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?? lie fttrnino Jsta r. V?* 54?N9. 8.236. WASHINGTON, D. C.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27. 1879. TWO CENTS. | I [ THE EVENING STAB. ri'BLISHFD DAILY, Except .iandajr, AT THE STAB BUILDINGS, Peansjlvaiiia Atenae, Corner 11th Street, br The Eyesoxo^ Star EewsuaDer Oomoanr. Thx Evramio Stab is served to subscribers in the city by earners, on their own account, at 10 cents jer week, or 44 cent* j-er mnnfc. Copied at the counter, 2 cents each. By mail?postage prepaid? 60 cents a month; one year. ffi. [Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C-, a* t>econd class mail matter.] i Th* Wskkly Stab?published on Friday?f3 k ^esr-^ostage prepaid. 10 copies for 15; 20 Copies I. WW All mail subscrirtions must be paid in advance ; no paper sent longer than so paid for. Rates of advertising made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICES. TUB I9J-AND SOCIALS PLEASURE IOLTJB elected tbe following Be*k, President: Peter Johnson, Vice jEJrrtidsnt. Garret FitageraM. Fin. Secretary; John Tro^heim, Bee. Secretary CBarlea Bsntf. Treasurer. au 17 2t wnTlCB.?The ditferent Catholic Societies Irly of the DistrVt of Colombia are hereby not fr- 1 to meet at tbe Baltimore and Potomac D^-rot. cor 6th ard B sts . SUNDAY, AuJT?t 31at 1879. at 8 oV'rck (tiarp. for the parrcse of atfrnHiw th<* cf?ren ory of the dedication of the New Catholic Church at Manassas. Va. Tbe rnblic are .erally are invited toatterd Ticket*, round trio fl, to be rrocnred at tbe Office. New. 601 and M)3 Pennsylvania avanu) ijorCawot. By ordvr anrt7-4t' P CONNEI.L^hiefjSTirahi^ THK BF.GVLAR MRETINA OF THB VV MWTRTCT or COLUMBIA HoaTU'UL TUBAL SOCIETY will be held at German IH'i, ' or 11th and F ste., on WEDNESOAY, Anmist 2ah. *t 8 p m. Essay by Frof. Taylor, on "Tbo Orjntf => Bn-t of F! n<Ja, find the Hew Fn-ur>id DiS.-aso Row Attacking the Grapes of Florida.' , st:*26 "it* ft. T. CHASF. Se^y. A FINK ANT) FULL LTNE <>F FCBNI TUBE, Carpets and Upholstery Goods, in c'udinjr Mosquito Cancip'ee, Tfm? and Orrtoanes 'utt ircived at W. B. MOSES ft SON'S, comer 7ta st. and La. are. *u<13-tr rSfr1 IBON WATEB, ? fry From the Famous -SPA," AT BLADESSBUBG, This water pospesnes in an emiueni degree all the medicinal properties of s Buparior Cv?ai*ybeete Si ting, liecotnmentied by leading physicianp. MILBUUN'S PtiaBSlAUY. ___ jy7-tr 1429 Pbshstlva^TA AVBSXT*. 9 CURE BY ABSORPTION ?* "8APANULE," The crest External Lotion and Fluid Absorbent Nature's Bemedy Applied by a Natural Method. Used In Bponire or Foot Bath, it Immediately B?r Beves Pain and Soreness of Bcxly and Limb from whatever cause. It also brings a refreshing coolness, mu< destroys offensive perspiration. It is the only T^uvp offered to tbe public vo be used through the ?>? >? - BAPANULE" Is a sure and snedflc Bemedy for Neuralgia, Lumbago, Headache, Barns, Scalds, Bruises, Sprains, Sores, Piles, Boiia. Chilblains, Bunions, Corns, ftc. Cures all eruptive disorders of the Skin, leaving it smooth and soft. Soreness or Inflammation of Feet, from waatever cause, immediately relieved and permanently cored by nSnir -SAPAMJLE" in Foot Baths. *? SAPAHrLE" <v???tTi? nothing injurious to tbe moat delicate organism, and can be used with perfect safety by alL Becommended by Physicians of all schools, and by thousands who daily use it aad And relief. flat4 s/fTf^n guaranteed or money refunded. Price 90c. and |1 per Bottle. BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. SAMUEL GEBBY ft C0MPAST, IWi, ^ 937 Broadway, H. f. f ~ mr At Wholesale In Washington by BTOTT ft CROMWELL. 480 Pennsylvania ave. n. w. m31-Sm ^ TlTE WILL BILL SLAT* MANTELS CHXAPKB Tt than any Northern Manufacturer, and our customers have the largest line of styles to select from. We have kept our full force mm of mechanics at work all through the winter, and now have 7R0 Mantels in stonk. ENGLISH TILE for hearths, vestibules and deoozative work. Sole Agency of the Celebrated EMPIRE HEATISG BAHGK. The BTTBTI8 HOT BLAST FUBNACE is decidedly the beet furnace we have ever used. HAYWASD ft HUTCHINSON, PncxBsas fta, 917 9th ft, M?tr.? leH-lstptt Wsshington. D. O LUMBER ! LUMBER !! ANOTHEB TUMBLE IN PRICKS! POPLAB, 1 Inch and M, No. a per 100 ft, ?200 WHITE PINE SHINGLES, No. 2. .per 1000, ?L7S CLBAB SIDING, % Inch (without s knot), ia per 100 ft.......w...m...*................ 91-00 L VIRGINIA PINE BOABDS per 100 ft, SWcts. ^ GTPBES8 SHINGLES, Ha 2 per 1000, f4.50 f WE ARB HSVJSR OUT OF TRJtSBl I 1 I WILL ET ft LI BBS Y, ^ 0HKES SIXTH ASD B. 1. AVENUE I.W., OPPOSITE SOBTHEBH LIBEBTY MABKJST, my? u Wash moron, D. a FIliE STOSE cmiVA CH&MBEB SET, 11 1'IilCES, #2.25. K PIECES STONE CHIN \ TEA SET, ?t A larve assortment of BOGEBS' CUTLE3Y and J- W. 8CHAEFEH, JQ16 Seventh street a.tc. jQAS FUTlfBES. GAS FIXTDBEJ. THE LABGE8T STOCK OF THE BEST MAW GOODS IH THE CITY? MADE fro? ths celebrated factory oi Messrs. Mitchell vaace ft Oo. I .WILL MEET ALL OOMPETIT0B8 IH THIS i CITY AS WELL AB OUTBIDE. AH oC our Goods handled by Practical Hand* Will guarantee entire ft'Tfartlrm W K. F. BKOOK3, I aogft-ld COBCOHA* BxntDrwo, iflth tt. L TV^HAiiTLlti'B UikJtAT AND . clt-* Aliv| XJ PQ wttedy f Catarrh and all Throat Dia esajs. Hawkini?, Offensive Breath sod Pains in the K <* <? end Ear*. Bold by Udruggi-ta. aug9 3m THE EVENING STAR Washington Nowb and Gossip. Government Receipts To-day.?Internal revenue, $3^8,616.09; customs, SS4S.2S1.08. Among nis Patents issue! for the week ended Atigust 2fith, were the following: Wm. M. Lerch, Baltimore, combined buckle and hook: Charles II. Roloson. Baltimore, sash and wltdow frame. Col. TorRTEi.ixvrrE, of General Sherman' staff, returned to-day from a trip to Long Branch. s Hear Admiral Wyman, commanding the naval force on the North lAtlantic station, ad vfresthe Navy department that he will proceoi from Portsmouth, N. II., to New York, and transfer his flag from the Marlon at the rormeplace to the Powhatan at the latter. Secretary Thompson will return from tli Virginia mountains to-morrow afternoon. Mrs Thompson, who is greatly improved In health will return with him. The Secretary will, upon his return, remain in Washington about a week, and then proceed to Indiana on an extended visit. He will be accompanied to Indiana by his daughter, Miss Mollte. and his son Charley Movements of u. S. Naval Vessels.?^The practice ship Constellation with ca-Jet midshipmen from the Naval Academy on board sailed from Newport last Monday. A telegram from Portsmouth, N. H.. to the Navy department announces that the Wachusett, which went aground, is afloat, and ready to go Into the dry dock this morning. A Patent has been issued by the U. S. Patent Office to Thoinas A. Edison, of Menlo Park, N. J., for the electric lighting apparatus on which he has been experimenting at his laboratory and workshop for some time past. Mr. n. V. Beyer, a clerk in the hydrographlc office for several years, has been appointed by the Brazilian minister superintendent of the coast survey of Brazil, and will immediately superintend the erection of a number of lighthouses on the Brazilian coast. The Contract for the vault and safe work on the new building for the bureau of engraving and printing has been awarded to George L. Damon & Co., of Boston. Tee Republican Campaign in Maine.?The reports which reach the Republican Congressional Committee dally from Maine give contldenceto its members that the republicans will carry that state by a fair majority. All writers from the state unite In the statement