Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1878, Page 1

“THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED BAILS, Except Sua. iy, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Pennsylvania Avenwe, corner Lith stress a” The Evening Star Newspaper Oompany, 5. H. B* OF EMANN. Pres’te ecribers in coount, at iv os vostawe pr. pail — Phy EvENING STAR Is nerve the city by carriers, on their cents per week, or 44 vents per counter. 2centa each. By mx 6 cents a month ; one year, $6. WEEKLY Sran—publiched on, Prilay— pega bean Yoeopies for 85. 20 cusden oe $30. | | ~All mail subscriptions must be paid in ad wane up poner sent ener than oo paid for. Se~ Hates of adv ie made known on applica. then. vening Star. V%, 52—N®, 8,013. SPECIAL NOTICES. CHURCH. —Rev in Talmadge H pool, at : ARISH, Cazpe! of th F nw —S: 4 pan. with CLs eat F server 3 1 Witel time seat it + SP PAULS ENGLISH HERAN | CS tie is aud Hoste nw — | rvicex Te merrow HURCH. PT BAPTISE €! at. between 7-20 p.m., by Rev E “LIGHT OUT OF DARKN i vice Har. at Ninth st. Methow j church by Rev. Dr Wiison ; Re | 0 pam. Seats f REDEM Put ordialiy ny ited. cut BAPTIST ul Hs Re re adm, pi it THE SEVEN SENS OF WASHINGTO! Second of a 3 of sermons at ¥ : ‘Yo-morrow DEVOTIC ie: prrachi WHY CDME tlon The best place to by nfectionery Store. 1209 Penn’ aver present reti- able and honest manavement everything can now be sold cheaper than former: clock ytu., to att eur late Brother Javes LyNcn, Lodves are traternuily invited to atte of the W. M it W. LEM ie rg SPECIAL MASONIC Te RGYON RS Charts Chambe ented 10 meet at A tary AVINGS BUILDING COND SELES. in eich. The dition, and all di ame bet charged 4AMES S. EDWA FRASER, i rs Treasurer. No INOON F open between 12 noon a: Tustees eS SPECIAL NOTICE. All goods consiqned to me,on which advances have been made and interest of which is overdne, ‘Will be sold at atiction, unless renewed before the Yul inetant P. WALLACH, deed-3t 117 Pennsy Te weg OLDERS “WESTERN MUTUAL LIF! COMPANY. residing in the Dist requested to cali and leave the: eftice, 513 Teh €1 their j dee! | Sa This Associ for payment of way be subscribed, by application to a sare Fespecttully address at wy oppogite P.O. Depart: premiums will hereafter be pa: lw CHAS. E. BISHOP, Ge: THIRD WASHINGTON CO-OPERATIVE BUILDIN SSOCIATION PRESIDENT ROBERT McMURE. 20 st. mw Ser EN E. THOMPSON, N Dinuetor 214 Sth st aw, W. H. GOODS, No. Otter. A. 8. VOSE. Adjatant (ex ment . D._J. MACARTY, B. GEORGE J. JOHNSON, Ds h et. and M 0. No arket Space ers), COrne! dD st. JOHN COOK, Fourth Auditor's Oftice, Pre: rtment. E. F. SHAFHIRT, U.S Med LEONARD WHITNEY, We Office, opp. Treas ‘The constitu method for windm ‘or six Years. provides a short y the Association The fines in any other similar oraz r Au exaiuin: fk a of the constitution is requested ia order that its fquitable plan may be understood ctticers of the Association will be ready to recety bly dues lie A the Patent Otc of th or stock sulseriptions at the hal No. 615 ith st, opp MONDAY NiGHT at sia 0" SeLt Banstow's CrLesRaTeD CRYSTAL FIREPLACE STOVE, which in beauty of design and efficioney in opara- tion is unsurpassed, and the MAYFLOWER, which heats up stairs and down stairs, and is not eqtaie lia beating power; also, the MODEL, s double i bated stove, the best of the Baituore heaters —all at Prices jower than ever offered. 317 Sra St. N.W.. Near THE Avexve, Furnace. Rane and Plumbing Hoi ‘Manufacturers of Slate Maute!s in the Peep THE NATIONAL. SAFE DEPOSIT Cost EER PANY. corner tuin stand New’ avenue FIRE, BURGLAK and DAMP PROOF VAULTS inside of which are SAFES FORK RENT at $5 to $6) *HONDS, SILVERWART. or other SECURITIES, | and all kinds of VALUABLES ' PORIT. ‘ MATHEY CAYLUS' CAPSULES, i SP osc tx gear genre with Grp recees the phynic ane of Pare, New York sat Louie surenor toall others forthe promptcure uf all cases of diseases, recent or of ‘standing. Frepared’ by CLIN & » Paria Sold every- here. oot?-t,thas iy Ger LB ve's PHanmacy, 1429 Pexxstivawia AVENUE SUDA and MINERAL WATERS on draught all PET scx, neciora and Bethesda Waters | to remain until to-morrow night. | Henderson, Robinson and’ Gtddings. | Harlan aiso called | mittee. was | back in the city | yesterday afternoon. but didu't stay | shi General G. Wit | against | contents of the depositio: Pi } Sations at his house in whict | to place the deposition in evidence on Monday } stor. ¢ | were , due to the Mediterr | for futnre action. Thy , dict—not at the same time “wi , Claims it will hold the balan. THE EVENING STAR. DOUBLE SHEET. Washington News and Gossip. t RecewTs To-pay.—Internal GovEEs: revenue, SUBSCRIPTIONS to the four per cept. I noon to-day amounted to $20.50, an at SPEAKER RANDALL has gone to Philadelphia AMONG THE CALLERS af the White House to- day were Senators Maxey, McDonald, Coke: and Representatives Carlisie, . Kenna. Foster, White (Pa.), eal, Justice HAMrToN’s LIFE IN DANGER.—Senator has received a leiter trom a relative of Gov. Hampton. of South Carolina, saying that yrave fears are entertained for the Governor's life. He seemed to improve during the first pat of the week, but on Wednesday last he grew worse rapidly. It is expected that the wounded limb will be amputated to-day. and on the re. | suit of the amputation depeads the Governor life. THE Tix ON Pexsoxal. PRorenty.—Repre- sentative Clatiip, of the House District com- t the Columbla building this morn- | ing to Inquire into the rates of personal taxation in this District, with the view of traning a new x law, In which some modifications will prob- y be made from the present lave. PERSON 41.