Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1876, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Sundays excepted, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, ylvania Avenue, cormer Lith strect, The Evening Star Newspaper Oompany, r + Prewt. SVENING STAK is served by carriers to maori ca Ten Cents per week, or Fort four Cents per month. Chpies at the coun’ Two Cents each. Hy meul—postane prepawd— Bixty Cents a month; one year, 36. THE WFTKLY STAR— published on Friday — 82a year, por'oge prepaid BF AU subscriptions awaric’ Be Rates of cevertisin y in eetcance. ned on application SPECIAL NOTICES. WOMENS TERPE "EB UNION Me ate reqaested to attend the mect TOMO KOW w loclock. at the Chapel. moa rent cr: HOME TUAL F | a Organiaed J regular meeting for payment of dass and snb MUND ten to stock AY. Stuy Int, 1576, at 7 k D m.. at Sangerburd Hall. corner Sth and E atr-et~ cribeest. Entrance on i:h street. Shares ure @1 per month on each abare. No prem fortber notice agon ¢ 1 YING WILLIAMSON. So. s* COLLECTORS UFPicn. iw DISTRICT OF OOLU MBIA, Wasttinetoy. & P21 IMPORTANT TO TAX PAYERS ‘The strention of «=! oaners of real estate District of Caluzbis ts be roby called to th ped taxes forthe cur 16: nnd aleo, th rot Taxes will en + «i . day pre xin vr ¥ io area en rent pr within ten te r ws y LINCOLN Hii SUNDAY AFTBBNUON AT 33, OCLOCK ADDRES BY YOUNG CONVERTS. Mo ap MILDURN’S SODA WATER. NATUBAL SPRING WATERS on Dranght ICE-COLD TEA, COFFEE and CHOCOLATE, 1429 PENNSYLVANIA AVRNTR, apis-tr __enr_Willard’s. Ss BEPBY W GARNETS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, No. 1 Columbia Law jog, st, bet D eb WHITAKER Cau a € trem Agent, + netr Treasnry Departmen District Clatus, Pension aud Bounty © epeciaity TO GAS CONSUMEES. Botice ts hereby gtven ihat f gaa will bs anced to rte * e Ae net Lad per 1.000. Cubic Feat. CHARLES B. BAILY, feb}-cowkM1 Sec. Washington Gaslight C TS EXHAUSTION —A Med rising series of lectares deliv tseum of Anstomy, New York e of Premature Decline, show- bow lost health may be dings clear synopsis of the impedimen marriage. and the treatment of ervous and physi- NEKVO} fiity, Being tue result of 20 years’ ex perience, Price B cents, Addressthe authorsDe, L. 3 Kava office and resi 1 East 10: N.¥. epl-6u BATFORD oe 465 Loui 2 — er — JOBSS BANESBRS, Germer of With Stret and Pennsylvania Arenus, Dealers in Government sud Disirt Foreten Exchange snd Goli. Mag. D. COVES. Jx. 8 00, BSBEEBS, passe GY , BUTSEY PUBLIC, vetit-tt Ovrice—Stag Br € 1449 F stro PTICLA 1 Braz'lian pelle a1 jarnby clase. For new d. Meas SAAC ALEX ANDER. 12 fr Inventor, Fatenter at i Maunfactur PRANKLIN & CO. Fk = - PTICL No. 1237 Pex Avercs Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spectscles WHY WURMUUR YE!” 2 Hwy. vE = pop alae GOOD SUIT B can be bought for @3, ee TEES can oe oO TABLE BROS. Be. SND NOBRIEST SUITS ever offered tn Washington, for @12, At HABLE BAS FIBB SPRING ST for oaly $10, T, Sfteen ciferent sty!es, At HABLE BBOS. ere tires ero FINB CASSI- s }» fur oni; 5 = — vt HABLE BROS. BUSINESS SLEGSANT Wooleas, fer only SUITS, of Imported At HABLE BROS. U a ly os sana At HABLE BBOS, 1cB BND Banas BUSINESS OB DBESS SOR RESIS: sn ankn NON, R UNDEED VABIETIES OF DRESS SUITS. at 1s, Al HADLE Bios. v ONE H BUSINESS OF HE ore g 18 aneaeie autos bie gs Jase. aged i See ae ere oT abu hilcs. ANDSOME. STYLISH AND ELEGANTLY ele usiuese ©: waits. Pa E FORAY HABLE BOS, VERY VARIETY OF SHADE AND STYLE of Cat ta Fine Dress or Basiness 8. t S29, At HABLE BROS. EGULAM CUSTOM MADE SUITS of the new i vie AF 2s. pos Sececht rents ‘At HABLE BEOS. UPERB L the fines! BOF CUSTOM MAD Foreign Fabrice, at 230, -AT MABLE BRO Merchant Tailors and Fine Clothiers, : Corner 7th and D street KVERYLOD ¥ SHOUL That two or three swallows BALM OF LIFE will = meals. Bo tajury or deb: bad feeling” after externally sto machi the tired brain and bedy ‘the bresth and preserves the tect! whiteness, makes the face ders the body inodorous for the truth of the atove. T A. COOK, Discoverer and Manufacturer, Corner th and H strasts, Sold tn quart bettles ouly apt attain P. A. DARNEILLE, (Late Dodss § Darnertie.) Real Estate and Stock Broker, Corner 7th street and Louisiana avence MONBY LOANED 15 BUMS TO SUIT HOUSES AND LUTS FOB SALE. MEUKIANT (0 Hi USERSEPERS Feather Pe sneer proves atered by references sand Pill 4 made t heation ot «+ T. HUNT & at ene given for work already done. S 9 CHAPM4y, eps-Im Bo. 1137 7th street north eest ArFecrron's a” eeican CYcLur Sp Ee it t bavi - . Parties in Washington or victat y Cesirin, this work will } or be ve pplied. in monthly i «ata! agency, 41% 71 ress. from t errggt, where all styles of binding may be seen.” | oa PAECS sent gratis on applica- att NAFrORAL SAFE DEPOSIT Co., Corner 15th *t. @nd New York avenwe, FIBE AND BUBGLAB-PR0OF VAULTS. All Kinds of valuables taken on depesit. Safes for Font. fice bow m to4 p.m. ours. 9. . BIGGS, Vico President. SNYDEB, Secretary. f Prof. COOK'S | avery large | | EVENING STAR. “Washington News and Gossip. ——— « —— GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS | nal revenue, ©: '0-DAY.—Inter- castoms, $590,103 5 THE Heuse Committee on Appropriations | bave cnt down the estima es fur the postal service over four million dollars as eomparet with the estimates for the past year. DINNER TO GEN. SHBRMAN.—The At! rey General gives a complimentary d | this evenizg to General Shermen and <ey | ral United States Senators. Wuitk Hov Visirors.