Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1870, Page 1

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C.RUPPERT. - Fes ), Just recel: wet Oe Sooner Jace OASYS Cayvasets vs ith Sori _— S WOUSTED, in aif solores maB- ait St hm will be sold at the LOWEST By my Parchaging Wi OpsT apes, ay Burreer THEM WirhourExTma Cu skoe: RUPPERT'S FANCY STORE, oclttw No. 403 Seventu Sraner, N. W. “yyuo 18 If THAT DowT LIKE GOOD Ww BUTTER” Bs SHSSON, gWhoicenle Bi phy lin08 Dear i receiving’ dhoteg “7D Dany BUTTER, he calls the attention of oN mee which key ie and and L sts., to whi zen owen! WASHINGTON. D. C.. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 25, 1870. _EVENING STAR._ THE ENGLISH MISSION. SENATOR RTON DECLINES. His Reasons Political. Senator Morton has written a letter to Preai- dent Grant, formally declining the mission to England, stating the reasons therefor, (which are political,) and thanking the President for bis kindness. +s0e- THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT Im. PROVEMENTS IN THE GROUNDS. THE NEW. GREEN-HOUSES. THE PARTEBRE OF FLOWERS. The grounds of this popular Department, whiclt have so fast come to be a favorite re- fort for citizens and strangers who enjoy the beautiful in nature and in art, have been adorned with many new attractions during the present season. The concrete work of the car- riage roads and walks has been considerably extended, and a new roads and walks have been cut in fom al carves, giving access to ‘uctive groups of yu tr tiie Sara-ters paced ib aco sees ae eflect and as organic parts of the “ARBORETUM AMERICANUM.” ‘The tastefal parterre of flowers which forms the fitting foreground of the main building has been faced with a mince terrace wall of rete sandstone, 300 in length height, ve ge having ad a flight of ped H center, ten feet in length. This wall is pe pemegany coped, Naps pegged be finished with abeavy balustrade, is flanked et both: onde by ornamental ions of pov i nine Tort te levels cach, compened at hereatter to beeen ite she ratanns pated te | — or = a ne €: ee! in with and west of the msin building, deo A MAGNIFICENT Row of glass structures. These lofty erections form & necessary coro!lary to the “ Arboretum” and garden work, and will serve the pi of another important mt was created, ot intreduci: and fropegntng vale Coad to nate tne wing west, wi a ing 150 feet to the south.” The front estn consist of a center YA 60 ieet in ler 32 feet in width, ‘and 50 fee! tin extreme height! pes er of two end cp lioas of 30 feet square ‘26 feet extreme ight and last, but not g?, each being 100 ‘feet in let 2h ‘ iy rome: and 1 feet extreme Ronn Ae wi will serve exclusively wears aad ‘above, while the end pavillions will be mae usefal in addition and the center ap orange houses, pavillion 28 a housing for tropical fruite and lante. The rear wee, is set apart fora Bravery. ¢ heatin, ‘buildfgs is done by hot water circulating througn iron pipes, whi are distribu: Quantit! oy will give to each ssouoe the 9a required temperature, (THE EXTERNAL ABD INTERIOR ARCAITECTURE OF THE OREKNHOUSES reminds In its ensemble and details of the mon- umental art of Arabia, the festive land of flowers and poetry. The characteristic feature of this architectare is to decorate the constita- ent elements of the sroatraction, istogd of ca of con- structing supertiuous work for the decoration. The ase 4 of the Dalldings | ie thn inches in height. and is coi ety caps of rubbed. orth river blue ead intermediate wide course of Seneoa of the com! ype red color. The windows and doors villione finish with ornament- 4 More: ene arches, spri e light intermediate om ae the fancifally shay ets, su) ing al main cor. bind Sehich ae sui~ it pro~ jects boldly from the mags of the building, with three roe openings, which are crowned by Building ts fin a erent thades of Duty D u ot with the sash Ja laid penal caer bahted M Capr Laerbapend 3 1 the work on the Bir. Adoit Clee hat > 3 Seoul been emtrust SecrneTaRy Ropesom, Senator Conk'ing, General Babeock, and others had a lengthy consultation in New York yesterday with the object of concerting measures for carrying ott the congressional election law, and to prevent fraudulent voting and registration. ,Rerrencummnt.