—Hon. B.B. brs arrived in town, of Virginia, iiman is He works this winter for the he Charlestown News aid folk 1. - The Rev. e, the Brooklyn divine, who lp ty his congregation the ew York, arrived in the city Jong, as he former! pulion agent % Richmond Dis wrier. and 1 Ss been showin sins and vices or left last n businesr i has been Mr. J. F. Swor r of the National kh 1 the cor cuba, and Pee Tue INVESTIGATION OF Mt Representative Springer ine the investi Geo. F. Sewer day for the p tinst Hon. ua, Inet Xamining tion reqnainied with the whieh has been re- from Dr, Bethmae Me- port of sindry 1 he partlelpated, together with Me srs. rd and Bradford, Coleman, in behalf Pils, insisted Dr. MeCartee’s deposition onzht not to be ned at this thue, and the committee, after hearing arguments, went into secret session to determine the matter, When the doors were re-opened, the chairman announced that the committee had decided In advance of b cetved by the Cortee. Stating next, in advance of Mr. Wells’ cross tion, and au adjournment was take: t 1 o'elock. min natil Mon- REORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY.—The commls- mposed of members of the Senate and Tlouse on the subject of the reorganization of the army, heid a fival meeting to-day at Worm- Jev’s hotel, All the members have agreed to the report. and it will be submitted next week the to beth house of Congress. Meanwlile inembers a ne to State Its contents, MMODORE SHUFELDT, command , Sails from Fort Me for the West coast of Afr THE U.S. STEAMER QUINNERAUG left Norfolk on the afternoon of the 4th instant for a steam speed trial. under control or Chief Engineers H. DBM. { and Wm. H. King. Shea od Off Trap, in Chesapeake bay S ws miles from Annapolis Roads. in eight hours, bell teen Knots an ‘hour use istance ec thir During the trip no sails ‘ned being entirely Captain Faruabar aud hed with the success of the ship. and consider that she will surpass | in speed, under ail conditions of sea and wind, an-of-war. The mach ry Of the ng Was mantifactired nay rd here from designs of the bur steain agineering. 11 was placed on the ship at Phit- adelp Tt is thought thai vi join the ‘anean squadroi officers were highly a itend holding another xt Week, to agree upon some pian y admit being in a sight ‘y. 11 is hard for them to determine Tse to pursve. Ty resumption {s a su hey are forced to adinit that the greenback or in the country’s politic will dwindle to a very fine point, or disappe: together. If it Is not suceesstul, which all greeabackers pre- jolly believing | their predictions, bowever—they kpow that their theories will be popularized, and the pa ty strengthened greatly. While Waiting for 1 sumption to succeed or fall, the gree does not know really what to do. Th keep his party before the country, ing no chance for inflationist légis! session. he does not know The only financial legislation + tated by the paity appears to be a national banks. This war has al commenced somewhat feebiy, Predicted by members of Cor anything more potent than a From the present outiuos thi have a rather bine appearance: backer, even taking tnio conside teen or fourteen men conierence ni ron the dy been pat del of talk. Tor the green- aiton the thir m the party power iu the plan e3 with ext How Uniess some new be upon to bring their ideas prominently t » people, greenbackers mst wal n tO DE put ty Operation, and If ontent to see their ranks reduced to a cor- poral’s guard; or ii a fatiure, “prepare to con- test the polities of Unis country.” as @ leadins greenbacker said last evening, TRE CHICAGO INpIeTMENTS My. Jos. G. Hill, who was suspended last Friday from ls posi- tion as supervising architect of the Treasury, to remain suspended wutil the trial of the imilict- Tent found against him 1s tin . has em- ployed Mr. C. HL. Reed, of Chicago, as his attor- hey in the ease. Mr. Reed tad ‘already been rmployed by Superintendent Burling, of the Chicago Customs Honse, as bis counsel. During the last two or three days Mr. Reed has been amining the corresponcence connected with the erection of the customs house, in the con- struction of which the indicted parties are said to have def anded the goverument. He ex- presses the opinion that if this corresponden: sad been brought before the grand jury no tn dletments would have beeu tonad : Bil, Potter, or Burlin: covers the whole business in th custom house. Mr. Reed has been instru by Ins clients (6 bring the case toa trial at the earliest ~ This will be, it is thought, seme tn next. ‘or rest essa Ds THE PROrOsED New Navas. on: The commission to s a sit naval observatory to-day han for the n led in their report to secre ‘Thompson, Will subunit it t> Congress. “The commission in the report de. waht manner pclion from the num their advertiser jon is the place stated in THE STAR. rgetown Heights and fs in omtutssion a suitable ‘They recommend that which 15 the price “ted, for its purchase from the present owners. The commission, after hand- jug In their report, proceeded to the White House and paid their respects to the President, announcing to hin that they had completed their labors, itis situated on ¢ every respect, the r the observate ess app: of the site selec CLAIMS OF THE FORTUNE Bay FISHEKMEN.— The agent Of the Department of State left here for Boston some time since to inquire into the circumstances attending the attack on Ameri- ¢an fishermen in Fortune Bay has returned. The ‘n or 3s cuerentives: who have submitted is for reclamation number, up to the present = hteen. the nature and extent of thely pease aa ana present indications, an ta with the Brig involve a considerable CommanpeR R. L. PRYTHUAN, U.S. N., has been ordered to special Parsee era zara au on bones | given it directly | military foice whatevei ‘The Hot Springs “Omissio INVESTIGATING THE CHARGES AGAINST SENATOR CONOVER. ‘The Senate committee to make an inquiry concerning important charges made by Benson, of the secret service, against Senator Conover and his clerk, Rice, alleging that they yolun- tartly conspired to omit one page of the Hot Springs enactment from the sundry civil appro- priation Dill, met this morning. THE TESTIMONY TO-DAY. George Johnson. 