Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1874, Page 1

~~ = THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Sundays Exeepted, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Pennsylysaia Avenue, cor. Lith St. aY THE EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Prev. ACP RRANN, ‘VENING STAR is served by carriers to F S MostH. che By mail. STAR—Pablished Friter—1.s0 ry lovariably in advance,in Cases, 52 Soyer ent longer than paid for. (Ga Haves “f advertising farniehed on application. Washington News and Gossip, very few visitors » And those were mostly members of Con- Ceonkti>@ waton the trata which ally wreck sd w Branswick Dg, but escaped with a few was part J., yest slight t 3 mission 2t of Edacation, has Guillaame Jaos, member the Nat x lof § md, a re- | of the Inte veterinary congress at Zarich | Lierr. detach: 1 Coxxaxper from % Natuay H. Barnes aigea and placed on Kove has ben and placed vesession for half afternoon, the time baing sing the nomination of . of Pennsylvania, to bes for the Territory of Colorato. taken. looking Mr. Donovar, firm of Bailey « Hon. G. $. Orth ndiana, were called home last of the sudden illness of Mr. Dorey and fam Tar Boarpor V vas to the U.S. military academy, has been appointed by the President, as follows:—‘(en. Charles S. Hamilton, of Wis- 7 sdgers, U.S.N.; J.Don- nnsylvania; Rev. A. B: Wayland, of Yale ‘empie, Tennessee; California. colle on Hon. Kichard PH mmittee recently ap mittee on Pensions to con- of the survivors of the Mexican held a meeting to-day and Nl to meet these cases. 4 already pending which provides that the sof indian wars and the war with all be placed on the same footing as liers of 1812, or the widows and orphans pointed by the Com sider the cla x from Ci cinnati was before nittee on Public Buildings and 2 committee not to the sale of certain + in Cincinnati, n Briday next by order of buildings ndition as to be The com- on truth of a urg to the sf has ne tion. Lane® Iss — 28 oF PosTace Stamrs, ned from the & Third Assistant to postmasters dur- to the value and wrappers, #11 off postage stamps amped envelopes, £6 7,510; and offcias taking the tota! 3.Sir.6%, an increase ent. over the issues Ls. The whole number of art ed forthe month foots up about one red and fifty millon: Tae District Ixvestication.—A messag> was received in the House to-day from the Sen- gz the r at body of the recting an investigation into the tet of Columbia. The g originally alopted the resoluti it was engrossed by the officers ot that branch: i was intheir custody. This request on the part of the Senate indicates that a reconsidera tion of the passage of the resolution is contem- plated, and the Senate may recedes trem it- and request the House to con- Mr. J. »who has just been re- turned to Parliament for the borough of De:- enport, was well known in Washington daring the war. He is a native of north Wales, about 45 years old, was educated for a surgeon in London, came to America in 1555, edited a newspaper at Pittston, Pennsylvania, was sec retary of the Peace Convention in 1:60, and wilitary agent in this city for the stateor Penn- vania during the war, after which we fint bim in New York, organizing, for Wells, Fargo & Co., the great transcontmental express busi ness formed by the consolidation of the several companies which then divided the trafic. He was the senior member of the Wall-street bank- ing firm of Puleston, Raymond & Co., when Mr. Me: ch, appreciating his remarkable abilities, invited bim to become a partner in the new house in London, with which he has since been connected. TRE OFFICE OF INTERNAL REVENUE has be:n Teorganized, and from and after this date the bureau will consist of seven principal divisions, as follows :—Ist. Division in charge of the so- Hetor of internal revenne, assisted by William H. Armstrong. “i. Division of accounts in charge of the first deputy, assisted by Edward Tompkins. Sd. Division of statistics, direct taxes, Xc., ip cbarge of secoud deputy commis- @over. ith. Division of distilled spirits, in ebar.e of T. A. Cushing. . Stamp division, in cherge of E. R. Chapman. 6th. Division of @sessments, im charge of C. A. Bates. ith. Division of appointments, Xc., in charge of William O. Avery. AENY ORDER Lieut. Colonel Alfred Sully, of Ivth infantry, bas been promoted to colonel Of the 2lst infantry, vice Colonel Granger, (retired,) and ordered to join his proper station ip ‘the department of the Columbia. Lieut. Colonel Potter, of the 4th infantry, has been Promoted to the colonelcy of the 4th’ {nfantry, vice Doubleday, (retired,) and ordered to join bis proper station in the department of Texas. Major Wm. H is, 7th infantry, has been ionel of the lth in- oted,) and ordered te ulf. Major John S. h infantry, succeeds Colonel color Tee Disteer 1 the paper which plished forge are being « e y cents on the do! ge number of incoces vatside of Washington, hold- Of the securities, and the statement lutely fa he bonds yy alluded to sold to day ants at seventy-iour cents, and in one instance a large private loan was made upon them at sixty-five cents. No con. tractors can be found who are willing sellers even at these Dgures. Many have paid high rates for money, parting only with so many of their recurities as would serve to keep eir heads above water. A large rumber now have Joars outstanding which,even if closed out at the general appreciation which has taken place since the panic, would bankrupt them.— Wa. Special N. ¥. Times Terortast Recomwespation ReLative 20 THE USAGE IN>iANS.—The Commissioner of Indian Afuirs bas receive! a letter from Wm. WNicholsen, genera! agent ef the associated ex- ecutive committee of Friends on Indian affairs, gelative to the necessity for some arrangement by which the amp'e accruingtandsof <he Great and Little Ura; me may be mace avail- He gives a fsvurable secount ef these , and says they are making commend- progress in the arteof civilization. im considerable am Vv. 48—NS. 6,515. