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YOL. XXI.---NO. 95.
WASHmGTO:N D. C, THUESDAT MOPuKTETSTGr, MARCH 17, 1881.
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AT ST. PETERSBURG.
r-HE BODY OF THE MURDERED CZAR
Borne Through the Streets In Soleian Profession
Jlorc Mines Discovered in the ATcnucs
Grief or the Imperial Family Mat
ters in Berlin and Klscnhere.
St. Petersburg, March 16 It lias been
thought nectary to follow the proclamation of the
Emperor, Alexander III., by a special ukase sum
moning the peasants to join in allegiance with the
other faithful subjects. The Goto? says :" The late
Czar's reforms have not attained their end because
the co-operation of action of government and so
ciety is necessary, and this has been wanting for
years past There is a taction in Russia born and
nourished by public apathy. The state has lately in
utedsociety to assist in struggling' against this fac
tion, but public forces which have become dormant
arc not awakened with one blow. The question of
the form in which this co-operation is to express
itself has lately become matured, and there is no
doubt that, had a sacrcligious hand not ended the
life of the Czar, he would have decided the ques
tion in the interest of his people. This task now
dmolvcs on Alexander IIL" The Slrava says:
'There is no other issue than to diminish the rc-gpon-ibilities
of the head ot the government, thus
lessening the dangers personally threatening him
from fanatical evil-doers."
A decree has been published granting to persons
deported to Siberia, with loss of civil rights, per
mission to engage in commercial or professional
pursuits after three years' good behavior; the
same privilege to be accorded to political exiles,
subject to the approval of the Minister of the In
terior. A considerable amount of money has been
raised by public subscription forthoc persons who
were wounded by the explosion of the bomb on
Sunday. The coun-martial on the ncsassin Rous
sakuff will consist of six officers of the guards.
A commander, a corporal, and one private from
every squadron of the guards of which the late
Czar was the chief, and also an adjutant from
each regiment have been ordered to St. Petersburg
to do service before the remains of the Emperor
while lying in state. None of the public will be
allowed to sje the body until it is removed to the
fortress on the 18th instant. One of the Cathedral
choristers has died from injuries received at the
time of the explosion.
The new Czarcwitch, Nicholas, has been ap
pointcdataman of all the Cossacks, General ICnuf
mann's son arrived on Monday with General
Skobcleffs report. It isstated that, in consequence
of the assassiuatian of the Czar, General Skobeleff
will he summoned to St. Pcrtcrsburg. Intel
ligence is published here that the Tekkc Tur
comans, without exception, have submitted to
Russia.
The authorities were informed that a mine had
been laid in a small street which enters the New
sky pro-pect nearly opposite the AnnitchkotT Pal
ace, the residence of the new Emperor. A detach
ment of sappers accordingly began an exploration
from a small shop, the owner of which disappeared
three days ago. The street was barricaded at both
cads to prevent the public from approaching. The
sappers, on opening up the ground and searching
the cellars, discovered a mine in the above-mentioned
shop, The mouth of the minq was in the
shopkeeper's dwelling room, concealed under an
ottoman. The mine passes under the street lead
ing to the riding school, whence the Czar was
returning on Sunday. Eight more arrests have
been made and a quantity of explosives have been
discovered. The Agence Hmse says: "The grief
felt fur the Emperor hy the Russian nation is in
consolable; but, if hey required proofs of the im
mensity of their loss, it would be forthcoming in
thectidences of condolence which pour in from
the sovereign governments and uational republics
of the whole world. The public will be admitted
to view the body without distinction of class."
The body of the dead Emperor was placed in its
coffin to-day andconveyed to theGreat Church ofthe
Talace. The Emperor and the Grand Duke Vladi
mir boic the head ofthe coflin, and the other grand
dukes and the Princes of Louehtenberg and
Oldenburg bore the foot and sides. The people in
the halls knelt as the procession parsed. On tho
arrival of the cortege at the church mass for the
dead was celebrated. The regalia had been brought
from Moscow and conveyed through the streets in
Bill If.
The mine which was uncovered by tho sappers
was intended to blow up the imperial carriage in
case Sunday's attempt failed. The spot where tho
Emperor was injured hns been inclosed and cov
ered with turf, and a "-entry ofthe old regimen? of
the Lmperor Paulus guarding it.
It i stated that the owners of the shop from
which the mine was started were two students.
No explo'ivci have as yet been unearthed. Six
siuadrons of infantry guard the Anuitchkin
Palace, and detachments of infantry and Cos
sacks almost -.in-round the Winter Palace. There
is no question about RoussakofTs fate, as the croc
iouof ascailold on the Smolensky Plain, where
Sjlovieff was executed, lias already been com
menced. Enuu.v, March 10. The Crown Prince
and rriuces, Princess Christian, the Russian
cmba-sy, Lord Ampthill, British Ambassador,
and the prefect of police met the Duke and
Duchess of Edinburgh and the Grand Duke
Alexis at tho railway station, and after M.
Sabouroff, Russian Ambassador, handed the Grand
Duke Alexis a packet of sympathetic letters, and
telegrams, the train proceeded to St, Petersburg."
When the news of the assassination reached Ber
lin it was immediately feared that the murder
irn?ht increase tiie severity of the socialist law
here, and this result has already become notice
able, as a number of suspected persons have been
expelled from the city and suburbs. According to
au official report lately presented to Parliament it
feeing that the anarchic element, though uneen,
i more vital and vigorous after the lapse of two
years than when the socialist law was passed.
The report state;: that efforts have been made,
vhieh were papally successful, to distribute so
cialist orgnus among the population and even
amon.j the troops
In government circles here entire confidence
is felt in the peaceful policy of the new Czar. It is
stnted that he will shortly Issue a manifesto em
puoMziughis motto, "Peace and Economy," and
declaring liis intention to devote himself mainly
to internal reform.
The Duke aud Duehes3 of Edinburgh and the
Grand Duke Alexis arrived here on Wednesday.
They w ere met by Lord Dufferiu, the British Min
ister. P.'.nis, March 10. Eoehefort ami Paine
left for Geneva yesterday to obtain authentic de---s
of the Emperor's assas-iuation from their
Nihilist correspondent, a man who signs the initial
"D." A fresh communication from this mysteri
ous person was published to-day in the latransi
Scant, which warns the public against attaching
too much credence to telegrams from St. Peters
burg, and declare-: positively that the young man
Itiwakoff cannot have thrown the first
onJb; Tke real criminals were, according to
' D." inside of one of the mansions bordering on the
I-uc Millione, but the Russian officials found it
convenient to lot it be supposed that shells were
thrown by persons in the crowd. "None ofthe
assassins,;' adds D., "have been arrested." The
natural inference drawn from thU strange state
ment is that the Emperor was murdered by mem
bers of the Nihilist fraternity holding some official
Position.
D." further affirms that the bombs were not in
Cjosed in glass, as stated, and that only five seconds
elapsed between the two explosions. If this is cor
rect, it w ould seem to upset the story about the
Czar getting out of his carriage to attend to the
bounded Cossacks.
-iftex- a Xeuspiiper 31a n.
