Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-27

Dy the Executive.
At 10 the committee took recess until 2
O'Clock.
SUB UBCoMMITTEEs APPOINTED
During the recess the committee held an eX-
sub-eommittees, as folfows:-Messrs Hunton.
McMahon and Springer; and MeSSrS. Butler
ana ana Cox: 1t is expected the latter committee
to do away with the necessity of keeping all
the members here.
AT HALF-PAsT TWO O'CLOCK
the committee had not reaSSembed 1t was
expected that S. P. Butler. of the Baltimore
Gazette, would be the next witness. 1t is re-
ported that Mrs. jerks told him, in an inter
view, that she knew who had the so-caled
Sherman letter.
EX-GOVERNOR HAHN of Louisiana. will We, y
likely be appointed superintendent of the New
Orleans mint.
DIRECTOR OF THE MINT LINDERMAN-TL
following letter explains itself:
LA GRANGE, June 2ith, 1878.
Dr. III. IL. Ll7lderntd7 Director OF the Mint
SIR: Your letter of the Goth, with newspaper
clipping, received and finds me too unwelt to
read more than the introduction to the long
article. L find that it is the same which ap-
peared in the Washington Republican the day
left for home. The article was not published
py Mr. Edelman or with my knowledge or con-
sent, as it contained points which were never
developed before the committee.
Respectfully, j. M. GLOVER
presidential post offices, in accordance with
an act of Congress approved July r. 1876, was
completed to-day, at the p. o. department.,
and the new salaries will go into effect from
the 1st of July. BY the readjustment forty
two post Offices which were before DreSiden
tial. will be reduced from July lst to fourth
class offices. Changes in salary, caused by the
readJuStnent in important post offices of this
section were given in The Star of yesterday.
AUDITOR FRENCH EXONERATED-Two of
the members of the committee on expendi-
lures in the Treasury department (Glovers
committee) Messrs. Forney and White, have
made report with reference to the charges
against Second Auditor French. They say
that they have investigated the charges
against said French, and having heard all the
case, and after considering the same, adopted
the following resolution: "ReSOLUed, That the
charges preferred against the Hon. E. b.
French Second Auditor of the Treasury de-
sustained by the evidence"
Political Conventions.
OHIO DEMOCRATS.
The Ohio democratic convention met at Co.
lumbuS yesterday, Durbin Ward presiding
David r. Paige was nominated for secretary
Field for member of board OF public works.
Resolutions were passed reaffirming the plat
form OF July Is lS7I, and declaring that the
presidential election frauds ought to have been
investigated by the electoral commission. Its
refusal 10 do so was violation of the spirit of.
the law organizing it and an outrage upon the
people, and while the decision of the Forty
fourth Congress wasfinal, it ought not preclude
investigation and exposure and the due ac-
c0untability OF the, guilty. The resolutions
also declare that the business depression is
due directly to the perniciOuS effect of republi-
can financial legislation, and demand the re-
peal OF the resumption act, the lawful liberia
M non OF the coin boarded in the treasury, and
the substitution of United States legaltenders
Tor national bank notes as the sole paper
money OF the country and of equal tender with
gold. The Warmest sympathy for the laboring
stand by them and obtain redress for griev-
ances: The home-rule policy accorded the
south is warmly commended.
ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS.
The Illinois republican convention met yester-
day at Springfield, G. E. Lippincott presiding.
Gen: Hurlburt made speech Mr.. Sade was
ton, and Gen. j. &. Smith for state treasurer.
Resolutions were passed declaring the peculiar
ntness ness OF the Tepubli an over all other parties
and The nation; that the democratic party. be-
inglargely composed of recent rebels and their
ssSSmpathizers, cannot safely be trusted, and
their general lncapacity. The republican finan-
cial policy is pronounced worthy of admira-
tlon: The resolutions oppose any further con
traction of the greenback currency and adyO.
cate amendment of the criminal code for the
protection OF depositers in savings banks.
BEEcHER-T1LToN luton to the Eran,tntno
COmmattee:-lt will be recOected that at a
special p o. business M meeting of Plymouth Church,
held 9I last Friday evening, Mrs. Elizabeth r.
amining committee, formally yexcommunicated
from the communion and fellowship of the
cnurch: ms action was taken on the charges
heret0fOre published. In reply to the letter of
Mr.. Thomas j. Tilney, clerk of the examining
committee, communicating the charges OF
Mrs. Walton, Mrs. TiltOn wrote as follows:
have before me copy of the charge and
specifications made against me by Mrs. B wal
ton ton and signed by her, under date of May IS,
When the
any reply may desire to make. Therefore
answer; first, that in my house on the evening
OF the 10Th n Day OF April 1875 did say in the
contained in certain card which she held in
her hand was true-a correct copy of the same
tbeing annexed to the charge and speeifca-
published in several newspapers in the city of
New York the following day. Aud now re-
peat and reaffirm that the acknowledgment of
adultery with the Rev Henry Ward Beecher,
nothing but the truth; and that having previ-
0usly published false statement denying the
charge, ag 1 desire 81; to make the truth as world
other statement to make to the committee"
UNLESS some way is devised of preventing
Mrs. jerks from questioning the gentlemen OF
the committee so closely, we shall feel com
PEELED to allude to it as 1.-The jerks cOmmittee''
hereafter.-[Ne0 Haren Register, Dem.
THE WEATHER in Scotland continues of the
most extraordinary description for June
by a cold easterly wind. A thunder storm.
with snow and hail, passed over FOrfar and
adjacent counties on June II. 1t was of ex-
ceptiOnal violence at Lundie, near Dun.
dee. A meal mill, situated in hollow
ground, was almost blocked up with snow
and several cart loads were removed before
an entrance could be effected. Dwelling
houses and fields were flooded to depth of
over two feet, and crops have suffered severe-
~, being covered by debris washed from the
hills. Not for very MANY years has the weather
in June been so unsettled and unreasonable,
HON. A. II. STEPHENS ON HAYES Policy.