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1874. Society, Society has a faithfal few who may always be relied upon to attend pleasant receptions, and more especially those where there is dancing. So, des yesterday's snow storm, there was brightness and cheerfulness within dvors. All the ladies who receive on Friday had a few calls. Mrs.and Miss Myers had a large num- ber considering the weather. The music played the most enticing waltzes, and for once the dancers bad plenty of room to revolve. Miss ‘Myers had several young friends to receive with her besides her guest, Miss Russell. Miss Ricb- ard:on, Miss Zellin, Miss Oldfield, Miss Shoen- berger of Cincinnati, Miss Beckwith, and Miss Parsons dispensed the sunshine indoors which was lacking without. — Mrs. Alexander Jeffrey and her daughter and niece were assisted by Miss Preston. — Mrs. and the Misses Wise were assisted by Miss Derby, who, at the urgent solicitation or her friends, is prolonging her stay in Wash- ington. Mrs. General Ricketts did not receive, and bad no reception this winter. Her health not been good, and so her friends have been deprived of the enjoyment of the hospitality she usually dispenses so gracefully. —Mrs. Thurman’ gave a lunch party to twelve ladies yesterday. _—Miss Wendell gave a delightful german on Thursday evening. — ne of the most beautiful and thoroughly agreeable private germans of the season was that given by Miss Annie Smith, at Dr. Lin- coln’s residence, last evening. —Mrs. Stewart has begun to move some of her furniture mto her new house. —Some of the toilets worn at Mrs. Myers’ re- ception were strikingly elegant. Miss Myers’ grey silk with cherry facings was very becom- ing. Miss Russell wore a lovely costume of two shades of blue, one very light in silk the other very dark in velvet; the two were beautifully blended. Miss Ricbardson’s dress was also of two shades of blue, and was evidently of Paris- ian make, £0 artistically were the two shades combined. Miss Oldfield wore mauve and lay- ender silk, the darker color forming the corsage and petticoat, the lighter the sleeves and over- skirt, the two shades being mingled in the trimmings. —Mrs. Berret, Mrs. Carlisle, and Mrs. Stew- art receive to-day. — The young ladies residing in or visiting this city this winter ought to feel happy. Nearly every mother’s daughter of them is named in yesterday's (raphic as “belles of Washington Society.” Bat, by the same token, the half- dozen or thereabouts who were accidentally omitted frem the list will be apt to be very angry. — There is a decided ripple of interest in society circles over the coming appearance of Mrs. Westmoreland, a lady of wit, beauty, and high social position in Georgia, who has distin- guished herself as a brilliant author, reader, and ‘ecturer, and who has achieved high success in New York lately in the latter capacity. She to deliver her celebrated lecture on at Willard’s introduce: cience by Hon. A. H. Stephens, of REWARD FOR HeRoism.—Among the bills passed by the House of Kepresentatites vester- day was one giving Mr. J.J. Petre five thou- dollars as a reward for" heroism displayed in California in rescuing & party of seventy-ono emigrants, who had missed the trail and were starving to death in one of the gorges of the meuntaing. Tar Case or THE Ancanisuor or PosEN.— A cable dispateh informs us that Archbishop Ledochowski, who was arrested on Monday last and lecked up in the prison of Ostrowo, is to be brought to trial on the 11th of the of February—that is, on Wedn archbishop’s offence is that he r the laws passed by the Prussian le May of last year. He has openly and undis- guisedly declared that he owes allegiance i matters ecclesiastical tothe Pope, and not to imperor William. In disobedience of the ne: law the archbishop has gone on, as of old, ap- polnting priests and threatening priests with the major excommunication, and otherwise exercising the rights which are supposed to be- long to his position, as if no change had been made in Prussian law. The archbishop has been repeatedly fined, but he has steadily re- fused to pay. Because of his refusal he ha: been imprisoned. Now he isto be tried. ‘The trial will be d 2 resent month lay next. The they do About It*—England has a fresh griev- ance azainst Spain. On the night of the ith of January. the Spanish iron-clad Vittoria ran down the Ellen Constance near Cartagena The night was clear, and the Spaniard p: attention to the English ship, but “rammed” her to the bottom, and three English sailors were lost. The Spanish admiral, not content with this, held on to the officers and crew, nine- teen menin all, until forced by Admiral Yel- ¥erton to give thein up. Great Britain is “on the boil” over the audacity of the Spaniard ‘The journals are irate, and addicted to hard words and ungentle threats. ee Epveation axp Canoe. — Re’ azer Smith, for twelve and a half years chaplain of the state prison at Concord, says of the 300 con- victs in the prison during that time, not one bas been taken from anyone of the learned professions—not one lawyer, physician, or cler- gyman known and recognized ‘as such by any ot the associate bodies of any of their profes sions. There is one physician, but he is not of the regular school practice. There have been two persons who have pretended to preach, but belonged to no religious order, and held to doc trines not generally held by churces; not one editor, printer, or school teacher. FemaLe Twins Unirep Sometnine Like THE SIAMESE BROTHERS.—A special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun says: *‘Last Wednesday night at Tobaccostick, Dorchester county, Md., Mary Travers, wife of Thomas Travers, colored, ve birth to female twins something like th: te Siamese pair. They are united by a fleshy band from the lower part of the breast bone to the abdomen, and face to face. One was born dead, the other lived afew minutes, and ha! its arm around the dead one’s neck. Dr. Ben- = Smith has bought and preserved the Tuere Pessons Burwep To DeaTH —A fire broke out at an early hour Tuesday morning in a house in Guilford, Maine, occupied by Isarc Wharf and family, and a man named Jenkins op awakening found the fire spreading. He rushed to inform Wharit, who being crazy, and unmakageable, could not be saved. Jenkins gave up the attempt in order to save his own fife, but Mrs, Wharf and her nephew about 10 years old. were also burned to death in trying to rescue Mr. Wharif. A ILROAD Havixe Two Farrs.