—Among t | callers at the White House to-day were S | ators McCreery, Harvey, Hamlin, Antho sentatives ad I tter Rep e, Darrall cer, Bnd erson, Fr EAKER KER nairman of the Congressional district « | mittee which he represents ying t | urder no cireamstances cen he po: again be a candidat for any public of as written a EX-GovERne te exa AMES, of Mississippi, will mined by the ey committee Mississippi on Thursda Ul delay the departure of the committe: for Miesissippi for a week or ten days. THRE BROOKLYN Navy VESTIGATED.—The sub com House Committee on Naval A’ Monday next begin an investigation Into AED TO BE IS- ttee of the rs will management, contracts and expensli- tures Gf the Brooklyn ravy yard. New MFx1ico.—The House Committee on Territories bas decided to report the bill for e admission of New Mexico o tae Union. Tbe bill provides that the election tex Ihe adopiion of a state constitution shall not be held earlier than June, 1 A PoIst oF Law.—In the Cabinet mect ing yesterday the subject of the delivery of origmal papers In the custody of heads of vepartments was discussed, and the matter isferred to the Atttorney General for his opinion as to the law on the subject. Hox. SrEwakt L. Wooprorn, of New York, has been invited, and has acceptel the invitation of Genera! B. F. Hawkes, commanding department of Potomac, G. A. K ever ibe oration on the wih of Ma Dec nday, at Arlington. THY SECRET SERVIC® DIVISION of the Treasury department has captured a coun- terfett $50 plate for United States Treasury notes, act of March ith, I=. The money prpted from tats plate has beer principally circulated in the west, and abont fifty men j bave been sent to ‘the penitentiary for ing the bogns bills since the date of the e Of the counterfeits. “PRACEAL We Mest.”-7 for @ re | | | | iver to take possession o: sas land, Known as the “Hot ” on bebais the goverument aver the 4 | decided by the U.S, Sapri } © persons who have had posses- | s have for years matutaive! supposed rights by ¢ 5 TOW expe: t ibe gover: tain possession of th | tary ald, a | resistance. | AFTER THE Paciric iairman of tae Hoase vat Companies a prop ten days fixing some t they will make @ settlement with ernment for the ds issued h States for their respective ro plemented also with 2 proposition what they are willing to estavlis fond, looking to the payment o} terest of thelr t | ewifa Mixx Evipesce Frou E GLAND. Tue Committee on Foreign Affairs soine Ume @go made & requisition on Mr. McDou- t € secretary of the Emma Mine Com- lay before thern all papers i nis ession bearing on General Senenck’s connection with the company, sf{¢Douzall bas replied in part with the request, and has 4 forwarded among the papers the ‘original copy of Scheuck’s letter of resignation from the directory, over which there has been such a difference of opinion. The committee has decided to maintain absolute secrecy about the contents of the documents until Mr. Schenck has an opportunity to appear and explain. A STORY OF FRAUD ExpLopED.—The Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office department bas closed its inquiry in regard to the alleged over-payment to sev- eral western roads tor the transportation of themails. The principal charge was that made through a Mr. Safely, agent of the Ubree almost parallel roads from Chicago to Omaba, namely, the Northwestern, the Chi- cago, Burlington and Quincy, andthe Rock Island. ch road had received pay for all the m: matter transported between Ch.- cago and Omaha. This, it is said, was doue through the system of weighing, whereby one road would weigh all the mails for tue month of say January, auother for the month of February, and the ether for the month of Maren, each road receiving the same pay as the others. An examination bas been made by the committee of the rec and papers in the Pest Office depart- ‘ard the 2 leged fraud is found neve lo have existed, and that the roads received .Pay for ouly what mail they carried. Tur New ELectios Frsp Grows (or <A Me neral Akerman yester- iWEStion of the Comm Department of Justice as to bad any cony ersation with Pres ¢ Grant tn reference to pi money to epport, said his jon to’an- & the questio Use ground that aii the conversa that ocenrred w | tween the President and M bis eon } tional advisers, and he do Yor the £ resident Ex-Attorney G Jay, in reply to tt the { the policy of ng the disclosures culled for by the The committe wever, {n= >swer to the question, and Mr. Akerman then staid that whatever money he pald to Davenport was by written order | Of the President, who was of opinion that the secret service fund could be as jegitimately pyed for the suppression of election sin New York as for the prosecution of the kukiux in the south. Mr. Akerman far- ther asserted his belief that President Grant Was solely actuated by a desire to suppress | the frauds indicated matier what party | Would be thereby affected, aud not by any partisan motive. THE BELKNAP [MPRACHMENT TRIAL.— | The impeaci:ment managers of the House of Represeniatives ave fled with the Seere. lary Of the Senate their sur-rejoinder to tne rejoinder of Gen. Bel kuap, which was printed ip yesterday's STAR. — reiterate. in the name of the House and of the people of the United States, the assertions of their first replication to the plea of William W. Belknap to the plea that | the Senate has jurisdiction to hear and de- termine the articles of achment pre- | ferred, and that the Ho: ot Representa- lives are ready to prove au the same, and Continoe, + Wheretore uch as the said William W. Px ts not answered the said articles of umenut,or in any mapner devied the same, the said House of Representatives pray judgment thereon ac corcing to law.” Inte next piace, they ac- cept so much of Gen. Belknap's rejoinder ad ‘Sen ands trial according to faw. * bat, as to the :emainder of nis rejoinder, they deny thet the House of Representatives should ba barred from maintaining the said articles of impe: chment inst him by reason of any of the statements contained therein, because | Tesery ing to themselves all the advantages of exceptions to the insufficfeney of saki statements, they deny each and e aver- | intents, charged against sald! soaeien ee nteyto, inst Said defendant in tex second replication, and the truth of the matters stated wey, judgment therein according to lai | @ sur-rejomder is signed by the Speaker i - tue Clerk of the House of Representa- i VER. | ANY othersuit of Kentucky jeass would govern Indiana as well as “Old Jimmy Wil- liams.”