Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1873, Page 1

EVENING STAR. Published Daily, Sundays Excepted AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Pennsylvania Avenue, cor. Lith St, ar THE EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY, 8S. H. RAUPPMANN, Prevt. C WEEKLY ayeat. Ba Tmvaciab hy in advance, in both cuseey and ‘Bo paper sent longer than paid for BF Rates of advertising farnished on application. DRY GOODS. _ Wy Cees sree STAR—Published Friday—@1.50 LUTTRELU & WINE hive just received from auction 5.00 yarle DRESS GUODS at 12% cent coat Scents in goldto import. 1sw yar Figoret LINEN LAWNS at 15 cet Der yar. vert * ; 1:9 pieces CRASH at half price. ing is believing. ao © LOTTRELL & WI im-6t Corner 20th street and Peon pD#Fss e@oops, CHEAPER THAN EVER, TO REDUCE STUCK. FINE GOODS AT LOW PRICES. (ONE PRICE TO ALL.) BOGAN & WYLIE, 101% aod 1620 7th street northwest. Close! Selling off to AS WE INTEND TO CLOSE OUR PLACE OF BUSINESS ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF AUGUST, #OR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING ALTERATION TO SUIT THE NEW GRADE, WE WILL SELL UNTIL THAT TIME, OUR ENTIRE STOCK or Desirable Dry Goods AT AND BELOW COST, AND NO MUMBCG ABOUT IT. P. S—THE LOWEST PRICE WILL BE BAaMED AT ONCE A. GODDARD, 908 SEVENTH STREET, ier ew Doors Abov AD AND PROFIT: I Street. Owing to the recont heavy decline In price of DRY GOODS. Great +We are enabled go offer Gr Indecements to Gash buyers. We mention’ the prices of a few of our goods: Elegant one (1) batton Paris K two (2) button Paris Kid lendid sixteen (16) bowe French on Corsets, TSc Also, 9 Corset at Sc. and “Thomps 0's” and “ Brimble’s” Glove-fitting Uorsets, very cheap. Yard. wide Bleached Cotton, lve Black Drees Silk, $1.25 np. Biack Alpacas and Mohairs of the best makes, 1..- cloding the Beaver and Buffalo brands, from 25c. Prints. sc.; Lawn Robes from $3.30 a Ladies 0 ear and Geuta’ Bhicte et manufac- turers Ho goads should be purchased Prior te an exami- Bation of our stock. BRODHEAD « CO., }3m «3205 F street, between 1ah and Lith. LADIES’ GOODS. iP W=STY PEE CENT. Discounr. a i ‘Will commence selling at the above MonpaY, Jane @, and continue to July 2), his entire stock © Ladies’ and Children’s Dresses, “Llama Pointe, Sacges, and Capen, = aces of ail kinds. nets and Bonnd Hates, _ Flowers, Feathers, Ribbons, Sashes, Belts, Fans, ac. &c. ‘On his 1 and choice assortment of MAND MADE FEENCH UNDER-GARMENTS ani J.B. . CORSETS a deiuction of 10 per cent. will be al- wed. All goods marked in plain figures, i jea8-1m M. WILLIAN, 307 Pa. ave. JEST LOOK Ten TUCK SKIBTS for 85 cents, at_8. HELLER'S, 719 Market Space. 135 MISS McCORMICK, > PENNSYLVANIA avexvx OR ‘Bas constantly on hand a fine assortment of IMPORTED BONNETS, STRAWS, CHtps, FLOWERS, BI?~ L yi -S0NS, &c., FUBRES yas recelved +UAPS ena COIP- EE BARGES? - TMENT OF LADIES SUITS, © ng gt SORT = i amen - [ELLEL'S, 719 Market Space. > BAD AND SAVE YOUR MONEY. a] Ls Sa who he Hatr Switches that have faded shade in Share ts = et jt Curls; and handsome Eeittches. very cheap Now Is the time to ony at MADAME ESTHEN'S Halr Factory O10 ime ot Bear G street. aktr R= HAIR SWITOHES, Price @9, selling for 86, at S. HELLER'S, 719 Market Space. 125 STP Ne peor, . 617 SEVENTH STREKT, fen-tr Opposite Patent Office. sy ADIES’" L FRENCH STARCH ENAMEL Js the best article in the world for doing up Linen or Moslin. It imparts « beautiful gloss to the favric. For sale cere AM & CO., Manufacturers, — 160 West Lombard street Baltimore, Mary! janle-ty SOCNo FEET sir AND FREQUENT EXERCISE and sunshine being pre ph ah oh ysical ‘aad mental health, aad LONGEVITY, — end of porzons come from far wad near to vist : ow! Topodist, No. Feet, opposite, the United Bistes Broux: try, Washington, D_O., for reilef from Qorns, Bun- Sat ye a a = to 108. J ro ediate and painless PRACTICAL TR URE ERR MANUFACToRY. ENOOUBAGE HOME MANUFACTURE! TRUNKS BEPAIBED AND COVEBED. JAMES 5. TOPHAM & CO., HARNESS, SADULE AND TRONK MAND- FACTCKERS, Bo. 499 SEVENTH 8° 8 ext to Odd Fellows’ B li, is tn thetr line, ee ae in Ja] Company + wharf at 3 30 a. m. (;*45D SELECT EXCURSION oF THE HIBERNIANS TO ST. INI- KOUT AND GEORGETOWN GUE: le to all their friends and patrons. Gentle- tickets. $3; lady's @3; children free and welcome. Tick: Tooms and tickets apply to High street, 1-2w D. F. ROBERTSON, Chairman. AMUSEMENTS. Oip No ) Om Exhibition and Sale) Naw No. ps << H at tr fatal 7H Br. : MARKRITER'S, ae No. 439 7th street, between D and streets, eight above Odi Feliow’s Hall, Wind Shades, » Frames, Picture Cords’ and ‘T sels, Bings, &e., in the District. B2-Texus Cast by address'n, —Fpenin g Star. Vet, 42—N2. 