Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1874, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Ivania Aveune, cor. Lith St. aT THE EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY, & MB. BAUPPRANN, Preset. saspmeinialiicamaemth THE EVENING STAR t= served by carriers to gubscribers at Ta: RTY-Four Oxvts rsx Mowrs. Gis0: stx mowtas, 92.00; coe year, 8. % Invariably ix advance, im both cases, Re prper sent longer than paid for, A LECTURE BY THE REV. ROBERT FULT President « Boston Cot fle ivered mt St. Al May 1 BEA A number of L at cor North © Jove ith etl PUBLISBED DAILY, Sundays Excepted, By =ail—three mouths, vening Sta WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MAY°16, 1874. EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip. iNuB.—The rece’pt from this 221 TEE VE STAR—Pablivant Priday—@1.50 | syear, - 43—NS, 6,599. — ae AMUSEMENTS. LL!SCOrn nace. LAST NIGHTS. MATINEE SATUMDAY, 2 P.M. FRADK MACKVOY'S NEW HIBRSIODN, IBISH comEpt OOMPANY press “the most popalar eniertainment of the IBISH COMEDY. TWO CENTS. of advertising furnished on spplication. GADABOUT'S COLUMN. {Written for the Evening Star.] @n Arkansas. Without imputation on anybody, it is clear thatthe President had nothing todo but to recognize the declared, the settled, the con- firmed, the accredited Governor of Arkansas. He must have done 60 to avoid, at some time, a possible repetition of this form of revolution dead or ‘an _uisbin, th: aisles of bicssom, one felt like an insect in abouquet. And how the young robdins chirped the meadow larks were running down the row-, red bird with a bonneton was fluttering white blossoms, tae red ever saw, staining where he alighted, like a artist’s winged pencil. looking =" | TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR, REWARKABLE AND TERRIBLE DISASTER. Flood from the Breaking of Three Reservoirs Three Towns Swept Away and Great Loss of Life Bostox, May 1 hamebarg. Mass. IsTERNAL K. fource to-day were #4: GrorGe A. SHERIDAN has left New Orlears for Washington, to renew the contest for his seat in the Honse as © Said [: “This is not itis the south of France!” related that during the second wat with Great Britain the British passed by this spot, and one young officer of ver hile, and won the Pronounced by the ars will be tn readiness after the tol and AL ets., mating tes. 1 gallant bearing zreseman at large. eart of &@ beauti- Wi'tanp HALL, == ntrance on Fsireet, near Fourtesnih, At the re juest of many persons, ME. SUTRO Has conscated to repeat his Lestars on MINES AND MINING, the CAGCIUM LiGhT, k on the evenings of TUE-DsY, May 12, SATURDAY, May BAY. Mey © TECBSDAY, May and SALURDAY, Ma; %. the keware wilt be Uritw States 3. Dividin T 3 Hew Com Horses; P.i.ing of the Bissur Maleracy: ‘ey uta of the Satro Tuonel nes; thailrosd; Time: omprensest Aur Dri ycertne Or Gia-t Po wai det Pumps; ths Gegisiazores, Employing y the Profits of these Hoisting of Ore; 3 Mines of the Har Dey 20 Feet High. Principles Miners— 1:3 canse Acct Shaft; Fire ia the ¥ rs barned to death: is may b= obtained on [Obron. & Rep | mayll T E LARGEST ASSORTMENT or j LADIES’ A MISSES’ SUITS 7 IN TE COUNTBY, Ss. HELLER'S, 906 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. (Up Stairs ) Lam fn constant receipt of the m “BILLINE® Y GOODs, CHIP AND STEAW BONNETS AND HATS, 1 STED €Ts, | Be MPUBT: BONNETS. ESCH FLOWEBS, p28 tr LACES, &., & 615 e BOTmons apa Co Very baadso: $1 and upwards; beacti ‘ute upwards. edies in Want wil! save movey and time. Ee Ca ae upon @ national scale, when party leaders, as in the case of Andrew Johnson, grow dissatistied jagistrate. The 1esson set in Arka: sas, so far from inciting disorder, will show the great bod that the government ut Washington proceeds by legal forms in can- did paths, recognizing no differences in form r servitude, or race, or party, or rebellion. Tie President's policy was in part the work of A - and of the Secreta y te at Little Rocky J plain and convincing speech, who had o: fore been switched out of fair succassion to the office of Governor and put on the sideling of custodian ot the state seal. The true value of all the real and persona! estate in Arkansas is thought to be one hun. dred and fifty millions of dollars, about naif that of Louisiana, and nearly-eqaal to the wealth of Texas. The census of 1570 sets the taxation at nearl: over 1860 of three of the reservoir, occurred this morning, THE condition of Representative Mellish is a considerable loss of lite. not improved. He still refuses to take nourish- ment, saying that he is advised to decline eat- ing by Horace Gree U, S. SznaToEs Sargent of California, Ste phenson of Kentucky, Hale of Maine and Lamar of Mississippi have ben avpointed on the board of visitors to the ae fal lady at this’ piace. After the retreat from Washington this lady and the officer wore mu- pleased with each other, and an under- ing was concladed that at the termination would communicate, and if each continued to think highly of the othe:, would marry. Some letters did pass, and more failed to come or go, feeling time creep along, band ‘a worthless and’ dissipated scion of « neighboring estate. She had scarcely marcied him and fixed her mind soberly upon. table uf passing her life in & mope, like all hi friends and acquaintances, when, behold, her English suitor, who had, meantime, served x while in India, arrived in Prince George's to With the constancy, 1 the sadness, of one whose word had been pledged she bade adieu to the Briton and spent the re mainder of her days badly mated, near the home of her childnood. ler’s March. Clement ©. Hill relates that when the council of war was to meet at Winder’s building. Washington, General Scott sent for him, as the new Mr. Hill to be desirous of trans- ferring the war from Maryland to the South. ‘The General said, as he entered: —‘Mr. Hill, T want to consult with you about moving the national troops from Annapolis to the capital We must have troops. General Bailer is at Annapolis with @ large number of men ant! ‘equére your information as to the nature of the military road from Annapolis to Queen Ann ugh.” : z No particalars have iT AND HUMOR, And concinding with the screaming farce, THE SAUNTEOD GUID with their M: Not Less Thai Hundred Lives Lost. » Conn., May I6.