—The Pavonia, N.J., horse railroad company is now charging two fares for riding over their road. That is, they have recently placed onthe route a new style of car, inwhich the fare is put ina box by the passenger. no conductor being em- d, ayd the fare in this car is, for any di five cents, while on the old cars, on which Te conductol the passenger is charged uts. there seven Mreicat PaooraMMe ov THE CE At a meeting of the national centennial m cal leagne held last evening in Philadelphia a Tesoluvion was adopted authorizing the printing of reular, to be addressed to the various mnsical org: ‘ations throughout the country, <is their covperation in the matter of mak- D ¢ musical programme of the at cer tennial exposition « grand success. Ine sew TEMPZRANCE MOVEMENT has al reac y got into the courts. Martin igor seller of Centerville, ladies of New Holland for mecting in his saloon m spi thereby committing tres; and interfering with his got the best counsel and thir g through. tress in Boston fire im that city. ———— Tue Pacivic Mat Sreamsa:r Company Man: them are farming, and others are empio: 4 iths, locksmiths, wwhesterighte, "a of them live im good houses. A to encourage the newly-awakened dis- of these Indians to civilization 8B judicious expenditure of their own fund: earpestly recommend tuat Aton ‘made to Cusqremes ‘the Interior to ex; wnat deneficial civilizing » the sui sales of report that they are in ation with the Javanese government for a sabsidy, and that a willingness to it that given by ‘tho United wi be held es RorvaLism i Wiscowsrm.—Dr. of Raciue is the for the sim. Dr. De Keven, vacant GADABOUT’S COLUMN. [ Written for the Evening Star.] KNAPP’S WASHINGTON. Some weeks ago I made in this column a few | heads om Washington bibliography, and have since fallen heir to another book of that class, “Sketches of Public Characters, drawn from the Living and the Dead,” by Sam’lL. Knapp, published in 1830. Knapp was a Newburyport man, like Cushing, Poore,S argent, and severa of our habitues, who founded the National Re- publican in 1826, and was one of the pionoers of American biography, and well acquainted with Jobn Lathrop and Charles Prentiss, both of whom lived in Georgetown, Prentiss publishing the Federalist there,and Lathrop dying there the same year Prentiss died—i320. Quoerly enough, the man to whom Knapp dedicated this k, Aaron Ward, also died in George- town as late as 1°67, after twelve years spent in Congress. Kuap’s book is one of the most oon scit ntious performances on the Federal society in the second Adams’ administration. ‘For the city of Washington,” says Knapp, “Mr. Adams has done more than any of his predeces- sors ever did. He was surrounded by men who had no sympathy for oue another; they were paired, not matched and brought together by fortuitous circumstances; the party he served so heartily were not satistied with one who would administer the government without be- ing influenced by party, avowing openly that a party administration was the tae genius of a republican government.” Iie says of a national university: ‘A national university to be established in this city was contemplated by Washington. His views were expanded and noble. ‘The university was not only to be one in name, but in truth, a place of letters and sciences, with the arts, both usefal and ornamental in their train; a place where ail that is known should be taught. Such a univer- sity would be the resort for men of taste and leisure, who with their families would come to attend the lectures of the professors of the uni- versity: as none but distinguished men could hold these offices.” Of Capelano, who made the bas relief of the rescue of John Smith in the rotunda of the Capitol, he says: ‘He had seen more Italians than Indians, and his savages are Italian bi ditt!, and bis intended child of the forest an Italian queen.” Here is something not now seen around the White House: ‘On the southeastern side of the wall there is a stone arch for a gateway; it looks from the antiquity of the style and the color of the material as if it had stood centuries. Two boy, ncient weeping willows, one on each side t the arch, add much to its venerable appear- ance. They are older than the national consti- tution or the city’s charter, provincial seedlings, now national monuments.” We find alto that there was a Washington Chronicle here in Jackson's administration, and in Madison's The Hive and The Senator. This description of Washington still holds — “Washington is the center of all this bustle, the very ear of Dionysius, in which every re- mote whisper isreverberated. The complaints of the great and little are all heard here; the feeble who mutter, but dare not speak aloud; the bold who rave in their disappointments and in- voke the curses of the upper and better world, are aleo heard.” .The following early books are alluded to by Knapp as published in Washington or relating B Blcdget’s Statistics of the Federal 'y ‘oodward’s Work on the Substance ot the Sun; Mrs. Harrison Smith’s two novels, «A in Washington” and “ What is Gentil- r. Thomas Ewell’s Chemical Discourses; . J. Ewell’s Medical Companion; Thoma- Law’s Book on the Currency. There are sketches in this book of the father of Bancrott Davis and of Walter Jones. NORLE HURDLE. OBIT FEBRUARY 5, 1874. The old man counted ninety-four— His years of gentle living— And passed away, with nothing more For giving or forgiving. His grandsons’ grandsons saw his smile, As pleasant and as tender, As when the cannons of the French He heard at \ ork’s surrender. The gracious climate nursed his age, The kindly heart assisted, Though life had turned the middle page, When for the war he ‘listed, And made good time the helds across ,— ‘The which he told with candor,— What day the British, under Ross, Alarmed ye Marylander. He knew the oldest Indian trails That led about Swampoodle, Long ere the war chiefs of the West Came East to Yankee Doodie; Keal Nacostines that fished the Branch, And robbed like Black or Vandal, But never stripped the clothes lines bare To hide their naked scandal. Alas! the printer could not claim That mind that Lethe girdles, When round the ring of Presidents His memory leaped the hardles; And noble In his look and name, And to his