Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-11-25
+ ' MING STAR,
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

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THB CLOSING OF TIE TAvERNs AND Res
rAURANTs.-We learn that at q iste hour y es
terday, the Mayor addressed to the Chief Of
Police note directing him to stay proceed
ings under the previous order, noticed in the
Star Of yesterday requiring the Chiefs corps
to notify the tavern and restaurant keepers OF
Washington not to sell liquor after II o'clock
last night. In this last Communication from
the Mayor, it is stated that he directs the stay
of proceedings until after Friday next on the
advice of the Corporation Attorney, who has
intimsted that such is The recommendation Of
the u. S. District Court which proposes. on
Friday next, positively 10 take up and dispose
of the appeal case now pending before It, upon
which it appears to be understood that all the
parties TO the controversy are about to rest the
question of their rights involved. So the
licensed liquor selling houses of Washington
may continue selling until after Friday next
without fear of prosecution for 60 doing.
HIlLAaps' HoTEL.-yesterday We were
unable to give this elegant and admirably
conducted establishment more than a pas.ino
notice. The new building recently erected
on Fourteenth street. (and added to the main
building, giving 1T some sixty more rooms. in
order to accommodate the crowd who thropg
there during the session of Congress, has been
built, with an eye to health and comfort I'M
der the super intendence of 90 mine host Vii
lard. The rooms are light, airy, and possesstd
OF every convenience The erection of the
new building has enabled Mr. Willard to aid
considerably to his gentlemen's dining-roo
making it 100 feet long, or as large, if not
larger, than any other dining room in the
country. This room is being frescoed in the
most beautiful manner by some of our best
artists. The center piece on the ceiling rep.
resents the fruits of all the seasons. most az.
propriate for room of the kind The ladies
ordinary has been reftted, painted and ps-
pered. The papering is of the most costly
kind, and neatly put up by John Alexander,
Esq. The principal portion of the entire
building has been Re carpeted and repainted,
adding much to the neat and cleaniy appear
apce OF the house. III the rear of the house
immense water tanks, at considerable cost,
have been put up, which are supplied from an
exhaustless well by steam engine of forty
horse power. This is great impr movement as
the guests at lizards will have an abundance
OF water at all seasons OF the year for eyery
purpose In addition to the gentlemen and
ladies' ordinaries there is a dining room for
children and nurses, near the kitchen so that
there will be but little trouble in supplying
their wants when, like Oliver Twist, they ask
for more. The kitchen and laundry arrange
ments are also worthy Of note. In the XII chen
all the modern cooking utensils are used The
arrangements for baking bread and cakes end
roasting meats are extensive and complete
Clothes are dried in the laundry by steam.
and to such perfection has this department
been brought, that soIled linen can be washed
Ironed, and dried, ready 10 be returned to tn
owner, in the short space of fifteen or twenty
minutes.
Besi des the many cOnveniepces this hotel
possesses, there is an air of comfort and cheer
fulness about it seldom met with in a public
house. We know OF no better house for fam-
lilies IN the country. With well filled lar
der, choice liquors. agreeable company and
an accommodating host, if strangers in Wash
lngten cannot find :" a home at Wizards. - we
should like to know where they can find one.
A NAsAINGTONIANIN New YoRk.-The New
York Sun of Thursday, says
MIR. +. ID. Iippett, gentleman of scientific
attainments, with turn for the application
of science to useful purposes, is now Offering
to the inspection Of the curious, at the AstOr
House, some mechanical combinations Of bis
by which he expects to render a balloon in
the air as submissive to the will, and as sub
servient to the use Of man, as a ship is on
the ses. He claims to have solved both the
great problems Of aerial navig alton; how to
steer the vessel, or determine its horizontal
direction; and how to determine its ascent and
descent from one aerial altitude to another.
How he effects the former purpose, We are not
able briefly to explain; but he aims to effect
tho latter by Initiating in balloon th at volun.
tary expansion and contraction of gas which
takes place in the air bladder of fish when
passing from one level to another in the water.
Instead of the wasteful and clumsy practice
now in use, of discharging gas when the aero
naut would descend, and discharging ballast
when he would ascend, Mr. Tippett, saving all
the gas, and dispensing altogether with the
weighty encumbrance of ballast, proposes, BY
means of an apparatus In the car to condense
the gas in the one case, and to rarity it afresh
in the other MIR. Tippett goes to Newark on
Thursday to exhibit bis balloon
Nor is this continuance for the purpose of
conauiring the empire of the air, the only one
by by Mr.. Tippett hopes to deserve an hon
cradle rank among inventors of the useful.
Among his other Inventions he numbers a
perpetual notion" which has already en-
gagged tho attention of the national govern
ment, q washing machine, meat cutter. q
hominy mill, cider mill, dough breaker,
and the like, several of which are We under
stand, in profitable use at tho west He has
invented '.cold water steam safety engine,
by which any quantity of steam is generated
without the possibility Of explosion.
We regret that some htless,
We trust, rather than ungenerous-pelsuade
MI Tippett, now grown grey in pa. lent en-
deavors to be useful. to come from w ashin gton
to this city, by assuring him b at here he would
ind q company with a million Of sapital.
ready to convert the dream of his hope into
golden realities
7. L. FLoYD's BENEFIr-The BENEFIT of
Floyd alias Miss Fanny, of Kunkels Opera
Troupe, will take place on Monday night at
the National. The bill he offers for the an.
prevail of his friends is replete with novelty.
and to crown the programme of the evening,
the operate ballet of La Bayad will DO pro.
duced, in which the beneficiary will sustain
the great character of Taglioni, known as
Soloe. The AmphiOn Quart cite Band. com.
posed of Messrs. Hill Pruitt, Bennett and
Greenup, have volunteered, and will appear
in variety of songs; Mr.. Handy, the eminent
futist, guitarist, aud barjoist, will also appear
on the occasion. These volunteers. ombined
with kunkels Opera Troupe, will furnish such
an evenings entertainment as has never be-
fore been presented to our citizens That he
will be greeted by an overfswing house, thers
can be no doubt-so those who desire IN no
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