Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1872, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR, | Published Daily, sundays mn | AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, feuusylvanta Avenue, coruer Lith St, Pd THE EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMY, 6. Hw. gen eat Pres't. {HE EVENING STAR ts served vy carrier to subscribers at Tay Cents Pax war, or For- #1-Foun Cents (22 MONTH. Copies st the counter Two Carrs exch. By mafl—three months. $1.80: #8x months. $5.05 one year THE WEEKLY STAR—published friday—910 | + year. S7 invariably in advance, ip both cases sad Ro paper sent longer than paid for Ca furnished on ALPHABETICAL SUSINESS DIRECTORY: Yeataining Cards ¢ First-class Establishments all Branches of Business in the District, £VU_RAL WAREHOUSES. sux A. Bacey. 26-3 9 Le. sye., bt. ath & loth ete, | DEPOTS. . . Albany Ale. 419 Gm. avemme, Maee3's Phil's Ale, Georget a. nem. or 1th and G et. op. Treas Ej. aprosite Fost Fince De ot 7.8.0.8 cor. 3% & Data. FL Gt F street, wear 7th stiect. ¥ GALLZUIES. B.Dariow 12% Pa. ave., bet. 13th and isch sts. ATIORNETS-AT-LAW. BaRRErs, Ke 4 strc ims » Titles, Convey May balid ag 2 . Bulld’e, Sth iding, Sth street Col, ofce. <2 7th, Hove batiGing, 1S F street. ERS. 5. W. cor. Pa. ay. end $th st. Ml, cor. 10th and Detrects. wast, 1746 Pa. corner 18th street. 8, Nat'l Pie & Bread, 2% Z, Uspital st. BANDS. LL Baxp, Til 7th street. betwoon G and B. BANKERS. uer 18th st. t Pa.sv.op.T Dt. 3 Treasury Bep't BATHS. Bats Rooms, corner 9th and Fstre Loo Chor LIAR SALOON. corner th & F ste. BELL-HANGERS & LOCKSMITHS. SewNEIDER. 197 F st. between 12th smd 18th ste 0S 7th at , BK cent xe, ie BLACKSXITH SHOPS. ESOHLIN, (Horse Shoeong, &c) 4% ® Md. ave, K xe Nore, *hipemithg, 548 56 Water st., Gto. BLEACH ERIES. & T. Wuitins, Straw Ht & Bt, Bleacher, 94 Pa. av. BILL POSTERS. TaLBERT & Moxtey. 710 E street, oppo. P. O. Dept BOARD ¥ti- HOUSES, Fa Hovss, 622 Pa. ave., bet. 6th and7th sts Mas. Kier sper. S1i E street northwest. Beek BINDERS. @m HB. Natcrr, southwest corner 9thand B sts. BOOKSTOKES. Ballantyne; Keligions,&0. ), 27th st.,cor.D PUs=S.L, @2 9h street, above D. p. Patent Office, ic) st.. bet. 9th & 10th & Oo... 708 18th at_, corner Sew York ave. Mam G Ben sowe. #8 7th #t! N.W..onedoor from I. . KW ice :aM=.( Books boeght sud sold.) $99 7th st Statho apeciait; : above BOCT AND SHOE STORES. a. Buus: » 2S Pa. gre., bet. 9th and Jeth sts, 423 728 street, ander O. F. Hall. 3 sbet.lith and 12th sts, 2%, 419 7th at. adj’g Udd Fellows’ Hall. . , S08 Tth street, between H and I » 3 3d tad Washington House, Foxx, Boot Maker, 1747 Pennsylvania P. Guay. Slipper Manufacturer, 287th BEASS W: ms. 816 F st, 0 938 RES. poumraviti® & Lertcs, 16-18 ® 18th street. BUILDING MATERIALS. EGGS, CHEESE, ae. whoiesale only) c sh & D, be ods.) 3.W. corner H&E sis, ET SHOPS. ‘WALTER. SSS E street, near 10th. Wravex,/alsoU pholstering),)66Gst ,pet.6a7, CABPENTEES AND BUILDERS. CIRCULATING LIREARIES. @.T_Niwwec. 317 Pa_avenme, bet. Sd and 4% sta. CLOTHING STORES. Batt Bowen FC SrRacs. Wl Penn. ave. COACH FINDINGS. Ckowrson & Co., 2H Ih st., oF COMMISSIONERS OF DEEDS. sessru TK. Plant.corner B aad th recta 8.W. CONFECTIONERIES. B.0.Bexsrar.; Dining Booms,) MTthat.,op. P.O CONVEY ANCERS. Titles, Botary.) oO) Devers:- | Ladios’ Underwear generally) #6 9th 9. D STS. Ou. Wx. Munaii, 1002 F street northwest. DINING SALOONS. Bakvsy & Hocoen, Wwié Penna. av.,corner lith st. DOLLAR STORES. Wallach’s DoLtax Stous, @ Pa,av., bet.ea6th DRESSMAKERS. ies ME Wo Lson 20 Pa.er.(Out’s taught by rale) ayenns, corner $4 st. w York ER, corner 9th aud H L hb street. near La. avenae. Wt '®, (Que Pric ms 7th st. eH Patrexsoy, cor. Ps.av. &6tb st DYE WoUszs. . M©EL, S27 loth et., adj'’g Medical Mase WB. Wusatcy, @ Jofersun surcets Georgesoone KXPLOYMENT OFFICES. =z © The #, Sul ath . corner E northwest E iith street, near B. EXPRESS OFr Box > £x°ks-; Main Odices: 63 Pa.ayv..cor. 6th, br ridge Gui] Washo st., dicx dria, ca AVERSA. & Bat vceete, (also Die Staker,) 302 Pa. avenn: FANCY SPORES, ‘i {Sst gey Space, coraer sth street, N 2W cast. NX Bazar 4 7th = oF Wth st., iadies & O89. SF Crape veils, fenod &re-crimped to tp st, aud Macy laud ave. SE, a8 Sv STC at 2b ste Dian drice pee ue aeons ae Bamiton & Pi hy ¥ iE suzrauze’ Cova Fore bate @AS OFFICES. ““ElAim Wout, gant ty @2 Dm, rire GRP aiTE. Bow waren Be athaD: IN BOWsEcor Raien's Baa: Union Bots, Georgetown, Dr. bent WASHINGTON, D. C.