Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1869, Page 1

Se, THE EVENING STAR. | PUBLISHED DAILY, Sunday excepted, At the Star Building, £.W. Corner Pennsylvania Av. and lth St, BY THE EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY. —_-— ne STAR 1s served by the carriers to their Jbectibert in the Guy and Disrict, at Tes ENT® PER WEEK. Copirs at the counter, Wil yr without wrappers, * Daicr rom Martixe Three Months. One Dollar and Fifty Cents; six months, Three Dollars: one year, Five Dollars. No papers are sen’ trem the office longer than paid for. | The WEEKLY STAR—pubhshed on Friday morning—One Dollar-and-a-balf a year. ' OFFICIAL. | DgrARTMENT OF STATE, } | WASHINGTON, August 31. 1569 !vformation has been received at this Depart- men from Mr. George F. Seward, the Consul | General of the United States at Shanghar "| | | EXCURSIONS, &c. BAND PIC NIC OF CALANTBE Lv aT AUNEE’S Sel BN UPSDAY BE T.cvets FIFTY CENTS, adaritii: eed 2 G2ANP SEUNION AND DEMONSTRATION LN of the Imyrovet Oréer ef Bed Mea o agement BP Bas - PS. John 0. Hodges, 7 Bro Tf L Neow- Coancil, Aneto "tan; Loven; P. 3. B. W. Be sch, Bleck Hawk. | Gisanv excunsiey AND PANORAMA vez, XXXIV. EVENING STAR, ashington News and Gossip. INTERNAL REVENUE.—The receipts to-day yTom this source were £542,952 37. MAYOR BOwSN is expected to retura this evening, andat 9 o'clock his friends will com- | pliment Bim with a serenade, at his residence, on H stree: mar 7th. SENATOR FrSSENDEN Iast evening was sti!l fF ‘n Portland, Me., in the eritice condition reported im yesterday’sSTak. His complaint is »:oppege of the bowels THE Famous Yacut “AmmRica” which has | Deen awaiting repairs some weeks at the Navy Yard, was to-day led up on the ways for | that purpe >. ‘Two CLERKS were discharged from the Sec- | end Anditor’s Office, oa the Ist instant, for | making short tme—srr.virg too late in the Morning Spd departing too soon in the after | noom. @LYMONT Under the auspices of the For the beneSt of the CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT OBPiLANS ON WEDNESDAY. SEPT. =, 1209. ening there will be a grand of Firew an liluminaties of whgagone. seed ‘The Panorama will be Views of al! the Cities. a eee one. Scenes of Eran ah Seventh street leave Glymont atu | smittiog a gentle: zerott’s and Eilts WASHINGTON DRAMATIO ASSOOIATION Tickets One Follac. lady. For gale ai . t. LY at 108 m.,for Mi touching at Alexandria, | quis Foote and Wash: ington. ‘Hail, £:4.. White House and Jone. Va . returning to the city at 4 p.m. Fare to Mount Verno: retai eu27-tf = Fiasr ANNUAL FFSTIVAL oF THE GEORGETOWN SCHUETZEN VEREIN WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE'K PARK, GREEN SPRINGS, o N MONDAY, TUESDAY, AND WEDNESDAY, SEPTSMBER 6TH, 7TH, AND © ‘The Procersion will start from i: aiser’s, Green street. at 9 o'clock a.m Coen »wastic Performances, prese to the best 1 Pole. &e Prizes can be see: the Jew:lry Stere of Blackford & Son. 99 B: street, Georzetown Tickets of Admission 23 Cents. sud 25 Cents at the L avilifon v “plat bettcn Strang Bane ont ty Ba SONGS OF .COTLA™ DB! METZE TT HALL. MONDAY, SEPTEMBRE 61 KENNEDY'S LAST NIGHT Iu Washineton prior ter taraing toAnld . s0t!> a4. PIAN@FUORTE—MISS KENNEDY. Admission, 0 cents, Besrved Seat-, 75 coats. ‘Tiekets for sai st Book and Mustc Stores. Doors open at7 serait commence at 3. {Republican} JOHN RO! SON'S COMBINATION CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE, Will exhibit in Washingtov oo TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY September 7th, 8th and 9th. or LOT COBNER OF lit ABD B STBE<TS. TEN SHOWS IS ONE. LARGEST CORPS UF PERKFUBMERS ON FARTH THBEE POPULAR 6LUWNS FIVE LADY EQUESTRIENNES MISS CORDELIA, MUNS HENRI FBANCONI MULLE FRANCIS, MASTER FRANK Aw! an efficient Corps of Auxiliaries SIXTEEN MASSIVE DENS OF LIVING WILD . ANIMALS. WHITE LAMA, @NU OR HORNED HO: MONSTER ELEPHANT FMPE&ESS, MILK WHITE BABY CAMEL, Aud bondrede of the rarest specimens known to Ratoral sctence. EVEB* A¥TEBNOON AND EVENING. Gorgeous | rocession on TUBSDAY MORNING, at lv e'clock. W. W. DUBAND, _sezat Business Manager. x BM O@vA L.- HE LABGEST STOCK OF SC 4 KS Tin gras ie cee PES? coe ‘A. WHITAKER & 00. Cores FEUITS. . Blue lottesville. Also, Sine hot-bouse tars. end 6 Bs. . we ieee hee ines, caTaw 491 3th strect, Ta® PRestpENT, Mrs. Grant avd A. T. Stew- ast beld a public reception im tbe parlor of the Union Hotel at Saratoga. last evening. Large Bumibers of citizens from that place and ot! se. toms of the country were present. TSR conTRACT for supplying the envelope for custom-Dovses throughoat the country bas been awarded by Actirg Secre'ary Richard-on to ED. Lockwood, of Philadelphia, and Mar- tin Taylor, of Buffalo. About 7,00 wall be required to fill the contract. THE St#aeR Nirsic was yesterday after. noon bavied off the marine ra'tway where sbe bas been undergoing extensive repairs. So, bas received @ new bowsprit, and will b> ged with three mests hereafter instead ot oas heretofore. Westgen PAciric RatLroap.—Yesterday the Secretary of the Treasury issued to the W ern Pacific Railroad Company ot Califor- pie, bonds to the smdunt of $3204 as a sub- sidy provided for by an act of Congress, thet <cmpany having complete’ another twenty mils of its road from a point near the Amert- can river bridge, on the Central Pacific rail- road. Tux Campsron iN Texas.—It is stated that Gen. Gregory, United States Marshal for the eastern district of Pennsyltvanis, has been }i- vited by prominent Texans to canvass tuat State m bebsif of the regular Republican can- didate for Governor Gen. Gregory was tor some time in charge of the Freedmep’s Bure iu im that State, aud is thorougaly acquainted with the political state of affairs. MAJOR BEN PERLEY PoorE ga. ¢ an enter- tainment at his residence in Newburyport, ‘Mass, last week, in honer of the fifteenth birthday of his younger daughter. The great barn was carpeted and hung with Chinese Ian- terns, fitted up for a ballroom, and the tables Were furpished with all sorts of delicacies, in eluding .ruit from California. Two hundred guests were present. Founp It.