—The U. 8. Treasurer has Prepared a statemgnt for publication showing the receipts and expenditures of the government during the past year, which will show a te- trenchment in the War Departments of $1,000,- C0 each. ‘THE SINKING FuND.—The following is a state ment of all moneys paid on the purchase of United States 5-20 stocks, for the Special Fund and for the Sinking Fund, in the fiscal year commencing with July Ist, 1869, and ending with June 30, 1370, and which now constitutes a part of the Sinking Fund:—For coppon bonds, $75,003,900; registered stocks, $39,614,200; pre- miums paid on same, $16,731,551.40; acerued in- terest on same, *1,125,153.40. Total, #152,894,- 804.69. APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT.—The President this morning made the following ap- pointments :—Postmasters—W. G. Robinson at 7, U8. Chas. R. Brayto: Pension Agent at Providence, It. 1. ms REPRESENTATIVE Cesswa, of the sixteenth Pennsylvania district, proposes to contest the by ser ofhis ponies in which site was phos eras lipquent aaryeenpa tagged far no lar a eye N has soeeracntss ‘0, it was’nt Washington politician, % was ‘ashington editor,—which his name it is | x Connery—or, da hig friends‘ oGrmardy corned, . fon ee Soe city, to the complete if Soret ii CJ oa Ingres of ear ebactedbg viva “eu e about en cannon Re is pe SECRETARY WELLES ON THE FORT SUM- TER EXPEDITION. Mr. Welles’ Galaxy Article. HIS ATTACK ON SEORETARY SEWARD. Conelusive Auswer by Gen. N.C. Meigs To the Egitor of The Evening Star: The general attention given by the Ameri- can press to Mr. Welles’ article in the Galezy for November, the course of remark thereon, and the error he commits In ascrib- ing to me the use, in a letter published in September, 1465, im reply to an attack on Mr. Seward, of the language of the attack instead of that of the defence, seem to compe me rejuctantly again to speak on this subject. Isrpeak with reluctance because I have had cause throughout long intercourse with both these members of Mr. Lincoln’s Cabinet to be- lieve in the truth and fervor of their patria¢ism, and I regret to find one of them now laboring through the pages of a long magazine article to bring charges against « colleague, who sat in council with him and Mr. Lincoln until the assarsin’s pistol and knife separated them for a time, end who, when partly recovered from his wounds, again shared with him in the councils of the administration until both retired. My partin these events is simple. In 1355, on the publication of an attack on Mr. Seward, much like that of the @alazy, less elaborate and carefal, but based upon a narrative of the Sum- ter expedition, I published in the Washington city papers a letter, from which Mr. Welles now makes an erroneous qeotation. He thus wrongly makes me appear to be @ party to this attack. 1 quote his words: “There bead certainly no necessity for = from Captain Mercer his vessel and sending hei to Pensacola, where most of the naval force of ‘was collected. She — Hie tothe Sumter ex Net General Meigs says in his publishe: fetter: An order was extracted (from the President, on the recommendation of Sec Seward, detaching the Powhatan from the Sumter r expe- dition, and sending her to Fort Pickens.’” In these lines is the basis of his charge against Mr. Seward, and through twenty pages of argu- ment, inference and supposition or suspicion, he labors to shake the confidence of the people ef the United States in the trath, patriotism, and loyalty of the late Secretary of State, now ebsent in Asia. ‘Be dwells much upon the word “ extracted,” repeating it many times throughout the article, always in quotation marks, avid always attrib- uting it to General Meigs. I still have a clip from the Washington paper in which my letter of 1365 was first published, and this is what General Meigs did say in that published letter: “The Tribune editorial of the $2th instant does isvectme to the Secretary ot State in the matter of the Sumter and Pickens mn. A comparison of dates will prove The ribune asserts that, while Captain Fox was in ke the detail hise: icrenneal detaching Eh the ifnid eel from the Star fer expedition. ‘ort Pickens, that wl President iuimeoin signed this order at the pat ice Of Mr. Seward, he (the Presi- dent: Dot know it would apply to the Powhatan, or in apy wa: interfere with the expedition under Captain Fox for the relief of Fort Somter.” That whole letter, after the above prelimina- ry statement of the charge made, was devoted, by-a recital of facts and a comparison of dates, to show that the charge was unjust. I do not, of course, believe that this misquotation was in- tertional; but it was careless im so elaborate an article. He renews the charge and misquotes me in his argument. 