The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-27
WASHINGTON.
Special Dispatches to The EUeniag Telegraph.
w AsHINCToN March o.

WASHINGTON, March n.
senator Foot.
Senator Foot at noon to-day, was supposed
to be in a dying condition.
The Hospital Records
have Just been footed up, and they show the
enormous aggregate of 253 900 Union soldiers to
have died on battle-ieds and IN hospitals dur
ing the war to suppress the Rebellion. This
does not include those who died at their
homes of lingering disease contracted in the
service. It was remarked by prominent
member of the Government that if this terri
bic record could so soon be forgotten. by the
Union men of the American nations we were
Unworthy the liberty they died to save.
Revenue Seizures.
The Commissioner of Customs to-day received
intelligence from the Collector at Newbern, N.
c., of the seizure of a vessel from the West
Indies laden with rum and sugar. The Col
lector at Providence, r. l., had also informed
the Commissioner of the seizure of forty barrels
of rum valued at $1,000 to $4,000.
A New Form of Prayer.
A gentleman just arrived here, who spent Sab
bath week in Savannah, says that when the
clergyman came to the prayer for the President
and all in authority, he thus imprevsed his petit
authority in this and other lands"
Examination. 5
The boards for the examination of candidates
for admission into the Medical Corps of the Navy
are still in session at the Naval Hospital in
Chelsea, the Naval Hospital in New York, and
the Naval Asylum in Philadelphia, and will so
continue until all vacarcies are filed.
Vacant Public LANDS at the south.
wi q xhi tho
of vacant public lands in five of the late insur
rectionary States:-Alabama, 6,732,05S acres;
Louisiana, 6,22s.1O2 acres; Florida, 1882, 796
acres; Mississippi, 4,76O,736 acres; Arkansas,
9,29S,O13 acres. There are no public lands in the
States of North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Tennessee, or Kentucky.
Conscience Money.
Another contribution of conscience money"
amounting to $637'84, was today received by
Treasurer Spinner from General W. Scott
Ketchum, of the War Department. The money
was received by General Ketchum from an un-
known source.
Fractional Currency.
The sum OF $59, 500 in fractional currency was
to-day delivered by the printing division of The
Treasury Department ..
Customs.
10th to the 18th inst, from the ports of New
York, Philadelphia Baltimore, and Boston,
amounted in the aggregate to So, S4S'l7, of
which sum New York contributed 81, AGA, ,953'lS
Seizure of Smugglers.
The Commissioner Of Customs has received
intelligence OF two important seizures of VESSELS
violating the United States revenue laws by
smuggling into the country cargoes free of duty
nvo ad r,1111 atc
from Ethe West Indies was seized at Newbern
N. c.. a few days since. The cargo was landed,
but was seized, together with the crew. Another
vessel, with its cargo of liquors, worth from six
to eight thousand dollars, was seized recently at
Providence, r. l. The goods were landed and
secreted in barn, but the agent of the customs
discovered their whereabouts concealed him
self with force near at hand and when the
smueglers came for their goods they were ar
rested, and possession was taken of the liquors.
| American Engineers i'm South America.
The following is translated from Bogota
| (Colombia) paper containing President Mu-
| rillos message on the survey of the Magdalena
river and its tributaries by the United States
| engineers:- coming here of these officers,
| who are the most distinguished in the engineer
| Service of the United States of America, is due
in great part to the benevolent solicitude of the
Secretary of State, Mr.. Seward, the enlightened
| friend of our country"
| The Case of Colonel Rodney Mason, OF
| the Ist Ohio Regiment.
| On the 22d instant the President, by special
| order, revoked the order dismissing Colonel
| Rodney Mason, of the list Ohio Volunteers, and
| he has been regularly mustered out of the SER
| vice. 1t will be rccollected that Colonel Mason
| surrendered at Clarksvllle.
| The Presidents Levee.
The Presidential levee of tonight differed
somewhat from the previous receptions at the
White House, and, notwithstanding the chilly
and forbidding aspect of the weather, was
largely attended by officials and fashionables of
| the city. Passion week seemed to have been
| forgotten in the general desire to be present,
and throngs oflades and gentlemen in full dress.
were arriving and departing continually, from an
early hour in the evening until the time for clos
| ing the doors of the main entrance. The Marine
| Band were present as usual. Its leader was more
than ordinarily felcitous inselectng airs for the
occasion, and securing their faulless execution
| The Eest Room and adjacent passages were
| crowded by young and old to listen to the de-
/ lghtful strains, where misses and matrons OF
every degree promenaded tomeasured cadences.
| Aristocracy and democracy were alike repre-
| kad "a Nd