Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1878, Page 1

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JACKSC D.C. ou WEDN 2 3 2 undersigne: JARBOS, ‘Treasarer, £17 NINTH STREET NORTHWEST, Near the Avenue, } Eave 500 State Mantels tn stock, and employ a large force of mechanics and artists In producing | Rew designs and colors, ani are filling all orters promptly at prices lower than ever offered, and, with a large force of mechanies in thelr several trades of Plumbing, Furnace, Range, Steve, Tin ‘aud Copper work, solicit jobbing orders. sug3l ir SS THE BEST SUMMER DERINKS. MILBURN’S POLAK SODA, ‘With Ice-cold Tea, Colfee and Chocolate, at 1429 Pennsylvania avenue. ‘This Towic SopA is unrivalled, jy5-tr BL ‘S GALLERY OF FINE BABrow GAEL 2925 Pennsylvania Avenuc. IN FREE EXHIBITION AND FOR SALE, oOurPantites, Eugtaving2, Photogravures and Frames tn Russia Leather anc Nickie, fer Porcelains anc Goi capes. &c.. mace irrors, Pictu’ a ir res unpacked, packed, and Lung up by lent workmen. _ ‘ jane BGhiver, Clit and Copper Wire (plain and tal: Cords, with or without wire, Screw Eye: ed and Rest res, E warn bas never woud! d ior or wit % with any other frm, arcane Tock Washington News and Gossip, GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-Day.—Internal revenue, $359,2 eustoms, $45, 4 5. CSUBSCRIPTIONS fo the four per cent. loarto day amounted to $237,750. SECRETARY EvARt: left last evening with | the President, Mrs. Hayes and Burchard Hayes, for New York. YELLOW FEVER INVESTIGATION.—Prof. 8. M. Bemiss, M.D., of New Orleans, Jerome Cochran, M. D., of Mobile and Dr. E. Lloyd more, appointed by Dr. Wood worth a3 members of the commission to in vestigate the causes of the yellow fever, with the view of preventing such deplorable Visita. tions of the epidemic in the future, expect to orgauize in New Orleans on Saturday next. Dr. Bemis is there already. COUNTERFEITERS ARRFSTED.— A telegram to the secret service division of the Treasury announees to-day the arrest at Eskridge, Kan. of Charles H. Earl, E. C. Earl, W. H. Earl an Daniel Pratt, for counterfeiting. A Scioor Grau INnocentLy BeTRAYs HER FaTueEn.—In a report to headquarters in this ¢ a secret service operative in the West makes mention of a case in which a little girl unwittingly caused the arrrest of her father for counterfeiting. On her way to school a few morning’s ago she stopped at a confec- tioner’s to buy five cent’s worth of candy. She handed the proprietor a nickel. He examined it ai d said he did not think it was good. “Oh, 1k it is ¢ exclaimed, innocently, “ be- € papa made it. Papa makes lots just like that.” Mr. REED 4 Fine COMMISSIONERS. hurz has not yet given his oificial jon on the opinion of Assistant Szere ila mem- It r. Reed will claim his seat ® Board until the Depart- ment decides the ton of his right to doso. OnE RESULT of the fact becoming generally known thronghout the country that the Mext- can and trade dollars are only worth their bullion weight, is the reception of a large number of letters at the ofiice of the director of the mint. These letters not only make in- quiry about the trade and Mexican doilars, but concerning every other coin in the coun- try. The western peop'e especially seem to be afraid that the silver coins are not worth ything, and are greatly exercised over it. One man goes so far as to Want to Know if the s 2 r dollar is a legal tender and t provision Congress has made for its re- demption. SPECIAL AGENT M. A. Canter, whodied yes- terday aiternoon at Mississippi City from yel- low fever, was buried last night at 9 o'clock near Handsboro’, Miss. Deputy Marshal Pos- tethwaite, requests the Land office to send r. Wuescher,Carters jclerk, or himself, au to take charge of government prop- erty and Col. Carter's persona! effects. He adds: “We both have authority now, and dis- agree on several ints.” A dispateh has been sent from the Land office to Mr. Postle- thwaile directing him to take charge of all governr t property and papers relating to ent business which Col. Carter hadin ‘sion at the time of his death,and in- ng him tbat Mrs. Carter would advise as who should take care of the personal ects. is not likely that M asa member of t vrz has reecived a large nt requests from republicaus » nciunati speech in Pennsylva- diana, Massachusetts, New York and other states. Sc OF THE YELLOW Fr een recei' ER.—Ir- at the Genera at Jackson, count of the IN R10 pE JANEmO.—The con- ral o1 the uited Sta danvizo, reports to the De under date of Sept. 4, that the has reecotly appeared in that such proportions as to jus‘i becoming an epidemic + wee of August I$ deaths rurred from tie dis ease, and 7 deaths during the first three days oi September. These deaths do not inelud: these occurring at the Jurujuba hospita! ch is outside the city limits, and to which y hasassi the fears of During the last week or FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING. CONSISTING OF xs OVER 100 DIFFERENT STYL: MEN'S DRESS AND BUSIN COMPLETE ASSONTMENT OF YOUTH'S BOYS’ AND CHILDREN’S CLOTHIN #@-The aboveare all of the Latest and Best Fab- ics, and made in the most Fashtonabie Styles, at Prices Lower than ever offered before, Pisase call and see before purchasing cisowhere. A. STRAUS, 1611 Pennsylvania avenue, ‘Three Voors from 1th street. APOLLINARIS NATURAL MINEKAL WATER. Highly Egervesecnt. APPEOVED by the Acwlemin te Melecine of France. aad its ssie iu France authorized by #ye- etal order of the French Government. Necommended by the highest MEDICAL AU- THORITIES to New York ** A great relict for sea-si **A delightful beverage; mild grateful aud refresi “ a fg ¥. Seitzer, or any other.** whoiesome jor wall rom the © inst Croton and artificially aerated * Im prognated only **Healtbful and we cases of acute disease, “* By far the most agraesble ine; usefulln Catarrhs of v mize? with Blalder, k or Not only 3 nxu! Tobe bad of ali W aisand Mineral Water dealers throug! ofted States, and wholesale of FRED'K DE BARY & CO., Wos. 41 and 43 Warren st., New York, Sole Agents for the United States and Canada. Ev Ruine hottie bears the registered y. low peforial iaix! of (bs Apoiluaris Cou Gimited), Londoa. aug?i-wim,eowin EBERS AND WAGNER'S MILITARY anc ih BAND furnishes music for 3 0 A ¥ Est Beg ‘Music Scores, Brad Adams, reet nor’ - Orders rece or telegraph receive prompt attention. sep18-Lm* —D* w. H15 QrFic ASD EO DENCE 5 s rs ser3- Lm’ to No, 1810 @ street B. t ‘y patients are sent. Fears are also enter- i d that yellow fever will be prevalent at Kio during the coming summer. ARMY ORDERS.