Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1877, Page 1

BT Rates of advertising Se” a§shed on application. ad THE EVENING STAR. | PUBLISHED DAILY, Except Sanday, AT THE STAR BUILDL! Fennsyivauia Avenue, cormer 11th street, at i 0 a The Eve aper ee gz Star News 38. H. KAUPFMA eeemendoeaenin STE EVENING STAR is served Dy carriers to subscribers ai Ten Cents per week, or Forty- four Cents per month. Obpies at the counter Two Cents each. Hy mait—postage prepat4— Sixty Cents s month; one year, $6. Tur WEEKLY STAR— on @2 a year, postage prepaid. Priday— SF AL subscriptions invartad”, 4 advemes. NS, PICNICS, &e. 4, Agnvat PIONIC Rick will PAT * Tih street, of Adu ission 25 cents: children under 12 years res Dancing com t3o'clock pm. __jyls 2t ee Sees "PO THE PUBLIC 1 PINEY POINT HOTEL, sey Poxt Mp, Jnly 3.8 From ard after this date the St Vanderbilt will not be allowed to laud at the wharf at Pisey Point... dose not ay i a7. § mer Coarlowe Proprietor. BN B—The aborr ply tn the siigh*est degree to the Excur oho civen by the ¥ PA. bh Presbyterian Ohnreb. on TURSBAY by AN GpBaNd FAMILY EXCURSION . PICNIC the R. 17th inst OF FRIENSSHIP LODGE, No. 8, K. OF P., AT LOCUST GROVE, TUESDAY, Juiy 27, 1577 Ferry boas leave s 7th atrect wharf ck Re- ea BR's’ pa chased of an eda I LECT EXCURSION To MARSBALL BALL, TUESDAY, J cow pliment to teanial aud Map! r MARY WA HING- er wh t Y Rk EAT FALLS. Op SUNDAY, JUuY 13 n he boat Coac nes e oF passengere from the ear stand to the pesca Propristor. The vehildren. 25 cents ‘Tick 7th rr ars itew La. ave . bet Sth and beth sts; Ds a) Wiltart «Hotel. In Georget Bey Bt Hanter and Joba M T Bele EXCcRsion TO DR y) k Under the direction raid Bil m_.and Upsion 5 m Sochange of ‘the cars will ran up the Northern Cewtral ~ R. 3 Mredberss Station, the Bortheast entrancest the Parke Tickets, round trip. . Forsale atGeo W. Cropiey ». Druggist, cor of Bridge and Congress streets Te-town, J Boardman & Co., Sta- ery 2S isth st .opp Treasury, C. C0. Purcell, 22 ih ot.n.w ; Brad Adams. © stioner, SL2 F Be. J © Perker. Staioner, S27 7th t , W. a Ng a ee Booksellers. e768 | ‘= ave. = B.B. Ferguson. Draggiet, corner Va. ave an <8 €,Mre Linker, Fancy, 408 sen gtecet jy TO APEAKE BAY AND PINEY POINT, RY TBE P. A. FOUBTR FRESBYTERIA! x TUESDAY, July 37. Is77._T: The elegant Pteamer Charlotte Van Beas 71 f at 6 pm ou 7 ¥. arriving at Pot Look EDNESDAY emaining there jug, oF enjoyment on the ‘cint at Li @. m., and reaching me, Achieg. ourds. leaving the P feciurart ws i Bt Heeets rocured only f © imi: im thet: Bien e B. J.3 2 Biss Jal c + 2O8 N.Y wve > Miss Neti Bani. 0.5 Preah hstrose, e335 = eet weil s street north- = s jyl0-6t i A WEEK IN_TH Viiv GEAND EXCUBSION A chance fur all to MOUNTAINS OF 1A BAWLEY SPRINGS. his most delightful sum- ft oda at the Springs Hotel, from Monday untii the wing 5 ng. only $15 stion apply at St. James tore, FOS 15. street € rth. F at i HREE HOURS ON THE POTOMAC.— MUSIC AND DANCING.—P». ty 8 will “make EXCURSIONS down the! Pot mac every TURSDAY and THURSDAY, com- mencing TUESDAY. July 20th, aud continu» dor- fing the months of July and August, Tickets, 1 ‘The boat leaves foot of 7th street at 22, 50—N®&. 7.579. SPECIAL NOTICES. REV. DR. PINKNEY, As.istant Bishop i, wil in preach @race Charch, To-morrow, at Io'elock. 1t* GOSPEL TENT MENTING, Ik h wtret U> wa teaboee enue —Sabbath, 4p m., GES. W. F. Speake, P. E.. will presid: he OS ENA) BAPTIST. CHURCH, corner metth tnd H.streets, northwort Rev. “AF. ASON. pastor. wil ec | morrow at liv cloe and evening at@ o'clock mrre it Sermon . atlia. m ic. Davin Witson, ith-street Metaudixt church. Seats free’ All are invned.. It" FLETCHEH CHAPEL. corner New York enne and ith street —Preaching To-mor: Sh at Vie om by Rev. Mr Hawley. 4% Myrixeza. Subject: Chris Ideal. It tien OS ck Bey DAD WILLS. DD Preach To morrow Morring. at Io 'cin the Western Presbyterian churcheon H von sels Reusing Out of the Sith Vial on tne Bupsre- t will to tea.” Public invited. ROLY CROSS CauRca sachustte avenne and Ih tree — services Morning prayer. 93 a. m.; Holy communi n and by the Rector, at i. am.; Rveniag prayer +s THE VAIG THAT 18 SPREAD OVER ALL NATIONS. Isaiah 25, 7. How is it morrow. at Tia m by ‘s hall. ‘3d streets sonth- it* ic the large tent, pices of the Mount Sinai African M b im post mony by Rorent F. Wayaay cf Phi'adeiphia, To-morrow, the ith justanc, at eclock a.m. and at 3 p.m. Right Rev wx Brow’, Bishop of the Baltimore district, w t 1'sSapper. At PACK YOUR SILVERW urs, &e., in N. regula held MONDAY RVERING. July } at As seciation Hall. at 8 o'clock #harp. uttendance ested. ee there is te 2, are hereby notified to anp=ar at the Asylum, Maconic Temple, fn fall au fora, TO-MORBOW, (Sundey.) at 136 o'clock p.m. to fanetal of our late decease! frater, S.t fra‘ernally ited OR” » Em. Vow ‘A. T. LONGLEY, Recorder. It” "| Berald, Gazette and Chronicle } FOURTH «NNOAL MBETING METRO- POLITAN BUILDING ASSOCIATION — Fhe fourch annual meeting of the Metropolitan Building Association for the corsiderstion of the Secretary ‘sannuual the election of officers for be epeting year, atd such other business as my roperls come before i MONDAY. G15 7th street, ats BY BROWNE. P: tary. AT SLATER'S OFFICE. No. 1425 Peon sylvania avenue, is the best place to pay Zur Improvement Tax. and dispose of your Draw- jacks and Augit ficates. ly} tw ¥. Mf. CCA, Sh and Detreets. SABBATH SERVICES Rey. Davin Wiis, D.D., Will speak at the corner f7th street and Pennayl- vevue, at To clock pm. ountain of Living Waters.” GUSPEL MEETING