Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1874, Page 1

LS a THE EVENING STAR. | PUBLISBED DAILY, Sundays Exeepted, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Pennsylvania Avenue, cor. 1th St. sY THR EVENING aTAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY, 8. KALEP MAND , Prev. ° y carriers to 2 WEEK, at the ay THE WBSKLY STAR—Poh ayear, ST t tay— 8120 ance, in both cases, | Bnd Bo paper set SF Rates of advert ication EXCURSIONS, &e. qt OF stLy he river f. flord eamers CITY OF ALEXA 2 PILOT BOY from th - Biund-trip SO csule. gt! OF suLy E\CTRSION | STEéE8 LADY OF THE LAKE PINEY POINT AND PUINT LooKoUT. Sixth Regiment M N.G of the eccasion. | LADY OF | + aad eeper round-trip, for sale ow Donner, $1, sapper and b ery ¢ {fort will be made to make it plowant a exble, and worthy of the patronege of our cit further information apol ‘A. © "PLANT, Acont. (j2850 S0cTaL FESTIVAL ont ST. DOMIST i by their parents, admitted T 30 Con's. gil stey exe LEONARDTOW PINZY POINT, MARSHALL'S AND POINT LOOKOUT. The si EAN 29.4t KSION ANNA will TURDAY, J «for th points! t Lookont Satarday b ITED OFDER OF GALILEAN ¢ JOHN E. BOSS, 2. FOURTH OF JULY SSEVOLENT SOCIETY GELOWN merovs friends i ri ORDER OF THE SOCIETY. Perr? Loon ovr. ENCAMPMENT WEEK S'STH REGIMENT STEAMBOAT POTOMAC COMPANY, LEAVE CALTIMOBE! st. D. m., Carrying Sixth Be + Carrying Governor m LEAVE WASHINGTON nrdar. July sth. at $5) 0.1m Monday, Dilt will Le I's and Piney aly 4th, the Vander! Li \F Point every Satu: rt PL Fey. HILL, Agent. 9 Light-st. Wharf, Baltimore, Ma. AMER CULUMBIA LEAVES COMMERCE BALTIMORE SYERY SaTt ING HERB A TURN 1 WHANK, FOO ON TUESDAY aT 9 BALTIMORE ATS £ Either of f - IRKIVING Mt THORKSUAY ar- Mondays an: each at reasonable races, iio! STEPHENSON & BROTHER, re* MARSBALL HALL, GLYMONT. AND DILL’S PAVILION on Steamer UT BOY every clock, on an for Gth-street THURSDAY ‘N TSP SHMENTS on e tiene, and espe ISL PARTIES, an o; ca poi ty capabie of 2 ame i vs or over every line aud from Phtl- i extend to all E? 1 ‘ast and Nor : by applytoe above. J018-1m B CHARTER, ‘The elegant and commodions Iron Steamer PILOT BOY. a. B 5 wa 8 Ber, sn be bad for excursions on Thuredays and Fri- prt " M. B. FITZEUG: “Bares xa rereacon, age, & EXCURSION: ‘The Steamer =e e he on tl Por ac rt bas® saloon and ar ee ee PE Se Sm Tth-street Whe, 1 BE STEAM YACHT WANDEBER can be artere! y stall for Bxcar- sions to CHAIN BEE |. or other points, on th ‘otoemac, Apply st 949 Massachu ane, 16-3m" Mack aw STRAW HaTs, WE H4¥B ANOTHER SUPPLY OF TH, PES RASLE STRAW HAT, FORK MEN AND “ ILLETT «& RU 909 Penmsylvania prenuc, itaw ork avenue | rorvhwest. on SATUBDAT | romd « J vening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1874. TWO CENT ¥ JUNIOR KNIGHTS OF ST. CO} KiLbe wn a ANNUAL PIONIO at Le Gar. den and Lit street Jniy 4, 1376 cents. Dsuciog comuyaces at 20°bck. An eMcient police force will be on the grayna t3 ay LOM- preserte strict order. (BAND UNION Pio ' f Lenetit of or the ber a § TED ORDER OF THE SONS AND = De UHTR RS uF LISERTY, will be. SATUEBDAY, J SKsGE'3 G qi & short ride over ths Baltimore nad Potomac rail- ut fire minutes’ KTH OF JOLY EXCURS! VEKNSON—iWO TEL vr ABBOW. r DAY, July (ib, st 0a mand do’cik m. Returning, !save Mt Vernon’ 7 giving parties who wish pand a pportnnity at this besatifal place, I Kets, $1, 391-3¢ ‘PRE KNIGUTS OF ST. PATRICK Will sive their iru GBAND ANNUAL PIO-NIO AT BEYER'S ate STRBET PARK, FOURTH OF JULY. each; childran under ten a by their parents, free. ‘cing commences at 12 m. To the Washivaton public it is unnecessary to wld that the strictest decorum will beenforcad, To se- cure good order all necessary steps have bo-n taken. iyi fourtsa OF JULY BXCUASION TKIF To COLTOS's, BLAKISTON'S ISLAND, LEONABDTOW PINEY POINT, and MABSHALL'S. The fine steamer PILOT BOY wharf on SATURDAY, Jaly $o'clock p. m for the abov calling at h pe ner snel landirgs, and arriving at Piney Poi nStnday morning WM. H. BYLES, Ags Bep} 6 re ayl-3t _ [Chron &R « GRAND PICNIC, JULY 4, 1574. WASHINGTON GROVE CAMP GEOUND, CN METKU ITAN B. t Charches and + NION Paci on SATUS fr friends will oe ed d and abundant shade: aust, jaolt:, balls aud io Railroads at Fat? p.m, My from 4to e & (9.4, EF. Simp- + Peonsylemuia aveuns; Pur- bh ; Joseph H. Hartley, store, Bridge si Pennsylvania avenue, Toomas H. Langisy; thweat, Com nittee will be the arrangements 2030-42 helt on the vrounds to comp! for helding the camp. ACURSION SEASON OF 1-71. ROUTE BOOKS NOW READY. Procure a Book and Select Your Route, . SRN Ww. NS GEORGE, &.5 $6. Largest combinstien of Bonte ever offered the mblie. : shove Tickets for sale at office of GREAT ‘The PENNEYLVANIA ROUTE, NoutmEsst Conven SMITH, Agent. Ned ettbatat. * PERCY AMUSEMENTS. WASHINGTON SCHUETZEN VEREIN. Grand Schuetzenfest To-Day. Je30-5t Comlece—summee THEA’ JUBE 29, EVEEY nigEys AND TWO MATI- OPEN-AIB ENTERTAINMENT! THE GBRATEST VARIETY COMPANY EVER APPEARING IN WASHINGTON. Production of the sparkling sensatien entitled, THE NEW YORK FIBEMEN > xD A VISIT TO VAUNHAGL GABDENS I.trodncing in the last act the Glorious Garma and French Can-can. Je29-6t" "THIS IS 70 NOTIPY my friends ant the pub- tic im general that I will have charge of the WINE BAR st the SCHUBTZEN PASE (below the Sausage Stand) during