Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1869, Page 1

<otnfer, Two CENtTs. ror Matnixe —Three among kyo —— ‘ents; Six Months, Three Doi THE EVENING STAR. | : % PUBLISHED DAILY, Sunday excepted, : At The Star Building, 8 W. Corner Pennsvivania Av. amd il:h St, — EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY, ; : : | Foie! Pike Dellare. No papers are sept fin the offc x than paid for. WASHINGTON, D. C.. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1869. i, S4—N2. 5,221. EEKLY STAR— published on Friday Thing One Dollar ances ball 3 Year. —_ = ——— WooD AND CoaL. | Cos. at $5.50 PER TON, 2,240. nave now on the large lot of best quality Fhave now QHITE ASE COAL. # , Swstabje for furnaces or large stoves. Iwill deliver it far $540 per ton Hi Sit Lind coat pe prstna eu pin odi-tf Oitice corner Ht and ih. ae No. 324 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, DRY GOODS. W. M. SHUSTER & BRO., HOTELS. D YER S ROTEL, Indiana avenne, corner Second etreet. fe house has bean newly furnishet thronghout. ood inte cine aoe Tat of December with rst” | wr ciao agcunm erate rates. 3 oe “PP: HILL, Proprietor. | in prices. —— EEE ment of a ; EXCURSIONS, &c. Mi every erat a te lowest proce F® MOUNT VERN¢ PIM'S GENUINE IRISH POPLINS, —_ “ In black and colored. ‘The mer ARROW, ¢ be mas Stacl a senvey her wher text ok TE street FRENCH POPLINS, DALEY: (except Sud In all colors and qualities, Sepees = ¥ F “ nnd Washington Marshall VELOUR REPS, FRENCH ja, Forts Foote an . : 7 returning to WS, ALPACAS; Bi White House and Ione, Va., the city af 4 p.m, GREY AND COLORED SILK FACE SERGES; HIGH COLORED PLAID SERGES; a E: ES, Gen? S an 7-4f as eS me Willard’s Hstel. BLUE AND GREEN PLAIDS, In great variety; SILK FACED FRENCH POPLINS, In colors and black; PLAID MERINOS, at $734 and 9 cents; ALL WOOL DELAINES, from 25 cents up; FRENCH CHINTZES, | In palm and other styles; With almost every other desirable article of Dress Goods in general use, all of which we offer at once at the lowest cash price. “We would also call attention to our very large 2. FINE CASHMERE SHAWLS; AT FINE STRIPED WOOLEN SHAWLS; FINE PLAID WOOLEN SHAWLS; FINE BLACK THIBET SHAWLS; Between 9Tm aND 10TH STREETS. Would the attention of citizens and strangers to thle stegant stack of DRY GOODS of the meet de, AUCTION, and from Bret Bands at the tate decline San — prises a complete assort- EMPRESS CLOTH: MER: ° FANCY GOODS SUITABLE FOR HOLIDAY PRESENTS And in fact, to the vi *, 5 ther tl ice Stock Davis’ Biwi aris arta Seiad in this market, and at the jest prices. ALso, 24 MARKET SPACE, . To our very large stock of ASTRACHAN CLOTHS, BLACK AND COLORED PLUSHES, BLACK DUG SKIN, BLACK AND COLORED SEAL SKIN, BLACK AND COLORED BEAVERS, and other CLOAKINGS, which are well worthy of the attention of all in want. CORNER tu STREET. JUST RECEIVED, a iN ADDITION TO OU be READY LARGE AND CO PLETE STOCK, We also call attention to our stock of GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHS, EASSIMERES, DUESKINS, FLANNEL smints AND DRAWERS. A FULL LINE BEAL LACE SETS from... $3.50 to $50 HANDKERCHJEFS, SCARFS, GLOVES, &c., Ses See Saee- $1.50 310 | EMBED HDB's, POINT LACE COLLARS, E MIEFS, N SCARFS, REAL LACE HDKF: ae $2.50 to $35 | LACE HA’ CHIEFS, ROMAN REAL LAGE POINTS, LLAMA LACE POINTS, In great variety , and some of the finest BLACK LYONS SILK VELVETS EVER OFFERED IN THIS MARKET. EMBED LINEN HDKPS...ne@1 to 810 REAL LACE COLLARS of every description and pnseeesenr FOC to $30 variety fro FANCY RIBBONS for bows, ALso, FANCY AND PLAIN SASH RIBBONS, = ent eortment of AT GKEATLY REDUCED PRICES. — K 1D, CLOT, AND DOESKIN GLOVES. WEEE BeuRSENS Geees ‘h we mark in plain K ity, all Kept in this city, al tpt mi nPnk eed tliuwed. ONE PRICK W. M. SHUSTER & BRO., 324 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, Between 9rn anv 10TH Streets. BUCKSKIN GAUNTLETS. NEW STYLE HATS. . AN UNSUKPASSED ASSORTMENT OF - de1-6t FLOWERS AND FEATHERS, NEW CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, AND CURTAIN MATERIALS, ENGLISH VELVETS, TAPESTRIES, BODY BRUSSELS, THREE-PLY AND INGRAIN CARPETS. A NEW AND COMPLETELY ASSORTED STOCK AT So justly celebrated for their simplicity, as well as UNUSUALLY LOW PRICES, the Weauty and durability of their work: @ full line aT of which will always