Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1874, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Sandays Exeepted, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Pennsylvania Avenue, cor. 1 St. BY E EVENING STAR NOWSPAPER COMPANY, 8. BAUPE MAING , Provt. TIE EVENTN LL, on F sicest, tear Foarteouth, {2 > request of many persons, MB. SUTRO Bas cons»nted to rapest his L MUNE3 ASD MINING, Ilastrated by the CALCIUM LIGHT, AtS o'clock on the evenings of UESDaY, May 2, SATURDAY, May 16, TUES. DAY, May 19, THOBSDAY, May 21, and SATURDAY, May 23. jews exhibited daring 4 mh tongs” the disgrams « exatone; Breaking roneh of Frachyte; How Comstock Lod Origin- ated; Mores; Biting of the Fisenre with Gold and Siiver, Letesior V he Kichest Mises in the work, Two He cm sired Millions of Doliars Produced | 50 cents; Private Poxes. $15 sod Vt. 43—N°. 6,600. pening WASHINGTON, D. C.. MONDAY, MAY 18, 1874. AMUSEMENTS. NATIONAL THEATER. nor UPI ROW opened <i Mewnsrott’s and Box The final performances in America of Ni TOMASO SALVINI 7 GREATEST OF LIVING ACTORS, FOUR SIGHTS AND ONE MaTIN@S MONDAY EVENING, May 18-INGU MAR. SALVINI ip bis famous role of. INGOMAR. SIGBOBA PIAMONTI as......... N romepay EVANISG. way BALV. te bis we PIAMONTI ax. ~OVHELIA UBSVAY EVENING, Muy 2. TAR GLADIATOR. IDAY EVENING. May 22, FIT OF FIGSOR SALVISE. VID GaseIOK in of... SULLIVAN. A Z SALVINI MATINEE. FABRWELL SALVINI in his grand aud w ten: BELOD Of searenn sone eel Beserved seat: ches tr: Utrele, 82, Dress Cirel=, $1 1; General & 1 a, $1; Gallery, 2, Sleeady. MU! AY, May Moutn of the Satro Tunnel; Coavoying Air to | MBS. LANDEL, supportsd bys powerfal com- the Mines; Bailrosd: ng: Boriug Hotes | pany. may 13 with Compreneed Air Dri Fouion with Nitro- - Gly cortve or Gia-t Powder: [HEATER comraue, tug, Garden, Cations becs MONDAYS, AY 15, EVERY NIGHT, P Weight, Water, Ore, Waste Rock, Bitver Every Bas; Gh Cores of Fite Wood B fp 34 Bours; Miiing Pompe: the M st Orovk-d Baiiread iv the World; ‘ery aud Hiding of Ore; © ‘Tas Stock Gam fornia’ Bick Bi TA loving a Vonal Pe Pr . ® Roteti % Onin ney € mm 2,00 Fect High; Priacipies of Veatil sti: tive Miners—he caose of humanity remedy; Accidens ia Mines; Borked A’ive; Presuatare Blast ded; A Deluged Mine—d Fail ‘ireia the Fellow sed Resone threngh the Tannel: also, Mining Scones in all Parts of the World. Admission free. m ot the fice of Witlerd’s Ho <1, and at Messrs. I wows’ Bookstore. ‘Those heretofure issued for all lectures. {Obron. & Eep j bite; Bribing of Jadges Press; Mountains, in Germany; jou; BGares | otany cf PAIK OF bodies Moating bne. 01 fs Tickets may be obtained on ap- | VAY OF JUNE the mate! i t tae | EL Ww GooDs. HE LARGEST ASSORTMENT or LADIEY AND MISSES’ SUITS IN THE COUNTBY, Ar S. HELLER'S, maylt tw Tid Maacar Srace. MISS McCUR MICK, 906 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, (Up Gtaire f ? I ar in constant receipt of the newest designs in BMILLINEF Y GOODS, CHIP AND STBAW BONNETS AND HATS, Farscu rLowgns, Ui?l#7#D BoHNETS sor : LACES, Cy RO. "AT MADAME ESTRENS, 615 inn wrest, t redoce cur enormous eteck of Haman Hair. ava Coris. Very bandsome ra want will save and examine. 2 time. ap/asa ids of B new 1 and upwards; beaatifal Curie [row 5 satisfaction to Ms D WEDNESDAY AND SATUKUAY MATIS€SS, Popular prices of admirsicn—i5, 25 and 50 cts. Production, for the first time, of the sensation, extravagant; “SS EW YORK AS IT WAS; Or, the Fireman's Mud a produced with startiing scenic effets. After the fire, a round «f plesew the Voxall Gardeas, ta- troducing, positive! * tast time, the glorious tay 18 60 CAN-CAN! $1,000. 47 All persons jing or n ing strong draf: horses, ely: "Livery Stable: keeps! Tpsy ON THOUSAND DOLLALS to the pry owner HORSRS ABLE TU PULL M& AWAY FROM A STRETCHES, upon which 1 sbsll occupy ® horizontal position, the traces fast- ened mourd my body. Al “ho inteud to complete for this prize are requested to call, with their horses, at my place Of business, 411 1th street, year Penusylvania aye. n or befure the 381 of May, 1874. On the Sti b will come off, at LCE F- ABHINGTON CITY GARDES.. se: maya WM. HRYGSTER. 3 ds. A*™™ ENTEBTAIN To Be NAT THE STH BAPTIST OH! BUH, SOUTHWEST, MAY 19TH AND 20TH, 1574, commencing st $ o'clock, for the bevefit of said church, Adults tickets, 25 cents. price. on FO. ia Exuibitien aad ae 11H 87. = _ % Tea seed bonees Bead streets, eight m A it Scie! doers ‘above Udd Fellows? Hail, ~ ghoice Ou Lav gerre Engravinge, O! Target stack’ Paper Haug ngs. ‘rames, Picture Oor: Kens to ie District ‘TERM: B. feaae remember Name and Namber, jel-1y™ LL KINDS OF CAST OFF WEABING aP- A “Pa BEL car be sold to the vert best wiventags by addreesing or calling on 3 le 619 D street, between 6th apd 7th nw. Sotesby mail promptly attended to. Cash paid. tf —eeeeee—ee——————ee BALLS, &e. YpAsesi & BaTES FIFTEBNTH ANNUAL FLORAL MAY BaLt, AT MARISI'S HALL, TUESDAY, May 19ru, 1974. ing Gentleman and Lady, $3.00. tickets, $140. Tickets forsale et wayls td eo FESTIVALS. eds AT KKDUCED PRICES STRAWDERRY FESTIVAL. Presbyterian Charch wil: STBAWBEREY FESTIV. Ch. on 4% streat, naar C at the Ch evenings of W NEW GOO ‘RzW GuOD PABA=G)5) SUN UMBRELLAS, ELTIRG in Fancy Goods, Open st YOUNGS N_Y¥. Baza, nri6-tt 442 Teh atcect._ STATEN ISLAND, NV. DYSING RsTaS S**CSHMENT-ESTANLISHED 1519, ‘The cléest und Intwst of ite etu! in bay be inthe world. 