Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-10-11

AFfpiN TED --lu- President mas appointed
Oscar p. MYERS 70 be United States attorney
for the southern district Of Floriis, vice Mobe-
ley, resigned.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE has been granted for six
months TO Captain b. +. Ritteuhouse. 9Th
arullery. The leave of absence granted Isl
Lieut.. Horato Potter, ir., 18th infantry, has
been extended i've months, with permission to
20 beyond the sea.
NAVAL OEDERs.-Mate Thomas H. Nelson
20 the Fortune. CHER Engineer John H. Long
for special duty 10 superintend the construction
Of machinery at the QuintaTd Iron Works,
New York City. Detached-Mat Francis II.
fsole from the recei wing ship OhiO, at Boston,
and ordered 10 the Fortune.
BREv. LIEUT.. Cor. JAMES FoRYEy, U. s
Marine corps, who sent abroad in July,
1872, by the Secretary of the Navy 10 examine
and report upon the organization and condition
of the marine corps establish ment OF foreign
countries, returned a few weeks ago, and yes
terday presented his report to Secretary Robe
son.
PROTECTION or EMIGRANTs.-The commits
sion Of FIVE, sent 10 Europe some months ago by
the Treasury department, TO obtain information
relative TO emigration, have returned and are
1t work on their report, which will be sent to
Congress with the report of the Secretary of the
Treasury. The commission will recommend an
international arraDgeme nt for the proper pro-
lection Of emigran's.
Mr.. j. F. MYERS, OF the immigration COM
missioners appointed at the last session of Con-
gress TO look after inland transportation, is now
III Chicago 20 hear all authentic complaints,
and listen TO any suggestion that NAV he made
touching the subject under consideration. He
will prepare his report TO the Secretary of the
Treasury in time for the same to be submit ted
to Congress at the approaching session.
THE EXAMINATION of Capt. Buddington's
Poaris party began this morning on board the
EalapOOSa. The Secretary of the Navy, accom-
panied by Commodore Reynolds and Capt. How
gate, arrived at the navy yard at II O'Clock. and
At once proceeded to the vessel. The investga-
ton Is held in the upper cabin, AMI the wit
uesscs are examined separately. II Is conducted
in private, the same As the former one.
PEEsoNAL.-'Nliss Gruudv" (Snead) writing
to the Louisville Coyrisr-IoucHGI from New
York is eloquent over Kentucky's great race
horse. Tom Rowling. ''''PTOf. r. V. HAYDEN
and party have returned from their geological
survey of Montana and Idaho. They are AL in
good health. Rear Admiral q. u. Davis,
Prof. Spencer F. Baird, of the Smithsonian
Institute, and Professor PIERCE, OF the United
States Coast Survey, were all in New York day
before yesterday.
RAILWAY Posi- OFFICg SsRvICE.-There is
now a double daily line of railway post Offices
between Washington, ID. e, and Cincinnati,
ohio, and daily line between Grafton, West
Virginia, and Columbus. Ohio. New cars, com
plete in their qUlpmeut, have been furnished
throughout by the Baltimore aud OHIO railroad
company. These, with the new cars about to
ht placed upon the line between Cincinnati and
Chicago Via Indianapolis, La FAyette and
kanhOchee}, will give excellent facilities for
the distribution Of the mails between the south
ern Atlantic states, the cities of Washington,
Baltimore and the western states, besides giving
Increased local mail facilities in the southern
and central sections Of Ohio. The division OF the
INES between Washington and Cincinnati is at
Grafton, West Virginia, where the clerks ex-
change.
