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Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-01

The great Democracy, however generously
it may act, can do nothing to please the oppo
siton. 1t gets blame for everything bad that
it does, and credit for nothing good. Without
the aid Of Democrats, the bill comforting on
General Scott the title Of Lieutenant General
could never have been passed-General Scott,
who has always been Wing, and who in the
last Presidential campaign, was the great
leader and chosen candidate Of the Wing party.
No sooner was the bill passed, than the op.
position presses claimed back pay for General
Scott, and authoritatively demanded that it
should be given at once. 1t seems that grave
questions arose as to the authority Of the
Government to give back pay to the new Lieut.
enant General, and the subject was referred to
the Attorney General for his opinion. Some
time elapsed before the matter was decided,
and all the bitter opposition presses and all
the scribbling correspondents Of those presses,
declared that General Scott was about 10 be
cheated out of his money. Whether this course
Of General SCOTS indiscreet friends damaged
his chances Of getting the money, and caused
delay in rendering the final decision, or
whether the questions that arose as to the
proper construction Of the law we're too diff
cult and perplexipg for prompt solution, we
cannot undertake to say.
At last, however, the decision has been rem.
dered, and General Scott will get his money,
and get it at once. 1t will be seen from the
following paper extracted from the columns Of
the Washington Union, that all cause of com
plaint on the part Of General Scott and his
friends has been removed, and that justice has
been done him by much abused Democratic
Administration.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-01
LATEST FROM CALIFORNIA.

The steamer George Law, from Aspinwall,
arrived at New York, Oct Both, with dates
from California to the 9Th inst All the cleo
ton returns were in but had not been officially
counted.
General Danver, Secretary of State, had left
for the Atlantic States to claim a seat in the
House of Representatives at the meeting of the
next Congress.
A party Of one hundred and twenty recruits
left San Francisco in the Uncle Sam to join
Walkers expedition, and another party was 10
go from Nevada.
The agricultural fair has been attended By
immense crowds.
More Indian murders have been committed
in the upper part of the State, and the inhab
tants have resolved to exterminate the Indians
The mining prospects are very hattering.
large FIRE had occurred at jamestown,
involving loss Of $4,000. The principal
sufferers were DR.. Dodge, druggist, and Messrs
Dencraw, Heferman and Butterfeld, mer-
chants; and the masonic hall was also con.
sumed.
Advices from Oregon announce the safety
of Governor Stevens
SAN Francisco MARKETS. Considerable
activity prevailed, and in many articles a
material advance had taken place. The market
was buoyant at the close at the following rates:
GalIsgo and Haxall Flour, Ia $l4 %; Clear
Pork, S22 so per barrel; Hams in brine, q
cents; Bacon, extra clear, "a cents; new Butter,
GO cents; Crushed Sugar, IA cents; Turpentine,
81 O6; Syrup, rs cents.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-01

Breuet Lieutenant General SCOTS Cdse.-
Congress, on the 18th Of May, 1898, passed
an act entitled "An act authorizing the Presi-
dent of the United States TO raise provisional
army" the fifth section Of which is in the fol.
lowing words;
and be II further enacted, That, whenever
the President shall deem it expedient, he is
hereby empowered to appoint, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, a comman-
der Of the army which may be raised by virtue
Of this act and who, being commissioned as
lieutenant general, may be authorized to com
mand the armies Of the United States, and
shall be entitled to the following pay and emol.
uments, viz: Two hundred and City dollars
monthly pay, fifty dollars monthly allowance
Tor forage, when the same shall not be pro.
vided by the United States, and forty rations
per day, or money in lieu thereof at the current
price, who shall have authority to appoint,
from time to time, such number of aids, not
exceeding four, and secretaries, not exceeding
two, as he may judge proper, each to have the
rank, pay, and emoluments Of a lieutenant
colonel" Il Stat. at Large, PIP 55s, 559.)
At the late session Of Congress a Joint reso.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-01
NoRFoLK AND PORTSMOUTH.

