Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1875, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR, PUBLISHED DAILY, Sundays Excepted. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Penesyivania avemne, cor. Lith st. The Evening Star Newspaper Company, &. H. KAUFFMANN, Pro's. ——_e—___ THE EVENING STAKE ts by carriers te subscribers at TEN ONTS PER WERE, OR FoRtY- TR CENTS FER MovTs. Copies at the Counter, Cuxts Race. by, wat: posiase prevasd—6G a month: mz months. $3.00, one year. 86 50 ee ae WEEKLY STAR —rstisated om Zriday— 00 « year, postaxe prepard. GF" ALi subscriptions invariably in edvense, ane = ay V2. 46—N°. 6,977. WASHINGTON, D. C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5 1875. EXCURSIONS, PICNICS, &c. Ceses tstann. THIRD GRAND EXC URSION. ON FRIDAY. AUGUST 61, 15 BE STEAMER JANE ake “aer third exeni Ds IOSELEY m to Cubl leaving 6 wharf at 3 p.m. Lockont, “Fo Kan api Norfoik n Satur, don Monday morning Tuesday mi 3 TAKE NOTICE. AT THE SOLICIT¢ TION OF MANY FRIENDS THE PLATE PRESTERS? UNION WILL GIVE A Grand Excursion to Point Leok = Tt RDAY EVENING 7 avin 6th sire t having t undone th © nothing £ those wh tictpate. has been enna the «cea = tly be engaged at the oftice os Mrirop Bark Gent's Tickets. $3: 1 years F< Lewts H r Me ly. Frank pt a CAPE MAY, COMMENCING THUBSDAY, Jnty 22, 1:75. City Py NZ. Capt. G Ten: os New Castle, TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS SATURDAYS. Leave Cape May a Railway from nate days Passer Cape Mav Sj PEAMER SUK EXCURSIONS. S ‘The clegant tr tain James B EXCURSIONS TO POINT LOOKOUT ON EVERY SATURDAY, are Bret < the river. awage, tate roums. ke. apply to Fee ATE PERSON & BUD, Agents, Btephensen’s wharf, foot of 7th street; ofice, 1225 uu ' nd are Cusur Te PLEASURE SEEKER SUMMER ASKANGEM STEAMER PILOT & Capt. WB. Byles. from 6h at whart.cvery TUESD 4 ¥ and SATUB DAY pal landings ummer Bee Returning. day aud morning, at 7 o'clock, for prin maz, incinding tbe favorite Biakiston’e Esiand eo inge the Pilot Boy will take passengers ritow D, 2 arly same ove ing on Sn ¢ Washington ay morning The scenery on the Potomac being nneurpased, Sod the Pilot Boy the only steamer affording a view the entire ro Flight, mak: tps for fam! §2; ronnd trip tickets sand Leonardtown, to FITZHUGH, Agent, Sixta-etrcet Wharf u € good untu used, $3 ste 3 eS TRE Best ver. Ro! FoR TER INS AND MOUNT DESERT, Vid NORWICH LINE. WHITE MC $22 only for the trip from Kew York and retarn. Choice of, Beven Routes: passengers allowed to ove Circulars, wiih full imformation, may as on the Eris, the phin. Wilmingtoa where tickets wre also f or White Mou: THE MABRY WASHINGTON mor hae Fo ieaeure parties thaa aay other beat, FOR CHARTER BEER DAY ANU BVENIN Begula: trips to Giymont and retura Mo Gays, Wednesdays and Fridays, lea: wharf stéam Apply on board, or LAND, 219 4s street. yeS-4n ng bth street to De. How- P.B TROTH, Prostdent, OW CONE!” GATHER THE GLEANINGS. ODDS AND END AT Cleaning Out Prices. ODD COATS! WAY BELOW ODD COATS: FIRST COS?. ODD VESTS: EDUCTIONS CLEANING I CLEARING OUT COME NOW, FOR IT ENDS HERE. HABLE BROTHERS, Tailors and Clothiers, CouN=R 71H ND D Staeers 8.W. nhw BARGAINS tN HATS. We will close ont the balance of our SU: STOCK of STBAW EATS mESE AT 20 PEB CENT. DISCOUNT FOB CasH rgains for all these in need of Hats. WILLETT & RUOFF, 906 Pennsylvania avenue. PEBA AND FIELD GLASS “ CASES.~ A isrge assortment very fine bane SS Wade CASES, and at very low prices. Hw. M HEMrLER. TICIAN, sete 453 Peunsyivemia avenue, . EVENING STAR.' Washington News and Gossip. THE RECEIPTS to-iay were, from internal revenue, s. 3; from customs, $89 FCRETARY Bxistow is expected to re- 2 to Washington to-night. THE Amo reney re cemption T of national bank note cur- ed at the Treasury to day for re- egatet § . PRESIDENT GRANT has written to Mr. Morton, at Newport, that he will not be able to make bis intended visit to New Eng- land. A PITTSBURG PENITFNT contributes 0 nseience fund for arrears of income 2 and heretofore unpaid to the amount transmitted. PrKson at. —Seeret me tn Ob Hon. Jaw ty Delano bas gone to pend a few weeks. ++ Blaine has had the aed upon him by Colby of LL iversity. ot and © appointed John ter, of Peunsylv T com, of Mass., to beg 1 constructors CRrookFp WuHi=kyY SEizeED.—The Treasury department 1 receipt of information that Hoover nia, and a tert 'y seized a secret service 3 IN THE PENSION a dozen clerks mostly sion Office yesterday re- thet their serv ld not 7 They will until that date din t ived notices by to aiford thei time to seek other employ ment of Alat arrivel , belng five days in making to the damaze to the railroais rms; he reports the destruc- Ops Alo) e route as very gr iM land cottor lar advicr THE PARDONS OF A RECOM MES DZD.—The -ipt of having i Maric INDIAN MURDERER Interior department communication from Lieut. * the Indian prisoners Fiorida, recommending t e of the © ief H ei at that place for the mur- rhe, a sou-in-iaw of Black endalion ratthful se lease wou! velie toh tis t tek NAVAL ORDERS.