Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1874, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Sundays AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Penusylvania Avenue, cor. 1ith St. sY TES EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER CORPANY, & MB. RAUPPMANN, Prev't. souusune aed BVENING STAR is served by carriers to see abebribees at ‘TEx Gusts rem WEEE, oR Foutt-rork Cents STM. Copies at the ater Two Cxnts each. By mail—three mouths, 91.2; six monthe, $2.00; one year, 38. TRE WEREKLY STAR—Published Priday—91.50 | eyear, Be Invariably in advance, in both cases,and paper sent longer than paid for. SF Rates of adrertising farnished on application. EVENING STAR. ‘Washington News and Gossip. Panpove conricted ot & Albany, bas been ps we, of South Carolina, ctimes, and 1 ‘isoned 4° doned the President Mr. Justice Cuirroap will leave here on Monday fe cir Provic purt there nce, K. 1. to preside in a! of an importa: Senator for Kansas. ip co taining the «ad ne a telegram Rev. B. N colored church ai mercial of that city now feel assured that jod and hu al! men alike at all tim: Rattwav Postat CLexas between W, ington and Weldon, N. C.: Thomas B.C. @f Accomac county and Joseph” C. Rus- U, of Laurenceville, Va. 600 each per annum from’ February 16 y orge H. Durfee and Albert E. Redstone have resigned. Mn. Darpon, who has for some time past been accredited to this government in the ca- pacity ot Charge d’Affaires of Salvador, yester day presented his credentlalsto the President as Minister Plen!potentiary of that republic, on which occasion the usual comp.imentary speeches were made. Punsowat—Hon. Charles M. Walker, editor ournel, is im the city, on his 5 , where he has been ting as one of the government fo test the coin issues le, whe wo or has been absent hree days, has re- NG OF THE Yose at a meeting hel. moval of Meran’s painting ef the Grand Canon of the Yosemite Valley from its present pos! im the old the House of K re & poe the laie the Sen: A <MOKER Treas a ten-cen' have bee: sma h evidences of ho est regard tor the dues of this corrupt age are heartily appre cause thi ; clerks to weep tears of Jo ever the repen neT The Military Committee of the Hoa special meeting th afford Paymaster ge Advocate and Commissary General Eat ¥ togive their viewson the s enera Each gave a a to neiden tion. Wast Arxs To F Senator Hitchcock, Gov TEE Gunnas, A.S. Pad éock and J. H. Peake, of Nebra: 4 spon the Secretary of War and Ger , to-day, etting arms for the people ot ipation of agenera Indian ontbre: owing to ex- tary Belknap —Hon. the new Senator from Miss Executive mansion to-das to the Pres: repe easant incidents the teachers and ¥ school of the h, Baltimore, een eighty and a hundred, ali of whom were ushered into the Executive office, where they paid their respects to the President. AL ConTzst._The Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections morning decided in the matter of charges the visit o1 belonging to the Su treet Methodist n rO- id advisible during the p ress of the investigation to summon witnesses. he counsel for both Spencer and Sykes were The former advocating the determina- tiem of the contest on documentary evidence aud the iatter favoring an oral investigation. TSE Sew ate Comultrer oN Crarws held a meeting to-day to consider the claims of al- leged loyal citizens tor property used, damaged, or destroyed by the Union armies in the late war. They have not yet taken up the abstrac question as to the liability of fhe government for property appropriated under similar cir- cumstances, nor will they probably do so. They will probably be governed in their action by the peculiar circumstances ef each individual case. At the meeting or the committee to-day they considered and adopted a favorable report from Mr. Pratt ( tee) on the case of Cowan & Dickinson for compensation for several bundred 8 of cotton appropriated by the Union army during the war. A SEW MEMPER from a great western city ap- Proached me some weeks ago and said: «+1 want Jour advice about making two speeches. One of them is a national matter, and the other I thought ! would get off for a little buncombe amongst the press and people of my district. My national «peech wil! be on the Tice meter, a very useful thing which I want the government Syatogt for the benetit of one of my constituents My T speech, which i count on to re-elect me next year, will be ayainst the corruptions of the District of Columbia. it’s got no friends anywhere. nd this pink of chivalry, who can steal from the treasury with one hand and slapachild with the other. is what is called 4 natioual man.— Tre Grete’ Sze prospect of Comm: 2¥ORM ScH00L.—There is a jorable report from the ee on Public Buildings and Grounds upor memorial to Congress presented by the board of trustees of th itution. The chairman and the leading members of the com- ittee have declared their intention to do their utmost to secure the construction of the pro- m — buildings. It is a national dishonor t ¢ capital of achristian country there should de no place provided for the reformat d shelter of ruined giris and abanioned children ‘This board of trustees is composed of useful, trustworthy citizens, whose long devotion to this great reform now bids fair to yield its fruit. The legislature passed the bill ing peepee Tia for land on for and make its success certain by 2B appropriation to construct the Dulidings. Let the country at large help to redeem them. Tee Inernict Ixvestication.—After the adoption of the report of the sub-committee of the Joint Select Commits the Che a ening Star. vet. 43—NE. O21. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1874. TWO CENTS. Society. | During these days of “last” receptions every bedy strains @ point to secure an enjoyment which not be offered again for many months. To be snre everyone begins to feel the need of rest, but then itis a little forlorn to { think how long a rest it isto be. Most likely | there will be & post-Linten season, as this isthe | long session of Coogrees, but it will not attain | | the glory of the orthodox season. There were | many “last”? receptions est) | which may be mentioned those of Mrs, Row | Ray. Mrs. Alexander Ray, Mrs. Jeffrey, Mrs | Paul, Mrs. Donn Piatt, Miss Edes and Mrs. | day was one of those agreeable entertainments that will be remembered with pleasure by all | who participated. The guests lingered long | after the hour designated on the card of invita- ‘on. Sometimes it was the gay dance in whic ali joined, and again they met around the fes- tive board and enjoyed the dainties and the | sparkling champagne. Mr. Kilbourn, Jadge | Mearthur, Mr. Eldridge and other gentlemen assisted Mre. and Mise Kilbourn in seeing that every one should come in for @ share of the merriment that prevailed. —The reception of Secretary and Mrs. Fish last evening, being their last yor the season was largely attended, despite the unpleasant weather, and was moreover remarkably bril- Nant and pleasant. The attendance included nearly all the prominent people in official and pri- vate life, and most ot the diplomatic corps. Phe number of elegant toilets present was unusually large, and on the whole the reception will rank with the most agreeable of the winter. —'Vhe dinner given by Senator and Mrs. ton last evening was not only an elegant repast, but the floral decorations of the table were of unique design and beauty. The table was oval, and through the center from head to foot was a bank of flowers with arms extending ateitherend. (neach side of the center the initial A'S was wrought in flowers. At each lady's plate was a dainty little wicket basket filled with flowers. All the flowers were of the choicest description. Sets of five different kinds of china were used during the several courses. There were three varieties of the most exquisite French ware, one of Japanese, and one of Chinese. Mrs. Stockton’s taste is pro- verbial, and it is scarcely necessary to say that the ornamentation of her table was designed by herself. — Senator and Mrs. Dorsey’: reception was hardly less attractive than that given at the residence of the Secretary of State. Most ot the pleasant people out for the evening male it & point to attend both entertainments, so that in many respects one was a duplicate of the other. Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey were most success- fully aided im the duty of entertain Miss Wack, the beautiful ster of the hoste: # of rare elegance and beauty. D. C. Forney gave a very delightfu! cing party at her res 4 Grant Place, ast evening, toasmall party of young folks, her daughter, ** doing the honors of the s their vceasion in the absence of M present 0 Pennsy Measantly, and was ipants one of the ables of the season. —To-night a Literary reumon Horatio King’s, by card —On Tuesday next Mrs. Rosa Vertnor Jo} frey will bave private theatricals in her park — The little folks, and the children of older growth as well, are in high expectation over thi Children’s \ nnual Fancy Ball by Messrs, Marin fates, to come otf February 15. at af on a visit Lof at IT 1s vime that Washington learned the les- sov—and I think these assaults and investig impress it upon her people—that it k loose from the Federal patron, and ¥ 8 < out. There is not a c onstituency in the country with any feeling of chivalry for a district tis armed at the moment of its creation, and bound like Samson at the feet of the Philisitines. Ifa right patriotism were poasible in a country like ours, which is populated far in advance of its civilization, that Congressman who spent his time assaulting the only national district would ve looked upon a8 a barbarian. But whole erties of men are found insensate enough to start panics against the real estate, the homes, and the enterprises of the little populace dis nebised on this spot. A few years ago, in the midst of verfect tranquility, the intention wa announced of demolishing or moving the publi buildings, in order to help a set of real estate pirates at St. Louis, Nauvoo, or Cairo. It occurred to the conscience of such peop! to rob these settlerson the Potomacof the f of ap oid common and voluntary partnership was mere spoliation without cause, and at pre sent the people of the United States, as incon. siderately, are forcing the local affairs of th unfortunate District into national politic punishing it for its enterprise as formerly for ite lethargy.— Laertes”’ in the Graph = se. Tre Stxiktvo Workmen.—The striking printers in Indianapolis have adopted a resolu- tion forbidding any member of the typographi- cal union to trade with any merchant adver- tising in the avers, that refuse to accede t» their terms. They have established a paper called the Union, and say they mean to sustain it permanently. 2 The hand-loom shaw! weavers empleyed in the tactories of Kensington, Philadelphia, strack, Monday, for an advance of 15 per cent. above the prices paid since the panic. The full fore of the strikers is estimated at from 500 to 1,000. A strike has occurred at the rolling mill in Springfield, Lil. 1t is confined to the paddlers helpers, and the puddling mill has in conse quence stopped. Aw Ex-RaiLRoap PRESIDENT ARRESTED ror EMpEZZLEMENT.—Rush K. Sloane, who was removed in ‘)ctober from the presidency of the Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleveland rail- road, was arrested in Sandusky, Ohio, yester- day, on seventeen distinct charges of embezzle- ment, preferred by the company. Bail was fixed at $16,000 for his appearance next Tues- day. It ig understood that further charges will be made. Civil suits for about $150,000 have already commenced. Sloane's property in Chicago, Toledo, Boston and Sandusky has all heen attached. A TERRIBLE AcciDENT.. ‘Journal says that at Somerville Monday eve- ping, Feb. 2d, (the coldest day of the season,) as Mrs. Turner, daring the temporary absence of ber husband, was ascending the scaffold lad- der to fodder the cattle, she suddenly fell back ward, runping the tines of the pitchfork en- tirely through her neck. Some wo hours after, her bushand returning and missing his wife. went to the barn and found her ivzed, with both hands and feet frozen. She is still living, but With no hopes of her recovery. STEAM aS A Canal. MoToK.