Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1876, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Sundays Exeepted, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Pennsyivamia A corner 11th Street, ¥ The Evening Star Newspaper Company, S. MH. RAUIFMA Pres’t. ee ‘THE EVENING STAB ts served carriers to Petecrvbers wt TEN CENTS PER WEEE, OR Fouty- Fock CENTS PER MusTHL | Copies ai te Counter Cents BACH By mati—postace prepari— dents 4 mromthe xz months: ©3 OO; ons years @5.00- WEEKLY STAR—pwhitsted on Frecay— + postame prepard. jubseriptioms tavariahly Dh pibmodymey atorne BF Rates of advert __ SPECIAL NOTICES. =z QCLUMBIA TYFOGR, PHIJAU ONION; Tries «= EVENING __L. H. PATTEREON. Rec Sec. 01.—The ule> meetios be beid tu the Trioupe Butldiug at] Wo'eicen. it t FiksT URCA Lin street, b= xween G and H aire J. 8. eeeT. B.D . pastor. Services in tae Morning © cleck aad Bveuing at 7:90. METHODIST PU 9th »: ear PF ie ™., aed All are welcome. It) Hawxox>. . OUBISTISN CHUB 1H, Vermont avenue nd ¢ ree zaicx D. PoweR schoo! at 9.9 a. 1. au ‘RUS. TEMPLE. No <. betweon B and © strests, Sor Beary all fres For what Pi a to meke a recut UNITARIAN & Comivg. streets. it | pg NARY ANNIVEPSABY—WalGa = M E. Chorch, 20th ivet.- m .by Kev Saucet H. Cramines, Burcay School enercises at 7 Hon. Ws. Lawrexce, M. 3. a8 . O., and M. H. Sax GENT. Erq., of Boston. at ST PAUL® ENGLISH LUTH ES Torentcnracrot ih sod Mth sites West. Services To morrow Moraine aad Kvo stils.m.aed 70 p.m. Bev. W. it the ferrous blind prescther ard orator, will ia the morntog. Bev, S. Dowek, pastor, ia AU we'come it evening. Seats tres. | ca Ce ee (ON REVIVAL OS mtbr ings suntay.7 pm nat Fosades ry Streets northwast. 150 at Calvary z No. ner 9th Will preach on tW o'clock a.m. and 7:2 ety hel Address by Bi Mausuart, D. D. FOUNDBY OBUKOM, tith and i a. . Sunda) 2G Addresses by . W. 8. Mi Maxewact, D. D. At Bev. B. P. HAMoiOND. at fi Peacher and BURN by Ker. U.K Bight, Union Meeting, by Tovctock CHEISTADELPH N3 CELEBRATE the death of the Messiah every Sanday at TL ®.m. fn the Circait 0 Oity Hall. Tenet One Gre. Salvativa predicatea Op na belief Gospel of tho kingdom of Ged, which will be estat- Tished at ihe re ‘The nature o from among ead y and immortality, and exalted to s position with Onrist o ia throne, rulitg the ns of the earth for ore thousand years. Allare invited fob12-0,st* MARTHA WASTIINGTON OBN x TEA-PARTY —TOUG3DAY_ E vu instant, at WAUGd M. &. CHURO 1d’ time costume, Felreshmente at reasoni fedio 2 OBDR& OF BECHA- ict Tent will pay t Tent, Nv, 1 Ail broth. and O. railroad. By ihn Weente. DAY. ry goitg will take the 3:3 train B. order of the D.C. B. n A CALL _T CTATION tmatiers will be transa gutsied. By order S. COX, Provident TER ) BF BRADY, Secn tary. NDEZRSIGNED AGREE TO CLOS# tive Banks, TU RSDAY the 221 sary of Washington's birthday. d that paper maturiug om that dats be previogs. WHITE, Ces. Nat H. Casa asa Cillza: 8 Na’ il attendance is re WAL EL = 4 Nationa’ Bank. ger Amer. Savings B.nk 2 seten: ch. Pe pie’sPavings Daak. Ye v CO, Bankers. m1 + Backers. H Vm Bank w anics’ Nattoual ny D. U. . H TT, Geo Bav. Bank, D.C. febls-2t ILDING ASSUCIATION —An s4- ured meeting for the purpose of com the er ‘zation of a new Buiid.ug A*sccistion, on the pan of the East Washiugton, wil bs held on * MO Febroary 21, + 269 Penney lvau inted on coi EB PRRGUSOS Secretary. cOoLN HALL. A special service for YOUNG MEN, SABBATH AFTERNOON, at 335 o'clock. Ehort eddresses by Young Men. Music led by Cornet febi2-tr THE REY. B. P. IND, the noted ts conducting UNIUN BEVIVAL 8" JETINGS in iis city AtCALVARY BAPTIST CEUSCH, corner ath and H etreets.at 11.39 a. m. for Bivle Bending, Prayer. Address. and t WESLEY CHAPEL cn Sabbath day at 3 ™ ,andeve y day the week following at 4 p. m., rend yor tas. 7 GATIONAL CHURCH every ev No meeting Saturdsy nicots. denom' jock. 3 CObristian worke. 3 of ali ons, penit-nta, and the uncon veried c Hy invived. | .ebid-te HOME MUTUAL BUILDING ASSQU1A- Tiom OF WASHINGTON, D.C Books are w a for sub-cri tock of th orgs 1576, ting on first Monday in March. Bhares $29, duce g1 por mouth om each share. Subscriptions will be received at the office of the Secretary, 454 Louisissa aveaue, opposite City ‘This Association oo President. GW LAMSON, Bec'y. Eebertiprivus Silt sise be moved by Rverett Pt mpson, Luterior De- fob2-Im Botice ts bereby gtven that on Muy 1. 1876, the net pr’ # will ba redaced to s 000 Cubic Feot. ven’, ay ORNEY AT LAW, INS USSisiNG TO LEARN SHORT-HAND Pep sll Pew | Cp rer experienced teacher at oy: 7, Sunder Ieng’s charch. 475, uerthwest. Ball course of 90 lessons, @ io. veh ‘of the woole ot FURTAntond octsu-tt oes Kagrboene nor OB ICE-OOLD TEA, COFFEE AND CHOCOLATE, Pure and Frasrans, WITH MILBUEN'S UNKIV. iD BCDA. 1499 Punxstivania AVENUE, tr near Willard’s. wr JOHNSON & OO. BANKERS, Corner & Wid Sirsst and Pennsylvania Avenes, Dewers erament and District Seon Coumen wogeesee SSE EE Sins, BARK OF DEPOSIT, EXCHANGE, ac. Apvestment Seccrities on Commistion. mart-tr REMOVAL —WM.F. AOL Sera and businers scquaiat- 1429 F street, Y Peace, RARKLIN “i Be937 rgerclans, Fe Being aE. dect-izisty 463 Penna. ave., corner 45 street, Che —————$——— oening Star. Ve, 47 --N2&. 7,145. EVENING STAR. DOUBLE SHEET. Washington News sand Gossip. Tax TEXAN BORDER COMMITTEE has fin- isbed [aking testimony. TREASURER NEw leaves for Indiana to- day, to be gone four or five days. THE PRESIDENTS RECEPTION will take place on the evening of the 22d of February, from 5 to 10 o’elock. How. PETER PARKER WAS on the floor of the House to day. an attentive listever to the financial essays of Messrs, Chitteodea and Kelley. Tue Senate Appropriation Committee yesterfay finished the consideration of the W:s: Point appropriation bill. It will bere- ported 01 Monday not materially amende 4. FAMILY motioof the Fisbes—“Deal gently with the herring.” (Nothing less than a first- class mission. Mr Secretary.)