—Lieut. Wm. H. Ma: Jr, ordered to the Canontens, at y Or- leans; Midshipmen A. H. Cobb and Colin id, from the Powhattan and place. aiting orders; Medical Inspector T. W. Leach has report! his return home, having been detached from the Asiatic station, aud as been granted three months’ leave of stent Paymaste. George been detached from duty in provisions and clothing and jered to the Alert in piace of Assistant ehed from th. nd ordered to the store-ship Onwart t Calac, Peru; Assistant Paymaster James A. King has been detached from the Onward and ordered to return home. THE QUESTION © RANK IN THE Navy Navy bas jong pending differences between stall officers with regard to rank ry quotes the law in regard to anding officers, and gives his official ruction of it in or. to remove misun- The foliowing a.e the princ points of the orde.: Officers intrusted » the comraand of v waronraval oS, or With the command or direction fany military expedition or duty whatever, their ran comma authe and pers such Vessel. station execution of such duty ‘his au pie edence will descend to the officer or per- son Whom such command or dir volve by the re 2 Of the death absence the person otherwise i mand or direction. In the case of t i ability or ab * of an officer in military comn s command directicn hority and pre denee, dev Sts upon the Qe pre tion Of ail courts and board. ace thereon and in all processions on e, Will devol the ine officer next nk who me nt, withont regard ich he belongs. the s corps of the na casio treated with t officers of corres or rank in the I in command vuder lik AMALANCeS. ank carries with it ty, and is to receive same Consider att TuE Count oF vrY—T FUNDS IN THE TREAS- committee app tof fund he Treasury partment have concluded their labors, and agreed upon a report, which will be sizaed a to the acting + y Were req 1est- investi . the commission express nion that tue robbery was effected by ye of the office. They add a recom tion that the window facing the cash Which they think affords perhaps an nity for theft. be permanently closed or secured by iron bars. Tveasurer New, upon his entry into office, receipted for the onal upon the verification of th the count, will in aday or W receipt for the funds. This Spinner from all further the exception of the lost uuder the law, is chargad D CONTROVERSY about i nas been revived in Maryland by the at Wm. E. Wor! & Co., stove man- urers, are about tostart a toundry in. Maryland penitentiary. A meeting of » ens in various mechanical industries was held in Baltimore last evening “ ¢0: to protest against adding any new branches | to the trades now carried ou in that institu- uon. LOUISIANA APPOINTMENTS. —Assistant Attorney General Hiram R Steele, of Louts- na, has been appointed by Governor Kel- logg. Judge of the Superior Cri minal Court, in pidee of Judge Braughn, and ex-Judze H. ©. Diddie bas appointed assistant at- torney general. ONE aT A TiMF.— When Arthur was avery smal! boy bis mother reprimanded Lim one Gay for some misdemeanor. Not knowing it, his father began to talk to him on the same subject. Looking up in his face, Arthur said solemuly, ‘Mother bas tended to me. FarrHFcL unto DeaTH.—Adam Jang, an old sucemaker of Brooklyn, hung him- self Tuesday nightinagt of pondeacy caused by rheumatic sufferings, which he bat contracted by constant and protracted Visits for a long period to his wi grave. A NoRWICH WOMAN Was attracted to a Wwe'l. the other day, by the screams of her little girl. who bad fallen tn, and she eg her = in the bucket twice, the chtid ost her hold both times, and was finally drowned before her mother’s eyes. poorer once widen a with aight eartaennss “ante See slight earthqua a " seientic ‘men assert, when there te nol a isturbance this upon the whole surtace. isis gee lovging to the schooner Mena of Middletown, Conn, for Baltimore, bave been put in jail at Jersey City, N. J., wawalt ou charge of autny- tant | Tue District Ban The following table, taken from abstracts of reports mate to the Comptroller of the Carrency, shows the condition of the national banks in Wash- ington, at the close of business hours on the Seth day of June, 1575, made in compliance With an order of John Jay Knox, the comp- troller. The Sgures will prove interestin« by showing the amount of banking capital employed in this city: RESOURCES. Loans and discounts.... 21,743,62) Overdratts U.8. Bonds to secure deposits 100,000.00 U.S, Bonds on hand... 63,000.09 © 44,750.78 National Hanis om StateBanks and Bankers Furn'ture aud Fix- tional Ban | Specie. Legal Tender Notes, S Five per cent. Redemytion Fund with Treasurer ......... from Treasnrer, oti percent. Fund.... LIANILITIES. pat in Surplus ae Undivided Protit National Bank N Dividends unpaid... Individual deposits U.S. deposit? Due to Natioval Banks., Ine to St Bulls F THE WESTERN Fiver Ss 1 rive | overflows of the ! below Memphts. nilers are basy strength- ening lev 1 possible preeautions arc being taken’ against serious disaster. Re- | cg from Okio and West Virginia give | ferther accounts of the des | wndations in those st | reports that ower | sissippi ri r oP tes. The signs Ohio ana badly co | to-day, bove the 3 | from ¢ ansville { Catro, { above Cine ti, and vous floods oceur in the Mississippi, Cairo and Memphis. Tae lower ast ated yesteriay river channel w indepth. The Setoto and Miami ri anurnber of stnailer strea: overflowed their banks farms, completely dest crops. The Ohio has rise: to an almost un- preeedented height at Cincinnati, and latest advices the water was in ing ¢ liars in the lower part of the city. T! vees of the lower Mississippi are suppose! to be tu danger, and serious breaks are ap prebended. ‘Turce bridges were swept away on the Parkersburg branch of the Baltimore and Ob but they were pror y rebuilt. Railroad taavel between Cin: aud St Lonis has been interrupted. BP ICAL NOTEs.