Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1870, Page 1

“THE EVENING STAR. | PUBLISHED DAILY, Sunday excepted | At The Star Building, ‘.W. Corner Fennsyivania Av. and Lith st, | v8 SVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY. THE STAK ts served by carriers to Seribers in the City and Distriei at 7 WEEE or Fos TyY-Pors Cuvrs Pea Mo a he counter, Two Oxnts. Paice ror Maitine = Che nening Sta mithon of gol rther ad | The prer >. atx Montes, 93.1 ore seu tf rom the office longer then pald for. Ve, B6—N2. 5,496. WASHINGTON, D. C.. MONDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1870. i imto the S The legal tenders also ex! and the abil: ~orve bas been angmenied 2 TWO CENTS. _ EVENING STAR. P or. He FASHION AEE, THE CENTRE MARKET HOUSE. reas a . THE NEW DEAL. PARTY No. 2 GPEN BOOES AT THE IN- TERIOR DEPABTMENT. £ Geoddemen, Monit, Wednes- sv. m formes ly wt the Academy, or mga the F o. widreese] to FIRGLN BOOKS 48 VET. . PROF. HORATIO BATES. —— Bo 4*6)On Bx hibdition se 46 NOT A STAIN, NOT A SPOT. bart { and Sale Fi ‘SvREET at Brass? . MARKRITERS, LATER. Dand E streets nes” Hall - iccmaa ie SOME NIBBLES. sings, Window — @ Cord and Tassels, BIG BITES EXPECTED TO-MORROW. We have given in Tue Sra the fall history of the new market-house imbroglio, and etated the fact that some of the corporators hare made a move to establish a new company. The subscription lists of the new Market- house Company No. 2 were opened to-day about noon, * the Interior Department building. “e+ 16 -B @ same was 12 mang by 20m of the Comm j.er B BLOW 8 GALLERY or OWL PAINTINGS FF SALB. Jat recetved ome tine FLOTURES. 1296 Peam Svenme, bet Ih and is : wet HABLE BROTHERS. oi ving bien secured for oe purpese, ‘here we-e present, amont others, Mr. KM. Hall, Motor A. C. Riehares, Mr. I FINEST READY-MADE CLOTHING IN THE CITY, onnol'r, Judge Hughes T. £. Fow- John Waison, J. It. s, I. H. Alexan- - Clark, Job Angas, Join H. Crocker, H. 3. Davis, Dr. D. W. Buss, Samuel S. S002, avd Adolph Cluss. A general .nterc*ange of views ensued, and about 124 o'clock, Mr. d. 5. Davis i TAPPED QUIRTLY ON THE TABLE, and requested all who were not corporators to leave. OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC FABRICS. Oar stock consists of a large ¥ REPOTERS TURNED OUT. The 8. B and D. B. Derdy-< ; ‘The reporters, as well as some few spectators, ‘The S. B. and D. inant aon Sait. looked up, astonished; but of course with them The 8. B. and D. B. Sack coat Suit. it was “‘picking-up-hat time.” Oar reporter See aes ae oe ror ext | nad no sooner taken possession of the hall ont- The. B.and > e Cloth Coat and Vest. ride than bang went the door, click went the s lock; but this was not all. A sudden noise The S. B. and D. B. Green Cloth Goat and Ves:. | frea) above, and jammed to, a = The 8. B. and DB. Brown Oloth Coat and ¥+3 ‘AS CLOSE AS Wax ‘The 8. B. and D. B. Dahlia Uloth Coat and ¥ st. * went the transom. Reportorial ingenuity failed to divine the cause of this secrecy. Un motion of Sam Smoot, Job Angus was elected tyler. Ash. White called with a trient, but was denied admission; but soon a gentle tap on the door by our reporter was answered by JOR ANGUS, «fe, with deathly grip on the knob, called out to Col. Sam. Smoot that “ A gentleman wished to ree bi Sam. came and said, ** We'll only be clos 4 a few minutes and then you can learn everything.” A SECRET SESSION of about fifteen minutes was over, and in rushed reporters, eager in their inquiries, when it was discovered that Messrs. Smoot, Bliss and Davis, & committee appointed at a previous meeting to attempt @ reconciliation with the originally chartered company, had made a report which adicated prospective harmony between the two organizations, and proposed the opening of sub- scription books at once, which fatter proposi- tion met with favor and wespassed. When Mr. Jobn K. Elvars opened a book. headed: “Sub- seripi.ons for stock of the Washington market company,” wich the usual “we, the under- signed,” &c., there was a GENERAL WALK AROUND, one seeming to desire the honor of being the ‘irst subseriber, but all sailing round the table like strange bees around a hee-hive. Things were duil indeed. till Mr. Elvans, in charge of be book, said, “Well, who'll DRAW THE PinsT “Walk up to the captain's ottice, gentlemen.’ They walked up, but nary peu scratch. ur reporter then buzzed Mr. Connolly a3 ‘0 what bseriptiors would lead to; when he Weil, sir, to a new market-house, I Keporter.—“Well, but what do you expect tho. > other gentlemen to do 7” Mr. Connolly.—“ Well, we expect that they will hare and sabsc1ibe z ell, anything so we get a new And « good many others, teo numerous to mention. SER OUR BLUE, OLIVER, BROWN. GRAY, AND DAHLIA MELTON OVER-COATS. . Plain Beaver (ver-conte. Fur beaver Over coate, Chinchilla Over-coats, 7 Witney Over coats, in Sack, Frock, or Wing cut Style. Of BOYS’ and YOUTHS’ OLOTHING we hare the largest and beet assorted etock ever shown in any re! hing house. ‘THE MERCHANT TAILORING DEPARTMENT under competent supervision. and is stocked ith a very large and desirable stock of the latest vies of Suitinzs Coating: Veet and — Cassimeres ever exhibited in this Be PERFECT SATISFACTION GUARANTEED IN ALL Casas. MABLE BSOTHERS, W.COBNEE OF SEVENTH AND D STS., (Intelligencer Br ect1-tr IS APPROACH- > Cc WEATH = oD 2 AND WE ALL NERD THE PROTECTION OF WARM GABMENCS, But tender ch the e Ihave pr assortment than © respectfully call t and large va - « Faucy WOOL HOSE, SCARLET and BLUE HOSE. “ - WHITE MEEINO SOCKS and HOSB. Obiliver’® WHITE CUTTON, extra long, and other HOUSE Children’s Hand Knit SAQUER4 HOODS, LEG GINS, BOOTS, MITTS, aud