Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-06-28

tsxtis in Russian, and the curious will be inter.
s'tsd In examining this are and valuable work
There are also two large folio volumes Of the
Mnsss Dc Tsa,skos sefo on collection d'drnp.
dc "a majssts L Emperor dc toutss iss
Rnssies, with lse plates These contain rep
reservations Of the oriental arms In possession
Of Russia and the collection In this museum
is said to be unequalled There are more
than 500 Arabian, Turkish, and Persian In.
scriptions, translated by the eblest Russian
scholars. Visitors to tho Smithsonian will b.
grati6ed BY examining the books We have
briefly described, and have q better idea Of
the Russians than can be derived from Any
other source.
NineVeh oh thou city of untold trsasu
Thy gates Of old were resplendent with gold
30 at least says tradition Tradition, however
fails to say that the inhabitants thirstsd afte,
gold, lin the way Of salaries for fat oticss) q.
no other men ever thirsted after the root of all
evil, until party arose in their midst com
posed, every man of them, Of pure and disin.
ts'csted patriots-men who couldn't bs per.
suaded to have an Office, however we'll /.
paid-men who never held ofRce or changed
their politics on losing one, or on being die
appointed in getting an Office. Secrecy was
the weapon with which this truly immaculate
party fought, fortified by sundry oaths, the
precise character of which one viciously In.
cined Henry A. Wise took OCCASIONAL. c.
lS5a-to expose to the world. The politicians
OF Ninevsh had high times, indeed, in the
year 1854, A. c.; that is, those of them who
met in secret. In the Seventh Ward of that
ancient and vonerated city In those very
ancient times, the so purely patriotic party to
which We refer above, took occasion, on the
| night of the oath of June OF that of the 1st Of
July, "a. G. 1854, as before remarked to
elect officers tor the lodge OF the ward, and the
contest for those places resulted as follows:
| President--Robert Knight. Those un.uo.
cessfully voted for being Jno. L. Smith, Wash
ington Wright, and Thomas Dutton.
| Vice President, Washington Wright Those
unsuccessfully voted for FOX that position being
W. Ii. Brown, B. Kinsey, and c. C. Tucker.
| Secretary-S. C Espey.
| Treasursr-Jno. Webster, W. Bird, and s.
d. Simmons, (beating W. Warrick)
Assistant MarshaIs-W Warrick and W.
Germon, beating W. Gray and W. Ii. Dalton
These we're all capital selections, so tho 70.
vealed records say; that is, for the purpose,
for which those who chose them meant in the
/ III IF hot
The following is still another list of some Of
| tee jewellers in tie Seventh Ward of the an.
cient city of Nineveh in those ancient times:
| March 22-Edw. Dorsey, John Smith,
| Edg. j Dorsey, Jehu w. Elliott, Jas 2. Joy,
Gopher r. Smith, Samuel KiImaD, Harel Ben.
| lett, Thomas Hall. March 27-Lewis Broth.
ers, thomas B Creighton. Henry Vernon, VIM
x skidmore, Tbos G. Donaldson, Chas W.
Benezett, Vim Tucker, Andrew Minetry, VIM.
Anderson, John McKim, Alfred Hurdle, VIM.
Whitmore, Thomas j. Smithson. William B.
Jones, John W A. Miller, Jas w Don aldson,
Job Mcintosh, John F. Mitchell, cambridge
G. Eeacbam Joshua Gibson April 3-Dauiel
u Hirkey, James White George w Hinton,
Mason Piggot, Cuerard J 01ley, Chas KEN
BILE, VIM Lawson, r chari Balinges Lewis f.
Ssiimore, John 4 Porter Wesley Balingas,
VIM Borrows, james Fl. Lewis, John A.
Davis, John F. Horseman, Chas r. Drum.
mcnd, Edward l. East, Jane, W Horseman,
Henry Leo, A. W F. Cari;o, Wm. Sellers,
VIM. Mortimore, Evan Ii BTunson, Henry NJ
Knight, VIM B Whiting, Mahlon Ashford,
John Ashford, Samuel T. Larcomb, Walter
Holt, Elias Stone, John SOmners, John T.
| Russell.
The Very Recent Elections.-The results
Of the elections (municipaD in San Francisco
and Norfolk, Va, surprise no ono who under.
stands the philosophy of politics, as all such
are aware that a party built mp on the prin.
cip!ss of Know Nothingsm, and composed
of any such elements, must NECESSARILY be
short lived in a country with an intelligen,
population and free speech, and free press
constitutienally guaranteed. In proportion
to population, the Know Nothing majority In
| San Francisco last year was equal to that n
| Philadelphia. On this oocssion it has lost the
majority in the city councils, and more than
half the officers elected by general ticket.
| In Norf-lk, on the Gath ultimO, Flournoy's
m jority was $50. Though the anti-Knou
Nothings expected that Hunter Woods would
greatly reduce that majority, they entertained
as we know, little hope of his triumph. He
was elected by eb majority, the contest being
wholly on the Know Nothing question. A
large proportion Of his supporters, though run
ming a, the Democratic nominee, were among
the staunchsst and most respected Wings Of
the ancient borough.
| Surveys Of tho Public Lands in California
Returns to the LIST of June, 1855, have beer
received at the General Land Office, showing
Tire rapid progress of the surveys In California
aud the Clear Lake country, Fifty or sixty
miles north of the Bay Of San Pueblo, and
about seventy or aevsnty-fvs miles in south
westerly direction from karysville, the sea
of the Land Office for what is known rs thu
Upper Land Distris: of California Also
showing extensive surveying operations il thu
southern part of the State, In the immediate
vicinity of the Tulare Lake in the Lower Ian,
District, the Land ONCE for which is situated
at Los Angeles, some Afteen miles from til
L A.