Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-12-10
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
(0FFYoXAL PAPER or THE oITY)

of Washington, d. O., would respectfully announce
to our Christian public an important change in
their plan Of providing for the wants Of the suffer
ing poor.
tors and other gentlemen was appointed to confer
with the Managers of the Association on the APP
pointing Of general agent The greatly increased
field of their operation and the mpossbty Of their
personally insuring the public that their bounty
reaches all the destitute, and only those desiring
seemed to demand-that an agent be employed.
They are happy to announce that Mr.. David ~
Wilson, so long and so well known to our citizens,
has engaged ia the work Of visiting all the poor OF
the city, ascertaining their wants, seeking employ
ment for all that can assist themselves and also In
aiding the managers in collecting and disbursing
the moneys given by our citizens to the Associa--
ton for providing fuel and other necessares to the
INDECENT and suffering
The ladies are assured that our liberal public viii
share their qualification at this arrangement, and
win give their confidence and aid to the agent
e. B. MILLS, Directress
Mr.. Wilson will be at the Society's room, adjoin-
ing Odd Fellows Hal, Monday, and every day
thereafter, from nine till ten o'clock, where the
poor and destitute are requested to call and make
their wants known.
WINrER's DIoRAxAs.--A unique and unrivalled
exhibition Of chemical dioramas and chromatrope
views will be given at the Varieties this evening
by Mr.. r. Winter. The Boston Post thus alludes
to this wonderful exhibition
"Generaly speaking, the synopsis Of scenery
and incident OF exhibitions, concerts and theatres
are woful exaggerations II not absolute alsehoods;
and, on reading the poster Of the chemical pic
lures, we prepared ourselves for the usual dispro
portion between the description and the reality.
Singuary enough, however, the exhibition far out
did the promise Of the exhibitor and we witnessed
it with the greatest qualification. By means Of
light, applied some how or other to the picture,
the latter is made to undergo every graduation in
tone Of coloring, from that Of hot noon, through
the sunset and the twilight, the darkness and the
with the fall Of evening comes the lighting Of the
street lamps, the appearance Of busy crowds Of
citizens the bright windows of the Cafes the grand
illumination of the hundred gothic windows Of the
cathedral, and the solemn celebration of the mid
night mass In all the pictures are similar marvel
lous changes to those exhibited in No I, they
are all very beautiful and magnificent In their sew
eral ways.
sThere is neatness and perfectness about the
whole exhibition, very rarely, il ever, seen in the
wonders Of the day" KS
GREAr FIGHT ON ENGLISH HILL.--On Sunday at
p. NJ. a great bobbery was kicked up on English
Hill, corner Of Fourth and II street. by a" consti-
tutional American" alias Hibernian, who for
attacked with tooth and nail the castle of another
constitutional" vulgarly known as shoemaker's
shop. The shoemaker was at home, and when the
door of his castle was burst in, he sounded TO
arms and seizing bis shoe-knife kept the invader
at bay, until the arrival Of officers Dom and Par
ker, by whom the bog-trotting door-breaker was
arrested and lodged in jail
Why is it that our Irish friends generally select
Sunday as the day for making their habtual DEM
tha of tha iii n for
the terrible rows and drunken orgies Of our foreign
population, Washington would present on Sunday
the peaceful aspect of country village. Now, we
are sorry to say almost every Sunday Is marked by
breaches of the peace and rows nnumerable on
the part of foreigners. Can we wonder, then, that
the moral and religious portion Of our citizens are
generally found acting with the American party?
FESTIVAL or THE STREET CHURcH.--Permit
me to call the attention of the public to the fest-
val to be held at the Franklin Buildings corner of
Ninth and d street, on the evenings Of the llth,
18th, 18th and I4th of this month. This festival
has been gotten up by the efforts and labor OF
some benevolent young ladies attached to the +
Street Presbyterian Church, CDR. Gurley's,) the
proceeds of which are TO be appropriated TO the
Mission school on Capitol Hin, in this city. This
school has been sustained for some time under dis
couraging circumstances, but not without good
having been effected. This, like any other enter
prise, must have means, and to obtain this, some
young ladies' have labored for months, and now
offer many articles Of utility for sale, with refresh
ments of every kind which the season viii Afford and
all at fair prices They now appeal 70 the patriot
the phianthropist and Christian TO patronlse their
effort The object commends itself to all, and those
who make the appeal are worthy. ANIcus.
A Nrw INyEsrroS.--We call attention to the
advertisement Of Il. g. Chaplin, the inventor of a
new and valuable invention in window fixtures.
We have examined it and are satisfied that Ii s OF
great value. II consists of double spring, by
which either sash Of q window may be kept in
place at any desired height, and the window also
prevented from rafting The application of the
invention Is very easy, and the cost of the inn
provement very slight. Read the advertisement
WESTERN PREsBrTKRIAN CHURoH.--Rev. DR..
Sunderland win deliver poem this evening at IL
o'clock, at the New Presbyterian Church, ii street.
above Nineteenth, for tho benefit Of the church.
Admission, IL IL cents.
DR.. Sunderland Ia a poet of no common order,
and we recommend the admirers of genius to be
present an well as the friends Of the Western Pres
byterian Church.
Supper and refreshments win be served from 8
TO Top. NJ.
The Rev James B. Donelan, who has been for
the last nine years the Pastor Of st. Matthews
Church, 10 this city, announced yesterday to bis
congregation that he had resigned his place AZ
their pastor, and that, at bis request, the Arch
bishop had appointed the Rev. John b. Byrne his
successor. Mr.. ID. also announced that he would
remain in the church as an assistant 10 Father
Byrne.
LADIES FrsrrvAL-wn the editors of the aQr.
gam please notice that the ladies Of the Church Of
the ascension intend holding Festival at Odd
Fellows Hall, during this week, commencing this
EVENING" A good band Of music win be in attend
ance every evening, and supper furnished to such
as may desire 1t.