Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1879, Page 1

‘THE EVENING STAR, ar The Bvening Star Newspaper Oompany, 5. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres’t. ‘Ise Evextxo STAR ts served to subscrivers in the city by carriers, on their own scoount, week, or 44 2 centseach By maii— cents er zi ‘Tus W2EXLY StaR—published on Fridsy—g2 a gs Deopies for 18; 0 orto ear, posiaue prepeid i for LF in ad- for. advertising made known on sppiication. S27 AD wail subscriptions must _ SPECIAL NOTICES. ‘vance; DO paper sent longer than so —=— Rates of aa ENTERTAINMENT OF READIN.-§ AND MUSTO, At councry Church. TUESDAY EVENING, april 1, 1879, Admission 25 cents. iv Te wAphine M. E CHOKCH. corner 9th = avd P sts. nw —Services conducted by the Hevivalist, Rev. THowas Harrison, every EVEN. ING this Week commencing at 7:30 pm. inard1-4t* Bee REEMOST AVENUE CHRISTIAN CRUR H—Preaching THIS EVieNING at 80 by the pastor. Frepenics D. Powea. 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O-1 te notify my frieud. inths above {my profession, and I therorore decline to bo fm: ‘an ore 2 eapalante for re-election tothe Board of Mxnagers 1879. ou Will sup) ich chosen ‘thencceed the present Board, which meets my cor: SPPFOval: PLODOARDO HOWARD, M.D, mar3l-?awtaplt 617 F street n. w. > % PENCU Hard, Soft ad ES ued ch conte per docenvat RODER ES Bookstore, 1016 7th street. above New York ave- - nue mar29-6t NEW U. 8. 4 PEK CATES FOR SALE &CO.,Benkers, 1429 ¥ street, Government and pistrict of Cotumbia Bonds and Foreign #xch>nze Teught and sole. racdiw THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE @ ICAL ASSOCIATION of the District of Co- Tumbia will be ‘Gonzara Ha), 915 Fst. hw. Sper oeeget Fay oe at 8 o’elock p. m. ‘order of the Presiden Y LOUIS MACKALL. M.D. Z.'T. SOWERS, M. D., Secretary. war29-3t OND ANNUAL MEETING OF aE RT aWESTEEN BUILDING a330- GIATION, for the Election of Officers, will be neld on TUESDAY EVENING, April ist, 1879, at 3 Orelock, at No. 615 (G8 6 FINOKEL, President, JOHN COOK, Secretary. mart CENT. $10 CERTIFT BY H. D. QUOK ‘We sell Furnsces, Ranges, and Fire Place Stoves of well establizhed reputation. ALSO, Parlor Grates, Brass Fire Setts, English, Plain and HAYWARD & HUTCHINSON, 317 9th st. o.w. | mar27-tr wT SULPHUE WATERS, MILBUEN'S PHARMAOY, 1429 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. a CARRIAGES, BABY ee Establishment of W B. MOSES & BON, corer of Pennsylvania avenue and Seventh Be marétr nw. THE |AFE DEPOSIT COM OB pier Snes isth st and New York ave. ‘other Bonds. ee oI NEY, President ; GEO.” & THOR Jané-cosm JOHN CASSELS, THOS. EVANS. FOR COLDS, BRONOHIT! Late erat: Sueno SEMESe OOUGH. for over 50 Relief speedy and certain ma, Trice 60 cena eata0-w..0,8m = 5 On or rok. KE, Jn, | . 58—N2. 8.109. "ai deeitimmmerniienpeiemmsceeeret ie tae WASHINGTON. D. C., MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1879. “THE EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip. GOVERN¥ENT REcEIPTs To-pay.—Internal rev- | enue, $455,225; customs, $155,401 12 AT THE WniTE Hovss.—Senators Hii! of Col, ‘Merrill, Logan, and Representatives Thomas of Til., Wait, McCook. and Hawley, called on the | Pres‘dent to-day. day to which the Wallace committee adjourned | at Its last meeting, there were but two or three members present, at 10 o'clock and a further adjournment until to-morrow (Tuesday) at 10 a.m. took place. ‘Tae Four PRR CENT, CERTIFICATRS.—Secreta- ry McCrary has caused to be republished the Treasury department's circular of March 12th calling attention to the four per cent. refunding certificates, introducing the circular with the direction that disbursing officers and agents of the department will co-operate. if practicable, with officials of the Treasury department in the distribution of the certificates referred to. THE SToRY ApovT Secretary THoMrson’s RETIREMENT.—The absurd rumor fs again afloat that there is to be a change in the Cabinet ‘This time the story ts that Secretary Thomp- son, of the Navy Department, is to retire. Sec- retary Thompson said to a distinguished Con- £-essman as late as Saturday night last, that if | the democrats forced the political legislation on the appropriation bill, whitch they are now Match ith, 1581, to prevent any such legis Jon. PERSONAL.—Mr. Frederick B. McGuire, of this city, sails to-morrow on a trip of fouror five months amongst the Azores, Madeira and Cape Verde Islands. His host of friends wish him an enjoyable trip _....Mr. S. Mussina, an old and respected citizen of Texas, identified with | much of the stirring history of that state, is in Washington, attending to a case before the Supreme Court. ....Mr. Leon Chateau ts in the clty im the interest of a new treaty of reci- procity between France and the United States. Cart. EDWARD O’MEAGHER CONDON, the dis- Unguished Fenian, has, upon the recommenda- Uon of ex-Senator Stanley Matthews and Rep- resentative Thomas Young, of Ohio, been ap- inted to a $1,200 clerkship in the Treasury epartment His probable appointment was mentioned in Saturday’s Star. He will, itis likely, be assigned to duty in the division of public money. : CoxTRACTs AWARDED—The commission to supervice the restoration of the Patent Oftice building have awarded the following contracts: For American: Portland cement, to Coplay & Co.; for cement, to the Cumberland | Hydraulic Cement company; for lime, to Miller & Son; and for sand, to Arthur Flinn: Comissions SIGNED.