Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-03-23


| PEoPLE's THEATRK.--There was q very fashion
able audience at this place last evening The per-
| formance was excellent. Mr.. Walcot sustained
| his characters In an admirable manner Tonight
| he takes a benefit on which occasion he win ap-
pear a. Don Cesar de Bazan; and also as Charles
Surface, in the school for Scandal. There viii be
fun; go one and all, to see for yourselves.
SKyKRAL CLocKs, besides jewelry, &c., were OBJ
| tanned by individuals attending Thomas 4 Cos.
exhibition Of {" Dssolying Views at Odd Fellows
| Han last night
Twelve more besides large and splendid as
sortment Of jewelry win be distributed free again
this evening
The Baltimore Sun Of this morning has very
long description Of the Washington Aqueduct, from
which we gather the following items The origi-
nal plan of the Aqueduct was TO have one OF such
size as to yield thirty-six millions of gallons of
water daily at cost Of nearly two millions of dol
lars. One which would deliver sxty-seven and
one-half millions day, would cost but two millions
three hundred thousand dollars, and this is the
adopted. The distributing reservoir Is to be near
the Drover's Rest, above Georgetown, and will con-
tain 36 acres. 1t viii be l45 feet above tide, and
will contain, when full, 167, $50 900 gallons, when
but nine feet deep, 69,7s3,OO0 gallons. The re-
ceiving reservoir viii be formed by damming the
Little Falls branch, which will flow over so acres,
and the water viii leave this reservoir 5000 feet
from the place where 1t enters, in the meantime,
moving slowly across most of the sediment viii be
deposited. A bridge will have to be built across
the cabin John Branch, as the water in this stream
is ninty-ive feet below the water in the Aqueduct
which bridge win be 4s2 feet long, l0l feet high,
20 feet wide and viii cost 81 ,409 There win be
less than quarter of mile tunnelling on the
whole line
In the criminal court yesterday Joseph Codrick
and Joseph Dautry were convicted Of an ARRAY,
and sentenced to pay fine of $8 and costs
Michael Roake, who was jointly indicted with the
other two was acquitted Thomas II. Catcher
was acquitted of charge Of incendiarism, and
Barnard Divine was acquitted of charge Of re-
sisting officer. John Lewellyn and Benjamin
D. Taylor, were discharged at the suggestion of
the grand jury. E. @. Morgan for the defence in
both the aforementioned cases. ID. Radcliffe, Esq,
made motion that John s. Develin be admitted
to the bar. Z. @. Morgan, Il. q. Darlington, and
X. II. Laskey, Esqs., were appointed examiners.
This morning George +. Cattrell was acquitted up
on charge OF keeping dsorderly house.
In the case of Bernard Divine, who was tried
in the criminal court yesterday the following fact,
not known to us, was made known by the court
Divine was charged with resisting officer in the
discharge Of his duty. The officer had civil exc
cution against another man, and was levying on
Divine's property to satisfy it. Divine resisted
with violence this appropriation of his property to
pay another persons debts. Upon the prayer of
the defendants counsel e. G. Morgan, ESQ.,,
Judge Crawford instructed the jury, that " if an
officer has execution against A, and levies upon
the goods of B, the latter has perfect right to
resist such levy that the execution does not JUS
tify the officer in making wrong levy, but that
he does 80 at his own peril" officers win now
be sure whose property they are handling, or they
will be apt to get intoa !" fix"
ALMOST A FIRE.-The frame shop adjoining En-
twistle's steamship caught fire about o'clock 1t
was fortunately soon extinguished.
voRAcIrY-A man yesterday called into the