the Festival. The best brands of Wine sold by the glass or bot tle, and a groat variety of Mixed Driuks. jeoT-6t" HENRY WIL. SCHUETZENFEST AT THE PARK and my customers in am now selling my stock at greatly reduced Prices, #o as to prepare for the fail traie, CHEBOMOS at half the former price, to close that brapch of the business. VELVET FL4M8 and PASSE-PARTOUTS re. qoctd 28 per cent. All style GOLD, BLACK, WALNUT and VELVET FBAMES kept on hand’ Bd ade to orde: jel5-1 On Exhibitien and Saie\Nzw No “39 MARKRITER j baihael 39 Tth street, between D and 18 streets, eight on Odd Fallows’ Ball. ie s Filer fewer Faaeinta Ors ram K eyes, Hells &c., ta the a SZ Please remeniber Name and Number. jel-ly" L KIN. CAST.OFF WEABING AP- A‘ ABIL. canbe oto ue ty Bt siventage b: or calling on USTH, 619 D street, between 6th and 7th promptly attended to. Cash paid. FOURTH OF JULY HEADQUARTEES. FIBB-WORKS, Of all descriptions. BOMAN OANDLES. TRIANGLE?, SAXON WHEELS, CBA TORPEDOES, LANTERN’ WHOLSSAL Please call and examine my stick befure purchas elsewhere. me ‘CH, RUPPEBT, 403 zn streot, je89-8t Headqvarters for Fire-Works, )TICE TO GAS CUNSUME, On Gas consumed after June 30th, the i reduced Aity conte, per 100 cuble fost es Ta 2 75 2s Gross price.......... Discount, paid ie bales TC mn TT) BaiLeyY; Gee... WUHEE MIN 2 onmaw papor Sor. Sy oa a aie sete-rar* EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip. InTRRN AL REVEsUE.—The reczipts from this fou: ce to-day were 0 THE TOTAL NUMER dismissed from all the departments is not far from 700. Finer Lizvr. £ GAN, 12th U. S. ihfantry, bas been appointed captain and com- wi-sary of subsist Ir 18 RUMORED, at 3 p. m., that Glenni W. Schotield, ot Pennsylvania, 1s to be appointed Postmaster General. morrow night, with his family, tor Long Branch but the press of business crowded upon him wil Probably delay his departare until next Mon- day. Mr. Jamzs Girvittan, formerly chief of the division of loans of th® treasurer's office, and at present chief clerk of that office, be appointed to succeed Mr. H. V. Vanderbilt, ap- pointment clerk of the Treasury department. TH Wa psrartwenr, in general orders just issued, publishes for the informa- ion and government of all concerned the act of Congress ‘to protect lines os telegraph con. structed or used by the United States from ma- licious injury and o! ” THE FOLLOWING TR RS are announced in special orders from army headquarters in the 9th infantry: 2d Lieut. A. H. M. Taylor, from 0. 1 to co. H, vice 24 Lieut. George B trom co. Hf to co. 1. In the 2: i L. Clem, - Lester, from Tue Mourn oF THE Mississiprt.—Tne Sec- retary of War has appointed the following com- missioners to examine the mouth of the Missis- sippi river. Army engineers—Generals Wright and Alexander, and Colonel Comstock; civil engineers—W. Milner Roberts, J. D. Whitcomb and —— Sickles; coast survey Prof. Mitchell. Tae Treasury DerartMent is tranquil to-day, the storm created by the discharges having lulled. The seat of war has now been transferred to the White House, the ante-room this morning being filled with « large numberof dismissed female employes anxious to secure excentive influence to reinstate them in their positions, THE NEW Division in the Treasury depart ment for the redemption of national bank uetes, in connection with the office of Treas- arer of the Uni be presided over by Mr. E. 0. Gra ef examiner of the civil servi Coon will ba the kr A. Simons assis Underwood and W. V.S. Wilson SSWELL stil’ pre- » department. When n to his selection as to settle up the atfair= of the Freedmen's bank, he stated that Iie hat not heen apprised of the matter, and it woul: require some consideration before he made uy his mind whether to accept such a trast. tides over the Post (ti thown the item in re RAND BROADABAD, of the Treasury Department, to whom has been confided the auditing the accounts of the late ot Public Works, visited the Colambix ings this morning, and were shown through it by some of the gentlemen present who were connected with the office. Messrs. W: Magruder and Blake were present, and rece: the Controllers most cordial! Tar New Assistant SECRETARY OF THE TReasvRY.—This morning, Mr. Conant, the newly-appointed Assistant Secretary of the ‘Treasury, accompanied by Secretary Bristow, visited tne White House, where the former was sworn in by Chief Justice Cartter, of the Dis iriet Supreme Court, in the presence of Presi- dent Grant, Postmaster General Creswell, At- torney General Williams and Secretary Belk- nap. After congratulations Mr. Conant re- turned to the Treasnry department and as sumed his official duties, Persowat.