be found at JAMES B. DODSON’S, No. 4 MARKET SPACE, ‘Third door cast from Ninth street. Which with our usual sesortment of every descrip- tion o' FANCY GOODS, NOTIONS, ac., will be sold at prices as low as the same Goods can be bought. EF Would also call special attention of our read 1o the fact that the most usef Chkistmas PRESENT isa GROVER & BAKER SEWING MACHINE, DAVIS’, . ALSO, LINE OF DRUGGETS, RUGS AND sirsoran k de l-eotJal S, ®: WRIsLEy, H.W. HAMILTON &CO., (243 Pennsylvania avenue,) DEALER IN A MANTELS, BRACKETS, SUSEACRET SHELVES, TABLE AND BU- A 24 MARKET SPACE, CORNER EIGHTH SPREET. U TOPS, EARTHS, GRATES, 7 SILVER WARE. youne MENS. CH “AssOcIATION cz 9th streets (Center Biore,) above D. We take great pleasure in calling the attention of ee et ene 4 rerchaeens TET vec eee! many SILVER TEARS. APPLICATION, Fok yyrcare LAND DePahzuaws oF THE Jageaten PExsion Lessa mos Lb, beta made under the actof J id PE it Rotice is Gr given that at the ‘the pat 7 ctiwat of offer cae vue well elected sack of WATCHES, | rant afiike tenor will "be relseucd, if no valid objec= eeeiving additions toipu nme. 2, 7 | Sou should (hit *PAN AERNAM, Commissioner, “to SiLVEeSM/THS, .107 499, for 160 acres, iemned under the act of noStm.ip 112 W. Baltimore street, mack $55 inthe unre &f Michael and was name grant 2B, No. 51, for 160 under es kta EB. = ) 8 "5. $91 Scott Square, bet. Iand K ate, west. Teeter Se eee meee Is 5 : te them with MEALS and Forspean plan, Also, MEALS n In Carter with the beat the markets Alse, ie ‘gfaraiat DINNERS, at the shertest not.ce. Zertore ond Dining-soeme always ready. we JNO. A. GRAY. KK{° EL & HENDERSON, DEALERS root, ov aBA ie eae from Spt uy sale at PERE Ebbits, | ge imee, 336 C rect between elated th trot Xe s08 hot ar ie . C xoss & wausn, AKEAL ESTATE EXCHANGE & BROKERS, No. 327 PENN’A AVENUB, Sonth side, Between 6th and 7th streets weet. z Meter Or TW LING SALOON, st ordered, published,, ax UNDBR METROPOLITAN HALL, of % Pex» s AVENUE, NEAR 11TH STREET Weer. fully sor gay ote ar GEURGE BAUER, Proprietor. cles of Teepe. Te, ia stocked = pars a. ee Clase aw jue" fee Itisa perfect and wonderful article, Cores bald- | Terenxat REVENUE—The receipts to-day 2 are m2 ee soma,” Softens brash dey end | frou this source were 786,82 rity alr into Yenutiful Sitken owes. Bat, abuts I. wonder it hit rertore: GRAY HAIN TOTTSORIGINAL COLOM. | THE IRox-cLap Dictator lett Tyboo Istana hitest and worst looki peat beauty by ite use. Ttdocs not dye the hair SPECIAL NOTICES. ee ITS EFFECT IS MIRACULOUS. HALL’S VEGETABLE SICILIAN HAIR RENEWER. EVENING STAR: Washington News and Gossip, on the 2d instant, for the North Atlantic syusd- ron. JUDGE DENT, who arrived here last night, says he is defeated in Mississippi by about twont;~tive thousand. hair resumes the root and fills it with new life ‘The first application will do good; yon will see the NATURAL COLUM returning every day, and BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, he old, gray, discolored appearancs of the hair will ta'eone’ gree Place to lustrous, shining aud beau tifut locks. Ask for Hall’s Sicilian Hair Renewer; no other article is at all like it in effect. See that each bottle has our private Government amp over the top of the bottle. All others are une iatvons: 'R.'P! HALL & CO., Nashua, N. H., Proprietors. For sale by alidruggists. 's ‘ez: THE EXPEDITION for surveying the route of thy Darien ship canal will leave abont the 1 of January. = Rovert Laven ox, Gauger in the ent! Pennsylvania District, has lost his postion for neglecting to cancel stamps on barrels of whisky. Secnrerany Fisn last night gave the fist of a series ef grand parties, at which were present the President, members of the diplomatic corps, Cabinet members, &c. PERRY DAVIS’ PAIN KILLER, Asan internal remedy, has no equal. In cases of Cholic, Summer Complaint, Dyspepsia, Dysentery, Asthma, and Rheumatiem, it will cure in one night, by taking it internally, and bathing with it freely. It is the best liniment in America. Its action is like magic when externally applied to bad sores, burns, scalds and sprains. For the sick headache, and toothache, don’t fail to try it. In short, it isa Pain Killer. ~ no 3-lm BATCHELOR’S HAIR DYE. This splendid Hair Dye is the best in the world; the only true and perfect