Daily National Republican

George Peabody, the eminent American banker in London, proposes to donate Yale College the sum of $150,000 for the purpose of erecting a geological cabinet.

Mr. Evarts, of New York, who has just returned from a legal mission to Europe similar to the one in which Solicitor Whiting is engaged, arrived in this city yesterday.

The Jewish Question.

To the Hon. D. K. Cartter, Chief Justice Supreme Court of District of Columbia.

Sir: Although I am one of the simplest of the tribe of Israel, yet I cannot pass the allusion which you have made, in your address of Saturday, July 15, to the pupils of the First District school, published in the Evening Star of the same date, stating that "The Israelites were of no mortal value to anybody." I wish to ask the learned Judge from which book he derived his learning, or the knowledge of a future, better life, where no injustice is done? I wish to ask you from which book you teach your children the history of the world? I would ask the honorable Judge: if your children ask you where their Saviour came from, will your answer be, "from the race which is of no mortal value to any one?" I would ask the honorable Judge in whose name he was wedded to his wife? Was it not in the name of Christ, a descendant of those same Israelites who "are of no mortal use to anybody?"

I would ask the honorable Judge who are the men that stand first in learning at the head of nearly every Christian University in Europe? He will find those Israelites again. I would further ask you to whom the sick and needy apply in their distress, and who assist them quicker than those same Israelites "that are of no mortal value to anybody?" I would further ask you, whence you or your father came from? We all came to this land of freedom not as Israelites, not as Catholics, not as Protestants, not as any religious sect whatever, but as men to live here as American citizens, and as such, we wish to be respected. If the honorable judge would glance at the French revolution of '89, he will find that three of the best ministers that ever filled offices, were Crémier, Minister of Justice, Goucher and Field. All of them Israelites. I beg the honorable Judge to look at the record of our own army at the late battle of Fredericksburg—over one hundred of the Israelite persuasion fell in that battle, which I think is a very fair proportion as to the population of this country. Look at the despotic Governments of Europe, and you will find that they have given full liberty to the Israelites, so that they would not emigrate to this country: dreading them of the greatest value to everybody. And, sir, once the Emperor of Austria asked the Prince Metternich which in the best mode to crush the feeling of liberty! His answer was to exile those Israelites which are of no mortal value to anybody. I hope you will pardon me for thus taking the liberty in addressing you, and in future, judge not so harshly the race of your most obedient,

N. G.