Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-10-17

source to-day were s325,7965l.
PRESIDENT GRANT is expected to return in
the early train to- morrow.
SECRETARY DELANo is expected 10 arrive
from Ohio to- morrow.
THE CLKARANCEs OF the consolidated banks
yesterday amounted to S5,5O6.14.
ENSIGN W. A MADDEN was before the nava'
examining board to day for promotion 10 an ad-
vancGd grade
THE PoLARIs INVESTIGATION was continued
at the navy yard to-day. 1t is doubtful if the
commission finish their labors before Tuesday
or Wednesday of next week.
THE OHIO ELEcrIoN.-The following dis
patch from Ohio was received at the Interior
department this afternoon:
We think Allen elected. Republican state
officers elected Legislature democratic. Three
republicans elected from Cincinnati"
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION has been Or
dered by the board of civil service examiners
of the Treasury department to be held in
Hooe's building, on street, on the 2Oth of DC
tober, to fill three vacancies of class two in the
office of the Third Auditor.
THE AMERICAN AND MEXICAN CLAIMS Com
MISSION having named Sir Edward Thornton as
umpire, he has accepted frankly the nomina-
ton, provided his government will consent to
has asked. Meanwhile the commissioners are
engaged in the examination of cases for ad Judi
cation.
DELEGATION OF Grow INDIANS consisting
of nine warriors and five squaws, accompanied
by their late agent, +. d. Pease, and two inter-
prefers, arrived in the city to-day. They also
come for an interview with the Secretary of the
Interior and the Commissioner of Indian At
fairs, relative TO the cessiOn OF their reservation
TO the government.
The TIGREss, which went in search of the
POlaris survivors, has arrived at ST. Johns
with all hands well. She experienced very
heavy weather, and the crew are much reduced
by cold and fatigue. She returned IN cOnSe-
qucnce of the early winter and violent gales
NO traces were obtained of the Polaris. The
llgress remains at st. Johns week for re-
pairs, and then proceeds to New York.
CLERICAL PEOMoTIoNs.-The following pro-
motions have been made in the General Land
| Qthce:-From class one TO class two-L. T..
| SpoffOrd, Connecticut; y. Freeman, South Car
oliba; Frank q. Bail, Wisconsin, =. VI. Arm
strong, Iowa; j. W. BiNler, Indiana, and e. q
Brown, New York. Miss X. II. EweIl, of Con-
nechcut, has been appointed a stenOgrapher in
the Patent Office, at a salary Of 81 POO.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Passed Assistant Pavmas-
ter Henry +. Machette, to the Canandal-
qua; Lieut.. Commander James p. Robertson,
detached from the receiving ship Independence
and ordered to the kearsarge; Medical Director
Charles Martin, from the naval rendezvous,
Boston, and ordered to the naval hospital,
Washington, ID. G.. Passed Assistant Paymas-
er q. W. Slamm, from the Canaan dai qua and
ordered to settle accounts.
A DRY TIME.-The weather chronicle issued
by the signal officer for the week ending the 10th
inst. shows the rainfall as follows in the dis
tricts mentioned: St. Lawrence valley, OF inch:
New England, Obs middle Atlantic states, O.Ol;
south Atlantic states, 0.0l; eastern gulf states
Dol; western gull states Dol; lower lake region
0;l6; upper lake region, OOj; Ohio valley, OF;
tennessee, 90; upper Mississippi valley, o.;
lower Missouri valley, OIL; Minnesota, O.O5.
PERsONAL.-Miss Lizzie Richardson, of New
Hampshire, was Yesterday promoted to a ST 200
clerkship In the Office of the Quartermaster
General. Among the arrivals in New York
day before yesterday are noted Representative
Luke Z. Poland, of Vermont; Professor j. f.
Hilgard, OF Washington; Ex-senator James
Harlan, of Iowa; A. NJ. Clapp, Congressional
printer, and Lieutenant Commander $. W.
Terry, L. 5. \. Baron SchlOzer, the Ger
man Minister, has received the mournfui news
of his mothers death. He has but recently re-
turned from visit to his home in Germany.
The SOCIETY OF the Army of the Tennessee
yesterday reelected Gen. Sherman president
for the coming year. The distinguished guests
visited all the places of interest around Toledo
in carriages. President Grant passed an half
hour with the board of trade. At the banquet,
Gen. Sherman presided. The following tOasts
were offered: 1.-The Old Flag" responded to by
Gen. s. s. Shulburt; "The President of the
United States" responded to II. Il. HAYES:
The Army" response by Secretary Belknap;
The Navy" response by Rear Admiral wor
den; "Our Soldiers" response by Gen. Pope;
"Our Dead" response by Gen. W. T.. Strong;
The Geneva Arbitration" response by Hon.
NJ. X. Waite; "The Army of Cumberland :" re-
| Spouse by Gen. j. b. Steadman; "The Ladies :"
| response by Gen. Phil Sheridan. President
Grant held leyee at the Body house last eve
ming, which was thronged with visitors.
The DEATH OF YOU'VE LEGGETT-What has
| Father, Gen. LegGett, Says About H.-Gen. Leg
| gett, Commissioner of Patents, does not give
| the slightest credence to the reports that his
| son, Mortimer NJ. Leggett, met his death while
| beng " hazed" by his fellow students of Cor
nell University. On the contrary, he is con-
WINGED from all the circumstances which have
come to his knowledge-from the statements of
President White and those who came on with
the remains of his son, and from what the latter
wrote him before his death-that his death was
purely accidental, and wholly disconnected
with any hazing process. From the time he
first entered the university Mortimer wrote his
parents almost daily, and in every letter spoke
of the kind manner in which he was treated by
all of his fellow students, including the mem
bers of the higher classes. lie stated that there
were no indications whatever of haziDg at the
| university, and that but one instance of it had
ever occurred in the Institution, and that about
two years ago, and, further, that those who
participated in it were summary expelled.
short time before his death Mortimer, who
was very dutiful and affectionate son, wrote
both his father and mother in separate letters
telling them that he mad received the compii-
ment of an invitation to join the Kappa Alpha
society, and asking If they had any objection to
his becoming a member He stated the leading
principles of it, (amOng them being abstinence
from the use of tobacco and intoxicating drinks
of all kinds, prohibiting the use of profane Ian
guage, &c.,) and said that most of the exemplary
young men and several OF the professors belonged
to the order. He also gave the names of several
well-knoSn gentlemen in the Interior depart
ment who belonged to the society (Which is about
fifty years old), among them Solicitor Smith.
The general returned an answer giving his own
and his mothers full consent to join the society,
and he (MOrtimer) was simply on his way to the
place of rendezvous when the accident occurred
which ended in his death. He, with two other
students, as has been stated, were near the
precipice without being aware Of it, and hearing
two other students coming behind them, young
Leggett and his companions playfully ran to
hide in the bushes which fringed the chasm,
and before they knew of their danger were
simultaneously precipitated from the cliff The
other two students in the rear came very near
meeting with the same fate.
General and Mrs. Leggett have been earnest
~ urged by the faculty of the university and
the order Of Kappa Alpha to visit the uniyer-