The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-19
FOURTH EDITION
WASHINGTON.

RappOTAL OBSPATOHES TO EVENING TEu.EGHkpU.
WASHINGTON, February 10.
Condition, and the Prospect of hii
Trial.
The dispatches OF Commander JenrIes. Of Tn,
swatara, were read by Secretary Welles this
morning, stating that he left Viliafranca on The
gth of January. and reached Madrid on the 23d
Of January. which place he left the same day
after coaling. Very rough weather was expert.
enced during the passage but no damage was
sustained by the vessel Prior to the arrival OF
modore Radford, at the Navy Yard, directing
him TO have her anchored in the stream, and
allow no communication with her.
The Swatara lies in the stream about fifty
Yards from e wharves of the Navy Yard and
up to noon to-day there had been no commu-
nfcation whatever with her, or to the shore,
except that Commander Jeffries reported to
Admiral Radford short time after her arrival,
and sent his dispatches to the Department.
Tbis morning n bench warrant was issued by
District Supreme Court TO Marshal GoodinQ, in
structing him to take Surratt In custody. An
eisily for desperate criminals, has been pre-
pared for his reception, and the Marshal will
fake charge ofhim so soon as the Navy DEPART
yosnt shnll give official notification that it is
ready to turn him over TO the civil authorities.
The mail for the IS SwataTs Sd;n was d this morning
line. The prisoner Surratt is said TO be con-
fined below decks strongly guarded, and is in
excellent health. He says little and positively
Senies that he is John Surratt. He wears a
snit of sailors clothing, his Zouave uniform
hainS ont OF repair Admiral Goldsborough did
not come out on the Swatara, as stated, but re-
manned on the Flagship at Lisbon.
Personal.
Tburlow Weed and A. T. Stewart, of New
YORK. were on the House floor to-day.
The Navy Yard Bargain.
A delegation from Newport, Rhode Island, is
heTe urging that the Naval School be removed
70 that point The New Londoners claim it as
a part of the arrangement with the friends of
League Island.
Ftp. BIair's Mission to Boston.
It is reported about town to-day, that Francis
p Blair has gone to Boston to offer the position
OF Secretary of State to John A. Andrew. This
is stated to be part of the programme under
which the PostmaSter-Generalshtp has heen
rendered to Horace Greeley.
Post Office Appropriation.
The Post Office Appropriation bill, which con-
taIns the following clauses, has been approved
by the PRESIDENT
Francisco, Japan, and China, S500,000, provided
that so much of the act of Congress ap-
service, as requires said steamships TO touch at
Honolulu, in the Sandwich Islands, be and
the same is hereby repealed, upon the express
condition, however, that the contractors for
said steamship service shall enter into a con-
tract, to the satisfaction of the Post
master General, agreeing to establish,
within five months from the passage OF
this act, in lieu OF the said service re-
leased a branch line of steamship service,
carrying the United States mails between the
port OF Shanghai, in China, making continuous
regular trips connecting with the main line
Doth on outward anu DOlneW8TQ voyages, unQer
the direction of the Postmaster General, which
service shall be performed by hrsJ-class Ameri-
can sea:going steamships. and without addi-
tional charge to the United states for the Over
land Mail transportation between the Missouri
river and Folsom, and forthe main mail trans
pOrtation between New York and California,
100000.
Export Duties to Venezuela.
A decree of the Government of Venezuela
establishes the following rates of export duties
in all parts of the republic for the future the old
duties being abolished-
Venezuelan currency. Cotton, per quintal,
sl'33; starch, do, so cents cocoa, do. $3.50;
coffee do, 81; cobadilla, do. 81; dividive do Is
81; tobacco leaf, do So; acahamaca, do, So;
carama, do, So; medicinal substances not
specified; sarsaparilla, per quintal So; indigo,
per Quntal, cents; vanilla beans, per quintal
so cents; sarassa, do. 10 cents; cocoanut oil per
eighty bottles, $3.50; hams. per hundred, 2j
cents donkeys each 81; horses and mares each
9l5 mules, each $40; bulls and oxen, each $3.50:
skins, not specified, each cents; lignumvite'
per ton OF 1000 pounds, 81; fustic, do. 20 cents:
lOgwood, do. 81; sole leather, per side so cents:
straw hats, per dozen, rs cents; balsam specific
per pound, cents; lumber, building ad
valorem, ~ per cent; all articles not specified
10 per cent.
The Committee of Conference,
The Speaker has appointed Messrs Stevens
Shellabarger and Blaine as a Committee of Con-
ference on the part of the House on the dis.
agreement to the Senate amendment to the Re-
before /, received notice OF the action of the
House, and are now debating wheth er thew will
appoint Committee OF Conference on their
part. A