Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1878, Page 1

; ot Prairs ATi Pean-sice KAUFFMA ', Pree't. We city by carciers. on their own aceon cents per week, or #4 cer Ter month. Copies at the counter. 2 cents cach. By mai!—postage pre- paid—60 cents 2 month; one year, $6. TRE WEEKLY STAR— JeryoResaee repaid. sdlished on Friday—$2 a | The Everine Siar Newspaper Company | 10 copies for $15; 2 copies | for $20. Mar All mall subseriptions must be patd In ad- Wance; no paper sent longer than so paid for. | 4a Kates of advertising made known cu applica- | thon __ LADIES’ GOODS. Che Evening Star. v' 51—-N°. 7,822. Deverass Ninth street. Ninth street. mer Merino UNDERWEAR, For Lavlies’, Misses and Children. New Stock just received, And prices very low. | Look at cnr new Grecian COKSET, Our Own Make. DOUGLASS", Ninth Bt., St.Cloud Building. ay20-tr ME. L. P. JEANNERET, M Or BALTIMORE, ” Wishes to inform her customers that she will close her BRANCH STORE, 39 Pennsyleania Avenue, 3 Those wishing to purchase their ETS and DRESSES please ‘call. Malame eret willremain until the Ist of themonth, E RASOLS. NEw te OES: ew PARASOLS. Plain French Horn Handles, Pear! Iniald Handles, Ivory Handles: English Stiek Handies. | And many others, from $1, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2, 2.25, $2.50 and up. | =e Pe. M. TOWSON & €9., | 636 Pennsylvania geen Oy { vat ‘Just recerved direct from the manufactur- | er, in fancy handles, | wS ap X WILLIAN has this year made a specialty oof - | READY-MADE DRESSES, and is now c ly receiving invoices of Kilt, Tourt: TSulis in all the desirable shades. and m: direct from his house in Parts, LSO, A cholce line of Silk and Cashmere Manti es. CL -inen Dusters, Musiin and Ca lergarmei +B. PL Cor sive designs in MILLINERY GOODS and FINE DRESS TRIMMINGS, tive price | -VANIA AVE, | i very att 1 e:te Trevise, Paris. _apht GPasp OPENING FRENCH PATTERN BONNETS AND = ROUND HATS, On THURSDAY and FRIDAY, April 11th and 12th, To wh are respec ton and vicinity MRS. M. apl0tr No. 621 and 6 C®*. BUPPERT, No. 403 7th Street Ne We J, HUNT. cent display of MERINO CLOAKS ETS of Variety Styles. | P DRESSES, GIRLS and | FILLES SUITS of the latest de | er Lac A FULL LINE BERLIN ZEPHYRS. WORST! GEEMAN- | TOWN end NERCOLER WOOLS, | LACE, BRAID, and AVPLIQUE PATTERNS, an EMEROIDERY MATERIALS, | a te apé-La GPPUaL NOTICE. LADIES FIN T'S for Spring wear of my own make for s at very reasonable | prices, ag JAS. VERMILYA, obt0.8 ° Py s Boots aud Shoes th | rutice | RS. SELMA RUPPERT, M 614 Ori STREET, | OPPOSITE PATENT OFFICE, | Has jnst opened a large and select assortment ot INFANTS’ AND CHILDREN'S LACE CAP3 and BONNETS, ROBES, LONG AND SHORT DRESSES, And all Kinds of CHILDREN’S FURNISHING GOODS. Novelties in Lisle Thread G LOVES, Black Silk MITTS, LACES. LACE GOODS and EMBROID- SILK and WORSTED FRINGES tu all west styles. CHILDREN’S LACE CAPS WILL HAVE HER @RAND OPENING or THURSDAY and FRIDAY. 28th and 29th inst., ‘To which she cordially invites the ladies of Wash ington and vicinity. marg5-tr ze and Blank Books specialties. ‘sepo-1y RADES. FRENCH PA Rs. J. P. PALMER, ‘No. 1107 F STREET NORTH WEST, * AND ENGLISH ROUND HATS, oS just received by W. P. ITE&CO., rs and Stationers, 1142 7th street n,w. School made to order. marZs-tr TTERN BONNETS -PEMOREST PATTERNS, alithe new st D Wil Boor Beek BINDING. | The public is_re: ‘tfully informed that the LYCETT BOOK RKINDERY is carried on as heretofore. The same excellent workmen are em- ployed, and the work turped out will be in the superior style whieh has always been a character- Sstic of the establishment. 1012 Pa. ave., 3d floor. STEAM GRINDIN e x FILE MANUFACTORY. | Stee! and Iron Tools and Implements Ground aud Po! rex o FILE, ‘CUTTING AND RECUT. Files and Rasps o new. Gres FILES and RA‘ J. SCHEITLIN, Proprietor, Cor. 7th and I streets uaranteed equal and RECU NE at great reduce’ ap3-Im GHASS, 2 OBASS su ryET- MAKER, W HAMPSHIRE AVENUE AND M STREET, NORTHWEST. novi-ly GiB N BROTHERS, 2 PRACTICAL BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSOCIATION - » ‘This association will hold a s m ATURDAY EVENING, April 37th, at 7:30 lock, in Room 32, LeDroit Building. ‘Import- ant business will be considered. Every member is Carnestly requested to be resent, R. MANNING. resident STAND BY THE SHIP! woul! advise our patrons in these trying €s to patronize those werchauts who have never charged exhorbitant prices, and who are now sell~ ing as low as any neweouiers, Of those who de- serve the special Consideration of the public is the Welland favorably known Shoe House of WELL BUN, 402 7th street, Sign of * 17 ‘onyat of Mine. Trea hisadvertisement. ap25-3t NVESTMENT SECURITIES FOR SS" saleby HD. COOKE Sy, & CO.. Brox ers, 1499 F st. 6 oer cent. Georgetown Quarterly $.0ck: 2, C, 90-year Gold Bonds; 7 per cet, DP, C. AND BUFFALO LITHIA WATERS, just received, fresh from the Springs. W. 8. THOMPSON, ap13 703 15th st. = 5 O LITHIA, a HHUA Y ADE peeeer POLLIN. eer SPRING WATERS, Just received AT MILBURN'S PHARMACY, martate BU 1429 PENNA, AVENUE. AYWARD & HUTCHINSON, So BAMY Oru sruber NORTHWEST, With very extensive facilities for manufac- turing, are now showing a line of Marbieized Mantiés unequaled for richness of design and color ud rivaling in extent any establishmentin the country. Architects designs for Mantes and Wainscoatings closely followed, and imitations of rare aud beautiful marbles ‘exactly produced. Agents for BARSTOW WROUGHT IRON FUR- NACE, Baltimore KITCHENER RANGES; also ihe Russia fre-place STOVE, Contr for Plambing andall Tin and Copper Work. | Witha large force of competent mechanics in their va- rious branches and ay yersonal experience, wu do good work cheaper than apy other house, m2 dy THE FAMOUS MISSISQUOI SPRING WATER or nearly hal! entury has might cl for nearly half acentu IgeAShS, fall fare almost Pamphlets, containing remarka- MisSiSQUOT SPRINGS, Frank- iin county, Vermont, apl-m, Ww. £6 = A CAKED 1 who are suffering from the errors and indis- exenone of youth, nervous weakness, early decay, loss of manbood, &c., 1 will send a receipt that will ‘ore 500, FREE OF CHARGE, This great remedy wasdiscovered by a missionary in South America, Sen d a self-addressed envelope to the Rev. JOSEPH. T, INMAN, Station D, Bible House, New York city sepe5-eo&k1y Gaon sUuIIS FOR CHILDREN, we TWO DOLLARS! “Ga A. SAKS & COWS Boys’ DEPARTMENT, apl8-tr 316 Seventh street. 