—Three larg reservoirs about Williamsburg, Mass, which Were constructed to supply the manufactor. » of Williamsburg, Leeds and Haydenville, gave way at an early bour this moroing, the water sweeping everything betore it named towns were almost entirely destroyed including euch buildings as Hayden, Gere Co.'s immense brick factory. A large loss « lite is reported, but it is at present to give any estimate, though it is pro! lese than one handred. Swept Away Fionenxce, Ma above Williamsburg, 3 iy of the peop) of the war they * istinee prices: Adults, 25 cents; childre gto and Representative TIONAL THEATER— cepted for her hu. ALPHONSE. T.J.G. SAVILLE, Sole Lesses aus Mauager. Ts ‘heater Comedy Company. on Bevelativn, Last N of Daly’ Fifch Avenue TI Tae U.S. Steamet in Alexancer Dumas’ Great Par the flag of Kear Admiral Scott, sailed from Key West on the 15th instant, on a short crnise t»Havanaand Pensacola, The Gettysburg is expected to arrive at Washington to-day THE VISITING weetern journalists were cor- dially received by the President, in the East Room of the Executive Mansion, to-day. The company present numbered over 150, and after a very brief expression of welcome the geutle- men and ladies accompanying them shook hands with the President. Tue Committee on Banking and Currency met to-day and discussed the finance bill as amended and passed by the Senate. No con- clasion was reached, bat it was evident from the discussion that a majority of the members are opposed not only to the ai the main Provisions of the bil ReErRESENTATI iz, oe ames Daly claim his bride. the Torrent. i6.—The reservoir ass., broke this mornin, irge volume of water, which c ried away nearly every dwelling house in tt ves were lost, but so great is the at it is impoasible to get the ex co At Leeds a silk manufactory and ton shop were both carried aw: agent of the N. H. & N. Ki. K. Co. were both drowned. At the same place many t down the stream. water is now falling, and it is expected that abeut three hoars more particulars may be obtained. seen going down the stream, but eo switt the current that they could not be recovered. S-three Bodies Kecovered. Haypenvitte, Mass., about four miles worth of this place burst about eight o'clock this moraing, and the water came rushing down the hills carring everything before it. southeastern about two mi An ongs* the diagrams and viewsethibited daring fotiowtag:— Map or the he Miners Megivus, tls yy M Ra Jowett; Mme. Gui + Mise Lizzie Griffith Oovedon; Adri-t ne, Sadie @BAND ALPE three millions, undred per cent., while the property in the state meantime had depreciatea above sixty millions. The census figures are uvreliable as to the total debt of the state and its subdivisions; instead of four miilions, ax se: down, it is certainly nine, and of debt incucred and authorized twice nine millions. rage wealth per head of population is about 520, and the average public debt per head not ‘ess than $20. Arkansas has four Conzressman. lonce asked a halt-breed in the Cherokee na- tion, who had traveled in Kansas and Arkan- sas, which state in his opinion contatned most intellect. He said, afier thinking a momenc 9} ! It possessed at Little Rack w reat ability, and as spirited society, women, as any little town of its sizs in This Indian was E ©. Boadinot, formerly = editor at Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 15° Rock, * Bonette, Miss Stelia Vivian ATi }» SATURDAY uth Gold and Siiver; Iuterior View of the Richest Miues in the )Rorle, Two Hundred Midtonsof Dollars Produced eats, $I 72); Drew Circie,7 with bie wife, te, kT ENTEBTAINMENT, TO Be GIVEN AT Ti TEST OHU ROH, SO ¥ )9TH AND 20TH, 1574, commencing at 5 o'clock, for the beuelit of said chareh. adults tickets, % cents. Chiliren, persons were swi ne Bh. * Several ladi « afte 1,255.4, exte- ; Olt k and bis J scksen; from the Suumit over the Forty Milo Desert, endments but to N4tiosac TakaTeR. Pox sheet no Office of Theate ‘The final performances in Am-rica of OR TOMASO SALVIANI, THE GREATEST OF LIVING ACTORS. FOUK BIGHTS AND ONE MATINE MONDAY EVENING, May 13—INGOMARB. SALVINI in bis famons role S1GNUKa PIAMONT : ea DU RSDAY EVANING. Mar 0 HAMLE . fi ‘unique impersougion = damcer 8" tword Vic w cowards Monnt Davids on; Virginis and Gold Hill; 2.08 Feet Deep; Capitol as aod ‘eute in London: Beat te Hock, and a Ton of James B. Back, of Ken- tucky, reiterates his determination not to ac- cept a renomination, and expresses a hope that his district will select bis successor harm ni- robably put an end to the efforts of his friends to re-elect him in spits of (borough. ,” said Hill, “it will be fatal for us in Maryland, who have any proparty, and. | to go that way. The olt vod Barned st Orasked orld, Discovery and Hiding of Ore; to the Butro Tunne!; stock Gam ities of the C.tifornia’ Biok Bing; pg acd Robb'ng the Public; Bribing of Indan= fear, fatal to the trooy It strack the tion of Williamsburg village north of this place, carrving number of dwellings, thencs to Skinnerville, where he swept away Mr. Skin ner’s large silk mills and his boarding ant Continuing on it strack the large brass manufactury of Messrs. Hayden Gue & Co., sweepin, Large stones and machinery