Harmsuu-g, Pa., March 10. In the
house this morning Mr. Ruddimau, of Philadel
phia, rose to n question of privilcgc,and, producing
a copy of the Pittsburg Co,n.ncrcial Gazelle, read a
correspondence from this city rellecting severely
upon the official conduct of Speaker Hewitt, and
which accused him or an unfair discrimination in
the matter of referring certain bills to commlitees.
Sir. Ruddiman then submitted a resolution for the
!sPjds-onor Dr. Palmer, the alleged author, from
the oor of the house. The resolntion caused a
mknI of excitement, aud remarks pertinent to the
occasion were made. Speaker Hewitt being among
, e "umber. The resolution was finally referred
to a special committee of five.
The Iitqurst In llie Upton Suicide.
x Francisco, March 16. An inquest
was hew on tne rg-, of General Upton to-day.
ihc testimony of Captain Hasbrouk, Fourth Artil
", and letters written by deceased to his sister
"d to the Adjutant-General of the United States
ara-y, confirm the previous impression that the
suicide was due to depression of mind consequent
upon his inability to adapt his system of tactics to
'. movemeuts of companies of two hundred or
aorc men.
THE NEW MINNESOTA SENATOR.
Sketch of tlic Ma a irho is to Succeed Sec
retary Windoui.
General A. J. Edgerton, the new Sena
tor from Minnesota, arrived without delay and is
quartered at theNationnUIotel. After hise veiling
cigar was disposed of. of which he is very fond, he
was duly called on, and found to bo a gentleman
rather portly in appearance, but well proportioned,
with a bright blue eye, large head, well covered
with bushy gray-mixed hair, and uncovered fore
head, reaching well back. He will be frequently
taken Tor the "new Pennsylvania Senator, Mitchell.
He is a genial, whole-souled man, and favorably
impresses one at the first acquaintance. He was
born in Rome, Oneida County, New York, and
is now fifty-three years old. His grand
father was a captain in tho Revolutionary
War. He graduated at the Wesleyan University,
MIddletown, Conn., in the class of 1S30 ; married
Miss Sarah Curtis in that State, and went toMin-
nesota, settling in Dodge County, iulS55, where he
still resides. He engaged in the practice of law,
leaving his books and cases to enlist as a private
soldier in the Tenth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry,
being made a captain of his company soon after
ward. He served in the Indian wars in Minne
sota in 1SC2, then in the Department, of
Missouri, under Schofield; was promoted
colonel of the Sistyfth Colored Infan
try, and served until 1867, the date of the
muster out of his regiment, being brcvetted brigadier-general
in the meantime. He entered the
senate of Minnesota in 185S and again In 1876, when
he was elected president pro tonjwreof that body.
In 1S71 he was appointed one of the railroad com
missioners of Minnesota, serving four years. He
was one of the presidential electors of that State
in 1S76. On lost Monday, while engaged in a
term of court, he received a telegram from
St. Paul, requesting his presence there. While
the contest resulting in his appointment was
very spirited, it is well known that he was the first
choice of Governor Rillsbury, who well knows the
kind of man he has appointed. He is an easy,
fluent, candid speaker, a gentleman of cultivated
tastes and high character, and will prove one of
the most popular members of the Senate. Those
who take him for anything but a reliable Stalwart
Republican forget the kind of men Minnesota sends
to the Senate and do not know General A. J.
Edgerton.
ELLIOTT, OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
lVhy the Southern Republicans YV'unt au
xf rn Seaaion.
Hon.R. B. Elliott, ex-member of Con
gress from South Carolina, one ofthe foremost col
ored men in this country, was asked last night by
a Republican emissary:
"Are you favorably impressed with the make
up of the new administration?"
"Oh, yes," said Mr. Elliott, "Hike President
Garfield and his Cabinet very much. The destinies
of this country could not possibly be placed in
better hands."
"What is the condition ofthe Republican party
in the South?' asked The Republican.
"Well, I may candidly say that since the elec
tion., of General Garfield to the presidency our
people have felt more like going to work aud re
deeming the States south of Mason and Dixon's
Lino from the thraldom of the Bourbon Democracy
than before that happy event. No man, unless he
lives In the South, can properly appreciate the
condition of affairs in that section."
" Do the Southern Republicans want an extra
session of Congress?"
" An extra session of Congress," said Mr. Elliott,
"is very desirable to our people. There are a
great number of contested election cases in South
Carolina, Louisiana, and Mississippi which
should be settled without delay. It is a well
known fact that a majority of the Republi
can candidates for Congress in the StatC3
I have named were fairly elected last November,
and in my judgment these men should be given a
chance at the earliest opportunity to present their
claims before tho Forty-seventh Congress and the
people ofthe country."
"Do you think an extra session will be called?"
"I indulge in the hope, but have no means of
knowing whether it is well founded or not."
EXTRA SESSION.
Senator Conkliusr'fl Views on the Snbject
The Probabilities or It.
A rumor which obtained currency in
the city yesterday that Senator Conkling had de
clared in favor of an extra session of Congress
gave all who favor such action on the part of the
President hope that he would follow tho advice of
the great New Yorker and convene Congress at an
early day. On the other hand, it had a very de
pressing effect upon the Democratic beneficiaries
under the present organization, and in fact all
others who, from pecuniary or other interest,
had hoped that the Republican party leaders
might not have pluck and sense enough to play
the winning cards they held and thus take the
final trick that secures to that party the complete
control of the Government in all of its branches
for two years to come at least. Senator Conkling
is said to hold that it is the duty of the party to
organize the House as soon as possible In order
that the Republican!! elected to that body from the
bulldozed districts of the South, and who have
been deprived of their rights by fraud, may have at
an early day tho chance t o present their cases to
Congress aud the country and have the matter
settled at once. This would not only result In
righting the wrongs of the individuals, but in giv
ing the Republican party the preponderance in
Congress to which the honest reward of the people
at the polls entitles it.
The Senator is said to have made many converts
to his views, and, taking It all in all, the prospects
for an early assembling ofthe Torty-sevenlh Con
gress may bo said to have greatly brightened.
Our Successful Americans.
London, March 16. At "Worcester to
day United States Minister Lowell, in his address
opening the new free library, specially alluded to
Presidents Lincoln and Garfield as conspicuously
successful Americans.
TELEGRAPHIC TWISTINGS.
Gould's new Pacific Express com
menced business throughout Texas yesterday.
Kixg Oscut II. has been suffering from
a s-light attack of fever since Sunday. Symp
toms of inflammation ofthe left lung set in yester
day. George Rice, eighty-one years of age,
committed suicido in East Brooklyn, Conn., Tues
day night.
TnE Governor of Maine sent to tjhe
house yesfcrday a veto covering all the bills passed
during this session incorporating Stale banks.
ATa saw-mill near Athens, Ark., Thomas
Jackson on Monday shot and killed T. II. Nichols.
This terminates a quarrel of many years' standing.
Cyrexius P. Black, of Tuscola, was
nominated yesterday by the Democrats ofthe Sev
enth District of Michigan to fill the vacancy caused
by Mr. Conger's elevation to the Senate.
The total amount subscribed to the
world's fair in New York to date is89.6,d00, ranging
in sums from S100 to S-20.000. There are upward of
one hundred and seventy-five subscribers.