813 LEATHER TRUNK, . Witt CANVas Cover. BECKER'S HARNESS AND TRUNK FACTORY, Corcoran Building, opp. U. 8. Trea: TRUNKS calied for, repaired and covered tremely low prices. : Nga. See our $25 HARNESS, Gold, Nickel ot Rubber.@a apo-tr EW AND SECONDHAND CARRIAGES NEY ROE SACHELCE, Five new Altany Cutters; one light Coupe; two Coupe Panel Rockaways; four Jump-seats; three Pony Phetons; ten Leather-top Buggies; three No-top Buggtes, and fifty other styles. Also a large stock of Second hand Carriages aud” Buggies on baud, at No. 466 Penn. ave. P. D. SCHMIDT & CO., Carriage Repository. de13-t Loxpon UMBRELLAS. JUST RECEIVED, GENTLEMEN'S LONDUN UMBRELLAS, ‘The latest styles, IMPORTED DirEct. M. W. GALT, BRO. & CO., JEWELLERS, ap}0-tr GENCY FOR “OLD NORTH STATE” SMOKING TOBACCO, lam ed to sell, to the Tradeand general bite the above named TOBACCO, and pronounce Fanequatled to any yet offered in this market. Being made ot the purest tobacco, it will stand on its own me! 5 ‘Unlike other Tobaccos, it does not bite the tongue, a quality much desired by smokers. I also have on hand, and offer for sale, wholsesale and retail, all qualities of CIGARS, CHEWING and SMOKING, TOBACCO, and a"tull line Swokers Ss. Articles an WALTER E. WALSH, *tAgent Old North State," 359 Penn. ave., near 4'y street. apri3-Im EXT#A PANTS. FOR CHILDREN, FOR BOYS, FOR YOUTHS, BoYs’ DEPARTMEN’ apls-tr A. SAKS & CO.'S. i he INKS! TRUNKS!: TRUNKS! TRAVELING BAGS, SATCHELS, in great variety, of MY OWN and other mak: aud at prices lower than ever, at my FACTORY a: SALESROOMS. 425 Seventh Street, ‘One door above Udd Fellows’ Hall. JAMES 8. TOPHAM, TO ORDER, Trupks, of any stye desired, ‘made to order on the Premises. ee PAIRING. ‘Trunks, &¢., Repaired, and Trunks covered at aps-tr 1012 Penusyivanla avenue, Washington, D.C. Be Five P: nting a Specialty. jahl9-1y short notice. WNIN JOHN C. HOGAN, 713 Market Space. Manifacturer of a Newly Patented Spring Roller and Venti rg. Awning for Stores, Hotels, Public Private Buildings and wellings. Flags and Tents for sale or rent. Sole Agent for the only genuine Mildew-Proot Awning Material. sepl5-tr LUMBE R. WILLET & LIBBEY, CORNER 6TH STREET AND NEW YORK Ay. OUR REDUCED PRIVES FLUORING, (Clear of Knots | VA. PINE BOARDS. 1400; WHITE PINE CULLS, (Dressed). 20 00 WASH BOARDS, (dressed and jointed, clear) 15 00 CASE BUARDS, (18 Inches wide, dressed) 25 00 | LATHS LATHS!! LATHS: 1 00.000 DRY BANGOR Latus ATA VERY LOW PRICE, ar WILLET & LIBBEY's. #e NO BRANCH YARD, apli-te pue GREAT EUROPEAN NOVELTY HUNYADI JANOS. THE BEST NATURAL APERIENT. THE LANCET.—‘Hunyadi Janos.—Baron Lie- vig affirms that its richness in aperient salts surpasses that of all other known waters.’? THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL.—“‘Hun- yadi Janos.—The most agreeable, safest, aid most efficacious aperient water." “*Invariably PROFESSOR VIRCHOW, Berlin. good and prompt success; most valuable, ? PROFESSOR BAMBERGER, Vienna **1 have prescribed these Waters with remarkable suc- cess,’* PROFESSOR SCANZONI, Wurzburg. ‘+1 pre- scribe none but this.** PROFESSOR LAUDER BRUNTON, M D. B.S., London. More pleasant vals, aud surpasses them in efficacy. ’” PROFESSOR AITKEN. M.D., F.R.S., Royal Military Hospital, Netiey.”** Preferred io Pulina and Friedrieshall,* A WINEGLASSFUL A DOSE. Indispensable to the Traveling Prblic, Every genuine bottle bears the name of THE APOLLINARIS Co. (limited), London, FRED'K DE BARY & CO., 41 and 43 Warren st., Rew York, Sole Agent for United States and Canadas, For Sale by Dealers, Grocers and Dru oistas The Esta on esate genuine Bate 3 printed on BLUE paper. nwt, eow, 1¥ BE Ks : BRICKS t BRICKS! seThgattention of Architects, Balkiers, wa chews called to the very superior quality o! now being manufactured by the? © BBEC WASHINGTON BRICK MACHINE COM- We have enlarged the size, im and reduced the price of out BRICKS: andhave ig. creased the capacity of our works to 80,000 per day, Office—1505 Penna. avenue; Boundary and H streets northeast eae sy OLD HUNTING Case G WALTHAM WATOH, Lady's Size, “Handsomely “Engraved, for iisiers Naw Jxwelny Srose, ‘im 437 9th THE EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip. GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DayY.—Internal revenue, $3: ustoms, $444,690.24. THE SUBSCRIPTION to the four per cent. loan to-day amounted to $33,000. SECRETARY SHERMAN returned from Phila- delphia this morning. A reporter of the STAR inquired of him what he thought of the so- called MecLin confession, and if he would be willing to say anything on that subje The Secretary laughed slightly, and repli “Oh! no; nothing except that I regard it with great contempt.’ A FLORIDA CONFESSOR WHO TOOK SOME THING STRONGER THAN CLARET PUNCH.—On inquiring at the department, if justice it is, ascertained that Selkirk, whose statement ap- pears in the New York World of to-day, as “Another Florida Confessor,” was employed by Attorney hout the time he sayshe was. hed with money and sent to Florida, but upon what business the records of the department fail to show. Upon arriving in Florida, he commenced a f riotous: living: He got very drunk. ay exhausted his means and at the ime made it desirable that he should urn; consequently he was furnished with funds for this purpose. Instead of returning here he renewed his spree, or rather kept up the same old drunk, He was finally gotten out of the yim tate, a ticket being purchased for Arriving here he presented a claim for ces, which underwent. con: ble revi- sion, but was finally paid. The payment on his account ($818) was paid under the pres- ent administration in Mareh, 1877. st CONGRESS HAVING Passep the deficiency Dill, all the clerks of the General Land Ofii who were furloughed a few months a be put back upon the rolls. the bill also enable the. the publication of the Ov issuance of p ich have pended for several weeks on ac exh pos age of ¢ to resume te and the Deen sus. ; punt of the ustion of the appropriation for these pur- Mr. Winliam ARTS, son of the § morn peretary ng, at 1 o'clock, of ence of his father, in His funeral will take Vermont, on Mon Will be religious services ary’s house this evening, at 7 . The deceased recently returned from a (Where he had been engaged in mer- ile pursuits) for the benefit of hi It will be ret bered that Secretary Evarts and Mrs. “a short time ago tom aon hishomeward jours ney from San Francisco. THE SENATE COMM E On post offices and post roads had under consideration again to- diy the bili to regulate the compensation f transportation of mails on railroad routes. rduerG, Hubbard and Colone! Vail superin- fendent of railway mail transporiation, were before the committee. It is probable that the bill will be amended and reported favorably. INDIAN TERRITORY INQrIRyY.