THE SAD DEATH OF MORTIMER NJ. LEGGErT
General MD .LegSett, Commissioner OF Patents
was shocked TO-DAY at the receipt of a telegram
from President White, of Cornell University,
ithaca, New York, stating that his (the Com
mssioEer's) son Mortimer ~, who was attend
ing the university, fell down a precipice last
evening, and was so badly injured that he died
his morning. The deceased, who was only
seventeen OF eighteen years of age, graduated
rom the law department OF Columbian Col
-" at the last commencement aud had been
at the university only about q month when he
bis death. He was a remarkably intelligent
Young man, and was beloved bv All who knew
him, for lis many estimab'e qualities. General
Leggett telegraphed President White requesting
that the body be cmbaimed and forwarded TO
this city, whence 1t will probably be taken to
the Generals home, in ohio, for interment.
THE WAKE is not thing Of the past, as will
be seen from the following copy of bill Of
funeral expenses Of Susan Mullins deceased, of
county Tyrone, Ireland, presented by sister
OF Susan, and attached TO pension voucher
which passed through the hands OF an examin-
ing clerk in the Treasury department day be-
tore yesterday:
For Susan Mullins funeral expenses: 3 lbs.
of tea, 12,.; st of shagsr at Az. per h.. IS.
lO. d.; doz. bread aud lbs. butter, 13s.: lbs.
Of tobacco, l2s.; case and herse l5s.; coli and
dead dress, l3S., 6 doz. pipes and doz candles,
IS. ID; = gals. whiskey for drinks, l6s.; tomb
stone, %. Total, Il 1885, y d."
As there was only S29.i3 due the deceased,
the relatives Will not get enough to pay these
expenses.
A CONGRESS- OF woMES.-To afford an OPP
portuRity for interchange OF thought and action
among women interested in the Advancement
Of their own sex, call has been issued for a
congress Of women. 70 be held in the city of
New NoTk. AT this conference there VIII be
founded an association for the Advancement of
women, at the annual gathering OF which shall
be presented the best ideas and the most adj
y2ntageOus methods of the foremost thinkers
and writer's. Representatives of all acCOrdant
associations of women. teachers, artists editors.
authors, trailing capitalists lawyers, professors,
preachers and practical phianthrOpists will be
present. In this gathering they have already
been assured OF the attendance and best effJrts
VI large number OF the women who, by means
OF higher education, broader fields Of lad ustry,
better laws, artistic and scientific pursuits,
business discipline and an enlightened mother
h0Cd, hope to remove the sources OF misery and
cure the evils that so many of our benevolent
women spend their lives in amelOrating. The
following are the subjects for discussion:
- Soeiai.-1. Higher Education FOR Women. 2.
CO-educatiOn OF the Sexes. .. Woman in Lit
eTsture-Editor, Author, Speaker. 4. Woman
As Teacher and Professor. 8. Woman in Art
and Science. 8. Woman in the Medical, Surgi-
cal ard Legal Professions. = Industries aud
Cooperative Industries among Women. s.
Womans Work in Philanthropy, Prison Re-
form. Temperance, Peace, institutions of Char
ity and charitable Societies. 0. Woman in the
Church and Pulpit. TO- Law, as il affects Wo-
man. II. WOmsn's Place IN Government.
DomeSiic.--1. Enlightened Motherhood. Q The
Inyiolate Homestead. 3. The Household 1.
Equitable Monetary Division between Husband
and Wife. 8. The Relation of Woman to her
Dress.
There are already one hundred and fifty
sgners to the call, many OF them women known
and honored throughout the country. Some OF
the names are given below. Many others might
be given If space would allow PROT. Maria
Mitchell, Nassar College; Mrs. Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Mass; Jennie June Croby, Daily
Graphic, n. Y; Julia Ward Howe, Boston;
Mary A: liyermore, Mass; Mrs bio Lewis,
Boston; Charlotte b. Wilbour, president sorosis
\ y; Alice G. Fletcher, secretary sorosis, N
T.; Isabella Beecher Hooker, Conn; Elizabeth
Cady stanton, n. j., Emma ID. +. n. South
worth, Geo. getown, ID. c.; Sara j. Spencer
Woman's De partment business College, Wash
ington; Phebe W. Couzens, counseior-at-law
st. LOUIS; Rev. Celia Burlelgh, NY; Lucinda