The low-tax Democrats in the Tennes
see Legislature, in caucus yesterday morning, re
solved to oppose the passage of the bill to settle
the t"ebt on the basis submitted by the bond
holders. At a public meeting in Tweddle Hall,
Albany, last night, under the auspices of the Par
nell Land League, addresses were made by Senator
McCarthy, General Spinola, and Hon. J. Henry
McCarthy, of New York.
Benjamin Mayer was killed in Mem
phis last night by Thomas Holraan in a difficulty
which originated about a payment for drink,
Mnyerrefusing to treat Holman, who struck him
with a clnb, breaking his neck. Holman escaped.
Both were colored.
A resolution was introduced in the
house of representatives of Tennessee yesterday,
with a memorial looking to the impeachment of
Judge C. W. Tvlcr, of Montgomery County, on the
alleged ground of neglect of office, drunkenness,
misappropriations, and attempted assassination.
Mr. Justice Fitzgerald, in opening the
Kerry Assizes yesterday, said that 453 crimes have
been reported during the last seven months, which
was sevenfold ofthe record during the same period
in the previous year. There was, however, he
said, some decrease in the record of crime for last
week.
Paul Kruger, in his letter to President
Brand, carefully distinguishes between a royal
commission to investigate the grievances of the
Boers and a commission for settling the basis of
peace. He says: "A royal commission is not to be
thouHitof: an arbitration is necossary, notajury
which can give a verdict of guilty or not guilty."
Horace Ball, of Nyack, was arrested
at Middletown,N.Y., charged ith abducting his
wife's younger sister, Alice Conkling, a beautiful
girl a-ed sixteen, whom he enticed from her home
in Nyack. They were found at a boarding-house,
where he had paid board for a week m advance.
Ball, who is a barber, is also charged with selling
personal property after mortgaging it.
FOE' MAHOHE
TO BEAT THE VIRGINIA BOURBONS.
Colored Republicans of the Old Dominion Ask the
New Senator to Tako Charge ot Their
Rights, Interests, and Affairs
Tho Coming Contest.
The convention of the colored Kcpubli
cans of Virginia, at Petersburg, fiuished up its
business and adjourned yesterday after a con
tinuous session of thirtoen hoursr The gist of its
action is summed up in the resolution appended to
the address to the colored people of the State, de
claring that "the colored people of Virginia re
gard the Readjuster party with favor, and confi
dently believe that their Intara-ts will lie better
secured and nrA-vt iiv nitin Hint. -v,Pt.. in it
efforts to nnhiprnn-irf Turmnn-itiv.ttin th nn.
tagoaisms of races which have unfortunately af-
fectecl tliprpfgxjrity of our State." The address
and resolutions were unanimously adopted by a
standing vote the meagre opposition party in the
convention having previously withdrawn. Reso
lutions were also adopted appointing a committco
to wait on the President aud ask him to protect
the rights of franchise of the colored people in the
coming election, aud to ask General Mahone to
take charge of their rights, interests, aud affairs as
good citizens of Virginia.
THE FLATFOrSJI SAYS:
In referring to the two parties in Virginia (the
Funders, or Bourbons, and Readjustee), the ad
dress says of the latter: "This is the
party of progress tho party which neither
in law nor practice makes arjy distinction
in civil rights or political privileges on account of
race, color, or previous or present condition ; aud
the party which encourages and protects free
schools, free speech, free suffrage, and an honest
count. The Readjuster party does more than this.
It cultivates respect and attachment for the Union
that Union which we lovesomuch and to which
wo are so firmly attached obedient to the
Federal Constitution good faith in observ
ing the conditions of reconstruction; and it op
poses ther Bourbon element of implacable hostility
to the National Government. It declares for the
repeal, and.Tias, taken legislative steps for the re
peafbf the poll-tax restriction on suffrage; and it
is foremost, and diligent, and untiring in its efforts
to lessen and lighten the unjust aud intolerable
burdens that Crush the State and paralyse all the
industries ofthe people.
" in this great work of progress and reform all
good and considerate men should join heart and
hand to make it a success.
VIRTUE S1) INTELLIGENCE,
so necessary to" the safety and prosperity of good
government, arc only secured through the univer
sal free education of the children ofthe State;
aud individual liberty, prosperity, and happiness,
as well as the general well-being and elevation of
the community, are most readily and certainly at
tained and fostered by public schools that neglect
no class and no portion of tho body in w hich re
sides the popular sovereignty, dignity, and power.
" It is for these and other liko considerations,
therefore, that we, the representatives of the
colored people of Virginia, in State convention as
sembled, do hereby most earnestly recommend
that in the State election for this year, 18S1, the
support ofthe colored voters of tho State be given
to tho liberal Readjuster party of Virginia, calling
all mankind to witness that in so co-operating
with this party, which in 1S79 cast a large majority
ofthe white Conservative votes polled in the State
election of that year, the colored voters of this
Commonwealth give the best evidence in their
power of their repudiation of the color line in
politics, of their deprecation of a continued war of
races, and of their eager desire to establish amica
ble and harmonious relations with all Virginians,
white aud colored, upon the simple basi3 of a com
mon citizeuship. Iu recommending this course to
you, colored citizens of Virginia, we do so in the
full conviction of its wisdom and propriety, be
lieving that thus can be best &ecured those rights
as citizens which every other source has either de
nied you, or has been impotent to accord you.
Supporting
THE GALLANT LEADERS
of Liberalism, shoulder to shoulder with our white
fellow-citizens who raUy to the deliverance of
Virginia and Virginians, we, too, shall share in
the victory, or shall be the chief sufferers from a
defeat that will reinstate relentless Bourbonism
over us all. With no harsh words for such as may
differ with us witnessing such difference more in
sorrow than in anger we cannot refrain from ex
pressing our regret if there should be Republicans
to co-operate openly or secretly, directly or indi
rectly, for the restoration of Bourbon Funderism,
In a crisis like this we caunotbut regard a straight
out Republican composed as tho Republican
party of Virginia is a an acceptance of the gage
of battle on the color line, already thrown down
by the State committee of the Bourbon Funders in
their recently published address. If we should be
thus marshaled iu a real contest for supremacy
with the Bourbons, we should not merely emulate
the ultraism, but would do precisely the suicidal
thing they wish us to do. And if the proposed
Republican fight is not to be a real one, but a
mock one, what honest and intelligent colored
man desires to play so shameful a part to aid Bour
bonism and injure readjustment? Tho Funders
see no salvation for themselves but in the color
line. Ifthey cannot have au actual one, the basest
counterfeit may servo their purpose. Our safety
is in
THE DEsTPXCTION OF THAT LINE,
and that will be accomplished when, shrinking
wisely from a real contest on that line and proudly
disdaining a sham fight upon it, we honestly com
bine with tlfb mass of our whita fellow-citizens,
the Rcadjusters, in the furtherance of the rights,
privileges, and interests of all.
" We are at least as much concerned as any class
of our white fellow-citizens in the freedom of the
ballot, tho sanctity of the ballot-box, the equality
of duties and rights before the law, the reduction
of public burdens which always bear hardest on
labor, the upbuilding of the State, the maintenance
of a broadsystem of public education, and the pro
tection of human rights ; and we should unite with
those whoso banner bears such promise upon its
folds.
