Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-05-19

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each, and sarah ScofeId IS, and dismissed
White he police were engaged in making
the srirsts quite lars- number OF parsons
gathered around and foiis weu the parties To
the stasion, where most of them lief, collateral
security tor their appearance rhis morning IL
was alleged by partis at the station tina.
teyrrai OF Ie females are respectfully con-
necfed, ana nave been living here IN private
boarding houses with their an sbands, SO
called-some OF whom are in toe Government
service.
The premises remain in possession OF the
| police. the keys having been turned over 10
Suerintendent Richards
TIRE IMPROVEMENT 90 TIE GANAI-The
contractor for excavatinv the depostts from
| the eastern section OF the Washington Canal.
| Mr.. =. farquhar, a. also the sub CONTRA tors
Messrs murphy Co. are getting along fine
iy, in taking out the sediment, and notyita-
standing the late rain has put back the work
| little, they can easily have 1t Gone in The spe
cited time Mr. Seyerson. the engineer IN
| charge OF the work. says that il il was neces-
| sary TO do so he could, with a few more hands,
| complete this portion OF the work in
two days, and that the work, with
present force will be completed nv the
| middle of June. The deposites from the lower
portion of the work are loaded on SEQ ws and
fioaied TO the Eastern Branch, where they are
| placed on the low lands west OF the mouth OF
| the canal, while this sideSome is wheeled ont
| on barrows and some shoveled out, and in the
| vicinity OF Maryland avenue the deposise is
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| adjacent low grounds.
| Messrs. Gait & Brown, who have the con.
| tract for constructing the causeway, have
| already much of their timber on the ground AZ
| the foot of 18th street, and q powerful steam
4 Pile driver. which Will be put in operation on
| MonCay next, AT hich time they will set their
HANDS 10 work, and complete il as speedily as
| possible.
| UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.-Cieo. ". Downing
president OF the colored delegation at Wash
/ lngtOn. has addressed a card fra d. in
| Congress against the report of the Committee
on Reconstruction. passed by the House on the
10th instant, and which will be considered
next week in the Senate. in which he saws =
"Ihis report falls heavily on the hopes OF the
| colored man, disappoints the expectation of the
times, and Is altogether far short OF what the
| best interests of our country demands"
| Among other things, 1T is remarked that there
Is scarcely a member of the House who voted
| in favor of the proposition but who believes
that not only according TO Justice, but in ac-
cordance with the spirit of the Constitution
and the principles on which the government is
based, the right of every citizen, without re-
gard to complexion, to have a voice, a repre-
| sentation with every her citizen. is unques-
| tonabie. and that there is nothing in the Con-
| sutution which forbids Congress securing this
right unto every citizen.
SABBATH RECREATIoNs-Durin the past
| three Sundays large crowd OF Washington
and Alexandra boys. botlI white and colored,
have met about half way between the two
cities for the purpose OF having pitched bat
| ties with slings and stones. The party that
drives the other home, ciaims the victory. On
sunday last the Washington boys drove the
| Al-Xandrians some distance, when the latter
got possession of two or three shot guns, from
some men near Four Mile Run, and the victory
turned IN their favor. The battle will be re-
newed Sunday afternoon I'd. W The
parents OF the boys. ministers ofthe Gospel, and
Sabbath School teachers, are cordially invited
to be present.
| Lone BRANCH-ThI~ is without doubt one
finest fha rla
Coast; and our readers who design spending
the heated term out of town before making
their arrangements will do well to read the
advertisement of Messrs. Sprague & Stokes (of
| the klrkwood House here) who will open the
| Continental Hotel at Long Branch on the first
| OF June. The establishment is fitted up with
| all the modern improvements and conye-
| nlences, and the gentlemen mentioned know
show to keep hotel.'' To those who have
| never visited Long Branch we have TO say
| that the sea bathing is safe, and the fishing
| good.
SUsPICIoUs-About 3K O'Clock this morn
| ing, officers Parker and Larabee arrested two
| men giving their names as John Wilson and
| james Douglas under suspicious circum-
| stances. One was found sitting at a doorstep
| on ID street, between 9th and 9TH. and the other
| standing al corner, and in their possession
| the officers found several tools very useful to
burglars and billy, besides an ice pick, which
legged that they Were drunk and did not knew
ae% tnsXy ueaamaff 3hs2ffese Waller had imp6sed
a nne OF SIS on each they were turned over 10
the Superintendent.
THE sixth WARD NKEr1NG.-we learn tb.,
the names OF several gentlemen mentioned Ar
tne meeting in the Sixth Ward on Thursday
night as candidates for the Board of Common
council, were used without their AUTHORITY
and that MIR. Ruff positively declined to serve
Wnlcn Will account for the small number ef
votes he received at the time
The name of Mr. ]. G.. Cross also apneared
IN our report OF the meeting, as having intro
dnced resolutions endorsing Mayor walIach.
IN place OF the name of Mr.. John w. Cross
Mr.. James c. Cross was opposed TO the NAV
orally question being brought in the meet.
ing. WIG 'ee''
DEPARTMENT OF AFOREMENTIONED.
sioner Newton has Just received from Messrs
1. McGregor and p. Humes, farmers East
aotn ian, scotland. through Mr.. A. William
son, Second Auditor, Treasury Department.
valuable contribution of oats, barley. pota
toes and Swedish turnip seed. East i,othian
is the finest agricultural section Of Scotland,
and everything, therefore, which is Cultivated
Dy such farmers as Mr.. T. MEG and Mr. p
h., whose land is in the highest state of culti
walton, can be depended upon as of the best
next season. H
REAL ESTATE SALES BY GREEN & WILL
LIAMs, AUCTIoNERRs.-Lot2 %, in subdi vision
OF square No. 4, on L street, north, between
26th and 9th streets west to Fanny Green for
% cents per foot; part Of lot 10, In square $50
nN"t ~ anu It stIetts scum, 70 Cnas. III. LlOyd.
1or . cents per feof; part Of lot TO- square Ias.
win stone dwelling, on 9TH west, between III
ana streets north, 10 John q. McKelden, for
s7.itO. Ava
CoRREcTIoN.-Nr Editor: Allow me to saw
that the statement that appeared in your paper
Few evenings since. in reference 70 the loss
sustained by the Metropolitan Church, by the
raDnre of the Merchants National Bank Is
without foundation; the church n OF ha wing anv
money On deposit in the above Bank
Yours, &c, f. DEHAss
Pastor