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1872. EVENING STAR. Washington N’ ows and Gossip. INTECNAL REVENUE. source to-day were he SPECIAL NOTICES. ‘ a 20.P Gore. Biehs ICE COMPANIES. -ofice, 194 Pa. ay., near 13th ICE CREAM MANUFACTORIES. - 1 & Ho.pen, 8. B. corner Lith st. & Pa. ave INK FACTORIES. AMERICAN Ix Co., office INSTRUMENT MAKERS, © Fise nem. Surg. Instruments & Trusses, 494 7th st, ANCE OFFICES. OL Lie Lxs. 0 Natioxal UNiON FiRe TNs. Co. Haxtixn & Co Ra 3 JoNRS, Lite & Fire, isa F st. near 16th nix L. Las. Co., «7th st. { | | | | RO, 933 ake. 100 Pa, ° sampled satisfact! TAL DISCOVERY hi ghoutthe whole c that NATTAN'S fven in this city and ss ovidenced by the especial and particn the great tact tages clainied smpotads in nee.to wit hie color and growth of i f dandrofl, with tal Discovers ‘The receipts from this 29th *t., bet. Band F. Tux ConpiTIow oF THE ( rt that Chief Jnstice Chase is very il and that he is suflering from a complication of JEWELRY STORES. n Watches, Jewelry, #19 Pa. ave. ENN. 103 F st.,Wash'n,&19 Bridge st.G@eou JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. Ouas. WALTER, 362 D stroct, opposite City Hall. ©. Waaven,(aleoc_nveyancing, LEATHER, SHOE FINDINGS, &c. n in the controller's of Prior to that time he was ew York banks. 1209 Tin street, South America, nd simple rem: dy ness. Early Ds A Card. hile residing tn gs adaeiousry i AVAL OPFICER! an, ordered to cor c fleet; Lieut. Commander Nipsie, North Wm. H. Whiting, av i Emmett McUVormick, ordere Master Arthur P- Commander Wm. the command of the turn home; Lieut. Commander F. K. b tached from the Boston navy-yard and ordered to the Benicia as exeentive officer; Master F. W. Greenleaf, detached trom the Nipsic and or- dered to retvrn home. PRRsoxaL.— Postmaster General Creswell hag returned from Michigan. Henry, chairman of the gone on an inspection te will be absent until the middle of October, and Boggs, secretary of the board, has gone to New York on a similar errand. . Droop have returned trom their ;-.. Copeland, of the N <j Commerce, has gone West, not under the ad- vice of Mr. Greeley, but to’ write up the great industrial features of that part of ....Col. Hinton, the correapori- dent of the Boston Globe, has undertaken the same work for the St. Louis Globe. hed for another globe to con- . Whipple, of the ane of tie U whole train of di Prompted by a desire to benefit nd Unfortunate, T will send the recipe ioe oun F. Kine, 651 Mass. avenue, bet. 6th and 7th LITHOGBAPHERS. EY, 466 Pa. ave,, bet. 43 and 6th ste j to the Nipsic; envelope, to any Bree of Charge. NWAN Bible Honse, LIVERY STABLES. Brres &Co., Wil Au Nar ilard's Hotel Stables, 4th & Dats ‘IR., 180 to 1388 E street. ————— AMUSEMENTS eW NATIONAL THEATR NE WEEK ONLY, MONDAY EVENING, Avetst 5. | Return of the World F Duprez aud Benedict's NEW ORLEANS GIGANTIO MIN- Of twenty years’ organtzation. ‘The great chief Movarchs of Minstrelsy, ED OF A REGI 'T OF ARTISTS, ‘Un their Twentieth Annual successful Tour Intredueing their bril The oldest most re h = HERZ BER: na. a¥. and 62] 0 S"Gouterers & Con! stresty neat 7th, LOOKING GLASSES, Francis LAMB, 10% Pa. avenue moar 18h street. LUMBER YARDS. W™. Mctran, corner 3th street and canal, | end 10th street. +*Prof. Joseph house board, has t-houses, and 0 COMMENCING ‘and léth st | JOHN McOLELLAND. Lontstans av. nae es These Stmev, Pe. av, bet 20 & Sath ata, Announcing aCarn- | for his paper. ‘niertsinment full of Merit, BaxrLtox & PEARSON, Slate, AR ri s% Tucker & SHERMAN, MERCHANT TAILORS, Dsviix & Co..(N-¥.) 1113 Pa. av., bet. 1th &i3th sts. MILLINERY, &c. . . (wholes eons 4 ODEL MAK ERS, &c. t Greece eas th sree o9p, Patent Ome on, ai Teh streets Jiet Pa son Brouzing and Gilding,) 1008 1148 Trh street, near M street. 19 Pa. av., Lew,Titles, Conveyancing. = bet. 12th and 13th sts OYSTER SALOONS. Harvey & Heinen, ‘Tue OveTER Bar, ( ander, Hinton Assistant Adjt. Ge ‘tment, left here yesterday on @ plea- sure trip north. JAKE-THOMPSON DEVILTRIES.—The of the Boston Globe ‘633 Lonfsians avenue, On Exhibition and Sale . Patent Office. Washington correspond: says that the developmentst:om the confederate archives will considerably astonish the country: ‘The intention to destroy by fire was not con- fined to Jacob Thompson and the persons im- plicated. During the last year of the war great attention was given o chemical experiments for Prepared tulminat for land purposes, so that stepping upon them Among others who No. 416 7th street, between D and E streets, eight doors above Odd Fellows Bal Cholce Oil Paintings, Engravinss, Chromos, &o. Also, largest etock Paper Hangings, Window , Picture Cords aud Tas as, Pictures, Frames: sels, Rings Nails, &c., in the District, B7 TERMS CASA. Please remember Nam PIC-NICS, EXCURSIONS, &c. were arranged would cause an claimed great res sourian who lin ships, houses, depots, coal yards, te., which would spontaneous! given time, which could be regulated according @ preparation which violently shaken, and then it would explode with tremendous force and set on fire everything in its neighborhood, aswell as suffocate those who should be near. ‘A secret session of Congress appointed a com- mittee to investigate the subject. showing a colorless liquid in a vial, said that it could be thrown from the gallery of the House of Representatives at Washington and kill every mun on the tloor in two minutes. tee evinced absolute incredulity. The chemist offered to bet that he would leave the commit- tee in the room, and that there would not be the vial was dropped. The committee firmly and resolutely declined the The chemist then placed a hand. nd, at a given number designated, it sponta- neously burned. A number of eats were placed in the room and the committee outside saw tbrongh a window the vial upset, aud the cats The experiments were com- letely Satisfaccory, and a bureau was estab- shed to carry out the views proposed. The chemist was made a_brigadier-general, and is now one of the leadin, Books NDEs EXCURSION. 