Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1878, Page 1

> 5 “~ THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Except Sunday, AT THE STAR INAS, Pennsylvania Avenue, coruer lich street at The Evening Star Newspaper Oompany, H. KAUFFMANN, Pres’te | Ter ECEXIXG STAR ‘9 servell to embecribers in the city by carriers, on their own acccuot, at 1 conta per week, cr 4a centapes mouth, Copies at the ccunter, 2centa each. By m e prey: 60 cents a month . ons yea>, + Tue Werxty Sran—published on, F- ear, postage prepa eopies ieehe 8 All ma!) enbec: me mu . be ys in ad- vance “no Payer sent jonwer than s0 pacd f. for Hates uf advertising made Bevan on apylica- en. lay—22 4 $19, 20 copies | __ nening Star. V2. 52—N°, 8016. WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1878. SPECIAL NOTICES. ATTENTION, CABINET MAKE ny '—An | HURSOAY, | muvetinge will be bi ner Sth aud ER, € ISTKICT_OF COLL TURAL Se Tek All E place to ! Penns each. The Aasnciat dinon, and all des ring apply for the same beture the boos premmm is charved. JAM S, President, nt La aventie. JAS. FRASER, Treasurer. \. we leet Mt INO. A. PRESCOTT, Socretary. $> POLICY.HOLDERS IN THE NoRT Ge wise er. Ler ixscit COMPANY, residing in the District, are re: rm ested to eal) and | r . 515 7th st. oF 0 2 7 Dey their prenawine will bereaiter be paya deckiw- CHAS. E. BISHO: U STO I meeting of th ssp ALEXA COMPAS at the office of Wolf and St. Asaph st SDAY. damit ob for Presi ancis L. Smith, esu., Alexandria, Vat, Sow dts HAYWARD & HUTCHINSON Set Barstow's CELEBRATED CRYSTAL FIREPLACE STOVE, eh in beanty of desizm and efficiency in opera: nee aban ha and the SAYFLOWER, which Reate up etaire and down stairs, and is not cqtialedin heating power; also, the MO! » & doubl ami Dated stove, the best of the Baltimore healers—all at prices lower than ever offered. 317 9rH Sr. N.W. EAR THE AVENUE, Furnace, Range and Plumbing House, and only Manvfacturers of Siate Mantels in the city. nové-t | a MILBURN’S PHARMACY, 1429 PENNSYLVANTA AVENUE BODA and MINERAL WATERS on dranzht all the year. 8 _ Lick, Bedford and Bethesds — aye FOR COUGHS, COLDS, BRONCHITIS, &c., use the Great ENGuisi REMEDY, KEATING " COUGH LOZENGES. ‘Tested for over 50 years. ‘lef speedy and certain. Bold by all drugwis oct30-w,fmm,6ur S SUITS, the lanvest variety, at extreme ly low prices, at A. STRAUS". GOOD, SERVICEar can't be Leat anywhere for t SiRACTS’. BS : E JACTS WHICH TED: That you fer the very Clothier, AOSTRAUS. RESS SUITS. MADE EQUAT. TO cUsToM Done worth $0. Caliand see them, at ‘A. STRAUS’ QXTRAORDINAKY BARGAINS to be had in EF Uvecconteof all styler at AUS TRAS ! SUITS. for schoo! and dress, from $4 to are assortment to select from, ai A. ITS at 315. ALITY ELUE BEAVER 5 DEMONSTRA- beat. Ciothins old and popular D BROWN BEAVER OVERCOATS abt worth $25; at A AD they are beyond ARD TIMES'—Purebasers who want to save iwemey should look at the #10 Suit,as itis a A-STRAUS. * #10 Elysian Bea H Rarvel of cheapness. STOP AND LOOK at STBAU ver Overcoat. AVE YOU _SFEN those nobb: y Chinchilla over- | ] coats fer $15: If not, you shuld see them, as they are the cheapest you Can find in the eity. TO be had only at A. STHRA NGLISH AND FRE CASSIMERE PA pockets, at A. STRAU: GOOD HEAVY WORKING SUIT for 36, A Siar for those who wish 20 bar a wood, viceable suit for little money, at A: STRAUS’. HE. GREAT RUSH AT A. STRAUS’ for those stylish Chesterfield Suits still continues. HOSE WHO WISH TO ECONOMIZE in_pur- chasing their Clothing should not fail to eall at A. STRAUS’ before soins elsewhere. DOUBLEBREASTED SQUARE CUT FROCK COATS and VESTS, handsome patteras, large them, at A. STRAUS’. nd DRESS SUITS, in a patterns, ‘at A. H WORSTED AND to suit all tastes and just |. Ser- assortment. Call and see 7 OUTHS BUSINESS ISH WORSTED OVERCOAT; the city; to be found only at A) $. hand AA comely tritamed and made up in the latest st from $3.50 up, at A. STRAUS" TESTERS TO SUIT AND FIT the larzest as well ‘as the smallest man, at STRAUS? HOSE WITH WHOM MUNEY IS AN OBJECT T should nee tail to visit STRAUS betore cea elsewhere, as you can save from 20 to 25 per cent. on om buy. ab yet amaber— A. STRAT) W2 Pennsyly ay _ dec5-tr Qrc= OF E. A. McINTIRE, REAL ESTATE BROKER, No. 918 F Street, opposite Masonic Temple, Wasuinerox, D. C., Nov. 30, 1878. ‘The partnership heretafore existing between B. 1. Warner and myself having expired by limitation, [ take this mode of advising wy friends aud the pnb- Be wenerally that I have opened an Oitice at the shove address, where Lam prepared to give tuy at- tention to the keal Estate business in all its details. Parties who desire to borrow money on ood real estate or approved col! 3 Ways be accom medated, and those who ba is funds to Ioast ame ready to ive their business prompt at- and have the character of the security dil ly inquired into. My exrerience in this city and j matters concerning the ellie an erties has enabled me to p< rfectly «ystematiz: branches of the business. Persons plactu lane or Many houses in my care wil always be wranted a Liberal reduction in ruling rates. Houses “For Rent will be advertixed Free of Charge, and it all cases where I furnish @ tenant Iwi the interests of th: ‘Justice Peace, charging nothing for my lecal services and sharing with the owner the usual expense in suai: Moning and ejecting a tenant. Particular attention will be wiven to the manage ment of estates of non-residents. “Taxes will be insurances effected, and needful repairs Jowest rates. Returns will be made imn tony upon collection, or at stated intervals, as desired. ‘Thankful for past favors, T trust, by a due exerciss of pol promptuess, and acclcacy, to coutians to merit that larve share cf public patronage hereto. fore bestowed ujon me. Very ret pectfully, nova Ty $275 te $12.00 ||THE BEST ASSORTMENT IN THE each. EA MeINIIRE, CARHIAGE ROBES. ‘ALSO, HOUSE COVERS and BLANKETS, from 1 up, at the POPULAR HARNESS and TRUNK FACTORY ot JAMES 8 TOPHAM, RENCH HAIR WORK MANUFAUTUKING TAEsTAELISHMENT, clo Niuth es opp. tS Gentlewcu's and Lation” Wi miles from Pittsburg Friday night, at | himself off 2s a tramp, aad wae SB THE EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip. GoveRNMENT RECEIPTS To-pay.