The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-11-10
THE WASHINGTON UNION.
LOCAL NEWS.


Tns crn corscIs LAST NIanr BoAnp on AIpR-
The only business Of importance transacted by this
board was the passage with few amendments of the
general police bill that has been for time pending
CosAoS couSoIL. The suloined joint resolutions
passed
Joint resolution in behalf the public schools in Wash
ington city
Whereas Congress has at various times enacted laws
the benefit of the public schools in the various States and
Territories of the Union Gnd whereas believe that
the city of Washington possesses peculiar claims on
Congress- well in this in many other respects
therefore,
Resolrei by The Board Of Ahyiaea and Board Of Common
Coi That the committee 10 attend to the interests of
the corporation before Congress be- and they hereby
instructed TO hy this important subject before Congress-
and urge the passage OF law making suitable appo-
ation of public land TO aid the system of pubic-school
education which the tax paying citizens alone of this
tropos have been, and now, aboring to place upon
proper basis.
Joint resolution respecting increase OF the Auxiliary
Guard.
Resolro3 by he Board If Aldermen and Board Of Common
Cdaaci That the joint committee to attend to the inter
csts OF the corporation before Congress be- and they
hereby instructed to ask of Congress AN increase OF the
Auxiliary Guard.
T,arnAxcE AND CHARITY. The regular monthly meet
ing of the Catholic Total Abstinence Beneficial Society
held at the societys spacious hail. of
and Tenth streets Sunday last Rev. Il. j. OToole,
president, in the chair The was usual filled
to overlooking and spirited addresses delivered by
the president and other members of the society Some
fifteen members enrolled their The society,
understand, has ii in contemplation to make
demonstration towards supplying fuel to the poor during
the approaching winter Fifty cents or dollar each
from three hundred and fifty members judiciousy
expended, would go good way in alternating the suffer
ngs of poor during the nclement that is APP
preaching. We wish the society much in its
double mission of total abstinence and charity.
BUSINESS at the port of Washington yesterday quite
brisk. The schooner T. c. Stanard arrived with 10 900
feet of lumber the schooner Joseph Lbbey, from Eliza
beth City, with 80 900 pine shingles the steamer Column
bia from Baltimore, with consignment for s. Humphrey,
Parker Co., ID. M. Ingraham, Murray Semmes, Bar
bour Semmes Middleton Bcall, II. Francis, c. c..
Turner Wall Barnard, T. Fegan, r. Ihyson, jackson
Bro, Memo Lulay Howell & Morsell, w. N. H Mack,
J. L. Savage William MeCrpps, B. /. Neale, j. n.
Stuart, j. f. Thyson, c. Stott
TnR CANAL STEAMER CArnoART There was a meet
ing of the stockholders of the Cahcart steam propeller
patent Saturday night at the Union Hotel George
town. They organized themselves into joint-stock
company electing +. w Risque president S. L. Brown
secretary and o. G. Manchester, w. H. Donegal and Vim
Tayloe trustees whom the patent right is to be
stock represented and perfect satisfaction
pressed in the of the invention 1t decided
that the capital of the company should be $50 600, and
that 500 900 worth of stock should be issued in shares
OF $25 each.
QUITE a change for the better is noticeable in the money
transactions of the federal city Brokers buying
Virginia money at per cent Saturday last,
changing Washington city currency for gold at three per
cent and making small exchanges of Virginia paper for
Washington paper at four per cent Virginia money
in great demand.
PERsoNAI---Hon. J. A. Bayard of Delaware Is at
Kirkwoods'; Hon. A. Kennedy, of Maryland, Hon John
Fl. Savage of Tennessee, Hon j. w Stevenson, of Ken
lucky, and Hon. A. NJ jackson, of Mississippi, are at
Browns
THIS Slip ScoTI, has been loaded ut the Washington
navy-yad by Mr.. Thornton of Virginia. with ship tim
Der for Liverpool, and will sail in few days for that
port.
THE CIRCUIT CouRT.-The evidence in the of Jones
Dernott closed yesterday, and the argument of
will IL