—The mmimittee on tories continued its yn under the Voorhees resolution veral witnesses testified convern- status ol affairs in the Indian t y. the wishes of the Indians, &e. Hodge, a Cherokee Indian, informed the com mittee to-day that the Indians are opposed to tonal form of government. of ity, aged 2 ce at Windsor a Prior to Ur ion in Tue Stax yesterday of the Me- Lin confession public expectation had been worked up to expect that the promised devel- opments Would pan out mueh more “interest- jug reading” than the document pr to be. here is a growing sentiment that it is stale in its allegations, contesses nothing that has not been charged repratediy, and Is co falar spleen as to take ay all its potency. Yes terday, when the manager movement heard t they caused it to he lated that ther another “ MeLin contession” much more aging, but they are now will: to adm of the “Fle AL it Was to be published, tha the instrument published is the genuine Me- Lin confession, but that they have a hat fu affidavits from the understrappers fess to doctoring returns 0 It Was noticeable at the Ca) y that the excitement of the past four-and-twenty hours has entirely died away. No one seriously be lieves that a resolution for investigation, pon. the allegation already made public, could get a majority vote. It is probable that the matte: may afford subject for talk afew hours loner, and that that will be the end of it. INHARMONIOUS INVESTIGATORS.—There was a lively episode yesterday at the meeting of the committee on naval expenditures. Chair. man Willis had drawn up a report, which he desired the sanction of his committee to re- port to the House. Two democrats excepted to a portion of it. which recommended the payment of certain claims contracted by ex- Secretary Robeson, and the republicans op- posed it, because it reflected upon the ex-sec- retary ina manner which they deemed sean dalo Willis refused to make concessions to placate either side, and the only way he saved his report from being tabled was to bundle up the document and leave the com- mittee room, his retirement leaving it with less than a quorum. Next time the commit tee meets he will see to it that two democrats absent yesterday are on hand, or otherwise he will have his labor for his pains in the matter of his recent investigation counties. THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS has agreed to vote next Tues ay on the proposi- tion to suspend for five years the payment to the sinking fund. ULT OF THE AMINATION by the House expenditures committee into the topo- srapher’s office of the P. O. D.,and the discoy- ery that its disbursements are made by an irresponsible officer, an amendment to’ the postal bill has been drawn up and will be pre- sented for the comittee by Representative Caldwell, providing that the disbursements of the moneys appropriated for the prepa: n and pubiication of Post-soute Maps shall be made by the regular bonded disbursing ofticer of the P. O. department, according to the laws, rules, and customs recognized by the accounting officers of the Treasury depart- ment. It is also provided that the pay-rolls of the draughtsman and other mployes shall be regularly made out is the chiel of the office, and examined and checked by the appoint: ment clerk of the P.O. D.; also, that all pur- chases made shall be accounted for by vouch- ers, accompanied by aflidavits; and that all the disbursements of the office shall be made out of the appropriation for the preparation and publication of post-route maps. THE PENSACOLA, Capt. John Irwin, arrived at San Francisco yesterday, sixteen days from ‘All well on’ boatd. ae THE SURVEY OF THE AMAZON RIVER.—A good deal of interest is being manifested by oflicers of the navy and by owners and commanders of merchantmen trading with South America, in the ay proaching survey of the Amazon river by the Enterprise. Com- manaer Thomas O. Selfridge, who is to co! mand her, volunteered his services for that duty, apourh his rank entitled him to a lary vessel. Secretary Thompson immedi- ate y scecouted his offer, as his experience in superintending surveys eminenily qualified hin for the position. He conducted the survey of the Isthmus of Darien and others very suc- cessfully. THE COMMITTEE OF GAUGERS from different Parts of the councry, now here, had an extend- ed interview with Commissioner Raum yester- day afternoon in relation to the mode of pay- ing them. The commissioner concluded, upon their representation, to modify his cireular is- sued in March last regulating gaugery’ Tees, so that the fees therein prescribed shall be appli cable to the average amount of liquor meas- ured by each gauger; this average to be ob- tained by dividing the number of gallons gauged each month by the number o: days which the gauger was actually employed. Un- der the March circular each gauger received $ per day if he measured 16.00) gallons of liquor, but he received no extra compensation for such quantity over that amount that he might gauge. GEN, JAMES SHIELDS writes from Boston as follows: ‘*Gen. Logan’s letter was a magnifi- cent epistle. It has the power of a cann ball. ‘Kone but a soldier eoud write such & letter, for which you will kindest ackno wiedgements,’ D. M. | | present to him my | those whoare Key West .o Ravan: EXCURSION TO CUBA | [Correspondence of the Star.) STEAMSHIP E) Key West, Api B. SOUDER, vil 10, 1ST8. 