The Norfolk and Portsmouth papers of Tues
day last say that there was heavy frost on
Friday night. The Howard Association had
passed resolution referring applications for
pecuniary assistance from "absentees," to the
Finance Committee. The Association have
also determined to give gold medals to the
volunteer physicians, and silver medals to the
nurses. There was ice in Portsmouth on
Thursday night an eighth of an inch thick,
and the Transcript believes that refugees"
may now return in safety
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-01

We publish below a letter written by Gen
Atchison, inrepy TO an invitation to attend
celebration of the battle Of Kings Mountain.
The letter is brief, but pointed, and presents
in striking aspect the struggle now
going on in Kansas between the abolitonists
and the proslavery men. The results that
would follow the abolitiouizing Of Kansas
are stated in the most impressive manner.
From Hon. d. X. Atchison.
PLATTE CRY, No. Sept, ~ 1855.
Gentlemen: Your letter ofinvitation, request
ing my attendance at the celebration OF the
Battle of Kings Mountain, has been received.
1t will be altogether inconvenient for me to be
present on that occasion. | have certain
duties, both private and puplic, to discharge at
home. The battle of Kings Mountain was
fought by the wings under fhe lead Of Camp
bell, Mcdowell, Shelby, Sewer and Williams,
against the tories under the gallant Ferguson.
We have a similar foe to encounter in Kansas,
on the first Monday in October next. The
border ruthans,' such as fought with Nc
Dowell, Shelby, &C., on the one hand, and the
Abolitionists-such men as fought with Fergu-
son, on the other. We 1.-THE "border ruffians y
have the whole power Of the Northern States
to contend with, single handed and alone,
without assistance and almost without sympathy
from any quarter; yet we are undismayed.
Thus far have we been victorious; and with
the help Of God we will still continue to con-
quer.
Gentlemen, thank you for the kind express
sion i'll the concluding paragraph Of your letter
=" three cheers for Atchison and kansas"
| have read this paragraph to sundry of the
border rulhans," and their eyes sparkle their
arms are nerved. We have been acting on
the defensive altogether; the contest with us
is one of life and DEATH and it will be so with
you and your institution, if we fail. Atchi-
son, Stringfellow, and the "border ruffians" Of
Missouri, fills column of each Abolition
paper published in the North; abuse most foul
and falsehood unblushing is poured out upon
US, and yet we have no advocate in the South
ern press and yet we received no assistance
from the Southern States. But the time will
shortly come when that assistance must and
will be rendered; the stake the border
ruffans" are playing for is mighty one. If
Kansas is abolitionized, Missouri ceases to be
slave State, and New Mexico becomes free
State, California remains a free State; but if
we secure Kansas as slave State, Missouri is
secure; New Mexico and southern California,
if not all of it, becomes slave State; in a
word, the prosperity or the ruin of the whole
South depends on the Kansas struggle.
Your obedient servant
d. r. ATCHISON.
Messrs. W. B. Wilson, Jno. L. Miller, and Sam.
W. Melton, Com. of Invitation.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-01

Royal Decree Of the King Of lS,ceden and
Nor7ody.-The following is copy of trans
lation Of decree issued by the King of Swe-
den and Norway on the Goth of September
last, received from correspondent residing at
Stockholm - Union.
We, Oscar, by the grace Of God, King of
Sweden, Norway, Cloths, and Wends, make
known, that, in order to diminish the inconve.
nienccs occasioned generally by the high prices
Of the necessaries Of life, we find good to or
dain that the following articles may be imported
into the kingdom until the end Of May, 1856,
duty free, namely:
"Breadstuffs, ground or not ground, all
kinds; bread, all kinds; grain, all kinds;
maize; rice, in the husk or paddy; potatoes
and potato meal butter cheese; meat, all
kinds; cattle-oxen, cows, and young cattle,
calves, and swine; pork 6sh-salted, all
kinds, except anchovies, sardnes, and funny
fish-dried or smoked, all kinds except salmon
and cells; tallow oil, all kinds OF fat oil, train
oil stearine; candles-tallow, stearine, and
margarine.
Let all concerned observe this obediently."
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-01

very doubtful whether the French would be
able to hold this city for any length of time if
they could get possession of it, from the fact
that the hills on the north side are taller than
those on the south, and the cities and the bat.
terles on them, think, would force them to
leave it. In the main, they have been at
tempting this from the land on the south side
! Will finish this by saying that it is the best
fortified place / ever saw. There is not Hill
or mound where cannon could be placed
with advantage but you find them"
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-01

