Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-03

istrsiion which, should aeke the change. $4,000
per annnm is too little, but it strikes me il
would have been better to have made the increase
in the shape of good substantial houses we'll fur
nished.
Another amendment adopted to-day was also
very important. 1t classifes the Clerkships, di-
viding them iato four classes--the first receiving
nine, the second twelve the third fifteen, and the
fourth eighteen hundred d,llars per annum.-
Before clerk is appointed he must be examined
by board of examiners. composed of three
clerks, appointed by the Secretary.
Saturday, an amendment was adopted to the
army appropriation bill appropriating 500, 600 to
provide for the survey of II Pacific Railroad. This
amendment was offered by Mr.. Gwinn because
he wanted an entering wedge made for road,
though he did not think it would amount to much.
Also, amendment granting lands for an emil
grant route; and one appropriating 100000 to
| Re given to the whom n court of Justice
might adjudge the discover of the new anaes-
thetic agent.
The President elect, Senators Soule, Cas-.
| Hunter, Gen. Scott and the Cabinet select took
dinner with Mr.. Fillmore to day. 1t is really
sign of the perpetuity Of our government to see
the rising and setting sun, all parties and creeds
uniting socially at the dinner table.
Thackeray's last lecture on Saturday evening
was well attended, Cruiss Saloon being jammed
full Among the distinguished individuals pre-
sent we noticed the President elect in company
with Mr.. Fillmore. We doubt much whether
Mr.. Thackeray's hearers are as much edited as
they pretend to be; and in our opinion, if he
was a brother Jonathan instead of John Bull
his audiences would be much smaller. Mr..
Ihackeray talks well, speaks brilliantly, and
charms his hearers by his witty. odd saes, but
presents no new facts, and does not even impress
those upon the mind
DIR. Smith is giving course of lectures at the
Smithsonian Institute upon Egypt and the Holy
Land. He give Tonight description of his
travels from Egypt to Palestine. He says that
the soil of the Holy Land is very rich, and might
be brought under good cultivation. The country
Is really OVERLOOKING in milk and honey. All that
is wanted for the Improvement of the country is
an Infusion of enterprise into the people,
! There is Mt the National Hotel in Washington.
gentee looking parsonage, who styles himseJ
the "Yankee card writer" He is a Yankee in
every sense of the word, and wthal an excellent
pensman. We have seen him repeatedly initiate
the most difficult hand writing upon first trial.
so admirably that it could not be told from the
original. He is a little foppish in dress and man.
ners, but that of course takes we'll with the la
dies.
| The TERRoRs OF UGLINEss.-The last number
ofths Democratic Review is ornamented ~ with
n portrait of Mr. Bennett, of the Herald
| 1t must be confessed that Bennett is not a
han dsome man. The Louisville Journal pokes
fun at his likeness in the following pitiless
style:
There's one thing we will readily admit and
that s that if Benefits portrait be correct he is
! the ugliest OF the Democratic editors For
awhile we doubted whether he or a certain
neighbor of ours is tho ugliest mortal, but the
| twist in the eyes of Bennett decided the contest
in his favor. We congratulate our neighbor
| that there is one editor ugler than himself in the
Democratic ranks.
| Benefits portrait is terrific Such thing
ought never to be painted daguerrotyped. It
ought to be considered penal offence to make
anything revolving to all our ideas of propriety.
No man has right to monopolizs so much ugli-
ness. 1t Benefits illness could be distributed
| over thousand faces it would make each of them
| intensely, hatefully ugly. He ought not to be
permitted to 60 into the streets without blan-
| ket over his awful frontispiece. No wonder that
| so many of the New York children die of con-
vusions, since Bennett is permitted to walk
abroad with uncovered face. We once heard of
a mans face that was ugly that it was placed
on andirons for the purpose of frightening chill
| dren from the fire with much effect No child
dared to approach the andirons, and the liability
! to combustion from such cause was greatly les
soned. If Benefits ugly likeness were stamped
on fire-paces, the effect would be decidedly
bad, for the children would not dare to 90
near enough to the fire to keep warm, and
would become frost bitten and perhaps frozen to
| death. We cannot conceive of any reason why
anything should be SO ugly as Bennett. He is
| ugier than half-starved hyena He is ugliness
| perfected. There is thoroughness about his
ugness which defes competition. When Mi
rabeau described himself tiger that had had
the smallpox, he placed very ugly idea in
everybodys mind. but it beautiful when
| compared with Benefits face. When Appeles
| made his beauty, his Venus, he took an eye from
one woman, nose from another, mouth from
| Il third, and so on until the Venus was complete
| in her more than earthly beauty. Now if any
Appelles artist of any appeation, wished to
make the most Individually perfect representation
of ugliness, he would not DO compelled to take
| TEXTURES from several very ugly persons but all
he would be compelled TO do would be to get
Benefits face, and the enterprise would be ac-
| complished.
VISIT RESPECT TO PRESIDENT FILLMORE.
| In accordance with resolution of the City Ceun-
ellis of Washington. and agreeably to appointment
the members of the Board of Aldermen and
Board of Common Council, with the Mayor and
other Executive officers of the Corporation, wal
ted President Fillmore Tuesday to tender
their respects aud good wishes in taking leave of
him on his retirement from office and from the