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WASHINGTON NEWS

An appropriation was obtained in ~ Ia. ~
gress OF zOO,OU0 to purchase Mare Island no
San Francisco for the purpose of erecting a rnr,
fication as means of pretended defence, n
Broderick exposed this movement as a contrivan
to obtain money from the Treasury, and show,
that the barren island was not worth over S. 100
After that, further action was suspended and Il
scheme was supposed to be abandoned 1t has no
been revived, and efforts are making through til
influence of the California Senators, who are ope
ating in concert, and others, to consumate the sa
to the War Department. Ifit be completed al
| other and a searching investigation NAV be @,
| pected next Winter.
THE CALIFORNIA MAILS.
pom me Department and the steamboat owner
IN New iork have been much exercised TODAY con
ee.nihG the California mails and kept the tele
| Graph In motion with propositions pro and CON
| AS Congress made no provision beyond the eyist
ing arrangement by the Butterfeld route. twica
| week, and IN fact imposed an express limitatin,
IesTiethg the compensation by to the postages
the Postmaster General had no discretion in In
premises, although his Department will doubtIes
De held to all the responsibility before the public
he could, therefore, offer no terms but what tn
laws allowed, and in consenting to give the mail
on those terms, he refused to enter into stipulation
upon which an equitable claim for additional re
muneratlon might be preferred to Congress mex
session.
THE PURCHASE OF THE CONSTITUTION.
:, Gov stephens, Judge Meek, of Alabama, anG
waiter LenOX of this city, are the sub Committne
OF the National Executive Breckenridge organiza
ton, who are entrusted with the negotiation for
purchasing the Constitution as the ORGAN of their
party here, and providing it with new and efIici
ent corps of editors for the campaign
THE CALIFORNIA MAIL VIA SALT LAKE
Messrs. Russell, Majors CO. have made No
proposition to carry the entire California mail via
salt Lake, as alleged. They entertained such an
idea, but after Mr.. Russell made personal inves-
u@auon OF the bulk of mail matter despatched
from New York alone, he abandoned the enterprise
as lmpracticable. The ordinary mails AVERAGE
nearly IL tons weight by each steamer.
THE PRESIDENT AND SENATOR GwTN-RUPrURE OF RE-
LATIoNs.
Senator Gwip, of California, and President Bu.
chanan had private logomachy on Saturday
which may result in public consequences The
war OF words became very violent, and during the
;a.'ercatlon a.; Senator Gwin denounced Mr.. Buchanan
III not very accurately-measured lanouaoe and
concluded by telling the old gentleman that he
would never darken the doors of his mansion
aSa'h' senator Gwin has hitherto been Mr.. Bu.
iii "an t,hand man, and this private quarrel
VIII doubtless have some public results in yybiob
others than the two disputants will have an ;nter
est ""'e "n inter
ARMY AND NAVY INTELLIGENCE.-A detacbr,or. IS
United States cavalry, numbering 100 men, is 70
leave here for Carlisle, Fla, the latter part OF next
week. ''
The new seawalI at Governors Island has inst
oeen cemented and otherwise improved. There are
4OO recruits on the island exclusive of the perma
nent garrison. now about 100 strong.
Two officers recently appointed by the War De-
partment to the recruiting stations in this CITY, re-
ported yesterday for duty Lieut.. Bankhead, vice
Wlnder, to the chief rendezvous in Cedar street
ana Lieut.. Coggeswell, vice Sweeney, in Chatham
street.
The HalfMoon battery on BedIoes Island which
mounts 80 guns, was completed on Friday. The
ground has been lowered Is inches in order to nro
tect the men much as possible from an enemy's
fire.
The total strength of the United States army on
c IN lEr rtua- T,1l, n ~
thus two regiments of cavalry 10 companies each;
TWO OF Dragons, 10 companies each; one regiment
Oh mounted riliemen, 10 companies; four regiments
Oi artillery, II companies each, and ten regiments
1 lhiantfy, lO companies each, beside lS9 cavalry
lragoons; ia artillery $50 infantry and 800 other
oiilcers, averaging one officer to every l3 men.
A complete sweep of employees was made last
week at the Brooklyn Navy-Yard. A large batch
was discharged on Saturday night making over 100
or the week. Yesterday being paw day. So. 600
we're disbursed to the men, and 500 600 to officers
The pay roll now contains only 500 names.
THE SISTER OF KOSSUTH.
