Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1874, Page 1

PUBLISHED DAILY, Sundays Exeepted, | - AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Peumsytranta Ayenns, cor 11th 4. aY YEE EVENING PTAR NFWSPAPER CORPASH, &. 8. RAUPPNANY, Preset. THE EVENING STA their subscriby rs at Tx: Forty-reca Oxets r8a Mov = served by carriers to NTs Fea WEEE, of ‘Oopios at ane counter Two € ear | 81.80; tz monshe, 93.00; THE WEEKLY STAR“ PO" pod Bridey—91.0 fyear. BF Invariably § * iy ace, im both esser,and Pe piper rent longer them vaid for, Se {USEMENTS er OPGHA BOTS MAI? GEATS. . LAST Se RO OBMANCES OF AGNES BUOEH. LADY OF uY¥ors. TO NIGHT EWo PLAYS rH non, < « hd RINE 1 by tHE MONDAY. Mert THE PARISIAN FOULY _ Natieyss THEATE* Mr J.G.sa F <e9 ant M SATURDAY. Way 9 LAST RNTEGPAIN WEN Ps Of the Far-Famed and Pop CARSCHOSS & DIXEY’S MINST MATINEE Te TO SIGHT TE At m 25, 84 Tar € ao tis Pith Aveens * SIEOR ALPHONSE, STIN DALY. 4 SACRED CONCERT Ss ° AT IKE TON SCHUETZBY PARK a af NOON Uoder the drrecti ARL BICHTER, ete wee = QO® FREE EXISITION FOK A FEW Da¥s ONLY AT WARREN CHOATE & 008, M41 Pet ossivania avenue 3 of Pars, France.com Fines, frescoes aa- be = rel, by Mithne Pup, ete masterpl ce: Angelo, the Lil +m prising over 12/0) subj ct: “Mtartinthe world, Also Br ma) E®*¥'#s BUVOTH t§ BALTIMORE “4 T WEEK. COMMENCING TUBSDAY, May 12 TUESDAY ant WKDNWSDAY—BKIUAELISC. THUKSDAY-SHYLOOK. FeRIDAY—OTHELLO SATUBDAY MATINERE-—LADY OF LYONS. SATURDAY NIGHT—SIOHARD LIE ALL, a F street, near Fourteenth. At the reqaest pf nany persons, ME. SUTRO Has consented to repeat his Leetare on MINE} AND MINING, Iiustrated by the CALOIUM LIGHT, At 8 o'clock on enings of BATURDAY, May 9, TUSSDAY, My 12. SATUBDAY, May 16 Admission free. and eretoto (BEATER com MAY 4, EVEBY NIGHT, AND TWO M(TI- BEES CHEAP P Sele) NEw No me Tru St. MARKEHITER’S, t » Wb eur hstreetes ight ings, Rogravings, Chromos, larget stock Paper Haagings, Wi Prtores. Frames, Picture Cords apd » &e., in the District. " ber Name and Number. jel-ty* LL KINDs OF CAST OFF WEABING AP. PAEEL can be sold to the very best atvantage by adares-ine or ealifog on JUSTE 619 D street, between 6th sud 7th ow, Botes by mati promptly attended to. Cash paid. f13-tf _ BALLS, &. ) On Exbibitien Br tectwven Vir amet 12044) EVENING, May 11, is7é brat.d band has been engaged Dact ho Maker, bo Fisher may 9-2 ‘PRE ARTs. LECIUR® BY BORATIO STUNE WILLARD HALL. MOBDAY EVENING. MAY 11. i574 pTBe members of the Wyrbington Art Associatten are invited eideut, Dr. ETON, to dei which has been given Beighboring States. Dr. Stone has accopted the tn- Vitation. and tne address will be delivered at Wil MONDAY EVENING, M “ be bers of the A: e.to attend. Admission free J. GOLDSBOBULGH Bau’ —————— EXCURSIONS, &e. ny USIC FUBNISHED FOR BALLS, Pic ond all Dancing purposes, b; CH RB. euce, corner ith if Ik OB CHARTER, ‘The ciegaut sod comm PILOT BOY WM. H. BYLES, A. 6 hb Steer App's to argv set FOE Caautes To £ ‘The favorite Ste PALISADE. Anrly we. H _SUSHE wed frO# CHauren The A. No 1 Steamer cooemanala EXPRESS, a jor excursions om Thursdays and Fri- Sora as bed, GE precursors om’ Phursdays and F Apply N. BR. FITZEV< Spt sel pore marie SYRUP, N.T ME maye-it HORN 'S INFSLLIBLE OINTMENT, After s trial of twenty years this ointment has Ned itee!f msure remedy for all diseases of the baving effected a radiesl care in cases of twen- years standing. Thus Brrsipsli ty ‘Tetter, tten, Barber's Itch, Salt Bheaw, Head, Pitos, Sore &, Pimples, and in fac eruption of the skin per- manentiy cured without any other remedy. Iu tes tion) of its wong: the following W ash! er Hh and Bas w. treet northwest. jet sunth west. md @ st £0: 1d. 1ih street s vutheast | uthwest. - Alexander, Jeweller. Pennsyivaat: Mr. Joseph Winfield, 916 G street sou Price 8 cents For sale by all principal Drag- siete, also at 906 D stroot southwest, where a large mumber of testimonials can be seen. A perfect care gcarantect. corner 6th ™May3 lu" DOBN YOUR PaBKS AND LAWNS Tr FOUNTAINS, Vasea TERS, Large varie Mer Warcroums jaliding, bh aod D = 9728 im MAMILTON & PEARSON. THE EVENING STAR. | Milk Leg, Bitches and Che | £ atrerticing fprnished on apptication. | TOU - 43—NE. 6,593. bening Star, WASHINGTON D. C., SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1874. TWO CENTS. | | | of commerce and some seve Washington News and Gossip, trxat Keveyre—The receipts from th’s source to-day were S675.211 98 ‘Tre Howard court of inquiry adjou-ned sine @¢ this afternoon at 3 o'clock. SECRETARY RicHARD#oN hat returned to his (ficial dutie: Prevenry department. OTEING OF House cf Rep report closed. invemesr was don> in the ntative: tecday after our Tux River anp Haxcor appropriation bit wilt be reported to the House on Monday, by Mr. Wheeler. Grex. Butizer’s coxpition is mach im- proved. To-day he rede oat, for the first time within ten days. Tex Kervstivan Senatortat Cavers yesterday aitervom on the order of busivess adjourned to meet on Monday morning, when it ts thought a decision mav be reached. It 18 PRONABLE that the Senate Comm’ on Appropr.ations, in reporting the legis! appropriat.on bill, will recoramend an inci in the salaries of the clerks of the Senate, to correspond with the amounts provided for the House clerks. TH Pastors of churches in Washington are respectfully requested by the agents of the relief contributions to take up collections in their several churches to-morrow for the relief of the softerers by floods ia the delta of the Mississippi river. Riggs & Co. receive as treasurers of the fund aud pay on draft of the mayor of New Orleans. CoLowgt Pratt's Lipgt SUIT against Com- missioner of Patents Legget, involves the idea that Mr. Townsend is associated with Colonel Piatt in the Capital. He retired absolately trom that paper in the third month of its ex'st ence,and has never had any controversy or news abeut General Leggett, with whom he is not acquainted. Masog Kicnanps, Superintendent Metro- politan Police, was examined in executive ses- sion yesterday in reference to the recent safe ro in the District Attorney's office by the Joint Special Committee estigating District Atairs, to whom the subject was referred by a resolation of the Houseof Repracentatives. He furnished the committer his report on the a'tair made to the Board of Police and swore to the truth of its statement: Repverxe tue Treastey Derartwant Force.