—The Lonisy!t rier-Jovrnal says that MeCreery's ele is conceded by thirty thousand majority and the returns frota the mountain counties may bring bis majority up to forty thousand Mr. € ries A. Evans was yesterday first branch of the Baltimore ma the tenth ward, to fill the ired term of Warfield T. Browning, ex- *-** St. Lonis is inclined to be pig. Not content with demanding that the xt democratic national convention be hi her li she sow claims that the repub hold theirs in the same place New York Evening Post says d prefers to he governed and taxed by John Morrissey rather than Tweed, and it quotes the saying that the former democratic states nm of n c” Wh upon the Pittsburg Commerci: s ts certal ng Statesman and a pounder. the decision of the su- }.eme court of usin four or five hnn- 1 added to the republi- rly. nmidies of soldiers’ homes t state are declared to be voters. In Ohio the court decided otherwis Sportr The ubird ( —The Saratoga Raves — mile) race al the Saratoga course (the result of the first and second races wis printed in THe STAR last ning.) was won by Rutherford in 5:34. At the Poughkeepsie (N.¥.) races yesterday the first, was for a purse 500, Tor horses that had never beaten 223, and was divided Into twoelasses—A and B—owing to the large St. Jalien won tn class nd Dan Bry is. Great Preston won tn class B, dD tor at, Ameli: .. The 24 rac v three hea trott wi a to-day. Clementine wom t 1 and Gt heats, and Joker the Ist—ti ship of > nd lers, 0} > tind Boston, the present eb ion yesten afternoon on the Charles river. nders Wou easily in 14 ininntes and 50 seconds. Tue STKIKE AT FALL fifteen thousand operatives aud probably will Ithough Fara Will be res dea! of dissatistaction f them are witlit prevail tat w There is a gr the sp! acted almost as Is will remain ¢ ay, for the manuta ot Know themselves ng that will in h is, Unat they thir who are opposed to the Many of the storekeepers bay that i? help can afford to take a vac: thirty days they ean afford to pay cath for their good a until t stopped with the exception of which Will scon close, PARDONED ON AccE Yourn.—At impr some pri brough sions of Lhe stock law, and being to tr S proved guilty aud sen- fo several years’ iraprisoument at Then the judge, the jury and st every one else signed petitions to the governor asking him to consider the boy's extreme youth and lack of experience, to the that @ pardon mighi be granted. ‘Senti- mentalism gained its point, aud the youth- folaes which bad not proved to be & pre- ventive of crime proved adequate as a pre- ventive of punishment. The pardon was sromptly granted, and now Peter Bless is in Jail agaln for the commissioa, upon a girl thirteen years old, of a crime which is next to if not as bad as ‘murder. FIRE IN A NEw YorK HoTEL.—At an ear- ly hour yesterday morning fire was discov- €red in the pantry of the New York hotel, on Broadway. When the alarm was given it caused the wildest excitement the guests, many of whom snatched up what- ever came nearest Lo hand, and rushed down stairs the blinding smoke. The offi- ao it was very hard work te rouse the guests, who persisted in believ- ing there was nothing the matter. The fire- men succeeded in confining the fire to the pantry and dining room; loss 8900. pon Fn Rh THE O'Cow: L CENTENNIAL IN BROOK- LYN.—About three thousand Irish-Ameri- can citizens of Brooklyn, New York, assem- bied at the Academy Of Music in that city lastnight in honor of the centennial of the birth of Daniel O'Connell. The meeting was very enthusiastic, and the orator of the eve- ning, Hon. Richard O° |, Was frequent- ly interrupted by applause. A large number of Catholic clergy were present, luding Bish a Dr. Hard, one of the new- ly eppota police com:nissioners, presided. WASHINGTON AND OHIO RAILROAD,—It Will most probably be definitely knowa be- | fore the close of the week. w! new | A DISSATISFIED CREDITOR—MR. Duncan, Sherman 4 Co. 1OHN TOWNSHEND'S EXPERIENCE — PLAIN GUFSTIONS TNANSWERED. The New York Times of Wednesday says: A brief advertisement in a morning jouraal invited the creditors of Danean, Sherman « Co. to meet at noon yesterday, at Mr. Jobn Townshend's office in the Bennett Building. Are —_— of the Times called at 5 o'clock und found twe creditors present, one of them being Mr. Townshend himself.’ Mr. Town- shend did not wish to proceed to business with so small an audience, and having waited until 12:40 he adjourned the meeting sine die. In a conversation with the writer, Mr. Townshend said he had lad an inter- view both with Mr. Shipman. the assigaec, and Mr. Dunean, oa Monday last, and that he could get no information whatever ¢rom cither of them. He wanted to know from Mr. Duncan the probable amount of assets, and whatdividend was likely to be paid to the erecitors, but M.. D. was either unableor unwilling to give the required information. Mr. Townshend put to him a very pertinent question. “Mr. ow did” you aseer- tain you were b You must have had some idea of ts before vou sus- l business. ” said Mr. Dar “Lascertained that there wasa ‘shrinka bot what the shrinkage was Mr. Townshend said be could not ascertain. He next. ques- i Mr. Shipman as to the probable time When the creditors would receive a plain statement of how the affairs of the concern stood. but the assignee was unable to tell. Mr. Townshend next protested against Mr. Shipman acting as assignee. He was theat- torney for the bankrupt firm, and would nat- urally do ail in bis power to protect. them; their interests and not the interests of tt creditors were more likely to be consulted. He had been their eonsidential lawyer for years, and although Mr. Townshend hai the highest respect for Mr. Shipman, and be- lieved in bis integrity, still the’ creditors Would, he 84d, tauch prefer to have the ap- pointment of an assiguee therasel ves. it was currently reported down town yes- teniay that no work was being done on ‘the promised report of Dunean, Sherman & Co. reply lo a question put by a Times rv porter, Judge Shipman siguificantly ar swered that he ‘sto dispose of the current brsiness first.” Up to a late hour yesterda aiternoon Mr. Dunean had heard not from London in regard to the consummation of his *y ing the | tclegraphed to London to leava the reason of the delay. Mr. Baclow, Judge Shipman's parther, Who was in the office, assured the reporter that if the letters were not care] for abroad they would be ¢: for here. “The fact is.” added Mr. Ba Mr. Duncan's father has guaranteed them. AND BENNETT.— at of the Troy Tiine d Bennett, when they v AN GREEL correspor ey w York itors, were ‘both tall and but their personal appearance was widely different. Their offices were near, but they approached fre ley generally ¢ Bennett's héat corer. looked people nett, who v m different directt . Gree- in from Broadway, whi : from the slightly stoopi early in the face, while Be as four inches taller, stood bolt ed he fixed his e: nugh to conesal the obliqal- h was almost a deformit carried a ny as awkward with the laiter as he wonld with a sword or @ chfork. Bennett dressed neatly; Gresle: sasloven. Bennett wrote a legible hand (he once Was a teacher), while Grecley’s cat lizraphy was abominable. As an editor Benneti’s forte was to dictate, while Gree- ley’s was to write. The Herald's best art cles were done by the staff; the Tribune's thunderbolts bore the stamp of its chief Both of these men were of abstemious hab- 'ts, and although Bennett was often the apologist for vice, his life, as regards mere morality as pure as Greeley's. His in- fluence was for sale in a professionai man- ner, just like that ofa lawyer. In this point he differed from Greeley. rh of th: eccentric editors cou.ted suecessfaily and became macried men. Few have less time ters, or less grace to win wo- conrse of “trite love” in smoothly to the welding parallel to a close, they f and are buried not far upright, but as he y dow: ad, as t. ey would hav r, but To bring th the same y¢ apart ip the cone LONGSTREET AND S. D. LeR.—Tue ex- Co.wederate Gens. Longstreet and 8. D. Lee asunily meta hotel in Atlanta, Ga.. aday or two and afier supper had a pleasant conversation. The Atlanta Herald says ¢ “hem Longstrect is b Lin ippearan er notices have ti xpect. ad of the rich, fle ard of Lee’s able lientenant, there is now the neatly-trimmed Burnside whisker of almost silvery white- ness, Longstreet is nndecided as to his future residence, though he expressed, last night, a decided preference for a residence in Georgia. General Stephen Lee is a much younger man than Longstreet. Small and sinewy, he is very strficing in his expression vous force at rest, and of marked and asserting individuality.” STREET CAR.—The coming car, it is said in Boston, will its recommendations to popu- larity a large lamp in the centre of the roof with # powerful reflector, so that light may be thrown into every part of the car, and With protective appurtenances, so that the storm may be hindered from entrance. This will doaway with the hateful smell of oll or kerosene, if either must be used, bat gas sap- J from @ reservoir beneath the ear will that surrou J that number Will designate the especial route to which such car belong: ARREST AND CONFE: Fk.