Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1874, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED BAILY, Sundays Exeepted, AT THE S8ST18 BUILDINGS, Pennsylvania Avenue, Cer. ith St. ay THE EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY, 8. H. RAUPFRINN, Prevt. ——_ + He@ STAR ts served by carriers to THK EVEN carrtere to ar bebribere at Tan Cevrs Pex Waee, Forty pork Cuxts PER ‘Dopies at the TH. Two Orxts cach. maii—three months, eo ws months, $3.00; one —o oe | LY STAR—Pudlisned Friday—@1% | a FE SP Tavariatly im advance, iu Doth case", and Bo paper sent longer than paid for. BF Eaten, € atvertizing furnished on “pplication. wees ee ene oer MUSEMENTS. ORD > | ERA HOUSE. TO-NIGH © AND SATURDAY MATINES. Fam: t ON-<ay S3XTON, 1, Comrcal, M a, ara- < > i cendary. Im rom Ob Dierens’ story of that ta 1 salon-Rayaor Family, inwoih wilt bs please ail ages aud tastes, com FAROE, Lmso0 roe Aad By LITTLE FOLKS Monday nest, Kati \y aSHINGT wast s A New Sensational Drama New Variety Stars MARRY Cerrone OPEHA,DESM® oe * s BOK BSLUET, om SNTAL MUSI", a Capra: Baron. MATINEE SATURDAY. marist Putoam. HARRY CLIFF HORRY CLIFFOR HAKRY CLIFF URD In J. J. Ctoskey’s Sensations! Drama, in 3 acts, LIF® OR DEATH L‘BR OR DEATH Lifts OR DEATH Livé OK DSATH ROBERT NICKLE. ‘The Great Wiraru ol the W TOMMY WINNETTE. LOTIIE WINNETTE, Movs. DU VEBNI J. W. SHARPLY, te : Musical W er. OTTO BUBBANK, HAKBY HART. SuHN BH. CAkL, _. WALTER BES SHEFFER AND NEL3UN, antifal Dram Song and Dance Mar Lady Jig.Dazcer rtionist. Mead SEDWA FAMILY | | | | datres would allow. | of the Ind | gent ior examinat | day, the sender having already detected it. marl6-cf i GEC GREENWOOD MAS. SARAH Ff. AMES, x KECIITATIONS AND PERSONATIONS At LINCOLN HALL, FRIDAY EVENING, MABOH 20, 107), At So'ctoex Theft tons ia¢ 1 é reserved seats, Bilis & Co.'s masic store. ATIONAL THEATER. MONDAY. March 16, d Une Mati A. SUTHE OUR ff ay, AMERICAN | t prevtons ¢ RYN. 1x, SOTHERN As DAY. Lora FRIDAY—bENFRIT—DAVID GAKBICK, SATURDAY Last A 2 o'eLrcn. ONLY SOTHERN MATINEE, LORD LUNDREARY. Bale of seats will commence on Tu s, where seats may be Performances. LNo )Uu Exbibition and Sale) New pe 5 at Pte — MARKRITER’S, N ‘ween D and & «treeta, eight 439 7th street, b be Udd Fellows? Hsll, Choice OM Pa'n'inzs, Soeravings, Chromos, ke. A I & Paper Hang oes, Window Shae ames, Pictare Cords and Tas- ta the Distric br Name and Namber. jel-15* "A LL KINDS OF CAST.OFF WEARING AP PABEL can be wold t gor calling oa a adaree Dstreett between 6th and Notes by mai! p t ib fant Bor. P. N. LYN lest. . C.y will NCH. D. D., Bishe lecture at St. Alogsius SUNDAY EVENING, March 221, at So’clock p. m. st. ALOYSIUS ERADING RUUM ASSOOIA ‘ T . 0 cents; to be had at Ellis’ Masic Sto: 6 o's Gatreet, B A. SCIENTIFIC COCRSE. PROCTOR'’S LECTURES ON ASTRONOMY! TEE SALE OF SEATS FOR THE COURSE is pow open at BALLANTYNE’S BUOESTORE. BESEVED SEATS, four Lectures. $2.50 Prof. J©S. MENRY will preside. marl-st NEW! STYLISH! ATTRACTIVE! FRESH AND NOBE “OUR CUSTOM DEPARTMENT.” FIRST OPENING OF FINE SPRING WOOLENS, FERNCH, ENGLISH, SCOTCH AND CEEMAN cCvaTiyes, TEOWS BEINGS, SUITINGS, WHICH, WITH OUB SUPEBIOR MERCHANT TAILOKING FACILITIES, WE ABE MANUFACTURING TO ORDER IN UNEXCELLED STYLE, FIT AND FINISH. Examine Our Stock. SF This Department is in charge of Mr. DANIEL ¥. KEYWORTH, « skillfol and artistic Cutter, Sately connected with one of the principal Merchant ‘Tailoring Establicumeste of Union Square, New York City. BABLE BROTHERS. MERCHANT TAILORS € FINE CLOTHIERS fets8-tr Corner 7th and D Streets. ac CANDY NCFACTORY special attention of the public and dealers Eoerally 1» called to the fact that the undersizaed constantly manufacturing apd always has on Saad ‘& most varied and seleat stock of the finest PURE FRENCH tured on the prom 'BUITS, NUTS, etc., which he is disposi of at remarkably low figures, both et wholesale and retail, A. CAVAGNARY, £99 Pennsyivanie avenue mar8-6m: Under National Hotel DATE DE Folk I TURBOT 41 BUILE!” BALICOTs VE; ASPERGES Washington News and Gossip. | InTeRwWAt Revenve.—Thereceipta from this | source to-day were $524,049. ADMIRAL PoRTER is much beiter this after- | noet Tug First NationaL BANK of this city is now paying a dividend of 20 per cent. Jvpes Dent is very low this afternoon. but | feeling comewhat e.tier than last night, when his death wes momentarily expects. Tue Waite Hovse was visited by the usual throng of callers to-day, and the President gave andience to as many as time and his public THE SENATE Appopriation Committee to day referred the Dill wo authorize the Secretary of the Interior to use certain unexpended bal- ances of appropriations remaining on the books n Office June 39, 1873, to Mr. Sar- d report. A COUNTERFRIT FIFTY INT NOTE of the latest series was received at the Treasury to- The imitation is by no means a good one, ant very little ecrutiny is necessary to discover that it is not a genuine note. Mr. Deww, who was recently appointed Chief Justice of Arizona, was by some mistake cred- ited to West Virginia instead of Nevada. Some ot the papers In West Virginia are taking their Senators to task for causing the appointment of a man from that state whom nobody in thestats cver heard of. Tue Howarp Court or Ingrrry.—Colonat Benet, of the Ordoance department, and Sec- ond Comptreller Broadhead were examined in the Howa:d court of inquiry yesterday. ‘The court is engaged to-lay in heating the testimony of chiets of accounting bureau of the freatury department as to the measure of re- responsibility under the laws of Congress. Tae Imuvreseron baying been made to some nt that Senator Ferry, of Michigan, is in. dividually responsible for the expulsion of the shington correspondent of the Detroit Fire. i s from the reporters’ gallery of the Senat it may be proper to state thi the result of the mittee on Rules Merrimon. ex > Com . Ferry, Hamlin and THe Sexatz Comm morning took a favorab f certain insurance companies of New York minending the continuance of the hy- Gilice in con with the Na nt. The committee agreed to report bill waking an Appropriation of s5 the service. It should be remem! he hydrograg coast survey i: tof the Navy d tee on Commerce action on a petition t and separate from artment. JUDGE Noan Davis, of New York, formeriy United States district attorney, was before th: Committee of Ways and Means this morning, und explained lis connection with the Phelps Dodge case. He denied the statement of Dis ttorney Bliss that fused to is to be further e mn the general sa'- he Senate in executive session yesterday confirmed the following nomi —Joveph H. Chandler, collector of ict Superior, Michigan; David 1 x of customs. Alexandria, Va; Edwin C. Lewis, Illinois, agent Pueblo Indian=, New Mexico; James Dumas, receiver public moneys, Spr en ag Wilmington, A Cashing, Minouk, fl; E. B. Weeks, Winona iss, Tne Arkansas JupiciaL Faavps.