—In 1871 the state of New York oftered a premium ot $100,000 for the best arranged and most efficient nal boat under certain requirements. Last month the commission met at Albany to con sider and determine the matter, and came to the conclusion that the boats Baxter and New- man were the only two that filled the require- ments; butin consequence of some technicali- Nes ip the law refused to make the award at that time, and proposed to refer the whole mat- ter to the legislature. Tae Bx-Mextcan Dictator, Santa Anna, has arrived at Nassau, en rowie for Havana. Since bis unsuccessful expedition against ‘Juarez. in 1868, when he was condemned to death, but was pardoned on condition of leaving Mexico and not returning, he has lived at Staten Island, near NewYork. He isretarning ba > or the nesty of Presi- jen! a disclaims any intention of in- terfering with Mexican politics. TRE PatLaverrara © £ a ity Ececrion.—Pnila- ‘The Augusta (Me.) delphia hol house of each yoter and oe pe The voter the back of his ballot, ifhe of not being in ADABOUTS COLUMN. ( Written for the E ning Star.) YOUR MEMORIALISTS. With Davy Burne and such curmudgeon, Whose soul+, rapacious, Washington Wrote down in history as gudgeons, Before our city was begun, ‘We'll write these later chaps, whose bludgeons Ne’er got our townsmen on the run. For they would shave the Goddess Freedom If they could climb up to her height, And levy on Bill Tweed to lead ’em, In Patriot literature and light, And dwell in mud- holes deep as Edom, Yet think themselves refinement quite. They knew no North, no South, no nothing, But twelve per cent. and hearts of galls, Yet sometimes hoped amidst their frothing, ‘The outer foe would storm the walls, And hail the signs of their betrothing,— An auction fisg ana three gilt balls. Still do they with consistent s ‘To Congress go and lie a sp And there entreat, like men of merit, Or Jews that seek the Wailing Place, And beg the nation that it ferret, At its expense, their taxes’ case. rit Grow, good green mold, o’er such usurious Purveyors in the straits of men! Forget, ye winds’ their lives penurious, And close the record, +) my pen! Lest some historian, quaint and cur: Should make the future blush aga: BOOK LIFE OF CHASE. A controversy between the biographer of Chief Justice Chase and his daughter, Mrs. Sprague, with various volunteer: abetting one side and the other, has grown out of the for- mer’s monopoly of certain materials which the Chief Justice put in his hands. Mr. Whitelaw Keid, asif in the interest of alarge sale tor this book, recently attacked the biographer, Mr. R. B. Warden, with a ferocity certainly not icial character. I pre- sume itis not yet an offence against morals to write the story of @ great mau’s life, particu- larly when thé subject took especial pains to convey his copious diaries and private letters to the author, who perfurmed 1 of the book on Mr. Chase's premises and in his presence. ‘There are three reasons why this biography should be assaulted. Mr. Warden ts not what is called @ society man, like Mrs. Sprague and some others who seem to grudge the loss of that control which they hela to some extent over the great man while living, and would continue over his memory. Again, Mr. Warden has no general fame as an author, and properly there ix some doubt of his skill to make euch @ lite Interesting; though why he should be maligned is left in m\stery, for hé is a singularly recluse, silent and self-absorbed gentleman. Finally. the Chiet Justice was three times married, and the two daughters who survive him had ditter- ent mothers, and it is hiuted that amongst the is some apprehension of the liberty with whict: Mr. Warden may speak of domestic things. The lowing extract trom the biography make= lusion to the matrimonial matter above Thus we see Low the almost tragic death of the first woman who became the wite of Salmon Portland Chase affected that strong man. Ye no! God alone saw that completely; God alone can see it fully, now. “The mourner was to love again. The « ect of that second love was to prove tully worthy of it. and, when she, too, passed away he was to mourn her far from lightly. But ! was yet again to love, again to marry, and aga to mourn the death’ of a well-beloved wile Trae, there is but first love, but one tirst wife. When the second marriage took place there was a perfectly angelic little child yet living—daughter of the first wife, whose nam- she bore. The second mother of this lovely, eminently spiritual was perfectiy devoted to it—as devoted asa ond mother can be. “When the second wife, in tarn, departed. too, left a daughter—not the little chi! just mentioned—that bad apparently illustrated the lines of Montgomery, which I quote trom memory “«In tome rude spot where vulgar herbage grows, If chance’a violet rear its purple head, ‘The careful gard’ner moves it, ere it blows, To thrive end flourish in a nobler bed Such was thy tate, dear child! thy opening sucht Preemimence in early bloom was shown, For earth too good, perhaps, and loved to much, Heay'n saw and early marked thee for it- hi, own “That daughter of the second marriage, named cither atter the child so early taken atterthe mother of that child, is now living ene ef the most beautiful, accomplished, anc distinguished women of ber day. Perhaps, tn third wife was to her devoted as was the secon wife to the second daughter; but of that I have no information, “Mrs. Hoyt, the sole survivor of the third marriage, { have never met since she was quite & child. She writes delightful