Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1873, Page 1

——_— Published Daily, Sundays AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Peumsylvania Avemue, cor. Lith St., a THR EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANT, & H. MACKPMANN, President, THE EVENING STAR ts served by carriers to sabcribere at O&8NTs PER WEEK, or Foatt- fowR CENTS PER MONTH. at the counter Copies . Be tz months, $5.00; one year, 36, Pe wee STAR—Published Priday—@1.5 z in Bo paper sent longer than py SF Bates of advertising fornished on application. | LSS Vst. 41—N®. 6,273. WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY) APRIL 28, 1873. SPECIAL NOTICES, e Old Rye Whisky, ine Old Rye Whisky, Pi S Amd Unatuiterated 0 Pure For General and Medict” 4 9, ‘This is the article we have no @ faction; pat u ale an excellent stor erry, Angelica, Mr nee Kellr’s Islacd Cais £00 V imported Liquors of . AUR NATTANS, Drugzist, — ‘Corner 3i and D streets a. w. The Gorh remind the p #™® Manufacturing Cempany r e Cor Unite! Stat” slic that the Supreme Court of the recently given a decision faver, whi A secures fall protection frem the treiéta- sors of the geass ens. C1AL ATTENTION Tt! sare stamped apon every article manafactared 7) eum. +g, Trade mark for | Trade mark for Serham Ster me Sileer.| Gorham Biactro Plate. wlite 6 si, Gortam Mea C Manufacturers wg Silver Ware and Fine Electro Plate, tewee, B I., and 1 Bond-st., New York. ety. from the largs<t to thy der, are constantly issuing bi aphtm St THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. Exrcurive Orrice, Drsteicr oF Cotums: Wasuincton, April 28, | To the Cowneil and House of Delegates of the Legisiative Assembly: The organization of the Third Legislative Assembly of the District affords occasion for recognition and acknewledgment of the kind Providenee which has vouchsafed to the gov- ernment and people of the District a year of unprecedented prosperity and progress. Much has been accomplished during this period in core and systematizt ie new government, in tl improvements, and in operation of Congress: of the District in urgin, the just pride of our citizens Aha the Secs canteens eo a = in its ine comfort, ment. "The ‘liberal app Congress at its last session dences thatthe public spirit voluntarily undertaking the beilishing and im: amounts thus ap exceed all made from this ast seventy years, and proc! e whole country is «determ! metropolis worthy to be the seat Detailed statements from neer, auditor and assessor with transmitted, transactions from its organiz: time, from which it ap; amount of cash outstanding it threatened to become epidemic, and has been eff ¢ ent im the abatement of alth and comfort of the EVENING STAR. | Washington News and Gossip. Iyterwat Revenve.—The receipts from this | Source to-day were $498,947.31. | Mason GeweRat Hancock and Capt, John | S. Wharton, U.S. army are at Wormley’s. POSTMASTER GENERAL CrESweLt will re- turn to this city this evening, and will be on duty again to-morrow. Mr. Jouw 8. DeLano, chief clerk of the In- terior department, is now in St. Louis. His health continues to improve. OrERa—To-night Duchesse at Wall’s Opera House, with Aimee, Jatean, Duchesne, and Roland in the principal “ Disp atch = we Ste Grae ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS, —_.——_. NO DEFALCATION IN THE POST OFFICE. New Yoru, A 2&— Postmaster #4 sold fer upwards ‘Bottle. or can be hal 1" @urn the mones if this sented by us, Action OF prave as repre- A of California Wines—Port, al | the operations of ‘the work of internal fae Boma terson, on fire caped by jump! ese improvements to the bi ut to enter upon the third regular session of lal and you do so under circumstances full of en- h has been accomplished the pathway of the tof the past and th were seriously hurt. A LARGE CROWD OF DEPOSITORS couragement. by your predecessors, fature is clear in the Gen. B.R. Cowzn, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, has gone to New York to be present at the opeuing of bids for transportation and com- missary supplies forthe Indians. Tue Sourmern CLane Coiturssion heard witnesses on Saturday in the case of Edward W. Miller, of Philadelphia, for the property a Harper's Ferry, Va., amounting to c., wi regating $121, liabilities, $1, The materia! on h: ‘age retained on contracts, and, fore, this item has not been added to the ties in the above statement, as the engineer's report establishes this fact. ‘ht report of the engineer, herewith submit- ted, shows the cost of completing the contracts work in course of completion . To meet this, the report of ssor, herewith transmitted, shows that there will be realized from assessments on pri- vate property,on work already done, $1,927,- 549.11; from balance due on account of £00,~ oo appropriation, $252,000. Total, $2,179,- ‘The report a'so shows that there is an priation available after July 1, 1573, m: y