a, the main streets at » fearful rate, and well built ly crushed, not giving tue The flood then where a large &e.. were swept f life is very heavy, whole | ig been carried ther killed or impossible at this time to give the number of lives lost. Twenty-three bodies so far have been taken out the rubbish on the Whole biocks of tenement houses, with women and children, were swept dow: stream. and all the inmates, of course, lost. At this hour 12 m. bodies are constantly being brought in and laid im the church; most of them can be recognized. Another Accon: SPRIncrikLp, Mass., May 1 the disaster in consequence of the breaking away of the reservoir at Goshen, Hampshire cour ty, this morning, com: The dawage to property ma dreds of thousands of dollars, while it is impo sible to estimate accurately the loss of Among those drowned at Williamsbarg was tie At Leeds, Capt. Vau, and Mrs, Quigley ana deughter wero in a house Patuxent. You have tofear. nor the proprietors, #0 much as the impoverisied, h class. From Annapolis to Queen Ann the is almost continuously through the pin= forests, and narrow and bad. 1)0 not move your way, or you will have trouble.” General Scott The literature of the state is considerable, and its chief humorist, Noland, went out from Guwnrat Howaxp’s AoQvITTAL.—General W. Dyer, counsel for General Howard, tele- graphed from this city inreference to the action of the military court: ‘The President is waiting for the complete printed record. The court is unanimous on the statement of facts; also, upon all matters affecting General Howard's character as an officer and a gentleman; also, in commending his conduct as commuasioaer. The statements to the contrary are false.” Littie Rock Keone Over THe Paest DENT’S PROCLAMATION.—A dispate Little Rock, dated yesterday as the contents of the President’s proclamation became known to-day the wildest excitem=ut prevailed, apd never in the history of Little Kock was there such general rejoicing. Crowds women and children now throng tn: tores are reopening, flags waving, and - Handreds of people are visiting quarters to congratulate him.”” Cox FieMATION ARTHENIA cP Mountains, in Germany; Ventilation: hamanicy de- cidents ia Mines; A Osre— Premature Blast—msimed pe—dead bodies fosting wn. a e Big Bear ot Arkansas and other sketch- dwelling houses, es’ is a series of frontier se Published at Philadelp: It gives the style of early south west- ern wit In such bits as this: man is the mayor of Uniontown, thrice elected by the suffrages of his cens:ita It is the only town which can boast of « specie-paying ban’ ‘tell me what I could do if I bad the troops sent some other way, say by the Patuxent or by the got them to Marlboron _* General,” sad Hill, times, Marlborough, whic! itself, fills up with a crude class of rastics; and there are three kindsof whisky which we call fighting, quarreling and blood thirsty, according to grade. If you have asmali force, and it gets into Marlborou of course the whole region woul as every lad is a horseman down our ows all the paths. the first battle m jain 1815, by it away in an instant. houses were insta) inmates a momen struck the villag “in these exel/ing h is of no accoan® in in the state. Sam says that a chap at his town was walkingout end he across old Mose, sitting in the broiling sun fish- ing. ‘Well, Mose,’ says he, “what in the world are Pia doing thar!” SALVISI Inthe BEWELL SA tthe «fice of Willerd’s Hore, at the Hotel, and at Mesers. Philp & Bolo- Those beretof-re iasued are coud ilies, in some instances hi AY. 3 LVINI MATINEB Nie his grand and word-famons impor- ys :—“As soon Ta sid Pai gant Ladiisst vu, & Ved seat Drees Circi=, = You would have of the war rigtt at Marloor “Fisbing! Well, what is the reason you cin't talk? What's in your mouth: “Ob! nuffin but wums (worms) fer bi One of the Governors of the cotton. stat perbaps Sam Houston,—relates ed an Arkansas wedding about the year !3i0 He describes the bride as wearing one shoe ant one moccasin and a straw hat with half the “Soon after the attendants came, two girls and two or three young inen and the groom came and sat down ‘by the iri without saying a word, she still eryine. patron requested the attendants to tell him to come upand be married. ponded grutiy: don’t allow to be in a hurry aboat it!’ ‘The attendant made his report whereat the parson cried out londly: ‘All cae didates tor matrimony come forward.” At this the man came forward alone. and. he ing sent back, seized the girl by the arm, lugged her up and brought her forward. was scared bad! indistinctly, and POR Y's OPERA Hou i. LAST WEEK OF THE SEASON. FREE LIST POSITIVELY SUsPEND&D. every ching duriog tue weeks Saturday Matines. appearance ia thie city o| General Scott thought a short time and said “Friend Hill, can you give ms some letters to union people between aud provide a m. over that road ° will ride for m-~ MONDAY EV Reports of — Morris, who titled his loots with de patches, and took letters to Hill's friends at Marivoroug4. mM , #8 anticipated. full of deanken tell they all caroused, Coenties. formerly of the na @ prisoner to Butler, at Annapolis, to be ex © —, whom the Butler forces hat These despatches (ns:r1 to move his men by the Annapolis and Elk Rioge railroad tothe Kelay House, iastead of ing to go across Country through a hostile Arerrers GADABOUT. FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS, —— = SaTURDay, May 16. THE SENATE was not in session to-d HUUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE motion of Mr. Holman (Ind) the bill to extend the time for filing claims for additional boun- ties under the act of July 28, 1466, from Janu- ary 1, 1814, to January 1, 1575, was taken up On motion of Mr. Lowe (Kansas) the bill