—Dwight F. Steere, of young man ON OF A MURDER nam, Conn., a ery sus- nite, at New London, Coun ight. He at tirstdented his rd confessed the crime. He bbed his vietim with a ng him ofa silver w>teh in money. After his arrest and wai ed in acefl in the station-house tempted tocut his own throat with knife, witb which he was eating his D beepence last Wednesday guilt, but afterw admits having s ease- supper. He will be taken to New London. JUDICLO INVESTMENTS OF A Dr- FAULTER The investigation by the Cen- tral Pacific Railroad officials at Sau Fran- cisco into the detalcation of Woodraft shows tLe detictency to be about one miliion dollars. The company, however, will not lose any- thing, as the investments of Woodruif uave so far inereased in value as to cover his de- linquen . It is generally thought that Woodruff bas been allowed to eseape, a rn- mor prevailing that he sailek in the last steamer for Chin: DEFRAUDING THE GOVERNMENT IN New ORLEANS —The testimony taken in the al- leged frands in the New Orleans Custom House shows that many mechanies and artisans who accepted work as laborers nad signed blank pay rolls, receiving one dollar and three-quarters per day, while the gov- e.pment was charged four to five dollars per day for their services. It is stated that much of the work done rz these mechanics was afterwards covered by contracts and the gov- ernment compelled to pay again for the same work. THE BREAKIN THE CABLE.—Capt. Dun- kerton, of the ship Ellen Everett, who e the cable ship Faraday on the lith of July, ays the officers of the Faraday boarded his vesse] and = that they had pickea up and buoyed eable several days vious, but owing to a boisterous sea they been compelled to dropitagain. They stated that the Refect existed ine the cable, had not been broken, as reported WHat DISRAELI Says—The annual ban- | for insteuction were quet of the Lord Mayor of London took Jast night. Mr. Disraeli made a in which hesaid that pence prevailen in Europe, and in his opinion would continue So prevail In reviewing the work of Parliament he a: Inded to the incident of the Shipping said that ia thi Place pee ad impaired health and his daty to his ANOTHER OUTRAGE CasE.—Thomns Counted to prison In New York ara’, charge of attem| to commyt an on @ littie years, at the | bers of Parliament attend as re Telegrams to The Star. THE ALLEGED INDIAN FRAUDS, —_.—___ THE INVESTIGATING COMMISSION DUNCAN, SHERMAN ° DESTITUTE EUROPEAN TOURISTS. A SHAMEFUL BUSINESS. & CO. tinue three days i ligious ceremonial was helt at which Caréinat Manni: ed by the Irish and othe This afternoon the orator sunz in Exhibition Palace, and in the eve- ning a concert of Irish music will take pl in thesame building, when a centenary ote will be recited. Houses are decorated with banners,gariands and moitoes. There is great display of green. Tie following men 1g a solemn re~ n the cathedral, Miciated, assist of Catholic nation: Messr hn Moore, Keyes uly and Patrick Ja arrivet ration are bishops to participate in the ecle of Baisie and Nantes; Pr Will, of Posen; Dr. Lingen. German ps try of Rome Jain, and M. nce Edward Radzi- members of the liament; Revs. Rinaldi and Van- Lr. Bock, the Pope's chamber- Faletie, 2 member of the Swiss partiament. Illness in the family of Lord O'Hasan may prevent him from delivering his centernary oration to-morrow. o’Connell Sympathy in Rome. RoME, August 5.—A pontificial high mass was celebrated to-day in the church of the Irish coliege as a mark of sympathy w the O'Connell festival. Ploeds in India, CALCUTTA, August 5.—Disastrous have occurred in the northwestern provinces. Mauy of the dwellings of the natives have been destroyed, and it is fcared that serious loss of life has occurred in the interior. A Water Spout in Prassia. Hoods BERLIN. August 5.—A water spout burst over the town of Kirn, in Rhenish Prassia, toda nund&ting the place, and de sreat damage. were swept drowned. —_+—__- DUNCAN, SHERMAN & CO. Destitute Tourists in Europe. Lonpon, August of the Union Bank say no arrange ve been made with that institution for the redemption of Duncan, Sherman & Co.’s letters of credit in the hands of travelers. Negotiations, there- fore, have been pending since the failure, but haye not been completed, and the-longer they are postponed there is less probability of @ successful result. Letters received here from Americans in Paris say that over one thousand holders of the suspended firm's ers of credit have been heart from in G: lone. Many of them are utterly de: e of funds, and have been compelled to apply to the local authorities or to tie Ame- rican consuls for relief. One lady, a t2acher of Messacbusetts, had but thirty franes money When she heard of the failure. Ti ican and English people where she was ying subscribed sufficient funds to pa: ber expenses to Hamburg, from which pla she took steerage passage home. Appée for ald from persons holding these letters come from all directions. A document stat- ing these facts and denouncing the hous? is preparing for publication. —_.—_—_. THE ALLEGED INDIAN FRAUDS Investigation by = Special Commis- Sion. New York, July 5.—A special from Chey- enne states that the Iudian frauds invesii- gating committee find much difficulty in getting any one there to testify in relation to the Indian service, as thosé having the facts are interested in not divulging them Bostwick, who was government siorekeeper under Agent Saville, was over-anxious to testify, and did so, but his testimony proved very ‘unreliable, and it was discovered he was in the employ of contractor McCann. The new commissioners had not arrived, aad Bridges and way, and thirtee eral hous persons were no official information received of their ap pointrent. The commissioners were to start on the 2d inst. for Fort Laramie. Twenty- one cars were then standing on the track @ &n expense of #105 per day to the government for detention, all loaded with stores for Ww Red Cloud ageney by contractor MeCann. Some of these stores have been there since the Ist of July, and MeCann is at Wash- ingtor 4 New kK Notes, LOSS BY FIRE. New York, August 5.