—General N. P. Chipman and wife left for the Adirondacks yesterday. ----str Edward Thornton, British Mini#ter to the United States, who sailed for Engiand on Sat urday last, left the legation in charge of the rewly arrived secretary, Mr. Kobert (raut Watson, who entered the Kast Indian army 2) Fears ago, but atter being employed in many diplomatic transactions was in 1359 transferred to the diplomatic service. +--- J. H. Saville, formerly Chief Clerk of the Treasury depart- ment, and who has been in Europe for the past year, returned to Washington this morning and was at the Treasury department to-day. Tue Vacant Disrawt Com MISSIONERSHIr. {tis understood that President Grant has desig. nated @ successor to A. G. Cattell as one of the District commissioners, but declines to give the name to the public until he ts advised tuat the person whom he has selected will accept. Up to 3 p. m. Secretary Bristow had not been advised that either Messrs. Blow or Dennison had qualified as District Commissioners. The Jaw provides that they shall give @ bond in the sum of $50,000, to be approved by the Sec- retary of the Treasury. The latest rumor in connection with the vacant Commissionership names John H, Ketchum, of New York, as the coming man. Tae Bueri-Caanpiee Ling Case—Zu-l! Incicted.—It will be recollected that during the last session of Congress A.C. Buell, then cor- respondent of the Detroit (Mich.) Free Press Was arrested on the charge of criminal libel in publishing in that paper @ statement to the ef- tect that Senator Chandler had been drunk in the Senate, and he was taken before the Police Court. ‘Here the jurisdiction of the court was questioned, as the case was one for a jary ‘Phis question was certified up, and the plea was sustained by the Court in General Term. The witnesses have been before the grand jury ot the Criminal Court, and that body to-day re- turned a true bill of indictment against Buell. Buell is not now in the city, but ins counsel, ienerai Birney, has been apprised of the indict. ment, and it is understood that Buell will re turn here and the case be tried in September next. oo uN TURP—Summer Meeting at Columbus.— The summer meeting st Columbus, Onio, Driving Park association commenced yesterday. Kunning race for 4000, mile heats, Nellie Bush, 2,1, 1; Tom Boston, 1, 4, 3; War 3,2; Ida May,4, 2, 4; Mademoielle dist . Time, 145, L474, and 1:45. ‘Trot for $1,000, seven en_ tries and five starters. The race was won by Granville in 2:35, 2:33 and The pacing Tace for $500, with eight entries and five start- ere, was won by Sleepy George, who took the first, third and fourth heats in’2:19\¥, 2:24 and Copper Bottom won the second heat in rv Park Races.—The first meeting of the season at Dexter Park, Chicago, commenced yesterday. The first race was a trot for $1,000, mile heats, best three in five to harness. Col- tins’ Albert, Anderson’s Hattie, and Ford's Roofer started. Albert won in three straight heats, Hattie second. Time 1» 2:31 , 2:32 3. ‘The second race was a trot for horses that have winning Time, 2:40, 2: IOWA BEPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION and nominated the following eens e incum| ; treasurer, Wm. Chrisby, the ‘present incumbent; state auditor, . Sherman; register of land office, David Secor; attor jeneral, M. E. Catts; — supreme » E. J. Holmes; Teporter o su) prethc a 58. ey feo on resolution? reported a endorsing th: repubtican party in relation to finances, fervor. ing the payment of the obligations of the gov- ernment in specie; cocating, that has page oat oe Re aad ond the er, and it is its duty, to provide ¢ ulation aud con- trol of rallway transportation within its own equal protection under the law us ig, nuctoction of the Eves- a direct vote people; demanding a mod! n of the patent law as shall render it fairer and more equitable to consumers, Action of the Trastees_Seenes at the Bank To-day. The trustees of the Freedman’s Sayings and Truet company held a meeting yesterday after- noon totake Into consideration the aifairs of the Institution, and especially the probable effect of the amended charter, which was passed at the last session of Congress and approved June v3. the tirst section of which declares that one half of the special deposits after the passage of the act ‘shall be invested in real estate se- curity situated in the vicinity of the branch where the deposits have been made and the re- maining half in U.S. bonds.” The etfect of this clause seems to be that all money deposited in the bank since Jane 23, cannot be used to pay depositors previous to that date, for they are in the nature of special Ceposits; in other words it starts a new bank to all intents and purposes from June 23. This prevents the bank trom taking the money de- yosited since that dute to pay those who have complied with the rule of 60 days notice of withdrawal of deposits now daily maturing. To pay ite deposisors previous to Jun 234 the bank would be compelled in some mauner to realize upon the assets held previous to that date. Atthe meeting yesterday the followin, paper was submitted for the consideration o the trastees and the position in which the amended charter placed the bank was a matter of surprise to them: Wasainoton, D. To the Officers and Trustecs Savings and Trust Company GryTLEMEN: Mr. Douglass has placed in my hands, for an opinion in writing, a series of six questions, and 1 respectfully submit them here with my answers. First.—May the trustees of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Compan: ment of charter enacted. 74, rafase for any reason payment in such of its depos- itors as have given notice 60 days in advance of their intention to withdraw their deposits? Answer.