Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-03-04
LOCAL NEWS.
aMusRMHNrs TONIGHT.

AMUsBMHNrS TONIGHT.
WARRINGTON THKATzR-Mr. Clarks's bsn.
. e-es To-n night be appsars Is "dajor de Boots
in the ina comedy OF "Eveybody's Friend
aro as " Paul Pry" IA paul Pry IN America "
two characters IN which he has no RI walls A
NOR richly comic bill has never BEEN present.
ed in Washington.
Growers NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. brillian,
comedy Of London Assurances" will bs DER.
formed tonight. and for the only lime. By
LADY Gay Spanker'' will be re presented by
Miss krene, character In which she is I'M.
surpassed; and as she Is supported by an ad
mirable company, there is no donht but that
london Assurance will be performed to-
night In q manner never before witnessed by a
Washington audience.
CANTERBURY.-G.w Parker, the coatortion.
lei. Will tonight give another Of his interesting
pantomime, Mons. Dechumeaux,n will also
be repeated. The entire court Of beauty, led bv
Lille Brandon, appear. - s-ssF
TARIETIis.-The popularity OF The Varieties
troupe is yet IT the highest wave. Miss NsIls
RiehIngs, Ada Tesman, Mile Lizette. Geo. q
DOtson, Levi Brown, and the entire trouns.
sPpear Tonight IN varied entertainment
which cannot fail to please ALL This is one OF
the fayorite resorts Of the city.
TEE HUTCHINSON FAMILY will rive .no,h.r
OF thtir entertaining concerts this evening n,
WillaIds' Hall. This evenings performance Is
Announced as the last but one of this gifted
"a
tainiy mics great treat.
THE BILL TO RkoRGANTzB rHn CoURTs-
The ball which has passed Congress to reor-
game The courts Of this District provides for
the establishment Of Supreme Court OF the
District of Columbia. having general jurisdic-
Ton In law and equity. There are to be four
advice and consent of the Senate, who shall
hold their Offices during good behavior Any
three OF them may hold q general term, and
any one may hold special term or circuit
court.
section second provides that they shall ap-
point clerk who shall qualify in the manner
prescribed by law for clerks Of u. 8. district
courts. -..~-
The third section gives the supreme court the
same powers and jurisdiction rs now possessed
by the circuit court, and provides that any
enc of the Justices may hold district or Grim.
inal court, which shall have the same powers
rs now possessed by those courts. The general
terms OF the supreme and other courts shall be
held 3; the same place and several times as the
courts are now held. -.-
The seventh section provides that all issues
81 IA 'riable by jury or by the court, shall bs
trirc br1ore single justice; if by Jury at a cir
cult court; IL without a jury at a circuit court
or specisl term. Issues of law may be tried at
a circuit court or special term At any time
after issue, and al least ten DAYS before the ait
OF trial.
A motion for new trial on case or bill of
exceptions, and an application for Judgment on
asPeelai verdict or verdict taken subject to
The opinion OF the court, shall De heard in the
GIst instance at a general term.
Wriis and process issued out of the court
hereby organized may be tested in the name of
any justice of said court
Appeals may be made from tie Judgment of
justices OF the peace to the court hereby organ.
izfd in like manner and in the same cases in
which such appeals are now allowed to the
circuit Court OF the United States for the Dis
tTictor Columbia. Such appeals shall be heard
and decided at a special term.
All pTOct eciDgs now pending In the Courts
OF the District shall be transferred to the court
now established.
court 70 be organized under the provisions of
This act general term, after due notice, an an
Opportunity TO be heard Ia their defense, and
val.
The justices Of this court shall receive a sal.
ary OF $3.50 per annIm. =.
The circuit court, district court and criminal
court OF the District are abolished, but all laws
and parts Of laws relating TO said courts so Tar
IA the same are applicable to the courts created
by this act, are hereby continued in force Gin
respect 10 sueh courts, and all other laws and
parts OF laws relating TO said circuit district
and criminal courts are repealed.
The President is authorized to appoint some
one learned In law, at a compensation Of $40
per day, to codify the laws Of the District of
Columbia
TIE ExEouTIoN-On Friday next Aupustu,
Ford, (coIored, who was convicted at the last
trim Of The criminal court Of the murder Of
Grorge Adams (colored) in Bates Alley, in
November last, is TO suffer death in Accordance
win me sentence passed upon him by Judge
Merllek II, before the appointed time, the Elk.
ecutiNe should not commute his sentence re.
preve or pardon him. The execution will
take place in the Jail yard between the hours OF
ten and one clock
Ford is confined in the new "murderer,s
CELL, On the second floor, which has been lately
nttec mp, and Of which he Is the first occupant.
he APPEARS to be much concerned about his
laie, and walks his cell almost in cessantly No
one sees him other than the officers Of the iail
except his sister and an aunt and Rev Father
W alter, who is his spiritual adviser He de.
nles that he In guilty, and yesterday when
Marshai Lamon went TO his cell, and after ad.
MN r.iatlve to hs situation, advising
LIN not to heed earthly things, but TO look for
oiNne trace, read 20 him his sentence, he re-
pned that If be was hung they would hang
an innocent man."
About twenty-five or three years Of age and Is
Well known in the city. For several years he
h's attnded the oyster bars in some Of our eat
Ing houses.
DEATHS OF SoLDIsRs.-The following have
9een reported to Capt Hartz, (shice corner of
which place all information relative to de-
ceased soldiers may be obtained:
- E9win Long, llith Pa; Patrick Kelley, SD
6sll, iisth N. Y; A. Hughes, 2ad ~ J.; W. Eli
Holt, cook, O. NJ. d.; w. g. Allard, I23d N. Y:
y T. Maxwell, LIST Me. Art; Q. Bonny, nth
n. I,o"iry' iotn W., - ID. ThurstOn, 18th
n. a.: K. Entrrken. l2ith Pa; Jacob LINDSAY,
l Isl Conn; W. IL. Black, wagon master, Q. NJ.
~ w Rlch; driver, do; A. b. Magee, LIST Pa.
kTinss; W. NJ Wright, rebel, 10Th Ga; Oliver
JAG JAG kson, nurse; =. Colby, 18th ~ H; D. Boyer,
gh Y. 3 Inf; Emerson Mayo, 18th W.; Lit
Soeeph Cook, 10Th Ind; T. q. KENYON, 7th RI:
p J. Haibert, Goth Mich; Jno. keenan,, SCOTS
@i Eraek Eaas, 18th N. Y; ]. Ii. Corcoran,
i ion ~ H.; Arthur Jones. 27th N. J.; John e.
Ciaus, AID N. Y; Jas. Evans, 4sth Pa; smith
Austin, 33d N. Y; Daniel p. Tuttle 27th N J. |
During The past month 33s deaths have oc. |
CURED in the hospitals.
AlExAEDRIA AFPAIRs.-On SUNDAY night
tharies r. Comstock of Co. A., First Conn
Art, as shot and killed on the Washington |
turnpike by Isaac Welburn. who resides ue,r |
me road. WerburA has been arrested and il
a. ihe Provost Marshal-s
IL IL rcpurtfd that Brig. Gen. Slough mill
tary Governor OF tins place, has been removed
and Lieut.. Col Wells appointed his successor
Gen. s, was on the street this morning In citl-
zen's dress.
The will OF the late Rev. Elias Harrison wa.
TO probate.
-Four deeds have been admitted to record