CLOAKS. lnc, INFANTS BRUSHES ROBE Lot r BUXES. BASKETS, &c. Latics’ ard Gent's ai! wool WHITE and COLORED HOSE Ribbed and Pian SCARF: short, from 2c. ap. mele BREAKFAS£ SHAWLS suc a9 its first claim npon ue, A for the little ones a better er 1 bad before, and woald ention of the Ladics to my “* That's what's the matter.” ‘The corporators then tered about halls in groups, the books being in the mean- while open in virgin purity, without a visit Y.om any brt tbe reporters, who were informed that ‘we don't expect to do much to-day, but the business will be brisk to-morrow.” LATER. At three o'clock p. m. seven chances (35) each) had been subscribed to. and five doll: Angus, Joun . L. G. Parke, and nelly one each, and Juhn D. ies Ban F. French, L. HOODS. ont Ladies’ VESTS. from $1 np. n Misses” and Boys’ VESTS, in all sizes. A full assortment of TOILET ARTICLES, perhaps the largest kept in cue place HEMSTITCHED LINEN HANDKERCUIEFS, from ise. up. Gent's all LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, from Re. Op. Wazhington News and Go sip. INTERNAL Revenve—The receipts 1 entice to-day we Ladies’ r mon CY SATCHELS, trom $1.5 ‘Tee Republican continues to bite its thumbs 300 TRAVELING. MARKET, WOR! t us, b ly ite a te inant : ‘and ether BASKETS, direct from th . ingens . nee phe is geting too EMEZOIDERED SLIPPERS and CU . —e roe ne fe Fine ANGOR WOUL. GLAD To LeARN, by the Gettysbu: CROCHET and KNITTING NEEDLES Mr. MePher: on, Clerk of the Hous:, so tar from 2.000 NEW PATTERNS FUR EMBRUIDERY being ill, is in better health than for a year past. th auch en assortment of NOTION . ur Z00DS. and TOYS, a4 can orly be foun Want To BE ANNEXED.—U'Donongh, of Red Ee SEES FSRIETE BATALS ot River, is on bis way to Washington, the bearer B. SILVERBERG, & memorial, irom the people of Manitoba to 312 SEVENTH STBEET, ani, in which it js stated they pro- the oppression of Canada, and ask Betwtrs Pes asta AVENTE AND D STREET. ior intercession with the Queen to permit the P_S—A look at bis handsome Bow Wintows» il! | peaceable avr woof the Red siver coantiy repay you the trouble to take it __ecll ’ to the United States. — +20. | REICHEN BACH’S Piano Stoie, 2 No. 425 Lith Street, above Penna. Avenue, ER OF FEDERAL OFFICERS TO MAKE (Betas isueD Over 20 Years) ests —A very important decision was Bole agency for the sale ot the celebrated PIANOS | fercered by United States Commissioner of War Bisbe & Co. Baltimore cet We, O-bor:, of Mew York, lest Friday, with MicUammon, Albany: also, second-hand Pi Teferepce *> the recent arrésts under the Organs and Meiccte as for sale or rent! congressional election } the subsiauce ot Fans Hepaunodating terme; Piano and Organ f wich is tat the Federal officers, acting unvle1 acd Repairing, apt that law, bave ro powerto make arrests. Th! NEW STORE, NEW GOODS, decision was elicited by the arrest of several in dividuals, who were taken into custody on Mor. day, ou the charge ot attempting to traudulent ly enter their names on the regisicy. All the Prisoners accordingly were ordered to be dis- charged. GOLD PRICES. MILLINERY AND DRESS TRIM- Gentlemen wand rea's Farnishings, » for fall and wi) -+e- ‘The Loss ov Tue CamBmia.—Nothing has yet been heard of the three small boats which put out from the Uambria when she struck. ope tor their safety has been entirely aban- “oned. pal +s0e- ‘Tax Paice Kise.—Gallagher, the pugilist, ix quite sick at his training quarters, near St. Louts, and Kelly, bis trainer, thinks he wili not be able to meet Tom Allen on the Ist of Novem. ber, the day fived for the fight. NO OPENING OF FALL i GRAND OPENING OF FALL AND WINTER ‘We beve jost retarned from N. sete tesortzient of Drees (Gord. Finoaelet = cash prices se =H TTRELL. WINE & CO., S87 The total population ot Louisiana is717,- Wim Ce meee a ‘and Penns avente. O26, an increase since 1360 of over 5,000. S7The population of California is fixed by the census returns at 50,000, and that at San Frarcisco at 129,069, &/ Jefferson Davis, his wife, three children auu aservent, have taken rooms at Barnum’s City Hotel in Baltimore. S7-Memphis is the only city Stat) where there are more young men than young ladies. 87° The Marquis of Lorne is to get a 50,00 M*2! = mayan = MAKBLE AND SLATE MANTLES. 1 am now selling. st reduced prices. for cash st my jarble Works north G street and New York ave Bue. near the Tressury Department, WH. RUTHERFORD. in the United marriageable m2 ly Ss EAM CARPET BEATING WORKS, 25 MAUNE AVENUE, Between 44 and 6th Streets portion of SI), royal bride,t S7- Visiting cards are made so large this Win- tert at a new impetus has been giving to the facture of paste-b: oard. : €7-Danvill:. Pennsylvania, gets up a rough- soote ‘tumble tight, and calls ita “co-operative ow 3 1T THAT DON'T oop | 7) Ps mill we: BUTTER BIKE GOOD] ga-The worst thing thes far auisibeied te WwW. ©. JOnNSY Wholesale BUTTRE «: Naj olen isa novel in mannscript said t> have PROVISION Doce tees ee BETES teen found among the imperial papers In the te daily receiving choice Tuileries. DAIRY BUTTER, attention of the trade. er cery- 1» Which Wiil be rold att 62) Im* S7 We saw several opera-glasses in use at @ Tocently. | ‘The next thing will be fenes- raiding the performance and a mo ter- SCHMEDIIE, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKERS AND JEWELERS, och iy 704 Tth st. Det. G and B. ste. smammert would be felt at the stapldi'y of tho « who new Undertake te fix the site of the capital the center of wealth or popu Tk makes b little difference where the capital rovided it bot inaccessible, every Sta Cincinnati thirty years ago. It requires no longer time to go from Minnesota or California to Washing ten now than