Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1869, Page 1

a © nm ESSERE, (CSRSSSSTSSESSSI ‘OSES Se | The Evening Star. THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Sunday Excepted, Star Bullding. aw. pespepadeanas ‘Av.and 11th Street } BY TEE EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY. The i served by the carriers to thei? wusnerivers to the City and District at Ta Custe ran WEEK. Copies at the counter, with ‘without pers, Two Onwrs each. OTPaics Bom Maitine:—Three morths, One Dollar and Fitty Cents: stz mon‘hs, Three Dol- lars; one year, Five Dollars. No papers are The WEEKLY STAR—pobli Worning—One Dollar and a Hs veh, XXXII. WASHINGTON, D; C.. MONDAY, MAY 31, 1869. N®. 5,062. INSURANCE, 1FE INS(BANOE PENN MUTIA LIFE IWSDRANCE COMPANY 0 LADECPHIA. 500,900, are xox ms have teen part, while in force scrip dividends beionging ta Tap amount Bt least equal to id will be etven 4 al! information will Hication personally or | .to whem the most liberal | x the company ‘he examining phyat- eevery day a ter J's ent ayon the premt jn. 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Orders recetved from the trade only. bat these goods may be obteiued from respousibie dealers rywhere PS. 93.17. May 1,6, 11, 15, 20, 25, 29; Jane 3,8, 12, 17,32. ELL RON BITTER: used your Iron Bitters in my practic ¥ to iteeuperior tonte properties for in- ing ibe appetite and promoting digestion can unhesitatingly recommend it in cases of geueral debility and Ayepepsia. and in conditions of the system requiring the use of a ferraginous tonic, Ite agreeable favor must recommend it to all Yours, reepectially. PHAS S GAUNTT, M.D. Professor im the Phtladelphia University o Medicine avd Surgery” For sale by. 2 Vigor KIDWRLL « 8 sylvania avenue and Mth street my 26-3 Drogeiste a OD MEDICINE. DAVIS’ PAIN KILLER has won for itself a Teputatien unsurpassed in the history of medical Preparstions. its instantaneous effect in the erail- jeation of pain. and erbal testimony of the ts fave it honid Keep it tn len attacks of many dis- tidote my 21m Erred, desire a better MANHOOD. pe letter envelogen. free. of charge rens HOW: BD SANITARY AID ABSUCIATION, Box P. Philadelphia, Pa my 19-e03m, MANHOOD. medical essay on the Cause and Cure of pre- jure decline in man, the treatment of Nervous yaical debility, &c. There is no member of soriety by whom this book well mot be found useful. whether such person hold: the relation of Parent, P: vor Clereyman * Mepicat Timms anv Gaze ‘Sent by mail on rect of fifty cents. Adiire: the Author, Dr. B. DeF, Curtis 5% North > 8t., Baltimore. myis-1y ‘artis begs to to hi terests. and can i consulted on SATU from 1 to 4and5 2 ‘ AYS 3 p.m.,and on SUNDAYS 1a, moto 3pm vand stop. my at 229 F street, FEPRCIALITY. treatment and cure of Nerrons 1 diseases arising fro! bi BRAUTIFTING THEREIN AND COMPLEX. REMOVES ALL gee FEEOKLEs. PIMPLES, MOTH, BLUTOCH TAN, eto., and renders IN BOFT, Parsee ERY itis the only raliable tour - oaKIN. ir 1 end ie. chap the SKIN. Price 35 conte per cake. “FLOR DE MAYO.” R DE MAYO. AMUSEMENTS. Ee ee O% FBEE EXHIBITION AT BARLOW GAL- LEBY FIbE ABTS, 237 Pennsylvania ave nue. between Ifth and Tbirtsenth streets, south side 00 UIL PAINTINGS, just added to the collection. them will be foand the cel- ghrated portrait bimeeit fn Taio. ing of Ri mjamia Weat. by CMs ic capt the foe 2; Chapman's fine copy, from the ‘1 Piloty’s grand banes: lid oF- Dehoverey. Young ‘Lady tn the z Drees #f the Times of Louie XIV, ft © Leslle The Old Woman Weighing Gold. by Rembrandt, 6 ‘witnessed w 4 manifest atio: Pa. Avent: R455 STREET, Commencing MONDAY EVENING. Ma: ? Fe open at 7 o'clock. Performance commences o’clock, for the two Seances combined. ‘outs extra. on and after Fri day Morning, Mey. Zlst, at Ellie’ Maste Store aa jor! . May 2ist, at ? Mus ore Bn at the door sf the Hal my sett a a= Srxrer.§ AT MABKBITEB’S, beiee 5 No. 4™6 Beventh street, setween D and & streets. jeht Doors above Odd Fellows” Hall, cma Lge se ee ee : angings. Wis Brad Picture Frames -Bicture ose and Tas . tl IA AVENUE, BETWEEN NINTH AND TENTH STREETS. A chotce collection of OLL PAINTINGS: Ger. sh and American OHRUMOS, HOTOGBAPHS. PASSE PAR MkCSCOPEA and STREEOPTIO Tete. gate PICTURE FRAMES, CORDS, ke. Be. Tanie ‘made to order. Prices mode- seme made ‘SMITH & STBONG, Proprietors. rate oe 16-1y Een TRUNK WAREROOMS. TRUNKS WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 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SECRETARY Borts left this city for Phila- delpbia on Saturday, and will return to-mor- Tow. THE PRESIDENT to-day appointed David Turner to be Collec:or of Customs tor the Dis- trict of Alexandria, Va. Hon, A. G. CURTIN, our Minister to Russia, bad an interview with the President this morning. Secrerary Boutwetr to-day had an inyen- tory taken of all property in the Treasury Building, and the stamp of the Department Placed on every article. INTERNAL Ravenv The receipts te-day from this source were $250,(((); for the month ending May ‘ist, © “i; and for the fiscal year to date, $135. Wuits Hovse.