IN LWNCOLN HALL, at Se clock All are welcome THE SECOND BUILDING CO. OF LEDROIT PARK corporated) is thorough’y organized, and about one-half cf the stock has been suoscribed. SHARFS, £100 EACH. parable in monthly instaliments uf $10. scriptions for stock will be received and in- ation gi’ ‘The Presideot. GEN. WM. BIRNEY, Attorney to the District Commissioners, Subject: Or Treasurer, Wekoac a aecretns, cambler Citizens! tall eal ak, ir ’ J. . iy9 6 Boom 3, 8t. Cloud Building. OBIENTAL CREAM. ‘Gatton to the Drug Trade and Ladies of the South: It having come to my knowledge that a base imi- tation of Dr. T. Felix Gouraud’s Oriental Cream or Magical Beantifier is being sent ont ata reduced price. this is tocaution dealers and consumers. The nine article is up Leg bg hind sane style, as }, size, bottle, y sband for the Inst thirty yesrs. "Wenders of the ‘will be proseca: Consumers need on! Rh! their guard." MABTHA 8. 'T. GOURAUD. Proj ind street, New York For sale wholesale by STOTT & CROMWELL, Washington D. O.-and by retailers cenerally. Also. Feli eT aed, Feltz Gouraud’s Talian Mod. Soap, Pos: ve for removing. super@uous qu Vegetable Rouge, ully Waits, Be, jets-tm eee ces ‘hour ‘sride on the Potcmac river, t ja and return, spy day during the we-k, for 18 cents, on the bosls of the Potomac Ferry Co! Children under teu years of age free. The boats Hears, peta oF Alexandria and vice versa rly from 7. a. m. to Mp m, Wipathp m. The trips at 4-90. 6:30. are expecially refreshing aud invigol SUNDAY EXCURSION. down the river, stopping at Hall two hours! aad revarutnw at 930 p to. t0 this city ‘The steamer leaves 6ti-street whart at 3:3) p.m. Fare, round trip, 25 ceuts. WM. ff KILLMON, Agent. Farry EXCURSIONS. The fine Steamer (HAKLOTTE VANDERBILT, tain Charles Entwisie, will. uutit further notice, © semi eck y tripe diwn the 2 Th erect whar i bh Sm aoeke arbi, at o'clock p.m. Ctildren, half price, Saturdays the steamer wil, goto PINKY POINT AND POINT LOOKOUT, wing 7th st {at § 30 p m.. sxarsing jouday about @ ochck a. m ct Fourd tip. For state rooms Board ie steamer Po- can be I ee OINT LOOKOUT EXCURSIONS.—The splendid iron Steamer * SUB,” Capt WO Gew Page. will resume Ber SATURDAY BERING THIF! Piney Powot, M 's aud Point Lookor on TURDAY. June 16 Fare only $2 round trip. All accommodations first clase. Leave Stephenson wharf. foot of Tth street, every Saturday at Sp ene returning art in Washington Monday morn- ing st 66 clock. For state rooms and further infor- mation Ca oe mson & Bro , (th street wharf, = o ennsy ivan : SSeS STENSO TEED., ageats, wt POINT, FORT MON- ry KFOLK AND THE CAPES. ‘he eple: Steauner JANE MOBE. ¥ will reeume hes SATURDAY 1GBT TRIES to the above poite! Commencing SATURDAY TS fust., ‘aabington Fe SACO, Preeidont_ "THE STEAMER MARY WASHINGTON in waking trips to Gly mout and fatermediate lanaivgs daby (Sunday excepted), leaving her wharf, fout ui about ¢0’clock © tripe, to jarebail Hall; leaving at 10 acd pm. Ficet trip fare, 4 ote. Wand return! arnt; Fe eorhents ee oa ete, ° mt CokaP taken on 2» ceute round =o wdaits, 28 couts, landings Until Ce revera trip of the boats 1 2 he re urn 4 good only on Sacurdays. Children must in all cased accompanied by their parents of some adult TBE STEAMBOAT. MABY WASHINGTON chartered fo eS SARATOGA WATER, ONLY 15 CENTS A BOTTLE, From the Celebrated Hathorn Spring. W. 8. THOMPSON, Pharmacist, __my2-2m 703 th street. > THE NATIONAL SA®K DEPOSIT UO, {Chartered by Special Act of Come, Jan. 22, 1367 | CORNER 157H Br. axv New Yoke AV to a Tecely year. Stocks. Bonds on special de: me alu ia trunks or boxes, taken Biiver Pinte, Paintings, fine Dress Gcods aud ables of t of all Kinds, packed for safe keeping. Vaults fire-proof and burgiar- Reet g Oiice hours, 9a, m. 10 4 p.m. m. Stickney, Pres 'B. P. Snyder, See. Geo. W . W. Riggs, Vice Pres. AL. S:urtevant, Treas, Rirectors —William Stickney, Geo. W. Biggs, B P. Snyder, HA. Willard, A-L! Starievant, Nich’ las Acker! Thomas Evans. p33 s&tut Aug) [> GENUINE concnass WATER From the Griginal Rpring AT SABATUGA, Fifteen Cents per Bottle. HATHOBN WATER sams price. MILBURN’S PAARMACY, yStr 1499 Penn avenue, near Willard’s , McFARLAN, Dentist a eniis40 EW YORK AVENUE. ‘ot Jersey avenue, as orroneously printed Ip Boyd's Directory for 1877, 7 Pane ly —_—_— EXCURSIONS, PICNICS, &c. WASHINGTON LIGHT INFANTRY CORPS—COMPANY “A.” EXCUKSION TO PINEY POINT AND POINT LOOKOUT. SATURDAY, rut 21st Is ‘Tue Steamer LADY OF THE L. Joseph White, will leave 6h street oo ds 9:30 p. m., retursing Mon 6a. ta ‘Tickets $2 each. may be obtained at the foll a Tos KE, Captai Met. Bank, of Col. W. G. Moor: Pa. av ‘& Oba {Hanson & Blackford. $10 7th street American House: O° Bod. Lette mis may De eugaged af BOS Pennsyiva- dyli-w 5 &16t nlasrenue. QUNDAY EXCURSIONS. ‘The LADY OF THE LAKE, until farther notice. will make regalar ex- STath streeks'at 35 fs Forty Ave bs wi e ry mtirn. Fare SO cents. - ‘The fest Steemer JOHN W. THOMPSON wilt imtreet. W: mn, at & o'clock be) ce WRDNESDAT ‘and SUNDAY. "Passage, we SAM. BACON, President. steamer ‘ich is! ‘the Ladies’ Mouut Vernon Associa- tow) evoid riding im ambulances three miles, as by |, including admission to Mansion en. Koncd trip, 81, and Grouncs rhea Eiaeds orto oY ATURE Agent, at 8c. O8 1a | NEW ROUTE TO MOUNT VERNON. opposite the Patent OS, g. TROTH, The new. safe and commodious steamer MARY mylt% President of Company. WASHINGTON snow ca ‘pas- | ,YCeUM BUREAU EXCURSIONS. _ | Sarriuges to re them to LLYcevM BUREAU Excu carriages B sraneport . | kong bill. The Sot tires.” Leaves | uuMra. Fassett is stadiously filling np WASHINGTON, D. C.. SATURDAY. JULY 14, 1877. _ EVENING STAR. Washineton News and Gossip. GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.