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—————————————— ee Che Kvening St ve. XXXIV THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Sundsy excepted, ! At the Star Buildings, £.W. Corner Pennsylvania Av. and lth St, BY THE EVENING STAR NEWSPAPFR COMPANY. -———e The STAR is served by the carriers to their subscribers in the City and [istrict at Tex Cure rex wasx. Copies at the counter with without rs, Two Cx’ " pics vom Beat i@:—Three Months, One Dollar ard Fitty is; six months, Three Dollars: one year, Five Doliars. No papers are sept trem ‘he office longer than paid for, The WEEKLY STAR—puabdhshed on Friday morning—One Dollar-and-a-balf a year. OFFICIAL. LIST OF LETTERS, Remaini im the Wa: Oltice, Friday, September 17, 1569. S7-To obtain any of these letters, the appl- cant must call tor “Advertised Letters,” giving the date of the itst. SF if not called for within one month Gey will be sent to the Dead Letter Office. Kate; Austin M A Mrs; Addisou Mary. Eosion Jeon: Mary Mrs; Buckley Margare: Mr Town Sarat: Bleck Win Mrs; Berridge WB Mis. 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Starm Herman Gen: Solsmana, Bacdee Horatio: Settars John Ww od Lewis; Schneider : Samuels M Lord: Stexie Ma: P E Gen; Strong R J; Snow Smity S Claphan: Sybol: Sattoa Thos, Swayzee ‘Thos, hwarz Valent ‘T—Tip y AM; Tiltou A; Taylor Ben) Turcer€ W: Taylor Edward L; Toompsoa GV Dr; Taompsea Geo S: Tuonxs Hiram J Dr; Thompsos Joba H: Tranaei Joba A; Tree Isaac P; Taylor Richard; Torn M T; Teed We "A: Templeman & cK; Tibbs W Dani L; Turner W; Ten: hingien City Pest mer Win K ‘Dr; Williams Wm; ang Amos; York Louis, col. ik Wm, 2. 18CBLI ANEQUS— American Freedman: Ag't President or Saperin- colored; Teaeher; The 5 WI B & Oo. M. EDMUNDS, Postmaster. SPECIAL NOTIGES, ——_.———. BATCHELOR’S HAIR DYE. zuloculeedia Baty Bri = Adams akebou A'exander Mrs: Biowa Henry Browne Clatisea M. = Bock wice Emily; Bond Lita E Mrs. Brooks Dizzee BE; Bat: Lows Brawn Maulds: Bry aut Mollie: Boud Mory I; bre tat of Baltimore San; H; tendeutof Y MIC A, in the F,eedmens Burea: met Jou Riebings’ Engli: aclerk in the bureau of Construction, Equip- ments and Repair at the Navy Depariment. per Rosie; Campbell Ro-e: Coatian Annie B: Dobbins M ney Harrie: Mrs; Davis Printing, is quite ‘where he met Secretary Boutwell in compli- ance with a telegram. PERRY DAVIS’ PAIN KILLER. We ere not fn the habit of icines. but we cheerfully add our testimony to that in favor of this medicine. The is invaluable fer the diseases or which it is recommended. Try a bottle of it and see if we do not state correctly —Koman ‘pafiog” patent med- ‘reemsn Mima Mis; Fadeley © F Mr-; Fraacis Emma; Feraaid sylvania, is at Willard’ of Vermont, long connected with the (.uarter- master Department of the Army of the Potoma> during the war, is at the Epbitt. whic! Prepared Woshiegtontr rue and 1th street. ——— PIC-NICS, EXCURSIONS, &c. Finst GBAND PIC-NIC SON, Poansy!vani: my2-3m_ aylor Allie; Newman Emma Mrs; Nor- JOURNEYMPN HOUSE CABPENTERS BENEFICIAL ASSOCIATION No. 1, WILL BEGIVEN AT ABNEBS 71x STREST PARK, ON TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 21 ‘ated Brass and String "‘[—Tacker Alms M: Tucker Eten; Tinker Mrs; ‘The steamer ARROW, Captain omas Stack- Pole. leaves her wharf, foot of To street, DAILY. (ce: ou. Mrs, col; Wicks Mrs; Wil- lar white House’ id liams Mary A: Wncers M A Mrs; Waters M L Mrs: West Netue A, Watson Rebecca F Mrs; Waitiney Susie Mrs. Waters Sarah Mis; Wilson Sarah A H Mrs; usie. ng Anuie; Young Mollie; Young THis BVENING, Ti ‘n which he will of EPPO. IN FHA D URDAY. R BpBMevaA &. Vi ‘HIS D. from No 300 Bence soonesitcan be proper; and splendid assortment ‘Thanking the public for past Teecive = Spe pom of snet pesremees, SMITd & STRONG. XBIBITION AND SAL) TtH AT MARERITER'S, ( Srazzr. No. 4"6 Seventh street, ° “Bight Doors above Oretce Oil Paintings, Also, ‘up, with a net Ing in our line Ubrist vors. we hope to wrroli Chas ©; Cunningbam 2 © P; Cole Uapt Chas H; Carr Chas L; Carayp 1 x Co, Camp E C: Curtis EC leman Jno P; Cooreman J ‘Odd Fellows’ Hall, Engravings, Dennis; Dowey C DMD: Deurick flish KH: Evans © H: Eins Heory:Ei- | Dgaac COALE, JR., & BRO., IMPORTERS OF Men’s Furnishing Goods, —Goodloe C G Lieut; Goodfellow Henry; 14 HANOVER STREET, COBNEER OF GEBMAN, an 18 eoSm,Istp BALTIMOBE. . SEPTEMBER ‘be apdersigned, bavin, r the name and style CO . snd purchased # heretofore carried on by Messrs. H. ci ill continue }the ssme at the oid 7 pos) se Centre Mark W:; Hail Mr E nd K T; Hexter Siraon; Harvett & Hodges Wyllys; Henderson Wm & SOTIO“. ‘The only place in the city to bay your BUOTS, SHOES, AND GAITERS ©: XaCalis JR; Lirocque Lewis; Lawo2 Pat ee Roland H: Long Thos W; Lawson Wm WHOLESALE PRICES STRASBURGER BRos., 373 Savin Brazer, Between I anv K, wt McNair Henry, | WHERE THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT CAN McRuight Jas A> McAllister apt John; Be: ‘HOIOE FRUIT wer Jos Imer Dir; Papper. td S Powell Perrymsa W rosewood OBGAN, +, Riley W, Raper A W; Sturs A o, Smith Chas; top EB; Stuart E M; Souryn Frank; Steele Francis; Smiser Geo, WASHINGTON, D. C.