Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-10-20
GENERAL SHERMAN, in conversation Will

comments on his recent speech at the opening
Of the art gallery here, in which he alluded to
the question of the removal OF the Capitol from
Washington to the Mississippi Valley, and
said that "outsids of his personal views its
present consideraton was futile, as IL would
take one hundred years to get q bill to tha; ef-
feet through the House Of Representatives, ae
hundred years to get one through the Senate,
and even after the passage of the bill by both
Houses, one hundred and one years would be
spent in discussing the most eligible point in
the Mississippi Valley to which the Capitol
could be removed"
RAILROAD COMPANIES IN TRoUBLR.-Super.
visor butcher, OF New York city, has turned
his attention to railroads in that section, and
has discovered that the New York and Flush
ing and North Shore and Flushing and North
Side Companies have not rendered the proper
returns Of dividends, interest and undistribu-
ted profits due in February and August, 1869
Upon these amounts not returned there is due
tax OF five per cent amounting to some two
thousand dollars, to which should be added
fifty per cent penalty and an assessment of
four fines Of 1900 each tor not making proper
returns.
The Brooklyn City railroad, it is charged
has also omitted to make proper returns, and
Y.
Commissioner Delano has directed the Asses.
sors TO assess these taxes, penalties and fines
against these roads, and the Collectors to col.
lect the same.
EXPLORATIONS IN THE SoUrHwRsr-THR
UPPER COLORADO AHD ITS TRIBUrARIRs-
INTERESTING DISCOVERIES OF RUINS &c
VINO OCCUPIED THE COUNTRY BRpoRR THE
RED MEN l-Colonel Samuel Adams, who
has spent the better part of the past four years
In explorations up the Colorado river, and
through the widest portions Of the far south.
west. has just returned from another expedI.
tion, the most dangerous and difficult yet
undertaken. He has arrived tere, and
will submit an extended report OF his dis.
covertes to the Government within q few days
His party consisted Of eleven men beside him.
sell, and all the expenses Of the expedition,
including the cost Of boats, con veyances, in.
suuments, provisions, and other necessary
articles Of outfit were borne BY himself, and
the Undertaking was purely OF private char.
acfer without aid from the Government, or
from any State, or association. The explora.
tions were confined to the upper Colorado and
Its tributaries. and the country adjacent, and
embrac d sections never before penetrated by
modern explorers. The party started ct 20
summit OF the Rocky Mountains, near Breck.
epridRe, Summit County, Colorado, where
ffty.two hydraulic mines are in operation, ana
where much gold Is taken out during six
months Of the year. Col. Adams represents that
he found localities equally rich in mines that
can be worked during ali the months OF the
year, and that in the northwestern and central
portions Of Arizona and New McKee, he found
the richest country be had ever seen. He saws
he saw wild wheat, rye, oats, and barley grow.
ing to the height Of six feet, and that he also
discovered ruins Of cities built Of stone FORTH.
cations, canals, abandoned mines several hun.
dred years old, and he gives 1t as his belief that
the cities the ruins Of which he discovered
were inhabited centuries before San Augustine,
FLORIDA, which is believed to have been the
first settlement embraced in the present terri.
tory OF the United States. The party also dis.
covered oil wells, tar wells, and salt aud coal
In abundance After starting, the explorers
descended five thousand fset during the frat
hundred miles, Following the river, and Col.
Adams states that the growth Of timber, very
limited at first. increased as they descended,
and that an inexhaustible supply was found,
which would supply the whole southern coun-
try in that region, where now the supply il
brought from the country about Puget Sound
and reaches its destination only bv being shin.
ped along the coast in the Pacific waters, up
the gulf OF California, and thence up through
the navigable waters Of rhe Colorado. The re.
port Will be- one OF the most interesting ever
made OF explorations IN the far West, ard will
be submitted TO Congress at its next session.