Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1873, Page 1

a THE EVENING STAR. | e TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR, PUBLISHED DAILY, Sundays Exeepted, : ee Tecemeer ee onened at ~ ig . ¢ | 1, Vined t ws, = AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Itegalwen. On guid isaes the rales anes bese Penesylvania Avenue, cor. Lith St. | Gat. end 7 gold per annum, and 1-A2a3-Slal16 BY of ow per ormt. per day = he n | 2 rong. wi ners THE EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY, votes for, storfing si me ct and WOK: ae 2! ills, 108 8108. From now saul! the closing THE EVENING STALK is served by carriers to ¢ —o Soo expe 0 ral Se Ge ruling rate for call joa: hree months, — THE WEEKLY STAR—Published Fridar—$1.00 | & sear. Be" Invariably in advance,in bothcasesy ‘Be paper sent longer than paid for, BF Rates of advertising furnished on application, a NEW PUBLICATION Q s. Vez. 42—N°. 6.480. WASHINGTON, D. C., MC ‘DAY, DECEMBER 29, 1873. ie per is quoted at Talo per cent., with, , little doing at # lower. Gover ment bonds are higher, So: The stock BALLS, &. - GTON INSIDE AND OUTSID y ASL WwW By Geo. ALrREn TowNseND. TOC SON, B25 Ninra Seneer, eat ernM GENTS 60R ALL SUBSCHIP- TION BOOKS, STATIONERY CHROMOS, PTUKE FRAMES, BOOKBINDING, $c. ae. ee ‘novdi-} oHARD B. MOHUN & Co. Re Beowarcuwss AND ST. 2018 Penosylvania av | NEW BOOKS. | Antobiography of John Stoart Mill, 8 vo......92 38 | ‘Chauveau's Aratoay of Domesticated Animals,» | ora 3 " 1s) | mandy Picturesque by H iso | South See Tnyis by Caries Warren Seoddard. 180 | Becent Music ead Mosicians by Kgnate M. 200 + 380 $00 j 40 730 Lith street northwest LocUTION. L E MES E. A. STETSON LOGEE will gt privately or in classes Readings for benefit of shurch cr benevol nt objects, Btammering and all defects of speech speedily remedied. Residence, 75 H street northwest. DRY GOODS. T= PEOPLE KNOW THAT BOGAN & WYLiE sell the best DRY GOODS for the lowest prices; Dut the object of this advortisement is to present the important fact that, for special reasons, in or: der to make a quick turn. cut down the © decl-im splendid stock, and, under the new of low-down prices, Ladies” and Geutlemen bs and their families withont ity, at an unquestionable oO O15 and 1020 SEVENTH grenet cap dress thems sacrificing taste m. S7 NOS. 1 ORTH WEST. cents. 18 KIDS, 65 cents. ‘conte, RESS GOODS eqnally tow. BRODHEAD & cv., > F street, bet. 1ach and COAL AND WOOD. iV J. STEPENSON. A. H. STEPHENSON. nor tr STEPHENSON & BROTHER, DEALERS IN COAL AND WOOD. @fice, 1 har! foot af Sixth street, DEALER LN WOOD AND OVAL. Orders by rom ptly attended to. Liberal de ms made to the trade. Oargoes lcaded and stored or delivered. dectl-tr qese: CvuaL: WOOD: wooD: JOHNSON BROTHERS, WHOLBSALE AND KBIAIL DEALERS. Friving Gaily at our depet and wharf, foot of lath Street southwest, cargoes of Dest qualities COAL and WOOD, which we will sell to the trade and cv- umers cheap for cash. Our factities are unsur- parsed by any one iu the basiness, having vesed Sod wharves of oar own for bringing and dischart the same. Main office. Johnson's wharf, foot street southwest. Offices: 1204 F street north- ‘Wont, formerly occupied by Great Falls Ice Oo., 1113 oth street northwest novl3-e0%m E x McGAULEY & BROs., ‘WOOD AND COAL DEALERS. ‘Yarde—Bo. 819 Us strcet awe . asit ‘street no: > Depot lis street wharf. A choice and varied stock of WOOD and COAL Rept constantly on band. 1y3-tm INSURANOB OOMPANIES, G*se45 amMsBiean JNSUBANCS 00., of Cash Assets. 72,930.94. MERCHANTS” issih OB CO., of Newark, 623,000, 8 &00,. Acents Dep't. CAPITAL AND 8URPLU:! INSURES AGAINST LOSS BY FIRE BUILDVINGS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, 4ND MEKCHANDISE GENSRALLY, due OFFicERS: JH. NN. + President. . JLLISON, Vice President. ©. WHERRY, Seeretary. J. D. McINTIRE, Assistant Secretary. MAURY & BROTHER, Agents, Gec3-eclm Bo. 1420 F street. ¥ COKRCOR. Tee OKO Car: OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, eamised Aprei lst, 1573. JOHN President. 8 HE) Vice Prosident, 3. T. DYER, See: a Diausrors:—Wm. Orme, H. Ting Btowart, Cow A James, ine. L. Barbonr, Edward Droop, Jeno T Leaman, Michael Groen, Job Bailey, A. H. Horr bas cE Ly TBE SQuiTapee 1Fe assunance ‘The business of this Company bas for years beer the largest uf ¥ similar inatitatien in the world. T. LENMAG, Pres . HEY, oxxt, _maysiy_ 908 Khare *REAT WESTERN MUTU G INSURANCE COMPANY. Capital nearly $500, LOSSES PROMPTLY J apee be “4 ey ye Staeraceewns 0 HOTELS. Burweun Tra and @re Streets T= IMPERIAL HOTEL, JAMES BYKES, Propricier, Frosting PENNeYLvaNia AVENUE, Besween 1A ond Math Strects, ivania Avenue, W ohne abington. D. O, and Ame Watcnes adjusted for 120- Pestiton and lamperatere, aad eccaraisly HE GRAND ANNUAL BALL a WASHINGTON CITY HISERNIA BEN EVOLENT SOOIETY, No. 1. will be given at Masonic Temple ou MON- DA st ‘4 ‘Tickets, admitting gentleman and Indies. be bad of the members. dec: yume ANNUAL BALL OF THE WASHINGTON LIGHT GUARDS, Co. B, ist BEGIMERT N.G., ar ODD FELLOWS’ HALL, NAVY ¥4 NEW YEASB’S EVE, Decemnca Tickets, admitting a Gentlemaa and DOLLAR. A D, FESTIVALS. (CHILDREN’S CARISTMAS FESTIVAL OF THE METROPOLITAN M B. SUNDAY SUH MONDAY, Daoruses 291TH, 6.30 o'clock. elections from Prof. H the Yellowstone Park will be exhibited ‘ON: BRT AND EXHIBITION will be holt - MONDAY and TUESDAY EVENINGS, Dec. wih sod Mh, at Grace MB. Charch. corner 9:h str reeta. A bappy time may be enjoyed by all attend. Admission 26 conts. dect-2.