—[Gen. Comly, in tao State Journal. HOLIDAY FOR THE CLERKS ON THE 22D.— The House of Representatives yesterday passcct the resolution giving the clerks In the Upited States offices holiday on the 22d of February. 's.—Internal reve- month to date, 91,063.60; fiscal year to date, $72,709,2) coms to-day, 64; fiseal year to REcEiPTSof National Bank notes forward- ed for redemption for the week ending to-day ared with the corresponding week of ear: 1875, 000; 1876, $3,530,000. Re- ceipts to day, $075,011. Tue House Committee on Appropriations had a long consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury to-day at the Treasury de- partment, in which the subject of permanent appropriations for the next fiscal year was dicat.cd. e today, £257 640 19; ‘3,000,000 OF F._The House Appropriation Committee bas thus far redu the execue tive and legisiative appropriation bill from 660,000 asked for to $17,000,000. When the is fully completed the committee hope to get the amount appropriated within fifteen million. The legislative bill of the last Con- gress appropriated $18,000,000. The proposed bill will be a reduction of $3,909,040 In ‘eo: perison with the pre ne. Tue Nominati er Con, Ross.— Senate Committce on Indian Affairs 1 meeting yesterday and further discussei the nomination of Col. Wm. P. Ross to be Indian agent for the five nations in the Indian t looking man of about Ofiy, avd is nearly le. He is agraduate of Princeton college. Tar Late Revexpy JoHNsoN—There Was @ meeting of the bar and officers of the United States Supreme Court at the Su- Court room yesterday to take action whi in reference to the death of Hon. Reverdy Johnson, lion. Matt Carpeater, of Wiseon- sin, presided, and suitable resolutions 8 adopted. Hon. G.T. Edmunds made an ai- Gress on the life and character of the dc- ceased Jurist and statesman, and was fol- lowed by Col. P. Phillips, Senator Freling buyten, Gcorge Ticknor Curtis, Edw Dickercon, Hon. John Randolph General Garfield and Governor Foote. Tax CASE OF SENATOR SPENCER —The te Comm'ttee on Privlieges and Elec- ons held a meeting yesterday, and took up the case of Senator Spencer, against whom egations of fraud in connection with ois election have been made. The commiitee examined the charges and specifications at some length, and will continue their labors at their next session. !t is tnderstoad the committee have agreed togo into a thorough estigation of the manner of Mr. Spencer’s election, and will confine themselves solely to the rilezations of fraud, since many of the charges in regard to the legality of Mr. S's election were disposed of in the contested case of Sykes vs. Spencer, which came be- fore the committee a year or two ago. A WASHINGTON MEMORIAL ARca.—Oao invitation of Senator Morrii!, of Vermont, chairman of the Senate Committee on Pub- Me Buildings and Grounds, the members of !bat committee, with several members of the House committee, together with a number of members of the Washington Monument Society, assembled at his residence Taucs- day night for the purpose of considering the matter of @ monument to the Father of bis Country. Mr. Morrili holds, as do a ma- jority of his committee, that the present un- Boished mopument, even if carried to com- pletion, would bea comparative failure in &a artistic and historic point of view. He believes !t would be far preferable to erect a memorial arch, on which esuid be indicated by carvings, statues, &c., the progress of the country since it achieved its Independence. He also takes the view that tt is the duty of Congress to appropriate the money to build said arch. He presented his views to the meeting, and they seemed to be generally endorsed. er, ANOTHER VENFRAELE AND VENERATED Mor#Er GoNE.—In our obituary column to-day appears the announcement of the death. this morning, at Weoster, Ohio, of Mrs. Jane Hays Kautfmann. mother of Mr. S. HL. Ka ind, OF this cl) Mr. and Mrs. Kauffmann left for Wooster at noon towday. The stucere sympathy of their large circle of will go with them on their sorcowiil mn to lay in the grave the dear remains of one who was all that a mother coaid be, ard who was the object. in re ‘a, of the tenderest filial love. Their sorrow will be heighten the reileetion that so few of her children can follow her to the grave. One son and one daughter will be there, While anctuer son is faraway in Peru, and the other son aud two daughters are in Cali- fornia. Bat the place of the absent ones as rourr ers will be taken by the community areongst whom she lived and diol, and wno, through: her long life of sweet Christian use- fulness and good: ess. came to love and rey- tence her as a mother. The death of the mothers of two of the prietors of Tae Stax in one week, and at nearly the same advanced age, is a some- what notable coincidence. Ma. Keiiey’s FINANCIAL SpeecH To- Day.—In the House to-day Representative Kelley, of Pennsylvania, gave utterance at considerable length to bis peculiar views on the subject of fnance. His plan in brief 1s, thatthe U. 8. Treasury, which Is the re- demption agency for the baaks, should re- tam all bank notes that come in uatil those of any tank should reach the amount of $900, when, instead of returning its notes to ths bank, the Treasurer should carry to the books and vaults of the treasury $990 in legal tender notes of like denominations with the bank notes canceled and destroyed, and return to the bank instead of #900 in its notes $1,000 in its bonds deposited to secure the pe of its notes. Thus, contends Mr. Kelle; Press ne = ment a its prerogative ulng the mone: ie cc untry without disturbing the iness of apy bank, banker, or mercbant iu the coun- try. The operation would neither inflate nor covtract the currency. bet would withhold from those who are ricn ewough to own and deposit bonds the special privil of divid- ing with the government its hi, prerog- ative, that of coluing money and latioag the value thereof, and the $20,000, in bow paid them for exercising the privilege. In ‘air. Kelley's view Dy. contracting mopey we bave contracted production, re- ee ant umption, impoverished the Rrople, Upue to shrink. jucted H and taxes are paid, of | pal. Mr. Rules! i therefore, that each day the sa! ple, and we are traveling, not toward the WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1876. Social and Personal. The drive to Mt. Pleasant yesterday w: thronged with stylish equipages conveying gallant knights and gayly dressed ladies to ‘the hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. 