—[+J. I. C.."" wa Ohio State Journal. THE SECRETARY of the Treasury has au- thorized the commencement of the payment of inst. witbout rebate. Tue Horse Commit - roads this morning agreed to report favora- bly the bill of the Senate to extend the time for the completion of the Northern Pacide railre 5 Gone TOTHE Wei Secretary Bai Jewell and ott on Pacific Rul + —The Presiden tmaster General rs of the Cabinet r memt left here on a spectal train, at four o'clock this afternoon fr Baltimore attend t wedding of Miss Rheem: ginter of Mr. Samuel Shoemaker, city. SENTENCE OF Co: WAS TEC KEF —Information is city this iin the effect that Win. M:Kee's motion in @irst of judement to-tay was over that i to two jail and ‘onm 1 pligity la the confirmed the following nominations ner Howard. U. S. attorney for Utah; Geo. - Lee, Indian agent for Michigan agency; . C. Godirey, Judian agent for Mesceierd Apache agency. New Mexico; Second Lieat. Richards ach, to be first lieuteaant in lhe Marine corps. THE Graphic, tn its picture of Hallet Ki- | bourn, probably meant to fliustrate him in the agonics of starvation. That independent lefteye has a Gen-Butlerian cast skyward levlated to melt the stoniest hearted of the Hes. But what can be expected tn the way of truthful portraiture from a paper that takes without credit from Tue that pathetic poem entitled “Pei Lani J elou's t ONE GOOD THI had been done by Mrs. ; Hamilton Fish—a scion of the Knickerbock- ers. When Senator Coristiancy married nis wife out of the Treasury department, Wash- ington fashionables bung back from the newly-made bride. Mra. Fish, however, called immediately, and satd she would rather recognize @ girl who earned mn) & star honesily and honorably than recognize @ Woman wbo made $19,000 by intrigue and and Mrs. Cady 8! ishington? MOVEMENTS GF NAVAL VESSELS—The Brooklyn salied from Port Royal, 8.C., on the 2d fustant, for Hampton Roads. The Ostipee and Manhattan left April 25th, for Pert Royal, S wWenna ts on the way from Ac Sardwich Islands. The 1 Kearsarge, Palas hai on Mar @ southern poris of Cht Saco left Yokahem: early in Apr br = NAVAl ORDEKS.—Commanier O. F d from the navy yard, 3 d to temporary command of the tucket. Lieutenant C low has reported his g bees tached fr th xr and In Is IN EXNCinS.—In th ial reir re compe reyenue agents eclive appolutmer the expenses paid toe to inform the Senate wheiher, | ®, *pecinirewards have been paid to sd ty aby seh agents; whether ve been disbursed, or contractat red, lo any such agents; wheit whicii of ther baye heea, or direction of any person other ary of the Treasury, and not of the Treasury department, Virtute of what Statute or other 1 n overs © be di y,8 ré, under Ut Db lie ort and, ifs authority ARMY O#DERS —A general court martial, ed of Surgeon A. K. Smith, Assistant Surgeon T. F. Azpell, ist Lieutenants G. A ut infantry . Roberts, 17th fa- 3 G. Rutheriord, 12th infantry; aad 21 Lieutenants R. Rh Steedman, 19th tnfan- try; S. J. Mulball, 1ith infantry; with ist Lieutent J.S. King, 12th infantry, as advo- cate, is Suan ses to meet at Fort Columbus, N.Y. barbor, on the 27th instant, or as soon after as practicable, for the trial of Sergeant Major David Lawson, sik cavalry, and oth ers as may be brought before it. ‘Ist Lieu- tenant Thomas R. Adams ts transferred from battery H, 5th artillery, to battery E, and Ist Lieutenant Garland N. Whistler from baltery to battery H. 24 Lieutenant Smitb S. Leach, corps of engineers. will re- port in person to Captain D. P. Heap, in biladelphia, Va. for temporary duty in copnecticn with the international exbibi- tion. He will afterwards return to his prop- erstation. The leave of absence granted Ist Lieutenant Jobn L. Clem, 2th infantry, Fort Brown, Texas, March Ith, is extended four months. JOUN Sp. FEARFUL FATE —In Elizabeth, N. J., several days ago, while John Spratt,with other workmen, was work- Ing on the docks. a heavy lever used in pry- ing upa@ great weight broke the rope which held itdown. John stood immediately over the lever. When it snapped the rope it struck him quick as a fash under the ehin, break- ing his jaw and hurling him up {n'the air. He was picked up for dead, but, though hor- ribly mutilated, was found to be still alive. He was removed to St. Michael's Hospital, | Newark, where he !ingered watil late on Frie day night. He died toward miduight.— ROUGH ON A DEMOCRATIC “E.DITATRE liot, proprielor of the Sunday Trojau - Y., was convictet in &n action for libel Monday. The paper Is democratic, and the organ of a faction of y The libel consistet in charzing & member of the opposing faction with being | @convicted criminal. The editor was sen- | enced to pay a fiae of $150 or to be impris- oved at hard labor for a period of 150 days. Au appeal will be taken. A PART) OF MASKED STRIKERS, lately employed at Filley’s stove factory, near Troy, N. Y., yesterday surrounded house where several non-union workmen boarded, disarmed the policem: cat the alarm tele- graph, and aseaulted the workmen. One of | the latter was shot four times and seriously wounded, and three or four others were hadty i:jured. One of the ringleaders of wie Strikers, it is believed, was mortally shot tn the melee. A DEFAULTING COLLECTOR.