DeJT The Washington correspondent of the
New York Courier and Enquirer having come
out with re-hash Of the stale SANDER that the
Dominican Republic is merely "free negro
nationality" like Hayti, Mr.. Guridi, Domi-
nican gentleman of talent and education,
claimed place for reply, which ought to be
conclusive with every candid mind We pub
lish only such portions of the reply as refer to
the above issue:
:" 80 far from there not being in all $50 in
dividuals of unmixed European blood in the
Eastern end of the Island, they count by thous-
ands in the Dominican Republic. It is not "a
free negro nationality like the Haytien Empire,
but free Constitutional Republic with white
government, as much as any other Spanish
American Republic. 1t forbids distinction of
class or color before the law; but the Haytiens
who have all the favor and sympathy of the
antlAmerlcan Journals-will not admit the
whites to hold property or enjoy citizenship
"Neither is it true land that, too, know
from my position and personal acquaintance
with the members Of the Dominican Cabinet
and Congressl that the changes made in the
treaty, after signature, originated with the
ousty arranged by Monsieur Raybaud, the
French nsul-General, who, with fleet at his
command, had the power to obtain forced
and illegal semiaction upon it. l also know
that he demanded the suppression of my paper
--EI Orden-in the same arbitrary manner,
tor my Americanism, and that in the same
manner he caused the suppression of El Por-
cen1, and the ruin ofts editors for the same rea-
son; and am convinced the Dominican Execu-
tive consented with reluctance to bend the laws
and constitution of the Republic to foreign.
dictation.
Finally, it is of public and notorious truth
to every Dominican that the French and British
Consuls favored the Baez conspiracy, that the
appearance of the allied squadron of co-opera-
ton was expected about the close of Lent and
that it came and found the Baez plan detected
and his brothers prisoners. General Cazneau
only states what every Dominican knows to be
true, land what every Haytien and every parti-
san of the allies wish had succeeded of the
attempt to murder the heads Of the govern
ment and destroy the constitutional republic"
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-01
COURT OF CLAIMS.

The argument in the case Of Letitia vii.
liams FLORIDA claims) was continued yester-
day from Tuesday by Mr.. Sherman, who had
not concluded his remarks when the court ad.
journed.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-01
Proposed Military visit.

We learn from the Manchester IN. H.
american that military corps bearing the title
Of "Amoskeag Veterans" is to depart thence on
the 18th of December on tour to Washington,
coming by way Of New York, Philadelphia,
and Baltimore, and stopping long enough in
each city to see its probabilities" The Ameri-
can gives some particulars as to the personnel
Of the corps, as follows:
"That this is no ordinary corps we in this
region are well aware, but we had no idea that
all classes of our citizens we're so generally
represented in it. But looking over the cata-
logue we find among its members, major-gene-
rails, 2; colonies, 8; majors, 6; captains, To-;
Judges 4; lawyers 8; physicians, IL; mayor, i;
ex-mayors, 3; city marshal, 1; ex-city marshals,
3; bank presidents, 3; cashiers, 3; editors, q;
farmers, Ill; master mechanics, 10; manufac-
turers 8; stablers, 3; real estate brokers, A.;
ministers, 2; agents of manufacturing com.
panies, 3; merchants, l8l We doubt whether
a military company in any city Of The union
can show such a catalogue Of its enterprsing
citizens. As a military corps the Veterans
make an imposing appearance. Total 1874.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-01
what the Anie. Have Yet to Accomplish.

Many of our contemporaries are liberal in
their conjectures and speculations as to what
the Allies have yet to accomplish before Sebas-
topol is yet in their possession. The north
side Of the town, as our readers will remember,
is still in possession Of the Russians. An
American who is serving as an officer Of the
medical staff in the Russian army gives the
following description Of the bay
On the north is also succession of hills.
some Of which are very high, and running in
every direction. You find on them all bas
tons facing in every direction These bas.
tons and redoubts extend up the bay for a
mile or SO from the city, and some Of them are
very effective, pouring nearly a continual
stream Of balls across the bay into the enemy's
battery which is nearest the bay. / think it
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-01

~ In Perry county, Indiana, at the late
term OF the county court, there we're no less
than twenty-five applications for divorce.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-01

~ Robert M. Anderson, formerly of
Memphis, Tennessee, is the newly elected
Lieutenant Governor Of California
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-01
Death OF Commodore Daniels.