that Senator Blaine is conducting a magnificent canvass, which he directs with clock-work movement. The Senator frequently makes three speeches a day. Letters received this morning represent that the republicans feel confident; that a strong current is now moving in their favor, with the chances of its strength increasing rather than diminishing between now and the day of election. Senator Brcce has gone to Cleveland, Ohio. Meanwhile a corps of experts is engaged in examining the books of the late Freedman's Bank. Senator B. is chairman of the Senate special committee appointed to make an examination of the affairs of this bank and the rumor is that some startling developments of facts heretofore concealed may be expected. Anent Senator B. the statement is made that he has abandoned the intention of again residing in Mississippi. It is said that he recently purchased ten thousand acres of land in Kansas, and will make that state his home when his present Senatorial term expires. Army Orders.?Captain W. H. Jordan, 9th Infantry, is appointed as inspector of certain recruiting property on hand at the cavalry recruitlBg depot at Chicago, Illinois, for which 1st Lieut. F. K. Upham is responsible. The leave granted Major William Arthur Is extended two months, with permission to go beyond the sea. Naval Orders.?Lieutenant commander F M. Green to the hydrographlc office. Chief Engineer G. D. Emmons from the Wabash and placed on sick leave. Chief Engineer Joseph Trlliey to duty on board the Wabash, at Boston, Mass." Passed Assistant Surgeon H. P. Harvey to the Passaic, at Washington, D.c., relieving Passed Assistant Surgeon J. R. Waggoner, who is ordered to the nautical school ship St. Mary's The Decision op the Attorney general relative to the arrears of pensions, mentioned in The Star of yesterday, affects favorably about fifteen thousand soldiers in the different soldleis' homes. The amount Involved Is about one million and a half dollars, which, according to the decision, goes to the soldiers and not to the homes. The New army Register will be ready for Issue In about a fortnight. Captain Eads, who left the city a short t-ima ago for St. Louis, will leave soon for Europe. He will examine the Important improvements on European rivers, and will utilize his observations in the work of the Mississippi River Commission. Before leaving here he submitted to the government his plan for lnter-oceanlc canal communication by means of a marine railway. He received no encouragement, and has, it Is understood, abandoned that idea. Henry H. Smith, esq., the journal clerk of the House of Representatives, Is in the city preparing for the committee on rules, which meet in this city in November next, a compilation of the new rules of the House agreed upon at the recent session of the committee at Long Branch. Hon. Wm. m. Springer was in the city last nlgnt. He is reported to have said that he still hi of the opinion that Clarkson R. Potter will secure the New York gubernatlonal nomination on the democratic ticket, and that the Presidential nomination will, to a great extent, be foreshadowed by the result of the election in Ohio. Labor Troubles.?Ail the freight handlers and truckmen of the Michigan Southern railroad, at t hlcago, 300 in number, struck y asterday against low wages and overwork. About forty of the Lake Shore depot strikers accepted a compromise of fi.is per day The differences that existed between the proprietor of the Memphis Ecenino Ledger and the Typographical Union have been amicably settled, and the union printers returned to work. Crr Hia Nose Off.?In a stabbing affray at Newport, R. I., yesterday, between Edward Murphy and Wm. Madden, belonging to the l nitcd states surveying schooner Eagre, the latter's nose was cut away and he received other cuts which will probably prove fatal. Same Old Plan of Bank Robbery.?In S. S. Kickley's bank at Columbus, o., yesterday, a man engaged the attention of the proprietor on pretense of a negotiation, when a "par' climbed in a rear window and got away with is.ixto currency and $is,ooo m registered bonds. A Pecci.iar Case ok Trance has caused great excitement in Hereford, England. It Is t hat of a young girl who had been laid out for dead, and for whose interment all preparations had tx-en made, when It was discovered that she was in a trance. For three weeks before tnat she had paj taken of no food, and since her iecovery from the trance she has had her protruding, the eyeballs rigidly tlxed, agitated6 ue at lias been hysterically A $5,000 Rowing Prize.?A. T soule o Rochester, N. Y., oners a $5,?.oo prlze'for a slngl scull race and the championship of the world open to everybody, provided Hatlan and court npy will row the race, to take place anywhere 1 the United states agieed upon by the principal and the donor of the prize. ^ California Politics.?The Alt* Califomian of San Francisco, says that the probabiutle > art- that the straight democratic ticket wdl no get 2o.im*> ballots In the state; but the democra., s have fused with the honorable bilks on the governc rahip and on many of the local nomi nar ions t hus assisting to office the men who bolted from i heir own organization and giving encouragement for other bolts m the future. The general of the Jesuits has been summoiud to Rome to receive the order to conform to the Pope's new Encyclical letter concerning the teaching of philosophy. The Pope's medical advisers have been complaining that his ?<?'P8H?!??0Dniie,fient ln ^ Vatican Is injuring h Cardinals have been consulted as to the policy of a brief change. He Is id to be anxious to throw aside the notion of imprisonment so carefully nurtured by Plus IX. tw .Mr. Gladstone thinks that the settlement of the Alabama claims by arbltmion wmTaak in history fvith pie abolition of the slave trade. ? t \ Surgeon General Hammond. final action in his case?pct on the retired list without pay. Secretary McCrary to-day submitted to the Preslde&t tne following report In the case of surgeon General Hammond: Wak Department, ) Washington, D. C., August 26,1S79./ Mr. President:?I have In accordance with your Instructions examined the case of Dr. William A. Hammond, late Surgeon General o the Army, and the report of tne board recently convened to consider the same. * * * I have tbe honor to submit my conclusions ujron the case as follows: First. In construing the act of Congress of April lGrti, lSt>2, as nor, depriving the Surgeon General of the power to purchase medical supplies Dr. Hammond was guilty of no crime. The construction he placed upon that act whether erroneous or not was entirely consonant with an honest purpose, and such a purpose must be presumed until the contrary appears. Tlie act authorized medical purveyors to purchase all medical supplies under the dllection of the surgeon general. The surgeon general held that the power to make purctia;es In person which had been previously exercised by him and by his predecessor was not taken away by this act; that the purveyors were placed under his orders for the purpose of aiding h'm in the performance of that duty, reu dered very onerous at that time by a great war. He held that what he could command another to do be could do himself: that what he could do indirectly he could do directly. I am clearly of the oplnlcn that the construction of the act was not so palpably wrong as to render all acta done in performance of It presumably criminal. It was the duty of the Surgeon General to construe and execute the act. second. The acts of the Surgeon