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WASHINGTON, D. C. M0 YEHENT8 OF THE PRESIDENT \ N D BIS ADVISEES. ..P01N-TMKNTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTEB3 4 ' FBOM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL,. or IN T! v RE sT T«m 1 " Two Viu, the newly appointed Chinese minister to tho United States, on Thursday presented to the presi •jyflS ^ the has Sed The comptroller of currency au tb the First NationalUank of Tal lahassee, Fla., to begin with a capital of the , treasury depart- , It is estimated at decrease of ment that there has been a $13,500,000 in the public debt since the first of September. Blackheard Island, Sapelo sound, las been transferred by the navy department to the treasurey department for quaran tine purposes. The navy department reserves the right to cut and use timber thereon. Bids were opened at the treasury de ^arttnent on Wednesday, for the court house and postoffice at Char lotte, N. c., ^ lowest being that of J. E. a r of Staunton, Va., at $65,841. The board of the navy yard, the com mandant, appointed to investigate the na vy purchasing system, has adjourned after deciding that the present system is efficient and only minor changes in the direction of reducing the number of vouchers checks, etc., can be made with out detriment to the service. The secretary of agriculture, Rusk, has returned to Washington after an inspec tion of mills for the manufacture of su gar from sorghum cane by the new' difu sion process, which was lately subsidized by congress by an experiments appropriation of $80,000, to encourage in the new industry which now has about a dozen establishments in the United States. Secretary Rusk reports that the process looks like it will be a failure, and uuiess some improvements are made he is very doubtful about the profit of making sugar from sorghum cane. The Postal and Cable Telegraph com pany will open offices simultaneously all over the south on Thursday. The com pany is ten years old, and has fifteen or twenty thousand miles of wire, reaching from Portland, Me., to California. It has forty or fifty lines from New York to Chicago and has invested altogether $12 000,000. It is owned by McKay, the California bonanza millionare, whose wealth is estimated at thirty millions. The other leading stockholder is James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald. The newly appointed minister to Hay ti, Frederick Douglas, and party sailed fortlie West Indian Islands on the Uni ted States steamer Ivearsarge from Brooklyn navy yard Tuesday morning. The customary salute of seventy-five gurs was tired in honor of the minister. Monday Secretary Tracy, rather unexpectedly evening, relieved Captain Sheph ard from command of the Kearsarge, and replaced him by Commander W. II. Whiting. No explanation is furnished at the nany department for the change. A protest has been made to the treas collector ury department against the action of of customs of New York in re fusing to accept preliminary entries for exportation with the benefit of drawback of certain jute bagging shipped as the covering lector of cotton in bales. The col for the reported that entries were rejected reason that they did not conform to the rule laid down mi section 965, merchandise paragraph 1, which, he says, requires tries should be covered described by preliminary therein en fullv by marks and numbers. issue Postmaster-General Wanamaker has ! an order abolishing the postoffice at recently Luverney, Ala. A colored man was appointed postmaster, and the citizens, it is said, showed their appre ciation of him by boycotting him in every way, and finally in burning down the old building which he had succeeded, with great difficulty, in securing for a postoffice. In view of these facts, Mr. Wanamaker decided that the ^00 inhabi tants of the place could go* three miles for mail and do without a postoffice for a time. The debt statement issued Tuesday shows the decrease of the national debt 094.25; during September to have been $13,685, $6 decrease since June 30th, 1889, j 591,090.49.; total cash in the treas ury, $037,540,530.61; total interest bear all mg kinds, debt, $872,502,261.81; total debts ot available $1,030,774,868.82; debts less tender credits, $1,070,055,530,96: legal certificates notes outstanding, $346,681,016; 275,000; of deposit outstanding, $15, $116,675,349.; gold certificates outstanding, silver certificates outstand ing, $276,616,715; fractional currency, $6,915,690.47. The president