—Internalrev enue, $500, customs, $27: 2 SUBSCRIPTIONS Lo the four per cent. loan at noon to-day amounted to 85.450, ITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS nnpleted the pension appropriation bill ithorived Representative A. Herr Smith to report it tothe House this afternoon, to be called up for action to-morrow. The amounts ended by the bill are exactly e riments estimates. ‘The being $214,000 more than the i ed for the current year, The com- ittee will next prepare the Ind pro sria- ion, bill. PEE Lavon nittee to sent dep ming and b Isturbances ington durin STIGATION.—Mr. Mewitt’s the enuses of the a meeting this ard Isaac Cohen, the leader 0 Dire The past sunmer. Cohen Was listened to with tanich attention and tre- tly questioned as he presented his peculiar Ws 6n the relations of capitaz and Labor. FST ON DisrkieT Box mmencing y Ist next, Treasurer Gilfillan will pay in interest on District secnrittes, $222,583. amount $154,359 will be gold, e ‘The i Ixy ‘in is not mention: d tions are in curren y imanent im- provement bonds issued in 1571 (coin), $119,55 yermancnt improvement bonds issued in 1s ; Water Stock Issn? twenty-year funding ur (Bowen), $5.37 ei : pump neral stock, corporation Georse- eo Market Stock (Georzetown), nd bount} stoek (Georgetown), SENATOR KELLOGG, Of Louisiana, doesi't see how there can be any analogy between his ea of Senator Butler, of South Carolina. men don’t seem to und . “that Iwas elected after m) outestant had been voted down and the con- test settled. Senator Butle ym the other hand, was adtuitied to the Senate only on prima facie with ihe right of conte: If the Sena ler this for the next Senate, whieh will be io unseat me. My case has been Tv Has Been DECIDED to phy to be U.S. marshal fort of Alabama in place of J. P. Baker, the present Incumbent. AMONG THE CALLERS on (he President to-day Secretary Sherman, Senators Paddoek. thews and Kellogg, and Represeatatives ab hh, Lathrop, Pollard, Hanna, White. Calkins, Evans, MeKiniey, ner, Robinson, foster, Hart, Starin, Cox of Ohio, Caswell, and Dunnell. TURPS CARELE: te Post Office d vest Ber Honest.—Mr. Bissell, of partment. who was sent to In- te affairs at the New London, Conn , } OS" Office, has returned to the elty. “He wii report that while there are evidences of care- lessness on the part of Col. Tubbs in the eon duet Of the office, there are uo evidences of cor ruption. ‘THE CHARGES AGAINST I X-SECRETARY Rope- 20N.—It will be remembered that at the last 5 Chairman Whitthorne of the af one of its meetings endlav- he report of a majority of that n the investigation of ex-Secretary The report w sweeping indict- and having the partizanship about it, the re- embers of the committee withdrew rouin and left the committee without a y's meeting Chairman necesstul, in the presence of the © is qui esevereon Mr. Robeson, sented to the House. it will be With a resolution directing the Tustic to take steps to indict the & wife. hee Yr ome rRY PROMOTIONS.—Mr. Wm. Fic nt chief of the division of loans, Trea departinent, was yesterda ppointed by $ ty Sherman to be chief of that division, in cf Col. r,resicned. Mr. Fletcher has y assistant chief of the division for the pa: four or tive years, and has been acting chie: Col. Baker's resignation. ‘The position of it chiet of the division made vacant by motion of Mr. Fletcher to be chief, was also Bled yesterday by Secretary Sherman, who appointed that place Mr. C.E Coon, Mr. son IS at present an employe of the division, and bas been for along time assistant funding ent of the Treasury in London. He was, be- fore soins to London, with Mr. Conant, ebict of division ib the office of the Treasurer, He en- ered upon lis duties Usts morning, Lovistana Car Rs AY THE Wittre Hovse. ator Kellogy and Judge Morris Marks, the of ip revenue at New Orleans, at the White House to-day. After leaving resident Mr. Marks told a Svar report that there no prob i fs present he would continue to and Senator Kellogg ould not forthe more changes in the INTO New York.—Ojicial re- turns made to the Bureau of Statisties show during the month of November, tis. there arrived at the port of New ¥ whem also arrives 305 ugers, of whom the United States returning from abroad, T sefourr During the month of Novyeinbe tvals at the port were les and 1 ATION during the mouth 2 were eltize the port 31,255 f corresponding pe *.B. Vinton to the instant from > injuries to one of his less ing thrown froma mule ounded Limb amputated y ythe knee. His system is belle h condition as to promise hoperul The tneident was not unaccompanied other cnconraging elrcumstances, The to be in su results. 1 lature yesterday elected him to the U.’s. Senate. only tWo republicans voting against him, Serr AGainst TH H. Wide, of Loni: uit court at Cincinnati yuiver Newspaper Company, mages for alleged libelous to plalntiff'saction towards aged in the lottery business the name of the Commoa- ution Company. the 1 pasties ¢ uisy De unde wealth Distr, INIA SENATE Yesterday a bill was passed ¥ uishing to the United Scates tithe: ud jurisdiction over land inthe state for life The jont resolution, waiea Monday. deciaring this to b a tegh onof the legislature ih conformi Ty with the action of the last session. was de teated In the house by the adoption 0/ a subsil- tiie declaring no further legislation noeessar, ject. ‘ThE joint resolution tor a con- with creditors of the state in Rlehmond, YS, Was referred, Manvocp Damp Pasa has beea appointe Vernor of ‘Tripoli, and was sent thither with t being atlowed to visit his Lome, 5) Unt h has been virtually bautshed. The indiet : poh, charg to palm off a Spurtod eir upon her husband, has bea thr wa out b the grand jury. -AND's INDIAN ARMY.—It wasstated In the House of Commons yesterday that tie govern- Ment was Hot sending any troops frou England but that the Indian army was to D+ increasci by 15,000 men, A JOKE THar Dip? Woxp Wett.