" The Republican party of the Nation isnotiu
question here and now. But in advising as we do
we should be recreant to our faith and devotion
could we consent to allow even our .silence to mis
interpret our sentiments and our principles. The
National Republican party, from its advent to the
present moment, has given too many evidences of
its friendship for the rights of man for us to re
nounce our allegiance to it in any time of need.
To do so would be base Ingratitude ; and our grate
ful hearts will cling to it even when it may no
longer need us. But the coming contest iu Vir
ginia, involving our rights and interests as citizens
of this State, .is one in which principles and not
names mnst guide our conduct; and in seeking
good government here, for the good of all, we feel
that w e are not recieant to any duty properly in
cumbent upon
A TRUE REPUBLICAN.
" Those who differ with us in this supreme mo
ment ofbur fate" are respectfully asked ifthey will
not refrain from efforts to oafBe us in this endeavor
to improve our condition as men and Virginians.
We think we can see the dawn of a brighter day.
Equal laws for all, fairly administered ; free suf
frage and a fair count, with the necessary lesult of
full citizenship for all, and a free education not
only extending to our children the rudiments of
knowledge, but expanding under a liberal admin
istration until the highest walks of learning shall
be opened wide to our aspiring youths. Then will
the bone and sinew of the country have some re
turn for their labors and their taxes; then the
poor man, white or colored, hall have his fair
share in the benefits of government; then schools
will be established wherever the people need and
demand them, no matter if the need and demands
be from white or colored ; then all our young men,
without regard to race or color, wealth or poverty,
shall have fair starts in theirmcnlal equipment for
their journey of life; and our children, who will
enjoy all the good and growing consequences of
our decision now, will rise up and call us blessed !
The Silo Tor tbe WorldW Fair.
IJ"ew York, March 16. The executive
committee ofthe World's Fair met yesterday, and
among other business adopted the following:
i?cso?rf, Thnt all reports and statements that tho
executive committee contemplates a change from
Inwood to anv other site for the exhibition is at
variance w itli the oft-repcatcd official action of
this committee, and has no foundation whatever
in fact. The committee, since the 10th of January
last, when Inwood was adopted by the full com
mission, has considered it a fixed fact, and no
other site has been tendered and none other
sought for.
Frje Elected Senator.
Augusta, Me.. March 16. At noon to
day both branches of the Legislature went into
convention, compared records of the senatorial
vote, and declared William P. Frye, of Lewistou,
elected United States Senator.
GENERAL EMORY UPTON.
SScetcli of the Demi Ofllccr If is Record iu
llie Army-Vplou'i TaellcH.
Brevet Major-General Upton, who com
mitted suicida in San Francisco, Tuesday night,
was born at Batavia, N. Y.,jlugust 27, 1S09. He
was apiwinted a cadet at the United States Mili
tary Academy June, 1856 graduated May 6,1801;
served as nid-de-camp jn the btaff of General
Daniel Tyler, commanding tho first division. De
partment of Northwestern Virginia, in the en
gagement at Blackburn's Ford, July 18, 18G1, and
the battle of Bull Run, July 21,1861;commauded
Battery D, Second United Stafe3. Artillery, iu the
engagement at-West Point, Vfl, May 7, 1862, and in
the battles of Gaines' M'lls anctCharles City Cross
Roads. Juue 27 and 30, 1S52; ccSmmanded the Ar
tillery Brigade, first -division, Sixth Corps, at
Crampton Gap. September li, and at Antietam,
September 17, 1S62; wa,s appointed colonel
of the One hundred and twenty-first New
York Volunteers, October, 1852, and com
manded that regiment in the battles of Fred
ericksburg, December 13, 1SG2? Salem Heights or
ChanceUorsviUe, May3, 1863, and Gettysburg, July
1 and 2, 1863, aud other engagements. He was
promoted brigadier-general of volunteers May 12,
1864.
un tne reorganization of the army he was
appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-fifth
inrantry, and afterward transferred to the Eigh
teenth Infantry and tbe First -Artillery. He was
placed in charge of military practice at Fortress
Monroe, Va., and afterward served on a commis
sion, in this-city, to revise the army regulations.
Subsequently he was promoted to a colonelcy, and
ordered to San Francisco. Deceased was distantly
related to Assistant Secretary Upton, of the Treas
ury Department. T
tf.
THE SENATE COMMITTEES.
Wliat wag Ooue by the Itepabllcnn
and
Democratic C'aceose.
Caucuses were held by the Republican
and the Democratic members qtlhe Senate yester
day afternoon, at which the details of their respec
tive majority and minority memberships of tho
committees were finally arranged and lists prepared
for adoption by tbe Senate as soon as the requisito
number of votes shall be at trie command ofthe
Republicans. There was some talk in the Demo
cratic caucus of allowing Mr. Fryc to be sworn iu
to-day on telegraphic credentials, and thus bring
ing the contest to a conclusion without waiting
for their arrival by mail : but the gcneralsentiment
was opposed to the establishment of such a prece
dent, and it is therefore improbable that the organiz
ation ofthe committees will be effected before Fri
day. The Republicans did not take up the subject of
the Senate offices; but, it is understood, wiil hold a
caucus for the purpose of selecting candidates for
all of them immediately after obtaining control of
the committee. It was agreed at the Republican
caucus to accord to the Democrats two chairman
ships of the select (or temporary) committees of
the Senate in addition to the three standing com
mittee chairmanships mentioned heretofore, and
the Democrats will thisrmoruing make their selec
tions to fill these chairmanship?, which, like the
others referred to, arc of no especial importance,
except by reason of their affordingtheuseof clerks
and committee-rooms.
A Bis: Swindle IXitcrtrlhed.
St. Louis, March 10. Eobert L. Lind
say, who was arrested yasterday by United States
Special Agent P.D.Tyrrell on a charge of con
spiracy to defraud the Government out of lands by
uttering false deeds under fraudulent titles, is re
garded by Tyrrell as the chief conspirator. Other
and very important arrests were made simultane
ously with that of Lindsay, and still others will be
made. Those arrested so far are'.0rlond Van Hise,
John K. Corwin, lawyers or real estate agents at
Cleveland, and George Linn, of Linndale, near
Cleveland, and Addison F. Burns, real estate
agent, and H. R. McCIellan, notary, Pittsburg.
There are still others.impIIcatcd Jn tho swindle in
New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and other cities,
and additional arrests may be looked for at any
time. It is estimated that several million acres
of land will revert to the Government when the
affair is straightened out. Robert L. Lindsay has
borne a good reputation here, and his father,
James Lindsay, was register of land at Ironton for
several years. x "
The Array ofthe Tenuesaee.
Cincinnati, O., March 10. The four
teenth annual reunion of the Society ofthe Army
ofthe Tennessee, to be held here on April 6 and 7,
is engagingmuch attontion on the part ofthe local
executive committee and others making prepara
tions. Pike's Opera-House was chosen as the place
of meeting, but owing to the evidences of a very
large attendance, the committee has been consid
ering the propriety of holding tho meetings at
Music Hall. A pleasing feature of the
reunion will be the unveiling of the
statue of General McPherson, tho beloved
commander ofthe Army ofthe Tennessee, who
was killed July 22, 1851, before Atlanta. The statue
is by the same artist who made the equestrian
statue now in Washington. It is to be placed over
General McPherson's grave at Clydo, Ohio. Gen
eral Sherman, president of the society, will be
present and preside at the reunion. General Grant
has been invited. It is estimated that fully four
hundred persons will attend the banquet to be
given on the evening of the 7th.
