Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-23

source to-day were s2s2, 2O6.s1.
THE NEW TRADE DoILAR-A dispatch from
f. ID. Hetrich, esq, superintendent of the
Carson mint, dated the 22d inst, states that
the dies for the new trade dollar were received
on the 21st., and that four melts had been
coined on the 22d.
THE TIGRKss HEARD FRoM.-The following
dispatch was received at the Navy department
to-day:
ST. JOHNS, N. F., July %.
Secretory Robson, Washington, d. c.:
Arrived this morning. All well. Will sail
Saturday morning. JAS. A. GREER.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Lieut. F. A. Miller and
Ensigns G. A. Richardson and Edward NJ.
Hughes to special duty at New Orleans, La;
Mate Henry Setty to the receiving ship Poto-
mac, at philadelphia; Second Assistant Engi-
instant. relieving Second Assistant Engineer
r. Z. Burchard, who is placed on waiting
orders.
A MILITARY CADET DRowNKD.-The follow
ing telegram from the military academy was
received at the War department to-day: "I re-
greet TO report that Cadet Israel w. Pennis of
the Sd class, was drowned last evening whilst
bathing. His body has been recovered, and his
parents have been informed. Cadet Pennis
was native of Illinois, and represented the 18th
congressional district of that state at the acad-
envy.
KILLING AN INDIAN WOMAN, MURDER
Attorney General Williams to-day refused to
recommend a pardon in the case of James
Pickett, of Idaho, sentenced to be hung in that
territory on Thursday. In August of 1872 Pick
EFT dealt blow with miners pick on the skull
OF an Indian woman, killing her almost in
stantly. He was arraigned and tried by the
civil authorities of Idaho, and sentenced to
death, it being the first case where a white man
has been sentenced to suffer the extreme pen
atty of the law for the murder ofa red skin.
The CosT OF POSTAL CARDs-The Morgan
Envelope company, of Springfield, Mass,
which obtained the contract for furnishing the
postal cards, agreed to take the contract at
yl39h per thousand. The next lowest bid was
that Of Ray & Co., of New York, which was
Sl59L or 20 cents higher. Most of the other
bids we're over 50 per thousand. Should the
Morgan company abandon the contract on ac-
count Of losing money, it is probable that Raw
u Co., of New York, the next lowest bidder,
would receive the contract.
PRRsoNAL.-Levi Lucky, private secretary
to President Grant, returned TO the city last
night. '"'Gen. Babcock will return to Long
Branch Tomorrow night. Nv. o. Avery
chlef OF the appointment bureau, internal rev
ehue once, returned to Washington to-day.
TX Senator John p. Hale fell last evening
IN Dover, n. H., and breke his hip bone
Geo W: Adams, correspondent of the New
YORK Dorid, has returned on flying trip from
here will be but short one.
WALT WHITMAN Is quite ill yet and is stop
ping temporarily at Camden, n. j.. on his way.
when strong enough, TO the Long Island or Jer.
sey sea-shore. His trouble, an obstinate pa
ralysis, the result of former malariaI fever
contracted during the war in army hospitals
has been increased recently by depression from
the death OF his mother, to whom he was
unusually attached. 1t is said he himself has
no doubt OF recovery, and the physicians though
not so sangulne, count on his strong constitu-
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hi.y-four years old. He has been. sick several
months and is able TO 60 out and around little
EXTENSION OF THE FREE DEL1vERY.-By
recent order Of the Postmaster General the
cities and villages of Somervilie, Cambridge
port, East Cambridge, Chelsea, BROOKLYN Har-
r,son Square, and others, have been added to
the territory under the Jurisdiction of the Bos-
ton enthusiastically extending to those
places the advantages OF the system in the city
itself The people generally, IL is represented,
are greatly pleased with their increa-ed facili-
ties, but as several postmasters and their clerks
have lost their official heads by this change, a
numb Der of their friends are demonstrating to
the department. against the new order OF things
Nearly 800 900 more than last year will be
spent in extending the free delivery system
during the present fiscal year.
AS is USUAL with the reporter OF THE STAR
and of the Associated Press and American
Press Association, application was made yester-
day at the Navy department, in two instances,
for pews. The usual stereotyped reply was
received: "Nothing.?' And vet, when the sim
pie little word was announced, news of an i'm
portant character has been received two days
ago, TO be dealt out in a manner unjustly dis
terminating between enterprise and favor.
morning paper here, and 1t is said New York
paper, by some potent means at their command
were given information which justly should have
been printed in the afternoon papers of yester-
terday. The secret of this seeming enterpris.
Is solved, If the common umor proves true that
confidential clerk of the department is in the I
employ, indirectly, of the New York paper that
a its ambassadors profuscly distributed over
the land. Secretary Robson should investigate
the case, and relieve the minds of many news
paper men as to how an item of such public
Importance, was buried away, TO come to light
only on the application of favored parties.
WE ARE INDEBTED TO PROF. HENRY, of
the Smithsonian Institution, for a copy of his
report for the year 1871. II contains, besides
the report Of the Secretary, articles on meteo-
rology, a memoir of Sir John Frederick William
Herschel, a biography of Joseph Fourier, a
review of Prof. Grahams scientific work, a
paper on the relations of the physical sciences
to science in general, secular variations of the
planetary orbits, methods of Interpolation APP
pEcable TO the graduation of irregular series
such as tables of mortality, &c, the ancient
history OF North America, and other plpers
full OF interest to the scientist. 1t also contains
the instructions given Capt. Hall, the Arctic
navigator, by Secretary Robson and Prof.
Henry. together with papers for his use pre-
pared by Professors j. Z. Higsr I'd Joseph Henry,
~ r bdlIu, d. Meek ana Louis AKASSlZ
In his letter to the Secretary of the Nayy
Transmitting Instructors, Prof. Henry thus
speaks OF DR.. Bessels, whose name fi2ured so
unpleasantly in the recent investigation into
the circumstances OF the death of Capt Hall:
CDR. Bessels was the scientific director of
the German expedition to Spitzbergen and
Nova Zembla in 1869, during which he made,
Tor the first time, most interesting series of
observations on the depths and currents of the
adjacent seas. From his character, acquire
meIts, and enthusiasm In the cause Of science,
he is admirably we'll qualified for the arduous
and laborious Office for which he is volunteer"
A PERSISTENT PRoPHKT.-Rev. DIR. John
Cumming, famous for his writings and sermons,
and his unfulflled predictions to the destruc-
ton of the earth, has been turning to account
the respective visits to England of the Sultan of
Turkey, the Khedive Of Egypt, and the Shah Of
Persia. In q sermon preached In Liverpool,
DIR. Cumming taking the text the words "fhat
the way of the kings OF the East might be pre-
paredn-which are a fragment Of Revelations,
18th chapter 18th verse-asserted that the said
words refer to those three eastern rulers, and
expressed the opinion that the ten lost tribes of
Israel are now in the countries of those mon
srchs whose journeyings through Europe fore
shadow the release Of the captives. The twelve
tribes will then unite and be gathered together
at Armageddon. After this "the fitness OF
time" may be expected DIR. Cumming has for
many years been exercising his Ingenuity in in
terpreting the Apocalypse, and predicting the
ure lima f the ,lnfi sh