1 find nothing in the charges now renewed and enlarged in the Galazy not svfficiently answered in 1865; but a8 that letter was published in the daily press only, and is mow accessible to few, and as the distinguished position of the author, who now repeats themy gives them a right, though already answered, to be noticed, I again state the facts of the case as known to me per- sonally at the time, and using only the docu- ments published in the Galary I shall be able to show that the author is in error. In the matter of the Powhatan, which is the overt act-of interferemce with the Navy most complained of, it is to be noticed that Mr. Welles nowhere alleges tat her presence with the Sumter expedition would have altered the course of events at Charleston. The expedition sailed without her; its leading vesaél arrived off Charleston an hour gnd a half after the bom- bardment had’commenced, and the history of the powerful iron-clad fleet which lay for years off Charleston, unable to force a passage, has since shown that the presence of the Powhatan would not have enabled the gallant and devoted leader of the attempt at relief to land troops, provisions or ammunition in Samter, then under a fire which two days later compelled the gar- rison, scorched by the burning barracks, to sur- render. He thinks she.could have been of no use at Pickens, asa squadron was then off the harbor of Pensacola. This squadron, as he shows himself, was, when those expeditions were orgauizihg, tied up by a convention with the rebels, which pre- vented its commander from landing the com- pany of artillery on board the Brooklyn, though Gen. Scott had sent to its captain (Vogde:) his orders to enter the fort. Knowing this condition of the squadron, I rec- ommended to the President the digpatch of a steamer under @ daring commander, not tram- meled by conventiops or Any orders but those of the commander-in-chief himself, to run the bat- teries of McKee and Barrancas, and prevent apy expedition from the main at fort by assault before relief could reach it. ind taking the ‘That am expedition was preparing for Fort bet ia desire to break the tolls in which, by such @ convention, a former administration had lved the squadrom at Pensacola and Fort ickens. At was understodd that the expedition to re- lieve Pickens was to be conducted with the ut- most secrecy, and as Col. E. D. Keyes, military secretary to General Scott, and myself were de- pated to draw up the project, and, that ‘having been approved, to prepare the necessary orders, it-was understood by us that we were to make it known to nobody. ‘The orders to Lieut. Porter, Gated ist April, giving him command of the Powhatan, then just returned from a foreigu attached ‘that vessel to the Pickens ex a. This or- der, designating the commander and the desti- ‘mgtion of a single #econd clase war steamer certainly appeared to me to be within Phang Sanaa ie -in-chief af ;and navy, and I Saat tethansence success were increased frome al by of it the chiefs and the officers and twe departments, in either of Which a yed it was any distrust of any cabinet minister involved in this secresy, or any desire to interfere with one; but it does not require argument to prove that the safety of S cccret fe'tn Taviree ratio'ty the num- ‘ber of persons holding iG) @ tL) 5 6” Now the Powhatan, by, . Welle own show- ap Had one of these vessels been, on the Ist April, ordered to Pickens, Mr. Welles might have said that she had been detached from the Sumter expedition, but as the Powhatan was, on Ist April, ordered to Pickens, and he, on