American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-07-03

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at the Navy Yard, and then at the Arsenal, and
then at Monument Place.
We are also authorized by the Marshal to say,
that in the evening grand pyrotechnic display
will be made on the Mall, south of the Presidents
House. The police will here be stationed on
duty under the command of the Marshal, and
order will be preserved. No carriages will be
permitted to pass or remain between Fifteenth
and Seventeenth streets
(For the programme of the days proceedings,
see first page.)
Here is historic item, appropriate to the
time:
Extracts from the Records of Proceedings of tht
] Commissioners, VoI. T., p. IT'S.
ID April 179s.At meeting Of the Goo Commissioners at
! George Town, on the I'd day Of April, 1885
| Present, THOMAS JOHNSON,
DAVID STUART,
DAN'L CARROLL, esq.
The President Of the United States forwarded to the
Commissioners his appreciation of Dr. Thorntons plan for
| a Capitol in the following letter:
[oopY.l
GEORGE Town, Cd April, 1898.
GENTLEMEN: approve Of the Plan Of Dr. Thornton for
CAPITOL to be erected in the City Of WsshngtOn
To the Commissioners for the Federal Buildings.
We are requested to state that ladies will be
admitted in at the west door of the Capitol, at
ten o'clock o. m, tomorrow, and will have an
opportunity of viewing the procession from the
east portico.
| After the President, Orator of the Day, &c.,
have taken the seats assigned them, the whole
building will be thrown open for the accommo-
dalton Of the public.
The grafton will be delivered from the stand
on the east portico of the Capitol.
SOMETHING RIcH.-Mr. Secretary Stuart's de-
claration in his Richmond speech, last week,
his Department, he had not one Abolitionist or
disunionist, and that he knew no distinction
between Wings and Democrats, is causing a
great deal of speculation and comment among
all classes of politicians here; and we regret to
say that the bowie-knife has been drawn, in q
fgurative sense within the Departments. A
correspondence on the subject, of a spicy nature,
has, as we learn, been had between Mr.. Philip
Clayton, the Second Auditor of the Treasury,
and the Rev. Mr.. Collins, sixteen hundred
dollar clerk in the Indian Bureau, appointed by
Mr.. Secretary Stuart, some months ago. II
appears that Mr.. Collins having heard that Mr..
Clayton, in commenting upon Mr.. Secretary
Stuart's Richmond speech, had styled him Mr..
Collins) an Abolitionist, addressed the Auditor
a letter, denying that he was an Abolitionist OF
that he Appropriated to one, and complaining
that he had been misrepresented.
Mr.. Clayton replied that he had not called
Mr.. Collins an Abolitionist, but had referred to
his course in the Methodist Episcopal Confer
ence, some years ago, sin the matter of heaping
odium upon Bishop Andrews, and causing the
separation of that great and good Bishop from
his church, because the Bishops wife was the
owner of slaves |"
Mr.. Clayton assured Mr.. Collins that he, at
the time, believed he had done more injury to
the South and its peculiar institutions, by his
persevering efforts against Bishop Andrews for
the cause assigned, than any Aboitionist at the
North and that he was still Of the same opinion.
If he was not an Abolitionist, he was acting
with and had greatly aided the cause of that
class of dangerous fanatics.
We understand the correspondence here
ended. 1t is to be hoped that no more CORES
pondence upon this agitating subject will be in
dulged in by the officers of the Government. A
little spice of the kind is enough. Let it now
rest. Let us have no more provocations, how
ever.
g iris neutral ground