—The committee on expenditures of the Department of Justice at its meeting yesterday heard astate- ment from Hon. W..J. Hynes, of Arkansas, in relation to the allegations against the Judiciai officers in the western district of that state. He said he had examined the allegations, aud speak- ‘ng for the delegation from that state, he be- feved all would desire the fullest inquiry. Or his own knowledge he could not speak of the charges. On Friday the committee will ©\am- ne the detectives who worked up the cases. NAVAL Onpens.—Captain Samuel R. Frank- lin, detached from the command of the Wa- bash, and ordered to command the Franklin; Captain Edward Simpson, from command of the Franklin, and ordered to command the Wabash; Lieutenant Commander F. J. Higgin- son, from the Franklin, and ordered as execu- tive of the Dictator; Lieutenant Commander B. F. Day, from the Congress, and ordered as executive of the Shenandoah; Lieutenant Commander H. B. Iobeson, from the Dictator, and ordered to return home; Lieutenants Henry C. Hunter and Edward P. Wood, trom the Congress, and ordered to the Colorad). Lieutenants Wm. H. Parker and J. H. Dayton, from the Franklin, and ordered to the Dictator; Lieutenant Henry W. Lyon, from the Franklin, and ordered to the Colorado. PrRorosep REORGANIZATION OF THE Crs- toms Revenve Service.—The Committee on Reform in the Civil Service held a meeting to- Jay and agreed to report, with amendments, Mr. Woodford’s bill to provide for a commission ‘or the reorganization of the customs revenue -ervice of the United States. As amended the vill enacts that within ten davs after its passage the President shall, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint three commis- sioners, of whom at least one sball have been ab importing merchant, whose duty it shall be to codify, simplity and arrange all the laws of the United States and regulations of the Treas ury department with regard to the importa- tions trom foreign countries and the collection of duties thereon, for the reasonable reduction ot allowances to officials and informers, and reviaing proper safeguards in respect to seiz- ures of books and papers; that such commis- sioners shall be required to present their report to the President on or before the first day of November, ry capo hundred and seventy-fuur, tn order that he may transmit the same, with any recommendations thereon, to the present Congress at the opening of its second session; and that such commissioners shall each receive asalary at the rate of $5,000 per annum, ait shall be allowed to appoint such clerks as they may reyvuire, which said clerks shall jointiy re- ceive a compensation not exceeding $5,000. Said commissioners shall report their disburse. ments in detail, with vouchers. Axenieaw SulP-BcrLptxe.—The launching of the steamer City of Peking, which took place at Chester, Pa., yesterday was a notable event, not only in the history of the Pacitic Mail Steamship Company, for which she was built, but as marking an epoch in American ship- building. With the single exception of the Great Eastern, the new vessel is the largest merchant ship ever built, registering about 6,000 tons, and being 420 feet long, or nearly the length of the whole square between 9th 16th streets. She has tour decks, and six water tight compartments, is supplied with ali the modern appliances and conveniences known in marine copstruction, and has excellent accommoda- tions for 150 first class and 1, gers. Except her furniture, state rooms, etc., she is built entirely of iron, and is as near fire. yrootes any vessel can be, while her e: of AO horse power are warranted to drive her gg oe Sb our in moder ate weather. ¢ launching was witnessed by @ very large crowd of people, many of whom were taken to Chester in special ex cursion ‘rom city, Philadelphia, and New Yorksand wp ca jority of them were both sur; and pleased to fnd im the ship yards at that place seven other tron vegsels in the course of construction. weet = ~ City Fede, being a twin of the City of Peking, and nearly com; : also gratified to learn that the borides Messrs. Roach & Son, maintain that iron ves: sels can be bailt a¢ cheaply in this country as in Engiand—the more extended use of improved machinery here fully off setting the lower price of Isbor and material in Great Britain. We hope this will be found true as a matter of fact, demonstrated by experience, as well as in theo- ry, aod that in alittie time that amd: long depressed willrecover and even surpass ite former ed guests from this city included a Senators and Representatives, with other bigh government officials, aud ae geek many represet, tatives of the press, all of go Dotonly the occasion which called them out, but the gvt it gave them into the pres- condition and 4" ible future prospects of obe of our mest impor fant industrial interests. District Affairs in Congress. POSTM AST: GEORGE BRILL OP POSING THE CON- SOLIDATION OF WASHINGTON AND GRORGE- Tows. The House Committee on the District of Co- lumbia held a regular weekly meeting this ) morning. Major George Hill, postmaster of | Georgetown, appeared before the committee and made a few remarks in opposition to the Dill for extending the 'mits of Washington to take in Georgetown. He objected to the bill, he said, mainly because uuder its provisions ali of the county above Georgetowa is exclu ted, whereas he believes that # part of the lower