2 clerk in the Post Omice de- partment, testified that on the last night of the session he was not at the Capitol. Beason and her person bad calted upon witness at his and requested him to tell them all he Hot Springs matter. One them asked me whether | had been to York in January tn the interest of certain per- sons in Washington: told them T had not si said TP was not at the Capitol on th of the session: Benson said be had the afidavits of three men that Twas seen hanging about the roont of the Senate committee on enrolled ills on the last night of the session, and had been seen to take the missing sheet of the bil: from Mr. Rice, the clerk, who told me to get away it. Ttold Benson it was a pack of blamed and said that the ves were entirely false. Benson said there could be no mistake about it. T went to First Assistant: P.M. G. ‘Tyner and told him of the attack that was ring made on myself and Senator Conover. nd asked him fora few days leave to investi- ate the matter myself. Diu not who made the afiidavits, for I felt sure that none had been old tor Conoves and Mr, Rice of the ; both said the story Was a tissue had no kuowlede of the abstraction of the papers. and never said that [did have steht ie Mr. Wo it. Rice, clerk of the con enroiled bills, of Which Senator Con man, testified as follows: “Kuow George Joln- ie Was, I think, at the Capitol on the even- ing’ of the last session, but Congress did not adjourn until morning, and t did’ not see him after 10 o'clock at nicht.” The elerk gave the routine manner ot handling enrolled bills in the committee of which he Is clerk, and continued. “The sund mittee: mittee on ris chalr- Jdent himself, be- cause there was not time for itty <o uroush the reguiar channels on aceount of t of the hour; Was in the comi | running between our commitics and the ¢ mittee of the How: “d bills on the las night of The sessio avned that Senator Conover ard iyseli had been charged with g the omission in the Hot Spri our ment of Conzress; or enrolied bills ‘only re signed by the Vice President. and nntil they can be delivered to the House com- am net positive that Johnson was at the Capitol on the eveni Dut it is my impressio: night have been iaistaken.” The venerable Captain Bassett, who has. ‘led with the Senate tor nearly hu testifies as about seven oe 3 hz: Knows nothin aut the a ept that 1 r dit from oue of the clerks of the Senate, and at one to the Presi think this journment The Dit was tn loose n minuies before a 1 would have carried the bil) to M chalman of the committee on enrolled bills; looked for Mr. Conover but contd not find him, and carried the bill directly to the President, as T have fre- quently done in previous sessions; did not ap- P the committee room on enrolied bills; aid not sec either Mr. Couover or Mr. Rice watil after L had ! leit the billwith the Presideat; do not kiow what he did with it; understand that all bills x0 from the President to the Secretary of State. Owing To the absence of two of the Witnesses, f them beng named Britt. the committer o The jolut monument: wet at th noon. There we Hon, W. W. Coreor: tect of the Tre object of the mee pport £01 719 CoH who has charge of the worl read a reporCor prog last month, 1 done and contr pletion of the 1 nthe co! 00) has D Spent: about $1,000 the founda ton, cand about $4,000 ection of Mult. ings did buying material. The IS0 stated that pro, been made jn coliscting material for we parila houses apd sheds for the storage of mater ard the convenience of workmen. buying tools for: the prosecution of the sand the pur chase adn erection of derricks to be used in handing the qaterial for strengthening the foundation ard ja replacing the upper courses on the shait which have been made insecure by the elements. Nowting but preliminary work has yet been done tn strengthening the rounda- tien, It was decided that this rey and his plan for strengthenin: already detailed in THE STAR, rt of Col, Casey's the foundation, hould be sent to Congress, and wich a letter transmitting them constitute the report of the commission. A butiding committee, con: Clarke and ¢ consult with concernin: Ing of Architect . Humphreys, was appointed fo ol. Casey and advise with kim all the sof the Work in finish nment recelved from the Washi Monument Society. accompanied by lon. ‘They requested unt, as there seems to be some misunderstanding as to the relations of the Monuiuent Soclety to the jomt commission, the question be settled. Some bold the opinion on | that urder the act creating the joint commis- sion the society isonly an advisory body; oth that it is both “an advisory and a co-operat! body, towork jointly with the commission in the work of completing the monument is resolution and request was referred mittee of two—Architect Clark and Gea Humphreys—with instructions to confer wit the Attorbey Generai and secure his legal opin. fon as to wilat constuction ts to be plice t on the aet in question, jan Bureau » MEACHAM AS A WITNESS, ‘The joint commission considerme the q Ucn of transfering the indian barean from the elvil service Ly the military department tu- day heard cné views of Col. A. B. Meachatn, at present editor of a paper published In this city under the ttle of The Counesi Fire. exclusively devoted to Indian tuterests, In is59 he was chairman of the Modoc peace commission, and since that time has given his entire attention to the question asto how the Indians could best be mapaged, and is thoroughly convinced, from persopal observations, that the only solution of We problem is in eiviliving and educating the Indians. in order that they may support them- selves. In his opinion, of the 265,co0 Indians not oher 100,000 of Laem require the preseace of any tv. The Indians. he said, considered tie military their enemy, and would hot, in is opinion, yield to military dictation. the Indians were to be saved at all, It must through fhe exertions of civillans rather than anilitary men, as the tone of tae army was very grinding and bumiliating tothem. In the past twenty.tive years he bas not known it case where disturbances between whites and In- diaps had oeeurred. excepting through tie breaking of treaties by the former. ransier, TRE PRESIDENT OF A BHOKEN Bank. voy, N.Y., the grand jury found a true bil! against D. Thomas’ Vatl, president of the broken Merchant WL Mechanies’ bank, accusing “him of defranding depositors. Mr. Vail is also president of the S hag icoke Wool- len company and of the Troy and Boston Rall- road company. O'LPARY’s WALK.