ex- —The Senate, in executive session, yesterday, confirmed the following nom. True, to be surveyor of ma for the district of Portland and Fal ; William K. Hollenbeck, to be ¢ or of internal revenue for Dakota terri vice G. P. Bennett, removed; Frederick ley, to be register of the land office at Detroit Reiche, to be register Booneville, Missouri; also, the nominations of a humber of postmasiers. brim torn off. First in thick and fast SCHUBMANN amount to hua From Nibdlo’s Gar GREAT PARISIAN FULLY, PANTOMIME! VELUOIPEDE TOURNAMENT: Masic-Man Fiute, DON FAKBEYBA si_n: 80 cents, 75 cent (PREATEn c@) MONDAY, MAY 11. TWO M inations: George W. New Vork.in the He looked up aad 715 Maaxer Brack. MISS McCORMICK, m are’ coming The Monotuck silk company’s manufacturing works are damaged to the extentof = Concuctor E. M. Chandier passed over the ros early this morning with bis train from William burg for New Haven just ahead of the flood that swept away bis wite and child. erts, who was to start on the ne SALvINI, the great Italian tragedian, and his company announce their farewell performances in this city at the Na- tional Theatre next week as follows: evening, “Ingomar;” Tuesday evening, let;”” Thursday evening, “The eat dosigns ta EVERY NIGHT, excellent dramatic mumbled over the service id them they were man aud Catholic Graveyard. Prior to the establishment of Mt. Olivet cem- etery the general place of burial for the Catho- lics of Washinton was the old Romanist grave- yard atthehead of 3d street. early population was Irish, these people doing most of the days labor on the public buildings, DAY and GIN Return of the old Favori - First sppearanc Signor GIUSRPPE NOW Engineer itod. JOHN H C&RUx jaciog the Frea Eews BOOTH (N BALTIMoRE. MMENCING TUESDAY. May 12 snd WEDNESDAY—BICUEL( =U THURSDAY-SHYLOCK. ders any cxtende ¢ be well to state, however, that persons wav comfortable seats had better women operatives w20 At Haydenville Samuel Muller lost his and three children, and Hayden, Gere & Ca’s including their office and the Hayden- pgs Back, with al ust begun wor desire to ebt secure them at © The bulk of th Call aad examine, We guarantee satisfaction te 5 S7-tm Fisa Cv.avnx.—During the present ap ‘ge amount cf . N EW SPRING GovDs 4 RW GOODS. NEW Guo BPP batocs, SUN UMBRELLASS” © BEAL Hal io Fancy Goods, Oren UNG'S N.Y. BS morlé-tr ter.ding the time for the saie of certain 14: .= Kansas was then taken up and passad. Mr. Kaseon (lowa) introduced a b. vide for the construction of the Port S:. i*: canal and its maintenance asa natio a! ; Referred to Committee on Kelws On motion of Mr. Townsend (Pa.) the bill and many of them were of direct immigration landing from yeesels at Georgetown. cemetery contains an average eubstantialicy o: tombstones and mural monuments,largely cr:4 itable to the piety and reverence of the early Irish, but the best of the tomb’ Hoban’s, architect of the W over two milion have been distributed by the United States fish joner to the tish commissioners of the «middie and western states. As [ii nois is without such officers, Professor Baird made arrangements with the commissioners of e, hateh and introduce the FRIDAY—OTHEL MATINEE-LADY OF LYONS EATUSDAY NIGHT—BICHARD Ii! seats can be sscur; salmon eges also Loomis’ Hotel were swept away Mr. Warner's button factory wa- away, the water taking th canal railroad bridge in its course. at South street bridge. trom New Haven is stopped at East Hampton. ‘The flood ix now sub RSUUCED PRICES: at the office of ton, good for around i 's commeuces Wednesday, May 6. will be good in either at The morning train Michigan to re STATEN ISLAND. N.Y. DYs Ss LISHMENT—ESTABLISHED ‘The cicest and iargest cf ite int tathe country musy Le in the world ISHES, Agent 1S Oh street, between F and @ N. B —Guarsntoe iv no color rn! bring Jour articles sown. to get them back in ti: » FIRST Ofass SOOURER, eet, 0} 1. Fatent Office. o out ehriak! pliy been transferred to Mt. Ulivet. Amongst the terments bere are the Fenwick’s, Masi’s, Join Shea, Pelice Pulizzi, Capt. Alphonse Duperin. of the U.S. navy, born at Norfolk in 1309, Lewts DeVoz, of Flanders. Many of the tombs are broken; in some the bodies appear to have been removed. Under one broken and recumbent slab bearing the followin f France, died 1520, accredited incident appended: During the rebellion a pi areaulted his commandin demned to be shet in one of the camps near tls id to the above grave and nid b for fourteen days, fea legalize the entries of public lands under t =, and on the 12t s ¢ » and on the 12th of chis m homestead act in certain cases was takeo 25,000 vigorous young fish were success!uliy placed by Mr. Jerome in the Calumet river The transfer took place in twelve ten-ga , and not a single tieh was lost inthe trausit. THE ARGUMENTS of Judge Merrick and Mr. Shellabarger, counsel on the part of the me- morialists betore the joint special committee in- ing district affairs, have both been com- pleted and will be filed to day with the clerk of the committee, by whom they Government Printing Office to be printed. is expected that the printed copies will b- poesession of the committee on Monday, as we! a Foreigu Notes. special train will leave Baltimore ton during the Booth ickete. $2; admias on Extibition and Sale of this morning 2zar, at a reception given by Lim yesterday to the diplomatic corps, declare! Kussia is to preserve the peace of the continent, and he hoped the prin cipal governments of Europe would be unite! in this purpore. The Ozar went to Chiselhurst thie morning to see the ex-Empress Eugene Upon his return this afternoon he will visit th= his evening bis majesty will be present at Crystal Palace, where he wi | witness grand display of fireworks gotten u; tor the