—Josep Hathwm ted to seare his sisters at Huistde station, on the Pennsylvania raiiroad, fifty by Piped mw dead by ene cf them, overs which ocenrred | nd the | rest lo be paid ts | pald afford no ! but the diplomatic gatle; ‘The Scene in tic Senate To-day. MR. BLAINE’S SPEECH—A GREAT JAM AT THE CAPITOL. Senator Blaine made his antictpated speech on the resolution for an investigation of the re- | vent elections, in the Senate thisafternoon, At ten o'clock in the merning crowds of ladies and gentlemen began to pour into the Senate galle- nes, and an hour before the Vice President opened the day's session, the be ches were empty, and no one wasallowed toenter except an attache of the seargent. arms office. For a long time, the doorke: of the ladies’ galleries tried to keep the fatr from sitting In the aisles, but the attempt futile. A bad example in this respect Ty the families and friends of the Senators in their own seml-setect tile gallery, and the ef- lect of the crowding was contagious. hook and cranny Was filled to overtlowing, and the jam was as great as at the Spanish atin ter’s fete last winter. he time of the morn- tug hour, 1 p.m. approsclied. a few menibers of the foreign legations entered the diplomatic There wer retary Evarts and his hters; HL. rcoone, the Danish Mi : Capt Jones, of the British nay and Mrs. Gore Jones and Several attaches. ‘The scene on the floor greatly resembied one of the interesting days during the sessions of the Electoral Commission. Tt would be Impos- sible to name the crowd of Representatives who sat upon extra chairs and sofas and filled the standing room between the walls and the Sena- tors desks in the chambers. Chairs weve also placed in the space immediately in front of the Vice President's d everal irreve SH tators on the floor of the Chamber seated them- selves on the carpet at the head of the main aisle. Nearly every Senator was pi them, with one ¢ tion, payt attention to the s The tion was Mr. Conkling, who sat at his de y wrote ina letter book during the ¢ the speaker's delivery, Mr. Blaine was lent trim for speaking. He read his re- 5 in a clear and distinet tone which pene- trated every portion of the Chamber, The Mot Springs Omission Investi- gation THE SECRET SERVICE BROOKS AS A WITNESS. ‘The committee investigating the Hot Springs omission this morning examined J.J. Broo! chief of the secret service division of the Trea: wry. He gave Britt, the secret service employ wko made the report in the case, a very bad wracter. He never believed that Senator Conover had anything to do with the omission of the clause, and had soon become satistied that it was purely aceidental. He submitted for the committee's inspection Britt’s daily re. ports to show that Senator Dorsey's name was Wentioned but once, and then incidentally, and not in connection with the alleged abstraction. Ir he had given instructions to investigate Sen- ator Dorsey and Mr. Atkins, a report of the re sult would certainly hi CHIEF OF | Briut. | complicity in the omi | clause from sundyy civil Dil. Mr. # OTHER WITNESSES. s ibbs and two other witnesses were cs Ttestitied to Britt's having them that he had evidence to show Conover’s complicity with the transacti that ms Britt, could drive him out of the any de Britt asked to be recalled, and made a general denial Of all these statements. Mr. Gibbs asked leave to snbstantiate his Statement by additional witnesses, which was granted. The committee adjourned until 11 a. m, Saturday, when Stilson Hutchins, ex-c Stearns and the witnesses to the conversation between Britt and Governor Gibbs will be heard. This, it is expected, will close the testi- mony Britt's 'Festimony in the Conover tn- vestigation, CHIEF BROOKS, OF THE SECRET SERVICE CONTRA- DICTS HIM. The witness Britt testitied before the Co iever investigating committee Monday that Chief of the secret service, had ordered himto shadow Senator Dorsey and Representative At- kins, under the beiief nat they were guilty of sion of the Hot Springs KS read | the testimony in Ths Srax of Monday, and Monday evening wrote the following ndte to Congressman Athi ility of his leavitty | | uttered by ¢ | effect: that 2 immi- | j and requested to state hi } committee, in whie' | While Tl {| supplies as compared Dee 9, S 310 pm. cat Representati st read in THE STAk Britt's tes before Ub Hon, limony es T to'd him to look Dorses i I discharged this inan nse of his wless_ disregard for the trath ‘Istent efforts to besmireh the cha: or rather the rep tations of his botters takes this method of revenging hinsetr, Permit me to state that all tae eports made b; Limself and others in the Hot Springs ease ar | On tile in this office and subject to inspection: nd, badas he is, Ido not belive you will find one word in any he has made that will show enator Dorse have been suspected, watched, or investigated. e asin ditty bound aided Investiga- tion, I have never believed the omission of the fot Springs clai thing but the result of accident. “Very respectiully ES J. Brooks. The Indian Bureau ‘Transfer. TESTIMONY BEFORE THE COMMISSION TO-DAY. ‘The Indian transfer commission to-day con- tinued the further hearing of testimony on the subject. Wi. Stickney, of Washington, se: lary of the board of peace comissione tied in opposition to the transfer. He quoted from remarks which he understood had been herman and Sheridan to the “the Indiaus must be punished, they must wiped out,” ete. With stich Ideas in the minds of our prominent imilitary officials, Mr. Stiek- id if appeared to him that the transfer of nuveatt Wats equivalent to the extermination Ie did not question the capabil the Indians to support themselves it prove naged, and in general terms he predi bad results rm the event of transte Commissary General Robert MatFeelv, who Was invited (0 appear hetore the commission at the instance or Judge next sworn more partica- y With 1eference to tl h those of the Indian bureau, and what effect in his opiniva a transfer of the Indian bureau to the War departinent would have upon Uh erally speaking. He had not given the k question inueh thought, but was quite p: that the transter would be quite a: Indians aud very beneticial to the U ter itive ell for the govern ‘The District Bond Bill Investigation TESTIMONY OF STILSON BUICHINS, HOLMES F. OFFLEY AND OTHER ‘The House comiittee on reform in the civil service to-day resumed the investigation of the charge of corruption In connection with tie passage of the District of Columbia assess- ment bond bill. Stilson Hutchins, editor of the Post, the paper in which the eharge of bribery first appeared, testified that he was absent In ew York when the article was published. He had no knowledge of the facts alleged init. Tt Was written by Clarence M. Barton, an attache of his newspaper. The committee directed a summons to be issued for Mr. Barton, Holmes E. Oftley, of Georgetown, testified that he knew of no pool being formed to take advantage of the rise in District bonds contin- gent upon the passage of the bill, He said that is bank errried on a margin a large amo int of these bonds, and that if sere was. a pool with the First National Bank of New York and any Congressinen he thought he would have known of it. 000 FOR THE Y. M.C. A. late Joseph B. Eaton, who for engaged in the hardware leaves $80,000 to the You Union upon condition that this