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GEORGETOWN CORRESPONDENCE
GEORGETOWN, Jan. z. 1877

GEORGETOWN, Jan. Z, 1857.
fire occurred on board the steamer Salem
about 81 o'clock last night. Her upper works
being old and composed Of combustible mate =
rails, and strong wind blowing at the time,
she was, notwithstanding the efforts of several
ire companies, soon burned to the waters
odge, and sunk. The origin of tho fire is not
known. The general impression, however, is
that it originated from the furnaces. where
the hands were in the habit during the freeze)
OF making fire for the purpose Of preventing
the water from freezing in the boilers We
learn that there is an insurance Of some 81 600
upon her.
Some persons are in error in supposing that
our City Councils removed the venerable John
Mountz from office. Such, iu reality, is not
the fact. Several months since his honor the
Mayor, recommended tho introduction of a
different system for the collection and dis.
burSement OF our Corporation revenue, the
appointment Of a younger ond more active
clerk to perform the burden of the duties of
the ONCE, and tho retention of Mr.. Mouptz as
an advisory clerk. The Councils accordingly
passed such an ordinance, which went into
operation on the first Of January, and Mr..
Laird was elected as the first clerk under the
new law, and joint resolution passed by the
two Boards retaining Mr. Mountz as advisory
clerk at salary of $500. Heretofore his saIa-
~ was only 500, with all the duties to DER.
form and responsibilities to assume. Under
the present system he has no duty to perform
except to advise and counsel the new clerk
and no responsibility to assume S.
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IL Governor King, of New York, was il

If Governor King, of New York, was in
augurated on Thursday last.
r. During 1855 there were 4,260 deaths in
Boston; $50 more than In 1856 scarlet fever
carried of over 200.
II Boston paper is advocating the es-
adjustment of line Of steamers between
that port and New Orleans.
r. The Maysville (Cal.) papers chronicle
the recent death in Quartzburg in that county
Of Colonel Gaines, native Of Virginia, aged
eighty years. lie was prominent Democra at.
ic politician.
n Timothy McMahan, Of Richmond, gave
his wife beating, and then followed her into
the house to cut her up, but was prevented
from doing so to her great annoyance as she'd
like to see him hung for wife murder
T The New York Herald asserts that
during the past year its highest daily circula.
ton was 1850 copies and its lowest Sc, 900,
and that the gross receipts Of the papers dur.
ing the year were 1854, 945 "a. Pretty tall
talking
GRAND LEGISLATIVE BASQUET.-We learn
from the Chicago Democratic Press of a rumor
| to the effect that arrangements are on foot to
bring about reunion Of the Legislatures OF
Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois, In Chi.
cago, during the present winter.
| n pdlOul udc oCCu leSueu DY the Brit
| ish Government granting full pardon to and
exhonersting from all pains, penalties and
| forfeitures," Messrs. Smith O'Brien, John
Martin, Izod O'Doherty, and fifteen Others
who participated in the Irish insurrectionary
movement of I848. 1t will be rememberea
that this was reported to have been done some
time ago.
| WHAT Maria gentleman named Hall !,
said to have devised q mode to keen omen. h,
thinks, the Hudson river, from New York te
above Troy, and the Erie anal, in the winter:
and is about applying to the Legislature for ,
law permitting him to levy toll on boats anG
vessels passing through them, to defrav tn,
expense. His plan is the construction of a,
iron pipe, about six inches in diameter
throughout tho line, to be heated by steam ,
He is said to be sanguine of success
ARRIVAL OF MoRMoNs.-The New Yor,
Evening Post Of Friday says: "The ship Co
lumbia arrived at this port yesterday from
Liverpool, bringing about three hundred pas
sengers, including two hundred and twenty
one Mormons, under the conduct of Elder
John Williams. The Mormons were lande,
last evening. Elder Williams is a short
legged, small-sized man, full of energy, an,
evincing considerable intelligence He toll,
our reporter this morning that these wsr
nearly all his own converts, and came mostly
from Bristol, England. The number Of mel
is about equal to that of the women, but ther
is multitude Of children Of all ages"
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REMEMBER-KE
FIRST GRAND ANNUAL BALL
OF THE
GE N EVIEVE Gu 3

