Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1878, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. | day’ | T THE STAK BUILDING vivania A>, > cormer il r BY | ening Star Newspaper Company | sae ee KAUFFMAN ree | EVEN 1s served to subsertbers in | the ee eck, of 44.cents per month, Copies at fhe counter. 2'cents each, By mail—postage pre- 60 cents month; one year, rug WEEKLY STAR—pobi'shed on Friday—$2 8 Tae SR tia” ool be ae | ES An mail subscriptions must be paid In ad. vance: no paper Sent longer than so paid for, | ‘aa Rates of advesticing made known 07, applica ton SPECIAL NOTICES. Che Fuenimg Sta, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1878. TWO CENTS. THE EVEN‘NG STAR. ES girly cooks WEDNESDAY EVEN GRAND LODGE. 1 f meting of CO- 10. will be held “fo make A peal Bro. Lewis | J. THOMSON, Secretary. | > NEW RUL 3 ASSODIATIO: Boo VEN BUTE MING Wsvoctatic Tenby organized, whl bold its frst meeting. rently orwanters u its § JEFFE ING ASSOOTATI eting for the payment of dues and s. TUESDAY. April 9th, at the Board T ade Roony THE butt ments, R. President. 1b PAL mem LODGE, No. . te bey preset at he next regan We DAY EVENING pr their considera pelt a thy pril 8th, i members is A 3. Mi MONIGLE, Secretary. ASSESSOR'S OF FL Sates Dy HIVE a Gener ul also a Consu 1 earnestly re tan Bank, on 10th Way of April, for ‘the sciors for the ens:tiug P fpair30-10t SAMVEL BACON Pres: > BUFFALO LITHIA, . sOrAUS'Y ADL JANOS, nd APPOLLIN ARIS And APPOLTIS NG WATERS, Just received At MILBURN’S PHARMACY, 1429 PENNA. AVENTE. -_» INDIA RUBBER GooUs E INDEA ROH 4 ALL. Bs Censistiz Ik CUSILIONS, PILLOWS, 1 GS, ICE BAGS, SILK ELAS: | marl4-tr marl3-tr <=> HAYWAKD & HU = 317 9TH STREET very extensive fa are now showing ualed for rich: ent any establishment in the designs for Manties and s closely followed, and imitations of ‘bles iG tract in and Copper Work. |W petent mer sin their va- g personal experience, will per than auy other house, ly THE FAMOUS MISSISQUU! SPRING WATER do good work ch ~ — bich for nearly half a century has wronght such WONDEOUS CURES of KIDNEY DISEASES, Sy and CANCER, may be had of al DYSPEPSIA. and may be H all who are suffering from the errors and tndls- eretions of youth, nervous weakness, early decay) Joss of manhoal, &c., | will send a receipt that wlll cure you, FREE OF CHARGE. This great remedy wasdiscovered by a missionary tn South America, Ben d a self-aldressed envelope to the Rev, JOSEPH MAN, Station D, Bible House, New Yor! thee as sen25-eo8k1y ety. Y Raver RENDERED BY THE PEOPLE. OUR OPENING OF SPRING WEAR CROWNED WITH SUCCESS. ALL UNANIMOUS IN THEIR PRAISE: ry THE MOST ELEGANT DISPLAY OF SPRING CLOTHING EVER SBEN. & Maguificent Stock. = MMSuch Elegant Styles, juch Splendid Garments. Such Low Prices named for Perfect Fitting and Reliably made ty CLOTHING Never before have the Peeple had an opportunity to seleet from as great an assortment. NEVER BEFORE HAS CLOTHING BEEN 80 CHEAP, So one can afford to buy until they have visited Af we bad the space. words would fail to de- seribe the Bargains we offer this Spring. The pinching times demand Low Prices, "E MADE THEM. WE HAVE BEING [3 BELIEVING. CONVINCE YOURSELF, In the Men*s, Youth's, Boys’ and Children’s Departments can be found EVERYTHING that can Le thought of in the way of SPRING WEAR. bave made the most Extensive Preparations We ran fo: IMMENSE SPRING BUSINESS. Doubly so of any Previous Season, No one need stay away thinking they cannot be suited. For the Laborer, Farmer, Mechanic, Clerk, or Merchant, ail can fad JUST WHAT THEY WANT. war29- een [HE GREAT EUROPEAN NOVELTY | HUNYADI JANOS. THE BEST NATURAL APERIENT. NCET.—‘+Hunyad! Janos.—Baron Lie- San eee rias tee ronaass in sperint Gate Surpasses that of all other known waters." THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL.—“‘Hun- yaad Ji most safest, and most efficacious aperient water.’’ PROFESSOR VIBCHOW, Berlin. ‘*Invariably ‘good and prompt success; most valuable. "* pt 5 PROFESSOR BAMBERGER. Vienna. -‘I have \preactived these Waters with remarkable suc- cess. °* * PROFESSOR SCANZONI, Wurzburg, *‘*1 pre- seribe none but this.”* PROFESSOR LAUDER BRUNTON, M D., F. B.S. mn. ** More t than 108 ri: vals, and surpasses them ie PROFESSOR AITKEN. M.D., ¥.R.8., Royal Military Hospital, tiey, ** Preferred to Pullna and Priedrieshall.”? A WINEGLASSFUL A DOSE. Every genuine bottle bears the name of THE AFOLLINAMIS Co. {limited Lonione es FRED K DE BARY & CO., 41 and 43 Warren st., New York, Sole Agent for United States and Canadas. For Sale by Dealers, Grocers and Drug- oiste. aug27-mwf,eow, ly 1H ILs. Tegite ess corns, uleers, chilbiains, rheumatic or swollen ‘bc. Office: 908 Pennsylvania aven' and chtidren SSIS SIS hes Ces LL WH TH bE ns HB. -R’B, Optician, 463' Fenn; avenue s.w., corber #4 street, w | ter General Tyner on the tr: | this and that te Lu } poli (Ohic | nected with the plaeing uf the four per ¢ at | emploveot the Washingtsn News and Gossip, GOVERNMENT FE revenue, $ THE Scnoor for the instruction of officers of the navy in the use of torpedoes will open at Newport, R.I.,on the Ist of June next. A few officers’ have been ordered to report on that date, and lar orders to some twenty or thirty others will follow. A TALK With TyNeR.—A Cincinnati Ea- quirer correspondent met Assistant Postmas- at Kokomo, on his way back to Washington, via Indianapolis. He has been on a visit of stg to his old Congressional district, the 11th Indiana. He sails from New York next Saturday week, to attend the International Postal Congress, and if looking forward to the trip with pleasure. His attention being called to the fact that all the papers in the 11th district have been moot- ing the possibility of his making the Congres- merely said he was not seeking rd he said that he expected to ict immediately after his return which will be about the time of pssional vention, and. putting itis safe to say to the that he is going to shy his eas- nto the ring this tine for his old seat in Congress. boys over her Vance’s FLicit.