Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1874, Page 1

THE EVENID STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Sundays Exeepted, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Peunsylyania Avenue, cor. Lith St. aY THR EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY, 6. BH. KAUPPOANN, Prev't. THE EVENING STAR s served by carriers to their eubsbribers at 2 Foury rock i Gxt each. By maii—three months, pia, six mouths, @3.00; one year, EBEELY ST". 3—Publiched Pri¢ay—g1.90 a year, Bo tava ably in adv oeenin bothcusesaad BO paper seut longer than paid for, Wo Bates of advertising furnished on application: a eee ee See AMUSEMENTS. ri ‘FORGE FELIX BENKEGTA x ¥ SECOND OUaSsICAL OF NOEBT, MAKINI'S HALL ™M BPAY EVE s* N@. Maken 9tu. Subecrigtion tres d Tickets at tre Ma-ic fab2s NINTH GRAND ORGAN CONCERT. — Th» Charming VERCKLIUS SISTERS, At the CONGREGATIONAL COBURG, 1th ant é roots, WEDNESDAY EVENING, Manca 4, 1574. LOUISE, PATO; FRANK, Contratto; Lit Mey r0-Soprano; Master ALLIE THIERS, Accompant tn a Delightfal Progremme DR.J.P T CAULFIELD, Music -I Director. ts, 75 cents. at Music aud Bookstores, as fURD'S OPEKA HOU Farewell benefit of MK WYS8ERT BEEV Inet nig! Fosco, } Drama, WHITE. Bod the Langhable ©, mee dy MATCH FOR A MOTHER-IN-LAW Doubie Bill. Dyema and Comedy. Last night but — Ladies’ Matinee os SATUBDAY, THE WOMAN IN WHITE Ladies’ Matinec on SATURDAY. . SATVRDAY NIGHT, DOUBLE ATTRACTION. NoT su BAD A¥ TER ALL. and MATOR FORA MOTHER IN-LAW. . n MONDAY, CHANFRAU AS KIT. ASHINGTON THEATER Com WS Street, below Pouna, & EUABY 23-ONE WEEK AND TWO MAT- = IDEB: GBEAT AND GLORIOUS ANNOUNOEMENT. TWENTY NEW FACKES—A NeW COMPANY. Engagement of the renowned Mstre de Ballet, SIGNCR J OaROELLA, And his celebrated Ballet sroup, THE GEM. {the wonder- Who wil! pereonate ful charscter of in Wis The popatar scund a8" MISs FRANK CHRISTIE, 4 the following Qory ph<es aad Lia inees Iie Johnson. Addie Graham, Emme Harri- son, M’ile Boquct, Fannie May, Nollie Anderson, Amelia Gorent!>, Laura Harrison, Martha Ballet. ad Female Gymnast and Globe Dancers, Otto Barbapk. The great Song Schaeff-r and N-lson. The Ke- Barry Hart. The king of Ban joists Jobn Carle, aud our great company all re- tained z or, The Fri S/ Great “Cartouche” Drama, Jack Sheppard NATiosaAL THEATER. Y, FERBCABY ¥3—WASHINGTUN 3S OL D) MATINEEAT 2 £VENING AT =. FIBST APPBARANOE UF EGAMEY, THE GREAT CARICATURIST. Eg LAST WEEK uF I UNDINE i E JABKETE & PALMER'S UNDINE t Viewncise and Parisienne UNDINE t BALLET TROUPE. UNDINE by Last week =f the UNDING c KIBAFLY TROCPE UNDINE oN of Hangariax Dancers. UNOINK C IOV ASST. UNDINE v D. VIADIS UNDINE v SISTERS, UNDINE Las and Ballet UNDINE UD xty Coryphees. UNDINE Ms OSTUMES FOR LAUIES TS. AND CHILDKEN. FOR BALLS, PAKTISS, AND PRIVATE THEAT- RICALS, at HARBY DONESUE’s, i23-1m 307 Tth street. 3 doors northof Pa ave. a te 439 Tr or mn. TE , 439 Tt strect, bet D and B streets, sight = doors above Oda Bellow's Hall, _ wings, Chromos, 2c. Also, largest Paper Hangings, Window Bbades bi re end Tas a OF Pinvase remember ame and Number. jsi-1y" AYE BINDS OF OaST-OFF WEARING ap. PABEL can bo sold to the very Dest advantage ‘Hy 19 D street, between 6th and 7th n. +. Boter by wai! promptly attended to. Cash paid .fis-t —_—_———————————— LECTURES. j EBUCYADNE/ZA44’S DREAM, History, lecture by Rev. J. H at 13th Street Baptist Church, between G and H.,) MONDAY EVENING, March 2d, at 5 0% asic by amatear cit, talent. Proceeds for an Organ. Tick+ts forsale st Ballantyne’, Parke: Fili’s Bookstores. Also at Luttrell & Wine street and arrnne feb: E*7tR4- BY SPECIAL REWCEST, snd to, accommodate many strangers in the city who have never had an opportunity of hearing ENDELL PHILLIPP=’ GBEAT LEOTUBE. ‘LOST ARTS,” (recently revised.) wo Mr. Phillips bas consented to give the Lecture in the CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, ox MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 2. 7 cture fs well known to be one ef ths moat INT: STING AND INSTRUCTIVE literary productions ever offered to an sudience, and the op- Dortunity should not be allowed to pass by those who ha’ ver heard it, Reserved seats, 75 cents, at the Ell is Music Store, Weheut extra charge feb.3-3: CLOSING WINTER STOCK. IF YOU WANT BARGAINS NOW IS YOUR TIME. CLOSING IN CLOSING OUTTHE WINTER'S ENOR- MOUS STOCK I HAVE TO DO IT Al RATES WHICH ARE A GREATER ADVANTAGE TO THE PUBLIC THAN TO MYSELF. BUlI HAVE SO MUCH ON HAND THATI MUST SELL IT; BO MATTER NOW LOW THE PRICES GO. A. STRAUS, POPULAR CLOTHIER, 1011 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUB, | Monday recalling the order directing the gov- | im the extersion of patents that should neve~ THE EVENING STAR (alegre eg ne " Satvepay, February 2. TBF SENATE was not tn session to-day. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.ca me morning bour, under the call of committess, Mr. Smart, (N. ¥..) from the Committee on Patents, reported a bill for the relief of MeOlin- tock Young, of Frederick county, Me. giving ‘ validity to an extension of his patent au s provement in harvesters, said extension hay- ing been dated June 2s, instead of Jane 27, Bg serve the former date being one day ister than az Mh the ee time allowed for granting an extension. the conrse ot the on this bill, Mr. Conger, (Mich..) chairman of the Committee on Patents, said the ttee had determined Bot to report any the V%. 48—N2. 6,533. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1874. TWO CENTS, _| sitent or the “diteet “action of te House, bat when it seemed proper to report « bill to enable the applicant to go before the Patent EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip. the Detroit Free Press for libel, claiming . ae é £100,000 damages. The alleged libel is a special Lense Ss Doe Herd dispatch from this city, February 20, (referred Joues at Market. to in the Senate yesterday) charging Mr.Caand- | 4 good deal is said by housewives in defence InTEENAL Ruvexvx—The receipts from this | ler wit iatoxleation and disgraceful conduct in | ortne market bille with which they present fon source te day were $293,196 98. ee ter familias, but said bills are too often ascribed Tas Howanp rsqurey will commence inthis | PATENT Exrenstons.—In the House this | to ‘tne dearness of the Washington markets, city on Tuesday next. morning, Mr. Conger, chairman of the Com- | whereas they grow out of the listless leaving of can Fenmes hot in the Executive | mittee om Patents, stated that the committee | market duty to middle-men, whose bills have a thon to Gn Sak Geatate WA tat Tasdse ng Vo of a patent Dyra direct ast of Getetens, | fatality of arithmetical progression. Jonss as. visitors. * | but in meritorious’ cases to recommend aa act | tonisbed his wife this week by going to market —___ to enable the applicant to go before the Patent | with a five dollar bill, and returning with meat In vr8w of the action of the House on the | office for official investigation and determina- enough for five breakfasts and two dinners, an‘ franking bill, a resotution will be introduced on | tion. It has been notorious that the worat jobs, yet more than one dollar in his pocket. He in- have been extended, have been gotten thronzh | Vested as follows, and sends me the score: ernment printer to print 255.000 additions] co- t ‘ by direct legislation, and the conclusion of th> | ‘Five breakfasts: 1. Two pounds sausage, pies of the agriculturs! report. committee will meet’ with very general ap- | thirty cents; 2. Three pounds scrapnel, thirty A RESOLUTION will be introduced in the | Proval. cents; 3. String of twelve fish, twenty-tive : cents: 4. Three pounds of tripe, thirty cents; 5 A Cornection.—T the Editor of The Star: | Two dozen eggs, fifty cents. For two dinners: the doorkeeper to employ in his servic In an article in the Chronicle of this morning | Eight pounds of corned beef, one dollar. Veg. doorkeepers at the — bs 9 i — ‘ \- } there appears, under the head of ‘News from tables for ee i kage gee ng pr diers only, and justructing him to reduc? his | the Capitol,” the following language, in con. | Celery, cabbuge, two force. nection with the proposition of having bonds | gallon Tea go radish, and two soup Iv 18 netimyen that Gen. F. A. Sewell, of | required of clerks who handle the public money * J en. Spi 0 « id to es related the above to two or three per- Maine, now a revenue agent on the Pacitic B. Spinner, for many years past, has had to Jon pe House of Kepresentatives on Monday, direct J ve these special bills of relief passed, or ie | sonsin the presence of his wife, and is conse- coast, will be United States supervisor or inter | incu hare been compelled to pay out of his own | quently pushed out of bed by starlight every pal revenue for New England. to succeed Mr. | pocket millions of dollars which had been stolen | second’ morning, and told to go to that old, Simmons, the nomination of Mr. Manley hay- | /rom the public treasury by dishonest clerks in his cheap Dutch market. ing been withdrawn. employ. _— — ‘The italics are myown. [ cannot conceive Sponged Out-Sponged In. THESTATEMEST that the appropriation for | on what grounds the Chronicle could possibly Itis pathetic to note how whimsically Con- the microseopic division of the Agricultural | have made this assertion. [t is so utterly ani grees can create and destroy fortune. A few department bad been stricken out of the bill is | Sutroly false, and does such injustice, a years ago a printer established an office in an anerror. None of the appropriations for the | that a word, I think, should be eaid in, roared to | obscure quarter of this city, ‘betting on a rise” Teen Cat and the ebarimant have been | this wholessie charge. During the tncurabency | in pablic patronage. To-day that little office ts stricken out, and the useful Fision above | of General Spinuer fifty.five thourand mi tha Wakgist pcaiing. Kauss to tae ech haa Ssecermniar eyshyrnn Loma poe of dollars have passed through his hands, and | wien it buys nineteen tons of type, each type Prsoxat.—Mr. Newton Crane, of Missouri, | less than sixty thousand dollars, all told, have scarcely bigger than a pin, it appears as natural hob just be nfirmed as U.S. consul to been embezzled. It isa well-known fact that as the coming up of grass blades. (On the oth ee see ee ee Ga the employes of Gen. Spinner's office hold the | Bala. s well Enawn ‘printer hed frevinmnne Manchester, England, has been connected with | most responsible positions in the service, and tablished an office wholly devoted’ox pA eeiey the St. Louis press tor some years, and is a | that out of the large number employed, and the debates of Congress, and he pod mproypine young man of Hne abilities and high standing. | the vast amount involved, so few (but four or | the debates of Congress, mfotesnten tnan tae ~-Ex-president Baez, of San Domingo, called | five) should prove rogues, and their gains (if it adcbiics mesetaqerted aultn cena. pte pellese yesterday upon the President for the purpose | can be called a gain to them) be s) small, is seer AN rece oe8 with Ge otto onenlinn of paying bis respects previous to leaving | simply marvelons. It speaks well for both the inthe public literature of the world. ‘Lode Washington for New York en route tor France. | employer and the employed, for there is not a the entavliohaccnter lows petuter i atlant en ene Soa rps . z rallel instance in the known world. I did not | the es thouat avers Dreier wnat ierecte as Esp oF Tax Fic? Oven THE Boston Cot- | intend to write an extended article, and ooty | fim