AT ODD FELLOWS HAIL, NAVY YARD
On THURSDAY EVENING. Jan sth.
TINE MEMBERS OF THE 6ENEVIEvE
Il Club take great pleasure In announcing to their
friends and thu public generally, that their FIRST
ANNUAL BALL will be given at ODD FELLOWS
HALL, Navy Yard, on THURSDAY EVEN
ING, January sth, JS57.
The Members Of the Club pledge themselves
that neither pains or expense will be spared TO
make tn 8 one Of the best balls Of the season
Wither's Brass and String Band has been en-
gs ged for the occasion.
The Supper will be served by an experienced
caterer.
Tickets ONE DOLLAR-admitting gentle
man and ladies, to be obtained from the mem
bers Of the club or at the door on the evening OF
the ball.
Positively no hats or caps allowed in the ball
room except those worn by members Of the re-
spective clubs.
Committee Of Arramgsmsats
Robert Childress, Andrew Norton,
William H Talbert, William A Holt
James Mathieson, Joseph L SOBER
George w w God, ian 7.2ts
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matter of bogus election returns rumors for.
warded to us from all quarters of the country
ere going to press; the last " copy" set up in
every newspaper Office being, necessarily, the
news per telegraph.
If blatherskiting abolition slang .whangsr
stumps his toe anywhere north of Mason and
DiIon's line, the press, will or mill, lie thus
made to pander to his love of notoriety and
if point can be made by at once spreading
through the land false versions of aught in
which the cause of the South is involved, all
Of US of the press are roped in" to aid in the
work, by the fact that we cannot possibly ex.
ercise the slightest control over the statements
manufactured for our columns a thousand
miles of, it may be, and rushed into "the
form" with railroad speed, in order to save the
mails.
The Clarendon and Dallas Convention -
While we make no professions of having see n
any portion of the correspondence with which
this convention was accompanied on being
sent to the Senate, we are very sure from the
conversation of public mon In Washington
who have now had time to digest it thorough.
ly, that it places face on the question so en-
tirely different from that which the opposition
journals that have commented on the naked
treaty give it, as that the opposition in the
Senate to its confirmation will be much less
than the distant public have been led to
imagine up to this time.
The President and Secretary of State in all
previous foreign negotiations have given very
general satisfaction to the country, without
distinction Of party. Indeed, we question
whether the foreign policy of any other Amer
lean administration was ever so universally
well received by our countrymen True, ex-
treme men are every where to be found who
cavil at things that meet the approval of all
but themselves, a handful in numbers, and
less than handful in weight of sentiment
aud influence. We see no earthly reason to
imagine that in the matter of this convention
the State Department will be found to have
lacked an atom Of its present proverbial dis
erection, energy, force or patriotism. So we
advise all sensible people to put in their pipes
and smoke all the thousand and one invidious
criticisms upon this convention fl oating around
in advance of the publication of the only
proper and reliable key to 1.-THE correspond.
erc,.
Appr0pOs-the wisdom Of the Senates rule
against the premature PRONUNCIATION of such
State papers has been amply vindicated in the
foolish comments to which we refer above
The Current Operations OF the Treasury
On yesterday, 9th Of January.
there were Of Treasury warrants entered on
The hook Of thu Dan rkment-
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CONGR ESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.


In THE SENATE, yesterday, after We went to
press, the Iowa contested election case was
debated at length by Messrs. Butler, Toombs,
Benjamin, Pugh, aud Geyer.
Mr. Toombs moved to amend the pending
resolution of the majority of their Elections
Committee by substituting in its stead the fol-
lowing:
THAT James Harlan is entitled to his seat
as Senator from Iowa"
Mr.. Bayard having next obtained the floor,
they adjourned.
In TIE House, the debate upon the resolu.
tions to print the annual message and accom-
panying documents was continued by Messrs.
Stephens, Davis Of Md, and Cadwallader.
Mr.. Barclay next obtaining the floor, they
adjourned
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"" DIRTY NATURES SWEET REsroRER,
BALMY Soar. Tile Cream of W,kd Fovers.
No lady's boudoir is complete without this
elegant article, which is an Improvement upon
the " Balm of Thousand Flowers" by its origi.
nal inventor. The ladies of the North speak
highly of it for chapped hands and rough skin
and use it for variety of toilet purposes Sold
by the Agents, Druggists and Fancy Stores.
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Proceedings Of To-Day.

