Evening star., 1869-12-02
The Trouble. Of the Boys i'm Blue.

Il
CsayG aad Collector Bes~ea-IAe Later oa w.
j.. Noi.
An adjourned meeting OF the officers of the
| BIS in b. was held at Union League Hall last
| evening, A. Grant In the chair, w. s. Fletcher,
| Secretary. The meeting was opened at O'Clock
/ by prayer from Rev. j. w. Green. The state
| ment of 1.-THE Commanding General" to the Ex-
ecutiye Board was read. together with opin-
| ION Of ''Judge Advocate General .. D.Barrett,' -
| as also resolution adopted at the last meeting Of
/ the board:-'That William +. Mott, j. L. Vena-
BILE, X. j. Beal and Michael Sinner, having
tailed to resign their commissions in the Bows in
Blue, are hereby declared ineligible 70 seats in
| ,he Executive Board, and their places arc de-
| General Order No. 10 was read. ordering court
martial for the trial of of j. b. Adams, and the
| Knight, President; George w. Hatton, Allen
"A. Grant. A. NJ. Bland, j. Wesley Miller. VIM.
X. Slowen, William r. Wayne; .. ID. Barrett,
Judge Advocate General
The Executive Board concurred in the plan
| for the proposed torch-light procession on De-
cember Is. On motion Of Captain j. w. Fer
A. Grant and j. w. Ferguson) were appointed
| 10 make nominations TO NIL the vacancies I'm the
| Executive Board.
| While the committee were absent W. Penn
clarke addressed the meeting, in which he said
| that If the men who now profess to manage the
| Executive Board had ever contributed to the
support OF the organization he would have
| nothing TO say, but such was not the case, and
| they how having found that the organization was
/ aPower, they were attempting to control it. He
| spoke OF men having been discharged by the
Commissioner OF the Fifth Ward for attending
/ meeting Of the organization, and that the men
| and their friends had been to the Mayor asking
to be reinstated, but he declined, saying that he
| sustained the action of the Commissioner. He
| further said that the parties now claiming TO be
| the Executive Board were attempting TO use it
to advance the interests of certain parties for
| Offices, one of them being the Corporation At
| torncy, and he charged that that officer in his
| opinion OH the mixed school question had lodged
the real question for the purpose Of making
| himself popular among the opposition.
| The committee on nominations for members
| of the board reported the following, who were
elected-Third Ward. u. II. McEwen, Robert
| Tunnia; Fourth Ward, Palmer Briscoe; Sixth
| Ward, Charles Champion, George III. Reynolds.
On motion Of Capt. ROckafellow, a committee
| of one from each ward and two from George
| town was ordered to be appointed bI the Chair,
| TO make arrangements for a torchlght process
| sion on the 18th instant. The committee will be
| announced in a few days.
| Mr.. +. A. Boswell was called for and addressed
the meeting, saying that in listening to the ad-
dress of Mr.. Clarke he recognized the fact that
Mr. C.was not politician, and he had uttered the
truth in regard to the discharge of men in the
| Fifth Ward. This was an outrage on the party,
| and such action would naturally be expected in
the days of the old defunct Democrotic party,
but it would not do in these days. A. to his pO-
| litical acts, he would let the people judge be-
tween w. +. Mott and him. He would not
spend dollar on such a man, who was not wor-
thy of notice. He did not accept his (Nott's)
explanation as to his own standing but he wanted
| his record from some others. It was not suffi-
cient to show that a man once belonged to the
| "Wide Awakes," }" for while some Of the most
| jealous Republicans were in that organization,
| some OF the bitterest enemies of the party now
had been active in it, and 1t was quite likely that
charge that he b. had obtained 81, 900 from the
| Corporation, nearly doubling his salarc, by over
persuading the Mayor, he cited the law Of June
Sd, 1853, which provides that the Register shall
have charge of the city seal, and for afiixing 1t
to papers shall be entitled to such fees as are al
| lowed by law, in addition to his compensation,
and this fee Is one dollar, as prescribed in the
act prescribing the duties OF the Register.
The Chair stated that he wanted all the officers
to have their men ready to turn out Oh the 18th
| instant. Adjourned.
After the meeting had adjourned, John West,
| colored man OF the Fifth Ward, was attacked
by some parties, and struck four or five times.
THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF
CoLoEED MEN held their regular meeting last
Tuesday, the President, Il. L. Downing, in the
chair. The subcommittee reported progress,
and Sere allowed more time Ton account OF the
absorbing interest i'm the school question of the
two chairmen Professor NashOn and Rev. Sella
Martin,) in reference to the address es being pre-
pared to the people OF Hayti and Liberia, re-
questing them to strike out the word "white"
whenever it occurs i'm their respective cOnstitu-
ton and laws. After the appointment OF Com
mittees on Railroad Travel and Mixed Schools.
and the transaction of other business, resolu-
ti9ns were 9 offered by Rev. Selia Martin, and
adopted: That this committee hail with satis-
faction the proof that the Republican party
still lives in the city Of washington, and that
its chief municipal representatives still leads il
On with spotless integrity, intelligence, vigor
and fearlessness, in the pathway OF new tri-
umphs.
APPLICATION FOR TEANsPoRrATIoN-.Al-
legged Abduction Of a Chiid-The Chief Of Police
Appeoied to.-TO-day an application was made to
Major Richards. Superintendent OF Police. by q
woman dressed in blOOmer costume and her
husband, for transportation to st. Louis, but
that officer could not see it, and gave
very little encouragement to the parties.
| couple, have been boarding for some time on
| Missouri avenue, and the couple making the
application having left their child in the house
for a short time. on their return found that the
| other couple had left the place and carried the
| child with them; and it is for the purpose of
| regainng possession Of the child they wish 70
60 10 st. Louis.
REAL Estate SALE.-Joshua Whitney & Co.,
| real estate brokers, have sold for DR.. S. =,
Transul a three.st0ry brick hOsse and fursiture
on 9Th street, between g and H streets, to Or. A
| B. Crash for IS 80.
FIRE--This morning, about nine o'clock an
1 alarm OF hre was sounded from box ~. and the
| Department was quickly Ort 1t was caused by
| the burning of q barrel Of tar on n street, be-
| tween 10th aud 18th streets.
| WARRANTS IssUED.-This morning Vim. II.
| West obtained warrants from Justice Chase for
l the arrest Of Martin CrOnin and Thomas Sorrell,
on the charge of having assaulted him last night
| at the Union League rooms.
| CoMPHoNIsE.-The case, mentioned in THE
| STAR yesterday, Of assault and battery and
| mutiny on board the schooner Kate was settled
| by comprOmise before Justice Pearson, yester-
| day, and the parties were discharged.
/ The GRACE CHURCH (SOuth Washngton)
Fair and Festival, at Island Hail. attracts vastly
by its delightful exercises, music, tableaux, &c,
| The MCFAgLAND-RICHAGD APFAIR-A
| Deoh,Jed MdTfage.-Albert j.. Richardson, who
was shot by Mcfarland, i'm New York, few
i taNs since. and who died in Ne,u Nark fl,is