Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1874, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. | PUBLISHED DAILY, Sundays Exeepted, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Pennsylvania Avenae, cor. Lith St. aT NING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY, ™ oe H. KAUFPRANN, Prev't. med NING STAR ts served by carriers to onmiet Two oun each. By mail—three months, | @).50; six months, $3.00; one year, $5. } LY STAR—Pubdlished Friday—@1.50 Fae DELLS ae ea bo paper sent ionger than paid for. Ge Rates of advertising furnished on application. SS a Vt. 48—NE. 6,534. WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1874. TWO CENTS. The Answe! THE DISTRICT ISVESTIGATION. EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip. INTERNAL KEVENUE.—The receipts from this source to-day were $441,724. AMUSEMENTS, Fo™>’s OPERA woUsE. MB. FRANK S. CHANFRAU, In the great American Drama, by Spencer, of AUT, THE SREANSAS TRAVELER. “Accom: ‘Documenta Payne The answer of Governor Shepherd to the in- terrogatories propounded by the joint commit- tee to investigate District affairs, arrived at the o'clock to-day, as pro- vernor, in Knox’s big express wagon, and accompanied by a guard of seven gressional Committee, The great Prome of KIT ise powerfal portrayal Ws. J. McIntyre, of the Treasary depart- | laborers,in command of Colonel ‘ader, | the original contracts made by the Board of phan Ng Ee sedove- | meut, has been appomted an agent of that de- | treasurer of ‘the Board of Public Works; Dr. | Pubite Works, numbering 1,002, together with pblin Misstssip, partment to be stationed in Alaska. Ww. Tindall, Mr. J. C. Lay, auditor Board, and Mr. F. H. Johnson, of the contract office. Dr. Tindall carried the answer proper inan immense portfolio tied with red tape. The vouchers and measurements were con- tained in eleven boxes about 24 by 2 feet, and about one foot in depth, with handles on the sides and each bore on the side in printed letters ‘Measurements and Vouchers, B. P.W.’” On the top of the boxes was the inscription; “From —— to ——, 18—"’—embracing vouchers is, Arkansas eisisna—Characiers and jor pictured from life— a SATURDAY. Wo s0. Admission, 75 and 80 | cents. snd @1 i. WAMROLD & DACKUS SAN FRAW MINSTRELS are coming mar? tr NAtionat ‘THEATER. the original me bering 10,537, Crimes—The J dg0 “The Uowptry ts ert KIT MAMI M. BartHotp1, the new French minister t this country, sailed from Havre for New York on Saturday. Minister Bancroft gave a baa- | quet ip his honor on the 9th ult. DeraRtTap GREATNESS.—A bill was intro- | duced in the House to-day to change the nam> of the propeller Wm. M. Tweed, of Butfalo, to ness of the old cor} Georgetown and jovernment e report 1874, was $5,527,850. The present. against $ MONDAY, MAR one lees notoriou: 71 to 1874. These bo: 297 dod bs 191. ‘The exhibit of th Anditer of ‘ 0 s7 from 1871 \. ese boxes contain 10,565 f ASA im 1871, e exhil e Ans or ™ view naeoronn 5 - = vouchers and measurements. Besides these | the Board of Public Wor! ws the actual MR. DION BOUCICAULT, Curer Jvstice Warre is to be sworn into office on Wednesday, if he survives the dining are ae there wasa large box, three fect square, con- e Em or. taining the originals of 1,032 contracts.’ The Y 7 ssp. y 43, ea preparation of the answer has consumed the | the estimated cost. In reply to the question, USED Te. AND TOSSDAY EVES and wining to which he has been sudjected | Pinb tor three weeke past of 31 clerks, who have | What amount of money, if any, does the gov- s KERRY USED UP ne i since his nomination for the place. been compelled to work far into the night, to | ernment of the District ecimite Ought to be USED Ur. ay. vsnp vpn =™- ‘Tue pit troduced in the Houses to-day by | *#Y Bothivg of the additional labor imposed | paid by the United States for improvements to upon the Governor and the members of the Board of Public Works, who have used every means to expedite the work. The boxes were iled up near the door of the Pacific Kailroad Gommittee room of the Senate. The committee-room was occupied during this morning by the Committee on Pacitic Rail- roads. At about noon the committee adjourned, when the doors were thrown open. and the boxes taken in and turned over to Mr. gle clerk of the Investigating Committee. lt should te stated that each box is numbered, and that each contains the measurements and contracts placed in file-holders, which in turn bear the number of the documents tney con- . These accompanying documents are so systematically arranged that there will be no trouble in finding them as they are wanted. Marcellus West and Columbus Alexander, representing ‘‘your memorialists,”’ were early on the ground to-day, and, truth to tell, looked Moe tly cast and mounted. public property made by the District? the an: ‘wer is that the Board of Public Works in their report to the Pre: last, estimated 6 aggrega #4, a small portion of th Mr. J. D. Ward to regulate the salaries of dis- ethane trict judges of the United States in the several states, fixes the annual compensation at $6,000. Mn. Dawes, of Massachusetts, has not yet returned to Washington. He was to have pre- sided at the dinner to be given to Chief Justica Waite to-night, but he has notified the commit- tee in charge that he cannot be present. THE Bayyver To Curgr Jcstice Warts by the Yale Alumn: Association takes place this evening at the Arlington. President Grant, and President Porter, of Yale College, will be among the guests. TAR DIPLOMATIC GALLERY, which was at the beginniug of the present session of Congress re- moved to the