it did to go from Colambas to Cleve: ard in i340. The A v fe there is practically no inconvenie THE CAPITAL-MOVERS Col. Forney Pours Hot Shot into their ranks, HIS LETTER TO THE CONVENTION et A SETTLER. cers, and never will be The capials of o her — untries ccenpy neither the geogr: Col. John W. Forney has sent the following | ter snv other centers. London ban ot the United Kingdom: border of Turkey; Paris'and Berlin are far removed frem the center in any sense of France and Prossi w i are +o grates int large number of offic seckers will dombtiess be able to ach Warbington from the remotest parts of the many years to come. . a Je editor of the Cincinnati Gazette of the Ist of August Iast wrote words that should into the hearts of every member of your vention. Icopy @ passage, without there mark reflecting upon you: . Rival towns and cities agitate for State capitals The othing more corrupt thaa these conflicts in which personal interest is brought in contact with politics! operations The Btate inelf is bribed, through its represeptatives, by the offer of @ share in the profits of the transaction; and waen the S.ate au bribed. who shall censure metmbers of te ard House of Representacives, State offi Te and members of locating committees f mitring thems:lves to accept tle extr for their valuable services? In sb usally begivs in self-interest and corre ption to the erd. “We bave before us two pam) letter to the Cincinnati capital-movieg conven- tion in answer to an invitation to be present. It is an able apd cor ciusive cocament, domolish- ing the removal doctrine with weapons from the armory of its advocates: WasHineton, October 22, 1570. .U. Reavis, Bay: Siv Dean Sin. Thanks for your invitation to the convention in favor of the removal of the ital of the United States which is to assem- ble at Cincinnati on the 23th inst. Believe me I hesitate to accept if @ previous en- gagement did not call me to New York on the same day hope, however, that you bave been equally liberal in asking others not favora- bie to your project to participate in your deltb- eration, and that some citizen abundantly yualitied will undertake to set forth the reasons against your movement. I should esteem it a high honor myself to underteke this task, because I beheve that a plain and candid state- ment of the facts would be sufficient to induce your convention to decide by a large majority against an agitation, in my opinion, without the L ort. hing wades through lets and acircular, ‘St.Loui the Fu'ure d;/ “A pamphlet for the Peo. Great City of the Wor slightest shadow of justice, wholly uncatled for | ple, Containing Facts and Argumeats in Favor of by public sentiment, and calculated to rev.ve bein woaged CPi Ra Lge be ee meaner animosities inevery respect unhappy andinjuri- | Pi Valley, an an Sincinns ous. I would not appear before your conven- tion as a property-holder in the District o. Columbia, but simply to repeat and emphasize the deliberate judginent of Western men. As your idea is intended tor the special benefit ot the West I would courteously arraign vou betore the bar of the pablic opinion of the West. Let me quote ome of the autboritative expressions or men and journals of established character and reputation. I begin with W. T. Sherman, a citizen of St. Louis, the General-in-Chief of our armies, and committed by interest and affection, not only to your own city, but to the substantial development of the Western States. In a letter to Colonel Knapp, one of the proprie- tors of the St. Louis Republican, dated Uctober 18, 1809, he says: on to the future great city of the world.’ ime fixed for the convention is the 25th of er. ‘The pamphlets whi and jw ire that any removal of it should take place. So far as we are concerned, t?» national capital is well enough where it in; and it is quite #8 pear to ‘ati as is profitable to our morality. political and perconal. It does not strike us ithat the thing ie worth what ;. It'St. Louse is the bing the “Of conr-e. my opinion on this agitated ques ion | United States should be located in the great eity of of removal ie wo better than youre, st of aay steer | the world or in thegreatcity ol the continent, The private individual, but if you want to kuow what 1 | {Wo things ha ge pepe think of it, 1 am willirg to say that, in my yudgment, | OF; if they bi 6 can afford to wait until ' g isher growth, aod the possible becomes the ac tual great cit, before we invest any very Mer, zeal in the premiss. . * it not be said that are inclined to extend BS ecanty weicome to the members o° the national ital of the United States, if valley of the Mississippi ‘not £0 to St. Loui Jurisdiction necessary for Convention to assemble here Ss eiayaineither you nor any | Chould be received with, discing ane! consent. or would | {yc wi Congress. You | Sill be the first F cighp raven have the capital at Carondelet or on | consti of Cinciatl bes the Jefierson Barracks tract low e eres, rs but that isnot St. Louis, and it would mecemitate | ,»¢‘nc,erend arm n ent in fayor of the removal of the building not only of the vast fire-proof buildings | {Me aatiimal capital isu meaiing’ ou to 8+. Louis is not the cen ter, mut the-efcre a plice must. ce relected that fe the center. Now itis hot te be de- tur the government offices, but the houses. hotels, -sfor the persons connected with the pub- sree hatit the seat of goverment of the United In my opin! is change! from | £01, hata! the w ee ‘Zewgraphical cenier of the Uniied we the tale AT heedee e iT places upon the extreme boundaries of the above St. L: « fant trom the sea. ci govern b wefittea ai ment: snd if ‘raveting were st the same prices in every