portion ef the county adjacent to that city ought to be embraced in consolidating the two cities; in fact, that the new northern boun lary line should pass in a straight line across Rock creek to what is known as the old King road. Lhe committee postponed the fnrther consider- ation of the subject until the next meeting. WHAT THE ROARD OF HEALTH WANTS. Drs. Bliss ard Verdi and Mr. Langston, of th Board of Health, were before the committee in reference to the proposed appropriation by Congress forthe board. Dr. Bliss stated that a sub-committee of the District Committee hat visited the board, and bad been turnished with information touching expenditures. He also said that the boasd desired to submit for the consideration ot the committee an amendment to the organic act creating the present District government, which will give the board anthor- ity to establish qnarantine regulations and con- trol over all interments. The committee being pressed for time, as to-morrow is“ Iistrietday” m the House, suggested that the board have their proposed amendment introduced in the House and referred to the District Committee for action at a future MEE Drs. Bliss and Verdi and Mr. Langston were also before the House Committee on Appropri- ations this morning, in behalf of the reque=t the board fer an approprtation of $6,000. The | committee will take no action until they hear | from the District Committee, which was re. quested to make a recommendation in the mat- ter. THE FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH. The Speaker laid betore the House to-day a communication from the Secretary of War, in reply to a letter of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, asking his views on House bill 1574 to ard in the construction of a fire alarm telegraph in the Districtof Colam- bia,” and transmitting « report of the Quarter- | master General, and accompanying communi cations from the superintendent of the existing hre alarm telegraph in this city upon the sub- ject. In his communication Gen. Meigs recon mends that the bill (which appropriates =45.000) be favorably reported to the House He describes the present fire alarm telegraph as almost worthless. He says the boxes are of an- t'queand obsolete onstruction and interfere with each other. If the crank handle is not turned slowly and deliberately It will not write a legible message. If any other box in the vicinity is worked at the same time the two write interfering me; sages. which are then illegible. He thinks tife old apparatuy should be replaced, and that at least one hundred boxes are necessary in the city, not incinding boxes which should be placed on the public buildings. Superintend ent Miles, of the fire alarm telegraph of thie city, In a communication to General Meigs, oints out the defects in the present fire alarm, avd makes many suggestions in reference t) | the proposed new apparatus. Waenr . March 18, 1874 Fprtor oF Stan—ir: Your last issue has a statement to the effect that Charles Sumner once remsed a few franks to a soldier, on the ground that it wouid be unlawful todoso. A friend of mine tells me that he has received franks trom Mr. Sumner. { am a great admirer of the great Senator, now deceased, but I also beheve that virtue ehould be attributed to a person only as it belongs to bim. “Justice.” or THE MARYLAND Leorsna » Senate yesterday sustained Gov e"s veto of the Frederick City Su company’s bill of incorporation, ernoe Groc per-Phospha: and the House sustained the veto of a similar bill incorporating the Farmers’ Manufacturing Company of New Market. The unconstitn- tionality of special logistat on was the ground of both vetoes. Favorable report was made in the Ser ate on a preiiminary bill to amend the con- t ution and prevent members of the Legisla and Governors of Maryland from being ected to any other office by the Legislature ing their terms of office. The immigration bills of arie and Stevens were both practically ted, The House passed the ollowing bills which go to the Senate: Amend ing the election law so that one judge of elec- tion shall always be of a different political party rom the appointing commissioners; increasiny police captains’ pay from $22 to $30; to enable liens to hold and dispose of real estate the ~ame as citizens. Several other bills were passed —Balt. Sun tind A CHALLENGE TO THE KuNwING Horses or TRE WorRLp.—Mr. mores Treat of California, the owner of the well-known horse Thad: Stevens, offers to match him against any other horse, mare, or gelding, im the world, for a race of four miles and repeat, to rule, for ten thousand dollars in gold coin. Mr Treat also offers to match @ horse of his, which he does not name, for five thousand dollars again-+ twenty-five thousand dollars that he will beat the best recorded time ever made in the United States by any ranning horse, torule, from ene mile to four miles, the party accepting this pro position to name the length of race to be ran, ComPLete VoTr or New Hamesuire.—The Concord (N. H.) Monitor, of Monday, gives the statement of the full vote of New Hampehire, and says: These returns show that Weston Jacks 660 votes of an election, a majority over ail the other candidates being required to elect in New Hampshire. The complete returns for representatives show that the House will con- tain 16T republicans and 174 democrats, one member elected by the probibitionists being in this statement classed with the renablicans. DESPERATE AND FATAL FIGHT BETWEEN Roppgrs anp Derectives.—A special to the St. Louis Democrat from Sedalia says reports have reached there that the notorious Younger brothers, who are supposed to have been en- gaged in the Iowa railroad train robbery some months ago, were attacked yesterday at Mone- gar Springs, St. Clair county, in that state, by & party of detectives, and a desperate conilict ensued, in which the Younger brothers and two detectives were killed. Commun BangreT AND BALL IN } York.—The French residents of New York o ebrated last evening the third anniversary of the uprising of the Pariscommane by a ban- quet and ball. There was a large attendance, and among the invited guests were the work. ingmcn’s committee of safety. Addresses were delivered in French and English appropriate to the occasion. The proceeds were devoted to the widows and orphans of the commune. Outver Cuartick’s Linen Surt.