east side of the House of Repre- I. DADDY O'FOWD General Admission _ward-3 the improvement of the streets and avenues of the city and the roads and thoroughfares of other parts of the District. The streets ana avenues are held in fee simple by the General ‘OR THE WEFK ©! INCING MABCH 2 GRAND kurt ¥ MATINEES WEDSESDsY abl) SATURDAY. CHANGE OF BILL AT BACH MATINEE. * The Greatest ertaimment in Supreme Court. Acting under such constrac- 347,280 square feet by viemity of the Capitol, which are worth, Enropean celebritr, To maki>g foarteen com. The Transformat s : far from happy. After watching the transfer rty, ‘2,500,000. ae are er ante ean rertaned Of again in the | of'tne baxes trom the ball to the comansscs, | “TPerusat nom the statement of the Register The popular plantation Sve and Dance Men, | Mato smeriy occupied. Diplomats prater ® | room with Ingubrious countenances, they drew | that from isu2 to levi, when the vr and Neleon : aside and for half an hour were in earnest and solemn conference. The committee will doubt- less order the answer proper to be printed, and as it will make a volume of from 400 to 700 T Bost 8 Linton, ment went into operation, $9,199,43: ‘be great English Oemic Sin, uy a 5 The beauthal Ss io-Comic Vocalist, Miss Lacy ‘Adams The fascinating Lad: Globe-performer, Mile Gereita. . SIGNOB J CARMELLA’S BALLET TROUPE. THE GEM BALLET TROUPE! Led by the beantiful and dashing Premieres. _ BEMMPLSSERG SISTERS, MISS FRANK CHRISTIE, and Corps de Billet Tre Hovse Committee on Reform in the Civil Service to-day virtually agreed to report 4 Dill to restore the salaries of heads of depart- | pages, it can hardly be printel before nest ments and bureaus tothe snm which the law | week. entitled them to previous to the repeal of the Senator Boutwell, chairman of the tnvesti- increased salary bill. gating committee, was not is his seat to-day. . P= eesyg be committee will hold a meeting to-morrow CHANGE OF Maxacer.—The following was | morning to arrange the preliminaties of the in- intreduced in the House to-day by Gen. Batler: vestigation. Be it enacted, &c., that James S. Negley, of Pennsylvania, be appointed manager of the National Home for Disabled Soldiers, in place of Jay Cooke, of Pa., resigned. rations for public improvements. The expen- creation of the District government have bee Streets and avenues, $15,562,655; total expendi- tures by citizens since 1802, $24.762.117. amount expended by the United States di the same period was, on streets and avenues. $457 by citizens over g The exciting Sensativnal Drama. The Robbers of the Abbey,” conciades the evening's entertain- rnment on the improve- The BEST ENTERTAINMENT in Washington. mard-tf The Public Debt. The recapitulation of the statement of the public debt of the United States for the month ernment, of $20,255,4 [ PNCOLN act. Ttis shown t P - < United States and the District fully equals, if THEODORE THOMAS’ A JOINT RESOLUTION was introduced in the | Of Feburary, 1814, just Issued from the Treas- | it'goes not excoed, in valuo that owned’ by alti. UNEQUALED Co Hoase to-day directing the Joint Committee on | UFY department, is as follows: zens. Sixty Distinguished P. the Library to report to tho House whether Car- | ,, 2¢0t Bearing Interest in Coin. tt is suggested that were a plan adopted by TUESDAY FVENING, MAB: Bonds at 6 per cent which the government would reimburse to the WEENESDAY EVENING MAROH 11, | peBter’s painting known as “The Signing of Ue rieclamattn or Waser” Df | Bondsat 5 per cen District the amount of outstanding indebted. : b pelam 4 neip: 2 ean bi a ted S ° n - ONLY GRAND CONCERES. | purchased by the United States, and if so at ness of the United States on account of im B.MYRON W. WHITNEY, what cost. provements, and annually her & just proportion toward current expenses, well asthe extinguishment of the local debt such ap arrangement would be in accordan with strict equity, and compare fayorably with the liberality exhibited by other governments toward their capital cities. Under the act of Congress and the Legislative Assembly $6,150, of property belonging to churches, &c is exempted from taxation. The reportof the superintendent of public u = ‘The celebrated Basso, will appear, together with anes . : = ES sappri Tue TREASURY PROGRAMME FoR Mancu.— | Debt Bearing Interest in Lawful Money. J NT SOLOISTS, The Secretary of the Treasury has directed | Certiti’s indebtedness at 4 per ct UNRIVALL ED ORCHESTKA Gen. Thomas Hilthouse, assistant treasurer ut erved Beat=, Bilty Goate Brita. New York, to sell $3,000,000 gold for the month of March, as follows: On the first and taird Thursdays each $1,000,000, and on the second and fourth Thursdays e: 0,000. Contract SusrenDED.—The award of the mail contract from Portland, Oregon, to Sitka, Alaska, for $26,000 per annum, to S. Garfield, has been suspended. Garfield is collector of Port Townsend, Washington territory, and Senator Mitchell thinks tuat he cannot take a government contract while holding a federal office. The question has been submitted to th Attorney Gener ‘THE YELLowsToNg National PARk.