sum there shall be raised a sufficient additional amount to leave the institution free of debt. These condl- Uons can be readily complied with. The will of the sixty years was in Boston, Men’s Christian U.S, Minister Foster Thanksgiving aight “hwo. windiest Thanksgiving night. Two TSOnS, were gretens, including President Diaz, the dip- Jomatie corps and many Congressmen, The ‘Thanksgiving proclamation of President Hayes was read in Spanish. Mr, Foster, in a ch, returned thanks for donations to the yellow ver fund. ve a thank: he City of ore Ga., at 3a, murder of Joka zen. Cooper been a mob. but escaped and was taken to Jal {or Protection. been required of Mr. | ndians gen- | fe- | or Representative Atkins to | + water. | for the Bstreet area will be along N | its the river in times of excessive tlood. Washington's Defective Sewerage System. THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS PROPOSE A REMEDY, Engineer Commissioner Twining has lad before Senator Dorsey, chairman of Senate Dt- trict Committee, his plans and estimates for remedying the present defectiv werage Sys- tem of Washington. In his letter of trans:ais- sion ke says: ‘The Commissioners of the District of Colum- bia present herewith the pians and estimites for the relief of the difficuittes arising from the | 1 defects in the main seweyage of Ws ‘The principal causes of comptaint a the low-lying grounds and the Botanical gardens. large areas are flooded during eaca hi to the depth of from two to three feet, in) greatly the value of property, giving’ gr Tor much vexatious litigation; and afec:iug ously the health of ule city. The pln with presented are designed to prey overtiow upon the st and to District thereby from liabillt are, in fact. intended 10 correct, the groinds of plaint by the general publi@® and in ally to relieve those of the residents waose houses are so construct s to bring then above the line of necessary tall of the sevvers in discharging their contents into the river. Tae board are of the opinion that within the lite of the present generation there will be no neces- sity for the construction of works looking to the | discharge of the sewet fom the city se at points far dis and that all of the condit or health will have been suMciently 0 served, when the discharge takes place in deepvunning water and the” flats in front of the city are tilled so as to prevent the lodgment of fecal matter upon grounds whe: are exposed during the intervals of low tides. As at present designed, the principal laterals forin their accumulated floods into the almost horizontal grounds, which are irely insufficient “in capacity for the service yequiied of them, and ters are thrown upon the The laterals are themselves ove along their lower sections, and in mai during heavy rains, spout their waters i fountains into the air at points where the f, of the ground ‘Sho Opportunity of easy lief, The board propose to relieve those later: and the main sewers of the low grounds by seizing the waters of the upper areas at ble points in their intermediate conducting them by inde the river. “The present system of sewers wil then be ample to carry off the floods from the surface below the lines of the intercepting ‘wers. Thus, the line of the relieving sewer Y avenue, down 15th street, and thence by a dires line to the river. It may ultimately be neces. Sary to construct a parallel sewer u south side of B street, but a sent Ils age may be otherwise provided for. The dr. age of the Tiber basin offers another and more dificult problem. This basin extends far out beyond the boundary of the present city: total area bem five square miles the surplus wa- surface, j With the exception of the small portion carried | with the Eastern Braneh by the interceoting sewer along Boundary street, the entire drain. age passes through the areti at the Botanical Garceps. Under the present conditions the water from the hills even beyond the Soldiers: Home is carefully gathered and housed in one tremendous volume through the very heart of the city. On no account shonld such’a state of affairs be allowed to exist. It is true that in tofore the surplus waters have spouted tro the. manholes of the overloaded sewer to b again absorbed through the same apertures ed areas covered with a slimy and filth; ; but the narrow escape of the lower part of the city from a horrible inundation by the breaking cf the Tiber arch, 1s a peremptory remonition of danger bath to property and ife. The Commissioners have therefore driven to the ¢ at it is necessar: adopt a plan the outlying areas by means of an inter sewer which will carr the Fastern Branch. Owing to the insufficient capacity ef the large connecting sewers in the upper part of the northwestern section of the city, ithhas been found necessary to carry the intercepting sewer as far to the west as sth street. By the construction of the two intel cepting sewers for whic ed amounting to $170, » the imme liate a pressing wants of the city will be relleved. Ti remedy ts expensive, but tle cure will be radi- permarent. Questions will hereafter arise in regard to U € treatment of the sewer dif- Heuities on the low grounds. from back water of ‘Two methods of treatment will present themselve One, to separate the surface drainage from the sewage service proper, and pump the latter. the other, to raise the grade of the low gronn estimates are prese re. | When the rains have subsided, leaving the tl9od- lect the waters of | them harmlessly into | over certain liinited areas. The last system will | undoubtedly be the most satisfactory in its 1 sults. ‘The Commissioners are not, however, ared, without having carefully examined $ tnd estimated the cost. to give their positive recommendation to either plan, It is, at all events, a matter which will not require imme- diate attention. and can walt fora time waen the tinances of the District are In a more healt! ful condition,” THE DETAILED ESTIMATES present, In addition to the cost of the w Which should be done immediately, a gross esti- inate of the cost of carrying the proposed tate: cepting sewer along New York avenue and the present B street sewer through the flats to deep This work would, in reality, be a part | of the expense of the improvement of the ilats, | than if undertaken as an independent wor dealt a hard blow, they must be | and can be completed gradually with that. im provement, at a far less expense to the Di rlet It is not necessary that it should be done ai once. ae ane Neo presented, as