—The Treasury department, in antici- pation of the passage of the bill reducing the number of clerks, has taken some action looking to a reduction of 360 on the Ist of Jnly. An er has been promulgated thatany clerk who ‘ voluntarily resiga may receive leayo of » alseree and full pay antil June 30. This in- ucement is not received with great alacrity by the clerks, and none have yet been heard of who intend to resign — Wash. Our. N. ¥. Tons. THE REPRESENTATIVES in this city of the two sides in the Arkansas contest are to-day attempting to effect a compromise of their difficulties. and have had a conference with the Attorney General on the subject. If they suc- ceed in their negotiations such plan as they adopt may be endorsed by the Attorney Gen -ral and rent to Little Kock as the basis of ex-ca tive se tor the case. If the att orneys in the undertaking to eff. ¥ compromise Judge Wi will decide, and thus end the matter so fa as the a'titude of the general government is con cerned. t The MENNERS of the California delegations in the Senate and House to-day received tele grame, signed by the president of the chain ver tive promin mercantile firms of San Francisco, condemn tng the resolution of the California’ legislat ar in opposition to granting an additional hal million subsidy to the Pacific mail China «+r vice. The signers of the telegraphic memoria! say the action of the legislature was suic’ tal and the resalt of temporary infatuation, « that if confirmed by Congress it would ine the loss to American shipping of a large ton of Orien‘al trade, and throw the sa ue into the hands of subsidized English lines, Tex Bravy Avrotrres.—The cons'ant crowd of people of culture, taste, and fashion at the bookstore of Warren Choate & Uo. to see the way of art 1s sure to meet with appreciation here. It is to be hop-d that @ full set of this very remarkabie and interesting collection may ba secured ‘or some public institution in this city—by the Gercoran Gallery, more particularly for the Treason that it bas all the facilities for their proper display. It we cannot have the originals of these works of art, which are retained with such jealous care by their Old World possessors, let us have the best copies extant, such as are afforded by these antotypes. We be lieve every capital and large city in Europe, xs well as New York, Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis, aud even New Haven, and sm vky Pitt-burg, in this country, have secured sets tor their art galleries. libraries, or public iusti- tutions. and the capital of the nation shonld rot be behind. The Kensington Museum, Lon- po ee government fine-art authority for Eag- a purchased twenty-tive sets fer nations! ribution, and Queen Victorias purchased sets of the Durer, Holbein, and Michael An- gelo antotypes for her private library at Wind- sor. These facts serve to show the estimation in which the Braun pictures are held by the connoisseurs of the world. wills In cases where the testator requests that security may not be exacted. This isa step in advance of the law as it now exists. But why not make the bill conform to the law upon the subject in Pennsylvania, New York, New -Jer- sey. and J presu: Of the states, whieh does not ri from an execu- a resident of the state, unless on ap- c: ef a creditor or heir, sustained by Proof that the estate would not be safe in the executor’s hands? The reason for this is obvi- . ‘The testator select some one in whom ha b @ confidence, and it i+ presumadie, if his wesbes could be ascertained, he would not desire to subject the executor to the necessity of precuring security for the faithful discharge of 2 sacréd duty. Besides, <ome people are so rensitive in reference to asking persons to be- come their bomlemen that there have been tre- quent cases of renunciation of executorship ratber than ask a friend to go apon their bonds; nd in this respect the testator’s intention is “efeated and the administration goesirto handa under the appointment of the court, whose only | interest in the execution of the will is the com- missions to be derived trom it, and not torender himself by bad administration liable under nis bord. There is none of that holy sentiment that unites a man to his friend even in hiagrave and makes him look after the trasts confided to him by the deceased with more scrupulousness than if bis friend was living to scrutiniz: bis sets. These saggestions are made with great deference simply for the consideration of our delegate, under the impression that while ne is contemplating an !mportant reform in our tes- tamer tery law it would be well to make it thor- ough. so a to remedy all of its defects in that particular feature. A Constrtusyt. Tae Steansuir Etuioria DISABLE steamship Pennsylvania, which arrived at \ York from Gi esterday. reports that Arr 29, latitude 53° 51, longitude 24° 35’, fell w cher line steamehip F: her main shaft broken. ‘The Peagei, with took on board ni 7 she parted with the direction of a ton in their route Tae Casi & Dr. Husto: ‘The tele- graph informs us that the conference of the M. F. Church south, in session at Louisville, Ky., made considerable opposition against permit ting an appsal to be taken in the case of Dr. Huston, charged with immoral! practices, trom the decision of the Baltimore conference. It was finally allowed, however, and that verdict is to be defended on bebalf of the conference by Key. Dr. Regester and Rev. A. W. Wilson. A Bangecre GoveRxon.