— Lieut. Col. Alexander Chambers, t infantry, is relieved from re- eruiting service and granted a delay of thirty days, at the expiration of which he will pro- eeed to join his regiment. Leave of absence for one year on surgeon’s certificate of disa- bility is granted Major Sees A. Gordon, 5th cavalry, with permission to leave the depart- ment of the Platte. NAVAL ORDERS.—Cadet Midshipman Wilson . Todd is ordered tothe Richmond, at Boston, 21st October. Assistant Engineer T. F, ff is detached from the Swatara and ordered to duty in the Bureau of Steam Ea- gineering. —————~+e-__.. \D OF THE YE i warm weather ti e in the yeliow fever an inerease in the sp 9 SoM ul. At New Urleaus to noon yester- | aa there were 69 deat! nd new 3. i femphis, yesterda: Ls had occ i 24 hours, and the fever was spr rural towns’ and villages were st gterribly. The epidemic at Port Gibson is acing to an alarming extent in the coun and is foreing refugees back to towa as true place of safety. The number of cases figures up fo about 4) out of a remain- ing population of 71 Prices or Cosu.—The Philadelphia and ding Coal and Iron Company has issued its ¢jreular of prices for coal delivered on board vessels at Port Richmond, as follows: White ash, $3.70 for lump, steamboat and broken, r egg, $05 for stove, $3.40 for chestuut, $ ‘or pea: Shamokin and red ash, $3.75 for eeg. $4 for stove, $3.30 for chestnut; Lorberry, $5.9) for broken, $3.95 for egg, $4 for stove, $3.40 for chestnut ; Le taba Vi $5.50 for broken, $5.95 for egg, $1 for stove, $3.59 for chestnut. THE Fitz JOHN PoRTER Case was resumed before the board of army officers, aecording to adjournment. at New York, y y. Gen. Daniel Butterfield gave testimony confirming other evidence in Gen. Porter's favor. The court adjourned to meet at Governor's Island to-day, when Capt. Douglass Pope, if present, will be cross-examined by Gen. Porter's coun- sel. If he is not present, it is understood the judge advocate will open tho case with a state- ment Showing what the government expects prove. FULL RETUKNS FkoM VERMONT.—Full re- turns of the governor's vote in Vermont. ean- vassed by the secretary of state, show the whole number of votes ¢ast was 57,06; neces- sary for a choice, Proetor (rep. ), 37,312; C, Martin (green- ard (ind.), 730; seat- Proctor’s majority, 16 ¢ T oe tering, vote in the Third Congressional district (0! ficial returns) was, whole number of votes, Is. pecessary for a choice, 9,240: Bradley- Barlow, 9.119: Grant, Waterman (dem.), scatiering,*S. The former returns have had an error in the vote for Waterman; Bar- iow lacked of election. Ix THE VANDERBILT WILL Case. yesterday, the so-called Mrs. Stoddard, widow of the spiritualist who gave the sensational testi- sony on Friday last, was eross-e: |. She refused to answer'a number of questions touching her character or relationship to men for whom she had kept house. A woman stood ‘01 lizo ithe and | advance in the mi ¥ | 8 ‘7th _strect southeast, ce ners’ wages.—[ J. ¥. up in court, aud witness admitted that tha woman was Mrs. Stoddard, the wife of Dr Stoddard. Before recess the counsel for Wm H. Vanderbilt asked the surrogate to place th witness in the custody of an oilicer during re cess, to secure her Pe After all th» pis ny ng she could give were in, counsel said he would ask the court to commit her to phe on action of the grand jury on a charge of perjury. ANOTHER ADVANCE in the price of coal has been ordered by the Pennsylvania monopo- ists. Of course, not a w rd is said about an THE Por Priest Nor Drap.—’ Louis- ville Courier-Journal states ‘that can patnoe Ryan who Is dead at Chat! from fever 1s Buther P. Rvan, of the weenie pind eese, not Father A, J. Ryan the poet priest. UNDER MONT BLANC. FROM THE BERNESE ALPS TO SAVOY—SWISS TELEGRAPHY AND POSTAL BXPRESS—THE HILL CITY OF LAUSANNE—WHAT THE PRIS- ONER OF CHILLON MISSED—WHAT ONE MAY SBE WHILE LUNCHING AT CLARENS—AN UN- FORTUNATE WASHERWOMAN—GENEVA AND JTS WATCHMAKERS—WHEN WE DIDN'T AND WHEN WE DID SEE MONT BLANC—WHAT THE ALPINE MEADOWS LACK—HOW WE WENT TO CHAMOUNY—ALPINE DILIGENCES SLOW COACHES—NOBLE ALPINE WIVE3—AN EXAMPLE FOR THE WIVES OF AMERICA— SUNSHINE AND STORM IN THE ALPS—WHAT THE HOTEL MEN OF CHAMOUNY DON'T ENOW. . [Editorial Correspondence of The Star.] CiHAMOUNY, Sept. 1, 1878. At Zurich, much to our regret, we parted with Mr. Hitz (who goes up to the Engadine), and having finished a most satisfactory and delightful exploration of the Bernese Ober- land, we started out for “fresh woods and pas- tures new” in the Pennine Alps, or Mont Blanc range. The trip by rail from Zurich to Lake Geneva, via Bern, Lucerne, Fribourg, and Lausanne, is an interesting one, as the views are much more picturesque than those usually seen from car-windows; especially on approaching the lake. A showery sky shut off the view of the snow-clad Alps, but the glimpses of the near green mountains, and of the borders of the iake, were very charming. It was not quite possible, though, to realize that the apparently diminutive clump of build- ings beneath us was Castle Chillon, but ona visit to it next day it loomed up somewhat more formidabl, SWISS GOVERNMENT TELEGRAPHY AND Pos- TAL EXPRESS SERVICE. In telegraphing from Bern to Lausanne for Tooms (2 needful precaution, owing to the rush of Alpine travel at this season,) wehad a chance to test the cheapness and excetlence oi the government telegraph system of Swit- zerland. The cost of the telegram was 8) can- times, or IS cents of our money; and for this sum a dispatch of twenty words can be sent to any part of Switzerland. There is a ground- tax cf 20 centimes (or 6 cents) for a telegrain. and after tnat a charge of 2! centimesa word, so that a telegram of ( words ean be sent any- wherein Switzerland for 45 centimes, or 9 cents. The government postal express ser- vice of Switzerland is, aiso, a cleap. safe, and expeditious public convenience. ‘This postal express takes tie place of our private express companies to