Dye; harmless, reliable, instantaneous; no. intment: no ridiculous tints; remedies the ill effects of bad Dyes: invigorates and leaves, the, Hair soft and beautiful, BLack on BROWN. nt erfumers; and at Bachelors Wi |; si Factory, No. Ye'Bond street, 8 ie Feee ely Tuomas J. Durant, of New Orleans, wi it is thought, be appointed Judge for the Fifth Judicial District, including Georgia, Floaida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana-and Texas. Senator Witt1aM G. Browstow, of Ten- nessee, and family, arrived here last evening, and went to their residence, No. 4 north A street, Capitol Hill. The Senator says his health is much better now than it was last winter. THE PresiDENT received a large number of visitors this morning, among whom were Horace Greeley, Senators Stewart, Williams, Warner, — Kellogg, Spencer, Harris, Drake, and Lewis; Representatives Logan and Van Horn, Judge Swayne, and others. NAmoNau THEATRE—SPECIAL GRAND GERMAN OPERA. Manager.. oo Levees .H. Gran. SATURDAY NIGHT—FAREWELL. Weber's Grand Masterpiece, DER FREISCHUTZ, With all the Scenery of the Wolf Glen, With Frederici, Rotter, Habelman, Weinlich, “© vores, Steinecke, Reringer, Weigand. ON MONDAY, THE GREAT ACTRESS. Pi MONDAY NIGHT NEXT, the Distinguished etress, LUCILLE WESTERN, Inher world-renow med pia it AST L Mr. Reavis, the great Capital-mover, is in town, stumping about actively in behalf of his grand project. He thinks he will have the thing started in Congress within a week or two, and is confident of getting the Capitol fairly on wheels in the course of the session. THE ADMISION or ViRGrN1A—The members of Congress-elect from Virginia, are expected here on Monday for the purpose of to Congress the claims of the State for prompt recognition, as well as for the admission of the candidates elected to seatsin Congress, , O. K.—The Clerks of the Treasurer's office who went to New York to count the funds in the sub-treasury in that city have completed their labor, and found the accounts correct, with the exception of a deficit of five dollars in gold, which the clerks in the assistant treasurer's of- fice promptly made up. ROWDED and FASHIONABLE AUDIENC! | with tumultuons acclamations of enthusia«an ti ‘itable performances of the renow: ‘Comedians, G.1_and C.K. FOX. and heater (New York) Pant mime sn- Threeof GL, Fos HUMPTY Dt 7. And HICCORY DICCORY DOCK, awn. reece The PEROW Ae Pantaloon Penson t.—Horace Greeley, General Wm. C. Wickham, of Virginia, President of the Chesa_ peake and Ohio Railroad; Charles Bowles, of Paris; Lientenant Governor Woodford, Hon. Thos. E. Stewart, and E. D. Webster, of New York, were among the arrivals at Willards’ this | morning. Loors opeit at 7, commen ae ec ae e ‘éloc 1; Dress Circle and Pi Jirele, £0 cents, whic i from 10 cstore, it ae . A. GYMNASIUM, Corner %h and D streets. Open Daily from7 a.m. to0 p.m. REAN AvAIRAL Goupsnoroven visited the navy yard yesterday, and made a thorough in- spection of the Nipsic, which left this morning at daylight. The double ender Shamokin, which was sold some time since ti8¥m. P. Clyde, of Philadelphia, will be removed by her owner in a few days. The Nina will be Teausgor sea about the 15th inst. c Monday, Wednesday. and Friday. a Monday, Wednesday, and Thursda: FOR LADIES— Tuesday and Friday Kvonings, at Terms: $9 per annum; 6 for members of thy smoctaionr detcolm ARINI'S FASHIONABLE DANCING ACAD- E street, between 9th #ud 1th streets. Professor b.G. MARINI respectfully _an- nounces that his second quarter s tuition in dancing will commence DVEMBER 30, 1869. TUESDAY For particular: the Academy. _no2t-2w_ 200 °14 PAINTINGS! Tne Case or Dr. Snoerre.—Dr. Shoeppe, now under sentence of death at Carlisle, Pa., tor the murder of Miss Steinecke, has applied to Baron Gerolt, the Prussian Minister, to inter- tere in the case. Baron Gerolt has replied to him that under the laws and in the courts of this country he is certain to receive justice; that GALLERY OF FINE Fite gat BARLOW 'S | he is not now a citizen of the German Contede- MODERN PICTURES | suitable “for Holiday | ration, and that he does not think he can with Presents will be found amongst them. No. 237 Penna. avenue, between 12th and 13th streets, south side, over LAMB'S Looking Glass and Picture Fraine Extablishmer nel7-6in propriety interfere in the matter. How Tux NationaL Dest Can BE Par ix TuintTeeN YEARS.