8. P. Brown. The scene of Thursday evening of last week was repeated in many of its leasantest features. The company assem- Blea Was nearly the same as on the evening named; Mrs. Brown, Miss Brown, Mrs. Mor- ton, and one of their agreeable young friends received the numerous guests with graceful courtesy. Music was provided and the young folks availed themselves of the oppor- tunity for a dance, with evident reiish. Tue ladies who are usually at home on Fridays received yesterday, but the reception above- mentioned was the largest and the most brilliant of the afternoon. The Japanese minister and Mrs. Yoshida received many calls from those who had eu- Joyed this soiree of Monday. Most of our readers have witnessed at leaxt one performance of the pleasing comedieita called “The spirit of '76” wherefore it is not neceskary to trespass on their time and patience with a description of the «Leip (ear German” whieh took place last evening at Marinl’s and furnished the best argument yet practically given in our city in favor of the continuance of the natural relation of therexes aud against the extension of the suffrage. Mrs. C, Adele Fassett receives every Sat- uiday .rom 10a. m.to4p.m. Her next eve ving reception will take place on Satarday, February 26th, and receptions will follow on every alternate Saturday evening after throughout the season, Leut not excepted. AMONG those who called at the White House to lay were Senators Lozan, Wallace, Spencer. Conover, Allison. Wadleigh, Ferry, Jones, ex-Senator Frederick A. Sawyer of South Caroliva, and numerous R-presenta- Aves. THe TREASURY now holds 423,650 in bonds to secure bank circulation and $18,621,500 to secare publicdeposits. National bank circulation outstanding $341,551,911, of which amount 99,280 are gold ’ notes, Treasury shipme: legal tenders and fractional curre.ey for week ending to-day, s Receipis of iractioaal currency, a THE PILL to reorganize the judiciary and establishing courts of appeals to review cases involving less than $10,000, aud to consider Jadgments in criminal cases, was taken up in ihe House of Representatives yesterday and all the ame..dments to change the locality of the courts of appeais were rejected, except tho.e changing tue locality from Albany to New York, and Louisville to Cineinuatl, which wee passed. Pending a motion to crder the bill to a third read: adjoursed, neiated Press dispatch from this city ‘There seems to be no doabt among riends of Minister Schenck tuat he wiil Soon retire from the iazlish mission. He has placed his resigoation ai the disposal of the President, who may not accept it until the Committeé on Foreiga Affal examined into the subject of ais tra: ‘ion, or until home de to whom it will be offered st laecent the appointment. The State department is now making copies of papers nma mine Cake, aud tue committe them hy ing day.” NAVAT. ORDERS.—Ensign W. C. Cowles, ordered to the Juniata, at Baltimore, Md. gn Samuel C. Laniey, to the Catskill, at Norfoik, Va. Surgeon 8. D. Keonedy, to the Monongahela, at Port Royal, 8. C. Bowt- swain Thos. S. Collier, carpenter Wm. A. Barry, aud sailmaker Isaiah E. Crowell, to the receiving ship Sabine, at Portsmouth, pxpect to receive vext Thursday, their regalar meet- N.H. Carpenter John 8. Waltmey to the Monongahela, at Port Royal, S. C Master Karl Rohrer, detached from the Janiata, and placed on waiting orders. Ensign F er 5. Bassett, from the Brooklyn, and placed on Waltinz orders. Sargeon A. A. Hachiing, from the Monongahela, and placed on wait: ing orders. Gunner Jos. Smith, from the St. Louis, at League Isiaed, and ordered ty the receiving ship ®abine. at Portsmou . H. Carpenter Henry Davis. from Huron, and placci on waiting or ors. : a Tne SvusPExSioN OF Work IN Tum TREASULY PRINTING BuREAU.— mainder of the appropriation for carryingon the work in the bureau of engraviug and printing of the Treasury,'s found to ve so small Wat It bas been decide 4 vot to resame work unless @ new appropriation is mae In esse of additional appropriation they will bot commence work until the first of March, as it will take at least that long for ail the arrangements to be perfected. Tne Secre- tary’s examiuing committee, who have been making @ thorouch examination of the con- dition of the bureau, will probably make their report on Monday or Tuesday of wext week. There have been no permanent dis- charges of the employes made as yet, al- though there will undoubtedly be some, the nom depending entirely upon the size of the appropriation, if ove is made. DistRIcT MATTERS BEFORE THz House CoMMi1TEE.