—The President to-day | signed the commissions of the following mem- bers of the National Board of Health, who have been confirmed by the Senate:—Samuel M. Bemis, New Orleans; Hosmer A. Johnson, Chi- cago; Robert W. Mitchell, Memphis; Henry I. es Boston; and James L. Cabell. V ginia, Svsscrirrions to the four per cent. loan to- | i } i i} SoME MISUNDERSTANDING existing as to the | this morning, | | so much. | advance was amply justified in the day’s ex- pay amounted to $170,490. THE OBJECT OF THE Hocss in adjourning over | from Saturday last until to-morrow was to pre- | vent the greenbackers from introducing several Wild financial measures. On any other day b Monday a single objection prevents the inir: duction of a bill, but on Monday, under the call of states, there 1s no way to keep bills our. Hence the desire to bridge over Monday by 4 jovrring until Tuesday. JtpGE Kxy sprained his foot on Saturday; and in consequence was not at tne depatiment to-day. His foot is expects to be out Tue Fitz Jonn Porter Case.—Nothing can | learned here “officially” of the finding of the court in the Fitz John Porter case. The report | of the board and the evidence taken before it | is now in the hands of the President. It will be some time before an official promulgation in the case is made. In the meantime it is gen- erally conceded that the Grand Army of the Republie, who have firen off guns to celebrate Gen. Porter's vindication, would not be likely mr5tr 1011 Pa. ave., bet. 10thand lth sts. Obes SCHLITZ BREWING CO.’S MILWAUKEE LAGER BEER. UREST AND BEST LAGER BEER SOLD THE TITHE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Bupyed in Casks or Bottles, by the Agent, SAM'’L C. PALMER, 57 Greene street, marie GEORGETOWN, D. 0. DVELTIES IN JEWELRBY. We particular attention to our’ mau FINE JEWELRY, which tel { attractive ornamen! 510 Ninth street n.w. lot of those Aittin; cena Dame renee (wo! 25) at y dit inen COLLARS at Sc. TF OF. ‘Germantown Worsteds, ‘c. per oz. * At FRICE'S, 510 Ot). st. mw. a to cash Py ‘offer great inducements purchasers [ICH JEWELBY. 2 to go off half-cocked and thus waste their pow- der. They must have some information as to the contents of the report, either from here or from some member of the court itself. They would naturally be confident of the accuracy of their information before getting up a dem- onstration. SUDDEN ILLNESS OF EX-SERGEANT-AT-ARMS Frenco.—Col. J. R. French, late Sergeant-at- Arms of the Senate, while passing through one of the Senate cloak-rooms to-day, was pros- trated by the effects of recent mental excite- ment and nervous lon, and remained for several minutes in a convulsion, which ex- cired serious alarm his numerous friends at the Capitol. M assistance being promptly procured, he soon recovered suffi- ciently to be removed to his residence, and Dr. Ford now considers him ovt of danger. NomINATIONS.—The President sent the follo’ ing nominations to the Senate to-day: Wm. L Seruggs, U.S. consul at Chin Kiang; Wm. at Omoa and Truxillo; also a 1 ; also, Cicero News kota; also a number of army and navy pro- motions, and marine promotions. To Inscre UniFormity in discharges and re- enlistments the Secretary of War directs that whenever an enlisted man fs discharged by piration of service, his discharge shall t: effect on the last day of said term of servi if the soldier was enlisted on Ma Mis discharge, by expiration of se: | take effect May 4, 1819. Should the sold immediately re-enlist, the date of r would be May 5, isi. His pay would the: contiruous. PETROLEUM IN GERMAN at Bremen, sends to the Depart copy of a letter by Mr. Lockwood, an American | ettizen, to the convention tn Brew the subject of petroleum. It is y hensive reply to charges against Ameri ducers and full of instructions as to the best mode of procuting and using a good art devotes some time to pointing out quality of wicks in use in Germany. CoxpEMNED ARMY Horses aNp Mc1e3.—The Secretary of War directs that hereafter all | horses and mules inspected and condemned as | ‘unfit for military service will be advertised for sale, and be disposed of within ten days trom date of advertisement, and if not sold within | the ten days will be shot on the eleventh day. The advertisement will be made in accordance with advertising regulations but at posts remote from places where newspapers are } published, the advertisement will be made by posted notice. VESSELS ASHORE. Lewes, Del., reported at 9 nal officer as follows: Two masted sc Julius Webb, Capt. Loveland, came ashore on Lewes Beach at a. im., from’ Virginia for Ne York, laden with pine wood, crew landed | their own boat. Schooner Fann pt. Tun- | nel, of Lewes, came ashore at 7a. m., below steamboat pier, crew probably safe. Anothe two masted schooner has just e ashore above the steamboat pier. ‘The German ship Geestermunday, Capt 1, 1s dragging her anchors and will come ashore unless it mode- rates, wind north. At .m, another tele- gram came from Lewes saying: G s Geestersmunday has steam tugs at breakwate: goes down. Several of accounts of marine di during the day. but no | ee padi is THE GREENBACK LABOK STATE CONVENTION Of Rhode Island assembled at Providence Satur- day, and nominated Samuel Hill for governor, David A. McKay for iieut. governor, John F. Smith for secretary of state, Herbert B. Wood F can not go until sea r dispatches giving eis were received of life is reported. | of the better cla: | inches wide is pointed out as on NOTES ON 4HE WAY. A Ride to the Dead Sea, the Jordan and Jericho. JERUSALEM, February, 1979. The night preceding the day fixed for our Visit to the site of the buried citles of the plain was cold. windy and cloudy, giving indications of bad weather ahead; but when I awoke and Went on the hou-e top at daylight on the ap- pointed morning, the threatened rain and snow storm had not come, and the day promfsed to be as calm and peaceful as the unrustie: the pool in which