—Treasurer Spinner now holds in trust for the Secretary of the Treasury on account of the sinking fund, and for the fund held subjectgo the order of Congress, $75,478,800 ZA in United States six per cent. stocks. The divi- LS ing Windtgy | “end on these stocks so held will netan income to len, Picture Frames. Picture Cord and ‘Tas- | the Treasury and for reduction of the public sels, Rings, Nails, &¢.,in the District. debt of $4,523,728 per annum. There has al- Please Remember Name and Number. ready been received for interest on these bonds —_——_—§<— $704,304 in gold, which has been invested in BALLS, PARTIES, &c. United States bonds representing $787,800, which = ea rena Mica are held for the two funds above named. Ifthe same rate ef purchase is hereafter maintained, No. 486) @N EXHIBITION No. 486 TH ND SALE TH STREET. AT MARKRITERS, Sreest. No. 456 Seventh street, between D and E streets, Eight Doors above Udd Fellows? Hall; ice Oil Painti i Sisce® Largect’ wesck = Perera ap 2%-ly — Grasp ANNUAL BALL OFTHE and the accruing interest invested semi-annually ee A in like bonds, the whole national debt will thus AT ODD FELLOWS’ HALL, be paid off in less than.thirteen years. ee WEDRESDATLLS ah beet, ‘The full returns from the Mississippi and . Admitting Gentlemen and Ladies. Texas aré not complete, but there seems to be We say with Hane'One, Come All.” de t-eom" | nodoubt that General Alcorn, the Republican candidate for Governor in Mississippi, and General Jack Hamilton, the Conservative Re- publican’candidate for the same position in Texas, are, each elected by large majorities. General has a high reputation asa gen- tleman of ability and character. His majority isso large that we may reasonably presume a Republican majority in both branches of the Legislature, and that’ Mississippi will be pre- pared to promptly ratify the Fifteenth Amend- ment to the Constitution, and to fulfil all the requirements of the reconstruction acts, In Texas “shifty Jack Hamilton” has turned up again with his usual facility of getting on the winning side. During the war, and for some time afterwards, he was an ultra radical; in the present canvass he has headed the conservative ticket, and was elected by Democratic votes. — ‘The bargain seems to have been that Hamilton = is to be made U. 8. Senator, and give place to a straighout Deniverat for Governor, #0 that the local affairs of the State can be runon Demo- cratic ideas. 1200. “Der Freischutz” will be given by the Ger- _ man Opera Troupe at the National Theater to- night, as a final performance. On Monday Miss NJOY LIFE WHILE IT LASTS. FIRST ouere BALLofthe ene. MALS. will be Forrest. Halt, renters it MONDAY EVENING, rs have been chartered.’ @ Gentleman and Ladioa, One Auasxa SEAL SETS, de3-6t STINEMETZ'S, 234 Pa. av. FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING. AN BXTENSIVE 45SOBTMENT. Low Prices- Fit Guaranteea. GOODS AND PRICES: meee FFOM 10 to $20 OVERCOA TS. .....0ceecseoeess sereerseceenees os 870 940 & 3 TB .scaeorresereweeeeee “* G10 to $35 BOYS’ AND YOUTHS’ CLOTHING ALL SIZES, ALITIES 6 ALL STYLES AND PRICES. S7 REMEMBER THE NAME AND PLAGE“R HABLE & Co., 468 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, nl NDER UNITED STATES HOTEL.) draft of a bill, and signed b; inent citizens of this District, will be presented to Congress on Monday next: bition of the works of art tions, on a seale worthy of the object and of th That in furtherance of this design a namb r of public meetings have been he! in which the interest of the entire community in the proposed exhibition has been manifeste | in the most substantial manner, by their willing- ness to subscribe large sums accompl!'shment, and to submit their prope:iy \o taxation to the sameend. Enosgh has al- ready been done to show that the citizens of th District of Columbia alone are reacdy to invest a milhon and a half of dollars in the enterprise. ‘The governments of ail other countries where these exhibitions have been held have deemed them worthy of their special encourageme: Ss to $5,0ha, are anking the tota: missing of that issue in valu 406,460; that the “4 ; that the methods of and comparison between the various Bureaus in the Department, as well as in their own