the United States government, of $913,000, to meet its proportion of work in progress and to be commenced, from which, with the amount due from the District, additional In my last annual communication to your body your attention was called to the import- priations within the esti- ccordance with this sug- for the current year TWE ATLABTIC BANK DEZAULTER IN JAIL. Atiuwiorwstional’ inne cashier, United States commissioner, buf as he haa no counsel, no application fur bail was made, and he was sent back to jail. THE MEETING OF MERCHANTS, delegates of the different producers’ ‘associa- tions, ete., with the Senate committee on trans- ition, is called to assemble at the Astor louse, in this city, on the 6th of May A DEFAULTER’S EFFRONTERY. It is thought Taintor, the defaulting Atlantic Bank cashier, who has wealth: friends, will be released on still maintains his wonderful effrontery and It is now believed the de- fact that the following trat eel ar weeeeee mated revenues. gestion appropriatior were based upon careful estimates expenditures and of revenues, furni revised by the Legislature. ver, when these estimates assessments were not complete, and when completed they fell short of the ap- proximate estimatcs. No margin was made for the discount allowed for the promp' of taxes, and for the abatements ai tions of church and school property under acts Sbatements and exemptions amount to $133,000), leaving the net amount of taxes and licenses for the current year about $1,500,000, Of this amount $556,597 have been proper officers, JvpGE Epwenps, city postmaster, continues | vere made the to receive several letters daily addressed “Rev. J. Hate Barney,” and ali of which are supposed to contain remittances. this kind have thus tar been received. Gop SaLes and Boxp Purcuases.—The Secretary of Treasury has directed the assistant treasurer at New York to sell one milion gold on the first, third and fifth Thursdays, and one and a halt millions on the second and fourth ments of the public auth- attest with an emphasis that cannot be successfully assailed, the contidence and faith of the people of the District in the of these expenditures and in the in- tegrity which has characterized their manage- eee odes Another Sensation in Wall Street. SUSPENSION OF THE ATLANTIC NATIONAL About fifty letters of and intluent‘al ail to-day. He Dinner Services, and Wedding Oat - coolness of manner. itors will er all their money. collected, leaving a posit recov ney. ANUSEMENTS. ASHINGTON THEATER CO) rT (Eleventh street, south Peansyivania aveune. APRIL B—ONE be 4 AND TWO MATI Positively last week ofthe young American Star Artist. GEORGE W. THOMPSON. First op care tthe heautifal Voealiat eof the Ch BELLA Gi = cal BILLY DEVE WO SEW BALLETS 3 t the charming q FANNY DAVENPORT A RONZATTL arian Dancers, 1 ENCOLN HACL,. ‘ tae FIVE NIGHTS ONLY, < WEDNESDAY AND SATU TUFSDAY E . APRIL 2ora A Powerful and Webly rowed Draiuat ization WORK entitled THREE YEARS IN A MAN-TRAP: Which will be p Dram mpany. “15; comm may be secured at Ell day, April 23°h. sti N By epeet THE YoUuNG NERS WILE TUE ORIENTAL NMENT, JOSEPH AND ae LIFE 2 DIEHL ‘ LINCOLN HALL, MONDAY EVEN April 2! it 7:3) clock. Adwission of age, 15 cenis. balance due on account of taxes of the current year of £449,000, besides arrearages of the year vious, estimated at $50,000, and of former levies of the old corporations $120,000, making the aggregated amount of $619,000 of taxes duc the District and the old eorpor: In_ this connection the fact should not be overlooked that the new government has been carrying the expenses of six months’ adminis- tration, during which time no taxes were col- leeted or levied, except in the city of George- The late corporations of Washington and the Levy Court of the county failed to make the assessments and levy; and the first Legislature provided that the assessments should be prospective, and not retroactive; thus leaving six months, from January te July, 1571, BANK, OF NEW YORK—THE CASHIBR A DE- FAULTER TO THE TUNE OF 240,000. Wall street was greatly excited on Saturday afternoon by the rumor that the Atlantic National Bank bad suspended on account of the embezzlement of over £400,000 by F. L. Tain- tor, the cashier, aud subsequent development= proved the report true. Taintor went to Mr. Tay executive committee of coolly told him he was a defaulter to the extent He further said that the director> would visit the bank that day, when some of the tacts might come out; that they were a set of oll fogies, and he didn't want any scene or re- proaches. Mr. Tappan at once called the clear- ng Louse committee to, diately went tothe ban! the presideut, Mr. Southworth, of the facts in the case, and the old man sank down in his chair and remained speechless for some time. im to clase up, bat the will accrue to the amount of $300,000. Owing to the extent of the improvements now in progress the amount of