letters, and sh is, I have no doubt, as ———— and as well endowed with genius as her reputation indicates; but, for certain reasons, I do not fee! free as I could wish to write of either Mrs, Hoyt or Mrs. Sprague. This work has had a singular history. That history, however, it docs not propose to tell in full. Elsewhere, its author, though no longer young, and, therefore, not concerned as youug men are about «* The bubble reputation,’ may, with more or less minuteness, tell so much of that strange story as a due regard for certain very sacred interests ma y seem to order.” JUDGE WARDEN. Mr. Warden is now 50 years of age. When he was 26 years old he was elected by Mr. Chase’s help president judge of the 9th judicial circuit ot Ohio, sitting at_ Cincinnati, and after a brief 2 in the Cincinnati law school, was elected @ county of Cincinnati one of the three judges of the court of common pleas. He edited the Cincinnati daily Cifizen nearly one eels 3 during that time had a spat with lurat Halstead, which appears to have been kept up. He next took the office of reporter of the supreme court, which Edwin M. Stanton once filled, and in December, 1554, attained the high rank’ of judge of the supreme court. Mr. Chase welcomed him into the republican party in 1857, and he published a law book in i860, which the North American Review pronounced the work of ‘a clear thinker, an independent reasoner, and a vigorous writer.” December 7, 1872, be agreed to write the lite of the Chief Justice, who was well aware of his tendency to literature, and Mr. Chase died with the tull faith and expectation that he would complete it. Judge Warden was a nativeof Bardstown, Kentucky, brother of Wallace Warden, eaq., who was one of Andrew Johnson's secretaries, and uncle of Clifford Warden, one of the editors of the Boston Pest. This book has been com- posed inthe roomon 10th street where Abra- ham Lincoln breathed his last; the author having unaware taken chambers in that well- known Peterson house. THE COURT HOUSE TOWN, 1 am back in the court-house village; The houses remain as before; (One or two old roots my have perished, But the neighbors have bailded no more; The river cree; The streets ars as And the college more and sandy, me and forgotten. It_is sad that the faces are stranger ‘When the place so familiar appears, I came with my heart expectant, Itis oy twenty years, But the big boys stare at me queerly, And the littie boys flatter my tailor, While the old men look saspicious the constable down to the jailer. Only the inn-keeper me Like the long ey one, And rakes me @ little In the tale of the 80D; The fatted calf he ters, The calf that is ‘and arid, Like the townsfolk’s iteous daughters, ‘Who have all “gone off and been married.” ‘There is Mary with seven c , And Marion jilted and wan, Sadronia gone to the shambles, And Emma gone under the lawn; hace tier eee cate tar an ! aM , whose husband is reheat, wing Methodist preacher. the old-time preachers, on this Shore; " the Sears arts i Esbyist > Se Hee rH i He i ‘4 E i HF F And bowed to white and to negra,— A pastor, no partisan,— ‘The women said: ‘the is handsome And the men said: ‘‘a gentleman ! By starlight on Sunday morning He kissed my mother adieu, And threaded the Necks of the Chesapeake In the snow-storm or in the dew; Old cross-roads chapels grew tempics While he lit with his radiant face, ; The truest and longest sermons Thatever brought sinners to grace. No priest of the Roman conclave Had tact or lowhommie more; No brigand, armed to the gorget, Felt safer the wild woods o’e1 Priest, friend, Fransiscan and doctor, At length his renown appears A spirit of civilization, A statesman on God's frontiers ! And ro I shal! quit the village, Content my eseuteheon to show; Content that notbing is stirring, But the worm that's at work below, And the soul of the seed, hence wafted, Which the Lord of the Harvest mast seek in the little old-fashioned places, That doze by the Chesapeake. HOW WE ARE LIED APoUT. The present District of Columbia government began less than thres years ago, under more tranquil auspices than had been knownin Wash ington since the days of such pastoral mayors as Seaton and Force. The country was in the height of that prosperity stimulated by general confidence, large crops, copious foreign invest ments in our bonds and railways, and a prudent handling of the national debt. The new civic authorities were regarded by the old resident people as their hostages and advocates with Con. ress, while the President's discretion tn the focal appointments made the revival of the Dis trict a large feature ot his general policy. Hen- ry D. Cooke, who had been prominent in almost ery charity of the District for eleven years, was wade Governor. N. P. Chipman, formerly of Iowa, was elected to Congress by 15,196 votes, against 11,104; and he wasreclected in the au- tumn of 1572 by 12.443 out of 1. Atasub- fequent election, October 14, 1873, for members of the House of Delegates, there was no oppo sition ticket to the Territorial government, and the only issue «discernable was that of mixed schools. ‘The first secretary of the new territory was the son of Hon. Edwin M. Stanton. The Board oi Public Works was ied by A. K. Shepherd, 4 native of the [istrict, who had been the real conceiver of these political and industrial changes, moved thereto by some experience iu the old City Council, and by large property interests which he held in new blocks of re dences. He was the first man at the close of the war, to invest the money he had acquired in it as a master mechanic, in brick and mortar to the District. ‘I'he engineer on the Board wa- A. B. Mullett, who had enormously developed as the Supervising Architect of the Treasury and has designed or completed more public architecture than any American. He sketched the grades, suggested the plans of sewerage and assured us how the broad avenues could be paved with a small exchexuer, by