country loyal, ‘The century almost gave descent And made his lineage royal. He saw the soldier of the race ‘The Magistrate by nature, ‘The great stone mm the corner place ‘With gravest word and feature, And with the eye of private faith God kept him at his station, To see arise trom sloth and scath The city of the nation. His household tax the town forgave, And all the Council signed it, As one who had outlived the grave, And brightened death behind it. How beautiful in so mach strife, ‘Where all is transitory, To see so sweet and long’a life Flow like a fairy story ! Green be his rest, wheré he may hear Kock creek run down the valley, As all his life it turned the mills, So strong and musically. A © chapel bell! most tender speak To college chimes replying, Ard all for once be Catholic At such an old man’s dying. PROFESSORSHIPS OP JOURNALISM. The daily newspapers are making some ado over the establishment of professorships of journalism at Cornell University and Washing- ton and Lee Colleges. This criticism generally arises from uneducated men afraid of competi- tion as public writers. I have the fullest ap- proval of the scheme and al! contidence in its success. Jonrnalism must correct journalism. Some education and social responsibility is ne- cessary for a profession so absolute as that of a public writer who abdicates party restraint, erects his enginery into a stock company revives that period succeeding the feudal sys- tem when outlaws took possession of all the im- pregnable castles. Character, which is the next thing to liberty for governments to insure to the osseesion of the citizen, is cheaper to-day than n the bistory of the world, and we have passed for the worse the opinion of Jefferson, that ‘‘the bewspapers had become a power in the federa- tion indispensable to the existence of freedom and nearly incompatible with the maintenance of public orver.” hat colleges of learning should have shown the rorethought to correct, chasten, and refine a calling already claiming, in advance of any special culture, te be one of the learned pro- feseions, is to their credit. Newspaper proprie- tors of the present day are generally retired printers or business organizers, who must avail themselves of any tramp that comes along, bave no choice over their — When edu- cated young gentlemen of , sensibility, and judgment are trained up for these proprie- many dead-beats now co! jualified to measure the world in ves whisky flask, will recommence ‘journal- ism” at the state ——— and —. court- bouses. It ought to ible to educate a + aeretand that & dally charge of uD Mi is neither themee! thei w ca drunkenness on the Chief be ought to have itraged repute ‘THE SONG OF THE CAMP. “Give usa point!” the Seribblers cried, The outer world blackguarding, ‘When the press of the independent Grew anxious for bombarding. TWO CENTS. All fo- some paltry scandal seek, And bounced it like a leopard— Each heart recalled a different pique, But all yelled “Aleck Shepherd !”* Voice after voice caught up the song; Swiss passed it on to Hessi And like a polecat, smelling strong, scavenger’s confession— “Dear Washington! Still do we seek To duild thee proud and grander!” And something on the townsman’s cheek Wash'd off the stains of slander. Bevond the shining future burned. Such raging spleen to embers, And there the city’s strong men learned How civic love remembers. . And once again a fire of hell Rained on the town’s recruiters, From editors who lived by smell And telegraphic tooters. And Irish Nora’s eyes are dim, For stammering Frank in jeopard; And the Henglish language mourns for him Who damned that ‘*Haleck Shepherd.” Scream, scribblers, still the period's pest, As Comly says, serenest: “The bravest are the tenderest; The loudesg the obseenest.”” NOTES. —Why does not north 1th street improve like the new avenues, being paved tirst, although the property out there is mainly owned by the local mutineers? Because a number of old fogies own the ground in squares and large parcels, and will not build, preferring to let the quarter called ‘* Hell's Bottom” en- croach upon the West End, to the ultimate ruin of that section, while they assail strangers for buying on Connecticut and neighboring ave- nues who fmprove promptly. —‘ihe Home for Geutlewomen, on Massa- chusetis avenue, was a thoughtful and gracious construction, in memoriam. There the widows of men once celeprated and wealthy live in ex- uisite social accord, to the number of fifty- dre, drinking the best Souchong, with musi and engravings, and all the exceliencies of re- finement. Let’ us honor any thought which makes some circle happy and takes the bite from misfortune. Let us equally honor the more democratic forethought which has drained and sewered the streets egy the purlieus of the poor, protecting the little children there from fever and damp, and furnisbed light and water to make Ps, endurable. Honorable and thoughtful also is the new jail, where weakness and crime need not be crowded to- ether and made associates. Charities are Beautiral; public works indispensable. —Surgeon General Barnes usel to entertain the ideaof finishing the Washington monament by stopping it short, decorating it with a heav broad and massive éntablature and capping t with @ colossally colossal statue. Would not Greenough’s Washington answer the pur pose, made to hand? ‘That is, if the Congress of the country wants to confess its impotence in the matter. Philadelphia isto get seven mil- lions, they say, tor an exhibition wholly anna- tional aid unnecessary, a sort of Peele’: museum and country tair, while the country is covered with unfinished monumental shafts. AxcTuRus Gapagour. LAYS OF ANCIENT WASHINGTON, No.1. Old F, F. Veigh’s Lament, BY WASRINGTON DACTE, Port Lawreate of the Growlery. (For The Star.) Come, Cwsar, bring the tagon that is filled on fun'ral days, Sor my spirit is |} spangled wa‘ Let me curse degeneration, which has gilt the flippant times, In the good old stately fashion flowing beakers tipt with rhymes. I bate this innovation on our gloomy syncope, fo Lip oon trom ancient shadows into crit- 7 By the cosy roar of commerce to be wakened from our snooze! Take away your blonde Catawba, fluid fit for plebian use, Resurrect the cellared Bourbon to obliterate my blues! widered with our city’s Pour me out a deeplibation, I would drown my anguished oul! Now, gods pour down a deluge, till its fiery waves shall roll 0’er Potomac’s cozy sedges—oozy ! sloggy ! and antique! Till they sweep in dire confusion—as the Ro- man and the Greek. Fling aba. the oid barbarians !