The following words were spoken at the grave of
Emilia kossuth Zulavsky, who was buried July l.
n Greenwood Cemetery. They were spoken by
u. HI, one OF her cOuntrvmen:
"The grave has Just closed over the mortal re
mains OF one CT the noblest beings whom misfor-
une ever drove from native land to die on a dis
ant shore; not private misfortune, for none would
AVE been powerful enough to detach her from the
ooted with every fibre of her SOUL but public mis-
ortune, such over which nation mourns. and \
world sheds sympathetic tears. Whoever scanned
he noble features of that dear deceased but a few
moments before the darkness OF the grave spread
is veil over them forever, observed the calm Sc
entity which beamed from them like living raw
u consolation to the mourner, he saw that, like
hat other daughter Of the East of whom the poet
lngs, 'She smiled when she died
"And yet, alas, she died so far from the land in
'hlch the cradle of her young dreams was rocked |
0 far from the long abandoned abode of her han |
mess, OF her kindred and oil her race; so far even
ON the grave OF her tender mother, who, like
er, died in exile, so far already from the time
hen the world re-echOed the glory Of her family
nd far yet from the certainty of having her ashes
Mingled with those sacred to her. to be overgrown
y the nowers and evergreens of the fatherIand =
nj she was poor. she homeless; she died a |
ctim of persecution, misfortunes and overstrained
ierton IN the struggle with fate and in glorious
1Orts OF benevolence, which would have sooner
oxen many frame stronger than hers but not
minated by spirit like hers. Was it virtue
one which made her smile when she died?
ertalnly virtue she possessed and displayed in
ltfering such as would have honored the sternest
the Romans, as would have been the pride of the
thenian stole, as have never been surpassed bV
at of any being expiring in the faith which above
! teaches resignation.
But 1t was not virtue alone which cast its sooth-
& rays over those dying features. 1t was virtue
lth the happiness OF gratitude. For scarcely had
C VI utdlu, HlunJHS ago, IalQ his hnpeT |
at noble brow and marked her as his future vic
m, when an angel of love approached her touched
.r with his stah of aid and comfort, and said:
obe victim, as long as fate allows thou art under
y care. And love was stronger than excruciat-
Q pains-more bright than the APPROACHING shades
death were dark. The homeless exile found re-
'se, comfort, consolation, and happiness on the
uch of suffering; on the threhold Of eternity she
gained the full vigor of her faith in humanity;
ID, expiring in a temple of love, she more than
believed n a Cod IF
"Nobest of the friends of our deceased friend!
hat you and yours have done for her we know
as the work of friendship, of which none was ever
ore deserving than she. We know that admra-
On OF her glorious end, as you watched her at
cry hour of the dav, and every hour of the night
ade your friendship deeper and warmer than
er. But we know also that you loved her, and
atched her, and cheered her so tenderly, not only
cause she was your dear friend-Dot only because
u saw her dying as you knew her living, but be-
use she was the lonely daughter of a foreign un-
ppy land-a gentle flower torn from its maternal
d by one OF those cruel storms OF fate which
eak empires and scatter nations-a flower DOOM
10 Wlther away and die disfgured unless be-
wed to the end by the tears of sympathy and
pit bright by the warm rays of love. Pardon
erefore, II we, whom the same blast has drifted
0m her land to these shores, if we now utter a
" words Of gratitude, and acknowledge duty
utter them. We have wandered through many
land, many an exhausted frame has failed, and
any a heart broken on the way. But many a
lping hand was stretched toward the homeless;
manity is universal, and belongs to all nations
cimes, but it never shone brighter than in the |
sc now before us. {
"And if wOman's nature makes her the better
preventative of the tender virtue, we say with T
wise author of the Proverbs: MANY daugh- {
3 have done virtuously, but thou excellest them S
> Allow me to say that if ever better fortune i
ant us repose in freedom, in the land from which
sprang (she of whom even this earth NAV be
oud to embrace the grave; when tyranny will .
doomed in our land by the blighting indigna- \
n OF long oppressed people, and SANDER and =
w silenced by the verdict of nation, and the | ,
me of Kossuth reinstated in the honors which
tyrant, no malice, can any more dispute to the ,
mOry of our Hanyady, Rakoczv, or Szechenyi, | .
IN then the name Manning will live in the re. |
mbrances of the daughters of Hungary, coupled !
ever with the name of Emilia kossuth." :
veteran nOvel-reader is Mr.. -, of Bos- /
!, who has read every erynovel-including Bulwers, t
mas and James'-that has been published for v
!, last forty years. He purchases copy of every d
vel, and has thus gathered large and unique t
rary of works Of fiction. His wife has the same '
culiarty as himself. They rise at break of day, i
le breakfast or walk to the pOst-olice and read
groom; then home again, to read novels till 3
1ner, at four O'Clock in the afternoon. After !
lrds, visit to the bookstore to see if any new
ves are out, and in the evening nove-readng =
ain. The correspondent Of the Boston Trans :,
pit, to whom we indebted for these particu- e
5, says:
ella not happier in discovering upon an y
bookstall some choice old play treatise, or =
lbuck in obtaining rare old broadside or bal .
for mere trihe, than is The subject of this =
Itch in procuring a new novel from the pen of y y
mes or Dumas or Bulwer. | happened to be in =
store upon the arrival of new work from the !,
'itc pen of Flames, which it seems had been long !.
dding in advertisement and its publication i'm ~
iently waited for by Mr.. R.. Day after day @
had gone home without it, but at last it had
'IhaQk God Won have , said this Omni- d