direction, thea (he boundary exretl: goverrwent as it wl ich would be thy Would cost the residents a? much to reach the seat of a mt those at the other t is to has the Iaw of physical necessity. ch the work unfortunately fixed at its creation—that there i¢ no place to be found from which every other place is equidistant—a thing which ie mb Ost AD impeachment cl creative wisdom, inas- on | mech as it makes perf ct jue walization vs tu get the idea started have mterests Louis, and if allowed to vote on this surrendering St. Loi exclusive jur-sdiction of a © these inseresta subordi tises of a Federal capital. make the a where it had uot exclusive and ab.oluce jurter for ite own protection and that of the employees o; t T railway cl a v- the Government. Therefore. if the capital be lo the devo moved at alla innst gn to m place wiling to mur. | {LORE MBC Sielescrtcr of hectare Fmer chara: ton city. public entertainment inthe city of Wash- m, this same frank soldier spoke on the same Saniiect aa follows. Referring to the re- moval int F wud become @ second | wa, designed that there shon'd be any sate of giv ume: nis is pot the geographical center of Stats. Upon au east and west line + pg the continent, it ts about oue third of the trom th ‘The geographical i eof hts personal views its present constd- . therelcve which would remove the c futile, ae it would take one hundred | frow Wathington would net drop tt at ht ‘# bill to that eftect through the House of Bepresentatives, one huadred years to get oue neve and even after the pasuage of . red an There ts.8 good deal of confusion of 0 Every wau is prone to 'y center of the univers it atters. at the vi sof everybody u rule of centrality, te itagain: and the Let me add, by way of respectful comment ‘a oy thine fe oe ee ument relied upon by St. Louts as aga'nat upon this latter statement of the dirtingsished | yt) Ceucraly that, Lowover extravagant it may | Wiha Hon. Gancit Davis, erates is Gone jcem at first blush, its probability mnst be | »,2i Kentucky, a delegate to your last conven. apvarent when we reilect that the dissensions | [Om Anais ler targ £0 Jour last conven- See a Lital Cait ae un to the choles of the | \curseif to confine your ambition to the build new capital would, undoubtedly, be anticipated ing of manutactories, the construction of tail. PF oe rentnsons among your Representatives , aud the cultivation of the soil, and abso ‘Whe next witness I would eat upon the stand, ect oe en emeriek if permitted to represent t se before your | “The Chicago Ziiune and the Chicago Repub- courention, is, Hon. Thomas Ewing, the oldest | .-an, oth inferentially in favor of yous sondme, ex-United States Senator alive; #) years of age | Lit tit hreitate to declese dhe Bones tion a failure. Not perhaps because they did not sincerely support your idea, but because ‘hey did not tavor the location of the new cap- ital—your own city, A writer in the St. Louis Republican of Novem ber ‘ast declares that ‘if the scheme of capital moviug were even practicable, it is not desirabl for any western cits.” He argues that, “Con- gress will certainly either demand or wiurp the [wer to control all things, und al! people being within the bounds of the new natioua! district.” He doubts the force of the argument «thit Warhington is not safe in time of war. If an wternecine war, it might be sater thaa the Mississippi valley.” ow ict us turn from Western newspaper aud Western soldiers to Western statesmen in s. ‘The argument against the removal tional caj Sery & st bik as conclUsive as againet Dt. Louis.” ‘he "Oto 1851. Read his words of friendly admonition: As for the removal of th wm for it capital, 1 ream oa It is weil why 5 Of easy di id be the most ui e tar enong! ‘The barracks would nd the United Stat DAC enough for ¢ But. waiving the inconvenience, it were well to OY down and conat the cost and profit of the q " 1, above quoted, relate to questions ontside of constitutional law. Lat us ree now what two such distinga’+hod authoritics as Senator Wade, of Ohio, and Senator How- vrd, of Michigan, said on ‘this subj upon the bill to repeal the act of 1546, retro cecing that part of the District of Columbia origipally laid off or conceded by the Virginia lying south of th er discussion in the Senate iu the Thirty- ath Congress. I am indebted to my friend, George L. Walker, of this city, (who contrit: ditto the Washington Evenixe Sranof the Sept -mber, for this conclusive au- covering, as it does, the whole ground, J worthy of solemn consideration even atter u All east of a line drawn a mnites west of Washington are b scctumodated t! % moved to Fort L central spot sti are probal thou-ard persons reat of coves ument annually on business or e. paying an averege ot fifty dollars each Irona fare than they would pay if it wer ized. making an wegregate excess of Fide neally tor railroad tare, because the capital al F ove it the United ates mms. sacrifice at orth an annual inter # private pr permanency of a € hevery Ame ‘ond, would | Concress itself shall have decided to remove slowly fali inte ri halls and rooms u ef the national capital. Allow me to remind you § Ls Sty alow that the optnions of these able jurists are ‘by. gy te eck condemning the | lieved to be shared by @ majoriiy of the men propositicn would quiet the agirat bret ts dos bers of the Supreme Court of the United Sta’ some evil, ard it weuld be accepta! Oo Lhe reas 1 quote from Mr. Walker's letier: (DE portion of thee mivinity *TLe tin having been favorably orted by th ‘The Hon. Cadwallader C. Washburn, of Wis- | ccmmittee of the District of Colbibin, Seuator We eqnein, one of the ablest and boldest and most