special assessments rivate property for such improvements t will ‘afford relief to the tax- payers if the time for the payment of these as- sessments can be extended over a period of years, and mee payable in installments, Under existing laws these assessments cannot be made until the completion of the improvements upon which they are to be based. Hence a lar, tion of the resources of the board are time unavailable. relieve its creditors, as well as the tax-payers, it is suggested that the issue of coupon certiticates of indebtedness, bearing a fair rate of interest, shall be authorized, and that the assessment certiticates against private property be hypothe- cated as collateral security for their redemption with the commissionersof the sinking fund. who assessment certificates and apply the proceeds to redemption of such cer- sfetiring annually such ‘Thursdays. in all six millions, and to buy half a million of bonds on the first and half a million on the third Wednesday of Muy, in all one mil- THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. Panis, April 23—The following are the final election in this city fill the vacant seat in the Nation: Tue Presipert aud party reached Denver, 7,05. The elect Colorado, at half-past one o'clock Saturday afternoon, and were to remain there till this morning when they were to leave ¢7 special train for Golden, Black Hawk, and Central and thence to Idaho Springs. They wili to Denver this evening, w t dent will hold a pu ably come east, Tee PosTMASTER AT Courax, La., informs Ifice Department that he was com «t to flee for his life at the recent massacre nlored men there, and that he took to Alex- ja all the records and papers belonging to He declines to serve any longer as department has issued or g the office at Colfax. tion of the postmaster was ions in the departm: Corrize, Jura, and Marne were carried by the During the afternoon | republicans. In Mobiban the Catholics were pan, chairman of the e clearing house, a1 | will prob LUTION IN MADRID. —A dispatch from Madrid says the search for the members of the perma- nent commitiee continues. and Figuerola have been arrested. mass meeting of federalists was yesterday held, at which gallant speches were made. Loxpon, April this, and thus Senors Becerra | so much interest has been int | sulted, accord to the returns 0 far as reseiv | in the election, by a considerable m: In your action upon the estimates of expenili- tures, the rate of taxation necessary to meet the same should be caretully considered. Your legislation of last year was the first attempt to systematize and to bring ito proper relations the revenues and expenditures of the curacy of your estimates is very gratifying, although, for reasons already given, they were only approximately correct; hevertheless, it furnishes a basis upon which, in the future, you can legisla! ther, and they imme Mr. ‘Tappan informed Lowpon, April 28.—The carriage works of the | Lancashire Kailway company, in Manches were destroyed by fire last night. motives and 120 coaches, which were in the j building, were burned, shail collect s | were also hi titicates or indebtedne: Mr. Tappan advised 88, $1,000,000, . grief stricken old man refused hank open until $o’ch } bax passed the bill, sDOX, Apsil 25.—The King and Qneen of Denmark will visit London in the latler part of a k as ustal, receiving a few deposits and paying out large sums to panic-stricker baste to get their money on hearing the ramo: An examination by the clear ing house committce revealed the fact that over the bank had been of the currency was noti- nk examiner Me: the bank as rec: Ll BO 8. Our public schools have rapidly advanced in jency, and in the extent an c cir accommodations. ine and thorouginess of instruction their nized, snd many of the best ents of the District now gladly edueate their children in these schools. are attracting attention and receiving favor mdistingnished visitors from oth: States and from foreign I trust, will con- SRESS abolishing the ssor of internal revenre provides that the collectors shall give 1 assuming the duties of both ¢ missioner has therefore issued a ectors to render two state) ants during the month of May, one e, and the other Ist inclusive, in order that lity of the sureties on their bonds may ped. PARIS ELECTION. Pauis, April 28.