a great extent; while the tele- graphic system of Switzerland is altozether a vovernment affair. At our hotel in Zurich a Sernese guest received by postalexpress from Bern. a sore Bipe. hat he had sent to that city to be pressed. The cost of conveying the hat and bex from Sern to Zurich, including delivery at_the hotel, was 70 centimes, or 11 cents of our money. ‘It isa common thing in Switzerland to send boots, hats, clothing, parts of watches, &c., by postal express, the cost being so tifling. LAKE GENEVA. At the Lausanne station we took an omni- bus, and wormed up the hill to the hotel and city by a series of zigzags, such as one gets accustomed to in Switzerland, whether to get up to a hotel, a village, a city, or a mountain top. Lausanne when reached has a superb Position for an outlook. In a business point of view, though, the people must waste a good part of their lives, cork-serewing their way up and down that Sverasting hillside. In the morning we took the train for the head of the lake, stopping at Veytaux-Chillon, the 4 nearest Castle Chillon. Two mi brougiit us to that strueture, mad ous by Bsrons pen. The Castie, as al iy saitl does not at first sight come up to the mark of expectation, but If grows upon ou a near v id by inspection of it 3, cells of toriure for the execution chamber, trap-doors fi prisoners into the lake, &>., &e. ¢ tion of the Castle ned there. Oth armory purposes ture must be a 7 Prisoner of Chi not be at all lon e stati WOU tles ey minutes; and thea, agzju, he « himself by listening to the yar him by the guides, and thet We took a earriage from Chil tot tiful village of Clarens in order to 3 noted view of the lake and surroundings obtained on the mountaia side above Mon- treux. Our Way was up, and up, and up, through the terraced Vineyards and among quaint old houses, along a delight fulold road,—a mere lane, just wide enouzh for one carriage,—bordered. by an old-time wall, shaded by gnarled and _ twisted old-time trees, and passing by an old-time cemetery with all sorts of quaint features of decoration for the graves in gilt, wire-work, &.,c. Num bers of women were washing ‘clothes at the Dieasant shaded fountains soning out along the mountain side everywhere ; and one merry troop of girls at work intimated to us, in ro sponse to the admiring but rather protracted stare by pe young men of) our party, that we would be expected to pay two sous apieca for viewing this “exposition of demoiselles,” as they termed it. At Clarens it was vastly leasant to take a lunch at the Hotel Roth, ooking cut upon the blue lake, in which the white houses and tall poplars of Montreux and the grim walls of Chillon were mirrored. Some bits of bright color were given to the fore- ground by groups of boys and ladies fishing, and by squads of washerwomen who stood in their tubs in the shoal water near the shore, and rinsed their clothes in the lake. One un° fortunate rinser came oeree in stepping into her tub, which shot out from under her, and left her seated In the lake, to the great dlight of the merry Swiss boys, who, a3 a general thing, do not seem to be very merry or to have much fuu in them. But the French Swiss about Geneva seem to have more vivacity than elsewhere. From Clarens we took steam- er for Geneva, getting a rather interrapted view of the lake borders through the low- hanging rain-clouds. The principal steamers on Lake Geneva are side-wheelers on the American plan, sharp and swift, but painted black Where ours are painted white. IN AND ABOUT GENEVA. We spent the next day in Geneva, going, amongst other places, to visit the watch man- ufactory of the world-wide known Patek, Philippe & Co. The establishment is a curious old rookery of small boxes of rooms, with irregular stairways, and seems to have besn enlarged and added to on different sides from time to time, like the growth of the cells in a honey-comb; at least that Is the only way to account for its curious arrangement of rooms, and the up and down way of getting to them: Patek, Philippe & Co. seem to know all about ne wate business, and do not appear to fear away their business. The Americans surpass them in methods, J suspect, even if they do not - For one thing,an Ameri- can firm would pull this old building down in short order, and ereet in its place an airy, We lL lighted structure, with large rooms coin: mubicating Handhy sath one another. A good deal of time must be lost, one would think, in this establishment in getting from one part to another through the dark, narrow, crooked Passages and stairways. The process of man- ufacture as illustrated in the diferent rooms is exceedingly interesting; as well as the mode of regulating the waiches after they are made. They go through a course of treatment in ice refrigerators and in oyens to get them rega- lated to run in extremes of teniperature, and they are kept for a season in six different po- sitions—on the face, back, sides, and at angles—so that they will Keep time upside down, upside up, and in all attitudes. The watches supplied by this firm are of all prices, from <5 franes (7) and upwards. Taey keep the seven-dollar watches rather as_a curiosity in the way of cheapness, but do not give them the firm stamp, as the‘different movements are hand-made outside of the establishment, and Patek. Philippe & Co. merely put them together and regulate them to a fair degres of accuracy. Though there is a g eal of hand-watch work turned out in Gwitzerland, it isa mistake to suppose that the best Swiss Watches are hand-made. Patek & Co. use the finest machinery ever devised in making their watches, and the only part of the work of the watches bearing their stamp done by hand is Some of the fine polishing. To show that they lead the world in man ring watches, eeyeanas their standing orders from the houses of other countries. Thus the suppl of England, Tiffany & C. New York, and Gait Bree of aatineron ° OM THE WAY TO MONT BLANC. All this time no signs of Mont Blanc, though we bad paid more shan one visit to the venders, u Quai du Mont Biane, which, the guide-book affirms, affords ‘‘a strikingly majestic view of the Mont Blane group which is visible almost in its entire extent; but some vexatious clouds were always inthe way. But on the diligence about