General in making purchases of medical supplies in person and not through a medical purveyor, and In directing medical purveyors to purchase particular articles at specified prices from certain persons were not acts in themselves criminal. The mere fact that these things were done did not raise a presumption of guilt to be overthrown by the accused. Tbe burthen was upon the prosecution to establish, by competent evidence and teyond reasonable doubt, that the acts complained of were done with corrrupt intent. Third. I'pon the question of intent tbe board recently convened finds that there Is no evidence that the surgeon general was Interested In. or profited by the contracts which were charged as fraudulent. Tt is further found by the board that there Is no direct evidence to establish corruption, and that the circumstantial evidence upon the question of intent is conflicting and some of it incomplete. But the board sustains the sentence of the court martial largely upon the ground that the acts complained of were unlawful in themselves and that therefore a fraudulent Intent must be presumed until the contrary is established by the accused, the burthen being on him. This. I regard, is a grave error for the reasons already stated. Fourth. In my opinion the evidence does not establish the charge of corruption, and it is only ;by .assuming that the acts complained of were In themselves so palpably unlawful as to raise the presumption of criminal intent, that any sufficient foundation for the sentence of the court martial can be found, and that assumption not being warranted by the terms of the statute, the finding cannot be upheld. Fifth. The charge of falsehood is not sustained. Dr. Hammond stated in a private letter to Dr. Cooper that GenHaileck bad requested the detail of surgeon Murray for duty at Philadelphia. It was charged that General Halleck had not made this Identical request, but it was admitted that he had requested the transfer of Dr. Murray from the south to "eastern hospital duty." It was in proof that Dr. Murray had urgently requested General Halleck to secure his transfer to Philadelphia, and it is not lm?irotable that this was mentioned by General Ialleck to Dr. Hammond, as the latter claims. General Halleck testified that he had no recollection of having mentioned Philadelphia as the place to which he desired to have Dr. Murray sent. There is room for doubt as to what the Surgeon General understood the request of General nalleck to be. There is still greater room for the conclusion that an honest misunderstanding arose between the two, and I cannot but regard it as a very harsh and unjust judgment which pronounced tbe Surgeon General guilty upon this charge. I recommend that the finding and sentence in the case of Surgeon General Wm. A. Hammond referred to, be annulled and set aside, and that tbe name of said Wm. A. Hammond be placed on the retired list of the army as surgeon General, without back, present, or future pay, or allowance of any kind whatsoever. george W. McChary, Secretary of War. The President endorsed the above report as follows:?The recommendation of the Secretary of War in the foregoing report is approved, and orders will issue accordingly. R. B. Hayes. Dr. Hammond was sentenced by court-martial to dismissal from tbe army upon the charges mentioned by Secretary McCrary in his report. Bane Officers to Be Prosecuted.?The directors and ex-general manager of the Consolidated bank of Montreal are to be prosecuted In the criminal court for submitting to the government an untrue statement of the affairs of the bank. A demand for a writ of attachment has been made against the Mechanics' bank by a holder of Its bills. Boat Racing in Canada.-?The boat race between Ross and smith, which was to have taken place on Bedford basin, N. 8., yesterday, was postponed until to-day on account of rough water. There was a large crowd of strangers and others on hand, and betting was lively. Banian declines to row Klley In Ottawa, Canada, this season, as he expects to row Courtney this fall. He, however, offers to row Riley at Toronto for any sum. Mrs. Bush's Fight With Snakes?A telegram from Flemlngton, N. J.f August 25th, says: Mis. E. Bush, residing near Lebanon, In this county, had a desperate encounter with three enormous pilot snakes the other day. The snakes came out of the woods adjacent to the house and glided up to the doorstep. They were about to enter the open door'when Mrs. Bush discovered them. She did not run nor scream, but prepared to fight. She took up the poker lying in front of the stove and mashed In the head of the first reptile. The other two with loud hisses ran at her and attempted to coll themselves around her limbs. She was too much for them, however, for she put her foot on the bead of one, which settled its existence, and then she tried the poker on the other. It evaded her blows for a few minutes, and came near biting her once, but she finally succeeded in striking It a mortal blow. She kept the skins as a trophy. Miss Lyiua Sherman, niece of tbe late Gen. T. W. Sherman, of Newport, It. I., whose disappearance after church Sunday night caused much anxiety among her her filends, has been found. She had suddenly taken a freak to take a trip on a Fall River boat. There is a Glut of Watekmelons in the New ^ ork market at the present time, and many are being thrown Into the river for want of purchasers. The finest were selling on Monday at ten cents and the smaller one3 for five. The vessels unloaded have an aggregate of about forty thousand on board. Whisk y as Fatal as Yellow Fever?'The dead body or an aged colored woman was found In a room on the second tioor of a New York tenement house on Monday night very much decomposed. It is supposed she had been dead five or six days. A half-emptied whisky flask was found on the floor. An excitement was creaed by a report that she had died of yellow fever, which was denied by the Board of Health officials. The Kiss of Death.?a Memphis despatch to the N. Y. Herald, of to-day, say3:?"Mr. Jake Kohlberg, a Howard visitor, related to your correspondent an incident connected with Mrs. Minnie Wilkie's death, which occurred thh aiternoon. at 5 o'clock. Just previous to dtssolu- 1 tion. she bad several attacks or black vomit and during the intervals called upon her bus- 1 band to kiss her. Regardless of the danger tha 1 attended her request her husband time anl again imprinted kisses upon her Hps. He wa ? warned of the risk he ran.but he was falthial t? 1 .L'P death ashebad been In life. She dlel 1 with her arms around his neck. One hour after ward Mr. Wilkie hlm-self was stricken with t I most malignant type of fever, although he had 1 1 severe attack last year. Ills kiss may yet prov the kits of death." , , 'r Wifconsln has a wealthy farmer who l known as "the Cranberry Prince." JS&PV** wh0 kUled r)lxcm, la Still th > 1 candidate for clerk In Yazoo county, Ml3slsBippt. | Hampshire a good deal of opposl- ' lt8elr 10 the recent stats law ' Tn ^LJProperty ou a!l above < f 10,000. In some cases the law has been de. 1 nounced from the pulpit. 