cccasion. The regular order being demanded Swann (Md.) moved to go into Committee of the Whole on the diplomatic appropriation bill. Mr. E. H. Roberts (N. Y.) raised a questioa eration, and moved that the Honse Joint Committee on the biil to repeal the moiety that the policy of of sandstous, ‘Joseph Pow a ppened the well at MARKRITER” No. 439 7th street, deore abo} @hoice Oil Pai Also, Inrgost sto Fictares, Frames, P:ctare Co District. utings, Engravinge, Ohromes, &o. ang: 1 ‘The yeas and nays were ordered, and motion of Mr. Swann was agreed to—ye + pass 78, and the House went into committee, Mr. Burrows (Mich.) in the chair. tled to the tloor, and g thm «part. ag. wivate soldier, who as con ‘ved effectually , so that they nevor House of Commons. ill be sent to the “6 mod. city. He escaj uncer the bro jane remember Name Namber. jel-tr= WEABING aP- SUMMER RESORTS. alluded primarily tothe fact that in the bill there was a sum of nearly two miliion dollars to pay c'aims of British subjects, au: said itseemed meanwhile by his Captain steaithily. Tha plate and steel spoon are still cident was discovered by the fact of the soldier as counsel for the Dustrict previous arrangement, counse| DEATH OF A PAINTER. Paris, May 16 —Gabriel Charles Gleyre, the French painter, is dead. F cam be sold to the very best wivantage addreesir« or call USTH 19 D street, between 6th and 7th nw. ider the slab. The in for the District We 8se4cc nace PAVILION. ow tp first class on Bxcursions, I'ic-nics, &- Dining Hall is in chars of the well caterer. J.bo H. bess gusrantee that eve rythi cau be Pelies Gut horities of Charles county to ineure onder Bor fnformation aprly to MARTIN UECKEG, Tb wharf, or tu (apt. FHANK HOULING.- HEAD, steamer Arrow THEO. GBO: may36 2.7 Marshall Hall RPAN COUNTY, <a, TKY BUABD F the Summ ‘a P jeulars will widress “PEO Gui NBOUBSE.” There are «till » will reply thereto in ‘writing, after which, if deemed necessary, the memurialiets have the privilege to rejoin. Tne Saxnonn INVESTIGATION._The Ways and Means Committee examined F. A. Prescott, @ Boston attorney, this morning, in reference to his connection with the Sanborn cot promptly attended to. Cash paid BALLS, &c. AKINI & BATES FIFTEENTH ANNUAL FLORAL MAY BALL, AT MARISI’S HALL, TUESDAY, May 19rn, 1274, ets wimitring Gentleman and Lady, Ladies tickets, $1.0. Tickets for repeatedly making a pilgrimage to the grave at the close of the war, and revealing his exp-ri- ence to the sexton. Two Neighboring Estates About 12 miles from Washington, to the leit of Surratsville, isa remarkable piece of fam ly property called the Woodyard. where the American army first faced the British ou the Patuxent in Isl4. The Woodyard per- haps derives its name from a fanciful use of the Saxon, to designate woodlawn. estates often adopted such s¢lt-disparagi terms as the Hut. About 1670 the Woodyard w planted by Colonel Henry Darnall, immigrant and kinsman ‘of Although he spent his middle life at Port! ani manor, in Anne Arundel, his tombstons iat the Wco !yard, and there were kept down to the fire of 186- the vane of the housetop, the wain- scotted wall, and other relics and memorials of the Darvall’s. Darnali’s daughter married Daniel Carroll, about SPAIN CALLING Mapai, May 16.—The government has issnet an order calling into activeservice forty battal ions of reserv ——— on The Estate of Vakes Ames. DEPRECIATIUN OF TMB AS- UT THE RESERY ie De autifol Semmer Hy rt having been refit- ra e nse with the services of our numerous diplomatic agents abroad — especially the Ministers Plenipotentiary. He quoted from the debates in the British Parliament to show that English statesmen and publicists had on many occasions expressed the opinion that the ministers eould be dispensed with, and that the interests of the country would be beat sabserved having only commercial agents* abroat ese were all that the United States need have to represent our interests abroad. from reports made by our ministers a»rowi, and argued that they performed no adequate service for the salaries paid them. Most of them traveled over the countries to whe’ they are accredited at the expense of 'he United Then, too, ‘here were white at Will be conducted Srravgemert~ have been made with she EXTRAORDINARY mience ze wes she sos TAUNTON, Mans., May 16.—Owmg to ths | extraordinary depreciation of the assotsof the estate of Oakes Ames, of North Easton, the executors concluded to represent the estate insolvent, and in the Probate Court, yesterday, Judge Bennett appointed the following com Hon. Charles Allen and’ Peter Thache, of Boston, Aaron Hobart, jr., o: It is’ believed, however, the estate will be able to pay nearly, or quit full with sufficient time in which to realiz: from investments, many of which are in western and southern loans and stocks. os New York N THE BANK STATEMENT. 16.—The weekly hank state. Eight or ten thousand of this amount was re- tained by him as fees for legal services, and tne remainder of it he disbursed on Sanborn’s ac- count. He declined to give any account of his disbursements without direet authorit: ‘The committee adjourned until Mon- day morning, when the witness will again be before them, and will be required te tell how he uisbursed most of the money received from San- Owners of ol! Lord’ Baltimore Bridgewater. FESTIVAL QTEAW BERRY D Memori TOREDAY May 1y.1 USE is now open for the re- t & PUBNISa- Four nights, beg’ at Chapel, ith and V States Government. ——— roving commissioners sent’ abroad. AN ARKANSAS KerResentaTivEe Coxe rat- ULaTep.—Kepresentative W. W. Wilshire, the only member of the Arkansas delegation in wovitg fgares + ‘licket~ at door. had no doubt, was at this moment on the great wall of China, examining that work for the benetit of your architects. From this point , an Irish merchant New Yors, M YATTON. 