—The superintendent of the Yellowstone national park, says in & communication to Secretary Delano that one hundred thousand dollars wi! Debt on which inte! since maturity chtained. - Doors open at 7 15. to commence at Steinway & Son's Pianos are ex: lusi Debt bearing no interest. Old dem’d and legal-tender notes. Certificates of deposit... Fractional currence; Coin certificates, : deen almost every state and territory has been fa- 40,569,500 00 pifblic lands for educational purposes, the Dis trict, with received ne national aid whatever, Total debt Lota! Interest, NINTH GHAND ORGAN Co ‘ERT. The Charming VERCELIUS SISTERS, At the CONGREGATIONAL OHURBCG, lot G streets, WEDNESDAY EVENING, Marca 4, Is74. last year by Total debt,princip’l and interest ani Cash in the Treasury— trict. In vis be necessary to render the park and its various | Coin... ae pele arabe « LOUISE, Bopranc: contralto: wonders accessible, preserve its numberless | Currency lamps, only 103 a1 id for by the general gov- curiosities from epoliation, and complete a sur- EBA. Mozz0-Soprano; | Ter or it = y of its boundaries. During the past year the NT ee en: park bas been visited by more than five hun DE. J.P CAULFIELD, Musics! Directo ured persons, Tickets, 75 cente, at Music and Bookstore: ‘Tus GOvERSMiN? Fainvine Oeics. Tie ma) tion of certificates of deposit, as provided by law., and the general government only $4,950. only aid granted by Congress in defraying current expenses ofthe District ; vroprintion toward the support of the police, ‘aaa febas jones and oped they will adopt a similar course - - = following resolution was introduced in the oo. - = the Treasury, 154,889,066 gp | toward the schools, fire department, and light. eee eee ec 5A OLR®. | House to-day by Mr. Storm and referred to the fe as Can ts the Sieee ag area ing the streets. It is suggested by the Governor that authority be given for funding the out standing bonds into one consolidated loa: (ng a fair rate of intecest, and that the commit tee personally visit and inspect the various Di. Se] Debt, less cash Eyores Ea AND PRIVATS THEAT- February 1, 1674. . HA&BY DONEHUE’S, j29-Im 307 Tth strect. 3 doors north of Pa are. Committee on Printing: «Whereas, it is alleged that grave abuses exist in the government printing office which abuses appear to be in- separable from the management of said office, 0,144 41 Decrease of debt during the past month. aud whereas, the abolition of the frankin (niet offices, and the improvements, in order Og [ Os Mabibien ent Sale) Mew Be | ivilege will largely’ reduce the ‘amount = | incneaso oF det hat they may see for thepiselves the operations one. Fem Br. | public printing; Therefore resolved, dc., That | yar Bente rahe one and the extent and value of the ai RERITER'S, | ; | the joimt Committee on Printing be required to “—. Goors above OSS Wollow's Heit report by bill or otherwise whether the Govern- The Governor states he had effected a nego- * Printing office, cannot be discontinued, | Nomrwations.—The President sent the fol- | tiation foraioan, based upon tax-lien certil- Se icens wt stock "Paper Hangings, window | sud ally neved bree sums of money cannot be | towing nominations to the Senate to-day :— teachers and members ot the poles an bene: Bhedes, Pictures, Francs, Picture ant Se | Going the public printane’ | Me method Of | Creag Jacobs, to be chief justice supreme partments, but owing to the grave unfounded imputations of the memorialists, affecting the District government, the realization of the loan was deterred. Capital, always conservative, shuns an investment against which there isa continued outcry, no matter how sound the se- court of territory of Washington; Anthony Q Keasbey, U.S. attorney for New Jersey; Ed ward S.J. Nealley, collector customs, Bath, Me.; John W. Ross, collector internal revenue, fifth district Indiana; Frederick D. Sewall, to Tus Scrrex ‘OURT of the United States met at noon to-day after a recess of one month, Associate Justice Clifford presiding, and all the judges provent. The session to-day was i supervisor of internal revenue. Postmas- | curities may be, and the misrepresentations of ~pent — ‘ng Opinions prepared during the oe ‘oseph B. Stillwagen, at Flashing, N. ¥.; | a few designing Legare the’ Governor says, oe pcmjont tas oan ay Benj. B. Gale, Atchison, came ey — perp Nese of this municipality hun- need {ter the closing of the reading of opin. | Ebon, Tecumseh, Mich; Rob’t A, Sinclair, recs of thousands of dollars and much suifer- ions, it is probable that Chief Justice Wait. | Jonesville, Mich. will besworn in. It is understood to be his de- sire to delay assuming the robes of his high office until after all the business of the court of last term is disposed of. It is possible that the reading of,apinions will consume the entire sesiion on esday, in which case the Chief ‘Justice will not take the oath of office until Thureday. Tax District ScHOOLs AND CongREss.—In the House, to-day, Mr. Chipman introduced the following bill, in aid of the public schools in the | District of Columbia: “Be it euacted, &¢., That one-third of the expense incurred in i mmalntaitilng th public schools in the District of Colum vig by the government of said District - 1 hereafter be paid by the United States, ie i ng. Referring to the sewer certificates, the Governor inclosed the opinion of Cushing and Black to show their legality, and as being in the nature of assessment certificates, and therefore forming no part of the indebtedness of the Dis- ‘rict government, Reference is made to the ste: it of the assessors’ report, that the huti- ers have met their assessments un- inkngly, and paid ten-twelftbs of the en- Kae of the Treasurer of the Board of orks shows that they have received to the 28th of February, $15,256,231, and expended $14,603,052. ‘The assets of the board are stated Tee eae wos enemy $4,562,958. ort: is is exclusive ie amount due by the vOMPTROLLER’S Orrice D. O., Washington, | rrpjj ta im s March 2, ISfd.