—Commissioner Delano has. we are glad to hear, recovered the $200 lost by him aiew days *go, 8s mentioned im the Srar, While in conversation with the Prosiden’ in the liprary at the Execative mansion on Tre - ay, Mr. Delano took a number of paper= from his pocket, in dog which be dropped the va- velope containing the money, and it was found jm the library alter the departure of the Pres: dent. A QOURT-MARTIAL bas been appointed to rivet at Wrst Point, New York, to try O.det Heury P. Kingsbury and other prisoners. The detail for the court is Major Theodore Edson, Brevet Liew’rat Colonel Alexander Piper, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel J. Ford Keat, Bro- vet Lieutenant Colonel Peter S. Michie, Uap tytn Alexander S. Clarke, Capt. Robert Ca: First Liew'enant Clinton B. Sears, Lieutenant Uolonel Charies C. Parsons. TEE BOGART COURT-MaRTIAL.—The records and proceedings of the naval court-martial, vw Dich Bas been in session for severs| weeks in ew York ‘or the trist of Bogart, paymaster’s clerk, charged with fraud, theft, and desertic were received at the Navy Department yester- day. The alleged embezzlement amounted to £20,000, The findings aud sentence are now temg examined by the Secretary and canuot be BP ade public. HE ALLEGED CEUELIY CN THE U. S Suir Pawnee —The particulars of the alleged crueity on board the United States ship Paw- ne>, Which returned about & month ago from the South Atlantic squadoa, have been already published, as well as the {act that acovri of inquiry bad been ordered at Portsmouth, N H. The evidence taken by this court bas been ior warded to the Srcretary of tbe Navy, and it 1 believed that a court martial will be ordered momec iately. A. Hamiroy, Es., age James b years, a fon of Alexander Ham'ltop, arrived here this morning, and 's at Willard’s. His vis tor the purpeve of viewing the sta'ue of bis ulus. r.ous iather recently placed in the Capitol This me isthe work o.: Horatio Stone, and is worthy of the artist and of the great mar whose memory it is imtended to perpegnate although thore acquainted with our early bis- tory need po marble to remind them ot bis virtues and bis untimely end. (being killed by Aaron Burr in a duel.) PRRsONAL.—Senator Pomeroy, of Kans: arrived bere lastevening. ----Col. R. M. Dong. Jag, private secretary to the President, le bere yesterday for ashort visit to Virginia Col. Stokes left Bere last evening for his beme in Tennessee® ***-Goy. O. P. Morton, U. S. Senator from Indiana; Lieut. Com'r M. Niles, U. S. Navy; H. G. Cavanaugh, U.S. Army; Hon. Thomas F. Bowie, of Md; P. Simms and E.T.T. Schenck, of New Or- leans; Triestore and E. E. Simpson, of Pensa- cols, are at the National Hotel. APPOINTHERTS AND PROMOTIONS.—The tol- lowing promotions have been made in the Third Auditors Office:—J. N. Arnold, from second to third class; S. Warren Chase, A. S. Bryan, J. E. Lewis, and W. H. Edwards, trom first to second class; Robert T. Lyons, a ‘wounded soldier, from messenger to first-class class clerk; and Lewis Simpson, laborer, to messenger. W.H. Thornton has been appointed laborer. George D. Scott has been promoted trom a first to ® second-class clerkship in the Second Auditor's Office. Captain Adam Fish. er, of this city. brs been appoimted a Survey- cr of Distilleries in New York. MyYsrariovs DISaPrRaRayce OF Srrieirs. the distillery amd bonded warehouse of t Joy were seized im Baltimore, the books at the Collector's office indicated that there ‘Were in the warenouse eighty-seven barrels of whbisky in bond. Marshal Gregory proceeded toer.ter the warehouse for the purpose of taking charge of the wnisky, but he found the store- keeper had suddenly disappeared. After con- le trouble, Be procured a key and en- tered, bu’, to his astonishment, the eighty-seven barrels of whisky could not be found, altbovgh the warebouee had been in his possession only aday. The warehouse, judging by the dust and cobwebs being undisturbed, bad not been used for some Months, and the whisky, evi- dentiy, had pot been there at all, as appears by the books. Yet the owner of the warehouse bas entered suit against the marshal for the value of elghty-seven barrels of whisky. F pening WASHINGTON, D. C.. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1869. Star. N°. 5,144. Seoawrarny Raw iiss is somewhat easier ‘h's morping though still very feeble and great- ly prostrate’. His physicians seem confident however, tha: he will speedily recover we are glad to learn. He is compelled to remain very quiet and is allowed to see ne visitors. CoLowst Frawx Jonze, Chiet of the R-- demption Division, United States Treasurer’s Office, left town Inst evening for a few week’s recreation among the Citskills. Doring bis absegce the bus ress of the division will be conducted vy D. A M ‘THE COMMISSIONER OP INDIAN AFFAIRS has recived a dispaten trom Commussioners Deeone, Dodge. ard shop, stating that they icd beld a counci! wath tne Kiowas and Co- mancbes at Fort Sill, which was very satisfac- tory. Teey report that more of the Kiowasand Ccmaccnes are coming in avd quicily locating upan the reser vattor Tse Camraton IN PENNSYLVANIA —It said that Hon. Johp Ailison, Register of the Treasury,and Hon. Columbus Delano, Com- missioner of Internal Revenne, have accepted an invitation extended by the Stae Executive Republican Committee, of Philadelphia, and they will stump tha’ Statein compliance there- with during the Jatier part of the campaigr. THE New YoRE Stak noting that Mr. Noab, ex-Supervisor im Tennessee, and late a Ser’ Stokes campaigner, bas turned ap at the ox. ecutive Mansion and in the newspapers r< “Judge M. M. Noab,” of Tennesses, 9sir “What does he judge? wbom, when, wher Lately it was “Hon. M. M. Noab,” on the strength of bis supervisorship, and awhile be was «Editor M. M. Noah.’ The Star thinks tbat unless be vettles down and sticks to some one trade, name, title and appellation, it will be purely impossible to write any kind of an obituary for bim FROM THE SANDWicH ISLANDS.—Commander James S Thoruton, Commanding the United States Sieamer Kearsage, reports to the Navy Department under date of June 15th, from the Bay of Papeete, Tabitl, Society Islands, that he reached Nuke Hiva, one of the Marquesas Group on the sta of June, where he was cordially received by the Governor, a French naval officer in tne service of the Protectorate Government. Nuka Hiva is the only island of this group occupied by the French Protecto- Tate. There is no military force at precent upon the }siand. Rough fortifications were erected by Capt. David Porter in 1813, on an eminence favorably situated to command the entrance: thece works remain, and tbe French have added to them by constructing @ water battery. Massachosetts Bay here was formerly a fayorite resort of the American whaling tleet im these <es°, but of Inte years they seem to preter the neighboring island of Magdalena Commander Thornton sailed trom Naka Hiva om the evening of June 7th. and reached Tabiti on the 13:h. where he iatended to fill up witb coal and provisions, and sail from thence: about the %th ef June. The officers and crew are all weil and the stip im good conditi H. B. M. ship Galatea, commanded by his Royal Highness, the Duke ot Edinburgh, reached Tabiti from Auckiand om the [sth of June. ——re____ Foreign News by Cabie. The London Times says the indisposition of the Emperor Napoleon, is a gain for the peo- ple. It bas made them Jeel that nations must *urvive individuals, and their destiaies must not bang on one life. It will betbe Emperor's fs bis indisposition be not ® gain for him- id bis dyna: no re- se to find bim unpre, s © ac the possibility of the worla’s going On witbont him, and bonestly endeavor to see it going To acbieve this be has only to make goca Prince Napoleon’s words, and must base the emp!re on a policy universaily liberal. ‘The rowing match between Watter Brown of Port- jand, Me., 8nd Repforib, the present champion tor the chempion=bip of the Thames, has been declared off. A match has been arranged be- tween Brown and Sadler, ex-champion. Tue yecht race between Commodore Bennett's less and J. Asbbur ambria, which xed for the 15th of September, will not be sailed. on account of equinoctial gales. A British company proposes to establish a rez- ular Jine cf steamships between Naples ana New York. The London Times of yesterday, in an editor- ial article on the Byron scandal, says that Mrs. Stowe's story is a faithtul reproauction of Lady Byron's statement to her lawyers, but contends that ly Byron was a Victim ot delus'on. and imagined her husband to be in- sane. The Pull Mall Gazette believes Mre Stowe’s story correct, and that more remains to be told. The Morning Post denounces Mrs. Stowe's publication as unauthorized aud a breach of confidence A correspondent in the London Times, spexk- ing of calamity in the cottom trade, says it was owing to the increase of the consuming power ata time when the raw materiai was decreas- He must sutt He . He argues that it would be folly in American plauters to grow five millions of bales at double the expense of land and labor, when thesame profits will be realized from half that amount. He is certain a well arrang- ed wial mast convince the spinner of the bene- efit of co-operating in growing. Eugenie is back again ai St Cloud, having abandoned her Eastern tour for the ' present. Pezuels, Count of Cheste, the fugitive exile Spanierd, and General Prim, are at Vichy, Sud it is rumored Pezuela will challenge the General. [he journals of Madrid comment variously on the refusal of Napoleon to see General Prim. The Lberea, however, says the ‘erview has not been sought, and that Prim’s «i! to Paris was solely on private business Advices from Berlin give the particulars of tbe progress of tne German Artic explorers, snd bow and where they first saw ice, and when (ey sighted Greeniand. THR S Carrio” Move sider the sab} ot removing the National Capital from Wasi ington to St. Louts meets wath but litle favor except im Missouri. A telezram from Sr. Lon) yesterday enys —“From correspondence ic the bends of the National Capital Convention mites, st appears that Gov. Geary, of Pennsylvania, dectines to send delegates to the National Convention, to be held here next month, on the ground that the people of Pean. sylvaria are not ready to sanction such a Movement at present. Governor Baker, of Ir- divns, while be approves the movement bim- self, questions Dis authority to appoints dele- gates in the absence of expression of views by the people on the subject. ‘The Mayor of Mem. phis thinks the convention should be postpon'd one year. Henry 8. Foote, of Tennessee, claims to bave favored the removal of the Uapital for twenty years. Governor Warmouth, of Louis. iaps, and Gov.McClurg, of Mistouri, announce their mtention of appointing tull delegations, The convention will be Held, if not more than three Siates are represented. Forty Mivze Hour vrom New Yore To Cuicaco.—The New York Central, the Erie and the Pennsylvania Central is rie deep in a struggle for s our to" as. ‘rather the, ch more ‘important more star ly taking itself out of our system. Calc’ “iat Re AATy minuteness have demonstrated that Sirius and our sun are mu-, tually receding from one another at the rate of 204 miles per second. In the end, therefere, though the distance of time strains the imagi- mation, we must lose sight of Sirius, that is to eay, ided we have not by that time gained the capacity of watching the more distant uni- toward which be must be recedimg—an lity. Nothing seem so near its final limits as the power of astronomical telescopes while the power of buman if it alters at 8ll, probably decreases. @7-The thermometer is getting lower, but cool is'nt. 87 Diamonds are found inthe Rocky Moun- uns, TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR. This Afternoon’s Dispatches, —_-—_ THE VIRGINI« TEST OATH. Attorney General Hear' RICHMOND, Sept. #—The fellowing is the opinion of Attorney General Hoar, received this morning by General Canby : ATTORNEY GENERAL's OFFICE, August 28, 1869.