1016 Penn, ave., corner Ith &. W. Driver,) 1216-18 Penn. take fire ata THE BOOKBINDERS MUTUAL BELIEF AS | fo circumstances; would be harmiess u WILL GIVE AN EXCUBSION TO GLYMONT, ON MONDAY, ACGUST 12r1u, ON THE STEAMER WAWASSET, Leaving the wharf, fv m.; returming, sores B. Kink, 462 Penn. av ‘M. TomPxins, corner H and st} Spee on aero Manrinso09 Get, bLe 87, rear set ireet, near Penn The chemist, bt 5 Faaxcis MILLER. 907 9th t, at 2 o'clock p. J. Hakey SYLVESTER, 1212 7th APER The commit- mand lady, $1; ad- Iss music engaged. sule by members ot E,_Builock, J. B. Repey. Jas lrew Taff, Jos. Maddren. a ee PENT ye ero Lge 8. 5. om. bai a street, ne reek. and 7th streets. Committee ‘and at one left alive if T. McGowan, An G®45D Festivan kerchiet on the mantel, of minutes thereatter, Block , corner For THE BENEFIT oF Teh & Fsts.. near Pat. for circular killed. 8T. JOSEPHS ORPHAN ASYLUM. beprrerag Siri AT SCHUETZEN PABK, ¥ D: In Bem: CaNnon's LIVER Tonic. iy Wie By Canto fs roprietor. Eac! ie . PEST aoe er PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERIES. B. Baavt, 62 Peansy!vania av., near O. JouNson, Pa. av., bt. 3 & 9; P J. PULLMAN, (Copying 8 8) PI F.O.BEicheN sack, 438 lth, eb.Pa.ev..egt.Knabe’s PICTURE & PORTRAIT FRAMES. 1236 nue, Bear 13th street. x pecialty ,) S11 7th street. PLANING MILLS, supporters of Horace ‘The termination of the war came too soon to permit the carrying out of the designs WEDNESDAY ani THURSDAY, for destruction of life and property. Atoust Tr aND Stn, Toe Conrenerate AkcuIves AND Way Turvy Were Puncuasep.—Acting Secretary ardsou has written a letter relative to the purchase of the confederate ar- says that they were pur- € purpose of being ‘This institation in need, and having noreg: ular income,thus to the charity of the public, Tich ets, 50 cepts, to be bad at the Asylum, j31-7t ‘i [CE—TWO TRIPS A WEEK OF THR Pe WAWASET. of the Trersury Francis Law Chives, in which chased for the exelt es evidence in claims against the United Stated, in exact conformity with the provisions of an assed June 10, 187 urpose the sum of $150,000 was a) Accompanying the letter of « Kiehardeon is a letter from Messrs. ioners of claims, certityin, the immense value ot the archives in connection with claims against the government, and a cer- tifieate as to the amonnt ($75,000) believed proper to be paid. commissioners say : oranda from the Te’ in regard to claims amounting and nave been con: of disloyal perso On “UESDAY MORNING, Angust 6th, the Steamer WAW ASET will resume her regular two trips Potemac, touching at intermediate EL Smith, PI Mills, Pin facturer of Monliti ers, &c., and dealer ia ERERS. 1 F.Krve, 65] Maes. ave., bet. 6th and 7th ste BoE J ’ancowan, plain aud Srnamental, #0 Sth et, PLUMBERS AND GAS FITT! A.B. SHEPRE: Pa.ay Hawi Lon & PEARSON, cor 9 Geo W_GoodaLt. 8. W. corner Pa. ‘avenue, 7H Ith street, 7, 939,D street, bet. bet. 19th and 20th sts 0 Beton actor Congre: isie Beak Doorsa Bliods! week down the f2. Washington for Ourrioman and interme- | Fertis, comm: diate landings at 6 a.m. Tuesdays y Biver and interme- ays. For freight or passage apply at office of Potomac ny, foot of Tth streat can be chartered MONDAY In their letter, the s, letters, and mem- have been used Dover S20),(h), sive in defeating the claim3 stoan amount near: quite equal to the price which we understand you expect to pay for these papers Tne Nontn Canontwa ELxction.—All the counties had been heard from last night, except ten western. Caldwell has Shipp majority of 1870. Eight of the counties hear from are in the sth district, and the en already heart from in that di Merrimon a uet gain of over 100 each. citement is snbsiding, as the people have be- come exhausted from anxiety. A comparison cial ‘aunties received at the Wilmington Siar office, with the unoflicial vote on which the estimates are based at Ra- at least half the counties, port trom Union county alone, there is in Merrimon’s favor of 175 vou Teheved that nothing but absolutely the official count will decide the resait. Judge Merrimon telegraphed to Alex. K. M Bawny &. Oncrt. pune Rive wa OB MOUNT VERNON —The steamer ARROW Capt. Frank Hollingshead, hav- ing been rebuilt aad entirel, it owner: loot ef 7th street. 10 o'clock a. m ‘bington) aad 1.113 Pa. averine, Ont 80 Metallic Rooter,) PRINTING OFFICES, \Gras0N BUOTHERS, 1012 Pa.ave..bet.10th Joseru L. Peanso: Powsrt & Gixex, Sunday excepted.at rnon (the tomb of intermediate tnndiu: 3S 8Y JA 3, Jel9-8m Gen’ Superintendent Steamer Arrow, PIANOS, &c. AMUSING TOY OUT!