Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-12-24

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Your luvin cousin, REUBEN SLocux.
| SERKSADK TO SENATOR PUGH-On Saturday
night some five hundred citizens and others, pre-
coded by the Marine band called at the residence
| Of Senator Pugh, Of Ohio, on Louisiana avenue,
to offer him the compliments If a serenade, ex-
pressing their high appreciation Of his recent
Country on The door Of the senate After several
airs by the band, Mr.. Ward, Of this city, came
| upon the balcony and said: Fellow-citzens-I
have the honor Of introducing the Senator from
be s.id than tsaf' fEnthusiastc cheer. and sx-
Mr.. PuEh said: My friends, certainly no man
ment 20 unexpected. deserve only the credit Of
having discharged my plain duty as q Senator Of
the United States, In striving to avert the caas-
troPhe Of civil war. am truly, as my friend has
| Of "6ood :" "Goodn5l But do not believe that
/ our Union can be maintained by the sword; IL
must reposs In the affections Of the people in every
State; and the way to preserve the Union, now
and at all times Is to endear II to the hearts Of the
people I'm every State, by convincing them that 1t
Is better, infinitely better, than any other form of
prove to South Carolina, that all her rights Of
| property, her interest, and her honor, can be
| secured within the UnioI, rather than by sepa-
rating from 1t. The fact is so, and ever was so.
| Our Revolutionary fathers were Of that opinion;
| and until we can find greater prophet than him
whose name your proud city bears, we may well
adhere to 1t. The Union was erected upon this
foundation. Let us continually observe the foun-
| dalton, and thus protect the Union forever
[Cheers, and CALCULATIONS Of Bully for you'll
The American people, like all free people, some.
can prevent the splitting of blood In our qnarrels
this will be no union Of thirty-two states but of
thirty.three and very soon Of more.
| Voice, H" Bring back South Carolina ,"l
| She will come back Of her own accord II we
speak to her only I'm kindness. My friends, have
| said enough; You all know my sentiments, an
surrounded by eloquent and patriotic gentlemen
non-slaveholding States. Allow me to thank
you. ICries Of !" Go on, 60 on, oh goon!'l
should only repeat what have said to the peopl,
| of the gulf States upon the other. The mainte
| nance or overthrow of the Union, may be de
bateable alternative. IL is not so with you or me
We live too near the borders Of what could b
/ speedily two hostile empires.
| II the extremes continue to be unreasonable, we
Of the border, must bid them both to nd asid
and leave US to determine the whole matter. w
intend to have peace and to reconstruct the Uniol
| wherever Ii has proven to be faulty, or can b
amended. II either extreme should leave US, O
| refuse to cooperate in the task Of honorable ad
selves and wait for reason and justice to cong ue
them. Good night, gentlemen, need hardly sa
| again thank you.
vallandig ham, Of Ohio, Mallory, of XIV, Josep
Segar, ESQ Of Va, Woodson, of Mo, Pendletor
| Of Ohio, and lastly by the venerable Mr.. CritteI
den. OF Ky, who happened to be at Mr.. Pugh
residence. We regret, in consequence Of tn
crowded state of our columns, that we came
give their speeches space to-day, being, as the
were, replete with patriotic sentiments, and evil
| cling strong desires for sc the preservation and pc
petuity of the Union" not by coercion, but b
Cancellation and mutual concession.
CENTRAL GuARDHousE.-JusiiesC CLARK E n
Harhold, profanity and obscene language; fine
81 "a. Dtniel Pyfer, profanity; hned 81 9
Thomas Douglas, obscenity and profanity
Marble alley fined s417, Sidney Riley, pr
Ridgway, disorderly and profane; SAT-, jam
Lasfey, do do s{1 This party paid out an
was dismissed, and shortly Afterwards was
was again fined to the extent Of sa.l7. Geor
| Laskey, profane and disorderly; fined 50 II. ia
Ridgway, do; do. 1929 Ann Green, profani
and Indecent language; fned SO 10. Bartholome
peace. John Farley, do; do. Augustus HuI
profane and indecent language; fined s2:s
George Jsrboe, PIofanityi s317-
| Samuel Lee, Charles Haws, John Pumphre
George Noland, James Greenwell, Edw'd vern,
and George Pyles, were charged with building
unlawful bonfire In the street after sunset. Th
| were each fined 81 and costs. Charles Haws W
| also fined - and costs for profanity In the sire
The IsCENDIARY CASE Saturday night, Jol
Banks and his wife, colored, appeared before u
concerned In the burning of the barn Of Mr. Jes
b. Haw few days ago. Mr.. Davidge appear
for Mr.. Haw and Mr.. Chiffon for the defen,
The suspicion was based upon ill-feeling Will
| has existed between the accused parties and /
omplainant for several years, and the threat
Banks wife about eighteen months ago that
soon as the complainant came Of age, the proper
would be destroyed. After a confederation Of
| the testimony and arguments Of counsel, the ma
l fstrate Immediately dismissed the case upon I
/ ground that there was no evidence before hi
that would justify the sending Of the case to {
Grand Jury.
CRIMINAL CouRr.-Saturday, after our rep,
closed, the Court proceeded with the trial Of w
johnson alias VIM. Lammon, on charge Of ste
ing horse, wagon, set Of harness, and Lot
poultry, of the value Of $343 IS. The Jury had
To-day, the sealed verdict Of the jury In
case Of VIM. johnson, tried on Saturday for gra
larceny, was handed to the clerk. Johnson "
convicted Of stealing sundry articles Of produ
amounting 70 grand larceny, but not guilty
stealing the horse and wagon charged In the
| dictment
James Welsh was ( led on a charge OF ASA
and battery upon the person Of his father, Tn
Welsh, by throwing billet Of wood at his he'
The case was pending when our report closed.
HELD TO BAIL.-On Saturday night, Hei
Boucher appeared before Justice Dom for furt
hearing in the case In which he was chare
with assault and battery upon Michael O'Bry
certificate that the skull Of O,Bryan was II
tured and his condition dangerous caused 90
solcitude on the part Of his friends for the rec
ture Of Boucher; but his appearance at this til
and the subsequent assurance that O'Bryan 10
dangerously wounded, secured the admission