properly appertain- i to thi ubject, the estimates of repairing nthe Tiber sewer at the Botanical nbs, and fora parallel sewer south of rst constitutes an item properly charge: ble to the revenues of the District 25a work of repair, while the second, for reasons before stated, may be postponed until a more favora ble opportunity, or carried to completion grad- nally at some future time as current work. ‘s Board of Trade. OF THE EXECUTIVE ComMITT: was a meeting at the Arlington Hotel this morning of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Beard of Trade. Ellwood E. Thorne was vhaiiman, and G, W, C, Clarke was secretary. Tion. Chauncey I. Filley, president of the Louis board, and Representatives Acklin, Cook and Muller and a number of others were present. ‘These gentlemen wanted it understood That the board was not Set or antagonistic: to the National Board of Trade, or any similar organization in the country. It is, in harmony with al, for the ben merce, trade, manufacture and : 5 Me Acklin, Muller and MeCook were ap- pelted a committee to port 19 an adjourned Meeting the status of the biil now pending before Congress tor the «incorporation of the U.S. Board of Trade.” This bill provides that certain gentlemen shall constitute the “U Board of Trade.” There is to de a board of man- agement of thirty=x persons who are promi nent and acknowledged esentative men of finance and co nmerce fro.n the diTerent states and territories, who are likely to form the most authoritative body on commercial subjects in this country. The proposed bourd is to corres: pend in many respects to the Board of Trade Great Britain, which is a department of be Majesty’s government. It is to have aa office in Washington, and be peculiarly a nati organization, devoted to the Interests already mentioned, ‘THE SUGAR IMPORTERS and refiners of New York have adopted resolutions opposing the ige in the sugar tariff pro; by Seere- tary Sherman as unjust. ‘The tates proposed, amounting to 50 or 60 per cent. onthe value, are Said to be excessive and unreasonable, ‘and Sbould be reduced at least one-half in justice to the consumers and to avoid frauds and under- valuation, M STORMS AND FLoops.—Accounts from Penn- Sylvania and Virginia announce high water In all the streams from the long continued rains, and serious floods are anticipated. “At Lyach- burg, Va., the James river had risen eight fect, and a similar rise had taken place in the Lehigh river at Mauch Chunk. The gale was also Very heavy on the Jersey coast. MASKED ASSASSINS ON Sunday surrounded a house near Summerv in Texas, and threw a Upon the family at. John Stull, the Smith were killed, and Aw EptroniaL Fieut.—In Fredericksburg, editor of the Seai- Ya. 8. Whit Weekly Recon, sosaulted itor of the Virginia Sta several blows. | Souther FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Wepwespay, Decem! iL SENATE.—The Vice President laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of War, asking an appropriation of $59 090 to finish the east wing of the new buliding to be oc by the War department. Referred to the mittee on appropriations. Bill were Introduced an referred, as totlows: y Mr. Rollins—Relating to assessments for improvements in the District of Colum- lererred to the District committee. By Mr. Mitchell—Appropriatiag 175.009 for the construction of arevenue marine steaiuer for service in Alaska waters; to committee on com- . By Mr. Peck—A bill, or which he gave no ice yesterday, for the repeal of section 1,215 ot the revised ‘statutes of the United States piovides that no person who has het ich under the confederate government sita’ ointed to any position ii the army of the States; laifon the tab:e for the pre-ent, ing that he had not yet made u,, OL ss mind as to What committee he would ha itreferred. By Mr. Ferry ‘o designate, clas ic the salaties of persons in the rally di service; to committee on post ofices and PYSt roads, Mr. Anthony, from the committee on naval fairs, reported without amendment Senate bill relating to the appointment of athematics in the navy; placed on the ca Also, from the sate committe rofessors | out amendment, Hotise Dill to promote a know- | ledge of steam engineering and iron ship-butld- ing among the students of sclentttic sciools or ‘ses in the United States; placed on the cal- jon submitted the following: “That Mt War be, and he is hereby, in- strueted to furnish for Me use of the Senate a staten owing the number and quality of arms of all kinds, the equipment nition to be used in Connection therewith, su piled from the ordnance department of the anny to officers and soldiers, marshals ant tl deputies, Indian agents, and int officers and revenue agents respec y. and when and where to be used under dire-tion of the Departinent of une Interior, the Depa ment of the Treasury. and the Departme: Justice since the 1st day of January, A.D. 1 and where such arms now are, Whether suc arms orany of them have been sold and for what pricés and what disposition has been made of the proceeds of any such sale, and de- ating by what authority such arms and other things were so supplied trom tine to Ume.” Agreed to. Mr. Blaine, froin the committee on appre priations, reported without a iment Hons bill to correct an error in the of the ry civil appropriation bill of Last session in pgard to the Hot Springs reservation in Av nsas. He asked for the present n of the bill; but Mr. it was placed 6n the cate: Mr. Windom, from the same committee, re- ported with amendwents the fortification ap- wopriation Dill. Placed onthe calendar, and he gave.notice that he would call it up to-<mor- rew for consideration. He also, trom the comunittee, 1 with amendments House Dill makin tions for the support or the Military Placed on the The Vice President announced as the com. mittee on the part of the Senate to attend t hext aunual examination of cadets at the U.S military academy, at West Point, Messrs. Win dom and Whyte. ‘On motion of Mr. Merrimon, House bill to pre- Vide for taking testimony for the courts of the Ds rict of Columbia, was taken from the ealen- dar and recominitted to the committee on the District of Columbia. 