Daily American organ., 1856-04-01
CITY INTELLIGENCE

llN IIA1lxAe. HI1NSIIs
Richard Carter, 40s Massachusetts, avenue, and
John p. White, sl9 New Jersey avenue, are the
joint and sole agents for the ADserican Organ in
this city and Georgetown. Orders for the paper
left at the stores of r. d. Pearson, Esq. Island
Hall; Josiah Venable, ESQ.,, near the Navy Yard !;
Welsh Wilson, Georgetown; or with the agents,
win be attended to.
: 1855 CoxrIsUED.--A Committee having been
ordered TO deliver the Requisiton of the SONS OF
LIBERTY TO the above mentioned Gentlemen, sf-
ssr.ards returned and reported the verbal Answer
OF the Chief Justice Of the Provincial Court and
Doctor Steuart, one of the Judges of the Loan-Of-
nee, and communicated the written answer of the
becretsry, to this Effect; That IL he should con-
tinue in 0tice, the Clerk Of the Provincial Court
would receive his Directions to act AZ the Judges
should in their judicial Capacity at the next Court
order him as their Minister; but before the Meet
Ing OF the Provincial Court, he could not under
take TO give Directions to the Clerk, to issue Pro-
cess, whatever the Determination Of the Majority
OF the Northern Colonies might be, whose Courts
might sit before ours. The Commissary General
not being in Town, the Committee could not de-
liver the Requistion to him The verbal Answer
of the Chief Justice and that of one of the Judges
OF the Land -OfRce, were taken under Considera-
ton, and in Consequence Of the Order Of the SONS
OF LIBERTY, the Committee again waited ON
those Gentlemen, and having informed them,
That their Refusal to give their Answers in Wri-
ting to the Proposition aforesaid, was deemed
great Indignity to the SONS OF LIBERTY, and
that their Answers in Writing we're instantly ex-
pected !" they received and reported their follow
Ing Answers.
GENTLEMEN: In Answer to your Application Of
this Day, my Connections and Circumstances speak
my Attachment to the Liberty of the Subject here.
The carrying on Business at the adjourned Provn-
cial Court viii, as to myself, depend on the Opin-
ion have as yet to form. shall meet my Breth-
rem on the Day to which the Court is adjourned,
and be governed by those Reasons and Principles
which ought 70 actuate every Man who sits in sta
tions similar to that which is filed by
Your humble servant. john BRIcE.
March 1, 1855.
A Proposition being this Day given in to me.
requesting that Business should be done in the
Land Office Of this Province as usual to which
answered that the Land Office was open,s and the
Records thereof subject to the Perusal Of all Per-
sons who had Occasion to make Searches and
that Copies of the Records, authenticated by the
Register, should be made out to any Person 80
applying, pay the usual Fees; and as I appre-
bend the sale of the Lord Proprietary's Lands
are Matters of private Concern respecting his own
interest," he may grant Warrants or refuse to grant
them, as he shall think proper. Given under my
hand at Annapolis, this First day Of March, 1855.
GEORGE STEWART.
From the above lit will be seen that both the
Chief Justice and the Judge of the Land Office,
while they had due regard for the dignity Of their
positions, were still all right on the main question
But it is equally evident that had they not been so
the Sons Of Liberty would have taken matters in
their own hands.
THE LADIES FAIR.--We feel quite sure that the
appeal now making to the liberaity of the citizens
Of Washington on the part of the ladies connected
with the Trinity Chuch will meet with prompt
and generous response The appeal is in behalf of
. noble object, the establishment of Sunday
School in one of the suburbs Of the city, and the
mode of obtaining the requisite means is through
fair. The fair is held at Odd-Felows' Hall, and
will be kept open for the reception of purchasing
visiters every evening this week.
HAvASA.--The following extracts from letter
of gentleman of Washington, now in Cuba for
his health, win be read with interest. II may be
well to say also, that he is not w-Nothing in
any sense of the term
'We have been in whirl since last Thursday,
which was the Captain Generals birthday, besides
being religious festival. Then came Good Fri
day, when the whole population turned out in ball
costume; moving from one church to another;
going the rounds; kissing toes mutering all sorts
Of jargon; making gestures, and genufections, and
grimaces in a CHASTITY fashion, as if by spasmod-
ic and involuntary contraction; dragging an ugly
doll baby through the streets by the heels, and
buffeting 1t with angry imprecations for having
betrayed the Saviour. 1t was remarked, as q to-
ken of some advancement, that the hanging of
Judas was omitted, but / defy all heathendom to
display more impious or brutally stupid and en-
tirely disgusting ceremonial or mumery.
The pictures are mere daubs; the churches shah
by md mean the decorations the merest tinsel
the statuary would disgrace toy shop; the wor
shippers principally ape-ike blacks, reeking from
the hot and dusty Streets and elbowing the gaudiy
dressed Spanish ladies with Democratic rudeness
Sunday was probably the gaycst day in
Havana. The Theatres reopened bull fights and
cock fights abounded.
|" / have attended grand bull fight, presided
over by Madame Concha, and saw six bulls and
two horses butchered in the coarsest and absurdest
manner conceivable, though certainly with some
skill and address, and have looked on at Masque
Ball, given by the Bishop of Havana, where saw
more that was disgustingly foul (my vocabulary
Of coarse words fails to do justice to this horrible
people) than l had ever imagined human nature
capable Of in public at least, and yet the entire
crowd participating in it. I should be ashamed to
put on paper for your eyes minute description"
:" BY the way the Chinese slaves are getting very
numerous in the island and the open trade in them
is as vile as was ever the Acan slave trade There
are now in the harbor two Amsricaa vessels full of
them.
al have a feeling that something worse than the
doom of Sodom is in reserve for this people, and yet
. climate and land so deliciously luxurious it had
never entered my Imagination TO dream of Spain
must give it up, and it must come under American
influence direct or indirect and that is the only hope
can see for Cuba"
MAeIsTERIAL APPoINTxENTs.-Several of our
Police Magistrates, whose commissions have re-
Gently expired, and who naturally expected a re-
newal of the same, we fear are doomed to disap-
pointment Among the number is our friend
John L. Smith, who has always given great salts
faction TO the community in his official capacity