—A petition was filed in the United States Court of Charleston, 3. C., yesterday for the lantary | owerniy ood of ¥rankiin Moses, jr., Governor of South Car- olin. ant an fejgnction was granted restricti: the sheriff of Richland county from sei zi felling his effects until the nA ss ‘of the The debts of the | GADABOUT’S COLUMN. i Written for the Evening Star] Eye-wituess. Mr. Horace White, editor of the Chicago Tribune, was here last week and went over © uticerable of the ‘mproved city. He says teat it is unqacstionably the most beautiful city & prese:t in the United States, and has done the work of thirty years in three. Hs » pproves Congress as speedily and as le. He became satistied, from conversation with public men and cog- nizapee of the evidence, that nothing more than favoritism and extravagance had been proved by the investigation, new nearly fir whed, anit spoke in the highest terms ot Mr. William G. Moore, whom he knew in the War department as a feilow-clerk, and in severe language of the worthless character of Chicago bummers who broke down the Macdonald min istry in Canada with one of their railrowd schemes, and then visited Weslington on er- rands of bribery. Mr. White apprehends that there may be a pool formed to buy up the District bonds abroad and press them upon Congress, particn- larly if our interest should be unpaid next year. But if this be so weil anticipated, why not’ prc- pare for it bya simple ‘act of propriety? Let the government pay its tare: and improvement bilsnow. We raise a certain sum per anuam on forty-five per cent. of the property,—say 2,(00,000. There is no reason in equity of sound or good example why this should not be assersed annually. The effect will be to meet all bills for interest and expenses, and give us an annual fund to continue improvements; and meantime the rise of property and increase ot buiidings and population will gradually raise the city to solvency and selt-support. If the country would be more just it would have les to investigate. Hymp, For the Roman Catholic Pilgrimage to Whitemarsh, Md , May 14, 1874. i For seventy vears our pious sires Were prisoners by their household fires, ‘The priest forbid their gates ty pass, ‘Yo preach the word and say the mass. y A Praise God our land i+ ours again! ‘The cross no more is hid from men. 2 Their private chapels meekly grew Beside the mansions of the Tew, And there they ate the mystic feast, And sheltered aye the hunted priest. All Praise God our land is ours again! ‘The cross no more is hid trow men. 3. The chalice hid beneath his gown ‘The English Father stole to town, His vestments in # beggar's sack, ‘The altar plate upon his back. Au: Praise God our land is ours again! ‘Lhe cress no more is hid trom men. 4. ‘The poor Acadians hushed their sighs, ‘The tears of exile in their eyes, And when he raised the saintly host, "Twas love again at Pentecost. Praise God our land is ours again! ‘The cross no more is hid trom men. 5. ‘The ancient planter lost his farms; ‘They took his children from his arms, Because the faith their father bore Of Gentle Lords of Baltimore. All: Praise God our land is ours again! ‘The cross no more is hid from men. Long, long the years without relax Of social spite or double tax; Our patient thousands felt the rod And Lungered fur the word of Goud. All: Praise Gew our land is ours again! ‘The crocs pO more is hid from men. Ul, © more is hid icom men. 8 But still the cross the night survived; ‘The day of liberty arrived. Forth from their nooks the clergy came, With asia a zeal and lips of tame. Praise God our land is ours again! ‘The cross no more is hid from men. 9. Their steadfast congregations rose, Like good wheat warmed below the snows; Their vanes to heaven the churches toss, Aud sparkling highest stood the cross. I: Praise God our land is ours again! ‘The cross no more is hid from men. 10. Come, brethren, come! with pilgrim feet, Around the consecrated seat, Where in the age of bondage old, The Jesuit aaa warmed the fold. All: Praise God our land is ours again! ‘The croas no more fs hid from men, il. Here tell their praises where we stand, In our own land of Maryland. Hail, Mary! Motber of our Lord! - We freemen come to bless His word. All: Praise God our land is ours again! ‘The crores no more is hid from men. Investigators Investigate d. It is time to call a halt to the waste of the public money and time in official finding out of sengations for newspapers, which have nothing to do but publish them for their own advantage. A newspaper is an interpreter of goverament, not a governor. ‘There are men who could not get one hundred votes, counting in their own Tamuly relations, who are more imperious as to the management of the realm than the simple President in the White House, or the Speaker of Congress in his chair. Of course aman has a right to all his iptuence,but he basa right alsoto the rebound of it, and when we cousider what a newspaper i#,—a quantity of capital and ma- chinery, working with and for ® commercial good-will, we may besitate about according to this Contrivauce mere potentiality than the elective good-will of the baliot-box. Nearly two years ago the country elected a Uongress to go to Washington and assess the taxes, appro- priate them, and, after passing needful measures for the President to execute, to go howe and get at their private work. B | live in times be no more Un and if you geta strong glaas you can see a bout one bundred kites over the Capitol building, of which the strings are held by editors thousands of miles away. Now they drop to business, and as the kite tlies low @ great many eminent bobs strive todo some legitimate work. Present! the editors get a new sensation, give a twitch, and behold up goes all Congress over the dome again. In short, Congress is furnishing free news to the news 5 lg as the