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1869. EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip. INTERNAL REVENUE.—The receipis to-day from this source were $501,763.45. Scrgrvisor Perry, of North and South Carolina, 1s in town, Joun MongissBy, M.C., is about to erect a magnificent residence in Trey. SECRETARY BOUTWBLL did not retarn here this morning as was expected, but will prova- bly reach bere in the evening train. Braver Liev. Cor. T. H. Reever, Capt U.S. A. (retired) bas been relieved trom duty Hwy J. DRaytow the new basso of the Opera troupe, was formerly Me. McUaRTEE, Si tendent of Currency ck in New Yor ciiy: AN ORDER bas been issued in the War Do. partment building makinz messe gers respon- sible tor the value of all articles pilfered from the rocms after office hours, Im some cases a Messenger bes thr e or four rooms to care for. PERSONAL.—Hon. Wm. D. Kelley. of Peon- **Ool. P. P. Pitkin, Brever Ligvt, Con, A. Wupaicn, Cap. tain 3d Artillery, has been ordered to repor: to Mayor General Mead, commandiag military division of the Atlantic, for duty as Aid-de- Camp. Finst Lieut. W. I. HENDERFON, Ist United States Cavalry, has been retired from the m:li- tary service with one years pay and allowan- ces, snd itis ordered that hereatier his name be omitted from the army register. ONz HUNDRED and fifty-two thousand nine hundred and fifty-iwo dollars in frac- tional currency was received at the Treasury Department to-day trom tne bank note priat- ing companies in New York. Mr. H. C. P. Witson, of Baltimore, a clerk im the Secretary's Office, Treasury Depart rent has resigned his position on sccount of his ob- jection to the questions propounded te the clerks by the recent circular of Acting Secre- tary Richardson. THE CounseL AGAINST Gunmeat Dyee re. quest President Grant to hear en argument by them, whereby they will endeayor to show that his approval should be withdrawn from the finding of the coart-martial of which Gen. eral Thomas was president. Tre Rawtins Fuxp.—Postmaster General Creswell was yesterday the recipient of 8500, imtended for the fund for the relief of Mrs. Rawlins. The donor, aithouch giving his name to the Postmaster General, did so in con- fidence, and With the request tnat it be kep. from the public. ORvERED WEsT.—By direction of the Secre- tary of War, Brevet Brig. Gen. Thomas M. Vincent. Assistant Adjataut General, will proceed to Cincinnati, Obio, Springfield, I1., and Chicago, Iil., under insiructions from the Adjutant General, end retura te this city upon the completion of his duty there. SPECIAL AGENT BRIGGS, of the Post Office Departmect, has been dispatched by the Post- master General to San Francisco, to make the necessary arrangements for the introduction ot the letter-carrier system in that city. When tbis is completed Sacramento and other Pacific cities will probably receive his attention. PATENTS Rerverp.—i the matter of the interference betwren the applications of Mi- chsel Collins, Bodo England, Eiward Jones, and Sylvanus Walker, for letters patent, and ot Hypolite Monier for a reissue of letiers patent for improvemen: in lamp chimneys, the Commissioner of Patents bas refused the Fetions im each case. THE HARVARD Caew are being made much of ir New York, where they arrived by the City of Antwerp. Mr. Blaikie. of the Harvard men, books himself at the Astor House as of “Washington, D.C.” He has been appointed “Pardon Clerk” in Attorney General Hoar’s Department, to succeed Mr. Hoar’s son, who has gone to Cambridge to study law, Mr, Biaikie’s tuture reeidence will therefore be in Washington: Tue Boston Covnt-manriar.—The detail for the naval court-martial to assemble in Boston for the trial of Lieutenant Oommander H. B. Seely, of the steamer Pawnee, for ill- treatment of seamen, is as follows: Rear Ad- miral H. K. Thatcher, president; Captains E. G. Parrott, KR. N.Stembel, and Foxhall A. Par- ker; Commander W. F. Spicer: Lieutenant Commanders GH. Perkins and Albert Kautz. The Judge Advocates are Commander W. S Temple and John W. Bell, Esq. GOLD FOR THE Post Urricx DEPARTMENT. Postmaster General Creswell having ad- dressed a letter to the Secretary of the Treas- ury, asking that sufficient goid b3 farnishea his Department to pay the balance due to foreign countries for mail service, thereby ob- viating the necessity of going into