advancing the foot- them next to the houses ett was succeeded in time with sod. by Adolf Ci Bureau of Naval truction, nd de da great private residences and public hal'= and lived in Washington since the Agricultura! Building number of ration. With these and other incidental engineers, the Commisstoner ot Put jrounds, Major O. BE. cock, of the U.S. Army, cordially cooperated, in order that the civic and the national improvements might advance upon the same general plan. Lt may be said at this point, that the government possesses in Washington uinety-twodiferent reset vations, comprising more than six hundred acre, The first work in which the new authorities had to engage at home, was to contirm their se lection by obtaining a popular vote of approval. The Houre of Delegates passed an act author izing @ loan and an issuance of bonds to the amount of £4,000 000. The people yoted on it and affirmed their satisfaction by 14,750 votes against 1,213. This yote wag of remarkable ubanimity when we consider that the whol: debt of the two meagre corporations up to tha time had been $1,550,000. Notwithstanding this and many subsequent endorsements at th: polls, @ vast amount of litigation has bzer torced upon the authorities by gradging tax payers; and to prevent injunctions wuich migh bring the work to a stand when all the expen sive force8 and materials had been assembled it has been found necessary to move in the nigh like a force of pioneers and tear down some o hutk of a market shamble in the midst of the business quarter or abate the nuisance of a treight railroad. The prescience of the ne« workers on Washington was attested by the subterranean utilities with waich they preced, mere landscape parade,s0 that about two thirds of their work is actually out of sight. While the above labor was in progreas, the improvers of the city were beset by every sp: cies of provincial ignorance, which seeing one portion of some comprehensive work,proceeding contemporaneously with another, and not un- derstanding the connection, filled the air with clamors, Everybody who was disturbed in the slightest wanted the thing explained to him, or he became a malcontent. As the constitution placed the District under the exclusive jurisdic- tion of Congress, external critics took up the ignorant grievances of citizens as ir some mighty felony was going on. Editors at remote points supported their correspondents, and at last the mererehabilitation of Washington,which had been neglected trom generation to genera- tion, and was sure to be a thankless task, as sumed all the stigma of an administration crime. But there were two men who never lost cour- age, Mr. Shepherd, the executive officer, avd President Grant, who was the only man in high office to give him unwavering support. By what has been achieved in Washington they will both be vindicated by the future. . JERRY SNEAK. ‘The gay police reporter, He comes to Washington, To tell how gallant principles Are sacrificed and done, And he thinks the leading statesmen Are cracksmen every one: The enterprises current He jotteth down as ‘ jobs;”* ‘The good old men of family He classifies as snobs And he estimates the President As some old pal who robs. And yet while he blasphemeth, He pines to be a guest At firesictes official Where he called the host a pest,— And they get the story on him, Which he does not think a jest. Alas! poor social foundling, We ply winle we scorn = ‘Thy youth was ere the sunrise, Thine age is ere the morn, And ull career is night to thee, And all men look forlorn. AgoTurRts GaDanovuT. —-see- Tae lee Hovse Disaster tN PertapEt- PRIa—Taling the Bodies from the Ruins.—At 7 o clock last night J-nathan Murphy was taken out of the ruins of the Philadelphia ice house which fell in yesterday, flarticulars of which disaster were given in Tig Star of yesterday. He was alive and slightly injured about the legs and shoulders. He was tuibedded so Tar down in the ruins as to make it almost impossi- ble toreach him without the removal of lum- ber, &c., which would require many hours of toll. A crowbar was lowered to him; and he succeeded by its aid in working his way out. John Shane was taken out afternoo! with both legs smashed. The Bourke was recovered dead; the corpse mashed almost flat. A laborer named Kelly was recovered yesterda: one Ppt hare of woe for bodies wax eus) al m. Half an hour before that time ‘another 3 it ation, and rece of abe in the fall, ied. licemen Stinson and Carby were also seriously injured by bein, ipitated into same pat Bint eT aa ——_—_—_______ Syuratay For Boors.—Col. James B. Fel- lows offers, as @ Paige! sympathy tor Edwin one undred perso’ con- tribute $10,000 to raise a fund Vamelent to re- tints eee oat guar tat oe legitimate drama. on a firm footing. Z lution of by the legisinture in 1512'by a sonnet LAYS OF ANCIENT WASHINGTON. BY WASHINGTON DEC Poet Laurtate of the Growlery. No. 2~ The Spectre of the Twiligh: [For The Star.) Once upon a drowsy twilight beams, thro’ the skylight, Lolled in lazy lustre upon my unswept floor— While I lay in stately ianguor, all forgetful o* the clangor Which had lashed my soul to anger—hark a rustle at my chamber door. “Tis my Lady Loilipolly, rastling at my cham ber door— My Lady only. when the sun Nething more. indistinctly I remember, it was sickly hued No vember, When the melancholy ember days wrough spectres on the floor; And I lethely tried to borrow short release from delving sorrow, When the dreaded coming morrow, with its de vastating corps, Should un mercifully revel in uprooting round my door— In the hallow’d dust of ages round my joor ! And the magic of the rustle of my lady’s trai and b ie Filled me—thrilled_me with the glories of the stately days of yore; And I whispered faintly, faintly,“ "Tis my lady sad and saintly, Coming, with congenial shadows, to lament the days of yore, Nameless now for evermore.” Presently my voice grew louder, as I thought of wigs