—The the national assembly from y ably lead to the moditicationef the m It is probable that Count De Re: of foreign aftairs; and Jules Simon, minister of ppu' will resign. Casimer Periere, formerly mini ter of the interior, and M. Grevy, late presi- + are talked of as probable about the bank. amounts appropriated—being b: mated revenues—were in excess of the actual revenues, and in others the expenditures re- quired will exceed the These deficiencies, 3 e gate to £131,000, are mainly attributable In no ease should expendi and deticiency a f the funds of i at once directed bi take charge of The awount of Taintor’s def thing between £400,000 and follows:— $75,000 in the vaults of h DAY MATINEES, z 000, divided as 5 h he took from e bunk; $160,0% of property ced im the bank for sa’ e was insecurities wh: collateral on pr said he had lost a great deal of this money in February last, ai in Pacific Mail had hurt him very badly. H also lost in the late panic. The clearing house committee found that not only the capital of the bank but also its assets have completely Mr. Taintor’s skilful manipu- ys, however, that the ability not suffer any lors, as the stockholders are responsible to th. examinationol the bank's States will deal witt The appointment o* causes referred to. tures exceed revenues; priations to cover excesses of expenditure Le justified only by rave aud exceptional nece: dent of the assemb!: members of the new cabinet. ne . Wall Street To-day. New York, April 28.—Gola op: , and has since On gold loans the rates have been 5, 4, tue to be, the especial citizens gnd authorities alike of the make its public school system one of its promi- nent attractions. ‘The expenses necessarily incurred in carry- reat work of popular educa- een met by the people of the neral Government not having Deata oF Conmo dore John H. Aulick, Under the former one of the chic vernments of the District arrassments in mee promptly the current expenses was the dela: the current payment of taxes which did not keep pace with expenditures, but, were largely withheld until the close of the year, and were ely delinquent, even beyond that pe- e law enacted at the last session of the .S.N., died yesterday at his residence in this city, corner of isth and | streets, in the 85th yearof his age. The de- ceased was a Virginian by birth, but was ap- pointed an officer in the navy from Maryland, morning at ils ing forward this tion bas thus far District, the rendered any aid as in the case of other Terri- tories and many of the States. Many spacious and commodious school build- ings, elegant in architecture and furnished with every modern comfort and convemence. have been erected; but others will be needed wth of population. ict provision must be made for the accommodation of the schools which l..ve for many years occupied tem| structures on Judiciary square. This site must shortly be vacated, Congress having already propriation for the improvement of it is believed to tion of the Commissioner of Public Buildings and Grounds to commence the work during the present season. . ie Upon the inauguration of the new District overnment there were outstanding contracts duced with Appropriate Scenery that the declin 1 4, 15 cents. T> condition of the demand for re- mittaness on account of May coupons, are strong and higher, the asking rates of leading drawers of stock "being 103% and 10*4 respec- money market Nov. 15, 1309. In siz he served on the price in all her actions, and carried her captures, the Boxer and the privateers Flyer and Mars,in He afterwards served on the Saranac, Ontario, Constitution, and Brandywine, and was in command of the Washington navy yard from 1843 to 1846. He returnes cruise in 1803, and has since 1364 been on the retired list. His funeral willtake place from his late residence to-morrow, at 12 m. Navy DerartMent, April 28, 1573. THE FUNERAL of Commodore Jno. H. Aulick, U.S. navy, will take place from his late resi- dence, at the corner of I and 18th streets, at noon, on Tuesday, the 29th inst. The deceased vanished owing to Legislature, allowing a rebate of one per cent. @ month upon taxes paid, was designed to cor- rect this evil. It has partially accomplished the object, the taxes having been paid some- what more promptly than before. Yet it will not be difficult to devise a scale of abatements and penalties which will great! crease the efficiency of the existin tirely correct the évil it was desi fhe unpaid taxes of the current year are suifcient to meet the expenses for the balance of the year, with the exception of the deticten cies above noted. In this connection it is earnest! ed that provision depositors will In the money market rates for demand loans are Tai gold, according to the collateral pledged. Prime mercautile paper is indemand 949, per as yet under 10 per cent. At the first board governmieat bonds were weak. as the result of lower gold and Treasury schedule of bond purchases for May. At the there was a recovery of 4% im prices. Southern state bonds ai the board were neglected. The stock market has a —_ the Atlantic bank fail- ad a depressin, been the foundation other banks. These ram: pace With the hats, 06 oe aL On jollar, Mr. AN ASSOCIA make a more thoroug! affairs, while the United the defaultin; Meigs as receiver is only temporary. ‘The following is the financial com bank:—Realizable assets, 2549,000 depositors, $615,000; stolen securities from the bank, $102,000 (the actual value of which in market is $228,000;) capital of bank, 