again” The coches SHANIMMEnEDE. with Lee LECTORSHIP—Simmons Confirmed by the Senate, | wished to call the attention of your large num. thousand printers, is a bigger institution than The exciting contest over the confirmation of | ber of readers to this gross misstatement. Le a " ever. Is nothing wanton in the fiat which can Wm. A. Simmons, to be collector of the port of | Washington, February 4 H. | Siencoso much*machinery to eagment it te Boston, was settled by the Senate in execative *Fiat Justitia, Ruat Colum.” another place? session last evening, that body confirming the Editor Star > Will you please publish a few nomination by a vote of 30 to 16. A large num- res biceste pablis r words from a ** constant reader of your pa One of our Literary Men. ber of persons called upon Gen. Butler last eve- | who has never before written upon thenekret | Jobn D. Defrees, who has resided. in Wash- ning to congratulate him on his triumph. which follows, but has kept up a deal of think- | ington for the past fourteen years, and was EXCHANGE oy PosTat Carps witn Swir- | '®¢°, In reading the ably written and telling Congressional printer during the terms of Lin- : Ask 2BuLAND.—Additional articles of agreement | Dapch, gael Oy Taek ae est | coin and Johneon, has begue a political history between Switzerland and the United Stateshave | culation of the difference between an emplo; and reminiscence of the state of Indiana, in- teen entered into, providing for the inter- | of the Capitol and that of a department clerk | vited to the task by a prominent publisher who change of postal cards between the two coun- | It is the boast of some of the former that they | was aware of Mr. Defrees’s judicious and exp2- tries, at the rate of two cents from the United | 40 not work over an houra day. But agreeing . rienced mind, and his intimacy with only the States and ten centimes trom Switzerland, the | that they do work steadily for three hours every purest and best public men of the state. | Mr. defrees was the first editorial employer of Heury postage to be prepaid in all cases. The agree- | day, (which is no doubt seldom the case,) their ment goes into effect on the first of May next. — = pel wee neg sates amount | Ward Beecher, and created tor him a newspaper a Det et aie and thirty-six in the year, while | department of fruit culture and amateur farm A MISTAKEN 1DKa has prevailed that the | that of a department clerk, leaving out. his ares cecal 1613-4, which is boltowed t bare government has paid back several millions of | thirty days furlough, amounts to two thousand | been the firat well-sustained agricultural col dollars for duties collected on fruit decided to | #84 ten, counting in each case the Sundays y: umn west of the Allegheny mountains. The be included in the free list. The facts are that | ™#king the latter more than treble that of t! presewt literature of Indiana is contined to Sgt former, and with much less pay; and yet those | French’a Life of Morton. Law's History ut vik, the whole amount how clatszed ao das tra oo Pon ked CRSGIOR Se aE ee reey ate: mardee cennes, Buck Terrell's Wat Record and similar an : ploy more hours. Could | oe, : rit 7, and for this sum suits had to there be anything more unjust and inconsts ephemerades. Meantime, a new History ot 11. gbt, and were pending in the courts ad linois, covering two centuries and 9H page: when the decision was m: tent? In conclusion, I have arrived at the be- | has just been published at the office of the Nef that in the event of panics, or when peri- ———— x Spri Journal. Newsrargr Postace.—Wm. P. Copeland, Pecag ty somes zen Urgpepeio = reform pre- penenous ciel Bariat, Si eersad of Geensterce sen’ emselves, if an employe of the govern- e Nan’s Barial, of De Maw Kock Hrsel of Commerce, mile 63 | Soke aoatron te be Geek tie Ge en Slowly toll the College bells argument yesterday before the House Postal | forebodings of being discharged, his salary Committee in favor of @ uniform rate of one | diminished, his time of labor inc: i On the heights above the ferry, cent postage on all daily newspapers. All the | wishes to bave For a nun to-day is buried reased, mind serene and calm ami large dailies of New York, and those of Boston, 8 jarring world with vice inilamed,”” he should In the old brick monastery, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans and San Fran- | bring all of his Intluence to bear to become one And the young girls thrill and listen citco, when they publish supplements, are a | of those more fortunate ones at the Capitol. In the neighb’ring seminar: trifle too heavy for the regular rate of prepaid | ‘The above is not written in a spirit of envy, but a e ¥ postage, and all are therefore obliged to pay | with a hope that justice may be done to ail, 7 ‘Twenty-five long years imprisoned, Naval Onpens.—Lieut. Commander John | Inthe Washington annual conferenceof the iM. I tice cotn Celta ta? Weidman detached from the Suawmat and | E. church, in session at Winchester, Virginia Sieters of the Visitation ging? Placed on sick leave. Lieut. Commander ceiving gah foe te cece ee Freedom, Heaven inspire your singin.’ Charles F.Schmitz detached from the Pow- y hatan and placed on sick leave. Liewt. Com. | ©!