Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1873, Page 1

PUBLISHED DAILY, Sundays Exeepted, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Pennsylvania Avenue, cor, Lith st. Ld THE EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPAN 6H. KAUPPMANN, Prev't THE EVENING STAR is served by carriers to tale seneriners at Text ENTS PER WERE, OF FORTY OUR CRNTS PER MONTH. Copies at Ewe Oxats cach. By mail—three Che Evening Star. : te quiet, and 4 to V2. 42-2N2. 6,389. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1873. Two cents. |e six months, $3.00; one year, $ THE WEEKLY STAR—Pablished Friday—81.0 { year. SH Invariably in advance, in cases, aud ‘RO paper sent longer than paid for. a of advertising farnish~d on application. AMUSEM Two DAYS OWLY. SIXTH STREET LOT. A AND SATURDAY. SEPTEN- = DAY en 12TH AND 15 fh. ‘i A TOWERING GIANT AMONG ITS FELLOWS. THE GREAT 12 CENTER-POLE TENT AND $100,000 Challenge Show. GREAT EASTERN MENAGERIE, DSEUM, AVIARY, CIRCUS, ROMAN HIPPO- = DROME AND EGYPTIAN CARAVAN. GRAND PERFORMANCES EACH DAY. THERE OA. MAND 2 AND 2 PM : A GRAND TRIPLE MENAGERIE, Vegetable Cathartic and Anti- billious Pi The local demand for these Puils has stealily in~ creased within a few years. so that at present the ale for them isfyuite considerable. 1 have, there- fore, coutinded to call the attention of the gemeral mbiic to their merits as a general family physic. Prevared he greatest care from sel drags they present ¢ owing foi coniies ‘They are warranted wholly vegetable. Their action is pre They are healing tu the stomach. ¢ They start the liver in healthy and active operation They cure billiousness, sick headache and costive ness. ‘They are invaluable forindigestion dyspepsia, They thoroughly cleanse the entire em. They do not gripe or give pain during their By the invaluable relief they always afford to ry ove that takes them, it is hoy their use will bo come still more extensive. They are adapted for g-neral use. Chiklren and d-licate persons can take them as well ag the strong and robust. Home made, they are always frech.(while patent pills generally are not), and consequently uniformly effectual, Price, 23 cents In four separate Tents, combined with the Colossal Museum, Aviary of Tropical Birds, and Car- ‘avan of Elephants, Camels, Drom- jes, Elke, Buffaloes, Ere... Ete. GRAND DOUBLE CIRCUS PERFORM- ANCE, in the largest Hippodrome Tent in the World. EVERY ACT DOUBLE in two Bings at thesame hour. and under one Grand A DOUBLE GRAND ENTREE. TWO STUDS OF RING HO: Ss, DUAL CORPS OF EQUESTRISNNES, MALE BIDERS, eacsonery, @ YMNASTS, CLOWNS, € e. ATEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ARBNIC AN- GREATEST Ls EVER WITNESSED an VERY DAY. AT 90°C M. - UNPARALLELED . PAGEANT AND PROCESStON OVER TWO MILES LOVG! ‘With emerald, crimson, and gold dens, three brass and reed Bands, crand Btoam’ Piano, whose mnsic can be heard 4 miles, and full Martial Band, as in of ‘16; twenty Beantifal Women, and one orsemen and pages. mounted, and followed ‘tings, banners, and pa- nd Gixdle-ses, in ortet os, with LIVING TIGERS, LIONS, HERS, and JAGUARS LOUSE IN THE STERETS. ona GRAND BALLOON BZ Before ench oxhib SCE. N £ n ads ran Al se ing into the city hare Deen arranged with to bring peeple at greatly re- duced fare. Admission . Children under 10 years, 25 cts. Doors oper aud t Perform ance comm: r DU mt. Leesburg. MONDAY, TUESDAY,S ber DRRPARATIONS | a aate FALL DRY GOODS TRADE, raves CANTON FLANNELS. EW PRINTs. S GOODS. 5 aud WATER PROOFS. FLANNELS. NEW Goons OPENING DAILY. 5 ALL PROFIISANDONE PRi 2 LL. -_ BOGAN & WYLIE, 1015 and 1020 7th street northwest. Agency for Mme. Demorest Reliable Patterns. Kew styles just received. ang tr CLesixa OCT SPRING AND sUMMEB STOCK OF DRY GOODs, stextremely low prices. Remnants less than half Price. DEY GOODS and NOTIONS at low figures. Call and examine before making you? purchases. EMORY BAXTER, jy%-tr 1920 Pennsylvania ayenue. EAD AND PROFIT: to the recent heavy decitne fi of BEBE Ser raat eee Cash buyers. We mentioi poesaneaspert few of our Corsets, 78 and “Thompson's” and rimbie’s” Giovg Siting Corsets, ‘very cheap. 50 up. Underwear and Gonna Bhies at manufac: Bo goeis should be purchased prior te an exami- ODHEAD & CO., between 12th and Lt! LADIES’ GOODS. a ADAME ESTRE just returned fro ty les of MAN LS 13:4 street, near G, bas New York with the’ fall HAIB, cheaper than eve: inches... 2 & hh d bunch heap. eo ee QTATER ISLAND, N. ¥. DYEING ESTAB- . LISHMENT—ESTABLISHED 1519. ‘The oldest and lar may be in the << of its kind im the country; A. FISHER, Agent. &h street, between ¥ N. B—Guarantes given that no color rabs off; bring your articles soon, to get them back in time. a FISHER, FIRST Chass SOOUBEE, St ppprits, Patent Ofte SPECIALTIES oF” 18 SOLE PROCESS. Ladies Dresses cleaned without taking them apart. Gentlemen's Clothes clothes cleaned without shriok- ing. Grease spots removed effectually, so that they ain. Bever she Kid Gloves cleaned om short notice. Prices mod- erate; punctuality guaranteed. sepl-ly J EST _LOOK !—Ten TUCK SKLBTS for & cents at_S. HELLER’S, 715 Market Space. 