—Dantel O'Leary, who is en ed at Philadetphia in an effori to walk 40 miles tn 120 hours, had nade 337 miles last nigh when he retired for his midnight rest, lea ing him 65 miles to accomplish before 11 o’¢lock to- night. He appeared in excellent physical con- dition, THE CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTIONAL C TION yesterday tabled the resolution EN requesting California Senators and Representatives to sup- inting a sub. port Cor Stephen's bill Sidy to the Texas Pacific rail 5 New Yore Crrv Desr.—Thi debtedness of New York city the is Ine amour was $1! amount of the & decrease of January, 1877. resolu- | j how t SOCIETY. Although the season for balis, receptions and germans has not yet bezun, the dinner giving meeting of Congress. | period seems to have set in promptly on the Two members of the Cabinet have daring this week given handsome dinner parties to wit: The Attorney General who entertained twen Te ury who had eighteen to dine with two guests at Worm- ‘son Tuesday, and the Secretary of the Treas- him at his residence Thursday. Next Wednesday evening Judge Wm. T, Otto will give a grand dinner a Wortnley’s to thirty-four guest: The “Washington’ ‘ Ariny and Navy” club have whether the: coming seaso: w not y ill give assembites s they did last, 0 s their former custom, Miss Mi ited Mrs. Ha, iss Secretary Sherman, who visited the latter lastseason and was much adi come to Washlagion this winter, bet to make one of her many suiiors: oarrying him, Hee younger sister, Moaiton, who was as she herself i expressed it “out on the half shetl Jast winter, will come to Wasiingtoi mother soon after Christmas, and wi debut in socie Gen. Sherman's two daughters, M and Ellie, will remain with him at house, Miss Elile is a spirited eqves otherwise known as th et decide daring ta ermansa 5 last spring is again her guest, as Is also Mr. Mead. Mi Addie Moulton, the niece of General and wife of the red will not ng inclined lappy by Miss huMmoroi e sl; while here mn with her i make her isses Lizzie the Ebbitt trienne and one of the merriest as well as prettiest girls Mrs. nen in the city, herman treq frem Baltiny he departure of Senor Gareia, th from tie Argentine republic, { tthe State de izens. He ex month: at in a few remembered here and the young p Dlayteliows Of his children wil learn of the some young fellow, now i ty-one years old. In the antumn second in his esatnination for the whieh was the hivhest, one of f¢ allowed to rank. I beautifu father received froin him just. before leay Sues cana here. It was written Where young Garela was on his ship Airican waters. THe wrote that he i his promotion to the rank of ensign the admirai cony comrades seeined fuclined to look de him, as if he had received tt through hot merit. Fortunately, howeve nity was quickly offered him to sively that he deserved itis aw whiie epteri ‘ong from ti once life from a congestive euill whe ceran, his pl attempung ion in hes on; but Writes Hat he blushe ber that he paused, though only an fore he sprang to the res he Was SUI tn Lime to 8 both again reached the ship. their w enthusiastic. and those vrho so late doubitully at Ensign Gare with the admiral In comin He re ing saved recompe: into the s bai young Garcia had 2 n: lite, and thought this 1 for Lhe watchgie spotied On the isth instant a son of Judge Aldis is vo | be married th Chicago to a lady of He will bring iis bride to Washington. will be weleomed by his parents to some new house ‘on ith street Isiand avenue, into which the xe Howell, of the soatiern ion, has his lovely 5 him at the Ebbitt House Mis. Evarts is expected to retarn York ina few days. MacArt northwest, ist mont: Tort of wi Washington we pects to_ pass e benefit: of raph was ¥ that the tating the qu e wife of Senator eeived here. Thinking it point should be disc ber of the cabin representative sout Mi sissippt, In fallngly expri had been uo a the Senator fi soid that Bru obtrusive man, who: . Ge All th and 1 too munch © rene ign i eof the man whom, ul Sherman ial or political is wit ntly comes to visit her husband and dauzh- ne minisier very greatly id amon rT, to return His family are still Kindly people wi 1 be glad to ood fortune of his eldest son Man- about twen- he passed IS his ing T fetter p bound wad Pee n, and Whil atulated him heartily, his oubUraly favoritism, n Opportu- conelu- Having a paintai early Ic his iing in the sician had forbidden ils again auitral Lesi- toremem instant, be WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER i, { i | | ve. When | elcome W { i more Thi a by ils leap tha it city. nd they thelr hand- from New | such as the necessity ved froin the adinira! a medal for hav- | nd Rhode re now movil i almMS CON + | stakes that decay the winter her heath, emer nd a 1 Banks, of ay Se 9 a social i With regard to Limself or his wite While u) sno doubt tu the mind of any ¢ (hat wherever Senator Bruce and his met they will be politely treated bred people, it is conceded that. al about calls, tivitations to. dinners, left to settie themsely them. ‘The pa is said that Mrs. ed to i first, Presidential y that Mrs, th eans like is in reality very consery the reputation she has been given reformer, Will Mrs. Bru such ordeal. ‘The crowd which g White House ou reception days or altogether different trom that whei invites the company. ves and Mrs. Bruce feel depee ere. Mrs. Don Cai eron house foi her husband In Harrisburg, is obliged to pass tach time until ture electsa Senator, He and his to come here ip January Senator Kerhan's family will pass at the former residence of Ex-Secret Mrs. Baldwin isagwn with her bi Hagedorn, it hin. The omar reside! cecasion of ins dangle Brown next Thursday evening, A charming addition to the ple borhood on N street is Mrs. Murra ghters, Mi and Mrs. Mary IY Who have lived ma Emope At the recent ent = Hosy nd six ceuis iu money wa penses, and there were nearly thr reels contuning groceries. “The Pat for thi ative, notwit indo Wood, who expects his danght izhter of Mrs. Og") by Ht ques &e,. Will be invited to attend reception.” Hayes, wi 0 ding of being a nce b oes 10 . more than evenings '3 re the host uneomfort- Miss Cameron has opened her father’s resi- Is_keeplag s, Where le the legisla- wife expect the winte ary Fish. pi he ; y preparing ton of vie E | ¥ nee on the "s mairlage to Mr. phany sant