&1M onthe conference was voted down. Th In her habit and barefooted, : previding elders, Revs. J. H. Brice, T. Jackson . mander Francis Morris detached trom the | Wwe aren eet aie He Bice: To her breast a lily pressing, . f We y Spiddle, made repo: : ‘ Hontewain Andree Merete Abe, Shawmut | trom their districts, showing that'the work was | S€° nae pliaoes Geaceapeeeet Boatswain Andrew M. Moore ae progressing favorably. The characters of the | pur'her'uinemes hearcelee orders. Boatswain Charles Miller detacued | Wiitane, sees ee ae Death is like her wedding blessing. from receiving ship Potomac and placed on 0 5 : roll, Wilson Leewood, af Now the Convent vanit is opened sick leave. kel y. In its silence to enfold her, Tae Nortuens ndian Agent Sa. | J- heel ; . Bowman, RK. Steel, W And the wild birds flying over ville, of the Red Cload Agency, telegraphs the | ®- 4; Williams, J. Hughes, J. Henry, K. Reet, Feel the buoyant air grow colder,— rille, of | > 7. H. Butler, N. C. Brown, W.S. Wileon, E’ | Nuns and kinsmen stoop and enter Commissioner of Indian Affairs, that he is | Lawson, J. W. Dansbury, A. Posey, J. H. lie , i. ny? ; Unto Death, that kinsman older. making an effort to unite the Ogalalias ani | ley, M. Calender, T. - Adams, K. Wheeler Brules in — ae hei the D beacon and N. Jackson. — in life! Roe _ the coffin Indians. Ked Clond informs him that there So F Yhat mysterious tomb upon, are two parties of Ogalallas, led by Black Twin beter Leotstative pkssurts—Both | where the courtier and the soldier and Crazy Horse, who have never been tothe | Rousts of the general oe ere And the Abbé of Bréton, agency. He has information from their camp, | 2®V® — over Bs ‘on i In the Hides from history ‘midst these sisters: and says that Black Twin will come In, but that | Senate yesterday, reports were submitted fav Uneonfessed Limoclan! Crazy Horse will probably join the war party. | 0Fing the erection of anormal school building. The Indians are still guarding the agency. and adverse to the bill once passed for a state | ‘Thue the world doth in the cloister _——— board of charities with powers to visit and in Keep its secrets mystica); WasnixoTostans Asg0AD.—The following | spect all humanitarian or reformatory institu- | and the refugees of pastea, Washingtonians were registered in Paris on | Hons, &c. The usury bill was made the order And the victims of cabal, : si. | 9f the aay for Tuesday next, and the bill appro. | s, Lester — oe Poop tegen tat Printing $5,000 to Wattington cemetery (Con. ayan wien een ards, F. , AS. : sen | passed. * Stake Mullett. ‘Nice—Mrs. Kobley D. Evans. Lon- peed dies shtnioes arene tne ot Washington county, obtained leave to intro- Lorenzo Dow. don—Mrs. Sherman and family. Geneva, ! duce a bill1o incorporote the Cumberland and % : ruary 3—Samuel Cooper, Mrs. A. Brown. Yiene | Ohio Canal company, which, we presume, mast | TRS condemnation of Holmesd’s burying na, February 2—Dr. Frank Hyatt, Dr. refer to the project to constrict a trans-Alle- | 8Tound, which is probably the oldest in our Michael, Dr. S. W. Seldner. _ Rome, February ghany canal to connect with the Youghlogeny | region, excepting KockCreek Parish Cemetery, 3 Mrs Samuel F. Miller. Florence—Dr. Wm. | river, flowing into the Ohio. invites attention to the most notable of its inhabi- A. Brown, Edward S. Jones. Naples—Augus- ———E poccgy! Dens a feeders: Gace tus Brown, Edward Jones, J. H. Saville aud | | Stconp Day or Tax CHARLESTON Races.— ts, Lorenzo Dow. Amongst the short, thic family. oon was Se Legon day = a Cmarineten cedars, and closely packed graves of this emall Simmons aT Taw Carirot.—Gen. Butler, | ‘3, ;) races. In the first race—-half-mile dash, | place of sepulture, lies the sand-stone slab on purse of $20)—Hitchcock’s bay tilly won in 52, rords: « t Lo- flushed with the success of bis recent contest, | seconds, beating Vandalite, Flower Girl ana | “ch are the words: “The repository of Lo came into the House to-day a little before one | Mortgage, in the order named. Second race— | tenz0 Dow, who. was born in Coventry, an yelock with the veritable unlit segar in | mrse of $300, two-mile dash, for all ages; | Oct. 18,1777. Died February 2, 1834. Aged fitty- o'clock witl i her he th ar in inverse itcheock’s chestnut colt Limestone won in | sx. A Christian is the highest style of man. => ——— 5 Ban speg led Gm over, and 3:51, beating Revenge, Jim Hinton and Joe | He isa slave to no sect; takes no private road to Peeper bg Bagh cepinnny re ee atest’ | Johnston, in the order named. ‘Third race— | heaven; but looks through Nature up to Na Se ad ee heen eneeT: Mt~ Bimi- | Satta heats, for all agen; puree of $250; Lewis H. | ture’s God.” nuGcie Tete ‘Christian soltice” | ©0€’s bay horse Ortolon won in 1:51 and 1:5), | This inscription is as mixed as Dow's life. He pine tee he mol cut down locke tei, | beating Fireball and Lone Star, in the order holds a large place amongst oddities, apparent- aon ae aati ag fhe | named. ‘The latter was distanced. ly for his consistent persistence in one styic of about thirty-five years of age, has dark hair, ——— _ moving and having his being. Notning can be inclined to curl, stands about 6 feet in his stock- | _ Jay Gooxm &Co,’s ORupitone.—Mr. H. A. more fuguirioue than kes Saks, Walch: ore ings and withal is handsome. | He looks asif he | Risley, of Washington—father of Miss Risiey | Move Wgubriou ‘and seldom quaint. He touchea poseessed good business qualities, and idently | who was adopted by Mr. Seward, Sccompanied | the democratic sense of resistance to ecclesiasti- Sag Umber in him that don’t yleld to any storm | him on his journey around the world and edited | ‘2° government and refused to occupy pulpit short of @ tornado. Piloted by Gen. Butler he | his book giving an account thereot_-was at the by sufferance, and he was as careful-ac Wait. was escorted into one of the cloak rooms, and | Carr Hotel a few days since our last issue. | field or Francis Asbury to omit no spot in th> ueld uite an ovation. He is visiting tae banks that were creditors of | vineyard of God where he could preach to two 3 ’ t Nati r lector Simmons, Wimienten eee First National bank of | or three. Hence, every neighborhood kept the BUTLER AND Simmons.