830),00). my; making an actual deficit of leads some to suppose that the from his last cent. with few the square; am fect, and also Tumors abont cents; children under fifteen years a made for the euforceu Wks NEW OPERA HOUSE, JOBD T. FURD.. FAREWELL WEEK OF M’LLE MARIE AIMEE. THE QUEEN OF OPERA BoUF SEW PARISIAN OPERA TROUP! The mst snceessfn! organization on rec C. A. CHIZZOLA & CU... MONDAY BYENING, March 2 Habe Brogaced. for the Lit tm. celebrated opera, LA GRANDE TUBSDAY, April 29. the new Parteras senaption. : Meek pritte SB conte; private boxes. FRIDAY, at Ellis’ : ii ac ona oad SiEie : MARKAITER’ say) Bo. 639 7tp street, bet EB streets, sight pe tas ye omag Liye eer ings, Chromos. ae , largest vara tr ed & new ea Please remember Name snd Nawber. __jel-is"_ LL KINDS OF CAST-OFF WEARING re A PAREL can be sold to the very" * sirancass addressing cr calling on ‘ef D street, between bn. Ww Notes by tail promptly attended to. aah paid” 18 will be buried with the military honors appro- priate to his rank. The officers of the navy and marine corps will appear in full dress uniform for get dyty, to wit: frock coat, epaulettes, cap for_school buildin, to $215,918.20, inc! sin Washington amounting juding the proportion due, under the act of Congress, to colored schools. The total amount expended ment for school purposes up to January was $555,027.62. The tax realized for ‘purposes to the same date is $418,447.56. ‘The expenditures for current school purposes year will be over $100,000 less than during either of the past two years, owing to the fact that the contracts for new school buildings referred to have been completed and paid for, with the single exception of the schoo! building in Georgetown, for which the tax was The estimate for school purposes for the ensuing year are $126,453 less than they were last year. COLORED SCHOOLS. The colored schools, under the management of « board of colored trustees, haye also attained of the payment ef all taxes in arrears on after June 30, 1873, including the un tion of the levies of 1871, 1872 and 1x73. the levies by the late corporations of Washing- wevy Court, still re- id. The system of collecting such: rs, which the District government has in- herited’ trom its predecessors, is cumbrous, ex- pensive and inefiective. trom sales for delinquent taxes have yielded but little more than enough revenue to pay the ex- penses of sale and collection. | recommend that in lieu of the annual public sales now made, the Collector ot Taxes be authorized by law to issue tax-lien certificates against juents after one month’s ‘his will result in placing the entire uncollected tax levy into the treasury at the expiration of each fiscal year. ‘The report ef the Controller will furnish you with a detailed statement of all the receipts and expenditures of the District government from its organization to January 1, 1873, together with estimates of the samé, carri from that date to the endof the current fiscal! ye In no case have the disbursements ex- ceeded the appropriations for any specific ob- ject; while in many instances the disbursements al Will not equal the amounts appro- From the Comptroller's report it will also be that tue cash receipts of the District ot Co- lumbia on its own account and on thatof the late corporations amounted to $10,007 ,67 have probably been imtor are much larger than he circulated for speculative ieee etal Another Iudian W: A FIGHT WITH THE BLACKFEET. Toronto, April 2.— A from Fort Garry, interior state that ing between the American troops Blackfeet Indians, and large num- bers of Americans were killed. that this ie the be; Blackfeet country. Proptietor aud Manager, by the District The Suspended Commissioners to Vi- MORE SCANDAL ABOUT THEM. A London special by cable says that Genera! Van Buren, chief of the susperided Vienna commissioners, Grant a very strong remonstrance against his An editorial in the Niewe Frei Presse of Vienna, quoting Minister Jay as its authority, and evidently inspired by him, al leges that large sums were paid tothe suspeniled commissioners before leaving America, by number of firms, for that money was accepted on the pretext of being a subscription for the erection of a model school-house. The journal ironically remarks: “ They thus exhibit the fruits of that instita- tion.” It mentions that two restaurant keepers (Germans) paid $1,900 each It is openly char, Buren was cognizant oi suspended commissioners are disposed to deny the authority of Minister Jay to temporaril) remove them. Minister Jay and General Van Buren have evidently been at variance from the beginning, and the del: tion m the American depa Georgetown and pecial dispatch - AND THE ‘lcers of the army are invited to attend. says reports Geo. M, Ronesox —_Secretary of the Navy. @Tue Treasury CreeKsures—The eertiti- cates of the board of civil service examiners fur the Treasury department on the examination held a few weeks since were expected at the Department to-day, and the Secretary will proceed to make the ap; Pleants who passed the examination are all numbered on the list according to the order in which they passed, andthe examiners certi- fy totbe Secretary three names for the first selected, the other gether with a third In fact, the receipt~ | tor the comin has addressed to President indians of Fort Sully have crossed the line to the number of seven or eight thousand, and threaten the interior settlement: and Manitoba. interest-bearin; the property ot intments. The ap- | notice to that effect. —— Burned to Death, pril 28.