and powder, And, said [, « My noble lady, your forgivenese I implore; But in sooth i was reclining, in this golden day declining, In the lap of ancient usage, when you came unto my door, So softly that I scarcely heard you, opened wide the door— ‘Tar barrels smoking! nothing more! here 1 Deep into that darkness glowering, where the stitling clouds were lowering, Like the dreadful wings of Azrael settling roun our house adored; I,thought black thoughts, unuttered, and, ’twix? gulp smoke, [ muttered, Thro’ my stitied indignation, those hated words “Tux Boarp!” And the voice of some contractor hoarsels echoed back ‘the Board,” The single-headed, bhundred-handed Board! Here my thoughts—the door a slamming'— verged alarmingly on damning, Till I heard again that rustle, somewhat louder than betore. “Oh,” said 1, “this haunted twilight! there something at the skylight!” Here I pulled trom out the high light a chapeau of the days of yore,* Which had usurped your vulgar glazing, th mystery to explore— fis ol smoke and nothing more. Presently there stepped an owl in, which roun. the mansion had been prowliu’, And be w the graye decorum of the stately days of yore, And he filled my soul with angu!sb as he sailed like lady Languish, Of the old regime, aud lighted | chamber door— Perched upon a bust of Dullness just above ms chamber door— Sat, and stared, and nothing more. above my By this bird, which thusintraded, my sad spir: was deluded— By the deep and stern ase piacid airs he wore! “Thou emblem, dread and loyal, of ancie usage royal, he dignity aud dullness which our city father- wore! What was thy high cognomen in our owlery 0 yore? “ ‘Then he yauped out ‘Nevermore.”’ mption, and the ‘This bird of ancient omen, with the wier cognomen, Will doubtless on the morrow seek Potomac outraged shore; Follow up the new commander, yclept “Th Modern Alexander.” In his march of ruthless conquest o’er th ‘Tibers sacred shore— To-morrow he will go where all my friends hay gone before.”” Quoth the Omen “Nevermore!” Spirit of some old slave master, whom Improve ment and disaster Followed fast and followed faster, till he rave: upon the shore, With spirit suicidal, griets which death alon could bridle, “Vain to struggle ‘gainst the tidal waves whic’: sweep Potomac’s shore— I go where wild Improvement, with its nerv destroying roar, . Can aseail me “Nevermore!” ‘Then with melancholy madness, royal thonght- foused deep in sadness, Slowed I wheeled on old back-broken chair ir front of bird and door; And sitting sad and careful, ‘twas di springless, hairfall, : I fell into a wakeful slumber of the sainted days of yore, And I homaged to the Omen, of the golden days of yore, With the handle Nevermore. While I sat, profoundly thinking, the (men, gull, unblinking, Stared with eyes of glary wonder into my bos om's tortured core— I saw our city taken by ten thousand hands and shaken Out of the draggled raiment, which she wore in days of yore. As she stood in ancient raiment in the sleepy days of yore We shall see her nevermore! inted Then me thought the air grew colder as I saw those hands enfold her, And I saw old musty usage carted nightly from our shore— “Fiends,” I cried, ‘“‘unhand the city, have ye neither hearts nor pity? Take your parks and streets and fountains to ‘New England. and restore Us dear, old, dirty Washington of yore!"" The ow! then hooted, “Nevermore.” “Aha!” said I, ‘thou base detractor, vassal of some vile contractor, By your hopes in dire Improvement, and the Board which you adore, Tell ay, soul, ail torn with pity for our violated city— Despite your Shepherd’s warning of the wolve~ that haunt our shore! Shall we feast and 5! Jess flock no more? Quoth the Omen, ‘* Nevermore! “Out, at once, thou base detractor! out, echo 0” some vile contractor; To wea we fatten on the help- home of spades ‘and shovels, by the Th gee wildly grieving, 1 will li 0” you leave me y grieving, I will live ‘and die pellezing, When our city’s fitful fever of Improvement shall pass o’er, She will turn to ancient usage and her mou!dy sleep of yore! Q uoth the Omen “Nevermore!” And that ancient bird is posing, staring, blink- ing, gauping, dosing On a bust of Dullness just above ! rt i ‘ f l lignity of converting one’s parlor into caves, where one could raise mushrooms in the mouki of ages, was something which your modern “sun bowers,” all light and fippamey, ean never aspire to. Hence anol hat, or an ancient pair of breeches, staffed in loyal negiige into ~oMe Window, to keep out the light, was the very mould and form of aristocracy. In all my ancient lays I shall preserve the utilities of the Old times. Anair of repose lutied by the drip. ping of amcrent dampness—as the dew of the tombs drips on the mouldering coffins of king= ‘D royal vaults—shal! pervade these poems explanation eminently necesse TY, so that the student of to-day may get a eeble jnsight into a civilication which, untor tunately for the noblemen who despise labor, passing away, and wh ich is now so little under th stood, the few noble representatives of rpime being wholly taken up in gathering wm n their melancholy mansions. Note PROM THE GROWLERY FORTY THIRD CONGRESS, Satcrpay, Febraary 14. THE SENATP was not in ion to-day. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—The House met as in Committee of the Whole for debate only, Mr. Albright ( Pa.) in the chair spoke upon the subject of cheap and in advocacy of his bil Pg aid to the Adantic and Great Eastern canal company. Mr. Smali (N. H.) spoke upon the subject of the finances, opposing tions. Mr. Clements lil.) spoke in fayorof cheap ‘arsportation, and urged the necessity of the improvement of the water facilities of the Mis sissippi valley, to enable the grain and other products of the west to find a market. Mr. Crossiand ( Ky.) asked leave to print some remarks on national bank circulation and dix tribution. Leave was granted. Mr. Fort ({ll.) addressed the Honse on the finances, and advocated au increase in the vol- ume of the currency, that such increase should be in greenbacks, and that bonds should be issued at a low rate of interest. In the course of his remarks Mr. Fort alluded to the speech made by Mr. Dawes day before yesterday, and said that gues had most unmercifully lec~ tured the House, the right todo which he denied Scolding was very good in its place, but advice was better; but neither of them ever won a victory. He could not recollect that either Mr Dawes or any others of the prominent members who were so fond of scolding the House, had every carried through any great measure of reform or retrenchment. Mr. Butler Mass.) said that in 1870 he had introduced » measure of reform by abolishing all pension agencies, and paying pensioners di- rectly from Washingte He urged the bil voter, and of these twen not one “Murray.” of the Danbury News. Upon | the Investigators and ~News- Bailey, oi y , is not only a wit himself, but he draws to his paper, by the orce of affinity, bright and witty correapond- quarters. From this city George Alfred Townsend sends a brilliant column or » and the regular Wash- ington correspondent of the Neos, who signs himself “Mu »” knows how to state facts with point and humor, as witness the following excerpts “Here we are, involved in all the of official etiquette, and staggering weight of fashionable respor man, receptions, calls, an slapped in the tion. We are no investiga pnecessarily sensitive in that such underhan region, bu 4 blows tend to contirm a growing want of contidence in human nature. And what should we say about the newspaper blowers who gut us tor items and knock us inthe head with information’ N. content with turning us inside out for pu’ delectation, these worthy gentlemen think 1 desirable to turn us upside dew Now, while there can be no reasons objection to an o casional inspection of our concrete and wouter bottom, we submit that it is « little too much t expect us to remain standing on our head for the general amusement more than half the time—without grumblingor other remuneration Therefore we grum)ie. And yet, rather thar deprive Newspaper Kow of District mutton w would consent to almost any ad affairs appear to stimulate the journalistic im agination. We per-onaliy believe in an elasti pega 2 We want ‘o see it reach that degre of elasticity in which a one dollar note can b made to cover a month’s board. In this hop we have drawn no small consolation from read ing the various accovnts of our financial status A few statements of debt ranging from six, ten twenty, and twenty-iive million, have gained the immortality of our serap-book. One, piacing the District insolvency at fifty millions, we have had framed and hung up with a choice collec tion of speeches on inflation. Possibly it is too muuch to bope for a currency so elastic as our tinancial obligations. BOW WE INFLATE. It was a steamirg hot day last summer when we entered the cffice of a gentleman who rep resents so many Lewspapers they couldn't be inserted in the directory. | He had been rudely accosted by an upfeel! Breen for an ar- rearage of =5.75, ard probably expected a huan- gry wesher-woman every moment for the add tional quarter of a dollar. We found him, therefore, in a fi: ancial state of mind. “‘Hano it nil! Murray,” says he, pausing in the middle ofa article he was making up trom the city papers, the seventeen copies of which to seventeen different coun'rs paperdwas to net him seventeen elastic dollars. “Hang it all; I was just trying to think what this city debt if now. Can you give me a polat ere?” L observed that it was quite warm—too warm, in fact, to risk a statement that might possibly add to my personal discomfort hereafter—but 1 had seen it variously estimated from one te ten million above the legal allowance. “It'll be safe to say nearer twenty million, Probably,” says he, ooking at his watch, and apparently speculating on the movements of a woman across the § 480.26," he added, mus. woman, uneasily. * Probably,’’ we said,—' put it 25 cents, even change.” He caught at the idea. ‘«Speaking of cents, how are vou of for funds, Murray There's that infernal old woman over there been Guuning me for @ week—and here she comes now, d—n her. Can't you let me have a little till the end of the month ? ‘We promised to do so if he would but abate that odd cent, with which he complied. But we aiterwards saw, in one of the seventeen newspapers, that ina tinancia!l freak he had added the wnit to the wther end ’ Inasmuch us it bath been fairly shown that a “ national debt is a national blessing,” and it is indisputable that in obedience to this law de- faulters have risen toeminence in preportion to their investments, why may we not inflate, throw off the sordid which binds us to earth and press onward and upward! : THE NEW INVESTIGATION. And now comes Corcoran, the wren ec respondents aud a jonal commitiee to stend uson our metaphorical head while they go — us for our spare cl » An investi, wrong. 4 : 388 tl “al : Ey i | TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR: A GREAT FIRE IN Tue Firemen Kittea Worth of = Loxpow. February 14. — raylor'y pant avd furniture repos: im Belgravia, « an acre of ground, was burned last evening The fire broke ont at 4 o'clock p. m., and raged anti! midmght. Then the fire was only «t by the engineers demolish preventing its progress. The butidt wee insured for $1,000 The total gluding the contents of the burned strac~ ture, consisting of pictures, mirrors, € bumired carrig Ly re oe stables ac jacent, were partly destroyed war a number of acciients and two fremen were killed. The fire attracted an immense and unruly crowd, and tt became necessary to call out the military to preserve order, _——— New York Notes. BN 8 TRNTERANCE MOV EW ENT. &, February 14. The women perance movement ts ander headway in Hrook. iyn and & committee was appointed yeatertay to importune the