latter demand it. At present the House of Representatives is actually investigating ‘The business of in) feature of running ae Congres ticipates his opponent by mo: an inquiry, aware that the motion wilt ‘make fim the chal! man of the investigation. Then he quite his seat in Congress dodges a voting record, and coa- gumes columns of telegraphic attention every magoguery is of brief day. This de: a, career. vest ns supported by evidence and affirms- tion belong of ht to the grand Jary; other kinds of investig: jn are mere aids to irrespon- sible slander and are directed at the central ganglion of American loyalty,—faith in our- elves and our institutions. A part of the press, ard that the most licentious, is driving this nation right into d tism, and the first act of will meet popular wish,to make t something. If to-day the Merger Grant’s renomination jnestion ‘only was currency was yours; mine In short, Congress is | ecutive has om!y to sit has made up his mind to, inorder to make the Cour try aay at least: “How ore Batisfac- y 1- Grant than thore politi ” Abose is ed vut. It wi not at this moment kill a ‘dog in the most exasp=rated vil lage. It can hardly bring marderers to justice, becanse it bas been so copiously directed upon both the evil and the good. And investigations are like Congressional inquiries into pimptes, the skin eruptions of something in the Blood, A committee sits learnedly around a pimple and observes it with @ speculum and a microscope. Finally they report the size of it amidst breath- less attention, and immediately it breaks out in two new places. The way to get rid of pimples is to take Worm medicine, and we suggest that Congress enter into contract with auy person who has subsisted for @ sufficiently long period of time upon vermifuge to apply every dir, after the chaplain’s prayer, « good round dose of Investigation vermituge to the whole bod A Poet Sixty Years Ago. Poems by Doctor John Shaw, published in 1810, isone of the queer little books I find in my Maryland collection. Shaw was bora in Annapolis, May, 1778, and tsken under the pa tronage of Francis Scott Key, of Georgetown D. C., after graduating at St. John’s colle A fine linguist and a poet without aftecta: he bega. to publish in the Baltimore Toler.) about 17%5. For a boy of seventeen this is a good bit of ode: Ruis on that miscreant fall Who would nations dare enslave ! Freedom wi A All an equal shi Sons of Freedom snetch the sword! Quick! Revenge your country’s woes! Soon shall hes.v’n your toils reward Scon the bloody scene shall close. Studying medicine with Dr. Scharf and at the *cboois ot Philadelphia, Shaw satled as a sur geen ona ship destined for the Dey of Algiers nt His correspondence is very clear and descriptive. Eaton, the consul, having offended the Bey of Tunis, Dr. Shaw was sent to the American ministers of Lisbon and London ‘Not only in my sleepless hours,” be says, * bat frequentiy in my waking reveries, my mic: ix busy In imagining my return to Annapolis. 1 seem to see the steeple of the state-house glit- tering at a distance throngh the trees, and may heart beats quicker at the sight. I quicken m; steps and behold mg friends at @ distance. advance to meet them; I stretch out my hands to salute them. The dream vanishes, and stead of the borders of the Chesapeake, I be- hold the rock of Gibraltar and the blue waves of the Mediteranean,” In 1801, Shaw, who was of a truant, visionary nature, sailed from Alexandria to Glasgow, and thence returned to Canada West with Lord Sel- kirk’s colony. Marrying at Ann tied in Baltimore, but was taken ton and died on shipbeard near the Balan islands, in 1869. His poems indicate a clasicai taste, strong local attachment, and # little mel- ancboly. Here is one: From rich Patapsco’s yellow wave ‘The issuing fleets may press the ocean, And blue Potomac’s banks may crave For their loved hero dae devotion. But dearer, far, to me the groves Which to the breeze of Severn tremble; Where morn, when tirst abroad she roves, Sees charms which her's do ill resemols. And dearer, far, yon poplar shade, By Severn's silver wave rettecte Where in my youth 1 careless played, With spirits gay and uncorrected. And love there roves with timid cy, Oit secret, side-long glances steallug; And prompting oft the sudden sigh, ‘The tarovbing bosom thus revealing. Drive to the Pataxent. Last week, with my steed Mastodon, 1 drove between noon and early dark, from Washington to Hill's bridge, on the Patuxent river, east of Marlborough, and back, a distance, I should think, of forty miles,or more. ‘This is one ot the best roads in all the country, made of loam and ery smooth and generally of an equal grade, without steep cents. The Patuxent is the longest river whoily within tas state of Maryland, rising within @ few rods ! the sources of the Patapses *nd Monocacy. it flows about ninety miles, and for most of tha distance is paralicl with the Chesapea' bay. which, at Hill's bridge, is only seven or at miles to the east of it. I could Hiaye gona, ia tu. time required to return to Wishington, eith» to West river or South river, where the splend.d salt water terrapins are ootained for the mar- ket, and have been within sight of Kent istant and the Eastern snore. Thus, close around us, are hundreds of pleasant places which, regard 3d on the may, seem handrede of sons A our reach. “The Patuxen: is navigal bridge, which I presame to be about fifty miles ‘rom the mouth of the river. At this spot it isa rather sluggish and crooked stream, flowing through a fertile sweep of country, with grad a= ally ascending banks which rise to high gray and blue ridges. Thistiver is remarkable tor the narrow gorge through which it flows until near its mouth, when it suddenly widens to be quite a bay. In old days its lower land ngs bad celebrity.” Not far from its banke stood Char- lotte Hall, one of the oldest institutions ot learning in the state. Nottingham and Benedict were places celebrated by the British occupation of 1814. Lower Marlbor- ough and Upper Marlborough, which are apout fifteen miles apart, were both named for the hero of Queen Ann and the victor of Blenheim. Upper Mariborough has an old celebrity. It was the school of law for Reverdy Jounson and Chief Justice Taney, and the latter used to hunt foxes all over this region. A citizen of this place was captured by the British fora vio lation of a truce in 1514, and, seeking to rescae him from the British fleet, Francis Scott Ky was carried to Baltimore, and 80 wrote the “Star Spangled Banner.’ West of this rive, near Benedict, General James Wilkinson was born, who arranged the capitulation of Bi joyne to Gates, received Louisiana from the pavish, and finally diea in the city of Mexico, while attempting to anticipate Moses Austin in the colonization of Texas. This country is now permeated with # steam railroad. which ap- proaches within two miles of the Patuxent at Mar!borough, and then bending off to the west strikes the Potomac at Pope’s Ureek. Tue country edifices are generally plain houses of frame, with heavy outside gable chimneys. The best residences we saw were those of the Hill temilies, old English Catholics, and at the houss of William Hill, the private grave yard was in- teresting trom the age and respectability of the tombs. Marlborough i mewhat pictures but struggling and decasing place, without » jectsof interest and the people shake drewt- fully in the fall of the year with the agae. Hit or Miss. A correspondent of the Pittsburg Leader t: halt a column to prove Gacabout no poet. Th is the position taken by that gentleman's fam- ily. When we read our poetry aloud, there ix melancholy in the household. But the Leader man quotes the following stanza in exemplitica- ton “And all the night I wrought unbidden, Ww half hi the world was dumb and dead, And to my pen things new and hidden. Came ont like mice with noiseless tread.” He says that likening thoughts to vermin new kirk. Yes. About two hundred new. Sir John Suckling wrote about 163) well-known triplet: ‘Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light.” A lady's feet like vermin! © Pittsburg, where isthy ~oot. Thus out of the mouths or news- paged babes and Sir John Sucklings Gadabout as perfected praise. Old Rock Creek Churc», by far the oldest of our ecclesiastical edifices, has become the chapel and centre of an exquisite cemetery of one hundred acres, covered with noble oak trees or flowing off by gentle declivi- ties im the open sunshine. This church was erected in 1719. Think of it! Then, the great Duke of Marlboro: was alive, although im- becile from mouleae. Then, George i bad fearcely become at home on the throne of Erg- land. Spottswood was Governor of Virginia, = pei begun to make the first American ‘on. 3Rgo te and crimson. The bishop's chair, a handsome — it, is within the altar. Tae old ppl * e pri ie 39. Even om — = piece, for the prayer service, is a tom Stone, so to speak. And’ th? which has greatage, is one of the most mallow and impressive in the country. Th* present recior of this church bas inhabited the parsou age more than twenty years. There is ov communion member who has been regular iv her attendance for more than half a century ‘The gravestones are numerous and costly, an thatof Peter Force, which represents the ve umes of his American Archives, under th shatt, in shelves, is said to have cost $2.90. Th father of Gov. Shepherd, Gen. Ketcham, wh. died mysteriously in Baltimore; Lord Fa! by right if not by title; the Carlisles, Rig and many officers of the buried here. Also, the fami) § .” Mr. Lan thal, who was killed ir the Capitol building a? an early period, and who was the father-in-ias of Dr. Stone, the proprietor of the fine counrs seat on the bluffs of 1ith street, is also buciod here, with the Stones. Since the Glebs ba been made into a cemetery, under contro! o the Mero much expedition has been shown in teking lots and ornamenting the piace. lot at Rock Creek costs but $50 to $75, while Oak Hill, Georgetown, a lot of equal size is rated at about £300. The foliage, sof myrtic walks of box, and springing ivy at Kock Creek divert the m‘nd from the idea of cremation and human ashes, as do the far blue hills, with their alluring dyes, give the mourner in ‘this ceme tery almost @ vision of the celestial conotry trom which the spirits of these dead look down. Arcturus Gapanocr. ————— FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS, Saturpar, May NATE was not in session to-da: OF REPRESENTATIVES. motion of Mr. Cox, (N.Y.,) the President w: requested to serd t> the Honse all correspon dence between the State department and other governments in relation to the landing of fo. eign convicts on our shores, and also to report what, in bis judgment, is necessary to prevent this outrage. Mr. Houghton, (Cal.,) from Committee ou Pacific Railroad, reported back bill supplemen tary to the act of July 1, 1862, authorizing the conetruction of the Pacite railroad, and it was ordered to be printed and recommitted. Mr. Bradley, (Mich.,) from Committee on Public Lands, also reported # bili of sim/lar import, and it was ordered printed and recom mitted. On motion of Mr. Wheeler (N. ¥.) Senate bil to grantan Awerican register to the steam Suffolk, and to change the name of the steamer to that of Protessor Morse, was referred to the Commerce Committee. ‘The House then went into Committee of the Whole (Mr. Polaml in the chsir) and resumed consideration of the Indian spproprietion bill the pending question being on the amendment to increase the appropriation for subsistence of the Arrapahoes and other Indianson reserva- tions on the northern border of Texas, to $250,000. The amendment was adopted. ‘On motion of Mr. Hancock (Texas) a proviso was adopted that no troops except such as may