—The railroad station- house at the crossing of the Louisville, Albany and Chicago and the Chicago and Lake Shore ‘railroads was burned Saturday night, an‘ a man aged 70, named Klees, his daughter, and five children, living in the station-louse, perished in the flames. ————— The Oregon Indian Troubles. New Yor, April 25.—A Washington special states that General Schoticld telegraphs from San Francisco that no doubt some of the Mo- ed, and there are evidences of an Indian outbreak in Oregon, which, if it occurs, will necessitate reinforcements. —— various concessions, Crxcunnatt, appointment. two are offered again, one for the second 4 cessful ones with anotier new mame are again placed before him for the third appointment, nd so on until all the vacancies are tilled. though there were over four hundred pa:set the examination quite a large number of them Vill be thrown out for various reasons. eight appointments are to be made. OFFICIAL PostaGk STaMPs FOR THE De- PARTMENTS.—Something of an i both of which they will compare favorabiy wi the public schools of this and other cities. With few exceptions the teachers employed in them ‘The unqualified success of these schools at the capital of the nation can not fail to exert a ben- ficial influence upon publicopinien the country. The eapacity of the to be educated but to manage and cont tem of education, has been here demonstra’ beyond a doubt. This fact dissipates many false theories, and will encourage and stimulate the efforts of millions of our newly enfranchised for the school- d that General Van the exactions. The and disorganiza ment of the ex; necessary Consequence. The OS a eee ouee rid Raruitare Dough and scig Notes Dy wali ‘Fenty sttended to by’ AUG o8 Ivania avenge én-iy* of American exhibitors and the pian of the ee are not forthcoming. It is ey were sent to London by ex- press and are lost, but it is probable that they are among the official papers which General Mayer refuses to deliver to the newly-ap) magnitude of the official correspondence of the government may be formed from the following estimate of the amount of official postag» stamps required by the Department of the uarter commencin, citizens in their endeavors to rise above the rance of (heir late servitude, and to themselves by education for the responsibilities of their new position. CODIFICATION OF THE Laws. this sum $1,803,406.13 was received on account $5,428,000 on account of loans; $254,616.23 on ac- count of trust funds and special accounts, and, $1,921,254.35 on account of taxes. allotment ot. s reported that _ , Boy’ J., Abril 28—The boys employed at the glass works have struck against receivi the shin-plasters issued by the comp: good onty at the stores owned by the companies. Interior for the opue PROBLEM THAT was EASILY SOLVED Charley, par me, but oe, tell me “Tsay. C don how is it you always Uress so stylish, and ® moderate incomes"? + QQUR LATEST EXCITEMENT. ATTRACTIONS FOR SPRING. TBE MOST INCREPULOUS BELNG RAPIDLY CONVINC: 910 —Tiem stylish Suits at 610 Please Everybody. @10— Them Serviceably Suits at $10 @40—Brem Bandsons: Suits at £20 jecome Everybody. @28—Them Nobby, well ‘unde Suits, at $10, ARE 80LD TO EVERYBODY. OUR JUVENILE NOVELTS. NEW SPEING STYLES. @2—Ocr full Suit for Boys’ School Wear at $3. like—@3 GOAN the Ree Ie nce pitect ban aS want— $2 O5—-All the Bore wan Pour Hehool Reits at 95. @5—All the Boys wear—95 $5—Onr School Suits st 95. 5-Our fashionable sud well-mate Schoul Baits at ¢3 AEE MADE OF DUBABLE MATERIAL. BHABLE BROTHERS, SASHIONABLE TAILORS, Counen 7rn avn D Sraxets. EFORE cesne, SLsnwases ae] Beer ad. Hants iti" Poe aes pear uh, ‘This statement covers all receipts of the Dis- trict government from the date of its organiza- tion, June 1, 1871, to December 31, 1872, inclu- sive—a period of nineteen months. ‘The expendicures during the same period, pur- legislative authority, amounts to Of this sum there was expended on account of the late corporation, $1,750,070.34; tions from proceeds ot 401,568.99; for returns of with the District, $793,- of the administration of ing the various de t on the funded debt, $1, in the treasury of the Distric nditures for the ensuing by the Comptroller, as they have been received by him from the proper Ofticers. I hope that these