—Inter- nal revenue, $402,733.12; customs, $297,000.79. SECRETARY McURARY has returned to the elty from Iowa. AMONG THE FEw who 8 +w the President to-day were Secretaries Evyarts, McCrary and Schurz. DISTRICT COMMISSIONER DENNISON left the city last evening to spend a few days with his family at Swan Meadows, near Oakland, Md. RECEIPTS OF NaTIoNAL BANK NOTES for redemption for week ending to-day, as compared with corresponding week of las year—1s7 000; 1877, $5,514,000; receipts te day, $1 THE PRESIDENT, accompan'ed by his sons Burchard and Ratherford, spent a couple of hours going through the Post (Office depart- ment to-day, under the escort of Third As- sistant Postmaster General Hazen, examin- ing into the business of the various bureaus. THE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE FouR PER CENT. LOAN have exceeded all expectations. | Up to two o'clock to.day over thirty-one millions have been subscribed, and the esti- mates bow are that by three o'clock on Monday when the boc millions Will be taken, if not in WHAT SENATOR Cc "tT Do. A New York lawyer named Norton, at present @ guest at the Ebbitt honse, stated last night that he had the authority for the statement under the Senator’s own Sig ture, that Mr. Conkling wonld refuse to en- dotse the southern policy of President Hs Navat ORDERS.— Chaplain Frank P. Rose ordered to the Pensacola, flagship of the north Pacific station, at the navy yard, Mere Island, Cal., 10th of August; Assistant Surgeon Robert Whiting detached from the training ship Constitution, and ordered to hold bimself in readiness’ for orders to the | Omaha. INVESTIGATING THE LATEST REPORTED SPANISH OUTRAGE.—The - Secretary of State has, through the Treasury department, telegraphed to the collector of customs at Provincetown, Mass., requesting him to in- quire into the accuracy of the report that avother outrage has been committed upon rs American vessel in the case of the Risiag Sun. THE Four PER NT. SUBSCRIPTIONS ovER THIRTY MILLIONS.—The subscrip- Lions recetved in this country yesterday to the new four per cent. bonds as reported to the Secretary of the Treasury by the syndi- cate amounied to 85,470,000.” The subserip- tions previously reported were $25,481,3.9. Total at the close of business last’ night, $30,051,000. THE TREASURY now holds 336 827,499 in U. 8. bonds to secure national bank circula- 1d. $18,857 ,800 tosecure public deposits. U. 8. bonds deposited for circulation, week ending to-day, $4,203,500; U. 8. bonds held for cirealation withdrawn, week ending to-day, $6,504, Currency notes, $3 notes, $1,430,120. »285,277; gold PRESIDENTIAL ArPOINTMENTS.—James W. Warden has been appointed tobacco in- spector for the Ist district of West Virginia. The President has commissioned Leonard G.s hepard to becaptain in the revenue ser- vice of the United States; E.H. C. Hooper, of Maine, agent for the Indians of the Sixse” tou agency in Dakota, and John C. Mallory, ic. of Orevon, agent for the Indians of the Colorado Hiver agency in Arizona. No Action has yet been taken by the At torney Genera! in regard to the charges o malfeasance in office recently filed against Marshal Purnell, of Texas, further than to forward a copy of the charges to the mar- shal, with instructions to submit his reply thereto as soon as possible. Upon the re- ce! pt of this reply the Attorney General wiil take the payers and examine carefully all the circumstances in the case. ARMY ORDERS —By direction of the Presi- dent, Se.onc Lieutenant E. M. Weaver, jr. 2d artillery, is detailed as professor of mili tary science aud tactics at the Western Rs serve College, Hudson, Ohio, and will report for duty accordingly. First Lieutenants Wm. R. Qvinan, of vattery L,and Albert 8. Cummins, ry F, 4th artillery, are ordered to —- batteries. Leave of ab- sence for twenty days is granted Lieutenant Colonel James Simons, surgeon U. 8. army. DIPLOMATIC NOTES.—A dispatch received from Minister Washburne at Paris, brings the intelligence that he desires to be relieved from duty by August. Governor Noyes wili therefore arrange to reach Paris before that date. -*--Minister Osborne has already sailed for his post in Chili, with important instructions in Fegard to certain qucations in cortroversy. lonel A. B. Wood, chief of the consular bureau, will relieve Van Buren," consul general to Japan. It is stated this afternoon that the President has tendered the Brazilian mission to W. A. Herron, of Pittsburg, the present U.S. Mas shal of the western district of Pennsylvania, and a warm friend of the Hayes family. A NAVAL DAMPER ON Capt. HowGATE. ‘The Secretary of the Navy has addressed a letter to Captain Howgate, the originator of the plan to establish a colony for Arctic ex- pioration in the far north, declining to detail a civil officer to accompany the expedition. Captain Howgate had mate application to have Captain Tyson, now in the service of the Navy department in a civil capacity, detailed for the expedition, he having been with Captain Hall on the steamer Polaris. ‘The Secretary regrets that he cannot comply with the request, as he not consider himself authorized to detail a civil officer for such service, and, for the same reasoa. he regrets that he cannot comply with the re- | quest for the loan of instruments belonging to the pavy for use in the expedition. PERSONAL.