—A dispatch from Wilmington, Del., says Dr. Nolen, for some years United States collector at that piace, is a defaulter to the amount{ot $5,000. ‘he charge is made bya special Treasury agent, to the effect that in Isi2 a wrecked vessel was taken to Lewes, and the salvors were paid their share, but Nolen failed to turn Over to the government its portion. ACQUITTED AND REARRESTED.—Henry few dagh at Now York, shart witittereant few days ‘ew Yor! forging Allentown, Pa ysehool bonds, way yesterday acquitted and discharged, but was at once rested on aelvil suit instituted against Tr <19,000, and was lodged in Ludlow street jail. FORG ERIES — Frederic! Angell, amem- ber and bookkeeper of the firm of Valpey, Avgell & Co., bcoksellers and stationers. Providence, R.I.,has been arrested on the charge of putting out notes of the firm with fe Syed endorsements to the amount of about 000. Tue Towacco RInG,—Joseph B. Kinian. of North Carolina, bas been arrested in Mewyhis, Tenn., on @ charge ef defrauding the pavernmans in tax on tobacco, but it is said the real object of his arrest was to se cure him as @ Wituéss against the tobacco ring there, ee "7 Ex-Senator Brownlow proposes to run for Congress in the only Tennessee district that is represented by arepublican. *@ It was a cruel snub that the Brazil have been upon his coat-tails he passed the city, ” erest duc on the tst proximoe on the 27th | pan to | Sam- | raa | | The Moth Exterminator Agata | GEN. INGALLS COSTRADICTS DONN PIATI'S TATEMENTS. | Gen. Rufus Ingalls appeared before Cly- mer’s committee to-day. He testified that | besat on aboard in December, 1872, to ex- | amine i: to Co¥lcs moth preventive. The | | | board took a good deal of evidence which was all of a favo able character, and in ac- ce therewith they made a favorable but tley made bo recommendation. chairman read a letter from Capt. Aliegood, who was removed from the Sceauyikill arsenal. Allegood sald that the r + spent on the Covies and Brega moth exterminator was so much money thrown away. Witness cid pot know whether the mor ey under the new appropria been spent for labor. Witness. pronou | the s ments of Dono ttthat he was | inimical to the Cowles provess, and all the | us he had ma | now t witne ea he w th | cy due m previous years. | ve had been a paragraph inserted in the | | bills of Isi5 and to the | efect that re money should be spent | | for patented processes. The amount unexpended icom former years, an | whiten wies & Co. claimed applicable to ie: th 000. Witness erred the | ny, WAS &: ter to the War Department, and after it | went through the bureau of military j istice it went to the Attorney General. It was | finally decided that the new appropriation could be used In paying for labor tp praserv- jog the ciothing, &¢., trom moths and mil- dew. Witnesssaid thet he never had favored a“ Burnetizing” process. He never had been interested in or heard of any such a process. He again pronounced al! of Piatt’s insinaa- tions or charges absolutely and unqualifiadly false. Had nothing to do with sending any clothing to Vienna to exhibit the process in an official way. It was sentby (haariermas= ter General Meigs. Witness said the late Seerctary of War told him one day that the Cowles process was discontinued by reason of charges made by Donn Piatt; thar he hau Leard that Donn Piatt had been going around town saying that he coulit secure or abrogate contracts through the influence be had with the Secretary of War; thathe hatgent for Piatt and told him thet if such statements were made they were lies. Dovn Piatt took the stand and i that all he knew of the good or bad ena er af General Ingalls came from bis client, Mr. Cowles. Hi. (. Fant testified that he was financial gent for Cosles snd Brega from Maren, 1572. to Jan., 1 During these dates there passed through his bands oa account of the of which Donn Piatt re The New York Election Fand. OFN IL. DAVENPORT AGAIN REFORE THE COMMITTED. venport appeare| before penditures in tne D nis morning, ne the cireumsta: dclection frauds in John 1 Committe we Dd for the pu city. He was proceeding wilh un explauation when tne cha 1 he wantet a direct an 4) the information thi ised to give, in his teleg Mr. Davenport «2 tat polvi. Hen could € nas to all mor t ew lo 80 On proper ¢ Caulfield and Mr. Cy 5 the commit tilled toa d answer Mr re her b Mr. Davenport ir he Ww. mitted to go Mr. Caulfi answer in ac proponnded. Mr. Daver as p esed to explain his expendit . ned that a large amount tbat he bad received was for fees as a Untted States Commissioner. He quoted the law to show the sums to which he was «ntitled. He added that he was now arrang- ng his receipts and would show how every ‘ollar was expended. He did not have the vouchers here now, but would produce them to-morrow. He then procreded to make a statement as to expenditures fn 1s72, when Mr. Cochrane objected to a general state- ment, and WANTED THE VOUCHERS produced first. Afler mere discussion, Mr. moved to aijourn until to-morrow. Mr. Conger protested against an aljourn- hrane ment. It was alleged that great frands hat been perpetrated, and the commitiee had agreed that the witness should go on in his own way. Now. for some reason or other, the committee had changed its mind aud would not allow the wituess to explain. Mr. House, of Tennessee, contended trat the committee had a right toconduct the investigation in its own way. After a good deal of discussion , the com mittee adjourned until 10 o'clock to-morrow. District Affairs in Congress. ‘The agents and representatives of several patent pavements had a hearing before the House District Committee this morning, when they advocated the advantages