—The House Committee on the District of Columbia will be called on Mon- day. No action has as yet been taken on the tax bill, and it Will not be rc- ported on thatday. The several sub-com muttees will meet during the day and en deavor to get ready several of the street reilroad bills before the committee. Win. H. Tenney, of Georgetown, has requested that the committee give him ap opportunity to appear before It in the tax biil. His re. quest will be granted. He oppo-es any tux on personal property. Tue sub-committee waving the matter in charge will provably @greeon some bill to-day authorizing thie construction of the Corcoran Square market. A bill Will also be drafted preseribing tho hours of lavor for the employes of tne stre railroad compan‘es, making their labors one as to time and att upon any cormpeny or service over ti bas agreed to r of the Oxyg of Columbia, RAILECAD TAX To BE REFUND. rangements are being perfected at th nal Revenue office to-day for tue refundl of the tax paid by the foreign stockholde: Of the liltnots Central Ratlroat compan. the tonds of that company held by tl The Supreme Court has dectded that snch steckhoiders were not required to submit 'o the tax, and the Attorney General having given an opinion receatly to the effect that be refund should be patd to the corporation for the besefit of its non-resident allen ¥, and not to the stockholders nemselves, the amount of the tax collected, which Spproaches nearly a handred ani eighty thousand dollars, will consequentiy be paid to the company’s authorized agent. A large amount of evidence has been pro- duced at the Internal Revenue office with regard to the non-resident alien stockhold ers, all of which is found satisfactory. There are overseventeeo hundred of these stock- holders, forming @ large proportion of the SS. allof whom areentitied to tae refund. 3 a ——__--<e- -___ A PosTMASTER CHARGED WITH THIEV- ING.—S. D. Erown, postmasier at Green Lay, Prince Edward county, Va., has been arrested by special azent {saac Myers for robbing the mail. rown was taken to Richmond last ite A He waived an surer. The cashier was found bie on a table yesterday morning. TRYING To H GLENDENNING.—A who believe in the Gi of the charge brought against him before Presbytery with reference to eel Pemeroy. Very few have signed THE NEW ORLEANS CRovuKke: ‘HIS! CASES.—G. M. Bay’ Rae fos tad! | permanent | board of contractors was effected, and a se. TWO CENTS. NVESTIGATION. Facts im the Walsh Contract Case The Fitzpatrick-Biake testimony that the District Commissioners gave a contract ata higher rate than one offered to them is ex- plained by the following opinion of counsel, to whom the matter was referred by the Commissioners. On receipt of this opinion, November 25, 1874, the order was given to the contractor to proceed with his work: ATTORNEY'S Orrice, D.C.. Nov. 24, 1874. In the matter of contract No. 582, with Jas. W. Waish, the facts new presented to me dif- fer very widely from those on which I gaye an opinion on the 8th of October. At that time it Srpseree from pa} out- side of the contract itself that the work ought to have been done “within 30 da: although the vague and meaningless phrase ‘as soon 8 possible” was used in the contract itself; that final measurements were made, certifi- cates issued on them and accepted by the contractor, and the work abandoned. This statement of facts was corroborated by the “Governor's answer,” 352, where contract No. 582 is mentioned as “com- pleted.” Now, it appears from the statement of Mr. Walsh, corroborated by that of Mr. Willard, that the measurement of Dec. 3, 1873, was neither applied for, por made, as final; that the certiticates were not accepted as in full of all work under the contract; and that the work was not abandoned, but suspend- ed on account of the weather, and, at a later period, by the non-payment’ of contractors, and the uncertainties incident to the Inves- ligation. It appears further that Mr. Walsh had very strong reason for thinking that his assignment to Mr. Hussey had the consent of the board of public works; also that he, or Mr. Hussey for him, prosecuted the work in Rood faith, ie the latter part of June and up to the 18th July, spending “several thousand dollars” upon it; and that at the last named date he was ordered by your honorable board to suspend work. The chief eagineer, in his reply, dees not Specifically deny any of the facts as ailezed by Messrs. Walsh, Willard and Shepherd; and this opinion must, therefore. be on the assumption of the trath of the aliegations. Itis clear that Mr. Walsh was very sloth- fal in the performances of his contract. That jostrument is dated October 22, 1573, and the work should have been fluished in the late autumn or early winter of that year. The beard of public works might bave either ended the contract or taken the work out of Walsh's hands, under article 5. No step of this kind was taken, the board being prob ably embarrassed by the vague words, “as Sool as possible,” used iu the contract to Gesignate the time fixed for completing the work. Measurements were given in Deeember. If the board had intended these to signify the abandonment of the coutract, they should have made that manifest by placing the fact on record and notifying Mr. Walsh to thateffect. The neglect of this business precaution would méke it impracticable tor the District Commissioners to rebat tne evidence offered by Mr. Walsh that he did abardon his tract. Mr. Walsh would excuse his December to June by pleading the weather, the investigation and the inabi of the board to make any payments; and on these woo probably have the jury with pin. delay from In regard to the assignment, Mr. Walsh appears to have acted tn good fith, having mde his application and received the assaut of the Governor. While the Commissioners are not bound to recognize the assigument, [t would be inequitable for them to insist upon a forfeiture because an assignment was made, the contractor having made no aitempt to assien without the knowledge of the Board of Publie Works, and haying rea- s0n to believe be had their consent, IT adhere to the opinion given October 8th, that there is no privity of contract between the Commissioners and Mr. Hussey; and thatit is within the discretion of tue’Cor missioners to recognize or not the assigu- ment. But In the absence of any testinony to r-but what can be predueed by Mr. Wa'si, Ithink it would not be safe to act on the theory that the orizinal contract was aban. @oued by