—The company, as I unlerstand, has ly proper notice to depositors informed them they shall be paid at the end of sixty days from the'time they signify their desire to withdraw their deposits. This p:omise on the one side, and roti'e given in accordance with it on the other, forms a valid contract which the com- Pany is not at liberty to change. The generai rincipie ot law would prohibit it, and it is pro- ibited by the closing language of the Sth sec- n of the act of ch Sd, 1°65, incorporating the company; see 13¢h statutes at large, p. 512 I find nothing in the amendatory legisiation of June, i514, to ge this view, and conse. quently I hoid that the trustees cannot refase payment to depositors in full who have given notice sixty days in aivanceof their intention to withdraw their deposits. Second.—May the trustees pay a part of any deporliory account against the bauk, and tak an obligation in writing trom the said dep that he or she will not demand any of th sem Which ray remain until all other depos all have received a like eyual propor , Jane 29, 1874. uf the Freedaan’s or understand this question to be luntary and unrestrained agree- elween the con.pany and the depositor, emert can be made. There bo legal objection to such a contract, the depositor being left tree te make it or not, 43 he please: T Should the corm now pay fifty p cert a depositor’s acco’ without tak! ¥ written obligation as above as to rema should such payment be inciuded asa part of his or her pro rata share of the assets ot the company on the tinal eettlement ’ Aunswer.—In the nee of sach a voluntary contract as is described in the second «jnestion and answer, the payment of fifty per cent. of a depositor’s account would be final, and not sub- ject to any future modification by the action of the company, and no suc payment coald be included as apart of the depositor’s pr) rata share of the asscts of the company settlement. “ourth —May the trustees do either of the: things without reaching tue point where t are bound to place the bank in the bande of t commissioners? Answer.—As already shown the trustess can do but one of the ttiings alluded to, namely, make the agreement implied in the second question and answer. Such @ contract would not bring them to the pointof placing the bank in the hands of commissioners; that event, in deed, by the terms of the section third and sev- enth of the act of June, Isi4, can only occur at the discretion of the trustees or on the order of Congress. na final n the trustees p'ace the old deposi nts in the hands of commissionsrs. and still continue the bank under their control in relation to the new or special depositprs? Answer.—The business of the corpuration can- not be separated in such wise as to make it sol- vent for one class of interests and insolvent for another. ‘The expressions of the act of Jane. 1874, leave no doubt on the subject. When it shall be deemed advisable to close up the busi- ness of the company, commissioners are to be appointed ‘to take charge of ali the property and effects, close up the principal! and sabordi- nate branches, collect from the branches al/ the fon song they have on hand,” &c., tc, Exam- ining these provisions with those of the eighth section it becomes manifest that all the tusi- ness of the company i3 to proceed together and all be closed at the same time. Sixt). May the trustees invest one half of the amount received from special depositors in undoubted real estate loans now held as assets by the company at the principal office, as a temporary means of bringing the bank ‘under the general arrangement contemplated by the amerdment of the charter in question? Answer.—The company can on no account, and for no consideration, invest the specia’ deposits received from branches in any other way than that prescribed by the first section of the act of June, 184; that is, one-half on real estate security situated in the vicinity of the branch where the deposits haye been mad and the remaining hair in U. 8. bonds; or whe: such @ measure may be necessary, to deposit it to meet current expenses, as provided in the closing words of the first section of the act referred to. Special deposits made at the bank in Wash- ington city might, perhaps, under a certain construction of the law. be deemed to rest on a different footing, but the spirit of the law is against the distinction; and ite design is to sure the investment of the funds of new depositors in new securities. The object of the amendatory legislation of June, 15/4, was to keep the funds of new depositors from any en- tapgling contract with the pre-existing securi- ties. Tzos. J. Duganr. After fully discussing the above subject and otber matters connected with the bank, it was voted, nine to four, to put the liabilities of th: bank in the hands of three commissioners, to be wound up,under the late law of Congress, giving the trustees that power whenever they thought the interest of the depositors would be promoted by it. They also decided to nominate as such commissioners Robert Purvis (co:ored) of Phil- ade!phia, ex-Postmaster General Creswell and R. Leipeld, now at the head of the independent treasury. It is thought that, with proper man- agement, the assets will realize as much as war reported by Examiner Meigs. viz: 9 cents on the dollar. ‘This morning the bank opened its doors, but neither recetved nor paid out any money. The depositors, as they learned of the action of the trustees, came to