the market aud buying gold at a premium, the First Comp- troller of the Treasury yesterday decided tnat the Jaw is such as to prevent the request of tne Postmaster General being complied with, and an adverse decision is therefore rendered. ‘The smount of premium paid by the Post Office Department on gold purchased is about $50,000 per annum. SECRETARY BOUTWELL yesterday had nu- merous callers in New York, among whom ‘were Collector Grinuell, Horace Gr-eley, and Gen. Butterfield. He also received delegations of steel importers and sugar refiners, who de- sired modifications in the methods of assessing and collecting duties at the sub-treasury. He meta deputation of bank presidents, relative to the issue of additional amounts of one and two dollar notes, and was also interviewou by anumber of brokers and other business men. Yesterday afternoon he dimed at the Union League Club, by invitation of Collector Grin nel and about forty merchants and bankers o New York. MaRBI4cE OF GEN. CaARLES H. VAN Wsck.—Milford, Pa., was the scene of a fash- fonable wedding on Wednesday. The bride ‘was Miss Kate Ross Brodhead, of that plice, ana the bridegroom Gen. Charlies H, Van Wyck, late Representative in Congress from Orange and Sullivan District, New York. ‘rhe marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev George P. Van Wyck, 8 drother of the General, ‘The bride was dressed in white satin, with point lace, and a fair display of diamonds, and looked very baautiful ia her bridal roves. The bridesmaid, Miss Louisa Carpenter, wore white tarletan and coral ornaments, Major James Dubois, ,of this city, formerly -on Gen. Van Wyck’s staff, officiated as grooms- man. After the ceremonies the bridal ripe repaired to the residence of Qongressman D, Auken, brother-in-law ef the bride, where ‘hey, received th€ congratalations of their friends, and partook of refreshments and then toek the cars across the continent to Ual- ifornia to be absent about six weeks. 8 anaes, ot especially among ar, N°. 5,155. men,and PRomorep.—George E. W. Sharretts and A F.McMilan have been promoted from third to fourth-class clerks in the First Auditor's CommisstoxzR DsLano will not retarn here for two or three weeks. He will leave Onio Sbout the intter part of next wee for Penn. sylvania, where he will take the stamp in behalf of the Republican nominees, MR. Treavitr. Chief Clerk of the Pe Office, left Washington this morning for a shor vacation atthe North. While abrant the office of Chief Clerk will be filled by Mr. Alonzo Weeks. who has for so: years past filled Con 1m THE TemasvRy—The amonnt of available com im the United States Treasury yesterday was $102,632,343 4°, including =21,- 355,040 In gold certificates owtetanding on the léth instant. The coin, with «1 about $1,000,000, is at the United States Sab. Treasury, New York. exception of PAssED ASSISTANT PAYKASTER CuARLEs D. Mansrrecp, U. S. N., who was recently on trial before a military coart martial i9 Paoila- delphia, bes been fourd threatening letter to his sxperior officer, and sentenced to be reprimanded, which sentence bas been spproved by Secretary Robson. Srcretany Boutwsci’s ReroRT.—Acting Secretary Richardson thts morni a letter to the head of each Bureau of the Treas. vry Department directing them to prepare auc forward to the Secretary immediately their an- Rual reports of the business in their respective Bureaus, in order that the exme may be em- bodied in the annual report of the Secretary. Mk. McKBan, the managing editer of the in Ledger, isatthe Kirkwood House. He seems to look quiteas young and fresh as ‘when years rgo. a resident of this city, filling so admirably the position ot Clerk to the House ofRepresentaiives, The Ledger 188 great insti- tution, in the hands of Mr. Childs and under the editorial manszement of Mr. baving reached a creulation of over 70,900 copies, and with an advertising income in pro- ity of writing a JUDGE ADVOCATES TRANSFERRED.—Major DeWitt Clinton, Judge Advocate U.S. Army. has bean relieved trom duty im the Depart. ment of the South, and ordered to report to the commanding general of the Fifth Military Dis trict for auty. Major Henry Goodfellow, Judze Advocite, bas besn relieved from duty in the Fifth Mil- itary District, and ordered to report to the commanding general Department of the South DisPosat or Pustic LANps.—Coramissioner Wilson of the General Land Office, is in re- ceipt of returns from the following district land offices, showing a disposai during the Past month of 24,015 acres of the public lands St. Peter, Minnesota, 79557; Fort Dodge, lowa, 6.2¢8; St. Cload, Minnesota, 6,052; Heiena, Mon- tana Territory, 4,162. The greater portion of these lands were taken by actual settlers un- der the homestead iaw, and the remeinder sold for cash and locatea with military land war_ PorTAL APPoINnTMENTS.