* SPECIAL NOTICES. Havana Lottery. IMPORTANT NOTICE. For the coming drawings, commencing Jannary &h, wo have reduced the price of tickets, as follows: Wholes @20, 4 910, 4; $5, 1-5 $4, i $2, 1-20 G1. ‘We aro prepared to fill all orders. Qireulars sent pion application. heat price paid for Spanish Bavk Bills, Governments, oc. TAYLOR & OO , Bankers, dec2s 6 11 Wail street, New York, ry Blot nsefal Holiday Gi ting Case. with complete jet Mothers, Mothers, Mothers! Don’t failte procure MES. WINSLOW'S SOOTH- ING SYRUP for ail disonses incident to the period of wething in children. It relieves the child trom pain, eures wind colic, regulates the bowels, and, by ng reltef and health te the child, gives reat’ to other. Be sure and call for MBS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP.” iy14-806m For saleby all draggists. AMUSEMENTS. J OTICE.—There isa FATIH now in progres=at the tne Armory Building wouth Washington,eiven ty the ladies of Israel Ohurch, for the parpove of aid- eharch. frieats ing in the building of tbe! of the congregation, and a generous public, are in- ed to encourage these ladies. * ‘The Fair will continue EACH EVENING during the holidays. dec8-6 h* u LADIES’ GOODS. [RE LanGEsT STORE AND THE LARGEST STOCK OF HUMAN HAIR GOODS: 1 known fact among the Indies of Wash- ington that H. PHILIPPI, the “Goiffear dx Monde est HAIR GOUDS at the Ladies, straagers, will do well te cail And see for themrelves. Ovmbings of Heir, made up by the root by my Bew process, i all the styles of the day. Coiffures de Scirees, Receptions a specialty. H. PHILIPPE, px Panis, 913 Pennsylvania avenue, decls-36" Between 9h and loth strects, J" 3, REOELY £D— 300 DOZEN TEN-TUCKED SKIRTS, AT 83 CENTS. ALSO, CHEMISES AT SAME PRIOB. decWv-im "8. HELLER, 714 Market Space. ANDSOMEST AND LARGEST BT. H MENT OF — LADIES’ CLOAKS AND SUITS in the City. FRENOH CORSETS AT REDUCED PRICES BEST PARIS KID GLOVES at 31a Pair. HAIR SWITCHES AT $6, WORTH $12 _fecio-lm 8. HELLER, 715 Market Spac MISS E. A. MeCORMICK, 903 Pens. AvENvE (up stairs). A large and elegant assortment of IMPORTED BONNETS and BOUND HATs, constantly on hand, Orders for DRESSES, &c., filled by Mi NEY, of New York city. © “Hed by Miss GED. ME. 2 MME. LP. JEANNERET have jus returned from Paris with a choice as- sortment of Bonnets and Hats. ‘Latest nov. elties im millinery goods, Show room in Washington, 410 lth street, one door from Peon. aver m itimore, S$ N. Charles street; New Vork, Ith st., near Broadway. Par icular attention paid to bridal and mourning or- ders, Also, dressmaking {n all its braaches, novi) B. YOUNG'S ° NEW YORK hionable Hesdquarters for es: HOSIER C' DS. ox GOO EnING UNDERWEAR, and Jowest market uses ie al cae 441 SEVENTH ST F: Fal ET, NEAR B. rm = wh HERON STARE, SEAN a ean It imparts a beautifal glow to the fabric UREHAM & 0O., Mannfacturers, senle-ly 160 Wesclitmores Maryiasd, ISLAN) . ¥. DYRBING a S™ Tit RisTABLISHED 1o190 08 of ite kind im the country a. JISHER, FIEST OLASS SCOURER, street, 0} ite Pateut Office. {DUROUALTIES OF Wis BOLE PRGCkos. zolalties Gv, fis tienilemen’s Clothes clothes cleaned without pid fed effectually, so they notice. Prices mod- sepl-ly Kid Gloves cleaned on short ; Punctuality euaranteed PIANOS, &e. UNING AND RENEWING PIANUS AN ORGANS A SPECIALTY = BY @. KUHN, Practical k (Formerly with Steinway & Sous) PIANO STORE, 632 New York avenue, Agent for the unt TIAN DECKER BROS. “New York Ao? x... Blafea ai $ corner of ib street Pennsylvane aver Vania avenue. rent a PIANOS! In order to make room for my new stock of Pianos which Iam now receiving, I will seli for a ay 2 and at Karr’s, Piasoe and Orgaus id 9 Poupsrl: for sale, or jocks tr time at greatly reduced prices. I mention in t celebraed STECK FULL GRAND PLANO, magnificent instrumet mely Ds lao, & very, carved BQUABE GRAND PIANO of the world-re- nowned make of Wm. Knabe & Oo.. a beautiful —— for the holidays At the agency of Wm. neve & Oo.’sand Wm. McO: iauve fur rent c PIANO WAKBKO 423 Lith street, above Pa. UNING AND BEPAIRING, POLISHIN and Varoisiing PIANOS and all Mere copes sical Instruments receives the most falthfail Berjoual attention by @. L WILD & BLO. = bomen e near finpes cormer i ene. the unsury Te PIANOS, dealers ‘tu, Pianos fusicel ments generally." Planos for rents pea L5%8 FES AS MUSIO STORB, Pianos 01 sivcat northwest, And Organs and Musical Instramuents ¢: every d scription on terms. Pianos and Organs tax: band; Georgetown 01 ine street, lated. GRIMES’, No. 10 © BANKERS, ATIONAL BANK mr reP Rio 2 TebePue So Gollectious made on alt parta of the Untied desea. ‘Guas BEADLNY Cs ¥ N AMERIC. 7 G=*NE PEN GRRSTURG Ban By ‘Until 8 p.m., to recelve depua ‘on deposits. Fesspmans SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY BANKING HOUSB, 1607 PENNSYLVANIA AVERUB. (Opposite W = Treasury.) pear ig tot | “acme er Onen ; Wednestays Gaterdayes (deponits only OK woh.” vier BrBsine nouss M, SQUIRE & CO., 1440 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUR, j Orrositz WittaRp’s Hotes dec3 tr ents itr PUBLIC, ¥, A varia avenue, Benking. Avia PETE AITR TT: | Sate ATIONAL THEATER. Mu. J.G. SAviLLE......Bole Lessec and Director. A HAPPY WN YEAR! MONDAY EVENING, December 29, 1313, Every evening during the week, and Saturday af- ternoop, Boncicault’s Great Pi as acted a: the Union Square Theatre, New York, with uaj leled success, new and powerful emotional com- ody, entitled LED ASTRAY Aboundirg in extraordinary eitnations, comical Jialogue, and intense interest. Produced with C7 reat characte: Matinee for familica and children, when will be acted for the first time in many years, the fairy play of CISDEBELLA, with great cast and beaatifal ———- Monday, Jan. 6—Kellogg crema = Fo® OFE HOU! 1873. NEW YEAWSWEEK! 