make inquiries, and the num- berslowly increased. About 3) persons were abont the rooms at noon to-day, and there ap- eared to be no excitemeut whatever, although maby were very anxious, and most of them thought their cases were deserving of special attention, saying if the bank would only pay them a part they would wait for the Dalaros. Mr. Stickney was compelled to inform them that he had no | ated pay out a dollar. In ove would vigorously protest against te action one would vigorously of the bank ‘oficers. ‘The trustees will hold another meeting at 3 o'clock this afternoon. It wili prekeriy take A poothediysragloe Mead bank entirely, ugh a il prhbably be made with. ni ‘The New York branch has been notified from the action here not to receive or pay out any funds, and it is p similar notices have been sent to the other banks. —____--~ee-____ NOMINATIONS FOR ConoRzss.— The anti- monopolists’ D | nal convention nominated J. POOL-SELLING ON NOMINATION oF Gon- os aan Fort Wi ,& some- SUSPENSION OF THE FREEDMAN’'S | BANK. THE APPROACHING COMET. Startling Developments. THE READ OF THE COMET TO BE AS NBAR AS VENUS I8 TO THE RARTH—STRONG PROBA- BILITY THAT THE TAIL OF THE COMET WILL NWRAP THE KARTH AND THE MOON. Henry M. Parkhurst writes to the New York Tribune as follows: Permit me in to con~ gratulate Prof. Swift upon the ‘iscovery of what now promises to the most wonderful and instructive comet in the history of the world. Having ascertained that the nucleus of the comet was moving in satisfactory accord- ance with the orbit which [had computed, I proceeded on the 26th inst. to compute the posi- tion and probable apparent maguitade of the tail, to order to learn whether it would be long enovgh to extend beyond the earth's orbit, 90 as to be visible at all after the head of the comet disappears in the west. From my own estimate of its length on the morning of the 25th, after the moon hed set, I determined its actual length at that time to be certainly over 3,090,900 miles. J then assumed an increase of length ot one-tenth each day, aud reached the startling reeult that upon July 20 its tail would actually sirtke our earth. But knowing that if the tail should not be long enough to reach our orbit, it would fade away in the twilight without makivg any unusual display, 1 would not ren- tore to publish my result’ without turthor examination. ‘With later observations of greater accuracy, I have repeated and extended my computations, and I am confirmed in the opinion that we shall be either so near the tail of the comet, as it sweeps acroes the ecliptic, that it will fill a large portion of the heavens, or, if its curvature 1s not too great, shail be completely enveloped within it; and the phenomenon may be visible in the northern hemisphere, although it is too early yet to determine whether it may not be during the hours of daylight m this country. At the ritk of having erred in my judgment, that the brightness and condensation of the nucleus and attendant coma indicate the formation of a tail equal to that of Denati’s comet, which I watched with so much care, | will venture sums predic tions, trusting that they may be received with more confidence than my early predictions ot the future of Donati’s comet, and that they mar be as fully confirmed. On Tuesday evening, June 30°h, and on the following evening. the moon will rise before the twilight tairly end-; but on Tharsday, July 21, at 0 o'clock, the comet will be casily sesa by the ‘naked eye in the northwestern sky (no other description will be needed) with a tai about 5 deg. in length. On succeeding evenings the nucleus will move towards the soath, while the tail will incrsase in length, so as to bring its extremity gradually northward. On the lth of July the head of the comet will have reached (he horizon im the northwest at the end of twilight, so that it not easily be visible atter that date, but tail will extend n to the polestar. 's comet had ar ‘le motion, ant e tail was ‘most d nearly at right angle On the other hand, th planc of the tall, which b pointing i be rom ved like P now and will reiain nearly étraight, because the carvature will be directly trom us, and therefore imperceptible Another striking rence from the tails ot comets generally is that it will be so forestort- remarkably wide at the end. hh, the tail will extend tar beyond the pole and develop a new characteristic, ta pering off rapidly toward the end. Within three or four days after the 10th, the tail will have become so expanded in the neighborhood of the pole as to fill a large part of the northern hear eps. Yet it will not be a conspicuous object because it will be so faint as to look rather like an immense cloud, or a new milky-way, than what it really is. By this time we shall have solved the question whether the tail is hollow or bas radiated structure, or what is ite con stitution. Of the way in which this will end, it is no sate yet tospeak with definiteness; for althongh if the tail were straight, we should be almost certainly near the middle of it on July uth, yet its curvature will probably delay it two or thre: days, and even vntil the earth has passed be- ond its path. ‘Taking the best value I can from ihe records of previous comets, I should expec the earth on July 22d