—To the Hom. John A. Rawlins, Secretary of War—Sir: | have the nonor te acknowledge the receipt of your letter of July 27th, 1369, in which you request my opin‘on upon so much of the questiors omitted im the letter of th: Commanding General of the First Military Dietrict, dated the 10th instant, and accomps- Dg papers, copies ‘of which are enclored, as to the legal quali tions of Officers to be elect- ed under the proposed Constitution of the State of Virginia, and es ty upon the question whether persons elected to oice in such State under such Constitution are re. quired by the supplementai reconstruction act of July 19, 1567, to take and subscribe to the cath prescribed or referred to in section 9 of said act, before enteriug upon the duties of their respective offices. The latter question ts the only one indicated ‘Withsuch distinctness as to enable me to be fully satisfied with its purpose and apprebended, and 1 therefore confine my amswer to that By the statute of April 10, 1569, the registered voters ct Virginia were authorized to voteon the question of the adoption of & constitution for the State, and at the same time to elect offi- cers under it, subject to the approval of Con- gress. The vote bas been taken in pursuance of the provisions of the act and the election held, and some parts of the constitu. tion supmitted haye been adopted by the people and others rejected. The parts of the proposed constitution thus adopted, if they sball be approved by Congress, will be the consutution of Virginia. under whicb all its officers wili be required to act, and the quali- fications as well as the duties of those officers ‘Will be determined by it. When Virginia is re- stored to its proj relations to the country as a State of the Union, its officers and L>gis!a- lature will be such as the constitution of the Siate provides, deriving their powers from that instrument; and it will clearly not be in the power of Congress to impose any reqvire- ment of additional qualifications upon them difierent from those which, under the Consti- tation of the United States, may be required iti ail the States. Lf, therefore, any tests were to be imposed upon members of the Legisla are not provided by the Constitution of Virgiu a, or avy restrictions im) upon the people, of the State in their choice of officers not ree- ognized by it and not made applicable under the legitimate powers of Congress to all the States, the Legislature and officers wonld not, 4 my opimion, be the Legislature and officer- of Virginia under the Constitution. I donot see that Congress can undertake to furnish the ‘State with a suitable Legisiature to start with or to exercise any control over its composition, which could not be exercised over subsequent Legisiatures. Iam therefore of opinion that the oath preserite i by the statue of 1562, and, by the statute of July 19, 1967, chap. 39, sec., Tequired to be taken by all persons elecied of appointed to office in ssid military district under any so called Stats or municipal author- ity, is not to be required of the officers of the State of Virginia or members of the Le- gislature elected under the new constitution. 1t dors not seem to me that the provisions of this ninth section, which are applicable to the government of the State under military au- thority were intended to apply to the Legisia- ture and officers under whom the State !s to be Teetored to its proper relations to the Union, and by whom the government of the State i to be administered This opiniowis strongly confirmed by a rafer- ence to the second section of the same ai ‘which authorizes the commander of any d trict named im the act to suspend or remoy trom office or trom the performance of officia! powers any officer or persou holding or exer- cising or to hold or exercise any civil or military effice or duty im said district. under any power election, or appointment, or wuthority derivid trom or granted by or claimed under any called State, or the Government ther-of, and '> detail a competent officer or soldier to perform such dunes. It would be impossible to suppose that Won- gress could intend thata Legislature ander the constitution of 4 State could have its members appomtea by a detail from soldiers of the army. The only reasonable conclusion seems to me to be thi it Was not intended that any such Legisisture should be allowed to exist sud not until reconstruction was completed, except for ‘ue limited and eqnalified purposes requisite to Fecomstruction. But, on the other band, | iuily concur with tbe view of the Gen- eral manding in Virgins, that under the reconstruction acts of Congress no otticar or legislator is competent, or should be permitted to exercise any of the functions of power of bis office within ‘that State, except so tar as these acts them-elves provide, without taking the oath, which is referred to in the statute of *ighieen hundred an ‘Ihe act ot April lu, Logisia- ture to meet at a time which it designates; that it 1s to meet implies that it is to come together for some purpose. 