Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-06-04

taken through a series of riots, atrocities, and
murders unparalleled in the annals of civil
lied nations. The murder Of Father Bapst,
at Calais, Maine, for no ether apparent rea-
son than that he was Catholic priest, the
murderous riots in Portland, Maine, at Gin
cinnati, Ohio, and at Louisville, Kentucky,
where unofendipg German citizens were muir
dered in cold blood, and their little children
shot at the mothers breasts-are fresh in the
painful recollections of all.
What is the cause, where the source of this
fell spirit of misrule? The subject may be
uugracious, but good men must look at it fair
in the face. Is not answer to the broad
question found in that higher law doctrine
first promulgated by Senator Seward, and
since elaborated and carried into practical
execution by Sumner, Beecher, Silliman,
Giddings, and company Is there any other
solution of the problem! The intemperance
of thought and language INDUCED by Siliman
and Beecber in New Haven meeting. houses,
and by Wilson, Sumner, and Hale, in the
United States Senate, has at last produced
results with the uneducated and bad men
throughout the country.
The reasonable sentiments of Abolition and
Know Nothing orators and presses have
brought things to this sorry pass, The men
who utter them are responsible for these riots,
atrocities, and murders of which we have heard
of late. They are the men who counselled,
encouraged, and inspired John Essex to bru.
tally stamp out the life-blood of Owen Quig-
ley. Will the sympathisers of Sumner shed
any tears over Quigley's untimsly death We
shall see.
Letter from Mr.. sumner.-It would seem
from the following extract of letter written
by Mr.. Sumner to Theodore Parker of Boston,
and read by the latter gentleman before an
anti slavery convention in that city, that Mr..
s. intended to pronounce what should be an
insult to South Carolina, and to inflict in his
seat in the Senate personal indignity on a
fellow Senator then absent. The extract read
thus:
"The tyranny over US is complete Will
the people submit to it? When you read this
shall be saying in the Senate that they will
not l shall pronounce the most thorough
philippe ever heard in this legislative body"
Is it any wonder that with such language
uttered by grave Senators that degraded men
think they too can avenge their own wrongs
They make up "the people," and why should
" they submit" to laws9
Texas Debt.-We understand the Treasury
Department paid on Monday, Tuesday, and
to III o'clock to-day, to the creditors Of the
late Republic of Texas under the act of Con-
gress of the 2Sth of February, 1855, s4,359,
524.12. 1t will be recollected the amount ap-
propriated was s7,75e,OOO.
List of Patents issued from the United
States Patent Office for the week ending June
3, 1856-each bearing that date:
William Alley, of Columbus, Ga-For i'm
provement in uterine supporters
Solomon Andrews, of Perth Amboy, N. j.
For improvement in gas burning lamps.
Josiah Ashenfelder, of Philadelphia, Pa
For improvement in marble saving machines
N. Aubin, of Albany, N, Y.-For improve.
ment in feeding apparatus for gas retorts.
Jesse Battey, of Honeoye Falls, N. Y.-For
improved method of regulating wind mills
Jos. Becker, of New York, n. Y.-For i'm
proved piano forte action.
William Burden. Of Brooklyn, N. Y.-For
pressure of steam
John Casey, of New York, N. Y.-For i'm
provement in window frames.
Richard Ii. Cole, of st. Louis, Motor i'm
provement in nut machines.
Thomas Estlock, of Philadelphia, Pa.-Por
improved device and walls of buildings for
preventing damage to goods by water in case
Of fires.
Richard H. Cole, of st Louis, MOTOR i'm.
provement in making nuts.
Richard II. and John G. Cole, of St. Louis,
Mo For improved machine for polishing me.
tallic nuts
George Crangle, of Philadelphia, Pa.-For
improvement in rotary brick machines
Rufus Ellis, of Boston, Mass.-For improve
ment in needles for knitting machines.
Benjamin Fitzpatrick, of Lowell, Mass-For
improved saw set.
Sylvester H. Gray, of Bridgeport, Conn.,
For Improvement in machines for felting hat
bodies.
Jacob Green, of Philadelphia. Pa For i'm
provement in gas-consuming furnaces
John G.. Hook, Of Newark, N. J-For i'm.
provement in the arrangement of gas retort
bench
Christian knauer, Of Pittsburgh, Pa.-For
copying press.
VIM. D Leavitt, of Cincinnati, Ohio.-For
improved saving machine.
Henry F. Mann, of Westville, Ind. For
improvement in harvester frames.
VIM. N. Manning, of Rockport, Mass For
improvement in melodeous.
Robert Myers, of Factory Point, Vt-For
improved marble saving machine.
Foster NOVEL;, of Lowell Mass.-For i'm.
provement in wool cardingsmachines.
r ID Poverty, Of Chelsea Mass.-For i'm
provement in selfregulating ships compasses.
Saml. Richards, Of Philad' a. Pa.-For i'm
provement in glass furnaces.
Josiah A Rollins, of Buffalo, N. Y.-For
Improvement in melodeons.
Isaac NJ. Singer, of New York, N. Y.-For
improvement in sewing machines for binding
hats.
Lysander Spooner, of Boston, Mass For
improvement in elastic bottoms for chairs and
other articles.
VIM. Samuels and Geo. L. Stanbury, of
jackson Township, Ind.-For improved boring
machine