—flon. N. P. Chipman—Sir, In | [ulted States for improvements of their prop reply to your communication of the 7th ult. 1 go } amoun’ . have the honor to state that the expenditures 217 Oe ee Pophesapetieefenige marr and receipts on account of schoole in the Dis- | prosecution of apecial improemente done cane, trict of Columbia from its organization to Feb. contract, $12,204,004; for special improvements 7 4248'S DREAM, an ontline of Mistory ya lectare ty Rev Jil. CUTHBERT, at 18th Street Baptist Charch, between @ and H.,) MONDAY BVENING, Merch 24, at $ o'clock. ‘Music by amatear c ‘Tickets. 89 cents. Proceeds for an Organ. Supper after lectare extra. ‘Tickets forsale st Ballantyne’s, Parkers, and Filt's Bookstores, Also at Luttrell & Wiae’s,” 2th atreet enue. feb33-2¢ XTRA. E Tae PvusLic ScHoors KesotcvTiom.—The following is the resolution in full of Mr. George F. Hoar with regard to the District public schools introduced in the House to-day. Re- solved, That the Committee on District of GC lumbia be directed to report forthwith a bili which shall compel the payment of the = of the school teachers of the said District w! are now as is alleged many months In arrears. The resolution was adopted. Previous te ac- tion on it Mr. Chipman endeavored to have the me read, but objection was made by Mr. fort; BY SPECIAL REQUEST, and to accommodate many strangers in the city who bave never had n opportunity of hoariug WENDELL PHILLIPPS’ and the Secretary of the Treasury directed to pay into the treasury of the ma) t 4 ows, viz: Paymer ts of Ci ‘8, Out of aRy moneys in the United | St: 1874, have been as fo utside of contracts, including material fur- GBEAT LECTURE. States Treaury not ‘otherwise appropriated, | {oF fulshiet of officers snd teachers, anid con not included in = di, measurements, tingent expenses of the schools, $645,966.11 : 655,460; on account of miscellaneous expen: payments on account of - schéol-buildings, | ditures, other than special imtromeenne ee $227,501.54; total, $573,707.65. Received from | payable by special Appropriations, $1,329,011 = Mo, 9115 15.43." Very restoring eee ou account of contingent expeuses, pay of em- » "Geo E. Sinan Conabulen, oe ee? $895,011; on account of water fund, PERSONAL.—President Porter, of Yate Col- lege, was on the floor of the Senate to-day, and was the recipient of much attention. ‘Wen- dell Phillips was ir the Senate chamber to-day. PRoPosiTion To ABOLISH ANOTHER OrFice. Mr. Adams ii t oduced in the House this morn- ing @ bill which provides that at the expiration of two months from the of this act the one-third of the enture cost of maintaining the said public schools: Provided, That the amount paid by the Uuited States in any one year shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars.” Keferred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. “LOST ARTS," (recently revised,) Mr. Phillige bas consented to givethe Lecture inthe CONGREGATIONAL OCHUBCH, on MONDAY EVENING, MARCH yz A Bow at Potyeamy.—The bill reported in the House trom the Committee on Territories on Saturday concerning the execution of the laws in Utah, provides that in all prosecutions for bigamy, polygamy, or adultery, it shall not This Leetar Ii known to be one #f the most | be necessary to prove etther the first or subse- INTERESTING AND INSTBUCTIVE literary | juemt marriage by the registration or certificate productions ever offered to an audience, aad the op- | “Mt teof, or other recorded evidence; but by such i is age Portanity should not be allowed to pass by those io civil comes “Tee beavaed’s hostna or Who have wever heard it, Mx. BuTier’s Franxino Brtt.—Mr. But- ler inthe House to-day introduced a bill en- titled ‘A bill to enable members ana delegates of both Houses of Congress to do the public business with their const.tuents and other de- partments of the government and to limit the tranking ahig to ‘pai provides t during any session of Congress and thirty days prior and subsequent thereto all written and printed matter sentto Con- office of Superintendent of admission that such women are his wives, and | gressmen bearing = the outside of the en- | be abolished, and all rey reinag teas, his acts, recognizing, soknomiesgieg. introdac- —< er 4 words “for public ser- | pointment of such cfticer shall be repealed. Re- ss aap ing, Seg Sees himself toward them | vice” with signature of a member | ferred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Reverved seats, 7 cents, at the Ellis Masic Store, | as such, shall be admiasable as evidence. Any | or {delegate shall go free of postage. ‘ lasrerensy Without extra charge. fobas-s:_ | women, now or hereafter holding the relation | That all newspapers regularly printed as jour- | No Two GovanwMEnT OLERKS To Be Ext- = —————— _ of spouse or comuert, aad not that of a lawfal Pome Aree wrtng angen simply, shall go | rLorgD rrom Owe FamiLy.—General Butler re ee a any man wi! free same | offered a resolution in the Hot to-day, which ARPETS! CARPETS! CARPETS! | avother woman as Be, are publ ‘but not in the towns or cities tart pm Cc may file her petition asking to be discharged | where such delivery is provided for by law. ‘rhe ling that in the employment COCOA MATTING bill further provides that, in case e several De; Capitol that no two of any one em, nd that dischar; | family shall be 8 portion of estate and Fon or persons so doing shall be deemed AND Sor the sapere ol as : lity of @ misdemeanor, abd, on conviction, s!: _—— for OI1LCLOTHS: Fours on Viotarow or overows | ha gba Piumed bY aspeinament (for not We hare rs ‘vets, Bosly and Tapestry Brussels; Three-piy, aod Eure Ingrains, Tow priced Iugraine, Cocos, ‘gad Canton Mattings, Oilcloths in diferent widths, Orumb Cloths. ith « large stoex ot ther G20de aszalty Kept in jis ‘To which we would call the attention of buyers. aatbese ail perfect, and will be suid at re- 3 : incorporate the Trust Company” be amend- shall ee Gay of te make es to close Cousigumneste i W.L. WALL & 00. Seem ee MEER om ane encalt; > MESELER (8, optician, ASSEY'S PHILADELPHIA ALE N Bec ee oun OaSKS AND BOTTLES. ‘ Pa aE, ML 0. | ae 5 ree, Fo 4 PEBFECT-FITTING SHIRT LEAVE YOUR ORDERS aT BREEN'S, 422 9th Street Nerthwest, SHIST PATTERNS CUTTO ORDER. jan?