be necessary to preserve the peace, shail be kept on the reservaiious, but that the troops shall be employed along the northern border of Texas to prevent incursions by Ir dians, and to prevent white men from goin: upon the reservation. Mr. Beck (K.) moved to strike out the para- grapb, and took occasion te denounce the whole system of Indian treaties. The practical resuit Was to allow men to plunder the Indians, Mr. Eldredge ( Wis.) was tired ot this eterna! deaunciation of the Indian treaties whenever the Indian bill came up for consideration. there was any people with whom good faith should be maintained it was the Indians, be cause of their helplessness. The United States wouid not dare to treat any other people as th Indians were treated. Mr. Shanks ({nd.) sald this was not a question of now making treaties. Congress arec some Fessions ago that it would not ratify mor treaties. but the treaties ander which these ap propriations were proposed were made yea ago. Mr, Beck then withdrew his amendment to #trike out. ‘The bill was then real through to the 5 page without material amendment, when Mr. Steele ( Wyoming) moved an amendment to withhold the appropriation from the Yank ton Sioux, unless they remain upon their reser ion. Mr. Loughridge (lowa) said the bill alread propored to keep the Indianson the reserva tion. Mr. Eldredge ( Wis.) said he was surprise i that M Lougbridge should advocate such an amendment. It waxa direct violation of th: thirteenth amendment to the Constitution, for it proposed to put shackles on these Indian- and meke then slaver; for when you confine | them to any particular locality you virtually made slaves of them. Deal justly with the Indians and carry out treaties, and there woul be peace. In their natural state the Indian« were pretty good men, but they became cor- Tupt the moment they were brought under what you call a chri-tianizing influence. Keep your Christian associations and Gospel dispensers away from the Indians and they would be better men. Mr. Steele suggested that,if Mr. Eldredge wa< sincere in Lis remarks about Christian associa tions, he should vote for his amendment, a+ that would keep the [nidtans in thelr reserva tion, where they would not be interfered with. The amendment was amended to confine the Indians north of the line of Nebraska and Wyo ming, and as amended was adopted. <= Jay Cooke & Co. AxD THEIR CrepiTons. A Philadelphia dispatch says: It is understood that the trustee and committee of the estate o! Jay Cooke & Co, at a meeting held yesterday, declared a dividend of 5 per cent., payable in casb, upon all claims proven before the regis- ter, as soon as Orders for the dividend are made out and sent to creditors by Register Mason. It will require some two or three weeks for Mason to prepare thesy orders. It is also learned that the trustee is authorized by the committee to further settle with creditors,on the following terme: Fifty per cent. in Northern Pacific? 3-\0 gold bonds, at 70 cents on the dollar; 18 per cent. in Oregon Steam Navigation company’ stock, at 40 cents on the dollar; 7 per cent. in first mortgage bonds of the Lake Superior and Misissipp! and other railroad companics, at from 70 to cents on the dollar; and 10 per cent. inthe 10-per cent. income bonds of the Lake Superior and Mississippi railroad com- iano at 40 cents on the dollar. It is proposed yy the trustee and committee to make a further cash dividend of 10 per cent. as soon as it can be realized from the remaining assets, thas settling with their creditors in fall. Upon this being carried out the creditors will receive 15 per cent. in cash and 85 per cent. in securities ‘at the rates, iven above. A New York Tribune correspondent says:— Jay Cooke, the senior partner, is living in « very modest way, having eft his family resi dence a short time after his faflure. Mr. Cooke retaine all the buoyancy of spirits and san guine expectation of the future for which he wes aw ys noted, and hia answ: ques- tien thi 0 ec what are the prospects of the Northern Pacific? Ob, that oory gd will come It will fabvlous regions ot matarad ¥ m up fabulous of natura! wealth tothe United States government and uer people. You will all see that before many years Cooke'is ving in Georgetown, DG. with nk e is in . O., wil and te tn settling up his over six hurdles. for a purse of $200, $50 for the second horse. Caj Hutchinson’ and Chief Engineer made running from the start. THE DISTRICT INVESTIGATION. Proceedings of the Joint Congressional Committee Closing Proceedings Yester ivr. Atter our report of the proceedings yesterday betore the joint special Congressional commit tee tuvestigating District affairs closed, Shepherd was further cross-examined with refcrence tothe mode of making assessment- for ‘mprovements on streets. He was asked by Judge Wilson If he urged upon the District Le gisiature the passage of the sewer tax law, and Ge replied that he did. Q. Did you send to any of the members of the District Legislature and personally tnterced> with them to get them to vote for thts bil! A. I think I spoke to most of them, yes, sir. Q. Did you make any promises to any of them inorder to induce them to vote for the bill A. I did not. Several of them wanted promises oat there was none made. Witness further testified that the totalamorn’ of expenditares on account of improvements £15,652,685.25, and that the certificates issue by the Board of Public Works up to the 2d ot April, 14, for work done by the board, fuor ap over $15,000,000. With reference to con tracts, witness testificd that no contra deer, made tn excess of legal appropriations, but that the work done has exceeded the ap propriations. Q. Ten you have done the work without oon- tracts? A. Well, we do a good deal of work without contr: of course. Our employees mtract. &. But [am speaking about street improve ments. A. I'say that the amount of improve ments