—Co! @ compromise on an offer | trauiti f him, to or inder convoy of General Butler, made around | of fifty per cont. cach and fifty percent, ia the | (ulition of him, and he was sure to return over of visits this morning, calling on the different | bonds of the Northern Pacific ratiroad com- | ‘In principle he was @ Methodist, and was con- heads of departments, and regeiy - | any — equivalent now to about eighty-five | verted by a vision in 1791, the year John Wes. lations frem all porn Teo poe gee cents on the dollar.—Cooperstown (N. ¥.) Jour- | ley died” Im the lattes part of Washington's entlemen than this victorious couple seem to | "™@/, 26th. ministration, he yearned to preach, but the ES'on this bright and cheerful day, it is proba- THE CONVENTION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGI- | Methodist presiding elders snubbed him, and he bie do not exist on this mundane sphere. One | weERs is still in session in Cleveland. Positive | barely escaped expulsion from th conference, of the early calls was upon the President, bat | information of its proceedings cannot be obtain- | which drove him half insa1 as he was not in his office they did not have the | ed. It is rumored that a general strike has | & borrowed coat, feet on the ground, and not a opportunity of paying their respects. The | been determined upon, andthe details are be- | farthing in his pocket, the poor fellow fell upon members of the inet were nearly all ‘at | ing arranged. It is stated there is considerabie | his face in the Migkeer ind besought God bi and expressed great pleasure in con- | opposition to this course, and that ifthe non- | to release him from the constraint to gratulating the new collector. Simmons men | strikers do not carry their point they will split | preach, or else to raise him up friends. are on the increase his confirmation, and there | trom the brotherhood and form a separate or- le fell in with another rejected candi- are scores of admirers who ‘‘never had a doubt | ganization. date for the ministry, who told him that no of bis confirmation showing up to-day. Mr. Lag - sep SaRstea-—ssemead conclave bad a right to stand between him and Simmons will leave here for Boston to-night. PROBABLE Nuw Potice Commisstower tw | his call, Then _—— New York.—It is understood Sheridan Shook, | never ceased till he e up the ghost in George- PEnsions oF 18: Committee on Revo- ee = the Union Square theater, New | town. He traveled in Ireland and throt ork, wi Th aghoat tut P nd the f 1312 hi ppointed police commissioner to | the coasts of the United States, and a) to pena bebaerrtiar be reported by Rep. | tucceed the late Henry.Smith, “Br- SbOOK isn | havecutered tee: Petco ae nnd SPPOATS to republican. was formaris an tnisenal revenue itary f, 1 e fo) visions | officer, and retired worth @ million dollar Soomal marks this event: of 4 “ bon and is now sole proprietor of the property above nd Proceeded on my way, and met Saeco ferry. He treated me with love and Gin: | deere meni geeae toe a | seat oat equa eer mit of twent! who had ‘4 - = the ‘Brothers ion; and ¢ proprietor of § at Ni » to publish his also putting upon rolls the widows ef’ such sell the copies by hand. the coldieis as kaye died since they nee pol of’ Ki 1» for enable to build: dee in Wa of their pensions. IERIGATION BY ARTILLERY.—In the House barracks of sNepeaber ete to-day Mr. Farwell, of Illineis, introduced a government. Peggy accompa. memorial, signed by Prof. Edward Powers,| Dzymar oy sue Tonkouaue ov Sng mpl scking Congress to test the ubject of irriga- | StA dispatches to the London the posple, tion . The petitioner represents that w! lis the sbeexentions of the seen aoees ts a i : ‘i ih Sznaror CHanvier has brought suitagainst | GG ADABOUT’S COLUMN. | The Troli of —_— State Depart. ofice for an official examination of his applica, tion they would report this enab! theater was playing the Swamp Angels, the onty when the interests of the pulsation efter publishers of yellow-backed literature were | the people could be harmonited, or whan Competing in the legend. and the London Sat- | hore the same relation as an application for a HEgAy Review lamented that British journalists | new trial in court, when equity seemed te war- had no such versatile field as the American, rant its being granted. when such anomalies existed contiguous to our After considerable debate oldest society. People used to ask me increda- | sition cher, it the practical lously it I had not invented the very existence bin were intended for the Met orm: ‘of the Loweries, but there is their history deep- | ihe bill was . ly engraved tn the annals of North Carolin Mr. Hawiey (ill.) moved that the House ang oF the view which I took of the motives | resolve iteelf into Committee of the Whore on and morale of the struggle, | am willing to rest | the Private Calendar. upon & later verdict, when white and biack Mr. E. H. Roberts (N. Y.) suggested that the criminals are judged without discr: House fo Committee of the Whole on the cect A Deny 1 vawery, the leader the | state ‘of the Union on the President's Mensa *. 