—Cnuses inanimate rea to dance to the music of ale by @.L. WILD & BRO.,4 West, between Pa. x, corner Hb and 0-832, F street, near 7th. PROBUCE AND PROVISIONS. Swoty .Porr+& UNDERHILL, 5.B, corner Sth & Dats, B.B. Younes, Western Produce Company, 470 Pa.av. REAL ESTATE AGENTS, &c. Anrror & DUDLE t even with the jeune And Bi at. ¢ aud manufacturers of aud dealers in Musical Ipsteaments zonerally, ai Tustruments Taned anc Qcol? tr leigh, shows erro Pianos and ali Musici red THeMPsON & Co Her re aa ; WILSON, rm 3 ©. Stross, 1404 F strect, ean Rr ssnoe & Bon, Tern street Rizes PxNEoY & Som, Toot, near Weicr & Co., 95 ¥ st.. Masonic RESTAURANTS. * | Joux Scorr sDININGSALoon (meals %e.)9%S La.ar. ary Department uct rJerr. Pa. TILL GREATER ure, of Philade!- at from 500 to 1,000. Reduction in Prices, REMARKARLE DrowxeEp CuiLp.—On Sunday atternoon the children of the Francis and Patterson families, went down the shore to water fhe Patterson girl went bevond sank. The screams i from his how learned of the drowning he dive hes aud ail, and after nght the body’ to the surf: SH, DOORS BLINDS. PERRY COLEMAN, 2I7th st., op. Center Market, cAN, 638 Louisiana avenna, Trexre & Sy SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. Wasnt! Noto Busines CoLLee®, cor, 7th and L sts. SEWING MACHIRES, & & WILSON 5, Dieer & Son, agts. 461 Pa.ay imple, silent, perfect Baar. ast., ¥.M.O. A. paride 9 specialty D SEWING MacHIne ComPant, 9 %h etre: mifly Favorite. @g-xamine it. IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE LATENESS OF THE SEASON, AND IN ORDER TO RB- DUCE STOCK, 1 AM OFFERI THIRTY DAYS: 0,12 and $15 her depth an ht the mille minutes had clapsed; yet notwithstanding lite was restored im about one bour.—A. Herald, 61h in Fret Srexo: Light Cassimere Suits, at..... $.9 Biue Flannel Suits (thoroughly spo White Duck Suits (Derby All Linen Sui ht Colored pee i, H T. ‘The liberal press of Great Salt Lake assert, without contradic- tion, that the school of the prophets, b: rection of Brigham Young, instigate sisted Im the ontrage on Saturday night. Horace Meyers, one of the editors of the Mini nal, was assaulted in the street Mon by Mormon reporters of the Gentile press, and was denied access to the records of The citizens are ublic meeting in the cause 6, Sand $10 5,6, 7 and $s we nttt 6,6, 7 and gS SILVER PLATTERS, EDWARD STOLPE, 69 7th strect,. I TEHAND, 304 D st., Between aes Bieweeo ah & on, SOAP AND CANDLE FACTORI : Batxs & BROTHER, 619-216 st.,bet.@hand7th. | Cuths’ Cheviot Bcits... STAMPING Boys’ Caasimere Batts... ..ccencoee seoweee 2. Fine Black Cloth Frock Coats........10, 12 and s Blue Cloth Frock and Berby Qvats.....8 to 12 4 Largo Assortment of Extra Size Buits, ning a Roy aah of free speech, to of the Balt Lake House next Sat- urday right. Cur To Preces ny a slowmG Macutne.— lace called Tipton, in Suffolk », New York, a few days since, a farmer, Williams, wae thrown in front of the achine by the foot. On one foot he S7-A DEDUCTION of 20 PER CENT. has been wiSiane seainzger™emmomen | Koes made on all these goods. will find it to their advantage to seat. He wes bead 7 Purchasers give mea call, B7Persons going to the country, or to different ‘atering Places, can have thetr wardrobes replon- small expense. came from some livi: swallowed while dri week he was delivered of a brown snake fifteen and three- whi: ing at a spring. S7 REMEMBER NAME AND NUMBER— STRAUB, Popular Clothing House, 2011 PENNSYLVANIA AVESUSB, Between 10th and 11th Streets, vember The San Francisco liberals, too, biasphemed 3 the expense, and fired « humired guns 1» boner of the -—suypto.ed—victors in Noth Carciima, Cen. Jno. F. Farnsworth pabitshes « letter a in the Chicago Tritune this morning declaring | Dimeelf for Grovley and Brown. The republicans ot the Michigan district yes t-nominated ©. D. Oonger, of Port Meron, sor Congeess. fe ; , tought im Sait Lake City that Maxwett, rf a legate to Congress, has received about | THE NORTH CIROLIVA ELECTION. | BETTER AND BETTER. Reperted aes Ty Majority of 002 The Tar. The Old North State Bedcemed. ececis Erect. ‘The following dispatehes received to-day seem to give good authority for the belief that the rep ns have carried North Carolina by a considerable majority : Rainow, N. C., Augest 7 To the President, Weshingt North Carolina has elected the entire republi- $ ranging from two thovsand Tuomas Setree. mo, N. C., August 7, 15/2. Caidweil has carried the state. Taomas M. ¢ Reports St 15—The Contes: Doubtless Very Close, but Chances in Favor of the Republicans. (BY ASSOCIATED PRE New Yorx, Angust dispatch to the Times sa: a e Herald's Raleigh dispatch ciaims that Merrimon is elected by 761 majority according to the democratic count, but adds that it is absolutely impossible to decide until the official vote is in. The Tribune says the returns which it has this morning give Caldwell a majority of 406, but it is not disposed to give up the state on present showing. What a Veter. -20-- Observer