Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-11-23
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
OFFICIAL PAPER or THE cT7Y)

OPTICAL PAPER OF THE CI1Y)
RlcHARD OAHgEK d the Agent for the .4,aeriea,l
Organ In the First, Second, Fifth, Sixth, aud Sew
enth Warda, and also Of Georgetown.
b. ID. KLoryxs, Sixth street, between New York
avenue and K street, is Agent for the Third and
Fourth Wards.
LAND WAKRAsTs--A further decline has taken
place since our last quotations
The following are the ruling buying rates to-day,
November 23d, viz: ~. II 4 ..s5f
a SOS and zoos, Sl0s sl00 per acre.
COS and l20s, $l05 $l06 per acre.
The market Is heavy, with decided downward
tendency. .9
From letters and telegraph message, shown us
to-day from New York, the market there on yes
terday was Sl05 per acre, and the leading dealers
refused to buy AZ any price aal e..sN
Orders from the Weet have been almost with
drawn, and the issue under the act of March 8,
1855, now, being upwards Of 500 warrants per day,
the dealers here are confident that prces will Gall
below 500 per acre, by the close Of navigation. ~
National THxArRE.--Mr. WaIlack's presenta-
ton OF Werner last evening was most excellent
performance. 1t is undoubtedly his ster-piece,
and we do not believe any actor in the country
could perform It as we'll. Messrs. Howe and Adj
AIMS deserve especial notice for their correct and
spirited rendering Of the parts assigned them.
Mrs. Jones, as Josephine, was deservedly admired.
The performance concluded with the Spectre
Bridegroom, played here twice last season, in which
Jefferson, as usual, kept the house In roar. JET
ferson is sad dog, and win be the death Of that
fat old gentleman in the white waistcoat who sits
on the left Of the parquette, we fear unless his
friends prohibit him from attending the Theatre.
Tomorrow night Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Williams
win appear; those talented and popular artists,
who have raised up such host Of imitators who
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like jackdaws to shine in borrowed plumage. But
In vain. Barney Williams is unequaed az an Irish
man, as il Mrs. Williams as Yankee girl. III any
doubt this, let them attend the National tomorrow
night. as ,ls.
From the following paragraph in the Baltimore
Sun we infer that Mr.. Jarrett has something extra
ordinary in preparation for Wednesday night:
.Enferprise.---As specimen of the facilities for
speedy travel nowadays H. @. Jarrett, the enter
prising manager Of the Museum, and Of the Nation
al Theatre in Washington, has arranged for the
talented performers, Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Williams,
to appear at the Museum on next Wednesday
night, and at the National in Washington on the
same wight What would have been thought,
some years since, Of an announcement that the
citizens Of two cities forty miles apart would have
had the pleasure Of seeing the same performers on
the same night Z They would have been suspected
of calling to their aid some superhuman power
hut now it is accomplished easily by the means Of
steam and an extra train.
CIRcuIr CouRr.-The trial Of the case of the
United States against VIM. B. Scott was commenc-
ed in the Circuit Court Of this District the 18th
instant and closed on the 21st In 1910 the defen-
dant was appointed Navy Agent for this station
and for the Navy Department, under the act Of the
10th July, 1892 and was continued in Office until
June, ls4s, when he was removed. At the time
af his appointment he was charged by the then
Secretary of the Navy with the payment of the
navy pensions. The action was brought on his of
fetal bond to recover balance of 81 1856 o. due
on his navy agents account proper, and the furth-
er sum of S6,ll2 81 due ON his navy pension ac-
count.
The defences were, that the payment of the PEN
sions was adistinct duty from that of navy agent,
and that the balance due on the pension account
was not recoverable on his official bond as navy
sgent; nd, further, that the defendant was cnti-
He'd to commissions, extra his annual salary Of 81
OOo on his disbursements for other naval stations,
and for the period while acting under ad interim
appointments by the President and for paying the
pensions, which claims greatly exceeded the claim
Of the United States against him.
The Court held that it was the defendants duty,
as Navy Agent, under the act passed for this Dis
uict TO disburse the navy pensions upon being re-
quired TO do so by the Secretary of the Navy and
the balance due on the pension account was COW
cred by his official bond as Navy Agent; and that,
being an officer with fixed annual salary, he was
not entitled to tie commissions claimed all such al
lowances being expressly prohibited by the acts OF
Congress Of 1889 and 1912.
Verdict for the United States for ST., s9F 3s.
Fesdall and Redin for the Government; Brad.
sey Carlisle, Davidge, and Eaton, for Scott--Int.
DEATH or Mrs. SULLIvAs.-The unfortunate
woman whose death we recorded yesterday, by nm
accident nc the corner Of Four,and-a-half street
I'D pannsylvania A tvaa nan1ad IN
Sullivan, the wife Of Michael Sullivan; her age
was abopt thirty.
The folio wing is the verdict Of the coroners jury,
held by Coroner Woodward, at the apothecary
store Of w. II. Gilman, whittier she was conveyed
for relief, and where she diod, TO wit:
"That the deceased was crossing Four-and "a
half street. at its eetion with the north side
Of Pennsylvania Avenue, ADD was within ten or
twelve feet Of the west side Of said Four-and-a-
half street. when she was struck and knocked
down by horse, and run over by buggy attached
TO the horse, driven violently down Fon and-a-half
street by boy 10 the jurors unknown and hat fall
ing, she struck her head against the paving stones
OF the street, causing conclusion Of the brain, o.
which she died In about hour and three-quarters;
and the. jury further find that the said boy was
driving In a crimnally careless and reckless man.
ner, and was fully able to have stopped his horse
before striking the deceased"
The boy has not yet been discovered
CoNaoDoRE WILKES has removed for tina winter
10 Philadelphia, In order TO superintend the print
ing Of the edition OF bis Exploring Expedition
ordered by Congress TO replace the copies destroyed
by the burning Of the Congressional Library In
1851. The work win be brought out in quarto
form, and in the same style Of elegance which
characterized the original edition.
The house Of Com. Wilkes, in lafayette Square,
formerly the residence Of Mrs. Madison, has been
rented by Col. Webb, Of the New York Courier
and Enquirer, at $500 per month, furnished. Col.
NVahh xv;ll Yao,ds In Waahin oton this vintcr M,