—Police Commissioner Oliver Charlick, of New York, brought suit against the Evening Post tor $50,000 damages for alleged libel. The defense put in @ demurrer that the article complained of was no libel. Judge Kobinson has overruled the demurrer, on the ground that there were no facts alleged in support of it, but gave de- fendants ter days to amend the order. ASuanr Answer.—A saloon keeper in one of the towns where the woman's whisky war is raging, made a center shot whenhe replied toa Jady who asked him why he kept his window glazed and a screen in front of the door, that it was to“‘hide the temperance men when they came in for a drink.’ Dr. Paci Scuogrre was arrested in Balti- more yesterday, on the charge of being a com- mon swindler. Numerous pers, including several railroad , were found on his per- son, all bearing the name of .J. P. Schulenberg. The accused was committed for the action of the grand jury. Fate or awn Opium Earer.—Mra. Angie Warner, of Nashua, N. H., who was trying to break herself of the habit of eating opium, was overcome by her appetite on Tuesday, and. swallowed a large quantity the eftects of which she died. ENAMELLED BY DratH.—A body recently ex- humed at Bangor, Maine, was found to be en- cased in a marble-like enamel, Hoge oe out- wi line of the body perfectly, eighteen pounds more than when Tanleds ave years ago. MaTT MorGax is engaged upon a colossal historical painting representing the last hours of alate, Charles ia. All the figures 4 trod are portrait uished men. will be exhibited at the Cotas Tre Hon. Wittiam M. EVARTS bas accept- ed an ectanen of the alu: ni Cecrgegee linn) — ‘tmouth artee liver @ eulogy on C} ase at the next commence ‘S2-Engaged for the next set—Hens. SF The Misses Smith proposea to offer their ballots on election d day in Gomnectiont’ ‘S7-Staniey writes to the Londen that after a careful investigation be 1s com vinced that Lr. Livingstone isdead. of laudanum from THE DISTRICT INVESTIGATION. The Joint Committee Agree Upon a Pian of Proceeding. The Joint Select Congressional Committee to inquire into the affairs of the District of Co- jumbia met yesterday at 10:30 o’clock a. m., Senator Allison in the chair, aud all the mem- bers present, except Mr. Jewett. ANSWER Tp MR. HARRINGTON’S MOTION. Mr. Wilson offered the following preamble and resotutions: ‘Whereas the counsel for the District gov- ernment have submitted to the committee the following motion: *:First. That the memorial- ists be required forthwith to formulate and pre- sent all their charges, and to submit the proof in support thereof.” “Second. That said charges when made shail be sutficiently clear and distinct to advise the defendants of what they are fto answer, and the charges shall be subscribed and indorsea by some responsible person or persons.” Therefore Resolved, first, That it is the judge ment of this committee that the memorialists having called for this investigation shou! within a reasonable time point out to the com mittee with reasonable certainty by written charges and specifications the grievances of which they complain and which they desire to have investigated; but, the committee having heen charged with certain daties by the resol: tion of the Senate and House of Representatives will not be restricted in this investigation to such charges and specifications as the memorial- ists may Choose to submit, but will take sucl: action and send for such persons and papers a+ may be necessary and proper to secure a thorough and impartial investigation of all the matters embraced in the said resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives. Kesolvced, second, That no signatures other than those of counsel for the memorialists to the charges and specifications that may be sabmit- ted will be required by the committee ‘The resolutions were read and unanimously adopted. YROGRAMME OF THE COMMITTEE. Mr. Bass offered the following resolution: Resolved, That atter the conclusion of the investigation as to the common schools, as heretofore directed, until otherwise ordere, the committee will in the first instance proces to the investigation of the charges and speciti cations presented and to be presented by th memorialists. The resolution was read and unanimously adopted. ANSWER TO THE MOTION OF COUNSEL FOR THE MEMORIALISTS. In the matter of the motion of counsel for memorialists asking for a subpana duces tecum, the committee make the following ruling As no subpiena, either for a witness oF duces tecum, can be issued without the order of the committee, it follows that the committee, on an application for a subpoena duces lecum, must deelde whether a sufficient ground, ‘prima acie, exists for the issuance of the subp«ns, the decision not to conclude the committee on the ultimate question, should it be presented, whether the production of the paper asked for should be enforced, on an application for a sub- bona duces tecum an affidavit of some person or professional statement of cowasel, in writing, should be filed averring to the best of his knowledge, intormation or belief. The exist- enge of such paper, and showing that it is material evidence in the imvestigation with which the committee is charged, aud then the committee will decide, or such tacts ought to appear in the docpmentary, written or oral testimony now before or tha’ may come before the committee. Tuat the description of a paper or papers, should be as specific a= the nature of the case will admit, to be determined in each case upon the showing in such case. That, treating as a professional statement the charges and specifi- cations signed by counsel and filed with the committee, the committee are of the opinion that a prima facie case 1s made for the issuance of subpona duces tecum for the production of the papers of which exhibits ‘Band C,” an- nexed to said charge and specifications, pur- port to be copies, but decline to 1saue such sub- benas for the production of