1 Richard Wilcox, aged 75 years, was kiiiMi while standing on the Old Colony railroad track ' yesterday by a train near Portamouth/R 1; 1 WHThe Canadian marine and fisheries depart- ! ment has suspended the certificate of c iptain ! moS"1B'ae ?' ; al'L. AFFAIRS IW TUB VIRGINIA TIDEWATER, REGION. wi1t virginia dobs not prosper?an intelligent view op the situation?change needed in industrial habits and pursuitsfacts about timber culture in the tidkwater region?the profits go north?important hints and suggestions. [CorreAjwndence of The Star.] King George County, Virginia. It makes the merchants of this lower country feel like emigrating to read of increasing prosperity all through the nortii and west, and still to have the consciousness that hardly a single drop from the golden shower will tall on their vicinity. Whether It is true or not, as "Dalton" affirms In the Brooklyn Argv* of the entire south, that "It Is growing steadily poorer," it Is certain that in Virginia the annual returns of taxable property show a constant falling off In amount; anl in this tide water region there Is an increased Inability on the part of a majority to meet their taxes and a diminished expenditure generally owing to diminished production. Tnls "decreasing ability" is the staple argument of the agitators for another "readjustment," which, as they affirm, is entirely due to the incompetence of the "'ns" and would be remedied by a substitution of the "outs." Now every one conversant with matt ere here knows that the reason of there being so little accumulated capital here and so much real thorough poverty is not to be found in the government, nor climate, nor location, but in the habits and pursuits of the people. There was a "mass meeting" of the "dissatisfied" at the Court House on July court day, and a study of those present would have satisfied an honest Inquirer as to the reason of the lace of prosperity. Here was a large audience entirely of farmers, or rather containing a dozen farmers and a crowd of cultivators of corn cultivating by the methods of their grandfathers and with vastly diminished results. About one In six was an owner of land, the rest were "tenants"?whites and blacks In about equal numbers?"craping" the land on shares, finding team and seed and taking two-thirds of the crop. Now it Is not probable that any one of the "tenants" has ever drawn a cart load of manure In his life and It Is certain that this land, which has been in very general cultivation since 1650, has never received any. A mere surface scratching is the plowing, aEd when nature refuses to respond to this the "old field" Is "turned out" to sassafras aDd pine to rest a few years and renew its powers to endure another assault. There are many farmers around Washington who draw more manure on to their hundred acre farms aid cut moie hay on them every year than la diawn or cut In any whole tide water county north of the James In the same time. Competent judges, who know whereof they affirm, do affirm that the average tenant crop has become less than fifty barrels of corn for the year's labor of a man and horse, which, at two dollars a barrel, gives one hundred dollars for a year's work. And this lnfinltesslmal result has cost a year of severer labor than it costs the enlightened farmer, using modern methods, to raise six times that amount, because the soil immediately under the two or three inches he disturbs, has become filled with "trash." roots of sassafras, gum and locust, the sprouts of which it takes a long time to "grub" out in the spring, and require a constant cutting all through the season, or they would overtop the com. In "laying by" so much land that has been rendered completely barren to grow up, and it does grow up quickly, and shows how near beneath the surface is good soil, a considerable extent will develop into oak and other valuable woods, and hence the forests that for a half century have drawn the pilgrim ship carpenter and lumberman from the north to Virginia, and whose visits are still nearly as frequent as ever. timber products. During this month there have loaded on these snores one vessel for Manayunk with poplar wood for paper; one to New York with piDe trees for piles; one to Baltimore with choice butt logs of oak, ash, hickory and walnut, to be sawed there for furniture and carriage purposes, and one for Bath, Maine, with the frame of a large ship. How profitable it is to grow timber as a crop to sell "on the stump" is best shown by an actual case. The ship "Solitaire," which recently loaded at Baltimore with coal for San Francisco, where she will take on wheat for Europe, was Just finished at Bath, Me., at a cost of $100,000. Two years ago her frame and another one still larger constituted a forest near here, and were sold to a contractor for four hundred dollars. From the time the land on which this timber grew was "laid by" from exhaustion till the crop of ship timber was gathered, was nearly a hundred years, and the money received did not equal the amount paid out for taxbs on the land during the period of its growth Since her frame went aboard 1111 now, including one on tin shore, seven large frames have been sent from these forests, at a cost of less than (it6no standing, and nearly as much more has been received for the locust tree-noils, cedar and locust stanchions, &c., every cent of which whether the amount equals that paid out for taxes or not, has gone out in current expenses, and there Is nothing left but the stumps to show that these forests had ever existed. While the people of Maine will have in these seven ships at least $700,000 of taxable and productive values, we shall have our " consideration" consumed, and when the land assessor comes around to " revise his lists," he will " mark off" at least a thousand dollars for the diminished value of the plantations by the removal of the timber. Nor has there been any compensating incidental advantage, such as furnishing a market for our labor or products, while the timber was being hewn. The contractor brought on his own " gang," scorers, hewers, teamsters and teams,^provisions and provender, "tackle" and trucks, and the "camp" was a little Maine in the forest, perfectly secluded, and its doings as little known as if it had been on the banks of the Penobscot or St. Johns. To secuie so much suitable timber they have gone over about 4x4 square miles?10,000 acres, on which reside fourteen white and four colored owners, and thirteen white and seventeen colored tenants?rorty-elght families in all, and the entire amount or money received by owner and tenant for timber sold and for crops raised in the last year did not equal the amount paid for hewing and moving the frames to the st ore, all paid to twenty-six men for about 130 days' work each. life in the tide water region. Now, Mr. Editor, if I might interject a statement here not exactly relevaut, it would be that these thirty tenant families all live in log cabins, the largest not over eighteen feet square, with a little space overhead called a chamber, a window without a sign of glassthat they all have families, one seven, and most of them over three children, and one having his married son and wife and babe under his roof, with a son of his own, and the discouraging consideration is that they consider themselves rather " comfortably fixed," and this same style of domestic architecture and the same ideas of domestic comfort and propriety prevail among that class through all the lower part of the state, and lODg as the newspaper mall to a half do/en counties can be carried on a very small horse, it will not soon be dtfferent. not poor land. If you suppose that this is a country of poor, thin land, to which poor people gravitate, you are In an error, as you win readily see when you call to mind the rapid growth which timber makes on the most exhausted land. It is not difficult to find oak plies sixteen to eighteen Inches at the butt and six to