-tm H His i t i if Goy. Shepherd’s Auswer to the Con- Governor Shepherd has replied to the inter- rogatories propounded by the Congressional joint committee to investigate the affairs of the District. The accompanying papers include easurements and vouchers, num- In answer to the question as to the indebted- rations of Washington and e Levy Court when the new District went into operation, ives it Ly => . — es debtor the District of Columbia on january 1, assessed value cost of the work done under contract with the board was less than five per cent. in excess of ident, dated ist of November h indebtedness, and gave the 0,000. This, however, is but mM equitably due by the Government on account of expenditures made by our citizens in their corporate capacity for Government, according to the decision of the tion the United States have in onecase gained widening streets in the to th tof the adj talog peo. in, @ appraisemen' e adjoining pro- pefty, £516,006. ‘The General Governmee nee also retained the ground reclaimed by filling up the canal, worth, at the valuation of adjacent nm expended by the citizens under the old corpo- ditures of the Board ot Public Works since the The ring 706; showing an excess of expenditures ment of streets and avenues and roads, nine- tenths of which are absolutely by the goy- he real estate held by the er contribute schools shows that of those who attend the pub- lic schools of the District only twenty-seven per cent. are the children of the tax-payers. While vored by Congress with liberal donations ef its large transient population, has The appropriation for the fire department e District government was $165, 436. Congress has rendered no aid to this ser- vice, notwithstandiog the large number and great value of government buildings in the Dis- of this fact it can hardly be pai erpment. The District pays $139,941 row A 6 the ap annual ap- FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS, Mownpay, March 2. SENAT nexed witbin their limits. Mr. Sherman presented a memorial signed by leading firms of Chicago, repre- senting sixty millions of capital, being the reso- seventy-five lutions of the Merchants’ Exchange, against ‘ny Increase of the currency. ir. Logan said ten men had them around getting signers to them. The sev- enty-five men may be worth sixty millions, bat they are not the people of Chicago. Thi men of wealth, and, of course, they demand contraction. These resolutions reminded him of the three tailors of Threadneedle street, who styled themselves ‘‘we, the people of England.” Another = bad been presented here from the of Trade against expansion of the currency. ‘The Board of Trake consisted of emmy bpind 1,600 men. These did not com- prise all the people of Chicago, although many of them were men of great wealth, he had great respect for them. He desired now to pre- Senta petition in favor of an increase of curren- uild up Chicago than any other men or set of men: Potter Palmer, 8. J. Walker, Schatler. He also presented various other pe- titions of citizens of Chicago and Evanston asking an increase of the currency. Mr. Alcorn presented a petion of planters ot Mississippi asking the refunding of the cotton tax. Referred to Judiciary Committee. Mr. West introduced a bill to provide for the arcertainment and settling of war claims of to the Committee on loyal citizens, Referred jaims. Mr. Morrill (Vt.) called up joint resolution di- recting the statue of Jefferson, presented by Commodore Levy, to be placed in the old House ball. Passed. The bill extending the time tor the compte- isconsin Central railroad was tion of the W! passed. Mr. Frelinghuysen submitted a resolution di- recting the Secretary of the Treasury to inform the Senate whether the eecuritiesof the United and fraction States, such as notes, bonds al cur- rency, are being prepared in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee on Re- trenchment of March, 1869, and of the Seore- tary in his last preceding report, and if not to state in what manner they are being prepared, and what are the precautions taken to prevent fraudulent issues of the same. Adopted. The bill to provide for the appointment of a commission to investigate the alcoholic liquor traffic was taken up. Mr. Pratt read some remarks in favor of the objects proposed by the bill, and at the expira- tion of the morning hour it went over. ‘The Chair presented joint resolutions of legis- lature of Kansas, asking the transfer of the in dian burean to the War department. . Also, res- olutions of the same legislature, asking the pay- ment of eltizensof Kansas for damages incurred by Indian depredations. Also, a memorial from the republican state central committee of South Carolina in reply to the tax-payers’ memorial of that®tate. ‘The centennia! bill was then taken up. Mr. Sargent thought it not expedient im the state of the government finances to it to making appropriations on this ac- prese comm! count. HOUSE OF REPRES others were introduced and referred, viz: By Mr. Bale, (Me distribution of public documents. By Mr. Scofield, (Pa.)