Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-01-09


discretion. She has thus become the great
musical fsvorite with the American public,
aud most deservedly.
4. All the artistes know that they can trust
Strakosch that if he does not promise them
as much as some others might, whatever he
does agree TO pay them will be as surely theirs,
as though holding it safely In their pockets in
advance in hard gold.
These are all great advantages, and will
enable him to render italian opera quite as
we'll as ever before In America at much less
cost, We fancy, than heretofore. Under gu h
circumstances it strikes US tina. be will neces-
ssrily succeed
The Delaware Trust Lands Sale.-A Wash
ington correspondent Of the New York Tri-
buns, writing u that Journal, says:
at appears that Mr.. Eddy the United
states commissioner experimenting tho sales
Ed ] is in favor Of sustaining the land apprai
sails made by the commissioner sent out for
that purpose, which are perfectly satisfactory
to the settlers, who have made valuable i'm
provements upon their several lots. These
lots were each appraised at from $3.50 to $500.
About half or two thirds Of those in Leaven-
worth City are claimed by free State settlers,
and, with their improvements are valued at
from 81 900 to 50, 500. Mr.. Many penny, who
has done his utmost to enslaye Kansas, il still
AZ his old work He witches to deprive settlers
of the right to bid in their lots according to
the appraisal, but wishes to throw the sale
open to a swarm Of sTeculators from Missouri,
who would, by an understanding, allow the
Iro- slavery settlers TO bid In their lots, and
secure to themselves the improved lots Of the
free State men. He proposes to do this under
the plea that thereby 1usttce ,c0uId be done
10 TIE Indtdns' A good deal he cares about
the Indians, as his operations will show"
We have to say of the above that the sp.
praisements Of the lots in Leayenworih were
notoriously far below their real value second,
that under the Governments contract with
the Delawares, it is the duty Of the Govern.
ment, in honor, in justice and in law, to secure
for them the full value Of the lots in question,
which are as clearly their property, In fee,
under their treaty with the Government, as
any white citizens house and lot in New York
Is his.
1t ID therefore the imperative duty Of the
Commissioner Of Indian Affairs to insist that
they shall be fairly sold for their real value;
the much too low appraisements Of United
States agents not being sufficient to invalidate
auy portion of the rights of the Indians.
The sneer at the manner in which Commits.
sioner Manypenny discharges the trust in bis
hands-involvsd in the above quotation-falls
harmless at his feet, insomuch as all who
really know aught Of the manner in which he
discharges his public duties arc aware that
there never was in the public service man
moro sincerely anxious to do simply rigid and
infexible justice. This is the very first we
ever heard Of his management of any of the
affairs Of his bureau for political or sectional
effect. 1t is bosh, and nothing but bcsh
Gcd Eelp the Poor! was forced to be
out ard about yesterday, without cxclaiming,
in his or b er heart God help the poor Such
a man or wo nan ia without capacity to enjoy
the richest blessing which Providence has
Vouchsated to human nature-a heart TO feel
for others woes. No amount Of wealth was suf-
fcieat yesterday to protect its poSsessor in the
streets Of W Arlington against the eais alton Of
the terrible discomforts involved in the state of
the atmosphere. If those whose means can
purchase anything that money will buy, were
SO Observation-Disclosures so much from the
cold-as all did who were out and about, what
must those have suffered whose necessities
COIL led them to be out, half clothed, and,
on going home, to find only half enough fuel
to warm them, and half enough food to feed
them ? Give fellow-citizens, at such sea.
son-giVe, give, give, to al who apply. You
WHO can possibly spare dollar-and who can
not?-cannot give omiss at such season. 1t
is no tiEe TOW to enquire into the ciIcum-
stances or habits Of those who may ask aims,
as all must know tEet whoever will AJAX them
must now be sufferers indeed.
A Washington Banking House .-The fol-
lowing letter, which wo take from a late num-
bec Of the Charleston Courier, descriptive of
Washington banking establishment, will
doubtless prove interesting to many Of our fel
low citizens,
WARRINGTON, January L, 1901.
The stranger visiting our city whep on his
way to the Executive mansion, will observe on
the corner Of Fifteenth street, below Presi-
dent Square, plain two-story building With
a painted roOf-a fine specimen of old school
architecture-and quaint air of respectabi,.
ity about its very piainness The house is
succeed with plain lead color, and for wears
has lot varied 50 much as the changing Of the
sscEet green blinds Of the quantity shaped
windoss rtexhibits no superficial splendor,
and dis LAIN show, for it has that within
which passes show. This modest, unassuming
structure,-how different fro.- those gorgeous
houses on Wall street, which seem t. have
thriyen, like parasite plants. out Of the sub
stance Of others,-was originally branch of
the cd United States Bank, until the failure
Of that monster institution, when 1t became,
and still continues, tbs private banking house
of cur American acknowledgements 4
Riggs-a Srm knoVn in THO fcnF quarters Of
the globe .., ,
The entire inisrnsi arrangements are mSst
perfect and nothing can surpass the order and
regul ,rity Of the whole establishment. Be.
hind small screens, fronting the sntrance door;