eight inches over at fifty feet that have made all that growth ln&lae of twenty-five years. Oak, ash and hickory logs for carriage work are frequently cut where the old corn rows are not obliterated. The sickLess of soil is a mere cutlcuiar disease which a little manure soon remedies. "1 have never fceen manure produce such results in westarn New ork,' said a farmer from that region a few days since, and he makes 4 farming pay" right here and now. But not to use the columns of The Star to advertise tide-water land, our leanness comes from a perversion of the intention of the Creator. A writer says, "a sea-girt population is always a nautical population " Here is a country as large as Massachusetts Laving a coast line as extensive as any whole state, so cut up with deep-water rivers and-bays that for ordinary locomotion a "dug out" "is as necessary as a saddle, whose whole marine consists of a few oyster pungies and wood ecows, and having ship-timber forests from which the north lias been drawing its best supply of "frame" for fifty years,?and yet our most energetic effort at ship building has only culminated in a few long boats. the value of the 8hipping developed upon our timber as a basis is greater than the entire taxable valuation of all this reylon, and the mortifying consideration lsthat tht*e same vessels come Into our waters, lake our corn, wheat, cotton and tobacco to J'stant markets, and receive back from us as Height money all that has been expended in i heir construction. I said in starting that what was needed was a change in the habits of the people. 1 did not mean as to drinking or idleness?for generally they are temperate and liard-worklng?but a change in the methods of expending labor. When you see every farm wagon marked " South Bend, Ind.," right in a country furnishing the best wagon timber iq the world, it shows there is a screw loose some v here Now, the tetal of the whole Is that since 1S27, v 1 en the ship Virginia was built at Alexardria, there has been a total collapse of that wl lch should hsve been a great. interest, Since about the sume tlL-e the quality of our ajncul- j tu:e has pi oat}}- declined, and of coarse the products of the soil have declined as well. We are left with two-thirds of the land devoted to a timber culture from which a distant people derive all the profits, and the orner third so cultivated that a? least a half of the people derive an adequate support. Observer. "Casti.e Thunder" Destroyed ry Fire.? Yesfeiday morning a fire broke out In R. II. W hillock's tobaeco-bcx manufactory, at the corter of lsth ai<d Carey streets. Richmond, Va., and before the flames could be gotten uuder con: tol that extensive establishment, together i with the large brick tobacco factory of Messrs. 1 Turpin & Bro.. ad joining the box factory on the east, was totally destroyed. A row of frame houses on the south side of Carey street, sustained some damage, as also did the brtc-c tobacco factory of Jackson, Turpin &. Co., on isrh street, west of the box factory. The building occupiPd by Turpin & Bro., which was dc- ! stroyed, was well known as "Castle Thundtr," aiid was used during the war as a prison house for both federal and confederate prisoners. The total loss is estimated at over $100,ow; insurance $51,000. ! The Situation in San Francisco.?Last night's dispatches from san Francisco say Kailoch's condition is continually improving, and it is now reported that he is out of danger, though the repoi t is probably premature, accoiding to the present opinion of the physicians the bullet merely grazed the lung. No effort has yet been made to probe the wound. The worklngmen's guards on duty about the Metropolitan Temple were replaced by police last evening. The worklngmen held a mass meeting at Union hall last night, which was crowded to suffocation. The meeting had no particular connection with the Kalloch affair, having been called before the assault was made upon him. Everything is orderly, and there is no tendency whatever to reawaken the excitement. ! Tbe Grand Armt of the Republic, department of New Jersey, opened their camp at Skillman 8tatlon, on the Bound Brook and Delaware railroad, yesterday. There are on the ground over 500 tents and 20 restaurant stands. Besides New Jersey troops, several companies will be present from New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Bristol. Four thousand persons were present yesterday, including eight military companies and three batteries. There win be a grand review and oration by Gen. J. R. nawley, of Connecticut, and divers other attractions. Scientists at Saratoga.?a telegram from Saratoga, N. Y.t August 26, says:?Scientists are arriving here in large tiumbers, to be ready for the opening session of the Association for the Advancement of Science. Prof. Otto von Struve, of the observatory of Pultowa, Russia, y, ill be present. Prof. T. A. Edison Is also expected. The club on entomology connected with the association held its first session today. Prof. J. A. Llntner, of Albany, president, delivered an address, telling of the great advances made in the study of insects and the increasing interest manifested on the subject. At the last session the names of 2S0 entomologists were reported, investigation since has increased the list to S35 persons engaged In the study of entomology in the United States. At the afternoon session Prof. Samuel H. Scudder, of Cambridge, presented specimens and a description of the operations of the retina cru3tlana, an insect now ravaging the pine trees of Nantucket and other evergreen trees in different localities. ITof. Comstock, U. S. entomologist, exhibited specimens of the larger species of the same genus. Prof. Aug. R. Grate, dlrecI tor of the museum of the Buffalo Society of I Natural Science, stated that he believed the damage done by the Paris green remedy was greater than that done by the potato bug. His opinion was based on a careful study of its effects on horses, cattle, sheep, chickens, and j even men and women. Prof. C. v. Riley, of the U.S. entomological commission, gave an account of two species of moths affecting the yucca. Prof. S. H. Scudder told of a fossil Insect of a very singular shape obtained from tertiary rocks. Prof. W. 8. Barnard, of Cornell UnlverI slty, showed specimens of a small bug which kills bees and butterflies much larger than Itself. He also gave an account of the pear-bug louse, which causes a certain blight to the pear I tree. Prof. Wm. Saunders. Canadian entomologist, gave an account of Insects he had seen caught by the bldens. not heretofore supposed to be a carnlverous plant. The Projected Line of Fast Stealers ti carry mails to all river towns between St. Loul and New Orleans has so far advanced that con tracts were signed yesterday by John H. Bald j win and associates, owners of the line, with Billings, Powell & Co., of the American Foundry, New Albany, Ind., for all the machinery and boilers for tbe vessels. Contracts will also be closed this week for six hulls, cabins and outfits either with James Mack, of Cincinnati, or with David Barmore, of Jeffetsonville, Ind. The steamers are to be completed and ready for business by the first of December next. The Examination of Mr. Jewett, of the I Eile railroad, was continued before the New j York legislative investigating committee at i Saiatoga yesterday. In reply to a question as I to the facilities In Baltimore compared with New York, Mr. Jewett said they were much better and cheaper in Baltimore; and also in Boston, than in New York. Erie pays to the I city of New York $130,000 rent per ?.nnnip for wharf privileges. The witness could not say whether New York is in fault about terminal charges or not, but he did know that the charges are excessive beyond those of Philadelphia and Baltimore. 