535 MISS McCORMICK, 908 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, ‘Has constantly on hand s fine assortment of IMPORTED BONNETS, STEBAWS, CHIPs, FLOWERS, RIBBONS, &e., Bewest ys te Gongs. Ladies CaS and Corr THE b. GEST A ‘Tistrrs, tine atretna es or EaD! _8 _* 5. HBELUEB’S, 719 Market Space. StAMPine Dzror, = 617 SEVENTH STREET, fon-tr Opposite Patent Office. RAL BAE AW ICH, Poco, go, vliing for 86,0: 5. HELLER'S, 719 Market Bpace.” j28 Ee Ae eneNcH STARCH ENAMEL the best articie in the world for doing ap Linen or justin, If imparts beaatifal gioes to the favric. cmNeAM 9s, Manstactacers, Daldmore: Maryiaca, CORNS, &c. jank-ly hours from 8 te z fn Washiucton,D. O.Piaet. °° Se ey RTs. COUGHLAN & oon RY Spies oss Bia Sele : to of Columbia ing sepe-tr Oorner 2d and D streets n. w. Bate! Hatr Dye is the best ia the worlt the iy and perfect Hair Dye; no ridiculous Huts, no disappointment, harmless, Telisble, instan- taneous bis or brown; st all druggists’, and 16 street New York. AMUSEMENTS. WASHINGTON, Two Days Oniy, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 AND 27, A BRAN NEW sHow, THREE TIMES LARGER THAN EVER—THE GREAT AMUSEMENT MIRAOLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. P. T. BARNUM’S GREAT TRAVELING WORLD’S FAIR, Thoroughly refitted $1 "Ws ) for 1573, er t t nes li show tm the 4 S.ates: in proof of which a chrtlenge of 811.00, Wis offered. ‘The er ire vast Expo-ition will exhibit in WASHINGTON, on 6TH-STREET LOT, D SATURDAY, September 26 and 27, Giving Two Entertainme it: che first day,and Thres Grand Full avd Complete Performances of the entrre TWENTY GREAT SHows: THE SECOND Day. Morning, Ai.ernoon, and Evoniug. 10a, m., aud Land 7 One single Ticket 59 cents, toall. under 9 years of age 25 cents. To +: commodate the $0,900 persons who visit this Exhibition daily, A GRAND WOODEN AMPHITHEATER, similar te the ancient Roman Amphitheater, will bs erect. 1on ihe Lots selected, at a cost of 85¥0.0,con- tiguons to the COLOSSAL HIPPODROME PAVILIONS, with choice reser zcd_ seats cveclooking the entire audience, giving fall view of the Hi,podrome and ite 3 SEPARATE CISCUS PERFORMANCE}, W.th @ joint seatng capacity for 16,0) people. In the various depa._ments are ¢ ontainc 100 000 Living Historical and Reprewutative O Tiosities. 1,000 Animals, Birds, Reptiles, Marine Mon-tere—100 Magnifi- A reorganized at a cost of Doors open at Dhildren raffes—12 Gorgeous STATUARY CHARIOTS. Five Trains of Railroad Oars requirc 1 to T-ansport I:—Daily Expenses oxcee | the Gross Receipts oi Half Dozen other Shows—3 Great Cirens Tronpes—S Separate and Discinct Oircus Rina, ail in Fail Performance at the same time, SIX FAMOUS CLOWNS, Macsive Water Tanks fall of Living Sea Lions and other Marine Monsters, PROFESSOR FABER'S 820,000 TALK- ING MaCHINE Wild Fiyi Cannibals, Modoc, Comanche, and Digger Indians— Foor Perf»: ning Elephant.— Wonder.ul Riding Goats. ADMIRAL DOF, ‘The f1 Oaliforni: rf, 16 years old, 25 inche: e futnons Ontitrnle Doren’ = old. 4 hith, weighs The only Exhibition in America recognized and byt eas, daily visited by di Font boss ‘admiasion to eudorsed by the ieligiore eminent clergymen and ENTIRE TWENTY GREAT SHOWS guarantecd t> ell who bay the Life of P. T. Bar- arm, written by himself, £5) pages, illu trated. Reduced from $3 & to $1.80. h & $1() greenback toa beginner.”"—H. Gree- &2- Excursion Traine wil! run on all lines at half fare to and from the exhibitior Will also exhibit at BALTL four days, Sep- tember 2, 28, 24 ard 25. sepii-2 EW OPERA HOUSE. Donnan Propristor A. Car Forp....Business Manager and Treasurer ing effects. Ter- ix. Powerful sitnation, Every act encored. Entire new scenery. Strongly drawn characters. Every ‘irl who has ‘able story in” esiie” should see JAOK HARK- AWAY, which will be EVERY EVENING MA x SATURDAY NIGHT TWO PIECES. MONDAY NEXT-ICE WITCH. 80) HEATER Comi &. T 11th Street, les Penna. Avenue. OUR OPENING AN IMMENSE SUCCRSS. A GREAT COMPANY THIS WEEK. Engagerrent of the Champions of the World, McKEE AND ROGERS, ‘n their grea. specialties. that have won for them a world-renowned popularity. ‘ rere nt of the saous European sensation from Na 25N.Y¥.. : RJ. WEIFFENBACH, 2 his marvelous DRUM SOLO upon sixteen drams. Comedians, EAGAN and ED- ‘est Duich Oomedian ivi MAMMOTH VARIETY ‘ENTERTAINMENT. sonciuting each evening withrite ates THE GAMECOCK. Of "THE WILDERNESS, mp oronen SEER Se-Maticee for families and SATURDAY. wef On Exhibition and Sale) Nzw ‘Tru Br. < tea or. HE MISSING Pgorarene ai from the Ill-fated Vessel—: is Wet by Baddington’s Party, and is Wrecked ee ss The Party all Welton the Ist of Jaly— ‘The Tigress Searching for Them. EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip, INTERNAL REVENVE.—The receipts from this | 4 dispatch was received at the Navy depart- source to-day were $934,733.03. ment yesterday from Commander Braine, of MansmaL ror Uras.—The President has | the Juniata, stating tliat he arrived at St. appointed Gcoorge R. Maxwell United States | Jobn’s yesterday, and that they ‘+met the Ti- 7 Tages i "Upernavik and coaled. She sailed marshal for Utah, vice Patrick, resigned, to | Bre 8. Ut tue Tictleton island: ‘The Tiseess 8r. Sept. 12.—The letter ? A, T territory, d He ene te ere rea eesy.| TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR | 0% 2c sil indian teritry: dared fae Sth This ffternoon’s Dispatches. bee Associated Press Reports. ee THE LOST POLARIS, The convention, listening to an address from ex-Goy. Bullock, chairman, yesterday af- ternoon ® recess, and reassembled at 3 o’clock. Mr. Rice moved that the galleries be thrown open. Gen. Butler said his triends had gone home as the had not been thrown nd he contended that tt ly the ga'leries with citi- zens of Worcester if they were now They Ge Southward in June—The Ti- and Arapahoes take eifect the Ist prox. ct the Junlata's steam launch (Lieut: Delonz) | “Str: Rice roplied that two ‘at athens gress Stitt Search Will aleo be prevent at the council. . 5 suisak,who had bee to Cape York in the as res ° a ics of the — i RECRUITS FOR TRE FourtH Imrantny.— | Of Tesuisak,who had beeh to Cope York in the motion was made by General Butier himscif, | \ariows 5 lig Tein sn st The superintendent of the general recruiting 3 again and again -coaled her. Ancust 25 “~~ nas Eat Death trom ~_ > ne. MEMPBIs, Sept. 11.—Isaac Hogan, who shot Jim Sawyers, the hackman, yesierdsy, and at- tempt.d to shoot A.J. Wheeler, while in a ft of maria pota. died in the station-house last night from the effects of morphine taken just bet he commenced the shooting. BUTLER WANTS PAIR PLAY. General Butler said: ‘There {« this difter- ence. I made the motion two within fifteen minufes after the convention was called to order. Ionly appeal to the fairness of this convention. If the galleries are thrown open now it will be Loge pe them with cit- izens of Worcester, to the exclusion of the roxt of the Commonwealth. I have a high respect for the citizers of Worcester, |laughter,) a very high respect, (renewed laughier,Jand it is in creasing every day, [uproarious lau zeter,] bat Sommander Green reports camp of Polaris found Angust 14, off Littleton Isiand, laiitude 78 deg. 23 min. north, longitade 73 deg. 46 min. west. service has been ordered {9 prepare and forward under proper charge one hundret and fifty recreits t» Omaha, Nebraska, for assignment to the 4th infancy. Nava Covrts-MartiaL.—The sentence of dismissal from the servire in the case of Lieut. Commander Jehn H. Rowland, U.S. N,, bas been approved by the President. The sentenca in the ¢.se of Lieutenant Webb, of the Asiatic fleet, who was sentenced to be publiciy repri- Sept. 11.—A special trom St. “On the lth of August the Ti- f Alexander and Port For'ke. Ag ong ha a light, and a rock inthe vi- cinity of Cape Olsen was nized by O: Tyson as the same that hid the Polars Fontes view of the p.riyon the ice floe. The vessel was here stopped by order of the commander, when the sound of human volves was heard in the distance. A boat was instintly lowered. It THE CREW OF THE POLARIS ALL W2Lt. Hail gone south two months be(ore in two whale boats made of Polaris sank one month atter. Kept careful lookout going north and coming south. Nosigns. Stopped at all se.clemen’s, No news. (rew of Polaris probatyy on board of whaler from Cape York. Tigress left D’ co prcteanolcrenan Seized for pmuneting. Boston, Sept. 11.—The yacht Undine, re- cently from a craite along the eastern coast and = John, yer’ Brarswick, has been seized on © charge of smuggling ge lot of boot lastings. ; p August 25, for Labrador coast, to continue | I ask them to give usiair play.” The galleries | Was about 9 o'clock in the evening, and am‘d ——— _ -see- — manded, has been set aside by Kear Adm'ral | Search as long as coal and season permits.” were thrown Aly by. a vote oF ‘531 to the greatest excitement Commarder Greer ex-] 4 sresace once San RA Mon on Jenkins. pane New fork Tr panies freer BE WANTS 70 GET RiD OF DELEGATE GREEN. vee Ag ee potdioany wees — Balloon Lost in Space.—Mr. Wm. James Oster- PERsonat.—Hon. Horace Maynard, of Ten- sco, August 25. via St. Johns, Septé 5 considerable portion of the a.ternoon wes perkins ., é ee bind, @ puddier, was returning as uenal t> his Brodhead, Second Coniroiler of the Treasury, r t 2 0 Y of Northumberland Island, where Tyson and delegate named Green be debarred .rom voting A SAD DISAPPOINTMENT. e, neat Meredith's st ba> just returned from a visit to Europe. his party reported that tliey ad left tho Po- | in the convention, as he had declared his inten © was corsiderable exuitation on board | Js! hoontdeuty beard a coued eoxion taney Sena or Ramsey has turned in his back Pp laris. 'o trace of the vessel was found, and it | (ion notto vote for Butler if nominated. The announcement. In an hour afterwards Lieutenant Vinton A. Goddard and Admiral D A. Ko.ne have returned to this eity from an extend d fonr through Europe, after an absence of eight montrs. is supposed that the rescued men were misiaken — locality of their separation from the ves- sel. the air, as of something falling with a rostling noise. He stopped, looked around, and 4 ently saw something fall to the ground, net far from him. Goi k to see what it was, hi found a thick piece of pasteboard with what proved to be s gentleman's reversible cuff, attached to five keys by a narrow sre’ neck-tie, and upon both sides he read the fol- lowing: ‘Should this fall into the hands of an; one, write to my dear wife, Mrs. J.J. Harte, at