meee ats epee orp ra teen aes acy aps 5 2 jc speech. in which he use following Sar cece on this nab | ievguene: “Hew, Mi Rresdentst chen tora jas viewed by th w t capital was fix: ict. L wish to read a short extract Irom the spe coh of tre tresident of the United Stat the bmp | wt Congress in 150, es well as the. fon o1 ~ _ General Washingvel fixing “he capital permaueutiy e ia Place, showing the great paing aod mi = me Pp n phoa pent Bi coumiry has been | puteness with which he went forwarl in autic pe hould it ever be determined to abandon this | {10 (fall the evils tha: mizht fall upon capital. from, that day will disonion and disintezra- | tha; ticn begin. To leave here ‘ause of the corrustion which exists. wil be but to realize the table of the fox and the flies ‘The situation of Washington is plearant, the climate mild and healthful, aud its publie Puildings the means that were uul a was festablished. through roads, eur constituents door of the Capitol ice spoken to day on the sub- y that L utterly dissent trom the removal of the tatiopal cap- trey may. ¢ uutry. an everywhere and ia id. 1 will gratnlations¢f the President of that da: m the Capital was fixed here.to show youths grest achieve- ment shey euppored thev had worked out when they Sxed it permunmenty her he 22 dey of No- grement | \suber, IMU, the Presigent, Mr. John Ada ond rail’ | speech at the opening of Congres. said. late the people of the United States bling of Congress at the and any one who desires ic can ere even froin the far off shores of the Pacific ease and almost as soon ax the fathers ¢f rs could come here from New York city when the capital was established. ~The r imoval of the capital means the taking from eople by taxation $10 00 OWto establish a new: in the same aryland and Virgin! ital and erect public buildings equal to those wo | Wore in theaame lanctase apd at thea SLOALO GO of private property inthis city destenng, | sud) made wip the identical irpcee of complying Mievioe the Rtitwente are sutiched thae fits | With the copsfitntional provinions that enahiet Con ‘aphial should reasin where itis, avd as th hemes for lisGlecurburce of renee, = e fe Journal, published at Colum- | }yiescerer bus. said in November of 1569: gress to arerpt from the Siaves certain territory not exe miles to be the capital to “if the site of the capital of ths country were | be changed to it would be a quarter of acentu y | sition of it te U! tefore suitabie' Pulldings conld be erected for the | tprite “ fon of the government's diferent de- | ‘orev Butidings like the national Capitol | sufier them to come mest magnificent structure of the kind in the vorl’—can not be built in aday. The Cok and | the entire control pirarburg cathedrals have been more than two cen gov turies in building end are unfinished yet. The best | ev:r to 7.2 ef our public buildings have besn from thirty :o | aut forte Jeers ie recess Of Cor Trour Capi | back, and tl tol, Patent Office, Post OM ita ives are abandened now, mor: and Maryland. ef laber will be wasted. Forty to fifty milliona of | theretore the act Froperty or Assets of the government will be virtaally | (uie/y vord. Cast into the tea, Before we become ao rey of Senator Howard, of expenses. we had better pay our debts. It is amaxim | said a follows: * For my own of the equity courts that one must be just betors he | a few ‘aya ago, I ent is generous. It is not just to the goverument’s cr-d- | constit ‘*ionality of the ect of iters to expend uj ed millicns for unnecessary | es the RB trocession act. 2 amin rpores. We should begin to live in more gorgeous | competent { Congress fo make that retrocession. pu style when our debts are paid. not befor because, by tl tion itself, when ited *\ Tris notion of having the political capital of the | States acquired this District they. nea tor a country at the center of population or the center of | particular pul 4 that purpose was it wealth of the country isan impracticable. fanc'ful | thew eed by government as the seat notion. If it were at the center cf population to, | of government, and as the permanent seat of dey, it would not be to morrow. The center of | corernment, and this pation, as ® forerninent, wealth is perpetually sbiiticz. Some sections cf the received the District in trust, to use it as country are growirg in weaith more Fa overbment, are bound in howor and equity others. It is yet impossible to tell what pli 1 tame as the seat of government the fornia will take in the catalocue of States. ‘San le of the United Sta: Fraxcisco may rival N f Wi bave: rel rk, or Chicago may be what will be the faterescf thes imnorbie eed re as have predicted what weuld be i's future when Wash. ingten estabilatied ivvenpital om the Potomac Soma | io mal ser where tl profess to be amazed at Washington's biiacness: and | st-tation to remove t yet, @ hundred years hence, probally as uuch | shall be removed, in nece-rarily be efected by an alte tien giving to Congress that p: Unaathorized by the ty cord case a : cussed entirely by Western men, leaving out al expressions of the Southern, Eastern, and Mid- dle States, and everything on the part of the citizens of the District of Columbia. The united testimony of the press and the states- men of these States and this District would, pethaps, be rejected lg your associates as mer- cenary or interested, and therefore I rest the the argument with you upon Western witnesses, who can not be charged with any such motives. But it I were permitted to appear before your convention, I should respectfully call the atten- tion of the citizens who compose it to the ques- tion whethe: anything good, contingent or Temote, can