on Saturday appointed tbe following named postmasters: Charles C. Shouts, at Decatur. Ala., vice E. H. Grubbs, commission explre.1; Fe *'x G. Lambreth, Florence, Ala., vice Bessie McCallister, resigned; Columbus, Browning, *• Whitman, at Dalton, Ua., vice Jefferson Smith, at Thomasville, removed; JosephP. M. Sapp, resigned; Ga., vice H. Thomas W. Hicks, at Header s °n, N. C., vice R. B. Henderson, re moved; Mts. Ada Hunter, at Kingston, Samuel C., vice W. J. Barrett, removed; II. Vick, at Wilson, N. C., vice M. Gay, removed; I). J. Taylor, at locahontas, Va., vice J. L. Deaton, re office moved; John II. Blunt, at Ashland, >r°se having II. Lindsay, become presidential; Am,- Va., vice W. at Portsmouth, A. Fiske, removed. President Carnot of France, has take* 1 b r eat fancy to Americans. ,~*mZar- 4 . SCHLEY COUNTY NEW S. blown to atoms, toe boilers of a STEAMER WITH DISASTROUS EXPLODE RESULTS. The steamer Corona, of the Ouachita consolidated Kne, left New Orleans, Thursday night for Ouachita river, with a full cargo of freight and a good list of passengers. She eroded her boilers at t alse river nearly opposite Port Hmfron, at 11.45 lbursday morning, causing the loss of the steamer and about forty lives. 1 he Anchor line steamer City of St. ouis, Captain James O’neil, was near by, and with his crew and boats saved many lives, The surviving passengers and crew were taken on board by Captain O’Neil, and were very kindly cared for by him and his crew saved Following are (he list of the lost and as fir as known. Crew lost. J. W. Blanks, captain; J. V. Gordon, fust clerk; Charles C. Elios,second clerk 1 barkeeper; Swimp Hana, third clerk; Fred Dinkle, Fred Verman, barkeeper; Pat Ryan, stewart; Dick Curtis, fireman ;Tom Hook, engineer; Henry Doyle, porter; Jomes Swipe, porter;--Tate, barber; Henry Davis, deck hand; Tom Cook, sailorman; Sam Billy Young, second mate; Steel, a boy; both captains of the deckwatch; fifteen rousters, names un known.. The passengers lost were: Dr. Atwell, corn doctor; four negro mu sicians; Mr. Scott, Southland, La.; Mr. Stockman, Texas; Mr. Koench; Mrs. Huff, of Opelouses, sister of Captain Banks; Mr. Wilson, of Red River Landing. The Corona was on her first trip of the season, and had but recently come out of the drydock, where she received repairs amounting to nearly $12,000. She was built at Wheeling, W. Va., seven years ago, and has a carrying capacity of 2,700 bales of cotton. At the time of the acci dent she was valued at $20,000, ROUTING THE MORMONS. the white caps driving mormon eld ers FROM TENNESSEE. News came from Wilson county, Tenn., Thursday, that the Mormon elders h ive been driven out of that county by the White Caps. The elders disap peared some time ago, when the agitation was hot against them, but a few days ago. returned, believing the storm to have blown over. Their incendiary utterances were people not forgotten, however, and the who warned them proposed to make their threats good. Forty or fifty men, masked and robed in white, on William Wednesday night visited the house of Barrett, Barrett, Thomas Smith and Lee where the elders had been, searching had for them. Some one, however, given warning, and not an elder was to be found. These men were cautioned against allowing the elders to ever darken their doors again, and the eldeis left the county. ORDERED TO STRIKE. FOOLISH PROCEDDINGS OF A Br.rKLAYEKS’ UNION—TROUBLE EXPECTED. Between three and four hundred men were thrown out of employment at by a strike ordered by the Bricklayers’ union, at New York, on Monday. Some of the contractors have been using brick and cement made by Peck, Martin – Co. Peck, Martin – Co., employ at tlieii works, four non union men, (colored, teamsters,) and it was to compel the dis charge of these men that the strike was ordered. Some of the contractors are placed in a bad position, as they are un der time contracts, and aho under con tracts to use bricks of Peck, Martin – Co.’s make. The workmen all side with the contractors and are loud in their de nunciation of the union and walking delegates. There is a prospect of a long lockout. THE SAME OLD STORY. THE BOOKKEEPER OF A CONNECTICUT FIRM ARRESTED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT. Charles S. Pratt, confidential book keeper, secretary and cashier of the H. Wales Linen Comp my, of Meriden, Conn., was arrested on Thursday for em bezzlement. Pratt’s embezzlement amounts to over $10,000, covering various period® since 1882, and was accomplished The by