half-way to Chamouny, and just entering the village of St. Martin, the whole group burst upon us in unclouded gran: deur, and then ail the way to the valley of Chamouny and up it, and all that night and the next day (Sunday) the skies were clear and the view perfect. The diligence ride up to Chamouny is by no means as attractive as that up to Grindewald and the Jungfrau from Interlaken. The valley of the muddy, glacier river Arve, is fora eonsiderabie part of the Way a desolate waste of coarse gravel, boul- ders, and eee debris, but approaching Chamouny there are occasional stretches of green meadow to refresh the gee By the way, even in the most beautiful of Alpine meadows one misses a poe charm of our New Eag- land mountain meadows, and at first I was at a loss to call to mind what was wanting, and then jtoccurred tome; it was the droopin, elm, that with its graceful, fountain-shape: epray of foilage, is such a delightful feature of the ‘Beth onway, hel, and Francouia mea- lows. The Lombardy poplar in this country supplies the place of the elm in statéliness, but is much too stiff for Brace: The only tree approaching grace in the Alpine regions is the larch with |ts feather sprays but it is rather formal in outline. The dili- gences now in use between Geneva and Cha. mouny are an improvement upon the lumber- ing old-style vehicles of that name. They have no “interior” seats, abhorred by tourists who want to get a view. All the seats are outside or banquette seats, with the exception of the coupe seats in front; and the luggage is car- ried in the part of the carriage that used to be the “interior,” as it should be. The horses seem to be inferior, however, and do not by any means go dashing over the Alpine roads in the style represenied in pictures. They crawl along the steady up grade to Chamouny at a snail’s pace, and are at least two hours longer making the trip than the time adver- tised. There are several competing lines be- tween Geneva and Chamouny this season, and their runners are button-holing tourists on every corner, offering tickets for from six to nine francs, or a good deal less than half the old prices. It was hot on the way to Cha- mouny. even under the great glaciers, and umbrellas were freely used to avert the sun’s rays. We noticed on this trip (for the first time in this region) a labor-saving machine in the fields, in the shape of a steam-thresher. The Swiss and the French here in Savoy do pretty much everything by hand. ALPINE THRIFT AND ALPINE WOMEN. It is hard to realize here in the Mont Blane region of French Savoy that you are not in Switzerland, for the houses, (chalets), the habits of the people, the laboriously cultivated bits of field and pasturage on the mountain sides are all the same, and the scenery is of course the same. The manure heap, a3 the sign of thrift and property fs paraded in front of the house, just as in Switzerland, where it is considered a mark of substantial.citizen- ship to have a big compost heap. Thus inthe prettiest environs of Bern, directly in front of the residence of the President of the Swiss Re- publie, a citizen-farmer has built up an elat orate compost heap, with walls of braided straw, that can be seen (and smeit) fora square ortwo. The Savoy women, like the Swiss wo- men, are surely the most industrious creatures thatthe world ever saw. You see these Alpine women always busy,—at work in the fields, pulling flax, digging potatoes and carrying them home in sacks on their shoulders; gath- ering manure on the highways with rakes and baskets; breaking stone for the roads with hammers having long flexible handles; tend- ing cattle in rain and shine ; taking the mules tothe stables when their lords and masters, the guides and mule-drivers return from some easy excursion with tourists; washing clothes in the streams and in great stone fountains; mending the breaks in the wallsof the trouble. some glacier streams: milking the cows and goats at night while their husbands are enjoy Ing themselves in the wine-shops :and ta shor? making themselves always use: Probably nobody ever saw anidle Alpine woman orone taking any relaxation. Even when they walk along the roads, or tend cows in the flalds ti are alweys knitting stockings or something. What wives these women must make! course we could not expect our Ameriean to do all these things, (prebably they tif we did), but just think of if, there would be if, for instance, nsand wives of Washington were li the tame as they go about, as Jpine women do, a it. hey could earn for their aus- tle comfort: band! LOAFING IN FRONT OF MONT BLANC. Ihave been loafing in the valley of Cha- mouny for the last fortnight in the way of health recuperation to get the benefit of the bracing air; have done a moderate amount of mountain and glacier climbing, but have spent a good deal of the time vagabondizing up and down the valley, watching the moun- tains in all their aspects of sunshine, cloud and storm. O., who has to hurry on his trip to reach his September Cunarder for home, has gone over the Simplon; E, and K, after a trij (o Martiguy over the Tete Noir pass and bac! By the Col du Balme, have returned to Paris. Pp to the time of the separation of our party here we had been favored with exceptionally fine weather for the Alps, and our trip alto- gether had been made under the most favor- able circumstances. I suppose every one of us will remember it as a season of keen, won- derful enjoyment. Since they left the weather has been changeable with violent storms, thunder and lightning and floods, that tore up the roads and for a day or two cut olf Cha- mouny from communication witii the outside world; but Ihave enjoyed the storm almost more than the sunshine. The mountains are grand in a clear sky, but I think they are grander when their peaks show out above the clouds, like the Pattlements, towers and spires of an upper world. Tn the intervals of rain I have been to Montannert, and the Mer de Glace, and the Mauvais Pas, and the Chapeau, and Le Flegere, and Plaupraz, and Brevent, and Pierre Pointue, and the Glacier des Bus: Sons and the Giacler Arguntiere, and various other porns of view iai¢ down ‘as the proper ones, but perhaps the most enjoyable that I found was one on the mourtain side oppo- site the