—Bill to cover into the Treasury the balance of the Ubinese and Japa- nese indemnity fund. By Mr. Storm, (Pa.)—Joint resolution rel to the Government Printing Office. y Mr. Lawrence (Ohio):—Bill giving a right yy the sale of of action for injuries sustained intoxicating liquors. By Mr. Whitthorne, (Tenn.)—Bill to p: certain persons therein named for horses il)e- gally taken for the use of the United States. 10, @ bill to amend the act of Congress chi tering the Freedmen’s Savings and {rust com- pany, ,and the acts amendatory thereof. By Mr where published. rT, Ward, (I').)—Bill to give flexibility to inflation, and to legalize 44,000,000 reserve, and make the currency withou the issue of the the same available for the relief of the people in the present extraordinary financial pressure By Mr. McCrary (lowa)—Joint resolution of the legislature of Iowa directing their Senators and requesting their Representatives to vote for the bill in relation to transportation and rai roads. By Mr. Clayton (Cal.)—Bill to amend the United States thipping act, approved June 7, 1872. By Mr. Luttrell (Cal.) the legisiature of his state directing the Cali- fornia Senators aud Representatives to vote for a committee to investigate alleged fraudulent contracts with the Pacific railroads. By Mr. Strait (Minn.)—Joint resolution for @ survey for water communication between the Minnesota river and the Red River of the North. By Mrs. Phillips (Kan.)—Bill to pay certain Tudian soldiers for service rendered before the date of muster in. Also, bill toconfirm the sale of the Shawnee Indian lands in Kansas. By Mr, Cannon (Utah)—Bill for the admission of Utah into the Union as a state, and to au thorize her to form @ constitution. By Mr. Chipman (D. C.)—Bill in aid of the public schools of the District of Columbia. By Mr. Butler (Mass.)—Bill in relation to the Sree circulation of written and printed matter between members of Congress and their con- stituents. Also,a bill in relation to the board of mavager: of the National asylum for dis- abled volunteers. By Mr. Adams (Ky.)—Bill to abolish the of- fice of Superintendent of Indian affairs. By Mr. Cason (Ind.)—Joint resolution for a commission to examine lines of water commu- nication that are national in their character. TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR. IMPORTANT FROM SPAIN! Surrender of Bilbea. Bayonne, March 2.—A dispatch has heen re- ceived by the Carlist Junta here reporting that Bilboa bas surrendered to the royalists. It is said one church, several banks, and seventeen Pitot one houres bave been been destroyed by the mbardment of the city. ANOTHER MOVEMENT. 'vpEID, March 2.—General Lomas’ force lembark at San Sebastian for Santander, where it will be joined with the troops under General Moriones. Commutation of Death Sentence. TucuMonD, VA., March 2—Horace Venera- ble, colored, convicted of the murder of Mary Holmes, colored, last May, and sentenced to be deliberate and evidence now before the executive, but not heard at the ee! reduces The clemen was asked by mu Petitioners, man: common\ ith’s att —Mr. Pratt, from Committee on Public Lands, reported amended bill to cede to all Statesthe beds of rivers and streams an- these resolutions, and had been for ten days carrying ey are Gy figned by six men who had done more to B.F. Allen, H. O. Stone, J. Young Scammon, and Peter TATIVES. a- der the call of states for bills and joint reso- lutions for reference only, the fullowing among —Bill to provide for the Barere, (Ill.)—Bill authorizing the free transmission through the mails of news- papers between publishers and in the counties Joint resolutions of "ASHIONS FOR MARCH. (FROM OTR OWN CORRESTONDENT) GENTLE SPRING. If our gentle winter should be followed by the etherial mildness of an exceptional soring we should indeed be doubly blest. Should it not, should March prove treacherous, and April bring us the snows we expected in January, then—well, then we shall do as we have done before, anathematixe the climate and endure it as best we can. Lent is here, however, and the season of sack- cloth and ashes, in a figurative sense, has began It is colder than it was in January. but furs end velvets and woolens are disappearing from the counters and behind plate giass windows, and pew #pring prints, cambrics, —. and last year’s linens and piques are beginning to take their place. A quaker-like air on. ind decorum pervades them. The elicate hair stripes are only dotted with rings, or polka spots of the éolor, and only varied with fine moss or coral patterns which cover the ground and give no ettect of color. The furni ture patterns and Dolly Varden chintres have departed. Merchants bad a dose of them last season and will not be apt to repeat it. Fine twilled vigognes are now shown for spring suits, anc pure silks of Bonnet’s make, not heavy. but the proper texture for skirts to be flounced and worn with a cashmere red ~ en or linen gabrielle. And it may be as well to remark that even for summer wear there is no dress more useful for the street in city or coun- try than a black silk or fine alpaca skirt, black straw hat, and brown or gray linen polonaise. The spring suit for the season par excellence is brown—wood brown—clear with no red lights or shades in it. It isof wool, embroidered in two shades of the color, or it may be trimmed with pleating lined with silk of the same shade. The trimming is but slight—a standing collar, a re- versed pleating at the back of the puloted basque, 8 pleated flounce with a » Thestyle de- pends much more upon the cut than upon the trimming. A brown hat is worn with it withe little ostrich tip falling