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WE SPEAK BY THE BOOK. We have tried
w il. Ii has complete control over lnhamma
tion--Idrk soHrtl!e( Va.) Netc Era.
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PERSONAL.

.... The Hon. Sidney Dean, 4 member Of Con-
gress from Connecticut has gone to Cuba
-. Mr.. Pike has recently spoken speech in
Cincinnati. There was. il is said as much ankle
ty among Pixies friends to hear Pike speak rs
there Is among miners to see Pixies Peak
.... Among the Americans at Rome in February
We're Brig. Gen. Totten, l.. :. A., and family,
Mrs: General Winfield Scott, p. X Hoffman and
family, and e. w. Brush.
-. The PrOplgateur Catholique, a southern
Catholic journal. learns from PERSONS worthy Of
confidence, that General Walker recently con
verted To the Catholic Church, has Determined TO
enter religious order and become a Catholic
priest.
80. The Portland Transcript says that young
man in Troy, who wrote TO Horace Greeley re-
qnesting his autograph, received the following re-
ply:
Dung man, you can he in better business
than In sending for anybody's autograph.
8. III GREEIFY',
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A SABLE SICKLEs CASE.


LEEsBURe, Va, March 81, 1859.
Yesterday Sunday we had in this neighbor-
hood ''sabie' Sickles affair, viz: Mr.. w. H.
Gray's negro man Sam shot Mr.. J. ID. wildman's
negro man Bill with shot gun, under the follow
ing circumstances: IL appears that Bill had for
mesly paid attentions to Sam's present wife, whom
he QSain) married. only Last Christmas. Sam, ac-.
cording to report, had warned Bill from ever,
tampering with his wife after her marriage to
him II SO happened that Bills wife lives some .
miles beyond where Sans wifeis hired at (Mr.
Warners) and that the nearest road 70 Bills wife
would necessarily require Bill to pass Warmers
house. Whilst on his way yesterday to see his
wife, and when opposite Mr.. Warmers Sans
wife called to Bill to come in. He refused to
enter the cabin ut first, but after a moment said
yes, he would just light his pipe. Whilst doing
which Sam entered. and forthwith fight ensued
the other negroes about the place succeeded how
ever in parting them, and one held Sam whilst
Bill was told TO run for life. lie did So and when
supposed to be out of reach Sam was let go where
upon he immediately ran up stairs, took down q
loaded gun and followed after Bill, overlook him
in an adjacent field ION his way to see his wife)
and without further parley put the whole charge
through his body, killing him almost instantly.
LEDGER
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IL The funeral Of the Hon. Mike Walsh in
New York took place ON Sunday, from his late
residence In Twenty-irst street. 1t is estimated
that there were at least ten thousand persons
present. the streets being densely crowded for sew
eral blocks in the neighborhOod OF the dwelling.
The widow manifested the greatest affection.
The corpse was neatly clothed in white dressing
gown faced with satin, and the entire body was
shronded with white Grape. Among the pail
bearers were George Wilkes, Judge Steers, Ex-
Mayor Wood, Hon. John Cochrane, and James
II. Brady In the procession were many OF the
sod Spartan Band,'' Of which deceased was the
founder. The corpse was inferred in Greenwood
Cemetery, near the grave Of daughter Of de-
ceased, In lot of the late George Steers, who was
his devoted friend
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FEAsr OF EsrHER.-In Philadelphia, on Satur
day Last, the Jews Of the city celebrated the ami
versary OF their deliyerance, through the intern,
shon OF Esther, queen Of Ahasueras, from the
general massacre Of their race, as proclaimed bv
King Ahasuerus, in the l27 provinces over which
he feigned, at the instigation Of iIaman VII
even offered to pay 10,OOo talents Of silver To do
fray the expenses, to have his desire fulalled
But Esther, the cousin Of MOrdecai, having Nv,
her beauty (Which had turned more than one
kings head) become queen, and being made az
quainted with the intentions Of Hanan, managed
TO turn the tables on him, and not only succeeded
In getting him hanged on the gibbet prepared for
her father, but ON this day OF the month Of Swan
third month-obtained total rescindment n,
the PROCLAMATION. As usual, the Jews met in the
Tabernaeies and read the Book of Esther and
Performed other rites, in commemoration Of the
event. - VIC
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The EXTRA SEssIoS-The recent delibera-
| tions of the Cabinet have resulted in a deter.
minatiOn to dispense with an extra session Of
congress, and endeavor to conduct the affairs