5 We have just parted from our fellow-citi- zens here. On our arrival we were escoried. as I stated in my last, through the most unan imously decorated town I e ver saw. Almost every house ina city of 15,000 population was literally covered with bunting, while stream- ers attached to ropes were suspended across the streets from the tops of the highest houses. After our reception at Jackson square we got back to the Russell hotel and dispersed in va- rious dit was dec edly tropical. nut trees with nearly ripe fruit on t their shade all around, and ban: and other luxuriant growth, rei scene one of no little interest to. rections to see the place. The sight Thousands of cocoa- hem spread anas, palms nde the usall. The gardens were radiant with rich-hued blossoms, many of them of strange appearance to us except as rare specimens in our botanical gar- dens athome. We met a number we have often seen at Washingtor a number of acquaintances w! of persons n, and made ich, though of brief duration, we are not likely soon to for. et, ‘ol. Among them Paymaster Mellach and Phillbrick, who appears to own Key West—is the leader in every business enter prise here, and still finds timé to be age ark, ed the Associated Press. Mr. C! it of r of the Key West Dispatch, showed us many at. tentions. In tie afternoon most it convenient. to y of us found it the neighboring shops and hunt up thin clothing, ineluding broad brimmed hats, with alm Ss the sun poured ieal severity ISLAND OF down on us WEST is seven miles long by one mile wide. property fronting on the gulf from the h Ail the rbor side between Fort Taylor and the eustom house. and tor a considerable space back from the beaed, is owned by the government. Fort Taylo ast brick and stone fortification, carrying two rows of casemates all around and a row of barbette. eu is of heavy ealibre. This tor wou long under the fire of a modern iron-cla rth easem. we: eit not for the heavy e: which entilade it from’ several e pom , and which are mounted Parrot and Rodman guns of 1 The roofs of all the houses here for catehing large iron ¢ for drinking pu rtillery barracks belonging to ment are about one mile north of t we drove there by the Br: was built under the following cir At the breaking out of our late Brannon, in command of the b: out one afternoon that an or been effected to capture Fort T his own counsel, and, proceeding racks, made his preparations, fail took his force, consisting of nen, and cut a road through the cl rear of the city a mile in leng! which he dragged his two batter and planted them so as to cover t the approaches to the fort. morbing, when the eonspi capture the fort, they found such | had been made tor sit was the only part of Florida whi secede witht state, being filty the mainland, and it afterwards pi uable port for our naval forees dur ‘om the fort we drove a couple o TH LT WORKS, in-water, which is res ANON roa Latter w The armament ud not last ommanding with he Sinch bore. utilized din poses. The the gov he or. He kept to the bar- hte about sixty hay al in th, through ies of guns he eity and At daylight next | tors came out to | pre] tions ve them that it would not pay to proceed. Thus this import ion Was saved io the Union, and, Key po- West ich did not miles from voved a va ring the war, f miies to now dismantled, but recently purchased by Mr. D. W. Cash, one of the city fathers, who is about to resume the manufacture of salt for purposes of commer many thousand ac low ‘Stone and, cemel cating dykes. They. stret and are’supplied by a s worked by wind mill powe here demolished tl tobe rebuilt. Thi ult Is, wit ES Th wind mill whi vhich is then zathered up au tured into fine table salt, Some distance bac fol nd blossoms of ppearanee. — The equally divided into negro: Americans. The Cubans here are to be an order!: at work at cigar imal the principa embarked Foote, and a rattling good fellow. ant At six o7¢lo of the city we in the ear and growing vigorous! uxuri the Souder, Captain fields cover ‘ated by hcommiuni- y for miles, ies of force pumps Pre nt gatle about is water is evaporated by the ‘aving the fields erusted over with nd manufac. aw corn ind beauti- population is about Cubans and represented y and industrious people, always ng, which is pparently ock p.m. Wi he enti population turned out and acconypanied us to the wharf to see us off.’ Crawford, Captain Davis, was weigh and loaded to the water's e best people of the Key, accompani The revenue cutter got_under ge with the ied us down the harbor with a band of music, and her rig- ging covered with bunting. Hearty farewell cheers were exchanged, a parting gun was fired from the cutter amid waving of handker- chiefs on all sides, and thus amid the acclama- tions of a whole city to cheer us on our way We sped across to the “Ever Faithful Island. The uder is an §0-ton steamer, admirably pppelnied. and sits like a duck in the water. ¢ is freighted with flour and oth er merchan- dise for Havana, and her purser is our old ae- guaintance, John G. Clarke, an old Washing- tonian. e belongs to the Roberts line. be- tween New,Orleans and Havana, and makes ten to twelve knots an hour without difficulty. The phosphorescent wake she leaves behind her in this clear water is watched with delight by all of our So beautiful a sight before. A SMALL GRIEVANCE. Right here 1 de! grievance, and to call the attention nified State department to it. We have some party, Who have never witnessed ire to mention a small n of our di ten persons with us who have joined us since we left home, and who were not provided with passports. F depariment persons travelin obtain. passpor ment, or, if count in person from siding in other see! than Washington, must send th Under the regulations of the state abroad must the depart- tions of the vr de- scviptive papers certified to before a notary public, ‘h certificates of identifi eal on; and when a man has oceasion to jump aboard an out-going steamer at New Orleans or Ke: West forar to all the in over to Havana, he convenience and de! Ss subjected jay of going through the red-tape process above referred to. In the meantime the steamer leaves and he has to wait for the next craft. This delay often puts him to inconvenience and in some in- Stances to distress, in more ways than one. What reason exists for not authorizing the collector of the port to issue these papers I do not know, but those officers are empowered to issue registers and clearances to vessels, which are matters of serious importan have no power to issue passport not matters of any significance. ee, and yet 8, Which are ‘The incon. venient regulation was likely to cost some of our party so much trouble as to terminate their trip at Key West, but the Spanish consul was good enough to send a cablegram to the Captain General stating the facts, when the latter at once replied granting permission to Capt. Foote to bring the whole party over with him. 1 have no doubt the fact that Post- master General Key and several representa- tives of our National Legislature were going over had a good deal to do with the suspens by the Captain General of a rigid nsion law of the anish government, as a compliment to those 8) alstin guished gentlemen. ARRIVAL AT HAVANA. Havana, April 11.