Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-12-04


EVIDENCE IN THE COURTS OF THE DISTRICT.
In the House to-day, Mr.. Potter, of New
York, introduced bin in relation TO evidence
in the courts of the District of Columbia. 1t
provides that all wills, test9ments and codicils
concerning lands, tenements or hereditaments
in the District of Columbia which have hereto
fore been, or may hereafter be, duly admitted
TO probate in said District, may be read in evil
dence in any suit therein concerning such lands
tenements, or Entertainments from the record of
ton. provided that such record shall be only
primd fdcie evidence of the execution OF said
wills, testaments and codicils. Referred to
the Judiciary Committee.
Senators FentOn and Sumner on the
Death Of MI. Greeley.
If Mr.. Cameron, who moved that the Senate
adjourn yesterday. had withdrawn that motion
the latter Senator would have said; 81 desire to
leave for New York at one O'Clock, and there
fore venture upon the indulgence of the Senate
to make motion at this time. 1t has reference
in the death OF Horace Greeley. This sad event
touches the hearts of all our people. Not only
In our land, but the struggling and the good in
unite in deep and long lament over his death.
In further public recognition of an event so i'm
Pressive, OF grief so universal and profound, |
adjourn to meet on Thursday next. 1 may
remark that several Senators desire to attend
the funeral, ana IL Is semi ON c1Aly announced
| that the President and Vice President of the
United States will leave for New York to- day for
the same purpose.
Mr.. Sumner would have said: "Mr. President,
i have been requested to second this motion.
One word, IL you please. A funeral will take
place to- morrow on which the eyes of the nation
| will rest, while innumerable hearts throb with
grief and the people everywhere learn the insta-
| bility of life and the commandment of charity.
1t is proper, therefore, for the representatives
of the nation TO suspend labor, tn at thew too may
hp no afrQ tad hxrt ho loSan antr a
them than the illustrious dead is this needed.
| He is gone beyond any earthly call; we remain.
Duties are always for the living, and now,
standing at the open grave of Horace Greeley,
We are admOnished to forget the strife of party,
| and 10 remember only truth, country and man
kind, to which his honest life was devoted. In
other days the horse and armor of the departed
chieftain have been buried In the grave where
| he reposed. So, too, may we bury the ami
mosities, ii not the badges, of the past. Then,
indeed, will there be victory fer the dead, which
| all will share"
THE MEETING OF THE MASSACHUSETTS
| SKNAToRs.-At Canal street Mr.. Wilson got
| into An omnibus. A gentleman who sat next TO
the door assisted him in getting in. Senator
Wilson did not know at first who il was, when
| he suddenly heard a voce-"Hallo, Wilson,"
1t was the gentleman who had helped him in
Senator Wilson looked at him, and, beaming in
emile, said: "Halo, Sumner!" The two
friends shook hands cordially. "Well, | dec are,
this Is SURPRISE" said the next vice president.
We'll, old boy, how are you?" the eloquent
old boy how are yes wilson
turned, still shaking his friends hand Sena-
tor Sumner said he was pretty well; indeed he
was very well. His health had greatly i'm
proved. YES, you look a great deal better"
Senator Wilson said, delighted; ''the trip 10
Europe has done you good. You look great
deal better. And now tell me all about Europe
Senator Sumner told him everything-eyery-
thing be told the Herald reporter the day be-
fore. At the city hall the two friends got out
and went to the Tribune office, where they had
IN oil 10TH ,lar,r 80
see each other, and not word referring to pol
itics or the presidential election was spoken
New York Herald.
ANOTHER UNPUBLIsHED LETTER FROM MR.
GRRELEY.-In a letter to the Hon. Mason W =.
Tappan, dated November s, one Of the very
last that Mr.. Greeley wrote, he expresses great
gratitude to Mr.. Tappan for going into the
recent contest in his behalf with such zeal: And
says in his gravely jOcuar manner: al have
been go bitterly assailed that L hardly know
whether l was running for the Presidency or for
the peniteDtiary." MIR. Greeley thus speaks of
the death of his wife: I'm the darkest hour NV
long suffering wife left; not too soon as she had
suffered too deeply and long. laid her in the
grave WITH s' ha 49,, Dry eyes: Well am used up
hard to close, while they soon open again"
THB STORM which swept over the Lakes last
week exceeded in fury any that has been expe.
rienced by old scustrine sailors at this season of
the year. The eastern shores are literally
strewn with the wrecks of barques, schooners
and other smaller craft, and the Chicago pa
pers are filled with descriptions of the pic
outrode the tempest and anchored safely in the
hsrbOr. Some of them more resembled fcebergs
than ships, their masts and rigging clad In
armor OF ice, and their decks loaded to the
depth OF three feet with CONCEALED snow and
sleet and rain.
THE LONDON Press ON THE PRKsrpRNr,s
MEssAGK.-The London papers OF yesterday all
publish the Presidents message, and generally
SPEAK I'm, IN complimentary terms Oft The Times
slble, unpretendinR, lucid and business like
document, which cannot well be abridged IL
challenges no special remarks or adverse criti-
political or sectional bitterness Of partisan spirit
The tone is catholic and kindly, and its recon-
mendations are broadly national and patriotic,
JOSEPHINE MANSFIELD IMpovRRIsHrp.-It
Is stated that gentlemen recently arrived
Mansfield appeared in that city some weeks ago.
She had about 81 900 in money. This She
deposited in the banking house of Bowles Bros
When the failure Of that house was announced
she wrung her hands in grief, and declared that
she was ruined. 1t is not probable that she will
recover cent of her money.
ANTI-REFoRM PLATFORM In NEW YORK.
The New York Erening Post pretends to have
discovered conspiracy between certain repub
licaDs and the late members OF the New York
ring, by which all reform legislation is to be de
feated. The rlan contemplates the resignation
OF the officers appointed By the Mayor, to the
Cbu mat -hoyOi Hall may MI tutlT places VIII
republicans OF easy virtue before MI. Have
meyer is indicted into office.
ELOPING JUvBNILRs.-Mr. RObt. Miller dry
goods clerk in the house Of A. l.. Patton, OF
Greensburg, KY, eloped last week with NJ iss
Bette Brakeman, OF the same county. Mr..
John Brakeman, uncle OF the young lady, and
Mr. Levi Moor, accompanied them to Galiatin,
Tenn, where they were united In the bonds of
matrimony. Miller Is aged eighteen and his
bride sixteen.
H THE L0UIeIANA ELECTION CAsDe between
the custom-house and Warmoth returning
boards submitted to the eighth district court in
New Orleans, the court has decided that the act
creating the boards being repealed, neither
returning board IL legally In existence, and the.
Wri6 were dismissed.
ORIeoH's InDiAN WAR.AReports from the
Mod0c Indians stats that all the settlers on the
Sink river have been massscred, and that eight
warriors are In the Held, With only thirtys6v I'VE
soldiers from Fort klamath to fight them Com.
panies are organizing in the nor thern part of the
state to take the field
Two MIN CRUSHED TO DIArH-Henrv
Smith and George Drew, who were engaged
together chopping wood in Johnston, Z. T..
Monday, were found dead, having apparently
been crushed BY large rock under which they
had built dre, and which partly fell over on