6,350. WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JULY 28, 1878. TWO CENTS SPECIAL NOTICES. Fine Old Rye W ine ve tay Fine Old Rye Whisky, ine Old Rye Whisky, AnD UNADULTERATED, Por Wand Medicinal Use. ‘This ts the article we have now sold for upwards years with universal satisfaction; put. w) = tiles at One lar per bottle, or can be fh any quantity. &7 Notice, that we will return the money if this Whisky does not give satisfaction or prove aa repre- ted by us, Also an excellent stock of California Wines—Port, Kelly feiaea Gniaune ser’ sock oud, plaret: plat al al jqnors ol Kinds. TH TTANS, Druggist, ABTHUR Na’ dyi2-tr Corner of 3d. and D streets northwest. Mothers, Mothers, Mothers! Don’t fail to procure MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTH- ING SYRUP for all diseases incident to the period of teething in children. It relieves the child from pain. cures wind colic, regulates the bowels, and, by giving relief and health te the child, gives reat’ to her. Be sure and call for RS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP.” For sale by all druggists. Jy H-eebah ‘8 Hair Dye is the best in the world the only true and perfect Hair Dye; no ridiculous pointment, harmless, reliable, instan- br ‘et all druggists’, and 16 “EXCURSIONS, PIC NICS, &e. J,OUKTH GRAND TEMPERANCE EXCURSION BY PH@NIX TENT, No. 12, I. 0. B. TO GLYMONT. TS) On WEDNESDAY, July’ 30, 1873 25 cents. Adults tickets, 50 cents; children’ The steamer Wawasett will leave Potomac Perry p.m. jy24 5t* the occasion. Te com- re no effort to make the occasion en- limited; to b 4 at W: ‘enue, - Talbot, No. 68 oT Choice Oil Paintings, Engravings, Ohromos, &: Also, | Paper Hangings, S27 Picase remember Name and Number, jel-ly™ LL KINDS OF CAST-OFF WEARING AP- PAREL can be sold to the very beat advantage or calling on JU: EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip, INTERNAL REVENUE.—The receipts from this source to-day were $610,824.50. Naval Orpers.—Lieut. Commander J. H. Sands and Ensign E. J. Arthur, detached from the California and placed on waiting orders. A pisratcs from St. John’s, Newfoundland, dated the 26th, announces the sailing from that port of the steamer Tigress, of the Polari: search expedition. LEAVE OF ABSENCE for six months, to take effect when his services can be spared by his commander is granted to Ist Lieutenant Jesse C. Chance, 13th infantry. Cox. Forney is writing a new series of his capital “Anecdotes of Public Men” for the Sunday Chronicle. The number for yesterday 2 ‘some interesting, reminiscences of Richard Rush, THE “‘freedom of the Press” has received a new definition as well as vindication; it means freedom for Dana, of the New York Sun, to lie as much ashe eyo and to blackguard any one as often as he pleases.— Pittsburgh Com. PRESIDENT GRANT, mpanied by Post- master General Creswell and several other members of his Cabinet, will visit Overlook Mountain house to-morrow. Surveyor Sharpe, ot New York, will give a reception to the Pres- ident and party om Thursday. Tue Pact that Senator Conkling, who al- ready has a comfortable residenee in Washing- ton, has just purchased a large residence lot, is considered confirmatory of the rumor that the Chief Justiceship has been offered to him.— Boston Journal's Correspondence. Hon. Sam Barp, of Tennessee, is in town. He proposes to reenter upon the newspaper business in Georgia and has out his prospectus for The Atlanta New Era to be started on the Ist of September, first asa weekly and to be issued as a daily as soon as practicable. Brps were opened to-day at the Treasury de- partment for the construction of lite saving stations between Cape Henlopen and Cape Hatteras. There were six bidders, ranging in price from two to four thousand dollars. Mr, A. W. Sweeny, of this city, was one of the bid- ders at $4,771. The lowest bid was = Back Pay.—Senator Sherman, who, in a re- cently-published letter, said h2 did not intend to draw his “back pay” or have anything to do with it, has changed his mind and drawn the amount due bh Representative Charies Foster, of Ohio, and W. ster, of Michi- gan, have also covered their “Lback’ pay” into the Treasury. Tue Heavy Rain or Yestervay.—The Signal office reports that during the storm of vesterday afternoon in this city 1.50 inches of rain 1 in 24 minutes; the measurement at 11 p.m. showed a total of 2.30 inches since 2:36 p. m. The temperature, which bad been 93° at2 p.m., fell to 73° by 4:35 p. m., or 20° in 2 hours and 33 minutes. CSTH, street, between 6th and 7th n. w. Notes by mail promptly attended to. ash paid. 113 Household mail 1408 LD GOLD, SILVER, BRASS, D dota EE: MBAS, OOPPER Br Urpiture bought and sold. Notes by en attended to by AUGENSTEIN, vi d31-1y* H.B. 7th & D. LB. July Sth. BEGINNING TO-DAY. CLOSING SALES or Supimer Ciothing! FoR MEN AND Bors. THE ee a a eee es ENTIRE STOCK WILL BE CLOSED OUT .MMEDIATELY aT PURCHASER’S PRICES. NO BEGARD FOR ORIGINAL COST. HABLES BROTHERS. FASHIONABLE TAILORS, COBNEB Tru AND D STREETS. GOLD SPECTACLE, Fe Onxy 86, a aS heMbiee, Optician, x EEP 1T HANDY. THE RELIABLE FAMILY MEDICINE. Cholera, Dysentery, Diarrhea, Samaner Complaint, sanSbLEE NESTE TERT Eo tox A ELLA 1} - —_— BEELY BOOT ‘AND BHUBABB. i tried >» entirely vegetable, quick and certatn in effect; can oded on in the most urgent cases; to the youngest infant as well as to tains ne Cam, or Opi It Tae Imoniais are from prominent citizens of Washington who have al om inent c! Hie BE gAtont SN, see Soave RR Ea oes Fo nit homaienestine d aaa ce ae saute: Bethe] 4s ‘port wine! VERY OLD AXD PERFEOTLY RELIABLE BZ Its medicinal value hes been thoroughly JM-colm WN. W. BURCHELL, 1339 F street. [)oLvTion oF co-PaRTuERsale, noe ot peru, 1978. 