—An Ohio Representative is authority for the statement that the Galla- music teacher with whom, accord- ing to rur f Mt aw Lin Washinzton- \CCEPTS THE Posttrios Commissi from Prof. Rile: announcing that he will ac tomologist of the Agricultural .. It isexpected that the professor Will arrive kere by aay o1 Saturday next, and enter npon his official duties. SHERMAN left this morning on r New York, to be pes on busi Se the lini TAR ys. He funded loan, ¢ CIVIL SERVICE REror The cot a certain port ew York decided to remove one of his clerks, who had heen in office for six years, and had an excel- lent record for eficieney, and Was aiso a Union soldier. The person recommended to ili the vacancy is ignorant of the duties of the office. and was notin the army. Secretary Sherman declines to approve the hew appoint ment or the removal of the old clerk, because of the declaration of the Pr nt that no government should be rem exeept for cause. There are a number of « oftlis kind now pending both before tary Sherman and the President. , SCORE ONE F. COUNTERFEIT DOLLARS.—The secret service ‘r dollar, hed from t discovering. thro into its own operation expenditures committee, the full extent grievance It appears thatthe work ‘ut has been constantly gh the ¢ House fits the has, 1 almost wn- e, in calling for in- 2 the department as to its work- ith of February, has suggeste eports be drawn up fii a similar for hose furnished a previous expenditures committee for the month of October, IST4. But ne it of the growth of the de. partm btained by comparing tober in one year w ith tha aryinanother. October has 31 days and is » first month in a onsequently it shows a disproportionately large amount of business done. when compared with a short month like February, which comes second in the quarter when the heavy pressure of work has been_reliey But October, 1874, and i be fairly compared. The _the Stamp division, which hinge itions from postmasters for sup- be takeg as one example of the in- crease in the department's work. In the period of less than four years between the times taken for Sombarison, the number of requisitions filled has increased nearly 55 per cent. This growth has been groady. he two. years enaing June 30th, 1877, shows an in- crease of 26 per cent. over the two preceding years ending June 26th, 1875. In the division of files, records, and mails, the amount of cor- respowglence has increased since October, 1874, Al pér cent. In the bureau to which the two divisions to which reference is made belong, the force has been enlarged less than three per cent. within the same pe- lod: it is larger by four persons now than it ‘as four years ago. And every other division of the department can show, like these, a great disproportion between the increase in Work and force. It is evident that either the em- ployes in former years had a very easy time. or else the present foree is overworked and needs to be increased. ‘The fact that many of the clerks are compelled to work outsidé of office hours. and that one has made application ; for permission to remain in the building after 10 o'clock, on the ground that he is frequenily unable to complete his labors by that hour, seems to favor the latter supposition. CORRECTION OF AN INJUSTICE.—In a recent letter ex.Governor Wells, of Louisiana, made some personal reference to Hon. Randall Gib- son, of Louisiana, which he takes back in the following, published on Saturday in New York othe Editor of the New York Times: Unwilling todo an injustice to any one I feel ita duty, in view of subsequent information to withdraw what was contained in my letter npon Louisiona affairs in regard to the Hon. R. L. Gibson. J. MADISON WELLS.” Tue Post OrriceE DEPARTMENT has pre. pared circulars to send to the postmasters at the leading free delivery offices in the coun- try, stating that a strong pressure is being brought to bear upon Congress to repeal sec- tion # of the postal code, (which provides that Bewepa bers Shall pay transient stead of ound rates at free delivery offices,) and ask- ing an expression of opinion on the arguments for its repeal, contained in the Boston bill which is enclosed in the cireular. Each post- master is also asked the question: “Can Con- gress safely repeal the section, that is to say, ean it repeal the section without adding to the burden of distribution at your office?” Tue POSTAL APPROPRIATION BILL.—The House appropriation committee has agreed to the post office appropriation bill as it was re- ported back by the sub-committee. The bill appropriates, in the OF gate $33,190,372, which is $3,25 below the estimate sent in by the Post Office department, and about $69,000 less than the amount aj propriated for the present year. The bill reduces the com- pensation of the railroads 5 per cent., and changes the method of paying postmasters of the fourth class back to the old system; that is, to pay them commission on the stamps that they cancel instead of on those they sell, a3 the present law provides. Ww. M. Evarts, JR., the son whom Mr. and Mrs. Evarts have left Washington to meet in the far west as stated in Saturday’s Sar, is the third of their sons. He went out to China abont three years ago to enter the mercantile house of Russell & Co. He had done so well that in a year or two more he would probably have become a member of the firm, when he was unfortunately attacked by a malarial fever at Shanghal, which left him so weak that exposure brought on a pulmonary attack, For some months past he has been residing at Los Angeles, in California, hoping for bene- ficial results from the climate of that place which were not realized. Tue U. B. Boarp or TRADE, comprising a large number of prominent commercial men from all pees of the country, has its head- uarters In this city with branch offices in New York and San Francisco. IMMIGRATION INTO New YorK.