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Aesctaf Dispatch 70 The n Y. Tribune
WASHINGTON, Friday, Nov. IL, 1889.
A telegraph from General Twiggs to the War
Department, representing Brownsville burned, and
one hundred American citizens murdered, is not
credited here, but is believed to be magni6od
celebration Of first reports through second channels
The Post-Ofice Department desires it understood
that Mr.. Dickie was removed from the Buffalo
Poet-Oice for a violation Of the Sub-Treasury act
The new excitement at Harper's Ferry was oc-
oasiOned mainly by unfounded apPrebensions The
whole proceedings there are calculated to provoke
more discomfort than Browns foray could lift had
succeeded. The sense Of danger expressed BY the
strong, has armed the weak with courage.
Mr. Wards ratification Of the Chinese Treaty
= received as was expected. Naval and other dis
patches agree that he was cordially welcomed and
Hospitality treated.
The impression ia now entertained that Mr..
Meigs will be superseded in the SUPPLEMENTARY Of
the Aqueduct, on the ground that he has had I'M
ufua service already, and there are others equally
entitled to place.
The Indian Bureau will recommend the Reserva-
tions to be subdivided among the heads of families,
90 as to create a system of individual proprietOrs,
for the encouragement Of industry and morals, and
abandoning the tribal mode of aggregating main
tenance aud responsibility. There is confidence
Felt that this viii work adyantageOusly. Reports
from officers on the frontiers and others, agree in
the opinion that the Indians are diminishing in
number and the belief is entertained that in fifteen
or twenty years no considerable force will be re-
quired for the interior.
20 tho Associated Press
WAsHIso1oS, Friday, Nov 49, 1859.
Government to-day ordered 1000 pounds OF gun
powder and large number Of Mimic balls and how
kzer shells from the Washington Arsenal to Harpers
Ferry.
The Post-Ofice Department authorizes the state
ment that Mr. Dickey the late Postmaster OF Buffalo,
was not removed political grounds there being no
charges of that character against him, but that the
Cause of his removal was inattenton to the require
ments of the Sub-Treasury act.
The reports of the Northern Coast Survey Parties
have all been received, aud made up in Professor
Baehe's Office Among the operations these interesting
facts are worthy of note.
The primary triangulaton of the Eastern Coast has
been extended By the Superntendents party, during
the past season, to the boundary between Name and
ew-BrJnswck. The closing results have been look
cd for with much interest by Professor Bache, who has
conducted personally, the work of the tIangulaton
from Massachusetts to the Eastern boundary. This
part of the riangulaOn is the work OF fifteen years,
the Sumner seasons only being favorable for field ope-
rations on that part of the coast. -
From the Massachusetts base, near Boston, which
was measured in 1914 by Mr. Blunt and which is near
Nv eleven miles long, to the base of veriicstion ON
Epping Plains the distance through the trianguiaton
Is 36O miles The sides connecting these two base lines
average As in length. From the Fire Island base on
the south side of Long Island, measured by Mr. Hass
Ter, through the trangulaiion to the Massachuseus
base the distance is 40 miles. The Epplng base oil
veri6cation is in round numbers five and half miles
long
The interest in the closing operations has been TO see
how the length of the Epping base az computed from
the mean These two bases through the trlanguaton
would compare with the length aseertaned by actual
announcement in 1857. The results almost iden-
tcal the difference being only about oRe;tth o. an
Srch This is not the result of chance, but OF the
scientific methods the and the skill with which
the work has been performed
The primary triangulaton thus furnishes great
number of airline distances with remarkable accuracy
Mobile papers of Wednesday have been received
here.
During a severe gale in Mobile Bay on Tuesday
iast. the steamship jamestown became perfect
wreck and the ships Curling, City OF Mobile, Lafay-
cite. and other vessels were damaged.