1874. Matinoes NEW YEAR'S DAY and SATURDAY | Eng +g+ meot ot the world-renowned Ventriloynist, Mr D DAVIES, ‘nnd the celebrated RAY MARUINETTI PANTOMIME COMPANY: to- gether with @ first-class comedy company, will a: pear, after weeks cf elaborate preparation. Genuine Christmas Trick Pantomime, entitled UNCLE SAM, ‘The Exiled Banta 4 Boauty’s Magic Glass. The introduction writ xpressly for this city. Ail vew scenery and effects, produced at great cont wad labor. The Burlosquinade and Pantomime is replete with jollity avd fan, music, daneing, and mirth-prevoking incident In preparation, the famons Ravel Pantomime of “Jocko, the Brazilian Ape.’” decd9-tr ASHINGTON THEATER Comravs. WHI Street, below Pee MEaUE. Another Entire Change ef Entertainm Biret. papssrance ES . @. i FRLDMAM, é ELUMAN, in the great local and Digbly sensational drama of GUILT! QUILT! GUILT: BY GUILT! GUILT! -va GUILT! GUILT! GUILT : Be) ee with Leomdipe J me ical And scenic eff-cts, ret appearance of the Champion co : Ledge ithe Hi ee a are To cond week of the dating Gymnast, i OSKPH E SANBORD. And the beantiful Vocaliet, ist FANNIE MORELLE. The great eccontric Lrg yy Dance Men, and oor grestand Palen Beeb r great and Talented Neack Company, THE VeST IN AMERIOA or, James 8. Ka’ A. jsgao, H W. Andre B.S. Hodges, Joseph Whittaker, Eugene Barr: &e c. Am: lia Goreutic, Miss Panui is THIS WEEK. Ey THURSDAY! and SATERDAY A Great Seveation Jauuary 5th, dee29 tr JANAUSCHEK AT FORD'S. On MONDAY NEXT, January stm, this poeriors queen of tragedy wiil commonce her farewell on ported by a company -babituated to Y DEDLOCK, MART STUART, MEDEA A. : uf . ADRIENNE, DEBORAH, Exe. The sale of seats will commence on New ¥. ¢ay. There will be no change in the regular of admimion, der 243 ’ NATIONAL THEATER. 4 CD. Hees and Manrice Gran irsctors. ONE WEEK ONLY GRAND OPERA IN ENGLISH by the celebrated KELLOGG TAUUPE, comprising the following art: MISS CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG, vi Zendt, Mrs. Z+lda Segnin “, ‘heodore F:abelmaua, lism Parlton, bs Hall, W. Hi. Tila, FULL CHORDS AND GHAND OROHESTR, Commencing MONDAY BVEN (NG, Janccee' 3, A brilliant repertoire: MONDAY. LUCIA DI LAMME woor. ‘TUESDAY, RIGOLETTO (the F s Revenge,) WEDNESDAY, FAUST. UBSDAY, THE Annie OF FIGARO. SATURDAY. 2 P ‘BuHEM! + GRAND MATINEE, AN GIRL. SATURDAY NIGHT, FRA Din VOLO. F-Sale of sents commences FRIDAY, January 2, B JORtAr at #:39 o'clock, at Box Office of Th: % si Renerved seats, §1.t0 and §2, according to loca. i" it INCOLN HALL. TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6ru, 1874 MISS ANNA E. DICKINSON. SUL RCT “FOR YOUR OWN SAKE.” FOUB SIGHTS LY, MONDAY, TUESDAY. WEDNESDAY TRURSDAY, Dec -mbor 29. 36 wud $2. und January fst. GBAND MATINEE NEW YBAB’S Day Ber urn of the anv Famots Brats Band and Burlesane Opera Troupe, triumphant success! Haviag ‘@ most brilliant season of two weoks at the Varieties Theater, Now Orloans, the snd fashion of the Crescent City, appearing Feflned and o.rct audiences nightly ev ff rc Goreral, 600 ; Reserved Beats, 750 tc. Beserved in at « . DUPREZ, Me General Ageat. MAO TEND ruearatoars, oni TABLBAGX, L. Xi. "8, 18 10th atvook atest, Pee ‘Meme end Number. jet-iy" oF i@ AP. Se ealng eg 5 Hoteaby mail promsply attended te. ‘Cash pata fis-t ———————————— LECTURES. A. LECTURES. GINVOLS TALu JOU 8 B, GOUGH, Tuesday ovonine, January 2. Tickets 1, Mo extra charge reserved seats, ‘arren Unoate eboce: Val Pona- sylvania avenue, a + o'elo eq fturee begia promatiy a: o'elosk Deocaopen Fo 4A Bani ke ee] Tv 8, Yi Ly a. af wedi Seuchry Bare, Washington News and Gossip, New YRAR’s Recertions.—Notice to Reaters. As on Iast year, we shall publish on the day before New Year's (Wednesday) a@ list of such names, only, as may be far nithed by the parties themselves, of those who propore to recgivs on New Year’sday. These announcements, which we will be very glad to receive and publish in brief form, should give the names of the ladies who will assist in re- ceiving, and the number of the residence; and they should be accompavied, also, by arespon- mble signature as a guarantee of authenticity. They should be sent in before eleven o'clock Wednesday morning to secure insertion. INTERNAL Revenv source to-day were #1” SENATORS Mitchell and Sargent had inter- views with the President this morning. ‘Tne Treacy to-day commenced the pay- ment of the interest due on the Ist proximo without rebate. —The receipts from thir 4.21. B. J. Sweet, deputy commissioner of inter- nal revenue. is lying dangerously dll of pnen- monia at his residence, on ( street, between 9th and 0th streets. He is not expected to re- cover. Lrevut.-Gov. RomoxaLpo PAcHROO will be- come Governor of California by the election of Governor Booth to the United States Senate. He is a native of California, and will be the first who has occupied the gubernatorial chair of the state. No MEETING of the Washington Stock Ex- change was held to-day, it having been agreed to meet for the present on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, except where a legal holiday occurs on one of those days, and then the day preceding. It is expected that daily session: will be held at no distant day. Gore TO INvxsTiGATE JUDGE DureLt.