opera- ons, pore eae creep i, spects grossly careless;” that it has frequentl: happened that vouchers wonld be taken tur the mterchange of securities on slips of Raper, and iven up when settlements would made, aving no recorded evidence of the transactions: that in respect to the deliveries of most of these securities from bureau to bureau and from branch to branch in the de account were kept in the form credits, and comparisons made and balances struck, ete., and sion, even supposiny stated to have error; that one evil of this lack of accounts, &e., was, that in the transmitting securities to the Kegister’s office, itwas the custom to send with each thousand impressions a quantity of extra impressions, not numbered, intended to be those of the regular numbered class which. from time to time, Glled up or accidentally extra impressions were called the ‘stock pack- age,” and wheneyer there was occasion to use one of them, the bond or note injured or said to be injured would be thrown in the tire, or other- destroyed, as is stated by the clerks, and one taken to supply its place from the “stock Without any account or record it the performance, and without any P or method of proof of the actual destruc- tion of the one so actually or ostensibly disposed of. It is impossible, except on very vague evidence, for many of the securities that went into the Regier nefce. ing are specimens of V par- agraphs in this voluminous report, showing the so-called irregularties pract Department up to last March. ~_ Memorial to Congress. The following memorial, agcompani-d with a of tie prom- are «lc sirous of holding in the city » during the year Isl, an exhi- industry of all n.- in this cits, money for its md have granted to their prop material aid in the promotion of their undertaking. Your memorialists, believing in the enliglit- ened liberality of Congress, respectfully pray that the same encouragement and support may be extended to them which have been hitherto ven by the Governments of England and ‘rance to the several great International Exhi- bitions which have, since 185, been held in those The precise nature and amount of the which your memoriulists desire to obtain furtherance of this national enterprise are in- dicated by the accompanying dratt of a bill fo- a charter of incorporation, which they pra) your honorable bodies to grant for a joint stock company, to be designated Industria] Exhibition Company,” and ing such privileges and they may justly ask the Congress of the nation to accord to an enterprise designed for the com- mon benefit of the country. Your memorialists deém it unnecessary to enter into any arguments in proof of the Vast importance and value of such exhibitions to the countries where they are held, and to mankind. ‘The concurrent voice of the mest enlightened nations has been testified to the countless ben- efits that have resulted from them in the im- rrovement of the raw products, machinery, manufactures, and fine arts of the world. Believing that, with the reasonable aid which “ The International embody- assistance as they think they now pray trom Co: % will be able to bring together at the National Capital such an-exhibition as will be at once creditable and wef il t+ the American people, your memo- ‘uily ask such an early action on rialists respectfi their prayer as, if favorable, may enable them to enter, without unnecessary delay, w ition of the laborious work which pose to w re. Pog your memorialists will ever pray, &c., e." m the y pro- THE BOND eS PARINT- Report of the Congressi: ad Committee—Large Amounts maccounted Over two years ago charges were made in sub- stance, that the affairs of the printing and note department of the Treasury Department had been carried on in a criminally reckless manner, resulting in enormous losses to the ee and that its conduct was so loose and proper checks to prevent rascal! the intervention of Congress, wi ferred the accusations to a select committee of two Senators and one Representative, Senator Edmunds, Marrone = ending about two years in f witnesses (employed in tea eee y De- partment) and personal inspection of machine- ry, books, ect., has made a report, covering sev- eral hundred p jomal Investi- For. free from as to call for ich body re- committee, after examina- , Which partially