Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-13

In The Star of October g. 1851, is printed
the text of document that had just been
discovered at the city hall
Early among some old papers and
was thereupon placed in
wy frame and hung in the Of
fee of the mayors clerk. 1t was sur
veyor's certificate in relation to tract
OF land called Rome, on the site of the
later Capital city OF the United states,
which had been in 1887 presented by X.
Y. Brent to the mayor and councils OF
Washington. 1t ran thus:
June the 9th, 1663-Layed out for Fran
els Pope of this province, Gentleman,
PARCEL of land in Charles county, called
Rome, lying on the east side OF tie Ana
costa River. beginning at marked oar
standing by the River side, the bounced
tree of Capt. Robt. Troop, and running
north by the River the ienstn OF Luo pS
to bounded oak standing at the mouth
of bay or INLET called Iioer. oounoinS
on the North by the sd inlet and ilne
drawn East or the length OF $40 ps TO a
bounded oak standing in the woods on the
East with line drawn south from the
former line until you meet with the IN
tension bounded tree of Root. Troop
called Scotland Yard on the south with
the sd land on the west with the SAID
River Containing and now laid out Tor
400 acres more or less.
June 9th, 1663-Layed out for Capt.
Robert Troop of this province parceil OF
land In Charles county, called Scotland
Yard, lying on the east side OF the Ana,
costa river, beginning at a bounded
Hickory standing by the water side anu
running North by the River for breadth
the length OF $50 ps to a bounded oak
bounding on tire North with line drawn
East into the wood for the length OF 80
ps to u bounded oak on the East with a
line drawn from the end OF the former
line until you intersect parallel line
drawn from the first bounded Hickory on
the south with the said parallel on the
west with the sd River. Containing and
now laid out for 800 acres more or less.
Just now the money centers are being
relieved by the distribution of public
funds among the banks to
Indian tide over the crop-moving
stringency. Half a century
onos' ago something of the same
sort was done, as is indicated by the fol-
lowing paragraph printed In The Star Of
October 8. 1851:
The Inteliigencer of yesterday men
toned. with laudatory comments, the fact
that the Secretary of the Interior had
recently invested near mil ion Of dollars
in state stocks for the benefit of various
Indian tribes whose money rests In the
hands OF the government in trust we
knew some time since that it was the
purpose Of the Interior Department so to
dispose of such funds that were in its
hands and until the purchases were made
did not fee at liberty to mention the
fact lest by so doing We might make the
department its own rival in the market.
Or, in other words might induce holders
of the stocks desired to increase their
prices under the impulse OF this unex-
pected demand for them Most OF the
amount thus invested has been drawn
directly from the Treasury and placed
in the hands of parties from whom the
purchases were made) directly Interested
In circulating specie in these stringent
times. We need hardly add that in these
transactions the Secretary of the In
terror las done much toward arording to
tho community at large a considerable
measure Of relief from the strinsency
OF the money market that now exists"
Contrary to all expectations expressed
early in the week, the money tightness
of a half century ago was
Hard not relieved. In The Sta.
of October 8, 1857, is an edi
1inies' toral comment on the sit
uation as follows:
For two or three days past financial
affairs In New York have been growing
more ominous, until now it is problemati
cal whether the banks of that city will
not be forced to suspend by tne close
of the week. 1t seems that the shaky
edition of the business houses at the
4, owing to the panic, renders 1t I'M
sa rv to ship to them from the west, where
no one will receive drafts on them or
will trust them with tfelr property for
the time being. A consequence is that
available money to pay freights on pro-
duce sent forward Is not to be obtained
al the west. AS an illustration Of what
we mean we may mention that 10000
head of cattle are ready, within reach o.
Chicago, to be sent east, which are, how
ever. kept eating their leads off. because
as no one in the trade can be trusted
consignees in New York, the means
of sending them forward are not to be
had. Such Is also the case in the matter
of millions of bushels OF wheat now
stored in the same vicinity. The New
York city banks fear to expand in the
least. That is. to furnish the merchants
the means of getting the produce of the
west to the coast, out of which the west
ern debts due them are TO be paid. In
this state of things it Is anticipated that
they are about to fail to pay up their
own indebtedness to the banks very gen
orally.
Now If the banks persist for a week
longer in their refusal to aid merchants
to a greater extent than at present 1t
will be plain that their purpose Is to kill
off the present generation In commerce
at the north in the hope of thus saving
themselves
Some months ago a discussion ragged
IN and out of Congress on the subject of
official salaries and the al
Judicial legged difficulty of the higher
officers of the government
SaAesAASS' ma king both ends
with their incomes. AS a result Of one of
the movements toward salary increase
the annual stipend of the associate JUS
tees OF the Supreme Court was advanced
from $4,000 to $4,000. The following
paragraph in The Star of October 10,
1857, has an interesting bearing on the
same question:
TT will be remembered that Judge
Curtis resigned his seat upon the supreme
Court bench upon the ground that he
could not live upon $4,000 a year.
The salary attached to the office he
says rs utterly inadequate to afford a
comfortable home for my family in Wash
ington while in attendance on the court
there, and to pay my other necessary
expenses There las not been one year
since | was in office that ! have not ex-
pended my entire private income. and
some years I have exceeded 1t; and GER
tainly you will agree that at Washington
| have not lived extravagantly. Indeed.
l have lived in such way as neither
my family nor myself have ever been ac-
7 hn all