Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-08-14

THE POTOMAC FRoNT-Excessiye warm
weather and sitting dust make tour Of 1.-The
'front.' to-day some what disagreeable, though
an occasional Whit of wind is waited from the
south. The steamer Express made her moor
lngs at Crouch's wharf this morning with mer.
Sn ,,si ano passengers from Baltimore. and
VIII nereafter adopt this point as her stopping
plsce going and coming. At ten O'Clock the
steamer Arrow, Major Sykes in command
made her usual trip to Mount Vernon, with
passengers and mails, and shortly afterwards
the steamer W. W. Colt Captain Rytber.
reached Galts wharf from Norfolk with sixty.
Tour passengers and large lot of freight Of
below:
SherE's Coal and Wood Wharf, foot of .sirfh
sTeef.-Arrived - Sehr. Mignonette, Colbert
Sheriff
Brouns Wha5. - Arrived S chr. Anu s
Brown, Gray, fsom Jacksonville, Fla, with
hard pine lumoer tor =. =. Brown IL San
Fdy's Whdrf.-A rived-Schr Mary, Roberts.
from Persimmon Point, with wood for Bur
CESS; steamef Virginia, Gregg, with wood for
W Illlam Baron.
Fowler's Wharf - Sailed - Schr. Nellie q.
Payne, Doane, for Georgetown, to load with
coal for Boston.
Riley's Wadyf.-At this wharf a number of
trucking boats have arrived with melons and
fruit for Turner Il Son, VIM. E. Stewart and
other dealers. Sailed-Schr Pickup Bowen
1or 6eorgetowD, to load with coal for Phil
adelphIa.
THAT BoTTLR-Last night, a gentleman
II appeared
Central Guardhouse, and turned over 70 off cer
q. w. Proctor, in charge of the station, a bro
Ken white glass bottle and piece of cigar box
on Which was written in ink, :. Read enclosed
paper; 1t Is important" The bottle, which
was corked tightly, AS vouched for b. Mr. Ma.
gle, mad enclosed piece of yellow straw pa.
per, on which was written in pencil the fol.
lowing letter:
my life is about run. MY friends have
little to mourn; enemies / have none. oh
Lena, could you but recall those cruel words
w nnI sill
VINO worshipped you and now seeks death
rather than live without thee. 1 have placed
my letter and your locket under a stone in the
Monument loI l leave them to you Some
one will find this, and by it You will know
that your Allen is no more FAREWELL,
. MT Magic said that as be was swimming in
the POTOMAC, near the foot of 9th street, mis-
body came in contact with the bottle floating
on the water. 1t is very probable that some
nard-up reporter in this dull season fixed IN
the bottle aforesaid as foundation for first
class sensational article If so, his inventive
genius IL toierably we'll rewarded, as the item
ngures with numerous head lines in the morn.
ing papers.
a LACNCH.-The steam barge "Cathcart,n
quilt by Mr.. =. ;. Craig, Of this city, at his
y ys,h ON tne river 'front.'" between 18th and
18TH streets, was launched to-day, between -
and O'Clock, according to the programme an.
nounced IL the STAR of yesterday afternoon
number OF citizens and strangers were pres.
en' and everything passed off with great sa-is-
Iacuon. This steamer IS intended as the
pioneer OF a line of steam barges TO be used by
washington company in the TRANSPORTATION
OF anthracite coal direct from the mines az
Scnuylklll Haven, in Pennsylvania, without
ahsnipment IN Philadelphia and the expenses
attending II. As previously stated the .Cath.
cart Is two hundred tons burden supplied
with double engines of seventy horse power.
and propelled upon the Cathcart prIn ciple, the
whole machinery OF which was built in this
cry Gboer the immediate supervision of our
weli.known tewnsman Mr.. Jonas b. Ellis,
IN whose praise Capt. Cathcart is quite enthu-
siastic, as well as for Mr. Craig, the builder of
the craft, IN carrying out his ideas.