Olive-street hotel, St. Louis, Missouri, and tell her of my situation. I am up in my balloon, tossed te and froat the ea | of the terrible current; have lost control of ft, and the Lord only knows what will become of me. I left St. Louis on the 2d, and since * p. m. that evenin have been floating about in space. I am out food, and famisied for water. I drop this, ing gome one will find it and weite to my question was debated deal of spirit by George F. Hoar and W. Rice in opposi- tion, and General Butler, John L. Swift, Gen. Briggs, of Pittsfield, and others, in favor. A BOLT ALWAYS IN ORDER. Rey. James Freeman Olark, an anti-Batler delegate of West Roxbury, took strong ground in favor of the right of every delegate to vote as he chose at the election, regardless of the ac- tion of the convention. He declared that a bolt was always in order. A motion of ge FS Hoar, that the resolution be referred to the committee on credentials, was adopted by a vote of 521 to 539. Pending a motion by Gen ‘utler to verify the former vote by which the recolution was Hporaeg the convention took a ‘clock. a boat returned trom shore, bat only brought dis. intment t> the eager crowd that awaited the intelligence. Captain Buddington and h‘s a-ty had gonesouth, in the middle of June it, in two boats, hoping to meet friendly whal- ing vessels to carry them to Newfoundland. ‘The Tigress boat was again manned, accomp.s- nied this time by Commander Green and Fsqui- maux Joe, who was to act as an interpreter. A crowd of Esquimaux, consisting of five men, two women and two children, greeted them on their arrival on shore, where they found a house abandoned, and presenting A SCENE OF THE WILDEST CONPUSION. Broken nautical instruments lay on the floor, while the remains of a mutilated log-book were scattered about in ore. direction. The Esqai- mavx had come from Pond’s bay, and had re- mained with the Buddington party all winte: DISCOVERY OF THE CAMP. Near Littleton sound, however, in latitude 78°, 28’ north, longitude 73°, 46° west, we dis- covered the camp in which’ the Buddjngton party had wintered. Six Esquimaax were ljv- ing in it, and from them and the manuscript records left behind by Capt. Buddiagton, we ascert..ined the history of the expedicion up to @ period of six months previous. After the sep- aration from Tyson the Pola-is party con- structed a house of ship timber and canvas, in which they spent the winter. The ship being too badly damaged to & voyage home, though she still floated, they used some of the material in her for the corstrnctionof two whale Woats, with which they purposed going south as Cars STOPPED oN ACcoUNT oF YELLOW Frver.—The U. 8. marshal at Shreveport, La., telegraphs to Attorney General Williams that the local authorities on the Texas Pacific rail- road have stopped the cars by force, on account of the prevalence of yellow feyer at Shreveport. ‘The marehal asks that the general government interfere to compel the running of trains. The Aitorney General has the matter under consid- eration. Tur New Lock Commitrre AnD Way it WAS APPoINTED.—The statement that Secre- tary Richardson was prompted to appoint a recess until 7:30 0' BUTLER WITHDRAWS HIS NAME. At the opening of the evening session, Gen wife. My name is J. J. Harte, of Boston, soon as the first open water presented. Butler took the floor and withdrew his motion | The house contained a storeroom, a ship’s gal ” . 4 new committee to examine seal locks because TRE PARTY PUT TO SEA. to verity the result of the last vote by counties. | ley stove, and tables and chairs taken trom the oe St fe at is, jah heard of 1) the members of the committee formerly ap: On Joly ist they were enabled to carry out | He said he was saticfied that the majority of the | Polaris. There were fourteen bunks, r and ints heceieen described above, he must pointed were considered by pertons interested | the'rintentio1 pe oy to a a delegates were in favor of the renomination of | #!¢ng each side of the chief apartment. On! be having a high old time. He seems to ‘con- as highly objectionable, ste; is gniirely un- | for Cape ¥ on the const ot Greenland, ed Gov. Washburn, and he did pot care to delay nag rene te geet ig aap tor recreevag =f fader himeelt unfortunate in. having found “the founded. The old committee had the entire | miles @ eutheast, where they could hope ¢ bus‘ness of the convention by parliamentar. rm mn eanen. Esquimaux Joe | current” > contidence of both Secretary: Richardson and | catch a whaler bound’ for Labrador. We kept "ea ,, po hy a tactics. He declared anew his fealty to party, and said he did not want todo anything to cause dissension in its ranks. He cons-quently with- drew his name, and said he saw no cause to ran independently. WASHBURN NOMINATED BY ACCLAMATION. Gov. Washburn was then renominated by ac- clamation. The nomination of Goy. Washburn was re- ceived quietly, A feeble effort was made to question the vote, but it was drowned in a storm of noes, The remainder of the state ticket was made uy as follows, without opposition :—Lieutenant gov conversed with his kinsfolk present, briedly, but Assistant Secretary Sawyer, who considered the the boat was quickly ordered aw: report