1 o'clock, on motion of Mr. Hamlin, the Senate proceeded to the consideration of the resolution submitted by Mr. Blaine on the first day of the session in Whether at the recent tional rights of American &e. fons the constitu- tizens were Violates, nd Mr. Blaine addressed the Senate. Mr. Blaine’s Speech. Blaine, tn commen nF his ee rectin, nve ges inthe iby him with a two- Irst, to place on record, ntle form, the frauds and elections were fold purposs ina detinite outrages by ed by the di states. Second, to find if the by which a repetition of these crime free ballot may be prevent: Le newspaper fs the cb 1 through whieh people of the United States wre informed current events, and the ivea in the press repr the ele ome of the. to hav ynpanied by viol few cases rerehing the de- struction of life; to have been controlled by threats that awed and intimidated a large cla of voters; to have been manipulated by fran the most shameless and shameful de: Indeed in South Carolina there + been no election at all in any pro, the term. ‘There was instead a series of skir Inishes over the state in which the poliiag Places were regarded as forts to be captured by one party and held against the other, anid e this could not be done with conve in the count and Ussue-ba ices were resorted to in order to effectually destroy the voice of the majority. These in’ brief ai the accounts given in the non-partisan of the disgraceful outrages that attend recent elections, and so far as he had seen, these statements are without serious contradic tion. But we do not need investigation to establish certain facts already of official record. We know that one hundred and stx Rt Pntatives in Congress were recently closen in the siates Toymerly slaveholding, and that the democrats ted one hundred and one, or possibly one indred and two, and the republicans four or possibly tive. We know that thirty-five of these Representatives were assigned to tie southern ates by reason of the colored pomilation, and at the entire political power taus founded on the numbers of the colored people has been seized and appropriated to tie agerandizenent of its ow hh by the dem: le party of ised before the country, Mr. sient, is not one of mnt hts of the nes the ntiment for the e one that in- nly shirt,” to ar of democratte: is the issue question of the © yaalliy ack voter Of the south with the f the sonth; the issue has ta's Anze, OnE OF Porientous mivznit Tis, whether the white voter equal to the white He he policy and fist ro, nor {5 the ving of the voive: quote viper now presented only the Vote n uth in ‘the destiny of this or wheter the B WhO fosRt anks of the Union army shall have Weighty and influentiala vote in the goy inent of the republic as the white man who fought in the ranks of the rebelarmy. The one fought to uphold, the other to destroy, the union of states, and to-day he who fought to destroy is afar more impo a government cf the nation than he who fought to uphold it. Wi by comparing group; of same representative strength nor and south, ‘Take the states of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana, They send seventoen Representa- tives to Congress. Their azgregate population is composed of ten hundred and thirty-iive thousand whites and twelve hundred and twen- ly-four thousand colored; the colored being nearly two hundred thousand in excess of the whites, Of the seventeen Representatives, then, it is evident that nine were apportioned to these states by reason of their colored poputa- Hon, and only cight by reason of their white Population; and yet in the choice of the entire seventeen Representatives the colored voters lence, | | ataendment to the Constitr | to be and was designed to be endar, | ) ly and faithtull, rd to inquiry asto | ) people. | affected 16. | lave expressed diszust bloody shirts and have been offeaded with talk | . | and hannony and friendship anda p: or in the | strength of Mlinots, Minne=o } voter w exere’ses by his vote double the political power of the white man horth. ie nies Letus carry the comparison to a prehensive generalization, The ¢ that formed the Confederate by the last. census a population of ttn half millions, of whieh In round number and a half millions were wile and fourm! colored. On this aggrezats population three Representatives In Congress were appor= toned to those states—tort or taree of which were by reason of the white population, and thirty or thirty-one by reason of the colored population, At the recent election the white demoer: of the South seized seventy of seventy-three districts, and thus secured a a oc! ority in the next House of Repre- s Thus it appears the States that formed tne Government seventy-five thousand whites—! vy people that rebelled against the Union. enabled to elect a Representative in Con- ress, While in the loyal states tt requires one hundred and thirty-two thousand of the white people that fought for the Union to elect a F resentative. In levying every tax, therefor in making every appropriation of mone: tixing every line of public poltey, in decreetr What shall be the fate and fortune of the Rb public, the Confederate soldier South is enabled lo cast a vote that is tic twice as influential as th soldier North, He proceeded to argue that the white men of the south did not acquire and superior power by reason of law or justice, bat in disregard and defiance of both. The iM4th as expected preventive and corrective of all such possible abuses. litical power thus appropriated by southern ¢ reason of the negro pop Representatives in Conzress, ed almost solidly and offsets the grt of New Yor att throughout e Conteder, ana united; or the ¢ Ms . Kansas, Calitor- “a0 and pling down of hum: Mt wnlawful powe le parly holds the popular weh of Congress to~la days have’ control of this body also, Us grasping the entire legislative department of the government. throt ‘ul captur of the southern st t enough for modern democratic tac the negro vote shill be stlenced; the demi: rand Jusists that it Shall be ear bral that east and so suecess—re- less Of justice This injustice was nprovohed. "No le debarred the right of suffrage in sontLern state during the periad of repub- n control, It was said, in retort of such inst the southern elections as he reviewing, that unfairaess of ¢ ity prevails In nort ions. 1 was said that in the late ¢ x ton in Massa- 3 nd bnildozing. if ne inthe south, were ind effective. He had iy made his resolution broad enough to in- le their thorouzh investization. He was not demanding tair elections in the south without demanding fair elections in the north aiso; but, senturing to speak for New England, he be- Meved it would be fmpossible to tind one case in the late clections there where a yoter did not have the fullest, fairest, freest opportunity to cast the ballot of his choice