A Scnsntionril TrnjrciJy.
Dallas, Tex., March 16. Information
has been received of a most sensational tragedy
on the north fork of the Red River last Friday,
which brought vengeance for a crime committed
fifteen years ago. It appears that a man named
Peter Cook, formerly from Mississippi, with three
drunken associates, visited the house of Toney
Pino, disguised as United States cavalrymen, in
1SS6, robbed him of 51,600, assaulted the lady rela
tive, and fled. Pino saw neither of the parties
again until last Friday, when he and two herders
came upon Cook, who was with some freighters.
Calling him by name, and with terrible oaths.
Pino fired four balls into Cook's body, killing him
before the latter could draw his pistol. Tho men
present arrested Pino, but, as he satisfied them that
his statement regarding Cook's conduct fifteen
years ago was true, and as he was able to produce
a newspaper account to verify It, they released him.
0
Tito Dead Convict Found.
Philadelphia, March 16. The over
seer in the Eastern penitentiary this morning dis
covered the lifeless bodies of John Pfeiffer and
John MeBride In the cell occupied by those con
victs. McBnde s oody was found upon the floor,
and disclosed various marks of violence, while
Pfeiffcr was hanging by a strip of sheeting at
tached to the gas bracket. The prison officials are
at a loss to determine whether Pfeiffer murdered
his cell-mate during the night or whether both
men committed suicide. Pfeiffer, though a young
man, was an old ofiendcr, and had served several
terms in Sing-Sing aud on BlackweU's Island.
MeBride was about fifty years of age, and was serv
ing out a sentence for aggravated assault and bat
tery. An inquest will be held to-morrow.
Xew York's JTeir City Charter.
Albany, N. Y., 3Iarch 16. Senator Mc
Carthy, from the special committee, reported the
new charter for New York city this morning. It
provides for a charter election in November, 1SS2,
and everj- second year thereafter. The heads of
departments, tho chamberlain, police justices, and
marshal--, on and after May 1, 1881, shall be ap
pointed by the mayor, without confirmation by
the board of Aldermen. After January, 1S93, the
head ofthe department of police shall be two offi
cers known as police commissioners. Mr. Blxby
dissented from some of the provisions of the bill.
The bill was made the special order for next Wed
nesday. 0
CAPITAL JOTTINGS.
The national bank notes received
for redemption yesterday amounted to 5138,000.
The receipts of the Government yes-
tcrdayAvere: From internal revenue, $251,351.96;
customs, 5550,077.30.
Michael J. MeyerhoetTer, jr., of
Good's Mills Va., and Robert n. Adams, of Lodore,
Va., have been appointed postmasters at the above
named places.
It seems to be an accepted fact that
for the present the new administration will only
make appointments to fill vacancies. This con
clusion will reliuvc the President of much imme
diate pressure, and give the present occupants of
lucrative positions a further breathing spoil.
The internal-revenue appointments
for yesterday were: G. H. Nickclson and John C.
Foust, storekeepers and gaugers, Fifth District of
North Carolina: Merwin J. Rossman, stoi-ekcener
and gauser, Third District of Geoigia: Samuel A.
Harper, storekeeper, Fifth District of Illinois.
The Post-Office Department an
nounces the sailing of the steamer Glensannox
from New York, with mails for Para, Pernambuco,
and Bahia, Brazil, on the 23d inst. This will be an
extra dispatch of mails for Brazil, as the regular
Brazil line ofsteamers usually sail ou or about the
5th of each month.
MURDERING- M'COOK
HOW COLONEL BOB LOST' HIS LIFE.
A Thrilling Incident or the Late War, Told by an
Eye-Witness What a Representative or
"The Republican" Learned Trout
Colonel Hunter Brooke.
A representative of The Republican,
while prowling about among the distinguished
people who now throng the city, happened to fall
in with an old acquaintance of the lang syne
times ofthe war,
COLONEL IIUSTEIt BROOKE,
formerly of Ohio, now of Pennsylvania. In tbe
course ofthe conversation which ensued allusion
was made by The Republican man to Colonel
Brooke's participation a3 an actor in one of tho
dramas ofthe war which created more sensation
at the time, especially in the West, than anything
that occurred during the fateful year of 'C2, save
and except the victory of Mill Springs. The inci
dent referred to was the killing of
COLONEL ROBEBT L. M'COOK,
or, as he was better known at his home aud in the
array, "Hob" McCook.
"Tell me, Hunter," said our man, " your story of
that affair. I ask this because it has become the
custom of certain newspapers in the North to gloss
over with the sheen of romance the dastardly deeds
of that time, and to make ofthe coarse ruffians
"who took part In them heroes, such as Walter
fccotts marvelous genius created out ofthe red
legged Highland, thievesrwho raided the fat border
lands of the two kingdoms and made patriotim
the excuse of robber)' rthd elevated rapine to the
grade of knightly chivalry."
" Well," said the modest Colonel. " that is a rather
elaborate questiou. What do you want to knowf '
"Where were you when Bob McCook was
killed? The accepted story is that you were to
gether in an army ambulance when attacked."
" The story is, in the main, correct, hut lacks ac
curacy iu detail, as such stories usually do. Col
onel McCook, who was commanding a brigade,
had been afflicted with dysentery for six weeks,
and, against the advice of his physician, relused
to take hospital quarters and insisted upon accom
panying his command. I. as aid on his staff and
as his personal friend, did everything in my power
to make-him comfortable. When we left Florence,
Alabama, I procured an ordinary spring
wagon ana improvised an ambulance, in which
the Colonel rode iu tho centre of the
command up to the fatal point of the march.
Owing to Colonel McC'ook's sickness Colonel Ferd
Vandervecr was in command of the brigade, but
Colonel McCook was virtually the director of the
march. He was familiar with the topography of
the region and had given Vandervcer information
that he thought would lead to a successful marcn
and the accomplishment of the object in view.
Vandervcer, however, mistook the route.and when
we arrived at a point where the roads branched
called Hazel Green, we found that Vandoren had
taken the wrong road; bad started on
the Fayetteville road instead of the route to
Dccherd, the objective point of the march. Gen
eral McCook immediately dispatched an orderly in
pursuit of Vandervcer to tell him to retrace "his
steps, comeback, and take the right road. In the
meantime McCook said to me :
'"Let's move out of the way with our wagons
(referring to the baggage wagons of the headquar
ters), and give Vanderveer a chance to come back
and take the right road.'
"That placed McCook in the front of the
right line of march. He expected, of course, that
Vandbrveer would receive his message, retrace his
steps and be behind in line of march within a
half hour."
" And, thinking so, you went right on ? "
"Yes; looking for a place to camp, it being the
understanding that we were to go into camp daily
during the march at that hour."
"What hour?"
" About eleven or twelve o'clock."
"Wasn't that & pretty early hour to go into
camp?"