—the amalga- mated horde, The invasion of Improvement, which hath con- quered neath the Board. Pour out faster, faster, faster, till my sweltered senses glide Like a trancist in a coftin on some lotus, crawl ing tide— I sigh tor mouldy asage as the bridegroom for the bride! Alas! Upon the Capitol! [ sought its halls to-day, I climbed its circumbendibus in good old stage coach way; Az my vision squared the circle the sacrilege 1 saw, The defiant innovations, filled me with indig- nant awe; I a for things familiar: the tawny Tiber’s ow, With # its hoary filthiness; I looked for Rotten Ww, The ancient home of rodents, long sacred to the mews, And—weep ye chronic worshippers of ordure at the news! — My senses were smothered by its mountains of refuse! Where flowed the dear old avenue, ‘Father of Mad and Slush,” { stw a modern boulevard, swept clear with rake and brusb! Where e’er my sickened vision turned "twas met with hateful views OF spreading streets and terraces and shady avenues! The cottage and the mansion, I swear, stood cheek by gowl, Ina a © fashion most galling to my soul; No finely cut distinction of ancient feudal rights But penne good as tother—a town of mud sill whites With schoo) mam’s running over and “Niggers out 0” nights!” ; : - Then I said in desperation, my fist clinched in the face Of their gilded ginger city, and its plebian toothed race, That you've swept the sacred ashes that have paved our public ways, All our regal desolation, since great Grow- musty"s days; Tho’ you've hidden unctious sewers and fest'ring slums in earth, And piled your direst vengeance to pull down ‘our pride of birth ! know an ancient fortress that has whipt your modern horde! And J turned toward dear Swampoodle—but For 2, spirit soon was lowered, ‘or plague’s last sacred stronghold was ca’ tured by the Board ! . “a The ancient suns which sweltered in our streets of ruts and ruins, When all our days flowed stately into sickly afternoons, Are sitting cold and ghastly on our violated fanes— But wake, my drowsy epirit, one single hope remains. Let us seek their plebian Congress, with hu- Ere the dust of uci ‘re the dust of ancient usage is etuall, entombed; . — : Let us pray, like very commoners, that may grant thelr aid i ame! To the remnant of senility, who are very much afrai Of the devas'ating armies of the pick-ax and the spade. * Rotten Row! The old market on Pennsyl- fate review of Mr. book Juba, ‘Washington, it ia bared "ret s —— ness prevented Mr. from dis- pe WHO IS ALEXANDER R. SHEPHERD? What Are His Works ? The Editor of the Star: Plutarch, in one of bis admirable paraiie!s tells us ‘that the art of governing cities an ecmmonweaiths is the chief excellence of man that is, of governing ably, wisely, and justly. This observation is as true in the present as it was in the early days in which Plutarch wrote. Let us therefore apply this observation, and the maxims it embraces, to the rule in this Dis trict. For nearly three years the District of Colum bia bas been a territory—a little common wealth—embracing within its limits the polities capital of the nation and the city of Georgetown and the county of Washington. From its crea- tion as territory by Congress Alexander K Shepherd has practically been itsraler. How has he governed it? Has he governed in justice and with wisdom for the common good? Whar are his works? Do they prove that he possesse~ “the ehief excellence of man?” In June, 1571, Mr Shepherd was appointed by the President of the United States a member oi our Board of Public Works under the act of Congress of February 21, , “to provide a government for the District of Columbia.” Shortiyt after the board formally organized Mr. Shepherd was elected its vice president and executive officer—practically its head or chief—and entered, immediately, upon the preparations of plans to build the capttal of the nation. Truly, a Titenic work. Unier th niggardly policy, the stupidity, and petty job- bery of our old’ municipal corporations, the capital had improved but little; it was in a miserable condition. Our cities were without a regular system of grades—were, indeed, utterly destitute of all system in regulating grades— ithou* sewerage or any system of drain- age, and innocent of all proper or effective sanitary regulations—with an open pesti- lent-breeding ditch, known as ‘the canal, in the very heart of the city—an unsightly receptacle of all manner of filth and the putrig and putrifying carcasses of animals. Our ave nues and streets, although maguificent in their widths and lengths and in their plan or design, were yet little better than uninterrupted ranges in bill and valley of mud and mireand filth With wretched sidewalks. With no proper build- ing regulations, no inspections of buildings, and our houses consequently badly cons with but few of the conveniences and comforts of modern lite. The few roads in the county leading to our cities out of repairs and almost impassable. In a word, with all public spirit or enterprise dead or dwarfed, the natural sult of the petty policy of our previous muni- cipal rulers, and all snd everything in the ex ternal appearance ef our cities combiaing to give them the general panorama of semi-barbar- ous (owns. ‘this condition of the District, alike diszra ful to our citizens and the nation, herd proposed to remove. proposed to do thoroughly. The ugly dilapidation; the mad, filth, and squalor; the demoralizing, semi-bar- barous aspect which overspread our cities like a dirty, ragged mantle—he proposed to into the humanizing habilaments of ci Lae tion, Has he not done so? And has it not been an’Aloidian work? In its execution Mr. Shep- herd has set 81 ineal feet, or over 154 miles of curbing. He has la'd 3,611,605 square yards, oF near 365 miles, of the different kinds of pave- ments on the sidewalks aud carriage and road ways Gf our cities and county. He has excava- ted arit removed 