Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-02-06

There is rumOr that Mrs. Jewell viii
resume her agreeable dancing receptions
after Ash Wednesday.
The Pacific Mail Investigation.
TESTIMONY TO-DAY.
The Pacific Mail inquiry was resumed this
morning by the Committee OF Ways and
Means.
VIM. c. MacBride of the EVENING STAR,
testified that the doOrkpeper of the com
mittcc. MIR. sampson, informed him, ON the
day of the publication of the paragraph which
appeared in last Thursdays STAR. that
He HAD SEEN WN. :. KING.
of MinnGs Ota. in the Capitol builIing: that he
thought the time he had seen King was about
three weeks previous To the day he COmmu-
} iCated such information to witness; that
King stood in front Of the COmmitt"a-rODm
door and asked. in his lSampSOn'S) hearing.
as to who was being examined then. Wit
ness asked: well. sampson, have yoI !Dld
any mem OcrS OF the committee Of that tac.?"
To which ne replied, NO. bat did tell BaS-
Sctt, the clerk. who said. Il don't want him.
! am not looking fOr hm!'" After the para
graph appeared in THE STAR. the door
keeper reminded witness that ne had ma D Il
mistake in stating that King went into he
iobby-that he did not pass into the lobby,
but went down the private staircase leading
into the lobby from the lower floor.
WHEN MIR. SAMPSON SAW KING.
Mr. sampson was called, but could not lie
hnitcly fix the time he hat seen King.
although he thought il was before the holi-
day recess.
MR.. BASsETT DIDN'T WANT TO SEE HIM.
Mr.. BaSSett, clerk Of the COmmi ttee, re-
called the conversation with reference 10
himself and the dOOrkCcper. Sampson said
10 him about this: king was here this IN prn-
ing, and h said he would like TO see you;' to
which witness replied: Il don't want to see
him."
II KNOW he Is HERE"
Oscar X. Harris testified that on the first
night Of the filibuStering last week Mr Geo
=. KOOntz. being in the reporters gallery.
stated that VIM. S King was in town. Mr.
Harris asked him how ne knew il. and
the only reply he would give was, Never
mind; / know he iS here" He then wrote
the para agraph which appeared in the Bllti-
more Sur the next day and shovel il to Mr.
kOOntZ, who remarked, That's all right.
but ii i little elaborated" Mr.. Harris al
tcTwardS showed what he had written TO his
associate, MI TalcQtt. and requested him TO
90 and pump" KOontZ, AMI get awning
further out Of him that he could. Mr kooltZ
declined tOsay anything IN Dre. Subsequently
Mr.. VIM. 6. MacBride cam into the gallery,
ana after some conversation witness tod
MacBIlde that ne could give him some news,
which was that ''Bill King was in town"
NacBride inquired, .'IlOy do you knOw?''
Witness replied that he h III ii from good au-
thOTlty, and from man who was in a posi-
ton 10 see him when he came to tOwn. He
subsequently gave Mr.. Ma acBride Mr.. KOOntZ'
name, and as witness understood, both came
70 lne conclusion iEdt the authority for the
stat ment was good. Mr.. MacBriIe's teSii-
mOny was here read to witness. who said he
had 10 recollection Of telling MacBride that
lNDDiliE ittl Sttil NtiIS JAAI LlldL ill PRECISION
might have been created on Mac Brides mind
from the statement Of Mr.. Harris. kOOntZ
was IN a position to see him.
ZIP. GEORGE ;. KOONTZ WAS THEN CALLED,
and testified that he had given the iufOrnI-
tiOn to Mr. Harris, but ne knew nothing OF
his own knowledge He obtained his iniOr-
nation from laIy-a Mrs. Capcn. who re
sides on @ street, near the Treasury. Mrs
Capen told II 10 kOOuN As a secret, and said
she got her information from n gentleman.
Mr.. koontz was requested bY Mr.. Oriway to
IA frf- /. :
So but for the fact that there was sickness i'm
his family. lie gave the name o. Mrs Ca
pen to Mr.. McDevitt. whom hc understood
was sent 10 him by Nj. Ordwdy.
MR n. G. OHDWAH TESTIFIED
that he had called upon MT. KoO1tZ. aud the
latte. said he had no personal knowledge Of
the fact. kOOntZ at that time promised to
trace the matter up, and witness supposed
that he had done so. Witness had followed
up every trail that presented itself When
lac published his card day before Yesterday
lie was convinced that King had not been in
the city since the investigation began. and
ne was convinced OF that fact yet.
KING On THE AVENUE.
Geo w. Adams, correspondent OF the New
York UOTld, testified that King walked
under his umbrella on PENNSYLVANIA avenue
10 the telegraph office. lie thought il was i'm
the week before Congress resumed its session
and a day or two before il met after the hOli-
day recess.
THE TREASURY now holds S3S3, GO, 80 in
L. 5. bonds 10 secure national bank circult-
ton, and slG,t52, 200 to secure public deposits
GENERAL BUTLER's HOUSES Perley''
writes to the Boston journal from Washing
ton :-"Gen1 Butler is just completing three
large and elegant houses directly south of the
Capitol, at the corner of New Jersey avenue
They are constructed of Cape Ann granite
ana The corner house has handsome pOrticO
OF the same material. This the General has
built for his own residence. the next one is
for sale, and the third, which adiOinS the
IN hnra
nreprOOf place of deposit for its valuable cleo
trOtypes and engraved copper plates. The
houses are better built than any others in
Washington, with spacious staircaseS, solid
doors in place OF veneered work and mosaic
floors of rare wood. These buildings occupy
the site originally built on by Thomas Law
a brother OF Lord EllenbOrough who amaSspd
fortune in the East Indies when Warren
Hastings was governOr-general there, and
came here, it was said, to avoid testifying
IN the famous Hastings trial. Bringing
letters TO General Washington, he fell in
love with Mrs. WashingtOns granddaugh-
ter, and after gaining the appreciation of
her guardian by investing largely in Wash
ingtOn city lots, he married her. The mar
riage was so unhappy that IL resulted in
divorce, and the real estate, which cost
500, 900 in gold, was finally sold for less than
One-ffth of that sum. Law sold the house
which stood where General Butler has now
built to the Bank of Washington, and part
of il was used as the Supreme COurt room for
many years. When L first came to Washing
ton IL was the residence of the architect OF the
pubic buildings, one OF whose daughters
became the wife of Jack Pendleton, a Virgin
ian of one of the first families, siTr who for
years kept noted faro bank here. Mrs. Pen
dleiOn used to keep the most splendid carriage
and horses in Washington, with a pair o
spotted coach-dogs which ran under the hind
axle. She moved in the best society, ani
when he died, President Buchanan was
among the distinguished persons at his
funeral. For some years afterward the house
on Capitol Hill was partly occupied by John
W. FOrney, and at the stag parties given
n hiring h4a IN mol
cal sch emes and not few jobs were con
cocted."
THANKS TO BRowN.-In the North Caro-
lima house Of representatives yesterday
resolution was introduced thanking Brown,
OF Kentucky, "for his manly defence of the
snntl and his den nnciatiAn of Rltler on last