—1 retired t roomin the middle of the Gulf night, and awoke this morning in 0 my state. stream last sight of the headlands Which jot out into the water on the north coast of Cul house of Moro Castie, which soon a. We were very soon a‘ter- wards all assembled forward and on the pilot house to catch the first glimpse of the it ht loomed" up out of the grey mist as we approached the harbor. this celebrated stronghold as we entrance, having it on our port within a stone’s We soon came up to acl lose view of neared the side almost row as we entered the nar- rows. 1t frowned scowiingly down upon usas we passed directly under ils heavy: cot Into the extensive harbor, whic! fans and is well lotted with vessels, including several Spanish frigates, an Austrian corvette, many heavy merchantmen, the la ing vessels of the United States. to the harbor fications on both sides for a consi tance as we pass up toward the we near the anchorage the sight and a ood T half be- ‘he entrance being passed, we see other forti- iderabie dis- city, and as becomes a very strange and picturesque one to the freater number of us. ‘We begin to realize at we are ina foreign land, and the sensa- tion is hetegenad, as we are successively board- ed by a pi lot, health officer, captain of the port and officers of the customs, amid a prodigious conversation carried on in us. fact reveals to us that anish, not one word of which is underst by th Jt le most of we have all taken more stock in Orlendorff than was com- Orlendorff as a linguist. We came to anchor at length opposite the ety, and distant about three fourths ofa mile from its docks. Foreign vessels are not permitted to go to the wharves, | but must anchor out in the stream, on account of local reasons of various kinds. SCENES IN THE HARBOR. Our anchor finds the bottom in about 7 feet of water, and our sjeamer is instantly surrounded by boats with awnings over them, whose proprietors beseech us in eloquent terms and in a strange language to emplo: their services. Itis a repetition of the sceni at any large American railroad station on the arrival of a passenger train, only instead of hacks it is boats. The awnings over these boats resemble the covers erected over the long old fashioned Virginia market wagons athome. They look nice and to ride in. These boatmen in concert w: numerable hotel runners who rush on board with printed cards contribute to make the seene one of curious animation and afford us material for comparison with our own hotel customs. difference is only in the language. Amid all this din we take breakfast on the boat. after which we are introduced to our Consul Gene- ral, Mr. Hall, who has come aboard to offer his complimeuts. We then send our luggage off in the boat,and afterwards go ashore in a steam ijauneh and land at a wharf, where w pass through a gate and waita few mome In a large room where the port officer usual serutini foreign arrivals. We are not how ever subjected to any delay on this account, and in another minute get in cabs holding two. Ns each, and are driven Hotel ¥_ Restau parque de Isabel la Catoti and wherever that may be.) pas Ww are driven along the streets the great activity ef the li'tle Cuban horses attached to our cabs. The Hoiel P je is situated in a pleasant Street, fronting a pretty park. The house is delightfulty roomy aiid well ventilated, is built in the Moorish-Romanesque style of architecture, with lofty ceilings, wide’ halls, rious saloons, large plate mirrors, and jo! hambers with tiled floors, in whieh we are’ no sooner located than we feel at home. We find to our great comfort several English speaking s vants, and a disposition on all hands to mak: home. VEN. je, Ci We no! Tne Defeat of the School Appropria- tions ON IN THE SENATE YESTERDAY. ate yesterday afternoon, Mr. THE DIS In the ad been great reluctance on the part of the conferees of the Senate to recede dom the amendment appropriating $75,000 for the public sehools of the District, but they had found it impossible to secure the the House. They had discovered Was agreed to in the Senate under prehension, the statement having bee that the money advanced last year had refunded, while the fact was that the money had not been repaid and would not be. The former bill read, “To be Lout of any m ney of the District not needed for other pur- Dore: ‘i Mr ndom said he had not been al concur in the repor There were se amendments to whieh the Senate conferees ought to have insisted. His ehief objec however, was to the reeeding trom the appro. priation of MX) for the schools of the Di trict. It would have been as well, finding t the Senate had acted on a to have submitted th all the facts before whether the mot loan. The mone them. Hi y last year was. should have be the Governm ent. To refuse the loan proposed in this bill was to repudiate, if not a legal, a moral obligation. He read froma y Mr. Albert rown, of Mississippi, in 1856, iit which, after ring to the liberality of Con. uress fo the new states and the large amount of property owned by the government in tue District, he took the ground that the gov ment should pay ataa on. its property or propriate from the general The new states ha dan aere out of every eighteen for the support of schools. In 1856 there were appropriated 812.50) for the hools, when there were but about 2,000 pupils.” Now there are over 20,00. It was hot asked in this bill that the government pay one-half of the cost of the schools but ont per cent., and even that onl; loan. eared not gift or ay und for the schools. 