legisiature for amendments to the excise law. ‘The superintendant of the Sonth Side long Island road has been requested to issue orders refusing to receive us treight any intoxicating liquors. SHOT DEAD POR PUN As they were going to bed inst nigh’ Clark, aged 14, playfully ported a pietol cousin Jesse Wick “this is the way we would treat robbers.” The pistol exploded and Wicks fell dead with a bu let in bis brain. TRE WERKLY RANK ®TATEWENT is as follows: Loans, Increase, £979,9%); eprcie, decrease, $2 00, legal S519; deposits, decrease, $255, 10 tion, decrease, #5, 200 BUTCRERING A RROTHER. This morning two brothers named P Jeorge Hassert, butchers in Washin, ket, quarreled over some family matters, when the latter drew a large butcher knife and stab bed bis brother tn the side and breast him severely, but not necessarily Ca : was removed to the Park bospi- positively declines to say anything matter a about the The British Elections. CONSERVATIVE GALN 58 #0 FAR. Loxpon, February 14.—Up to to-day «32 members of the new Parliament have been elected. They are divided as follows atives, 42; liberals and home rulers, net conservative gain so far is 5k. The election in Backinghamshire took pl y. Right Hon. Benjamin Disrael. and Harvey, conservatives, were retarned. Disracti received 2,909 votes, and Harvey 2.90 The defeated liberal candidate received (7.0 | votes. Sullivan and Cullen, home rule candi | dates, have been chosen by immense majorities to represent the county of South, Ireland. They defeated Chichester, Fortesque and Matthew O'Reilly Deaz, liberals, w t im the last | Parliament. Six home rulers contested two seats for the county of Tipperary The Stondard, in ite issue this morning saye | it bas reason to believe the government © re- sign on Monday or Tuesday next. A romor is current that simultaneon<'¥ 2pon his retirement trom the ministry Glad-tone wit be created a peer. - ——e The Gad’s Hill Robbers Again. St. Lovis, February 14.—A dispatch from W. K. Smith, Adams Express agent at Granby city, on the Atlantic and Pacific railroad, s he was knocked down, bound, and | several men about one o'clock yesterday 1 ing, while on bisway home from hisofice, b keys taken from him, his office broken ope: the tafe robbed of £5,100, including a which he had but a few moments before re ceived from the passengers on the train that paseed Granby city between twelve and one clock. He had placed the package in the Ye, and had started tor home when attacked, The package contained €1,00, ant was sent from the office of the Granby Mining and Smelting company of this city to the Granby mines to meet the current expenses. There is no clue to the robbers, but it ix supposed the are the same men who robbed the Iron Vieun- ain train at Gade Hill, ae persons atiw their description were seen a few m'ie« Granby in the early part of the week. | | reign Notes, DEATH OF A CARDINAL AT ROME ‘ue, February 14 —Cardinal Targu wee announced as seriously ili on J last night. A PLERISCITE IN APATN. Maprip, February It is jorm ot government in Spain w lebiscite. —eo— t Live to Dmjoy His Good Fortune Peitapetrpia, February 14—Theodore Derrmger died thie morning. The deceased Was one of the heirs Interested in the cc iT sults, One of which was recently de. Wilkesbarre in favor of the Derringer Scuinst the heirs ot Tench Coxe. ao » February 14.—Hon, Edwary red from the government, ake and Hon. David Christy has been appointed president of the Council. Tre Jay Cooxe & Co. BawKarrry C, iN Puitapetraia.—In the District « of Philadelphia yesterday morning the wae together with the report of the commis- sioners and that of the register thereon. T' report itself sets forth that the receiver has re- ceived in the aggregate, £1,455.553.55, and had » 217107 leaving in bit hands a compensation, & com: on the amount, wh $145 The report of the com- Ts sets forth that they had audited the receiver's account and found it to be correct. iudge Cadwalader issued an order, which for the present leaves the receiver's claim of per- centage neither allowed nor absolutely allowed except that the court decides that his present and tuture compensation will together equal suck sum; that the whole amount now claimed may be absolutely returned as so much on account. Upon such consent of receiver, his a&erount may be deemed settled, so that bis ucw relation of truster may at once begin. —==———— A Mon i Havana.—Telegraphic advices trom Havana state that a mob of several bun- died men marched toward the © in Gene- ral’s palace Thursday evening, with the tnten- tien ot demanding that the it send into the fields “he entire of volunteers with their own officers, instead of ‘tenth of racks opposite the b rested Saturtino Martinez, & workingman's journal, and a priest Castro. ‘oth persons bave been sent to the Moro Castle. They are known to be strong re- publicans, and are reported to have been con- nected with yesterday's demonstration. It is stated the draft will be carried out in twenty Gays. The city's now quiet, but the peopie fear futher treuble. live Iwscrance ExTraonpivary.—Mr. Wm. N. Switzer, an old citizen and once a very wealthy miller of St. Lonis, died last week the age of sixty-three. In the coarse of @ Prorperous business be accumulated a large es- tate, but most of it was swept away in the finan- cal crisis of 1837. He Terk. however, a hand- some provision for bis family in the shape of insurance policies that ate no less tha $310.000—the whole of which fall upon easter: companies, except €1°,(00 on the St. Louis Ma tual. and $50,000 on the Northwestern of Mi! ukee. Hartford companies are taxed to the mount of $55.00. Mr, Switzer’s premium amounted to $15,000 a vear. A REMARKABLE RELIGIOUS For city, of which Rev. | Thomp- fon ts rector. fevivals, in ordinary of the word, are but rarely known to the E; copalians, and vy not in the ‘th avense churches.” The event, therefore, excites almost editor of the Union, EVIVAL