Col. J. W. Forney, in the last installment of his interesting ‘Anecdotes of Public Men,” written for the Sunday Chronicle, has something to say about the improved order of things here, and the men to whom the credit is due. In this connection he say «* He who visits Washington to-day, after an absence of twenty years, will be amazed at its progress and its promises. We may prefigure its future by its contrast with the past. As we y Streets in summer and its muddy streets in winter, its poor hotels and remember its du: boarding-houses, its miserable police, its disor ganized finances, in the light of its increasing miles of broad and beautiful drives, its new ft temples of education and learning, its gallery art, its splendid public editices, with the su; Capitol crowning the whole, unsurpassed in th world, we may easily anticipate the day when Washington will be the favorite and the lo liest city on our side of the sea. President Gr: struck the key-note when he appointed Henry ¢ District of Columbia under the Congressional act of reorganization, which made the popular branch of the local legislature elective, and gave the people a Dele- gate in Congress. Mr. Cooke is one of the many proofs of the wisdom of our Chief Magistrate. le is just forty-seven, and when he accepted the post had accumulated a handsome fortune, D. Cooke Goverror of which placed hum beyond temptation. * * = Fine manners, p in the vulgar interpretation of ti epherd at their bead. In five years from to-day the District of Co- lumbia will be the choice winter resort of the country, and will be ta people of wealth and in- telligence—to inventors, our men of science, and + foreigners, an irresistible attraction. Diree! connected, north and eouth, by ne’ and offering extraordinary inducemen's to per- sons of moderate means who desire to live ina hy climate and to enjoy the best society, it »e sought by men from every state.whether hen that day healt w sitors or residente. And no name will be more afleciionat membered and honored than that of Go Henry D. Cooke. SEAT SARATOG. at Saratoga is a que only cottage in the great barren, pit-marked “nited States Hotel, now board fences. Among grounds of the fe surrounded with deeply embowered, tne ster M. C, keeps bis family in a comforta ic of the former opulence of the p Morrissey’s family consists of one son, John Mor. riss about fifteen, the latter twe and her son go to the balls, ai ‘+ Mra. Morrissey a latter Lately appeared in masquerade at Congress Hall and decided a boat race on the lake. Mrs. Morrissey was the daughter of a pry steamboat captain ~ im- when Jolin was a deck hand; she is a larg pressive, portly woman, of good address intelligence. A KIvaL or THE Yo SemiTe.—The Pittsburg ¢ ys: “A gentleman of this city who recently had a conversation with Bierstadt, the artist, states that the painter ronicle of the 5th instant e las discovered, one hundred miles south of Semtie, a valley which far surpasses in natura! grandcur, that celebrated lecality. T! are six or cever thousand feet perpen: and there is a waterfall of three thonss ar, feet. The highest waterfall in the Yo Semite is almost The scenery fs far ‘0 Semite. twenty-three hundred tet. more imposing than that ¢ A Suort Corrrsair at At the grand b: Branch on Sat . of the New d landiord widow lowing morn Ho was accep zed in the “Sea Side e Same morning. A correspondent #ays the widow is reportec be worth $200,000. Np Maw Kitts His Wire ix Trex- ke Willis, a blind man, and his wife, living in Trenton, N.J., quarrelied on Monday and be left home, but she canght him before he had gone tar. “They scuftied and she was wounded in the front part of the leg, an arte being severed, from the resuit of which she bie 9 death. Medicataid was procured, but she was pulseless trom the loss of blood and died a short time after the physician arrived. — ee _ A Mer ‘ONE.—Last week, near St. Louis, Mr. John J. Murdock found a large meieoric stone at the bottcm of a hole on his farm. The hole was clean cut and reached to a cepth of more than thirteen feet in the a= =. —_ Espey cpl —e pounds, was coated with a crust, and was composed mainly of iro u Tue Coat Trapg.—The Philadelphia Ledger says: “*This would seem to be a good time to lay in beng te the transportation charges on all iy re- fell into day morning PRopA’ MvEpE a TA. The body of Rev. Henry Waliechsof Brett, was found yesterday. He left home four months after draft from India of £500. Hy 928 was found on hie it suspécted thathe was robbed and into the water RIE 9 mectiog beiteen Col Mosby ad ye Riese —— is y bas fending to bis becinens tt arrenton. Sr sang, with eat effect, the besides Tur Love Brawon Raoczs.