3,510,000 cabic yards of earth in reducing our avenues, streets, and roads to common or uniform grades, hauling the eaith so excavated au average distance of 4 mile, and Uulizing it for purposes of public improve- ment. He bas laid 550,000 square yards, or miles,/ 18 teet wide ot parking, and planted thou- sands of the finest shade trees along our parks, avenues and streets. He has constracted317,1 lineal feet, or over 60 miles,of 12, 15, and 1s inch pipe sewers, and as many feet and miles of 6 inch lateral pipe sewers. Tie has built 21,07 lineal feet, or nearly fourjmiles, of main age, of brick and stone, with arches of 6, 9, 12, 20, and 30 feet span, and 31.052 lineal feet, or nearly 5s miles, ot brick barrel sewers of from 2 feet inches to 7 feet diameter; in all, over 1:0 miles of all kinds of sewerage. He has laid more than 30 miles of new water mains, and lowered and relaid 9 miles of old water mains in conforming them to the new grades. He bas increased the numberof public lamps to over 3,000, and has laid 39 miles of gas pipes, together with much more work of great value, such as erecting thousands of wooden and atone steps, and miles upon miles of wooden and iron fences in front of the residences of our citizens, erecting many drinking fountains for man and beasts constructing water reservoirs, and erect- ing hundreds of hydrants and fire-plugs, build- ing palatial market houses, and constructing wooden and iron bridges over the streams in our cities and county. And this vast amount of work has been done in about sixteen working months! An achieve- ment unexampled in the history of ¢ work of years in as many months! Nor is that all. By the projected system of main se now nearly completed, Mr. Shepherd wil im @ vast area of ground, hitherto a value- less marshy waste, in the northeastern section of this city, Mi the value of the land thus re- claimed, and rendered inhabitable, will be many times the cost of its sewerage. He has redeemed Water street—a heavy business street, the mart of the commerce of Georgetown—from the hitherto periodical inundations to which it was subject, by raising its bed above the level of spring tides, and has solidly paved it with Belgian stone blocks. An invaluable boon to Georgetown. He bas added to our seg f 2d street west, from Pennsylvania avenue to & stroet north, by ex tending the arch over Tiber creek from Penn- sylvan to Indiana avenues. tilling over it to the grade of the street, laying the sidewalks and paving the carriageway. This his proved a fine improvement. Where but a short time ago was a wide and dangerous ravine, with a filthy and disease-breeding stream mean tering tarough it, now runs 4 handsome street, along which is @ row of elegant press-brick fronts in the finest style of modera architecture. He has also added to the streets of the capital B street north, from 6th to 17th street west. Only two years ago the site of this street was hideovs ditch known as “the canal,” filled wit all manner of filth and decayed and decaying carcasses of animals. Now, that really fright- ful cess-pool, filled with new earth excavated from the streets, and paved and parked, has, almost by magic, from a deadly pestilent-breed- ing nuisance, been changed into a prominent street—a beautiful, a magnificent avenue one hundred feet wide anda mile in length. In dill- ing up that ugly ditch Mr. Shepherd reclaymad 2,300,194 square feet of land, worth ion of surrounding property. . The face of the whole District has changed: it has been wonderfully improved. In the county the old roads have been rebuilt upon improved plans. Many new ones have been opened and uilt upon a systematic plan, intersecting one another like net-work, and creating new, esay and convenient access to our cities for the trat- fic of the surrounding country, and new ond beautiful drives for our people. In our cities even grander results have been obtained. The old intolerable zig-zag grades of our streets— the long impassable nuisances of street mud and dust—the wretched guttering and dilapi- dated sidewalks—all the old squalid parapher nalia of semi-barbarism—bave disappeared ‘The carriageways of nearly all our streets—ali in the heart of the capital—have been system. atically paved with the finest pavements of concrete, wood, and stone. Our sidewaiks have been relaid. Along and bordering all but our business streets long lines of parking and ter- races, skirted by lines of the finest shade trecs, makes of our city one ex- tended garden, blending the city with the country, and opening out as far as the eye can reach, as on Massachusetts avenue and K street north, cheering vistas, rich, rare and ele- Throughout the capital, at the interssc- tions of our avenues and streets, numerous little irregular-thaped plats, ornamented with foun- tains, unite with the parking, the terracing, Prcaner our public uty. However, it is not so much by the vast amonnt of work done which Mr. Le vege Ng rule is to be estimated, as by its character; ite reat and and permanent usefulness. ie oe built = i oe on ones ished the confusion, imbecility, a Jjob- bery which ruled in'our gpverimonts when he Seerece chee eee ae '* x He bas banished from ou cities ‘and ‘owed closel, py of and elaborate, and their architecture, constructed uj accordance plans in tions, and with all the appliances, ee modern’ life, have been built conventences of P..