of that committee as fair in every re- spect. The only reasou for selecting a new committee was because the old committee hat Teported in favor of either one or two locks. and another lock which had been prepar:d partly under the direction of the late Secretary of the Treasury was subsequently to the report, brought to the attention of Assistant Secretary Sawyer. It was therefore thought best to submit the whole question anew to « committee composed of parties who had not been connected with it at all,and who were well known as experis. a sharp lookout all along the coast, both going and returning, but saw no signals and no ha- man beings. We obtained from the camp all the manuscripts of the expedition and all the jourpals. These records are very lon 7, and con- tain a great deal of vaiuable information. Bad- dington’s party were all well when they took to their boats. Instead of going to Europe, will not ine profes— sor direct his wrial craft in search of the lost Harte, who, like Sir John Franklin, seems to have sacrificed himself in the interest of sci- ence.—Kichmond ( Va.) Dispatch, Wth. This party from the Tigress picked up what curiosities they could, and returned to the ship. The boat was manned the third tim Cugar Traxsrortatioy. Senate ommuttee— w York.—The Senate Committee on Trans- rtation met yesterday at the Fifth Avenue otel, New York. There were present Windom, Warner, Sherman, Davi and Conover. The session was de exception of a torn memorandum setting forth the agreement between Buddington and Ches- ter, toconiinue the vearch for the north pole, nothing of importance was discovered. THE POLARIS GIVEN TO THB ESQUIMATX. The Esquimaux pointed out the spot where the Polaris had sunk, and stated that Captain THE POLARIS SUNK. The Po" aris remained afloat until three weeks ago, when she patted her moorings ina gale, 1ltted two miles southwest, and sunk in the ice. Two icebergs now cover the wreck. We es ited to pre~ fall to-day for Labrador in search of whalers | erpor, Thomas Talboat, of Bellerica; attorney | Buddington Pad given them the ship, but that pace A a ee 7 = ‘: — ae which may have picked up the missing men general, Charles R. Train, Boston; secretary 0: | When the ice broke in the middle of July she Mayor Havemeyer. Senator Windom, of the INTERESTING REMINISCENCES OF | Nine steam whalers have gone north, and are | state, liver Warner, Northampton; auditor, | floated into a amail cove and went dows, a GEORGE WASHINGTON, BY THE “OLDEST INZABITANT.” now on the west si All on board the Tigress are well and full of contidence. THE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL Convention Favor of its Extension to the Onie at Camberland—An Ap- peal to be Made to Congress, ‘The meeting of the convention tor the Pro- posed extens'on of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal from the Atlantic coast to the Ohio river took place at Camberland yesterday, and was largely attended by delegai:ons trom Baltimore, Wa bington, Pittwburg, Chicago, and other places. The Cumberland board of trade offercd the convention the vse of their rooms, in the basement of the Lutheran church, and at 12 o'clock A. P. Gorman, president of the capa! called the convention to order, and, after a few remarks, in/roducca the Hon. George A. Pearree, of Cumberland, who welcomed the convent.on w.th a few well-timed remarks. OFFICERS OF THE CONVENTION, Mr. Thomas Moore nom{mated the fol'owing officers of the conventic President, Hon. Montgome.y Blair; vice dents, Thomas Moore of Pittsburg, General Thomas Ewing of jo, Hon. H. G. Davis, Hon. Jo'n Ritchie, J. Berret, A. E. Wil.on, John W. Day's, B. 8. Heath, 4J-J- Spaulding. X. J. Bicley, Hon. P. Hawmill, H. T. S. Negley. W. W. McKaig, Charlet A. Dr A. O. Tirsman, E. Scull, Hon. John Cessna, Hon. G. A. Pearree, 0. F. Brown, H. W.S. Holman of {ndiava, Hon. Jas. 3. Blaine, of Maine, Hon. Y. G. Blunt of Chi- Congressional ‘Transportation Committee was present, and speeches were le by F.D. joulton, 8. L. Husted, A. W. Te and others, and resolutions adopted that an associ~ ation be formed to be known as the New York Cheap Transportation Association; that the policy of the government should be to protect the producing interests and commerce trom corporations and monopolies; that double track railways are necessary; that reform in railway management is essential; that uniform treight rates should be adopted; that legislation favor- able to American ship building should be had; and they demand a wise and liberal polley by State and municipal legislatures, and the ex- ercise of energy, skill and sound judgment by merchants to secure the lowest prices for the transportation of merchandise by land and water. Cheap transportation resolucions were adopt- gd by the New Xork Butter Exchange yester- a) Chas. Erdicott, Canton; jr., North Brovktield. Hon. Chas. Allen, of Boston, chairman of the committee on resolu.ions, reported resolutions which were adovted. While they were pend. ing, Gen. Butler cook the floor, and in a sp ech of some length accepted the situation and counseled that they be adopted. THE PLATFORM condemns those members ot Congress who availed themselves of the occasion of an in- crease