Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-04-09
TIE POLICE OF WASHINGTON In the New
York Times we find the following

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York Times we find the following:
without intending to object To the meas sure
we think 1t pertinent to inquire WHY Vashington
rIty cannot take care of herself, IA, the expend |
lture OF twenty or thirty millions for public
oui,d'ngs, city improvements, &c, to say not hing
o. =. .ne aual revenue Moving to her citizens from
'he presence OF the Government in their midst.
ID aoe w ashin2ton the mere nursing of Congress!
ma she no municipal organization, no police, no
guNefhHsnt! With some $4,000 inhabitants,
wnefe are her ordinances, her regulations, her
aud self-sustaining action az a
corporation! There Is not another town of like
size In the Union favored; and there is none 40
utterly helpless overrun with riot so dsplo-
Tably dependent. l may be right-doubtless II |
fs-foT the protection Of strangers, that Congress
should supply what the city itself shsmefully |
neglects. But it is not due to the citizens of |
Washington. On the contrary, il is due from |
them TO Congress and to those non-residents who |
frequent their city, to establish efficient poll
of their own. That they omit this first duty of
municipality is their disgrace"
The expenditure of twenty or thirty millions
for public bu ldings in this city of fifty or sixty
thousand inhabitants, Qaid off on scale, too,
to accommodate population of millions of
souls,) is the very reason why its washing
tons small population cannot maintain po-
lice force adequate to the requirements Of the
times. More than half the maurais sHjefs
here arc importations for Government purposes
lin buildings, &C. and bad persons are at
tracted hither by the fact that the principal
business Of the Executive and Legislative
branches Of the General Government centres
here. Wkile thus bringing upon us multi
tude of such persons the Government submits
TO no taxation on it's twenty or thirty millions
OF property in our midst for police or any other
purpose. How then can it be reasonably ex-
pected that our small population can support
sufficient police for the exigencies of the
times, in city laid out as described above and
oYerrun with rowdies from elsewhere, particu-
larry because it happens to be the seat of the
General Government.
1t behooves us in justice to add that Con-
gress, acting under a commendable sense of
their duty, though submitting to no pro rata
taxation on the Government property here, do
not hesitate to appropriate money towards
bearing portion of the cost Of our local gov
eminent when made sensible of the justice and
Propriety of so doing The trouble is, not that
Congress has not heretofore dealt literally by
the city of Washington, but that owing to a
combination of circumstances appropriations
that were amply sufficient few years ago to
that end, are by no means sufficient to repress
the rowdyism Of the times as manifested among
us. The exigencics Of the case are extraordi-
nary hence the call for proportonate greater
expenditures from the national treasury for
police purposes here.
But as rampant as rowdyism has been in our
midst of late, it is no worse here than in Bal
tmOre, and especially in New York, wherein
this immaculate Times newspaper is printed.
No argument is needed TO prove that fact
New York is a crowded city of immense popu-
lation and wealth, and therefore is without the
excuses, perfectly legitimate, as we explain
them above, which Washington has for her
failure to be able to repress tho current spirit
of rowdyism here without asking Congressional
aid to that end
TIE AMOR RIVER TRADING COMPANY
We have been permitted to examine a synop-
teal sketch Of plan for the organization of
another Russian trading company, which re-
ceived the sanction of tho Emperor Of Russia
January IL, 1883 This company, in its for
nation and privileges, is constructed very sim
ilarly to the Russian North American Fur
Company, and the English Hudson Bay Com
pany. 1t is the foundation plan of what NAV
ultimately become one of the most powerful
and opulent commercial corporations in the
world, second probably to none other than the
English East India Company. The present
plan contemplates capital of IL 900, 900 francs,
about 81, $50 900, and the edict of Incorporation
grants the privilege of exclusive trade with
and the right to establish counting houses,
agencies, ship yards, manufactures, &c, in
all that part of Eastern Siberia watered by the
Amoor and Schilkah rivers and their affiuents,
on the Siberian Pacific coasts, and the islands
of the Northern Pacific Ocean, except such as
are reserved to the Russian North American
Fur Company. The right to employ Russian
subjects in any part of the empire is granted,
as well as to employ aud trade with the Rus
sian "colOnists" in Siberia. The financial ba.
sis Of the company is designed to give it great
strength and permanently, and its privileges
are of the most liberal character. The right
TO hold stock is not confined TO Russian SUBJ
jectS. The shares are valued at 1000 francs,
$3.50, each, and 400 francs, $75, arc required
to be paid in at the time of subscribing.
SWAMP AND OVERLOOKED LANDS. -Tbe
Commissioner of the General Land Office, on
the 5th instant, transmitted to the Governor
OF Illinois patent, No. l, of swamp and over
flowed lands in the Kaskaskia, now Springfield
district, enuring to said State under the act of
September %, 1850, containing As, PAL 90 acres.
And on the Same day, in virtue Of the above
grant, he submitted to the President of Tho