to be wholly within the eastern edge of the comet's tail; and I will as sume this to be the case. The comet will then foe cough to us; but then the inbabitants of the southern hemisphere, who may be ignorant o: the cause of the luminosity ot the evening sky. will see it gradually rise and pass away, ano Will be amazed by the sudden apparition of » comet of extraordinary size and usual brii liancy, which will burst upon their vision a: unforeseen as the great comet of 18é!. The gradual diminution and final disappearance ot the comet will be so nearly the converse o* what we shall have witnessed here that it need: no description. What will be the effect onthe earth? I dare Bot predict the effect on the minds of men, es pecially of the ignorant; but I do not anticipate 'y appreciable physical effect further than ES fe electrical phenomena like the aurora. ‘t will, of course, leave us @ portion of its as- mosphere when it departs, but, probably, not enough to effect the barometer, or to come with- in the cognizance even of scientists. But there may, by be possibility, one permanent effect ot sciéntific interest and curiosity. If the earth should not entirely escape, the moon will also probably be involved, and it will also retain a portion ‘of the cometary substance. As the amount of atmosphere upon the moon’s surface is now so:small, if, indeed, there is any at all that it is unrecognizable by the nicest astro nomical scrutiny, per after the passage ot the comet we shall find that henceforth the moon will have an atmosphere, of greater or less density, which will materially modify the menomenon of occulations and solar eclipses Pewitt add that Venus is safely out of the way, so that the transit expedition will uot be inter- fered with by the great comet of 1374. In Gould’s Astronomical Journal, Professor Pierce has developed means of computin, ith great accuracy, from observed phenomena, th ‘orm of the tail of the comet. I intend, as soov asl shall have the necessary materials, to at- tempt to determine with more exactness the position and appearance of the comst’s tail trom the middle of July up to its final disap- pearancein this hemisphere. I have, therefore retrained from giving in this article the exact details of the results shown by my computations DOUBTFUL IF THE TAIL ENVELOPES THE EARTH. A second card from Prof. Parkhurst. New York Tribune of yesterday, saya. “1 have assumed that the repulsive force is the same in the case of Coggia’s comet, and find that upon Peirce’s theory, with this assumption, a parti- cle of matter leaving the head of the comet on dune oth, when the tail was already 2deg. in length, would on July 20th be nearly 49,000,000 miles outside the earth’s orbit. It is evident therefore, that the first requisite of a magniti cent display, length of tail, wil! not be wanting I also find that a particle leaving the bead ot tle comet June 28th, will also be, on July 22d, outside of the orbit of the earth; that from the curvature of the tail, that mot it will Pca or near the co: lation Hercules. 8 therefore, the portion of the :tail nearest to us will be more than two days behindhand in crossing the ecliptic, it is as yet somewhat doubtful whether we shall be involved within its operations.’ THE SEPTENNATE STRUGGLE ppg Sener of the tn France of the omission is to leave an for the restoration of the monarchy, w) may be possibl ‘when the septennate ceases. TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR, New York Notes. HOLIDAY IN TRE STOCK EXCHANGE. New York, July 2.—The governing commit- tee of the «ck exchanze adopted a resolution eg arn over irom Fcitay p. m. to I! o'clock Monday. A FORGED BOND ot the Cen‘ra! Pacitic railroad was d in Wall street yesterday. from Europe. AHYDROPHOSIA PANIC. The morning papers devote much space to the sublect of hydrophobia at present agitating this community. Several persons are reported bitten Lacersioy 9 nd a number of alleged rabid cogs were shot in the streets. THE PRBEDMEN'S SAVINGS AND TRUST com- PANY received orders yesterday from the national board of trustees at Washington to stop taking in and paying out money. A Washington dis patch says it is understood that the bank there has suspended and gone into liquidation. ASEOF GILL, t of Mortimer Sullivan, the ere unable to agree and were discharged. The prisoner then, with the consent of the district attorney, pleaded g to murder in the second degree, and was tenced to the state prison laber. —_-——— A Freight Excitement im Utah. Sat lake City, July 2.—There ts consider- able excitement here in consequence of the advance of the rates of freight on coal by the Union Pacitic railroad company between Elcho and Ogden, a distance of forty miles, of from $1.50 to 55.26 per ton. It is claimed’ that the advance in coal rates by the Union Pacitic railroad company is on account of the ownership of the coal mines by the company, and they desire to drive other jes out of the cog! mining business, The results of the advan in freghts, it is maintained, be a speed, extension of the Utah Southern ratiroad to the coal mines in Pete valley and the construction of a narrow-guage road from this city to Coals- ville. In the meantime, coal will be brougut here in wagons. a Killed by ive. Nasava, N A. July 2—At Milford this Morning the wife of Major George Daniels was instantly killed, and the Major and his grand son probably fatally injured, wnile attempting to drive across a track in front of a locomotive —__e-___ A Denial. Crxcixxati, July 2—A dispatch from Springteld, Ohio, denies the charge against Tiernan and Thorn, of swindling farmers, with patent plows, contained tn a special dispatch from Napakoneta yesterday. <covered is thought it came sen: for lite, with hard Udderzook’s Death Sentence Con. firmed. Puitapecrata, July 2.