—In the second race at Long Branch + road & purse of 500, Alfuera won. Time, 243). The third race, for & purse of $800, was won by Midday. inks of the New Order of Things in Wash- ucely hospitality, Warm and ardent sympathies with the new citizens and the cause of universal education, make him acceptable to every class. Never a og © werd, although a sincere and consistent republic: n, and rich enough, as I have said, to escape +us- picion, his intercourse with the Represet ta- tives and Senators in Congress of every shade is agreeable to himself and profitable to his constituents. The generous bounty of Cong: ecs tothe District at the last session, inspired by the explicit recommendations of General Gr nt in his annual message, are to be attributed w the confidence reposed in General Cooke; and when our law-makers meet in December’ they will be surprised at the enormous amount of work done under the auspices of Governor Cooke and the energetic board of public works appointed by the President, with Alexander K. = Tailroacs, -) and an adopted son, the former age:! nd Political Notes, « Honest” Horace now—non xt Horace in No~ NX, . Commervias. ) votes im the territory, @itich the T)ibune Delieves is a majority of all the legal votes cast, asa large number of the Mormons are neither Dalives nor naturalized ‘The democrats of the tst congressional district " oT INTS of West Virginia yesterday nominated Colonel TWO CENTS. Benjamin Wilson for Congress. John J. Davia, the present Congressman from the district, re- —— fused lo go tnw the convention and announced himself a few days ago as an independent can- TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR. | *25.° 532°" bs st Bianton Duncan is about to commence the i ——— publication of a pure democratic paper in Lou's- This Afternoon’s Dispatohes, | *e.82 0. received at Pittsburg trom ait parts of the country indicate that the ‘ers Associated Press Reports. and sailors’ cox will be one of the largest ead ever hele in t ¥ rd case hat Barn nd of polit ed was the open- | soldiers, ap for getting at the re ads upon the city, Jations concern- | cordial Support of Grant a hile his order | monsly adop' the necessary ace Greeley was at a Spring. B. 1. yesterday. He n. Thos. Davis, of Nor rrow he will be in Concor where he Ul bave a pubic reception aud then go to Bradford. A saving of It was romored in Cine ast might the! miilions.made to the city. He closed for the re- | General Hayes had dec republican except the ‘examination of ¢ nomination tor Congress in the 2 rict Of + Which was reserved. Obie. John Garvey,a brother of Andy, tes Ex-Governor Yates bas so far recovered (rom nt nded work in Barnard’s house in | a long termot illness as to be able to he tailor 6s, The work was done in two small | stump for Grant and Wilson at an earty bambers up stairs, the hallway and dining- | Mr. Gregey’s attitude Im re room. On another occasion work was done, low-citizens ct him “only this once, gnd some of it under the superintence of Mrs. | gests to the Christian Union this Baruard. Six weeks’ work in all was | the desire for a re-clection Inevitabl done. Witness also swore to bis brother's | a President to make demoralizing bargains with transfer of | property to himself upon | politicians, as Mr. Greeley declares it the consideration of #10 paid by witness. Three | what does a desire of a first election to 1 mortgages of $49.000 were sold by witness to pay | idency lead ndidate to do? Does it lead him, Andy's debts. His brother went to Europe in | ier instance, to promise any offices to these pol- s ptember or October, 1871, retarned in | iticlans? a y, 1S72. A ti " ‘Soaniae nanan ny city ‘authorities as to the Slats again | AStoRY Woure Kurmarino—Judge Davis, Andy; don’t know of his wite doing 0. Never | of Ilinols, isa rich man. The public may not 5 so. toe te ’ ir Yyole him walle abroed shout such megotia: | SSS woe, wasn bs wes's precthising louver Oliver Charlick not responding as a witness | the weet, he wes employed by a Connecticut the Barnard case was closed forrboth sides, the ee: So yd be court adjourning until Monday, when the coun- | Where the tet foun bak peor sel for the prosecution and detence will sum up | Tich in landed possessions. but withont the case before being decided. dollar in money. He finally settle: giving a deed fore tract « land—s rT ween ‘To-day. and undesirable piece of in appearance, HE eres reer. lying close by a sheet of water, and consisting, Loxpox, August 7.—A dispatch from Geneva | perhaps, of ‘sixty acres. Davis subsequently says the Alabama claims arbitration court at its | met bis’ Connecticut client in St. Louis, when session yesterday was en; in hearing the | the latter(who seemed not to have the asual argument of both the Eritich and American | Connecticut shrewdness) feil to and gave him a counsel in relation to the case of the cruiser Shenandoah, which case, it is understood, ix now closed. ‘Although the day appointed for the regular “blowing up" for taking the land rather than insisting on having the $900 in cash. He did not want any of yout western land, and he reassembling of the court is Thursday, it is pos- | told Davis that having received it in payment sible it mey not meet again before next weel of the debt, he had better keep it himself and PROROGATION OP PARLIAMENT. Pay the money out of his own pocket. | To this Lowpon, August 7.