In THE SENATE, to day, Mr.. Weller re
ported, from tho Military Affairs Committee
the bill to increase the pay of the officers o.
the army Of tho United States, and gave no.
tice that he should call it up at an early day
After the transaction of some ether morn
ing hour business of little public interest, the
Iowa election case was again taken up, and
Senator Bayard was delivering speech upon
it as the Star went to press.
IN THE HOUSE, on coming together, the
pending resolutions to print extra copies Of the
annual message and accompanying documents
was again taken up, and
Mr.. Barclay was engaged in delivering ar
anti Democratic party speech upon it as the
Star went to press.
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SHAVING MADE EAsY.-Wet your shaving
brush in either warm or cold water, pour on
two or three drops Of "Balm of q Thousand
Flowers" rub the beard we'll and it will m axe
beautiful soft lather much facilitating the
operation of shaving. Price only Fifty Cents
For sale at Shillington's, agent for Washing
ton, and all druggists.
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THO PREVENT COLD FEET, CALL Az
LAMMOND'S, and buy q pair Of Cork soles

g fOLEN OR TAKEN In MISTAKE
~ from the Ladies' Dressing Room, at Odd Eel
lows Hall, on Monday evening, large Second
Mourning SHAWL. Any person having the
same will oblige the owner by leaving the same
at the Star Once lite
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MATMIMONIAG,,

A GENTLEMAN IS YEARS OF AGE, IN
"A a respectable business, In easy circumstances,
come acquainted with some highly respectable
and pious Lady, with view TO matrimony. Ref
erences as to character, &c, given and required
Address, with full confidence stating age, posi-
ton, &c, HENRY 8. REyELLO, Washington
City Post Once. ian 7-lW&
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CARD.
ISAAC HERZBERG,
LICENSED PAWNB
Will loan $1,000 In sums to suit, on any att
cles OF value. 100 Pennsylvania avenue.
ian 7-WS6N3tt
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sHRAKOsCH GRAND CONCERr COW
PANY.
on their way to New Orleans.

nAAoSS" oAAND SoNSkhI sVu-
PANY.
on their way 10 New Orleans.
MILE TERESA PARODI.
Assisted by SIG. TIBERINI the Roman Tener;
SIG. MORINI. The eminent Baritone; PAUL
JULIEN the wonderful vioinist, under the
direction Of M. STRAKOsCa, viii give a
GRAND CONCERT inthis City, on wEDNEs.
DAY January TN, at Carusi's Balloon.
Admission sf-Scats can be secured without
extra charge at the music store OF Mr. y. Davis.
Concert commences at O'Clock.
MILE PARODI's PROGRAMME
7. 81 Ms-i Rampon." Grand Comic Aria,
Ia Cenerentols." signor M0RiNi knsshi
3. Adagio and Rsado," from the celebrated
Classical Concerto On henasssohs
PAUL JULIEN.
. 81 tuci nequeuu rslriu." from Fsssns
Mss:sr.work, "NIobs' Ihrst une,l MD.
I. The Immortal Ms.ie.l Poem. Aseissde- Bessho-se
sI6NOR TIBERINI.
? Dpetto Buro, from Douisetti's opera LII
cir. dhnors." Mile PARoDi and Sig NO
6. ousiuOr. from 81 Purt.nL" sTRlKoscH Bellioi
:. The Exquisite TerEettino, from Othsllo hossini
n'ne rEkEsA PARoDI, sig. TIBERISi, and
SIG. MoRTNL
O. sui. Pcpp. del mic bris" Aria rsrUsOdr' Riooi
sIGNOR MORINI.
=. "ressrto In Terra" Romano, from Don
Sebastian" sEnor TtBERtNI ponisstu
~. cAvstina. "Trsvstore." Mile FARoDl Verdi
~, Extraordinary Musical Performance Pan
t..i.-Performsd on ons string, By Paul So,
a. Grand Tersesto from " Lombsrdr' VERDI
Mile TERESA fARoDf. sig TIsBRISi. and sH nOhiNl,
with violin sCoomp ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS JULIEN.
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SMITHONIAN LECTURES REV
~ j.. MORRIS, Of Baltimore, will con
tinue his course THIS Wednesday, EVENING
Subject" The seventeen year Locust - II
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IN ALEXANDRIA, THURSDAY, Jan. >.
srRAKosCR's GRAND CONCERT CON
PANY.