Mr, Wal-a. In permitting hum cr his assignee to go on, f ‘onymnis- however, the sioners have the right and should exercise it to limit the time within whica contract No. 582 should be completed. (Signed,} WILLIAM BIRNEY, Assistant Attorney. Copy:—W M. TINDALL, Secretary. ee THE CHESAPEAKE AND O10 CANA INVESTIGATION—Whee MeArdell Says,—T + Cumberland Tim’s of yesterday (edited by Mr. T. F. McCardell,) devotes some space '> the denunciation ot Jacob B. Masters and others who gave testimony in the canal i - vestigation. It refers especially to the certi- ficate of J. F. Stevli..g (introduced in thet s tumony of Masters) to the effect that io August, 1872, McCardell had askel him to approach Masters and give the latter assur- nees Of the influence of the Williamsport Pilot (then edited by MeCardell,) in fayor ot Masters as superintendent of the Hancock division if he would agree tojappoint McCar- dell one of the “bosses,” adding the assur- ance that “the tone of the paper would be changed Lo the interest of ihe cana! manaze- ment,” The Times declares the certificate “# falsehood from beginning to end,” and goes at length into charges asainst Masters, accusing him of various disreputabie acts woile in charge of the Williamsport division of the caual, between 1861 and 1872, whea it says: “We set the ball in motion that event- uated in his removal,” &e. With regard to the testimony of some other ehief witnesses the editor’s response is that “they kuow as much about tbe canal as a mule.” Tur Coat CoMBINATION.--The statement which has appeared in several newspapers to the eilect that the Pennsylvania railroad company had become a member of the an- thracitecoal combination, is upon inquiry at ibe office of that company pronounced to be entirely without foundation. So says a press dispatch from Philadelphia. A i gram from New Yor says an important meeting of the several great coal producing companies of New York and Penvsylvauia was held yesterday in that city, al which a organization of Une so-called of vnles regulating the coal traffic of the aboard. and & schedule of prices for the goverpiment of the trade for the ensulne year were adopted. It was agreed that contract 1ees for the mouth of March be as eon board in New York, lw mer, £450; grate, $1.69; egs, $ 0; Chestani, $4.50 $2.70; BCOCK CASE. St. Loats rebuiting testimony was pres e%, ard the case was declared closed. Jadge Porter, for the defense, spoke at considerable length tn support of @ motion that the court direct a verdici of acquittal. The motion, however, was deuied, and it was then de- cided that the argument in the case should ‘ne court It has been de- onel Broa ihead shall open the argument to-day, aud that Mr. Storrs shall follow him. Judge Porter Will close for the defense, and District At- torney Dyer for the prosecution. The argu- ments will probably continue tll Monday oo when the case will be given to the jury. MARYLAND LEGISLATURE.—In the Sen- ate beat & — a report was ona LO Suppress “* mps;” also on @ bill to prohibit railfoad cars from ren more passengers than can be seated. A bill Was passed ay P sent Maryland at Centennial exposition. in the House there was an animate t diseus- sion in the matter of Mr. J. Morrisen Har- ris’s contest for the gor ip of Mary. and, and the majority report as to the elev- tion of Gov. Carroll was adopted by 43 yeas oO 23 nays. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Satuepay, January 19. THE SENATE was not in session to-day. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—The session of the House was for debate only, but there was an unusually large attendance for a Saturday session, in conseqveace of the eo to hear Judge Kelley's nme = .) pre. Telegrams to The Star. THE BABCOCK TRIAL. THE CARLIST WAR, HEAVY STORMS IN ENGLAND, reply to Mr. Blaine. Mr. Eden (1 Mr. Chittenden (N. Y.) made dere permaseatiys faa” tt we had too D Failares. Lonpon, Feb. 19.—The statement yester. day that Addieshaw & Warburton, of Man- chester, bad failed is incorrect.’ It was Messrs. Edward Wilson & Co., manufactar- ing chemists. who failed, with liabilities es- timated at $500,000. Theerror arose irom the announcer @)t of the fact through Addleshaw & Warburton, who are Solicitors. Mr. Chittenden compared the condition of the country in years when there was infla- Hon. and argued that panics resulted from the iter while bastness pros rity attended the former. ror —— azeinst what he calied the legal tender abomination. He wanted an | Bad Weatheranud Fioods in Ei md early and absolute return to specie pay- Heavy weather prevailed in the English ments. Debt is not money, the legal | channel during yesterday and last night, and teader debt of the Unitcd States is not good | the barometer fel! to the lowest point during morey. 4 Judge Kelley then took the floor and ad- res: d the House at length on the financial question. the winter. The channel ports were fall of re- fuged vessels. The bark Biandina P., from New Orleans for Leith, has arrived at F: mouth, having lost two of ber crew over- Gare mesons board during the voyage, To-day’s weather MR. BEECHER’S OUTBURST. Teport says that a depression passed across He is in Judgment Between two | Scotland and the Novih sea last night, ana Deviis, “buw Mr. Beecher, in the advisory connect! yes- terday again asserted that he had no memo- Ty of an Interview that occurred at bis hoase between Dr. Storrs and himself, He com- menced speaking very quietly, but his con- cealed power soon bezan to exert its futla- ence over him, and as he answered the sec- ond part of the question it broke forth. Ie compared himseif to @ central body. He said: “I shoald like to know how mach longer & man need be at the focus of a polar microscore, with the sun in the heavens concentrated upon him for six months, and everything that could be raked from the North Pole to the South Pole and around the earth