the other papers asked for, until a proper foundation be laid tor ne same. This ruling is not to be understood 48 applying to any order for the production ot public records or official papers or any other vaper that the committee of its own motion say for sutticient cause, order to be produced Ali the members of the committee presext con urred in the above opinion. To-day's Session. The committee resumod its session this morn- ng, all the members being present except Messrs. Buss, Hamilton and Jewett. The ournal of yesterday, as printed above, wa: ead and approved. Mr. Allison said that hereafter the committee vould meet at 10a. m. and sit to 12, and then ake a recess until 2 p. m., aud from that hour snl .t pleased the members to adjourn. Mr, Allison said that he had eeu instracted ny the committee to ask the counsel for the ponies sts to file their specific charges at an varly day. Mr. Christie said they would file the same on Monday next. Mr. Allison alzo announced that the commit- tee would not allow arguments on either side 1s to the relevancy of testimony unless the committee asked for the same. Tiis, he said, was done to save time. In reply to a question by Mr. Stanton, the -bairman stated that the committee understood that counsel for the memorialists appeared for all the memorialists. Mr. Thurman asked how much time the vounee] for the District desired to tile an an- swer to the charge already made. Mr. Harrington.—We can be ready to-morrow morning. Mr. Allison._The committee desire to say that, in order to economize time, they will not ~ummon witnesses from a distant city, unless be shown to the full satisfaction of the members that the attendance ot such witnesses is abso- atel ceiettoa Sustain some speciiication which couldn't done otherwise. A LETTER FROM MR. ZALMON RIORARDS was read, asking to be excused, stating that he had other arrangements to-day, and that in regard to the school fund he would have to refer to books in the auditor's office not now in his possession. He stated that a Mr. Mackenzie, now in tke auditor's office, could answer every question bearing on the subject as intelligently «8 he could. Gov. Shepherd said he would send tor Mr. Makenzie without a summons from the com- mittee. THE OVERDRAFT OF THE SCHOOL FUND. Mr. Stanton made an explanation with refer- ence to the overdraft of the school fund, in which he stated that the trust fund bonds did not apply to public schools at all. Mr. Thorman.—Is there anything in the or- ganic act or acts ot Congress which required the new District government to assume the obliga tions of the old corporation? Mr. Stanton.—Yes, sir; {t will be found in a legislative act, and the means provided for the payment; the levy is never to exceed 2 pet cent.; the taxon account of the old debt has not been levied at 2 per cent. in Georgetown or in the county; something leas than 2 per cent. was levied. Mr. Stanton explained at length the system of funding the debts of the old corporation and the assumption by the new District government of the obligations of the o'd government. He said that out of the revenues levied for school purposes the schools have received their full proportion and tril grea in excess. I don’t mean more than proyided for by law, but more than its proportion compared with other funds. The excess, $173,000, went into the general fund and was appropriated th m by an act of the District Legislature. The loan in New York was made fore the bonds were obtained, which were subsequently put "ee security for the loan. Mr. Stanton called attention of the committee to the fact that.after the war whole bodies of ripated freedmen flocked to Washington, and that only 31 per cent. of the pupils of the schools were children ot tax-pay- ere, He hoped the committee, in addition investigating the District government, would also recommend aid for school Mr. Thurman.—I think the suggestion a good —— the committee may take cognizance o m taxes for 18t15 as 0, air. __Mr. Wilson, Superintendent of Public Schools, in reply to a question by Mr. Wilson of the com. ee mee that it Aira to .. for ool furniture a piction of a ne school bu fing. ea PLEA OF NOT . Mr. ‘Thurman ‘asked ‘Mr. Harrin Distriet_ government ir the Proposed to answer the They were not compelled to answer, but for their own comfort and ease he thought it b-tter that they should. He did not see why a man indicted for murder, coulda not plead thereto, until anotber one of arson was joined with it He also wished all to understand that the com- mittee was not a criminal court, and the sooner that impression was dispelled it wonld be the better. The committee is a committee of Con- gry investigating generally charges of alleged f aud. TRE CONTROLLER ANNIBILATES TEST. MONY. Mr. Stanton filed with the committee a state: ment of the Controller showing the app'ication of school funds since the new District govern: ment came into power. Also, a letter trom the Controller showing that the money raised bx Syphax on account uf colored schools war ly reimbursed, the bank advancing the SYPHAX’s the committee AFTER RECESS ittee reassembled ten minutes past two o'clock. A letter was read from Controlier Baker, stating that there were no claims aginst th old corporation for the building of school- houses, except a claim of Hant & Williams for $10,000 for work claimed to have been done beyond their contract. ‘The committee waited some time for Mr. Wm Ballantyne, who had been requested to attend asa witness, when @ suppeona was directed to issue for his appearance to-morrow morning at ten o’clock. MR. RALLANTYNE BX AMINED. Subsequently, at hal t two o'cloek, Mr. allantyne appeared as SWOT and ¥xam ined. Q. We tind among the District files a bill of yours against the trustees of public schools in 1:3, for furniture; state the circam stances of that bill. A. The trastees came to me te consult about furniture before the school building was completed. The positive order was iven after Governor Cooke came into power. f bad a verbal understanding with the trustees of pudhe seboo! old holding under the government. Governor Cooke signed final order im the spring of 1 The furniture was all made before the tinal or- der was given. I act simply as agent for the manutacturer of school furniture. He furnishes me the goods at factory prices, and pays me a commission of 5 per cent.; the furniture was manufactured in Boston anil Philaeelphia; the prices charged are net manufacturers’ prices, and were bought cheaper than they could be bought to-day. @—Who gave you the verbal order for the furniture? A.