—The loss by the burning of the spice mills, on Front street, yesterday, was £40,000. THE YACHT OCTAVIA, recently seized on suspicion of being a Cuban fillibusier, sailed to-day for Uruguay. THE NATIONAL INSURANCE CONVENTION meets here September 20th. SEVEEAL THOUSAND CIGARS were seized on the Havana steamer Colum- bus yesterday. National Camp Meeting. BIPPEFORD, ME., August 5.—Large num- bers of people are arriving here to attend the National Methodist camp meeting bes! Ding at Old Orchard Beach and tasting until the 15th. Esen, of Prisoners. NEWCASTLE. August 5.—Dickinson and Reyis, iprprisoned for 1a escaped from jail here . They have not yet been recaptn > RATLROAD BUILDING IN CALIFORNIA. The Sau Franciseo Alta says that the pres ent year shows Unusual activity in railroad building in California. The track-lay advances rapidly In San Bernardino valiey, and about 2,000 graders are digging away at San Fernando, Tehachepa, and San Gor- gonia, and the present rate of progress indi+ cates that the promise of the compietion of rail communication to tie Colorado before July, 1876, can be fulfilled. Lately a party of railroad men have been examining the gap between Reading and Koseburg, with a view to the completion of the raflroad between those points, but the Alta had not heard of any important results of their investigation beyond a determination that twenty miles of road must be built this fiseal year. The construction of that road to give access by rail to Oregon and Washington, is deemed of much importance to the Sersapeent ot: the aa it, and it might Grass Val'ey, is advancing at a good A contract hiss been let by the Central cific railroad company for @ railroad from ‘Woodiand Tuesday, when over thirty month and on rere inaddidion tothe ‘th t in lar course of instruction at the THE O°CONNELL CENTENARY, CELEBRATION IN DUBLIN. ——~ FOREIGN NEWS, The O'Connell Centenary in Dablin, | Loxpon, August 5.— gers arrived in Dublin the O'Connell centenary Des1in, August 5.—The celehration of the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Daniel O'Connell began here to. nd will con- | j he £vening Star, TWO CENTS. A Theory of the Storms. Correspondence of the Daily Graphic trom Ana Arbor, Mich.,July 0, says: For nearly two months reporis of great aod disastrous inundations bave been coming in from rious extended America, and latterly from Africa and Asia. In Southern France there has been the great- est destruction of property and lif, many large tracts of land in Eng land—as in Somer- set, Wilts, Gloucester, je~stershire—are now submerged; in South Wales the loss of lite and property have been erormoas; vio- lent sicrms bave raget in South America; and in our western states acres upon acres Pasture and corn jands are under water: rivers are rising high above their onitnary Jevel, and tn Colorado, where rain is gene rally unkpown at this season of the year, in California, where rain & Jo is an Anomaly, the water bas tr belming Tents. It seems as thongh a universal Heavy deposits of caused the foots circumstances, thou supposed to be due nu t when these phe © 8o general tn p ge were imminent rain, hail, and snow have and in ondinar Ds Are right edit isa logic nee. general ad cavse of them distribution of agnetic effe: That the size Solar spois bay r than ma own, but « ochi ng the e cast still further light on y S owing that the size of the su is not always the same, but that it varies in such & way that when the solar diameter has a bin values the number of spots and protuberances are at their maximum, Dar ions years i this pot gav a, When jets of Inc descent by ninety or a handr 1 sand miles in length are carting towards the arth, diameter is less than parative calm. According to Captain Ertesson, the permanent contraction of tbe sun's diameter is i feet bat the temporary fluctuationsare vastly 2 than this, and capable of producing terres trial stortas propert The dynamic act when the dian versa and tm neement 8 made arkable degree. The theory the terrestrial to posit Is that t i el tons, tro-MAgoetic ctric Caused by unusually active aud rapid ¢ sun. r portant distr west nth, whose p more che feeling to ms were Litnit np to expe D ZOOIS prese importance, aid wa while a lar, , brown shed effected ‘by were and de, but trans unit, and not en= The market for ‘poration goods ¥ maintained in tirst hands, a thongh there was continued weakness in outside makes of b whieh are in over mills by peased production for the present, and the Utica steam mills have cominence running on short time. owing to the depres: arket and the low pr: i the Fall River pi th mills also stopped running on accour of the unwillingness of the operatives to ac- cede to a reduction of ten per cent. in wages. This curtailed production wili havea ten dency to cheek the downwarl course of prices after a time, which is much to be