of the Post Office Department on credit. This
is the purpOrt Of letter Of the Postmaster
General, written yesterday afternoon. TO Geo
Mattingly, Esd superintendent of the Potomac
Steamboat Company. In this letter the Post
master General states that Congress expired,
for the first time since the organization of the
Government, without having made appropria.
tions for the postal service for the next fiscal
year, and had members been elected from all
the States, the President would at once have
called an extra session. This was however
impossible without DISTINGUISHING the people
OF nearly half of the States of the Union. which
had not elected members. He regards this as
an unfortunate dilemma, and suggests that
there ought to be no interval when full Con.
gress could not be convened, and it is TO he
hoped that there never will be one hereafter.
lie then shows that if the Congress had only
made provision for the deficiency, there would
have existed no urgent necessity for an extra
session, inasmuch as the first quarterly service
Of contractors for next year will not have lie n
performed, so as to en.itle them to pay, until
the first of October; and except for railroad
routes, sixty days more must elapse before
their accounts can be finally settled which
would postpone the payment until the LIST of
december, within less than a week from the
regular meeting OF Congress Or, if deemed
advisable. Congress might be convened in No.
vember, in time to provide for what will be
due for the first quarters service of the next
fiscal year.
He then alludes to the deficiency on sccount
Of the present years service, which is estima.
ted at 81 1886, 2Sl. 90, and remarks that " after
the Both of June next, the sum of 500 600
granted to the Department by the acts of
March Sd, lS49, and March Sd, 1851, for the
transportation and delivery Of free mail matter
for Congress and the Executive Departments
may be applied in part to the extinguishment
of this deficiency. This will leave the balance
to be provided for S3,6S5, 2S1 95. Of this sum
OF ~ 49,, 2Sl. IS, the deficiency which existed
IN the quarter ending on the 3lst of December
al to'... ................ S749, 84I IS
mat for the quarter ending 3Ist
"0Ich to.'..... 1854 lbs Dc
mat Tor the quarter ending 30th
june to'..... ............... l.67I 9S5 on
s., 385, 81 IS
The S149, 81 .68-being the unpaid balance
OF the quarters liabilities closing slst Decem.
Der, and payable 18th February-can and will
be paid BY the Department within sixty days
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" meh'ioned yesterday the fact Of clergy
man an =" arren county, N. J., being suspected Of
lawn. =. POISONED bis wife The name of the party
Is Rev j. > Harden. During the most n,n ry
examination, lie is said to have erbih,,a., .,A1
greatest excitement and .repdatiop, fainting SOW.
eral times, and feigning intense sickne,. NJ. -
been minister Of the gospel about two wear, and
had been married about six months He "a .,ia -
have testified under oath that his wife had Toll ~
on the night previous to her death that she had
swallowed arsenic three or four times, and tina,
she was impelled to do so because Of difieulties
existing between her mother and himself He also
stated that before he received this information from
his wife she bound him by promise not to d.
vulge this statement TO any living being except it
was TO save his life. Other witnesses, including
per mosher, however, eliminated the husband.
Daring the investigation, Mr. Harden lett the
pace disguised, and has not returned Having
seo' .ne omcers are in pursuit. Governor Newell
snd e0avie'i9a,
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HIVE have received the first number OF the
Washington Examiner well filed weekly
paper, issued by William Thompson. Esq, and
which is devoted to ''City Affairs, Education,
Literary, Police, Local and Mercantile Intelli-
gence-" We are glad to learn by his leading
editorial, that Mr. Thompson has quite recovered
from his severe Illness, which occasional the dis
continuance OF the I" Washington News" A
valuable and very complete table OF District in
formation forms 4 feature of the Examiner
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- II There is some scandal aaoat in Hartford
Conn, abouta marriage consummated last fall be-
tween a middle-aged gentleman, who came there
the previous summer, and young lady Of one of
the first families" They left Immediately upon
a prolonged marriage tour from which they have
not returned; and since then, genteel appearing
lady has come to town claiming the man As her
husband OF twelve years Standing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-03-22