"It was the middle of the hottest season of that
hot climate, and in making marches we-, always
took advantage of the tool of the morning, and
resting in the middle of the day. That morning
we broke camp at three a. m., and it was our pur
pose to stop for rest before or about noon. Colonel
McCook went ahead and leisurely looked out for a
place where the brigade could rest comfortably
that night. I remember distinctly that he fre
quently halted and talked with people, white and
black, whom we met about the best place in the
neighborhood to pitch the te nts, paying particular
attention to that essential comfort in camp plenty
of water."
"Under what circumstances wa3 the attack
made?"
" Wc had halted and messengers had been sent
In different directions to hunt for water. One of
these messengers, a sergeant of the First Ohio Cav
alry, was fired upon, aud, rushing back bare
headed and in great excitement, said: ' The rebels
have fired upon mc.' We had heard the firing, but
did not understand its significance until the mes
senger passed us. I was standing outside at the
time, utterly unconscious of danger, for at that time
wc knew of no organized rebel force north of tho
Tennessee River, and the first intimation of danger
was the exclamation of Colonel McCook: 'Get in
quick, Brooke, we've got to get out of here.' The
wagon was turned as rapidly as the narrow mar
gin ofthe country lane would admit of, and I may
say pretty nearly overturned in the turning."
"And then what?"
" Wo found that we were in a trap and utterly
defenseless, and our object was to rejoin our com
mand. Colonel McCook seemed to grasp the situ
ation at once, and knew that safety only lay in
rapid retreat, expecting every moment to see the
head of our column. As the team dashed rapidly
down the lano to the accompaniment of the sharp
reports from rebel rifles in the rear and the whiz
zing of bullets about our ears, ' Bob,' looking first
to the rear and then to the front, said : - Where in
the h 1, Is Vandervcer? ' "
"And then?"
"Well, we ran at full speed full three-quarters
of a mile, and,' finding that we had no friends in
front and an abundance of enemies in the rear,
McCook said: 'They've got us; wc might as well
surrender.' He at once ordered the driver to stop
the horses, and, in order to comply with the com
mand, he ran the team into the bank, and, of
course, we came to a stop."
"And then?"
"Well, then, in token of surrender a token
recognized by all belligerents, civilized or savage
we held up our hands."
"And did they continue to fire?"
" Yes ; they fired at least three or four shots after
they had every assurance that wc had measured
our helplessness and were willing to surrender."
"Who fired the shot that killed Colonel Mc
Cook?" " Mr. Frank Gurley, of Huntsville, Ala., who was
everafterwardregardedasaheroforcommittingthe
murder. This manGuriey.who.it seems, was a sort of
neighborhood leader of partisan rangers, was after
ward captured by our forces, tried, and convicted
of murder. This was had on theground that he was
not a recognized soldier ofthe confederacy, and,
therefore, not entitled to any of the privileges ac
corded recognized beUIgercnts by the laws of war.
He was sentenced to be hanged, and would have
been had not the rebel commanders, from Joe
Johnston down, chosen to regard him as one of
their own, and threatened retaliation upon better
men then in their clutches. This saved his
neck for tbe time being, and President Lincoln,
with his usual kindheartcdness afterward inter
posed and ordered that Gurley beheld in prison at
Nashville. When released at the end of the war
he was, like all other distinguished assassins, hon
ored with office by the very people who prate of
chivalry and talk of reconciliation. I yet look to
see hiin come to Congress, and the proudest trophy
that in the eyes of his fellow-citizens at home he
will wear when he enters the halls of Congress will
be the plume that he plucked from the dead brow
ofthe man he murdered."
Fred. Souslmut Position.
Tho friends of Hon. Fred. Douglass say
that he is not an applicant for, nor docs ho desire,
a foreign mission, or a District Commissionership.
They say that Mr. Douglass prefers to be continued
as marshal of the District of Columbia, a position
which he has so acceptably filled during the past
administration. Mr. Douglass is the representative
man of his race in America aye, in the world
and we have no doubt but what his wishes a3 ex
pressed by his friends will be favorably considered
by President Garfield.
The Monetary Commission.
Hon. Timothy O. Howe has formally
notified the State Department of his acceptance as
commissioner on the part of tho United States at
the International Monetary Conference to beield
at" Paris. Messrs. Thurman and Evarts have
already accepted. The commissioners will sail
from Now York early in April.
IMPORTANT DECISIONS
Relative lo Clerks Ilnrinc a Salary Fixed
by Z.nw, and Oilier Mailers.
Judge Lawrence, First Comptroller of
the Treasury, ha3 rendered a decision in the mat
ter of an account of a disbursing clerk in the In
terior Department, in which he holds that a fourth
class clerk having a salary fixed by law cannot be
paid a sum in addition " for services in recording
and filing contracts:" That when a disbursing
clerk renders an account to the First Auditor for
adjustment and as'king credit under an appropri
ation for tho payment of salaries, he cannot, in
such account, have credit for monev paid for
"services" rendered, which do not constitute an
official salary; that appropriations for the pay
ment of salaries, as usually made in appropriation
acts-, can be applied, as a general rule, only to pay
public officers the salaries prescribed by law for
the performance of official duties; when one clerk.
in a Department performs the duties of another
clerk no compensation can be made for the per
formance of such duties beyond the salary pro
vided bylaw forthe officeof clerkwhichhe holds;
that a person who holds an appointment as a
fourth-class clerk, and also as a first-class clerk, is
generally entitled to the salary fixed by law for
both offices. In this connection Judge Lawrence
quotes the decision of the Attorney-General in
1877 relative to tho construction given to sections
1763, 17G4, and 17C5, ofthe statutes as follows :
The intent aud effect of them is to forbid officers
holding one oflice to receive compensation for the
discharge of duties bclongingto another, or addi
tional pay, extra allowance, or compensation for
such, other services or duties where they hold the
commission of but a single office, and by virtue of
that office, or iit addition to the duties of that of
fice, have assigned to them the duties of another
uiuccr.
According to that decision, however. If an
officer holds two distinct commissions, and thus
two distinct offices .he mav receive the salary for
each. The evil intended to be efsirded a trains t bv
these statutes was not so much plurality of offices j
as it -was additional pay or compensation to an oi
ticcr holding but one office for performing addi
tional duties, or the'duties properly belonging to an
other. If he actually holds two commissions, and
does the duties or two distinct offices, he may re
ceive the salary which has been appropriated to
each oflice.
The First Comptroller has also decided that
where an appropriation act charges the head of a
Department with the duty of repairing a building,
but does not specifically provide for agents to
superintend the work or disburse the appropria
tion, such head of e. Department has implied au
thority to appoint the necessary agents to perform
these duties.; and that such head of a Department
may appoint as such special agent a clerk in his
Department, who, during the time he is employed
as such, may receive his salary as clerk, but can
not lawfully be paid compensation for services as
agent.
In the matter of the United States Mint Assay
Commission lunch case the First ComptroUer
has delivered nn opinion in reply to an inquiry, in
which he maintains: First the reasonably neces
sary expenses of tho Assay Commission, author
ized by section 3M7 of the Revised Statutes, may
properly be paid from the appropriation for "in
cidental aud contingent" expenses of tho Philadel
phia Mint, no law having otherwise specifically
provided for such payment. Second if the work
of the Commission can be facilitated by furnish
ing lunches and meals at the Mint, they maybe
so furnished, to be paid from said fund. Third
wines and liquors for the personal uso a3 a bever
aze of the members of the Commission are not
such articles of necessity as to make the cost
thereof a proper charge on said fund. Fourth
the expenses of a dinner, given as a treat or more
act of hospitality, cannot properly be paid from
said fund.
