Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-06-21
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.


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the fracss occurring yesterday between .asss1.
Church we'll and Cu.lom.
The Washington Watsr works Again
to day, We continue the rsfuta'ion OF tns points
esssyed to be made by Mr.. stanton, OF n.y.,
in hi. war on the proposed appropriation.
Thus: .-tf
G,.ak Fails Manufacturing Company
Mr.. s. argues that the engineer did very
wrong in not making some arrangement with
those who Sc. up claim to own the Potomac
river. and who moiestly offered to sell the
Government 67,oo0, 900 gallons day, ftr
$50, 600. .-
He has read the correspondence on the sub.
ject. and feels great sympathy indeed for those
gentlemen. ..
Now, if he read the correspondence atten-
lively, he found that they expressly declare
that no one, and ne State, has right to take
water out of river, unless It be put back
again before it left tho farm on which it was
taken out. Hence, no cross-eut canals can be
legal. And yet this right, which they say
cannot exist, they offer 10 sell to the Govern
ment,..
Again, If every riparian owner has right
to all the water that flows past his land, would
not tho next owner below this $50 called con-
paDy have like claim for $3.50, and the
next, and the next, &c &c, for fifteen miles !?
no matter how large or how small the tra,t
each may own. What, pray, but toe ex.
position of this Inevitable conc. usion to
which the claim set ~ to Owa The great Po-
iomse lesds, cau IL be, that Mr.. s. characteristics
As hausLt;ue so ~e ev
He speaks OF depriving them # their valu-
abe ~aer p'wer-of fixing away $1,000, 900
gallons from above theis f,ls. Dos he knos
hat by actual me - ,remen. th lowest daily
dow Ct the Potomac this s.ason was l.2SS,
100000 Of gallone, and th II il generally fIss
hres or four times tina, quantity A dread
III IL jury, Indeed. to these DOR men. They
have oaly .22s 0OO, 900 g.l.ans left fo- few
hot days, and only froD, 10 10 900 000, 900 at
other times Gut a respouien, has already
exposed this claim in the Star, al d We know,
200, that the Supreme Court. 10 a suit against
he old Potomac Company, as quo 90 ors to
whom this tassumed) manugactu,ioS company
claim decided that Its Water right ID passed
to the Chesapeake and Ohio Cana. Company,
and that it was defunct from that time, and
had ''no more rights than de al man.
2. Mr.. WsndeWs BricAs-Mr. Stanton on
the 14th Of June, said that Capt Meigs reject
ed WendeiPs bricks as unfit for the Capitol,
and then paid higher price for them, to be
used in the aqueduct, and adduces Mr.. Wen
delfs certificate that he will swear that Capt
Meigs bought the rejected bricks q; higher
rate than his contract price, and shipped them
to the a9ueduot.
The faots are: Not one was bought for the
squeduct, or ever WAS used in It. There were
some FIRST quality p viag bricks bought Of
Lambell, Gunnell 4 Grinder, we'll. known
bri ,knaio-s hero, for that purpose
Mr.. WeIdslrs contract price was S. So
six tAous nd of The rejec,ed bricks were
bought &C him, not at a higher p,ice, but, as
mis- receipt shows, at S. %; and tho face of
hat voucher shows that those bricks were
bought, no. for use in the aqueduct. but to
make tee ch.uneys, &c, Of the laborers
,hapties at The Falls. This Mr. W endell ought
to have known, for it was distinctly unders, God
n, the time, and is actually stated upon the
face of The lii paid to him.
The Fisheries Treaty.-It is taken for
gram ed oday by most of the Democratic
members of Congress, and We think upon Just
and sufficient reasons, that within forty.eight
hours or 30, the President will communicate
to the Senate the fisheries treaty.
Judging from the tone Of Congressional
opinion, without distinction If party, we have
every reason to believe that its ratification
will be speedily accomplished; at least so far
as the American Senate are concerned. The
tone Of the whole American press shows III at
it is very satisfactory to toe country, mas
much as it not only remov es ve1atious restric-
lions from our commerce with the Colonies
appro1inates our business Intercourse with
them nearer to tho profitable and entirely sat-
i.f,ctory state Of perfect free trade existing
between the sovereign partners in tho North
American confsdera:y-but it also removes
forever the fruitful cause of disputes with tie
English government concerning the fisheries
which from her acknowledgment Of our in.
dependence to this time, has brought abIut
almos. an annual Misunderstanding between
that power and the United States.
We want all the European capita, among
Us for investment in SOCKS, trade. and real
estate, which We can possibly induce to eros
The Atla-''c for such a uspose. This treaty
lie t5at With Mexico, involves q strong ad
Huonal guarantee of iorg career Of psae.
AID eoL'iuu,lly incre ssin; national proper
~ Tor US The stat snsr and political ecoI.
DI:st all at glance realize he immeLse
'''lue i such gun an'ce. in sdi;rg to tn p
available msaus f Iap.dIy achieving the
national prosperity, t. .nr.-rscy, for who
sc all yearn 90 ard. nty ari p .,rioticallY
Is wonderful as cur progress has been for th,
last twenty five } ears il .s but q bagateIls 10
What it will be in the next quarter Of . cen
tury, with the impetus to American snpren-
sey inherent in the final consumation of tn.
tso almost oonsumated treaties, so secured a.
70 be positively beyond all questioa On the
part Of American and foreign bu-iness men.
making their calculario ions concerning the
future OF ali branches Of American commerce
g. !