1 The Centennial Celebration of the battle I of Newtown, N. Y., will take place on the battle ground, four miles east of Elmlra, on Friday next. A monument has been erected on the spot. The ceremonies will be initiated on Thureday evening by an address from Hon. Erastus Brooks. On Friday the principal address will be made by Horatio Seymour, exgovernor of New York. Govs. Natt. Head, of 1 N. H., McClellan, of N. J.. Hoyt, of Pa., and Robinson, of N. Y? with their staffs, wlU be present, Gen. Sullivan's troops having come j irom the states named. Gen. Sherman and staff and Secretary McCrary. with other distinguished military and literary men, will also be present. The Senatorial Indian Commission returned from Cheyenne agency to Wichita, Kansas, yesterday. a searching examination of Indian?, army officers and agents was had touching the causes that led to the Indian outbreak last season on tbe Kansas frontier. Senator Dawes goes immediately to Massachusetts, Gov. Kirkwoodand wife will remain a few days in WlI chlta. Senator Plumb goes to his home in Kansas, Senator Morgan and daughter and son and I Secretary Perry and phonographer Jas. Morgan leave for the Pacific coast. The committee will I meet again at tbe call of the chairman. A Campaign Slander.?About the roughest thing told on the Worklngmen's Gubernatorial candidate Is that once he attended a hanging near Santa Cruz, and, by permission of the sheriff, said a few words to the condemned man as he prepared to mount the scaffold. Just as I White finished speaking the hangman, a stranger in the place, stepped up and said: "Excuse me, but which of you two gentlemen Is the one I'm to hang?"? [San Ft and* w Pout. At the Long Branch (N. J.) Races yesterday Una, the favorite, won the mile race In I 1:60Jt, Pique second, Pilot third; Monitor, favorI lte, won the one mile and three-quarters race in 3:25x, Report second, Harold (who sold even in the pools with Monitor) third; Danlcheff won the two-mile race In 3:5i>$, Glenmore secj one, Loulanler third; Sensation won the threequarters race in 1:22; Erastus Corning won the mile and a furlong race in 2:isj$, virglllan second, Wayfarer third, and Redding won the steeple chase in 4:44>j, coronet (favorite) second. I "On the Installment Plan."?In New York, j Filday, two men were arraigned before Justice J Murray on a charge of robbery. It was in proof I that a few weeks ago a widow woman purchased j from a furniture dealer a looking-glass and some other furniture for iic, payable on the I installment plan, a portion of which had been j paid. On Thureday two men appeared, and the woman being unable on account of recent 111j ness to make payment of some overdue money, I they seized and carried off a $6 looking-glass. I Justice Murray, after hearing the case, said he would hold the men for robbery; that the " money or your life business" must be stopped. Defendants then consulted, and their counsel I said they were willing to restore the property, whereupon the Justice said: "All right; I will clve you an hour and a half to have It back. What is more, the prisoners must enter this lady's house like gentlemen, benave so there, and place the glass Just where they took it from." I Hon. Heister clvmkr, surviving trustee of the mortgage bondholders of the South Mountain Railroad company, argued before Judge Butler, in Philadelphia, yesterday, in favor of referring the foreclosure proceedings to a master for further examination. Judges McKennan aLd cadwalader had previously decreed the sale of the road to secure $1,016,000 bonds, on which interest was in default. Decision re| served. i Telegrams to The Star. THE SHOOTING OF KALLOCH 1 HANLAN'S ROWING CHALLENGE. GERMANY AND AUSTRIA. EOT TON ACCEPTS WEBB'S CHALLENGE. ? toieaffairs. Urrmany and Austria. vjrvna, August 27.?several morning papers i bet estate that an alliance will shortly be oon- I eluded between Germany and Austria. Sir Rowland Hill Dead. London, Aug. 27.?sir Rowland Hill d*ed a* his residence 1n Hempstead, at half past four ' 0 clock this momiDg, at the age or eight v-four 1 years. 0 1 Silver for India. Losdoh, Aug. 27.?The Titufx, in Its tinanelal article says: There was a small demand for silver for India yesterday, and a larger inquiry for the continent. About xso.ow worth received from South America was sold. Lieut. Wjse Whooping | p the De l/enepa lanal. London, August 27.?At the meeting of the British association at Shemeld yesterday a paper by Lieut. Bonapaite Wyse was read, setting forth the advantages of the canal rou'e proposed by M. De Lesseps. Lieut. Wyse stated that a convention was agreed upon between the ran am a railroad company and himself whereby the company permitted and agreed to aid the prorosed canal. Some discussion followed, and opinions adverse to the De Leaseps route were expressed by Capt. Rixton and Capt. Cameron, the African explorer. Protest Agalnat a Reduction of Ware*. The resolution passed Dy the operative spinners of Oldham protesting against the proponed I eduction of their wages, etc., urgently recommends employ ere to resort to other measures for the improvement of trade, evidently referring to a limited production. The spinners' conference have declared themselves In favor of a scheme for systematic emigration If reductions in wages continue to be made. Count Andrakkv'k Knrceawor. London, August 27.?The North German <iar zrtte publishes Intelligence from Vienna that count Andrassy has proposed Baron Haymerle as his successor, and that should the Emperor approve of this choice Herr Kallay will be appointed under secretary for foreign affairs. The correspondent of the standard at Vienna also say8 that Count Andrassy has communicated Baron Ilaymerle's candidature to Prince Blsmark, atd that the official announcement of his appointment may be dally expected. An Expected Crisis In the British Jloney Ifarket. The Financier says: "According to the teaching of all past experience a very altered state of things In the money market must supervene within three months time. The pinch is exSected about the beginning of October, when Ills drawn by America against wheat shipments will begin to fall due heavily. Our American food purchases are now beginning to be estimated at amounts considerably in excess of those thought of a week or ten days ago, and notwithstanding the purchases of iron and other manufactures here the condition prevails that gold will be taken in payment to a considerable amount. It is known that large amounts of bills against wheat shipments with the usual sixty days to run, have been steadily accumulating during the last month. The crops in Ireland seem to be better spoken of than those of any other part of the United Kingdom. Reports from various parts of Galway show that the products of the harvest are now bright." THE SHOOTING OF KALLOCH. A Defence of Charles De Young. N?w York, August *7.?This morning's papers publish a defence of Charles De Young prepared by the 8an Francisco Chronicle publishers for that paper to-day, In which an attempt is made to justify the shooting of Kallc ch. They allege that the latter had been as?ured by the original author of the charge * gainst De Young's mother that it was utterly false, long before the meeting was held at whlca he repealed