—The following ap- Potatments have been made by the Poetma- General :-—George J. P. Wood, of Baltimore, Toute agent between Omaba, Nebraska, and Promontory Point, Utsh, vice A. J. Parish, removed; T. W. Lippincott locai agent at Parna, Illinois, vice William U. Summers, re signed; Warrenton H. Boynton rotte agent between Portland and Bangor, Maine, vice Elden M. Tibbetts, resigned; H. C. McCarty Tonte agent between Unnten, Missiscipp1, and Jackson, Tennessee, vice George W. Rutter, INTERNAL REVENUE Decisions.—The Com- missioner ot Internal Revenue has decided that aman who contracts to put up a building, and manufactures the iron work, or the sash. doors, blinds, &c., and uses them in the con- straction of the building, will not be required ay a tax on the valueof such e manufactures and setie them, if bis sales are in excess of $1, the same must be returned for taxation. Application having bran made to Commis. sioner Delano to put up smeking tobacco in five-pound packages, he has informed the par- ties that a package cannot under any cireum- Wed to contain more than one Pound. as provided in the revised reguiations. ‘Tae application is therefore refused. to return and articles; but if 0 per quarter, NAVAL ORpEES.—Commodore John Kod- gers has been detached from the commana of the Boston Navy Yard from the 15th of De- nd directed to hold himself in mand the Asiatic Squadron. mmodore Charles Stedman has been de- tached from sprcial duty connectea with the shipment of coal from the 1st of December next, and ordered tocommand the Yard on the 15th of that month. Commodore Wm. A. Nicholson has bsen o1 nnect-d with the ship- ym the Ist of December next. ®Commancer Henry Erhen, jr. has been de- tached from the command of the steamer Kaneas at the Washington Navy Yard and d on waiting orders. ut. Commander Francis M. Green, Mas. A, Miller, Robt. M. £ Peck, Ensiga E. P. McClellan, A’ Edward H. Wave, Koop, jr.. and 2d Asst. J. M. Ei H. Minizer bave all been detached from the Kansas and placed on waiting orders. Asst. Paymaster A. H. Nelson tached from the Kansas and ordered to settie his accounts. dered to special duty ment of coal, ngmeer John aaneland W. se +—____ POLITICAL.—Charleston, S. C., has at Jast a Republican paper—the Daily Repablican. —Retorns from all but three towns in Ver mont give Washburn 2,621 majority for Goy. —The Virginia politicians are agitating in favor of the election of United States Senators by the Legislature at its first meeting. —In New York city there are no less than three Democratic factions in the city, led Tespeetively by Belmont, Tweed and Mozart —Some Southern papers copy with avidity the N. Y. World’s recent declaration that Con- ional reconstraction would hoid no more than a rope of sand. —General Peter Thacher Washburn, the 2 Governor of Vermont, is a son of the late Reuben Washburn, a Massachusetts —The magnates of the “Labor Retorm Party” of Massachusetts have decided to hold & convention in Worcester om the 23th, nominate a State ticket of their own. —Int is understood taat the National Gon- servative Republicans of Mississippi, in order Not to interfere with the cotton Post the active canvass Until after the Istof November. From French & Richardson we have the Aiantic Monthly and Our Young Folks for Octo. oe BFThe last horrid invention Of fashio the bird hat, which 15 open from the English mod:s tor ladies tais . The round hat is ‘covered with the breast of a hersant as it was stripped bird; and to add to the tout ensemole, a head cb Deak: @, is put on asa crest, peering @Nd pecking lixectly on the front. of Bayfield, Wis.,has re- ‘damages from certain citizens ‘who compelled him to eril his aoe na see still regard as &P-New Jersey thieves have stolen a church SF Morning parties dejeuncrs, sviree 7 and matinee Clermans will be ihe features of tie Coming social seasor. TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR. This Aftorneen’s Dispatches, eas DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. Naw York, t. 17—At haif-past nice o'clock last spoon fire was discovered ina section of Judd's linseed oil works. on Cnerry street, near East River, and m a very short @ boat tele- alarm was sounded, and the polic and tbis addit‘onal force was put graphed for. ght. The principal portion of the ex- tensive beildings and stock were destroyed, involving a loss of about $2K),00). Seventy-five men were at work at the time, but not one could give any account of the orgiu of the fire. Fully insured. PHILADELPHIA, Sepi. 17.