Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-02-10
GEORGETOWN CORRESPONDENTS.
GEoRaErowS, February 10, Is5

GEoRGETowy, February 10, 1854.
The proposition which passed our Common
Council ON last Friday night, to memorabilia
Congress for the power to double our present
rate of taxes, does not appear to meet with
much favor from many of our citizens. They
viii, however, find but little relief, we imagine,
in grumbling at this late day. The subject
has been in agitation some three months OFT
more, and no opposition of public character
being raised to it, therefore, we presume the
Council have construed their silence into an
assent to the proposition and have acted ac-
cordingly. So that if they should find in the
end that they have acted the part of the man
IN the parable, and have slept while an enemy
came and sOwed tares among their wheat, they
viii find it the easiest and best plan to saw
nothing about it. The people have the power
IN their own hands to regulate all such matters;
and II, in this instance, they have failed to ex.
ercise 1t, they have no one to blame but them
selves. We cannot believe that if they had
spoken out upon the subject and declared to
the Councils, their disapprObatiOn to the mea-
sure, that they the Councils) would have per-
sisted In Its contamination, when there GER
tainiy is a much fairer and better method by
which the necessary increase of revenue nigh
be obtained, viz, new general assessment Of
ali the roperty in our corporation, at its pres
ent increased valuation, and q tax upon ali
stocks which earn their profits in our town.
so far as we are concerned, personally, we
care but little about the matter. but knowing
as we do. that the heaviest end of the burden
will ultimately fall on those who are least able
to bear 1t, Tin the shape of increased house
rents,) we had hoped that our corporation
Legislators would have resorted to some other
measure to raise the means to meet the interest
upon our corporation subscription to the Me-
tropolitan railroad, without imposing such n
heavy burden, as this will in the end prove to
be, upon large number of our people, who
are lily able to bear it,
Il bold attempt to raise The d-On We'd
nesday last, an individual who drives butter
wagon to our city, went into the barber shop of
Mr. walter POmroy to get shaved; after the
operation was performed, he gave Mr.. Pomroy
note to take out his pay; in getting the change
out of his pocket-boOk, he (Mr Pr left a $50
bill lying on a table in the shop; the individ-
ual left, and few minutes afterwards Mr.
Pomroy returned to look for his Xxx, but to his
great surprise it was among the missing His
suspicious fastened at once upon the individual
above referred to, and he went meiiately In
pursuit of him. Not finding him anywhere in
Georgetown, he pursued him to Washington
where he overhauled him at tavern. MIR. P
took him one side, and demanded his money,
the fellow boldly denied having it, but upon
Mr.. +. threatening to take him before Justice
OF the peace, he forked over the twenty, and
offered him fifty more to say nothing about it,
We regret to learn that the Rev. Henry
| Slicer, Chaplain to the United States Senate
met with an accident in the early part of the
week, which has confined him to his room ever
since. 1t appears that while going out of the
door of his dwelling, he slipped ald fell, and
his head striking against a hard substance, was
severely cut. Last night he was better, blu,
still suffering considerable pain from the
! wound.
We learn that the iron superstructure for
the main spans of the Little Falls bridge was,
on yesterday, placed in their proper positions,
On the stone piers, by Mr.. Ryder, the contrac-
| tor. So perfect were all the arrangements for
the accomplishments this heavy undertaking
that not the slightest accident of any kind hap
pened during its execution.
The stock Of both -four and grain in our
market is very light, and none Of. the former
and but little of the latter arriving. Up to
yesterday afternoon, flour remained firm al
So.624 IS S74; wheat at 81. 90 a 81. OF for red
and 81 S2.05 for white. We doubt not bu,
this morning foreign news will cause further
advance Of from 12s to % cents in the former
and to cents in the latter.
| We learn from some of our wood merchant.
that the stock of this very necessary article or
hand is amply sufficient for the remaining Dor
| ton OF the cold season. SPECTATOR.