made—the contracts for improvements made—have nct exceeded the amount of tue ap propriation. Q. Yes, but if I understood you, the work that you bave done has? A. Peking ali the out- side work, which comprehends a great many details not included im improvements, and not coming outside of that clause. Q. Regarding this as a matter of some im rience, sir, I called your attention to it. You ave been taking a bond from parties for th keeping i. repair ef streets that have been cou- structed? A. Yes, sir. Q. Hes it ever occurred to you that it you have made any contracts in excess of and im ad vance of appropriations, those contracts might be illegal, and therefore your bouds utter!, worthless, and that you could uotenforce them” | Weil, Lam not lawyer enough to go into « iscussion with you on that sabject. Q. I simply asked yo whether that never bas occurred to yo desire to know whetuer you bave taken the advice of counsel? A Every bond that bas been given—every coo tract that has been made—bas been done through our attorney—through the District « torney, and has received his sanction; every bond that has been given to every contract. (Q. Has that point been suggested? A. That {cannot tell; it is his business to look out fur that. Q. Have you ever contemplated bringing any suits Op these bonds, and been deterred from doing so by reason of this very question’ A. Never, sir; we have in most instances hoid —- in our bands to have the putt end of the whip. Q. You protected yourselves in that respect by holding back? A. We took every precas tion, sir, both as regards bonds and holding back enough to make as good. Q. Have you held back in any case excepting these Evans cases? A. We heid back in a good Wany cases. Q. And protected the board and the govern- ment? A. I think the District has been thor oughly protected, or wili be; that has been our intention. UNDERPINNING HOUSES. The Governor was then questioned as to th authority of the Board to raise and underpio houses. He said there was an appropriatior made by the Legislative Assembly tor th . pore. Here is the act, approved June 2) providing for raising and underpinning h $150,000; raising and usderpinuing Georgetow matket-houses; $24,964.55, Q. This seems to be an act propri- ations for reimbarsing the Board of Paoli Works of the Dictrict ot Columbia fer the mone expended by them tor the erection and repa of pumps, cleaving and repair of streets, raisin, and underpinning of houses and market-house Had these houses and market-houses been raise | by tue Bosrd of Public Works prior to th- passage of this act? A. Only a tew of them the work was in progress at the time. Q. Now, what I desire to know is, where th board procured its authority to engage in suc contracts’ A. Well, it was @ matter of dir cretion; the board had to use discretion; i would not have done to have buried people’ b achange of grade twelve or fifteen teet unde ground witnout making some provision to pro tect their property and life, and the board ex ercised that discretion by raising their houses rhe matt * lad betore the Legisiature, an they made an appropriation. . Was there a statement or report of an kind made to the Legislature on the subject A. Yes, sir. Q. Can that be procured? A. I think it can Q. Lwonld be giad it you would furnish tha to the committee. A. I will do so, sir. Q. When you raised and anderpinned houses having made these contracts fur that purpose. were there asses ments made against the prop erty? A. No, sir; it went in leu of damage~ which would have had to have been paid to tue property for changivg grades; the raising of the houses and the underpinning of them set- tled the account. THE CITY BALL APPROPRIATION. With reterence to the appropriation of » for the City Hall, witness said it was procarea and the money was in bank to the credit of th: District; credited to the treasurer of the Buara of Public Works; I think the matter was brought before the board, as the money woul: not be used during the last season, and would Jay in bank all the winter. The question witn us was Whether it would not be better to invest @ part of it—370,000 of it—in the securities of the trict, and file them away for that purpose and use the money for the purposes or the board. That was dually done by uvanimou- vote, and the bonds which were bought were sealed up and placed asa special deposit in the benk; ltbink the envelope was indorsed ant | sealed by the treasurer of the board: a part the ameunt ($70,000) was invested se) bonds, which is now in bank to the board’- credit. Witness was then interrogated as to the pro cess of circular curbing around the P street | circie. THE MASSACRUSETTS AVENUE CUT. Q. Some ove of the witnesses a few da: spoke about Massachusetts avenue, stating ths’ Senators Bayard and Edmunds did not pay a: assessments, but that their asseasment~ were re mitted to them on account of damages to their property. Do you know anything about that A. There was some settlement made with them Col. Magruder is familiar with it. I ao not know exactly what the details were. They #ab- mitted some Claim for damages. I forget what itwas. He settled the matter with tuem. [ concurred in it at the time, but J do not remem- ber what the details of it were. Q. There was pretty expensive work done in front of their property? A. Yes, sur; it was very costly work. Q. There was costly work done just along in that vicinity in front of other persons’ property”” A. That was the only property that was im- proved; tbat is, with an improvement. There are four or five very fine houses there. There are two houses that will haveto be fixed up by the board; either: do: | Grid says Marshal Serrano bas deciared tha: between this amount and for ded miliion—vir., forty-four million—the ce sive Secretaries of the Treasury ami the Present have assumed the right to reimeae at thelr discretion. This right to reipeue bas