esti: idly scrutinized, feeling assured that many em can be material! certain, also, that be made in the clerical force and expenses of the executive offices and other departments, the labor of conducting the less than it was during ‘The report of the commissioners fur the codi- f the laws of the District the confirmation of both ssembly and Congress, having pleted before the adjournment of the n Of Congress, was submitted by me been previously sabmitted to the Supreme Court of the District for exami- nation and amendment. Printed copies of the report are herewi transmitted for such revisionary action as you may deem proper. HARBOR COMMISSION. ith the report of the harbor @ channel and of 'y overflowed grounds and complete; commissioners. It is also reported assistant of the head commissioner borrowed money of a man who obtained a refreshment contract, and operated with others in a similar A Bio Havanan Prize, telegram from Hay ticket 1,077 bad taken the extraordinary drawing of April 22. lucky man is @ liquor dealer. On the 6th, he wrote to the agents here to send him a full ticket for the ex- nd enclosed $150. The clerk who received the order weat to the safe where the tickets are kept, and drew fourth the one which lay of the top of the irew halt-a-million dol- im aunouncing his good Tr. Penistan on Thursday at noon. Mr. Penistan’s prize, when discounted accord- + will amount to neatly fication and revi: of Columbia, requirin, On Thursday, a mah announced first capital prize in 70; Pension Office, Burean of Edw Bureau of Indian Affairs, $5,000; General La 5; Smithsonian Institation, #25; epartment, $49,361. mated that the Post Office Department will need stamps to the amount of between $300,000 and £400,000 for the first quarter, as over 30,000 postmasters, besides numerous other officials, tion, $14,161; “0 And having bat © simply becanse I pur- chase from A. STRAUS, 1011 Penna. ave., wear Mth ag total for the to that body. It ha Cowmunist DistuRBANCES LX MApRID.—A ispaich from Madrid yesterday says he ultras demand the establishment of a com- mune, and are en; members of the Permanent Comm! gasta was surrou! on account of Jeans and bo unds deposited traordinary drawin street by armed hrygian cap on a Tra Was arrested in the house of Serrano’s mother. Fig:erola was imprisoned increa-'ng fury of the ultras ‘he ations were made for official stamps by the last Co fiseal year ending June 30, 1874: partment, $600: I transmit hers commissioners, appoint 821.95, leavin, The estimates of ex; year will be transmi Department of J gricu 52.000; Post % Treasury, $504,000; Interior, $220,000; offices of the clerk of the House of Representatives, sec- retary of the Senate, and sergeant-at-arms of the House, $100 each; total for all for the year, tune reached yesterday. The must necessaril: monarchical volunteers are to imst the execution of the decree di ing to the lottery _rui $400, imates will be Tas Wsarton Case.— artillery of the conted Virginia, aud now rector of the Chureh at Lexington, in this state, Foe kod through the south. The lecture has the principal cities nthe circuit court jaturday James R. Revell, , with the consent of At- stet e state bet rae ade m ugene court so ordered. erate army of Northern REAL Estare—Reces? PCRCHASEs—May- SION SITES.—A very significant evidence of the sentiment in which the improved condition of torney General S: crauparmeds mn, with attempti , th poison, ahd the This allows the case to rest for the present, re- the bail of the accused. It is practical- state, though it may TY & consolidation of the ‘Washington Asylum and the Georgetown Poor- house would greatly lessen the expense now at- tendant upon the maintaining of these tions se) iteiy. Since the consolidation of the ah said is no necessity for SALE OF CITY HALL AND PROVISION FoR A NEW DISTRICT BUILDING. morial Board of Public Works Hi It is believed that vered vernment being much of the south en.i consid tention, but it was at Mobilean Tuesday that lecti a Everybody. District fpovernintat establishme) z nment b: technically in te SINKING PURD COMMISSIONERS. ‘The operations of the sinking fund commis- sioners, a full report of which ith ited, 1 the float del AssyRia—The London by the Governor and jlerer in Assyria has met hereet to an le has found 80 new hiy satistact ‘unsettled Goopx: Myst: ‘There are no new de ments Ir Stanps.— velopments in the Goodrich has failed to . the detectives, so that the i f CRUSHED TO Deata.