--A delegation of the Boys in Blue of this District intend, it is said, to visit the President to-morrow to urge the appoint. ment of a number of their members to various offices, THE TELEGRAPHIC REVORT that Hon. A. M, Clapp, Congressional Printer, had a rencontre in Bufialoon Fr.day evening with Hon. D. S. Benneit, member of Congress from that disiric:, is stated by Mi. Clapp to be faise. GEN. W. P. Sagrman, Gen, Comstock, Col. Dayton and their tami i@:, with other distin- guisbed persons, left hire last evening on the steamer Tallapoosa for Fortress Monroe, Va., and will return on Wednesday. THE OFFicE OF THE COLLECTOR OF INTER- L REVENUE was all day a crowd, in conse- quence of the rush of parties to pay their in- come and special taxes, this being the last day of grace previous to an additional assessment of five per cent for neglect GENERAL L. A. PgLovze, A. A. G. who has been on duty at the War Department for sev. eral years past, leaves here to-morrow for Detroit, Michigan, to enter upon the discharge of his duties as Assistant Adjutant General, Department ot the Laxes. U. S. StwaToR CARPENTER, of Wis., will deliver the address at the dedication of Memo. rial Hall, which takes place at the next com. mencement of Eeloit College. Gens Sherman, Sheridan and other distinguished officers are expected to be present on that occasion, Cart. CLAYTOX of the 19th Infantry is tem. porarily in charge of the desk in the War De- partment vacated by General Peloaze. Lieut. ol. G. A. Mack bas been assigned to duty as the successor of Gen. P., and is expected to arrive here about the latter part of this week from California. ‘THE PRESIDENT, in conversation a few days since,stated that it was not his intention to re- move Hon. Joseph S. Wilson, Commissioner of the General Land Office, or Hon. Horace Capron, Commissioner of Agriculture, as they Were both efficient officers and it would be a difficult mavier to fill their places. THE SuNPAY ScHooL CBLEDRATION.—The President bas directed that the heads of the vaffous Departments ef the Government grant leave of absence to such employees in the De- partments as may desire to participate in the celebration of ike Washington City Sunday School Union, which takes place on Saturday next, the 5th instant. Genera F.T. Dent, Private Secretary to the President, will leave here on the ivth imstant for a pleusure tour throvgh the North and on the Lak a pesota, where bis family is now on a visit, and where he will spend a great portion of the summer, returning here about the latter part ot August. CoL. M. M, Freytes, Envoy Extraordinary snd Minister Pienipotentiary irom Peru to this Government, bas arrived in New York with his wife and two daughters. Col. F. served in the Peruvian army with distinction. He was the Secretary of the Interior unaer Gen. Can- seco’s administration, and finally Minister Plenipotentiary of Peru to Bogota, Colombia. DEATH OF THE MOTHER oF THE LATE Szxator Dovctass—Mr. R. M. Douglass, Private Secretary to the ident, leaves here this evening for New York, to attend the fune- ral of his grandmother, Mrs. Granger, mother of the late Stephen A. Douglass, who died at Clifton Springs, N. Y., yesterday, iu the soth yearot ber age. The funeral takes place to- morrow evening. THE WHITE House —There was an unusual crowd of visitors at the Executive Mansion this forenoon, and many bad interviews with the President; among them, Mr. Erni, our Uon- sul to Switzerland; Postmaster Foulds, of Cin- cian; E. D. Bassett, our Minister to Hayti; Senator Spencer, Assistant Treasurer Chess. man, Judge Fisher, of the Disirict Supreme Court; Representatives Gove, Edwards, Stokes and others. Sik JOHN CRAMPTON, formerly English Minister bere, and lately st Madrid, has re- signed that position. It will be remembered that he was divorced, under peculiar circum- stances, from his wife, a daughter of the com. poser Balfe, who subsequently married a Spanish Duke. Mr. Urampton’s position at the Spanish Court has not been agreeable since that time, although he retained his post until a few months ago. INDIAN Ficut.—The following telegram was this morning received at the War Department: AUSTIN, TEXAS, May 2th, 1°69.—7o Adjutant General Townsend, War Department-—Ofmicial report received to-day of an ergagement near Double Mountain, west of Fort Griffin, be- tween & scouting party from the fort and a band of Comanche and Kiowa Indians, in which fourteen Indians were killed, Will send detailed report by mail. J. J. REYNOLDS, Brevet Major Gener.l. THE RBPUBLicaN RATIFICATION MuETina. This morning the committe¢ appointed wy the Republican Convention of Wednesday last to make arrangements for a mass meeting to rati- fy the nominations, held a meeting and after fixing on Wednesday night as the time re- solved te invite the tollowing persons to ad- dress the meeiing :—Senator Nye, of Nevada, Seastor Hamilton, ot Florida, Hon. A. G. Rid- die, General E. C. Carrington, J. W. Langston, W. A. Cook, Prof. A. M. Green, J. W. Foraey, Captain O. S. B. Wall. and General Jon 8. Crocker. The commitiee—Messrs. O. S. Baker (cbairman) ©. Keller, J. R. Wright, J. H Crane, E.S. Atkinson, J. D. Venable, and W. H. Tatifero—will be in session at the City Hall until the meeting. making the necessary ar- Tangements. From THE AStaTic SqUaDRON.