3 + ai ared after o even years of oatlawry in the winter of 15,0 | {0,silow general debate for the remainier of the day. His wife reported that had blown his hes! kr) ap 0 t oe Che Mee ty abe Mr. heck (Ky appealed to Mr. Hawley t» carraied sbot-gan. Boss Strong, a double: | allow the day to be devoted to debate. He dut (Engtish air from Rob Roy.) There's old Hoban, the Irishman, And sad Hallate, who came from Gaul, There's great Latrobe, who crossed the giobe, And Walter purer than them all; And none can vex midst architects, Our Mullet strong and expedite, Who is the genii of the lamp, And builds palace every night. (Chorus of Stone Dressers :) Though England may not lose her Wren, ‘or Rome her Angelo forget, Yet Uncle Sam must tell it when He has, He has the bold Matiet! (The reader is respectfully requested to pnt the accent heavy on the last syllable of the bold Mullet.) Still as a mouse in a big house, He makes the mountains shrink bsfore him. The quarries yawn before his brawn, As if they labored when they bore him; As quick a thing as David's Whose stone brought great are ber 1 desire to speak himself, bat some of his eo! Dat a savage one, was acenminated through th- | ieagues, who had mover detained the bustues ox cat-bole of a negro cabin by ® man who ha! | the House, desited this opportanity, and he camped ont for him. Tom Lowery was waylail | seked thin in chore webu, — Lop eh ere eee Mr. Hawley declined to assent to this arrange- Steve Lowery was killed last week. Tne bavi | lost bye cire sc ean DelDg Put, was declared bad taken twenty valuable lives, and cost th Mr. Randall (Pa) state an enormous amount of mon: ace demanded the yeas and 2, It is to see our Mullet ‘ling Ancrvaca Gapanove. | The gar Temarked, (volte eoce,) We will waste A granite castle o’er a town. meee a Mr. G. T. Ho: Mase.) rose to © question of gentieman had the right to make the remark t id waste the day. The Princeton Catastrophe. Mr. Randall said the gentleman was wasting es the time with hie technical point On the 28th ef February, 1844, a large party M Brien (Ma remark of Mr, Of ladier and gentlemen, including the Presi- | *andail was & perso tremee<d to bim Mr. Randall.—1 know it. but 1m dent and the members of his Cabinet, with their | tothe Hess ae families, were invited by Com. Stockton to The Speeher rales the remark not unpariia spend the day on board the steam frigate Prinse- | mentary, but impolite. ton, lying off Alexandria. The as rec The yeas and nays were ordered on Mr. Haw- THIRTY Y (Choras of hod-carriers :) Jack’s bean stalk stole not up the pole Wid more agility, you bet! And Mick and Pat cry downwards that “We have, we have the bold Mullet!” His style is France in renaissance, No Gothic work obfuscated ,— But tall facades of colonnades, And all his basements rusticated. - Prepared he stanils to stud all lands, And all our cycle illustrate CARS AGO). | order, whetner ‘ ley’s motion. With structures strong, as fast and long, able, and the company large and brilliant, not Mr. Kellogg (Conn.) suggested that the point ‘As Congress will appropriate. less probably than four hundred in number; of be yielded and allow the session to be devote: (a (Chorus of Congressmen after Post Office im. whom two hundred were ladies. After the ar- | debate. é a ee eevemnentn) rival of the guests, the Princeton got under | , Several volceson the republican side: No, no, Sit down, Jack Dawes, nor think becaus? way and proceeded down the river to a short y r The Treasury may be in debt, distance below Fort Wasbington. “Duripg tus | patf; Elaridge (Wis.) moved to adjourn. and ‘That we will miss a Post Office, Who have, who have the bold Mallet. Post Office, Mint, whate’er you hint,— A Oustom-hoase or Hospital; He'll draw the plan ere you can squint, And pass it at the Capitol. Then trom the earth 'twill spring to birth, Like pebbles from a living font, With U. 8. carved in various spots, And “A. B. Mullet” on the front. (Chorus of 1,000 draughtsmen.) We get nosleep. All night we keep Atarchitecture. Though we sweat, He works more yet our task who set : We have, we have the bold Mullet! (The next stanza sung in sulo by Hamilton Fis.) O little man, say, if you can, What is thy knack and what thy art ” *Tis not thy tact, all know the fact Itis thy courage and thy heart! Methinks a style more versatile This Western nation might beget, pending a vote on this, that when the Honse adjourn to-day it be to meet on Tuesday nex passage down, one of the large guns (carrying As on which the yeas and nays were ordered. a ball o' ) was fired several times. At 2 Pp. m. the ladies were invited to a sumptuous re- past in the cabin. The gentlemen sncoented them at the table, and some of them had lef¢ it. : ‘The ship was on her return to her anchorage, | TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR: and was opposite the fort, when Com. Stockion Sag consented to fire another shot from the same Foreign Notes, gun, around and near which many persons hai SPANISH APPALGS. gathered, though notin as large numbers ax on Mapai, February 28.—Serrano bas been de- similar discharges in the morning, most of (hs | clared president of the republic of Spain, and ladies being between decks and outof the reach | Gen. Zabala, minister of war, is appolated of harm. | president of the council of ministers. Gen. The gun was tired. The explosion was fol- | Feortomes bas tailed to relieve Bilboa, and it i= lowed by shrieks of woe. which announced a | reported that his army has been defeated by dire calamity. The gun had burst, ata point | the Carliste with «lose of three thousand mex three or four feet from the breach, and scattered | killed and wounded Amporta, death and desolation around. Mr. Upshur, ot | west of Tarragona, has been captured by th Virginia, Secretary of State; ( ot N. ©., Secretary of the > Beverly Kennan, a gallant o Virgil Maxey, of Maryland, recently returned from the Hague; Mr. Gardner, of New York, - & colored man attached to the Executive a . have left Madrid for Zabala will act as president during bsence from the capital of Serrano. a February : m, were iustantiv killed. Nine seamen | servative republican journal, Nine ge oy nae Bere seriously wounded, and Colonel Benton, | ‘ury,, has been prohibited, because of the pra - 4 ‘ Commodore Stockton, Lieutenant Hunt, of the | licetion in ite columns of an artic le Insultia, (Chorus by the ape yom the Cape Ann, Sen- | Princeton, and W. D. Robinson, of Butiet, president of the national! assembiy. eca, Akron and Dix Island quarries.) were stunned by the explosion. Mrs. Gilmer PROM A WRECK a Though England may net .ose her Wren, was on deck at the time of the losion and Loxpox, February 2Five handred and was brought back to Washington almost in a | seventy casks of refined petroleum came ashore state of distraction. Mr. Gardner was accom- | on the suffolk const, near Lawestof. They @ panied by his two daughters. one of whom after- | supposed to have becn a portion of the cargo of wards became the wite of President Tyler. Mr. | the bark Brilliant, from Philadelphia, whic! Upshur was accompanied by bis daughter, | was wrecked off Longsand. Commodore Kennan by several ladies ot his PORBIGNERS NOT BAP! family; but none of them. with the exception or February 2.