of the several pavements represented by them, and submitted samples for examination, as well as reports upon the same. Judge Buckner, chairman of the Committee, authorizes the staternent that the Committee will hear any person who bas been affected by any charge made berore the Committee, and that they desire all shall explain if they will or caa. Dom PrpnO and ity arrived last even- ing at Pleasenton, forty miles from San Francisco, His car was detached from the train and put bebivd another engine, and reshed over the road a& half hour ahead of the overland train. The object was to avoid any pubile demonstration on arrival, and it Wis a perfect success. The purty ' passed through Oakiand without attracting attea- lion, crossed the ba Tiving at the wharf, took carriages to the Palace hotel, where they entered without alfa dozen peo: ple knowing they had arrived. On the arri val of the regular train at Oakland a gres crowd was in attendance, with bands pi ingard colors ilying, while Dom Pedro wv already ensconced in apartments at the Pal- ace hotel. At to Dom Pedro and party bsstily 1 the workshops of Ube Central Pacific railroad. The party wiil remain in San Francisco four of tive days going thence to other points of interest. ScrroseD ARRFST OF THE BENDERS.— At Laramie City, Wyoming territory, the Sheriff has arrested atid confined in jail two women supposed to be Mrs. and Kate Ben- der, of Kansas murder fame. A description nder women was received there by raph from the sber!{f of Parsons, Kan., exactly answers that of the peicoers. uation. MARYLAND REPUBLICAN PoLttios.— Carroll, Washington aud other counties of Maryland, at the recent republican conven- ue and They will be held for further exam! tions, while endorsing Mr. Blaine as their eboice for President, emphatically condemn the ‘war Of factions” in the republican paity of Baitimore city, and call upon the state convention to ignore both those factioas tn the state's representation at the Cincinuati convention —{ Bel: Sun. CENTENNIAL BLOCKADE.—The blockade of cars loaded with articles for the Ceaten- nial grounds, Pniladelphia, which a few peg to be serious, an een rely cleared up, and now goods i unloaded as fast as they come tn. : WIFE MURDER.—At Tuscaloosa, Ala.. yesterday, FE. T. Fitch, of New Haven,Conn. in a fit of delirium cut bis wife's throat with aravor, Killing her instantly. She was a former resident of Tuscaloosa, and was on a visit to friends there. Nor ScHOOL BUstNEss.—The Lawrence ( Mass.) school committee vote it inexpedient lo grant the request ol the agent of the Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society to be permitted to visit and address the public schools and obtain pledges from the pupiis ere . s7James O'Donnell was fatally shot throt the window of his house itt Potts- bn , yesterday. There is no clue tothe pa cr beech switehes, | Sons who were pr TWO CENT: The Insane Asylam Investigation THE TESTIMUNY TODA The Commitiee ou the Expenditures of the Interior department resumed tnetr ine vestigation of the U merning Dr. Nichols appeared before the comm accowranied by Hou. D. W. Voorhees, counse Mr. Voorhees inquired of the chairman of S. Insane asylum tals us the comni *, Mr. Mu'chier, woecher all of the evidence against Dr. Nichols had been taken. Mr. Woodworth replied that as the com- mittee understood tt all hat been taken, ex- cept the testimony of wituesses yet to airive In the city. Jucge Boone said several wi on their way from Chicago, and se re bie tn this elty may yet be called. r. Voriifes replied that they iatended to sees were val wao avswer ali the charces again teriatim, bat as they bad resent, they would first reply io that of Mrs. Taylor, given yesterday, bal afiwarde they would reply in the regular way. This Was satisfactory to the committee who thereupon adjourned to a larger room, that of the Comnilttee on Indian Affairs, so As to accommodate the large numb: per- sent, and who were unable to get seats in Uh room of the committee. Altes getting foriably fixed in the reer room the committee decided to hear G_W. Brotherton, a witness against the man- agem » Who bad just arrived iu auswer to the subjcua of the committes. ANOTHER EX- ATTENDANT. George W. Brotherton teat.ied that that he resided pear Bindensburg, Md , and was en- ployed a8 an atteudant in Beech ward, where there were @ very rough class of violent patients. There are three attendants in the ward. Left on his own account, as he did not get cnough wages, and did not like the trans- Actions at the asylum. Whea he jirst weat there, in January last, there was not enouch clothing for the patienus, or enough food for ihem to eat. He saw spiders, roaches and otner bugs in the food, and has picked them off the food. This was on account of the neg- ligence of the cooks. Haye known patients to fight among themselves and Injare each olber, They fight with the spittoc Have seen vermin on the patients mber of Umes. Carbolic seid ard blue ointment was peed. Often asked for fiue-tooth combs, soa to comb them outof the patient’s hair, but ld not get the com Attendants were £0 much in mending clothes of the that they rly attend th patients. The wards at night ume were very cold; have known been soup and pork to come up te the pa ten, bes could the’ Itwas necessary sometimes strike the patienis to project themselves (the attendants.) It was also nesessery to use force to put them tu the baths. Tae pa- itents often threw the meat away, as it smelled so bad they could not eat it; did not Lave clothes enough to cover the patients’ pakedvers. One patient in the ward tore up his clothing, but only that one; don’t re member seeing Dr Niel ‘n the ward but twice before the in gation commenced. Sivce