—On Frida: gt SA Dr. Bennett, of i o i i 33 ‘of aMicnigan has ps x i Z f 2 5 3 & i tha gr i et i £ i eS H ? F F F Cowsora iow oF Bnewor Gaose—Impory Ceremonica at tac Cathutic Cathetrat an Bate or —The B Rev. Willtam > Tes coneroraiel Bissop peabenday at tha Gach? cral in Baltimore ace wo the feremonia! of the ‘hasmn “UatBOhe ‘Clune ; The imp preesive orveians fonr duration, were, antmmense assemblage, in- large mumler of Washingtoulans, who went to Ral ‘for ue . Phe som- to Der of visiting danoand stientast, very large, Bisby Foe. a reatpes ich - . i Gibbums, mand, Williams, @: Beton burg: Dorrence, of and Mi. , Pa., were present; =~ Dr. — of - ia ‘S 41 ig, Kean ond Saurin, ington, rem of Camberiani, Fathers Nunan, Lae oe ¥ "—h Gibbons, of Kichmond, Becker, of » Del, performed the a = the bishopric of Savanhah in place of Bishop Petrico, who resigned emaceeant of bad health: ————— A Drssaty the Vu ‘this station, ‘then , and on lay morning the congroga- tion paid his p: to his former place of ove eee} matter still stands be- tween the cho; the conference.— Sic unioa Vendtcater, ‘ati throngh the sonthern y t last, that seems to have to the tender buds of Columbia, South Carolina. In Teunessee the fruit was badly nipped; also the growing corn and wheat. Tre Lovisiaxa ‘ Vineent, Livingston parish, for the pi of installing the appotntecs of Governor Kellogg. They were met at Harrall's ferry, Amity river, at noen yesterday by a committee of three per- sons, representing the Port Vincent party, ant ‘tis presumed that matters will be adjusted without bloodsh YANKEE 8 iN ENGLAND. England to the New York Ev: “Anenterprisi offered to spare the metropolitan board the trouble of Honse, by moving it to any suitable adjacent spot which the board may select. Thy s vovel—so intensely Amorican—that ¢) y waste mach time in g educated up to it.” ah Raprcars ELecTED To THE Parson Assrw PLY.—The election in Paris yesterday, to which ely attached, re- M. Barodet, the radical candidate. e Padi- cals were successful im electing their men in both Bordeaux and Marseilles, where elections 1 A Pro Law.—The N time pending, inte: accidents that oc of firearms. It i York te point a gu any one, whether pon and the crime is punishable by tine a oLment. Tre Cater scnoot have been granted a shai for their support, and footing as the Protesta text-books re maining subject to the bish approva instruction in the Catholic doctrines be vided for at stated hourseach day. Free Teave—The Penneyivania constite tional convention has adopted a section that all hall Savannah, Ga of the public money aced upon the sawe th railroad and canal companies right to connect with empty or loaded, over each from’ discrimination in rates or charges, and without delay or hindrance. Tur TukeaTeney Caisris Staixe tx New York.—Vesterday It was reported in New York that a movement wason foot among the K nigtits of St. Crispin to strike for an increase of pay and cight hours, and that the societies had held their secret meetings and resolved to strike at an early d Is A seit AMAGES iu Boston, Thursday, bronght by a father whose son, six years of age. had been {ustantly killed by being run over by a loaded truck, Judge nstructed the jury hat as no interval of conscious suffering inter- vened, they must find for the defendaut. Tho verdict was rendered accordingly. 87 Rev. W. H. Milburn, the blind preacher, has obtained a divorce from hus wife, who was once a belle of Baltimore 87-The village of Stauton, on the Memphis and Charleston rialroad, was destroyed by fire Saturday night. The loss is estumated at €150 000. 87 There will be a greatrush to the University of Michigan. The very first female graduat> of that institution bas just married one of her classmates. &7- Among the attendants at the performance of Le Centeneire, at the Boston Museum last Friday evening, was Wm. M. Tweed, with a lady and two child: @7 Tennyson doesn’t want Canada annexed to the United States. The poet is more modest than those Englishmen who don't waut the United States annexed to Canada 87 The horse disease bas caused many branches of business to beceme almost paralyzed in San Francisco. It it spreading rapidiy, but few fatal cases are reported. S7-Fifteen hundred singing birds of different imported from Germany by the society ga for that purpose, were turned loose in the suburbs of Cincinnat! yesterday. 87 A Minnesota lover lately captured his Dulcinea, aged 15, from her reluctant pareuts, and drew her to his forest home, a distance of eight miles, on a hand-sled. 7 Count Oliver de Kermel, the Breton squire, sentenced to penal servitude for life some months ago for murdering bis brother = the family chateau, died the other day at ‘oulon. Lig: COLORED Lavender, and Tos workmanship, at A. STRAU! pear Hth, . WORMLEY'S PECTORAL SYRUP, ro. COUGHS AND OOLDS SOLD BY ALL DEVEL le 2 L @GISTS QHIRTS MADE TO ORDER, bs Tv conuection with my Merchant Tailoring busi pest, Lamm now prepared to MAKE SHIRTS TO ORDER, having engaged the services of one of the best cut- ters in the country for that purpose. Boing satis- fied of my ability to give entire satisfaction, both in style and fit, I respectfully solicit the ‘patropage of the public. Pea Sairt and Drawers facterer, ORKING MEN bave po cause to strike when they can Pants and ef, tTRaUs. L) i Penwes sve. pear eas EO Se, near Tithe. 085