Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-11-30
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

York City, At Odd-Fellows Hall, Seventh street. Is
drawing hosts Of yisiters- Last evening the Hall
was full to the bdm." Every band Of music in
the Empire City Il represented on the painting !;
and as they pass before the audience in company
with 0dd-Fellows and Engine Companies Pros
pei's Band discourses to the audience sweet music
This celebrated Band ia In attendance at Odd-Fel-
lows Hall at every exhibition Of the Panorama.
There are $4,000 letters on the signs in Broad
way, New York city and persons visiting Billiards.
Panorama, can read them as distinctly as they can
read the signs over the stores on Pennsylvania
avenue
GRAND LoDGE or !. 0. o. Fat the installa-
ton Of the officers Of the Grand Lodge Of the o.
o. r. last evening, Grand Master Hepburn made
the following address:
BRorHERs: On assuming the responsible duties
Of the high official station to which you have elect
ed me, 1t becomes my duty to express to you my
heartfelt gratitude for the compliment YOU have
90 generously bestowed though unsolicited, will
shrink from no responsibility thus imposed, nor fail
to exert all my energies TO advance and promote
the success, prosperity, and pcrpetuity Of the
brotherhood 30 dear to us all.
Brothers, I cannot but feel that another might
yet would deny my own feeling, and prove rec
reant TO the best interests Of the order, did fal
ter in the discharge of the duties Of any Office to
which you might elevate me by your generous suf-
frages. But while thus doubling my own fitness
assure you there will be no want of energy on
my part, and that shall look with confidence for
your counsel and support whenever the occasion
may require 1t.
Too much must not be expected Of your officers
There is weghty responsibility upon us all; and,
though now prosperous, we must put our shout
der to the wheel" and endeavor, by every honor
able effort, to promote the interests of the great
cause in which we are co-laborers congratulate
you upon your continued prosperity, and conjure
you all to adhere to maxims and rely with con-
fdence upon our constitution and laws, and shrink
not from the objects or duties Of our great and
benefcent institution.
The only subject of general interest to the order
at this time Except what is already in the hands Of
the Committee Of Supervisory Is the condition Of
this hall. In respect to its management, 1t is but
Just to say that the trustees have dscreetly and
faithfully performed the duties confded to them.
Their reports, from the beginning, have been full
and explicit, disclosing every item Of receipt and
expenditure, presented in such form that the
printed reports will enable any one to obtain a
clear view of all the financial transactions of the
board.
The estimates, which have been submitted from
time to time seem also to have been well consider
ed In the eighth annual report, laid before the
Grand Lodge at its last meeting are assured that
the trustees will find difficulty in meeting the last
payment which win soon be due for the ground upon
which the building is erected This debt discharg-
ed it viii remove the only mortgage that has ever
been laid upon the property and of the remainder
of the floating debt consisting of stock in the hands
of individuals there is no reason to apprehend that
any of it will be unrcdeemed after the year 1858.
CIRCUIT CoURr, Justices Morsen and Dunlop
The case of G. Cameron John Sniffin is not yet
finished. Bradley and Lawrence for plaintiff; Car
Isle for defendant
The case Of Kennedy in repleyen rs. De Bow,
was called up on motion to quash the writ, made
by P. Barton Key, who appears for the defendant.
Mr.. Kennedy when leaving the Office Of Superin-
tendcnt of Census, having been superseded by Mr..
De Bow, left, as he states, some books, &C., which
were bis private property, and which Mr.. De Bow
declining to deliver, writ eff repevin was brought
The motion to dismiss was based upon the fact
of Mr.. De Bows being officer Of the United
States and the property being in his hands as such
an officer, and not as an individual, and therefore
the action would not lie
The motion was argued by p. B. Key, United
States attorney, for the defendant and by Mr. Gil
lette with whom was associated Mr. Ratcliffe) for
the plaintiff
SCULPTURE IN THE Roruspo.-over the south
door is represented the g Conflict with. Boone and
the Indiansr-the most difficult subject of sculp-
ture in the Rotundo--and possessing, both in de-
sign and execution, more merit than all the rest.
II IL to be regretted that the artist had so limited
field TO work in, for, though the deadly combat
might not have occupied more space than Is here
given il, yet the subject Is worthy Of larger
panel. The figures are Of colossal size; the mo-
ment chosen by the artist Is when the intrepid
Boone has just discharged his rife, which has laid
an Indian at his feet, and Ia attacked by another,
who aims deadly blow with his tomahawk which
Boone avcrts by elevating his rife with his left
hand, while his right draws the long knife which
is to terminate the dreadful combat. There Ii
more Of the Indian character and costume repre-
scented in these figures than In any other of the
sculptured pictures; and full justice has been done
to the form and features Of the intrepid Boone,
whose cool resolution and selfpossession are
strongly contracted with the erocity and reckless
ness OF the savage. AssOclateu Win the scene ~
the deep low forest Of the far west = the boughs
Of tree are seen waving over the heads Of the
combataDts, and on its bark Is chiseled "l773'-
the year when the incident occurred This work is
from the chisel Of Caucic, pupil Of Canova, who
was well worthy ofso great a master.
WE advise all our Georgetown friends who In
dulgc occasionally in the luxury Of fragrant Ha-
vana, or who admire sweet fine cut Cavendish, TO
call on Wallace, who, on High street, keeps a
great variety Of cigars and tobacco, Of the most r.
vorite brands.
Corros IssEcTs.-Mr Townend Glover, this
morning, showed us some beautiful drawings Of
Cotton in Its diseased and healthy state Of the In
sects injurious to the cotton plant, and Of those
that were beneficial. The boil worm, caterpillar,
and cotton louise, are the principal insects known
to be injurious. There are six or eight different
kinds Of insects which feed upon the insects de-
structive to the plant. AT some future time we