—Parliament will be pro- Davis agreed. Stepping into a friend's office, rogued on Saturday next at 2 o'clock. | he borrowed $400, took the Connecticut man’s REPORTED GOLD DISCOVERY IN IRELAND. | receipt for the jand, and held it for a rise. That Lonpvon, August7.—There is some excitement | land forms part of one of the suburbs of Ohi- throughout Ireland over the report of gold | cago. Judge Davis has sold twoor three hun- having been discovered near the town of Kin. | dred thousand dollars’ worth of it, an? be tale. pearly a million dollars’ worth left.—/ar'for STANLEY APRICANUS TO BE DINED AND | (Comn.) Times. __ WINED. pa Seen “TET < Mr. Stanley will be entertained at a dinner Tar Steerinc Beacry or Tennesse A correspondent of the Louisvi Journal has been to see the salcoping M = Tennersee,” at Union City. He says 0 7 Parearen, Augen? sayy ee She has slept for twenty-t ; is awake from Nischnii, Novgorod, states that a great | (hittecn times in twenty-four hours, conflagration is now raging in that city. The here her he emu ke fire broke out in that quarter of the place where | eer oe aren ae oe nee chet Onin we weene the annual fair is being held, and has already ree eer. to-night by @ number of American residents of yndon. vals of five utes, nd at such times Gestroyed a great quantity of valuable goods. | Latte do so with great difficulty, only dea The Texan Border Outrages. ing two or three suspiratious, the back DETAILS OF VARIOUS MBXICAN OUTEAUES RE- es thongh he were dead. While a e she > ; eats, drinks and talks fora few minutes. She is BP APPATES Dineen, + TERRIBLE STATE | 05 white asthe whitest marble, and is perfectly Brownsvitte, Texas, August 6.—Five wit- | beautiful. She hasno education. All the medi- nesses were before the commission to-day. ‘The | Calskill of the country round about has been cases are accumulating. Full details are pre- | bsffied asto her case, and she has been sent to rented of the firing upon a pleasure boat’ the | St- Louis and examined by the most prominent insult and injury inflicted upon an American | Physicians there, but they have not been able citizen who was ‘and putin the guardbouse, | t0 Solve her case. She is now an exhibition at and details of the acts of cattie-stenlers. Meg | the Southern Hotel, Union City, Obion county, are made poor in a single day by the crossingot_ | Tem. She is thirty-one years old, and was s Their hecde over uae coe atone weekly | *Prightly girl up to eight years, wien she was occurrence. Men are killed for adollar tribute, | *icken, and has remained ever since as she and there is a reign of blood. The country | 2°W %. People are armed day and night. There is Lookrnc OvT For H1s Ling or Rerreat.— evidence of complicity on the part of nearly ali | The Bangor (rmmercial is responsible tar this ranch owners on the Mexican side. The first | «a few miles from Katahdin Iron Works ie @ share of the spoils — these men. log cabin in which some meat wasstored; but a large bear who happened round, fearing that it New York News. would spoil botere enten, thought he might as coe SLOTTED TAIL AND HIS BRAVES. weil have @ taste for himsel!. According be New Yorke, August 7.—The Spotted Tail and | cautiously approached the but and tried tu pash Sioux party leave here on Saturday for St. | the door open, but failing in this he went to the __ “Sie cues Aaa windows, which were closed by suatters, and bh e fro! we tl The Tribune says the grand jury yesterday a ee eee the cole purpose, no doubt, of mak Presented indictments against ‘ennings, of at, For it attacked from one window he the Times, for libel. then jump trom the other and so escape. TRE EXPORT OF SPECIE He then went and took a piece of meat and de- to-day was $206,725. parted as be This game was s0 cleverly performed that the owners of the cabin, who Lone ne Lams, Branch Races. .,. | mere concealed inthe bushes near by, let the old day was for the West End Hotel stakes, value, | f¢llow depart in peace.” $1,000, added to sweepetakes of ©50 each, one A Sgarr Lunatic.—The Trenton Emporium mile and three-quarters. Sister to Salina won | tells this: “Last week a man was brougut to by about a length. Time—3:30}. this city for the pur, of being placed in the The second race was for a purse of $750, mile | junatic aeylum, Cnt arriving at that institas heats, for all ages that have not won during | tion the parties having him in charge fow: either meeting. Arizona won the first heat, | that there was mo room for the patient. He Express being second. Time: 1:45. Express | was taken to the Trenton House and placed in Won the second heat = I8K- room in the third story and lecked in. ad = on the next morning a gentleman who slept in Admiral Lee at Fortress Monroe. the next room heard © knoeking on the wall, Fortress Moxgow, August 7.