—Despatches Rave been received at the Navy Department from Rear Admiral Rowan, commanding the Asiatic squadron, dated April 15th, in which be announces the death of the commander of the Englisb forces in Canton, Obina, and his funeral was attended by all the officers of oar vessels there im full eniform. He also an- steward to the fleet surgeon. The gen: bealth of the officers and men of the sqasdron ‘was good. THE PREstpENT will leave bere on Thurs- day next tor Annapolis, where be will remain Until Saturday, and attend the graud ball at the Naval Academy on Friday might. He wil! leave the navy yard on Thursday in the steam. er Tallapoosa, and reach Annapolis en Friday. He will probably visit West Point about the 10th instant. ——__-o+e- —__. LOCAL NEWS. DeaTH or Ex-Mayor Macrvorg.—Dr. Wm. B. Magruder whose serious illness was noticed in the Sak last week, died at bis resi. dence on Pennsylvania avenue, above 2ist Street, about four o'clock yesterday morning, aged 50, His disease was a cancerous afection of the stomach with whieh he had been troubled for some years, but 1t was only during the past two weeks tha: he suffered Seriously from it. On Sunday, v3d inst., be visited professionally a few of his intimate personal friends, and on returning remarked that he had made bis Inst professional call, unless a change for the better took place, ‘and retired to bis room which he never left after- wards. He was aware that he could not recover, and on Saturday afternoon, he said to Drs. Thos. Miller and Josbua RK: attendants, that his death would take place in twelve hours from that time, and his premoni- tion proved correct, and previo’ ch he requested that he should be buried with masonic honors. He was a bright and shining light in the masonic order, and was years ago, Grand Master of the District. The deceased was a native of Baltimore, but Was raised in Georgetown, whgre be studied medicine. During the cholera epidemic im S32 he came to this cit d was placed in charge of what was known as the Western Hospital, ‘where he was very successfal. Subsequently he commenced the practice of medicine, and immediately, and with but litte effort, he rose toa large practice. A large portion of his ume Qnd attention was given to the service of the Poor, and especially was he known to the oor of bis section of the city as one who never hes- itated to answer their calls. Dr. Magrader served a number of years im both branches of the City Councils, and in 1856 he was elected on the Anti-Know Nothing ticket, Mayor of the city, which position he filled with marked abil Considering the financial condition of the city at that time, the amount of improve- ment carriea out during the two years he held the office was notably great. During his term 1n the office the election riots of June, 1857, oc curred, when he made a juest tor to put down the riot, and the battalion of ma- Tines was placed at his disposal, and the dis- turbance was quelled with some bloodshed. ‘The funeral will take place from St. Jchn’s Cbarch to-morrow afternoon at 4 o’clock and the services will doubtless be very impressive. A large number of bis friends having made a Tequest to that effect, the funeral will be a Walking one, that they sy faery in testifying to his worth by following him to his grave on foot. This evening the Grand Lodge of Masons will bold a special meeting to make arrange. ments for the funeral, and the Medical Society, of which be was one of the oldest members, will meet this evening for the same purpose. Mayor Bowen will send a message to the Councils this evening announcing his death. R&vision OF THE RKeGistTRaATION.—The Board of Kegistration met Saturday mornmg, at the City Hall, to revise and correct the hist of voters and register the names of those who have heretofore tniled to register: 683 names were ad- ded to the list, nearly all colored. ‘Che board convened at City Hall to-day at 9 a.m. and will sit until 7p. m. As to-day and to morrow are the Isst two opportunities to register prior to election, those who have faited Lo attend to this important duty should do so at once. The revision of registration to-day of the Yoters trom all the wards in the city, which commenced at 9 o'clock a. m., is conducted with great activity. Up to haif-past 2o’clock about five hundred names bad been recorded, tally eight-tenths being the names of colored men, which fact makes