forty times circuited, raked up and brought in, and raked up and brougut in How much longer does & man want to have his willingness to bave the trath come ont and vindicated to be put at that point? If therets any man on earth that has - thing to say to my 1am here and dit over the west coast of Norway. The ba eter is now rixingon the west coasts of Great Britain. There have been general rains throughout the country, and local floods in the west of Eag'and. The Spanish War. MADRID, Feb 1 —Tue Alfoasist Generals Loma and Morlones were at Ver gura yesterday awaiting the arrival of King Alforse. RAN SFRASTIAN, Feb. 19 —The royalists have oceapied forts at Arratzain and Men dezorrotz. Lonpon, Feb. 19—The Times publishes a private letter from a Carlist zeneral, who fought in the rece 2 in which he says: The battle lasted ali day We lost our position, which was an impc tant one, beiug the Key to the couvtry lead- ing to Azfeitia. The Alfonsists numbered eight or pine our forees, but we would have defeated them nevertheless if ow tion had not trimen| now challenge him to say it. {Cries of | 80me of our 1 hat no cartridges. I cannot “Good! good!” and loud applause} [go far- | *¥ Where we shall be able to establish ont ther than that. If there be any augelof God | lines. My own opinion ts that the enemy more prescient and omnise! him to s t, I challenge se will reach Azfeiita,and perhaps we shal d that, aud ia havea strozgie to mont of Tolosa aught. I go bey« the name of our common Redeemer, aad be- ng Carlos went last nictt. Tae fore Him who shat! j you aud me, i chal- | letter ts dated we lenge the truth before Got himself. [Great Spplause.] And what ts all this going to PARIS, Feb. 19 —Adoly Theodore Barong- do? To-morrow moraing it will be said ia Diara, the boteni-t. 1s cead. the luminous journals,“ Well, Mr. Beecher. how rhetoricaily he managed the matter. and it will be put in the retigious papers, “Oh, Was @ very plausible stat~ ment, but—but;” and Lam in jad at De tween two devils, “but” and “if? [Laaga- ter) Nothing that I said is takea tobe true, an I am put upon a perpetual trial on my vera city; for, although I am willing to be tried. 1 do not disguise from myself, sappre sing every sentiment of natural honor that per- (aios toa gentleman. I know perfectly weil this whole process is a continuous trial and crucifixion of every sentiment of houor and every sensibility of my soul, and that Iam questioned and questioned aud qrestioncd, as I have been through months and years,on the supposition that the truth has not cen got at, and I suppose it will be to the end of My life. I don’t look with any more hope for the result of this council. I'don’t look for any hope from the result of any council or tribunal. I think there is hope in the grave and beyond. But for me,I expect to walk With a clouded head, not uudersioo’ until I go to heaven, and that is not far off; that is bot far away; and lam conient to bear just that lot that my dear Lor! pat uponme. He Knows what is best. 1 have accepted. Though the natural man rebels once ia a while and bubbles out, yet grace in the na- ture puts itdown. But I am content to walk 9. Allmy sorrow Is that the precious..ess of the Gospel which has been given me to preach is hindered somewhat by this trou- bie; but to work for Carist aad save men is my calling,aud not to vindicate myself. LoS sata ] yhen he had concluded, the committee, to which bad been refered the resolution offered by Deacon Capen, presentad a report in the form of @ resolution, that the council now assembled extend a cordial invitation to Drs. ‘s Rights in Rassia PETERSBURG, Feb. 19.—An_ official ukase has been issued forbidding women from excicising the fan ctious ef barrister. tie THE BARCOCK TRIAL. The nck trial were morning in the U. 8. cireult court, by James P. Broadhead, of the special counsel f government. The court room was crowded, and the onter doors were kept jocked all the Morning. Afver sprakicg of the attest Which the jury bad given durlog the ten days of te trial preceding, and his belief that the jnrors meant to do their uty, Col. Broadhead s-id: The goverament I represent 1s not the Congress, the President or the judiciary, but it 1s the law of the land. The strict en‘orcement of the law is vital to national existence. It is for you simply to Inquire if the law has been violated by this defend id if it bas it is for you to take coznizanceof it, and the pun- ishment i¢ In your hands. The grand jury found an indictment against this man, but e ere on the evidence submitted to . d if you believe that the defend: is guilty you are not to be in- fluenced by bis former good character. Men as good as he bave fallen before tempta- tion. and a conspiracy may exist by solemn Pgreement or by @ tacit understanding, and one who connives at the purpose of a guilty combination or If be shields it, is himseif guilty in the eye of the law. —_.—_— Serious Charge Against a Colored Legtsiator. RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 19.—R. D. Raffin, colored member of the house of delezat from Dinwiddie Peony 4 Was expelled to-day 2 Storrs and Buddington to give it any facts | for improper conduct abstracting money they might bave tn their possession. from tbe pay book of the sergeant While the discussion oa this wa: going on | erms. His guilt was established, as money an adjournment was taken. was tt to him and he confessed At the evening session H.C.gBowen ap- peared on the platform and answered ques- Uons put to him by Dr. Bacon, but nothing of importance was élicited. AN EIGHT YEars’ TASK TO REVISE THE BinLe.— At & meeting in the Calvary Epis- copal Church, the Rey. Dr. Washburne, rector, when @ committee was appointed to act in conjunction with @ cemmittee of Eng lish clergymen in the revision of the Bible, it was announced that it would take eight Flars,to complete the work satisfactorily. be American Bible revisers have den laboring incessantly for four years, aud have by giving an order against bis per diem for theamount. The money he took was that of another colored member which was in the pay book near his own. ferectectesi~ Ailled in Seif defence. New Yorx, Feb. 1).