come out of this agitation? For a generation the District of Columbla was dis- turbed by periodical discussions upon the sat ject of slavery. Every decade some new peril or panic arose from this discussion. All values Were made precarious in consequence. Men of capital shunned the city because of the uncer- tainty attending every investment, aud the altbletic growth of the North and West was denied to Washington simply because of this violent and injurious ag.tation. Well, slavery was destroyed; tte Union saved; the Consiitution vindicated. Now. if at any former time the District of Columbia had a right to look forwar.1 Je among us with ‘ise, their manu- factories and their manneia. Universal educa- tion to all classes was incorporated in our Matutes. The lot was placed in the hands of every citizen, and @ truly representative gov- ernment grew up for the first time under the influences of a redeet moment, however, jorward with your new plan of removing the ation’s capital, taking the place, permit me to fay, of the old pro-slavery agitators, and once more stivrin, e, bitter passions into wha: we had hoped would be the sweet waters of friendship and conciliation. Viewed from w! wer stand- point, either from that of necessity, expediency, Justice, or law, I can not but rome our move- ment as fraught with incalculable mischief, and I trust that rome statesman, especially one trom the West, will have the courage to rise in yoar convention and beldly say as much. Very truly, yours, J. W. Fornay. TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR. [THIS AFTERNOON'S DISPATCHES ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS. THE WAR IN EUROPE. PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. ENGLAND'S PROPOSAL OF AN ARMISTICE Early Suspension of Host ies Expected. SIEGE OF PARIS. PRUSSIAN WORKS IMPREGNABL™ King William Regards the Siege asa Faree. Telegraphed Exclusively to Tre Evening Star. AFFAIRS IN PARIS. Tovers, Oct. 23.—P; advices to the show that over 100,000 National Gaards respond- ed to General Trocha’s order of the day, de manding volunteers fur sorties. Keratry has gone to Brittany to assume command of the ferces of the West. The administration of the Bank of France is now at Bordeaux, and is ex- pected to remain there until the close of the war. Official intelligence is at hand that the Pris. sians entered Nangis and Monterau to-day; that they have disappeared {com Meung and Beau- gency. A Catteon, which left Paris yesterday, lande safely between Sagny and Meaux,but quite n the Prussian lines. When at the height of metres it was struck by a new projectile no use by the Prussians. The Oficial Joarnal ef Paris publishes an answer of Gen'l Ducrot'> the Prussian charge that he broke bis parole. The General says he escaped trom Sedan after he had plac 1 hiun- self in the hands of the Prussians, having re- lased to sign the capitulation or give his parole. ke per stant, relates es ruction of several more Pru sian bat- teries, which had lately been erected. The tire of the forts dismantled the Prussian guns aud disabled a number of the enemy. THE LATE: PLACE PROJECY. Lonxpon, Oct. 23.—{Special to the New York World |—Gladstone and Granville spent the whole of to-day in consultation with the Prus- sian, Austrian and Italian ambassadors and General Loyer. ‘fhe latter had an interview with Carti, Napoleon's secretary, at Mous, an subsequently one with the Emp: hurst. It is reported that the E Empress agreed with the King aud upon a project of peace. mantling of the fortress and the payment of an indemnity by Germany of 6.600,000.0.00 of irancs, horses, grain, wine and oil. No cession of ter: 0 be marle unless the peows of Al plebiscite, should vote for annexat Tr Bazaine is to leave M. claim the Prince Jmperial Emperor, with the Empress as Kezeut. It is adled that ‘the sola. tion deperds absolutely on the acceptan King Willtam of the condi the arrangement by the Gre: cession of Alsace must be determined by ix The Powers insist on this, and it is { Germany objects to it force to compul Prassia s trom France. ENGLAND PROPOSES A TRU Loxpon, Oct. 23.—{ Tribune speciai.)—The telegrams icom Tours and Vienna announcing the proposal by England of an armistice. are substantially true. I have the highcst authori- ty tor saying that the British government con- cluded last week that the time had arrived tor making anotber effort. They considered the mement critical, and felt it their duty to try something. @hey have urged an armisiice by making common cause with the representatives ot Prussia and France, and asking other powers to juin them in the effort to bring it about. The armistice is intended to allow the convocation of the French assembly. It is understood that Bismarck tavors such a convocation, but insists that the armistice must involve no im; cable bases of peace. While the overtures of Great Britain have not been un- favorably received at both Tours and Versailies, ie British government has email hopes of enc- ee annem, butonly peeves ie present msy produce a rsion = sy suspel “CLOSE QUARTERS, Lowpon, Oct. 28.—The first parallel against plgrngenie fort of Schlestadt has been opened hi bas moaced pases trom the work, and been fe tse. In its establishment the Pruscians’ loot only three men. 4N EARLY a OF HOSTILI- BRUssELs, Oct. 23.—The Independence Belge has the special from London :—“‘Atter the cabinet council held on Friday, Earl Gran- ville to British minister at Tours, Berlin, 5t. » Vienna and Florenc with a view to about an armistice be- — ind | until the election ‘rench sem- by.” ved from the amba. .adors TERRIBLE SCENE AT IVRY. Rovgn—Sumpay Nicut—Oct. 23.