—Oniiciat re- turns made to the bureau of statistics show that during the month of March, 1878, there arrived at the port of New York 4,58 immi- nts, of whem 3,204 were ‘males"and males. During the three months endii Mareh 22, 1878, the total ion into the Turing the correspon the 7,250 arrivals period of 1877. pt the | The Gettysburg Claims. DECISION AGAINST THEM. HH. F. French, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, reported tothe Secretary as follows: “ These claims, sixteen in number, filed in the autumn of 1875 are for the use and rent of camping and parade grounds and buildings used for hospitals in the summer of 1863 near the field of the battle of Gettysburg. * * * One of the claims is for the use of the camping grounds for our army just before the battle. Another is forthe use of buildings oecupied first by the rebels as a hospital for their wounded and the next day Py our own troops for the same purpose. Allof them are for pur- ses closely connected with that great battle. ‘he lands and buildings were taken by our army without license or contract on the part of the owner ; and the records of the War depart- ment show no action upon the subject. I think these cases are governed by. the follow- ing principles: The government has the right, in the conduct of war, to use, occupy or de- stroy any and all the property, real or per- sonal, of any citizen, loyal or disloyal, in any territory, whether in insurreetion’ or not, in actual military operations. for military pur- poses, as for fortifications, camping grounds, atile fields and hospitals, without legal lia. bility to make compensation for the rent or use thereof, unless the property has been reg- ularly appropriated or contracted for by the proper officers asin time of peace. The ar- ticle of the Constitution which provides t no person shall be deprived of property with- out due process of law, and that private pro- perty shall not be taken for public use with- out Just compensation, has no appl such cases. Such laws are silent in w nd the laws of war, Which are recogni the Constitution, supersede the laws of peace. The oecupation of this property comes within the prineiple bove Stated: and the owners have no ¢ to. compensa. tion, and no compensation can be awarded them. Such losses a the incidents and accidents of w government is no more bound to repair them than to indemnify citizens against destruction by flood or fire orearthqy no more claim for rent und stances than he would have a of the town whom he had i his house against the assa mob. The government, a may by act of Congress such injuries; authorizing the payment of sue think, the re i further investigat they must be promtly re anew to the accounting off ENDOKSEMEN statu ims T. ss April Approved. It would be. impossili government ton ay such ' sk Congress to an- though entirely within the power of ned. J HERMAN, Secretary. Mus. PRestDENT Hayes ha her visit to Obio. She was. her return by her uncle, Mr. Miss Cook and Mrs. M: GENERAL W. D, Wurprte, of man’s staff, will be relieved May next. and detailed for dui ral of the d Jon S s returned from seneral Sher- bont the Ist of as adjutant rtment of Missouri, with jeneral Drum, igned to duty in Np will hold ve residence enusylvania ive features at the c nging in the rotunda, t Jubilee Singers connected with the d representation of “Unele Tom's Cabi the National Theatre. Their splend filled the vast dome with fine eflect. Th pitol to-day was the ternoon. MASHALSHIP of the western district of Virginia, ln between C. Y. Thomas and John F. Lewis. Gray has resigned. THE Post OFFIvE ESTIGATION House committee on post officess roads examined Cot.tractor Chi at the Post Office buildin his contracts, —The nd post hester to-day between Memphis and Litt examined. Nothing was ¢ interest. Rock, was ‘veloped of special NoMtNatTIoN.—The President has nominated Justin E. Colburn, of Vermont, to be consul general of the United States at the city of Mexico. Mr. Colburn is at present the chief correspondent of the New York Times in thi city. He came here in 188 as private secre- tary to Senator Sprague. ACTION OF THE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE DISTRICT IN BEHALF OF THE COMPLETION OF THE MEDICAL HISTORY OF THE WaR.—At the annual meeting of the Medical Associa- tion of the District of Columbia, held April 2, a8 Preamble and resolution was adopted to the effeet that the association has viewed with extreme regret the action taken by the committee on appropriations of the House of Representatives, by the insertion of a clause in said appropriation bill prohibiting the sur. geon general from further carrying on toward completion the Medical History of the War of the Rebellion ; therefore Kesolved, That this meeting, reflecting the desire not merely of the medical profession of the District of Columbia, but also, asa portion of ood goer confraternity of medicine in the United States, reflecting the wish of the whole, takes this opportunity to express its sense of the high tmportance ‘in its relation to the ad- vancement of medical and surgical science of the publication now going on under the care of the Surgeon General of the United States army, and entitled the Medical History of the War of the Rebellion, and to acknowledge the fact that by the portions of some already p lished it has raised the status of the med profession in this country to a mere honorable poon as contributors to the progress of the ealing art, and ventures to express the hope that the proposed legislative prohibition may be removed, so thatthis great and truly na- tional work may be pushed forward toward early completion by liberal aid on the part of Congress. A committee of the association was ap- pointed to wait upon Congress in the interest of the profession, consisting of Drs. Mackall, Busey, Morgan and Ani Cot. O. L. SHEPPERD, of Newport, R. 1, a retired officer of the United States army, having been tried by court-martial for neglect- ing to pay over a fund contributed by brother officers in 1864 for amonument on Stone river battle ground, as stated in THE STAR, Presi- dent es has perrered the sentence, which is that Shepherd be confined within the limits of the of Fort Adams for one year, and the: r until the money, $1,993, with interest real from 1884, shall be paid. Col. Shepperd was put under arrest yesterday. Naval NeEws.