—The extensive flour barrel manufaciory of Libby & Penny- Packer at the corner of 12th and Batton wood street, was burned thismorning. The building was owned by Wm. B. Thomas, whose loss is £20,000, mostly covered by insurance. One ot the floors, occupied @s an armory by Colonel Thomas" regiment, and the muskets were al! consemed. All the other floors were filled with empty barrels. Warringtoa & Go's, s'eel Pen works opposite were badly scorched, sod the steck and machinery were dams, water, as were also W. and J. Alkins cabinet workshop, Thomss M. Evans’ awning post manuiac'ory,Jand several dwellings. The total Joss is about $50,000. Liboy & Pennypackec were burned out last year, when they were lo- cated a square distant on Willow s Ren has been falling atl the moraing, aud it is to be hoped that it is the commencement of the ecui- nocuial s'orm. PENNSYLVANIA DELEGATES TO THE SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL CONVENTION HABRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 17.—Gov. Geary has appointed Colonel Thomas A. Scott, Gene- ral George W. Cass, General J. Morehead, Hon Richard J. Haldeman, Col. Wm. Philips, Henry McUormick, Esq;' Hor. G. Daweou Coleman. Hon, Stanley Woodward, Eiward F. Gray, Esq.. and Hon. Hendrick B. Wrighr. delegates from Pennsylvania to the Southern Commercial Convention, to be held at Louis. ville, Ky., on the 12th of October next. PRINCE ARTHUR. Quvzngc, Sept. 17.—Prince Arthur, with members of Government, yesterday visited Military Shool, the High School, Marin © lege, the Naval University, and the French Cathedral. and lunched at the citadel with the officers. The parcy drove around Capa Rouge to Spencer wood, and in the evening attended a grand ball given by Lieutenant B: and lady complimentary to the Primes, Five hun- dred couples were prerent. The affair was very elegant, The Prince leaves Que Monday. THUNDER STORM AND FI CLEVELAND, On10, September 17.—A terrific thunder storm passed over this city last might. ‘Two or tbrce houses were struck by ligh‘uing, but there was not much damage done. The freight depot of the Pittsburg ratiroad in this city was entirely destroyed bv fire this worning. The building was uousually clear of freight, two propellers having cleared it yes- terday afternoon. The loss is mostly in Olave- land freight. The amount was not ascertained. ‘There, was no insurance on the building. DIFFICULTY BETWEEN A PENSION AGENT AND CLAIM AGENTS. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 17.—A difficalty bas Srisen between Major Calhoun, pension agent, the claim agente, pryments to the pensioners in the interior for some time. Heretofore the pension azent ha: pail all the claims, on proper vouchers, in greenbacks; but now he refuses to pay any- thing but a check to the order of the claimant=, Which the agents and attorneys here retuse to accept. The Women's Suffrage Convention—The Wemocrats Nominate a Mixed Ticket CinctnnaTi, Sept. 16.—The Women’s S: frage Conveution adopted a constitution to day. and elected the officers of the S ate a7 elation, Resolutions were passed favoring female suffrage. The Democratic convention to-day nomiva- ted & ticket, consisting of balf Republicans and balt Democrats THE CALIFORNIA RELICS FROM THE ARTIC REG Lonpox, Sept _17—The Morning Standard to-day has an editorial on the news from the Buenaventura concerning the recat discovery ot the remains of the Franklin expeditivr The article classes as follows:—Data on which to accept the document s too slender, and unless the ina manrer difficult to snt! fancy skepiicism ts mi INDUSTRIAL MEETIN PITTSBURG, Sept. 17.—Tue Railway Mas'+r Mecbanics’ Assocation of the Uniisd Sia continued its <e sion yesterday. Philadelphia has been selected as the place for holding the next annual meeting. AN IRISH EDITOR ARRESTED. Dvptin, Sept. 17,—Booth, the editor of the Jrish Ameri Gn, Wes yesterday brouzht before she court, and remanded for trial oa the ch arce of participation in the fatal aifray at Tobber- more recent OFFERED A CABINET POSITION IN THE Dow 1 ToORONTO,Sept. 17.—I: is said that Sir Francis Hencks hus been offered a seatin the Dominion Cabinet. A FATHER MURDERS HIS TWO SONS, New York, Sept. 17.—Frederick Brausert fa’ally stabbed bis two sons, Jobn aud Fre: erick, Isst evening in the towa of Uaion, J., during a family quarcel. He wes arrested. THE EMPEROR ABLE To BE OUT PARIs, Sept. 17.—The Emperor appeared yesterday on the streets. MRS. SCOTT SIDDONS: LivgrrooL. SeptembeT 17.—Mrs. Scott ‘Siddons sailed for New York yesterd: —~-+e- —__ Alexandria Matters. ‘The following items are from the Gazette ot lest evening: JRANDT.—From a private letter received here by a lady, from a friend in Norfolk, it is learned that the «Rev.” Mr. Brandt, whose ex- ploits im this city are well remembered. and ‘whose supposed svicide occurred in Norfolk some weeks ago, bas been arrested and com- mitted to jail an that city on complaint of Col Newton, of the Atlantic Hotel, who had been one of bis pecuniary victims. POLITICAL APATHY.