14,026 white pupi A These pupds came bere by the invi the government, under the should have better facilities for education thai ihe states where they were. The government invited them to come here to be edu the expense of the people of the District, and refused to aid in their support after it’ had uzht them here, or even to loan them 0 to keep the schools open. He read from a tabular statement showing the average cost of education per pupil in the large cities to show that the cost in Washington had been less than in most of the other cities, and that the schools’ funds had been economically administered. The colored people were poor, and he did not think there was prop- erty enough owned by the parents of all the colored people to keep up one of the schools, Then there was a large class of citizens of other places who came here, holding positions under the government, whose children made one-third of the pupils in the schools, but who paid little or nothing to the support of the Dis- trict government. He appealed to Senators if it was fair or honest to compel the parents of one-third of the children to pay for the educa- tion of the other two-thirds—one brought here on the invitation of the government, and the other because this was the seat of’ govern- ment—and even refuse a loan to keep the schools open? He said the District had been looked upon asa mendicant begging crumbs from the government. The District had paid $35,000,000 for improvements here while the 1 pupils, invitation of promise that they yovernment had been paid but $5,000,000, while | it owned half the property and all the streets. Instead of the District being the mendicant, it Was the government that was the mendi- cant. He appealed to the Senate to vote down the report and not permit the children to be turned out of the schools, losing opportunities for education that could never be regained. Mr. Beck defended the action of the House and the other members of the conference com- mittee. The reason why there had been so many deficiency bills was because the heads of the several departments had been to the House and urged that they must have these appropriations now, and could not wait for the regular deficiency bill. The bill was passed by the House with the assurance that nothing should be put in that was not imm el urgent or that could wait for the regular tie. ciency bill. It was obviously right to strike out the item of $75,000 for the schools, and it carried no hostility to the schools. It had been shown by the Secretary of the Treasury and the District Commissioners, that the ‘state- ‘Ments made on the floor of the Senate, inad- sen of course, was not borne out by the facts. It was better to let the bill pass making provisions for the urgent necessities that would be recognized by the House, than to hazard a dissolution of the conference and the subsequent delay. The matter for the schools could be referred to the Distrfet committee and reported to-morrow morning, and by two o'clock could pass the Senate.” He believed the items Insis' on by Mr. Wyndom would be reached in some other way than by insist- ing upon the items in question ir this Dill. ir. Blaine did not think the schools of the District would stop if the appropriation was not male. He felt that it would be impossi- ble to induce the House to agree to the appro- priation until the relations between the Dis- eit aa the government had been fully con- sidered. The conference ‘committee's report was agreed to—yeas 35, nays 19. * Hon. Gzo. N. McCrary, Secretary of War, accompanied by his two daughters and Gen. Sherman and daughter, and Col. Bacon and | his staff, arrived at Fort Monroe, Va., yester- day, to attend the commencement exercises of ‘the artillery school, and will remain until Saturday. The Secretary and daughters are the guests of Capt. L. E. Campbell. SENATOR GORDON will make an elaborate speech on the subject of the finances on Wed- nesday next. SENATOR DENNIS has received hundreds of letters from Maryland and other states of the Union approving his speech on the Blair reso- lution. A weekly paper printed at Coll Station, on the Nvashington Branch of ‘the for Boones Seana aes tg, ‘or candidate Governor of Maryland. 7. THE INVESTIGATION of Paymaster Cutter was ponunned 2 the committee on naval affairs to-day. ft = Cutter ha een Sustain ee vindication of them: nie patible with the art of speaking Spanish in easy lessons. The Spanish Sheena all sory enone Over the tongwes bi |” SECRETARTES Schurz and Sherman returned to that busin betes from this morning. The rest of Play the deuce with our preconceived ideas of | the Party will return t-morrow, The | bout a mile to | le det | (whatever ated at | TWO CENTS. FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, FRIDAY, April 3 THE SENATE was not in session to-day HOUSE.—Mr. Hubbell, from the conmittee on commerce, reported a bill relating to ve: | seis not propelled by sailor steam. [It ex- empts from admeasnrement barges, &c., that | ply between the United States and foreiga | territory.7 Passed. | Mr. Blount moved that the House go into committee of the whole and resume the con. n | sideration of the post office appropriat pil Rice hoped not. This was ¥, and also objection day, and re Would be a morning hour. The House decided to go into committee, Mr. Mills in the chai j private bill | They } | | he hoped lon was upon the amend. ‘ownsend (Ohio) to increase the for co it © clerks in 0. The ment of Mr. appropriatioy post offices fh amendment w The President in Philadelphia. SPEECHES BY THE PRESIDENT AND SECRE TARY SCHUKZ. In Philadelphia last night the President and party attended the star course entertainment concert given by Gilmore's band at the Acad | emy of Music. The house packed and a perfect ovation greeted the President | MRS. HAYES ON THE USE OF WINE As claret pur as served at dinner on board the Columbia, it was remarked during »nversation that Mrs. Hayes did not seem etto the use of wine f nd it hat that lady ha on W fully on this sabje last atthe dited t eat mis- ippose that F desire to dictate my