de- Sired, as far too many gools are at preseat quoted by agents at rates which leave no margin of profit whatever to manufacturers. The business of the week has been le spirited in woolen gonls taan many sanguine holders expected. There was Week a slighily improved dem most staple fabrics of imported goods, and At its close, when some of the importers opened their new importations of dress goods, &¢.,more general activity was wi nessed than for some time past, althou: trausactions were only mo:terate in the AN OLD uite a re. markable colored resident of NSpringtield Mass., is Levi Childs, who was born at Elli cott's Mills, Md., in 179%, and, in spite of th bardships of his’ long and checkered life, is vow as f.isky as most men of forty. Indeed the Republican says that his eye ts wou- drously bright, his hair is not yet half era: At seventy it was coal black—and his vital spark promises to bura with undiminished intensity for many years longer. The first forty years of his life’ were spent In slavery but. jearning the carpenter's and barber's trades, and saving littie by little by working evenirgs and Sundays, he finally parenased his freedom for £2,000. After becoming a free man he determinad to liberate froma slaver his nine children, boys, which, after year: hard work and frugality, he sicceeded in ing, paying £490 apiece for them. At theay of sixty-five he Joined the Union army, and served two years in a colored regiment. He has been married three times, and eight free children have been born to him, making @ grand total of seventeen children, all of whom are in Washington. D.C. He has lately opened a barber's shop in Springfield, and js assisted by his step-daughter, who cuts hair and wields the razor with al! dexterity of ber professional brothers. ANOTHER LivinG MAN with a He THRovGu His HeAp.—Moses Ballerste of Hartford. was acciden:aily shot through the head, March 26th, The hall entere! at about the center of the forehead, an! its eect ‘was to render him unconscious for about half an hour, after which, not knowing the extent of his injuries, he walked unassisted to his house, a mile distant. A doctor proved ‘he wound to the depth ofa little over two inches, but could not reach the ball, which had viz dently lodged in the back of the skull. He was put to bed and kepi perfectly t. with hardly anything to eat unti! the tenth day, When some matter came outof the wound, affording relief, and restoring partially the power of speech, which he liad lost sooa after the accident. Twenty-one days after being shot, he had a relapse, but was brought out of it by the use of stimulants, after whieh hy recovered rapidly. and he is now apparently as well us ever. No medicine was given {a this ease, careful dicting and keeping the Wound open constituting all the treatment. WHEN JOHNNY Comes MARCHING Home. Ata meeting in New York for the reception of the American rifle team, it was resolved that ali orgauizations, military or civic, wishing to take purt in the ‘processi should be requested to give notice of thet! desire to the committee on procession, which Will meet on the 1ith just., at three o'clock, at the office of the Natioual Ritle Associa- tion, that they may be assigned positions. It was decided also to accept for the team an invitation to Gilmore’s garden op the e veu- ing after the reception, when all the officers of the national guard will also be invited. POISONED BY A Server's Bire.—Major L. A. Barbour, of the Connecticut first rezi- Se en ee bittea by a days ago. urday his condition was serious, but Sunda: he was better, and he will probably got weil. Major Barbour wes at first taken sick at the stomach, with numbness of tne limbs; soon bis face, arms and limbs began to swell, until they were en to nearly their usual size, and his skin assumed a dark, purple hue. AN EpItor DEFENDS HimsELF.—A tele- = from Tarboro, N.C., to tue ews that A. i i districts. of Europe and / uring the | ad for the | | perémptor Brigham’: Deposition. HIS ACCOUNT OF THE MOUNTALN MEADOWS A Sals sabesteesanee sent it deat Chicago Inter Ocean the deposition: oy bam Y. and George A. Smith, in case of John D. Lee. You “* Was taken at Salt Lake City, July 30. depooent Swear: Sait Lake City ny, srents ordered away from City by 3,04. self, oF any one in authority under yo: A. No; not that 1 know of J never heard of &ny such thing. and certainly no such order Es ee DE the taen acting governor. &. Were any counsel or instructions given | by rio to the citizens of Utah not to sell grain toor trade with the emigrant trains | passing through Utah at that time? If so, what Were those lastractions aod counsel ? A. Yes, counsel and advice were given to the Cilig-ns not to sell grain to the emigrants to | feed their stock, but to let them have suffi- cient for themselves if they were out, the simple reason for this was, that for severat yeArs Our crops had been short, and the ~ | Peel was at that time that we might have trooble with the U aited States army then en for this place, and we wanted to ferve the grain food; the citireus of the territory were counseled not to feed grain to their own stock | ished or called i the bO person Was ever question