The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-25
domestic Affairs,

-'rOlu ClOseu yesterday at l4%.
Queen Victoria completed her ffteth year
yesterday.
Secretary Boutwell, had an interview with
the President yesterday.
The new State officers Of Rhode Island will
he inaugurated to-day.
H. A. Kelley Il merchant of New York
died at Rochester yesterday.
There were five incendiary fires in lansing
burg, N. Y, on Sunday night.
in a bar-roOm aifray at Newark, n. j.. on
Sunday evening, a boys skull was fractured
There was S114, 600 in gold in the United
States Treasury at Washington yesterday.
Hon. q. A. Grow and q. II. Stuart, Esq, of
this city, arrived in Washington yesterday.
The cargo of the steamer Mississippi, lost off
Martinique, was worth 100000 in gold, and is
insured
General schcncll left Washington for this
city, last night. He viii depart TOR Europe on
the 9th proXimo.
"A conference on the amcIioraton of the
condition of the Indians will take place aJ Wash
lngtOn, tomorrow.
Several letter boxes i'm the Boston Post Office
were broken open on sunday night and the con-
tents distracted.
BY the falling of walls at a fire on Saturday
VI ght, eight fremen were severely and several
Others slightly injured.
"A large meeting in favor Of lay representa-
ton in the General Conference of the Methodist
Church was held at Pittsburg Yesterday.
The body of a man named Charles Mclean
mas been found in the woods near Peekskul'
Joseph H. Morris shot and dangerously
wounded Henry Hanson, in the streets of Will
mington, Delaware, on Sunday evening.
"A settlement on Musselshell river, Montana,
was attacked 10y Indians on the Sth instant.
The savages were driven off with severe losses.
--Fifty-siX army officers have been ordered
to report to General Candy, to act as Registers
ut the revision of registration in Virginia next
month
John Lloyd, manufacturer of Providence,
X. l. has been missing since Wednesday last.
Five hundred dollars reward is offered for his
recovery.
surer Van Dycll rendered his resignation last
month, but retains his position temporarily, ut
the request of Secretary Boutwell,
The boiler of a locomotive belonging to the
New York Central Railroad Company exploded
Mt Rochester yesterday, severely scalding the
engineer, and totally destroying the engine and
q number of cars
"A band of men, armed and disguised, stopped
a train between Louisville and Memphis, on Sa-
turday night, and attempted to murder Internal
Revenue Officer HUM, who had in charge a
prisoner arrested for conducting an Illicit dis
tillery.
The President yesterday received by mail
from New York neatly engrossed on parchment,
n COPY of a series of resolutions passed mt a re-
cent meeting of the 18th Regiment (llighanders,
National Guard New York State Militia tender
ING their thanks for the President acknowledg-
Ioent OF the services of Miss Elizabeth Van Lew,
OF Richmond, in ministeriGg 70 the necessities
and comfort of the officer and men OF our
army who. while prisoners oi war during the
Rebellion. were confined in the Libby and other
prisons. The officers and men OF this regiment
were specially gratifed at the appointment oi
. Miss Van Lew as POstmistress OF Richmond.
William Griffith, who lost both arms While
firing n salute in honor of President Grant some
time since. was yesterday appointed Waterman
al the Treasury Department, ut the request ol
the President The card from the President, re-
commencing his appointment, was as follows
William Grifiith:-lf possble,fl WISH the Secre
tary of the Treasury would give the bearer
watchman's place. He met with the misfortune
from which he suffers under my eyes, ana lee
sympathy for him. y, o. "hASl' n
The two men calling themselves hoWal
and Dawson in custody mt Baltimore, charged
with robbing Harnden's Express money carrier
last week of about sixteen thousand dollars Il
bonds and money after being kept under guard
were Yesterday taken TO n photographers s. thel
likenesscs taken, and were TO be sent TO jail U
be held for trial About three thousand dollar
i'm money were recovered from them, and 1t l
believed that some clue to the rest of the none
and bonds has been obtained. Howard an
Dawson are regular thieves, and known a
having repeatedly operated in Chicago, Ne'
Orleans and most of the large cities OF the coun
trv Two of their accomplices are still at large
and the police are on their track. Their ident
6cation with the robbery is positive.