—The Omaha arrived at St Thomas from the South Pacific on the Ist of March, and expected to leave on the 8th. She will make Hampton Roads about the 25th inst. Rear Admiral Preble, formeyy commanding the South Pacific squadron, but recently re- tired, is coming home aboard her. Commo- dore Wyman, of the hydrographic office, is to sueceed him ‘as the commander of the South Pacific squadron. Bounties Dvz CoLoreD SOLDIERS.—The Secretary of War has transmitted to the Sen- ate committee a communication from the adjutant general, wherein the latter recom. mends an appropriation of $30,000 to continue the work of collection and payment of boun- ties due colored uary 1, 1879. A MATTER OF MILLIONS TO THE LoBBY LEADERS.—Senator Thurman expects to geta yote on his Pacific railroad funding bill this week, and is now thought beyond all that it will pass, notwith: ding tive vt rune and indecent efforts of the lobby to defeat it. Since the castigation Senator Edmunds gave Pati poe enseadas a poe s jon SI rations on the floor, althou; Gould and Hunting and their im: ‘te retainers are busy in season and out of season on all they can reach. T! in Personal interest whi: soldiers and Sailors to Jan- unde are particularly zealous ht iho work, and they watch eyery movemen of the enemy, with’ to interests of the a ah ippiree cor, Bul @asetige ne ‘One of the at- | | his political disal | brig: | previous questi The Contest Over the Doorkeeper- | Ship To-day. Immediately after the reading of the Jour- nalin the House to-day the Chair stated the | regular order to be the settlement of the ques tion whether the resolution of Gen.. Butler, to proceed to the election of a doorkeeper, was or was not a question of Parle, It was submitted to the House, and by yeas 219, nays 4,the House decided it to be a question of privilege. Gen. Butler then offered the resolu- tion that “that maimed Union soldier, Gen. Shields, be declared the doorkeeper.” Mr. Clymer, of Pa., submitted a substitute, simply declaring that the House proceed to the elec- tion of a doorkeeper. Gen. Butler then hada letter read, written by Shields to him from Boston, asking him to use his influence to get his pension of fifty dollars per month inereased to $100. Gen. B. said he had kept the letter until_he found a vacant office, and the oppor- tunity was now presented to give him an office worth £200 per month. As toGen. Fields, he said he had given allegiance to the Sultan of Turkey, and it was an open question if he was really a citizen of the United States. enger, of Pennsylvania, asked Gen. Butler, if he did not know that the office of doorkeeper would only last a year, and it would be better to give Mr. Shield’s a pension of $160 per month. “Pardon mew? Gen. Butler replied, “If we get into power we ean keep him, and give him a pen- sion beside. Hunton, of Virginia, said that when Field accepted service with th f Egypt, he did so under a con- et that he was not to renounce his alle- ce to thethe United Sta This Butler met with the i that Field only had emoved two months iance tothe United States of Hlinois, asked him if t Gra pointed ie did ¢ ago and owed noal before that time ed to an office. e tno one-armed Union Dit y had meet for re aspeech, si by the Senate from thirty to fifty dollars a month because it was represented that he was too old to ea ivelihood and had to employ reof him: that the repab- ns of the House were once given an oppc tunity to give General Shields, not a reward, but his just dues, by seating him in Congress ich he was honestly elected, but they had driven him out. General Butler met the charge at Shields was not able to take care of him- self by ¢ that Shields was now lecturing for a living in’ New England, which was more an the two last doorkeepers were competent tedo. Mr e, of Maine, said that the dem- ocratie party mominated Generel Shields to Congress when they knew they were in a help. less rainority, but by a system of fraudulent stration had sweiled the votes three thou- sand more than ever Was polled in the dis:rict before or since, A SUBSTITUTE OFFERED AND DECLINED. Gen. Bragg, of Wisco: dl clap-t sat joint Shields on the retired list lier general. Gen. Butler decli accept the subs . remarking that no eon federate general had’ ever yet ridden on Gen, ields’ back, and he didn’t propose to im at this late day. “Talk about clap-trap, said he, adding “that after hearing the reso- lution read he would like to know if there was ap-trap in it, He was glad aking up.” ned to si 4 At 145, reso- tion. No roll r the rules of the House ean be t conding the demand for the previous question, but by a vote by tellers, which was fused to second the demand, the vote heing—yeas 110, nays The question then recurred on the substitute of Mr. Clym to the election of a doorkeep ve him the control of the floor for hour. He yielded to Mr. Cox, of New York, whose speech was mainly directed to show that Gen. Shields’ claim t6 aseat in Congress Was not based on fraud, denied aut the House. voted him $5,000 for his eleetion expenses—a republican House, h would hardly have done so if his d been fradulent. Malion, of Ohio. as given the floor for twenty five minutes to reply to the speech of Mr. Frye, delivered a few days ago on Doorkeeper Poik’s roll. THE VOTE. The direct vote on Field be taken until after thro election will not lock, but he will as the yote refusing for the previous ques. the race. McCoon’s BANKRUPTCY —E: McCool, of New York, has be a bankrupt. The North American Life Insur- ance company hokl mortgages to the extent $800,400 on MeCool’s property. There are fudement creditors to the extent of $800,000. is assets are merely nominal. his property being mortgaged to its full market value. “THE LAWYER'S SHARE.