4 inthe fimest part < Porceliviile Depot, W bio B B.,rimed, by © ride by rail fron for the reception of guests. 1874. Beautiful scenery, plea able near b bath- roc airy rooms,and a plano eu fre, Cr bing: ated region A.O WEIGHT. and Hill P.O, Loudoun County fe at 1209 F street northwest SLIN, PUBCELL & CO, Proprictors, MISCELLA? LEAVE YOUR ORUERS a? NS, 423 9th Street Northwest, RES see; Bet: Di atl ler Limes - = Con D rtiicial & v celiars, water works. pavemeuts, balld te.. where strength is desirabia. The fin the world. Bui agent for District ia WM. GUING 643 Loatetaus avenns of upper Mariberough, who became the mother of Archbishop Carroll in 1735. built of brick landed at Nottig, en all the way to th Congress who supported the claim of Baxter and who has been earusst EXCURSIONS, &. ‘| "& STEAMER AkROW, FRANK HOLLINGSHEAD. WILL MAKE AN we would soon hear of Chimuluazo. him in Spitzbergen or Mr. Cox then excited a good deal of merr- on the report of the com- examine the Navigator islands, and who recommended their aunexa- tion to the United States. He ridiculed the whole proposition of annexation, and said the people would hold Congress to strict accounta- ‘pended any money for that pur- ead of roving round in sear the ocean Congress shoul! do something for Cuba and for their interests His hoase was meut is as follow Loans, decrease, $1 916,100; specie, decrease, $3,9 0; legal tenders, increase, $1,302,300; deposits. increase, $158,300; cireu- | lation, increase, $1,700; for the govertorship and active in represen: ter’s claim to the Presid General, received the following telegram from Little Keck last night congratulations. Popslar end fi valthy Sumner Besort, ard, a distance At the revolution of John !, Henry Darnall fled. The Wood- Davis,in the Da family seat in Hereford’s occupied it during a large part of acentury. It was burned by the heating and ignition of the old and well- seasoned chimney log, which one night burst in toa blaze and destroyed the great old pile. A pew house was built out of the walls, and it was ugh bricks Were sold to the neigh- reat part for the second con- adjacent to the Woodyard was offered for sale in 1874 at the rate of $10,000 for five hundred acres. Henry Darnall, son of the original proprietor, ped in Brent’s Life ot Bisho) as the inheritor of lands around the to an immense extent. and afterwards entirel; nt and the Attoruey ment by comment n; missioner sent out increase in reserve, WESTON’S WALK. it 11 o'clock, 46 minutes, 16 s*conds, | had completed his 381st ‘mile. He is In g d.con- dition and appears jovial, but has bec»me sat isfied that the accomplishment of bi: task is im- ‘Accept tny hearty uu have done for Arkansas member or contestant of to do—stood by the ri, > has the thanks of the ‘This dispatch is signed by J. N. Smithe, editor of the Little Rock @a- ACURBION TO SHORE LANDINGS ON SUNDAY, May 17, giving Zarties an opportunity leg of the lergest seine in the cor IRING TO VISIT THE BIG b ye accommo- yard was described b, as the ‘most interest: ‘The West's at our delegatio President Gri people of Arkanea: at 2o'clock p. m. to witness the hy ul- any 1, ently if destred by the Those wishing to enjoy Th address bility if they ex, Tn - Inet these islands of —_o——_ Death of Tostee. New YoRK, May 16—The Journal de Paris annout ces the death of M'ile Tostee. newspaper makes mention of the tact, but the Journal affirms that she died at Paris of grief ai the loss of her daughter. Mlle Tostee will be remembered as hav! Duchesse and Belle 5 merchants and busiucse We, the undersigned, citizens of Little Kock, return you thanks for our indefatigable labors in the cause of right assisting to get our late troubles settled uc- cording toright and justice, as per proclama- tion of the President. A gratefal people wilt remember you. 8. was then read for amendment and \. ¥.) moved to strike out the ap- propriation for a minister to Uruguay, argaing that there was no necessity for it. him that the mission was created merely to make & place for some one. r. Swann (Md.) said this minister was also and it wasof the United States bors to pay in ‘corer of Sth an -west. Ten to fifty c fortable busses leave in the morning GRAND UNION HOTEL, feat n be accommodated n the original Gr: ene in this country. ee Two Children Burned to Death. Gaoovaton, N.H., May 16.—The dwelling house and barns belonging to Wallace Steven~ im Bloomfield, Vt., were burned yesterda} two adopted children of Mr. Stevens, aged 5 were asleep in the room where pan Jane Ist St prpsiar prices. $21 per wee ‘OB BALLS, Picnics poses, by PHL jer Ith and Petreet © these who ate wot scquainted wil mo, would say that I am able to pluase all; and if 14 Prices teasynable. este ¥ —— r DeMookaTic NOMINATIONS IN RicHMOND.— In Richmond yesterday the conservatives nomi- nated canditates for municipal honors. A. M. Kelley received the nomination for mayor by more than a two-thirds vote over Gen. Peyton Wise. The renomination of Mayor Keiiey leaves an open field for the conservatives so far ‘as that office is concerned, as the republicans will not make a nomination against him. For the remaining officers, however, with one or two exceptions, where independents are in the field, the republicans will nominate. & The General Conrerence oF THE SOUTH BRN MeTHovi8Ts.