been denied by urany lawyers, in Congress and out of it. The first section of the bill, therefore, declares the law to be what the Presdent and Secretaries have assumed itto be. Itwas the wich of friends of the bull that the forty-four million reserve should be vat im circulation. The other section of the 1, autborizing crease of the bank nore cireniation to forty-six million dollars, to be dv tributed among states bi Wing less than their proportion, upon che paris of the aot of 186%, was the first step that had been taken towards & Tesumplion Of specie payment by Gon gress. This smount was thirty million «bort of eqratizing the distribmtion. Under act of 1865, the New England states were entitibd to es than forty millious, but reecived one ban dred and ten millions, and other easiern st uad an excess or nearly twelve mi Most of the friends of the bill desired the restriction taken of as to the amount and locality of ciren lation, so that the pee hould be left free to cetablish national banks wherever aul wheo- ever their | Deceseities demanded t That the bill would have produced contraction of the stock ‘ket in New t+ true, but It is well understood that the serves ot the soat! diwesters bank in New York have teen used by N Danks almost exclarively upon in stocks, and have th very litte mercantile or manu(actart his Dill, in effect redemption their reserve at nome, communitirs. banks outside © three-fourths of h en the ban they belonged and have produced contraction in a contraction would do no harm. © quiring the United States to make the earliest practicable period for the redemp- tion of its notes in com. Noone d va 10d TEMAIN® as open as upon the day it was parsed. That the govern- ment is pledged to redeem the legal-tender votes in coin, and be kept in view. Yer Gecmed when there is great etaguation in be ness, much labor unemployed, the reven la.gely falling off, and mach disiress and sutlc: ing in every part of the country (Sigued,) 0. P. Monro. r Notes. TAB SPANISE CAMPAIGN Maprip, May 9—A Qi*patch trom Bilbxo says Gen. Concha’s troops are throwing up tor tifeations. Don Carlos and Gen. Elio are re ported to be at Durango, thirteen miles south- east of Kilbao, *MASTERLY INACTIVITY” RAN —A Tew oF MARSHAL & Lompon, May special from Ma he will not solve the expiration of eight study the question. THE & STUTTGART, M. sa, who bas been crisis before th eanwille be will Saye. 3 oF RURSIA he Emperor of K next for Eng . Arkagsas, RAPR WIKES CUT. 9—At9o'clock and five m'n- utes this morning the Little Kock witar west down, and it is now impossible to communica'e with the city, either direct or w Or Capt. Sam. Hourton,who was killed yesterday above Little Rock, was tormerly supervising inspector of steamboats at this port. — Accident to a Washington-bonnd ‘Train. Gorponsvitie, Va., May ° —The eastern bound morning train on the Washington Ci y and Virginia Midland railroad ran off the track this morning, near Kocktish devot. The eng:- neer, two conductors and a baggage-master were injured. Three of the passengers were hurt. None were seriously injarca by the accident, except the patace car conduc- tor. The train will be an hour bebiad time in arriving in Washington. This is the first « dent that has occurred onthe road to injure any one. a Dockray, the Prisoner in Caba. New Your, May A letter trom dated Apri * Frederick Dock taken from Nuevitas on the 2ith of April, transterred to prison in Puerto Principe, no doubt for better security, as the Cubans been so near Neuvitas as to render the captu of the place not improbable. Nothing new b up to the present time has been made kuown regarding his case. cotton mil! and tour dwelling houses near Media, Pa, were burned Is Woo! man Stokes, senior proprietor of the Irv- House, Philadelphia, died yesterday of pa N New ¥ . ment it as follows ioe, specie, increase, $2,005,900; legal tenders, de- crease, $35,000; deposits, increase, 81,835,200: cirenlation, increase, £32,600; reserve, increas:, se Dd. -+0-- DisTREssing Svictpg oF a Lapy.—Mre. Laley, formeriy of Baltimore, residing ou the north side of the Severn river, near Annapolis, committed suicide on Thursday by cuttiag her throat with @ razor and then tearing the ga«a larger, it is supposed by the appearance of the wound, with her nnger. The fatal act wascom- mitted early in the morning, and she lived sev- eral hours after. It is not known why sue de- sired to take her own life. (On last Satarday Mrs. L. told her husband that she was going to die, and asked bim what was to be done a their little boy, who is about three old. it seems by this that the act was a premeditated one. physicians, Drs Zachariah and Wa. iidout, who were called upon to attend her, had but little hopes of her recovery, and «ne refused to allow them to dress the wound. She said that she did not want to get well. Mre. 1. was about 55 years of age. EXxecvTion 1m NasHVItie Vesrerpay.— Bill Kelley, a colored man, was bung at 2o0'ckck yesterday just outside the city limits of Nash- ville, Tenn. On arriving at the seattold Kelley mounted it in a gleeful mood, conversing aud ee with those of bis friends im mdiatel, around him. Rev. Mr. Merry delivered an dress ten minutes long, and then \ined and sung & bymp. Secret prayer was offered by Kev. Dr. Cobb, after which Kelley stej forw: od addressed the multitude for eight minutes, ding with a prayer. He denied bis guilt 9.—The weekly baw Loans, decrease, £ * last. It is estimated that ten thousand paca were present, two-tnird~ being colored. mediately after the cutting of the rope « train on the railroad passed, trigh! & horse: and stampeding about two thousan: le, men , and children. Une man his leg broken, ‘and it is fed that several women and children were hurt. BRITISH AND ANgRicaN Lacon INTERESTS now 1 joel ond Hon men of Dasha and asking tor American sympathy. An auswer was sent back that American labor was