sustains the akes the statement that the ag- gregute of securities of the Government created ines nd wy 7S to over su Si bod ete, Cob which the petatine bee reau prepared about’ $4;877 000,000, that most of the bonds, certificates of indebtedness, gold titicates and fractional currency were executed the bureau, while the currency was near- ly all cnsraved by the bank nov: compani «ft the cer-~ se oud series of the 7-30 of the various denominations, unaccounted fur, ications” of th ted in thi ite of it,” lark and others of the Department. that f third series 5-20 Londs, Febiurary 25, 2, seven thousand $100 notes, over ten ‘thou- $500 notes, and other denominations, in all 595,000, have not béen satisfactorily counted for; that various bonds marked as "on the books of the Department are , or at least no proof of destruction ecountability dl ‘im some re- t debits and e led to considerable contu- the discrepancies before n the result of merely innocent course of printing and used to supply might be erroneously These detaced. erefore, to account, many in the Treasury —---+eee- — PROPOSED REORGANIZATION OF THE TREAS- vRY DrrartweNt.—Hon. John M. Brodhead, Second Comptroller of the Treasury, has pre- pared a bill which, if passed by Congress, will reorganization of the Treasury in so far as the classifications and meern IHE INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION | REPORT or 7 Swuner ARY OF | TWO CENTS. Ww. ‘The report of the Secretary of War, which has jast been put in type, will be tran«mitted to Congress with the President’: message. An abstract appears in the B jore Sux of to-day. In opening his report Secretary Belknap pays a handsome tribnte to the late Secretary Rawlins. He makes but few recommendations and ex- pains his reas partment reports, ten be had enacting the rules war adopted by the board conv iy with the act of Congress of ipproving the new regulatio: pile 1e68. The present maximum of the 52,254 enlisted men. Kelying on two actual service, the namber Conn i which there wo for men ; er, subunits 4 plan id be 42,650 men; two-thirds al service would be 2), would not be at te Fecommended thst the be_re- tthe standard tixed by the act of July r ve ts 3, 13979 rses the recommendation alof the Army tor the of scetion sixot the act of as prohibits farther appoint- nis, leaving the Adjuta nm partment as it was fixed by section ten of the act of duly 28th, 1866, An increase in the number of General is recommended. With regard to the Bureau of Military Justice the Secretary says: “The Judge Advocate Gen- eral reports the number of records of military courts received, reviewed, and registered to be 14,044; number of special reports made, 1,352. ‘The bureau, in addition to its regular duties, has been charged with the duty of systematic. elly arranging and indexing the important State Inspector's Cc. Baker steadily progressing.” ‘The expenses of the Quartermaster's Depart- ment during the fiscal year were £21,968,481.01, a reduction of $14,500,000 below those of the pre- ceding fiscal year. A buildin, spt of accommodating all the bureaus of the ‘ar Department is much needed. Military records of great value are exposed to destruction, and are so scattered as to impede and delay the public business. The month: rental of bai and lots occupied by build- ings owned by the United States amounts to #1f204.19, being a yearly rental of @5), 954.28. ‘The railway companies to which the military railroad material of the (Quartermaster’s De- partment was sold on credit, at the end of the war, incurred a debt originally of $7,591,406; in- terest has increased this about one-half of which has been paid, but som. railroads being in default, and showing no di position to meet their obligations, suit has been lately ordered to be brought against them. ‘There are 72 national cemeterics and313 local, post or private cemeteries, in whucl. soldiers lie Uuried; 322,607 interments are reported, 171,956 have been identified. There has been paid tion of rations to Union soldier of war. Claims for supplies furnis! during the war, amounting to $2,399,80 been received, of which =233,063 b lowed, and $2,551 ,064.13 have been rejected. ‘The current expenditures of the Medical De- partment during the fiscal year were $235,561, The total expenditures of that Depart