2DAerg era ae eee “se SAMUEL ABRAHAM. Ps SEVERAL FINE SEVEN-OCTAVE PIANOS gitirnaine Shines decent AER Nth street, near corner Pa. ave. y34-6t* AED or oF Orn AND P StREErs. 0.¥_ ArLEB. c ‘6th ote. ay a Oa a eesce | PARDON OF KU-KLUX Prisonens.—Attor- ney General Williams to-day recommended that Pardons be issued to Felix Dover, Stephen Sparon, Evans Murphy, and Wm. Scroggs, who were convicted in North and South Caro- lina, of ku-klux outrages, and are now serving outtermsin the Albany’ penitentiary. Those pardons were recommended by leading citizes of the south. ee ae LovIsiaNA PAYING ory HER AvovST IN- TEREST.—Attorney General Williams isin re- ceipt of the following communication : New Orveans, Jaly 26. Hon. Geo. H. Williams, Attorney General : We give notice to-day that we will pay the August interest on and after the first. We thus resume the payment of interest on bonded debt of state as it falledue. In the month of June igStwe collected in the city of New Orleans alone one million one hundred thousana dollars taxes. Wx. P, Kecroas. ee 7 Tuk PoLLow:xG PROMOTIONS were niAde tox day in the office of the Sixth Anditor of the Treasury department :—Fouth class, A. E. Boone; third class, B. E. McGrew, L. . Squire, O.L. Prescott J.R. Williamson, James F. Patterson, John T. Clokey, 4. 0. Réynolds, ¢:M- B. Sarris, John T. Coughlin, Eama A’ ~tt6f, Thomas Ellis; second class, George A. Shaw, William C. Salt, Albert L. Smith, FW. Hoover, William Waring, John H. Gonant, John W. Cromwell, Margaret R. Gray, Adolph Van Ruth, John B. igre F. W. Archibald, H. K. Van Buskirk, E. A! Wetmore, A. H. Lincoln, Prrsoxat.—Coliector Casy, of New Or- leans, is at Willard’s, +---Secretary Kobeson will be absent from the city next month, and Commodore Reynolds will act as Secretary. The Secretary leaves for Rye Beach on Friday. *---Comm: ler Thomas ©. Selfridge is in the city, looking after the printing of hi the Darien survey. ---JudgeJ.J. Martin, oth auditor, returned from Winchester, Va., this morning, but returns again this evening, owing to the continued illness of his child. ----Gen. John Eaton, Commissioner of Education, has returned from the New York state teachers’ association, before which he delivered an ad- dress, on Saturday last. SzNator Sumner will leave the city about the middle of the present week for Nahant, by way of Boston, where he may remain one night. He is looking quite well, and has almose entirely recovered his heaith. A large amount business, such as correspondence, &c., ac- cumulated daring his illness, but since he be- fan to convalesce, about three months since, fie has been busily engaged in gg eye this work in order that when he left for Massachu- setts he might ge feeling free from care and prepared to recreate undisturbed for a few months. He will probably remain at Nahant with his personal friend, Prof. Longfellow, during the month of August, and hopes to re, turn to the Senate next winter with his wouted health and vigor. News FROM NAVAL VESSEL8 ON THE EvRrorgan STation.—The following dispatch from Rear Admiral Case, commanding the European station, was received at the Navy de- partment to-day: U.S.S. Wanasu, Flagship European Station, Tasers, July othe 1813. } Sir; Ihave the honor to repart the arrival of this ship at this place on the 6th instant, having visited on the way the ports of Geneva, Paler- mo, Messina and Syracuse, at all of which, as well as here, the usual courtesies and civilities were and have been interchanged with the au- thorities. Ihave reports from the other vessels of the station as follows :—The Shenandoah, Capt. N. Wills, —— th reports on sies, and found vailing, though wi between the carlists and ‘The Congress has visi! rd : 8 ri le 4 | rit villi 5 a F ! é RQ! e ge $ ‘rom Southwest Virgiuia, [Correspondence of The Star.) Manion, Suytu Co., Va., July 25, 1873, Ed. Star:—Marion is the prettiest and best lo- cated town of any in southwest Virginia. The water-power is excellent. Factories are spring- ing up, and improvements rapidly being made. Tron ore of the best quality is abundant, good limestone and sandstone at hand for building purposes, and an excellent quality of the latter for grind and burr stones. A pa nee is present in inexaustible quantities, a: it is te that probably, in connection with the limestone, that this mountain county owes its fertility. The in and grass are as good as I have seen anywhere in the state. A — many Yankees from New England, New York and Pennsylva- nia have settled here, a ve lent their ener- gies and capital to the improvement of its dor- mant resources, its school system and society. A flour'shing lodge of Good Templars proves the temperance spirit of the place. In fact, Marion is the only town in southwest Virginia where liquor has been entirely banished. Abingdon, the seat of the Fleyds, hnstons and Prestons, is one of the oldést of Virginia towns, and the home of the Abington willow, scion of Pope's willow at Twickenham, andthe father of