of the salary of the President, and of the judges of the Supreme Court, and of the mem- bers of the Cabinet—suppos-d to be just and necessary for the future—to secure to themselves adisproportionate and extravagant compensc- tion for past as well as future services; calls bag! the President to remove all public officers who have improperly interfered with the ind-- pendence of the republicans of Massachusetts in the management ot their local concern? when- ¢ tact is proved to his satisfaction; calls por ngtess to increase the powers over rail roads and other monopolies; demands that re- publicans prrge the commonwealth and the acon of violence, from treachery and corrup- tion; caJ's for such legislation as #ill secure the ten-hour system for women and minors em ployed in tae Ma“sachucetis fact ries; declare that the republican party is the party of tem- perance, order and law; and that it favors the onest and impartial execution in faith all laws, especially those for the suppression 0 crime, intemperance and diso-der. emall iceberg had grounded on the wreck, which was in about nine fatuoms water. No attempt appears to bave been made t> examine the position of the wreck, and nothing was as- certained as to how the winter was passed, the whereabouts of the missing men, or how they spent their time while waiting for the ice f> break out. The entire time of the Tigress in the neighborhood of Littleton Island was only five hours. The Esquimaux were not sufficiently interrogated. When first seen from the deck ot the Tigress, these people were in the uniform of sailors of the United States navy, but they sab- sequent!y changed their clothes and redouned their Esquimaux apparel, AN ACT THAT LOOKS sUsricrovs. The Esquimaux, moreover, had but little pro- visions; their fc being nearly all consumed; neither had they any boa's. [Under these cir, cumstances, through the medium of Dusky Joe, the: ed to be tuken on board the Tigres; but Commander Greer declir-d to allow them to doo. After the bo.t had returned to the ‘Tigress three cheers were given for homeward. The assistant ice pilet reported an ice blink fitt-en miles off, and the vessel was hastily headed south at fiftcen inute: past two o’clock in the morning, aiter an imperfect search, and leaying the unfortunate E.quimaux bebind to battle with fate. Instead of crossing to the wes.ward of Cape York and follow: e prob- able ireck of Buddington’s party towards Pond’s Bay, the Tigress returned t2 Uppernavik on the 1%ch of August, and arrived at God Haven, Disco, on the 25th. Although the easurer, Chas. Adams Poromac River. On Board Steamer Arrow, Sept. 9, 1873. } Editor Star:—There was quite a large number of visitors to Mount Vernoy to-day from allsec- tions of the country—New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, souri, California, Maryland, Virginia, and the Territory being well and beauti ally represent- ed. In addition to the mauy objects of interest to be found there, we had the pleasure and the privilege, never before enjoyed by pilgrims to the ‘American Mecca,” of meeting the vener- able nonogenarian, Noble Hurdle, c q., of Georgetown, 1). O., and of listening’ to a very interesting speech delivered by him from the portico ox the old marsion, Mr. Hurdle was appropriately inicodaced *) i's audience, and Prefacing his remarks with an original and very creditable ode commemorative of the se.\.c 0° Washington and his soldiers, he stated that he was ninety-two years of aze, and was per- feetly eound in mind, heart and body; that he had the glorious privilege of having seen Wash- ington oiten and known him well; that he re- membered his appearance as well’as if he hal seen him but a@ day since, and that the like. nesses of him, especially those of Stuart and Peale, now hanging on the walls of the oll din- ing hall at Mount Vernon, were as faithfal sit eeesreeeenmnenigpeeaans MURDEROUS ATTACK ON AN ARMY PaY- MASTER—One of the Kobbers Killed and an Officer Wounded.—A bold attempt was made at Kiver Bend, Colorado, Tuesday a, to rob the United States paymaster, Major Brooks, as he was going from the train to the camp of the 6th cavalry, about three miles from Kiver Bend. He was met at the railroad station by Captain Irwin and Lieut. Witmore, of the 6th cavalry. When a short «distance from the station the ambulance was halted by two men on foot, who were masked. Three shots were fired by them from @ shotgun loaded with buckshot, one es ceretary, Frank Cowan; official reporter, THE LOvIsiANA ASSASSINATION —Judg: | Tigrces hes again gone in search, the prospects | charge taking effect in Capt. Irwin's back. At they had been photogra W- 5S. Clephane. Crouford and Mr. Harris Killed by an Escaped | of finding them are discouraging, however. | Grst his injuries were considered slight, but he with his own hands he had cl oT RON Ok MR. Lake Cn ; A dispatch from Monvoe, L Judge Crawford and Distcict Attorne: reis | up by whaling ships. were waylaid by four men in the middle of a derse thicket. Judge Crawford was shot in five places in the head and body, and it's thought e struggled with the assacsins, as his head was badly broiscd and mangies. CA says | unle:s, ¢s they hoped, they haye