—At Ivry, in the Department of Eure, old men, women and children rose against the Prussian troops occupying the place, and a terrible scene en- sued. Numbers were killed on both sides; and ambulances have been sent to the relief of the pe a Seema eo Cardinal Bounechose to-day read from the pulpit @ protest against the invasion of Kome. THE PRUSSIAN POSITIONS BEFORE PARIS. « Loxpon, Oct. 23.—[Her ld Sp.cial.|—A letter rom Vergaill es, of the 1ith describes a visit to —_-—_ Meudon. The Prassians are rapidly becoming Stock impregnable. Active preparations are being {By Bembers’, Broars’ ant Commerr made for mouni.ng siege guns. Lewis Johneon ote stock home and foreign markets as fol! JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME. The writer says:—Buroside’s bag, now kno as the through-matl, leaves with Sheridan to- i. day. Sheridan will not return, regarding the f7R Jo; Wg. comp war as virtually over, and the siege dulland ©. Westeru Union Tel slow. He returns home in the spring. Bis- | Pacific a Bost marck paid him @ farewell visit tast might. Welle, Fargo an said to-day that he bad been royally by the Prassians, Bsmarek, Moltke, the King and the Crown Prince coald pot have been more cordial Sheridan made an excellent impression. His prompt, out-spoken manner was much enjoyed py the King and Bismarck. THE SIEGE OF PARIS A FARCE. The King says the French have his sympa- thies, but they are making at present such a poor Bigure that he regards the siege of Paris a laughable farce ! LM. Bead pref. 46.% Hariem. 1%: igan Central Ti. Lake Sore ern. 8°. linet Contra Wire: Northw ery Central, 10°,: Bock Island. ii 3.63", | Milwaukie and “T have been disappointed with the French,” oe ae ee eee he said, “and to has the whole world. Bat it Union Pacific Ist Bonds, s3. @o i easy fo account for their failure. They have | Market weak been Weakened so much by centralization that | poe =. they are willing to lay all on the shoulders of The Hartet 5 the Empire, as a scaj e-goat, instead of bold! helping themselves. It 14 lamentable to_ see nation of 40,000.00) so utterly broken. Figh Why, they ought to ght tll their boots ‘fail of! 13 1T A FARCE? ‘There are now fifty siege gans now up in front that are not yet in battery. They are from eighteen to sixty pounders. Starvation, how- | BarrmmoRE, Oct 2 ever, ': seems to others.is the true cue for the re- asked dveuon of Paris. The leaders, nevertheless, | have resolved to push the bombardment the Very first instant the guns are ready. WAR NOTES FROM LONDON, Lowpon, Oct. 24.—It is asserted vaguely that the French bave captured and taken into the port of Dunkirk thre large German steamers. It is said that there is no evidence in existence of —— having accumulated @ vast pri- vate fortune. A correspondent of the Standard to-day viei- ously notes the eagerness of Bisinarck to oblige American officers, the American ambulance corps and the people of the United States, while he ts totally indifferent to anything English. The Teleyraph *s confident that the proposed French loan will be ly taken here. itis intimated that Kus-4 not joining Eng- Jand, Austria and Italy in their efforts to bring about pesce, is acting independently and ener- getically in the same direction. Raimbeau, who saved the Czar’s life when an ite. TarBe Fuak2e, ‘ | Sete Sente Wye dail ote. #3 et 8 "do, 1c: ehoulders, Ieals ce: bame ase. Lard tet and ~toek scarce at Sac, Virginia sixes, old, 80 bid, do" 1867, S555 asked. “THE CENTRAL RAILROAD OF IOWA, CONNECTING ST. LOUIS AND ST. PALL W NEARLY COMPLETED. 2 Company of etrong capital. their on forward at 8 rapid MILLION or Tur FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS of theCompany remain, which are oftered at the very low rate of This read is built inte. who bave p rat on attempt was made to assassinate him i 4 Bere- 90 AND AC, RUED INTEREST. sowki in Paris on the 6th of June, 1st7, has just | among their advantages are— gone from Wilhelmshohe to St. Petersburg On a | ist. The road is pearly Anished, and the cars are ex- secret mission from the Em to run across the Siate in 6 day Mirander, the §>ditor of has | 22. road baebeen Built only of the be-t material, been arrested by tue Prussiens near Versailles. fhe iron havi manufactured expressty ‘ad higher cost than that osaal Mu. it’ rene throngh & most superb agricoltural country. 4th. It has gueat advantages in carrying coal North b fereene i] ‘tne “ ie, whatle Sth. per mile. many son reeds are bunded to double this orca 6th, The Toad is principally owned by bankers and other capitaiste, who bave invested a large sum in ite constraction. and who have every 11h. A Firgt Mortgage for oo wmrell ge eun> 0 A iret jor eo fan a@oant. mps s road 2 peg tw EL aed euch @ rong bance, may well be cons.dered @ perfect!y Deserters fiom Metz are so numerous that the Prussian commander before that city has been compelled to issue orders declining to admit them within the Prussian lines. ‘The Times, this a. m., praises the courage dis- plased by the Prassian landwebr belure Furt lont Valerien on the 22d ir .t. it is said that batis of peace likely to be ac- cepted by Pru: ia is a renunciation of territo- rial speculation from France on recovering Luxemburg. It is reported further that a safe conduct has been asked for Thiers toenter Paris, in order to obtain the acquiescence of the government. ean t MORE ABOUT THE PROPOSED aust. | ,Wetalere there wil be nomare favors tine:g TICE. road Becurities—such a« these—than the present FLonewce, Oct. 23.