all willows of his kind in America. It has, however, in spite of its fine mansions, many of the apominable charactenstics of an old Virginia town, among which not the least are dogs, ‘whiskey and unthrift. The old mansion of John B. Floyd, (whose adopted daughter married Col. Haghes) is now the Jackson Institute, and of Wm. Preston, the Martha Washington Institute. A few miles north is Emory and Henry College, one of the oldest institutions in the state, beautifully located, and according to report, admirably managed. The mountaineers are lawless desperadoes, violating revenue and all other lay t will, and in some localities utterly defy- ing sheriffs and constables. The grand jury of the United States Court have found a number of indictments for resisting judicial process. On the whole, the country is rich in natural resources, but its population is poor, and naturally still somewhat jealous. The Northern man intending to “improve” must have capital for three years start and patience and grit for adozen. His reward will be fertile fields, near and good market, and we hope in the end congenial society. Christians id Savages, WHO COMMENCED AGGRESSIONS—THE WHITES OR THE MODOCS? Editor Star: In command of an emigrating party I crossed the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1849, at a point intermediate between Goose Lake and the Tiamath Lakes, or lava bed dis- trict. A few days before I reached the pass, Capt. Warner, of the U. S. Topographical En- gineers, with several of his men, were massacred in @ cafion, some five or six miles north of the pass. Ihad been anticipating the pleasare of meeting the captain in the mountains, knowin, that he was engaged surveying there. Atter f reached the then northern Settlemont of the Sacramento Valley—Lassen’s ranche, {| had a long conversation with old Pete Lassen, the veteran trapper, who had resided in that'wild country for nearly half a century, and reverting to the’ massacre of Capt. Warner, he told me that when the captain left bis ranche, with the intention of teaversing that particular locale, he felt convinced thatthe Tlamath (Modoc) In- dians would kill him; because, during the pr vious season a party of emigrants going to Ore- on, were on the margin of the ureat Tlamath ike, and their guide, acpaezees old and weil- known trapper, named Hedgepeth observed the Indians in their canoes quietly fishing on the lake, (these Indians hitherto inoftensive,) and called to the men of his party to get out ‘their guns and shoot the d—d redskins, which atro- city was promptly executed—a deliberate, cold- blooded massacre of inoffensive savages. Since the perpetration of that diabolical trans- action, from time to time, the tribe has com- mitted excesses in retaliation, adding Warner and his men to the victims, and lastly, goaded on by a long series of wrongs, the Modoc war and all of its consequences were the results. Thus we see the alpha and Cp of all the [n- dian troubles in that section. And thus it has ever been, as far as my observations have elicited the facts. And furthermore, amongst all the Indian tribes of the western part of fie continent particularly, have been and now are numbers of renegade white men, disguised aa Indians, conforming to all their modes of life, teaching them the use of firearms, &c., and insti- gating em to commit excesses upon the whites for plunder, &c. That Gunnison’s party were by Mormons in disguise as Indians is my firm opinion. And so with many other such lamentable occurrences. In wild adventures —- the Piutes of the Sierra Nevada and Co coast range mountains of California for nearly two yer” yy oes, eploed With Bumeroug bairbreas\, eeeafcs, 1 learnt oon- siderable of the wajé of the white and red men of those counties, and of _— murders pro and coh, &me of which occu unpleasantly near to where I was. And invariably the fist aggression was to the unprin- cipled, reckless whites. In 1850, for the sake of adventure, I joined a party ef rough prog] rs, amgng them some old mountain- eers, and generally a hard set. In a wild dis- trict of the Sierra Nevada, below the pass, and on the eastern slope, where the Piutes were numerous and very hostile, and the first time that their domain had been invaded by the whites, traversing at the time a narrow vale, one of our party espied in the distance a squaw, apparently engaged in digging roots; putting spurs to his horse, he pursued and overtook her, and informed us, on rejoining the party, that he had outraged her. A few nights after that our sentinel, @ wortMy young man, was killed by arrows. ‘Subsequently, when traveling on foot from Trinidad, on the coast, to the mouth of the Tlamath river, I noticed a deserted Indian village in a wooded hollow near the beach; visited it, admired its be: pe geen. | location and comfortable huts, aud noti among other things some miniature lodges, and bits of bone, crockery, shells, &c., where the little children had been playing. [t aj to have been very vecently vacated. Warned of the hostile character of the Indians of that district, I could not risk stopping to make a sketch of the spot. It was an old