—The colored voters seem to take very little interest in the ap- proaching election for a member of the House of Delegates, and many of those who will take the trouble to go to polis on that day will it 1s said, vote for the Conservative candidate. $< Raw Foop.—Q uite superfiuously, now that Secretary Rawlins is dead, papers are telling cvergiMing that nursing, cave ak shodieal e nursing, care an attencance could do was certainly done, But there is no donbt that the Secretary, sinking under consumption, did derive the greatest benefit from the use of raw beef, and so im- proved under this chet that hopes were enter- taimed, at one time, that he might even re- cover. Physicians are now administering to consnmptives a diet of finely«chooped raw oe ckuke t seasoned with salt, and heated by placing dis containing 1t in boiling wai This food is gtven also in cases where the stomach rejec: ts, almost every other form of food. It assimilates rapiily aud affords the best nourishment, while patien’s learn to long for it and to like it as much as Dr. Kane did bis FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The New York mosey market is withont @ greater pumber of loans Deing made at > per cent. The demand for small notes from the West is active, put owing New York premiums of Lyati per cent. are readily paid for them Discoencs sre slow, and prime paper passes at 10al5 per cent. marked feature, by exper H giittering rem dl baddies. The women ta par- Ueular, pot only Dut to a great extent in the common walks of Aife, Dave acertain melodions sweetness of ¢x- to their scarcity Wasurmetos, Sept. Co., furnish the following quotations ot Gov- ere ment securities : U_S. 6s, BS1.. Five Twenties, Five Twenties, 1564. Five Twenties, 165. Dive Twenties, Jan. & Five Twenties, Jan. & J Five Twenties, Jan, & J) Ten} Forties. ... 80 elognently deplorss biood. Yeu seidom | ofexpre « Atores Cetect the difference im the crowd of traverers Whe ber itis the eff physical constit [By Bankers’ and Brokers’ Telegraph, James Gassaway, operator.) Lewie Johnson & Co in home and foreign mar! Nuw YORK. Sept. day. Gold, 136441354, uote stocks and bonds | y.\;'w, Ko stock report to. | W 5.000 Bales. Middling Uplands, Orleans, 134. Sales for the wee! of which 25,000 were for export. Stock in port, which 79,.00 are American. i re, do. family, $-a89.25: City Mills snj $6.55; do. extra, $6.50a% Western superfine, 86296.5; do. extra, 50387.25; do. family $7.50a8. Wheat steady Prime to choice red, $) 5uaei6!. perfine, 35.25 j.do. family, 25% tive; prime whi'e, $1.95. Pork dull at stias31. demand beavy: mb shoulders, 16: Lard quiet at 20. Opts firm at for oo ‘Whisay dull at $1,185! | Beockinn, 8 3 ar ubsene of the famil pasate das a ulleaere Seerk Senthes To-day. the late terrible calamuy in Avondale. Pa. T2 BALtTiwore, Sept. 455, did, 48 astsd. Nor:h Carolinas, new, 464 did, $5 asked. respond liberally on Ube occasiot anuouncing bis own donation, whic t. 17.—Sfocks weak and tiled. Money stendy at 7 per cent. 520’s, 1852, conpon, 10. "0's, coups EiDIA G's, ex-compon, 55%; new, 55. North Carolina p's, old, 54; new 47 ——_e—__ New Verk Fl Grain Market To-day. NewYork, Sept. 17.—Flonr dull and 5: cents lower. Wheat dull and 2a, ceats lower. Gorn qu:et and firm. | another taih he Clerks by dout Freeman contai one wi CALpwELt, Nosie 30, 1669.—Editor Washington S: ago wrote tor your columns an account ot & a10, August | r:—Une year clerk im the y Department. T: July, 1568, end I was then and there room of §, Trecsury Departmsnt. ber I resigned and came ractice law, and here yet. writing thic letter to the “Star”! Well, for several years 1 was coo) class clerk an d up in the waiis of ury,and while there learned come. | the wants of the NewjEngiand trade, aghts and feelings of my fellow And I do know rigat well that nearly vung men im all the depertments are tired of clerical life, there in that dissatisfiea and mu dition because they are afraid to let go and try elsewhere. Laboring men and strangers, aod even officers of the Government, see the well- dressed clerks im the street or at their desks, And think them happy and contented. know better, and so do you. Mr. Editor, and so do all the clerks in all departments. O: dred dollars, or one hundred and fifty dolla’ are sure every month to the clerk, That 3 ly thing that retams him: waiting, waiting for that next one hundred dollars During the twenty per centnm a last year and year before, it was apparen’ clerks were dissatisfied with pay and every- thing else, Many said if they could but get the twenty per centum increase they would “resign Well, I resigned, ple object of this letier to my old fellow-clerks in Washington is, to advise th dissatisfied ones to re reply, | know if you will show usa chan liyng in the States.” 