Glacier des Bossons, that is not named in the guide books at all. Here a front view of this Niagara of Gla- Cliers is obtained, the cloud effects upon the Mont Blane group are particularly fine, there is a charming spread of the greenest pasture and meadow between you and the white eter- nal snows apposite, the musical tinkle of the cow. bells, and the singing of the children tend- ing the cowsis very pleasant, there is a won- derful stream of the clearest and iciest water of considerable volume that bursts out from the mountain rock below you without any ap- Parent source; and more than all thereisa convenient geen in the valley fea by this ‘ery stream, where you can see! r when these sudden Alpine showers come u} I did not tackle Place where parties making the ascent of the Mountain spend the ight, The surprisin, feature in this climb is the manner in whic! the enormousand almost perpendicular height of the Glacier Bossous develops as you go up. is much more impressive than the ‘Mer 46 ‘Glace, though the latter is considerably the longest. The ae have a pleasant way of inspiring confidence to venture upon the ice by telling you that there are eighteen dead bodies in this glacier, the victims of attempts to ascend Mont Blanc, and that at the rate of glacier motion they will emerge at the foot in about forty-two years. This 18 considered a favorable season to make the ascent of Mont Blane, the snow being in good conditiod, and Blane does not in fact rank now amongst the difficult mountains to ascend, though itis a tedious and expensive one, requiring about three days time, and a heavy outlay for guides, porters, provisions, &e. The view from the top is inferior, and those Who go up do it rather for the name of the thing than any- thing else. Those who do not, excuse them- Selves sometimes by saying that they promi.ed es me not to undertake any dangerous ALPINE MULES AND OTHER MULES. Ihave made several of my excursionsrather lazily on mule-back. The most interesting feature of a circus is the contest of the mules with the boys who try to ride them, and there is & good deal of fun in studying the habits of these veteran Alpine mules. There are 175 of them here and 250 arling calf in a narrow lane, and wentaft-r , him on the full run for a quarter of a mile, | trying to bite nim. A RAINY TIME AT CHAMOUNY. The week or more of rain at Chamouny made business pratty dull for the hotel men, guides, diligence men, and all the class who cater for the tourist crowd, as there were few arrivals, but it made things lively for the people who had property to protect against the floods. For one thing, most of the people of the valley were interest2d in keeping’the glacier river Arve in its bounds, aud men and women were everywhere to be seen repairing breaks in the walls of the stream ; or when it had risen above these and flooded the fields they were hard at work dragging brush to head off the new currents, or to divert them into channels where they would do as little damage as ible. It does not take many hours of rain here ta create hundreds of tov- rents in addition to the perpetual cascades, until the sides of the mountaius look as if they Were strung with white ribbons, and all the: streams are flung with tremendous momen- tum into the already swollen glacier rivers. The contributions from the giant ranges of mountains continue to pour down long after the rain has subsided, so that the people have tokeep up their precautions, both in the storm and afterwaids. One morning the village fire- alarm was sounded, but it proved that the firemen were juired to fight water. The foundations of a house had been undermined by the flood, and the men were etal seen wading across the meadows to it, with ropes, timber braces, &c., to secure it from being swept away. The same morning there was a cali upon the men to go down the Mega! to make repairs where the torrents had swept away a portion of the road to Geneva; and up the ale where the Arve had gobbied up half a mile of the road to Martigny so completely that it was ne- cessary to improvise a road through and barley fields some distance banks of the river. It was enrious to amount of hardship and exposure the peasants would go through to save their little crops. At one place, where the fiood had environed a little patch of cabbages that could not have been worth $2. at the ontside, three or four men were at work waist deep in water for hours, driving stakes and weaving in limbs of trees tomake a breakwater to save the vege- tables. I was interested to see if they suc- ceeded. but on visiting the place next morn- ing, sad to say, the water ha en yet higher during the night, and cabbages, brushwood and all had been swept away. It was sorrowful, alco, to see where the remorseless glacier stream had swept over the little carpet-shaped strips of barley and oats, and buried their of ar..ble land under a ruinous barren deposit of coarse At the hotels, the tourists, y minutes, were a good dealin the dumps during the rain. These hotels in the high Aips are, undoubtedly, pretty cheerless in cold stormy weather. The hotei men here haven't the first idea of providing cosy, com- Sortable parlors. readizg rooms and hails, with great roaring open wood-fires, such as make a chilly stormy day quite a jolly affair fa our White Mountain hotels—the Profile House, for instance. The Chamouny hotels’ have hardly parlor room to give seats to their uests when a storm drives them in-doors: and it is only on the rarest occasions that a fire is lighted (though the evenings are always chilly here) and even then itis a dimin- utive little affair of a meagre stick or two, in a fire place of the smallest proportions. The guests amuse themselves as they best can with odd volumes of British noveis, or pirated edi- tions of Longfellow's poems and Mark Twain's “Innocents Abroad” (which is always much thumbed); or they promenade the few feet of hall-room and watch the clouds abouc Mont Blane and the Glacier du Bossons, and com- pare figures between the rustic, wooden (pine- twig) barometer, and the metallic one; or guestion the landlord every ten minutes about the prospect, who answers with unceasing good temper that the wind is about to shiit from the south (the rainy quarter) and that the