—At the meett thodist Episcopal Church South ference yesterday. in Louisville, a resolution was adopted repealing the organize a church out of ti committee on boundaries recommended the granting of a memorial rtion of the Balt which were then partly age Sgt Limo from the fani- y throu, © improvident management and position of the proprietor. food estate, long the pro} ig one of the oltest ts, and at present, under the control of Mr. ‘umpbrey, is one of the most beantifal farms mn the Washington and Mariborough turnpike, about three miles west of the former court house, and is a yellow Stories high, with a veranda porch story, @ red roof, and ratuer 23 POF Week fr Sul) nud Agree ba “aster plitaa Hotel ty. may6 iw accredited to Parag’ est importance that t foster republican institutions in South America by recognizing these countries. It was the only way to counteract the machinations of foreiga governments. Mr. Potter said there was no proof that the gore to Paraguay. .) differed from Mr. Potter, ‘ht diplomatic relations shoald be kept country in order that we might b to grasp any trade that might present to anne ‘amend by striking pay demanded & CHARTER, ‘The elegant and commodious Iron Steamer PILOT Boy. WM. H. BYLES, Agent, 6 Ob On - beret Went, 7 wi Digge”’ family, mania tae sl in Maryland. Wt aed ey. Tue Torr.—Kentucky Races—Tbe Lexington PERFEOT-FITTING SH1RT and starters. Pennington was the favorite. Suw mary:—Big Fellow, 1;, Excel, jme, 3:50. Second race, mile —Grimstead’s c. f., Uncle Vic., 3. Time, 1: Trotting at Pro: of the season too! The amendment was Mr. Orth (Ind.) mo: out all relating to consulates and to bill known asthe consular bill, regulating the consular service, heretofore agreed upon by the Committee on Foreign Affairs. A FirTgen-Year Ovp Brive Porsoxsp.— The wife of — Bar; 15, and ly at her father’s from XPRESS, vr excursions on Thuradays and Fri- “ON. B. Fitz PATTERNS CUTTO ORDER. jan?-4m by Gilroy, 1; Baford’s b.g., by ct Park.—The first mongst the aCGH, 5 ‘ Street act a ao gienta fiap-doors and bi orp it, stard one aes hil highest points of ground, and re with other wer of @ bishop to with a comb aiong many ot hij tov alr the tos" lls, generally on the te cor- ud North Capitol streets. — — = e transfer ED) ORMENT, FOR more on st also, that a portion of the Kentucky conference be transferred to the West Virginia conference. A Bic Bear Suor match safe; 200 very or any Rind of Concrete | tul! count in each box, for five ceuts. For sale by ali tsrocers. _{ Meck ROY, BAIRD &« Co., GILDEBS AND UPHOLSTERERS. bul house in Glencoe. the effects of poison taken IN Virainta, — Mr. 5! ei LIME! Lime WOOD-BURNT LIME. barrel jhe-would have becom- Her busband has been arrested as an accessory Charles Carter shot a bear in the moantains near Waynerboro, Au; Sago, which is sai est be:r ever shot in this ighed net about ees, and had tusks in , and one of his hind ver two pounds. county, Va., a few by old hunters to be the of prospect. ward Marlborough, venerable A Hone Jury. jury in the trial of cer- tain gp Aire viagra N. &: See ae tracts, returned into cou! jmes, unable discharged 5 yesterda: quittal and three tor con out two days. Pras amp Staawseertes._The Norfolk conteunene taiveny yesterday on far: and will now be pushed vigor- oualy” ‘until the crops are all gathered and Tue NatiomaL Woman Surraa TIoN.—At the session of Prices. over Ii inches COVERS mads in ths best styl ighed other house tp t ° city. 7” 3 cleaned and packed steed from moth. CABPETS and CURTAIN: for the reason, and _BEGILDING a special Foesvari gece De! 2 A FemaLz Rovsse SEyTEncen. berteon, a colored a loining a letter post ‘niversity of Virginia, was tried in th 8. Harrisonburg, on Monday last, found guilty, and sentenced to the Ai tentiary for one year. mocrats propose to nom!nate Gen- = McClellan for the governship of New i NS DUG CHEAP, *Y | district court at street northwest, 1) Hs : : j E t i i THE DISTRICT INVESTIGATION, Proceedings of the Joint Congressionsl Committee, Conclusion Yesterday's ‘ Sepator Edmuniis was before the Joint Special Committee investigating [istrict Affairs yes- terday with reference to the damage done to his property on Massachusetts avenue by rea- son of the heavy cut made there. SENATOR EDMUNDS’ STATEMENT. He made a statement in reference ty his put- chase of the property, and then wont on to say I purchased the property upon the trathtal report that all the expenditures and assess ments and other things touching the subject of the little place that | wes to build had aireaty been provided for and paid, and that left my house which I butit something like eight or t feet above the street and about fity teet bac trom the street, om account of the whole prop erty in the angle there having been disposed of by having @ buikiing lime run which Bogan at 1ith street and went west, in front of whic! body could build, so I was compolied vo bari d about fifty feet back from the street as tt then the sidewalk and everything tinshet, which was, of course, a very material cons: eration in reference to the price which I pait After the Board of Public Works came to be established, and the subject of the improving the streets in Washington was brought 1 beard that it was proposed to make som ther cutting between 14th, 15th and 6th streer and Massachusetts avenne. | to the extent of that cutting, and wi cessity for it was. I cannot’ now rem what persons connected with the Boa: hey like three feet, and i the butt Tabout which Mr spoken to me in respect to ing * waving taken off from the bili west or me. ch I had replied that while | had least objections myself — arse, it did atiect we at all—that 1 olsiga any tition or consent to any euch thing unless all the others assented, because [ did not want to be the instrument of doing them an infustice to the west when there was no public necessity for it, but mat mere taste, and that lead+ me to remem| it was certainly before the Board of Works came into power that this wa: fpoken of. Then i made these inguiries of the board, and was told that three or tour feet was the most that the street would be