8. FISHER, - G1 Th mreet, between A. FISHER, FILST CLASS SCOUREB, 61> Kb sreet,oppowite fatent Ul SPECIALTICS OF His SOLE Phu ie Le 4s cleaned 's ts removed effectually, 0 that they move aly E33. Lasres Dresses cleaned without taking th-m apart, c without shriakivg. t cleaned on short nutice. Prices mod- SUMMER RESORTS. L&E 2e43¢H —w gst END HOTEL —Thi 4 Hvtel sillopen on the 1: of June Booms can be engaged at the of 2 Broadway, ¥ M. Bildreth, G.G. Presbary, 39 Br Dy letter aidressed cl Prices for the season will depend apon_ loc: Sud roome cecupied. Twenty per cent, redu tor the maths of June and Saptember PRBSBCKY « HILDRETH, 18 mw Std Proprietor. J BDAN WHITE SULPHUR SPBIN Frederick conuiy, Va.. only one and Balt miles from Stepheuson's Depot PO. Bnd five ard a half miles southeast of Wi et Mowl, toes curuer of sth and K west. chester, will be open on lirst day of Jule. Tus Daiidings have beeu wuch improved by comm eating doors 101 batters, OP” Chaiybeate sprizg is e . $i, 23 days, ES aut+ baif price. Whi Sigrtbe price oF according to socommdations. F 1 stribution at the Springs, jogers, and Bbbttt House, Wasi ip Baltimore, $6 5; from Wasbington, $5.50 myis-Im’ EB ©. JORDAN. Owner and Prop’r. i- &e. The nw jer week, ren and servants, three ne. September aud October, liberal deduc- Dote- jagton. tickets, ged autil Novem ver 1, from [2R 58400 HALE Favinios. Tt beving been refi nc Bret claws. ‘Awple arrangemerts have been made Charles county to tus piv to MARTIN. I gvarantes that every’ formasi Teh street wharf, BEAD, sicamer & THEO. GRoss. ‘Marshal! Hail. ) FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. loGmTsy BoakD’ | + _ he CLIFTON HOUSE is now ception of families for the Summer. It situated upou the O. and Alexandria B. K. 29 miles from Alexandria, Persons wishin te learn particolars will address © PO. CLIFTON HOUSE.” T Best rooms not engaged geet pied by those who occa: ‘Terme moverste, ard. ali t be ase com! sbhie and desirable. YATTON. ; them 1 ef RIS Popsiar and Hesithy Sammer Resort, si:- Uated in the finest CED») Nery tear Purcelivitie Depots Washing ton and Obio B B., rimed, and 2s hours ride by City, will be open. for the reception of gueste, ry, pleasant 4.0. Bound Bil! P. ©., Loudou Beferonces at 1209 F street nort! AT S88 at0Ga seainas. GRAND UNION HOTEL, BRESLIN, PUBCBLL & O0., Propristors, Wy) E885 Ru you Gone o mr? B. tr im first clase order, and can be had for Kxcurstons, Pic nics, kc. ‘The Dining Hall is im ebarge of the well Bnown caterer. J-bn i. Desneild. which ‘is ing will be conducted KEG, Cpt. FEANK HOLLINGS: . pen for the re- us ‘were are still some of the zmany, of them are to be appointments of the may ‘bat O71 per wee spend Scm- fore son deetds, send stamp for circa- C £, SOBEBS W aL TER, M.D, Wernerovile, BALTIMORE ADVERTISEMTS Overt 4 VALUE AND Taste ft WEDDING PuRSENTS, - > Ui ee @ouD SAM'L KIRK & SON, Baltimore st., Baltimore, ch. Four nigh, bei at Chapel, lach aud ermon ick, slowing six thoussad Wax Works. &, mayl6 5t™ EXCURSIONS, &e. | REOPENING Jolsy’s aT ANALOSTAN ISLAND, On THURSDAY, the 21st Day of May. There will be s steamer leave the wharf at he foot of Bigh -street, Georgetown, and G street, Washington, B. ©., every few min- utes Also, cosches will run from landing to! the pavilion. Music by the Holy Hill Band. may 18-3t* JNO. H_ WELLS, Proprietor. PaBscas DESIRING TO VISIT THE BiG FALLS or wishto be accommo- dated to PIONIOS, &c., cail at the: streets north- Ten to fifty can be accomm ._ Oom fortable busses leave in the morning and roiurn at night. may Im" WM. F REAM Pico’ PAL ie thoes who.sve uch acquainted whee tT ‘0 those w hme, would tay that I am sblo to pleage all; and if L dort, emanded Prices reasonable. — mayl-Gui" ;O8 CHARTER, ‘The clegaat and commodions Iron Steamer PILOT Boy. F ‘OB CHARTER, ‘The A. No.1 Steamer PRESS, Can be had for excursions ou ‘Thuredays and Fri- days af each wees. Apply to “ N. B. FITZHEGH, Agent, - ep ie-tecl 6b Street Wharf. __ MISCELLANE LEAVES YOUR ORDERS AT BEEN’S, 422 9th Street Northwest, _SHIAT PATTERNS CUT TO ORDER. jsn?-tu . Wholesalv aud etal Dealers in D. olesaly LIBE _Mmsyl-Im Corner ani North Capitol streets. Poe LAND (TZPORTED) CEMENT, wor masking Artificial stove or any kind of Uoncrete work for cellars, water works, pavements, bailt- irgs, bridges, &c., where strength is desirable. Ths best Cement in the world. Bole acent for Distcict of Columbia, WM. GUiNS NB, may2-tr 6235 Loutstana aroane, Ls LIME!) LIMIT WOOD-BUBNT LIMg. $1.00 per barrel Delivered in ail parts of the city. THOMAS FAHEY, _ap28 6m B street, bat. Wth and th n. HA Eg GF BOX Matcies. new; box « mati * For by al! Grocet ne rs. mayl5-39" S24. { McELROY, BAIRD & ce., 34,4 GILDEES AND UPHOLSTERERS. FINE STEEL BNGRAVIV! 0: WALBUT soa rut. FuauEs,: SED LmAS alLss FLOTUBE D. BOM MUULDINGS: BalLs) . ROOM MOULDINGS, BNITURB COVERE than any other house in the c mayll6* Abawice SEMINABY FOR YOUNG LADIES marily" Conteo's PMG A Prince Genes, E*r4se1 HED 1661. EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip. INTBENAL REVE + UB.—The receipts from this source to-day were $093,023.11, Gov. Huyprices, of Indiana, was on the floor of the House to-day. ‘Tre Consular and Diplomatic appropriation Dill was amended and passed by the House of Kepretentatives on Saturday. TuHaT INTERESTING COLLECTION, the Brann autotypes, will remain at Choate’s bookstore, in charge of the agent, Mr. Stornay,a day two longer at the request of various parties who are desirous of procuring sets of these famous pic- tures. ALL QuIeT IN ARKANSAS.—Diepatches from Captain Dore commanding the United States forces at Little Kock, to Adjutant Genera’ Townsend, report matters quiet there, both parties baving come to an agreement to dis Tm. . Dore has received orders from the headquarters of the department of the gulf to turn over the state arms to Baxter. NoMINATIONS.