Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-05

noon. ...
FIRST LIEUT.. f. II. RUFFNRR, corps Of engi-
neers, has been ordered to complete the mill
tary road from Santa Fe to Fernandez de Taos,
New Mexico.
REAR ADMIRAL ALDEN, lately in command
of the European station, reports the arrival of
the Brooklyn at Gibraltar on the 10th ultimo,
from Vile Franche, and that she left that af
ternoen for New York.
CAPT. o. II. MOORE, 9th infantry, has been
appointed as inspector on certain unservice-
able recruiting property on hand at the Louis
VILE rendezvous, of list Lieut.. F. p. Davidson
9Th cavalry, and for which the latter officer is
responsible.
Col. EDMUND e. PAULDINe, formerly pay
master, u. s. A, and who was sent to the AL
bany penitentiary few years since for alleged
embez element, died in New York on the 18th
ult. At the time of his death Col. Paulding
was proprietor of the st. Paul Pioneer.
THE NEW ORLEANS DUKLIsrs TO BIZ PROSE-
cUrED.-The Attorney General has received
the following dispatch from New Orleans:
"Gov. Kellogg has called upon Governor
Powers, of Mississippi, to prosecute the parties
who left the state of Louisiana and participated
in the duel which resulted In Judge Cooley's
DEATH" These parties were placed under bonds
on Monday last not to fight in the state of
Louisiana. Gov. + ellogg has ordered the states
Attorney General to criminally prosecute the
guilty under the statue making the sending or
carrying OF challenge penitentiary offence.
DISCOVERY OF A CoMET.-The Smithsonian
Institution has just receive ed telegram through
the cable, announcing the discovery of a comet
at Vienna, the position of which is no hours
seven minutes of right ascension and four
degrees thirty-four minutes south declination:
appearance faint; motion as vet unknown
rms Is the first announcement through the
aSt ntcal "A
since the completion of the arrangement for the
transmission of such intelligence, in February
1873. The discovery of three new planets has
been telegraphed from this country since that
time.
e The Mopoo PRIsoNERs-ONLY THE MUIR
DERERs TO BE TRIED BY MILITARY CoNMrs-
sIoN.-The Secretary of War has telegraphed
Gen. Schofeld to arraign before the military
commission only those Modocs who were imrli-
Gated in the murders of Gen. CANDY, Peace
Commissioner Thomas, and Lieut. Sher wood.
Inc remaining Modocs are to be held As pris-
oners for further Instructions from the depart
ment. This action is in accordance with an
opinion of the Attorney General, who decides
that only, those guilty of murder can be ar
raigned by military court, the others 10 be
held simply as prisoners of war, and amenable
to such punishment as would ordinarily be
accorded prisoners of war.
PHRsoSAL.-Mrs. Candy, the widow Of Cen
by, will take up her permanent resinence at
Indianapolis. Mrs. Washburn, wife of the
Hon. Israel Washburn, of Maine, died at Min
neapolis, Minnesota, last Tuesday evening".
A Washington dispatch to the New York Time,
says that sister Of Colonel Mosby, Of Confed-
crate fame, has just been appointed a clerk in
the dead letter division OF the Post Office De-
partDent'' Schuyler Colfax has received LII.
d; from Otterbein University, Ohio; Secretary
Richardson LII. d. from Columbian Universe
tyj the Rev. Michael j. Cramer, U. S. Minister
to Denmark, p. u. from Syracuse Univers....;;
'''-Gen. B. +. Butler addressed q large tenn
perapce convention at Framingham, Mass,
yesterday.'''S. s. Cox is talked Of as the sue
cefsor Of James Brooks, deceased, for the Sixth
New York Congressional district Senator
Ferry, OF Connecticut, Is reported to be again
suffering severely from the effects of the para
lytic shock he received during his first term in
Congress. b. r. 4.