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
Sothlns Tint Boatino BaIac Considered
Adjournment Vutil To-Day.
The organization resolution was called
up in the Senate yesterday, whereupon Mr. Cam
eron, of Pennsylvania, moved to adjourn, but
yielded to Mr. Vest to ofler a resolution requesting
the President to communicate to the Senate the
correspondence and accompanying documents be
tween the Governments of the United States and
Mexico during the years 1859 to 1861 inclusive, in
reference to the proposed treaty between said
governments; and also the correspondence during
said yearjjietween the State Department and the
United States Minister at Mexico in reference to
any proposed convention or treaty between the
two governments. Adopted.
Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, offered a resolution
directing the Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds to take into consideration the condition
of public buildings in Washington city, looking to
the future needs ofthe Government, and report at
the next session of Congress. Laid upon the table
fur action when the committees shall have been
appointed.
The motion to adjourn was lost yeas, 23; nays,
35; Mr. Mahone not voting and was followed up
with a motion to proceed to the consideration of
executive business, which was also lost yeas, 32 ;
nays, 31 Mr. Mahone voting in the affirmative.
Another dilatory motion having been voted
down, Mr. Cameron, of Pennslvania, called at
tention to the fact that there wero appointments
on the table which should be acted upon immedi
ately, and he therefore moved to go into execu
tive session.
Mr. Grocmc suggested that the nominations
could not be acted upon for want of committees.
Mr. Farley said that there appeared to be a dis
position on the other side to do no business what
ever. Mr. Dawes asked the Senator from California to
inform tho country on whose motion the Senate
adjourned Tuesday,
Mr. Farley replied that the record would show
that fact. Dilatory motions had been made, and
it had become evident that the Republican side
did not intend to do any business.
Mr. Saulsbury thought that the remark made by
Mr. Dawes was unjust, and that the Senator knew
it to be unjust, upon the Democrats in this cham
ber. He knew that the Democrats had been at
tempting to organize the Senate, so as to proceed
to tho public business. He (Mr. Salusbury) re
ferred to the action of the Republicans in the last
Congress, who, he said, had Interposed dilatory
motions against thc consideration of the nomina
tions which had been sent In by a man who had
been elevated, without right, to the presidency.
Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, asserted that thi
Republicans desired to proceed to work as much
as the Democrats, and that therefore he had moved
to proceed to executive business.
The motion was lost.
Mr. Beck said that as there was a Republican
President, backed by a Republican House, it might
be better for the Democratic party that he also had
a Senate at his back, and had the credit of all that
was good and the responsibility of all that was
bad. Therefore, he (Mr. Beck) was not attempting
to hold on io a few privileges, and he thought that
the Senate might as well adjourn, and made a
motion to that effect, which was (atone o'clock)
agreed to.
Nominations.
The President sent the following nomi
nations to the Senate yesterday : L. Dana Horton,
of Ohio, to be secretary to the Commission on the
part of the United States to attend the Interna
tional Monetary Conference at Paris. Postmasters
Hiram B. Bsrry at lilmlra. N. Y.; Robert F. Milner
at Newnan, Ga.; William IL Hartman at Waterloo,
Iowa; George B.Relchcneker at Wyandotte, Kan.;
George A. Steel at Portland, Oreg. To be collectors
of customs Amo? J. Beers, district of New Haven,
Conn.; Charles H.Odell, district of Salem and Bev
erly, Mass.: Alex. C. Davis, district of Beaufort, N
C: Thomas F. Black, district of St. Mary's, Ga.;
Thomas M. Broadwaters, district ofVIckshurg,
Miss. Surveyors of customs John R. Leonard,
port of Indianapolis, Ind.; Joseph L. Gaston, port
of Chattanooga, Tcnn. B. J. Watson, naval officer
district of San Francisco, Cal.
What 1Vah JleLean Thinks.
"I tell you," said Mr. Washington
McLean, of Cincinnati, the Warwick of the Demo .
cratic party in Ohio in the good old days of that
now demoralized organization, to a friend yester
day, "I tell you the Democratic party is a played
out quantity. They stand up in the Senate like a
lot of sheep and take whatever Is given them, aud
if anybody threatens to knock them on the nose
they at once apologize for having noses."
Where are our Conklings, our Blaines. our
Hoars, our Logans, our Frycs. Wc havn't got
'em. The Republican party is the party of pluck
and audacity, while ours has become the organi
zation of stupidity and cowardice. I'm sick of the
Democratic party."
i
Paymaster Terrell Vindicated.
The Secretary of War on Tuesday foolc
up for consideration the charges preferred by tho
Paymaster-General again3t Colonel CM. Terrell,
and after thoroughly investigating them has de
cided that no wrong has been done the Govern
ment by that officer, nor has any loss been sus
tained, and that no further consideration shall be
given to the charges. This decision gives great
satisfaction in army circles.
THE SOCIAL WORLD.
CABINET LADIES' RECEPTIONS.
Others ofthe Cabinet Sot Yet Arrlred, butKxpeefc
Secretary and Mrs. KIrknood Ura. Oar-
Acid's Ercnlngs Personal Sotes
and Sketches or Interest.
The wives of four ofthe Cabinet officers
held large and brilliant receptions yesterday.
viz: Mrs. Blaine, Mrs. WIndom, Mrs. Lincoln, and
Mrs. Hunt. The residence of the Segretary of
State, S21 Fifteenth street, wore again the gal
look It used to wear when, as Speaker of the Houso
of Representatives, he once before belonged to tha
whole American people in a peculiar sense. Mc
Blaine aud family have always been very popular
among the Diplomatic Corps; and their cordial
appreciation of his new relation toward them was
attested by their large attendance upon Mra.
Blaine's first reception as Secretary's wife.
The British, French, Japanese, Chinese, and
nearly every other legation wero represented by
their chief officers and numerous attaches; also
ladies of almost all the families of the ixbove. Tho
wives and daughters of Senators, ex-Cabinet
officers, the judiciary, tho army and navy,
leading Washingtonians, and of many linger
ing members and cx-members of Con
gress were among the callers. Mra. Blatns,
a dignified but gracious hostess, was assisted by
Miss Dodge and Miss Alice Blaine in a charming
aud spirited manner.
At tha residence ofthe Secretary of tho Treasury.
HIS Vermont avenue, an equally distinguished
company were gathered. With Mr WIndom wero
her sister, Mi Hatch, and herfriend, Miss Norton,
ami after four o'clock the Secretary joined them.
Conversation at this delightful home was ad
mirably free from stiffness and constraint. Sirs.
Windom has a blended intelligence and affability
that at once establish pleasant relations between
herself and her guests. Secretary Windom repre
sents, In tha best sense, the Quaker element in
public life, and his manner is as unaffected and
unworldly as it is courtly and diplomatic. Ha
owns frankly to missing the Senate aud its pleasing
associations, and to feeling a sincere regret whes
its doors were closed behind him.