—The President sent the fol- lowing nominations to the Senate to-day: John Cochren, collector internal revenue tst Louisi- sna district. Postmasters—K. F. Gates, Thom- aston, Conn; S. M. Thacher, Hornelisyille, N. J; Jos. Jorgeman, Petersborg, Va.; Mra. Sasa: 4. Burkridge, Hopkirsville, Ky.; John Lec mis, Independence, lowa. In THe Hove To-pay, on motion of Mr. Coburn, the privilege of the floor was unani- mously grauted to the delegation of Indiana editors at present in the city. It was somewhat anfortupate that the motion should not have embraced the ladles accompanying the party, as many of the gentlemen whose wives were with them could not conveniently avail them- selves of the courtesy extended them. Tae Daten Suir Canat.,— Commander Thomas 0. Selfridge arrived here on Saturday, «direct from the Isthmus of Darien, where he hae been in company with the commissioners appointed by the government to examine the proposed route for a canal to connect the At- ‘antic and Pacific oceans. The United States teamer Gettysburg arrived at the Washington y yard Saturday, having on board the com missioners. Mn. Sannorn’s Lawyer (Mr. Prescott) was before the Ways and Means Committee this morning. He said he wrote to Sanborn on Sat- urday, but bad not yet heard from him. H declined to tell how he expended the money entrusted him ad Sanborn, claiming that it would be & violation of contidence as between counsel and client. He said, however, thar taost of the money was expended for procuring information for Sanborn. The committee re- ferred the matter toa sub committee, consist- ing of Messrs. Niblack, Kasson, and Dawes, who will make @ report to-morrow morning. ‘It is probable that they will respond in favor of pre- senting Prescott to the Hoase as in contempt, nd inease they so report the committee wil! ake prompt action, as they are determined not ‘co be tritied with. Manniace or Rereesestative Concer.— Representative O. D. Conger, of Michigan, was married to Mrs. B. Selby, of Minnesota, at the retidence of Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren,’ on Saturday atternoon last. The parlors ware beautifully decorated with spring flowers. The ceremony was performed by Key. J. G. But. ler, chaplain of the Honse of Representatives. There were present Hon. J.G. Blaine and lady, tur Ferry, Senator and Mrs. Chandler, Sen ator and Mrs. Oglesby, Hon. J. C. Burrows and lady, Hon. P. Sawyer and lady, Hon. W. W Field and Indy, Hon. H. Waldron and lady. Hon. @. Willard, Hon. W. 6. Williams, Hon G. B. Farwell, Hon. J 8 Monroe, Hon. R. U. Parsons, Hon. H. E. Paiue, wife and daughter, Mrs. Southworth, Gatl Hamilton (Mts: Dodge), Mr. and Mrs. Clisbee, and many others. Tue Heats or Szsator Faray.—a tele gtam from Hartford, Coxn., says: “Senator ferry, of this state, has reached his home in Norwalk, and his friends give up all hope of his ever being able to retarnto his place in the Senate chamber. He hes suffered from a spinal ditficulty for several years, though a few weeks ago itwas thought his general health was improving. Betors the legislature met ‘eading democrats talked contidently of hs ~esignation, and congrit' alated themselves that hey would have two senators to elect; and i hat event both Eaton and Barnum, the repre- sentative reformers of the partyin Connecti ut—one being for protection and monopoly, and the other for free trade and state rights— would be chosen, and all personal differences settled. There is yet a strong belief in the minds of some democrats that @ vacancy will axist before the legislature closes its session, but {am informed that while Mr. Ferry would re- sign were the republicans in power, he will not now do *0 as long as there is any prospect of hi- recovering. He has five years to serve from the 4th of last March.”* ————-wee- Tae Uanimer Crisis Im FRANoR.—The French government were defeated in the,As- sembly on Saturday by a test vote on the elect- oral law by 317 toSsl. The defeatof the gov- ernment and the resignationef the Ministers caused intense excitement in Paris. The vote against the government comprised threo han- dred and thirty-one members of the left, twenty Bonapartists, and thirty Legitimists. Ex-Pres- ident Thiers, who occupied his seatin the As- vembly throughout the proceedings, voted with the opposition. MacMahon accepted the resig- nation of the De Broglie Cabinet, and intrasted to Goulard the formation of a new ministry, who, on accepting the premiership, declared his policy would be to carry the constitutional bills through the Assembly and compiete the organ- ization of MacMahon’s powers. It is reported that Goulard is forming the new government from the yy centre aud the conservative por- bonged ot aide Mague oe! others of the late min! will probably be retained in office. The latest advices from Versailles men. tion Goulard as Minister of the Interior; Count Ghaudardy, Foreign Autairs; Magno, Finance; Mathieu Bode’, Public Works; Desseiligny, Commerce; Desjardnes, Edacation, and 5 Bertaud, War. The republican journais strongly urge the immediate dissolution of the Assembly, which they declare powerless to con stitute anything. [t is rumored that the ex- ‘reme right intend to move the restoration of the monarchy, and if the motion fails will vote fer dissolution. PEack in ARKAN. ‘Surrender of Brooks’ Forces Both houses of the Arkansas legisla- ture on Saturday passed a bill pending for the aesembl: of @ constitutional convention ow the 14th of July. The house of representatives declared all offices vacant where the officers have not come forward and taken their places. Brooks’ forces surrendered Saturday. All his men will be sent home without molestation. Baxter's forces will be disbanded as rapidly as the public peace will justify. HARD on THE GeanGers.—Tho Eufaula ‘Times tells a pretty hard atcry of a in Barbour county, Alabama. One of the lady members carried to the grange meeting a bou- uct cf flowers arranged sround a tassel of corn t had put in an early appearance, and Bot one of the masculine grangers could tell what sort of a flower that corn tassel wast = ——————— AT THE Lexincron (Kentvuoxy) Races on ‘consolat Saturday, the first race, for the tion purse for beaten i was won by Nellie Grim, in and 14¢. The race, a three.mile » was won by Tom Bowling. Time, 5:36. SENTENCED FoR MuRDsR.—Ambrose John- son, colored, for kill Willis Smith, also colored, in July last has found guilty ot mes hai. itentiary by the ciresi, seven years @ pen! it court of Albemarie, Va. Sap Disaster To 4 Litre Boy.