— Mrs. Lippincott (Grace Green- | Wood) left the city yesterday for her eharm- ing home in Colorado. Her correspondence and public readings will occupy her time. -++ Mrs. Gen. Gates is summering at Rawley Springs, and will send letters to the Sunday pers." ----Miss Ransom is busily sketch- ing the background for General Grant’s por- trait. She contemplates a northern trip soon. er great hisiorical picture of the Electoral Com- mission, taking the court room at the Cap. itol. She hopes to have a restful vacation later. “5. Surgeon General Woodworth, of the U. 8. marine hospital service, started west last n: it, on Official business, and will it about a week. Dr. Oacar Oldberg, the chief clerk, will have charze of the offic: in his absence. ----Mr. O. L. Praden, assist- me to bt secretary to the President, has Rock Enon Springs with his family. Mr. eee ones to return to the city in about @ mont REORGANIZATION OF THE TREASURY PRINTING BUREAU.—Mr. McPherson, Chiet of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing bas red a plan for the reorganization of the force in his bureau. to di- ons ‘i seater how intments to jt uperinte 4 - fone the wilt be made on rR ommendation of the Chief, with theapproval ot the Secretary of the Treasury. Members of Co: gress and others will be allowed to norainate candidates a$ under the fer Ep ml ‘ vening Star, TWO CENTs. | National Bank circulation out- | Sitting Ball's Summer Retreat. ACCOUNT OF A_ LATE CONVERSATION WITH HIM. The War department has received through military channels the report of Lieut. R. H. Day, of the 6th infantry, communicating in- formation recently given him by Capt. Free- chet, of the Ci ian Mounted Police, coa- cerning Sitting Bull and the various baods of hostile I:dians which have crossed the beuneary line into British territory. Capt. Freechet stated that Major Walsh met Sit- tng Bull early in May near the hi of Frenchman's creek. Sitting Ball said to Mejor W. that he desired to remain with the Canadians during the sumreer, that he would do nothing against the luw if the major would instruct him as to ‘he law; that he came there because he was tired of fighting, and that if he could not make a living io Canada he would return to the United States. Spotted Eagle, Ratn-in-the-Face, Medicine Bear, and a numbec of other ehiefs were pre- sent at this talk, together w:th about 200 lodges of their people. They were tola by Major Walsh avd also by Capt. Freechet thal they would be allowed powder and ball for hunt ing purposes only; and that should any of their people cross to the American side and comiit any depredation the chiefs would be held responsible and punished, but that ©o long as they behaved them- selves they could the Canada Indiavs. Captain Freechet in- formed Lieut. Day that the Canada Indians are all opposed 16 having these hostile Sloux on their side of the line, aS tbey are at war With them. ved that in the event of the Unitd States government demanding the hostil’; the Mounted Police (onl , men) would be an in-ufficient foree to drive them out of the country. He sald the hostile Indians have a good sipply of arms, horses and penies, but little or no ammanition, and no Indian can obtain any from the traders without an order from the Mander which is not strictly li d Lit immediat given except for a y sufficient Lo supply ting In case the fn~ for food In reply toa quest eiher the hosti! permi'ted to trade or give away 3, mules and arms in their pos F vat the Canadian author- ities looked upon them as tne spoils of war and bad given no orders regarding them. Lieut. Day reports that from all the inform- ation he can gath be believes there must be some four or five hundred lodges of hos- tile Sioux now north of the boundary line, numbering at least 1,500 fighting men, and that they intend moving south of the Yel- lowstone during the summer. EARLY CLOSING ON SATURDAYS.—It was decided at the Cabinet meeting yesterday that all the exeentive departments shou'd be closed at three o'clock, instead of four, on Saturdays hereafter, to take effect to-day. MARSHAL Dove. of North Carolina, bas filed with the Department of Justice his final answer to the charges of frauds alleged to bave been committed by his deputies, Special Agent Hester being the accuser. THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CoMMIT- TRE AND THE PRESIDENT'S CIVIL SERVICE LETTER.—Tue question whether the mem- bers of the National Republican Committee olding federal appointments come within of the recent order forbidding fed- eral officers to take an active interest in pol- ities or be members of political organiza- lous, was brought tothe attention of Pre_!- dent Hayes a few days ago by Assistant Sec- retary McCormick. Mr. C. I. Filley, post- Taster at St. Louis, aud also a member of the National Committee, had sent his resi;- nation to Gov. McCormick, the secretary of the committee. The matter was laid before the President as involving not only the re- tirement from the committee of Mr. Filley, but of Mr. McCormick and several other members. The President decided that as this committee Would have no political duty 'o perform for some three years Uhere could be no objection to federal officials retaining their mem bership, and, while not engaged in political work, would not come within the ‘nit of his recent order. On this ground Mr. Filley’s resignation was not accepted, and it is anderstood that Mr. McCormick will re- tain the secretaryship of the National Com mittee, and that none of the resigaations of members holding federal