The Baltimore Republican Of yesterday says:
1--WE are called upon to-day to record the
death Of one Of our old and valued citizens,
Commodore John d. Daniels. In his youth
full days, prompted by that love of liberty which
characterised him all through life, Commodore
Daniels volunteered his services in the struggle
between the South American colonies and Spain.
The skill and bravery of young Daniels soon
attracted the notice Of Bolivar, the deliverer of
Columbia, and through his influence the com.
mand Of the Bolivian navy was given to him.
The trust was properly con6ded, and the bril-.
liant services Of Commodore Daniels, greatly
assisted in securing the freedom Of the Bolivian
republic. After the struggle was over and the
independence Of the republic was fully estab-
lished, Commodore Daniels returned TO his
home in our city, where he has resided since,
with the exception of visit to the scene Of his
early struggles and triumphs few years since.
Upon the occasion Of his visit Commodore
Daniels was received by the authorities and
people as Lafayette was upon his memorable
visit to this country. The government Of
Venezuela showered honors upon him and
voted him handsome pension through life.
Commodore Daniels was in his seventy fourth
year, and up to very brief period has been an
active and interested participant in all the
interests Of the country--he died yesterday at
about two o'clock, serenely and peacefully and
has left behind him character worthy Of emu
lation.
RACHEL does not appear to make very
profound impression in Boston. The Post there
says:
ave are sure we have seen as good playing
as hers, time and again, upon the English
stage. Upon the whole, we cannot say that in
our opinion she is worth all the pile Of adjec-
tives that have been heaped upon her, both in
France and England. We have no reverenta
or gingerly feeling in approaching the subject
Of her performances, for we think that as fine
actresses as Rachel have been upon the Eng
fish stage, and will be there again--and this
without going back to the Siddons and 0Nei,
If we suppose these ladies to have been all that
they are represented to be. We do not mind
adding that all but Rachel's share in the CLASH.
cal tragedy is insufferably tedious to us, and to
most of the audience, to Judge from the faces
and actions Of those within sight. The effect
would be decidedly improved fall but Rachel's
scenes we're left to the imagination"
Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-01

CHEAP CoRN.--Sales Of corn in the field are
reported to have been made in Montgomery
county, ILL.,, at from IS to 81 per acre, being
equal to 10 or IL cents per bushel.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1855-05-16
Anecdote Of a Dog.

There is large dog in Boston, a New
foundland Spaniel, belonging to member
of the fire engine No. 7, who has been so
much accustomed to follow his master at
every alarm, that he will now hurry away
to the engine house at the first cry of fire,
whether his master be at home or not
and, if the engine has anticipated him,
and is on its way to combat with the fiery
element. he searches it out passing every
other that intervenes, until he comes up
with his favorite number seven, when he
seizes the rope and lends his aid to drag
forward the machine. Tits noticeable too,
that when he has been in the engine-room
of an evening, where several were seated,
he has invariably been the first to hear an
alarm and give the signal bark, arousing
the fremen to their duty. On late oc-
casion, when the dog had been prompt to
make his appearance at the first sound of
the bell, one Of the company, deeming his
interference troublesome, repulsed and
drove him away. Old Rover, not liking
such treatment, quickly marched up to
his opponent, and, with one grip, rent in
twain his neither integuments then bound
ing by him, seized the rope and with a
toss of the head, trotted off with the end
in his mouth.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1855-05-16
The Lawyers Ruse.

This story is related of lawyer who
has since attained eminence in his profess
sion. A case in which he was engaged
as counsel for the defendant came on at a
certain day. As he was insufhciently pre-
pared, he was anxious to have the case
postponed for few days that he might
have further time for this purpose. I'm
fortunately. there was a great press Of
business, and he knew that his motion
would be overruled unless some extraor-
binary reason was alleged Under these
circumstances, he bethought himself of an
expedient. Rising with handkerchief to
his face, he addressed the Judge in &C,
cents OF great emotion:
: May it please your honor, have lust
been informed that my mother is at the
point Of death. My emotions are too
great for me to proceed in this case.
move that it be postponed until day after
tomorrow" This request would of course
have been granted BY the Court, whose
sympathies were strongly excited in his
BEHALF but at this moment, to the discom-
iture Of the lawyer and the amusement Of
the audience, the shrill voice of his moth
er was heard issuing from the gallery
" Ichabodl Ichabod how often have I
whipped you for lyingp'l
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1855-05-16
Russia Her Extent and Resources.