Bathsheba bath almost beneath my feet. ed. Upped with gold the domes and minarets of Jerusalem, and then went below to make the final preparations for starting. While at break- faust. a passing local cload wrapved the city a dense fog, but we knew {t could not last, yin and So got ready to mount the horses whicn stood | waiting for us close by the great Tower of David, at the Citadel, just inside the Jaffa Gate. ARAB STEEDS WORTHY OF THE NAME. Whether specially favored through the efforts of our dragoman, or whether it was because we were ahead of the rush of travelers for the season, and thus found the animals fresh, Ican- not answer; but we had no reason to find fault with our mount. That our horses were pure blocd Arab sieeds I will not pretend; but they were first rate examples of a good Syrian | strain, and from their build and carriage evi- | dently had enough of the fire of the desert in seeking to do, he was ready to stay here until | them to place them far above the common hacks of which travelers in Palestine complain I may say here that this estimate in perience. They rallopen off, of thetrown ac- cord, and with as much spirit at sunset as they did at suprise, and this notwithstanding the fact that neither a morsel of food nor a drop of water had passed their lips In all that time! Car pay consisted of three Americans, Ber- nard Hellpern, a Magyar, dragoman,—one of the very best of his guild in the Holy Land; Chessen Amouri, a Turk, master of the provi: sion and baggage pack; and Yusef Eben Schech Mabmoud Araka Ahou Mahomet Abu Eshey, 2 Bedaween, military escort. I suppose that in the good old times this last long named gentle- mam would have ranked as a Prince of Pales- Une, but now he is simply a sort of Bedaween chief, brother of the Shiekh of the Jordan, who, for a stipulated sum in hand patd, had con- tracted to protect us on our way from the other robbers of his tribe. As we Saw none of his clan while on the way except now and then lots of two or three together engaged in the peace- ful occupation of watebing herdsof sheep, goats and camels, we afterwards came to the conclu- sion that there had been no consideration for the money disbursed. We did not begrudge it at the time, however. Mounted on a near! pure blocd sorrel Arab horse, dressed in fuil flowing Bedaween costume, armed with a fear- fully crooked Turkish scimeter, a Damascus dagger, a rusty old-fashioned American reyol- ver, and a double-barrel muzzile-loading a pee bee slung across his Dack, he looked de- cidedly picturesque and added considerably to ; the pictorial effect aud dignity of our little car- avan when under way. Shortly after we filed out of the gate the fog commenced to lift, as we thought it would, and as we wourd our way down the valleys of Ced- ron and Jehosaphat, past the Garden of Geth- semane. and round the southern spur of Mount: Olivet, the really massive apd imposing walls and towers of the city, thus dimly seen sarong the indistinct and magnifying medium of the rising mist, seemed even more impressive and impregnable than ever before. The effect was heightened also by $s of rainbow pA fade: the pale arel along the ollve-covered slope: F 'd of the city, and between the oid village of Bethany and that of Bethphage, froin which, it fs s ked over to the former pl. arus from tne dead. 1s a collection o . With here and there one built of stone, pleasantly tnated among Nelds of olive and alinond trees, the latter in full blossom when we passed by. tS most conspicuous object is a ruined tower of some size and undoubted antiquity, the pre- cise history of which, however, is hot known, The reputed site of the house of Simon the leper, abd also tiat of Marita and Mary. a pointed out in the village, bat, unfortunately, @s 1s almost always the ca: °5 located With much particulariiy 1 there 1s only vague and sox tory tradition for authority as to tl \ Bethpbage, a still small f 1 Getaany, stands oh the summit cf a litile bill to the southeast about two miles distant, by the rough foot-path connecting the two places. Its situ- ation is bleak and exposed, and the country immediately about seems unusually dry and sterile, THE TOMB OF LAZARUS. At Bethany we turned aside to visit the grave which fs pointed out as the scene ef the myra- The tomb, or, as the Bible calls it, the ‘cave,” Mes on a hillside on the northwestern side of the village, under a Turkish mosque, and is reached by a steep, narrow, dark and winding stairway of some thirty ste the passage to it being hewn out of the solid rock. The tomb itself ts a chamber some ten by twelve feet in size and nine or ten feet high. In the face of tradition {t would perhaps be rash to | say that this cannot be the Scriptural tomb of j Lazarus. But if itis, it certainly is not in its original condition, The walls are built up of squared blocks of stone, carefully up of squared blocks of stone, carefully laid, and the ceiling 1s a well-formed arch of the same taterial,— the work, I should erhaps still more likely, of the Crusaders, who held the country at a later day. On a plateau about half a mile from Bethany a flat stone some three feet tn length and itteen ‘eupon which Christ rested when coming up from Jericho. It is hence called the “stone of Rest,” and 13 kissed by all devout pilgrims passing over the road. A on the so-called “Apostles Tats small but never fatl- ter was once doubtle: one butlding, of witc all and a rather fine arch litule farthe and it Js naturally therefore a pl interest and veneration to the pi county. THR WILDE: Beyond the Apostle 2 Wilder. ness of Judea in whi Bapilst preached, feeding meanwhtle on locusts and wid honey. It e trom that point to the valley of the