affair false has entries caused mainly profound on pay sensation, rolls.. as a Pratt was an officer in several local or ganizations, treasurer of the First Con gregational Society and a city alderman. He confessed his guilt to his employ ers, saving: “It is the same old story of living bevond* one’s means, I am o thief.” DISSATISFIED ITALIANS. the peasants said to be overtaxed AND BADLY TREATED. Archbishop Logue, Catholic primate ol Ireland, has referred in the strongest terms to Italy’s treatment of the Pope. He declared that the Italian peasantry condition were overtaxed and in a worse than Donegal or Connemara peasants; faster that Italians were immigrating than the Irish; that the Italian govern ment had encircled tho Vatican with troops knowing tliat if the Pope dc parted, grass would soon grow in tho streets of Romo. Jhkk all modern fads, the building ol high towers seems destined to develop into b ernce. The great success of Ml Eiffel in Paris has set the world agog. Even staid old Loudon now comes t a the front with a proposition to build a tower *2 ,COQ foot high, or more than twice theireight of the Eiffel tower. \ anous American cities, including New dork, are discussing the tower problem as gravely as if the future importance of a city were to depend ou the nearness tv the clouds of its towers. THE GULF STREAM. Theories About That Mysteripus and Erratic Ocean Current. Tracing Its Source and Study ing Its Peculiarities. “I was anchored for threo months over the true source of the Gulf Stream, and what I learned of the nature of that mysterious and erratic current during that time knocks all the accepted theor ies as to its origin in the head.” Thus spoke W. S. Howard, lato of the United States Coast Survey steamer Blake, as he reclined upon one of the chairs in the Girard Ilouse lobby. “I was attached to the Blake for three years,” continued Mr. Howard, “and during that time we definitely fixed tho source of the Gulf Stream. We spent two years in tracing up the Gulf St: earn and studying its peculiarities, and while we are still in the dark as to the pri mary cause of this great ocean river, we have definitely fixed upon the spot where it originates. Formerly it was believed that the Gulf Stream was sim ply the continuation of the Mississippi Il.ver, the immense volunib of water flowing out of which cleaved its way through old ocean, and preserving its own characteristics as to temperature and color, finally was lost and assimi lated by the waters of the frozen nOrth ern seas. Others held to the opinion that the Gulf Stream was formed and controlled by the trade winds. ( t Our observations and investigations furnished us with conclusive proof that neither of those elements has any thing to do with it. One curious fact was established, however. We found that the moon affected the Gulf Stream and that the current was controlled ab solutely and arbitrarily by that body. “The true source or beginning of the Gulf Stream, established by careful sci entific observation extending over a period of two years, is at a point be tween Fowey Rocks, Florida, and the Gun Cay, on the coast of the Bahamas. At this place, in 498 fathoms of water, we anchored, and for months devoted ourselves to a careful study of the great ocean river. “Let me tell you something about the peculiarities that we noticed. To be gin with, the current of the Gulf Stream at the point where we uvere anchored, and which we unanimously agreed upon as its true source, varies daily in veloci ty. The difference in the flow was at times as much as two and a half knots per hour. The greatest velocity noted ■was generally about nine hours before the upper transit of the moon. The variations were most excessive on the eastern side of the straits, and least on the western side. The average daily currents vary during the month, the strongest current coming a day or two after the greatest declination of the moon. “The axis or true point of beginning of the Gulf Stream (determined by fix ing the position of the strongest surface flow) is eleven and a half miles east of the Fowey Rocks Lighthouse. The strongest surface current found here was five and a quarter knots per hour, the least one and three-quarter knots, and the average three and six-tenths knots. We used two meters in our ob servations, one for the surface current and one for the sub-surface stream. The wind has no effect upon the velocity of the stream and does not change the axis of the current. Tlie surface current, it was