this investigation began clothing has been very plenty. Stockings and under- cloibing are there now in great quantities. ‘The food {sa great deal better now than it was, Roel there is more of tt. Dr. Nichols isis the patients more quently now; never saw Dr. Nichols go a bei-room or a bath-reom while witness was tnere. T bourd of a part bultdis third ¢ =ts when it was rot frequently seen on ° ERMAN e8 2 reli wno Sherman nd ir. Morrell said he was one of the vormsmitice, Aud that he should make a state met tohim. Witness refused tosay aay- tbirg to this man Sherman. | Witsess af. lerwards that Sherman was recaatl employed at the Capitol as an assistant en- giveer.) Have never had any trouble wit Dr. Morrell, except once, when the doctor made him stop singing. [Do not kaow why Dr. 3 li wanted bim tomakea statement before Sherman. Three other attendants made statements becore Sherman last week. Dr, Morrell did not say what particular statement he wanted him to make, aad if he (witness) did not go and talk to Sherman the comiuittee would subpe a bim in forty- hours. Dr. Morrell said Sherman was seat over by this committee, and that le was a member of it, and authorized to take state menis of the attendants there. IN CROSS-EXAMINATION witness said there were about forty-eight patients tp Beech ward. It was his duty to ask the ward master for anything that he Wwantcd. and not his place to go in person to see Dr. Nichols and ask for it. !t took three weeks to get one fine-tooth com), and that was a]! that was given (or the use of forly- eight patients; always put down such re quests on a book which is kept therefor that purpose. The committee then, without further ex- amination, adjourned’ the public session until to-morrow, and held a brief secret ses- sion. [Lis understood that several witpesses Will be subprenaed before the committee to morrow to give testimony In relation to tue man Sherman, spoken of by the witness Brotherton. ‘d from Mr. Ciep! WasHING TON, D.C, April 2 Editor Star: In — statement puhil i your paper yesterday in regard to a loan made to Hallet Kilbourn and Jobn O. Ey. by the Freedman’s Saying and Trust com- any,1 notice that ry name is stated as be- ng Signed in connection with W. S. Hunt- ington and L. R Tuttle, of the Finance eom- mittee to the approval of the terms of said lean. Idesire to say that I knew nothing whatever of this loab until months after it occurred, and that! have no recollection of bav ing signed my name to thesaid approval, and if I did, itmusthave been on misrepre- sentations made tome by Col. )). L. Eaton, the ectuary, in whom 1] had implicit conti- dence as an honest and faithfal oficer of the Bark. Very respectfully, L. CLEPHANE. MOoULTON's CHALLENGE TO BEECHER.— Francis D. Moulton, in an open letter t Henry Ward Beecher, submnits the follow propositions: I will 80 amend my complaint at law that the issue shall be. if it is pot so. offered now, that by your perjury you cansed me to be indicted for Ibel, for saying tuat ou were an adulterer, you luen well Know- Ing Lhat what | said was true. Waiving all formalities, I will go to trial upon tke issue aicne. and I will acree that all witnesses shail be beard without technical ovjection Who know anything of any fact tending to prove that issue, either of their own know- jecge or by the statement of either party concerned in the doubie crime, or any other testimony the tribunal before which the trial is bad shall chose to hear. As‘! do not de- she toget any money from you by my suit, which would perhaps be id from the foads of the church, whichought to be devoted to a better use than Indemnifying you against the consequences of your crimes, 1 will ask no demages whatever save the nominal sum ofone dollar if the issue is found to be in my favor. Moulton offers to submit the is- sue to a jury summoned in the ordinary mode, or by ex-President Woolsey, of Yale College, or by Deaton George C. Robinson, of Plymouth Chureb, or by jury half selected by Thomes G. Shearman and Edward Beecb- er, and the other by himself, the verdict of fad lo be accepted as the final de- cision. REMARKABLE PEDESTRIANISM.— (0) Sat- urday, the 15th instant, Mr. Christopher T. Satchell, of Wiseville, Accomac county ‘\a., walked fifty miles in eleven hours and thirty-three minutes. The feat was per- formed at Drummondtown to decide a w: of @ hundred dollars that no man in county could walk fifty miles in twelve bourt. Mr. Satehell did not train himself for the walk, having worked at bis usual oc- PL acepeonrtas vay mpm whole ae re vious ees , ope hundred and forty- ae pounds is five feet six inches in height. He was clad in bis ordinary work suit, and took no nourishment during the walk, except a small quantity of fresh milk. DEATH OF MRS. GOVERNOR SwANN, OF Mb.—Mrs. Elizabeth Gilmor Swaon, wife of the Hon. Thomas Swann, died at av early No. C3 ‘Franklin streets ‘Baltimore Mrs. Swann was the d: ter Of the late John of the late the Hon. Thos. Swann in 133. She wasa lady noted for her many of the tutions of Baltimore. At the sed by ca- funeral will take at 1 o'clock to morrow afternoon. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Werrxrspay, April SENATE.—The enair laid before the Son ate a commt 1 from the Seere: the Inteitor, evelosing, in reply to the Se resolutio es of report from th 1 Bslouer n Affairs relative to m of tt x Lian yo to pay to Committee on Mi irom Committee d bill to provtd n of the c ane, of r, Allaire, reporte of the Teserva' avd Missourl Ik braska Mr. Cockrell, from Comm a bill for We rele i for the a federate Atv Kansas ant N.