Jordan, and ts a land of desolation throughout. In passing through It we saw no sighs Of animal life, save here and there a bird andoceasionaily a little dust-colored chameleon lizard. The only vegetablesare a litte dry coarse grass, alow bush, which seems to be a sort of cross between Ue’ thistie and smali thorn tree ot the middle American states, and. what, if not identically the same, look very nearly. akin to the sage brush and grease wood of the great American desert. ‘The ‘rock 1s of soft limestone foundation, fice in texture: and creamy white in color, the glare of whici, renecting back the bright hot rays of the sun} Was extremely painful to the eye. We rode 43 over barren hills and through parched 3S until a little before noon, when we ~which heightened rather than hid ti ms lent by distance. To the left of these ds Mount Nebo with the high peak of Pis- while far in the north towers majestte Tly 10,000 feet above pvered summit barely distin- ‘© from the clouds lying along the In many respects, and partic 1h reference to the color and appearan mountains surrounding if, the EVIEW OF THE DEAD sea from Uns point reminded me very much of tha' Of Its sister sheet of water, the Great Salt Lake for attorney general, and A. B. Moore for gen- eral treasurer. The convention was thir ond harmonious. EDWARD A. Tracey, an old New York paver, Went into a saloon Sati , ook a drink aud eat some crackers. A piece of one of the crack- coal pine his throat and before medical aid Mayor Coorgr, of New York, on Saturday stated that certificates of removal of the police without furtier delay and forwarded sy onee to Wi at once Robinson. in Utah, seen trom the old stage road which used to run from the railway station of Uintah across the mountain on the left bank of Weber river, except that the color of the water here, much to my surprise, was a dark green, wherc- as there it was an intense blue. A little farther along, and a halt was called for lunch, which we took at a point called “the Tomb of Moses.” ‘This ‘which is marked veritable spot where is annually visited by large numbers of pil- grits of that faith on that account. It cannot, however, be the true site, since well authenti- * surface of lying I waited uuttl the Tays of the sun rising beliind the red mountains | of Moab had kissed the Mount of Olives, and judge, of the Romans, or, | ‘a records place the scene of his death on or near Nebo, which 1s far away to the northeast, on the other side of Jordan. Our descent, which had been quite sharp for some distance back, became decidediy. precipt- tous from thi8 point, as it needs must be, since the Dead Sea les some 1,300 feet below the Mediterranean, wiile Jerusalem, which we left in the morning, stands about 2,500 feet above that body of water. In fact, the path in some places reminds one of the oid horseback tratls leading intothe Yosemite Valley, except that, the formation and color of the rock surround- ings were different. And along here, too, I found an explanation of a pecultarity that had ped me allthe morning. The mountains of oab, across the valley, were of a rich reddish hue, while those through which we had been passing were almost milky white. But when we at last reached the slope facing the valley on our side we found the color there the same as that opposite. The rocks on every hand row had a red and scorched look, as though they had been subjected to a wrathful rain of | fire and brimstone not many generations ago. | who offered us the attraction of a “fantasia. | | | | | | | | | inally a) rd the summit of the dividing Ndye aud looked down into the valley beyond. | Aside trom all associations and traditions, the | view allorded here ts one of exceeding beauty aud interest, Below. to. the right fies the Dead green and lovely in the distance; in trent, stretching away to the north, runs the Uoriontal valley of the Jordan; opposice rises | the red mountains of the Land of Moab, velled by a wonderfully delicate transparent haze of | Most attractive and refreshing scene. Farther down this changed again. The lower portion of the mountains aud all their spurs projecting out into the valley seemed to be of a white and rotten limestone debris, out of which the life had been burned long longsince. They looked, indeed, more like huge heaps of leached aches piled up long encugh to become stratifled in @ measure, as such refuse will, than any- Uning else to which I can compare them. A DEAD SEA BATH. About half an hour after we reached the level plain we were upon the clean, pebbly shore of the Dead Sea, and in a few moments more our clothes were off and our bodies in its rippling Waves. The water, which is quite clear, and nearly the color of the Niagara river below the falls, seemed to me a little more bitter and salty than that of Salt Lake, although brighter and more attractive to the eye when seen close at hand. Its supporting power struck me as a little greater, also, than that of Salt Lake, as the body fioated more easily and the dificulty of swimming was greater on account of the ina- uility to keep one’s feet under water. So large a quantity of salt ts held in solution that the water has whatiscalled I bellevea “ropy appearance, much like that of a plate of well-made Tapioca soup. I observed, however, that when we came out of the water there was not as large a deposit of salt crystals on the body as after a bath in Salt Lake, and the feeling of the skin, instead of being dry'and prickly, as I expected, was rather oily and sticky. Our dinner that night was seasoned with salt made from Dead Sea water by solar evaporation. It was a little lizhter in color than the best article of brown sugar. Its crystals were large