ID A frightful catastrophe occurred on the
Great Western railroad Of Canada, between Flam-
boro' and Dnndas, on Friday night. 1t appears
that while the gale which prevailed that night
was at its height, and the rain falling In tor
rents, the engine and two passenger cars were pre-
cipitated into chasm some twenty feet wide
The scene which ensued cannot be described At
last accounts it had been ascertained that six per-
sons had been killed. and about dozen more or
less wounded by the accident
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SAD AND SINGULAR DEArH.-The Cleveland pa
pers of March 18th record melancholy case of
sudden death On Monday night Miss Theodosia
Smith, aged nineteen attended singing rehearsal
by the choir of st. Paul's Church. At the close of
the school, one of her companions, Observing that
she did not arise, asked her if she was not going
home. She said she could not get up, adding in
laughing manner that her foot was asleep. She
then made an attempt to arise, but instantly fell
back in her seat, and never spoke again. She was
conveyed to her home, where in about three hours,
she died. Every effort was made to rally her, but
all to no avail. The physicians who called say
that there was Enlargement of the lungs, and that
she died from paralysis Of those organs.
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u In New York, Bernard McGaffney, ped
dler, unfavorably known to the police arrested
on Saturday on suspicion Of having been concerned
In the death of Mike Walsh. He was Seen In the
vicinity where the body was found early on Thurs
day morning. and MI. Knapp, witness at the cor
oner's inquest, says he resembles one of the men
whom he saw running from the spot immediately
after he heard the cry Of - murder"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-03-22

IL From VeneZuela, our accounts, to March
8, indicate the immediate approach of another
revolution in that unhappy country President
Castro, by various arbitrary and unconstitutional
acts, had provoked a general feeling of discon-
tent, which on the 1st inst, manifested itself in
an insurrectionary movement ut Caracas which.
however, was forcibly repressed
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Boots THREE CENT PIEcEs.-Albany is full of
bogus three cent pieces which have no milled
edge, the stars surrounding the letter T. are very
indstinctly cut the bunch of rods tied together in
the lower bow and the leaves in the upper bow a, r
the e are wanting in the bogus coin. On the r6-
verse side Of the coin the the star is very badly
executed, the points being almost rounded. ain
stead of being distinctly and finely cut, as in the
genuine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-03-22

IL The Boston school excitement has nearly
only about fifty of the pupils remaining
ont. Mr.. Cook, sub-master Of Eliot School. is
under arrest, charged with cruelty furnishing one
OF the disobetient boys. speck of rebellion had
shown itself i'm the Lyman School, East Boston.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-03-22

IL The recent heavy rains have caused vas.
amount OF damage in various parts of the coun-
try, but particularly along the tracks of railroads
IL Is reported that at least twenty miles of the
Hudson river railroad are submerged. but wheth-
or any portion of the track has been washed away
can only be ascertained when the waters subside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-03-22

IL The three men named John Shields, Geo
Williamson, and John Tom, who were arrested
in Liverpool in 1857, for numbering and throwing
overheard fellow sailor near the Belize. Gulf of
Mexico, and were sent, via New York, to L.ouisi-
ana for trial. have been convicted in the Parish of
Plaquemines, and sentenced to the State penten-
tiary for life.
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III = Late files from Buenos Ayres. contain re-

IL Late files from Buenos Ayres, contain re-
markable correspondence between the Secretary Of
State of that Government and the American Consul,
Mr.. w H. Hudson. 1t appears that the Buenos
Ayrean executive had taken offence at the entrance
of the American war vessels In the parana with
out its consent previously Obtained, and had re-
quested our Consul to signify 50 much to CommO-
dore Shubrick. Mr.. Hudson, however interposed
the fact that the Commodore and the Commission
er had stopped at BuenOs Ayres. Jan. /, to pay
their respects TO President Alsna, but his absence
had prevented an interview, and any explanations
that might have attended 1t. lie also pleaded in
mitigation, that the vessels Were all bound 10 Ar
gentine ports, one only excepted, whose mission
to Paraguay was one of peace, not Of This
apology the BuenOs Ayrean Secretary admit, d
conditionally, his right to apply for more and bet
ter 10 the Commodore in person being reserved
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SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.

