The national Republican., 1869-01-28

Mrs. SECRETARY ScHoYIELD will receive
her friends each Wednesday from II m. to 4 p
M, at her residence, on II street, between
Seventeenth and Eighteenth.
"THE WARRINGTON MARKET
COMPANY"
The proposition submitted to Congress to
incorporate company with name and title as
above, meets with the approval Of a large
number Of the citizens OF the metropolis.
The Arguments In favor OF the scheme are
many, and the advantages to be derived there
from can be easily understood and appreciated.
In the frst place, 1t will not be denied that
the present Centre market and its surround
ings 10 = nuisance; that the buildings are mad.
equate as to arrangements, and altogether
unit as to structure for the purposes for which
they were intended.
Nor will 1t be denied that efforts have been
made, time and again, by the Councils to abate
this nuisance, and TO provide suitable grounds
and buildings for market purposes without
success.
No citizen of Washington will deny that the
time has arrived when the market question
should be settled. The corporation is without
the means to provide proper market buildings,
and the people are unwilling to be taxed for
that purpose.
The credit OF the city is of the greatest i'm.
portanee to US as q people, and 1t mustbe main
tsined. And even fit were deemed advisable
by the authorities to increase the debt by a
further loan, which should be made, the people
would object, especially II the money thus
raised Is to be appropriated for the building OF
a market when they know that one can be con-
structed without the expense OF one cent to
them or to the corporation.
The present market site was set apart for
that purpose shortly after the removal OF the
Government TO the District. The ground oe-
cupied and known as Centre Market Spsec, 10
reservation NOT. Itis the property OF the
Government, and may be disposed OF by Con.
gress for the continuation OF the objects and
purposes for which 1t was designed, and for
which 1t is so well Rtted in every way.
In consequence OF the location Of the mar
ket where 1t 10, that part Of the city became,
at once the centre OF trade, and has continued
to grow In wealth, and increase In import
ance from year to year until the present time
Being central It can be reached on street cars
by residents from every quarter Of the city.
1t is believed that whatever is done by Con-
gress in reference to a market will be Intended
for the good OF the whole people, and not for
the benefit OF few.
BY the removal OF the unsightly buildings,
sheds, sc, which now occupy the market
space, no one doing business there at this time
will be injured pecuniarily. The corporators
propose to and will indemnify each and every
individual who has an interest In any prop.
erty, before 1t is removed, located on the
ground they seek to improve and beautify.
Besides relieving the citizens OF Washington
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purchase Of ground, and even II they are per-
mitted to use the present sito for the erection
of suitable buildings for market purposes,
which must be done sooner or later, the city
corporation will be benefited beyond estimate.
twill be perceived that by this bill mo. 725)
ample accommodations are to be provided for
the Mayor and all other city offieers, ineiuains
the Councils, and for police headquarters,
(providing cells for the lAtter,) free from rent
or charge. This will be a saving Of many thou.
sands OF dollars annually.
II Is well known that there 10 not suitable
Accommodations for the Mayor and other cor.
porstion officers In the City Hall. There 10
not room In the building hre-proof, nor an
apartment where the valuable archives OF the
city can be kept with safety. And 1t Is known
that before long the whole Of that building
the City Hall-will be needed by the Govern
ment for the various courts Of the District,
their clerks, &c.
The buildings proposed to be erected will be
ornamental as we'll as useful. Instead OF the
loathsome, sickening pile OF rubbish which
now borders Pennsylvanis avenue, Seventh,
and Ninth streets, stately and elegant build.
ings will be constructed. MsgniHcent en-.
frances aud porches to the edihoes and pas
sages to the market space within will grace
the fronts, and lofty and imposing towers will
be raised at the centre and corners OF the
buildings.
Nothing will be seen OF the market and Its
operations by passers along Pennsylvania
avenue, and no evidence OF the existence of
such place will be observed, except the mas
Of people entering and retiring from the eapa-
eious space within.
In laying out the ground and arranging the
building, every sanitary preoaution will be
observed, all the open space within will be
substantially paved, as Will also the entire
ground floor Of the buildings. =,
Hthere is anything to 10 gained by this en-.
terprise, the eorporatiSn OF Washington will
continue to issue licenses to butchers, butter
dealers hueksterS, sc, &c, the number of
which will be Increased and besides, a large
IeNeuuc "Ah - uotNcu from the stores Wnlch
will line the avenue from Seventh street to
Ninth street, now an open space.
The small item OF fifteen hundred dollars
paid for police headquarters will be saved. No
expense Will be incurred for annual repairs
and keeping the market In order-a saving OF
six or eight thousand dollars. The market
building will pay atAx Of about twenty thou.
sand dollars, which OF itself is more than the
net revenue OF the corporation from the mar
ket as 1t now stands.
Taking all things into consideration, =, 1t ia
confidently believed, and can be demonstrated,
that the municipal authorities Of Washi ngton
will be benefited by this act, to the amount OF
upwards Of Nifty thousand dollars \ year.
The USEFUL ARTs.-In the Senate yesterday
Mr.. Wiley introduced 8 bill to repeal the six.
teenth section Of the act Of March 2, 1867, 10
promote the progress Of the useful arts. In ad,
dition to repeating the above section, the bill
provides that all letterspatent Issued In the
United States for inventions and discoveries,
previously patented abroad In foreign coun.
tries, shall expire and determine simultAne
ously with the expiration Of the foreign pat
snts, and In cases where more than one paten,
has been Issued abroad, the patent subse.
quently Issued for the same Invention or dis.
coyery In tho United States shall expire upon
the expiration OF the foreign letters patent
which shall hrSt expire and determine.