cut, ani that was the object of it. I made the same remark then that [had before made to Mr. Corcoran himself, that while it did not affect me at all, and I did not care anything about it, yer i would not be a party to any wrong upon the other gentlemen who owned property west of ‘me; that | did not see any ground for it; that I would not be the means of subjecting these pro- ple west of me to very seriour damage by #0 great a cut as that upon @ mere question of taste. The natural surface of the land slopes from 10th street to the west until tt to Mr. Wilson's and Mr. Morse! slopes more rapidly downward to ti and the slope of the street fixed by the orig nal city people, and upon which I thought, bh. monizes wich that undulation of turtace of the grow a it i# bow, from Lith # the street p upon which the houses other way, which of course isin ¥ every man’s sense of what is proper taste—in fa crots-cut saw upon his leg to look at it The Board of Pablic Works told me that only the crest pf the bill to the west would be taken off, and that they were going to do the right thing with the who owned the land there. Of course 1 saw no objection. It which in any legal sense concerned ‘his was early in the spring of Is7z, Th I went home to \ermont, leaving the thing In that way, being informed that the only disturbance of the existing order of things that the Board of P Works would make would be to take just a shaving off from the crest of this gently uuda- , beautiful row, like those still lefe in va- rious partset the city, tor some reason or other. to 15th street wa I did not know anything more about it until 1 came beck again in the fall of 1s72, to atteod the #ersion of C *, and when I got back, about the firet week in November, { found that instead of three or four feet being taken off the crest, they had begun at the line of lich street ata circle, and maue one deep cut, and drawa a true grade to the west clear down to Ith street, which, instead 0” not cutting at all ia front of my property, or just taking off an inch or two, had cut down somewhere from = to 1) feet—i do not know precisely—snd bat ler me that distance up in the air, in addition to tue inal grade, which bad been settled and fixed, and upon which I 1 was left about If teet, 1 surtace of the stree! parking the street, like New York avenue, so as to leave the carriage-way somewhere wear the sides of parking had been done on the curbstone was removed about 5 it was before, the conse, that I was Sor 10 feet high % feet or so further a Judge Edmunds tnen wrote @ leticr of protes to the board, which Gov. Shepherd repiied to stating thi ‘bad } Man proposes apd God d ections Of gas, water, aud of the general fund. sented # petition for: he thought his property damages. The dittere * between bim and the board were eventu: settied by the can cellation of his assessments of $125 64 SENATOR BAYARD'’S STATEMENT. Senator Bayard said: “The stetement mele, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, by Mr. Edmund? Will necessarily sborien mine.” So tar as tie stated the facts relating to bis own property they are nearly precisely applicable to mine. ,i bought this lot a few months ater be hal bought bis, and built up next to bis, a part be- ing wall between us. He has stated the induce ment to buy this property. I was looking f convenient and healthtul location tor my fa ily. The elevation of this property, the slop: ground all aronnd it—the grand sloping laevery direction from the proposed site of his and my house—made it, as I thought, very de: 2 property. There was, a was stated by Mr. E munds, everything there im the of conve forded by the public sewer, gas and water. Massachusetts avenue was not paved a= to its bed, but as I remember 4t curbed ai nue and the line of my property nant with the vendor of my lot, tame as Judge Eamund’, Mr. The Bryan, we bound ourselves not to b ward of @ certain line, which ecjaently pre- setting furth that had sustained $2 Loccupied it im the win itl and 1:72 and 1513, and I live tiere now. I bad an intimation that they inten ed to park in some way attcr the creafon of the Board of Prblic Works, v hica was som time subsequent ‘© my beccminz the owner of this property ant bui ding my boase. I wasinformed that they int-nded to improve it and park it after the manner of K street, which I thought high!y prejudicial to the interest of the property, throwing little lots, which bave not inappro- priately been called private graveyards, in iront of your door, and keeping you back trom the thoroughfare of the street, giving a long distance to walk In bad weather from the curo- stone before you reach your house. I wrote a letter of [Mr Shepherd, vice-president of the Board of Public Works.’ I had never seen him in my life. 1 wrote a ietter to him, telling him that I trusted before anytt ing of this kind was done that the plan of {mprovement would be fubmitted to the property-holders all along the street. To that I received an answer that 1 should have notice, but I never did get a no- tice, and in 1x72 this excavation referred to by Mr. Edmunds was made. Before its com- mencement I had left the city. I bel tummer I had gone to E arope. M. y moved back to my residence in Delaware, ant when I came back to the session in December, been consulted about it, and, of course, I could was injarious to me, e: w me, abd I could uot see where tf benelited Say board. ‘iniences of that. I heard in the ot Sei tT understood, i believe, from Mr. Bas munds; be gave mea blank and we talked it over. He mentioned fect that he has stated to you, that he id not desire to sub- mit himself to the jurisdiction of this Board of Public Works rights elsewhere drew—I believe Repeat or intended to my that March, 1873, { a