neigh. anid he: Larned ny yea in e benefit of tal one Unousand aud one ‘leared over haindred adies who achieved so great a Success for the benefit of so worthy a charity deser ‘The Bachelors’ Club held their an jug for reorganization on Thursdit soon begin their series of germans. ve the highest One of the finest views to be obtained in our nelly favored city is that witnessed by the diners at his hotel when Congressman Ac (the bero of unnumbered eupbeistically so-called window jal set poses i of the dining-room, facing ns s nthe bay the entire congregation, with lis hair, motistache and phystegromy parted—like his election to the present Copgress—in the middle. Mis: Virginia Bonds, Biior Sturs—Holders of Virginia may be interested in the following ex: a recent letter of a prominent and Statesman of the “Old Dominio: ons fact, but a majority or the tax- tive party are for it, but there Gri At securities tracts from influential It sac aying, prop- ty-holding, people of Virginia are Meeting the state obligations. The conse are factious men in favor of in its bosom, who become independent candi- dates, and appeal to the poorer classes aga'nst bond holders; and the republicans (the negro mass) tend to support vie independ the regular pomince of the conse han) party. * "© Will repudiate her debt. old Virginia is unshaken. My faith ginia with the new elements of owr politic Power fs not so stro. But Virgint mately right herself. 1 do not belleve Se My faith in ent ainst tive «domi- Virginia in new Vir- 1 a will witi- THE DELAWARE TRAIN WRECKER.—Both sides in the trial case of Brown, the train wrecker, on it New Castle, rested yesterday. The peared Bes Med ents ren een ae that mn is so affected mentally as to rrewpon- sible for his deeds. ‘The defence also claim Uhat he did not ae the obstruction on th> the wilful and maliciou intent todo murder, and hence Cannot be con- railroad track victed of murder in first ud Very possibly migint | who would not hesitate to | treatment. | work is done by contract, it is made tO cover | millions | is also: | mended. ny | ends aimed at in the reo 1878. TWO CENTS. SURVEYS OF PUBLIC LANDS. ‘The Proposed Consolidation. DEFFCTS OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM AND THE REME- DIES SUGGESTED—VIEWS OF MAJOR POWELL. Propesais to transfer various funetions of government from the departments to which they are now entrusted to others where they | should be made, for the purpose of determining are thought by some to more properly belong, | What additional measures can be adopted that seem to bave broken out as an epidemic, ‘The | Will be efficient and economic. | _ Again, tn the arid region of the United army is as willing as ever to relieve the | witch iS more than four-tenths of th | Jands by levees tsnot only excessively expensive | but entirely inadequate, and it has been further shown that it ts practicable to redeem these | lands by the storage of the waters But if | the excess of waters can be used for irrigation @ double purpose will be accomplished, and If the relief thus obtained is quantitatively Insum- cient, a thorough investigation of the subject rates, hole Interior department of the management of the | area, as has been stated, but a comparatively Indians, and the conirove.sy on the subject is | Small portion can be redeemed by irrigation, rather more heated than usual. As if topre- | 4d what remains is not of much value. It is considering the wants of the country in. the main, bountifuily supplied with timber, but the timber fs not distributed on or adjacef& to the agricultural lands; it is found on the liigh serve an equilibrium in the matter of transfer- | proposais. it has been recommended that a new mmethod of taking the ‘sors be adopted, der the Inferior department to the latier depart G the seattered go. lands is also proposed. THE VLAN OF THE ACADEMY QF SCIEN Make agriculture impossible. Between the eie- | Yated Umber regions and the trrigable lands adjacent to the streams are broad stretches of plain, valley, hill and mountain lands, valuabe s. | to some extent for grazing purposes. Th ‘The recommendation of the last mentioned | physical characteristics of the country det transfer, made by a committer of the Academy | , further investigation, and the classification ot the lands ofthe public domain now involved in ; the laws relating thereto must necessarily in of Sciences, atter thorough Investigation of the | subject in accordanee with a House resolutton is now under consideration by a Congre committee. with the prospect that ft will be faverably reported. The necessity of a consoll- dation of the various conilicting surveys has ‘The greater part of the remaining public do. tain ts in the far west. The immediate incen- Lives to its settlement are the mines of preci survt | | long been recognized, and it ts doubtful if plan | metals found in {ts mountains. It is a region cf organization better than that suggested by | of vast and thexhaustible wealth, and wold, the Academy of Sciences can be devised. Tt Is | silver, cinnabar, copper. lead, tron and coat proposed that for the present oe fonable svs- | abound. In the State of “Arkansas and the gait temor lack of system, there shall be substituted | eust of the Mississippl river. where tt two compact evs; the one for the execution | portant portions of the public domain are for of all works of mensuration, including I | the mountuins are great celling, Worklug after the methodsof the coast | wealth, In ail of these Tegions a geological and the other for the study of the geo! ary, not only tothe proper ad- gieal ‘structure and economic resour tuilnistration of the Land office, but it ts of vast public lands. Its own peculis | hnportance of great vale to the geueral to the engineer corps. practical and scfeatiti pubite 1 managem placed und commnittee,.in the! This scheme ts ec. mt and to the people of the United properly exhibiting the character and extent of our rain resoun KEASONS FOR THE Py ation Is properly terior department. in stating briefly the | nization, give by or the propose: teaus and mountains, where citmatic conditions | the immediate future be somewhat