The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-01
Domestic ARatrss

Gold closed yesterday at 1919.
The Boston Herald changed hands yes
terday.
The Hudson River Railroad tracks are
under water
Thirty Treasury Agents were yesterday re-
moved by Secretary Boutwell,:
Lieutenant Governor Dunn, of Louisiana, a
colored man, is IN Washington.
Captain william Rockendorf has been
ordered to the naval rendezvous ia this city.
The President has recognized e. G. Squer
as Consul General of the Republic of Honduras.
Work has been commenced on the build
lngs for the great National Peace Jubilee In
William Lawson committed suicide at
Cleveland, Yesterday, by shooting himself
Ten loaded freight cars ran into the Hud-
son river at Castleton yesterday. No persons
were injured.
The freshet 10 the Hudson still continues.
The water is eight and ten feet deep on the piers
at Albany.
Mary Drury, factory operative, was acci'
dentally dlowned near Worcester, Mass, on
Tuesday night.
Among the nominations for Justices of the
Peace in The District Of Columbia will be one
cOlored man.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton, and Dayton Rail.
road has rejected the lease proposed by the New
York and Erie Company.
The rivers and creeks in the vicinity of
Buffalo, N. y, are much above the average
height. Two men have been drowned in Towanda
creek.
1t is again asserted that the so-called Peru.
Wan monitors are in the service of the Cuban
revolutionists, and are said to be in the vicinity
of ManZanlla.
The nomination of General Longstreet as
Surveyor Of New Orleans was considered by the
Senate, in executive session, yesterday. No
conclusion was arrived at.
Last week four hundred and seventy-nine
applications for patents were received, one
hundred and flxteen caveats died, and two
hundred and forty nin' patents ordered TO be
Hon. George A. Halsey, who reluctantly
consented to accept the office OF Register OF the
Treasury, cannot, 1t now appears, be appointed
General Hoar, who rules that MIR. Halsey being
a manufacturer or trader, is precluded from the
appointment by the act establishing the Irea>
sury Department.
ETbe following Joint resolution, approved
March II, 1864, is still on the statute book
ResOlued, etc., That the Secretary OF the Treas
sury be authorized to anticipate the payment OF
interest on the public debt by period not ex-
ceeding offe year, from time to time. either with
or without a rebate of interest upon the cou-
pons as 10 him may seem. eXpedlenti ana ne Is
hereby authorized to dispose of any gold In the
Treasury OF the United States not necessary for
the payment of the public debt; Provided, That
tue obligation to create the sinking fund, accord
ing to the act OF February, 1867, shall not De
Last night, as the train bound North on the
Richmond. Fredericksburg, and Potomac Rail-
road was approaching Chesterfield Station, and
about halfway between Fredericksburg and
Richmond, the engineer discovered IN the dis
tance man lying across the track, ana
whistled 'down brakes" but, before the train
could be stopped 1t had entirely passed over the
spot. The train being stopped as soon as pos;
sblp, a search was made. and 1t was discovered
that The wheels had passed over the middle o.
the body Of the unfortunate man cut.lhg y IN
two The name of the man was Haines, aud he
had until recently been employed on the rall-
road. Near by the track, man, supposed TO
be a companion of Haines,. was found half
clothed and very much lntoxlcaIeu'