On fAts woy 20 NtN Orttons.
MILE TERESA PARODI,
Assisted by SIG TIBERINI, the Roman Tenor;
SIG. MOkINI, the eminent Baritone; PAUL
JULIEN, the wonderful violinist, under the al
reetion Of NJ STRAKOsCH, viii give 61hd
Concert in AleIsnd on THURSDAY, January
eth, at SAREPTA HALL.
Admission 81 10 ell parts OF the hall.
Concert 10 commence at g O'Clock. JAM
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The Telegraph. More or loss Northern
journals are making merry over the universal
complaint throughout the South that the tele-
graph is being used as means Of giving cur
rency to false statements concerning affairs in
that section of the confederacy. They pretend
to regard these complaints as proposition to
Institute I" censorship over the telegraph"
&c, &c. This trick of misrepresenting tho
position Of ones adversary is not a new one !;
having, since the earliest days of argumenta
ton, been resorted to by shallow Drained
people when conscious of their utter inability
to meet the points making against their cause.
No Southern journalists have made any such
proposition They have simply protested
against the betrayal Of their trust on the mart
of many Of those paid by them for news BY
telegr aph. The Southern press pay for fact,
of general interest; not for abolition puffs and
arguments written in the shape of brief state
msnts Of facts, and abolition falsehoods by tn.
hundred, sent over the wires through the abo
lition partisan bias of the news collectors A
q hour, too, at which it is next to impossible,
h t the conductors of the newspapers ro,eiv-
leg them can duly caution their reader
against placing confidence in them, las We hav,
had to do repeatedly, more especially in th'
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The Current Operations OF the Treasury
Department.-On yesterday, 9th Of January,
there were of Treasury warrants entered on
H. L. ~
San Andreas independent., 1857-05-16

INFLUENCE OF A SMILE.-A beautiful
smile is to the female countenance what
the sunbeam is to the landscape. It en-
bellishes an interior face, and redeems an
outward one. A smile, however, should
not become habitual, or insipidity is the
result; nor should the mouth break into a
smile on one side, the other remaining pas
sive and unmoved, for this imparts an air
of deceit and grotesqueness to the face
A disagreeable smile distorts the lines of
beauty, and is more repulsive than frown.
There are many kinds of smiles, each hav-
ing distinct character-some announce
goodness and sweetness others betray sar-
casm, bitterness, and pride-some soften
the countenance by their languishing ten
derness; others brighten by their spiritual
vivacity. Gazing and poring before a
mirror cannot aid in acquiring beautiful
smiles half so well as to turn the gaze in
ward, to watch that the heart keeps unsul-
lied from the reflection of evil, and is IL
Illuminated and bcautifed by all sweet
thoughts.
San Andreas independent., 1857-05-16

AN ESTATE NOT TO BE TAKEN AWAY.
The following story used to be told by
King George the Third About the year
1915, there was nobleman in Germany,
whose daughter was courted by a young
lord. When he had made such progress
as is usual by the interposition of friends,
the old lord had conference with him,
asking him how he intended, if he married
his daughter, to maintain her? He re-
piled, equal to her quality. To which the
father replied, that was no answer to his
question; he desired to know what he had
to maintain her with? To which the
young lord then answered, he hoped that
was no question, for his inheritance was as
public as his name. The old lord owned
his possessions to be great; but still asked
him if he had nothing more secure than
land, wherewith to maintain his daughter?
The question was strange, but ended in
this: that the father of the young lady
gave his positive resolve, never to marry
his daughter, though his heir, who would
have two such great estates, but toa man who
had mutual trade by which he might
subsist, if drove from his country The
young lord was master of none at present,
but rather than lose his mistress, he re-
quested only years time, in which he
promised to acquire one; in order to do
which, he got basket-maker, the most
ingenious he could meet with, and in six
months became master of his trade of bas-
ket-making, with far greater improvements
than even his teacher himself; and as a
proof of his ingenuity, and extraordinary
proficiency in so short time, he brought
to his young lady love piece of workman
ship of his own performance, being white
twig basket, which for many years after,
became general fashion among the ladies
by the name of dressing-baskcts, brought
to England from Holland and Germany.
To complete the singularity of this rela-
ton, it happened some years after this no.
bleman's marriage, that he and his father
in-law, sharing in the misfortunes of the
wars of the Palatinate, were driven naked
out of their estates; and in Holland, for
some years, did this young lord maintain
both his father-in-law and his own family,
by making baskets of white twig, to such
an unparalleled excellency as none could
attain and it is from this young German
lord the Hollanders derive those curiosi-
ties, which are still made in the United
Provinces, of twig- g-work. k.-Dictionory of
Commerce.
San Andreas independent., 1857-05-16