village. Why abandoned? A few months before I saw it, a arty of miners, going up the beach to the ‘lamath couutry, stop) here to rest them- selves; soon some of them commenced takin; offensive liberties with the females; a row an fight ensued, several Indians were killed and wounded, and two of the whites slain. When the whites reached their destination, they @ ported that those Indians attacked them with- out any provocation and killed their comrades, Thereupon a large party was organized, came down upon the devoted villagers, killed and wounded many, and drove the rest into the momntains. Travelers were occasionally mar- dered afteawards by the ruthless savages. J could relate hundreds of instances of like ap ergs showing the white man to have been the Indians. rst cause of the difficulties with the OLD Piongex. Bripczk Over Tax Occoguan.—The com- Missioners Ay poe by the county courts of Fairfax and Prince William counties, Va., met at Occoquan on the 18th instant, accompanied by an engineer and bridge builder, who, after eareful measurements and calculations, re- gorsed the cost of the contemplated bridge at 000. Cor: Vutx.—The War- ) Sentinel says: R. Bolen has discovered on his land,in Harmony Hollo upon the western slope of the Blue Ridge, vein of cop; ore, about twenty in width, and which he has traced upon the sur- face about a quarter of a mile.” ———_—_ Tue New York East River Mystery EXPLatngp.—The bod: a é H The Baltimore Fire. FURTHER DRTAILS—DISMISSAL OF A BALTI- MORE FIREMAN FOR AN ASSAULT ON A COL~ ORKD FIREMAN OF WASHINGTON. The Balt are still filled with de- tails of the fire in on Friday last. The entire insurance is sly a little more than $150,000, while the is now estimated at be- tween four and five hundred thousand. All the companies are Baltimore rations, with the e: of the Koyal, whose risk was small. ‘was more fire ordered five thousand feet of hose from New York, and determined to in- crease the service by the addition of three new steamers. Thousands of persons visited the burnt district yesterday, including a number from Washington city. The Sun of this eames 7. in correcting misstatements of the N. Y. Times: ‘Two fire compauies came over from Washington with almost lightning rapidity and did excellent ser- vice, meriting and receiving the thanks of the entire community.’ DISHONORABLY DISCHARGED. The American of this morning says :—Shortly after the Washington fire company, No. 2, ar- rived in this city on Friday afternoon and went to work on Saratoga street, one of its members named Joseph Wooster, an assistant pooms, started to enter a he Sop ice jouse On Saratoga street, next toand west of the Central Presbyterian church. Just as he had passed in the door Charles Smith, a half drunken white fireman, of this city, who belonged to company No. 8, stepped before him and said, “ Get out of here you d— nigger.” He then strack Wooster a violent blow on the head. Wooster did not answer him, and went to work, leaving Smith still muttering curses in the doorway. It for- tunately happened that one of the city fire com- missioners was standing near by and had seen the whole affair, The commissioner at once took Smith's cap and badge away from him, and ordered him to fe, to his engine-house im- mediately. Smith did as he was told, and after reporting at his engine-house, on thé corner of Mulberry and Poppleton streets, he left, and was afterwards arrested and taken to the mid- dle district station-house for being drunk and disorderly. The fire commissioners met on Sat- urday, and he was dishonorably discharged from the fire department of this city. a ‘Tue Presipent at Lone BRANCH—His Quiet and Unostentatious Manner of Living.—Here his (President Grant’s) manner of living is noted only for its lack of extravagance and ostenta- tion. His life is as quiet and unpretending as that of the most modest cottager. His cottage is by no means the grand affair that was too often described ——- the heat ot a political contest. It sets back from the road some dis- tance, and is of a subdued order of architecture, & sort of mixture of English villa and Swiss chalet. Its colors are dingy, and its general appearance by no means as attractive and costly as is generally supposed. Nevertheless, while it would be taken for the residence of a quiet gentleman of position and taste, it does not appear to be unbecoming the President Whose life here is s0 quiet and unobtrusive. Nobody would know, trom his manner of living ‘and his personal intercourse with the citizensof the Branch, that Gen. Grant occupied a higher station in the world than his neighbors. Whatever maybe said against General Grant and his administration of the g cannot be said that h Long Branch is u.becom r ostentatious. The family of the President have placed them- selves upon the same social level as other culti- vated and respectable families. There is no exclusion whatever. ‘The carriage of Mrs. Grant is frequently seen before the cottages of other residents, avd there is no indication of a difference in worldly station, When it ig re- membered that the rig Social etiquette of Ww satiington precindes the family of the Presi- dept and Vice President from returning calls, it will be seen that the position which the President's family have seen fit to take here is one that cannot but be approved as the most sensible and judicious that could be followed.