cluding “war debts” fundment the army W.15, have year was 104,235. The average stantly on the sick list report was 2.3 54 per cent. The number of deaths’ was 518, and of discharges for disability, 1,125.” ‘Tne number of commissioned medical officers on for duty on June 30, 1509, was 161 being am average of one medical officer to 204 men. 2 are Row two vacantics of Surgéons and forty-two of Assistant Surgeons in the ical Corps. ‘The experience of the past three years has shown that the present organization of the medical Sait ls eatietnetory, but that even were allthe vacancies in it tilled, it would still be Uarely adequate to the demand made upon it. ‘The Paymaster General presents the foliow- ng summary exhibit: Balance in hands of pv. masters at the beginning of the fiscal year, July Ist, 188, $9,081,505; received from treasury dur- ng fiscal year, $36,245,000; received by paymas- ters from other sources exclusive of sims tauns- terred among themselves, #238,192—total to be secounted for, $42,464,770, accounted for as fol- tows: Disbursements to regular army, 618,678,- -5h; to military academy, $185,255; to vol $19,918,655; total disbursements, 3 Amvunt refunded to treasury, $45,948; ivalan in hands of paymasters June 30th, $3,633,6 ‘otal, $42,464,470. The disbursements for recon: struction purposes are $2,613,293, an ance in hands of pay a Hoe those settled by the Second Auditor end paid by the department on treasury certiti- cates from’ the inning to the 30th of June iast, is $57,220,150. He recommends the estab- ishment ot powder depots on the Atlantic and Pacitic coasts. The estimates for the support of the Military Academy at West Peint during the coming fiscal year amount to #352,264. Although there have been numerous depredations in t military division of the Missouri, the condition of Indian afiairs is very much better than last year. ‘The policy of reservations adopted by the indian Department is, in the judgment of Gen. Sheridan, the only policy that will put an end to indian murders and depredations. The present effective in the first mili- tary district is 99 officers and 1.077 enlisted men, of which 31 officers and 427 enlisted men are on duty at the artillery school, 35 officers and 640 fed men with the Ith regiment of infantry and 33 officers and 10 enlisted men are on daty with military commissions and other reconstruc- tion duty. If the companies of the 17th infantry are filled to the maximum by recruiting, no <ucrease of force in district will be necessary. The appropriations for the War Department for the ieee ending June 30, sf > will be lower than they were for the fiscal ye ng June 30, 1870:—There was carried to surplas fund June 30, 1869, the sum of $58,239,174.93; the actual expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1 Gneluding the Freedmen’s ‘or old war debts paid, the sum of $23,882,310.60: making the to expenditures $30,644,032.76. Of the above there was expended for recon— struction purposes, $406,419.18; there was appro- priated for the service of the War Depart- ment for the fiscal year a 30, 1570, $2,804; the total estimate of snltiary are $40,000; the total imate of military ap- propriation: for the year ending June 30, 1, Sea st aon 30. Correct STYLE For FULL EvEstNG Dress.— — for full evening dress isa black velvet collar an? plain lapels, r dFprbetapee eerie ef sie ne Parris ft i Fi it HE ‘TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR. This Afternoon's Dispatches. ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS. { by Fire. Tilegray hed Exclunvely to The Evening Star. New Yorn. Dec. 4A fire broke ont this : tho St. Methew’s Episcopal Chureb sifget, dorery City, which was entirely wil. The cause of the fire was a defective flu. This charch is the oldest in the city. estimated at $40,000, o . Guizet on the Political Situation ¢ France. “4 | Tetegraphed Exclusively to Tee Evening Star. Panis, Dec.4—M. Guizet has written a letter Lars to a member of the French Corps | it on th. subject of the political affaics of Pratice, in which he advises members to support the Par lamentary Empire. on . Havana Makes Another Loan to the Home Government. Telegraphed Exclusively to The Boening Star. Havana, Dec. 4.