views to others in this matt use of Wine and such drinks. Ido not use them m} self nor in my family, but [have no thouht shunning those who think and act dite i: mistake to think that I should wa T want pec manner that is in themselves in. th inigto them.” | GERMAN SERENADE TO THE Ving the academy eceded to the Chestnut-st PSIDENT. the President pro pet theater, where ovation awaited him. He reached the Continental at twenty minutes past 10 o'clock just in time to be serenaded by the United German singing societies. who to the number of two hundred appeared with torches in front of the hotel. The dient, Sei Seer Sherman, Attorney ¢ and the ladies of the H intersperse orchestra. hoice by Carl THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH. The President, being loud a short speech, saying: “On behalf of the | ladies and others of our party and myself I ire to return my thanks tothe musicians. nd insirumental, for having given us so njoyment, and among the pleasant tions we shall have of the friendly soci Visit to the eity of Phil hia the musi music for. made this evening will be ree ed as amo a pleasantest in our memoi LApplanse | And now, fellow-citizens. without detaini: | You further, allow me to introduce to you th gentlemen whose presence here has no do Secured to us the gratitic he evenin T have the pleasure o} eral Carl Schurz, Se [Applause. | SECRETARY SCH in which ite s. country to e7 forded you by am borie ouf by the hist when I say that when th: you Were among its br voted defenders, and wit RZ MADE 4 BRIE! “You have reat opp ns. and TP think | ry of this rep: c country was in dav vest and most n the country is at pe: yeu are among its best. most industri ous alld most useful citizens. In one you are Ame good as the | thom. fort to pt | laws, to protect ests of the American people, that you a finding fault with us for that. [Cries of : Nom] And, furtherme if you find fauit With us for not performing these duties satis. | factorily, then you are perfectly weleome in | doing So. I address you also Philadel | Dhians. When I came io these shores 26 years ago the first 18 months Espent here ty to learn the rudiments of the English lan. | guage and to make myself acquainted wit! | American institutions’ and American lit | These recoliections, which bind me to the city | of Philadelphia and its fone re therefore peculiarly interesting and dear to me, and I shall always cherish them.” The President then said:—* My f will now introduce to the Attorney eral. He has been an American a little lc than neral Schurz, and I think you will | agree with me that he isa very good Ameri ean.” General Devens then made a few re! after which the Presidential party r from the balcony of the hotel, and the crowd dispersed. Now that the public printer has “resumed.” the P. O. department is able to send comt tions to uewly appointed postmasters. Over S00 have accumulated within the past three weeks, during which the department has been without the necessary blanks. BANKRUPTCY. Taking Advantage of the Nearly Repealed Law. NEw YORE, April 26.—Thomas Burns and | John D. Taylor, contractors and builders, | tiled a voluntary peti partnership liabilities amount. to $220.00), and Mr. Burns has individual liabilities of $15,000, Claims to the amount of $177,000 are } secured. The assets comprise a few acres of land at Searsdall, mortgaged for $10,000. Register Dwight has received a voluntar ave 'y petition in bankruptey. The peti- tion in bankruptey by Charles L. nish, a prominent real estate operator, who ov $222,000 on account of the depreciation in real estate, which he carried for himself and others, His assets consists of 400 aer in Lazerner county, Pa. S. E. Thompson & Co., tobacco commission merchants, at No. 54 Brad street, have gone into yoluni bank- rupicy with liabilities amounting to $169,00). The assets are $22,000. Wall y NEw Yonrk, April 25.—The Post's financial article says: At the Stock Exchange we have aduil but feverish stock market, with prices below. yesterday's closing quotations, the largest decline being in the coal stocks and St. Paul common. Government bonds are un- changed. The bankers selling the 44 per cents report an enlarged demand since the order yesterday for the second instalment of $500,000. Gold opened at 100%4, fell. at 11:49 o'clock to 1003¢, and has since ‘stood at that price. On gold loans the rates have been 2a!¢ per cent. for carrying. The treasury will next week begin the yment of $5,335,000 gold pay interest due on the first day of May. Inthe loan market call loans are 4a6 per cent., with 5 per cent. the ruling rate, and with more busi- hess below than above that rate. Prime mercantile paper is 5a6 percent. Atthe Pro- duce Exchange there is a much firmer market is both breadstuffs and coos 3 wheat and oorn being 1 to2 cents higher. In provisions lard 1s 5 cents per hundi pounds higher, and pork 10 cents per barrel higher, this on ac- count of the interpretation put on the foreign zee so far as it relatesto England and Rus- sia. PRESIDENT BEN. NOYES’ ARREST.—At Tren- ton, N. J., Wednesday, Warden Johnson of the Essex county jail produced Bonk Noyes, president of the National Capitol Life Insur- ance Company, who was arrested in Wa: hing- ton on March Ith, before Judge Nixon in the United States court, in compliance with a writ of habeas corpus issued that court last week. Mr. Keasby, after reviewing the clr- 's of Noyes’ arrest, claimed that it eal, and that Re was now falsely im- prisoned. The requisition was issued for per- ey and two other indictments were also being over him for eonspiracy to defraud the New Jersey Mutual Life Insurance Com- any. The return showed that he was held in jail’ on all three, and he (Keasby) claimed that he should be discharged on the writ of h for perjury, and being a0 dibcbarged could not belteld Oh th others. He asked for a nement in orde the facts before the court. Mr. Va hata resisted the motion to postpone. Judg N gran a nement until Wednes- PES aes ing of testimony would be commenced. THE VIRGINIA DUEL.