—The United | and went to the door of the rcom to inquire States frigate Worcester, tiying the broad tiag | what was the matter, when a gentiomanly of Kear Admiral S. P. Lee, commaniing the | yoice informed him that he had mislaid his key, North Atlantic squadron, arrived here last | and asked him to let him out. This was done, night from Key West. All ou board are well. | and the lunatic walked down stairs, out into the She will remain in the Boads until jolued by | sujce’ jam hors Admiral Green, who succeeds Admiral Lee in | {t7cet;,#0¢ bas mot been eeou or beard of since.” command. T SaeRs Pesan mak ——_o—__ BE Prorosep Pace lKevsrox.—The The Montana Election. Louisville Courier-Journal, of the 5th, say HELENA, MowTANA, August 7 Clarke ‘counties give Ciagett a rep The gentlemen who constitute the varions cor mittees appointed to make suitable prepara’ Gallatin county gives Maginnis, | forthe grand peace reunion, to be b majority and Chateau gives him | cityon the Mth and 12th of September, have Madison and Deer Lodge counties one about the work in good earnest, and thera are very close, and are claimed by both parties. € every reason to ho the reunion will bea Maginnis is still shead throughout theterritory. | most bapps ndcerdiai one. An organization —- = was effected on Saturday, permanent officers _ Sale of Government Bonds. chosen, the committees ceakesea and specific New York, Aug. 7.—The offering of bondsto | duties *ssigned them. The nisaber ot prot the government to-day amounted to 26,574, nent and sabstantial citizens who have taken a from 114.39 to 115.20. The amount advertised | very commendable int Test in the enterprise for sale was $2,000,000. If taken, it will be at a mee that it will mot be 114.40 to 114.88, se Of @ lack of zeal and en- thusaism in its beua!?. 4 The Meanderings of HH. G. PROVIDENCE, 1 gust 7.—Horace Gree- ley left here at this morning for Man- —it was stated or two ago that t nition of Mr. Joseph Jefferson's evesight was not so favor- +200-- able, ond it was feared by someot his friends Mvuever in ILvryors.—The wife | that the distinguished actor would eniler a re- ewson, a farmer residing near | lapse. This appreb: , dilinois, was murdered on Mond ter from Mr. Jetierson , Le murderer went to the house in | Ir. Reuling, of this dated Hoboken, w Matthewson anda hired man | August 1, in which he says: “My eyes sre im. gins distant field, and ordered | proving from day to day. {only use my glasses breakfast. While Mrs. Matthewson was prepar- | When the sun is shining brightly, and tam ing it he undertook to ravish her. She resisted, | writing to you without them.”—Bali. Swn, 7th and her clothing and person showed that there | tt. ‘cloc was a terrible struggle for life. When ber hus- idstieean (anata tae Gaba eter tential band returned at might he toand her body in the | 02, 4,Alichlgau man las swatlowed six potato cellar, with the throat cat and skull crashed. ee g* were the only sufferers. Great excitement prevailed, and mounted 67-A Kausas woman Las been paralyzed | horsemen are scouring the country in search of | the sting of a wasp. the murderer. A reward of $1,000 has been | &@ Dubnqne has a religions society for child- ottered for his apprehension. A man who was | ren called “The Seeds o: Mercy.” near the house that morning, seeking employ- | gg-Missouri girls are so #weet that the local ment, is suspected of being the perpetrator of | editors speak of them as Mo. lasses, the crime. paz aoe horse thief im male attire has CONTINUED OUTRAGES ON AMERICANS BY en caught in Michigan. Mexicax CaTTLe THimves.—Capt. th S7-It is reported that Mr. Bret Harte has largest stock owner in Texas, was recent engaged to write one article @ month for the tacked six miles from his ranche by eight Me: Atlantic tor $10,000 a year. jcans. A German named Specht was killed; | S@~A box of eggsat Chattanooga, Tenn, was King and the other person ing him | hatched into a multitudineus brood of chickens escaped. Sey rhen it fire was | the other day, by the heat of the sun. returned. men were sent | g7-The Geneva Commission met at noon to murder King to him from J. ieee. bene] Serdang, wad at O'clock adjourned over till w~ ‘morrow. s7 The youngest bride of the season at AH Bi Mm ,a | a 5 USBAND appease anim. 2 | Siclicut, aged foatiens’, % Swanington, Con- cloths, with 87 The Emperor William is the bi Free- mason in Germany. Next comes bis son, the A ed i “f ! F : E E tft of death!” exclaimed stated in palliation that hor husband Ses ia his hind scolding an ke, she nbd revel ved: She ein mitted for trial —W. ¥. Com. Adv., 6th : vel = <7 cme a ol len i act ute ommten ladder ‘thd he fell a of ” i bad rather Eceeoeee aby Soir Sey sees Whee teint for New York, amdmay bony ‘of the Church Hil Senso in montha, lacturing ta a was inorg thai tension 1-4 ae = and 2 two weeks’ my arley atreenenck, General end ‘mithronian on wilt Seen, Dae tain the visit. ‘the seasiog of the Hglish House er Eiibcke anteu te investigate the comme ot toe papers"in itch & post while he attended to some hent of the Tallsonds with relation to the satSey Papers to vest. “The coat was shortly after |