—In Jersey Gitre John McCarthy, aged four years, was bitten im the band by an organ monkey in ‘riday, and £0 jured it ad nécessar ‘Smpetaee the hand. oe a Miller, ef Usion BRUGN. Pon aaron Renee o - ¥. & or since, horsewhipped her husband eo seve : his fn, life ts in result of his fn} THE DISTRICT INVESTIGATION. Arguments of Coumelt for Memorial- It was stated in Saturday's Star that counsel for msmorialists had filed their arguments with the Joint Congreesional Committee investigat ing District affairs. ‘MR. MERRICK’S ARGUMENT. Mr. Wm. M. Merrick, in opening the case for his clients, refers to their rights and the duty of Copgress and committee, a» he understand< it, ang then says: The first fatal vice which ar- rests attention, and the poisonous operation of which is visible in every stage of the disastrous administration of the last three years, was oc- casioned by wresting the organic act, through false constructious, into the establishment of two distinct, coordinate, and practically inJe- pendent powers within the territory; and tha’ which was meant to be a subordinate agenoy, to act only at the bidding and within limits tobe prescribed by the Legislative Assembly, at th very outset asserted a practically uabridie! authority over the property interests and the taxing power of the community. The Board ot Public Works at once asserted discretionary powers, and having asserted has continued tw exercise them with a rashness, folly, aud favor itiem which has wrought oppression upon the citizen, bankruptcy upon the community, and asbeme upon the nation. =* * * It is quite apparent that the restraints of law have not been sufficient to keep them within apy bounds, and it is equally apparent that ‘heir transgressions have been de/vyerate if not preconcerted. It will be remembered that on the 10th ot July, 1871, the four-million appro- priation bill was passed, pursuing the schemo of improvement which had been sabmitted to che Legislative "Assembly, and shortly after, upon the 19th of August, 1371, another foar- million loan bill was passed. When these bills were brought up for the review of Congress, the Board of Public Works, alarmed by the gath- ering storm of public indignation, was among he foremost, estensibly, in advocating the ab rogation of the Isw of August i9th, and in pro- curing thereby the limitation of the loan to 24,000,000, and of the special taxes for all im- provements to $2.000,000. (Starkweather re- port, p. 5.) But Congress, uot contenting it- self with abrogating the law of Augast 19th, as aturther measare of precaution declared tha: the debt of the District ot Columbia, including the debts of the late corporations, should at no time exceed the sum of $10,000,000, uuless an sperease Over that amount should have been previously authorized by act of Congress. If, then, after the warnings of the Starkweather committee, after their own adjarations be- tore that committee, and after the severe pro hibitions’of Congress, this board has steadily gone on with open eyes violating the law of the ‘and and trampling upon its sanctions, defying public opinion and the remonstrances of the tax-pay ing citizens, is it to be said thatsach a -ourset procedure is not among the highest Times against society? Is it any answer to a charge so grave, isitany mitigntion of its in- jury to the people, to plead that because the in Jividal members of the Board of Public Works are notelestly proved to have been guilty of embezzlement or some other of thoss infamous crimes of which the penal law takes cogmzance, that therefore they must be acquitted by this committee and by the uation? We may infer hat this defense ts to be relied upon, for not- withstanding all the long list of abuses of power and profligate expenditure, and incompetent administration which bave been laid betore the committee, we hear from their external advo- cates: Why, youhave made no case; you have found nothing which impeaches the personal ‘ntegrity of the members of the board. In the eyes of statesmen integrity is measured by a far liffefent standard from jthat by which petty arceny is tried in @ police court. With states men it means fidelity to law, implicit obedience ‘© its requirements, complete avoidanca of »verstepping its bounds, its diligent execution incpiritand in leiter, an exact and studios re- gard for the rights apd property of the ettizen. Referriag tothe anpaid schoo! teachers, Mr. Merrick contends that ‘4 comparison of ac counts was made, tha r ch is stated clusively sLowed th: and, but for wilifui mi ohaye been in the tres 2 collected, ay of March, when in point of tac been paid to those patient suffs out eight months * * * Passing from hat too painful subject, we recur to the min ser and spirit in which the generat mprovements within the District v# z ed. The Boare of Public Works prepared and -ubmitted tothe Legislative Assembly on the 2th of June, 1871, @ report upon the gensra ley and character of improvements contem slated, accompanied by a detailed pian of the form and manner of their execution, and 4 pro- essedly accurate estimate of the cost of com nleting the same. A perusal of that docamen at pages 7, 8, and 9of the record, and a com varison of its statementsand arguments with jate subsequent action mus: mind that they were either grossly ignorant of the duties they nad assumed, that it was coutrived on purpose to deceive and entrap the public. That they were not crosely ignorant is evident from the previous personal and professional experieace of at least *wo of that board, as also from the sound rea. oning aud well-drawn conclusions from pablic experience, which are expressed on tue face of he paper itself. It only remains, then, to infer tbat the paper was contrived to obtain power and means by which they could carry out their erior objects and have full svops for the sys em of favoritism upon which they suddenly entered and the reckless extravagance in whic! othe end they have persevered. La that re- port they state “that, as a rale, the value of vroperty in the District will not warrant the