The Union publishes, without comment, The
correspondence between the Postmaster Cen
eral and George Mattingly, one of the united
States mail contractors, by which It appears
that no extra session Of Congress will be called
The Union treats of Pennsylvania politics,
and traces the rise and fall of Governor Packer
The InteNigsncrr criticises unfsyorably the
policy adopted by the Administration, ofissuing
Post Office certificates to make temporary pro-
vision for the service of the Post Office Departs
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-03-22

IL We are glad to lind among our exchanges
again. the Memphis Avalanch, which has risen.
Pheni1-like, from the incendiary ashes that re-
Gently enveloped il.
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from this date. The payment Of the principsl
part OF 1t will be made within thirty days
The effect Of this will be to divide the entire
deficit of SASS, 1895 between the quarters
ending 3ist March and 3Oth June, and nav.
able Sist May and 3lst August; SO that the
suspension of payment on no part Of this in
debtedness viii exceed, beyond few days, six
months before the regular meeting Of Con-
gress; on nearly one-half Of it the suspension
will be but for q few days more than three
months a. - - =
Briefly remarking the misfortune to contrac-
tors which results-from the crippled condition
of the Department, the Postmaster General
urges that the calling Of an extra session, i'm
which all the States could not be represented
would be cause for serious complaint against
the Administration; and the President has
therefore decided on the lesser of two evils He
then assures contractors that the debts DUE and
to become due, to them, arising as they do from
contracts entered into under authority of Laws
passed by Congress will not, and cannot, be re-
pudiated but that their payment will be inevi-
table; and If the contractor desires to borrow
money, the record of his claim against the Gov
eminent will be ample security to the lender
Besides, rs Congress are in default for not hav-
Ing made an appropriation, strict justice will
require them to provide for the payment of in
terest on these accounts from the time of their
final adjustment. This will amount to less than
100000, and is not to be compared to the en-
barrassments and expense resulting from an
extra session of Congress.
The letter concludes with an assurance that
system of retrencbment will be followed, and
that services will not be commenced on the six
hundred and ninety five new routes established
by the act Of June II, 1853, nor on the ST. Paul's
and Puget Sound route, as no money has been
appropriated for them 1t will be perceived
that the Department does not propose to issue
certificates of Indebtedness, or resort to any
other questionable expedients. The service
rendered will stand upon the record as evidence
OF the claims of contractors, and be of itself
sufficient security to insure its liquidation as
soon as an appropriation is made by Congress.
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IL In the Stephens wife poisoning case. in
New York, yesterday, after offering some medical
testimony as to the symptoms of arsenical poison
ing, the defence closed their evidence, and the
Court adjourned until to-day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-03-22

DTFrom j Shillngton, we have the 1Atlantic
Monthly for April a fair number, but not quite
up to the quality Of SOHO Of its immediate prede.
cessors.
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II In Richmond. on Friday forenoon, one man
came very near shooting another for seducing. and
refusing to marry, his daughter, but was prevented
by the interference of bystanders
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IL We learn from the New Orleans papers
that man was bitten by snake the other day in
the rear Of the POydras street market in that city
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NorlcE FOR TlA SEE'R RksToRarroy OF
CERTAIN LANDS TO MARX ESF IN spIIt,