—The sub-board ot the ith schoo! district. On that order I ordered which was nearly completed whe tinal order from Governor Cooke; th 1 furnished to schools was usually order. | obtained a final order from Governor Cooke, on account of the change of the form of government. At twenty minutes of three o'clock the com mittee adjourned until 10 a. m. to-morrow. “Am Awfal Horror—Woman Buried Alive: WILL NOT SOMBRODY HANG SOMERODY POR SUCH TOU-PREQUENT MURDER ? Esitor Star: For is there a more ewtul, cold- bicoded, unprovoked and avaricious (else crim inally careless) class of murder? And all for why Only to get rid’of the troublesome, time-con- ming, and mayhap pecuniarily expensive “‘corpse-watch.” “Or because—the remaining head or beads of the tamily being helpless from grie—the good neighbors (for neighbors are good in that hour of agony, and do mean for he best,) they must be doing something, sen- sible or foolish, to evince their sympathy; bat to sit still, wait, watch, and hope against hope, is in their zealous, though murky minds, to be but drones, idlers, loafers. Aud they ‘are right—provided the patient be really dead. But who ts to say when # body is really dead— soul actually town? Not the family: for wha’ of reason they may possess is more or less un- hinged. Not the watchers; for most probably they have no reason in the premises. And not the physician; for he is only a book-stufted man, and man, in this awful sense, is but an ass. None of these are experts in the awful * Hicoro- phantos Thanatos"—the reading of death—the best evidence whereof lies in the ever and oft- recurring fact that family, friends, and physi cians do ‘consign the entranced living to the auutterable horrors of the ttid vault or the heayy grave. Each of us knows of hundreds of ceses Wherein the appalling error was discovered in ume to eave lite; and of hundreds where the error was not discovered in such time, while delvers among old graves are so accustomed to ixdimg reversed and writhed bodies or bones that they cease to marvel at or speak of it; while only the Omniscient knoweth of the mil liens other such—thus murdered. Notevena tragic Rachel can conceive the terrific horror rhe Inexpressible agony of the weakest bodied and dullest mindel such victim upon waking from trance, deprived of air, light, liberty, life, home and hope. But a few weeks ago ali read- ers who think on what they read (and, alas, how few they are) were paralyzed with horror at the awful story of that widow out west whose on! child had apparently died. Her “dear friends” (“d—d good-natured friends”) -were, as usual, in haste to bury the little darling. But the woe-strickeu mother wildly protested the child was not dead. They knew better, though; for they were sane,—she insane. True’ the babe though generally pallid, never caday- erous, was faintly rosy at tines; its skin always soit and limbs flexible; and true the mother only begged to keep it until it might begin to mortity. But they insisted and she still refused. So the worthy Doctor Sangrado Dogberry, the coroner, was cailed in; and they, the friends, together with him, the law, wrenched the fair young form, vt ft armis stultis, trom the frantic mother. Then broke her mighty heart, and she died there a maniac. The babe was retained to bury both together; at the grave-side the babe smilingly awoke; the friends kindly ree frained f:om buryii g it then; and God, the law, = Judge Lynch jets them and that coroner live. And now, to-day and yesterday, under the caption quoted, we read of a similar horror. Martba, the wife of Anthony Cog: » of Chapmansville, nar Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America, (not in india or Cathay some twenty thousand years ago, but here, in the “enlighted” nineteenth centu is take: band is and ph ician (perhaps that same Docto: berry) are there; and they bury her. Kindly they*‘hurry up the job,” either to spare the husband any trouble in the matter and the pain of seeing her 80; ie off junketing. Con- siderate soule! Still ignorant of his loss, he reenters his gate with fond arms wide-spread to clasp his loved one; only to close them ghastly on that awfal vacaum, the death-news. Wildered with a grief-pain which none save the strong man who loved his wife can ever know, he rushes in doors to clasp and kiss her clay. Grief upon grief, she is not there!” Too wild to curse them for their cruel kindness, be frantically rasbes tottering to the graveyard, and with an awful majesty of grief, which even the gods obey, he makes them an_ earth her. But, whatasight! Black, fowtid mortification had been E) what he saw. Her fair form distorted, turned over in the strained and gory cot- fin; her cerements in shreds; her beautiful hair plucked out; her slim hands she ers all red, The utmost that poor woman had suffered ere she died; for she was sure enough dead thistime. And her hue} ieking maniac, across that band fell, a Her murderers live on; and God’s hghtnin, rest in the quiver of the — shot ngs goon ure tells the people,” permit these untiliwe, too, are similarly murdered? bow then are we to surely know when a really regen = a Professor Oxygen SENATE. on Pensions, reported adversely on a private bill to pay arrears of pensions. He ssid that been to to pay of pensions, for the precedent once entail a draft upon the Treasury of several millions, He understood there was a general bill from the House upon this subject already upon the table, and if it was to de done it should be by general bill. Mr. Spencer, from the Committee on Com- merce, reported House bill appropriating the ~am of 530,000 for the improvement of the month of the Mississippi, and asked its immedi ate consideration, but the bill was objected