general introduction of wood or other expen- sive pavements, and that if at all used poet should be confined to a few of the principal syenues of communication.” Aud in the plan estimate submitted to the Legislative Assembly they designite but two ehiet thoroughfares, to wit, 7th strest south and 14th street north, besides the then unfin- ished part of Pennsylvania avenue west, as proper to be paved with wooden pavements; no concrete pavement whatever was recom- mended. bat followed? An advertisement was issued designating certain streets to be paved or macadamized, inviting proposals fur bids, from which advertisement, and the plaa «nd law under which it was issued, no one, who was not in the secrets of operation, could fairly nfer that open competition for wood, still leas for conerete pavements was seriously invited for more than two of the streets therein named. Chose who were behind tue curtain kuew othar- wise, and hence we tind tho-e conspicaons m- dividuals, Lewis Filbert, Johu O. Evans, and Lewis Clephane, the prominent almost the only bidders for those classes of pavement. at various rates; none of themtoulow. # # Nor in considering the question of “favoritism and fraudulent combination to thedetriment of the public welfare, and the needless axoanse end prs gene upon the people of the Dis- trict, should we fail to give due weight to the immense real-estate operations of Hallet Kil- bourn, the head and apparent contriver of the paving “ring” and the landed “pool.” By his own confession upon the witness-stand he was interested in the paving contracts of Evans and Clepbane, but the extent of his interest ne pro- feeses to be ulterly ignorant of, and thet he has benefit from & continuance so artfully arranged, 80 persistently carried out, and involving, = tions costing nearly two millions of dollars. With ‘is ‘real estate operations, the of ignorance failing him, this wit- defies the authority of the commit- tee and declines toreveal the names of his federater. Honest men can see no reason why the ownership of real estate should be con- cealed from the world. Guilt = need men. Tr. Merrick next contends that rialists have Board of Public We probibitions of law extra com} sation foc were had been done, i. their have been $26,822,6M3.(3. Crediting that sam with appropriation made by the bounty of Congress of $5.597 10.4, leaves an eypenditare chargeable to the people of the District of $23,224,552 55. When to that is added the debt. of the old corporations, of $4.350,159.11, the sam makes $27,571,721.63. Of this last amount, by the receipts from the people in the shape of gentral taxe?, payment of 10 per cent. assess- ment.certificates, aad 8 per cent. improvement certificates, there have been realized $5,10,- 92.72, which deducted, leaves the present debi of $22, 107,793.98. How far this result may be av securate als of ihe, trae inde em Tought the poople, as it in point of ract stands to-day, no man can tell. It is certainly § correct computation trom the only accessible jata which have been furnished. And it prob ably fells much below the true amouut which would appear if ail the elements were faratsucd by those who alone poesess the sources of in formation. He then speaks of “the sewerag> tax, it « absolute and crushing injastice, aud its utter iegality.” Speaking of the measurements he says:— “This committee has been also specially charged to inquire whether correct measure- ments have been made of the work done by the board. Here we have the most humiliating spectacie of frand and falsehood in the long ca- reer of malversation. It may scem to be a bold assertion, but in the 1,030 contracts for work and improvements of various kinds, it cannot safely be maintained that there was absolate accuracy in atingle one of them. I say it can- uot be maintai that there was accuracy of measurement and charge in any one of them tor the reason tnat in all of them, where oppor (unity for examination Las existed, there are found serious, in many cases enormous, 1 not tg Socsuinit errors, and in pone of them have there been errors against, or to the loss of the contractors.”” Speaking of the accounts of the treasurer of the Board of Public Works, Mr. Merrick asks: “‘But how have the accounts of the office been infact kept?” and answers it by saying, ‘As \oorely and unsatisfactorily as every other oranch of the service has been administered.” * * * “And now aiter all these proofs ot oxtravagance and folly—of profligacy, favorit- em, fraud, di-regard of law, and open usurpa- tion of power, who are to be held responsible? Are we to pass over those whose solema duty it sto take care that the laws be faithfully exe- cuted and seek for scape-goats among the tram bling underlings of office? * * * What is the practical remedy for the evils with which we are confrovted’ I answer premptly, a total reconstruction of the frame of government for this people—a total recon- struction, and a new and reliable body of agents tor its administration, having no constituent of the old frame-work in its composition; a tem porary assumption of all administrative facnl- cies by officers appointed under congressional uthori'y, and particularly an suditing board, be selected by this committee, with the sanc- ion of the two houses, to take inttant posses «ion of all the books and voachers and papers, «nd to examine rigorously into the accoants of he presevt administration, and to report the reguit of their labors at the next session of Gon- ares. Unless such an auditing board beestab- lished the faint traces of truth at which you have been able to arrive will be obliterated, and the countless deeds of darkness yet unre- vealed be forever hidden from the angry eye of justice. When this report shall have been made, such practical relief from the ascer- tained burdens of the ple as may be powsidle can be applied, and the respective rights and obligations between the citizens of the District avd the Federal Government be