1 ha nner office of that kind, bat 1 would not 14 to embark my capiral in a company to of very good clerk in Washington a 5 living euewhere, if they wilt bat work aud 1 teli you it goes hard tor to do without that monthiy pay; get out, and at work, ticy and Erie ind only stay rmuring con- ee troupe, was comm: on a charge of indecent Bat 1 | girl. which requires | to the matrimo | for good bebavior, into business.” mM, and that at once. 8, We are ready to resign, ee t> make & good @ Hot yet opened an the Gennesee ig Six months’ time eel insulte? if any member of Congre: offer you a clerkship. 1 wovid as lief take off my bat and beg pennies on lvania avenue, or grind an organ in front of Wil , Are tbat the owners shall change riders, so ¢ it will be for the interest of each rider to br, | the horee be bas out abead Laws Passed by the Sixty-Seventh © )ffice-holding is, in my view, a and whe’s the man- 1 got sick of it, dis- poor, beggarly bne.nes: ocd nearly out of a m: gusted with it, and left it, and th: bard at my pr. happy as the “Miller of the Dee. and Go likewise,” fellow-clerk. s man, ard wor! THE RELATIONS oF Sratx, C ITED STATES.—The Madrid journsis have People with the touering just acquatuted the condition of Span: Jation of the trae tate of alfairs creates a great excitement throughout the Kingdom, and vol. unteers press forward to offer their services. Le Pabiic, of Paris. reports that the recent in- terview with Gen. Prim, the Emperor renewed his d: claration of absolute non-intervention in the affairs of Spain, and declined to accede to request that France shonid make tations against the re surgents as be! A dispatch from United Cubs, are in a fair way of settlement. The London Times in an editorial on Sickle’s note to the Spanish government on the Cuban ques- says: It was generally believed President Grant would notinterfere or allow interference in the Cabsan question util Congress could vote Is he less resolute than formerly, or as pressure forced him to sanction upo® Spain for the abandonment of ee cognition of the Ca! its by the United esterday says:—Dif- s, ON account of it entering into the Dave seen in first electric tele- English Voices, (From the Oor. ef the New York Tribane | In the conversation of mady wy eyo of women, ve been struck with the ‘WGotues: aod force of their expression. This,I betite. 1s 1 remember that Lord Lytton (Bul- a bis work on «England and the Eng- Tefers to this imperfection of utterance characteristic trait of hus cowntry- ve L heard our nobdie English spokea ‘with such Clearness and articulation and ener- ¥ vist im London. Aad power of sincerity and those of the cultivated classes, €raceiul undulation of tone and that reminds you of the warbling of nd more than makes ap for the dee cy of personal chars, wotch Hawrhorne characteris of the tbis welody and grace AnoLe American womes. You yor most with in Europe. the atmosp>ere. or of val babits or domen- ture, 1 cannot say; but the fact is unde- Ifyou bear a woman with a certwn “* and flabbiners of intonation, s want Of perspective oud emplissis im her utterance Jettpg the words fali trom her mouth as they were counters rather than coims, and speaking as though she had no moral or men- tal purpo-e in what she said, yon may confl- dently set her do way tbat all my excelent country-women are subject to this infirmity; Dnt it isso common | As to bave become a distinctive national trait t Ss an American. I do not Virginia New The arre-t of Abby Murray in Ricbmond, k, has led to the di of exten= walters at the ile Sulphur Springs. and the recovery of « tolen plunder. Besides the woman said were ber ac- | complices, two other waiters have been ar- rested and the whole party lodged im jail im Le mtg. A large quantity of plunder was found, where it had been concealed by the thieves,and returned totheowners. The steal- ing bas been going on for the whole season. In Petersburg. ou Saturday, a negro man and white woman applied to the clerk of the Hustings Courtfor a license to becomes man and wite. The laws of Virginia torid the | Marrying of whites and blacks with | other, and the clerk, of course, coald not Issue A license. The matter. however, will probably | be referred to General Oanby. « Foirfield,” containing 430 actos, the prop- | erty of Hays Mickey, about tour miles below Berryville, on the Charlestown tarapike, was sold last Friday. at public auction, to | Thornton Pendleton, for $58 an acre, lonet Julia Ann Gills, colored, was convicted | Wednesday