the Sth April, doubtless in ignorance of the fact that he was contravening the secret orders of the commander-in-chief, issued his own orders to send her to Sumter, it appears that, im this game of cross purposes, it is Mr. Welles who attempted to detach her from the Pickens ex- pedition to which she belonged, and to send her to the Sumter expedition, to which the Presi- dent had assigned three other vessels. The Secretary of the Navy, according to his own statement, at midnight on the 6th April, after the Powhatan had sailed, called qn the President, who appears to have been surprised, and confused between the names of the Poca- hontas, ordered to Sumter, and the Powhatan, which he had ordered to Pickens; and then aad there the Secretary of the Navy “ extracted” from the President a verbal order detaching the Powhatan from the Pickens expeditien, but too late. Mr. Seward sent the telegram, as or- dered; but, Mr. Welles says, it could mot and did not override the written orders signed by the President, under which Porter acted; and thus the Pickens expedition was not “ robbed” of the Powhatan. ‘The Secretary of the Navy, who accuses the Secretary of State of having “cuddled” with the subordinates of other departments, appears then and there to have worried the President until he “extracted” from him the, until then, carefully kept secret of the expedition to Pick- ens; and be repeats the groes accusation that the Secretary of State deceived the President, and intrigued, ‘‘contrived” to defeat the Sum- ter expedition. Yet be does not assert, and cannot believe, that the presence or absence of the Powhatan off Charleston on the 12th of April could have had any important effect upon the course of events, ‘The truth is, probably, that the real objects and hopes of the President in both ex- Peditions were attained. The Pickens ex- sailed in secresy, and saved to Hie United States the ‘control of the entrance to the finest Southern pogt and naval station, saved the cost of a large blockading squadron for years. The Sumter expedition, which the President and the Cabinet had been advised by the highest military and naval authorities, as shown by Mr. Welles, to be impracticable, de- monstrated and published to the world the re- solve of the President to do all in his power to retain Fort Sumter. The correctness of the opinion of the advisers of the President, was shown by the result. + Of the order and postecript thereto, re- lating to the assignment of Captain Stringham to the command of the Pensacola squadron, and of Captain Barron to relieve him in the Navy Department, I have no distinct recollection. -1_ think that the question of releasing the Pensa- cola squadron from its unfortunate entangle- ments by sending to it a new commander, was discussed, and that Captain Stringham’s name was mentioned, but I do not recollect the orders printed in the Galary. Of details within the Navy Department such as are referred to in the postecript in regard to Captain Barron | had no knowledge, and upon them I could not have given advice. With Captain Barron, however, the Secretary of the Navy was then, as he states, in pleasant personal relations, and he gives him credit for capacity. His subsequent history shows that he wasnot fit for any trust by the United States, but this was not then known, and itis not necessary to believe with Mr. Welles, that he was to be foisted upod him with any treasonable object by whoever did adviseor pre pare the postscript which #0 much disturbed him, {think I have shown that a perfectly loyal and patriotic motive and action on the partof Mr. Seward is consistent with all the docu- ments cited bY Mr. Welles. The letter of Judge Campbell was published when written. M~ Seward did not think it gecessary to reply to accusations of having, as Secretary of State, disappointed the fond hopes of rebels, and it is only the high position of his present accuser that now compels a notice of bis extraordinary article. Mr. Seward held the confidence of Mr. Lin- Coln as long as the assassin spared them. He sat at the council board with the author of the Galazy article fpr nearly four years after Mr. Lincoln's murder, amd now absent at the anti- podes,#he cam rely upon his countrymen to cherish in their béakts the reputation of his great services. The young men of 45 to whom the President resorted for aid in those érying times, have no reason to doubt that they gave satisfaction to their commandét-in-chief, or to believe that when ordered to communicate his orders to no person whatsoever, they were right in keeping them sacred, even from membere ot his cabinet. M. C. Metes, Washington, Oct. 2ith, 1870. REMARKABLE ReLicrovs MOVEMENT IN Scottanp.