the Republican canvassers lant, and produces corresponding depres- ‘sion on the other side. From theThird Ward bat few persons have appeared vetore the board, many of them refusing to make any effort for the success of the Citizens’ ticket, because of some dissatisfaction with the which have been made there, ang the through organization of their oppenents. ‘The line of procession has not been quite as well observed to-day as formerly, and several times during the forenoon the crowd passed in from both rear and tront to such an extent that Mayor Richards, Chief of Police, was appealed to to insist upon the rale of «proper turn” be- ing strictly carried out. The Board, atter giving the matter full consideration, have de- cided that they have no power at this time to grant the petitions for the right to vote which have been presented in each of the wards from & number of females favorable to woman's suffrage. To-morrow will clove the regis.ra- tion, after which no person who has failed to qualify will be allowed any other opportunity momimees to do so. About thirty-five of those who had not taken Cut their naturalizition papers previously and ‘were not entitled to register. were made citi- venus during the day by Judge Olin, who, with his other duties in holding the Equity Court, was kept quite busy, and the clerk of the court Mr. Meigs) with ‘his assistants, bad their ands full until the adjournment of Judge Olin’s court. —e——. Rrov.—About 2 o'clock on Saturday morn. ing. as the 5th regiment of the Boys in Blue were passing the eorner of 12th street at 1, some colored men on the opposite side of the street attacked them with stones, causing a general stampede, but one of the regiment firing back caused the attacking party also to scatter, but not however before in the melee two met bers of the regiment—Augastus Lee aud John Lee—received cuts with knives, and several men had their heads cut with stones. The Presbyterian Assemblies. ULD ScHOoL.—In the Old School Presbyterian Assembly on Saturday, a committee was ap. pointed to assist in the decoration of soldiers* graves to.day. A reporton the Board of Do- Mestic Missions was presented, showing a bal- ance in the treasury above all indebtedness of ‘Sib,s45, and that the whole number of mission- aries employed last year was 546. Resolution! were offered by Rey. Mr. Taylor, ot George- town, I). C, conveying Christian salutations to the Presbyterian churches of the Southern States, and expressing a desire that the day may not be distant when all y will be united iu a great organization that shall cover our Whole land; in support of which Mr. Taylor made some remarks strongly favoring union with the Southern Churches. The re- rts of the Committees on Union with the jurch South, and on the Nomumation ot tees tor the Theological Seminary, were made the special orders for to-day, until which time the Assembly then adjourned. New Scnoor.—In the New School Presby. terian Assembiy Saturday,the Rev. Dr. Adams, from the jomt committee on union with the Unitea Presbyterians and others, reported their Meeting in Philadelphia last January, and asked that the committee be continued: which Was agreed to. A committee was appointed to co-operate with similar committees of other bodies in securing such action as Col smay deem best in regard to chaplaincies im the army and navy. Judge Strong offered resolutions sympathizing with the Conferencs of Evan. gelical Christians of the United Siates, which ‘8 to meet in New York next autumn. and with thatofall the world, to assemble in the same city in 1570. A communtcation was received from the Uild School Assembly, stating that it bad concurred in the joint resolutions concern- ing a pastoral letter. The committee on bills And overiures reported a resolution which had been adopted by the other Assembly relative to a of pi ‘TF for the maintenance of peaceful relations with Engiani Special order for to-day. adjourned. and it was made a The Assembly then vB Cou! —The first Tace over the Buckeye Course, in Cincinnad, on Saturday, sweepstakes, four-year-old colts and fillies, and two-mile ‘was won by Emma Marratt, beating Biddy Tre Atherton, and Dick Johnson. Time — 3:49, 3:42. The second race for the club purse of $50, handicap, mile beats, three in won by Tom. Porter, eggs Shae je Hanter. Seven 1:5845 1:57, 1:56, 151%, 1:57, ‘he third race, purse $200, dash of one mile, for the beaten horse, Kitty Free beat Little Mack, West, and Atchison b. m , by Colton and Mollie Lincoln. @7 Read, the emeertal pasion modtiem,r now lies in Waterbury jail, Conn.,as swindler bavipg been thorou; exposed in his trickery on ruesday meee Printer’s ink on the re FO" that he did slip his hands out: Lanp Saz.