— Congressmen Wilson, of Indiana, and Eldridge of Wisconsin, the sub-committee appointed by the Judiciary Commitee of the House of Repre- sentatives, left here last night for New Orleans to investigate the charges brought against United States District Judge Durell, by partics seeking his impeachment. pea =a Sram Wants Tug VirGinivs AGATN.—A) associated press dispatch from Madrid says “The report is reiterated that tho Spanish gov ernment requires of the United States the resti tution of the Virginias and the payment of in demnity.” ‘The Havana prize court, befor: which the case of the Virginius was brought. has condemned the vessel as a legal prize. ENLARGEMENT or THE Post-Orrice De PARTMENT Bui.pine.—The Postmaster Gen- eral will shortly submit to Congress plans and estimates for the improvement of the Post- Office department building, prepared by Super- vising Architect Mullet, together with a recom mendation that an appropriation of one and a balr million doliars be made to enlarge the building. It is said that unless some addition be made it will be necessary to rent building» in that neighborhood to accommodate all the clerks required for the transaction of business THe PUNERAL ERVICES of Chief Engineer Lloyd A. Williams will take place from his late residence on Koad street, near Congress street, Georgetown Heights, on Tuesday, thy 30th inst., at 3 p.m. He will’ be buried in ‘Oak Hill Cemetery with the appropriate military honors due his rank in the navy. Mr. William= entered the naval service in February, 1552, and after spending nearly nine years of the teu he was on the active list, was retired in No vember, 1565, trom disability incurred in the line of duty on board the steam frigate Colo rado. GornG ror 'em.—The commanding general department of the Platte, forwards the follow ing telegrams, which explain themselves: Fort Laramig, Nep December —It i reported to-day that the Indians are killing stock in the vicinity of Scott’s biuff and Horse creek. Shall I go for them? Joun E. SMitn Col. ich infantry. The adjutant general, department of the Platte, telegraphed back nm. Ord says, yes Be sure and hit the guilty parties. “Guo. D. KUGoLks, Ass’t Adj. Gen.”” Fort Laramiz, December n. Ord: 1 have ordered Capt. Egan, with 75 men, to scout the country between Scott's bluff’ and Horse creek. I would suggest that the cavalry at Sid hey be ordered to scout over on Laurens fork. Joun E. Smirn, Col., & Gen. Ord then ordered Col. Woodward, at Sidney barracks, Omaha, to send a company or cavalry to make the scout requested, Vussers Wiich WILL Garry THR OcraN Maire ix Janvapy.—Under the late contract of the Postmaster Genera! with steamship lines for carrying the European mats, which contract was given mainly on the basis of speed, the fol- lowing vessels have been selected to carry the mails for the month of January: Holéatia, American Packet Co.; Baitic, White Star Line, Rhein, North German Lloyd; W Naps & Guion; Caint i Hambutg-Amerlean Packet Oceanic, White Star; Weser, North German Lloyd; Ne yada, Williams & Guion; Algeria, Cunard: Hammonia, Hamburg-American Packet Co.; Republic, White Star; Nurnberg, North Ger- man Lloyd; Manhattan, Williams & Guion Russia, Cunard; Silesia, Hamburg-American Packet Co.; Adriatic, White Star; Main, North German Lioyd; Wyoming, William: & Gri Herder, Eagle Line; Java, Cunard; Tris’ Hamburg-American Packet Co.; Celtic, White Star; Donan, North German Lloyd. Nava Orp: ‘Commander FE. 0. Mat- thews to command the Iroquois, Asiatic sta- tion, per steamer of 16th of January next from San Francisco, Cal. Pass:d Aseistant Surgeon W. J. Simon to the navy yard, Noriolk, Va. Detached—Captain ( eorge H. per from the command of the T\rror, and ordered to the nayy yard, Nortolk, Va., as executive ofticer. Commander Henry A. Adams from the com- mand of the Iroqndir, Asiatic station, upon the reporting of his reli: f, and ordered to return to the Cnited States. Lieut. Commander J. F McGlenecy from the Terror. and ordered tothe navy yard, Philad Lieut, F. . Strong from the Terror, and ordered to the navy yard, Boston. Passed Assistant Surgeon A. F. Price from the Terror, and placed on waiting orders. Passed Assistant Paymaster J. F. Tarbell from the Terror, aad ordered to settle accounts. Chief Engineer E. Laws from the Terror, and ordered to duty in oparge of stores at the navy oe Norfolk, Va, First Assistant Engineer EB. ee nilipp!, from the Terror, and ordered to League Island, Pa. sees: PROHINITION IN New Jansey —At Fliza- th, N.J., Judge Depue decided Satarday tn the cases of prominent hotel keepers and otner liquor dealers in Plainfield, that local ordi- nances permitting the selling of liquor could peel rag them ‘against the operation of ths et w. Tae BaxKaurr Law.—The board of trate of Cincinnatt, have adopted resolutions protest- ing inst the repeal of the bankrupt law, es- the involuntary clause,and recommend- ing amendments to reduce the expense of enforcing the law by reducing the fees of 'y officials. a w Jersey, was knocked down street in that place by eee cannows retians, bee mgees = , rided then : ir Csoape. 4 $200,000 InzzouLarirty. dont of One of the minor national banks in Philadel- phia bas ured the whole surplus of the bavk. some $200,000, for the benefit of an iron mi facturing company, and it will be a total lors. The capital et bank, however, is unim- receiving and counting the vote and the governor to issue a proclamation dec! the constitution in force after lat January nex! ‘Two Mors New Yorx Fartvurms.