— Long Branch Letter to N. Y¥. Tribune. THREE More INcenpiary Fires 1x Nor- FOLK—Five Fires Within Twenty-four Hours. At an early hour yesterday morning Weil & Al- man’s shoe store, ‘Norfolk, two doors south of the starting point of Saturday morning’s disas- trous confi: tion, was discovered te be on fire, and so ineffectual were the efforts of the fire coding sarcing Gant cian labors of the preceding morning, that the buildii ther Pore an eg bey ge bya ieee , was, in a short time, entire! But little of the’ contents of the two butidion were saved. About half an hour after the di covery of this fire another fire proke out on Campbell's wharf, about, ¢ square off from the first fire, in a building. occupied by & proty shipper. This“ building and one immediately no} of it, used for the same pw » were also entirely destroyed Upon dhe dusecvery of this last and fifth frethat had broken out during the twenty-four hours ending Sunday morning, the greatest conster- nation prevailed. Market square and Main street were thronged with excited people, who were hurriedly moving about in wild dismay, many of them believing that an organized plan for the destruction of the entire bes was being put into execution. At this time the fire com- panies of Portsmouth and the navy yard came over in response to rockets that were sent up to signal for assistance, and rendered invaluable aid. in extinguishing the fire on Campbell’s wharf, which at one time threatened to involve an entire square of buildings. The steamer Sylvester, lying near Campbell’s wharf, was ut in readiness to be dispatched to Old Point Tor the government fire-engines at Fortress Monroe, but at the moment of departure the fire was thought to be under control, rendering further assistance iwecany' 5 The loss by the two last fires will probably fail within $35,000, a large part of which ie covered by insurance. TrE SanaToca Races.—The two first races at Saratoga on Saturday were reported by tele- graph in Tux Star of that day. In the third race, a steeple chase of about three miler, welter weights, for a purse of $1,100, the following Marted: Duffy, Buck, ate | Lawler and Villy. In the 1s Daily was th> favorite against the field. Vity and Buck refused the very first jump, and were out of th» race from the start. he race was lendid'y contested between Dufty and Lanty Lawler. Duffy led all the way until on entering the home stretch Lanty col- jared him, and, coming under whip and spur, won bya head: Time, FT? Great excitement exis’. at on in regard tothe race for the Saratoga cup, to be run for to-morrow, and severr heavy bets have been made on Wanderer a): Harry Bassett. The following horses have o!ready been entered for the race: Joe Daniels, Bassett, Wander- er, True Blue and bi A Rewaway Locomotive anp THE Re- porta a Killed and a _—_ of Cars Demolished.— ae a morning engineer Conway, of the Bi ti more "and ‘Onis Saikent, lost control of his —— on the down grate, two miles east of Altamont, forty-five miles west of Cumberland, when the ine ran away, and when ranning over forty miles an hour struck the rear of a freight train, demol- ished twenty cers loxded with corn, cotton and tobacco, from the W est, scattering the contents of the cars all over the track. Engineer Con- way andtwo other men, Martin and Elliott, drovers from Barbour and Harrison counties, ‘West Virginia, were killed, and T. Burke, con- ductor, and E. Cornery, brakeman, both of busty gcd’ eprom azatene . Its ry @ mos! le eck that ever occurred on the Baltimore aud hio road. Trains were delayed in consequence for several hours. THE NEWS PRON SPatn is exciting, and indi- cates that the government is peo leprae determined 4 ( 5 i a : = : E | I : i TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR This Afterneen’s Dispatches, pat Se tl ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS, ————e —__ New York Notes, CARL VOUT PLEADS INNOCENCE. New Yorx, Jaly 28,—Carl Vi who was saved from surre: tothe govern- ment by a decision of Attorney General Wil- liams, émphatically denies that he is the mur- derer of Chevalier Bianco, and = of the bank notes and otner securi- ies which the Chevalier’s relations claim, by saying he received them from the woman known bere as Mrs. Vogt, in London from a German. now tard a livelihood by scrubbing law offices in this city, while the lawyers are fizht- ing for $100,000 worth of securi' which ied over to them after Vogt’s arrest to expenses in his defence. FIRE. Tho stables oi the agen stg he Bd street stage line, a three-story brick building, corner Zith street and 9th'avenue, was almost destroy- ed by fire this morning. The upper floors were burned and the lowe: ly damaged by water and several stages were burned. THE PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT are about to institute suits for alleged frauds in the sale of imported guano against five