It. Also that Kalloch caused It to be published that he intended to "vivesect" De Young, thereby Inviting attack. The article fur' her endeavors to show that the shooting was | not cowardly,as charged by the press generally, because De Young braved the consequences of his act, and It was one full of peril from workingmen and other friends of Kalloch. j The Workingmen's Meeting East Night. San Francisco. August 87.?With the exception of a vigorous attack on the Chronicle by young Kalloch, the worklngm n*s mass meeting last night was devoted to general campaign topics, and, after adjournment, the audience I dispersed quietly. Virginia Military in the Quaker City. i .Philadelphia, August 27. ?The Virginia Guard, of Portsmouth, Va., arrived In this city at s o'clock this morning. They were escorted I to the armory of the Gray Invincibles, of Philadelphia, whose guests they will be during their stay in the city. A parade will take place ! this afternoon and an excursion to Cape May will be made to-morrow. Boy ton Accept* Capt. Webb's Challenge. { Nsw York, August 27.?Boyton publishes acceptance of Capt. Webb's challenge to another I swimming contest, giving him the same privileges es in the last race, for anywhere from ten to twenty miles for one or more thousand dol- I lars a side. He suggests the water to be in Boston harbor, and the race to be September 4th, around three buoys for himself and around two for his competitor, or a stralght-away race of agreed distance. j II an lan Will Only Row in Toronto Bay. ) Nkw York, August 27.?A Toronto special *ays that lianlan, speaking at St. Thomas last 1 ight, said that he would row any man in the world on Toronto bay, staking $10,000 to |6,ooo and allowing ?i,ooo for expenses, it is stated that he will not row a race off the bay except for very large stakes. His reason for it is that I Toronto has befriended him and he thmir? cught to have the benefit of the circulation of the money which attends a race. ] The Markets* j BALTIMORE, August 27.?Virginia sixes, old. 38 <lo. deferred, 5X; da consols. 68*??daBeoond series, ; ??n lOTttos. 49*; do. past due ooapons^ t<*s8* t<>day- Sugar Arm and active?A soft, JBALTIMORE, August 27.?Cotton firm?middling. 12. Flour dull and weaker?Howard street ?rd western .super, 2 85a3.50; do. extra. 8.76* 4.75; do family, 6 00*6.76, city milia taper, 2 75s 3.26; do. extra, il.76a4.76 ;da Rio brand*,66ia6 76 I^tapsco family, e.60. Wheat, southern steady, vith light receipts: western hrgher, active and v?m7vf vda amber, L 1(MLIS; No.1 Maryland, 1.10)*; Ho. 2 western winter red, I 1 spot and August- 1.08*al 08V; September. 109a 1.09* ; OctoberrOt9?4*lTw?. <iorn, southern uotn- I 1 inal in absence ef receipts; western quiet and I steady-southern white. 60; do. yellow, SOU. we6t msed.spot auJ August, 46*46^; September. 46*; October, 47a47*; steamer, 45*a*6v steady, with fair demand- southern and Peunsrl- I ' xanla,32a3?; western whte, 32*33; do. mixed. 30a 1 *1. Bye qrnet, 62at>3. Hay steady?prime to choloe I Pennsylvania and Maryland. 14.(?. Provisions I < steady and falriy active-mass pork. 9.75. Bulk meats?loose shoulders, 3fc; clear rib sides. 4* I 1 packedL 4k and 6*. i^-ahouldSi' rib sides, 6k. flams. ll*allV Lara - refined. 1 tw roes, 7. Butter active and firm?prune to choice I 1 *** *"? 1*14- Imi scarca and Arm, lSall 1 Fetro.eum dull?crude, nominal; refined 6 V. Ooffee I tinn and in fair demand?Rio cargoes. 11*14K I 1 Whi*ky dull. LC7aL07*. Freights to JLiverpoal per j . Reamer qu'et?cotton. 316d.; flour. !te.Gd ; KTain. ' K?8d. Receipts? flour, 1,879 barrels; wheat, 135 70<J I I'uebels: oora. 18 000 iraeliela; oats, 6.80J funnels; 1 rye, 400 bushels. Shipment*?wheat, 67,b00 bushels; I J ^9 - nw-'e Sales?a heat. 364 600 bushels; oora. i 8J.7P0 bushel*. I . NEW YORK, August 27.?Stocks weak. Money. I t 7. Exchange, long, 481; short, 483. Govern- I c menta went' I 1 NEWYORK. August 27.?Flour quia! and steady. I ) W beat quiet Corn quiet | LOUDON, August 27, 12:30 p. m?Oon-ols, I a VI 11-16 fcr both money a'id the acoount U. 8. t Lords, 4* per cents. 108; new fives, 105*. Krie, I ? r referred, 48; da second oonsols, 74. minals Oen- I . tr*l. 89X. New Jersey Oentral,U. Keadincr 19*. I JLONDON, August 27. 4 p. m--*r|e 25. do. ? >?cond oonsols, 73*. Indian Council b<Us ware I I shotted to-day at l-.6d. per rupea decline. Bead- I L ilk, 19*. ? mrw to ax mum this arrrawooa. I t ?The following quotations were current in Saw I r York today at! p. m.. as reported by Lewis John- ? son h Ool: 1 ? U. a 4 per osota. 100^.; da iU per osnta, 106* I 13 d. of a ?8% 8MM^ffichSS 0?- t tTaL T8JK; take Shore, 87 ; Noiihweat, 78^: da I ' preferred. 96; Bt PaaL jsaw- I s da preferred . 76X;_ Wabaah, K. and^Texaa. I a 13*; W. P. TetogrM)h. ?2\ PwdSo { BfThere were 39 new cue* of yellow fever a In Memphis yesterday and 7 deaths, & j ? ,f r"| "T? mnoo yifi-n tint irmtlin I "1I LOCAL NEWS. Dtatrfct fiiTWMm Attain, The number of oertltkjateaof drawback tamed! Itooroe,oierk in charge or revisions of BPgaai aweaamenta, up to ? o'clock to-day, m ?.L* vu?1- ^ketcbfr, chief of tbe Loan division ^^raaartt:nff?Ba Columbia from tbe District ' 'Tn m iMlowif amounting' to $47.?oo. * Messrs. Cavan * Codwtae. contractors. h*T? offered to complete the sewer abandonedbr Mr. J. G. Loaue, for ten per cent upon thfe actual cost. The offer ?n referred to the Engineer Commissioner. lnsj-ector of Buildings Entwisle has reported to the District Commission era that he hse examined the premises of >n. ft fire engine-bouse, Georgetown. ar d that he recommends alteration of tie grade rf the lot by catting It down in center about is inches before paving. He also recommends that tbe fence bet ween this yard and yard of police station be removed and encioffd with a fence 10 feet high. District collector John F. Cook, to a note to the District Commissioners, calls attention to tbe amount of fco.jws as carried on tbe stock ledpers, transfer books, and quarterlv interest statements to the credit of the school fond of Washington. [This sum was included In the amount called in pursuant to tne act of June loth, 1S79. authorizing the Commissioners to redeem certain funded Indebtedness of tbe District with the new 5 p?*r cent. bond* l Of tbe t?ho\p hmount 11 ?' sum of *50.540 i? carried to tl e credit of said fund without certtnc ires representing said amount of stock belag fully drawn- merely noted on stub^. and tlie ceitlflcat?s remaining uncut in the b*?ks. but of equal force in law as all the record* show its gradual accumulation to the amount stated Tbe Ccrrmlssioners have ordered that t ie oertlfcates he delivered to the auditor and controller for school trust and trust fund under the will of Matthew Wright. The auditor is directed to present t! e same for collection, and that tT be in\istcd in s.?6 bonds of the District of Columbia. SCHOOL BFTLPiyOS. Ameetincof the commirtee on bu'idtngsof tie school trustees met at the office of inspector of Buildings Kntwisle this morning to consider tbe plan for an addltonal story to the i.auritzen pcbool building, which contemplates a hall 53 by 60 feet. This was agreed to, together with the plan for removing the water Clouts to a building to be constructed outside of the main building. Ok thr Kakpa'iX.?The lrreputable locality r\9c^Ln duriBgthe war and subsequently as "the P J?JorV La8 for 5?me months past been 00mparltively quiet, but yesterday afternoon It seemed trying to make up for loritime, and row followed row in quick succession First. Maria Dickey and sallle