—The firm of Walsh, Crawford cotton the Gardner mang Haas Net SE on ray T UNERAL of Francois Hugo, which took ylace at Parison Saturday, was attended by his isther, Victor Hugo, and proceseion com- the leading of Paris. Louis Se = ‘Chicage’s ice courts are littered with H 5 cick Feud Reed siiets shcdit ssth Gerist onsBtatheenoteteeedibe SbscHAPeseeTRPEPRTE? i ui He i cuits] c § Tisdi: Society. The expressmen who certainly have aright | to know declare their conviction that present giving has never been so universal as this year. They say that they do not believe in the “hard times,” for they have never been so busy as during the present holiday season. — General and Mrs. George B. McClellan are spending the winter at Nice. While in Paris General McCiellan received distinguished at tention. He was given a prominent seat when he attended the French Assembly by invitation and at the trialof Bazaine was ‘also treated as & guest deserving the highest consideration. the latter tribunal Gen. McClellan writes that it was a most dignified court, and its proceed ings appeared to be conducted with @ strict re- gard to the demands of justice. Tho Oriean- princes on General McClellan's staff daring hi- command of the army have shown him great attention. Mrs. McClellan's health has great ly improved, her friends will be gla to know. —Misses Mami@ and Snsie Shepherd, the charming little daughters of Governor Shep- herd, have issued invitations to their young friends for a Christmas party to-morrow night. — This evening the Washington Club give a german at Marini’s, at which Mrs. Secretary Kichardson will preside, and Miss Richardson will lead with Mr. Totten. —The dinner at the Louise Home, on Satur- day, the 27th instant, was given by Mr. Corco- ran to the inmates of the home, in honor of his 76th birthd: The dinner was an elegant and most enjoyable one. —Mr. James C. Haynes, a prosperous young merchant of New York, will lead to the altar ot Triuity church, on to-morrow evening, the beantiful and piquante Mise Hebe Gedney Bar- ney, god-daughter ef the late distinguished naval veteran, Capt. Thomas RK. Gedney, of Gedney-channel notoriety, aud elder daughter of Samuel Chase Barney, until our civil war an officer of the U.S. navy, when he re- moved hence to Cambridge, E.8.,Md. Mixx Barney was a graduate with high honors at the Patapto Female Institute, some three years since, when she went to Europe to finish her musical education in Germany. — Hon. Horatio King and tamily will resume their pleasant literary reunions Jan. 34, and will keep them up every Saturday evening du- ring the season, commencing at 7 o'clock. The Affairs of Jay Cooke & Co. A CIKCULAB TO THEIR CREDITORS—AssRTS AND LIABILITIES. Jay Cooke & Co. have issued a their creditors as to the mauner of ‘filing proofs of claims. dt provides tbat depositions ror proofs of claims can be taken exly before » register in bankruptcy or a commissionor of the circuit court of the United States. Corpor ations may verify their claims by the oath solemn affirmation of their president, c ireasurer, and it the corporation has nc officer as cashier or treasurer, the depo: may be made by the officer whose duties most nearly correspond to those of cashier or treas urer. The claims upon the firm are now stated as follows: Philadelphia house, #3.408,110; Phila- delphia house, secured, w York house, $4,5*4.134; New’ York house, secured, $15,341; Washington house, $667,559, total, individual liabilities,’ $1,100,500; 750. The number of credi- u Philadelphia house, 1,454 New York house, 755; Washington house, 744. The estimate of assets, as sworn to by the mem- bers of the firm, aggregate a little over £13,000, 000, of which oyer $3,800,000 is the property oF the individual members. This item does no! incinde the estates of Mr. Moorhead and Mr Fabnestock, which will make probably over $5,000,000 ih additio Of the firm assets 4,000,000 in round numbers is in obligations of the Northern Pacitic railroad company, prinel- pally notes for money advanced to build the road, secured by @ deposit of the company’s bonds as collaterals, or by certificates of the stock of the Oregon Steam Navigation compa ny. There is also a very large amount of other railroad obligations of uncertain value, (th Lake Superior and Missienippt railroad figuring Tor $1,297 ,000,) besides miscellaneous stocks and bonds and western the present worth of which cannot be 1 tained. ins Survivors, L IN NEW YORK. About two o'clock yesterday the Juniata, having on board the prisoners from Cuba, arrived opposite the quarantine station, Staten Island. She was immediately boarded by the health ofticer,who bad ail the men mustered ont. and finding them in a perfectly healthy condi- tion, the steamship wae allowed to pass on her way. The Juniata then proceeded up the bay and cast her anchor off the Battery, where she lay until 4 o'clock inthe afternoon, when she was taken in tow and reached the Brooklyn navy yard about 6 o'clock. In accordance with instructions from Washington all intercourse or communication with those on board the steam- ship was denied, and many friends of the pris- oners and prominent Cubans were turned away dieappoipted trom the navy yard. The pris oners Will rémain on hoaT4 the steamship unti orders to the contrary are received. None * the officers or crew of the steamship have yet been allowed to leave the vessel. Friends ot Cubain New York city have collected about ‘$2,000, which will be expended in c'othing for the new arrivals and whatever else may be re quized by them. OFFICIAL BXAWINATION OF THE PRISONERS The Tribune says when the Juniata arrived District Attor::cy Bliss, with three assistants, Commissioner Davenport with a numbér of stenograpbersand an interpreter, boarded her and began an official examination of the Vir: ginius prisoners. The proceedings are kept secret. The officers of the Juniata assert that there is a concerted plan among these prisoners to profess entire ignorance sto the nature 0 the Virginius at the time of her to the transportation of arma. great Bnanimity among them. Thev deny that ‘arms or ammunition were thrown overboard from the ‘vesse] during pursuit. BITTER FRELING IN SANTIAGO AGAINST AMERI- CANS. Commander Braine says the feeling in San- tiago is very bitter against Americans. Vice Consul Schmidt is in danger of his life, and several times had been threatened with assassi- ion. While lying inthe harbor of Santiago Commander Braine received several s of contemplated attacks upon his yes- sel, was prepared for them every night for three weeks. He had torpedoes placed on spars ready for use, and notified the shipping in the barbor to give him awide berth. The threats proved idle. ircular to en Tue New York Rixorres—Genet ant Gar vey—Genet, under the name of (ieorge I. Jackson, passed through Montreal last Friday night. He went to Toronto on Saturday. The friende of Genet say he will return to New York within two weeks and surrender himscif, that he is in Canada, and only waiting to ar range certain matters before his retara. It is reported that the new attorney general oi the state has decided not to recoguize any in made by his predecessor with Garvey ing immunity from prosecution in consideration.of his turning state’s evidence, Uelieving all such bargains to be contrary to = morals and sound public polier. The de- ‘ectives watch every movement ot Garvey, and will arrest him if he attempts to leave the city. Bioopy Erection Riers 1x Mzxico.—A fight occurred in Matamoras on Saturday in the market-place between some of Cortina’s men and the police. in which a policeman was shot BD WATER. © The New York night express ‘train from Pittabarg to Oinem: pati, on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and Louis railroad, due here at 6.0 ing, arrived Ohio, between 5 and 6 a train ran tnt nately sernous damage. placed in the tank at Columbus A PROBLEM POR THE POSTAL TELEGRATR. Editor Star. The successful experiments of instantaneously lightiiig the street lamps of K street by electric agency are hailed by all who have suffered from the ness of “corporation moonlight nights. they have, on the other hand, revived the objections to the disfigurement of ali our streets by «rial lines of wire suspended on telegraph poles. From year to year these wires will come in greater conflict with the stately rowsof shade had which the locomotive took water, rendering the water locom: Unfit for making steam, exposing tive to danger of explosion, and causing del at London. where steam was blown of and the water in the boiler and tender removed. 7 te The Virginias Sarvivers. A MENORIAL TO PRESIDENT GRANT. Naw York, December The survivors of trees which grace our streets. The leading tel egraph companies are even now frequently paz ried where to place the poles. Many still thinly settled streets, but partially planted with grown trees, permit them, however, to jump over from one side of the street to the other and back again, or to turn tn other streets, because the tolisge of a line of healthy growing trees de stroys the insulation and laterferes with the working of the lines, even in cali weather, and more so when the air stirs. Citizent and au- thorities consider it as utterly inadmissible to curtail the symmetrical development of the trees by the process of thinning out or cutting down for the necessities of the wires. but the remedy is at hand by a resort te un derground wires within the limits of the city. Extensive lines of underground wires were laid through Prusma as far back as IS47, but the had to be abandoned, and { am indebted to of- ficial information on the whole subject from Col. Megdam, the director general of the impe rial telegraphy in Berlin, obtained through the kindness of Baron Schioezer, the German am bassador. The unfavorable ‘results obtaived twenty-five years ago were not attributable to the system, as interested parties will have it, but rather to the lack of experience on the qualities of the isolating material, to the then very 'mperfect machines for the manufactare of isolated wires, and tothe undue hurry with which the work on extensive lines was pushed. These old lines consisted of gutta percha coated imply bur: of ttelt and for the energetic measures tal timely rescne and delivery from a sentence to the chain gang or a Spanish prison. Grateful mention is also made of Commander Braine and the officers and men of the U. 8. vessel Juniata. TRE viRoINIER The steamship Georgi Charleston, passed the Cape Komaine on the 24th : tefut en for > x — The sub-treasury paid a mill.on and a half dollars in coin for Jan- uary interest, without rebate, to-day, ORNET'S ESCAPE. The court of oyer and terminer was crowded to-day, owing to the ex; that the con- tempt case of Sherif Brennan, in permitting the escape of Harry Genet, would proceed. ——, however, was granted till Mou- ay next. —e Who Strack the Fatal Blow? Whisky _ Did it. copper wires, which