Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-10-27
TELEGRAMS, &e.


New Jersey Legislature, WAS put on trial AT
Trenton Tburso ay u orping or . charge OF Offer
ing NoV NJ one time an d Slt0 ~ ano' her 70 Isaac
u blauvelt TO influence his vote against the
Wet Basin bill Frelinehnysen and Hageman
Tor the state; Tutte and Richey for defendant.
Biauvet testified that Van Wagouer said TO
bim that ne would rather give S5Uout of his
pocket than that the bill should pass, as IL
swindled the State. Van Wagner was ae-
4uited by instructions OF the conrt, the wit
besses not showing that any offer of money
was made. Runs ease goes to the Supreme
Court on writ OF error. Holsman was put on
trial on Indictment for Offering to bribe Van
WAGNER; when n0lIe prossqVi was entered,
and defendant discharged.
A man moth casting was made at the foundry
OF the Charleston, Mass., navy yard yesterday
afternoon. 1t was q part, about one half OF the
bed Of q planer, which is to weight between
one hundred and eighty five aud one undred
ana ninety i've tons. In the planer piece of
iron twenty feet long and as many wide can
be smooihed. The section cast will weigh
thirty nine tons when cleaned. Forty lone
tons of metal were used for the casting The
iron was from the machinery Of the old United
States steamer Richmond. Two months were
will eapse before the piece cast becomes cool.
This is the largest casting ever made in New
England. if not in the world. .-H
Two of the alleged Bowdoinham Bank rob-
bers, Bartlett and Simmons, were arraigned be.
fore Judge Smith, OF the criminal court, Bath.
Me. Thursday afternoon. They pleaded .'not
guilty" Several Of the 9overnme witnesses
gave in their testimony, which fully identi-
fed the personal appearance of the accused,
butthey failed to identify their countenances,
save in the case Of one witness, who swore
TO meeting one of the accused on the evening of
the robbery of the bank, and that he was ex-
aiming the cashiers premises.
Senator Wilson publishes q statement to the
effect that in regard to the charges OF drinking
in Portland, made against General Banks by
some Of his enemies, he never stated that the
general would not have the hardihood TO DENY
the accusation he asserted in q meeting in Nal
having emphaticaliy denied the tr ruthfulness
of those statements to a gentleman OF the to wn,
and TO others, he should be surprised If the
general should 60 to public meeting to deny
them, as be thought such a course1would be q
great mistake.
General Ortega, who claims to be the consti.
tutional President Of the republic or Mexico in
the place Of Juarez. arrived In New Orleans
last night from New Y ork, and requests the
papers to announce that be will lea We in a few
days for Browns Vile, whence he will enter
Mexico with the object Of re. establishing the
constitutional Government. When this Is ac-
complshed, he will send minister to Wash
Ington. His staff and number of offic GERS who
have been awaiting him will accompany him.
William B. Reed, counsel for jeff Davis,
accompanied by Mrs. Robert Ould, wife of the
ex rebel commissioner of exchange during the
war, arrived at Fortress Monroe yesterday
afternoon from Richmond. Judge Ould de-
signed visiting Davis on this occasion. but
business prevented. Mrs. Ould is on a visit to
Mrs. Davis. Reed has been in consultation
with Davis. He leaves to-day.
The dedication of the StonewaIl Cemetery at
Winchester, Va, yesterday was attended
by over five thousand persons assembled from
various points in the Valley of Virginia The
occasion was taken advantage OF to transfer
and bury the remains of General T. Asnby
and Captain Dick Ashby. and also those of
hnln lie Lar Shal and la,o
the rebel army, and kille1 in battle. Ex-Goy
II. A. Wise delivered the GRAFTON.
Last summer German named limerick dis
appeared from Sandlake, a few miles back of
Troy, N. Y, and. being accused Of robbery it
was supposed that he had run away But
Thursday his dead body was discovered sus
pended from tree in the woods a short dis
lance from his hou sc, and the conclusion is
inevitable that after the discovery of his
crime he went out and hanged itself
James Garden, charged with the murder of
Daniel O'Neil, was Thursday convicted OF
manslaughter, IN Chicago, and sentenced to the
penitentiary for one year. John Morrison
charged with the murder of Patrick Foley, AT
Junction, near Chicago, last April, was ac-
quilted, the defence being insanity.
Coon. the murderer Of Mr.. Lake, in Peters
burg, N. Y, was arrested near bennington.
Vermont, Wednesday, and is now in jail in
Troy, n. Y. Governor Fenton offered re.
ward Of 500 for his apprehension, which had
the effect of securing his capture.
Mr. Peabody reviewed the children OF the
public schools, OF Baltimore, In front OF the
Peabody Institute, yesterday. The children
turned out TO the number of about eighteen
thousand, presenting most pleasing and ami
mated spectacle.
On Saturday fight occurred at the farm of
Mr. Massey, above Branchtown. Pa. bet ween
James Hughes and Robert Little, during
which Hughes was beaten and died Thursday
morning. Both were farm hands. The skull
Of Hughes was badly fractured. ~.
Lafayette McLaws, an ex major general Of
the Confederate army, received pardon from
the President yesterday. ....
The Tallahassee Floridian says nothing has
been heard OF the Kate Merrill, which left
New York for that port month ago.
Notwithstanding the early frost the corn
crop in Iowa will not be much below the
average yield.
The Chicago and North western road is COM
pleted eighteen miles west Of Dennison.
There have been light frosts in Georgia this
week.
The volcano on the Island of Hawaii is very