1t is required, under the previous law, tor upon the question of adopting the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States betore the admission of the State to rep- resentation in Congress. I am of opinion, therefore, that it may come together, organize, and act upon tha’ amendment, but that until Congress shall bave ' appr. the constitution and the action Pander i, and shall bave restored the State 'o its proper place in the Union by recoz- nizing its form of government as republican, and admitting it to repretentation; the Legisla- ture is notentitied, aud could not, without vio tation of law, be allowed to transact any busi. ness, pass any act or resolve or underiake to assume any other janction of a Legislature, if the test oath Das not been required ot its mem- ters; and that no officer elecwed under the new ousutution can enter upon the duties of his office without tak: oath, while the mil:- tary veroment coi . Very respectinily. R. Hoar, Attorney Genera). SENATOR CRIMES, OF IOWA. +—A private le Jame: A. Grimes, CHICAGO, Sept Paris says-—Hon. has resigned bis se: Atv, lo take effect the lot of October He will not recurn to this couniry until next year. His health is comewbat improved, but not sul. ciently to enablebim to Fesume the public du. ties of the cext . ession of Congress. of office expires March 4th, | SENATOR FESSENDEN NO BETTER. _POLTLAND, ME., Sept. 4.—At midnight last night both of Senator Fesseaden’s physic:ons had given up all nopes of bis recovery. He ‘Was gradually sinking, and appeared a aettrious sta por. He was taken on Teese ‘with stoppage of the bowels, since ‘His term Pants, Sept, t-— Tee Zmperor. will not go to 87 Rosa Saharan is s fair Hungarian patriot who has murdered forty Austrian Officers. 4 Baltimore Annual Meeting © 4 Potomac Railread. ‘ockholdert—Reports of the The Washington Canal, Fprror Stam:—1f you will take a position, Mr. Editor, on the di of the Uspitol, cla Engincer—Cond. sion of tae Work, and look upon the magnificent panorama of the The apnual misting of the stockholders of city spread before you, observe its extensive | ine Baltimore and Potomac Kailroad ‘water front on two Ravigable rivers. washing | convened at Upper Sistinscenes. Sey) i, Magruder, ou Wednesday la:t, ©. C. Esq. pre. giding, and Geo W. Watson, Esq. acting Secretary. Teport o: resident (Hon. Ocen Bowie), together with tbat of Chie! Ea- neer Emack, was and adopted. It being the Prince Grorpiam, that the Directors *> lace where the principal office of the Compnny was located, which at this time is in Baltimore city, and siso provided that tbe old Bonrd should hold over unui supersed d by a ReW One, nO election WAS gone ito, the oid Board being perfectly acceptable to the stock- holcers, a large er of whom were repre- sented in this meeting in mn oF bY proxy. Hon. Uden Bowie, the ident of the Com- pany, says in his report = the date of our last report bet lic excla m: grant the privilege to construct a work which it seems to us at this day a very moderate de- gree of foresight would bave showa must be- come a receptacle for fil cracible for the eneration of disease; and an‘eye sor-” which +ry citizen strives to exclude trom the ob:er- vation of at s, Ray, even blushes to own its existence to bimseif. Was it required in the carly history ot this city! or is it required row! To afford facilities for business, look slong the river front of the city and the Poto- mac and Anacostia will res; id with an em- ive. Whatever was the original of its construcuon more than half a of experience attended with constsat | actual work had been done; the grading on oy@uce and unremunerativeexpensehasd>- | only five miles Lad been commenced rnd the monsifated that it can be wed only asa sewer: | Company was scarcely then im condition to ther let vs mam sewer of it. The word | immediately contract tor any large amount sewer is of itself so suggestive of @ coilec'iop of | Since then much progress has been made with the garbage and filth of civilization tat the | the work, and many results accomplished Ne¥y sound of the word prompts one to turn | which, eniil they bad been secured, uecessari- involuntary from the direction where the eye | ly delayed cur undertaking. Thus, our would likely to rest upou its slimy course, | emtrauce into the city of Wasbington, depend- ‘snd open sewer would fill with disgus: even | ing upon the consent of Congress, mo the inbabitauts of those ancient °* of the ils, we Baitimore Ls pon that of her Oity © were delayed im the location of our route in and Adjacent to thove cities until we could desig- wate satisfactory to their authorities. In dota Congress and the Councils of Baltimore we Were confronted with a determined and for- midable opposition—tbe same which bas here- tofore onposed us at every step; and, 1n addi- tion, in Baltimore we had to overcome the strong and influential an’ of the prop- erty holders along the line, who objected to the road being located near their premises. But the Mayor and Counciimen, jating for the general good, and foreseeing the immense ad- vantages to accrue to theif grea: and beautifol city from tbis road, which would pour into her lap the wealth of Southern trade and travel, wisely passea the ordinance anthor- izing us to ‘unnel through their streets from our point of entrance into the city to our gen- eral depot. ‘The idea of this tunnel bad not suggested 1:- self at our Jast annual meetyng. and aithongh als Copstruction will involve au immense oul. lay of money, yet we doubt not that the interests of the road will be advanced, apd the Company fully reimbursed for theexpenditure, by its epabling us to make rapid and close con- nections by steam, and without change of cars. The popviar clamor in Baltumore against the rails already down upon the grade of her streets is such that the Council have required certain of them to be taken up, and will, in time, all others. In anticipation of this, ihs Acute, and intelligent managers of the Balti- more and Ohio Hailrosd are looking to their northern and eastern conmections, by way of a ferry at Locust Pomt, instead of by horses, as at present, through Prait