Water street firms engaged in that business. The bill of complaint, which is very voluminous, charges the refilling of old bags which have contained genuine guano and so branded and bought trom the farmers for a few cents each, and the use of an imitation of the brand upon'the gen- uine bags which is a trade-mark of the Pera- vian government. The agents of the Peruvian government assert that these charges are based upon a close analysis of the bags of guano ob- tained from the five out of the ten dealers in the city. THE Pine in the 234 street and Broadway stage stables originated in the hay loft througti the careless- ness of an employé, who took a light up there. The building was damaged to the extent of £50,000; insured for $75,000. The stock was damaged $30,000; insured. The fourth floor was occupied by the 5th regiment as an ar- mory. The loss to the regiment is about $30,000; said to be insured. THE STOKES CASE. In the Supreme Court chambers J udge Pratt reserved his decision in the habeas corpus case of the three young men who have been detained 4s witnesses In the Stokes case. COUNFEL POR CARL Yoot have received a letter from the Secretary of State, stating that the case is still under con- sidcration by the State department. —* Lawlessness West, MAN HANGED BY A MOB. Crxctnnatt, July 28.—At Rogersville, Ohio, Saturday night, during the trial of a man call ing himself Jeff Davis for an outrage commit- ted on a little girl nine years old, the lights were extinguished and the prisoner knocked down, dragged out of doors, shot twice with revolvers, and then dragged’ two squares and hung to a tree until dead. A BAND OF KOKLUX made an attack upon the farm of Mrs. Mason Brown, mother of B. Gratz Brown, in Owen county, Ky., Friday night, killed Louis Wilson, burned his house and damaged other property. The farm covtains large growing crops of to- bacco and corn, which it will be dificult to harvest in the absence of labor driven off by kuklux. Other farms were also visited and warned not to employ hegroes as workmen. It is said the kuklux came from Henry county. ———— American Mowers and Reapers at Vienna, New York, July 28.—Letters from Vienna ve the details of the trial of Mowers and Reapers. Fourteen American Reapers and fifteen American Mowers were entered. The rain was aps and was terribly thick in part of field and small and thin in another. Every machine had its section tocat. The arrange- ments were very bad, there was no p imme, no system, no rule about the number of men to accompany each machine. All the American machines except one did good service. The moves: machines were too heavy for the horses. ‘The trial was bignly satisfactory to the Ameri- cans present. Every mower and reaper in Agricultural Hall was in the field with two exceptions. ——— The © im the Southwest. MemPuis, July 28._The crop reports from Arkansas are very hewmen og J the rains dur- ing the last two weeks having brought oat the corn and cotton, though in tl oe of Jack- sonport rain is very much led. Reports from Mississippi are very ceo yecr | in regard to cotton, but the corn will not yield more than half a crop, owing to the drouth: In the neigh- borhood of Okolona, Koscerisko, and Brandon, both the cotton and corn will make a poor yield. In addition to the drouth, worms have ap. ‘d. In West Tennessee the corn will only a acrop, but the cotton prospect is fair. Wall Street To-day. New York, July 25—Money easy at 3 to 4. Foreign exchange is lower, leading bankers having reduced their rates to 109 for 60 days’ sterling and 1093 for sight. Gold declined from 115% at the opening to 115%, but afterwards ad- vanced to 115x. The rates paid for carryin, are 3 to 4 per cent. Government bonds are du! but firm. Southern state securities are quiet but firm. The stock market has been strong and higher on active business. The largest transactions have been in Western Union Tele- graph, which advanced from 91% to 92. —— ee Another Prize Fight wohen Op. A PREE FIGHT AND TWO MEN DROWNED. New York, July 28.—Peter McLaughlin and Jim Kohoe met at Weehawken, N. J., a day morning to engage in a ‘prize fight, but were prevented by the sheriff of the connty, and the ery of police was raised, when the prin- cipais and their supporters scampered off. On the way to the battle ground one party in a sail boat had a fight, capsizing the boat, and two men wer: drowned. —__e -—__ The So . Races. SaRatoca, July 28.—The pr Faces to-morrow promises excelent sport, and besides the op for the Saratoga cup, which will be the great event of the day, ahdon which betting is extraordinarily heavy, there will be @ race for the Saratoga stakes for two- ear-olds, in which eleven will start, and arace all ag: s, in which about # dozen good horses will participate. From Eu ‘To-day. AW ENGAGEMENT IN SPAIN. Bavorxe, July 28.—It is reported that a se- vere eng® rement bas taken place near Pampa- luna bet veen republicans and Carlists, in which the latter were successful. Two guns and three hurdred prisoners are said to have been cartured by the royalists. ——_+—_—_ The ——— at P RING PIBLD, Mass., Jaly 23.