Daily national Republican., 1864-10-10
New York stock List.
BY the Peoples Telegraph Lines,
Ofices-6iI Ninth street and corner Pennsylybnia a
avenue and Sixth street.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

COMPLETION OF THE FIRE ALARM AND Po-
LICE TELEoRAPH-A PERFECT SucCEss-Ma y Of
our citizens listened with wonder daring i.st
evening and this morning to the loud and mullh-
neous psAllng oi bells In VA ous parts Of the city,
Divers cOpisctutcs were made some to the effect
that = conf ,grstiOn was In progress, making vHtt
Roadway others that some Distinguished worthy
ve.eTv Of The war nsd Ssen scnievsd by ,So Fedc.
rails, and ruuber Of Israelitish eitiztns, whilst
harboring the thought, ventured to launch the as
htonement, the greatest OF their year. The peo.
pie in the neighborhood Of the Thirteeuth Street
Baptist Church, OF the Columbia an Rucker En-:
gine Houses, who were most alarmed, have ceased
TO wonder, upon being informed that the ringing
was the result OF the te.tng OF the Police and Fire
Alarm Telegraph, OF which the organization has
II Is a triumph OF which the rcsidsnts OF WASH
ington may veil feel proud. The metropolis with
its street cars its seam fire engines, aUd lhst but
not lesBt with its fire alarm and police telegraph,
would now vie with any American city n the
clouds would not send down their mud-prOdu
| showers, or II the wlndB would not run ou their
dnst-winglug efTands IT'S true that the city ID
much improved within ths past three years. Tia
true that she 10 Bll In the ascendent but It seems
that she never can rise to the msgnitudo OF the
argument" which other municipalities arc con-
tipually m king.
vAtions, but with regard to those most essen.
ti.l and highly commendNble she seems to think
with Goethe's hero, who standing before the walls
on Tyndarus' heisht, exclaimed, HWhAtI to climb
her, ihs very thought slips down. So with u'Ash-
iugton the very thought Of rising higher and being
hold, She introduces steam lirC-enBIneS. Good |!
She spread, over the city "a network Of light.
But as tires occur constantly n The night, why not
| have the streets lightedl Why not have them
paved so that those fire oxtinguishers, directed
BY their lightning suide', can almost annihilste
Yet we cannot blame the city authorities, for
they are, waiting to see whether a. many diviues
of course be folly to expend the mo 'ey ecnnomiz
thus far, II the millenum 10 SO near. Instead of
psving streets, better purchase engines to extin-
suish the oonaagratiOn OF 1865.
we, however, cong %c1nIrs,ulats the authorities for
thss the success @ stsSd upon the % Ts
| OF the fre-slarm telegraph and the cam fire en-
gines will do much to dispsl the neanness which
hiss characterized the municipal leg Station.
| The telegraph operators will be handed over 10
| the city authorities tomorrow At o'clock, AT
which time will be present His Honor the MAY or,
the members OF the City Councils the he ads OF the
| Departments, representatives OF the Diyloma attic
Corps and members OF the city press.
A MILITARY CARD.-Col. Robert Wilson,
! 18th Regiment New Hampvhtre Volunteers, h .vIog
resigned, 1t is only justice that the public should
know what the regiment and others have known
for long time concerning tho manner IN which
ment. II 10 a fact well known by many that Col
Wilson has been accused, and sfidavltS have been
FirstWoTdsrpg % o one box brandy taken from IN,
22i Maine regim mt hospital stores and misspply'
lag them to his own use.
Third-A Allowing ratious to DO taken from thl
conmissarY belonging to the enlisted men, and
used for his mess, maktrg his rAtions plenty ant
eheap-the soldiers scant.
Fourth-Using sugar belonging to the soldiers "a
sweeten his liquor, which came to him unlawfnlly
rylAnd
Finh-Drpnkenness on duty.
Sixth -IncOmpetency as an Olticer anl yATiouI
other oh ,rges OF less grlevous character.
IL any injustice haS been done Col. Wilson IL
add make 1t plain with the people the cause OF hi
TSe regiment now believe 1t was either III,
fear of justice being meted out to him or that thu
regiment was soon to meet the enemy face TO face
for the frat time. learn he based his resignation
on surgeons certificate, but his health never wa
better, il his vie IL to be believed who, day o.
two before his arrival at his house in New Hamp
shire, declared that hIs health never wAs better
he Joined the regiment. A. H. SAWYER.
October Q, 1884,
THH DRAFT.-The Board of Enrolment dis
posed OF tho following casel to-day;
BECoED EUB-DIsrRICT.
Joseph G. Chamberlain, two years In service
eiv n. MOOR, iaLnshsd psu ,Ho'ti1u1ei A6Irew
tutei Edwin y. King furnished SubItliutei ErancI
Posty, accepted.
G. q. Wilson, for lshcd aubAhtuii +. Cod
dinston, nonresident.
II. Robinson, mont esidentj VIM, 4. ChauuCPy
furnished subatitutFi John kadGiia, furnished Iu'
stitutei VIM d. MoIeB, furnished substitute.
FIFTH SUB'DIsTRiLT
Daniel JoneI, over Rgei John Leekey, do,
SIXTH BUD'DIsTRICT.
George W. Smith, detailed In The Treasury.
| SEVENTH sUB-DlBTAICT,
John II. Dfammell, fui alshsd subLtltutei DAniC
Q. McGlvGn, dol Lewis W. TOlmAn, dO.i NarclEs
DcrmOngTOt, alien,
Two were accepted and had their tImo xtcGlet
SENT TO FoRT DRLAwARE.-Fourteen prls
OHerB rom various TCgmrnlB, eOnn cd IN Tho Vi
Capitol uudei Benten % OF court MARTA have bee
seat TO Fort Delaware 10 serve out their ssntenet
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