enlarged. | Loxpon, 1:30 pm., pers Menon ramors of ¢ lal trouble, but do not m say that up to the close the rumors were not conilnmed. ‘The Manchester Guaniian’s London financial report says: “A rumor that there has been a run on an important provincial bank was the chief reason for the wheasiness, bat it appears, however, that the deposttors and others Inter ested have been neediessly alarmed, London agents of the Dank having shown their cont- dence by paying all drafts presented to fats nothing about the ru : in that city. A gentleman who was on ‘change in Manchester yesterday says that he heart nothing of the alleged difficulties there. The Ameer Wants Pence. Lanone, Dec. 7,—The letter which Lond Lyt- r the 22d inst., an- 1 recelved wer to the Ss with the » enmity to- hn government. ‘That he de- the former friendty relations resist a Visit ota British mission on vagnarl Ameer's lud Viceroy’s declarai wards the Brit sires to resnn and will not to Cabul, Vanderbilt's eriains CINCINNATH, Dec. T.—A special dispal Detroit says i was made known there last night that Mr. Vanderbilt has secured control of the easiern division of the Chicago and Lake Huron railroad by purchasing bonds of Albany bondholders, who contyolled the road pending litigation, Thisnot only secures an outlet for the Chicago and Northeastern fre Fitnt, which Mr. Vanderbilt controls. by defeats the scheme of the Grand Trunk managers t secure a Chicao connee- tion “by obtaining the control of the eastern division of the = Chicazo — and Lake Huron railroad. The ext m of the Canada Southern to Sarnia, an easi for the line, will naturalty follow. fer of Ubis ‘eastern div break in the through line Lake Hur unless the western division ts also par Mite Murder and Suicide. CINCINNATI Dee. 7.—AT Hauuliton, 0, at an rh outlet The trans- makes a complete r tlroad sed. early hour this morning, H. Weight, the’ propri- | etor of a beer carden on Hunton sure mt his Wife through the head and thea shot “himself. Both d instantly. Pinanct ve Std Lo have bee and family ait aUse. he | New Vora. | 52, comm Tested yes goods unde cheae vere anteaen umentinfavor ; hiat.t9 secure an accurate pawvelling of 1 oftheir plan. But, indeec argument is | Bnd tor the proper adimiiiccone needed in favor of a tioite for a it ting to their pub’ nd full knowled eral 7 urces Of Che OSES Of abstr s ms are, it is t from the national | tnancial endowment surveys, since it appe: | fayored such rese: h when ject of | to the industries of the pe surveys submitted to the eotmittee and on | nin support of this opInion t which their report was based was a letter from | appropriations made for great Major J. W. Powell, in charge of one of the | works Ivolving government surveys. Some points from thi more Uian eight and one million: letter Which contains a large amount of tn- | ally; and including indirect appropriations the formation concerning the governinent surveys unt exceeds ten million dollars. But as may not be amiss now that this subject has be- | amie considerations, in addition to the nie one oF “eueral Interest. Major Powell | claims of abstract science are necessary for states the methods and expenses of his | national support a geograpiical an own survey, repeats his recommendation mad> | logical survey to be manent, ¥ ai the last’ session of Congress before the com- | and eft should ude th mittce on appropriations that the different sur- veysshouid be unified and a common system adopted, and wives additional re e lands; of whiel of disput sury a the committee sa nd, Fourth, ( science, “These con- mht. atnple to secure nevessar independe their res involve VIEWS OF MAJOR Pow the documents eon has ¢ anu ¢ im of the public lands and be subsidiary survey hereto. {| The cost of land surveys up to this’ th Deen at th rate of something more than $20 per square mile. Major Powell estimates Un: ali necessary geologic surveys, including the par- velling of lands, could be made within the ex- pense now incurred for the land surveys, The oat conditions of the western half of the nited States are favorable to inexpensive ceo- 1 and geological work, and there is no pas in Europe, of those elaborate sur. “ sactie 7 F = ‘YS, the object of which is to prepare detaile: polled oul These suevers have beer carried | Cars of the whole domain viewed as of i andabout 1,135,000 aeres | possible battle fields. Tn considering researches urveyed at a cost of a llitle more | 1 branches of sclence which it ts advisable for YaNMKW, “The work has been done by | Overament to sustain and endorse in connee- contract; and in pareelling out lands wooden | Uon with the surveys, Major Powell argues that ‘and heaps of dirt that are | ovlogy and bot io i ; ve been tsed tomars | ited Way and for narrow and special purpose results are stated as follows: | belding that such patronage is not necessary file in the General L i stimuiate these arches and tends to injure 000 naMuseript maps € Tather than benefit the sciences in question. constructed on le of two Inches to the mile | But ethnologic researches or inv agasions Te and representing the topographic features of | lating to the North American Indians should be me than 1,000,000 s¢ miles of territor fostered by the government. Tae work is of hying these inaps isan equal number nuscript reports relating to the geol and physical characteristics of the veved, the the government mor | y are allot impertect | of the lands, of little or the consideration of economic ques © has sons therefor, | ntal | ot trans-contin triangulation for the georraphical worl transcontinental lines of levels for hypson ric work, and of the construction of enduring and satisfaetory maps, Which are not possib'e under the present system. VDE DEFECTS OF THE SYSTEM OF SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS, “There i remote from the cent ) aad culture. and thus tna great_body of American schola of research is peauly narrowing because rapid changes in the Indian population ne progress. All habits, custom: civtiization in ting (0 (he public ands aud absolutes | lading away, even languages are disa 2 ses, The records | and in a very few years it will be inpossible Lo