weather “is going to arrange itself." But it does not afrange itself for a week or more, or until the idle crowd of guides and the men with the telescopes who show you the Mont Blane panorama for 50 centimes, are nearly in despair. But, as I have said, there is really a good deal to enjoy in tle Valley of Cha- mouny in a stormy season if you have aliki for mountam storm effects, an v over, a 00d water-proof,and as when the rain gets too drivin Relief of Yellow Fi THE NATIONAL COMMISSI The executive committee of the National Relief Commission met at noon, A.S. Solomon in the chair. The following telegram was received: IS. MO. Oct. 1, 1878, 1:50 a. Wm. LD on, Secretary Relies Commi: We chartered steamer J. M. Chambers, tons burthen, to-day, releasing steamer Eagle, Which proved tco small. Chambers sails Thursday night, if oflicers arrive. Everything bene satisfactory, now, and the expedition will @ grand success, we think. Much in- terest manifested ; many volunteers. ALEX. R. SHEPHERD, Chairman. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS CONTRIBUTIONS. Mr. Edward Baldwin, on behalf of the Board of Public School Trustees, called at head- quarters this afternoon with an oak box, heavily, laden with currency, amounting to $1,047.36, the result of the donations and coliec- tions received from the children of the pubtic schools, as follows:—Ist division, $211.6): 24, $216.98: 3d, $135.14; 4th, $105.10; 5th, $75.59; 6th, 72 ‘7th, $197.55; advanced schools and mis- cellaneous, $32.65, Total, $1,017.56. CASH CONTRIBUTIONS = received by Lewis J. Davis, treasurer, since last report: John W. Hoge, Navy department, $30.75; clerks and others in office of Chief of y ers, $12: Fred’k Douglas, Marshal, for engines $ Pioneer Sunday School, $1.47; Fred’k Douglas, for African Episcopal Church, $2.25; Judge Samuel F. Miller, $5. THE SCHUTZEN VEREIN SERENADE to their shooting King, Mr. Christian Ruppert, came off last evening according to the announc: ment made in yesterday’s Star. The pro- cession was from Meyer's restaurant on Pennsylvania avenue, headed by the Marine band, to. Mr. Eapperes residence, corner 7th and D streets, by the way of 9h and E streets, when the serenade took place. From here the members escorted Mr. Ruppert to Evans’ dining rooms on F street, when the banquet took place. The president, Mr. Simon Wolf, addressed the king and offered Telegrams to The Star. COLORADO ELECTION. Sweeping Republican Victory. THE GREAT BOAT RACE. Courtney Against Hanlon. REPUBLICAN CONVENTIONS TEXAS AND NEBRASKA. | Both Hugging the Pa FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Yellow Fever in Madrid. Lonpon, 2.—Madrid newspapers state that there are three cases of yellow fever in the hospital in that city. Liabilities 850,000,000. Loxpow, Oct. 2—The liabilities of the City of Glasgow Bank, which closed its doors to- day, are stated at #00, The liability of the shareholders is unlimited. One hundred Boone shares of the bank were dealt in yester- lay at over 20), and within a week at 237. The bank was established 1839, and had try sixty branches. It isthe heaviest bank fai in Scotland since 181, when this concern also suspended. The other Scotch banks were asked for assistance, but after examining the ooks at a meeting yesterday refused to do more than redem the note circulation of the City of Glasgow bank, which is stated as $3,20,000. The failure has caused great excite- ment throughout Scotland and in the London stcck exchange, where there was a heavy fall in Sco‘ch railroad securities in consequence a pressure of Sotch holders to sell. The fa ure of the bank is generally attributed t resourees being locked up in bilis, securities and deposiis of various ki that were not readily convertible. The £eho says the fail- ure is ree imvortant, and is not lest than a national disaster, but as usual in such cases it has been foreshawcowered ey. innumerab| and it is hardly likely that it do more than bring down the commerciai firms which are iayoived in the bill transac. tions whic have overwhelmed the bank. Austria’s Dilemma, Lonxpow, Cet. 2.—Various special dispatches agree in stating that negotiations are pro- gressing at Vienna to prevent a change of the entire administration, and that the difficulty is increased by the growing dissatisfaction in Hungary witi Count Andrassy’s whole policy in connection with the eastern question. Herr Von Zell, the Hungarian minister of finance, who is a man of vast Knowledge and astonish- ins power of work, has declared that he could not take the responsibility of eontributing to the expenses of the occupation of Bosnia after the Ist of November. After a cabinet council at Pesth on Monday last, Herr Tisza, the Hun- garian premier, visited Vienna to report on the condition of affairs. He informed the Emperor of Austria that the whole Hungarian ministry must resign unless some limit be fixed to the military expenditure, and that expenditure be reduced to what is quite un avoidable. In consequence of this communi- cation, Herr Von Zell was called to Vienna and was received by the Emperor in an audi- ence lasting nearly two hours, at which it may be supposed he not only gave fully the reasons which led him to resign, but likewise the conditions on which he might be induced to withdraw his resignation, the emperor re- served this decision and conferred with the iminister of war and the chief of statl, doubt- less to consider how far the demands formu- Eee by Herr Von Sell could be complied with. er THE GREAT BOAT RACE. Conditions of the Contest. New Youk, Oct. 2—Th eai_ corre- spondent of the World writes concerning the Courtney-Hanlon boat race, which occurs to. Gay, that in reality the race is for a stake of $2,000; $1,000 a Side, and a purse of 35,000, (already in bank), and has nothing to de with | the championship. The correspoudent that when the articles of agreement were drawn upto that efleet, the people of M. treal were fearful that unless the race did in- clude this condition it would not be a success, and refused otherwise to provide a purse. The members of the Hanlon club thereupon signed a contract with the citizens’ commit- tee, in which they agreed that in case of his defeating Hanlon, Courtney should succeed to the title now held by the former, “of cham- ion of America.” “In caee he should win. ourtney, in addition to the purse of $5,000. will, by reason of the contract by the Hanion club with the citizens of Montreal, have laid such claim to the title of “champion” as to be able to dictate terms and place for any other Tace pretty much as he pleases. Odds on Hanlon, LACHINE, Oct. 2.