—The Opinioae, re‘erring | With ay, further decline in Guid, Governments must decline also. to the proposed armistice, says the French will y Subscriptions will be received in Washincton by doubtless agree, a8 a prelim'pary to peace, to yn nee dismantle the fortresses of Surasbu-g and Metz, and to pay an indemnity of eighty millions ©: | of whom pamphlets and full information may be bad. pounds sterling; but Prrssia insists on the ces- W. B. SHATTUCK. Troasurer. Pipe street, New York sion of Alsace and Lorraii ‘Prom ee et ee LoxDox, Oct. 24.—|From private sourees.)— | Azency for the Bele of the abowe Wiret, Muruga The Times of this morning :ays:—Bazaine, when | Bonds, and deste to rrccmmend them WELL oftering to surrender, demanded for himself a | AS PROFITABLE, INVESTMENT csitica which would probably have enalied JAY COOKE @ Co., m to take a prominent part in the restoration of order in France afer tue concivsion of peacs. | _°¢ 21-tm _8® Wall Street, New jeneral Loyer, on le ving Versailles, went to x. Luxemburg to get Kaimiican, who had previ | WI EW S TOC ou: ly been to St. Petersburg, to go as au cnvoy ans to Napcleon at Wilhelmshoue. acacia = yet —_ A BATTLE IMMINENT AT ORLE Tours, Oct. 24.—Nothing official bes y been received .rom the armies around Orleans It is rurvored, however, that a battle is im. | * minent there. The French will make auat- | ¥bo! tempt to retake Orleans. WHAT TEEY TH'NK AT TOUS OF ENC LANDS CUUKSE. Fears are entertained bere concern’ng the sudden decision of England to mediate between France and Pross’a. Some parvies imagine thai ‘tis a plot to aid in the overthrowment of the Bonapartists, and others seem to acquire conti- dence in the Thess of Great Lritain t> bring about peace. It has generally been considered that England is wilting to work more for the integests of Prussia than those of France; and thatthe significance of her movement is appar- ent now that difficulties Pim 3 Paris bave : 18 Just received from Eurg ssortment of WORSTE! hand: TIDIER, beawuital® accra 4 Eales CAPS in MERINO acl WOMSTED. home made. Also, just recetved by Steamer Java C. al! cols om Sy yard to 9% width SUPEBIOB WUBSTED, in all colors. ill be sold at the LOWEST MAR. All these BET PRICES. ji basing WORESTEDSof Me< Rerrees wit te funcneea br oher TO WORK THEM WITHOUT BATHA CHARGE RUPPESrs been demonstrated. Besi land is FANCY STOXE, a’ o aware that large French armies, just organ - . ized, are quite prepared toacton the defensive, | ocl2tw _No. 403 Sevexrm Sawer, N. We and that the bad season Is at hand, and the dit. | — een eee ficuty of obtaining food for the Germans is rap- SLATE MANTELS. idiy increasing. In consequence of that Gen. 1BON MANTELS, ‘Trochu Is preparing a series of fcrmidable eor. a maNTLEs he journals and the people. who take MARBLE — notice of this phase of affairs, accord England no a nae credit {or her tardy action. “ Gas FIXTURES Ik is assured here that the Paris government PARLOB ouares will not eede an inch of territory nor pay a franc of indemnity; and it is feared that the straggie PARLOR BEATERS Will Lave to go on to the bitter end, unless tie SUMMEB PIKCES conditions prescribed vy Prussia are very mod- CLOCKS. STATUARY. —_ ———— MANTEL ORNAMENTS Ma rdered b; im. — an A Man Mu “by His Brother in Sess valp asin Worcester, Mass., Oct. 23.—Benjamin Wise- KEROSENE CBANDELLERS well, an Englistiman ° stubbed cca — his wite’s brother, Francis Dotan, au Ir's- SETTEES. en, died before he could be reached by om eee physicians, Both men were drunk. At mid- IBON caaigs. murderer had not been arrested. ‘The 1BON VASES, ac. murder is said to be the result of a long-stand. sks — ing quarrel. Doran attempted to hu! Wisew, NEW BTOCK. See Low PRICES. The Situation in the 234 New York HAMILTON @ PEARSON, Congressioval District. Ro. 4, 7.4.0.4. Synacuss, N. ¥., Oct 23.—Robert McUarty, . ania the democrat nowinee for Representative in | °%2@ Sh ant Devens Congress from the 23d Congres-ional district, has withcrawn {rom the field aud Dennis Mc- Coens EXPRESS. Carthy, the present member of Congress, w.li Baggage called for an@ delivered to and from Rall publish a card to-moriow morning tm which be Se uo pont Erieete Beceences.. - ints, via Orange, Alex- conrents to become an independent candidate. quate ned 5 ad oe) .. Another Farthquake—New Engian All orders promptly attended to. j 4 Gnomon an. - Furniture moved with care. = Sramorieip, Mass., Oct. 23.— Another | M% oie ie Dower, slight shock was felt bere at half six this ‘office, No. 306 9th street, above Pa. ave. A& past io. morning, supposed to be an earthquake. oie. cor. King end Bt Asaph a a Nationat Camp Meerinas M. E.Carecu, Kvavautmiettaraetaond tae PQQ, at great ional oa, meetings under its aus- JUsT Pices in the year 18/1. The first to commence at Kound Lake, beautifal well-known site, ar about ten miles from Saratoga, New York, on the 4th day of July; and the other onthe 24 day zB of August, at Urbana, Ohio, which the vensr- STRASBERG' BROTHERS SBlo senior Bishop Mecrls greatty desired. 906 Seventy Srauzr, Drata Sn Cee Rae eat DEALER IN news death of composer, en ae Buttes if telegraphed to us BOOTS AND SHOES, > a moe the ocean. It is by bis ** Bohemian | LADIES, GENTS AND CHILDRERS WEAR, He was a native of Dublin, though he is gen- | _se30-tr erally ca-jed an English composer. s7 A heathen Chinee has come out as a dress- maker in Frisco. Pian S7-Script letters are takin; place of the “Old Encik text on visiting and wedding 87 Newark bas an ice machine, which manu- factures ten tons an hour. ‘Miss Emma Jones, a beautiful mate of the Cincinnati Soha ter ny i Orphan um, has had an ‘no longer; men will be willing to be s7'In Haydenville, Indiana, George West- brooke undertook to’ sho Tee w how the tock @ slice A. and would have lo; ft ; | BECEIV: wes aeil. pped of an car, but the knife