The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-08-19
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WASHIN G TON.
WASHINGTON August Is.
WaWasset InvestiSatfon.

WaWasset Investigation.
The w awasset steamboat investiga'
ton was resumed this forenoon. Tht
testimony ofthe witnesses is to the ef'
feet that no particular person or Officer
OF the ship was engaged in controlling
the lie boats. the possession OF which
had been taken by the passengers in
such manner and in such large mum.
bers as to render them useless.
Captain Gedney, superintendent O
the Potomac Ferry company, was re,
called and requested to furnish The
Commission with sample Of the OF
used on the boat. He said there was
no kerosene oil, but that it was coal oil
more than q gallon of which was no
allowed on the boat at any time.
Robt. Nash, engineer, being re. called
said he did not think the fire originated
in the back draugbt of the boiler, but
that it must have originated in the fire.
mans room, everything pointed thai
way.
Wm. McKenny, bar keeper, testified
to the best of his knowledge that none
of the officers had been drinking at the
bar, but very few Of them or Of the crew
being drinking men. When the wit
ness left temporarily he asked Nash,
the engineer, to keep an eye on the bar,
and to say TO any one applying for q
drink that be would soon return. He
did not know that Nash had at any
time served liquor. None OF the officers
had any precuniary interest in the bar
in any way. Nash was as sober and
temperate man as he had ever seen
he seldom drank spirits, and the wit
ness had known him to refuse to drink
with passengers, saying, Your lives
are in my hands; | have a duty to at
tend to and will not drink any,"
Leonidas Scott testified in answer tc
a question, that before the boat reached
Smiths landing, he saw Nash behinG
the bar serving liquor to young mar
from a black bottle. The next time
the witness saw Nash, he was outside
the door, when some one told him the
boat was on fire. This was not many
seconds otter Nash was in the bar room
The engineer was paralized with fear
Other witnesses were examined, one
of whom testified that Nash waited or
him and another passenger, serving one
Elemon syrup and one ale in the bal
room.
The examination will be continued
Tomorrow.
The New Planet.
Information has been received at th'
Smithsonian Institute that new plane
was discovered Sunday evening at AM
Arbor, Michigan, by Pro-. Watson, il
twentv-three, two minutes right ascen.
sion, and two degrees forty minutes
declination south small motion south
1t i OF the eleventh magnitude.
! Dat OF respect 10 VIM. II. Meredith
late Secretary OF the Treasury, thai
department will be closed on the day
of the funeral.
The President to day appointed Geo
A. X. Morris Consul at Annapolis
Honduras.
The Internal Revenue receipts to-
dav exceed half q million dollars.
The War Department to-day ISSUED
orders .or General Court Martial tc
he held at the following places: For
Briigcr, w. r., August 18th; Mobile
Ala, August 18th; Columbia, S. G..
August 18th; Fort Adams, \. Y.
August 18th; Wil!etts' Point, \. Y.
August 18th.
Tue Treasury Department officials
who left here few days since for Ssr
Francisco taking with them a large
amount OF currency, returned last nigh
bringing with them about two mlIllont
in gold coin and one million mutilateC
currency.
The Crops.
The Times of TO- day, publiskes ful
record OF the crops throughout Louisi
ana, which are reported to be in excel
lent condition.
The Commissioner of Customs ha
written to the collector at San Francis
co to forward him q certified list OF th'
EMPLOYEES in the Custom House t.
whom twenty-five per cent compensa
ton is due under the act OF 1866. and j
will be paid in about one month. NAM
months will elapse before the paymen
will be made at San Francisco.
Gov. Warmoth I'm Bad FIX.
4 special dispatch from New Orleans
this morning Gays:
Ex-Governor Warmoth left here sud
denly after remaipg two days. The da!
he left the Attorney General commenc'
ed suit against him and the State Treas
urer, who was elected under the War
moth administration, on facts which
have just trauspired concerning th'
sale of the Jackson Railroad in 1870
Warmoth sold the interest OF the State
in that road for four dollars per share
the State having originally, in 1858
paid twenty-five dollars per share IL
bonds. The amount received by War
moth was one hundred and iorty-opt
thousand dollars which wss paid into
the Treasury to the account OF the gen.
eral fund. On the day on which thi:
amount was paid the State treasure
returned to Warmoth seventy Thousand
! dollars and took five per cent OF TIT
amount himself. The proof is concIu-
siye.
Statistical Congress
Edward Lowrey, Chief Of the Burear
OF Statistics, has received letter from
NJ Lemeraw, president oithe organizing
committee OF the last statistical con.
gress, in reference TO p!ace'for holding
| the next meeting. Lemeraw say
while fully appreciating the sentiment