- Mr public Jocuments. Mr. Sherman presented Anthony, fom ported Lil to fiw Passed wounde ne civ ferred to Committee on Pensions Mr. Cooper, from the Committee om .Teported bi cept a site for the custom house and ps ce at Nashville, Tennestee, an! asked ils present consideration, but Mr. Bout objceted, and it went over. Mr. McDonald reportet_@ resolntion eail- pg on the Preside all the correspond not heretofore published in reference to claims for captures made by the reo" p Shenandoah. He said he bad unier- ers ott to a Submit to the qualified electors of the Dis- trict of Columbia whether they desire au elective form of government, which was re ported adversely by tue Committee on the strict of Columbia. Mr. Morton said he would not detain the Sevate but for afew minutes. He had been Informed thet the great body of the people of the District wanted a government of their own, like other cities, aud if they did it could be easily ascertained by the method be pro- posed. The condition of affairs in this Dis- triet was anomalous. It was repubilcan; it a blow at our free Institutions to strike down suffrage in this District. It was the ing wedge to striking dowa uni erga ee; and being the act of the general nment it WRS already quoted agat as tu the siztes where there was oppositi to universal suffrage. Tue 150.4) peopte his District wer th goveruel by three Com- bad no more control o rs than three or the serfs « the other He their own local iegosia » E ment agaist suffrage here would equal force lo any stale or an n. and Senai ation with peopie in We tax is 00 on their rea estate, bul we allos no voice in thelr local goverrment. We trample dovn the very principles for which we contended in tin revolution. No matter how able the District Commissioners are, they are bo more tha proconsuls. If it is right to govern 150 090 im the District of Columbia by proconsuus, it is right to govern 150,900 or % 0 OF L,4»,000 method. 'Tuese agers, they Know anywhere else, in tne sam Commissioners are stri actbiug about the wauls of the people of the District. This present goverament ts # shame. Tuere are a hundred streets in Unis city now almost impassable, and yel the people living on them cannot put in a spade, cannot put down a stone. If they apply to the Comti sloners they bave no appeai from the decision of those officers. In a year from bow, upless something is done, it Will be Im- possible to haul a load of wood over m: of these streeta. The springs of the fre en- gines are constantly making noise in going over them. These people had been given a local government for three quarters of a cen- tury. He admitied that there were some evils in the suffrage here; these were every- where; but they were not matt Sogo as the evils of an appointing system. aboses which bad prevailed here were «ue not to tbe elective, but to the appointing system. The board of public works, which had mo- bopolized all the functions of the local gov ernment, was a noted by the President, and not elected. repeated that 4 biow at popular suffrage here was a blow at popular suffray garded. Mr. Boutwell said be concurred with mush that had been said by Mr. Morton. agreed with that Seuator @s lo the principle he bad iaid down, yet he was not prepared now to follow the Senator in bis suggestion. He believed that the people of this Distr c’ should have a government of their own. What be looked tipon &s the trouble was Liat the people of this District had always been in the babit of going ahead aud making lav- ish expenditures,with the idea that Congress would pay them. Congress ought to lay down precisely the amount which sha!l be paid apaually out of the public Ureas. ury, and then let the Lustrict people how that they must provide for the rest Be asked Mr. Morton what he would do in case a majority of the qualified electors de cided that they did not want an eleciive gov ernment. He submitted an amendment in the nature of a substitute to strike o after tbe enacting clause, and insert t Committee on tre District of Colan directed to prepare and report a bi!! for government of the District of Columbia, th Officers of which shall be choseu by the 4 fied voters of the District. Mr. Touurman said there had as yet been ho indication that the people of the District desired to return to an elective government It was the custom of tne American peopic when they desired anytuing, to let their Wishes be Known. In regard to te Commis- Siopers of the District being strangers, he Said that was not the fauit of Congress but of the President, who bad seen fit to go out side of the District to make the appoint- ments. Al the time the appointment of the Commissioners wes authorized it was con- sidered that they should be God fearing men, but be residents of the District of Co- Iumbia. Tbe morning hour here expired, and the subject went over. The unfinished business being the bill to amend the Laws relating to s!iver coin, came up. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—Mr. Wood (N. Y.), from the Committee of Ways: And Means, reported the bill to provide for the separate entry of express packages con- tained in one bill of lading and moved con elsewhere, and would be so re. He ‘The Speaker announced conference committees the following gentie- men, viz: On Deficiency seaeten. bill—Mesers. eS ee a -), and Hale ( Me.) On Dy A Mesers. (Miss), Waldron ( Mich.) A QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE. Mr. White ( Ky.) rose to a question of priv- feclling ihatan article nad ‘aprearei ne ioe an article ap; in the ‘Washington Gazelle. a demucratic paper, cbarging the clerk of the Hoase with couspir- ea aeons by aroun the salaries, and directing a mittee on Rules to inquire and report whe! i ood that some awards bad been meade atly in excessof the value of the captares. The resolution was passed. On motion of Mr. Sargent, ary