were ied an the posed. ‘The gutta percha was jefective, full of bubbles, and the wire was thus imperfect: covered. External protection being wanting, the gutta percha, which ts practically Indestreetibie under water, but readily decom- poses when exposed to the air or in contact with the earth, was des'ro: by chemical action, by rats, by spades, and even primarily by care: | less handling durimg the transportation and laying of the wire. The insulation. quence, was of no account. At the present time, mechanical progress, footing on former experience and prositing by the experiments for the manufactare of sub night, has reve: man, the Frenchman, who strack the fatal blow, instead of O'Leary, as at first reported. As Blackman is an intimate friend of Gonyo'e | family, it is beliewed he was crazed with liquor, | and committed the blooly deed at the i tion of O'Leary, who is @ desperate character. Both have been committed for trial. —_——o——— Victims of the Sea. Grovexsten, Mass., December 29.—Religi ‘ous services in’ remembrance of the one bun - in comse- marine cables, has overcome all the former }rived ta af eH Be objections to subterranean lines, and has proved | the!cur isst, and who were wided te the tone the adaptability of the cable by the establish | I1t Sf victims ofthe sou, were bel yorterday, ment of permanent subterranean lines in ant | | The several pastors and congregations in the town joined in union service in the afternoon in | the town hall, which was filled by a deeply sym © | pathetic audience. H : — Chicage’s Prodace Trade. ating compo: | Onicawo, ecember 29.—A review of the pro~ The imeuiated | duce trade of Chicago for the past between many European cities, and, others, the German fortresses of the ‘The difficulty of insulating the wire bel & past time. Copper wire coated with three by an intermedia m ng ine is wires intended to be combined into a eabie are | huplished this morning. Records of grain then united and spun over with carefally tatred | forng the year were 731,398 bushel; ‘ship- hemp, s0 as to neutralize the destructive intla- | Mente, 1.4 Dushel he receipts of hoge ence of the earth on the gutta percha. Next | Were 41 head; sheep comes a tissue of iron wire, securing the eavie 300,000 hei ” fect. The total value of all produce received during the year is, im round numbers, $240,000,000. The Railroad Strikes, CARD FROM THR BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMO- TIVE ENGINEERS. Charles Wilson. grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, has issued a card, in which he says:—" The strike now in operation on the leased lines of the Pennsylvauia Katiroad Company is in direct violation of the rules of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. My advice to e member of the brotherhood that has quit worl on account of the strike is to go to work atonce, and to use every influence in their power to in- duce all persons engaged in the strike to re- sume work, and to desist from any interference with the company's property or men.”” John Ferbe 5 ent of the Ma- chinists and Blacksmiths’ Internatioral Union, has issued orders iustructing the members of that organivation to refrain from interfering With the locomotive engineers in their strike. THE STRIKE To CONTINUE, The striking engineers held a mecting in Co- lumbus, bio, yesterday morning, which was attended by hundred persons. The engi- neers resolved to staud firm in their demand. The brotherhood in Columbus are opposed to resort to violence or force to prevent any per: sons from Tunning their enrines . against injury by mechanical causes, and an outer protecting heavy coat of asphaltum guards the wire against corrosion. A most careful examination of the wires with highly perfected instruments, especially by Siemens’ method, serves to detect the slightest defects causing losses of currents and vouches for anexceptional material. Cables laid twenty years ago, and in use since that time, have lately bsen taken up in Cologne and other places and found intact. ‘The retardation of the current, and speed of transmission, caused by the so-called stat charge, which subterranean wires take to « inuch greater degree than rial wires, cannot come in account for the comparatively short space within a city, and facts have proved that the working jorse’s an‘! similar apparatas is not Impaired for euch limited distances. difficaity of repairi: injaries bas also been urged against the underground wires, but the experience of the German tervice shows that whilst the original investment comes high, the running expenses are found to be quite trifling Test boxes sunk under the pavement of the sidewalks serve to trace any irregularities. Experiments are now in proj in Prussia extending underground lines over thousands of miles, where the cable is alternately brought in commanication with the battery and then with e earth, or where galvanic currents of oppo site direction are used for telegraphing pur- poses, ‘The difficulties of the static charye_ at: rh thérei; reduced to a winimam and the +... = -> seemmeers eld in Ain ny ty of transmission is restored. City yesterday, it Was resolved to stand Sat at It cannot be expected that the cheaper all bazards. lines will be entirely supplanted by the more costly underground lines, since the increased expense involved would tend to materially re- tard the growth of the telegraph, whic’ has the nervous system of’ the nation, and should most speedily be pushed throughout ee