offices, of which there are several, will be accepted. THE FOLLOWING IS EX- PRESIDENT GRANT'S LETTER to Washington Booth, o Bal: imore, denying, as alleged, by Mr. C. C Fulton,editor of the Baltimore American, tha he. Grant) bac promised Fulton athe would ask Boowh to resign the collectorship so that Thomas might be aPpo nted. It is dated Keaufort Gariens,S. W., Jane 2h aad is as follows: Your cable telegram inquiring if I ever told Fulton that I would ask your resignation and appoint J. L. Thomas was received yesterday. I could not answer it | tei by cable. A positive denial of the language mag rong loa question of veracity. But if Mr. Fulton has satd that I made the above statement he has produced a false im- pression. You know there was a great pres- sure brought to bear upon me for your re- moval and the eppo.ntment of some one else, Mr. Fulton aod some others wanting Thomas. I never made a statement to Mr. F. nor any other of the many who called on me On this subject which showed auy desire oD my }art 'o make any change whatever. I have said to them th :t he had no desire to bold the office, and would resign it in a min- ute if T asked it, or if such @ course was going to benefit the party in Maryland. I told some of these parties—I do not remem- ber now if Fulton was among them—tuat I would rake no appointment in your stead that would be distaste‘ul to you or your friends. I toid you at the ime as pear as I could what took place and what was said on boih sides, aad much better than i can now remember It.” THE NEW MANAGEMENT OF THE SOL- DIERS'’ HOME.—Since Gen. Potter has taken charge of the Soldiers’ Home as governor he has made many reforms, and has several more in contemplation. It had been the babit of Gen. Pitcher, tae former goveruor, to purchase groceries, liquors, medicines, clotning, furniture, &c., needed at the home by private contract. Gen. Potter has ordered that hereafter they shall be purchased from the lowest bidder. and shat he will encourage competition in furnishing the same. Ail repairs to building, &c., will also hereafter Le done after competition. The former gov- erpors of the home have = the inmates 29 cevts per day for such labor as they couli perform, and for outside labor of the same sind £125 per day. The iumates will here- after receive ped ag | month for work on the farm, and outside farm help will be paid #20 per month and board. Some parties have been receiving about 33,000 per annum for doing the washing of the home and hospital Gen. Potter intends buliding a laundry in connection with the home, where the laun- dry work can be done for less than half that sum. He also, it is said, intends erecting an oven, and to make all the bread Used there instead of osc by the same in Nien market. A billiard room is now b2ing built for the use of the old soldiers, none of whom are re- quired to work, though !f they do so they are paid. A change bas made in the hos- ae! Mr. Frost, the steward, being allowed THE REVENUE STAMP AND CURRENCY PRINTING.—The Secretary of the Treasury baving fully decided to take away the print- ing of the internal revenue stamps from the New York bank note companies and to have the work done by the Bureau of Engraviug and Printing of the Treasury depariment, Mr. foiningee ney ae ‘the bureau, is takin; re ve everythin in readiness to begin the. work on the terms nation of the three months’ notice given the bank note companies. of repre- sentatives of the companics have been bere to ascertain definite, the intention of Secretary Sherman in giving them botice terminating existing contracts to secure lower rates and thea allow the companies to They have SS a"h esrte ee neem te a it that the work should be done 5 6 ‘ment itself, and that it is not nis intent to Invite them to submit new will be Invited, however, to submit, for prini for one impression the na- tenders. (ePherson ot - remain there with the | military com- | The Matter of Arctic Explorations. Editor of The Keening S:ar:--in your paper of the 12th inst., you mention that Captain | Tyson, of the Polaris, has bought a vessel | &ud expects to start on a preliminary expe- | dition toward the North Pole, and you ex- press yourselves very decidedly in opposi- lon to “squandering the moaey of the gov- ernment in further adventures of this kind,” quoting the respected editor of the Journal “of Commerce, as deducirg, aathortratively from the experience of the Polaris, the Tege- thoff, (Austrian,) and the late Briiish expe- dition, that “the obstacles between lat. 55° and the pole are insuperable.” Without the slightest connection with the enterprise of Captain W.H Howgate, U. 8. A.. for whom Tyson is acting, and with no convicti n of the practicability of reachin; the pole, or of commercial vatue to the worl resulting therefrora, I submit one or two statements which may be of interest at this reliminary expedjtion, which sails from New London in the Florence on the 20th instant, expecis to secure, I believe, Exqui- maux guides and interpreters, aswell as furs, sledges, avd dog teains. These are for a colony hereafter to be established, which, taking advantage of such an open season as was found by Hail, may, by posting Its relief stations and by sled ging on ‘the west side.” accomplish what Hall was fall of nope to do when Ociover 24th, 1871, suddenly to sicken and die. In the narrative of the I . referred to by the Journal of Commerce, you will find thai Admiral Davis says: “If Hall had cxrried with him the strength and endurance exhibited in his former explora | Hons.be