Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-02

caped cur attention until this morning
"On page $50, Blue Book, we find the fol
lowing items:
Amount paid fer advertising proposals
for navy supplies for l555...... 81 ,96s 7;
Do advertising for proposals for live
OAK LOT ISoo ...s-.............. wv q
Do due for advertising. S5l o,
Do for advertising proposals for navy
supplies .................... 1915 :.
Do not called for. .................. 507 Is
Do for advertising proposals for
small stores, &c. 1876 Il
Whole amount. ............ Sli ,I50 5.
eve repeat, as we said in our issue of the
Gath instant, I'VE suppose that each of these
three papers received One-third (S4,S13 80 y
Add to this previous amount proven, SCI,
33l Is, and we have S26, I44 66, which ex.
ceeds S25, 900 by 81, IA &C.
We fear our talented, truthful and ingenu.
Gus neghbor will die suddenly of an overload
of brains some dark night, if it "goes on
after this fashion: Plying it's pheelinks, y
we have not the heart to maui it to-day for
its lack of ordinary capacity to comprehend
facts known to all the rest of the world, az
we'll as on account of its propensity for other
things for which there is less excuse. So we
will content ourself with respectfully inform
ing it that the aggregate of S14, 45O 80, men
toned above, represents the aggregate cost of
the publication of the advertisements in ques-
tion in all the papers in the United States in
which they were published, from Maine to
Louisiana, including the Washington papers
and not that of their publication in Washing
ton papers only. We shall have to be at the
expense of buying our talented, truthful and
ingenious neighbor moro veracious and hon
est pair of spectacles we fear.
Health Of our Minister to France. -From
a gentleman who has recently enjoyed fire.
quent opportunities, in Paris, of meeting with
our Minister at the Court of France, we are
happy to learn that Judge Mason has entirely
recovered his health. 1t is the more crafty
ing to be able to make this statement, as it go
rarely occurs that person, after staining his
age, has the good fortune to recover from the
effects of a severe paralysis, the usual ten
dency of which is, not only to leave the consti-
buttons of much younger persons greatly i'm
paired, but to repeat its attack with increased
covered from the effects of frst shock. We
are quite sure that this information will prove
agreeable, not only to the many Americans
who have enjoyed the hospitality of Judge
Mason in Paris, and to his personal friends
generally, bat to the country at large, which
he SO ably represents. Up to this time we
have been skeptical as to the entire truth of
the accounts to the same end, previously reach
ing us; but tho testimony is such that we can
no longer resist its force. His cure has GER
tainly been a miracle, as it were, in medical
science, if his affection was really paralysis.
May it it not have been in1amatory rheuma-
tism, which not unfrequently temporarily par
alyzes the parts attacked?
Search for the Amelia.-We understand
that the Secretary of the Navy has despatch
ed orders by telegraph to Pensacola, direct
ing the United States steamer Fulton, Lieut..
Commanding Tilghman, now at that port, to
proceed Immediately in search of the bark
Amelia. She sailed from Port au- Prince for
New York on the 81 of December last, having
been seized under suspicion of being connected
with some fllibuster enterprise. The Amelia
was placed in charge Of Lieut.. Reed Weryen,
of the Navy, having Masters Henry Erben
and James g. Maxwell, with a crew of men
on board.
P. 5. We learn by the last California steam
or that strange barque was very recently
seen going into Charlotte Harbor on the west
coast of Florida, an isolated place Such an
occurrence was so novel that the collector at
Key West despatched the cutter to ascertain
what she was, thinking her the Amelia in dis
tress
A Correctlon.-In our article, yesterday,
upon the Senate printing, we omitted to state
voted to make the SeutinerS publisher tie
Senate printer to the Thirty-third Congress,
thcre were two or three, or perhaps four or
five, who did SO according to the general un-
derstanding at the time,) on account of their
personal attachment to that gentleman, than
whom no other is more beloved by his imme-
date friends. We make this correction, as,
without it, our article in question would be in /.
complete, and, therefore, it would not convey
the whole truth in the premises
The speakership After we went to pres.
yesterday, things took a turn in the House
hall. (See our report We know of four who
voted against the Aiken resolution who will
probably vote for that gentleman today, and
Of two absentees who will do likewise. We
expect Mr.. Aiken to be elected to day.
The Mission to England We are satisfied
that the Hon Geo. Dallas has made I'D hi.
mind to accept the President s tender to him
Of this mission.
Confirmed We hear that the Senate have
confirmed the nomination of JOS. w. Melon
aid, to be the Collector of the Customs a
Natchez, Miss, vice Edward Pickett resigned