—The day is fair but a brisk wind is blowing, which renders the water very lumpy, and doubts are expressed if the race can be rowed to-day. Both men are look- ing and feeling well, and both are confident of success. @ odds offered on Hanlon are slightly less than last night. Prospect of a Race To-day Dubious. Boston, Oct.2.—A special dispateh to the Heraid from Lacline says the wind is increas- ing, and the race awed are still more dubious. The grand stand is rapidly filling, and the shores and streets are thronged with pe of all ages and conditions. Gambling on freely and openly. lore than a score of wheels of fortune, ianumerable sweat cloths, three card monte stands, and games of tha’ being seattered up and down the main street, povl selling languishes, aud Hanion me: are olfering oddsof )per cent. in betting CCS. QRADO ELECTION. Sweeping Republican Victory. DENVER, COL., Uct. 1.—The following ‘addi tional returns of to-dav’s election have been 1 Paso county, gives Vote of 67. Morrison, a toast to which his majesty replied briefly but to the point. Speeches were also made by Messrs. Wn. Heimus, vice-president of the Schutzens ; Secret: Springsguth, Treasurer J. L. Vogt and Maj. A. C. Richards, an honorary mem- ber, At the conclusion of ‘the banquet a gold medal was presented by the Verein to Mr. John a eeen and one to Louis Behrends through Mr. Wolf. The band afterwards sernaded the Journal office and then visited the residences of Mr. Vogt and Mr. Helmus and serenaded their families. Races YESTERDAY.—The winners at the Louisville (Ky.) races were Glenmore, mile heats, in 1:46, eed beating Checkmate and Fortuna ; Spendthritt, one mile, for two-year- olds, in 1:45; Be ot, mile heats, in 1:4614, 1:4474, beating Edinburgh and Solicitor ; Milan, three-quarters of a mile, in 1:17; Warfield, 1% Inile, in 1:56, Beating Bramble and Pomeroy.- --,. At the Point Breeze (Phila.) trotting races lie won the $100 race ; best time 2:33. In the third heat Mary Jane and Star collided. and the driver of Star was thrown out and severely eatiteds Membrino took the first quae 2 the race for 1,000, divided; best Ovr RELATIONS WITH Mextco.—During the celebration of Mexican independence day in the National Theatre in the eity of Mexico, September 15, an orator made discourteons re- marks about the United States, which pari of the audience applauded. A sensational report got abroad that United States Minister Foster, Who was present, would demand his passports @ leading newspapers The recep- Jefferson county, gives Pitken 43; Loveland, democrat, 32 Buckingham, greenback, 13. Castle Rock, Douglas ayer gives Pitken 5 majority. Walsenburg, Huerfano couiity, gives Loveland, democrat, 40 majority over Pitken; no nback vote is reported. Her- mosa gives Loveland, democrat, 40 majority. The indications at this hour (10:3) p.m.) are that the republicans have carried every ward in Denver except the sixth, and that they will have a majority of 80) over the democrats in this county. The chairman of the republican State central committee claims the state by 2,500 majority, and two-thirds of the legisla- ture. Greeley, Weld county, as far as heard itken 277, Loveland 72, and Buck- ingham 9%. In Mill City, Clear Creek county, Pitken, republican, has a net majority of 6. NEBRASKA REPUBLICANS. Meeting of the Convention To-day. LIncoLn, NEB., Oct. 1.—The republican state convention was called this afternoon. M.L. Hayward, of Nebraska Oty was chosen tem} chairman. While waiting for the committee on credentials ex- Governor Butler spoke deprecatingly of Pre- sident Hayes’ feng and paid tributes to Gen. Grant, receiving juent applause. At 5 o'clock a recess was taken, and at 7:30 the convention reassembled. The tem; ry Or. ganization was made permanent, ‘aud couaties Presenting delegations were acted upon. Military Co-operation on the Mexi- can Frontie: BROWNSVILLE. Texas, Oct. 2.—Advices irom Piec ras Negras, Mexico, state that the officers of Mexican troops recently sent to Jiminez and Las Vacas are in relatious with the in the relations wit EEMS INCREDIBLE that the i stoners of the District of Columbia ina Tast discovered a fact which any ordinarily sonsi- that the flats and marshes near Cong Brides were breeders of malaria. Probably in the May be led tothe conclusion task We woud ke woul economy to fill up these flats.—[ NV. ¥. Mail. ONE oN Two.—Harry Widmer, husband of the ‘Mayhew, an attack on MM A proprietor, and A. G. Bi te the gene fine of for pub shing with aa. ‘Mrs. Widmer to Clay Green. by aot Congregational churches Vermont only 6) have regular pastors," American ollicers in tae borhood, whom they cordially 0-9 i on of the border. a The Last of the Peach Crop. MorzisTowy, F. J., Oct.2—The last’ ship- — of Morris county was mad —_—— ot The President in New York. New ¥ Oct. 2.—1 arriy- a ‘President Hayes arriy: this city this morning by the early ex- press train from Washington. —_ s ey to al, Fifth arene hotel, Wore be his retarn he attended the mesting of wraston, of the Peabody educate e of Death ig he Billiardist. Tungs en ‘route THE PLAGUE STRICKEN soUTH. = Reltef from aerecy- New BRuxswick, N. J., Vet. 2—J. N. Car. ‘Bter, treasurer of the relief committes, ac- howledges contributions amounting to #00 in cash and $400 worth ot clothing, &>., whieh has all been forwarded to the sufferers in the ellow fever districts he south. The Ger- 4 ——— ee — Auroras have certs in al Dject. £0 was teannene id Of the odject. $4 No Fever at MOsTGOMERY, Oct. 2 letter in a Harris. burg T, purporting to be from this elty and stating yellow fever to be here, is a hoax. No Sach person as Dr. A.M May. whose name is signed as the wri of the letter, lives here, and the persons m joued: as dying are not only wel!, but have never been sick. The city was never healtuier. TEXAS REPUBLICANS. The State Conventto GALVESTON, TEXAS, Oct. 1. *cial dis- patch to the ‘News irom Dallas, Texas, says: “The