—The steamship Bavaria sailed for Hamburg to-day. The Spanish Bank Will issue ix millions im currency, as an ad itiona! loan to the Government. ad Prosia and Austria. Tilegraphed Exclusively to The Evening Star. | Vix, Pee. 4.—Prince Metternich, the Aus trav Ami assador at Paris, has arrived here is ty receive the instrac in regard to the quer rusia and Austria. ° The Third Victim. Telerveph-d Exclusively to The Evening Star. Cmeace, Dee. 4—R. M. Nordyke, who was injered a} Coon Point last Tuesday by a divaster ou the 1 and Pacine rail- This mpke= Chicago, Rock Isla ion Thursday ng. three deaths from the disaster. —- " The Fire at Topeka, Kansas, Telegraphed Exclusively to The Evening Star. Cutcaso, Dee. 4—The tire at Topeka, Ka 5 sastrous than at first AN the records of the Land atfice were ¢ ed, together with the journals of the Hoase ot Representatives. ° ‘The National Board of Trade. Telegraphed Exclusively to The Evening Star. Ricumoxp, Dec. 4.—The National Board ot | Trade reaxse at noon, and the debate ay the questi areturn to specie payments was resumed. ios > ComMitational Guarantees Restored im Spain. Telegraphed Exclusively to The Beening Star. Manni, Dec. 4.—The constitutional guaran- | tees suspended not long ago as a measure of | public satety, have been restored. . No Troops Yet Gone to Utah. Telegraphed Exclusively (o the Evening Star. CHICAGO, Dec. 4—No serious trouble with the Mormons is apprehended, and no troop. have yet been ordered to go in the direction of Utah. - S Death of Florence Scannell. Telegraphed Exclusively to The Evening Star. New York, Dec. 4—Florence Scannell, who was wounded in a political affray yesterday, died this morning. FINANCIAL AND COMMER CIAL. During the week ending to-day, there has been received at the Treasury Department from the Printing Division, $655,500 in fractional cur- reney, The amount forwarded during the same period was $301,251 The amountsot = rer of the Unites Banks, reported tq-d circulating notes, 342,506, public mone: 5AOO; total, $36 The amount of mutilated bank not during the week was $152,059, making the total amount borned to date $15,03.876. ‘The amount of bank currency issued for bills destroyed dur- ing the week was $112,149, making the total amount isened therefor $17,599.35), and leaving ace due for mutilated notex 194,525. atonal bank carrency outstanding at this date is $299,757 613. ° =~ Government Securities. Wasminotox, Dec. 4, 1469.—Jay Cooke & Co. furnish the following quotations of Government | securities; | U.S. 6's, 1881 | Five-twenties, ‘ities held by the Treasa- tates in trust S ati Bi Selling. 1864. Five-twenties, 1865. oe Five-twenties, Jan. ahd July, 65..113s¢ Fire eoeaies Jom. and July, ‘i. By ive-twenties, Jan. July, 68. .115 Ten-forties ...... eos elt SEW YORK—rineT Boarp. U.S. 6's, 1851......116% 5-20's.dndedy, "s, 1862... 4 5-20's, Jn&d torties ae | By Bankers’ and yom Se is By Brokers’ ‘elegraph, James noay, 5 | Lewis Johnson & Co. quote stocks and bonds tu home and foreign markets as follows: ad Yor«, = 4-—Second Board—vU. 8.6's, |, Coupon, 116%; 5-2)'s, 1862, cou Mx; 5-20's, 1864, coupon, 111); 5-20", wth, couped 2 5-20's, new, 1865, coupon, 114 coupon, 114k; 5-20's 1868, cou} coupon, 1054; Currency 6's, Cumberland,'254; Quicksilver, Western Union’ Telegraph ays Water Power, 13%; Pace Mail, Sty: New York Cen and Hudson, 904; Erie pret d, 45; ending, 9) cr icitian teases Cd. 45; Reading, 99; Michigan Centr 121; Michigan Southern, "dex: linois 4 tral, 1344; Cleveland and Pittsburg, Northwest, 74%; Northwest pref Rock Island, 105 ; pref’ ") ™ an ly ; mi 4%; Merchants’ Union _~ Strong. Gold, 12244123. LIVERPOOL, 11 a. m.—Cotton market opens |. Sales 10,000 bales. Middling Uplands, 12a 125,; Middling Orleans, 12,al2q. 2s Neat nes The Markets To-Day. Telegraphed Exclusively to The Evening Star. Bactimorg, Dec. 4.—Cotton quiet but steady; Low Middlings, 4a24y. Flour quiet but steady, Howard street super, $4.75a85.12\; do. $5.25a86.25; do. family, $6.25a$7 super, $5a$5. 2 S$ia8875; Western sy extra, $5.25a86; do. family steady; prime to choice red, © active; Batrimone, Dec. 4—Virginia 6's, ol4, 44 bid, 44 asked. sae New Yor, Dec. 4.—Stocks firm and prices Bene shore 05x. "Goad ee tian. 108%; . & 2%. i; Vire Gs, new, Sy" Notib Calin "We: old, 43 x; do. new, 32%. New York, Dec. 4.—Fiour dull and declining. ‘Wheat quict and firm. ——-1e2- i i