—The jury in the case of Michael Finnell, who shot and killed Pa- gilist O'Baldwin, acquitted the prisoner tuis morning. Judge Barrett concurred in the verdict, saying, “A smali man shut up ina room with a stalwart Coe who was aboat to strike him was justified in asing a pistul under the circumstances. completed only one third of the work. The Satcide by Hanging. Eng.ish committee have finished more than LANSDALE, Pa., Feb. 19 . C. Van Biel two thirds. Dr. Schaff, of this city, says | who arrived here yesterday Pall. te that this committee have flaished the Penta- | phia, committed suicide last nicht. When teucu aud Psalms, and are revising the minor prophets of the New Testament; the Gospels and Acts are completed, and’ tne Ep{sules are in hand. It will take fully three or four years loager to revise the whole. The American committee will have to look discovered he was hanging by a rope from a ring in the ceiling of his room. wa en erica The Markets. Bary:worx, Feb. 19 —Virginia sixes, old. 36, oon golidated, 69; ‘West Virginia s, 9; North Carolina gver the work of the English revisers, and the 2ew, 8: do pecial tax, 2 bid to Spglish revisers over that of the American wer casicr—F: als itiee_— FS Feb. 15.—Uotton doll and heary— commitice.—. ¥. Sun, 18h. Fiour steady and uachanges THE DEATH of the lioness “Old Girl,” so unchanged. _Cora—south-ra firmer, but quiet; well known to Dublin folke, was attended by | Steady and Grm; western, shad 5 ts rt! te, iS Yr #, 87459) wesern a touching incident. When dying, old lions | Ste epee. alte bid Bebe are much tormented by rats gnawing their | Bas southern’ 49a45; wostera whits, ain tails. During health they rather welcome | western mixed, éiat3. Kyedoll and nominal, tes the vermin, and lic blinking at them as they | dullend wochat Provisions a-tive, stroze and irisk about thelr cage, nibbling the bo higher. Fork—22 75. Bu'k meate—shoulders, 9 If. from their (the lions?) dinner. To prev shoulders, Mi. cleat Ti dens tone eee ak this annoyance, @ terrier was put into “Vid | Sie. Lard noes aud bigher—crade, 13%; refine? GQ rrey cage. At first she growled, but when | Iscal4.” Butter sca'ce and firm—-stern exrte rT she saw the dog “fetch” the first rat, toss it upand cateh it in professional manner across the back, fh obe@ quick, fatal snap, she drew the brave animal to her, licked Itaad a29; do. fiesta, 2407S. Petrotear char ged. Uc Hee firmer, not quotab doll, 02. zw Yor, Feb. bomicalls tn ly higher. Whis 19.—Stoc¥s dull, uneestina, . ” + lower. ney 3. Gold 15% Exchangs, fondied i!; and in her shaggy breast it slept | $20 low aotansate ant © : every night, her great, protecting paw over | “Neb 'p se pee Tp mya a nak f iecitning it. During the six weeks of the lioness’ ill- | W. Quiet ard heavy. Corn quiet and firm ne:3 the rats had rather a hard time of it. DOX, Feb. 19,2 p.m.—U.8 bonds, 1567, 109"s “Old Girl” had borne fifty-four eubs, and had ‘6, 106%.” Brve, i" reared fifty. bringing in by the sale o? her ee SQUELCHING A PANIC.—The Boston Ad- Yerliser says that at a place of amusement in New York, lately, a false alarm of fire was raised, and ageneral panic was imminent. progeny £1300 to the Gardens. She was the ancsomest HNoness ever reared in the coun- try. (London Letter. A BROKER'S DISAPPEARANCE. — H. | The proprietor went upon the stage and re- Eccles, a well-known broker, has not been | stored onter by the follagine one eat seen in the Gold Room for a week. Some . sees hien should have elect the thoughtless aud the timid in all similar cases: "sand Gentlemen:—There is no danger; it wasa falsealarm. And now let me say a few words. No one in all my experience was ever burned in @ theater, but thousands have been trampled to death or fatally injored lime ago a bank in Wheeling, West Va., septon to Mr. Eccles about $44,000 to be in- vested In government bonds, andafter the recent sharp rise iu bonds the bank instract- ed Eccles to sell, and deposit the proceeds to its eredit in the Fourth National Bank of this city. This pot being done, an agent of the benk came to this city yesterday, and Jearned that Eccles and his ily had gone where his relatives live. In the Room Eccles settled all his accounts, and as he was it to be werth from $25,000 to $30.00, and still retainet his seat im the Gold Room, it was believed that he migbt return. He sold his seat in the Stock Exchange about six weeks ago. He ted body of spec- his apartments in the Bt. echo, without @ moment's cunsidera- tion, this most ic striking of all cries, and present a jancholy spectacie—a mel- Boston's GREAT ELM.—The storm on a known that in case of actual this vast Tuceday a ee Tae ene cim on Boston place can be cleared with ease in two min- Webste: proceed. sad ite’ DEAD IN A_Ditci r, manager of the Kentucky state lotttery, was | was 722, and sho’ A ringing cheer from the audience was found dead in aditch near is Oo | old age ik 192 Te nad eee eres Of | reply te his spesca, and thus a feantiel ooe the suburbs of Louisville, yesterday. I! is ‘@ terribly shat- | ‘@strophe was averted by a few well chosen tboaght possible he may have been bound around by | Words delivered in @ resolute and happy by bis horse in the ditch and drowned. bars and chains. THE DEATH PENALTY IN MAIne—' abolish when the of the cherished residence, 792. damaged by tron ‘The rd | devotion of Bostoaians. bill penalty in Maine in Dr. Helmbold s ease, decidii ‘Doctor sa aubeetenee imprisorment’ and ba ing ee a St insaue. ‘The i was held yester- Hate bya vote oC toll ‘The menvore tae “Circamfercase, | 89-Professor Smith says that the sea was, ~ oe > = ety