New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-10-30
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Il n said shss during one Of tho tss:s or riots 20
hs9stns htely in our streets, . Pissel saet was
FREE INTO the windows Of the British Minister. 1t
Was, Of ecrns, random shot, bet the occurrence
N any shape is sufisieatly dissrscefsl An asst
~ recently been passed BY The City Government.
&atborzipS he Mayor 20 employ twenty I've sddi.
Asnd rOlcemeo, q. night, if he shall deem it nee
sssary. The number ought to be ten ti1nes 81
great, IN. tie City Of Washington 10 too poor to
nee. The expense Of pOli,e sufficient to protect
he hves add property Of the inh .bitsn.s TIE null
htnde and bOldness Of the rowdies is so
great that peacesble people are actually becom-
Sag serous,y alarmed. and are providing themselves
whh sword canes and Ievolvers for seltprotec7en.
One Of the army officers here who has been for years
engaged In the most perilous expeditions IN the Wild
sss parts Of The continent, on the Great Plans, 10
Utah, Oregon and California says that in no place
has be felt more strongly the necessity OF keeping
hs JevOvers in order and on his person than 10 the
streets OF Washington at night. th0k bis expires
sson of alarm is rather loud as the phrase is
bot it ia not altogether without reason And if things
- on 10 this way, and the houses Of foreign Embas-
ssders continue to be fred into in broad day, the
Federal Government will have 10 exercise spowers,
and take measures to preserve the peace and order
Of the capital. All that is wanted is a sufficiently
numerous police, with an energetic and determined
chief. There are plenty Of United States military
Ulcers now wasting their time, or worse than
wasting it, in Kansas, who would be much more use
fully as well respectfully employed in organizing
and commanding police force Tor the defense OF
the national metropolis.
The. statement that the Government has deter
mined ~ suspend or contract operations upon the
public works il yehemently cOntrsdicted by the Ad
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statement in the form in which they choose TO
tradict il has been made by anybody except them.
selves. What has been stated is, that the Govern
nent will exercise a certain discretion in regard to
works for which appropriations have been made
but which have not been actually commenced. All
works now in progress will be continued, but no
new ones viii be commenced unless their prOsecu
ton 10 demanded by some positive necessity.
DIR. Banks of Virginia having been appointed
Secretary Of the Legation Of the United States in
Brazil one Of the Administration organs here all
nounces the appointment, and declares 1t TO be
moot excellent one, inasmuch as DIR. Banks has re-
aided eight years in Mexico, and speaks and writes
Spanish with facility. presume that the Secretary
OF State has other reasons for the appointment and
does not select Dr. Banks on account Of his knowl-
edge Of Spanish, TO represent us at a court where
Spanish il not spoken. But the Administration
would do well to look little after its organs, and
poss them up on the difference between Spanish and
Portuguese.
Apropos of languages, / ses it stated that the
Russian Government has decreed that in the public
schools Of Irkutsk, in Siberia the American"
language Mail hereafter be taught This is the
first time, says the London correspondent OF The
". Y. Commercial Adcertiser, THAT have seen
1.-The English officially called the American Ian
"gusge." The London correspondent is mistaken.
The late Mr. Marcy, while Secretary of State, sent
20 the CODsus and Commercial Agents Of the United
States circular instructions requiring them to fur
pish answers ~ carefully prepared series OF ques-
tons about the trade and navigation OF the ports to
which they were accredited. This dispatch bears
date October 8, 1853 The second query of the
6rt series is this: "What official documents ire
''sister, &c., are issued to vessels as proofs of
Z" nationality or Of ownership Translate form Of
leach if practicable and translate INTO American"
This, believe was the first time the term was
ased in the official intercourse Of the United States.
Nothing is known at the State Department of the
reasons that induced Sir. Marcy to adopt the term.
1t does not appear that be ever gave any e1plana-
ton of his use Of it. 1t was probably either mere
whm, or, like the decree about the breaches Of our
representatives abroad, one of the grand ideas of
Mr. Dudley Mann for impressing Europe and the
rest Of mankind with proper notions OF our suoe-
IArity.
In tho first years Of the Republic, soon after the
Revolution, when hatred TO England was atits hight,
it was grayely proposed by some enthusiastic ma
tonas" TO change the language of the country, and
substitute Hebrew for that which bore the de
tested name of English. If l remember rightly,
the project was actually talked fin Congress. Not
long afterward some Of the officers of the British
Expedition to Copenhagen, while stroling about the
streets of that city, discovered the "shngle" of
some entsrprising and patriotic Yankee, informing
ths Danish public, as il passed to and fro that there
dwelt Jonathan Dodge, teacher Of the American
language"
am happy to learn that the case of Major Emory
and Prof LOOmis was to-day amicably aud honor
Sbly settled The Major, with true chivary and with
frank manliness that does him high credit, made
ample apology to Mr.. LOOMS, admitted that his
Ay had been justly and properly punished and that
b himself had been wholly in the wrong in abusing
an assaultiDg the teacher. In consequence, all
DeAl proceedings in the case have been withdrawn.