Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-10-10

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DAYTON, OHIO, Oct 9.-Hen. TdOpsos L. Tsl-
lcei, Secretary Republican Congregational Cor.
mittee: Give Agent OF Associated Press this
! item. Senator Morgan and Representative
/ Schenok have decided II not necessary TO notify
/ a quorum Of Congress to meet on the 10th .
P9siding Officers will adjourn two Houses to
| November 10Th. re SCaENcK.
The EWAsHINsToS STArUE-Elsewhere vii
be found the particulars of the Cabinet action
! yesterday on the application OF the Legisla.
ture OF the State Of Louisiana for the return of
the marble statue of Washington by Powers
brought here during the war II is stated that
the statue was shipped by Gen. Butler to New
YORK, to b' kept in trust for Louisiana until
she should be restored to the Union 1t seems
that II found its way to Washington and we
have obtained the following partic ulars of its
history after its arrival. 1t reached Morgan
and Rhinshardt's wharf marked .'S4atuary for
the United States Government" The officials
at the Capitol supposed it might be statuary
from Munich or Rome, and Mr.. Thomas e.
Magruder, Chief Clerk of the Government
work at the Capitol, proceeded to exhume
IL irom under an immense pile
| of freight At the @ street wharf ana had IL re-
moved TO the Capitol, where the box was open.
ed and the statue found enveloped in an exten.
sive wrapping Of cotton. /. was taken at first
to the Senate chamber, but Afterwards by di.
rection Of Judge Usher, Secretary of the Inte-
| rior, removed to the Patent Office, where a. has
since remained.
CHARGE AGAINST A REVENUE OFFICER
This morning George H. Moore was arrested
upon warrant issued by u. S. Commissioner
Brown upon the charge of willfully neglecting
10 perform the duties of his office, deputy
Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third
Collection District Of North Carolina, at Fav
eteville, N. C.,) and, also, with having on the
10th of August, embezzled various sums of
money received for collections made by him at
various times amounting to $4,000 The war
rant was executed by one of the MarshaI's
omcers, and the accused gave bail for q hear.
ing this afternoon, when E. S. Dana and N.
Weison appeared for the Government, and
Messrs. Cook and Burgess for the accused
The case was continued to Monday
He is a candidate for Supervisor. Collector
Woollen, Third North Carolina, District.
charges Moore with having made collection IN
the amount OF $4,000, unknown to him. With
this money he has been defraying his expenses
while lobbying for appointment as Super visor.
MR. EDWARD A. POLLARD, the Southern
historian, Is In Washington, applying for per-
mission from the State Department to have
and condense them IN historical work on
JEFF. Davis. The ground Of his application is
stated 10 be desire TO verify certain important
allegations concerning the Davis government
and In his letter to the Secretary he represents
mat ne Will be able to make important reye-
lauons If he is allowed to assist his researches
by the use OF some of the documents which are
supposed to exist in the collection ON Tenth
street.
GEN. CARLIN RELIEvED-Breyet Major
General w. +. Carlin, MAJOR Bath infantry
and Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen's
Bureau for the State of Tennessee, has been re-
heved from duty in that State, and ordered to
report 70 the Commanding General of the ath
Military District, for assignment to duty in that
district. lieutenant Col. James Thompson.
Captain I'd artillery, relieves General Carlin,
and is assigned to duty in accordance with his
brevet rank.
REDUCTION OF FORCE IN THE TREASURY
The Heads Of the various bureaus in the Treas.
ury Department are now preparing the lists Of
such employees whose services can be dis.
pensed with, preparatory to making the dis.
charge, which will be in the course of a week
or ten days. Between seventy five and one
hundred females and over one hundred male
employees in the several bureaus will be dis.
missed, as the work is decreasing and the ap-
propriations greatly reduced.
DEATH OF REV. THOMAS H. STOCKTON
Rev. Thomas II. Stockton, for several terms
Chaplain Of the House Of Representatives, and
well known as a minister of the Methodist
Protestant Church, died last evening in Phila-
delphia, aged sixty. This venerable and elo.
quent divine was well known in this District,
having been stationed for many years in WASH
ingtoH and Georgetown.
HANDSOME ANNUALs.-From Hudson Taylor
We have the superbly illustrated Atlantic Alma.
nae for 1s69, published by Ticknor IL Fields
and Democrats Parlor annual tor 1869. From
Shiilington we have Appleton's illustrated Alma
nae for l-69, a very handsome annual
THE president has appointed Jas Barnes,
Esq, as Commissioner TO examine the entire
road and telegraph wires Of the Union Pacific
railroad, vice ]. L. Williams, resigned.
The ST. THOMAS PURCHASE TREArY.-It will
be remembered that in July last the Senate ad-
Journed without acting upon the treaty so
promptly ratified by Denmark for the cession
OF the Island OF St. Thomas TO the United
States. The limitation for the ratification Of
the treaty having expired, the President in
September last proposed to the Danish Gov
eminent that the period for the ratification of
the treaty by the United States should be ex-
tended one year, In order that the Senate might
be afforded time to act upon it, The cable tel
egram relative TO the postponement Of the ces-
sion is understood by the State Departm, MT { !,
mean that Dennark has accepted the p esi.
dents proposition.
/ NATURALIZATION TRKATY.-A cable dis
patch has been received at the State Depart.
ment from Hon. Reverdy johnson, our Minis
ter to England, stating that he has signed a
protocol with the British Government regulat-
ing the rights Of nafuralized citizens. No par.
nculars are given, but ii is inferred by the Ad-
ministration, from facts heretofore commune
Gated by our Minister, that the compact Is SIM
liar in features to the treaty recently concluded
by Mr. Bancroft with the German Powers.
POLITICAL Brick Pomeroy, in his New
York Democrat, expresses himself a not a bit
pleased with the Connecticut election, and de.
claIes that things look 'sblue" in that direction
"A Seymour and Blair torchlight meeting
was held In Philadelphia last evening by blind
persons. Several speecnes were made. Ssy.
mour and Blair were endorsed.
The Executive Committee OF the Mary
land Republican State Central Committee an
nOunce a number Of meetings 10 De held
throughout the State.
The Hartford Courdnt says that the Re-
publican gains in Connecticut are simmense,
especially in Eastern Connecticut. We con-
slder the State good for 1000 majority tor