and hard, and, though forelgn substances were evidently present, In considerable quantity, it was not unpleasant to the taste. Iwas told’ that two quarts of the water will produce one quart of salt, but this is probably an exaggeration. To complete the statistics of this remarkable body of water, I may add what many of my readers may already know:—that there 1s no living thing of any kind in it; that even the driftwood brought down by the floods in the Jordan ts speedily cast upon its shores: that its length 1s about forty-five and 1ts greatest width about ten miles; that it is over 1,200 feet deep at the deepest place; and that the immense quantity of fresh water poured into it daily !s undoubtedly taken up by evaporation, as its great depth below the basin of the Mediterranean must preclude the idea of a subterranean outlet. ON THE BANKS OF THE JORDAN. A ride of about five miles from the shore of the sea across the level lower plain brought us to the banks of the Jordan, at a point nearly the, e distance above its mouth. Iam sorry to be obliged to confess that I was sadly dis- appointed in my tirst sight of this famous stream. For centuries it has been the theme of religious song and typification, its shores a place that thousands of pilgrims have traveled thousands of miles to rest upon. One tg natn- rally therefore led to expect a noble body of pure and sparkling water, It is nothing of the ind. Its banks are cut by the current deep and sheer Uirough a bed of ashy gray clay, and fis W 3 th inuddy, and somewhat milky in color. I am told, and am glad to belleve, that above the Lake of Tiberias its water is clear, and breaks tn musical ripples over a pevbiy bottom, between green and shady banks; but in tie lower valley It is directly the opposite of this. Its immediate banks are fribged with a growth of small trees and under brush, 1t 1s true, but the stream itself and a! its surroundings are ce Lane and drear tot) st degree. The view from the river 1 every direction 1s equally forlorn and desolate, The surface of the earth in the valley, as I hav before said, is of a dull ashy white, generall - with a base of greenish gray. The rains ani winds of ages bave fashioned this material tat curious and fantastic shapes. On one side may be seen away off What looks like the rutns 0 an ancient city; on another seeming tower and temples rise above the plain; but the form most commonly seen is that of ‘sharp polnted cones, which at a distance strongly resembie white tents. Indeed, it requires no great stretch of the imagination to fancy in the twi- ae vast armies encamped between the banks of the river and the mountains on cither side. Three or four miles above the point where we first reached the Jordan we came to the Fico held by tradition to be the spot where Christ was baptized by John the Baptist. Like all good ligrims we bathed in its waters here, also. We ound the bath most refreshing, and, after our float in the dead Sea, cleansing, likewise; but the bed of the river is covered with sharp stones, which cut and bruise one’s bare feet like filnt or broken glass, and the stream proved too deep and its current too strong torisk either wad- ing or swimming to the other side. We roughly estiinated the width of the river at this point at abouteighty feet. Its greatest depth was from five to six feet, thovgh it 1s probably deeper after the heavy rains and melting snows of early spring, and shallower than now at the close of the dry season, CAMPING OUT BETWEEN GILGAL AND JERICHO, ‘The sun was fringing with gold the clouds be- hind the Mountains of Judea and putting a tint of rose and purple on those of the Land of Moab as we turned our faces away from the Jordan. and rede radidly between curiously shaped mounds and through thickets of the cruel tree from which tradition says Christ’s crown of thorns was made, to our quarters for the night, situated on the upper plain of the valley, nearly midway between the scriptural village of Gilgal and ancient Jericho, which we reached a tile while after dark. Before retiring at night we were visited by a band of friendly Bedaweens encamped near by, The music for the entertainment was furnished by the clapping of men’s hands, while one of the dancing women accompanied herself with ‘ries of wild unearthly cries not unlike the ar wheop of a North American Indian, but shriller aud more ear-piercing than any sound I had ever before heard. Seen in the dim light, the swarthy faces of these children of the desert, with their flashing eyes, shining white teeth, and strange noises, presented a weird and somewhat attractive spectacle; but we soon wearied of thelr efforts, and turned toward our beds, Ured and sleepy after our rough ride of more than forty miles. We were in our saddles before sunrise the next morning, on our way to the Fountain of Elisba and the site of Old Jericho. The land lying along the stream flowing from the foun- tain is irrigated by its waters, and is thus made guite productive, and jpipacant to the eye. Ve passed a number of little patches of wheat, which, though lately sown, and only now com- ing through the ground, is expected to be ready for the sickle in May, and also a considerable variety of semt-tropical plants. Before long the welcome sound of the waters of the spring were heard, tumbling in beautiful cascades over its rocky bed, and when we came to the stream we found it remarkably like a New England mountain trout brook in clearness and swiftness. The fountain, which we reached a few rods further on, bursts from the earth hiough a wall of heavy stone, in volume nearly sufficient for an ordinary mill streain, and falls inco a deep and quiet little pool in the shade