—Mr. Ashton Garrett, residin, about five miles southwest of Rockville, Md. sold Bis farm, containing 216 acres, to Gore, of Loudoun county, Va, for the sum $50 per acre, IN MEMORIAM. THE PATRIOT DEAD. DECORATION OF SOLDIERS’ GRAVES SOLDIERS’ HOM BATTLE GROUND, GLENWOOD, OAK HILL AND MOUNT OLIVET CEMETERI(E:! THE CEREMONIES YESTERDAY. In Saturday's STAR we gave a very full and detailed account of the ceremonies incident to the decoration of the soldiers’ graves at the National Vemetery at Arlington, and at Alex- andria. Yesterday, the graves of the patriot dead in the Soldiers’ Home, Battle Ground. Glenwood, Oak Hill, and Mount Olivet Ceme- teres were decorated. A portion of the flewers sent out to Arlington not having been used. Were yesterday morning transterred to Sullier= Home. where was added a load from the Bo- tanical Garden. From the headquarters of th: Grand Army of the Republic a large quantity of flowers made into boquets, wreaths, &c. by Miss M. M. ©. Hall, Mr: other ladies, who during the py almost incessantly im arranging the tribute to the dead. were sent o Oak Hil, and Mount Oliv: O'clock yesterday afternoon. } Hall, Wm. Kelsey. J. H. Ly W. H. Slater, A, Wright . Fletcher, J. H. Smith, George liers, §.N. Stune, N. E. Young, G. Fabrenbrook, M. Ureil, W. A. Bartlett, F. Dickinsea, G W. George, and T. K. Hawkins, being a sub- committee, left the G. A. R. Headqua-iers in the large six horse coach of Messrs. Nailor Brothers, for the Soldiers’ Home and Battl- Ground Uemeteries. They were accompanied by anumber of ladies. Theservices at Soluiers Home having been set for 2}; o'clock, from noon to that hour there was a continuous !ine of carriages and toot passengers on their way towards that picturesque place, and mear the gemetery the roads were competely blocked. From the terminus of the 7th-street railroad 8 Bumber of ambulances ran to the cemeteries in that vicinity, doing a good business during the day. At Seldiers’ Home Cemetery. ‘When the sub-committee, with those who in- tended to participate in the ceremonies, arrived ‘at the entrance of tre Soldiers’ Home Cemetery, which was beantifully adorned with flowers Snd evergreens, it was deemed advisabie, in view of the storm which was rapidly ap- proaching, 10 commence the exercises at ence; and Major Hall having called the assemblage to order from the steps of the superintendent's office, introduced Rev. Dr. Newman, who ot- fered a tervent prayer, in the course of which he said that ‘bad assembled together in this place of the dead to recall the virtues of those ‘who bad given their lives that the nation might live; to receive inspiration from their exam- ple; and he prayed thateacn might have the virtue they possessed—love of country—deeply impres-ed upon their hearts; that they might ever prove true to the flag. He thankea God that no intestine foe or foreign power has been able to destroy the fair fabric which bas been handed down by our fathers, and was now banded down to posterity by those whose re. mains were ing im these grounds. He implored the Divine blessing upon the sorrow- ing friends and relatives of the dead, returned thanks for the blessings bestowed upon the Republic, and prayed that the Lord might so rule this nation as to make it a power whose example will lead nation after nation to follow ber guidance to a noble destiny. In conciu- rayed that no act might be committed derogatory to the day or occasion. -Wm. Sharman, of the Unitarian Chureb, ashort address, saying that they had come to-day to pay a tribute to those who bod divd that the nation might live; to those who loved their country more than lile itself, and who bad won for their fellow-countrymen to bequeath to yosierity freedom and union it was not Americans alone who died for the Union, tor here we find the remains, not onl; of the descendant of the Pilgrims, but here Frenchman who had failed to obtain liberty France, the Spaniard who failed to obtain li erty in Spain, the Irishman who had failed in Ireland. and the German who had tailed in Germany—they bad come from all parts of the giobe, When their services were called for, they gave them. and now it was a speci pleasure to him, ar English radical, but al- Teady in intent an American citizen, to unite in paying homage to the patriots who reposed bere. Their efforts had resulted in building up a Republic on such principles thet the in- fluence of the nation would be felt in every quarter ef the earth, and that influen would eventually result in the establishi tree ,gepudlican governments all over the world. While Dr. Sharman was speaking the in- 6 of the Soldiers’ Home, numbering about War worn yeterans, marched into the cem- etery. bearing evergreens, and were shortly atter joined by the committee of arrangements. ladies, and many citizens, who noiselessly passed through the narrow walks between the long rows of graves of theUnion dead. deposit. ing oueach of them flowers and evergreens. Hardly bad this work been completed when the storm come up, causing a general scamper to the Superintendent's office, and other build- ings and to the carriages for shelter. The graves of