The National tribune., 1882-09-23

is in session in Baltimore, the seat of the Order
and the place of its origin in the United States.
Mr.. Vanderbilt's team, Early Rose ann Al
dine, while exercising at Hartford, Conn, on
tho 18th inst. trotted mile in 2:161.
Lieut.. Danenhower has submitted to Acting
Secretary Walker, of the Navy Department,
his official report touching the loss of the jean
nette but its contents have not as yet been
made known.
Extensive prairie fires are raging on the
table land between the Platte and Republican
Rivers, Nebraska. The loss viii be heavy I'M
less rain soon falls.
Chief Engineer Melville is expected to arrive
in Washington this evening, when he will be
rendered public reception.
CAPITAL TOPICS.
Mr.. Bgelow, counsel for Sergeant Mason, has
prepared petition for habeas corpus, addressed
to Judge Coke, of the United States District
Court for the Northern District of New York,
in which he asks for the discharge of Mason
from the Albany penitentiary on the ground
that the order of the Secretary of War detail
ing United States soldiers to guard Guiteau
was null and void that he had no authority
to make such an order; that Mason, when he
fired at Guiteau, was not in the discharge of
military duty or within the military jurisdic-
tion, and that the offense charged is not triable
by military court. The petition further al
| leges that the udge-advocate-general of the
army has given an opinion reversing the find
ings and sentence of the court-martial for these
reasons, and because the employment of SOL
diers for such duty is expressly prohibited by
the act Of june 10, 1873.
Up to the 18th instant the loan division OF
the Registers Office has issued 10000 3 per
cent bonds, representing in round numbers
| S1O0OOO0OO and has jOurnalized and posted a
like amount of the cancelled 81 per cent. bonds.
On the 1st Of November dividend IS due and
payable on the new per cents. and also on
that portion Of the g per cents. not exchanged.
ledger account is opened with every holder
of registered bonds. and, IN order to ascertain
the amount outstanding, all the bonds surren-
dered for conversion must be posted to their
respective accounts. The labor involved in
the issue of the bonds and the preparation of
the interest abstracts in the limited time al
lowed is immense, and will tax to the utmost
the large extra force engaged upon the work.
Professor Simon Newcomb, of the Nautical
Almanac office, who goes to Cape Town in
charge of the party to observe the transit of
| Venus, and Lieutenant Casey, of the army, and
| Ensign HocOmb, of the navy, members of the
same party, left here for New York. They
sailed for Liverpool On Wednesday on the
steamer Parthia. Lieutenant E. w. Sturdy, OF
the navy, will act as superintendent of the
Nautical Almanac office during the absence of
Prof. Newcomb.
For two weeks past the Post-Ofice depart
ment has been in receipt of letters from West
ern postmasters stating that farmers have been
victimized by man advertising "new amber
wheat for sale for planting purposes. The
advertiser having disappeared before the post
Office authorities could issue any order in the
premises, the various postmasters have been
directed to return to the senders any registered
letters directed to him.
There were 419 patents issued this week by
the United States Patent Office, thirty-one of
which were to Thomas A. Edison, of Menlo
Park, n. J., for manufacturing incandescent
electric lamps and regulators for dynamo
electric machines.
troller to render an opinion as to whether it is
legal for employees of the Departments to ex-
tend their leaves of absence beyond thirty
days.
Commodore Upshur has received instructions
from Washington to discharge half the en-
ployees in the Construction and Engineers
Department of the Brooklyn navy yard.
Chief Sexton, of the st. Louis fire depart
ment, who has been the guest of Chief Cronin
during the last few days, left for his home
Monday.
Messrs Allen, Hauasman, and Seely, of this
city. recently returned from three weeks
byccIe tour in the Shenandoah Valley. They
rode 45Omiles.
\ man named Clarence Campbell was caught
in the act of smuggling four reams of Irish
linen paper out of the Pension Office on Mon
day.