Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-06-05


painting by VIM. Hart, entitled "Breakng up
OF the Ice on the Hudson" which has attracted
a good deal of attention lately in art circles
Price - 800.
ACROSS THE RCoNTINENT.-SenatorC Conkling,
ex-senator Wade, Gen. Boynton, u. H. Pam
ter, Esq, and Gen. Dodge. Chief Engineer of
the U. =. X. r. start to- morrow for the Pacific
coast py rall, for a two months trip.
MR. o. ID. MADGB was to-day appointed
chief of the special agents division and SUPER
visor of the special agents of the Treasury De-
partment, vice Col. John B. Guthrie resigned.
Mr. Madge has been for many years past a
clerk in the appointment Office, having charge
OF the papers, &c, relating to the special
agents.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRRsIDENT.-The
President has appointed e.. e.. Andrews, of
Minnesota, Minister Resident to Stockholm;
James L. Graham, jr.. U. s. Consul at Florence;
Charles r. Mobley, U. s. Attorney OF the
Southern District Of Florida; and John Lynch,
of Louisiana, Surveyor General of the District
of Louisiana.
TIE ORPHANS Of deceased soldiers and sail
ors, from the Home in this city, visited the
Presidents Mansion to-day, in charge of the
matron, and were escorted by General Dent
through the east. green, blue, and red rooms of
the building, as also through the Presidents
grounds. One Of the smallest Of the children
presented General Dent with a handsome bou.
quet.
TRIAL OF CITIZENS BY MILITARY CoMMIs.
sIoNs-IMPoRTANr DECISION OF THE ATToR-
My GENBRAL.-In the case of James Weaver,
citizen Of Texas, tried for murder. con cted
and sentenced 10 be hung by a military com.
mission, the Attorney General has given an
opinion in which he reviews the reconstruc-
ton laws, and the duties of the commanding
officer, and says AZ the State of Texas had
not in September, 1868, and has not since
adopted the constitution in conformity with the
provisions of the act of Congress, and has not
become entitled TO representation in Con-
eress, the act was operative in Texas at
the time the military commission was organ
lied for the trial Of W eaver, and the command
ing general exercised the discretion entrusted
10 him by the third section by deciding that il
was necessary q military commission should
be organized for the trial. If, therefore, the
statute of March =, 1s67, Is a constitutional and
valid statute, it then appears that the jurisdic-
ton OF the said military commission was com.
plete. and that there is no legal obstacle to the
execution of the sentence.
The Attorney General maintains that the
the cessation Of active actual hostilities. and
not until tie work of restoring the relations Of
peace shall have been accomplished can il be
so considered. 1t is for Congress TO determ inc
when the war has so Tar ended that the work
can be safely and successfully completed.
INTERESTING CUBAN NKws-OFFICIAL DIs-
PATCHES PROM ADMIRAL HoFF-THE FILL
BUSTERS HAVE INFUSED NEW LIFH INTO THE
REyoLUTIoN.-The Navy Department has re-
eeived advices from Rear Admiral Hof, com.
nanding the North Atlantic Squadron, that he
arrived AT Matanzas in his flagship sContoo.
cook on the 2Oth of May. He reports the
feeling of animosity between the volunteers
and the Cuban element much less bitter than
be had been led to believe at Havana, and
thinks that a stranger at Matanzas would never
suspect a revolution was raging in the Island
American commerce, which is quite exten.
sive there, Is unmolested, ana the mer-
chants and shippers are carrying on
their business as in times OF peace.
Gen. Lesca. Governor of Puerto Principe, has
been removed by the Captain General for al
legged cruelties in bombarding a camp COM
posed OF women and children, and Gen.
eral Litona ordered TO succeed him. This &C.
ton has caused great discomfort among the
Havana volunteers, who have placarded the
streets with satirical caricatures of Dulce. The
Spanish authorities at Muritas, and IN fact at
every port OF the Island excepting Caibarien
or Remadios, have been exceedingly polite,
Offering every facility 10 our officers,
and manifestipg a friendly desire to please.
There are rumors that Trinidad is enyironed
by large force of insurgents, and there is also
report that the place Is in their possession.
At g uatanimo, At the south side near the east
ern end of the Island, the insurrection is said
TO be exceedingly strong. in consequences OF the
successful landing Of the expeditions in tina, dis.
tIlct, and that In q recent engagement with the
Spaniards the latter was defeated. One fact is
positive, however, and that Is that the acual
or supposed successful landing of these eXpe.
ditions infused new life into the in nsurrection.
that TO all appearances was dying out some
two weeks since.
THE WORKING PEoPLE-The iron moulders'