the 150 confederates here buried were not adorned by the committee, and some little bad feeling was occasioned bya few young men insisting on ne distinction being made, and it is stated that, durirg the rain. some of them took flowers trom the graves of the Union dead and decorated those of the confederates. Among the prominent citizens present here were Gen. Spinner and lady, Major F. A. Con- tad, of the ()uartermaster’s Department, and tamily.and Mr. Thomas ‘Thompson of Armory Square, each party with large contributions of Nlowers. According to the books of Mr. Pa rick Callahan, the Superintendent, (who, by the way, keeps this “city of the dead” in un- exceptionable order.) there are buried here 5,613 bodies, a8 follows: Union officers, 20; en- listed men, 5.124: unknown. 54; colored,’ 195: employees of (.uartermaster’s Department, laundress, 1; limbs of officers and soldiers, 105; soldiers” infants, 3; Livingston, 2; men, 122; Confederate citizens, 22. The iaun- dress was Mrs. James Bowen, of Scott's 9, who died on the 27th of November, I-62, and on the head board of the grave an appt verse was’ pinned. While the company were engaged decorating the graves, a young man ‘Was seen to drop flowers on a mound inscribed “limbe,” and when told of it, remarked that us much respect should be shown them as the en- tire bodies, for they were given for the same cause + 5; enlisted Battle National Cemetery. Alter the rain bad ceased, the committee and a large number of other persons repaired to the + Bavtle Cemetery,” near Fort Stevens, where are interred forty of those who were killed in the attack by Gen. Early on that fortiu July, ivod. Here it was found that a number of per- sons had already decorated the graves. Mr. Joseph Mattingly and some friends had pre- cvded the committee, calling on Messrs. Mar- shall Brown and Richard Wallach, who made bandeomely decorated. The base of the flag- staff bed about it a profusion of flowers, and small boquets or wreaths were _— or each grave. This cemetery is about halt a mile be- yond Fort Stevens, and 1s im charge of re Andrew McUerty, who keeps it in excellent order. it is enclosed by 3 substantial fence, and in the centre is a flag-staff, around which, ina are, theri buried the romaine ‘of forty soldiers, three of whom were on the sith of July, 1564, and the remainder on the day following. araong these are U mairs of KR. L. Stevens, Vermont voli teers, the last one of seven orothers killed ring the war. Some time the committee conversin; the neighborhood ‘were pointed out. place where Col. Lamar, of S. OG. teen other Confederates were buried tarm of Mr. Richard Lay. The com: turned to this city about 6 o'clock. Oak Hill Cemetery. ‘Yesterday afternoon a committee of the A. R. left their headquarters, on F street, in carriages and proceeded to Oak Hil Cemetery, Georgetown. They carried wreaths, boquets, crosses, and other floral tributes to place over the graves of the patriot dead, and silently, and witsout formal ceremonies, these offer ings on soldiers’ graves. 'A the graves decorated were those of Major General Jesse LL. Revo, Major General Charles Griffin, Brig- adier General Plammer, Lieucenant J. & Meigs, U. S. engineers of General on the ; and Lieu*eeant Craig, who was killed at Ball's Blaf. The freshly. made grave of Commodore McCauley big a beautiful tribute placed on it, and also those of General Churchill, Lientenant H.G. Harris, of the 4b New York Artillery. Lieu‘enan Perkine,2d Massachusetts volunteers; Captain J. M. Gillis, United Stat Massachase ts nited Staves Marines: lonel H. W. King: committee (hen proceeded (o Glen wou. Gl metery. About four o'clock the commit:ee eatered Glenwood Cemetery, where they piaced flora: tributes on the graves of tue following —Joseph ©. Peck. Thomas Boynton, William Ho Hack- ley, O. Andrus, F. Angel, L. Chatiee, ©. Beat, J. McKenney, F. Crocker, f - Hay.iand B. F, Green, Lieutenant C. 1. Brooks, Coap Jain W. A. Marks, Chaplain J. R. Carpenier J. Corcoran, A. P. Wolverton, W. F. Peabody M. Gee and A.N. Lathrop. A number of orpban children from the Soldiers” and Sailo: Orphan lum. accompagied by Mrs. ¢ Parker, assisted im decorating the graves bere Graves of the Colored Soldiers at Arling- ton. The gxercises over the graves of the colored soldiers, occupying the ex.reme north-eastern he general super. vision of the Union W. 