been picked | has since commenced bleeding internally, and is now spitting blood. Another shot was tired by the robbers from a pistol, the ball passing across Mejor Brooks’ lap and through Mrs. ltoberts’ hand, making inful wound. Lieut. Wit- more tired his pistol at ove of the robbers, named - | G. W. Grabam, formerly a captain in the loth Hon. Montgomery Birit upon taking the chair then addressed the convention. He spoke of the grea. project ha ing been conceived by Washington, and fostered by Jefferson and . The aid of the general (oMerrronp-ad should be extended. There were objections to layin and that he had enjoyed the privilege of shak- ing hands with every President of the United States from Wastington to Granbinclusive. He concluded his speech, which w: with agr-eable reminiccences, pointe Gran 1. 0. 0. F. THR ANNUAL REPOET LOST OR iB Ba.tivong, Sept., 11 the Grand Sire of the Grand Lodge I. 0. 0. F Mr. Harris was th's, but it was a choice between government | shot in the back of the and through the | which should be submitted to -that body at its cavalry, at Fort Leavenworth. The ball passed dotes, genuine humor, and pleasant * by corporations and government by the people. | thigh. His horse was shot under him. annual communication in this city, on Monday | through his body just below the heart, and he talk” and sound advies for the ladi: For his he preferred the power of the gov- next has been lost o- miscarried, On the 2s1 of | isdying. The other robber, John Dick, for- - | ernment, wielded as it may be by pacconage, to July last C. A. jogan, present Grand Sire ot | meriy keeper of No. 1 stage station, on the ‘getown; that not one person 's | the tiresponsible power of corporations, ata be- the order, and U.S. minister to Chili, handed | Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, now living there who was living when hefirst | tween these two ‘they must elect. Now that we a itto the agent of the National Pacific Steam- | escaped, but the cavalry are aiter hime settled there in 1803; that his youngest daughter, | haye gotten through the struggle for the Union prosecuted | ship company in the city of Valparaiso to be a who now keeps house for him, is the grand- mother of seven grandchildren; and that, if it was any recommerdation to him, he is the grandfather and great-grandfather of over one undred and forty grand children and great- ‘and children now living, many of whom he jad never seeu; and many of those he had seen, he was not able, on account of their being 6) amerous, to recognize when he met them. He taid he would like to seethem all assembled to- gether once in his life, but he dared not under- take such an enterprise, being to poor to feed them for a single day. The speech was attentively listened to by old le hesa; and young, and was roundly applauded, asthe | “Ket e history of the Chesapeake & Ohio old man took his seat. Hon. Jobn Ritchie then followed in @ speech, As an evidence of Mr. Hurdle’s physical pre- ‘ing that the consideration of the details servation, it may be stated thathe ascended and £ be-pestaenatetunamace ab the woe descended the long, steep hill, via the Corcoran | Shout hat ‘just been int walk, from the landing to the mansion, unaided, Denar with apparently as much ease as any one; that | The matter was further debated by Judge Ps Giscovercd and with alacrity, picked upa pin | Pearre, Hon. John Ritebie and Hon. Join lying among the pebbles in the walkjand that on | Davis, some ‘opposition to the plan ro by Teaching thé steamer he ran down tne gang- | the Pennsylvanians being developed. “The dis. plank and fare aboard, saying that he had | cussion was somewhat diffuse, the propriety of enjoyed his visit to Mount Vernon co much that | uid being given by the general government he felt that he was twenty-seven again, and | coming in for a share of remark. The.conven- fami talive as long as hesawanybody else | tion, at two o'clock, adjourned to seven o'clock Long may the old man humorous live; and » afford other visitors to Mount Vernon the ee sure of his company—and above all, may e enjoy at least one re-union of his progeny be-- fore he dies. Ox10. BaLtmore axpD Oxni0 3 Garrett Negotiates £1,000,000 of y's Bonds in England.—At the regular month! tiny of directors of 3 murder, and was convicted,. ae by District Attorney Herris. He made his escape irom jail before sentence, and has made repeated threats that he would kill the judge and prosecuting attorney. Governor Kellogg has irsued a proclamation offering 35,000 reward for the apprehension and conviction of the mur- derers. Also $2,090 for the apprerbension and v.ction of the murderers of Thomas Archibald who was murdered by two unknown men while standing at the gate of his house, in Kichland parish, on the 2d inst. he was in favor oc cementing that Union by es- tabl'shing great roads and great canals, so that freight couid be moved at cheap rates, and the industry of the people not be burnt up in fael. LETTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS. Letters were read ©-om General W. W. Belk- nap, Secretary of Wat; General Wm. T. Sher- man, Hon. Thomas Swann, Hon. James 8. Neg- \ey, apd Hon. Joseph D. Berry, expressing re- gret