—The supreme court to cay affirmel the judgment of death in the Udeerz20k case. ——__«-___ Representative Hersey Renoutnated BanGor, Mz., July 2.—The ith district re. publican convention to-day renominated Gen’! vel F. Hersey for Congress by acclamua- ——— The Carlist War. », July 2.—The republicans are forty. tying the line of defense sgainst the carlists that was planned by the iste Marshal Concha. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Second National Bank, 99 asked.” City’ Passecgers Kailroaé—Metropclitan Stock, 26 asked; Columbia Steck, 22':. Sundry List—National Theater bonis, J.& rcent., 80 bid, 90 asks¢;Masonic Ton &A.47 p.c. gold, 92 bid; Wasktigton 36 bid, 40 sekod: Chesapeake an? ferred’ bonds, i2 bid. Distri -_ 1891, 105 asked; Perm. imp.,7 1891, 89 "bid; Market stock bonds,7"s, 3. J So ee stock bonds, 7's,J. J 0 as 93822, ‘ Wi, S bid; do . 8 bid. ( Washington)—W ater stock 6's,J O.., 1869, 90 bid, 94 asked; Fund loan bonds, © N.. 1902, 95 asked. ifioates uf 0',71 bid, 75 asked. Board ifieates General Improve do. 1875 do. 1877 86 Did. 89 asked ed: do. bars fs bid. by cont asked; do. Di + Uertificates, Sewer, 8's, J 13s asked: do. 167 do. 1678.69 bia, 7 1si7, £2 Bid, Berics - & J., 1874.63 bid bid, 72 asked, 40. 1577, 6 bi ed. Oortificates, 8's, 2—The Post's Seancial artiet: saye:—Goverameut bonds are irrogularaud vonciiee —s bonds et the board were steady for Missouri’. and Tennessee's, to which business waa confined Ti ck market pened . tel lower than yester a eclined *; tol',, and afterwards became steady were made abou Alisategof gold, have heen af Tos salesot gold have been loandthe rates have been 1a? forcars “carry ‘oreign Exchange is quiet, with business on a basis of 457 @ ‘My bankers sterling. The Assistant 2 o'clock opened bids for $1,000,000 gold. Thess amounted to 2,325,090 at Tho a to 190-08 as follows One million was awarded by Government to-day ai from 110 1 to 110 63. The money market continues for borrowers at 33% for call loaus and £5¢@6%e for prime mercantile paper pondoweinsamer“erat_on-cy LTIMORE, July 2 — tapinie sixes, old: 90, Vir "s consol Se; West Virgis jertb ium sixes, old, 2/;do, new, 15; do. special tax, 5 bid to-a —Cotton dull—low ee ith a fair jobbing to. prim 180G1 Ss" choise, ember! a edo» ; choice ember; ial nd to prime red, 1.45156; common te fair ao., 1.40; Pennsylvania do..1 45, Obio ane Indians do.,) S841 38: western spring, '1 3033. Corm firm and scarce for s.uthern—white sou:h-r, S162; mixed western fairly Oats firmer and in good dem: orn, 65@70; western mixed, 61/263; % Bye dali apd nomiual, 5 irmer, little more in guiry. Mees pork, 13.50, ik a tere. 74; clear rib sides, 105s: Bacon—shoulders, he lear rib sides, 9: hame, liaise ned, 12, West ‘and scarce, 2435. Whieky dull and nominal, 98. Coffee faye 16 prime, 20 22%s Haw York, July2—Sr Money easy, 8. Gold, 10°... Bxchangs, long. aon, short, 491. Governments active, better feclite thas St the opening. New Yors, July 2—Flour dull. Wheat quiet and anchanged. Corn qnict and steady. Loxvox, Jnly 2.12.30 p. m—Conacle, s2i aa, for more: Bouts of ase ‘and 92%; for account, 08s Eri ie, BLOM; preferred, 46 - Parts dis Loxvox, Jaly patobes quote rent cn. m—The builion in the LonDon, July 2, 3:30 p Bank of England bes decroased <40.00) dariug the part week. Erie, 25% " Loavon, Joly 2,4 Lonpon, Jaly 2, 5 withdrawn from she to-day fe £108,000. Active at 23'@msc. amount of batlion valance rains feoiperacore or southwest wisds and re, Tisiog ber meter clearing Thursday night or Fri - For the middle states light rain near the coest, followed t Finge = cloudy weather, southwest fi La to northwest winds, rtatonary of falling tempera- ture and rising barometer. For the south Atiani and gulf states near thecosst, cided change’ of or southeast 5 the partly cloudy weather, with rai ‘Dortheast winds, no de- “ature, and or " makes comparatively unknown, but the ral tome of the market cing ward tendency. Woollen goods were ali more active with manuf: although sales were uneven! traffic of the week was Amount, and held out the demand for men's wear repel Ken- tucky jeans sud satinets, which have been hitherto qui tor the staple. The market for brics was dull and featureless.—1. Tn lowa Ayrtr-Mowxoroty Corvertion.