'y Sanday Schooi comprising about ene hundred and fifty scholars, each of whom carried afieg and a Wreath or boquet of flowers, and decorated each grave im toat particular locality. The exercises consisted of praver, singing of choice bool anthems. Only one thing happened to mar the interest of the proceedi®zs at {Bis point and that was a colored company Altired im fuil vniform marching rapidly past and not stop- Ping to pay proper respect to their aead com- rade: Other Cemeteries. turday a number of the employees of ‘ard visited the ceme. teries im the eastera section of the city, and there decorated several hundred graves o | sailors, marines and soldiers whose remains | are there interred. i Yesterday the committee who had visited Oak Hill and Glenwood, sub-divided at the | Just named, one portion going to Mount Olivet, and the other to Congressional Cemetery where the graves of the tallen brave were deco- rated. Me Di: ses. At the Unitarian Churcb, corner of 6th and | D) streets, yesterday morning, an impressive | memorial discourse was preached by Rey. Dr Sherman, the pastor. Tue church wes well | filled, a large numbers of the Grand Army ot the Republic being present. St. Paul’s Lutheran church was last eve- ning densely crowded with the members of tue G. A. R. who were present by invitation to listen to @ discourse by Rev. J.G. Bi “Our patriot dead.’ After prayer ing of hymns, Dr. Batler announced his text, Sih verse, ©Sth chapter ot Genesis, “And was buried beneath Bei under an oak and the name of it was Allon-bachath,” which means the “oak of weeping.” He then alluded to the number of soldiers buried in the National Cemeteries, and spoke ot the war as a tearful page ofour nauon s history in the light of Gea’s reconstrucuion plans. He then noted the Progress of truth from Paul before wh to the great reformation of Luther, and thence down to the pre-ent yme, and called on his hearers to defend and perpetuate the prin- ciples of truth and freedom and to consecrate themselves as soldiers of Christ. The congre- gation then united in singing “America,” after which the benediction was pronounced. DECORATION DAY THROLGHOUT THE LAND. ' Speech of General Butler. The STAR has given full and detailed special Teports of the ceremonies of decorating the graves ot the Union soldiers in this vicinity, And from every section of the country the tele- eraph this morning brings the records ot how on Saturday hundreds of thousands of loyal ciuzens testified their reverence to the memories of the sacred dead and therr strong and lasting affection for the cause by performing the sol- emnly beautitul ceremony of decorating the graves of the unnumbered multitudes of U: soldiers who he buried on almost eve - with the tribute of floral offerings. "Ta the and West the day was observed as a holiday, busiress w: pended, and a whole provi gave one da: this noble duty. Iu Jumore to-day bas teen selected for the pur- pose, and the preparations made indicate a most ‘worthy and fitting ceremonial. General Butler made the address at the deco- ration of the soldiers’ graves at Gloucester. usetts, and devoted @ great portion of & clear and concise summing up of the :pyuries which our country bad received from Englaad, the men and the money that her tatred to our institutions had caused us to cS should be a lesson and precept that should be handed down from parent to child and never forgotten. At Annapolis, Md., the floral decoration ser- Vices were largely attended on Saturday. A Procession was formed of the Naval Academy band, a company of marines’ sailors, Soms of Temperance, the Grand Army of the Kepublic and citizens. Speeches were made byw. a W. Seabrook, Gen. Hawley and Gen. Denison, interspered with singing by children. The army and naval cemetery were visited, and the graves decorated. Admiral Porter and the board of visitors were present. In New York the fiags were at half-mast and ‘there was a civic and military procession. The ceremonies at Fairmount Cemetery imcluded rges, and addresses by ex-Governor hers. Yesterday there were ob- ypress Hill Cemetery, near New York city. with a grand ion, in which the catatalque used at the obsequies of Presi- dent Lincoln was » prominent ct. Gen. Sickles, as a id commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, was in the procession. At Philadelphia Saturday was observed at enly one cemetery. At Monument Cemetery the monument to Washington and Latayette was dedicated. It is an obelisk 60 feet bigh. The orphans of deceased soldiers. numbering some 7.0 boys and girls, uniformed. and carry- ing banners, kc, exercised in Independence Sqvare. Philadelphia, yesterday, was alive with bands of music accompanying the differ- ent posts of the Grand Army of the Republic to the cemeteries. ln some cases wagons,- Joaded with flowers. accompanied the posts. The graves of the colored soldiers were deco- rated by a colored military company. There wasa large turnout at Carlisle, Pa. ‘The ceremonies at ng, Pa,on Saturday. ‘were imposing, where a wreath cross and bou. quet were prepared for each grave. In Pit burg there wasa genera! suspension of bu: decorated testimonials throughout New Eng- land. In Boston and vicinity business was suspended and military and civic pro- ceesions went to the various generally suspended in Cincin- nation Saturday,and about: 25.000 persons par- the address. ~ At New von bere 7 were services| ve of especial: gre’ a Foote. their bills, S97 Memorial it the price of