—It ts reported Mrs, Gilmer, were apprised of the death of tho«e government bar notified the most dear to them until their arrival in Wash foreign ministers residing at Pekin that it : ington. rantee the rhe President was not on deck at the time. eat 7 He was summoned, but one of the ladies having here have been requested to sen concealed bis bat, he was compelled to remain | war vessels to Tient-sin to insure their protec- below. Charles A. Davis, (Jack Downing, No. | t 2.) of New York, was on board, and wrote to Rea tment Nor Rome her Angelo forget, Yet Uncle Sam must tell it when He has, he has the bold Mullet. Gadabout and the Lowery Band. During the past week the telegraph convesel to the country news of the death of Steve Lowery, the last of a band of bandits of mixed blood, which has made havoc in North Caro- lina for eleven years. These Lowerys ate ex- ceptional in the history of their race, if they be considered Africans; for, with the single excep: tion of Nat. Turner’s revolt, no negroes have rN CHINA. ever organized for outlawry north of the guif the New York E. 7 4 5 b press that he was within ten Terrible Conflagration Panaw states. A citisen of Mecingee still living | feet of the gun, which was fired ty Stockton | oven $1,000,000 wean PROPERTY DE- Se ee Tron Kicked ck | bimeelf. He owed his escape to his having sTROY. ‘Washington In twelye hours. climbed up the shrouds @ tew feet with Mrs New York, February 25.—Private advices Wethered, of Baltimore. She was covered with | received in this city state that a terrible contia- blood—their hacs were blown oft—but the only gration occurred in Panama on the 25th inst., injury he received was a slight contusion of the | whereby the largest portion of the business part i lip. of the town was destroyed. The loses are esti- m. Strickland, the architect, of Phila mated at over $1,000,000, mostly insured in Lon- delphia, was al-o on board the Princeton, ani | don offices, stood immediately behind Stockton when he Second Dispatch. fired the gun. New York, February The morning after the calamity the remain- | have been received from Panam of the killed were conveyed to the White Hous | by mercbante tn this city from th where they lay until the funeral, on the 2d o: | dents in the city of Panams, March. ever, except in a single instance. ‘The Lowerys were the most peculiar mulattoes I ever saw,—so strange, that their white neigh bors ascribed their ferocity to a Tuscarora or Cherokee mixture. I had an idea that they were of gipsy blood, but as ali the white people in those parts are Scotch Highlanders, ir fero- city might have been Gaelic merely, and their complexion Gaelic-African. I had some instru mentality in making these negrooutiaws know through the north, and will give in a few lines an inside account of the matter. February 17, 1872, I received a letter from the 2 The iate Phil. Ellicott carried the sad intel! | fumiation regarding’ ¢ extent ing If el eomld ot the Tee Sork icrald, a8k- | gence of the death of Mr. Maxcy to his family ation, which occurred there recently. ‘Tne Siiunsie hun it thapcal coat Tho were at home on West river, near th’ | dispatch reterred to gives the loss at one mil- heard. ‘Thursday, ood. f lett Washington, pro. | Chesapeake. He left here at dark and arrive | lion dollars. there at one o'clock im the morning. Mr Maxcy was the father of Mrs. Francis Markor of this city, and a very accomplished gentl man. Mr. Upshur was a man of great ability and ranked among the ablest members of tu« | Among the buildings burned were the Graod Virginia convention of 1530. Mr. Gilmer wa; | Hotel, City Saloon. and @ bank. The loss is also distinguished as an oratot and a scholar. roughly estimated at €1,000 09, the greater por- [twas originally intended that the fanera's | tion of which is covered by inearance. No tare of all the victims of theexplosion should be bel. | ther details have been received. here—but subsequently it was decided by bi- —— o family that the remains of Mr. Maxcy should be Central and South America. vided with several! books on North Carolina, bnt without the remotest id # the color, race, or performances of the Lowerys. At Richmond the Herald's resident agent was not to be found but he telegraphed me at Weldon, saying that I must lie over at Wilmington and then go west to theend of an untinisned railroad ov the South Carolina line. Saturday, 24th, at Wilmington, I found that the Lowerys were negroes, and, borrowing a newspaper file, pro- ceeded to devour it, making notes of every interred in the family vault at Tulip Hall. SUCCRSSFUL REVOLUTION IN HONDURAS. forthe wast toe cettbgetine ae WASHINGTON IN 1844 Panama, February 16. —President Arias, of tween communicative whites and negroes, t» | contained only 35,000 inhabitants, chiefly na- | Honduras, after being besi in Camaig get both sides, not so much of the story aso! the impression, and went through the jail tives of the District or the states of Maryland | te capital. by the united forces of Salvador whence several of the Lowery band had by - juste itulated 13th ult..sud and Virginia. The nightor the