—The Kensington and Oxford turnpike case. which has been agita- ting Philadelphia for some time past, has at length been decided. The city purchased the road for $79,000, of which suin the company received 20,000, Terry, their lawyer, retaining the balance. The ‘judge decided’ that the award was obtained ‘by fraud, and recommits the case for a new appraise! it Tne DIES FOR THE New DOuans arrived at San Francisco from Philadelphia Saturday, and it is expected that comage will be com: menced next week. There is about 600,000 ounces of fine silver at the mint and a good supply outside, but mostly in the hands of the Nevada Bank Register John adjudicated A Wicked UNDERTAKER.—John Huth, an undertaker, has been arrested at Bethlehem, Pa., for having the dead body of an infant concealed in a box in his house. Huth is also suspected of being concerned in several re- cent attempts at incendi: n. SUSPENDED FOR HERESY.—In the trial of Rev, A. P. Adams for heresy before the New England Methodist Episcopal Conference at estfield, Mas the charges against hin were sus and he was suspended from the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Chureh for one yea: A STEAMER IN A FIELD OF IcE.—. from Halifax, N. 8., April 6, says: The mails and passen ers from the steamer Northern were landed at Cariboo and brought to . .The steamer is three miles off land in a solid field of ice. ‘The passengers report that the straits and gulf are full of ice telegram as far as they could see. COLORED MIGRATION WESTWARD.—Colored people are said to be leaving Mississippi in considerable numbers for the West. It is stated that more than a thousand of them have: gone out of Mississippi over one railway ‘ansas, there to take up government lands. _s WHEN GOLD is quoted at only seven-eighths of a cent premium there does not seem to be much use of croaking about the danger of re- ota ee Ree gone throogh all ae agony. le e vantage sumption.—[N. ¥. 3a Ta METHODIST CLERGYMEN Must Nor Use Towacco.—The New England Methodist Con- ference, estfield, had a warm discussion of the tobacco question last Frid«y. in be hereafter who used tobacco in any form; also, that no mister using tobacco would be received if transferred to that from any other conference. the minist: 4-Thirty frame houses in the lower part of Harrisburg, Pa.. owned by the Lochiel Iron company, Were burned Saturday evening. 4@-The German Catholic church at Potts. ville, Pa., was entered Saturday night by thieves, who stole the chalices and other’ arth cles valued at about $3,500. 4¢-JSohn S. Wileox,-a speculator, of Elgin, Tiis., has filed a voluntary sae aition in bank. Foe, Secured debts 009; unsecured 4#-The Brickla: rs’ society of New York has ordered that all bricklayers working for Jess than $2.50 per day strike for the same on and after Paaaiee . 4 -The steamboat Col. A. R. Kounz struck asnag and sunk Saturday, at Ne; Point, ed river, La. Three Foustabouts were Re drowned. rapes cones ™. ie of i. 18, Her present address is Mrs. L. A. Wi son, efferson Davis and wife are visiting: aa J Mexico. were at the Mexi pital qn the? hot March and called upon ‘Presi- a@-The of the Monumental ehurch at a . Ge Wehmopa: Va. hare p cated Rev. G. Arin- to the ae hag ite Monuméutal andhe had had his pension increased | use after he was | ela At twenty minutes after two o'clock, Mac- | lds’ nomination puts him out of | the | a strict party vote, the | lu jt iv | Speaker announced it carrie | resolution was before the How FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Monpay, April 8. SENATE.— Petitions and memorials were in- troduced and referred to appropriate commit- tees, as follows:—By Mr. Matthews, of citizens of Cleveland against a revival of the income tax. By Mr. McPherson, of citizens of New Jersey of like import. By Mr. Windom, of the board of trade of Minneapolis, in favor of the improvement of the Mississippi river. The chair laid before the Senate the cred¢ te tials of Geo. H. Pendleton as a Senator frm. Ohio from March 4, 187; laid on the tatle. Also,a communication from the Secretary of War’ asking an appropriation of $20,000 for printing the records of the confederate states; referred to the committee on appropriations, Mr. Harris, from the committee on the 1 is trict of Columbia, reported a bill to incorpor. ate the Suburban Kailroad company of he District of Columbia, with a substitute for he same. Placed on the calendar. r. Rollins, from the same committee, re- ported a bill to authorize the commissioners of the District of Columbia to refund a certain tax erroneously collected, with a substitute for the same. Placed on the calendar. Mr. Ferry introduced a bill to amend see- tions 177 and 178 of the revised Statutes in re- lation to temporarily filling vacancies in ex- ecutive departments. Referred to judiciary committee. Mr. Sa nt introduced a joint resolution authorizing the President to ¢ com. missioner to negot k dom of i tthews 1M Ave Notice of a proposed sub stitute for the Dill to repeal the bankrupt act. Referred to. the judiciary committee. Mr. Dorsey introduced a_ bill Telativ mi to the nk of cert: itary officers Ke ferred to the Ci ee on Military Affairs. On motion of M wi roviding: for a publie building at Topek: was taken up and amended so as to limit the cost to $20,000 and passed. On motion of Mr. mo’ res ions now existing in regard to enlistment of colored citizens in any arm of hie United Sta y Was taken up. ¥ i The law made ample pro. AS it how stood, and opposed the vis all amendment jure the eff; ops. Would. by giments white regiments in five y through’ the prejudices of the recruiting oftieesr. ild not be two years be- ite. as absurd romposed of all. ris! It was done during the n but Was no longer neces- ities of the or prope! . Blaine said when the sections provid- ing for the four colored regiments was passed it Was done as a concession to the prejudice of color. P rgent resumed his remarks, interrupt- ed by adjournment on Friday. —After Friday’s Journal had been read the Speaker announced that the first