Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-01-17
LOCAL NEWS.
AMUsEMENTs To. NIGHT

AMUsEMENTs TO NIGHT,
FoRO's THRATRR.-The eminent American
Uaeedian, Edwin Forrest, will tonight ap-
pear for the last time as 6 Othello,'' in Sbak.
speIes sublime play of that name supported
oy Msdame fonosi, Miss Alice Gray and Mr..
Mccullough. Mr. Forrest as Jack Cade" to.
morrow evening.
GROWERS THEATRR-Miss AvoDia Jones
VIII appear again this evening in her beautiful
i've ACT play entitled Z" Judith, the Daughter
of Merari, assisted by Mr. Jennings, Mr.. Nc
ColloTa and Miss Sophia Climber Kuhn, the
whole to conclude with the "Magician's
Gall"
OxFoRD HALL-Go to the Oxford to.nish,
and hear the Brindisi, from the opera of Tra-
yiata VIII De sung by the ever. popular vocal
ist, Miss Ada Tesman.
CArTERBURY.-"H Harlequin Fantasia" still
.contiD ues 10 draw vast crowds to the Canter-
bury 70 see Miss Ella Wesner leap through
WINDOWS and even through q living man.
CONCERT To EIGHT.-The Choir of the First
Congregational Methodist Church assisted by
several talented amateurs, under the direction
Of Prof J III. Daniel, will give a concert at the
church on Nj street, near the corner of 9th, this
evening, commencing at o'clock. A rich treat
awaits those fond of music.
THE EAST WAsHINGToN QUADRILLE Asso-
CITATION give their second grand ball at Odd
Fellows Hail. Navy Yard this evening
TIE RIGHTS OF MARRIED WOMEN IN THE
DIsTRICT-The bill intrOdu ced Ito the Senate
yesterday oy MT. morrill, In relation to the
rights OF married women in this District, pro-
tecis all property, real and personal, which
woman may have at the time Of her marriage,
or which she may subsequently acquire by
purchase, gift or devise, from the debts OF the
husband provided that no passing of property
10 the wife from the husband after marriage
shall be valid il the same has been done to the
prejudice OF his creditors. Tn wife is to hold
ner property for her sepaI ate use, with power
OF recovering it as fully as if she were a feme
scte, or convey the same by joint deed with
her husband, and if she die intestate, leaving
children, her husband shall have life estate
In her property, real and personal, but if leav.
y n q harh lhan hsh have 4
estate in her real property, and her personal
property shall vest in him absolutely A trus-
tee shall not be necessary TO a married woman,
but she may. if she desire 1t, make one by deed,
her husbans joining therein, or she may pro-
cure one through a court Of equity; and If she
nave no trustee, she may sue by her next
friend for the recovery OF security of her prop.
erty. A widows dover in lands is not to ope-
rate 20 the prejudice of any claim for the pur-
chase money OF such lands or other lein on the
same
1t is also provided that any married woman
who shall by her skill and labor, earn proper
~ TO the value OF 81 900 or less, over ana above
her debts, shall hol the same, and the fruits,
TO her separate use, though it may be proceeded
against Icy creditors. A married woman NAV
also ins ure the life of her husband for her sole
use, in her own or the name OF a third person,
and in case OF his death the insurance shall be
free from claims OF his creditors or representa-.
tives. II the wife die before the husband, then
the amount OF insurance will go to her chill
dTen or descendents. The receipt of the wife
Tor any money deposited by her before or after
marriage is 10 BE- valid discharge, though
creditors may enjon the deposit il it were
made in fraud of creditors Married women
are also empowered to relinquish bowers by
Joint or separate deed, and a husband NAV
sue, after the wife's death, to recover her right
In property.
The provisions of the bill, we believe, are
similar if not Identical with those OF the law
IN MIR MorrilFs own State (Maine) protecting
the rights OF married women.
TIE HoMEFoR DESTITUTE CoLoREp WOMEN
AND CHILDREN.-EdttOr Star:-it is painful to
differ go widely as 1 do from so great and good a
man as DR.. Channins-doubly painful to see
such an enc accept place on a committee TO
investigate charges, and without hearing
evidence pass an chdthedTa Judgment, and
publicly brand said charges s'uttsrly incredible'
1t is Tot pleasant to make grave accusations
Of satrocious abuses" against an association of
which myself am an official member; but the
sinful neglect which left me so long ignorant
of these abuses, and weak hesitancy which has
SO long prevented my turning the public gaze
upon tnat nabitatIon OF cruelty-the Colored
Orphans Home on Georgetown Heg hts, are
only incentives TO my present determination to
pursue and persist in these charges. 1t must
not be that the infants who have there walled
oat their little lives In vain calls for food and
water, shall have died to no purpose. Those
cf if not from. The camp scrapings, gathered
in swill-pails, which these poor children pur-
Joined and greedily devoured in their extremi-
ty OF hunger, must be reckoned in the report
laid before a munificenI government and gen.
erous public, who have so nobly sustained this
institution.
of robbery and cruelty perpetratsd III the name
of philanthropy, and the plan of throwing the
public OF the scent of the delinquents oy inter-
posing the perfume OF great names and official
certificates, has apparently been reduced to a
system.
of them are on file in the War Department, and
in the name OF humanity demand an invesu-
CATION before a tribunal which shall have
power TO send for persons and papers, and
shall require a cross.examination OF witnesses
in open court.
DR.. Charming publishes the certificate OF a
nameless surgeon. l demand that this surgeon
be put on oath, and that he permitted to con-
front him with those persons TO whom he has
made counter statements and, with the facts.
demand q legal investigation OF my "cruel
charges" and will not be a party TO such
farce as the attempt OF q committee OF five
one of them DIR. Cbanning-to dispose of in
dictments OF abuses against even go humble q
child OF God as a negro baby.
l will not insult this community by the pre-
tense tbs even T. AS the avenger of the wrongs
done to these 'tittIe ones" can be weak, even
when opposed to such time honored names as
that of DR. Charming and Massachusetts phi
tanthropy, which, II Is claimed, has donated
largely 10 this institution, simply to provide
one OF her own favorie daughters with per-
manent paying situation.
=. S-lf cannot obtain such investigation
as demand. having no press through which
l can lay the faos before the public, L shall
fall back upon that resource, the Of which
was first Taught me by Buchanan border ruff
ianism in the Northwest; aud, in public lee
lures, fel ii SIOd sunlight on tnlS dark ABODE
CT wickedness. j. G.. 5.
THE BAKER CasE-Yesterday the bill OF
exceptions taken by the counsel for Col. L. q.
Baker. from tie rulings OF Judge Wylie, who
tried the case against Col. Baker tor false i'm
pTisonment, Were before the Supreme Court in
general term, all the Justices on the bench.
With these exceptions is also a motion for
trial.
Col. Baker. it will he recoilected, was tried
for the false arrest and imprisonment of DIR.
Hwy me, on which charge he was convicted,
and on the trial series of prayers for instruc-
tons were offered, on which Judge WyIie de-
iiveTed az able Uplnien.
The point In the case appears to be not
whether the President of the United States has
authority 10 make an arrest without warrant
under the act of Sd of March, 1853 nor whether
an arrest made by the provost marshal OF the
War Department Colonel Baker, must all
ways be based on a warrant, but whether the
power lodged in the President, by the act of
SNOARrR and aSnecIally nv IN nf