—A iarge num- Ss: box entered for the fall meeting of the Hamre Park association in the e000 race. Goldsmith Maid, Américan Girl, Lucy, Henry, Lulu, and Judge Fullerton are entered. —__o—— eco d Fires. Paovipexens§J uly During & thunder storm yesterday three barns in this vielulty werestruck by lightning and MysTeRiovs MURDER IN MEMPHIS.—About 3 o'clock y morning the wife of Frank Moo-e, who resides on Monroe street, Memphis, was a 57S nome, ambing wep and called to her hu: ‘who was near the bed, to know what was the matter. replied, “Some So Smee sot 6 moment beav' re floor. He never SS ‘<4 murder was committed by burglars, who had fre dag. Two i cowne tad Latent e day. a Moore come ten days were arrested, but be- § z 8 i : 5 u ‘ rhe eeieets ee cae eee Thomas Tierney, 6 Tate of O'Harre's was eck Jumber wd = coal car ae tame manner by the backing of WV. ¥. Tribune, - ey fed ‘@ was about | 4 ae eer ee le se a by four raffians, who wrested his club from bim, felled him to the ground, and by dlows paralyzed his arm, yet’ by his invincible the ‘flight of two of his as- . Her since the visit ot her father. received her trunks, and co ‘that they are kept from her. cide seems to have been abandoned by the au- tho: ities, and the watch at first is on the prioner has been discontinued. She is mow allowed to occupy what was formerly used as the wom®n witnesses’ room. She le entirely = we, — oy satisfaction at the dl 5 rumor in the Brooklyn newapa. pe + that Kate was removed on ~ account of a qv srrel with Fanny Hyde is incorrect.—N. ¥. Si a, 25th. Movement To Form 4 New Srare.—Certain Pp rties in the southwest ba augurated @ ovement to create @ new state out of the con- { ‘uous territory of western Tennessee, southern 1 ontucky and northern Mississippi posed advan of such a scheme we have Tut yet seen stated, but they are © £ ppreciated by the most people c reeting was held at Memph's on Friday jag in furtherance of the project, but ery slimly attended, the genera! feeling being trat it is the work of gentiemen who dosire to <ceate a number of new offices. A convention is to be held at Jackson, Mississippi, at which ‘he ideas of the friends of the proposition wilh ¢ fully developed. rned. A SmockrnGDeatn ann Cr Riov sCorncipENcE, A little girl about four years of age, daughter C. H. Van Biarcom, of 13 Ward street, Paterson, was playing with matches on Thare. day evening, when she set fire to hier dross. Hor mother discovered the child in flames and tore off her burning clothing, being severely burned: about the hauds in doing so. ‘The child's in- juries were so serious that, despite the best. medical aid, she died yesterday from the effects of the burns. It is a singular coincidence that Mr. Blarcom's sister, a young lady, while visiting a friend in New York @ few years since, lost her life in nearly the same manner, her Gress having taken fire from the ignited end of & parlor match as che was striking it, Herald, %th. - PROGRESS OF THE CHoLERA.—In St. Louis there were thirty-nine deaths from cholera da- ring the week ending Saturday. The has made its appearance in Ind Three fatal cases occurred in one family. No = —_ cases are re :. = roke out again in Lagrange, Ky., night. Two deaths oceurred on Sentag anh three 'y. Excessive labor has disabled the physici of Set piece, und application ile for a i has been made to Louis druggist. A cable dispateh says:— The Americans attempt to abdact cision has rendered refusing manding the prisoners to await trial at sion of Queen's bench, in October Mr. Merriman is co and admitted to ball in €4,000. Judge Mc le, in his says the statate declares the offence felony, jum punishment of which is seven in the itiary. ITALY THREATENING Fraxce.—King Victor Emmanuel bas been giving a strenuous warner ing to the French government against its en~ couragement to the clerical party, which aims to dissever Italy and overthrow the throne in the interest of the reestablishment of the tem- of the = Franod the burden of disseu this pat France the len of and presents as an alternative fhe formabon ef an alliance between Italy and Germany, whish would mean another war for France even more A CURIOUS AcoIDENT—A Child Speared by @ Falling Flag-stay— Yesterday, in Philadelphia, , was front residence, in the ait, aged five part of the city, while Mrs of the Th a ing nen y entered child’s skull, causing instant death. ———$———_————$— A Tereisce Wixy Stor ix Missovat.—A& severe ™ over Macon city, Mis- souri, on Friday. The Masonic Temple was vartially destroyed. Several small houses were own » and some stores and cusitings considerably |. Mrs. Collins and a col- ored man were ki ». Myer Mon’ was mortally wounded, and Judge Henry severely injured. Se persons were more or less injured. ANOTHER UnaccounTasLe VeRpict.—Me- Wilhams, chief of police in Jersey ity, and Doyle, @ detective on the force, were some months accused of bg beg weg 2 with rob the First N: al Bank of that Fatat Piuxcs or a Locomorive arp Txpae EEO A Rrves—On Setarday e 1¢ two a on wl North american ‘rosd,‘between Oldtowm, amt Milford, 300 feet long, were blown completely i i H H if fats be Hable to conviction ‘upon them’ oes