Tom Allen, the prizefighter, has gone voted yoaterday to | where the cbuotic waters Ses patted tie dies! a7 A nego pamed Gabe Walker killed a College Boating Associa- wif a heatte Puicaa Hateh- qrean in Sha county, Arkansas, to get ‘John Costley, a court officer, and T. J. Thi » i oimseif fingers for ‘against the devil. novkens gration ose game of bil- through the head. Ho bad sorteatag rat a7" Among of music in London | jiards at New Orleans, and Newuoase brain. po! toe pinca.” sv The difficulty bet Hon. Du- eieostas’ standstill in several paris of E ; a Be of (<2 of resorting to a of La, and J. N. Stoatwayer, ofthe N. | Germany, and that many manafac- cer, Mass., man very: ave his rival a was amicably ad. tories are unable to employ usaal com- $5 to keep away from his girl. morning on the “field of bouon” plement of bands.” Por *5 arp Sri by toe Pelvuyren w Peer vive dD 1 ™ ae ® id off (he edgedge, s back. b of of tis A wonder that he death merit tr, | tention of the few perso vs in that iy dead, and That about three ears ago @ white man, whom he knew to ve a m of moucy, drank at his bar and got shaved by him. ‘He cat the ene tomer's throat with the razor, concealed his body, and at night, assisted by his brothers (names and number purposely omitted by he sunk the remalns in the canal with @ heavy weight attached, appropriating the stranger's money. He continued that the canal was subsequently dragged by the au- thorities, which we remember to have been done, but the body having been covered by the mud Was not Giscovered. His last cries were horrid scene of the morder should be hiiden from his eyes, de died praying forgivencss for the crime he commited. Strange as this story may d, we believe every word of li to be nd hope the police will endeavor to bring out all the facts in the cave. A repre- sertalive of the news last night went through the slums and perlicus of Jeiferson street, the mysterious murder was o1 every ongue. The fact that publicity of the cir- cumstances would “scandallze” the rest of tue family seemed to be the most prominent argument in favor of secreey.—{ Lynchburg, (Va) News. SUIT FOR ASSAULT ONMENT.—Yesieriay 1 the case of Mary W. Lor E. Arnold was calic!. trespass to rec Sault on and f iprise of platotir by defendant on Septembe 1, 8k The plainteiaims that she was residing In @ «¢ in Uniontown, D. C., which defendant purchased. Thaton the day mentioned he Went to the house to eject her because she doubted bis statement that hehad purchased the property, and she refused to vacate the premises. “Some harsh language passed, when defendant seized her by the arms an threw ber against the door, bursting 1t open, and dragged her into te sireet. Waile this struggle was to progress plaintiff ranaged to seize @ chair with ove ha: fendant a sm: de fendant th » Court and locked her u Upon the trial of plaintiff before Judge Snell the next day on & charge of assaulting defeniaat, she was emissed. B.H. Webb and John A. Clark inti. and Wm. B. Webb aud Wm. A. for det AND FAtse IMprRis. i t ‘ Court ow vs James the ef This is ao action of er 510.000 damages for as- m) talano aod Basti- the three Italians who were evicted 1a October lest for waylaying and assacsinating Francisco Patormo, in the northern pa t Louis, in April, 1574, were hanscd at the tour Courts” prison ia yes They were atl Sicti- Pogziorevle, and ave besa in afew years. Ithas beea dis = covered tbat they were tried and conv: under aliases. Their real names a Corona, Denia Dom thons- > 8 has a wife and five eniidren Dominico, who hi in property, @ud Corona, who has $2 wills leaving this to their relatives. men were hung about noon, acmitsion were iss reporters being a! pard. A THRirry YounG Man—A few days since we found a good ecopomist In the person of a young mechanic. He lives in a@ boure of his own, for which he owes a few bundred dollars. His earsings last year Were 8550; from that sum he paid $29 interest on bis indebtedness, $100 of the priuctpal, expended $55 io repairs and support a family of four persons. He is every day at his work, hes no fears of what Mrs. Grandy may say, but supports his family comforta~ bly and well. Here is an example worthy of cobtideration by other young men. It is = g00d example for ali, aud all young or old Would ¢o well to pattern from {t, let their circumstaxces be what they may. Wedo not claim that allcan live at tue same ex- pense this young man does, bat we claira that all should observe his habits of industry and economy.—Poul!n-y, Vermont, Journal. CROOKEDNESS IN THE Pircse ToM Hovuse.—The investigation only owed within the jall- leged irregalarities in the Pittsbarg, Pa. costom houre, reveals the fact Laat import- ers have, in nearly every 6, been charged &n illegal fee of #2 on en: nsizameut, of which ho retura was ms de to tuedepartment at Washington. The deputy su in explanation, that the ove kerage fee, one-half of whict for making out the pecessary papers, balan: ‘or baodiling the do this importers y Some One todo 1", and o Of the department Women PREACHER kEAT Nover~ TY is TEXAS.—Sberman bas a novelty ta the shape of two female Methodist preachers, Miss Garrison and Mrs. Cedarholm. These ladies reached the city on Wednesday even- ing, the 2d inst., and on Wednesday night Miss Garrison preached a sermon at the Methodist church. Last night Mrs. Cedar- holm gave an exhibition of magic lantern fcenes from the Bible at the same place. These ladies, who are engaged in a kind of onary work, come highly recommen! -? by some of the leading bishops of the Mett »- bist church, north and south. They are, , haps, the first orthodox female prea: ever in Texas.—{ Sherman Revister. — eee Tur NEw O&KLEANS WHIskY RiINo.—TLo Ting men are in great agitation int to the determination of ey, New Orleans, owin, District Attorney chan, el $21,000 from the sul severe! est PoLiTiIcaL Sovurn.—A States tbat the