republican state conveation met here to-day: W. A. Saylor was elected president. The platform endorses the republican national latform of I-76, and the administration of President Grant; favors a currency based ov and redeen able in coin ; declares (hat the tn- terests of the country demand a return to specie ee and charges the democratic Party with involving the country in war debt and misery; states that the gov pledged to redeem fully their bouds, which Were the means of maintatuing the nation’s Ife In time of peril, and congratulates the country on the wise financial legislation of the re; ublican party. Nominations have not yet been mace. comery. Congressional Nominatio: Lowe. Mass., Oct. 2—In the republican convention of thé 7th Congressional district, which met here to-day, Mr. Lurain, of Read- ing, offered resolutions denouncing Gen. Bat- Jer for proving false to the distinct pledges made by him in 1576, and demaading his_im- iate resignation as a member of the For- ty-fifth Congress. The resolutions were unan- imously adopted. Mr. Boutwell’s name was withdrawn as a candidate. On the second bal- lot Wm. A. Russell, of Lowell, received the nomination. —— The Providence Embezzicr Ar- r edt PROVIDENCE, R. 1. Oct. 2—J. B ler, cashier of the Grocers’ and Producers’ Bank, was arraigned this morning on the charge of the embezzlement of the funds of the tnstitu- tion. He waived an examination, and was held in $3,000 bail. He has not yet secu the bail. Another Baloonatte Hart CINCINNATI, Oct. 2--At the bal ascen- sion at the state fair grounds yesterday, the balloon struck a tree which caused it to col- lapse. Sibert, aronaut, jumped and fell, causing a fracture the left Kace joint and injuring himself internally. He will, now ever. recover. An Army Officer Injured. San Anton10, TEXas, O Major ©. Wilson, of the Pay department, U.S. A. while out driving, vesterday, was throwa from his ee ahd seveiely injured. The most dan- urt isto the back of his head—fears eing entertained that Kull is fractured. O'Leary Stull Ahead. NEW Yous, Oct. 2.—A' clock this morn- ing O'Leary had wal Vd mil es and Hughes: At noon O'Leary had made 23 miles and Hughes is2. Vermont Legislatare MONTPELIER, Oct met to-day. The house was organi election of James M. Martin spe. Henry 8. Newell clerk. ——__—__ The Markets. . 2.—Cotton weak and dre ipg—middiing, nominally 10'). Flonr sieaty in fair demand, November, 1.05% :al 05%; Corn, southern quiet Gecline of $4 cen Oats quist and a shade €asier—se western white, 293 30; do. mixé enusylvania. 23.39. “Kyo guie! and st Hiay duli and a Provision aay. B chotoe, w er Supp! y —wester 18. Peirslean. dull, w nid 1 refined, 95, ft Coffee fan vu 4ige18. | Whis t. 1.09, four. 4, wheat, 1,600, ‘Shi; mer: ‘24, 309) Freights to Liverpool per stem Maud nom- inal. NEW YORK. *Oct. 2.—Stocks strong Money, 2.24 Gold, Exchange, iong, 480; short, 434. Gorernmen: Ys EW YOR ct. 2.—Flour dull and heavy, Whest dull and lowa. Corn active and jower. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. The River Flats Naisance. 1 s evidence of such rumors, I have b formed that inquiries have bec some of our physicians, by cit journing in the mow a places, whether it woul sa’ nilies to return. thus invim of the prevalence. or of the prob: epidemic. So far from there being any ground for such fear, however, the healt of our city never was better. Indeed, one of our leadinj Physicians informed me that in that portion our city known as South Washinton there is not, at present, a single case of low fever, while the whole city is peculiarly exemptfrom malarial diseases more or less common at this season of the year. At the same time, however, it must be ac- knowiledged that the condition of our river front is anything but desirable, while the nui- Sance occasioned by the accumulation of eflete matter on the flats is of suca a natureas to demand immediate and prompt measures for its abatement. atter which affects the whole city, aud not any one partic- ular section, and I am glad to leara that it has at least been Lrought to the notice of our oners. to the ‘producing . with this end in view made | tion. As the result of this inspecti. | Say, that the nuisange has not bee si ated, and is of suc aractet a3 toa ‘ake the graves’ se ne | indignation. It is the fact th; n exeavated from the Georzetown channel by dredging, instead of being deposited upon tid fiats and thus covering over the accumulated eflete matter which forms the nuisance com- plained of, is actually deposited at the mouth of the eleuseen feng channel. The effect of this strange procedure is not only, as at present, to cause 4 sluggishness of current which neces- Sarily tends to the perpetuation of the nuis- ance, but in uddition, will further obstruct our channel, which seems to be filling = from na- tural accretions, and thereby render Ing it dif. ficult for vessels to reach our wharves without tedious and veg eer me It may seem ly credible that, after Con- has made au appropriation for the redving of our Washington channel, the au- thorities to whom the matter has been en- trusted should pursue such a course when the result must prove no less injurious to the com. merce of the city than to the health of our People. But such is the fact, and which is the more deplorable from the consideration that a few days’ dredging of the ee chan- nel, with the deposits placed on flats in- stead of in its mouth, would as least give re- Nef until the adop‘ion of a plan for the per- manent improvement of our whole river front. The Commissioners informed our health of. ficer, when informing them of the existence that they Bad “no Jurisdiction in the suet at they had no jurisdiction in t ! and that redress must be ongres, sional legislation. ay true. certainly there shouid be authority some. where to prevent the aggravation a) tare up of We ead att dod et up of the al insuftiel e nel of approach to our wharves. oer = E Our Home Poor. Editor Star:—The mami of the yellow fever suflerors to eae 3 night in the Con; el both an arti tional Church, to Frcnds, tat bey Fon cog Dotore come — 3 concert an early forthe beneht of our own poor, walle the 4 sonnel is so “well in hand” of the several We further suggest that the panies to the treasurer of the new for