The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-28
The Cuban Revolution-Gollad and
Deweese-They are Reported
to Have Resigned to Es-
cape Expulsion.
d I s. A S r. e n.
Terrible News from the Japan Station
The United States Steamer
Oneida Reported Lost with
100 Men.
FROM WASHING TON.
Military Orders.

Despatch 10 the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S-The following Gene
raj Order has been issued from the headquarters
of the army
First The Senators and Representatives from
the State of Mississippi having been admitted
TO their respective houses of Congress, the COM
mand known as the Fourth Military District has
ceased to exist.
Second. By direction of the President the
State of Mississippi is attached to the Depart
ment of the Cumberland, and the officers and
troops within the late Fourth Military District
will accordingly report to Brevet Major-General
Cooke, commanding the department
Third. The General commanding the late
Fourth Military district will complete the
records of that district soon as practicable,
and send them to the Adjutant- General of the
army, except such military records as should
properly be retained at the headquarters of the
department, which he will send there.
The act admitting Mississippi is also pro-
mulgated in general orders from the headquar-
ters of the army
Naval Orders.
Captain NJ. B. Woolsey, detached from the
South Atlantic fleet and placed waiting
orders. Lieutenant Commander Charles f.
Blake, from the Naval Academy, sick leave.
Assistant Paymaster Robert H. Spaulding, from
the New York Navy Yard, and ordered to Palos.
Surgeon s. VAIN, from the Portsmouth and
placed on waiting orders. Assistant Paymaster
John G. Burnet is ordered to temporary duty in
the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.
Important Decision.
The Supreme Court to-day, in the captured
and abandoned property cases from the Court of
Claims, decided that the people of the United
States were not called on to determine for
themselves when the war of rebellion closed,
but that August 20, 1866, the date of the Presi-
dents proclamation declaring the fact, was
deemed to be conclusive of the question. This
opinion affects number of cotton cases, and
applies to other matters of litigation.
Air-IAne RallT oud.
The Committee on Railways and Canals de-
cided to-day to report adversely bill for the
construction of telegraph and railroad from
this city to Cleveland Ohio They agreed to
report favorably on bills for an airline railroad
to New York. and for the construction of u rail
road from this city to the Schuylkill river in
Schuylkill county, Pa.
The Appropriation Bill.
The Committee on Appropriations took up
the Miscellaneous Appropriation bill to-day.
They agreed to report in favor of the appropra-
ton OF twenty-three thousand dollars to the
Swedish Government in consideration of the ac
tion of Swedish seamen in saving the lives Of
some American sailors wrecked in the South
| Pacific.
Terrible Dfsaster-RepOrted Loss of the UHifeS
states steamer Oneiua with I2D Lives.
Secretary Robson was informed this morning
| by the Secretary of State that he had received
| telegraphic despatch from the American Consu
| at Yokohama, that the United States steamer
| Oneida, on her way to the United States, wher
| off Yokohama, Japan, during heavy fog, wa
| run into by the British mail steamer Bombay
and sunk. One hundred and twenty lives re
ported as lost. No particulars.
| List Of her Oncers.
The following is the list OF on GERS OF the Oneid
according to theEast Naval Register, although we ar
unable to say to what extent it may have since beel
| chaDged:-
| Captain j. B. Creighton.
Lieutenant Commander A. W. Nudaur.
| Master, Walter Sargent.
| Ensigns, j. r.. Phelsn, G. +. Arnold, j. W. Cowle
NJ. Boles, K. w. Very. and j. j. Yates.
Surgeon James Suddards.
| Passed Assistant Paymaster, Thomas L. Tul0ck
| Jr ~ ~ ElkS AzsAatsszfi
| First Assistant Engineers, n. b. Littig and Ha'
land Barstow.
second Assistant Engineers, John Torrance an
Acting Mla Assistant Engineers, A. D. Radclin
| and j. p. McDOns lds
| Boatswain, William E. Leedss
| Carpenter, j. d. Pinner.
The Cuban Resolution.
Special Despatch TO The EUeninq Telegraph
The House Foreign Affairs Committee ha
| another discussion to-day on the Banks Cuba
| resolution, but without coming TO any cor
| cluslon adjourned. Itwas agreed to take vot
| on the resolution next Thursday. There is n
| doubt of the resolution being adopted.
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