of the Trensury was directed ‘to rm the Senate of the number of special agents, rev- enue agents, &c.; under woRt section of th Revised Statutes they hold their appotn ments, whetuer any of them have rece! any compensation in the nature of special awarcs; and if so, by What authority of taw, and whether any of them are unter the L- rection of any Officer not a subordinace of the Treasury department, Mr. Norwood, from the mmittee on Na val Affairs, reported the bil! for the relief of Peters aud Reed, late vaval coutractors at Norfolk. TEE DISTRICT SUFFRAGE BILL Mr. Morton called up his resolution, to ° ; ques ion of privilege, 1 overrule the point of order be won! TAI. be motion tor oh WARE i Telegrams to The Star. SENTENCE OF McKEE. TWO YEARS AND $10,000 FI IMPORTANT ARREST AT ST. Pal r to the Committee = MEETING OF STATE CONVEN : = aeaa THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION. pees THE STATE CONVENTIONS. The Massachusetts Republican Coa- vention. Bosrox, April 26.—T nd prayer these when £0 mmoy were being assailed as by the tomabawk and scalping Kolfe, that we mihi not fo DASTLLY OF BAastly: that we might be spared the foollst sur faith bat we m aye t the meett cit was bat the delegates 2 Congress 1 S shall select del- ates tothe St is convention, and amd mit them toa committee from th? jadiclal strlets, to repo » comvention. This is In accorda with prec t. Toe con- vention met at noon There were contesiing delegations from f 8. Atte Ssion A comm! tee on contested seats was prointed, and the conveation took @ recess udp m POREIGN NEws. of « Comntess. The Dowager Countess LoxDpon, April of Derby is dead Algertan Insorgents Must Sarrender, ALGIERS, April 2 losurgents are smrounded the French reage and cannot y must surrender. tof the Election & 5 CoreNN AGEN, April The election for the folketiing (the lower house of the Rigs. <lad) bats JUST Laken place. It resulted in election of 34 sts to [he government's ational defense bill, b majority of 16. The folk dissoived by the King because there was majorsLy Of 1s Agaiust the measure. Among the defeated supporters of the measure are M. Klein, late Minister of Justice, and Count Holsteio De loisteinperg late President of the Council. The leaders of the opposition eailjelected, and the couutry is cited. It is said a fresh dissoiu folkething is inevitable when the new ¢ham- ber meets Failure of a London Merchant, LONDON, April 25.-Eagento Lopez, mere chant, of (55 Old Broad «treet, 1 failed, with liabiiities of £59.006. New York, April —A dispateh dated Brownsville, April 25th says: The revolu- Uonists moved oat Of Matamoras this morn- ing 16.000 strong under the command of Diag ep route for Monterey. Gen. Gonzales re- mains in command of Matamoras. Many Cesertions from the national guard are tak- ing place. the <leserters escaplog to this side of the river. The steam corvette bel to the Rio Bravo patrolled the river night and asqned of cavalry remained in Ihe saddle for the purpose of eaforeing the neutrality laws. It having been reported tual ecutraband of war would be crossed river they are doing thelr best to prevent it. The movement of [iar is regarded as little than asnal outbreak that takes i during the presidential " isnot anticipated that any Sghting wil place bere. ‘A band of counterfeiters were arrested at Ringgold Barracks terday. Affairs in Camargo on the opposite side of the river from that place are reported « ~ - THE ALLEGED AND OFFICE PRA bs. tmportant Arrests om the Order of dige Cartter. » MINN., April 26.—William H. St. Par Grevt and Francis X. Brosseau, fh law partners, were arrested here corday'od a bench warrant issned from Judge court in Washington, charging them with complicity with one Lippincott tn tssaing fraudulent Sioux hal{-breed scrip, whereby the government was defrauded of a amount of money and many bundred thon- sand acres of laud entered fraudulently. Grant and Brosseau will be taken to Wash- ington. ‘ a The Bonavza ——- Not “ Petering 7 San FRANC ‘AL, April —Toe stock report to dav publishes an interview with J.C. F . The latter emphatically venles the report recently circulated, that the Bonanza mines are tel out,” asserting that they never looked aod would continue to pay dividends right along. He+ays that all reports to the contrary are faite and malicious. Marder Philadel, DPutba DELPBIA, A) Jona Hasret, Tormecty & ponerse as and mortally wounded ex-Lient ot Poles William R. Hess (now a member of the re- serve police), at the boardihg house of the latver. Hess, it is said, assisted Harrar’s wife when she Was deserted, at times, by Harrar, and this excited the jealousy of the latter. Harrar is now in castody. .—The fifty-seventh anniversary of ihe institation of O44-Fei- pong yee competes ay grand divic re P e, prising six Fions. numbering several thousand men in line. all in regalia. The procession marched by the monument to Wilde: Fight with Bargliars. Barly this mornii Boston, April ord burglars entered the dry is store of Bat- ler & Norwood, No. 92 Street, aod attempted to overpower the watchman. who made 4 desperate resistance, when the thieves fed without securing apy consiteradie &mount of plunde —_o Mcliee Sentenced St. Loris, Mo., April 25—1a the Valet States circuit court tits morning, Jutge Dil- lon overruled the motion in arrest of judg~ mert in MeKee's case. and sentenced him to two years e county jail and pay a fine of PHILADELYHiA, April —The U. 8. Centennial commission ts tow assembied at the Centennial Hall. fon. J.C. Jacods wat chosen temporary chairman aud addressed the cony ‘The Markets. A RAILROAD TRAIN IN THE Canal.—A We ofa 'e *Welted, “otal” diate Southern railway the Welland canal, feeder, ine and engineer, Cady, and the: