Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-03-03
THE EVENING STAR
Washington News and Gossip.

lI1lJ IL II4N LIN W DI An
Washington News and Gossip.
TEE LIVE AT TIRE EPREsIDENr's.--The PEST
d,ut's reception last evening was offended by
rs large an assemblase as any OF be preceding
ones. the number OF distinguished persons pres
ent being very large. The President. who was
the very test spirits, received the many
visitors, rs they were presented by Marshal
GoOding, IN Lis usual pleasant manner
The lodies of the Executive Mansion Mrs
Patterson ard Mrs. Stever. with the Misses
White OF 7, Dacssee, were present, and assisted
IN CR,sTtaiEIng the guests, Gen. MichIer intro
duclRg visitors to the ladies.
Among the many distinguished persons pres
'pJ were Secretaries seward, welles, and lady,
GCCuiioch and lazy, Attorney General STAN
% Ty, Assistant Secretary r W Seward and
lady, Mr.. Thomson, The English Minister; Sc
nor q uiierez charge d afr1irs. Costa Rica: Mr.
Rarga bee. the1irecian NJ Ministez- the 'Chevalier
<'erruti, Iialian Minister; Earon Gerolt, the
PrLSsian Minister; Mr.. Eslltazzi of the Turkish
Legation Mr. Rangabee of the Grecian Lega-
tior, Mr.. Fame Of the English Legation, Baron
FIancEs Tstein. Charge a Aff~ires Austria,
Mt Media. of the Argentine Legation; Mr..
CantaCalli, Of the Italian Legation, and other
attaCh5s of the various legations. Gen.
Thomas Gen. Humprhies, Gen. Miller, Colonel
TassaH, Major Parker, and other army officers,
CcmmC dOTe Jenkins, Paymsster Fulton, of the
Marine Corps, Representatives Pruyn, Adams,
Kerr, MuBgen. Eldridge, and others; Gen. "
l. Jorrlss, Register OF the Treasury. Ist As
sistant Postmaster General skinner. Edgar T.
Welles, Col. O'BeirHe, Miss Ann ;. Stephens.
Ihs aUthOTcss, and many others.
The IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE CHAsE.-
Fenton, in a note. in his ..AbrIdsement of the
Congressional Debates" thus describes the
manner IN which the Senate chamber was pre-
pared for the trial OF the Judge Chase who was
imIeached:
"The Senate Chamber was fitted up in a style
OF appTOprt1te elegance. Ber ches, covered
with crimson. on each side, aud in line with
the chair of the President. were assigned to the
members of the Senate. On the right, and in
front OF the chair. box was assigned TO the
managerS- and on the left similar box 70 Mr..
Chase and mis- counsel. and chairs allotted TO
such friends rs he might introduce. The re- idue
Of The floor was occupied with chairs for the ac-
cemmcdatlon of the meinb of the House Of
Representatives. and with boxes for the reCep-
fiOn of the Foreign Minister, and civil and MIL
Itary officers Of the United States. On the right
and left of the chair at the termination OF he
benches of the mem bers>of the court, boxes Were
assigned TO stenographers. The permanent
gallery was allotted to the indiscriminate ad-
mission Of spectators. Below this gallery, and
above the floor of the Houss, new gaIIarv was
raised, and fitted up with peculiar elegance,
intended primarily for the exclusive aceommo-
daiion OF ladies' But this feature of the arrap
ment, made 10y the Vice President. was at an
early period of the trial abandoned. II having
been found impracticable to separate the sexes !,
AT the termination OF this gallery. on each side,
boxes were specially assigned TO ladies at.ae he'd
TO The familes of public characters. The.preser-
vat.on of order as devolyed on the Marshal
OF the Di-trict Of Columbia, who was resisted
by "A number of deputies.' -
Dnr
pose 10 start paper in Chicago as a rival to
the Inns. stock company has been formed
with capital Of SZgN.'g', and the first issue Of
Tis A,e. morning daily, is promised by the
list CT M"Tch- The new sheet Will be managed
by prominent EemOeTatic writer now con-
nected with the press of that city, and will also
draw from two or three other city papers. Ii
viii be independent Of PendletOn, and rather
oppose hi nomination.
-"Can we pay the SO-ealled Debtl'' is the
significant title of an article in the last number
OF the RI EfiGter, published in st. Louis.
Carl Schurz is one OF the delegates II
large from Missouri 10 the Chicago Republican
Convention.
II he New York TsAses of yesterday says
s-The Democratic papers all over the country
are taking special pains 10 disavow all respon.
sitility for the acts of President Johnson, and
even Mr.. Black IL said 20 have GePied that he
was consulted in regard 10 Mr.. Stanton's re-
moval, or that his dvice- when asked, has ever
j
never consults any body, with any thought of
being governed or guided by their advice So
entLrely and thoroughly self-reliant a man
probably never before sat in the Executive
chair 1hisihas been the great defect and fault
OF bis Official career. He has no confidants-and
We doubt whether single member of his Cab
met has ever been able either TO influence him
10 change any action on which he had resolved,
OF even TO know IN advance what il would be-
A Republican Government cannot be success
tally administered in that way"
ha III icap -bair
the municipal election in LswIstown, Me- yes-
terday by go majority, eiecting Isaac A Par
ker Mayor. The total vote cast was Las. the
largest ever polled there.
- The Concord, n. H., Honitsr publishes a
canvass of the votes made by the Republican
State Committee as follows: Hartman, IS, ,i37:
Sinclair, 35,253; doubtful, 2,-9l.
UNIFORMITY OF CoINAGE.-In the Senate to-
day, Mr.. Frelin ghu uysen introduced the follow
ing bill, which was referred 70 the Finance
Committee:
W hereas, the amount Of pure gold contained
IN the English pound sterling, IN five dollars
OF the nItsd States, and in twenty fl We francs
money in France. according to the regulations
of the gold eoinage of the said several countries
D very nearly the same and great international
and commercial convenience would b. sub
served by making the same precisely equal: and
whereas the English pound sterling presents
the most convenient basis for such equality;
therefore
Be tt sEoeted de-, That the amount OF pure
gold AZ a hall eagle, or five dollar piece. Shall
hereafter be ll3 grains troy weight, u corre-
spond with the amOun' OF pure gold contained
IN tEe English sovereign, or pound sterling:
and all the other gold coins of the United States
shall contain pure gold in like proportion:
namely al the rate of twenty-five grains and
siN-tenths of a grain to the dollar and the gold
coins of the United Ssates heretofore struck
and issued shall b. valued aud estimated
an all accounts and transactions accord
Ing 10 their respective weights at the
above rate of twenty-five grains and six.
teHihs of grain Of pure gold To the dollar; and
all other gold coins of known standard of fine .
nfss current in the United States by the laws
thereof shall pass and be received at the same
rate according TO the amount OF pure gold there
IN contained and hencefOrth- in all accounts
anu trans actions N which the Government of
tne Y nlted Statrs i concerned. and in which
the value OF pound sterling Is involved. the
same snail be taken and estimated at five dol
iars' and IN order 10 discourage the fictitious
par OF exchange OF si.i4 or four dollars and
% ionr-nlnths Of dollar 10 the pound sterling
which has heretofore been used among mer-
chants,
BE az tHrther eFacte5, That, after the Ist tay Of
January next an additional tax of one-ten m
per cent. be imposed upon all transactions OF
exchange or % a commercial nature, in which
such fictitious par OF exchange, or any other