— The Des Moines (lowa) Register bas t ing comments on the city last week The ti-monopoly state con- vention yesterday was a successful sort of a fail ure. The night before it promised well. Then there was enthumasm and some hurrah. But too much caucusing, or too mach ring-doctor- ing, or too much Bill Stone taken one day too soon. OF KOMething else, seemed to sap it of tts life, and yesterday it was a dull afair at best, apd & very dull affair as compared with the convention of the same party of last year, or with the convention of jast Febraary. There was a good attendance, a large attendance, mn- decd—tor these days when ralirosds charge fail rates—and nearly all portions of tue » represented; but it lacked epir: and not one thing about it wa BIrren nv a Map Wm. ‘e© county about 15 years old, was going toa field mile and a half from his father’ 2 a horse, he heard something he was: img through eume high stooped down and parted the gra-« st was, and as bedit so he was se! a hand by a mad cat, which he could not forse to jet go ite bold. He killed it, but had to carry it home fastened to his band, and it was ouly loosened by prying tt open. He left im- mediately for Ba! 1 placed himself under the care th, of that city,— Alexandria &nti Dogs CANADA WANT To SacmpR?—In the British House of Commons last evening Mr. Jenkins called attention to an article in yester- day's London Standard, which declared that the policyof the Cavadian government aimed at secession to the United States. He asked Dis- raeli if there were any grounds for charging the Canadian — mt with such di Disraeli re ied that he did not consider it the er Majesty’ mous paragraphs of a newspaper, but he would state for the informacion of the gentiemen and of the House that the relations of the Gana: Dominion and the Imperial government were most cordial and satist actory A RELeCTANT Bonaranre.—Cantinal Bo- naparte has firmly declined to use his influence at the Vatican in favor of a Bonapartist resto- ration. Cardinal Chigi and Cardinal Gatbert have been questioned by the Pope on the prob- abilities of « Bonapartist restoration and the real condition and sentiments of the French nation. Cardinal Guibert deciared that all de- pended on the energy displayed by Marshal MacMahon. The Pope observed that Marshal MacMahon was not master of the situation. The French representative here is said to be in- dignant at these open intrigues.—Lonion Dasly News. a ALL THR FacTs seem to show beyon! yaes mouth church stood by Mr. Beech- him for the last two years to by “just what all the country knows b this time. If this be the trath, and no other conclusion seems warranted, the ougregation ot Plymouth church is not onis Mr. Beer ler, but bis indorser, and appro 2 ® far more ultra sense than MM nll bas taught or compended.—Zrr pre: Destevctive Fines ix Kussia.—The last Russian papers rece! ved in London con ports of very destructive fires at Berditet the government of Voihynia, mostly by Hebrews. A fre one six hundred houses. The next day there was another conflagration, involving a loss of nearly as many buildings. The two succeeding days the town was again visited by fires, by which whole streets were laid in ashos. Tuousands of persons were made Lomeless. Tux Saiem Fireside Favorite says that there ure two counterfeits on our new fifty -cent scrip; one is by unknown counterfeiters, and known by having the connec: upright lines im the i touch at the wi ends. The other is by the United States, can be recognized by having & mad man at the dexter end, and the figures and words signifying ten cents upon it. They @ both poor counterfeits, are apt to pass tor half a dollar if not critically examined. POSTPONEMENT OF 4 Puize-Fiont.—The prize fight between Billy ards and Sam Ucliyer, for $1,000 a side and the championship of America, which was to have taken place on August ¢, within 19 mUes of Detreit, Mic! has been postponed. The men are to the 12th, within 100 miles of Pittsburg, Penn. The a was — in copse- quence of determination of the Canadian authorities to the invasion of the lists on their omar “e Vatve op Rear ht on TATE In WALL SraRrer. premises ing the Drexel building) ction (by order of the executor of the Furniss estate) for $212,500. The purchaser was Mr. Lawrence Lymsge Z No. 13 Broad street, adjoining, on rear shove, sold for $76,000, and No. 15, next door, for $30,000; same purchaser. Hgavy JupGMENT AGarnst 4 RarLroap.— The superior district court at New Orleans, in the case of the State of Louisiana vs. The New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Kailroad Company, rendered Fey seems in favor of the plaintitl, ordering the Company to return to the state $750,000, bonds Gated July 1, 1570, with coupons attached, or pay the amount in cash with in- terest, giving the state the first lein on ali their property west of the Mississippi. —<$—$<—$<—<—<—_—— Berweex ©: CRON AxD RMANY is maintained with great animation by the leaders of forces, from Berlin to Fulda Munich and other ters of govern: tand political caucus. The churchmen are very de- cisive in their expression, and the la) exceedingly incisive in its action. T! status cannot be maintained for lengthened period. KILLED ny LiGHTNING.—A colored about 150r It years old, by the name of Mackey, was driving an ox in a cart yorterday afternoon op Harnett street, near oF the Carolina Central railway, whi both struck by hghtuing d that prevailed, and instantly killed. of the boy was thrown on one side of the ri and that of the ox on the other.— Wilmington (¥, C.) Jourmal, June 2: took bis farewell of Lou- es explanatory of his 4 sition as @ monk in the church of Ey nd. He began stating his convict on that ju Christians are humbngs delusion,” and finished by