—Alfred H. Thom, who shot and killed Major ay. ge Easterville, a county, Va., a few Dy Pitts, was tried Tuesday and acuuitted on tHe grotind of self-defence: | Telegrams to The Star. THE FLORIDA SENSATION. BEECHER ON THE WAR PATH, Startling Revelations Threatened. THE EUROPEAN STRUGGLE. Plottings of the Powers. . correspond April 2th as fo! emocrats bly Washington. have. been through agents. Dennis and two others who have been at work collecting proofs left. at 7 vhis morn. ing for the north. Dennis stops ‘in Washing others go direct to New York, There is » today among some of th promin publicans in consequence of De nis’ confession two statements in writing as obtained by the special agent who Was working the matter up. He showed it to the state Senator Henderson and askes What he thought of it. Henderson replied it was too vague and timid, and that MeLin could do much better if he w to. He showed several points on whi definite assertions might be made. The special agent then gave Henderson this paper to k aid he would get a better one, earnest about giving the truth, vagueness was simply unintentional to see MeLin at on turned with an am He went d ina few days nded anda fuller state ment. The first sta has been re generally, once or twice copied, aud offered r publication. It contained nothing more than what MeLin had said time agate in n versation. | Th last statement is kept ve see nf th y custodian of it remarked that in this | of land | #100 could not purchase a copy of it ennix’ Coniession. | | NEW YORK, April 26.—The Sur. among « | bateh of attidavits, pubiishes one made. in Washington by L.G. Dennis, who was a mem ber of the state central committee of the re publican 4 the tty of Florida, and also chairman of republican committee of Alachua stance of the aMidavit is to the eff election officers in Arche . informed him that they had to the poll list as having. v eased the republican vol d he after rhed that they had names to the poll list. After complet: returns in this manner, they fi . With the county © THE PHIL ADELD April 2 Attorney General Devens and Burchard Hayes, accompanied by members of the In dustrial league. left the Continental Hotel at half-past iock this morning on a tou | inspection of the industri tablishm The first place visit the Baldwin La motive Works. He members of the fir received the disti Lv d ese ed them thr immense establishment The Paesident expressed. himself as mach | pleased with th i. From herve the party Were driven to t hine Tool Work Win. Setiers & Co.: thence te Whitney's 1 Manutac and afterwards they in ted the carpet mills of Messrs. | At the fails of Sehuyikill. | From ther | the party visited Manayunk and then took the the B adi road for the city again. Willow-sireet_ wharf, from which y proceeded to Disston’s lard works Ceamps’ ship yar Sherman a rs. Hayes. Mrs. nd the othe ladies of the party left the hotel at 1 o'eloc under the guidance of Miss Meitenry, of the ladies’ committee, visiting first the girls’ Nor | malsehool. Here the re rained with recitations, sin &e. The Northern Home for Friend ldren was | next on the programme. H children to the number bled of two hundred and when th hymn were ladies appeared as Vi design Loxpos, Apr | Times from Be: | man bankers who were induced to meet here wo nsider the practicability of floating another Russian loan have ananimously re fused to engage in the wo British Comenre: fA y- LONDON, April 25.—The London newspapers this morning take a discouraging view of the e of the political negotiations, They im to see in Austria's changing attitude a © wail in hopeful silence to see what Y profit in the calamities and weak- Sof the combatants. The Daily News says: “Itis time to give up all illusion respecting Austria's eflective in terference in the present strife. Her govern- ment has long ago made military preparations on the borders of Bosnia and Herzegovina in anticipation of war between England and Rus- sia, and will watch its development, get what it can, and congratulate itself on haying done So without fightin It will be glad if we help its designs, bfit will owe us no thanks,” ting Austria. hha correspondent of the daily News says, in confirmation of the foregoing nces, that notwithstanding the various , itis maintained that th ustro-Rus- jons at St. Petersbu proceed. and that the chief objection Austria agaiust the peace of San Stefano have met with due con: tion. tria’s Selfish she m ness Y SCANDAL, ms Expected. he Herald printsthe umored last night that be some startling revelations in the Beecher-Tilton case before the close of the present week. Persons whe are in a good position to Know of what they affirm, assert | that Mr. Beecher has at last determined to take the offensive as against Tilton, and that | the result will be the speedy bringing of a suit inst Tilton and Moulton on a charge of a iF A y in this cit f certain al and d to the alleged conspira- cy, is to be produced during the trial of the | suit, itissaid. The facts which he claims to be in possession of have already been submit. ted to one of M 1's lawyers, and it is at his suggestion, it is contended, that Mr. Beecher has consented, if not to begin the suit at once, at least, to hold a conference with the expected witness, his own lawyers and a few personal friends. If these rumors should turn out to be founded on fact, the great scandal is destined to be again resurrected in ali its hid- eousness. tons, and which les ——_—_ Another Bank in Trouble. PROVIDENCE,April 26.—The Mechanics’ Say- ings Bank, the Second largest in this city, to- day commenced to enforce the charter provi- sion requiring notice of withdrawal of depos: its. The statement of the trustees shows a Surplus of $300,000 to $400,000 over all liabilities, Railroad Accident. RICHMOND, Va., April 26.—An accident oc- curred between 4 aud 5 o'clock this mornin, to last night's mail train on the Richmond an Danville railroad, near Clover, % miles from Richmond, which’ resulted in five persons be- ing injured. ——__ The Markets. BALTIMORE, April 26.—Virginia sixes, old, 25; do. deferred, 444; do. consolidated, 60%; do. second series. 30; Norm Carolina sixes, ont, 15; do, new, 8: do, special tax, 1 Did to-day. Sugar Guiet and steady. babs, BALTIMORE, A il 96. —Cotton quiet and nom- {almiddting. 20%, , Flour more, Inquiry and 3460; do. extra. 2. 7605.25: do. family, "6.603 ity mills super, 4.. $6640) ato brands. h Pea ee | Rie