in Henrico couaty court of killing Ella Woodson, colored, in a duel with clubs, i Jane last, and assigned to the penitentiary for four years — Collections were tc charctes of 8, for the relief suff-ring ‘by reason of Sunday in the Times says —Ir St. Patrick's Kev. Edward Fitzpatrick, the pastor, powerful appeal tothe congregation to Atter wes handrome one, he remarked that the widows: <- | amd orphans made by this calamity were | not ot the ‘olic faith. For this reason he br ped the aid extended would be greater than if the fact were otherwise. “Let us show to | the world,” said the reverend gentleman “that | Catholic charity taxes no note of difference in | language, mality. color or cresd: that it is | large enough and broad enough to bring withia its foldsail the needy and thesuffering, whe-her they kneel before the same altar with us or worsbip God according to the formalaries of Dectixe in THe Avotber fall in coal! Yesterday the retail Price of stove coal fell 50 cents per ton, and chestnut $1 per ten, mal at en! $5 for former and $7 Those who were advised to were $9 and #50 will appreci: the advice. Itis reported that t ng the pric for Drlaware Coal Company have completed ar- Tancemerts to deliver 3,00) tons of coal at Fisbkill, N. Y., daily, sud the Pennsylvania Coal Company bave inercased their delivery at Newburg, N.Y. to 1,900,000 per year. to meet nd toan~ on, Hartford opening of the Kos: iroad, S7-Three women are members of the Vinland (N. J.) Agricusiural Society. Two of them uave DO husbands, and are success! i farmers. 87 Proteseor Risi-y, manager ot the Japan— 4 recently in London Sault Upon a little S7-They are trying to repeal a Delaware iaw nan before leading woman I altar, to give bonds in $200 87 Morris Lampsry, the St. Pan! lawyer, sued for breach of promise, hus paid the first love $5,000 and married the second. 87"It is announced from the Inebriate Asy- lume the about two-thirds of the cases of con- firmed habitual drunkenness are the results of constitutional tendency. The other third are the results of habits acquired in the social cn cle. aud are easily ¢ S7Un the Emperor Napoleon's fete day at | Cherbourn, France, a crew trom the United Seamer Sabine Won & boat race by ten Jengtbs—beating twelve o:her boats, which bad all trained crews, wheress the Sabine's crew ‘Was picked almost at rand. om. S7-There will bea novel and funny race at purse for ‘the slowest horse to ran t two im three. The conditions ——~208- OFFICIAL, of Washing Cnty, D.C. AN ACT to crade and gravel A street south. be- tween Third aud Sixth streets east. Beit enacted by the Board of Aldermen ant Board Common Council of the € Washiagton, ‘hat the Mayor be, and he is Derety, authorized and requested to cause that portion of A street soutn, tween Third and Sixth streets east, to be graded and graveled, and to defray the ex- pebse incurred thereby the sum of nime Bun- red and twenty dollars, or so mach thereof as may be necessary, be, and thesnme is hereby, Appropriaced out of ‘the fands of the Fifth Ward. The work to be done by the day, under the cirection of the City Surveyor and the com- missioner of the Fifth W rd. Approved, September 7, 1569. AN Act to grade and gravel Boundary street, irom its iutersecuon wita H sicest porch to Rock Cicek. i amet necessary, 3 and the same is hereby, Spproprinied Oat o the funds of the several s through which asi equi portions; the work to bs done by the day's work, and under the direction of theC.ty Surveyor and the commissioners of ve- meats of the respective wards tely An ACT to condemn snd pave an alley in 62 square Be it enacted by the Doardof Aldermen and Board Locrmnge Counctl of the City of Wash S ‘bat the Mayor be. and diately aiver said alley shail Bave beea coa- Grind. tbe Mayor te, aad is heteby, author- fzed and requested to cause the same to be graded and paved. The work to be done in Accordance wih existing law: and @ sufficient tax fo pay the ccet thereof ts Rereby assessed. omell bots or parts of jo's bordering on said alley. {Approved, Sep:ember 7, 1869. Ax Act to set the curbstones @nd pave the foot- ‘ways and gutters on the north side of N tect soath. between Delaware avenue and South Bex: enacted by the Board of Aldermen Board fp Rowe on | Council of the of rock the Mayor be, Tad'he i harcey mentor’ ized and requested to cause the curbstones to be set and the footways and gutters paved on the north side of N street south, berween Deis Setray the expense thereot at 4-4 a tothe cost of the ‘came be. andl is hersby’ im ing_on the line’ of mais weerorcnest on improvement, to be assessed and collerted in conformity with existing law. The work to be dose in accord~ ance with existing law. Approved, September 7, 1899. EE ——E