Mrs. Lincoln received in the east front parlor at
Wormley's. Very many were present to pay re
spects to the representative names the youthful
hostess bears, both by birth and marriage; and
military gentlemen and the ladies of thrir house
holds were especially numerous. The graceful,
girlish figure of Mra. Lincoln acquired a certain
grave statelincss from the reception dress of black
Lyons velvet which sho wore. She wai a pleasant
picture in the midst ofthe throng of greetings that
initiated her into her new, yet not unknown, lif a.
As the daughter of Secretary Harlan, of tho In
terior, she had already experienced a foretaste of
its arduous round of duties. She has been thir
teen years the wife of Mr. Lincoln, and Ls warmly
welcomed back by her girlhood's friends.
In approaching the pleasant residenco of tho
Secretary ofthe Navy, 1466 Rhode Island avenuo,
the smell of fresh earth from the newly-sodded
front yard, where the workmen were still busied,
was an exhilarating and grateful reminder of
spring. The parlors here, as elsewhere, were filled
with representative names in Washington lifij.
The charming hostess w ore a superb black toilette,
finished with a jacket-waist heavily embroidered
in gold. She has the ready tact that springs from,
a kind heart, blended with thorough knowledge of
society aud its ways. No lady in Cabinet circlets
will be more widely popular than Mrs. Hunt. Slia
was assisted yesterday by throe most agreeabla
ladles Miss Hunt, a daughter of the Secretary t
Mrs. Colonel Farquhar, and Miss Urquhart.of New
Orleans. At most of these receptions light refresh
ments were offered, including tea, chocolate, and
punch.
Of the throe remaining Cabinet officers' wives, ,
Mrs. Kirkwood was prevented from receiving iha
many calls that were made npon her, at 13H Tenth,
street, by severe indisposition from cold. Next
month the Secretary aud herself will visit Iowa for
a week or two, and on their return to Washington
will decjde whether to remain at their present
comfortable and handsome quarters, in the family
of a relative, or to take a house of their own, prob
ably preferring the-former course for the approach
ing summer and fall. The Secretary's present loca
tion, beside being in a high and healthful section
of the city, Is admirably situated with respect to
his Department, but it is a trifle remote from tha
ordinary Cabinet neighborhood.
Mrs. James, wife of the Postmaster-General, will
arrive from New York to-day to Join her husband
at the Arlington. Mrs. MacVeagh is expected to
morrow at the RIggs House, where the Attorney
General makes his temporary headquarters.
At the receptions yesterday the visiting costumes
were a study in tasteful variety. Some ladies
wore the sober colon, of Lent, while others dis
played brilliant-hucd plushca and velvets, as ia
midwinter. It was a general subject of remark
that an unusual numbor of gentlemen were among
the callers. At some places they seemed almost ia
the majority.
Ex-Postmaster-General Maynard is still in tha
city, sojourning at the Ebbitt House. His wife, who
is quite an invalid, takes her meals in her own.
room. Ex-Secretary Ramsey is also here with hb
wifa, for whom the rigid climate of Minnesota is
too trying thus early in tho season.
Mrs. Tyner, the wife of the First Assistant Postmaster-General,
has been quite ill since inaugura
tion day. A large number of very stalwart colds
date their origin to that day.
The entertainment by General and Mrs. Bealo oa
Tuesday evening was in honor of Lord and Lady
Campbell, guests at the British Legation.
Mrs. Garfield for tho present receives evening
callers on Tuesdays and Fridays, the PresidenJ
joining her when he can. Unless by special pra
arrangement, callers are not ordinarily received
on the other evenings of the week. An agreeablo
company of perhaps twenty or thirty persons me
there casually last Tuesday evening. Mrs. Gar
field's method and spirit, as thus far dereloped,
are very appreciatively spoken of by ladies of tha
Cabinet families. Every indication points to a
successful administration of social affairs, largely
contributed to by these seven ladies or cxperienca
and culture, who give themselves, not ostenta
tiously, but cheerfully and with thorough under
standing of their duties, to a life full of exactions
and fatigues, but rich in opportunities for grace ful
service to the Republic.
Dr. Carver Wins the Slatch.
London, March 10. In the third stage
ofthe pigeon-shooting match for the champion
ship of the world and the Sportsman's challenge
cup, at Hendon to-day, Dr. Carver beat Graham by
a score of 40 to 3C, and Scott beat Gordon by a scor
of40to39. The deciding heat, at 100 birds each,
was then shot in four stages. At the beginning
Scott was rather the favorite in the'betting. Tho
scores were a3 follows: Carver, 21, 18, 21,1379.
Scott, 15, 19, 21, 1G 74. Dr. Carver thus wins tha
title of champion, the cup, and GM stakes. Im
mediately after the match had been decided, Mc
Scott challenged Dr. Carver to a match for the cup
and 200 a side, the contest to be according to tha
conditions under which ther cup was given, and to
bo decided within two mouths. A gentleman,
present offered to bet 5u0 that Scott would win.
The scores In the glass ball match between Dr.
Carver and Mr. Scott at the end of the seventh
night's shooting were: Scott, 6.S12; Carver, 6,505.
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Sauerkraut, Specif, anil Apple Sim.
St. Lodis, March 16. Yesterday a verj
poor family of Bohemians, consisting of four peo
pie, ate fresh pork, kraut, and apple sauce, and
shortly afterward were taken violently sick. Ono
ofthe children has died. Sovcral physicians hava
explained the case, but state that they can find no
casa of mineral poison, and an examination of tho
meat discloses no trichinre.
Shot Her Ueirnyer.
Los Angeles, March 16. F. I. Forster
was shot dead on the street to-day by Hastoria
Aborta, a Spanish girl, who states that Forster had
betrayed her underapromise of marriage. Forster
was connected with Mime of the oldest Spanish,
families in Southern California.
Harper's Magazine for April comes from
Joseph Shillington and contains a more than usual
amount of entertaining reading. The illustrated
articles are "The Gre;n Mountains in Sugar
Time," by W. Riding ; " Salisbury Cathedral ;" by
Arthur Gilman, "Indian Education at Hampton
and Carlisle," by Helen W. Ludlow; "Italian
Life in New Yoik," bv Charlotte Adams;
the illustrations by Rogers, "Art Embroid
ery," by Alex. F. Ockey. "My Farm 1ft
Switzerland," by S. II. ll. Bycrs, United
States Consul at Zurich. The two scrisl
novels "Anne," by Constance Fentmore oolsou.
and "ALaod
xodicean are continued, tho former
niustrarca Dy Ilg"b"Tt
and tho latter by Da
Manricr. ShonvooOeftu"C"r COUlrlbtrrw -LStrwuj
storv."Two Storms." W. H. Beard, under the .US
of "An Artist's Reminiscences," tells a touching
storv of his boyhood, which he also Illustrates
with a chanuinsr picture. J. T. Trowbridge. In hia
poem, " The Indian Camp," presentsa striking pic
ture of the American Indian of to-day. Other
poems are contributed by Walt Whitman. Paul
H. Hayne, and William Gibson. Tho editorial de
partments are filled with timely. Instructive, aud
entertaining matter.