calamity, it is | Wwartmaden prisoute slong wil eae Bt ‘Gia, said, there were few families in the city who | his minister. There wasa cousiderable amount to Lumberton, 7 the Sounty vent’ of Tae | enjoyed their wented test She mate Gea, Eee | aauuaiater. There wes city was surrendered. Lowerys, and’ found en a judge, | 8y, almost the whole population poured down | Senor Leiva, as president, now remains i full tothe wharf, where they waited, hour after | possession of the government of Honduras. hour, till the minute guns from the Princeton ADVICES FROM VALPARAISO announced the departure of the tender with the | to the 24th.state that the minister of the inte. dead. nor, in & speech, stated that both the govern. THE FUNERAL. ment and the country desired that there be a The funeral was on Saturday, and although | Separation between the church and stats it was the chief market day, all the bustle of A STeawe SROUK OF BARTEWAEE Cahbi 15th ultimo. business was hushed at an early hour, and the | "** felt at Cabiapo on the 15th ult sheri: and — and = Oxendine, a cousin of Lowerys, who wa~ to be tried for murder. he conductor seemed to know all about my mixsion, and I mention it as an extraordinary tact that on the succeeding day, when I wanted to make some sketches for Harper's Weekly, he stopped the train as long as [ pieased at each and every station, without solicitation. We were 1 | Streets were silent, though crowded with peo- | bas opened the crater on its eastern side and Piney 4 poder pt wrotes | ple. Rev. Dr. Hawley, Hey. Mr. Bution eed | namonaned the blowing from that quarter un- passengers, for it was the universal topic of ths | Kev. Dr. Laurie conducted the funeral service | suflerably hot. state, a part of finance, politics, the militia an: | 8ttbe White ey ye the faneral cor: oa religion. The white people seemed to me more | “&@ moved at 11 a.m. for the Congressions’ The War on the Bottle. interesting and peculiar than the Lowerys coald per nag oe Among the pall-bearers were Messrs. FAILURE OF A TWO WEEKS SIEGE. possibly be. At Lumberton I was quartered in | Atéair, 01 of Del.; Kennedy, ot an old, uppainted tavern. town is one of the oldest in the state, all frame, and has never been painted at ali. That day was spent soak- ing in more of the story and making sketches of the jail, gallows and court house. As it was court week, the people of the whole country were collected, the wowen in sunbonnets and the men in homespun. Bitter indignation and oe] fear agit the populace, as the Lowerys ad just made a raid on the court house safe, which they carried out of town and dropped with contempt, while they took a merchant's sate and rifled it of $26,000. The Toes were the only just peeple to converse with. They honestly lamented the bloodshed, but attributed it to ayard, JEFFERSONVILLE, Febru: 2% —The dete r- Ingemsoll. of Pa; Gon’ Weightman, | mined and persistent war =pee the saloon kee p- . Bradley. of this city, and Commodores | ers of this city by the women continace Every Morgen, Bolton, Shubrick, Crane and Aulick, | day they are out revisiting them, singin; and Generals Gibson, Towson, Worth, and | hymns, praying and pleading with thes i cormta a pat of thefanerd ort watch “ex: | Seendu ine ben. "wo weeks bare pamed fo rt, which was amile in length. While this sad army wa- | onc, {helt warfare began, and yet not one sa~ moving on, minute guns were fired and bell: tolled st measured intervals. * | Heve they are arousing « moral sentiment that On his return from the faneral, Mr. Tylerhad | Perancelallocce eee frees Be pts ork, has & very narrow escape. He was accompanied increased 5,000, by ison, John Tyler, His horses took peg Sy A it al ° ip 5 ranata saloon be furious rate the whole length of the avenue, | ™ os: 1 esheets which was crowded with carriages, until they ee original aggressions by the whites carried on | Were stopped by & courageous colored mau near | tor of a semple room on Chestnut street bere. for nearly a contury against the free mulattoes | the Treasury. from that _. of Scuftiétown, during THE GUN WHICH CAUSED THIS CALAMITY was the invention of Com. Stockton. Mr. Tyler manifested & great interest in its success, before chborne Claimant Convicted. the dent, and de ita fre t subject of He i8 FOUND GUILTY OF PRKIURY axD sEn- non TENCED TO FOURTEEN YEARS PENAL sun. on ; 80 that it came to bea bye-word VITUDR. and ves in ‘ 28.—The trial of the Tich- Congress. Mr. Vinton, of Ohio, used to say that tines cee of perjury committed the only incident of the melancholy occasion during the trial for the possession of the extate, whieh called up 8 smile, was the reiteration by been in upwards John Tyler of Penis full egnidence in the gan. Te rougi a clone this morning nd renated in special measage ngress on z ‘ viction February, when the dead bodies of his friend ae pean or ——_.—___ bave bean in Patsgonia and no more lontwout 2 ee ee York Notes. ‘stood pitch. forest, Stockton in the navy several ST. PATRIOK’s MORNING. Role aps Sena eae ae Saree Pair Unguinhed “appesrancer an remarkable for re _ ey was but five or six miles distant, where gn an- | phi games and neers Se Tevmaner Farman. of Pbiieteiphie, in sands from oecere: vor | Hamilton Fish was =. member of the House in relative to Tucreaset postal and mall wanapors sand feos om far a nea ero 16s. So was Alex. H. Stephens, of Georgia, the | tation between the two cities. Send aad ction eee eaten nee ee in either Congressmen ot ‘FEB DOLLOWING 10 SRB WESELY BADE ORASD- legend a6 hn | ‘The democrats of the last 0 decreane. the Gnited Sta oe Scat wes had bees i to beliove that Benton's mind was sdecses by ses 0 gal inane 81,764,400; sgh ont page ye 2 pts OD, ‘with | rations on the Texas and other ques. of — aream Poe five about Amongst Sythe nase low me in town