finally settled and determined for guidance in the fulure.”” MR. SHELLADARGER’S LEGAL ARGUMENT. Mr. Shellabarger, in bis legal argument to the committee, says: You come to this inquiry not as either a judge, to dispose of mere ques tions of law; not as jurors, to dispose of mere questions of personal guti uct without the reaponsibi! you come in th. solemn responsi! as the rulers of a g to them tor bow y9: your justic man ever acts— and responsible your pradence, intelligence, m din your rule in this District. nme, then, for ad- Fou that it is nol se much the Dis snuct goverLmeat which is on trial bere as tt is the Congress itself. = # do not desire at mere errors of Ww ion, or mistakes aboat on the part of ited by your se- vere condempation, where good faith and dili gent attention to duty have not been lacking So,on the other hand, we shall demand that habitual profligacy, oppression, injustice, fa voritism, fraud, and disregard of law shall not ‘wcape its merited overturow rorgut the cover of learned ‘mistuke,” or of things of their own sir xot, in shape of ‘sewer ac's” and the like, oni of their own Joins, upon the body of an ‘‘easy”” egisiature. He then argues, under the head of ‘the plan,” that the 5: of improvement which the Board of Public Works hus prosecu- ed isone not authorized by law, bat, on the other band, is a sheer usurpation, prosecuted in riminal, oppressive, and flagrant disregard of ‘eth law, justice, and the publicly and oficially plighted faith and honor of these officers. Ex heusting the legal points here, he takes up the juestion of the District debt, and argues that it was incurred in clear violation of law. He then argues the illegality of the sewer tax, and con- ends that there have been clear violations o: other Clauses of law which he cites. To-day’s Session. The Joint Special committee investigating affairs in the District of Columbia met this morning at balf-past eleven o'clock. J Gregg, sworn:—Reaides in Urbana, Ohio; resided prior to that time in Helen: Arkansas, in Kansas, and in Saudusky, Ohio; my occupation bas been railroading on the Kan- sag Pacific railroad and other psints; was book- keeper and paymaster on the Sandusky rail- was @ contractoronthe Kansas Pacific iiroad re had contracts under the Boar of Public Works for paving a portion of itn and 15th street and the Boundary sewer. Q. What portion of the work did you do yoar- sel? A. None of it. Q. How came you to get thos contracts? A. I made personal application to Gor. Shopherd; never applied to any members of the board; i (the Governor) awarded all the contra: w me on personal application. I did not apply to the board; 1 sub-let 7th and 15th streets to Dr. Filbert; be took it iu charge; 1 gave him an ad solute power of attorney to do ull the work. Q. How iorg after you got this contract was it Ull you sub-let? “A. About a month or a month and a third; Lhad no arrangement with any one to de the work befure [ got ths con tract; I was recommended to Goveruoe Siep- herd by Senntor Dorsey. what terms did yon sub-let? A. Tay ‘bert were to pay me 25 cents per yard for the pavi ment and 5 cents per yard for the gtading; ave received from the paving con- Fact—feonsuiting paper]—i can’t tell now; 1 have not the figures. Q. Approximately? A. About $3,200; about half of the work is yet to be cone. Q. Did you have a partuer in this transac- tion? A. None sir; Iwas to pay one-half of the profits to Mr. Colt, a cor’ "and dent in this city; he took charge of my interest. D the contract for the - ork F assignment to bim; he was to goon and do the work. Adams was to receive all but Tx per cent. of the profits. The sewer was to be paid for at $36.38 per lineal foot. The con- tract was let to me at the office of the Board of Public Works. Q. Do know at what rate the cortificates to be m for payment for the work were to be estimated? A. Yes, fir; at par; am not aware anything was to be added to the price on account of payment made in certificates. Adams bas performed it 900 feet of the sewer Ca ee have received $34,230.66. Q. How been paid? A. For auditor's warrants; don’t know what kind. » Oolt received 3 he acted as my agent, aud | avided with 5 Q. What amount have received on this account? A. You mean the sewer? Q. Yes, Fifteen hundred dollars; can’t tell how much is yet due me. Mr. Wilson read from the records of the board the contract Star, TWO CENTS. - to do the work but was in money matters, (don't know where Mr. Taylor is; met him in New York about months ; Dr. Filbert is op his way to [ow bim at five o'clock iv a mo pa —— ‘these contracts; did not mee! personally. By Governor ‘—I told the Gover- janted men of By Mr. Wilson :—Q. Who was to furnish you the means? A. Senator Dorsey. Q. How was he to furnish you the means? A. He i a ——— of money, aud ( expect get my pay, there was noarrange- went ontstanding he was to have any fn. verest in the work. Mr. Charles 8. Jobnson was called to explain be entry, ‘The board met at the usual hour,” without stating who was prese: nt. Witness explained that be made the minutes Umsel: from actaal transactions. Ther y of the board present. said by Wednesday next he vould present a siatement showing the amount of money expended on avenues since 1S10. At a quarter past 12 o'clock the oummittes ook a recess until 2 p. m. AFTER RECESS. The committee met at 2:15 p. m., ani caiied W. H. Adams, a contractor under the board, sho testified that he did not pay hts emplo; because be could not get any money from the Board of Pablic Works with which to meet his obligations. The committee then adjourned until 10 8. m. to-morrow. FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS, Mono. May 13. SENATE.