--1 the becca builder. , many of them massive a and it ch Sinfrral Secareeiates poy Ra lines of improvement, and the cars bave stretched out their railways in every direction to meet new demands for street travel. And this work—this creation and exten- sion to all of £0 many of the appliances and benefits of an advanced civilization—has been s2complished without increasing the current rates any work of similar taxation, and at a cost greatly less than Magnitude and character was ever before done in any city of the United States! True, Mr. Shepherd has had able associates in the execution of Gov. Cooke, in his f bie great work. In. ex. popularity and financial ability, credit and experience; in his engineer bureau, m such men as A. B. Mullett, long a member of the board, and its engineer, a man of fine invention and immense industry; in Adolr Cluss, B. Oer tley and Chas. E. Barney, accomplished engineers, intelligent, laborious and skilful; in bis James A. Magruder, its treasurer, an able, industrioas and cons entions officer disbur: the large ams e the two anditors Lay, thoreagh mast counts, intel ty and fh thou-ands to our From all these, and from Messrs. W ability, practical a watchiulness over board and of connection ti rege ise, the will, gy, whi planned and organtz ligent and ineorraptt nwith Treasurer Magruder, have, by delit in their respective cay our with the public Shepherd bas received Shepherd’s was the genius; ch dominated which originated the inancial bareau, in Col. a member of the board and sing hones'ly and faithtully nded by the board; and in sers. BN. Mea 30 ers of the busi in Saved thousands upon zens. ottias, iilard and Blake, in their md executive, and their th2 interests of the Citizens since their works, Mr. at arsistance. Bat Shepnerd’s the the courage and the ener- all. His was the genius er enterprise, which it into practical work, e and secured the ways and means in keeping perfect and active the subordinate machinery His the resolute will, the determined courage and energy which carried successfully into exe- cution his magnificent plans for the building of the capital in the face of astorm of hostility and obleqn: which would have overwhelmed a merely ordinary man ! These are the wor! herd. ksof Alexander R. Shep- | May be not point to them with pride, | and challenge the admiration and applause oi all? Do thes he bas ruled in lie goo tarch, Le possesses man? not demonstrate, and cle: stice and wisdom for th eed, in the language of y, that ab la- the chief excellence of DeWisxtros. Washington, February 5, 1874 FORTY THIRD CONGRESS, SaTcapay, Febraary THE SENATE w HOUS F RE Ho net tebate only. and then a: prepared speech. Mr. Clark (Mo. on cheap transpo Bir. Vance the evils under sked lea as nC ki mittee of the Whole for ttenden (Mo. ed the few sentences scar ro for tuel rest of his owed ina written speeth tion, after which gave his views of some of people were groaning, the urst and greatestof which he proclaimed to be taxation. Mr. Thornburg (Tenn ar sections of th affected the set! termaster General's Dir. Kelley (F bis favorite top fore the cox y. ment of claims in rang the c «1, was the most important question now gave his views of ach ny appropr department. Mr. Sayler (Ind ) addressed the Hoase against the present burden upon the people. Disgrace THE HANGING OF From a detailed ent laws, and charged royalty paid to vat 1 Scemes Davi tentees Was au m Exeention. N MARYLAND Y2s DA account in the Baltimore Gazette of this morning of the execution of Joseph W. Davis, at fay, (a briet repert telegraphic columns of ning,) we quote the Wier the doomed Westminster jail, yester- of which was printed in the Taz Stag last eve- following: man reached the platform of the scaffold, he was evidently disconcerted at the sea of upturned faces the rudest of stare gazing at bim with ad He committed a speech to memory, but sach was his confusion that his remarks were disconnected and ram- bling, Saying the same thing over and over ain. “Cy Dear Priced a large crowd collected. brought here for the which I confess to have di The remerks were about as follows: As i have gathered before pause have been er of Abraham Lynn, one. I warn you, if mur you have in this world any ill feelings towards anybody, pardon them. ‘There is a large con- courre gathered here. 1 have written a confes- sion for my dear sister; in it I have given all the particulars, and { wi every young man, i submit. actions, but F shoulder warningly. slight pause he continued.) I have been brought brought into relation with Mr. Lynn. evidently intended to disparage some of Lynn’ ¥. Mr. Cremer laid a hand on bis | i! not repeat them. 1 warn it tempted by evil, not to here by being Here h and he stopped, after a I never intended that I would take his life. Ail I have to say, my friends, be warned by my fate. 1 am very thankful to my spiritual advieers, and to the sheriff, for their kind treatment 1, bid you all tarew: An interval of crowd be, ner. Ci “Good: bs & number 0: Joe, urelevant and I now hen the the last fe lence fol! wed, nto act ina most disgraceful man- were heard of + Good-bye, Dav: ‘Old fellow, good-bye, hocking epi were also heatd: Davis appeared calm and upmoved. Rev. Mr. Cremer then made a very prayer on bebulf of shaking the gallows. his bead the white c: Whilst fixing it Day on tight ro it would sheritt good-bye. prayer, and lips, the she aclanging noise and quent the doomed man, and after hands with him descended the steps of Sheri? Devilbis then placed ou ap and adjusted the rope. is asked him to tix the cap not fall otf, and bade the Davis then muttered a brief hile the words were still on his iff pulled the trigger as he was de- scending the steps at 12.11, the tra; ling with the body with dull thud. The face in death looked natural, the featares were pot distorted, physical suffering. and gave no indication ot The behavior by the crowd was outrageous, a lot of lazy countrymen, bent on aepree, and apparently relishing the execu- tion, they fairly besieged the town. Drunken quarrels and brawls were of frequent ocear- rence, turning the minster into a perfect bedlam. al quiet stroets of West- it is proper to state that the citizens of the town had no hand in the disgrac’tul proceedings, and were much shoeke ' at such u ceney and propr A Warn ty. er Cisregard of common de- To ELecTion Keoisters.