furnish lic filustration | SWey our North dis ted scientific Wo A | primitive condition exeept trom has been employed for | lOry. Stress ts also laid upon the im : | the knowledge obtained by 1 pralri the proper adninistration of Indian atfairs the solution of the Indian problex supervision these researches ¢ under to secure wisdom g prosecution, Major Powell suggests that Smithsonian Institution has accuinplished 1 in that direction than any or ail other a t 000.183 acre the initial poinisshould be connected by a triai = gulation with a System of short base Mnes ac Ex-President Grant. y ineastred, and the datum points in the | i 5 Pelli i | HIS MOVEMENTS ABROAD—BE WILL vist7 parcelling surveys should be marked w so eer arichiatile acntaient ORIENT BEFORE WIS RETURN HOME. ig The nec remainir THE S of stone or inetal. in | sity of a general trigonometric tiitarian as well as a scientitic Philadelphia Press and St. Louis Globe ‘at: For some time past there as been quite furnishing minute | : d leaving Withont eee | dent Grant and his confidential friends in this went the unoceupied or valueless land for furure | country in reference to his future movements, Under the psesent system, as the | From time to time such portions of tis corres- pondence as were thought judicious to make pud- | lie were given in these dispatches, More re- | cemuy the subject of General Grant's early te- trrn to the United States has been agitated. and upon what authority cannot be trace his intention six months a summer. but had the present status of aif: jand which inay be cheaply and convepiently surveyed without regard {o its probable tuture oceupation by settlers. In Uils way many res bave been parcelied without ecessity. the lands belng worth- nd the landmarks have been allowed to and ail useful resuits have perished witi The inaceurate wethods of surveying reral lands, to which may be attributed Jarge part of the disastvous liligation in witch the mines of the Rocky monutainsare tvoly demned, and improvements recom , been known, such information would not have been promuigated, and the patriotic citizens of Boston and other large cities of the union would uot have heen Misted into preparations for ti | President's reception nearly eighteen m: ead of time. To correct any further u this kind, it can be stated that Repre: Harmer for several monihs h i IMPORTANCE OF 4 THOROVGH ScRYE laws affecting public lands their u n respondence with ain parties abroad es as to General Grant's fatnre. travels. In iden cede cine a order not to have the public further tis . he <eology and pi | Your correspondent s S | as they have been privately time. Mr. Harmer having given hits consent 3 We feel authorized to say that it having been in- timated that Gen. Grant would probably desire , to visit British India, China, und Japan before af such a sir r rests of the ry, Major Powell say he greater part of the lands yet remaining in the possesion of the general 4 ernment either heeds protection on the one hand from overtiow because of excessive lu midily, or irrigation on the other because of excessive aridity, ‘The utilization of ali such } recognition of this wish, after consultation with | ex-President that the U.S. Steamer Richmond. Capt. A. K. Benham, commandiug flagship t | lands depends upon the correct solutionot great, | Hear Admiral Patterson commanding the Asiatic plublle domain’ on the aunt east are swam | December, the present month, for Singapore, lanas; the great fiver valleys Of the southeae | fouchine en route at Point de Galle, Ceslon, In January, and thence to other points in Britis: flocd-plains, which must be protected trom the Indla. “Tt was suggested as the northeast mon- waters which periodically flow over them: vast | peer ae on —— = exist ue the | region of the Great kes that must be re- re ‘ok a decmed by drainage: the western halt of the | yond would visit, Bankok at the head of than fourtentas mbaratively arid; in more | ty" che straits or Macassa to” Maailin in lusive of Alaska agriculture is deorhaeee uty | Luzon, and thence to Hong Kong and the ports irrigation, and nets the lands soos ene won | or China and Japan, asthe views of the Wear Only by the UEzation Of ane rines eee! | Sauntral may determine in the interest Of Amer. Samattate rthe snow fields ct to | iean eitivens in those countries. Tt was inti. Streams that are fed by the snow fields of the mated to-day that the presence of so distia- Toc imountalns, ‘The rapid migration, witch | eee eae cricane in’ addition to the reac Hee ches F Ot the Meee han | ities thus afforded him to. visit the countries by tal Similar portion of the history of the named, would be of great advantage to the dnted States is pushing, in middie latitudes | Daud. roma trade of this country, Dy attract- Sub tae ces ee Sgiculture with- | tpg attention to our importance a5 A nation, humid and Sub-hutnld regions (ep yeands inthe | ina our varied industries, as the Intercourse of general gOvernMeDe Will, be temas gt? the | the ex-President. With the ruling classes. would Recs on ie ae Gone: Abd | naturally lead toan exchange of views "yon compelled to resort to the lands eee will be ihe Institutions and people of both euntion LIne IARON EC ee So de drained tn a letter dated as late ay November 14, at Peninstia. millions or eee, Ou the Floridian | Ciyraitar, Gen] Grant sasethay he eas a Peningula Tillions of scres, valnable for the | Tonmted tocarry out his original plan of a. trip Teesned by Chie ap tie on op,SUgAT, can De re- | To the east. Hie tent eae oe a ED on emed by = (hat Mr. “Harmer should present the ane — by protecting them from tide- | {5% ye government, in view of courtesion pee. Water: In the great flood plains of the south | viously offered "thi +h the interest of jullHons of acres of the richest land of the con | {Ot ni And (SCOT Reece —_ {inent can be redeemed by proiecting them | ‘Thompson for the ition of the from periodic river floods; in the region of the [ jmombeon, for th het mage te tae Pathe rates Of flores can De redeemed | rr ne Teed of ate ea ease he swamps an | oI ms £ 2 lakes; and in’ the Rocky “mountain region | view was communicated io