala DAY. were II IN the hands Of the equity
craftsman who first told the amusing tale about
" The BishoSs Breeches' and the convent o: nuns
that had the mendine Of them, might yet b.
turned On good account W eshlugtons m.alG
Tea Board is also presorN ed. and good one It is
few better w ere the author Of Chrysal alive, 20
fancy all the cony ersstions the hopes the fears,
the doubts, the disagrcesb.es and tie aSreoabes
Tire Adventures OF Tea Board, would surpass
Ia interest The Adventures OF r Guinea.
The original Of the Declaration OF Independence
IS i'm the Museum. The son Of former Secretary
showed it to me once before in the State Depart
mcnt and rs ROBERT w ASH o. Pans happened
70 be there at the same time, had the pleasure az
seeing two originals st oncc-sll vii allow ihst-
Several treaties are in the Museum, which were
formerly shown at the State Department bs, o.
those signed by Napoleon are among them / coa'd
not find cat their new location
The Commission Il a noble Nlreinian signed bN
a Tar famed ankee and shrewd lrishmsn. under
authority of which WAsHiNGroN led the armies Of
Freedom. that 10, ii Compromises with Slavery
and slave dealing shall no; finally convert them
and hope they wont-in,o the worst Of All earthly
despotisnsl % victory is indeed a curiosity. The
autograph signatures Of CARL JOHAN ,BLRNA
OF Russia. MErrERNicH
FRANCIsCVs /, FER>ANDo VII. L0Uis NNl
LOTS NNllI. Louis PHiLrfE, PEpHo o! Brazil
FRKDERiC GUuINNNE oil Prussia. and the prUai
gate GIoRCE ~. when Resen,sl Of them 81
pended 10 State Documents are plain and unpre
teudine possess one by the latter. and hs Mn
,ster. SInNoC III, t. an army commission, which j.
IN rather better prcscr, alton
There arc many military memcntoes, but waN
aa saes and banners N tod they syc u b,
seen down al the Arsenal The hrst time came
S,uth IS far as Virginia. Gen. MAccNE then sta
several bureaus and pubic places where thiur'
rare and curious were 70 be met with snd among
the faes never forgot remarkable one very
whsch he made an officer unnol. and cxh.tt-,he
emblem was GSiic cock. the figure OF lsrg,
AMI besauiu, creature that would have msdt
Chapman crow Justify, whether in sesson or ont o
H. Why not group the flags with the other va
Lac trophies Why not suspend them iTuiu ue
rcol OF the gallery as the kughsa do IN = Pau s
Church
40 for a pcsce esJsbli shmont Ia toto. ard a.
uirc the pictaTe OF a iuture thus verslhcd, li
which.
No i0agcr b1sis eDcOunierlrs hOsts.
Sh. crowds Il slAil Gepl0re
rbey hAnc Tie ifanl pet IN he bal
And study wa no more.
When FoIE and MARCY hoaxe1 the CkGrtslCl
C,.rrsr iLto belief that they really meant 10 De
clsre war sgains; John Bal for the 81 40, that
iourua' dotted the CLNGNAN style b0mbAsuc. -
chewea HuGhrss and al other Of Batlers rhythms
and sroSnsd out rs lamentations thus, II voice
that Jeremiah w0ad have pronounced quite nsiu
rsi
4 "a, ,.sH .aks az srsr Ssis. pred. -isssf sHd -
>,.4 sah,ef To 10 Meta Sssrs ~ htess y q.
s, ,-sl f,arTls tar, hsra kAss- srs IAs ~ 80
"a lre brres pssrs-lsdsc4 Y fsrs aEyfasss ASy "a
b,st~- fAsa k-scVtsS Is arfE1 ActeG They vii hsye
- pleasure OF buster, tnrno and fshuae with noae o
be blight ard horrors OF Ttcy VII have sn el q
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