noticed, has a much higher veloci ty than the sub-surface. During our observations wo occupied twenty-six different stations, being anchored at each for several day3 at a time. We took 1,557 current observations with the meter and 1,8)7 current observa tions with the pole during this time. “And what deductions dAl yon makef” “These only; that neither the Missis sippi river nor the trade winds were in any way responsible for the Gulf Stream; that it was affected by the changes of the moon; and that this"particular point, 11^ miles east of Fowey Rocks Light house, was its true axis of source.” “What theories have you in reference to the probable first cause of the stream?” “Hundreds. It is a great field for speculation. Just imagine, if you can, what would havo been tho result if we could have donned submarine armor and dived to the bottom ia 493 fathoms of water. We made soundings, but they revealed to ua nothing. The bottom was a sandy coral foundation; fish and other submarine creatures lived and dis ported themselves in the depths, and all the time that surging, resistless current boiled about us, defying inquiry as to its true origin. “It might be, for aught any one could say to the contrary, the mouth of a great river, with its source deep down in tho bowels of the earth, among those everlasting fires that scientists tell us are continually burning there. The su perheated water gushing to the surface of the ocean at that depth with a power that cannot be estimated would be apt to displace the chilled and heavier water of the ocean, and with an initial velocity of nearly six miles ah hour, would certainly clear for itself a path, way through the ocean until chilled and rendered inert by the frozen waters of the Arctic seas. “Again, it may be that we were an chored over an immense and cver-active volcano which in no way crippled by the constant influx of the cold ocean water into its yawning crater continu ally, with a power that human thought cannot measure, hurls back the heated waves, and this repulsion, going on day after day and year after year for a period of time that has not yet been fixed by observation or deduction, has increased the volume of the at first puny geyser until now it has become a fixed and well founded current differing in color and temperature from the water that sur rounds it, and with a sweep and stretch that extend over thousands of miles. You can theorize all day over the mat ter, and perhaps be as far from the truth as ever. The observations made by the Blake settled several disputed points: “First—That the winds and the Mis sissippi River have nothing to do with the formation of the Gulf Stream. Secondly—That a point eleven and a half miles cast of Fowey Rocks Light house, Florida, in the Carribean Sea, is its true axis or source. “Thirdly—That tho velocity of the current is controlled by tho declination of the moon.”— Philadelphia, Inquirer. The Candy Curse. Candy-shops spring up almost as rap idly as drinking saloons in our cities; every cross-roads country store has its jar of stony or crumbly “sweeties,” as our English cousins name them; the boy who supplies passengers on outgoing and incoming trains with the daily pa pers, without which the patriot mind cannot enter upon the day’s action or the night’s rest, deafens us on alternate rounds with laudations of “broken can dy;” and, lest some weary traveler might escape temptation, the news stands in every station protrude a sly recommendation to “drop a nickel in the slot and receive a package of delicious bon-bons!” Dr. Ed>on enumerates among the sub stances added for increasing the weight of candy “terra alba, kaolin (decom posed feldspar) whiting, starch and ground quartz.” Among the coloring substances used to make our candy pleasant to the eye he gives arsenic, shromium and lead. Adulterations for flavor are macagei by help of a distilla tion of ‘ ‘rancid butter, wood alcohol and oil of vitriol” into “oil of pincap. pie; also by fusel oil and prussic acid,” while a very fragrant, fruity essence may be made of rotten cheese by treat ing it with oil of vitriol and bichromate of potash.” Much of the cheap choco late sold at corner candy stores is mixed with clay colored with burned umber.