Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-09-25
City Items.

1862 Past Worthy Patriarch, Mitchell h. Mil
Ter; Worthy Patriarch, E. c. Grier; Recording
Scribe, B. A. Janvier Assistant Recording
Scribe, Arnold b. Johnson Financial Scribe,
Richard Kelly; Treasurer, H. Holcombe Rhees /;
Conductor, Lorenzo ]. White Assistant Conduc-
tor, L. D. johnson; Inside Sentinel, Edward
Mccain Outside Sentinel William ]. Rhees.
Bsy~ The Board of Directors of the Metropoi-
tan Mechanics Institute met and organized last
night. J. c. Hardness, esq, presided. OF the
twenty-four members twenty-one were present
Several standing committees were appointed, and
the most perfect harmony prevailed throughout
the meeting. A select committee was appointed
to amend the design of the diploma when neoes-
sary and contract for it's immediate execution.
Acommittee on the exhibition, consisting of fifteen
members, was appointed, and they go to work
Immediately making the arrangements for the
exhibition, which is to take place as early in
February as possible. BY resolution of the
Board the Corresponding Secretary was directed
to inquire of the officers of the various railroad
companiesi if they can and will make arrangements
to transport goods for the exhibition to this city
free of charge. The zeal and harmony apparent
among the members of the Institution, and the
rapid increase of members, are, we think, very
certain harbingers of success We are requested
to say that persons wishing to become members
cae do 80 by leaving their names with Mr.. Bren,
the Secretary, in the basement of the Patent
| Office
BSya The dead man who was discovered on the
"Fats" in the river, last Thursday, was taken
ashore that evening, and an inquest held yester-
day morning. He is supposed to be colored
man who fell from the schooner Henry Clay,
Sunday last. The verdict of the Jury was
accidental drowning"
9ay- The bottle is doing its work. and "cutting
out" work for the criminal court to do. The
next term of this court will, we judge from pres
ent indications, prove to be a very long one, and
much of the business will be found to have origi-
mated in the bottle. This morning only, man
who is a property holder, and who would be re-
spected by his neighbors was he q sober man,
was sent to jail for abusing his wife and children;
and for weeks past we have been called upon to
uutCc Cdooo hhOiO pSAoolo WSiO Shai 5Su Win
various criminal offences, two-thirds of them were
the offspring of intemperance. When will it
cease?
peY@ An old man and his wife were picked up
by the watchmen last night and taken to the
watch-house. Justice Clark, this morning, sent
them to the work house as Migrants. They were
drunk-very.
The Rev. Mr.. Schlosser has been employed,
and has entered upon his duties, as n home mis-
sionary in connexion with Gorsuch Chapel, in the
Seventh Ward, and in the neighborhood of Green
leafs Point.--Rep.
TEMPERANCE CELEBRATION learn that the
Rev. Samuel Kepler has been selected to deliver
the address before the Sons Of Temperance Of this
District and neighborhood, on the occasion of the
celebration Of the tenth anniversary of the Order
on the 29th instant.-Rep.
FIRE DEPARTMENT-The committee on this
subject in the Board Of Common Council have
under consideration bill for new organization
of the fire department.-Rp.
The Catholic Test ip New Hampshire.
Opposed as we are to the interference of Ca
tholics, as a body, in our politics, and regarding
such interference as dangerous alike to our civil
and religious liberties, still we have ever advo-
Gated the largest liberty Of conscience, and en-
tirely disapprove Of that clause in the constitu-
ton of New Hampshire which makes religion q
test for Office. We, therefore, are glad to find
that public opinion is denouncing it, and the
first honest and open demonstration we have seen
against it, is the following resolution unanimous
ly passed at the Wing State Convention, held at
Concord, few days ago:
"ResolUed That we believe it to have been the
design of the founders Of the government TO
make America the asylum Of the oppressed, but
never TO the subversion Of its distinctive charac
ter; that it be the refuge alike from religious
and political oppression, and that within Its
boundaries civil privilege should be unabridged
| by religious opinions; therefore we, the Wings
of New Hampshire, are, as we always have been,
decidedly in Jduor Of blottng the religious test from
our State constitution"
The Metropolitan Mechanics Institute.
We with pleasure place before our readers the
following cheering and encouraging communica-
ton
MARYLAND INSTITUTE,
Baltimore, Sept. q, 1852
SIR: Your letter Of the 18th instant, inform
| ing this institute " of the establishment and or
gani1ation" Of the F" Metropolitan Mechanics In.
stitute," was duly received and laid before the
Board of Managers last evening The following
resolutions were thereupon offered and unani-
mously passed
"Resolpsd, That the Corresponding Secretary
of the Institute he directed 10 convey to the off,
GERS and members Of the Metropolitan Mechan-
les Institute the hearty congratulation of this
Board, and to assure them of the satisfaction
with which they have received the official intelli
gence of their organization.
"Resotued, also, That the cordial cooperation
of the Maryland Institute be rendered to our