—The Baltimore jury in the case of James S. Mason, the register of te first election district of Kent county, Maryland, who was charged with ob- structing the law 50 ored men of their ri, turned the very unexpected ver Theory wasout tro: m. "Two of the juro of them is believed t as to deprive certain col- ght to vote, y m 2 o'clock to 19 o'c rs were democrats, and ons ‘0 have bad more intluenes P- *ban any other man on the jury. Mr. Mason dressed him, saying having “intentional! give equal privileges ‘ties named in the indictment; that he convicted ered uffciont to inflict sic. 80! jnired by law, and Se 0 and costs. Mr. about $1,100. peing directed to stand up, Judge Giles a1- he bad’ been indicted for ¥ refused and omitted to of P ——— of his country, Saas ebert 00 determine bted constitutional ameni ments. ‘core, of Maryland, offered « resolution for a Soom tong Ld confer the =. an: ‘aturday night was set apart for that cere- Brown. mony. . ef Michigan, presented constitutional amendments, grange to visit the Merchants’ Exchange in body, which was accepted, the time to he fixed t fter. Master A Aiken, of 8. ©. Taylor stated that Charleston, S. ©.. UuAauimousty selected by the cotton # as the most desirable place to bold TEE NEXT ANNUAL MERTEN reat applaase } ior. inthe name of Soath Caro- the sta he south, returned thanks for the nnantmous vote, and asenred the members that no ettort would be spared by the citizens of Charleston to make their visit to At city pleasant and the session of the grange agreeable. = Brother Thompson, of Canada, said im the Dominion they bad ten live granges, some num- dering over one Lundred members; that they wanted to establieh a Dominion grange, so as to have under their contro! a fixed headquarters, and that their earnest desire was to see the or- ganization become national in character A committee of five was appointed, to wh all resolutions are to be referred, and’ the co: mittee directed to report on the last day of the session. Several standing committees were appointed, who will consider various matters presented for the welfare dd report hereatter. The session will probably continue a week lon ger. - New York Notes, THE WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT. New York, Febraary i.—The following is the weekly bank statement: Loans increase, T Oe, specie decrease, $121,400; legal ten- ders, increase, $172,209, deposits’ increase, $6,959,000; circulation increase, 5,000, COLLISION OF STRAMERS. The steamer Newport, trom Fali river, for | New York, was run into off Watch Hill ‘last hight by the Providence Propeller Doris. Newport was badly damaged. SIX INCHES OF SNOW. The snow which continued ail night, t abated. Travel is mnch impeded by the which is six inches de«p on a level STAINING $15.0 ress, awaits Un The mde, but bo ‘ooklyn post « | mt | the E owner at FIRST ACCIDENT ON THR ELEVATED ROAD. Last evening the driving wheel of an engine ated road broke, and James Ryan, Was badly scalded. A hook nit fos r vel down the first person injured on the elevated road PROM RANK TO JAIL. fiepatch trom Toled teller of the Toledo ¢ mmitted in default co. Henry, sted and or THE GRAND JURY OF BROOKLYN this mor ed ten indictmen's against Ca A-deputy collector, for embezzling over #1 ,000 while in that office. ANOTHER OF THE OLD TANMANY PLICATIONS IN COURT. This morning in the Supreme Court argu- ments were made by Judges Edmunds and Da- vis fora pere Ory mandamus to compel Con- troller Green to pay over to the Tenth 3 Bank the sum of $256,000 alleged to advanced on requisition of the cou commissioners in 1X1. The affidavits of Meesrs. Story, Taintor, Green, and Mike Norton for the defence. stated that Mesers. “ ¢.,were directors of the bank; that he ained that Tweed, Connolly, Ingere ts defrauded the city of twenty im IST1, of which four millions were tor the court house account; that $6%),000 Was appropriated in 1570 for the court house, of which $208,000 was paid by Connolly, and’ of hat $565,000 was traced to I li" account n the Bowery Nation: jank, and was obtained on fraudulent bills and forged en loreements. The sum of $500,000 was drawn 70-71 on pretended court-house expendi- en vouchers of the commissioners, and the endorsement of Ingersoll, and that ‘more than balf that som was fraudulently appropriat- ed. On the announcementof Norton’s affidavit being about to be read, great excitement pre- veiled. It states that almost immediately alter his appointment as such commissioner he was urged by Mr. Ingersoll, another commissioner; by molly. the controrler, by Watson, county auditor, by Tweed, com- missioner of public works, to we of various vouchers porrorting to be bills for expenditure in relation to said court-house, in- curred prior to the date of his appointment as ioner; that he met the comptrolier times in reference to this matver, In- gersoll was always present. > Foreign Notes, RESULT OF THE BRITISH ELECTIONS Loxpon, February 7—The Pos! of thisa. m. thinks it quite certain that Gladstone will re- sign the presidency before the new Parliament assembles. The press of this city unanimously recognize the completeness of the defeat of the government in the elections BRITISH SYMPATEY POR GERMAN CATHOLICS A large meeting was held in St. James’ Hall last night for the purpose of expressing sym- pathy for the Roman Catholics of Germany. The Duke of Norfolk presided MARINE DISASTER. The steamebip base: , laden with a sec - tion of the Brazilian cable. broke from her moorings at Wo lw'ch yesterday and was carried some distance up the Thames before the crew succeeded in secnrely anchoring ber, waile the steamer fouled thirty-two colliers, sinking two of them and damaging others. Several of the men on the colliers were severely injured. Se The Snow Bavtiwong, February = bf per- rons are this morning shovelling snow from the sidewalks, street»-crossings, awnings and house-tops. The snow, which is very light, is six Inchesdeep ona level. The storm com- menced at noon yesterday and abated aboat one a.m. The New York express train south, due here this morning, arrived an hour and ten minutes late. Sare running now on time vn the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baiti- more road. On the main stem of the Baltimore ap. Obto road the traine are on fair tim, with slight detention. The other roads report the trains on time. — A Test Case. Crrcaco, February 7.—A Springield dis suit has been brought against the ago and Alton railroad by the attorney- general of the state for violations of the road jaw. The attorney- general recitesseverat cases in which more then a fair and rea: ‘neation 8 com at een charged, Uy. the com- passengers as well as freigtt, and Inands egal damages. This is the first prose- cution of the kind, and the result is looked for with great interes! Murder of a Boy LAINSVILLE, RY., by ‘ebruary masked me! into a house in County, lot Satustay night, where aged 5 years. spore ner as sey sbot him, nds fe aise i