Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-07-29
AtILY EVENING STAR.
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STATE or IHE TaERxoxKrER.-The Their
monster, 10 our counting: room, at IL o'clock
to-day, STOOD at 81 degrees above sero.

rowdies yesterday took marauding notion
aud carrled out their purpose by gross aud
violent demonstration on the p" German Saen-
gerbund Association" who were pleasantly
spending the day at Arlington Springs. We
are told that the rowdies attacked the unoffend.
ing Germans, beat them, ami committed va
rious outrages From all we hear it was a
beas,ly en,nsts and one which should be visit
ed upon the offender heads with the seyere,t
penalties Of the laws. The parties ipiured
are Jacob Kebel, seriously bruised abou. the'
head and side. and is now in the In6rmarv
Augustus aud Frederick Sellhauseu, brothers
were severely, bat not dangerous beaten An:
gastus Megner, injured on the head, arm and
rib supposed TO be broken Mr.. Huehnar no.
shockingIy cut in the head, and Mr. Scba1s
numerically beaten. Others were more or
iees injured The weapons used were he hoo,a
OF the freebooters filled With stones, clubs and
such otner missiles as came to hand. Th.v
heiped themselves ut will from the tabs. -
.ne excursion parry. and then attacked the n,
IN tne manner We have authority for describing
William Street Is reported to have set ON the
stack. IN which Hillery Hutchinson ia named
as another spirit in the ARRAY; but the later.
we we understand got we'll punished in the melee
Inc whoie proceedings of the rowdies was dis
graceful in the extreme. Warrants are out
Tor some OF them, who will be dealt With a..
corning to law Why cannot q civil pa,tv
Ike these weil-behaved Germans have \ sim.
pie pleasure excursion without such yasdaI
inter- options
DEATH FROM AN OVERDOSE OF MoRpBrsx =
Yesterday morning, Mr.. Vim. Irving a nepbev
OF Washington Irving, formerly chief clerk Of
the Census Bureau, but at the time of his
death clerk in the Office of the Fourth Audi
tor, toos an overdose of morphine, and died
about 3 O'Clock last night at his boarding
house in this city. His design in taking the
morphine was evidently to quiet his nerves
About two o'clock. p. m, he was discovered to
be asleep from it; and. being aroused. he went
up to his room and laid upon his bed, from
which he did not afterwards rise-dying In
ABOUT SIX hours, despite the efforts made by
prs. Richards and Holmead to relieve him.
he was gentleman Of remarkably fine 40
quirements, and much beloved by his friends
He leaves distressed wife and three children.
one OF whom Is now with his uncle, Washing,
ton Irving.
The TRIP TO PIyEr PoINr.-Yesterlay nj.
ternoon, after We went to press, communities.
ton was received from IAN Old Citizen.n Ell.
hibiting lis feelings in regard to the Piney
Point excursions of the George Washington On
account Of some inoonveniences on the first
ip, when unexpected difficulties embarrassed
the obliging officers of the boat. To-day they
are warned and have all things right, on tbs
the principle that
" To be forwarned is 10 be foreamed,n
If our friend tries the trip to-day, he win find,
We think, all things in apple pie order, with
both upper crust' and Flower crust" As the
saying is, ''done brown
GLESwoos CENErRY Tho dedication of
this new and beautifully located scity of the
dead" is to be attended with appropriate cer-
emonies on Tuesday afternoon next The cera.
etery Is about mile and half north of the
Capitol, but a short distance form the city. and
its management is in the care Of Messra Chas
r. Calvert George Parker, VIM b. Todd, ].
c. Mcclure, Vim. A. Bradley, Chas. S. Wal.
ZACH, Abner Mellen, Vim. Banks, Joseph B.
Close, VIM Phelps, VIM. s. Humphreys, Ran.
dolph S. Evans, and other gentlemen of char
acter and standing, who are q full guaran.
tee for the undertaking. The Rev. Mesrs
Dashiels, Butler, and Sunderland are to con.
duct the ceremonies.
An ADVENTUROUS You've LADY.-On the
night before last, young lady dressed in
male attire, arrived at the Empire house. and
remaining there all night, moved to a fashion.
able boarding house. where her sex was dis
covered, though she denied it to the last. She
was capitally " made up for g boy, but wore
o woman's gators She professed to belong
to Raleigh, n. c., though those who conversed
with her are satisfied that she has escaped
from Bishop Doane's boarding school, at Bur
lington, or some other in that vicinity. She
looked like boy Of Ia, with fair compile xio /,
acquiline nose, and rich auburn hair, being
very handsome, and Of delicate appearance,
though Of round figure. She left the board
ing house early this morning, leaving note
addressed to its proprietor. simply containing
money enough to pay her bill She was seen
10 the city as late as 8 a. m. to-day. AZ
DEAaIH OF AMUsEMENrs.-Our city is com.
pletely dead in the amusement line. Not q
slngle place OF amusement is open, and the
people are suffering for want of diversion
Kunkle's popular Nightingale Opera Troup
will be here in less than month hence, but
what are We to do in the meantime. 1t Is re-
ported that the Baltimore Glee Club, with
Esputa. and his sweet flute, and some Il our
best musical talent at homo are about get
ting up q combined musical entertainment.
Let us have q genuine home concert then, for
Washington, With the adjonts named, can give
a grand entertainments.
SIX THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS WANTED. I'VE
find the following in the columns Of an ex-
change:
Mr.. Bailey, the able editor of the National
Era, requests his friends to make special Efforts
to keep up the subscription list of his Weekly.
to enable him to withstand the heavy losses
incurred by the publication Of the Daily. He
says:
g Should they succeed in adding to our
Weekly list six thousand subscribers. it would
not repay the loss we have sustained in under
ia ling to carry on a Daily Era, although it
would enable US to relieve ourselves from the
embgrrassments in which that has involved
Us ID
A SEARCH Yesterday morning o search
warrant was obtained by Mr. Marshal Brown,
and given to officers Coke and Allen, in order
to search for stolen goods at the house Of
Mrs. Roberta Knoxville. the lady who figured
in yesterdays Star a. sec-eting . fugitive
slave The search was made, and q large
amount Of goods Of various kinds found. MI
Brown identified a number Of napkins rs his
property. There is still number of spoons,
forks, jewelry, DC, remaining at the Guard
house. A splendid shawl, supposed TO be
worth SIS, is among the articles. If the
Madam cannot find bail, she will remain in
prison until the next court So 80 -5-~
IMPORTANT Enthusiastically the chief Of
police received a dispatch from Bal, imofe, in.
forming him that a watchnan had bean struck
on the head with a rock, by young man
named Watkins, and that Watkins was SUP.
posed to have started for Washington In the
cars. The chief took officer kimbau and
went to the depot, and as soon as the cars
stopped, arrested ". w. Watkins, who an.
swered the description. He was taken before
Justice Dom, who committed him to Jail to
await a requisition from the Governor Of Mary
land 1t Is thought that the Waterman will
die FROM the effects of the wound.
A Rich DIAMOND SEF.-Amopg tho attrae-