The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-14
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
The Darien Canal Survey.
The Gratifying Progress Made.
Repeal of Taxes on Coal,
Pennsylvania Sunday School Convention
Important News by Gable.
Wilmington and Reading Railroad.
ETC., ETC.. ETC.. ETC., Etc.
FROM WASHINGTON.


Washing gtop and Fredericksburg Railroad.
Despatch to the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, June 14.-George B. Roberts,
of Pennsylvania, has been elected President of
the company to build railroad from Washing
ton to fredericksburg uniting with that to
Richmond. The work is to be Immediately
commenced, and completed by December next.
The Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company
has in this as well as In the Baltimore and Poto-
mic Railroad, the controlling interest. The
Pennsylvania Central has thus secured line
from Richmond, by way of Washington and
Baltimore, to unite with its Northern and West
ern lines.
Important to the Coal Interests
The Committee of Ways and Means has agreed
to report bill relieving coal from all taxes, in
ternal as well as external. Ayes-Maynard, Ke-
ley, Blair, and Mccarthy; noes-Hooper,
Brooks, and Allison. This bill relieves coal COM
panies from the payment of income taxes, taxes
on gross receipts, etc. The immediate repeal of
the duty on bituminous coal was voted down.
Schenck and Marshall were absent from the
committee. This action is in accordance with
the instruction of the House, given upon motion
of Mr.. Ward a week or two since.
Helen and Heloise Lincoln.
The Joint resolution for the relief of Helen
and Heloise Lincoln has become law without
the Presidents signature, he not having returned
it with his signature to the House in which it
originated within the time prescribed by the
Constitution.
The Kiowa Indians two years and half ago
captured in Texas these two girls, aged re-
spectively three and five years. after having
murdered the parents and all the known rela-
tives of the children, who are now in the care of
j. H. Leavenworth. $4,000 are to be reserved
from the annuities of these Indians, the interest
on which is to be used for the childrens support.
United States steamer sabine.
Special Despatch TO The Euening Telegraph
WASHINGTON, June 14.-Commander J. G.
Walker informs the Navy Department, May 10,
of his arrival in the United States steamer
Sabine at Rio de Janeiro Brazil, after pleasant
passage of thirty days from Funchal, Madeira,
instead of going to the Cape of Good Hope as
was first intended. He will cruise off the coast
of Brazil to exercise the midshipmen in
working ship. Will then go into Bahia, and
from there sail for home, eaching Boston by
the first of August.
The Darien Survey.
Commander Selfridge writes in regard to the
survey of the Darien lsthmus that after great
labor and fatigue he has run line of levels over
the mountain to the headwaters of the Sucubti,
which have been found at an elevation of 553
| feet above the mean level of the Atlantic. He
| adds that this information has most important
| bearing upon the probabilities of this route
| being found practicable for canal. 1t does
| away with the idea that many have entertained
| of low pass in the Cordileras. The shortness
of the time before the rainy season, and desire
to accomplish as much as possible, has induced
him to make explorations at the same time on
the Morti and Sassardi rivers. Supplying and
| keeping up these two large parties had taxed his
| resources to a very great extent
| This latter party have run their levels several
| miles inland, and are now working over the
| dividing ridge to Morti, a tributary of the
| Chucuraqua, north of the Sucubti. This line, he
| thinks, will be found lower than the Darien.
This line is of his own selection, from the best
| information no white man has ever penetrated
inland over 1t. He states the weather has been
unfavorable for operations. Although it was
| time when the pleasantest weather was expected,
there has hardly been q day without rain. The
health of his squadron continues good, and what
sickness there is arises from so much wet in the
mountains.
He thinks the route from the Gulf of San Bias
to the Bayamo river and thence to the Pacific
has the most favorable appearance of a sue
cessful route on account OF its shortness, its
fine commodious harbor on the Atlantic, and
that there are no large streams to cross. But no
definite opinion can as yet be given until the
several routes have been thoroughly explored.
Ammunition Stores.
Secretary Belknap has given orders to break
up the large quantity of fixed ammunition which
has accumulated since the war and is now stored
in the laboratory at the Watertown Arsenal,
Massachusetts,.
Paving of Pennsylvania Avenue.
There is petition in circulation here, signed
by the newly elected Mayor, M. G. Emery, and
all the prominent business men of the city,
which will doubtless be presented to Congress
tomorrow, earnestly requesting that body to
pass, before adjourning, the bill to pave Penn
sylyania avenue with some improved pavement,
the bill to erect new Jail and penitentiary, the
bill to dredge and otherwise improve the river
channel, the bill to lay new water main, and
an appropriation to finish the Washington
aqueduct.
These petitions are not only on the ground of
needed improvements, but to give work to
the large surplus of laborers who crowd Wash
ington, especially colored, who cannot find enl-
ployment during the winter months aud are
compelled TO subsist upon charity aud donations
from Congress, which they are called upon to
make nearly every session for the poor of the
district
. The Tax on Brandy.
1t is understood that, by the new regulations
of the Internal Revenue Office, about to be is
sued, the per diem capacity tax, which has here
tOfore been assessed against distillers of brandy
from fruit. will be done away with, the Com
missioner holding that the terms of section 18th
| act OF July 2Osh, 1865, imposing said Tax, do no