of a wide-spreading tree, the whole forming a the in te! attached to this spot comes from the legend which fdentifies the spring as the one whose “water was naught” until healed by Elisha; and the rich vegetation along its stream seems to confirm the promise of the prophet, made at the time: “There shall not be from | thence any more death or barren land.” From th Lill side to THE REPUTED SITE OF JERICHO. Save masses of crumbling rock and debris, there is nothing to show that either the first or second city of the name ever stood here; but in the valley lying between the hill on which the city stood and the high mountain in the rear pointed out as the scene of Christ’s temptation, may be seen the ruins of large buildings and heavy fortification walls, together with the remnants of some fire Roman arches, built, probably, by the Crusaders. The situation, however, was truly a “pleasant” one, as the people of the city pointed out to the prophet when complaining of the lack of water. On many accounts the scene around us here is of the most beautiful and interest to be seen, not, alone in Palestine, but probably any in the world. Under foot Me the ruins of two destroyed cities, from which break forth the fountainJ we wound up the steep e Evening Star. waters made sweet and healthful by a miracle; in front, looking eastward, Spreads the plains: f Jericho, the broad valley of the Jordan beyond, and Nebo in the ‘lis- taLce; ‘on the left les the little va! ey made memorable by the incidents attending Flisha’s journey to Bethel. In the rear towers the Hill of Temptation, from which Christ was offered in vain the Kingdoms of the earth; while on the right the waters of the Dead Sea glitter in the sun, holding the buried cities of the plain in their mysterious depths, with th? dep and rocky bed of the Brook Cheilr, where Elijah was fed by ravens, according t» God’s promise, plainly marked in the fore- round by a rank growth of strange vegetation. It 1s little wonder that a spot so beautiful in * self and about which so many sacred associa- tions cluster should be eagerly sought, and left with reluctance. From the site of Oid Jericho our course lay out of the vailey of the Jordan along the steep and cavernous Walls of rock which snut in the source of the Brook Cherith, over the very path tred by the feet of Jesus in his jouraeyings from Jericho up to Jerusalem,—a long and wearisome way. On the summit of a high mountain several miles farther on the path through the wilder- ness we came to the inn where the good Samar- {tan cared for the upfortunate man who fell among thieves. To its reputed site, I should rather say; for it is not seriously claimed, I be- eve, that the ruins of the building now to be seen there are those of the inn mentioned tn seripture. The portion of the walls still stand- Ing are of smoothly dressed stone, with evi- dences of arched window and door caps, and they were undoubtedly constructed long afier the inn itself had disappeared, though it Is claimed that the well in the enclosure, still filled with good water, is a part of the original structure. RUSSIAN PILGRIMS, Some distance farther along we met a large caravan of Russian pilgrims, on their way to the Jordan, to be baptised in its waters. It was composed of men and women, in nearly equal proportions, mostly of middle ‘age, but a number were patriarchal in appearance and bearing,—too old, indeed, one would have thought, to undertake so long and arduous a journey. ut by far the largest portion of both sexes were arene afoot. They ho} to camp near Jericho the same night, and, by rising at two or three o'clock in the morning, to reach the river at sunrise, when the ceremony of baptism takes place. ’ To have been baptised in the Jordan ts with these people an almost sure passport to Heaven, and the garments worn at, the Ume are preserved with sacred care to be ut on again only when their body 1s laid out for the tomb. Coming from their cold northern home, one would have thought they would suf- fer, even with thin clothing under the flery sun which scorcbes all vegetable life out of these hot mountain passes, Yet almost without ex- ception they were dressed in the warmest and thickest wraps possible, including in nearly every case heavy furcaps or hoods, sheep skin coats, with the full fleece of wool worn inside, and thick boots or coarse wooden stockings and leggings, although the merci at the tume could not have ranged much below 90°, faith, I suppose, kept them comfortable. A few hours more, and we were again climb- ing the steep slopes of the Mount of Olives,— tbls time from the eastward. All the way up to its summit we could look back through the depressions in the high intervening and catch glimpses of the line of the Jo! and the shining waters of the Dead Sea,—so near, bs centers seen through the thin pure atmos- phere, and yet so far away! A few steps for- ward, arot a up of obscuring and before us, though on a much lower level,—be- yond the Garden of Gethsemane, and across the deep gorge of Jehosaphat,—spread out like a } map, lay Jerusalem, ‘The Struggle in Congress. GEN. GARFIELD'S OPENING SPEECH. The great political debate on the pending political differences between the two contend- ing parties for Presidential position was fairly inaugurated in the House on saturday by a vigorous speech from Gen. Garfield. In an- nouncing the republican position, Gen. G. was emphatic enough not to be misunderstood, and placed himself and the repubifcan party in an | attitude of determined resistance to the politi- cal legislation the opposition seek to engraft on appropriation bills. It was noticeable that while Gen. G. did nat undertake to argue on the merits