GREEN TEA DRINKERs.-A correspon-
dent of the Missionary Advocate, writing
from Foo Choo, China, says =" Several
American ships laying in port waiting the
arrival of green teas. The Americans are
green enough to prefer an infusion of Prus-
sian blue, rendering that article so scarce
and high in the vicinity of the green
teas, that the natives can hardly afford to
use it on the venitians of the verandah's. $.
If some hundred of good ladies who go
with their heads tightly bandaged day
or two each week with sick headache, and
whose only remedy is green tea,' would
abandon the use of green tea altogether,
they would find in the remedy itself the
source of the disease"
San Andreas independent., 1857-05-16
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is published every SATURDAY MORNING,
At San Andreas, Calayeras County, CAL Office
IN the Independent Building st. Charles Street,
above Main.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.-One year. in
variably in advance, $500; six months, So 90 ;
three MONTHS $500
TERMS OF ADYERTISING.-On square of
twelve lines first insertion, S2.50; each sub
sequent insertion, $l25. A liberal discount
will be allowed to yearly advertisers. Busi-
ness Cards, not exceeding four lines S2.OO per
month.
San Andreas independent., 1857-05-16

SCENES on THE OCEAN FLooR.-Be-
sides the countless varieties of the focus,
the bottom of the sea is overgrown with
the curled, deep purple leaves of the sea
lettuce, with large porus lichens, and many
branched, hollow alga, full of life and mo-
ton in their rosy little bladders, thickly
set with ever moving tiny arms
These plants form submarine forests,
growing one into another, in apparently
lawless order; here interlacing their branch
es, there forming bowers and long avenues;
at one time thriving abundantly, till the
thlcket seems impenetrable, then again
leaving large openings between void and
void, where smaller plants form beauti-
ful pink turf. There thousand hues and
tinges shine and glitter in each changing
light. In the indulgence of their luxuri-
Gus growth, the fuel especially seem to
crafty every whim and freak. Creeping
close to the ground, or sending long.
stretched arms, crowned with waving
plumes, up to the blessed light of heaven,
they form pale-green sea-groves, where
there is neither moon or star, or rise up
nearer to the surface, to be transcendanty
rich and gorgeous in brightest green, gold
and purple. And, through this dream
like scene, playing in all the colors of the
rainbow, and deep under the hollow, briny
ocean, there sail and chase each other mer-
rily gayly painted mollusks, and bright
shining fishes. Snails of every shape creep
slowly along the stems, while huge, grey
haired seals hang with their enormous tusks
on large tall trees. There is the gigantic
Dugong, the siren of the ancients, the side
long shark with his leaden eyes, the thick
haired sea leopard, and the sluggish turtle.
Look how these strange, ill-shapen forms,
which ever keep their dreamless sleep far
down in the gloomy deep, stir themselves
from time to time See how they drive
each other from their rich pastures, how
they seem to awaken in storms, rising like
islands from the deep, and snorting through
the angry spray. Perhaps they Craze
peacefully in the unbroken cool of the
oceans deep bed, when 10! hungry
shark comes slyly, silently around that
grove; its CLASSY eyes shine ghost-like
with yellow sheen to seek its prev
hO oCd-uoS uloO pCCOulcS aware Vi Ills
dreaded enemy, and seeks refuge in the
thickest recesses Of the fungus forest. In
an instant the whole scene changes. The
oyster closes its shell with clap, and
throws itself into the deep below; the
turtle conceals its head and feet under her
impenetrable armour, and sinks slowly
downward the playful little fish disap-
pear in the branches of the marocystis
Holsters hide under the thick, clumsily
shapen roots, and the young walrus alone
turns boldly round and faces the intruder
with his sharp-pointed teeth. The battle
commences, both seek the forest, and their
fins become entwined in the closely inter-
woven branches; at last the more agile
shark succeeds in gaining the victory
Dcspairing of life, the bleeding walrus
tries to conceal his last agony in the woods,
but, blinded by pain and blood, he fastens
himself among the branches, and soon falls
a prey to the shark, who at once greedily
devours him.-Putaam' s Maqaziae.
San Andreas independent., 1857-05-16

Gen. La Vega, the Mexican General, is
stopping at Wizards Hotel, at Washing
ton, as is also Colonel May, who took La
Vegas guns and made him prisoner at the
battle of Palo Alto; and to complete the
curious reunion, Col Magruder, to whom
May handed La Vega over for safe keep
ing, is at the same hotel. 1t must be
pleasant as well as suggestive to see these
warriors assembled at the same dinner ta-
bic, hobnobbing in friendly way, and
popping champagne corks instead Of nine
Founders.