that circumstances prevented them from attending the convention. A comma ‘tion from the Hon. A. B. Davis, of Maryland, was then read, in wh'ch was forwarded to Panama, by steamer, which sailed on that day, and delivered to the mnt of Wells & Fargo express company, at Panama to be forwarded by him to Jas. L. Ridgeley, csy., grand corresponding and recording wecretary of the order in this Fe Private letters by the same steamer trom Val; 180, and other doca- ments addresscd to Mr. Ridgeley, some coming through the State department at Washington, have reached him, but the report of theGrand Sire is micsing and agents of Wells & Fargo at New York can give no information with regard to thedocument. Secretary Ridgely reques's that if it has been handed to private parties or accidentslly fallen into other hands it be for- warded to bim immediately in this city. ——— oa New York Notes, A Druxkex Morure ann a STARVING CuiLp.—About 12 o'clock yesterday, an officer of the fourteenth precinct came into the Tombs police court, cariying a child about six months old. The child was very much emaciated in appearance, and was apparently in a dying condition. A drunken woman followed the officer and child, swaying to and fro, and catch- ing at the railing as she walked. The oficer the judge thut he tound the child ina ten- ement house at 129 Mott street, and thedranken woman was its mother. She bad been drunk for the last four days, and the neighbors com. ee that during that time the chila had n starving. Judge Hogan committed the mother to the workhouse, and sent the child to the care of the commissioners of charities and Y¥. Herald, 9th ——<—_== Tux CRaMrion WiiTTLER.—Gco. W. Knox, of Cleveland, is corsidered by his fellow-t wrs- men so be the foremost whittler of alt this re- * A i schools | P . He bas now undertaken a piece of in Soniye chacebens in observing Gotsber Toth | Work of this kind that ¢ atally eclipses anything asaday of prayer for Sabbath-schools. The | €ver before attempted by anybody. It is in- Rev. J. H. Finbar, of the New York Sunday school union, has endorsed the appeal, and asks bl a in this city and elsewhere to observe whuttiing. os, bas * plan ‘Over twelve feet ARRIVAL OF THE DEAN OF CANTERUURY. aaa, oa as Saeees wide, The Dean of Canterbury arrived here yeter- | thick, which he is engaged, during his leisure day to attend the approaching Evangelical alli- | hours, in working up on @ most elaborate and ance. ingenious plan. TWO UNKNOWN MEN w pw " Uru. ENEPIT As- were killed yesterday afternoon on the Harlem eoraveonesaiioe ates Dates tes ixsucd an railroad, near Williams’ bridge, address to the workingwomen of Boston, in- forming them that it is proposed to organize ip QvuEEN 18ABELLA SvED BY Her Husnanp.— The suitof Don Francisco d’ Assis against Donna Isabella, lately Queen of Spain, is to stand over until the beginning of November. Don Fran- cisco has ap) to the Civil Tribunal of the Seine for an order obliging his wife to place in the bands of a receiver a sufficient capital to vecure the SS of certain annuities to be paid trom his estate. These anuuities amount respectively to 150,000 francs for Don Francisco, 100,000 france for the Prince ot Asturias, and 30,000 francs for the four Infantas. ‘The plaintiff represents that h's wife is squan dering her fortune in political enterprises and extravagant amusements. She was worth a million cs & when she came to Paris. Since then her annual income has dwindled down to 500,000 francs, and he alleges that she will be penniless in a few years. JupGe HOLT axp Mars. SurRatT AGatn.— The New York Tribune of yesterday publishes a letter from Judge Holt,in which he denies that Mrs. Surratt was manacled during her irial, and refers to a letter of J. F. Hartranit who was marshal of the covrt, and in whove EVENING SESSION. On reassembling in the evening, the mittee of thirteen oo evga throug! Pearre, the results of their deliberation. an able speech, setting forth the importance of the subject, he submitted resolutions that a committee Of twenty-five, of which tho pros dent of this convention shall be chairmau, R.—President the Compan: ‘of the board the Bal cu. ‘ody Mrs. Surratt was, in which Hartrantt cetsticns kaving'ier tas siden bias ae , states no thought of ever manacling her providing of funds to defray the or river at Pittsburg, via the Chesapeal was ever entertained; a yaet tanft recelved letter from bo fy it, who was with her mother during he: impritonment, thanking him for his kind (reat- ment to her mother, herself and friends. —— Holt alco proves the falsity of the corr: ot en. 8 assertion thet Reverdy John<on wasdriven from the defence of Mrs. Surratt, showing that Johnson voluntarily withdrew. Aw Orvicger SHoots A BULLY In SEtr-Dr- z.—On canal and Yor with the comm! ioghe Mrs. by river, and to confer the Ui Ss tates Senate ro.d for August, 1373, was stated to $1,414,596.60, an increase of #132 ,748,32 over the month of fa gad The ype og arter uy was 483. jy (Ppa of nearly half a million of dol. lars as compared with the same period of last year. Tux CoLtorapo Exxction.—The election in Colorado was devoid of political sig:.ificance. The ticke’s were and : i Py g io. LF Ff ! 2 &