street. It is the only ‘way by which their connections can be made, and although the tunnel will probably be more expensive to us than the ferries and boatage to them, yet the delay and mconvemence to travel by their line will be mucb greater than by ours, and give us & vast advantage over them um the through travel. The convenience of our joext travel has been provided for by locating our main depot upon one of the wides: and bandsomest streets in Baltimore, at which point tbe City Railway will deliver passengers, and by baving <everal local statious 1m our passage through and around the city, at each of which our trains will receive and deliver passengers instead of requiring them, are row, to go from all parts of the one point, and that mot immediately adyacent to the City Railways. lo Washiugton, also, cour depot Will be nearer to the business sud resident heart of the city,and other facilities are in contemplation for both through travel. Another good result has been accomplished in the approprianon to our road by the Com- m'ssioners of Charles county of the $175,000 to which their county ts entitled, under te State Which could be done twice m every cwenty- | Constitution. tor the aid of internal improve. ‘our hours if necessary. ments within ber county linits. Their policy ‘To remove the deposit trom the sewer, so far | 0. so appropriating it from being any expense to the city, would in x | our Isst report, and the President of this com- brief ime b come &ourceof revenue. Nearly | pany shoriy alter opened a cerrespondence every particle of the deposit will possess fer- | with them tooking to its investment ia uke Baluumcre and Potomac road within the limits of Charles county. This met with much op- position from the friends of, the projected Southern Maryland road. and led to several county meetings being called, the deliberations of which and the action of the Commissioners resulting im our obtaiming the fund. The proper papers bave beep prepared and will be Signed by the President of this company, and by the Commissioners, requiring the money to be expended in the construction of the road irom the Charles county line to the Potomac Tiver, and the work will be shortly commenced and rapidly pushed to completion. The only reason why it bas not been begun ere this is, that as yet we bave not satistactorily arranged for our connection with Southern roads at and beyond the Potomac river, aud until these con- nections are finally upon we can- not decisively locate our line through Unarles county. This will be attended to and deter. mined upon without unavoidable delay. By the report of the Engineer, herewith sub- mitted, it will be seen that the grading on the main pas the Tiver, near Balti- more, to town of Upper ‘Iporough, distance of thirty miles, and on the Washin; ton branch, from the junction to the ‘Columbs line, a further distan, old world where al! eorts of Basal anc occular abominations bave became chromic. The «Washington Cinal” is a sewer and nothing else can be made of if, then let vs shut out from view and sense the disgusting object. A survey of the surface which is drained into the canal, will disclose the fact that all the drain- age south of the p ch the Tiber enters, is drawn from & surf#ce not exceeding three- fourths of a square mile im extent. An arched sewer then, seven feet bich and seven feet wide at the botiom, built along the bed of the canal from the Tiber to the Anacostia, will afford ample outlet for that drainage, and also for the water discharged from the present or any future public or priva'e buildings, located in amc on the natural basin, extending from New Jersey avenue on the east to 43 street on the west, and /rom © street, east of the Tiber on the north, to south M street on the south All the water which falls upon the city north aud west of Tiber Creeks, and east of 18th street together with the drainage of nearly the entire country north of the city, through which Liber Creek “flows, find its way into the canal tbrough «wut creek or west of it through the sireet sewers. During violent rain storms the volume of water drained from this surface 15 very large, and rices with great rapidity, but the most casual observer must have noticed that the great bulk of a flood, the (destructive part of it) flow through the Tiber. That creek is conducted across Pennsylvania avenue aud through the Botanical Garden by an “arched’ sewer, which with few exceptions im many years has been found sufficient te vent the Hood. Ta View of this brief but I believe mainly ac- curate topography of the surface drained into the canal, Lrespectfully submit tothe corpo- rate authorities tbe following plan to relieve the city of the offensive ieatures of that work, and at the same time to accomplish a most im portant improvement Starting from the end of the arch 1 the Bo- tanical Garden, continue the sewer westward through the caval, built in the same manner. and with tbe same general dimensions, until wt Teaches the river at “Monument polut,” making ® gradual descent of the floor of the sewer for the whole distance, depressing the Western end to about one foot below an ordi- nary low Water in the Potomac. In approach- tug the river the sewer should be made to con- form to the direction of the current, by turning tbe end with a gradual curve to the southeast round Monument point. Aun arch” thus cou- structed wiil be amply sufficient to allow the pascage of two carisabreast on tne floor, which should be Inid with timber, aud by construct. img “ ramps” at every cross street. by proper defences, and secured by appropriate decors, would afford ample facilities of ine grees and egress to clean out the sewer, aud lizing properties of the most superior char- acter. ‘The alluvial held in solution by the river during freshets could be excluded in great measure by gates at the end of the :ewer where it empties into the river; und if part of it should be deposited in the sewer, mixed as it would be with the garbarge of the city and deposi": irom the water closets, would create a fertil- izer equal to any now in use. Commencing again at the place where ie ‘Tiber enters the canal, the whole drainage from that point to the Anacostia can be carried through a sewer (as before indicated) seven feet wide and seven feet bigh, constructed with Proper openings to clean it out and for venti- tation. When this work shall nave been com- pleted it will effect an improvement in the ap- pearance of the city, than which it will be dif- ficult to conceive & greater, and when it is con- sidered that the time 1s not far distant, when thrcagh the improvement of the channel of the Potomoe by bringing it along the western and southern part of the city, merging the two channels now in existence, into one, affording wharfing facilities along the whole line fronting on the Potomac from RockCreek to the Anacos- tia river, the weak argument in favor of con- unumg 7 —— = the canal, for the pur- poses Of business, although it mars the beauty | miles, is nearly completed, some of « of the city and spreads sickness and disease | being entrely finshed aad received ty ae among the people, falls to the ground and be- company. Uther sections would have been come untenable. We wiil assume then that | completed but for thedelay which has been oc- the arching of the canal reclaiming the | casioned to the contractors by the legal obstru: ground, which it occupi desirable, and | tions and difficulties inte: by property Will meet the wishes of @ large majority of the | holders, who were dissatisfivd with the award le of Washington. The question now | cf the juries of condemuation, or the terms what are the difficuities in the way of | which they themselves had proposed. Iu. making the improvement, and what obstacles | junctions bave been gotten out in several cases to be overcome? The firstobjection to arching | Which Rave necessitated several of our beet the 11s its alleged great cost. It can be | contractors to entirely stop all work, ocession- sity demonsirat d that the cost will not | ing them to disband their gangs of hands to greatiy exceed, if iteaual it, the value of the | keep teir horses idle at heavy cost, and to in ground seclaimed, to say nothing of the ad- | cnr other severe expenses. This should m Gitions! revenue which the city will recerve | pave been and im no case, it can sately be said, trom the taxes on that reclaimed ground when | was it the rault of the company. , tspail be sold to individuals or companies, | When the capitalists \-ho farnished the Iso from ihe increased value of the con- | jargest means to build the roxd were indacea ‘The secoud objection is tha, | to so imvest their capital, they bad the assur- js so slight and the current throuch | ance and every reacou to believe tbat the right the sewer Will be so sluggish, that it will uo: | ot way would be secured at a very modemte carry off the matter flowiuz intoit. Thisarga- | co.t—that the people Who were to be so im. ment against a covered sewer will apply with | mensely benetited|py the road would have the equal force agginst an open sewer, although | |jerality to either domate their land for rent you may. by courtesy, call that open sewer «1 | of way or dispose of it a its actual value, ai canal" but take into consideration the ease | ‘he enlightenment not to impair thelr own ine and facility with which a sewer properly con- | terest by impeding the progress of the work. structed. can be cleaned out, and the vitality | ‘To ube credit of the people of Prince George's of this objection vanishes. | The third ana last | county especially, it can be said tat tbis ‘has objection, (and one which I admit has consid- | generally been the case. Much of the rigtt of has been erable force.) is that by the swelling of the § Waters of Tiber Oreek during fresbe's the sewer have any comme fro, “damages, cen’ asked, Strange to say, the very cases where legal and would be insufficient to vent the flood, and the ressure to which it might be subjected. The | peen ae poco ‘as Coapeay permet disasters which have occurred from freshets agreed to most liberally the high prices in Tiber Creek from the first flood in the | asked, or the excessive rates . That “ae ogg a extent of country beyond the limits of the city #l not be Fir to flow through it to the ‘and injary of the in- | ag habitants, (if it cam be avoided.) Whether | naa the canal is left a8an open sewer or covered with an arch, is a tion 80 | ap te clear as to render to sustain it | oor bs =: ody thus calways im- | lan Ehange the course of the ‘ibe: balore'er has | 2 it enters the city at meantery seen ene aa fitted by. i atwaraty, ato the & work of no] mands great aad vely With our Pqaerence on the read above, we ines the city from al ear of dtnago ay Mesnecs | ot upsranoas wise Mesigeses: Sacer at that quarter, and the sewer, only the drainage of the to carry off, will be company ‘wil be sent tobe poe ody- pa to pefrorm that | signed by persons through. ‘the the «1 up” of arch. ba: ry cannoe be: je. Winner aera x. | Seamer eer 87-Protessor Of @e Smitbsonisa Ln- | report, rights Rong Bs should im thas vary tow ‘wer own . terms. 7 Neise jour, of burnt cork netoriety, Owner ‘than that of the id is delighting ‘Londoners with his eccen‘ric. veenimass oro tee sufficient for zat 2 eee Caen Sorsis is breaking up by the Py a bee are beginning x Publican club mes dis. ladies. ‘itssdvamtages aaron fr thousands 4 “vr nas bee popeiaticn, ™ PeOe fand farmers or ths incr local and | was alluded to in | lq e, forage, ments and vegetables nr sory to supply ©0 large a number of men borses, \ ‘Tre ‘bridging slong the road bas also hee undertaken. Many Culverts and = simailer | we bora | i trdges permacentiy com piried, acd the long and expensive bridge over the Patux wht river is well under Way. Ute single item for it alone is five hundred barrels of cemen which we haa shipped to Annapolis sud Wanspor'ed over the Annapolis and Blaridge road, to which company and its sccommods ling and liberal president and officers gen erally we are w great obligations for a.