busi- | resolu ‘iday, to pre ness was the question whether the tion offered by Mr. Butler on F d to the election, Ww Was yet before the House. . The Speaker said it Was not. The question | was whether a yr ivilege was involved her Mr. Eden and that the Mr. C as a prec vote, and b ger said that as this was recognized dent there should be a more direct nded teller 1(N. Y.) demanded the yeas a He thought there should .be a Square record of the action of the House. rhe yeas and nays Were ordered. The House, by a vote of 219 yeas to 4 nays, it question of privileg Mr. Butler’ lution that the House pro- ceed to th thattrue Uni ames Shields, read. , Was the . Clyme tion that the House now proceed to elect a doorkeeper. Mr. Butler ‘aid he wanted to bring this mat- ter squarely before the House, and he would | suggest to the gentleman from’ Pennsylvania to meet the issue squarely a in the resolution. He understood a caucus was held on Friday, and a man was agreed upon to be yoted for by the democrats, and he wanted that name inserted. Mr. Clymer suggested that the gentleman withdraw his resolution, and let the House vote squarely upor the question of electing a doorkeeper. Mr. Sayler endured, whether the resolution was not susceptible of a division. e Speaker ruled that it was. Mr. Eden made the point that the resolution was not in order, because the name was men- tioned. The only question in order was to proceed to the election of doorkeeper. Mr. Clymer also expressed doubt of Mr. But- | ler’s resolution being in order. A CLERGYMAN SHIRKING His DEnts.—One of the queer things of the day in ecclesiastical financiering is the eminent Chicago clergy- man who goes into bankruptcy owing $15,000, and yet wants to hold on toafund which his generous friends have made up for his main- | tenance. The fund is about $25,000, which, ac- cording to the best arithmetic, would pay the brother's debts and leave him a much larger sum than belongs to the average clergyman. This thing has an unpleasant look, and lays- | the eloquent and learned clergyman open to a suspicion that he does not Want to pay his debts, “Let him preach next Sunday from the | text: “Provide thin; all men,” and see w! [Hudson Register. A WILL ResecTED.—On January 27. George P. Gordon, inventor of the Gordon press, died at Norfolk, Va., leaving property in Brooklyn valued at $800,000. The will left the bulk of this wealth to his second wife and his daugh- ter. There were $50,000 in bequests te distant relatives of the deceased, and the daughter contested the will on the ground of undue in- fluence over the deceased. It ape that Gordon had met two strange men in the street one day. and got them to go into a lawyer's office and witness his signature to a paper of which they did not see the contents. Surro- gate Dailey set the will aside. Letters of ad- ministration were then granted to the wife and daughter.—[N. ¥. Express, 6th. TRAMPS BURNED TO DEATH.—A telegram from Elizabeth, N. J.» April 6th, says: © Work: men searchin; lerday among the ris of Charles dets bat burned near Netherwood hotel, at Plainfield, found two bodies burned to cinders. ¢ barn was formerly filled with hay and was a resort for tram) ever, seemed to have escaped but three. whose arm was nearly burned off, was sent to the hospital. Of the others, one was a travel- ling tinker, as is inferred from a fire pot found nearhim. The third is supposed to have been honest in the sight of it he can make out of it. how- @ woman, from the shape of the charred | skull. A SHIRT CoLtar IN PoLrtics.—It_ appears thatMayor Rouzer made one fatal mi: his campaign. It is charged that when he was @ candidate two years ago he did not wear a shirt collar, but that after he was elected mayor he thought it would-look better for the chief executiv city to spruce up a little, and he therefore appeared in publi with a shirt collar. This gave offence by the voters, who thought he was “ putting on airs,” and hence they scratched him and voted for Butz, who habitually wears both a shirt collar and a plug hat.—[Duyton Journal. ARREST OF EX-GOVERNOR MOsES.—Ex-Gov. Franklin J. Moses, Jr., of South Carolina, was arrested on Bi yee in New York, iast night, by Deputy Sheriff Connors, of Charles- ton, and was locked upin police Beasaaarters. Of J: Woodrum for BIS aud pasing tee nets of J. lor an Di upon one Hoe tian Moses will be taken to Charleston in a few days. It ie understood that the object in t him: back to South Carolina ve him tried aA wi crimes alleged to have been committed folding high ometal positions. 4#z-John N. Ames, recently appointed U. 5. r gereral for California, died at Haiad Saturday morning, of abscess wf Gk 4x@ Luther Redfield, form National bank of Farrseower Re pee ene seen se pate while ag route. from urnside, the bill to re- | Of privi- | Eden inquired whether the resolution voce, and the per, and that ; as a substitute a resolu- | nd insert a name | ic | the steamer that was ‘Telegrams to The Star PEACE OR WAR? THE EUROPEAN CRISIS. VIEWS FROM THE CAPITALS TWOSTEAMBOAT DISASTERS | CASE OF EX-GOV. MOSES | THE EUROPEAN SITUATION. | England's Policy. | Loxnow, AprilS—The debate this week on | the address to the Queen, in answer to | proclamation calling out the reserv peeted to finally determine England's poli he government can unquestionably rely ona ge majorityin their favor on the main issue of acknowledging or resisting the Rus sian supremacy in Turkey established by the | treaty of San Stefano. It is claimed on a | hands, pt in. purely partizan dise abinet is sincerely desirous te war, but it isnot believed that they are to meet the Russian proposal with a al aces is, by the presentation of The withdrawal of the or its unconditional counter pre treaty of San Stefanc submission to the judgm garded as the n jyons, British rat Paris. who was designated resent Great Britain 4 . | congress, returned to that city on Saturd, which is considered to indicate that hope is felt of a speedy meeting of t eres. " The Feeli The feeling at