to, snd went over. Mr. Dennis called up the House bill to in- tease the number of sea's allowad to be killed sunually on the islands of St.Paul and St iegree. Passed. r. Chandler called up bill to authorize the *ppointment of certain aliens as engineers and pilots. Passed. Mr. Hager introduced bills ia reference to cor- ain land boundaries in the state of tornia Reterred to Committee on Private Lands Claims. Mr. Jones submitted a resolution instracting the Committee on Public Lands toenqtire a ‘0 the expediency of ordering a survey of the Colorado desert, and to provide for tae submer nofthesame. Agreed to. Mr. Buckingham submitt recting the Secretary of the 4 list of all Indians taken captive or killed dar- ng the year 1573, and the first six months of ist4, and all information regarding the same, and also the number of white people killed or taken captive during the same period by the Indians, to be sent in next session. Adopted. BILLS PASSED. The following bilis were passed. Houre bill amending the act to withdraw trom settlement and sale a certain section of land in Wyoming territory, approved May 23, 1572; Senate bill to tund the sum due the Trasie b: of Potto- wattomie Indians under treaty of February 2, Inti. and to transter and fund the sum dae the Citizens band of said Indians, and to use both principal and interest for the civilization of ~aid Indians; Senate bill to provide for the ap- Tairement of merchandise in cert Senate bill for the relief of Joseph ¢ Mob warchouses ‘for the storing ng of rice intended for Senate bill for the relief of E. Rogers; House bill for the relief of Willard Hove: House bill gine George M. Richard. of Pittston, Pa, trom the payment of $551.29 tor postage tampe stolen from his office while postmaster; House bill for relief of Kev. B. Fuller, of Wil- ton. Maine; Senate bill for relief of James Kk Young. The joint resolution appropriating £10,000 for the expenses of the District of Columbia inves tigation was passed. Sir. Stewart eubmitted a resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to inform the Seu ate whether any Indian agent has visited the agencies in Nevada, and to furnish the Senate with a copy of the report upon each agency; and also what Indian reservatians have been made in Nevada, and where and by whom, and at whose instance the reservation in the south- vast part of the state was made, and how many settlers were on it at the time; also, the number of agents employed In Nevada during the last ear, and the length of time each actually re. sided on his reservation. Adopted. At the expiration of the morning hour, Mr. Sherman said that he would consent that the financial discussion should be postponed until after action on the army appropriation bill. He detieved that by this arrangement the questi of the finances would more speedily be disposed of. aresolution di- nterior to farnish ancl, ot Als.; House bill to establish bonded avd cleans exportation THE ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL was then proceeded with. The second section war amended so to to the surplus fund o nded balances of appro} e of- uartermaster genera! and commis- ry general,except such amount as shall be cessary in the settlement of pending accounts. ‘be bill as it passed the House provided for the transter of ail pending war claims be tore the quartermaster general th» commissary general to the commissioners 0 claims, and that «aid commissioners should bere- atter have exclusive jurisdiction of all such ms. The Senate committee reported im tavor of striking out this clause, and inserting © clause continuing to the (Jaartermaster Genera ard the Commissary General and the Third Aa ditor of the Treasury jurisdiction of such claim as shull be brought before them under the ac of July i, 1861, aud the acts amendatory there Mr. Scott favored the recommendation of the committee, and exhibited statements to show that the comunissioncrs of claims would be ac cording to the ratio of their past progress ten vears in disposing’ of the claims now before them. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. —The House at once proceeded in the morning hour to the consideration of the bill supplementary to the act to provide for the development of the mining resources of the United States, ap- proved May 10, 182, which came over as the unfinished business of the morning hour on Tuesday At the close of the morning hour Mr. P; .) demanded the previous question, which cemand the House reiused to second. Mr. Poland, (\t.) in making arrangements fer the engrossment of the revised code, an- nounced that the consideration of the bill was nearly concluded; in view of which fact he would not usk the House for @ seasion to-night. — there be @ session on next Wednesday night. on motion of Mr. Gartield, the Honse then etore going into committce, the Speaker laid before the House a number of executive communications, not, however, of genera! im- portance, whicn were severally referred to ap- propriate committees. In committee the pendin mendment ofiered by Mr. Hereford (W. Va.) to reduce the appro- priations for clerks of committees of the Seuate trom $25,000 to $15,000, was voted on, and the amendment was rejected. Mr. Randall (Pa.) moved to reduce the item ‘or labor for the Senate from 312,000 to $7,000, and miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, trom $25,009 to $15,000. The first amendment was withdrawn, and the second adopted. Mr. Garfield offered an amendment retacing the payof the captain of the Capitol police from $2,088 to $1,590; of the three lieutenants from $1,500 to $1,600, aud of the twenty-seven privates from #1, tw $1,200 each, which was adopied. : 202. BEECRER ON SUMNEE.—A number of New York clergymen alluded last Sunday in their pulpits to Charles Sumner. Mr. Beecher said tbat be died in the right place, though some- bat later than the right time. Had he passed y three years ago, not one ray would have been lest, abd many shadows woald have been avoided. No son nor daughter, he said, mourned beside the bier of the deceased, but tears rolled down 4 million dusky cheeks. He bad lived well. He had died weil. He joined himself to whatever was best in his time, and.now he with God. He heid official place unsullied. Once be naively remarked: Te of Wash- ington as being corrupt. 