or demerits of the democratic post- ton, yet be did very clearly indicate that bis party saw the signs of a new rebellion, and that, as in 1861, it would stand in united pha- lapx to meet It. The speech created a decided sensation on both sides of the House. The con- gratulations showered upon him by his party associates at the close of the speech gave abun- dant evidence of the relish with wich they received it, and the hesitation how pedo by the democrats indicated that they notexpected the republican organization to take quite so defiant an attitude. THE DEMOCRATS PREPARING A REPLY. ‘The adjournment over until to-morrow will of course give the democrati time to prepare a reply. them are busy r of Saturday last. In Garfield was willing to yield the vei of the law, now sought to be rej in the army bill, and so delivered himself in a 20 mtn- ute speech. Having found this as a text the effort of Saturday will be met with an at- tack on the consistency of the republican | leader in seeing revolution in a measure which Jess than a short month ago he was ready to accept and vote for. MING DEBATE, The will be the most spirited one known for years. Almost all the prominent leaders on both sides: are preparing speeches, and at least 25 bers are down on the Speaker's list to be heard. ‘The disposition of the epee § is to allow the debate to run until the end of this week and then cut itshort under the operation of the previous question. When, however, the bill reaches the Senate debate may run on a month. The prospect now is that the session will be of longer duration than was expected, and may extend into the sweitering dog days. i The District in Congress. The Senate District of Columbia Commit- tee has had no meeting yet, although there ts a good deal of business before it. Senator Har- nis, its chairman, ts also chairman of the select committee on epidemic diceases, and his time Js almost entirely taken up with the considera- tion of the subject which that committee is in- Neen eng Hie says he does not know when be will call his committee together, THE CAPITOL RAILWAY COMPANY. Senator Harris introduced a Dill to-day to amend the charter of the Capitol North 0 street and South Washington Ratiway Company. The name of the corporation 1s to hereafter be the Capitol Railway Company. ‘The new company is to have a capital of $200,000, and its line is to be amended so that it may discontinue its pre- sent track on Ohio avenue and 12th street n.w., and it Is authorized to run its track along 14th street to B street south, thence along B street to connect with the present line on Virginia avenue. It is also authorized to lay its track from Virginia avenue and 11th street s.w., in 11th to Water street, thence along Water street to Mstreet south; also from present line on P street and 1ith street n.w. to Bounday strect. STORMY VOVAGE OF THE LEakY.—The steamer George Leary, with the excursion party to and from Norfolk, reached here at 12:45 o'clock to- day, having had a very rough passage up the bay. The bay was like the Atlantic ina storm. and the boat shipped sea aiter sea over her and when the excurstonists reached Point Lookevt the (se Was 50 powerful that for a whole hour off tae point the boat did not gain an inch, standing tembling against the wind with aiullhead of steam on. Mr. Plant was ob board, and said that in an experience of 20 years be had never seen anything like it, Capt. White, who has had 25 years experience as a sallor, said he had encountered astorm on the ocean. but never met a wo one, and never was ce the Potomac able distance this side of Point Lookout, and very slow progress was made all the way up. PaINFUL ACCIDENT. — Y¢ about 9 o'clock, Miss Emma Wooden, e! Mice, met with a secident at her restience No, 634 Cee many Some were on horses, others on a38e3,~ FORTY-SiXTH CONGRESS. Monpay, March 31. SENATE.—Mr. Wallace presented nine peti- tons from citizens of Philadelphia, asking the passage of the inter-state commerce Dill. By Mr. Grover—Extending the time for the construction and equipment of the Northern Pacific railroad. By Mr. Johnston—Authoriz- ing the National Board of Health to investigate | and report on infectious and contagious dls- eases of animals. By Mr. Pendleton—For the relief of Colonel Thomas Worthington, of Ohio, for army supplies in 1861. He also introd a joint resolution relative to requiring a court of inquiry into the case of Colonel Washington, of the 46th Ohio iment. By Mr. n— Providing indemnity to Illinois for swamp in that state, sold by the United States. Mr. Cameron (Pa.) introduced a resolution in- structing the committee on the library to in- quire into the expediency of purchasing the at of Ciciltus Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, painted by Van trait of Washington. painted By Mr. Whyte—Limitin causes from state courts to Mr. Rollins presented the memorial of A. H. Cragin and others praying the of a law providing for proper sewer ‘on 1st street 8s’, and the removal of the terraces and embankments upon which their property is situated in Washington city, D. C. Mr. Morrill made a speech an addition to the Capitol building for the of the library of Congress. He advocated a separate building. ir, Saunders presented the resolutions of the legislature of Nebraska, against the payment of southern war claims. Mr. Kerran introduced a bill authorizing the Secretary of War to detail an officer of the army to take command of the ex ition fitted out by Messrs. Morrison and Brown, citizens ef ‘New York, to search for the records of Sir John Franklin’s expedition, and to issue to such ofi- cer army equipments, All the above named bills were appropriately referred. On