—Mr. Frelinghuysen introduced bill to encourage and promote telegraphic ~ommunication between the United States and Asia. Keferred to Committee on Commerce. Mr. Edmunds submitted a concurrent reso- ution providing for a sine dic adjournment of he two Houses on Jane 22, which he asked be iaid over and printed. On motion of Mr. Spencer the President was requested to transmit to the Senate the reports eceived by the civil service comn.ission from be heads of departments and bur. stating “he full effect of che civil service rules and reg- ulations in their respective departments. Mr. Hamlin called up bill to relieve ships and versels from compulsory pilot fees in certain Mr. Frelinghuysen opposed the bill. Pending the discussion the morning hour ex- vired, and the bill went over, Mr. Boreman gave notice that at the earliest practicable period he would call up the bill to create the territory of Peinbina. The biil for the relief of Hiram W. Love was secommitted to the Committee on Claims. Mr. Morrill (Me.) submitted a motion, that luring the remainder of the session it suali be norier at any time to move @ recess; that no pecial order shall hereafter be made, ant peud- ng an &ppropriation bill to move to coutine the tebate op any pending amendment to tive m| ates for each Senator, and that no amendme proposing new legisiation to an appropriation oill shall be received: Provided, that this sha‘l not apply to the Post Office appropriation bill. Adopted’ Mr. Frelinghaysen submitted an amendment to the legislative appropriation bill appropri- ating $13,000 for additional clerks forthe State department and imposing charges for pass- ports, which he said would bring an additional ‘ucowe to the department of $95,000. Referred -o Committee on Appropriations. HOUSE OF REPRKESENTATIVES.—Under the call of states for bills aud joint resolutions tor reference only, the following, among others, were introduced and referred, viz: By Mr. Scudder (N. ¥ actof March 3d, is mission of mer wreck, £0 25 to pro ” sunk for o - J.)—Bill to ani. in relation to tolders and sailors homest/ By Mr. Sypher (Li meut of the mouth of the Mississippi r deepening the channel of the southwest py: By Mr. Kead (Ky.)—Bill to amend the act re tricting the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, and to pr ont for qaartermas ter's stores: nited States. By Mr. Rusk (Wis.)—Hill for the bet curity of Navigation on the Mississ * to amend the , in relation to the tree ad By@Ir. Dunnell (Minn )—A bili i the an Printing House and Publication so- Also. a bill to p for ‘ninority representation in the boards uf dire> ore of Stock compantes. DISTRICT. BILLS, By Mr. Chipman (D. C.):—A concarre lution of the Legislature of the Distric lumbia. Also, @ bill 'o aid the Colambis nstitate for the Blind. Also, a bill explanatory 1f the act incorporating the Washington Mar- set-house Company. By Mr. Butier (Mass.):—A bill to authorize appointments in the medica’, ordnance and subsistence departments of the U. S. army. By Mr. Thornburg (‘Tenn.):—Bill to amend he act regulating and securing the safe-keeping vf public moneys in the hands of disbursing vfficers of the United States. By Mr. Starkweather (Conn.):—Bill to seenre anti-monopoly telegraph communication be- tween America, Europe and Asia, by W. Cor- uell Jewett and bis a-sociates. TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR, 4 New Youxk, May 18.—Specials from scene of the Massacturctts flood state that on the west ban >f Mill river is the Goshen reser- voir, larger by nearly one-half than the bursted Ashficid reservoir, to which it bas always been reckoned inferior ‘instrength. It isowned by the same men whose own fortunes with their own reservoir have jast been wrecked. The peo- ple of the valley seat up Satarday three moasa- 2es in quick succession to get the gateway of the Gosben reservoir opened and left opened till the dem conid be examined and Se it necessary. The gate-keeper refi to open it, and finally Saturday night an agent of tae ter company went upin person and com- lied him to let off the water. Here there are 0 reservoirs, One above the other in the same ine, the jower and larger 12 years old, and the latter new. The people of “Mill river vailey ve promised themselves that no want of shall make possible such another overwhelming disaster. THE WORK OF RELIEP. At eeven o'clock in the morning the great bell sf the Northampton Old Charch tolled solemu- ty, calling the peop'e together to search for missing bodies. Notices were piaced in con- spicuous places which read, “‘All able bod‘ed men of Mill join whatever expedition was afoot. Lieut. Governor Talbot was there and aided the local suthorities in organizing a relief train full of men which left Nortuampton depot at 7.3) o'clock for Florence, Leeds, and Haydenville. Wagons and every kimi of vehicle were pressed snto similar service. Parties started ont on foot and worked along the woods skirting the river and railroads. Kumors as to the dams havin; 1s also stated that they on Friday and reported -‘all right.” THE MAN WHO TOOK EP TEB CRY at Haydenville and carried it to Leeds was —— Day" A little before it o'clock, while ali the of this place just going to work or their breakfast, their atten- the appearance of Myron his time stood at ir coward Florence, and the “looked north coward North dam and saw there what sesmed ro them as enormous moving em asthe crest of an Sree peed paras. They knew wnat it was RUSHED WILDLY UP THE SLOPES houses ap tat wit abies pend or wetersaed » fast. dl getting ready school. [n less than bree minutes the stone and the great columns of water, iron wheels, try, and ne Ys Ba! have been pe ‘ail ing sway for the work. Back ot pau to thelr book-keepers! i a pit it 1g Story, ‘the folks must know lt coll tuning bis fleet horse into a run, he dashed poe tae yd Haydenville, shouting «The res- ervoir is right bere! Run— it’s tl you ean do!” On went horse and rider, spreading the alarm, Graves shOuting all the 'w.y. Ha made directly for the manufactaring o=' ablishmenta, for,” said -he, “the ony warning Skinneryille the messenger was ahead of the coming torrent, tenville they bad bat two preadthe alarm. Ti ‘and bere another herald took up the Graves could hear nyse crashed past him. Indeed, be was not twenty seconds too soon, And as it was be had almost lespaired of reaching a place of safety. and had even thought of abandon ng ‘is red steed to its fate. Among the aad inc af seven young girls who elim it thiok: ‘TRE nopYT “4 a bey camp four years old was found wilh « pir of new “hoes in its band, Ip the tors of the shoes were ound four twenty dollar bills, which the mother had probably tried to*ave. In an oddy between Skinversville and Williamsburg ere foand the bodies of seven persons, includin, those of Dr. Jobneon and some of his family. aaa The Cabinet Crists # ; PAILUBB OF GOULARD'S ATTENIT TO FORM A CABINET. Pants, the nts was that Loto an apple Would stand, but they were all — Le Journal des Debats to-day tempt of Goulard to form cabinet as completely failed. The same paper also «ays Magne, minister of finance in the last esbi- net, bas refused to come to Paris at present in conrequence of ill health. Bete Trees Against Gen. Webb. ERSION UF OPINION AS May 18 —A card from the son of Gen. Webb calls for a suspension of pablie jndgment in regard to the matter referred to in Con on Saturday until the General, who \e now in Europe, returns at once to make his complete defence. THE RASSACHUSETTS RESETVOIR HORROR. Thrilling Detatis of the Great Disaster ONE HUNDRED AND FIPTY Lives Lost. 2 In THE STAR On Saturday onr telegraphic dispatches furnished the particulars of the bursting of a reservoie four miles north of Hay- denyille, Mass, which was attended with great loss of life and property. Later dispatches ‘The William-barg reservoir, covering a tract of overone nundred acres, gave way early in the forenoon on Saturday, precipitating the vast mass of water it contained three miles down the steep and narrow vailey into the thriving manufacturing village of Williame- burg, and thence farther down the valle: ough the villages of Haydenvi'le, Leods, an Florence into Northampton Meadows, where (be stream empties into the Connecticut river The huge torrent dasbing into Williamsburg with relentless power swept sw: 4 the manufactu: establish bers of dwelling € property and terrible loss of b The lower villeges suffered only less The latest Hgures of the loss of life total 144, divided as follows between the three Willismsbarg, 60; Leeds, 40; Hayden- ¥ 5. These figuras ouly represent persons whose loss is positively known, though the bodies of all are recovered. Boties are con- stantly being found, and in some cases those of persons who were not supposed to be lost, #0 ‘hut it seems perfectly eafe to say that the loss { life will exceed one handred and fif-y, if, ndecd, it docs vot more nearly approach two hundred. TRE CAUSB OF THE CALAMITY Naccounts atiribute the disaster to woak- nes: and iusecarity of the reservoir works. The walle were not thick enough to resist the pres areof one hundred five acres of y c 1, ma portion of the walls at the time of bail 1566, Was hurriedly fintshed by the con- jor, owing to the approach of cold weather, work did not receive the earefa! super- mit required. Persons interested in the owners, who depended on it € that it fusecare, and me to strengthen it. At no * been free from leaks, and caping was so arge as to cause slarm; but repsirs were made, snd the boar f examiners ot Hampshire ounty have repeatedly deciared the reservoir safe. Latterly more confidence had been felt. TERILLING NARRATIVES OF A RACK WITH THE FLOOD. Gcorge Cheney, gate keeper, who first dis- ‘overed the trouble, makes the following state- ment: He went out a® usual Satarday morning about six o'clock. Everything fovked all right. Che reservoir was full. as it bad been for seve- ral days. Water was flowing ont of the waste, It war on the west side past his house, i way having been closed for a fortnight. There was no sign of an im ing cal ihe, and Cheney returned to his house. His family, in- cluding bis wife, several children, and’ his father, sat down to breakfast. They were just Gnishing the meal when @ great noise was beard, and the old man, who was standing at one of the eastern windows, exclaimed: «For God's sake, George, look there!” About forty feet in let of bottom of the reservoir on che east side, just beyond the gate, was shoot- ing down the stream. Cheney seems to have realized the situation and y at once. With a sin, to the discon: of his duty, and al without stopping to consider the danger, he rushed to and let on the water full bead, in hopes that this might posm- bly afford relief and avert da: 5 7h € paused a m1 nt to invest jou of the walls where the break lad taken piace. A glance showed him that it could hardly fatl in @ few minutes to give way en- rirely. Streams of water as large as a man's arm were forcing their way through, new ones sppearingeévery womont. The wall was con- eiaptly crumbling away. Its utter downfall was evidently only a question of minutes. Cheney rushed to bis house and told his father © wes going to the village to warn the people. Together they hurried to the barn, « few rods velow, and, whilo Cheney was throwing the tridle apon bis horse, Lis tather eat him a stick. Leaping upon bis horse's back and plying vig- orously his lash, he rode st topmost s; ed down the road that skirted the stream to Willlams- borg, covering the three miles, he thiuks, in fifteen minutes. It was then abuut half-past uive o'clock. Driving to the house of Mr. Spelt- wan, who had general charge of the reservoir, he summoned that gentleman from his break- fast table to startle him with “The reservoir's going!” It was but the night before that Che- rer fea deen talking wiih bim aboat the reser- hh that everything leoked all right for the summer. Spellman could not at first credit the statement. He artling ane ent replied: “Roy icant . replied: «No; it can’t But Cheney quickly told him of the earth = i : é i m i i a fei See i 3 H HI E H Fj HY) ; B ! i 3 i 8 eit EF fl i i i ? in Haydenvilio. i i; i ii i i i i Hi Fe HH tf ; fi a i