Geueral Grant. by very : cable, and by the same means of communication Pee gilany, millions of “acres of land ‘can ome the eee on her U's lence in the Cluna seas that the Rich- j ed by spreading the rivers over the | 82 alswer was received to-day, plains and valleys. Some of the len eredion roblems thus indicated have important mut catward The ex-3 Cablezram Felations. "The tine ait soot coins when all | W2s Tead to the Cabinet to-day. This will dis. the waters of the Missouri will be spread over | Pose cyte on this subject. the great plains, and the bed of tue river will thought ‘tour to the Oriental world be diy. A large (part of the Arkansas must be ae CR trate movelnents taken out to fer the lands nt to its by the fitness of for travel in India and Asiatic THE IXTRENATIONAL Day Farm A it. should beaided only in alim- | 0} great magnitude, the sabjects of stady are | of Mr. Keim last night sent the following to the | Demo- } an animated correspondence between ex-Presi- | , returning to the United States, as a suitable | | Mr. Harmer, it was determined to advise the | soons then preyail frequently with serious vio- | nature on the Canada one named In TOO raed han The Markets. RE, D - Sth oa pone, 72 Sugar ‘hull thern ri nosy vant 2 western winter ned, apot and Det January, 1.05a1.05\4; Vebruary, 100% al Fouthern active firuer, ‘WesteTn quiet and steady—sou western ai December, EE Oats frm ard Light reeripte—s weetern wht Hay duil and un- y ng trade, western packed, zl! and nominal— ‘Rio cargoes, id firmer, eteamer in, Si w corn, 40,300. 46,400 | corn, 40,100, LOND 2 p. m.—Consols, 94 3.16 for y for the account, 'U. 8. bonds, Erie, 1839; do. preferred, 31%. i — —- | SOME NEW BOOKS. ~Horse-back Hiding from a Medical Point of View,” is the title of a valuable ittue work by isiont Durant ation. pill | pin, New Ye considerat Dr. | Assoc ot the American Medical y Cassell, Petter & Gal- iapters are given to movement in the functions The mn | of life; medical evninastics; the mechanism and i the physiological, therapeutic and hygenie } effects of horse-back riding. In treating upon the inechanista of horse-back riding he sets forte that the trot 1s of all galts Une one requiring the atest number of Movements on Uhe part of aM ise it most center Iso, If w n be indule er. because of the wreat nitm- < brouzht into action, aud whieh the labor and prevent fattzuo as soon as When the number of smaller, AS diiny for the ehan- al effects of horse-back ingly from Hy: the one | both hor | Der or muse em 10 divid swathed | inch in bn uated calves? if riding oa hor fashion, as it ought 10 1 York parties would present less frequentiy the lamentable spectacle of cavaliers the same height and not | half the breadth of their partners. The narrow- | shouldered lanky beaux who haunt our bal'- } rooms a Park Com- | uuisstoners to do anything that tn them lies to bring back amoi “ art of riding o Nothiug will do sd toughen our museles and inflate our | lungs. liowing upon Uils text the author maintains that dorse-back riding is specially | adapted to the physical development of man; Ite | effects reach every f2uction, but as the | each and all iuse; vonnected no one of thei can Increase without augment- ing the action of th Tuus horse-back riding rouses the stores and main- tains tbe equilibrium, ablisies harmony « were the | much Detween all ioaceal phenomena of life. it ne of the t evergelc modifiers of the cireulation; it P blood equally te every part of the capillary net-work, and alds nutrition by the acceleration of the respiratory | and dicestive phenomena, Iv 1s by its effect upon the reactions of tae Blood to the nervous system t riding produces such a ppy intiuence. 3 upon the funetion of digestion is especially remarkable. It stima- 5 | lates the appetite, excites aud perte ‘is digestion , and favors abs H aes for Which hoi rid ing Is reconuncnded are the morbid states of } the blood.—plethora, anaemia (poverty of | blood.» sc ut, diabetes, obesity, and the febrile condition following Improperly’ eated | intermittent | vous syst ‘er; also, ln disea 1, muscular debility ds es of the ner- > Inuscular pa- ob: also, diseases ‘of the organs phihists, bronchitis and asthma; and especialy diseases of the organs of diges: Uon, Horse-back viding is tnjurious in all acute seases. even Where the weakness of some | organs would seem to cali for its strengthening influence. It is held ~, some writers that an excessive indulgence in horse-back exercise SS aneurisin of the aorta, and it seems to e established that horse-vack riding is a fre- | quent cause of hernia. This exercise ts alleged | tobe unfavorable tor eases of the urinary | Organs and to sufferers from hemorrhoids: but the result of the autbor’s enquiries leads him to conclude that hemorrhoids only are de’ from horse-back riding in those who make | exercise a profession, La summing up, the Doc- | torsays: “If T am asked why Iselect. horse- back riding in preference to any other form of exercise, or it influences the mental and moral nature to a greater exteut than any | other, I answer readily because it pleasesmore. | Man (and IJ include here the best half of man | } kind) grows all the fonder of horse-back from practice; be ts happy while riding, for there ts neither room nor time for sad thoughts. For the majority of women it is more than a mere pleasure party 1S An Occasion for a spe- cial toilet whict: ¢s becoming to almost all.” “Skecents of Travel, or Twelve Months in ENMpe,” is the uve of a handsome Mule vol- ume by ex-Postmaster General Horatio King, published by J. Bradley Adams. Mr. King, Who ts an old journalist, holds a ready pen, and has a quick eye for observation, | pursuing a pretty well beaten track of travel, | he has managed to find a good many new interestiny ings to describe. His tour of a Ger- i i Hi ; Year was through Great Britain, Holland, poe Austria, Switzerland, Italy and France, and he tells in a pleasant, concise way of Unings best worth seeing in all these countries. Per- e MOSt int of the book is the Italian sect! wid Teadabie particulars of Tterviews wise hee ot idi and other The v has —— Mustrations from recent Ppho'o-