Russia in Europe covers 100000
square miles-in Asia, 5,250,o00 square
miles. Her population is about 80,0O0,-
900. The military force of Russia at the
command of the emperor is not less than
100000 of men, of which 100000 are
infantry, and 100000 horse. One hun
dred and eighty thousand officers are con
stantly in the military schools supported
by the government. But small portion
of the frontiers of this vast empire are la
BILE to be assailed by foreign foe-nature
has placed thereto barriers insqrmounta-
BILE. With such an immense force to pro-
tect her southwestern frontiers, it is only
for such soldiers as Napoleon the First to
attempt to penetrate her interior with any
hope of success. Russia may be checked
in her ambitious designs upon neighbor-
ing nations by the united power Of West
ern and Southern Europe but her. con-
quest, subjugation and dismemberment by
external force is next to impossible. The
spell that binds many in slavery to the
few, may yet be broken, and anarchy or
revolution dissolve the empire. Until
this is accomplished, Russia must be
watched and feared. Globe.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1855-05-16
Our Strap 8ook.
From the Ladies' Christian Annual
PICTURES FOR THE POOR.
BY W. RoDERIcK LAWRENCE.


Although the poor may find it beyond
their limited means TO purchase pictures
to grace their humble dwellings, to which.
when wearied with toll, they may turn,
andsin the amusement Of the moment forget
their hard foil, pictures which delight
with their beauty, and render many a
home cheerful and happy. yet each carries
within his or her bosom, pictures far
more enduring and less liable to fade, than
the magic productions of the linner's pen
Gil.
In the hearts inmost shrine are treas
ured scenes of wondrous beauty; The early
home, the humble cot, and the wild flow
ers which bloomed beside it, while the
sky above seemed bluer. and the voices of
the birds far sweeter than in after wears.
when care and anxiety sat heavily on the
brow, and the heart was panied some
times almost to breaking.
Within the heart are treasured pictures
of those who were dearly and fondIy1oved.
1t may be kind and affectionate sister.
loving brother a prudent mother, or an
indulgent father, or the bright image of
the first object of tender regard. around
which the purest affections of the heart
entwine with an enduring love.
How many pictures of friends long since
departed, now sleeping quietly In the
grave, but who live in the memory ever
bright and young, as when on earth in all
their beauty and loneliness.
These mental pictures are so intimately
interviewer with the hearts most secret
tracery. that nought can steal them away,
or tear them from their abiding-place.
Say not. then, there are no pictures for
the poor. In the hearts sunny inches
might be found many sweet face, whose
beauty even angels might gaze upon with
pleasure; eyes long since sealed forever,
and lips and brows pale Death hath kissed.
There they bloom in living beauty, ever
fair and young, pictures which no intru-
sive eye can see, no foe may steal away
these ever bright and beauteous pictures
-heart-pietures for the poor.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1855-05-16
AN ANCIENT RELIC.

The editor of the Wheeling Times has
been shown piece or MICA, taken Irom
the breast of skeleton exhumed from a
mound on the McLuke farm, near Short
Creek, Ohio, which bears on it an inscrip-
ton dated 1887. The inscription is in
English, and seems designed to commem-
crate some deed of an Indian named Trem-
nede, who died to save the lives of Will
liam WEIGH and his family. The editor
Of the Times properly remarks, that when
it aforementioned that this inscription bears
date only ninety-fve years after the dis
covery Of the country by Columbus, TWEEN
ty-one years before the permanent settle
ment of the country in the East by any
English of whom we have any historical
knowledge, and over one hundred and fifty
years prior to the first known settlement
of this region of country, and that this
apparently is intended to commemorate
singular service to the family Of the wri-
ter, it becomes theme for speculation.