1 have lived there many years, and I have seen no corruption.” “And be had not,” said Mr. Beecher, ‘no cor- 1uption dared approach him.” Patna towed ALLEGED Mait Ronrer.— ptate n Frey, special Office de) tment, and his assistant, D- Lewis, aided by W. Baltimore, % ‘Superies Uithongh most of the paper stolen was depreciating eur- made to introduce «the carrency has So far the specie hae only gone into the ports and out again tu fu trade. The discovery of all these facts. t van letters state, bas thrown the fina: con dition of the country into a state of chaos, and destroyed the caleulstions of ail foreign mer hants trading with Hay Opening of the New British Partia me TRE yt Ren’ reecn Loxnow, March 19.—Parliament reassembled and th ead. Her efers to of triendly h foreign powers, and allades to Tring "an w of friendship between two great e- Warm praise is given to the trac € the Ashantee expedition (or the courage es ed in the campaign. bg Of the famine in Bengal the Qaven Governor General of India has boon 0 spare no cost to his efforts to mitigate 0 estimate of the ex- ig tinancial year will be submitted to the House of Commons immediate- ly. Measures will be eubmitted to Parliament, which it ishoped will be found calculated to do away with much delay and expense attend: the transfer of land in England. Several oe: matters are reterred to, including the working of tue act affecting the relationship between master and servant; the act dealing with offenses connected with trade and the law of conspiracy. In view of the reme made against these measures He: desires that Parliament before att fresh legislation concerning them im possession of all material facts and renditures tor the iquiry into the state and working of the laws > : A Sapbat E.vicaneta, N ast night to exy demovetration inet Sw w open and organiz aw by habitual Supported by the t of infidelity, tn ot the Christian A citizens to for sake party affiliations and pat it down. = “ - Affairs in Philadelphia A TRICAMIST PRILapetrera, March 1.—Wm. K. Chew | bas been arrested here, charged with marrying three wives—all living. rine. | | The spring factory of Ingall & Dovey was burned this morning. Loss, $55,000; iieurauce $10,000. - The Murdered Detectives St. Lovis, March 19.—It t vow stated thet the detectives kilied by tue Younger brothers tp | St. Clair county, Tuesday, belonged to « party who went from this city privately, in the hope of capturing the Gad’s Hull r vl robbers. No further partic of the affair bave been received. —__«- —- Shocking Murder of « Girl by ber Mother. Hartgorp, Ct, Maren 19.—A white woman, the wife of a colored man named Jamex Free man, living at Farmington, braine: her daugh- ter, aged 15, with an axe this morning. Jealousy was the caure. HARRIercRG ceived here Beaver, Pa. c temple, and Odd Lose $50,000; halt covered by F insurance. - : A Re=pi Aurenr, N. ¥., who Wwasty have been hanged to-morrow, has been reppited till the 24th of April, eee. Tax Nowra Ca tion Momenvarily vis ta! Liwa VoLcano—An Brup- pected.—Dispatches trom the ity of Bad Mountain, North Garoli atthe interpal noises beard in mou! ‘ain resemble those heard in Mt. Etna, before a volcanic eruption. Throughout the entire country and for # distanceof sixteen miles from the mountain, extending into sajeining coun ties, these sounds are not only heard, but the trembling and reverberation of the earth is perceptibly felt. In numerous instances, for several miles from the mountains, the glasses have rattled in the windows and the dishes have been shaken from the shelves to such an extent as to create the most widespread con: —- the rural inhabitants. This has again caused a still greater stampede of the citizens, many of whom snperstitiously regard the terri. ble symptoms as an indication of Judgment L A passenger on the western train states that it is pitiful to see the wi histicated ras. tics flying im such terror, while at the same time he believes that the cause of the stampede is not without its due foundation. The latest accounts from the disturbed moun- tain state that, so far, there nas been no vol- canic eraption of lava or fire, though the ter- rife and ipterpal rumblings, be: tance, were so great Tuesday morning as to duce the belief th veritable and volcanic outbreak had taken place. ie ex- citement throughout the entire western section of the state is intense, and many people are re- pairing to the scene in the hope of witnessing ption, tor the first timea grand volcanic OWEMENT THAT Pre bo Mvuc# Goop.. has organized in a society called the Business Women’s Mutual Benefit association. Its purpose is to provide a relief fund for cases of sickness among workingwomen; to provide a fund for small loans without interest to mem- bers in case of extreme need, and to provide means ot burial tor deceased members. The supual dues best, provided it does not ex six consec- utive weeks; £50 are appropriated for the burial expenses of a deceased member. In order that the treasury may not be exhausted by the demands of those ———s from seme tritling iliress, mo benefit is paid during the first week of sickness, nor is any paid in cases of illness arising from childbirth. Those who wish to aid the undertaking without seeking any personal return from it ate invited to be- come honorary membere, pay) pumber of other ladies are aliou as officers of the society. it seems to as an excellent undertaking, and we trust it will be entirely successful. Ligvor ow Evtcrion Day.—in the report of the proceedings of Washington county via? court, on Monday, in the Hagerstown Daily News, is found the case of the state against c ted for giving ay. Submitted to ned $50 and costs. S7 Savage saloon-keeper—*‘Let's lick her.” L ie nee meee yeany ae onbame Dill passed by @ vote of 19 to 18. Beverly Visitor aa: not mix theology with the liquor question, s7- A church in Haysvilie, Mass, gives chromos to enquirers at the mourners’ benehy i i t H bey i if 5 } g3 : Sere Sales si att