—The Free Church of Scotlana Monthly Kecord ays that in Scotland there is a rowing tendency among the young art te eave the Presbyterian’ for the Episcopa . ‘This it accounts for mainly becaus of th more fashionable position of the latter. adds that it “would be comparatively easy to reconcile ourselves” to their going over to the Low Church; but that “when Presbyterians go over the border under a pressure of a love for music and form and a symbolical worship” they are not content with anything less than au ex travagant ritual that is half way to Kome. It insists that ministers and parents should teact clearly the difference between Episcopacy sna Presbytery; and that, while “we have the best of reasons why we may not use organs, tiower: or liturgies,” they shouid-yet make the servioge attra ive, whether of . one prayer or preach- ing. +2038 ABUNDANT ACCOUNTS age before Metz of the precautions by the Prussians to bail = sorties help us to understamd csndition which the environs of Paris are likely soon Py be. stopped with felled while dng son Onur dat é sonra partot eiceies eke acenoae’ fire to her dress. a rt mas gre Ober : os te but not ‘Mrs. Beases in senile: Fredy Hie er th i ge six o'clock. Zit Aimping wrote fusion with Troy Mia Callternia jus has evolved a breech- i 1g necdle cannon. ies ‘Road ageute” are ‘in California, ith commendhvie roguuarity ) Waa society bas bees at Baltimore far the protection of wild ‘on the riverg of -yland from wholesale é TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR. | THIS AFTERNOON'S DISPATCHES | SPECIAL REPORTS. THE CAPITAL MOVERS TO-DAY, | 0r SLIM GATUERING. Bogus Delegates and Nobodies. NO ENTHUSIASM. OMAHA A CANDIDATE. CINCINNATI, Oct. 25—Evening Star, Wasking- toa-—The National Capital Convention does not Promise to be a very brilliant success. Only 5! | delegates have reported thos far, of whom fally three-fourttts are from Obio, Missouri, and Lili- | Bicetmamaon se or Soe Can hen Ui Setterson mere examined, who Allen | sentatione made | latter's counsel clatmed that | Sived against his THE CA’ a DISASTLR. her Surviver-Hepe fer Others. | magrephas Exclusively to The Brening Star. Pa., meetings nois. More are expected to-night, but not enough | he to materially increase their number. There | is less enthusiasm manifested by those present be grb the ardor of the advocates ently having considerably Shatea. The present are not promi- nent citizens of taeir respective ve States, end 69 tar as is known gentiemen wi'l be in attendance, ingeenion prevails that at lscsten will be although ee attempt —-—_—_—_ ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS. THECAPITAL MOVERS. THE HUMBUG CONVENTION. ALETTER FROM HORACE GREELEY He Urges the Claims of hew York City Crxorx ati, OBTO, Oct —Delegates are arriv- ing for the conventim to copsider the of removing the national Capital from Washing- ton. L.O. Reavis, of Mo., J. N. Bp ey ond of = C. T. Ferchy, of , all of ve Somaminise have, arrived, anse comber ef oo trains. “The Soons tn Pike's Mane Han by Judge Caton, “| pn me Uguiesyosiynarscia ae arrive. have general! Appoi planes Em: : is cow ghenwy§ to-night is a lion is expected. 1 pro} moving the national Seateck annem led at 12:30pm mb Pike's Hall, riggs ie died "Stewart of Mo- J.G. Allen, of Iilinois, appointed tem- chairm ato, —— an, and E. J. Cessna, of a motion it. Pendis Soe Laat rmapent organization, Xc., the coavention @recers until 3 p.m. to give time for the arrival of other delegates. THE WAR IN EUROPE. THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. CONTRADICTORY REPORTS BOMBARDMENT OF PARIS. IT 18 TO COMMENCE NOVEMBER Ist. Telegraphed Exclusively to The Evening Star. ALL QUIET AT HAMBUKG. 