Beri the P ho new cat Berlin. guine, though mit, Ti Solution seems to rest tation that Russia will on the question of the submis tothe Powers, but on Bug the treaty. i Disquict at Vienna. - | Disquiet is oceasioned at Vienna by the article in the Nurddeutsche Zeitung, last Fri referring to the treaty, which after potut ing out that though the treaty does not affee: German terest, yet the entrance of Rus- into ‘onism With other neighbors aud not be a matter of in. ence, and that Russia could only par ¢ its complete fulfillment by another wai id that as England and Austria admit th t changes essarvin the East was hoped that in view of the Russia, Austria and England ou the main friends of German’ | diffe | eh: hand. Zeitung, ssian, lectures both Rus | sharply for not concerting an’agreement about peace while the war continued. It says: “Though the powers are ayieed in prince | Russia has fettered herself by the t | San Stetano, instead of informing hi ) fore hand of the var ws Which w taken of th | Jand and Aus hitherto pro- nd Austria Rus: instead of ing the d_reservations be. fore the fail o yna.” Neverthel fdeutsche Zeitung hopes th psire [01 ached. tion of warlil | | | ¢ of a Peaceful Settlement. The Sinisterial Montags Rerue, issued night, stated that the hope a peacefu set Bismarck is earnestly exertin vent a Euroy conflict. 5 Vienna news; as the Free Tayblatt and Morgen Post, express the opin | ion that this is an attempt to make Austria e in the mistake of $ tefano, aud himself to pr Tal unofticial Prince Bismarck’s desir ily | ito a settlement with Russia, The of these journals is vy bitter ag gainst the German chancellor. , Conflicting Stories from Constan. | tinople. Constantinople advices are conflicting. Some say that Vefyk Pasha, president of the | council and minister of the interior, is about to resign on account of illuess, and others say | that he will be forced to retire, and will be succeeded by Reouf Pasha, now war minister, | while Osman Pasha will succeed Reouf, botli | being in sympathy with Russia, One set of | dispatches saya bona fide return home of | Russian troops has commenced ; another that only depleted regiments are sent home to re- cruit, whose positions are immediately filled by fresh troops from the north. However, the feperal re} of the news seems less pro- Russian than of late, and there isa feeling here and in the European colony at Constan tinople, that the aversion of the Turkish peo- | ple to Russia is so great that the palace and he pashas would not dare to venture ou a | Russian alliance, even if they wished. | A St. Petersburg Statement. j It isstated from St. Petersburg that Gen. Ig. | natieff had abandoned the idea of returnins to Vie .and was about to start for Co stantinople when he was detained to see whether his services were possibly required | at the congress. | Merchant Steamers for British Use. | ,nauthentie reports come trom Berlin and | Paris that the British agents at Spanish and German ports have been instructed to report what merchant steamers are available for 1m mediate charter as transports. , Bengal Cavalry to Meet the Cossacks. Atelegram from Caleutta points out th. | from the Bengal cavalry alone it will be pos- | sible to draw ten thousand men without the Indian service. slightest detriment to the ‘They are infinitely superi in training, equ Russian Pree: Agafmst an Aus- trian Surprise. The movements of the Russian forces on the Danube and in Roumania seem to indicate a determination to prepare thoroughly against the contingency of an Austrian attack in the rear. All the sses over the Carpathians racticable for artillery and trains are covered $y the positions which the Russians have just occupied. Telegrams from Silistria and Rust- chuk say that Russian troops are constantly moving from Bulgaria into Roumania. The Roumanians are stated to be comparatively guiet again, the government having success- fully used Premier Bratiano's absence 0 se- cure the postponement of action about the protest, against the treaty of San Stefano. Large shipments of powder from Dortmund, Prussia, into Russia, are reported. The Congress a Possibility. St. RETE! 5 ve Russe ‘RSBURG, April 8.—The Agenc: Says that itis authorized to deny that Russia threatened to oppose discussion of the Bessa- rabian question by the co The Agence alsostates that the character of the latest news encourages the belief of the possibility of a re- sumption of the congress proposals, ————— | THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER AGNES. | The Postal Commission Excursion to Ge on to Havana. | JACKSONVILLE, FLA., April 8.—The steamer Agnes, from New York for Cedar Keys, went ore sixty miles south of St. Augustine, on | the dd instant. No lives were lost. This was to take the postal com. tnothe tamer at Goaar ede h hosts anol Tr steam it is tI it the Agnes cannot be saved. monet ———__ Steamboat Exp! on and Loss o CINCINNATI, April 8.—The boilers of th een Fashion" a small steamer running from Catlettsburg, Ky., up the Sandy river. exploded on Saturday night at the mouth of the river, and the vessel sank in three minute crew nabs "alee eaten numbered about forty. iew- burg. a merchant of Richmond, Kye Losbora lot. and two others names unknown wer ied. Hiram engineer, was badly sealded, and s Preston, clerk,and Her: Tugert were cut in the head, several otuers were injured but not seriously. oe Wi im Rhode Istand. BSEwromn, Ly Apris—The operatives at the Aquidneck and cotton mills here were this m notified of a reduction of i ag og one e = two weeks. The re. i al River. Bricklayers’ Strike. and Ausiria’s essential objections to | Hement was justified by the fact that Prince | The Arrest of Ex-Governer Moses. New York, April &—Ex-Governor Franklin J. Moses, of South Carolina, Is still confined at Po.ice headquarters in this city. He has en. f28e4 counsel, who presented to Judge Dono- ue to-day a perition for a writ of habeas cor. pus, returnable The petition states thal arrested on a re. quisition “purporting” to be from his excel lency. Wade Hampton, governor of South Carolina, on the governor of New York forthe body of the said Moses, charged with forgery ; that no warrant from the governor of New York accompanies said requisition, and that the alleged forgery is that of a name upon a usurious and void promissory note.” The writ was granted. French Elec Parts, April 8. — Fifteen supplementary elections to fil vacane in the chamber of deputies caused by invalidations of the previous elections, fook place yesterday, as. certained in complete returns, show that 1¢ republicans were returned, and thal a second ballot is necessary Raltimorean. April §—J._ Stricker Jenkins he Filth Maryland regiment shipping and commission house of Hugh Jenkins & Co. of this etiy, died this morning. Col. Jenkins was oue of the most influential and respecied citizens of Baltimore. Redu Lonpoy, April re Will be a conference: at Manchester to.day between representatives of the masters and operatives of the Lan- cashire cotton mills regarding the proposed ten per cent. reduction in the latter's wages. The Markets. » April 8.—Virginia sixes, old, Ted, 4p; do, consolidated, 694; do: series, 32. vrth Carolina sixes, old, 15; w, 8 bid to-day. Sugar active and Brm, April 8,—Cotton_ shade firmer— i late colonel of and head of t middling, now Yoal0's. Flour quiet and about sicady— ti ret_ abd western super, 4.00a4.50; ard street wi xtra, 4. 755.50: do, vils Super, 4,254.75; do. extra, 6.25 « brands, 6.76: Patapsco family, 7.79- rh steady and good demand: westem uts lower—southern red, 1.25.36; 38: OF ja red, 1.34a1.36; t, and April, 1.308 Southern steady rp dull and nom- uthern white, BBs: mixed, spot. 51\add Spi duine, 54%. Oats 33a estern white, Pennsylvania, 38a36. Hay quiet and steady Maryland, 13 retin Sy 1 firm—cholce western Petroleum dail and Shipments. pool quiet —eat | Pe igraln Bud. j Pr 8.— Stocks a’ | Money ii. “100%, “Exchange, lomg, 486 G Governments firm, YORK, April. 8._Fiour er cents lower | 1 | 941 u | US. bonds. te UG, prefernrid, 2459, | “ESNDONS Abs five per cent, rentes 109 francs for tt | a | FIFTEEN PERSONS DEATH.—A h from Corni N. ¥., Sunday the insane build the § iles north of dornellsville, H He had and was allowed liberties as of brick, wi jwors, and the Fricatrun Borer Ex explosion of a fifty-horse power boiler in the wzine-room of the Boston stamping ambridge, Mass.. Saturday, other fatally injured r less injured. Ti i the building 130 fee Morilaud, the ¢ I hers ni Was hurled t s the canal. taken out was badly « i A PROFEsSOK’s Kiss. AND | QUENCE.—A Cincinnati 2) | Pittsburg, April ot music in the Was to-day dismissed young lady pupil ' ier Was discovered Tu the dy’s father came and took her the board took the profes consideration, but last night the other young ladies visited ‘the president, Dr. Strong, in a body and declared they would leave if Butler was allowed to remain: so he was ruthlessly bounced. The mat sday, aud yesterday A dispatch fre ford THE INDIA q has collected his Indiansso as says Big Bea: | toallow the buffalo to go north.- He denies any intention of joining Sitting Bail. The Sioux aud Blackfeet are camped her at the confluence of the Red Deer river and South Saskatchawan. Sitting Bull, Big Bear and the Blackfeet chiefs are coming te ttle. ford shortly to interview the Lieutenant Goy ernor. AN INTERFSTING STREET CAR EXPERTMENT —Compr Air Instead of Horses.— Th » winter the Second Avenue id Company has been experime: with a car driven by compressed air, confined in eight tubular steam receivers placed be- neath the car. The experiments, which have been wade on the upper part of the trac where the grades are very stee | have been completely satisfacto | be started and stopped by one entire mechanical arrangement is very simple. ‘The directors also assert that they can store suflicient airin the receivers at one time to enable them to make a complete circuit | Manhattan Island if necessary. At present veral hours are oceupled in charging the receivers, but machinery has been ordered which will, ft is expected, perform the work in me minute. If the experiment continues to | be successful we may soon see street cars rai ning without horses or steam either. The | operation of the compressed air is nuiseless.— N.Y. Post, oth. | | Accniovs fact is that a woman like Madame Restell, skilled in the use of drugs, should 1 een content to kill herself with a cary- knife, when she might have taken poison. Women have a talent for doing unexpected s.—[ Cler. Leader. S PACKED WITH MONEY.—C. L. Daugh: st, is usual. “About bushel of notes of various denominations, from five cents up to ten dollars were getten from the barrel. Samples of which were sent to the Times’ office. Virginia and ‘North Carolina treasury and confederate notes were together. Who says money is scare: ie rned for such purposes ?—[ Portsmo mes, iH mixed when it (Va) THE Rey. J. F. Yares’ Divonce Case. The Rev. J. F. Yates, Restor. of the Methodi Episcopal church at pane Til, & man of more than ordinary abillty, has sued for a di vorce from his wife, on the ground of deser- tion. His own church at Wyanet is divided in opinion, both husband and wife having quite a tea, respectable following. A MISSING GRAIN SPECULA Clark, Jr., a Detroit (Mich.) lator, Who, itis’ stated, has recently dealing benvay in ae a oy ory has dis- 5 le ve draw Bi 000 from the bank on Saturday morning = pec checks given him in setuing his t actions. His Maviiities im Detroit are reporved to be TuE Lotus CLUB gavea reception to Bayard Zavior, in New Yo Saturday night, ‘Ano those present were Whitelaw Reid, Augu Belmont, Wm Orton, Collector Arthur iielers ress of wel. hit. Taylor Noah Davis, Gen. Merritt. An addi come was delivered by Mr. Reid. responded. « A Story having obtained circulation that « female re} to be the divorced wife of John T. Raymond, has recently married a Philadelphia physician, “Colonel Sellers” comes outin atara that it ‘ul calumn, iseithe: a mistake in names or a -