mnighthave reached his utmost hope | that of ra. the flag of his country over | the pole. had spent more than seven years in th n regions of the north; the proposed co S Will bave no such length oi trial. They are, however, to waten for tae recurrence of a favorable season which ihe British expedition did not wait to Bnd, but Which some of the ablest physicists and geo- | Staphers, such as Malte Brun, consider a pability. perience of the TegethoiT was not je to the safety of Arctic ve-seis; but | the escape of the party and the exceediugly | tmall loss of 1ife in all these expeditions — and in the case of the whaling fleets also—is very marked. The death rate In the British and American Arctic ships has been far less than tn those employed In any other branch of the service, from the times of Parry, 1si, who tcok home vvery man safe except one, to Hall, who alone of thirty-three persons, including a babe, was harmed. Sir John Franklin, long after his perilous land expe. ditions to the mouths of the Mackeozte and tbe Coppermine, in his 60th year headed his last expedition in full vigor; and Sir George Back, bis friend aud companion, was a haie Englixbman at the age of 8), in is75, aud probably so remains. It is no pleasure to state what is confessed in England as true, that their recent expe- dition, so lavishly equipped, failed through want of proper care of their crews and sledg- ing parties against scarvy. The official Pat- liamentary report of the board of inquiry, before me, gives the judgment of such Arctic explorers and officers as Admirals Collinson, Inglefeld and others, which virtually con dems the expedition on this score. Tae ships’ crews had been scantlly supplied with fresh meat, and the sledge parties, after this privation, Were wholly unprovided with the wel)-known anti-scorbut c—lime juice. For this last fault the lame apology Was offered that the men had already had enough of it, and that the sledge loads would be burdened. On the other band, it is still more unhappy to find in the voluminous testimony beiore the board that the British surgeons faithfully coudemned the increased allowance of ram as promotive of the disease which turoed back each sledge party. Is a failure from such causes a sound argument against a sci- entific expedition? Hall's party left no such record, for his log shows no increase or al- lowance of rum, and his surplus stores of lime Juice, found by the British expedition, was oF acknowle: service to I indeed very pleas: own report that “‘a tablet previousiy pre. pared in Englaud”™ was affixed to poor Hall's grave, with ao fuseription that our British trier ds bed followed in bis track and “prof- ited by his work.” The reference to Capt. Nares expedition, in which he admits that he departed from ine Admiralty instructions, would mot have been made above, except that a candid consider ion of admitted facts, always due, ts expe. ally deserved by the promoters of ‘arduous enterprises. I will only add that so good authority as the late Prof. Bache med be quoted asafirming that no Arctic expedition bad gone forth up to his day, which had returned Its full value te the a z. The Alleged Indian Frauds. A_ $1,400 CLERK FOUND IMPLICATED—HF IS SUMMARILY DISMISSED BY SECRE- TARY SCHURZ. The board ot inquiry, convened by Secre- tary Schurz to investigate allegatious of fraudulent practices on the part of the In- dian bureau or some of its employes, took a recess about a week ago in order to arrange and sift the testimony taken and determine 46 to the ecope of future inquiry. The board sat with ch rs, eXamiuing witoesses singly, for reasons which will appear per- fectiy satisfactory when made known at the clese of the investigation. Before the recess testimony implicating Lewis 8. Hayden, a $1,400 clerk In the Indian bureau, was takea and laid before Secretary Schurz, who ordered the dismissal of Hayden. The le:ter of the Secretary, dated to-day, sets forth that he has read the testimony given by Hayden before the board of inquiry; that according to bis own testimony he (Hayden) has re- peatedly received money and other things of value from contractors having business with the Indian bureau; and that he (H.) first denied and then admitted when com- pelied todo so, that be had carried 03 ‘vate correspondence concerning offic! lers perding in the department. Tae Secre- tary adds that such conduct is utterly tn- compatible with that tense of duty and those principles of honor which should animate every public officer, and concludes by saying that his (Hayden's). ervices from this day willt pensed with. Mr. Hayden has been a clerk in the Indian bureau for the pai sixtcen years, having been appointed from Maryland in April, 181. Secretary Schurz expresses the dever- mivation of summarily dismissing every employe found guilty irregular or corrupt practices, and will allow no sentimeat of Sympathy to interfere with his conviction of duty asa public officer. It is impossible to say whether the testimony thus far taken by the board implicates any arenes sages or not, but it seems to be the ii not drawn are enough to retain the little fish ii is to ed presumed it will hold the big ones if there aby. Mr. Hayden says his testimony was mis- understood, a vod he elleves, Lyorg he an opportun: fully explain his ex- planation will be found ‘satisfactory. The of inquiry will resume its ses- sion on Wednesday next. THE CABINET was in session afternoon until nearly three o'clock Most of the time was occupied in disenssing the affairs of the New York Custom House, aud nhgrnesnpe th weap wpe A PERSISTENT OFFICE SEEKER—The President, accompanied by his sons, ardand Rutherford, left the White House tl this morn! and was gone a good portion ofthe day. “hs he was leuving che! Wie House grounds @ five foot but of- fice seeker espied him, and after him, but the President's long strides were more ean he Sergnined Be, but he triel hard to overtake him, and made his little fat logs do Se ous while his arms, nearly at - angles th his, body on account Of ies size pepe with his like to be crowned wits and i I e returned to the Polaris in health, | laris expedi- | —_e___ LOUISIANA RETURNING BOARD, Statement by the Members. PRESIDENT’S RICHMOND TRIP. HE EASTERN CONFLICT The Chances of War. Lonpon, July 4.