motion of Mr. Williams, the memorial of the Mexican veterans, asking to receive pen- sions on the same footing as soldiers and sailors of the war of i512, was referred to the commit- tee on pensions. On motion of Mr. Voorhees, it was resolved that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to furnish to the Senate full information as to the manner cars and bonded warehouses, con- taining appraised merchandise are secured to prevent frauds on the revenue. Mr. Voorhees moved that the bill providing piditionsl socommosations for the Library of “ony referred back to the Se es cominittee on Pos — apes the Senate on the sub- . He shows @ ecesstty of more room for the library, both now and int the futare; and opposed the proposition for an additional wi: to, the Capito! for that purpose, as it would not only deface the structure and curtail grounds, but would involve the expenditure of a very large amount of money, while the requlred ac- better served by the commodation would erection of a separate building east of el = would be economical ‘and conve pien' The bill was then referred back to the - mittee on the library. es Mr. Harris called up the bill aut Secretary of tae Treasury two contrac swith John Gamgee for of a re- cargoes, tO be Used at such qusramties ay art aie usrantines as Health, and appropriating $200,000 for that pur- Discussion was in when pe progress our report MURDEROUS WORK OF TRAIN WRECKERS, eecai People apart and aajores: INCINNATI, March 31.— says: “As the night express Te npey hy Grand Trunk Ratlroad was __ two miles east of Smith's C urday —_ it was thrown from the track. The engine the three forward cars were wrecked. Swansea Be Wet ey Jerry MoGuire, the ‘fireman,’ were fatally coal. aide aie Francis Kel- i ed. The latter has since died. logg, of Erie. Pa., had a leg broken; 8. P. Wil- a lard, of CI Sustained @ cut on the anda fracturect the ht arm, Several otvet persons were htly injured. The dsast r was caused by ral) |. They were traced by their f¢ in the mud and their tools were found a dis- tance from the scene of the catastrophe. Sev- eral suspected persons have been arrested. this ing, as a train, No.s, from Ne ¥e Z ———s Norwicu, N, Then 31. Felix McCann, convicted of the murder of J. Morris Hatch near Sberburre on December 3, 1878, was ser- ine no. tenced this morning by Judge Follet ecuted May 16th. se asserted cence and asked for another trial. —— EX-CONGRESSMAN H. Y. RIDDLE committed suicide at Lebanon, Tenn., Friday, by shooting himself through the head with a stot during a fit of temporary insanity. He been for some time in very bad health and was also em- barrassed by security debts. He was amem- ber of the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Con- gresses, DEATES OF Ex-CONGRESSMEN.—Hi J. albert, died Saturday, at taldnigh in Baltimore, in his Was a native of Baltimore Bom snake "ese 4 Forty-thira Ei TWO RAILROAD DISASTERS. Murderous Work of Wreckers. THE FEMALE PEDESTRIANS Eight Left Out of Eighteen. ANXIETY ABOUT THE ZULU WAR. ——___ RUSSIAN ASSASSINS AT WORK. FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Manian and Hawdon. Lonpon, March 31.—The weather on Saturday and Sunday having been favorable, Hanlan and Hawdon both took Tyne. Hanlan ts ‘erce. MaRitzeurG, March 11.—No direct or reliable intells from Col. Pearson has been re- cer Anxiety ts becoming grave, though the last. communication was jul. Severat na- tive runners induced by large rewards for Ekowe with dispatches, but returned ing the roads destroyed, every manéed by military Kraals (forts,) ee with Zulus. With ie é | care Col Pearson's lies it ts believed will be exhausted by the end of March. The expe- dition in course of the lower companies of jars. As goon as the native contingent ts ty the ex- ition will be A Strike Deferred. Loxpon, March 31 —The strike ‘lass makers in the counties has been deferred. The masters after a private conference with the hands to the notices of a reduction of fora hight. The men meanwhile at work. Russian Assassins of Hi ‘A dispateh from St. Telegraph says: Forty-five were: On the night after the attempt on the life of Gen. Von Drentlem, chief of the gend armeries, were not sent to the prisons. They in- Ciude officers of the guard, court chamberlains, and two daughters of prominent ministers, Shipwreck. Loxpox, March $1 —A ai to dora’ Irom Batavia, March 31: says: “ The come. bark Henrietie Bi by way of eat re Sa as Sate a as re wenta and Was wrecked at Anjer. Part Bioxpos, Maren, were INDON, larch 31.. Saturday to st the cagte ct he South Stafford: mi the Mabilities under a year, by which time many mines would be ruined. The enti of Wy Wi Qui ion eavers ‘ages 0) present. British Officials im Africa Quarrel- Cars Towx, March wf-It ts stated that a serious breach has occurred between Sir Bartle ana sit Henry E. Bulwer, oS in of the harsi mes- Cape nor of 8 Paris, and ator to | abolish the senate if attempts to interfere with whieh i March 31.—Tucker, 4 IVERPOOL, yn , Rowley & Co., The failure is E i al i i ii i Ei fi eel iif ae ao dence, in Abingdon, House ot delegates ‘Maryland louse of. ty, died of pneumonia Rock Hall, on Saturday ‘THE Tax ON DRINKS IN Vinginia.—The Vir- gipia se! has concurred The ee mee of the Forty-first a pan aeons oy the license of any if upon the dealer returns it appears the law has been evaded. _—————_—_—_—_— on SENATOR HAMPTON.—The Charleston News iy ut the physilane fn attsaagc wn, ly imprudent him to go at este ae ington. The same paper is “dn cage any ‘of Senator E i ing for the voice or he will, whatever the cost to himself, Stantly to Washington and be sworn in.” 89 Ex-Mayor Geo. W. C. Johnston, of Cincin- nat, died Saturday.