DAMAGE TO TRaIxe. rain with troops which left Indianapolis on Saturday afterncon for Logansport was de- tached tive miles east of the latter city by a ‘witch being turned. On the Pittsburg, Cin- cinnati and St. Louis ratiroad a new union raile all its extremities and ramifications, long be- | Toad engincer was shot in the arm just outside fore railroads and steamsbips, these quasi | Of Pittsburg whilerunning «train. “At L 100d- vessels of the nation, have reached them. | Port, Ind. itchman discovered @ oe why enould pot tes General Post-Office ée- | ane “yy bg, great oniect berety ment, instead of 1 watered © ger train ful siock of ‘the present ro hon ely ma °Nas | which passed at the rate of twenty-tve inflorae been propored. take this predestined telegraph | 20tii- of the futare pin hand, and establish an under- ween lea cit Union which eould be relied of Some and | _ Superintendent Ellison has cred $500 re after atmospheric revolutions, or other occa. | Ward for the arrest and conviction ¢* the man sions when the existing cheaper lines are out of | Who misplaced the switch at Columbus Setur- working order? it is well known that the ex- | dy ight, cansing the train to ran off the t7#ek. pansion of the wria! wires during the summer | The best striking engineersdisciaim any knoWs~ months causes tem to hang slack, and during | €dge of this ouene, ant Gotten & bad 80 one gales to make them liable to touch each other | Becton with the plan or the strike and no sanc- and intertwine; further that heavy coatings of | lon of the Brotherhood of Engineers. 4 REWARD OPPERED Pox THOSE Wao mie- PLACE swrre.TBA. ice during sudden changes of temperature in STRIKES SPREADING winter arsapt, ‘when foilowed b: a gale, to bring The wagset the engineers an‘ firemen on whole lines down by dead welgnt ana finally | the New Jersey divisionof the Pennsylvania that the destructive power of heavy gales have at several periods brought down whole sections ot the most substantial werial lines by unearth- ing or breaking off the poles, shattering the in- sulators and entangling or tearing tue wires, thus causing an interruption of communication for days and weeks—perhaps at a most inop- portune time! Shall not this progressive country, in which telegraphy has attained an immeasureable prominence, take a leading part in obtaining an independence of communication from all accidents; aud where is there a better oppor- tunity than in postal underground telegraph along the leading airline ratiroads, to commence with a moderate appropriation to finish the sec- tion between Washington and Boston Abort? Curves. railroad have been reduced, to take effect Jan. ist. The men say they will strike as soon as the comet anna to —- ry mre 5 ‘ort Wayne spec's! save a eof engi- neers on the Toledo, Wabash and Western rall- road is imminent ust fifteen per cent. re- duction of wages. strike there is confined j tothe Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis rail- { = ‘The officers say they will not compro~ | Sortmers MARYLAND RatLwoan.—At a meeting of tha commissioners of St. Mary's county, Md., held at Leonardtown on the 2ith instant, the balance of the state appropriation awarded to St Mary's county for works of in- ternal improvements, being £51,500, was voted to the Southern Marviand Railroad’ company, | and the treasurer of the state was requested by resolution of the board to pay over that Amove’ to the president of the sa‘d company. This road is being pushed forward, and will be completed to Point Lookout under the mamage- i States minister to Spaia is favorably rOol Smecot ‘the ‘eto ie received there. The Spaniards are loud in tueir | BERL OF Col. Smoot during the year 114 —Bal expressions of =stisfaction at the resignation ot | “™07™ American *seee- Affairs in Cuba, The latest telegraphic advices trom Havana state that the appointment of Mr. Cashing ® Sickles. How Tary BNLARGED POWERS OF THE CAPTAIN GENERAL. | Youre —Satarda The Madrid government has not only refused | Patrick Do e* t the resignation of Jovellar, which was | with bis fa‘her. mother snd au i oh on the 4th instant, but has granted | was killed led by the latter during adranken braw!, The whole party had been pretty free- iy and were all intoxioated, whet the came saucy. him extended and extraordinary powers. The nature of these powers is not yet known, but it is supposed they embrace the authority to declare the island in a state of siege, should the captain general find it necessary. The home government also offers additional rein- foreements. WHY CESPEDES WAS DEPORED. nis Sv oRs.—A ofthe ‘The char, hich was re- | furviversofthe Polaris Arctic expedi will moved are nossa to Wignoeties hateer, ‘as | be held in New York, to-morrow to Plu obstacles in the way of the deputies so Rcaith bad been bealy impaired by their raer- oo See nee a colored Tint weeks "The Wilsiegton ‘Commercial siaogier Ti scone that they aid not along hus, "This tthe cate of the attr. On dence ot his mother-in-law and’ shot both ber ‘oatty thes been eon: and her son through the mimtow. tse tend on enced bbe hung at Pottsville, Pa. a a ee ee SS Tansiay, Hopkins Middletown and | broke, Oaneda, Saturday. pA B7-A flock of suxteon, be- to Mrs. q Lonng- Disctr:iwa.—The | for from being merry. aaa Yo “ist 6 Shad house molished houses, uprooted trees and adevoyed by are. an or Charles acter at the Usion , after | re- | Square theater, in New York, bailin ceived a twitching cpr eee ee se ios ie a roit boul by wr Bea ‘