Sears, both white, got into a row, and for a time there were indications that the whole populace would be stirred up. Sergeant Arnold, with Officers Collins, Landers and Clarke, took them into custody and marched them to the station and a large crowd followed them. Next Ella Randolph ar.d Ella Noah got into a dispute with a woman who was moviDe her furniture out, and sergeant Arnold and Officer Clarke in attemptlne to arrest them found that they bad caugbttwo tartera, but by main force tney got them to the station. Later. Ida Johnson and Carrie Hlnson, t wo colored w omen, raised a rumpus, when Sergeant Guy and Officer Clarke ran them in *-od. as before, an Immense crowd followed them! About w o'clock last night Daniel Long started to batter down a house on D street. neari3w street, and (nicer J an iter arrested him, but he brcke away aDd ran, the officer firing In tbe air to bring him to a halt. Long managed to crete himself, but was subsequently arrested by Sergeant Heffner and Officer Bailey. In tbe Poee court tblawadpg Maria Hickey and Sallle Sears were flmniia, or3o days each. Ida Johnson and Came Hlnson $10, or so days each Long was fined $5, or is days. Ella Coleman, Ella Randolph and Fanny Taylor were fined f7, or 15 days each. Tni artbsiak Wki.l?At noon to-day the artesian well being bored for the Riggs Douse bad leached 132 feet, and 90 feet of water was In the well. A strata of very hard rock baa now been reached, and boring Is extremely difficult and slow. Another Alleged Boy Bciolir Caught. Last night Sergeant Brosnan and officer itott. of the seventh precinct, obtained evidence pointing to a boy named Charles Williams, residing In Ball's alley, as the partner of Johnson, who was sent to tbe grand jury yesterday for burglary and larceny at the residence oC Julius Elsenbeiss, corner of 3d and H nuts, and arrested htm. This morning, in the Police court, the case was continued until the 90th instant. LMTTMMB JTXOJT TBM PMOPLM Tbe Lsfgsgc Delivery QuevtlMft. Mr. Editor:?1 arrived in the city last Monday evening by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. as utual. McCUntock'B baggage agent went through the train soliciting orders I inquired the charge tor delivering a trunk, and he tnrr^T^ me that the price was fifty cents. I told Mm 1 hat I would not give it. He afterwards m*ne back and said that he would take the trunk to my residence for thirty cents. Thereupon I gave him my check, for which he gave me a receipt. I then tendered him the amount gorged upon, but he told me to pay at the house when my trunk was delivered. About two boon after the driver brought the trunk to tbe boose and said that he was instructed to collect forty cents. This sum I declined to pay, but have at all times been ready to perform my part of the contract, by the payment of thirty cents, the amount agreed upon. And so tbe Express Company Btlll holds my trunk. It would be almost as cheap, and much more comfot table, to hire a carriage, which would take yourself and your luggage for seventy-flve cents. If the traveling public would take this ?>>?? in band and be willing to undergo a little temporary inconvenience and expense, as I have done, by refusing to submit to these extortionate demands, as in this case in violation of an agreement, the whole thing oould be remedied and the Express Company be brought to terms. The Express Company in Philadelphia will takeyour trunk from your residence, transfer tt to the ferry, across the ferry to the Camden depot, and then deliver it at your hotel, in cape May, all for the sum of stxty-flve cents. For a similar amount of service a Washington Express Company, judging from their present exorbitant rates, would charge somewhere about two dollars? 8 I was much pleased to see your remarks upon this subject in Tuesday's Star, and hope that you will ventilate this matter soil further. J. R. EL "A XuUance in the Center of .he City." Editor star:?In your Issue of the 26th tn*? under the beading of "A Nuisance In tbe Center of the City.,r it is stated "that either the District authorities or the managers of Washington market should be held responsible for the disgraceful condition of the sidewalk on tbe south side of B street, between 7th and nth streets, running bj* the Smithsonian grounds." While I heartily coincide with the views of the writer of that article. I most most emphatically state that neither the condition or oontrol of the space complained of comes the management cf tbe Washington market. The south side of B street, between Tth and Kb streets, has been designated by the District Commissioners as a stand for the market dealers to park their teams upon, but has never been fully given up to them The market company^ employes sweep this space between Tth ar d 8th streets three times each week, and the sweepings are hauled away by its contractor. The market company receives no compensation for this work except in sanitary benefits. The old rotten and worn-out wood pavement on 9th street and Louisiana avenue leading to the largest and most commodious market ever erected, cannot be kept clean in their nw^nf condition. Tbe 9th street road bed has been condemned by the health officer, but luce the asphalt works on B street, tt remains a "nuisance in the center of the city." P. S. Smith, Clerk Washington Market Co. , ?*? Welle be rilled* Kditor star:?There has been a great deal of assertion from time to time of the impurity of our well water, and of late that has been urved as a Justltlcatlon of the insane policy of destroying the wells. Tbe present analysts, so rar as the reports have been published, completely upset all such statements; for, with very slight exceptions, it proves the water to be pure and wholesome, and the exceptions are not as great as might be expected from the reckless manner in which sewers were laid "lose alongside of many of the wells, and left In a leaky condition. The fact la, that the lmpurltj of the water was merely an excuse?and an afterthought at that'?for filling up the wells und depriving tbe people or their use, the real reason being to oompei tbe citizens to use the Potomac water, for the purpose of increasing Lhe revenues of the water department. This reason was stated clearly in tbe papers at ihe time, as any one can see by takuu? the .rouble to look over the dies of Thr Star Uepubtiran of that date. Thr Star publish*! 1 communication from me on the subject attbA line, in which I cave several good reasons whr be wells should be retained, even if peoole am impelled by law to introduce the Potom?? later?among others, that we might havethMn 0 fall back on in case of afailure of the queduct supply from any cause, such as Ita leakage, its possession by an enemy in case t* rar, in which case it oould be so easily intoned?a thing that rebel emissaries oould have one almost any time dur.ng the four yean of be rebellion. Now that the aqueduct supply s falling, and the wells, or many of them, filled tp, we tlnd ourselves in just the condition 1 hen suggested might ooour; and to make the aatter worse, the price goes up as the watw oes down. I submit that experience has (tenon stated beyond question tbe incapacity <* he District authorities to properly manase our rater supply, and that thereforethewhote ubject ought to be taken out of their haste nd transferred to the engineer of the aouedaoc. rho, with a few additional men. can do all t22 1 required at infinitely less expense. That, nd the carrying out of oen. Meigs', will reeve us of ab our rt1mmn>ra. and notw<wr Mas