and have it honest- counted in the returns, Hut Whenever a feeble protest is made against sueh injustice as he had described in the south, the response we get comes to us in the tori of a taunt, “What are you going todo about tt? is the stereoty) r of defianc whieh intrenched wrong vs ssives to I ing justice; and those who imagine it to b clusive do Lot know the temper of the Americ Against the complicated outrage upoit the right of representation laiely triumphant in the South, there will be wtrrayed many phas of public opinion in tie north notoften hithe: in harmony, Men who have cared lit care less, for the right or the negro, suddenly tind th Yy and commercial interests, at questions of revenue, adjustiaents of Larilt,vast investments in manufactures, in railway: re under the control of a democratic zress whose majority was obtained ly depriving the nesro of his rights under a coni- mon constitution and common laws. Men who with the waving of was now about negro equality are beginning to perceive that the pending question of to-day relates more pressingly to the equality of white men under Unis government, and that however care- less they may be about. the rights or wrongs of the negro they are very jealous and tenacious about “the rights of their own diguity of their own liresides a kindrca, Tle knew something of pubtic opinion in the north, lie kuew a great deai about the views, dd PULpOses Of The republicam party of the nation, Within that entire great organtza- tion there is not one man, whose opinion is en- ltled to be quoted, that does not desire peace triotie and fraternal union between the north and the This wish is spontaneous, instinctive, I throughout the northern states; and aunong men of character and sense, there ts no Hecd of attempting to decelve our- selveS as to the precise truth, “First pure, then peaceable, Gush will not remove a grievance, nd no disguise of state rights will close the ‘Yes of our people to the necessity of correcting great national wrong. Nor should the sonth make the fatal mi-take of concluding that injustice to the negro is not also injustice tothe white man; nor should it ever be for- sotten that for the wrongs of both a remedy will assurediy be found. The war, with all it costly sacrifices, was fought in vain Ss equal rights for all classes be established in all the states of the union; and now, in words Which are those of friendship, however differ- ently they may be accepted, he would tell the inen oF the south, that even if they could strip egTo of his constitutional right im the in they can never make an’s vote in ‘the ‘south doubly as erful in the administration of the Govern- ‘nt as a white man’s vote in the north. The debate on Mr. Blaine’s resolution was continued by Messrs. Thurman, Lan id- juunds and Blaine. The debate between Messrs Lamar, Blaine and Edmunds was characterized by a good any personal allusions and sharp ree. The resolution was finally laid aside, and the Senate resumed consideration of the bill to amend the patent laws. HOUSE.—On motion of Mr. Patterson, (Col Senate bili providing for holding terms of the Cireult and District Court for the District of Columbia, was passed, after being somewhat | amended. Blaine went on to illustrate his meaning | { had no more voice or power than their remote — kindred on the shores of Senegambia or on the Gold Goast. The ten hundred and thirty-tive thousand white people had the sole and al)so- luie choice of the entire seventeen Representa- tives. In contrast, take two states in the north, Towa ard Wisconsin, with seventeen Representatives. They have a white popula- Mion of two million two hundred and forty-seven thousand—considerably more than double the entire white pene of the turee southern. states named. In Iowa and Wisconsin, there- fore, it takes one hundred and thirty-two thou- sand white population to send a llve to Cr but in South Carolina, Mis- Sissippi, and Louisiana every sixty thousand White people send a Representative, In other words, sixty thousand white peal in those southern states have precisely the same politi- = Ago ae ‘at bt. the country one hur and thirty-two thousand white people have in Iowa and Wisconsin. ‘Take another group of seventeen Re} mta- Uves from the south and from north. Gee eee pee lye Population < ten hundred se of eleven es poe a colored ni thousand! Represents. resenta- | } Mr, Smith, (Pa.) from committee on appro- riations, reported the pension appropriation ill. Referred to committee of the whole, and made a special order for to-morr ‘The Speaker announced the regular order to be the consideration of the bill, reported last year from the ecmmittee on commerce, to regu- late inter-state commerce. [The bill makes 1 unlawful for any person oF persons engaged in the transportation ef property from one’ stave to another, or to or from any foreizn country, to receive ‘any greater or less amount of com nsation from one person than another for ike and contemporaneous service. It also makes it unlawful for any person so engaged to allow ai made by them, or enter into combination with another carrier to prevent the erty from bane pooling of freights. The penalty afixed to Violation of this law is the payment of a sum equal to three times the meager slg may be sustained by reason of such violation.) Mr. Reagan explained the provisions of the bill, and denied that it would defeat competition, as had been stated by enemies of the bi deel debate was in progress whea our report THE CASE of id pd York Elevated ratlroad Fs, commissioners Of taxes came up yesterday im the supreme court, in that city, wader ce orart to set aside the assessment or $1,200,000 as taxes on real estate made upon the railroad in January, 1878. The company claimed that they have not and never had any real estate; that the right was given to the company by the legislature to erect pillars on condition the y pay 5 per cent on ‘into city treasury, which considered st no ore nee argument, and decision tase pie afi trot 390,526, with $4,185,141 degen tS Every man in the yellow fever district who aidn't aie isnow for the office of some- body who dids—{Louieville Cours dome’ S®”Gov. McCreary, of Kentucky, has order- ed a part of the state militia te Breathitt coua- ly to suppress the rioting there. and her, taxed Ven Ga Hone 2 Faces are at The po- | and will in less than | they can | qaality of + rebate or drawback on shipments | Carriage of 10) continuous; and pre ibis, the | iy sured. 