— Once a Week. The Wife of, Columbus, While at Lisbon, Columbus was ac customed to attend service, says Wash ington Irving, at the chapel of tho con vent of All Saints. There he becama acquainted with a lady of rank named Dona Felipa, who resided at the con-, vent. She was tho daughter of Bar tolommeo Monis de Pallestrello, or Per estrello 1 , an Italian cavalier, lately de ceased, who had been one of tho most distinguished navigators under Prince Henry of Portugal, and had colonized and governed the Island of Porto Santo. The acquaintance soon ripened into at tachment and ended in marriage., It appears, adds Irving, to havo been a matph of mere affection, as the lady bad little or uo fortune. . IJur Cruel Fate. “Yes,” sighed the young wife, “I married a professional humorist, and I wish I hadn’t.” “Why?” asked her friend. “Because he reads all his work to me before he puts it in the paper.” A True Lover. t Go forth into the world again, Searching for one as fair and sweet? Leave you, who are my dream complete? Leave you, and let the great sun wane, Shrouding my life in darkness? Oh, Love, oh my love, I cannot got They say that love is but a show Some wiaard casts before our eyes; They say that as a fading flower Rapture will lose its magic power To turn to heaven this earth of woe: But I say, “Love, I cannot go!’’ To touch your heart with perfect faith, To win with ardor your rare life, So full of beauty, charm and praiso, So full ot bliss to light my days From now to death, were you my wife— I take your trembling answer so, And love, my love, I cannot go! —Rose Hawthorne Lathrop in Harper*. HUMOROUS. Silver Quarters—The United States Treasury vaults. When you can get a horse at a bar. gain, drive your bargain. A Bootless Attempt—To get upstairs without being heard by your wife. If you want to find out all about wo men and their ways ask some young man who has never been married. A man may not bo afraid of danger, but he looks down in the mouth when he prepares to descend into a mine. “These are the husks that the swine didn’t eat,” as the man said as he swept aw'ay the peanut shells from be fore his store. Ted—“IIow is it that old fellow i* considered thebist inusie teacher in the city?” Ned—“Because ho charges more than any one else.” Man is not the only victim of tha combination craze. Even ducks, as soon as they hatch their eggs, start at once to pool their issugs. Mrs. Brown—You shouldn’t ask for more cake, Johnnie. Now, how much do you really think you should have? Little Johnnie—’Null to make me sick. “Is this swarm enough for you?” buzzed the queen of the new colony sarcastically. And the queen of tho parent hive made a slinging rejoinder, as the remark ddServed. A Scotch minister, observing a man sleeping, cried out, “John, wake up; take a pinch of snuff,” and John im mediately fired back: “Minister, put the snuff in the sermon.” “What’s the matter, driver?” said a passenger in a herdic; “why doesn’t this coach go?” “’Cause you ain’t put a nickel in the slot, that’s why.” And all the other passengers tittered. Mrs. Freshpork (back to Chicago from honeymooning in Europe)—Do you remember that gorge up in tho mountains, Arthur? Wasn’t it just lovely? Mr. F.—You bet! 1 never ate a sqnarer meal. Little Tommy—“Can I eat another piece of pie?” Mamma (who is some thing of a purist)—“I suppose you can.” Tommy (seeing tho point)—. “Well, may I?” Maxima—“No, dear, you may not.” Tommy—“Plaguo grammar, anyway.” Omaha Man: You naughty boy,Dick; don’t you know better than to ask peo ple how much money they have? I hope you will excuse that child, Mr. Nicefellow. Tho little fellow didn’t know what he was talking about. Lit tle Dick: Yes 1 did, too. Sis said she wished she knew, and I wanted to tail her. Fort Mountain. In Murray County, Georgia, some twenty miles straight east from Dalton, there is a lofty mountain foiming the southern extremity of the Coliutta Range and affording a magnificent prospect of the surrounding hill-counfry of three different States. On the broad plateau in the summit iegions of that mountain, a space of four or five acres has been fortified on one side by a bulwaik of rough bowlders—tho precipitous cliffs of the mountain itself making the camp inaccessible from all other points. The rock rampart is evidently the work of human hands, and local tradition sticks to the explanation that a force of Spanish soldiers were here encamped for several -.weeks, skirmishing with the hostile Indians, and alternating their fights by a search for precious metals. The time of that event is,paid to ante date the earliest permanent settlem ea of English- speaking colonists, and it is barely possible that a detachment of De Soto’s expedition strayed thus far north on their march in quest of » Western Eldorado.