flowers New York up fey bad ‘unto s7 Miss me in ference yo have resolved poreenany i ‘Parlor oe screechings with open windows, Sa Hartford is alkz, Haqlord is scandahzed by velocipede ri- S7 Paper out of tobacco stems latest invention in that line. esis TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR. This flernoon's Dispatches, THE FRANCHISE ACTSIN TEN SESSE “aed Fuopsrs of the decision of the Napreme ( a: Brownsville yesterday im the case Mints of Tenaesse vs. Sav The nnanimoes opmion of the Court delivered by Judge Smit, boiding that Tight to vote is a clear legal righ! secured © Cons sacioual bill of righis ° e elective franchise stands ob ss high ground as the Tigh! to propercy or Sry other right secured by the ( sasticarion 8: TDI MEL ONCE vested Could be taken away only by due pr vhat the power tempted to be comferred on the Gove: the Legisiature to se $4 wae the a. adicial power wh execnted by the Exerc for that reason aii bis im Betting aside the rg and parts c void and holders ¢ Udge Sbackelford delivered concurming with tbe dect ARS DISPOSED OF BY Whe. avRLruia, May The will of Dr ush disposes of a million dollar Provides for certai legacws out of t the balance o: which cors to the Phiindelphin Lavrary Company to purchase alot aod ere & building to be Called “The Ridgeway Branco of the Philadelpbia LL &s A mouuinent to bis Ko¢geway, and bis wite from Whom be The will cives of the library Will especially cau competing with other Morar of their volumes, and adve much space to th thinking. Daily ne crllaneous reviews bard hi ary tatin DECORATION DAY IN MAINE Ko KLAN”, MAINE, May 3!.—Commemora- tio services ia honor of the buried soldiers and svitors of Maine were held bere yesterday . im many portions of the State In thi- towa Noral wreaths were placed at the base of Gen. Kerry's monument, in memory of some eighty soldiers from tus \icomity who died on the field of battle, and whose remains were no brought home. NEW VORA ITEMs. New York, May 31 turned to Ualifornia ¥. Margaret Burn ally injured by falling trom a three-story window. It is aileged that she was thrown out by ner hus- band. Michael Connor was fatally stabbed this morping by Benjamin Price. Price bas been arrested. ; Mus ISTER MOTLEY IN LIVERPOOL. Liverroo., May 31 rly this moraing Minister Motiey received addresses of wei- come, presented by the Liverpool and Amer- ican Chambers of Commerce, and soon after- wards deparied tor London. - FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The weekly statementof the New York asso- cimted bans 1s qu tinues to Jegal tenders and Treasury notes in the pop- ‘lar estimation. Thus the failing off during the week in jegal tenders was over twenty-five thousand dollars—a trifle im itself itis tree— showing that while the payments by the cit have been made in legal tenders the great bull of money received by the city has bea ia ma- tions! bsek notes. The deposits have increased Over three and a bait mallons, which Bas in- duced an in increased expanmen on the part. ot the banks to the extent of over four aad a halt millions. The chief features are the gain of nearly two anda half millions in specie and an accession of @ million and a baif to the amount in excess of the legal reserve. The to- talsum m excess ef the twenty-five cont. required by law is now $I 487 toial of the Iast two statements contrasted si increase im specie, $2 41,~26. ulation, $6.521 crease in di c legal tenders, —_+_—_. Government Securitios. WASEINGTOR, May 31, 1969.—Jay Uooke & ‘Co. furnish the following quotatiens of Gov- eTmment securities : Five Twenties, Jan. & Juiy, 67. Five Twenties, Jan. & July, 8. Ten Forues.. NEW TORE—vIRST BOARD. U.S. 6, 1881.....121 4 §.20's, Jn ay, 07. 5.20's, 1802, 122 ¢ 5.20's. In &Iy, 6. 5.20's, 1564, Ten Fortis, 5.20", 1565. Gold. (By Bankers’ and Br " Telegraph, James Mt. Gaseaway, oprrator.} Lewis Johnson & Co quote stocks and bonds in _bome and foreign markets as follows: New Youk, May 31.—Nostock report. Gold, 13>3,a13>§. [By Cable.) » Bay Si. 1 p.m.—Vonsols. 99 (999% : — Thee, firm; Libnois, % yas, Erie, FRANKFORT, | p. m.—Bonds, ~as6\. LIVERPOOL, 1 p.m.—Cotton quiet and steady. Sales of 10.000 bales. Middiing Uplands, ly; Middling Orleans, 12}. —_o——. Baltimore Markets, To-day. BALTIMORE, May 29.—Uotton nominally 2+ avis Flour quiet, prices steady. Wheata: and unchanged. Corn dull; white, 870-8: vel jow, Stas0. Oats dull and unchanged. P. firm, at SR, Bacon firm; rib sides, 17 clear ditto, 17\aI=; Shoulders, 14.: Hi Isai Latd firm at 19194." Whisky x 10-40's, ‘coupons, © \. Carolina’s, 6 asked: new, 3). Virginia's, ex- New York Flour and Grain Market To-day. New York, May 31.—Flour without decided change. Wheat dull and drooping. Cora dull and dechiming. 2oe-—___ imrortayt New PROM OUBA—Severe Pi@HTING—REVOLUTIONIST | Svccesses.—A Havana special despatch tothe Herald, dated May 23, vin Key West, M Government is in grea: want of coal,