at the back, which must match the tie, and white crepe de chine or twilled silk at the neck is the most lady-like, but tea rose is very good er any delicate tint. White striped muslin makes the most useful and becoming morning dresses for southern lat- itudes, and agit is to be very largely used for that purpose during the coming season, it may be as well to ea note of it. A single skirt trimmed with ene or more gathered tloances, a | polonaise with gabrielle front and pouf back draped close will be the style. TRE LAST BALLS OF THE SBASON. The season which is considered to close before Lent, and which winds up with the celebration of Mardi Gras on the evening (pancake day) broke out into quite the last, and like a Saturday evenin § hard work not to trespass upon the fashionable ‘avity of the incoming period. Of course Lent joes not interfere with quict forma of social en- joyment. Even rece , masicales, dinners and the like are given by persona out of the “church,” and we have the opera this year be- sides the large club receptions, and great chari- ty balisare carefully kept within the pale, and the pumber of gorgeous toilettes which these have brought forch is very great indeed. TRIKING FEATURES OF BALL CosTUM! To attempt to describe the toilettes woul a work of supererogation. The best effects are communicated by a touch, @ wave, aline, atint, a something altogether too impa'pable for words and which escape in the effort to grasp them. Moreover th s is already done to «uch an extent that it would afford but a repetition of tiresome words. The two great features of them all were the jewels and flowers. Paris, it is said, has never been so resplendent with diamonds as it has this season. A Russian princess (the Kussian ladies are famous for their diamonds) has laid down the law that only diamonds shall be worn with full drees, But this has always been a charac- teristic of American women. No inducements of French dressmakers could induce an Ameri- can lady to wear a gilt parure with an other- wise rich and costly toilette. All sorts of pearl, ivory, enamel, mosaic, and flower imitations have ‘been made, but, though school giris and young ladies not yet “out” have worn them occasionally, yet no one ever faw a recognized leader or member of good American society (a home) exhibiting such pretence of elegan ornament. It is said that some have been known to do ft in Paris. Society women in New York do not, however, contine themselve~ to diamonds. Pearls are in quite as high favor and of diamonds and pearls together more than one lady wore recently over $2,000 worth. Necklaces composed of many strands of pearls fastened by a diamond clasp, great ropes of pearls used as chatelaines, or upon the silk or velvet bodice,-from the right shoulder to the left of the bust, pearl or diamond combs, pearl or diamond hairpips, pearl or diamond ai- rettes, or both combined, are the effective forms Which rich jewelry takes, and which im- parts such radiance to handsome toilettes. Dull gold, next to diamonds, pearis and tor- quoise, (the latter always associated with one or other of the former,) is displayed in striking but not such massive ornaments as formerly. Moorish and Venetian styles have superseded the Egyptian, and exquisite fil chains and clusps are used to suspend the lace fan and handkerchiet, instead of the solid pattern re- cently employed. r use for the Ciains and chatelaines of rare and delicate wo: kmansbip is found in the immense number of Gowers which it is fashion. able for a lady to carry, and which it is quite smpossible for her {2 provide for with her hands. ‘The Lonors of belleship, indeed, are to be gai by as youn, carry oF dispose of thouf ther persons. Some — from the chate- laine, dbe the same kind of flowers, are averse to having them examined, and though they may make a at pretence of inhaling their fr , yetit Evantly 1 more like a bottle extract a tower odor. WHITE SIMPLICITY. White and black constitute the most distin. guished of sll evening wwoilettes, but the black glitters with silk and jet embroidery, aud is covered with filmy lace, while the wiiite bears no reeemblance to the washed and starched muglins of our grandmothers’ time. Nothing is now 80 costly as a white toilette, considering its frailty, the making aud the flowers being i chief {tems of expenditure—the materia‘, if tarlatan, Brussels net, or even tulle be selected, being its least cost. There are, however, really simple toilettes. They are fastened Gown in diagonal or length- wise ap aen a ee latier apon soe ribs,(the tor: ‘® long pout,) and divi: with bands of silk or velvet, dotted with studies m pastoral life in the shape of en! pan- zies oF. gloriged daisies, ands of the came constituting the sash trailing off frem the Principally used for danc- cut ‘trains i i i ala utter of gayety towards | party, had | worn colored tollettes are pored of a fine, flexible net work of jet or surrounded with fringe and attached toa sak Seamtened at the back or side, under must be understood that either mast be in all Diack or the jet will not be Where a color is put with black it stitute the trimming with ead an edmix- Of lace, but jet forced combi- Ration lerotbed of itr distinctions Beantaful dreeses are also made of soft taille im delicate tints. self trimmed, or with white Jace and partially covered with ‘| net work, ropes of pearls being added at the aides to forse the chatelaine and festooned ornaments for the corsage. These me are and will remain rare because of their cost, their want of 2 and somewhat theatrical effect. Necklaces, however, composed of fringes (three rows) or strands of pearis or cut jet are very com~ monly worn. Low basque waists of colored silk, fashionable some years ago, bave been revived, but at present are only worn over thin toilets, black or white. The materia! is Brussels net, the skirt pafted lengthwise at the sides, diagonally in front upon @ gored foundation. Over this an upper skirt of net is draped back with broad Tishes of gros grain silk or ribbon, matching tp tint the silk of the basque, which is cut a very low square with square tabs at the waist, aud may be worn over a low ecian or high of pufted net. Poppy red is just now fashions ble, with black and pale blue with white; gar net talle is also used very effectively in com- unction with tea rose silk, but the basque ts = * in bright contrast to the body part of the s. The combination of colors make tt for ladies who desire to use several to observe great taste and discretion in their selection and arral ae the result ts more striking than. agreeable. A lady of fashion, for example, wore a dress Upon two recent occasions composed of three strikingly contrasting colors—violet, pink and brown. ‘Theeffect wasso peculiar that she was watched for, and talked about, and followed by t of the company wer she ap- Standing Zollar, only pleated at the ‘ng collar of linen or pleating of tulle, have en the place of the ruff to a certain extent, and will be likely to do so entirely as the spring advances. The style is much more becoming: uated towards the front, and lined with astand- | than the ruff, does not lay so closely or so op- Pressively to the throat, and is therefore not so objectionable in warm weather. So long as the fraise is worn in wny form just | #0 long the globular earrings, which do ‘mot catch in the lace or muslin, will be worn. It may be remarked, however, that when the standing fraise and puff Ro out, they will go. too; so it is not worth while for ladies to pur- | chase them except in inexpensive kinds. The fashion of #anging the watch from the belt has given rise to another, which is to en close the works in & very thick case of q instead of gold, and suspend it from silver chain held by asilver fil clasp. The thick- ening the crystal gives the watches a globular pearance, and quite recently crystal earrings ve been made which match them in appear- ance in every respect, even to the tiny face of the watch. Juyxy June. ———Sa » Empty Pillory. ‘The time is at hand to hold men to account Who publish such paragraphs as the following, | which we take from the New York Tribune of Thursday “It is reported, on what appears to be authority, that the Washington Board ot Pablic Works are engaged in manufacturing contracts to cover a large portion of their recent expendi- tures which are alleged to have been made with- out any formal contracts. The in ng committee so | called for all the contracts made by the board for street improvements, il is of course necessary that something shall be pro- duced to show it the miliions of dollars spent by the board have been paid out under forms of aw. If the committee had called for the imme- ‘Mate production of the contracts, the ring would have been greatly embarrassed.”” What authority have two or three persons, without property or record, or anything stable to be their mdorsement, to begin a telegraph dispatch with as many inuendoes as the above contains? First, they say “it is reported.” How? By a liar? By a traducer of the virtue of women? By some one of the many footpads who go aj aud down the Avenue constraing thelr inidelt thes into facts? Again, “‘it is reported upon what appears to be good authority.” Appears to whom? Why should good authority be apparently -‘good thority?” Why not authority, and sach thority as @ man would risk bis reputatio upon? Bat what is reported upon what ‘ to be good authority? That the Board of Pu. lic Works are ‘manufacturing contracts.” The Board of Public Works is composed of just five persons—Mesers. Shepherd, Willard, Magruder, Cluss, and Biake. Which mau on this list is capable of committing forgery, or, what is the sane thing, contriving a case with the signa- ture attached the proof of the perpetration of which would send any one of the penitentiary’ Is Governor Si ¢ has built about one thousand houses in this District in the past my: years. and bis annual rents are said to be £10,000 a . If so, men who meet bim from day to day want their eyes opened. a Henry A. Willard engaged i ny contracts—a man who bas resided in thi trict since Taylor's administration, and whose to the the man’? character which used to conduct it? Is James A. Magruder the man, whose ances. Is Adolf Cluss the man in manufac- turing contracts, & person twenty years resi-~ | den: .. "2 City, audall the time in productive a? . John B. Blake is the “TRS, whose people of Wi n. Again, the above five men are manufacturi: these contracts *‘to cover a large of that recent nditures which are to have been made.” All by whom? ‘the slan- derer who alleged it get the same fare from the aouasooer man as the slandered. Would it porsible in any other than the newspaper mam wh pg Apne five ——y men of on wi! Sas by w! &ppears to be thority whi ‘alleges?’ And yet, the yor = a Cagatches jy hag te’ ren, perbaps, and may some day find how it Is to be defamed before the world, evel At this point the Bohemians of the Tribune Crop what ls reported on what ap wo be good authority which alleges, give own explanation. “It is of course necessary that something shall be produced,” they say. Is this a manly, chivalrous imputation to come from Ung en with a college diploma’ Does iit