1L—A serious accident real railroad last evening , about a tile and a half abiwe concord, in consequence of a washout 1D) the heavy rain of yestesday. As the r mall 10 Montrat, consisting | wage and matt ear combinnd j Pallman cars, were passin, | nd tender were precipitate 1 ' aembankment about one tu dred and | Pity feet from the road. ‘The baggage car surick ] int the side of the wash down the jxas | ger une. Int neither Whom wer ajaned, Dut tu. On the ITPA yes n Smash-up—Txo Kitie: Several Wounded. k last night an ace! © Ruvand division of the Cent railroad { two tailes south of Ba In Which two persons were Instant | other was fatally agd a number seriously Was otherwise & of Rutlane sed. Fireman Edw'd Davis: Was instantly killed: Kip Rloa, bag: gage moster, was probably Fraok & ot Tellows. Fal and Canada express messen; fared. A had been undermined by heavy rain which prevailed yesterday, The press train whieh left Boston mm. left Uns place on time, and proceeded rather | cautiously as it appre ivert, and the Tiest intimar ger Was, recipitation of the whe . OOnSiSting of a locomotive, one B; ne passenger car, Into The | suit. ain, Thomgh usually all one, | was” swe rely last night, aid the gulf opened Ht Si feet inlensth. ‘The engineer — | AW. Pratt—iiad his collar bot Ken, and | fatally injured; United States | Kied. ‘There were only enght ‘p. j the train, Mes. Marriet Have bruised: a Davis, her nd tour oth. ine was thrown rnd The bags: it, in the middi ngs on the netng ov A Raitread Bridge Sw Vort Jenvis, N.¥., Dec. 1 abutment of the Ba a this. ph velock Unis morn county. th Pike ably pr has risen ah ow mLINY yea MTUSV ILE, coune!l conve: The ny Will ba n from the Standand comps up to-day. The > at the and the hotels are full. nd The commitiee on leyisiation ai the Parshall House from 7 ening with about tweaty slature from te western distric munsy Lan The object of the meeti thi to have been to pr font ii the legislature in favor ¢ against ratlroad disc oclock till members of the | le to thy H A Bank President's Su H . Dec. 1A spec the Trom Findlay, O., says: Hon. ALPgag at OF the HE in bed yesterd Kank, was rhine with a bul- 1 Lis Might ee niver was nd with one mpticd. tie is sup- posed to have shot himself on aceoust ort Troubles, “There is only a very sty his reed rock Savi ym BALTIMOR' Tig; do. consol Wk. North Ci special t inia Fives, Geferred, lo. ast ce conponk, 16; do new, 9; do. . Sugar in fair wenmind and stady—A soft, "a9" BALTIMORE, Dec. 11.—Cotton dui! _and heavy— edline. * dnt not Fiour oe) doi 1 and nominal! amber, L0ga1.07 ; ‘ylvania red, No. 2 western winter at December, LO? a1.02". : January, 1.04, y mand southern shade mixed, spot, old, 4 Japuai : 4s. Oats tirm and stock-routhern and Petineyivania, 2.31; western ; do. mixed, 230. Rye a Buy dui! ‘and uneh neonuinally steady. hiberal and uw: 2 3 nace Butter, » j vet Steady —choice western packed, 16a}8; rotls, 15al¢. Petroleum dal! and nominal— crude, 7%; refined, SX. Coffee flat and nominal— Bio carvocs, Mali," Whisky 1.0BaL O95. Frehts to Liverpool per steamer ufet_ and nom IN. Rees flour, 5 are, 40,000, corn, ents to-day. quiet ar EW YORK, Stocks firm. Mf 3a 3%. Gold, 100".. Exchange, long, 482, shore aden Governments frm. | NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Flowr dull. Wheat quiet - ~ ee i ‘the District in Congress. SESSION OF THE MOUSE COMMITTEE TO-DAY, Major T ¢ Was before the House commit- tee on the District of Columbia this morning, and explained at length the estimates for the sinecr department of the District govern- iment svbuilted to Congress, While the com- | mittee kes ne disposition to hamper the District in A~ proposed nuprovements, or to be niggard- ly with it with respect to the amounts asked, there was quite a decided disposition members tat the sewerage system of the Dix. trict should be improved. and that it it be | better for the next year to spend less fn im- provin 5 aud more on the sewerage, he conuntitee agreed to report on Monday Mr. A. S. Wililaia’s bill to correct an error fn the *propriation act of last: year re- in bonds of the District, With an amend aking the bonds registered or coupon and providing for the issue of bonds of the Genomination of $100, Mr. Davis, of California, was directed to re- | port Ube bill providing for the removal of the reo T (he Baltimore and Ohte ratiroad alony street. The District committer will be ealled in the House next Monday. Br. LATING TO TAL ASSESSMENTS FOR IN- PROVEMENTS, Mr. Rollins introduced in the Senate to-day a Hing lo assessments for special improve- ments li the District of Coluabla, The bill pro- District Commissioners in mak- any assessment for special im 1S Ol roads, strects, avenues, or alleys. ct shall, in determining the cost of *h haprovement, deduct one-half te costs of the intersections and charge the same to the in- fersecting stieet or avente. ‘The amounts of the haprovement chargeable to street ratlroad cempanies, or to the United States, shall be de- ducted from the cost of such improvement, and : basis of assessment, sioners are required to learn the 1 foot of the improvements te be ull also ascertain the number of ireal estate adjoining such im- ot belonzing to the United States pepe = solumbia, which | be lable 1d shall assess upon all such propert j ch front foot thereof one-sixth ofthe M4 , Per linea! foot, but no assessment shall be | upon any lot which shall have be n damage | eXcess of the benefits conferred by such im- provement. No lot shall be assessed twice | the same improvement, hor-be charged with the | Cost or any part Of the Cost of any pavement not | FEE R laid down tn front of said lot. Jots hounded on two or more sides by streets shall be Hable to but one assessment—not to exceed one-halt of the said rate, ACHUSETTS TOWN ELECTIO i8—P ri | May "he tliowing for mayor:—Prince, 15,000, King, wort- Prince's plurality i- ipal clections in Worceste: erday, Charles B. Platt. the citizeas’ candidate, received 5,216 votes, to 1,047 for Wm. Dickinson, nominated by the Butler club; four aldermen were chosen, all of whom were On the Pratt lickel. Ward contests were between re- publicaus and democrats, and of the twelve | common councilmen elected eight are repub- licans, The republicans very for Mr. Pratt for mayor, while the supporters = . inson were jnalaly democrats, A terri- ' ble storm prevailed , tnaking the vote j Nght. At election in Nowoenneee ‘Mass, i i g yesterday, John J. Currier, elected over Robert C 500 majority: ni citizen,