- | commodations, courtesies and facilities ex. | tended. The grading of the long “ Y,” which connects this road with ours, Bas been lately completed, and it is im contemplation to Iny axent river dred tous of rails bave been furnished to th contractors for the gPading on the two section: near the river, to expedite their work where the bauls were so long as to make the progres by borses and carts siow. ‘The General Assembly of the State meeting only biennially, and our charter expiring b Limitation before it will again meet, ia i>? ‘will be to apply to the next Logi: ture for an extension of charter. With our people united in its favor, aud the Toad being | ¥igorousiy prosecuted, there can be no doub of the result of our application. Div dissension, however, among the fri-u | Toad may lead to 'y of purpose au j cert of action among those w have beret fore opposed us, and may emboiden them Other act Of Opposidon, “Fate makes th: | efforts of those baw barrassed with liugation the more serions and damaging ey Are Hot AWATe, OF DAVE No! stopped ton flect, that by the course they are parsurng msy destroy the road entrely Itshouid be constantly borne im miod the (his a the only railroad ever attempird - bdurit in Maryland, and possibly ia the U States, without ‘ounty of city aid, by subscription to the capital stock or endor-« Ment of its bonds. It bered by those mos! interested in, aud most vi tally benefited by its constraction, that thy have not been required either t the stock or guarantee the bond: cept very small subscription to the stock they have done nether. This sim, mention should be suifictent to liberalize the intention of those who, ever bent upon greed, have beeo | soasting their nets” for the heaviest hauls. Are | they not to be found in the building of the road, | orare they to be secured by the payment of | lawyers’ fees, expenses of juries, court costs interminable other expenses, and a few more dollars than the free gift of the right of way, or a proper and just sense of interest by Lhe com- pany would impel the payment of ‘Since the report of Mr. Emack, Chief Eagi- beer, Was handed in, three other sections have » been completed, and we are mtormed By Bim that of the whole forty miles now being gradea ali but about five mil Will be completed on or before the first of November nebt. These | are sections on which we bave been enjoined | and thoce on which the work was so Reavy and the hauls so long as to imduce’be company to supply the contractors with rails to expe dite the work. At will De observed that the Ohbief Eaginerr aeserts in bis report that but for the legal de- Against its progress, the roud ‘would have been completed and razning trom Baltimore to Washington, and Upper rough, by March next. It was this given by the President of thi Congress of the United much to defeat the «air line” project last win- ter. At will be further observed that the Engineer declares that the road can ‘wall still be com- pleted during the next mer if it receives: the “hearty cooperation of all those inte) ed.” Such being the case, we unite with bim am the belief ‘hat the next annual meeting of the | Stockholders will witness the completion ot this part of the road, and {progress made | on that part of it between U, Marlborough and the Potomac river. is part, excep: » few miles below Marlborough, can be very rapidly and cheaply constructed, sod tha: | from. jumore to Wasbington and Mar! rough completed, willenable the Company to place their bonds so advantageously that all financial difficulties will be removed, ‘and the whole road from Balttmore to the Potomac river speedily completed. —_- «+e. —__ FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, During the week ending to-day there bas been received at the Fressury Department, from the Printing Division, $271,900 im fractional cur- rency- The amount forwarded during the same period was as follows:—Aserstant Treasurer at New York, $4,000; Acsistant Treasurer at Ne Ni other= ‘urer of the Banks, reported to-day, were as tollow: ir circu iauion notes, %, For deposits o1 public moneys, $20,041 tal, & 500, making the total 4. “The amount of F bills destroyed during ng the tozal anouat balance dee bank currency issued the week was $146, G WAsHINGTON, Sept. 4, Ind —Jay Cooke & Co., furnish the following quotations >: Gov- ermment securities : U.S. 6's, 19 Five Twenties, It: Five Twenues, 150 Five Twenties, I-65. Five Twenties, Jan. & Jaly,'65. Five Twenties, Jan. & July. 2 Five Twenties, Jan. & July, 's8.. Ten Forties. ue BOARD. 5.20's, Jag Sy... 121 * 5.20's, JBAIY,S..1 20% 5.20's, 1564, Ten Forties......1lly 5.20's, 1-65, = GOld....00.. 216 5 20's, In&Jy, —— | By Bankers’ and Brokers’ Triegraph, James Mw ‘or Gassaway, opera Lewis Jobason & Uo. quote stocks and bonds 1p home and foreign markets as follows New Yorx, Sep.$.—Second Board—U. 1881, coupon, 122); 5.20's, Inee, 1584, Coupons, 122),; 1565, coupons, 12? pon, new, I2/); 6.20’, Ic, coupon, 5.20"s, IS62, COMpOR, 120%; 1040's, coup. L114, ex-div; Ourrency 6's, 110; Pacific Mail, “0: Obio abd Mississippi Qeru! Uy; 37 Cumberiana, 5 el ana Noriwest, 2: do. prer'a Toledo, none; Kock stand 1 =; Alton & T Wabash, *1 i ; Waits, Fargo & Oo. Express, |-\; Unvied siates Ex- 62, American Express, 3%: Mer- one; Obicago & Aiton, 15) 153, Market dull. Goid, i Bonas, 85%5 ._ Erie, 23% - ‘KPORT, Il 8. m.—Bonds, 8). PaRis, li a. m.—Rentes, 71f. 0c. G7 ln Lowa (bis seasons has been clésastrous for bres, and they wii: store ban bowey ‘enongh so carry them $2.