—A special dispatch from Giurgevo to the Times says inspection of the various battertes at Slobo- sta, and from observation of the Ta (3 sitions facing them it is perfectly explicabie that the damage, both to Rustchuk and Si bosia may have been caased in the the engagement without, either thi Russians having designedly destroy dwellings, consul ussian Relief of Bajazid. New York, July 4.—A Heruat says:— The gallant defer 1 From a close Relief of Bajazid. | | mars Parks or | ¢ still bra holding out on Gen. Targukassof on that day ing Sourpoganess, pi to Ing riving at sundown. From this po. having made careful arrangements bewal of supplies, he startal once the direct route to Bajazid, with « Kalbolaikhaus’ wre 0} “nera column as an vard. On following da eaguered garrison, who were ing from hi and thirst, Russian fla Listane AL once welcomed Ww: egers from all th 7 to divert attention from the a Heving force THE TURKS ROUTED The Sight continued for several hours with uncertain success, the losses on both sides being very heavy. At length the Rassians le a terrific onslaught, advancing their | Whole line with a well directed and sustain- ed fire, uncer which the Tarks were com pelled ‘to fall back. When the regulars yielded to this last attack the herd of Kurds roke and fied in every direction, and al the close of the day and of the fight tie brave de. fenders of Bajazid were enabled to embrace their equally bre ve deliverers. uenec y @ Times Vienna cor- respondent circumstantially denies the latest reports of Austrian mililary preparations and also that Baron Calices’ visit to Eug- land has any political significance. German Sufferers by the War. A dispatch frota Berlin to the Pall Mati al Gazette says that German settlers in the Do- brudscha are seriously su‘lering from the war. The German government has com- plained to Russia and Turkey of tneir ill- treatment by so!diers of both countries. ——e—_—_ THE NEW ORLEANS PROSECT. TIONS. Vells, Thomas J. Anderson, ( AN and Louts M. Kenner, of the Louisi Board, who say, “It is au error in the press | of the country when they say a bill of indict mevt has becn found by a grand jury against the returning board. It is oaly an inform: tion by the district attorney. If the attorney had been desirolis of having ihe parties brought to a speedy trial, he Knew as well the facts three montis ago as he did on the 15th of June, as the judge specially al luded to the case in his charge to the grand jury three months ago: and if the parties hail | been notified of the information as soon as it Was filed they could called fora trial as the court sat until Un of July, but the whole matter was delayed, and seemingiy rposely, until the court was about to ad journ, before the parties could have an op portunity to defend themselves. TRE PRESIDENTIAL VOTE CHALLENGE: The charge in the information is of a f: return of the presidential! electors, and make no allusion to the return being false as to any state or loca! candidate. So it would uppear that the object was to cast doubt on the returns*for presidential electors. Th - whole charge in the information is predi cated on the changes said to have been mule in the supervisors’ consolidated statement of the votes of Veron parish.” decent renal WASHINGTON SPECIALS. The Seen Reports. New York, July 14.—-A Washington patch says: Theanbual reports of the various executive departments will be presented to gress when it meets on the Lith of Octo- ber, instead of the first Monday of December as has always been the case. Bureau officers are ordered to have their reports ready by August 20th. Clerks Who Go Home to Vote. It is understood ust hereafier no clerk will be allowed to leave his desk at election time, unless the time be is absent be deduct- ed from bis annua! vacation. The President to Visit Richmond. New York, July 14—A Richwond de- spatch says that a letter recetved there from the Postmaster Generai, written principally in reference to the southern postal conven- Uon, called for the 25th inst.. at Fort Monroe, states thathe bad just hada conversation President, during which the Presi- dent intimated that be was not only willing but anxious to make a brief tour to the south AS Soon aS his engsgements and business Would permit. He wished to mect the people, and thought that could be better accomplish ed by atrip to Fortress Monroe, daring the session Of the postal convention, theace to ¢ James river, and bac! mation from the Postmaster Geueral, inv tations will be extended to the Presideat by Gov. Kemper, by the mayor of Richmond, and other civic officers to visit the city. It is bot uaderstood, however, that the President has altogether abandoned his contemplated trip to the White Sulphur Springs. ———paen Gen. Grant's Cordial Reception in Germany. New York, July 14—A correspondent in Berlin reports that the reception of General ae now White 81 of the iment men as lil to go have not as yet testified they intend to take part in the meeting. orn | gra duly. «2. August 61's. Sey Telegrams to The Star. THE EASTERN WAR. i=! te France The Timer Paris dis- According to the best informed sources elections will be beld on the beth Of September, and the second ballots on the {the same month. The Chamber wil the *h of October, Th tet of of adidstes, which has only been set- Ned after much diMeulty, seems to comprixe 76 Legitimists, and 11, Or- Elect July 14 Pateb sass ° The Lonpor 0 Ronapart isis leanists. 