Daily globe., 1883-07-30
Especial Telegram to the Globe 7

'i'eAAon' vi 'he Louisiana Lottery company
that money orders could be delivered to NJ.
A. Dauphln, cashier of Now Orleans bank,
was but an evasion of the original order Of
Postmaster General Key, which he had
revised. He intended to issue another
ORDER which would prevent all evasions by
the lottery.
AN APOLOGY AND CONFESSION.
Col. Jack Brown, of Georgia, who wrote
the hot letter to Postmaster General Gresh-
am. is In repentant mood. At any rate q
friend of his makes the following state
ment, evidently on his authority: "When
sober, Col. Jack Brown, of Georgia, is an
accomplished, discreet and affable gentle
man, when imbibing too freely he is in
discreet and decidedly voluble. Such has
unfortunately been his condition for the
past several days, and when he comes to
himself again he will make the amende
honorable 10 the postmaster general and
others to whom he has given offense.' In
Justice to Col. Brown it should be stated
that he wrote the letter to Judge Gresham
IN bar room, and at the suggestion of q
we'll known newspaper man, who evidently
knew that Brown was not himself at the
time he wrote it.
AN EXPENSIVE VESSEL.
The United States steam tug, Pinta, known
among some naval officers as Admiral
Mahone's flag ship, promises to cost the
government something near the cost of the
Torpedo Alarm, which is said to be the
most expensive small vessel on earth
or sea, The Pinta is now lying at the
Norfolk navy yard. 1t made a trip to
Fortress Monroe a couple of weeks since,
and it is found that it needs more repairs,
though $105,O00, considerably more than
the tug is worth, has been expended in
repairs, The bureau of steam engineering
of the navy department has asked for a
report stating exactly the character of the
repairs the Pinta now needs, but the re &.
port is not forthcoming. There is an i'm
pres sion among the officials of the navy
department that the report is being sup
pressed for some unknown reason, and is
may be that new board of survey may be
appointed to furnish the report. A Dem
ocratic congressman said to-day that he
thought the next naval committee of the
house would get report of the repairs of
the Pinta, as we'll as the particular reasons,
political or otherwise, which made so many
repairs necessary, as he would urge that
the entire matter should be fully investi-
gated.
A DISTRACTED PARTY.
The Democratic party in Maryland is in
a bad way. tits rocked by internecine
strife, and unless there is comprom ise
between the warning factions the state
may go Republican in the fall. There are
eight or ten Democratic candidates for
governor. Gov. Hamilton is said to have
no chance of denomination. Speaking of
the general outlook State Treasurer Comp
ton said to the correspondent: ''The
Democratic party IN Maryland reminds
me of boy who was crying, and upon
being asked what was the matter, said he
hadn't got cake enough, because there was
not enough to go around. This is the case
with the Democrats of Maryland. There
are too many great men in our party and
not enough Offices to GO around; conss-
quently the great men who are not in are
crying their eyes out to get in. That is
the situation
YELLOW FEvAR SCARE.
Considerable alarm was occasioned here
by the report that the steamer California,
from Vera Cruz with four cases of yellow
fever on board, and on which four deaths
of yellow fever had occurred during the
voyage, ,hadrun past the quarantineand into
harbor at Baltimore. Baltimore and this
city are so near, and there is so much com
munication between these two cities that
the fever might almost as we'll be here.
The alarming part of the rumor was true
that the steamer had past the national
quarantine station at the capes, but she
stopped properly at the Baltimore quar-
antine station last night and reports of
her arrival were sent by the collector and
medical officer to the surgeon general
of the marine hospital service The cap
tain probably did not understand about
the national quarantine station at the
capes. 1t is the business of the revenue
cutter Ewing to stop ali infected vessels at
the national station, but when the Cali
fornia entered the bay the Ewing happen
ed to be cruising up the Potomac. The
Baltimore quarantine station is six miles
from the city and we'll isolated, though not
on an island. Some years ago fever broke
out in Canton, a suburb of Baltimore, and
the entire population of the district, sick
and well, was moved to this quarantine
station, every bit of infected property
destroyed and the disease did not make its
appearance in the city. Marine hospital
authorities, therefore, feel entire
confidence in their ability to pro-
tect the city from infection
from this steamer. Surgeon General Ham
ilton went to Fortress Monroe last night
to consult with the health authorities of
Norfolk and Newport News in relation to
the selection of a suitable quarantine sta
tion, fears having been expressed that the
present stations are too near to settle
ments.
Mr.. R. T. Crane, of Chicago, arrived
here last night, and to-day has been in
conference with james Coleman, who is
ooo5-o4;-o. 4Ln s.vas{inofio, ~ C1narD;.