NoTIcE FOR 1lH HGG.GR ksrop ,r,ox or
sfhTE Of M lfARs Tp MARKEr IN THE
proved August ii, 1855 to the STATE of Mssissip aI
to aid in the construction fcertain railroads therein
i've the release from withdrawal of the lands herein
afer NOTICE IS hereby gren that ali the va
each side of the railroad "from Jackson To the nne
between the Sttte of Mississippi and the state of
ip.. which have not been selected in virtue ofsaid
sIant, or reserved for any purpose whatever, and
acre, or at the graduated prices under the act Of
the DAYS and at the prices hereinafter speci6ed AT
the Ordinary nj limum of LBS per acre. or at the
"a which they may have graduated at the date
At the Land Office at JACKSON, on Monday, the
twenfy-thlr day of May next, viz:
North and east Of the ChOe:aio base line and me
townships G. 7 and 8, of ranges l, ?, 8 and4.
townships and 8, of range5
At the 7 and Office at COLUMBUS on MONDAY. the
twenty-thr day of May next:
North and sIst Of tas Chocta,o base line aud me
Township of ranges J, 6. 7, 8. g. 10. II. laand,s
IIwnshps g. 10, H. u, Is, Il and Is, ranges IA
Townships 10 and n. OF range IL. ''
townships Is, IA and Is, of ranges 10 and 10.
AT tho ] and Office at AUGUSTA, on Monday, the
twenty third day of May next, viz:
North and east Of the Choetasc base Tine and me
ridian.
Township Z, of ranges and g.
townships and 2, OF ranger.
Townships 4, 5 and 2, of range 8.
and IL. ~ - - ~
Township z. ofrangc15.
Townships 8, 4 and S. of range l6.
townships 8, 4, Sand G, of ranges IL and Is.
Notice is also hereby gwen that the vacant tracts
IN the Oddnknibsrsd sections, within SIX miles on
each side of the Mobile and Ohio River Railroad
within the aforementioned townships which were
Withdrawn from sale or location by Notice No. 567
dated August ID, 1856. will be restored and laid open
TO sale ut the land Office at COLUMBUS on Mondsy
the twenty third day OF May next, and thereafter be
kvhleet, as required by law, to a minimum of ttco
dollars aadJDiy cenfs per aeTs, VIZ:
North and east Of the ChoctatC base lias aad me-
TidtdH.
Townships IL. IS, II and Is, of range 10.
townships 10, II, II, Is II and Is, Of ranges II and
Is. "''1
Townships 10, IL and u, Of range 10.
Given under my hand at the city Washington the
nth day OF March, l2D. - ~
THOs. A HENDRICKS.
mar % Commissioner ofthe Gent Land Once.
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1.-The new opera house in New orleans is TO
be commenced forthwith, andwin be opened next
October by Mr.. Ullman.
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liza large number Of dry goods merchants I'm
Buffalo have recently substituted female clerks for
those of the masculine gender
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IL VIM. Smith O'Brien las been arrested in
New York for whipping Dutchnan. This
O'Brien, however, is not the celebrated Irish pa
friOt
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ID young man named Jos Wright, died j
shocking death from hydrophobia, In Cincinnati,
few days ago.
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II There was riot in the Auburn, IN. Y. }
Prison on Saturday, in which Mr.. kirkpatrick,
the warden, shot three men,
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II Dover, N. H., has decided, by a vote of 3GG
to o. to apply to the next Leg slatrre of that State
for repeal Of its city charter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-03-22

IL At the Norfolk Navy Yard, on Thursday
last, twenty additional laborers were discharged
for want of employment for them
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IL house Of il-fame in Goldsboro, N c..
was 'gutted' by mob on the 18th inst
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II Late advices from Honduras state that ap-
prehensions were still entertained Of an attack
from Walker and his band.
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IL NO less than three hundred persons were
burnt to death In the city Of London during the
year 1858.
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The democrats Of st. Louis have nominated
Lewis v. Hogy for mayor
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INV. ii. Russell, the London Times cores
pendent in India, is about to return to England
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IL paper has been started in Georgia called
the Nineteenth Century What will it do after
1902
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ID Miss A. q. Rice, a respectable young lady
committed suicide in Cincinnati on Tuesday be
cause her beau deserted her.
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From BRAzIL.-The State Department is in
receipt of letters from Hon. Richard X Meade,
Minister to Brazil, in which it is stated that
the Emperor takes great interest in tho pend
ing difficulties between our Government and
Paraguay, and will strive to bring about their
pacific adjustment 1t is generally conceded
that Lopez will consent to arrange matters
amicably.