Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-07
Department News.

Department News.
IsrrRIoR DrpARrSKsr.- = Promotions i. the Pa-
TENT Ofce--A. b. Little promoted from fourth
class clerkship to be principal examiner Salary
$4,000.
Hugh Mccormick promoted from third 70
fourth-elass cerkship, TO fill vacancy created Dy
the promotion Of A. b. Little. Salary 81, 800.
s. ]. Cones promoted from a tkird-class to be an
assistant examiner. Salary 81, 800.
TREASURY DErARrMEsT.-C Contract Awsrded---
The contract for furnishing stationery for the use
OF the Treasury Department for the current fiscal
year has been awarded to Messrs. McSpeddin d
Baker, of New York.
VIM. Chambers has been appointed TO be the as
sstant messenger to the Second Comptroller Of the
Treasury vice WIN. Drane, removed. ~ = e. ....s,.
NAVY DEPARTMENT african Squadron
The United States sloop-ofwar Marion was at Porto
Praya, Cape Verde islands, on the 9th Of June.
AS the United States brig Dolphin sailed from
Norfolk on the 9th Of May to relieve the Marion,
the latter may be expected at Boston in the course
of two or three weeks
HARVEST In THE GREAT WEsr.-The Maysville
(Ky.) Eagle announces that the harvest season has
begun In that section, and adds that the prospect
is very fine for more abundant crop In Kentucky,
of all kinds of small grain and of superior quality,
than has been known for many years. The har-
vest has opened also in Ohio; and the report says
the Masson News, Is, upon the whole, favorable.
At all events II says the yield in that county will
be largely above an average crop.
The gainesville Courier gives as the result or
tour through some five SIX of the adjoining coun-
ties, the opinion that the yield will be very album
dant. The later crops, 1t adds, however, will be
somewhat damaged by the weeyil The Cincin-
natl Price Current has an article on the crops,
which states that unless the rust strikes the wheat
it viii yield full as well as anticipated Along the
line Of the Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railroad,
the farmers have already commenced cutting, and,
In another week or ten days, new wheat will DO In
market, and In less than month new -four will be
selling below seven dollars per barrel In Ten.
nessee and Southern Kentucky, thewheat has been
harvested and the yield is reported TO be twice as
large as in any former season. ss4 EiFfA-n1a2 2 y
In Southern Indiana the weather has been cool
and delightfully."- pleasant and under the warming
rays of the sun the wheat Is being rapidly matured
Harvesting will commence in the vicinity Of New
Albany about the latter part of next week, and
the yield Of wheat unless it is injured in the mean
time by the rust viii be unusually large, far ex-
ceeding the average the past three or four years
Mr. EDIToR: The Baltimore Sun Of this date,
under the head of Truth well spoken" utters
palpable falsehood, in saying that the celebration
Of the Fourth by those who met at the Capitol,
where Mr.. Carlisle delivered his Grafton, were
Union men, irrespective Of political parties" 1t
was an assemblage Of government ofice-hoders,
and foreigners, with small sprinkling Of American
Catholics. The only military companies in the
procession were three foreign companies. Not
two hundred persons, all ted besides the military,
entered the procession at all and of these two
hundred not ten were American born--excepting
the few ofice-holders, who occupied the half dozen
carriages in the! procession. n II was upon the
ground that il was party celebration that Secre-
tary Davis refused to permit the United States ar
tillery to unite in the procession. s Fra
am regular reader of the Baltimore Sun, and
have noticed, on several occasions, attempts on
the part Of that press to disparage the American
party, and to uphold and sustain the Foreign par
ty. But in representing the ofice.holders and for
egn celebration here as composed of" Union men
irrespective of political parties" that press has
serted what every one in this city knows to be I'M
true. ak ~ latGsi
Mr. Carlisle's grafton was well written and well
delivered, but the whole affair, except the oration
was farce, failure, and disgrace even to this
administration, as Is acknowledged by all candid
men who witnessed it, whilst the American oele-
bration was, in allrespects credtable to the Amer
lean party. JuSius.
TO The People Of Washington f.5 n,
Permit me, as a friend Of truth, to commend to
your consideration, an unpretendng female, who
is travelling through the land to build up monu-
ments dedicated to truth, mercy, and temperance.
She comes with the oil of peace upon her lips, to
soothe the sufferings Of mothers, orphans and
widows, who have shed tears of sorrow and grief
upon the tombs Of departed friends, caused by
that dread monster, ntemperance. 81
No one can listen to the lecturer without being
impressed with her dignity, to say nothing of her
artlessness and simplicity Of manners, the beauty,
grandeur and simplicity Of her thoughts, combined
with the clearness and correctness Of her reasoning
She bears upon her countenance the patent Of
nobility, the impress Of genius and benevolence,
the type Of truth and virtue She is as celebrated
in Kentucky as lecturer, as Thomas F. Marshall
is AZ stump speaker.
To listen to the speaker once, begets a desire to
hear her again and again. venture the opinion
that when the citizens Of Washington have heard
Mrs. Thompson, the temperance lecturer, the old
and the young, the temperate and the intemper-
ate, viii cherish for her feelings Of admiration and
respect, and win cry as did the children of old,
we wish her and the cause she advocates, God
speed. A FRITsD. /
AZ Butter was ceiling In Albany last week tor
sixteen cents zoos .rfU
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