24.—No hostile or doubttal veseels have ‘been seen off the mouth of the river for four days. LETTERS FROM THE CZAK TO KING vILLIAM. Sr. PeTErssure, Uct. 34.—M. Werder, an at- tache of the Prussian legation, has left for Ver- eailles with letters from the Czar to the King of Prussia. SUMMONED TO VERSAILLES. BERL, Oct. 24.—Baron Von Friesen, a mem- ber of the Federal Council and Saxon Mivister of Finance, has been summoned to Versailles, THE PEACE NEGOTLATICNS. Loxpom, Octr24.—| Special to N. ¥. Tribune. )— ‘Theres autbority for stating that the negotia- tions thus far are proceeding satisfactorily. Granville ‘a meeting between Thiers Senta pores eats 4 has sent ee safe conduct; but basis have been accepted or s1 5 himself grati with the Mn eaioe has been Meard from Paris, but ra- mors of peace abound. AN APPEASL FOR PEACE. Lonpon, Oct. 24.—[Special to N. Y. World.}— republicans, day in fi of peace. He said:—‘ We shall tbe ik etter terms than are now te us. In@ month | THE BOMBARDMENT OF PABIS. generally announced in the German B's tam bambardment of Perio 1s Gast Se peti os tiny segs gomece ees, on sendy with the army dethronement o! the The deaths from yellow fever yesterday num. bered four. V3 . — From ‘Frisco—Cedfish and Railreads. Saw Francisco, Uct. 25.—The last of the coring by = codfishti versels has arrived catch 1,335,000, which ts tagger than that of any previous year. ‘Sam Joaquin Valley railroad iscompleted five miles south of the Ly wl * doing a large grain and 1 freight business. a New YorK, Oct. 25.—Communication with the cables is interfered with by atmospheric causes, interrupting o working of the New- foundland lines. No cal le ‘Les Lave been ———— a . ae Haxtvorp, Cr., Vet. 25. ausqemnat ins necticut bas been ‘The total lation of the State is 557,886; @ gain of" 16,139 rence 160, ——o—— Destractive Fire. Exerer, N.H., Oct 25.—The Exeter machine shop and toundry, near the railroad depot, were pry eS eho wight. Lots $60,000; in = = THE NEW MARKET HOUSE. 1ME BOOKS STILL OPEN. MORE NIBBLES. The corporators of the new Market House Company, No.2, which assembled st the Inte- rior De; it yesterday, as noticed im the Stax of last evening, adjourned to mect at noon to-day at the same place. Accordingiy, atthe hour named to-day, several of those in- terested assembled at room No. 102, basement floor of the Patent Office, among whom were Messrs. T. T. Fowler, J. B. Elwans, &. ©. Rich~ ards, John Witson, Job W. Angus, K. B. Clark, A. Cluss, T. H. Alexander, T. Cs Connolly, and B.F. French. For balf an hour these gentie- men walked in and out, formed little groups, and BUZZED EACH OTHER. Every Sow and then the words “ it can be ar- ranged amicably with the Boston men” were py About 12x, Mr. H. 8. Davis, the of the » (No. 2,) eutere: the tooms, when the question was asked “wert 's swoor’” to which it was answered, “‘he "li not be here for an hour yet; but be has every thing fixed, at least the papers are signed, and it any one backs out they will have to repudiate, that’s all.” At precisely 1 o'clock, FIRST WIBELE Of the day was by Mr. T. H. Alexander, who teok one share the eighth. Mr. John Wilwen followed. mg pg ey owe Gen. J. 8. Croker, for two; Thomas *, by Mr. Angas, for ten, and T. T. Fowler’ “for tive. Later. BIGGER BITES. About 1.45 o'clock, Messrs. L. H. Chandler, TBE niGOEST risa. Ata feg minutes of three, Col. 8.8. Smoot put down bis name for 500 shares, and + aaa required $2,500, raising the -20e- Exp oF THE OreTer Wae.—The joint reso- reeled wp ee iD rer laws of Vis sate paoes Some he noun or the Virginia Ameubis yesterday. Gov. Walk- er willat once order release ee S87 Moonlight promenades aretabooed by Salt Lake elders. The conservative city committee of Kich- mond, Va., have nominated for Mayor, Autho- ny M. Kelley. William 4. Jones bas been nominated for Congre's in the second Virginia district as an independent candidate. Colonel J. H. Jr., 1s the regular candidate. The district was oneeate republican iwo years ago. mnt of the © Sion SERCO Hionalist pr AR Tare nae Te ede ic echoole. for the conrse om oy - struction’ Ww. on OPENED THIS DAY. 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