4 higher 4 western ouKed. spot ander. 2. steamer, Uate dull ard.» B “ Cuffre quie and beld 112. Reco ete Phone, 0; COPD. 14800; onts, The Ship EK, July 6—Stocks «trong. Money IN hanes. long, #7. short. «9. Gor 1 ard onchanged te cont better and he rate ot die pen market is 1 re which ie \ below the bask rate Krue preferred. 17 ss: The Battie of the Boyne MONTREAL ORANGEMEN WILL PARADE NEXT YEAR BEGAKDLESS OF CONSE Mwithetanding ratession 1 at Lhe earnes! © aty of the | representatives of the various national be- nevolent societies, who pledged their take steps to prevent Insulixs to women or ehiidren attending the church, and also to asaltins wore mo- polized by a ral ruMflans, by who: They Al Chariotte on Thursday eventy 1g. ised. seve eed by a shi e street. Two Orangem: burt. Another voile &@ pistol shot from the one of the assailants. sued. Volley after vc y burt on the b t » hour the city was in the hia’ . The police were useless. Tae stipend. jary magistrates to make peace got the Orangemen to lower their flag and qwiet was restored. The Orangemen at @ meeting coi demned the police and magistrates. One hun- dred special constables were sworn, and war- rants were issued for the ring’ eral arrests b. been mad SENATOR Kootn, of Louisiana Present in New York city, strong! hounces the proceedings whick seek t Open the recent deplorable agitation the presidentia! question, and predicts that bo good either to Louisiana, the democratic party, or the country can result therefrom, epator Booth is @ democrat throagh-aod- through, & vative of the Creole state, but he holds that the material, which means the business interes! and prosperity of te coun- try, cannot atiord to have a renewal of the agitation through which it has so recently passed. Lieut. Governor Wiltz aiso ts em- atic in Opposing the overturning move- "ashington to place ord with Ube ex- ment, and is coming to V himself square ou the re: ecutive. A COUNTERFERITER © Brazit.—The B New York on tt police authorities there & the system of co einment notes which was golr city. Yesterday detectives arrested Harris. aged 2c, who said be was # dentis! by profession, at the Merchants’ Hotel, in Courtlandt street. In his room were found engraved plates and photograpas of Braztl- ian bank bills of all ce: ris, who bas several aliases, be had been en for some Ume ta the business and it was successiul. He stated Ubat be was a resident of Braztl until recently, bul baving lost $*,000 by the failure of one of their banks be bad come to this country to “get square” with them. THE NEWPORT SHOOTING—The garrison court martial at Newport bave tried Wm. Hind and Selmer Grimm, of the 5th United States artillery, stationed at dams, for firing from the government reservation op July 4. The shot from the latter, it will be remembered, struck Miss Howard aud came very pear killing ber. The court found the prisoners guilty of a portion of the charge—viz: that of using government cart- ridges and firing On the government reserva- Uon; but in view of their hitherto good con- uct, especially Sams Lema od Sentences, upon the recom :nendatioa of their commanding officer, was made as light am ibie—viz: Imprisonment one month and lors of one month's pay. In all probability this light sentence will be remitted. ———————————— OF ALL THE REMARKABLE STORMS Which have visited this country during the present remarkable summer, one of the most re- mon pa rs > have been 4 Swept over the region adjacent to Water- town, N.J., last Tuesday. The losses, which fell most! 2 the farmers, foot up a round bundred thousand dollars, and we are told of hail stones that weighed baif a pound, and ineasured nibe inches in cireamference. One Of these istiies struck a young man, who was leaning out of the doorway to secure a specimen, with such violence as to deprive him of consciousness, and instances were bumerous of cattle and horses perishing tn the fields. Afler the storm tue mercury fell to the ireezivg point, and on a mid-summer day tbe astonished natives found it actually necessary to kindle fires. Cart. Tyson expects to sail from New London for the Arctic seas as early as July 2. The schooner Florence is now nearly pray, for sea,and will be roanned matoly by Connecticut sailors. She may stop at Frobtsher’s Straits upon her course, but her headquarters will beon Cumberland Island, where a stock of supplies is to be collected and @ score of Esquimaux with dogs gledges are to be enlisted for the expedition. Congress grants an appropriation for the Howgate colony, another vessel will sail from New York about July 1, 1874. and join Capt. Tyson at Disco about Aagast 5. they wll strike north. «We shall stay there, sir, until we find the north pole,” sa Tyson to 8 reporter of the New iondon grem. A Faniry KILLED BY A FALLING TREE-—At Bellon, Ga., last week, a Mr. Gardner, a worthy eitizeu, with his three children, were all resting from