fer fur: emigrants, wilt shine in my } Supplies to knowledge Q Whi Arkangas onnapat ir Septeraber, t A. I did ny any hing of the attack or struct Arkansas company antil {ime After it hag occurred, then duly by « rumor John D. Lee rene j Ume is tnassaere whi bat massacre, a f so, wi Ply to him tn_ reference theretay me two or t onthe after Ul ve calle! at my With regard to u up to ange the wht account of th «i him to tap, as from what aried by rum I did not wish my feellags harrowed up with @ recital of the detalis to you at any Q. Did yon ever give ar cerping the p ty tak grants at the Mountain M or anything as to it di never any directions property taken from erants of the Mountat TANRACTS nor dk y anythin st property or ts disp: and do vot Lis GAY EXCEPT from public rumor. Q. Why proceedimgs fc sacre and bri to Justice? A. TI evernor had been appol nt of the United States, an: way here to take my pi € terri x £8 arrived I asked b Judge Wlebaugh, who belonged to the southern strict, with bim, and I would accompany Mm With sufficient a’ tor tigate the matter and brin: nders to Justice. : on ee, Who was theo a farmer * yo t comm A. } ; T have made diligen mit c Lit Q. Did you answer that comme A. 1 did to LC. Haight, who wast DR presider ‘edar City Q Wi your letter to com pany of emigrants # ‘anies Of emt frants pass throug nUTy UnMeLested and to allay the angry feelings of the Indians @S MUCH aS possi! THE Great FLoop Yran.—Althougd the Hoods aid inundations twat are ne such damage to the railways and to the yet un harvested crops in the near portions of the western staies do not compare in the magni- pstraction with the tearfut is year's inundations on the tof Europe, still they appear to be quite serious, and add so much to the vast Volume of loss flomis of 1575, a8 to make this @ memorable year in respect ot destruction by water. ‘The damage done in the west cove part of the area of seven large states, ¢ ‘ West Virgiuia, ludiana Illinois. Missouri, Tennessee and iowa. to Which the property floated off, the crops sub- | Merged, and the bridges swept away, the | Toads and rallway tracks destroyed, and the other in | ridental damages amount tw many | miliions of dollars | but Hitle logs of li iso far as the reports | can be relied on none nt ali. The rains that paused these inundations scem to have been too Leavy to permit the afivents of the Oh Missovri and Mississippi to cuiry off thesu- perabundant storm water. ant asa conse damage is greatest along those T confined waier courses, while tht country beyond them seems to have sut- tered but little loss The main part of the damage tn Chio and Indiana 1% south of a line sunDiDg cart and west through the mid- dle Of those states. Water, like fire, is a z od servant, bul @ bad master.”—Phuda ——$ A Yours Lapy'’s Murpe Happ: a y there has been court genera! Sessions Fresterd: District At- case of Jacob an, Indieted for in’ having shot vening of April 19ta last, wand, a young girl re- ng With ber parents at No. 40 City Hail lace. She was standing at Chatuam and Roosevelt streets, with some friends, waiting to lake an up-town car, when she was ac costed by Standerman,& discarded suitor Standerman asked the young lady w marry him, and sne refused w converse with bi on the subject. The unsuceessfal suttor tire became enraged, and drawing @ pixt: shot in We be ting A wor Which subsequent! 4 fatal. The fauber, mother and 0} ex of the de- ceased lady Were prescut iu court yesterday attired in deep mourning. Mr. Howe, cona- sei for Starderman, not belug prepared tc | proceed with tne case, 8 for & post- | ponement, aad the tria set down order Hackett for Tues day next in possesston © number of Indian curiosities iately found in Lewis aud Maury counties, that state. The largest Spocimen ts a spearhead, Which ts shaped well and skillfully wrough Then there are several hundred perlect arm heads, and a large namber of scrapers f dressing hides. The collection of stor knives 8 large, and one of the best to be found In this couniry. There are four stone awis that are wonderfuily made, ar to have dove good service, ax they a what worn. All of the traplemen Uoned are made of a beaatiful dint, t are two dressing hammers that an # soil conglomerate. There are MmAnY hoes, munde of & Sof! a stone. many of which uave faithful service. DEATH BY STAKVATION.—A Mrs. Maltby died a painful death tu Wallingtord, Coan last week. Eleven years ago =the accidentally swallowed a solutiva of potash,which eaased ercsion and infiammaiion of the «esopuagus, ending in permanent constriction and lessen. ing Of ILS calibre 81 & point about Uwe inches above the superior eud of the stomach. Oa account of this stricture se was compelled lo exercire great caution in eatin small mouthful of food well che pass it. She claimed to have swaliowed cherry-stone about two weeks before her death, which sie believed iotged in the nar- Towest portion ef the «esophagus. stomach, and she died of starvation, examination — death ag ohn she Was right in her conjecture, e cherry - stone Was found closely Diling up te tube. dod; Springfield, Mass. en! pm ag purchase @ irifing article for five cents, @nd thrown down & $10 bill.