Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-08-31

The NEW TERRrToRr OF wronNe.-A
large number OF the citizens Of the new Terri
tory Of Wyoming have petitioned the Presi-
dent 10 complete the organization OF their Ter
ritory, as soon as possible, by making ad inter.
ana appointments Of Territorial officers 1t will
be remembered that A. S. Paddock, Esq, was
nominaeed about the close of the session for
Governor, and the nomination was confirmed
but subsequently reconsidered, as there was no
appropriation for the pay Of the officers of the
Territory. The people have offered to paw all
expenses OF the new officers, If the President
would make sd interim appointments. But the
President has declined to take any further ac-
ton in the matter, until after the reassembling
OF Congress.
REEUcIse ExPESsEs.-The Secretary Of the
Treasury Is engaged in reducing the expenses
OF collecting the customs, by discharging the
useless force employed in the different Gus.
tom houses. The special agents for the Gus
toms branch have been instructed to examine
and report where retrenchment can be effected,
and orders have already been issued based
upon these reports. which will effect q saving
Of quarter million dollars annually. The
Secretary signed an order Saturday cutting off
$ee,O0o in yearly expenses Of the New York
Custom House. When the work Is finished the
reduction Of expenses In the Customs papart.
ment will amount to over n million Of dollars
per annum.
WHAT KILLED THE .GRBcrAN BKSp.n-The
stopping posture, styled the .sGrecian Bend"
renewed by the watering place fashionables
this season, is not practiced as much as IL was.
We hear from Saratoga that it has been killed
off there quite effectually by satire and bur-
lesque. John q. Sake, the poet-punster, who
has been summefing at Saratoga and writing
letters to the Boston Post, nrst got the laugh on
the fashion by calling it the "Coiic Stoop," and
Recommending the essence of peppermint as a
remedy: but the Quietus was put to IL by the
work of a clever German Silhouettes artist
named Schmidt, who made such droll, vet
truthful representations Of the ladies affected
by the "bend" that all Saratoga was in q roar
of laughter, and his silhouettes went OF like
hot-cakee, for hfty cents each. The ladies re-
monstrated and the hotel.keepers attempted to
stop his busy scissors, and succeeded, but the
photographers reproduced his pictures and
they sold by thousands, dong the business for
the Grecian Bend most effectualIy. SAKE says
OF this absurd fashion:
al see that a writer in the New York Times
defends the usage in question, on the assump-
iion-shm ground enough, one would say,
granting IL TO be rue-that ii is the same tn ing
as the 'Grecian Bend Of thirty years ago, which
originated (se he tells us) with q certain grace.
full English Duchess several generations be.
fore. however charming her grace may have
been in spite Of an affectatIon of this sort, the
real origin Of sGrecian Bend is rs patent as
its adoption by fashionable women is ridicu-
lous Ladies who have justly admired the
Venus, and other nude figures, from the hands
OF the Greek sculptors, have failed to reflect
that the curve in those beautiful forms is grad
above an. maj the,r STOPPING posture Is natu. a
raI and therefore graceful attempt TO hide
what they can Of their nakedness. Clothed
and in her right mind NO sensible woman will
think Of initiating in public the shrinking stoop
OF conscious indecency."
SEPTEMBER SsssIos.-Hon s. f. Gore, mem.
Der OF Congress from Georgia, writes here
urging September session OF Congress. He
Gays the Legislature Of that State is not likely
to take any action which will secure q fair
election. Some twenty or twenty five men,
bers, who are disqualified by the fourteenth
amendment, are holding on in the absence OF
any direct legislation by Congress declaring
the amendment to be in operation, and they are
laboring to turn out the colored members, and
are likely to succeed.
THE wH11R HousI,-The crowd OF visitors
at the Executive Mansion to-day was very
small, and nearly all were admitted to see the
President. Senator Vickers, Of Maryland, had
q long interview with the President this fore.
noon.
Mr.. BoYpBH.-The Secretary of the Republi.
can State Committee Of North Carolina writes
that Nathaniel Boyden will run for Congress
on the Republican ticket, and will canvass his
district tor Grant and Coifax.
Col. WIN. G.. MOORE, Confidential Secretary
to the President, left town this morning, in
company with G. E. Creecy, Esq of the Treas
ury Department, and several otner genial fel-
lOxrs nah
mac and in the Chesapeake.
HON JOHN ROSE OF Cana da, is to visit this
city on matters connected with the negotiation
OF new reciprocity treaty.
GENERAL GRANT was serenaued at the resi-
dence Of his brother, IN Chicago, ON Saturday
night by the Tanners organization. He will
return to Gaiena to-day to remain a month or
50 longer.
The GEORGIA LEGISLATURE IMBRoGLIo.-
Private advices from Atlanta say that there il
an understanding by which q motion will be
made and probably carried for an adjourn.
nent of the legislature Of Georgia before a
vote is had on the question Of excluding col.
ored members. 1t is also said there - pros.
pect Of pending movement to heal the dissen-
sions in the Republican ranks being successful.
ADJUrANr GENERAL LoRxHzo THOMAS ar.
rived in Chicago Saturday morning, on his tour
Of inspection Of national cemeteries.
PoLIr1CAL.-The Democracy - the 5th Con-
gressional District OF New Jersey have nomi.
mated for Congress, Mayor Orestes Cleveland,
Of Jersey City. At the election two years ago,
the Hon. George A. Halsey, Republican, car
ocrat, by 9e3 majority. Mr.. Halsey now finds
II impossible, through press OF business, to ac-
cept denomination. Among the aspirants for
the nomination Major Il. X. Pangborn, well
country.
The origin of the story about General But
Ter and the spoons 10 said to be as follows:
Some years since General Butler was EMPLOYED
IN a case where the evidence was so strong
against him that 10 was generally conceded