Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-10-28
Washington News and Gossip.

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For reasons n AIDE known Gy tue Governor an d
States Attorney, you will Gsntinue until nex [
Term the cases involving th- queSt Stion of heir
ship 10 the q tate OF J. G. Clark, deceased
-. J. REYNOLDS, Bv't Mslor General
The attorneys say 10 the President:
I'VE rrgaId talS order As a great military
uSurpatiOn. 1t rs addressed 20 n Judge of a
civil court, dire, ling him how he shall decide
The que. ton OF Contin rance. Brth parties are
cent Pnd represeDnd by couB- el-the clse
T. ady 1or trial. Shall he commanders OF the
district control The ludiciaryl We ask you to
revoke tie order. Answer"
The President under ne reconstruct ction laws
has no authority - revoke the order of General
Reynolds as requested by the attorneys.
CONVICTED OF FRAUD on THE PENSION
OFFlCE.-Informaton has been received by
the Commissioner of Pensions tina. Francis -
DAVIS, alias Henry :. Morris, was, on the pod
instant, con victed, at Newark, New Jersey, of
fraud ON the Pension Office in connection with
his own claim for a pension. William Brep.
den, OF Santa Fe. New Mexico. has also been
convicted of a vio.1'iop OF the 18th section OF
the a7t of July 4, lsIStt A mo,Ion for a new
trial has been enter.sSSthis latter case.
UNION PACIFIC RAJLRoAD.-The Preside
of the Union Pacific Railroad Company hav-
ing filed with the Secretary of the Interior an
affidavit showing the completion OF 20 miles
OF their road, and elesraph line extending 10
the esOth mile, the Government Commss toner's
have been instructed by telegraph to examine
and report on the same.
HENRY H. BATES, ESQ, has been appointed
Second Assistant Examiner in the Patept
Office, having passed a satisfac tory exam ination
for The position.
HON. N. q. TAYLOR, Commissioner oflndiaa
Affairs, LETT town last evening TOR New York
to look aiier some official business. He will
return here Tomorrow.
REVENUE APPOINTMENrs Secretary Nc
Culloch to-day made the following appoint.
ments OF Internal Revenue officers:
StOrst'eIe,S.-H. w. Purdy, 5th ky.; H. :
Mausur oth Ohio; William Cock, Washing on
IIitrIltory; Jo-sph T. Puss y, 9Th Va; Joseph Ii.
r9o' e's-J. H. Murray, ith Ky; 1. w. Short.
9th ONO; Ch9s. Z. Meyer, >th Pa; Nathan Il.
Ly IH OHIO; Robert I: Campbell, Sd TeXs:
Lewis Day, Wrshm ctOu Territory; Chas. G G
Merrill, ii Conn; John w. Corley, attn Nv
TEEATIEs.-The official records al the Stat
Department show that the number OF treaties
and conveGtions coHclaied by the different ad-
ministrat.Ons of the GovprnmCn. is TWO hum
dred and five, namely Prior to Washington
administration, twelve; during Washing tons
administration. four; John Adams administ-a-
non, three; Jeherson's, SIX; Madison's, five;
Monroe's. seven: I. -. Adam : r,,-elya. Iarl
sons sixteen; Van Buren's, nine: Uarrlson;s.
Cn'; Tylers, nine; Polk's, fourteen; Taylor's
HNt; FIlImore's, nine; PierCe'S nineteen: Bu-
6banan's, eighteen; Lincon's, twenty-six;
Johnson's, twenty-tnroe. l. Will be thus seen
th&t Secretary Seward has negotiated forty
nlne, or rearly one -fOurth of all the treaties
ana conventions that our Government has er-
teled INTO.
AN ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH from
Charleston, :. c., represents that ..Associar.
Judge HCge has taken refuga North from the
fury of The Colored citizens. They learned that
he asserted some time ago that he wished ne
had ali the negroes IN q ten-acre field, ana h.
would go through them with his old regiment
Hcge rs Radical candidate for Congress from
this district Instead of this being SD, Judge
HCee Is in this city rs the repreurespntatiye of
the loyal PEOPLE OF South Carolina, and asking
military aid Tor their protection.
EDITOR oP THE starts The tact generally
krown that The Hon. Secretary OF the Interior
Is refusing leaves O. absence 20 clerks WHO d..
sire TO 60 home To vote. My attention was
called to-day 10 the answer received by a clerk
IN the said Office TO such an applic cation The
leave was refused, and The Secretary said i'm
effect, that the habit OF permitting clerks to 90
nome 10 vote was pfrnicIOus, ana would not
he tolerated. In This instance, however IN.
refusal came too late, Tor The gentleman had
already departed. L know OF one or two iu-
st9nCps where applications We're made by DEM
"Crais. in which the Secretary did not consider
me custom pernicioUs. 1t is hut lust to the
Secretary however, TO say that the refusal was
not signed III p-cDtG persond, but was signed
by an inferior officer by order of the Secre-
tarY." Iowa
WAsHINGroN, October 27th
PoLITICAL.-Ciovernor Seymour addressed
'he people Of Columbus, Obi. yesterday,
- Senator Norton replied to Governor Sey-
mours speech IN indianapolis We -terday.
- The National Republican Committee have
just issued Al address.
- The Republican Congressional Executive
Committee have circulated I,rnUUU documents
during the campaign.
AT the November elections the people OF
Minnesota, Iowa. and Missouri will vote for
tor againstl negro suffrage.
Returns from thiIty-three counties OF
West irginia show Republican majority OF
four thousand.
The Republican demonstration Al Cum.
and enthusiastic. Meetings were held III tle
morning, afternoon, and night.
Six seats IN the Forty first Congress will
certainly be contested-those of Moiia;t, Read
ing, ana Foster, in Pennsylvania; Strader and
Hoag, in Ohio; and Eoornees III Indiana-aII
Democrats.
e. L. T.. Judson, (s.Ned Buntline y who
has been canvassing California for the las; Six
months as an advocate OF temperance, writes
home that California will vote for Grant and
Colfax by ten thousand ma lority.
The Wilmington IN. c. Pos! denies that
any arms have been shipped to that city for the
use Of Republicans, and adds, LET the reheI
press make the same denial il they dare and
we will publish affidayits showing The DISPOSAL
OF arms among the Democrats"
The Mobile Tribune (Democraticl, DESPAIR
ing Of being able to elect Democrat from tina,
Congressional district, advises that a negro ha
put in nomination 70 oppose the Republican
candidate.
The Republicans of q 'orgia say they will
carry the State by small majority, while the
democrats are confident OF twenty thousand
majority.
1t is understood that the friends of Gen. J.
X. Moorhead intend, at the proper time. 70
bring his name forward for United States SEN
aser from Pennsylvania, TO succeed Senator
Buckalew, whose terri will expire on the atm
of March next. The names OF Galusna a
Grow, Gienni W. Scofield, Gov Curtin, ana
John w. FoIney are also mentioned.
General Butler, in q talk with a corrss
pondent of a Boston paper, conyersed quite
freely on the subject OF Gordon, the Lane con-
traband trading. GeLeral Grant. and spoons.
In relation TO the latter subject, he denies the
accusations sga,nst him, and sIys that a com.
manding General who could control million
Of money would be accused Of stealiug snoons
only by persons who know they would steal
them II they had the opportunity.
The New York correspondent OF the Phil.
a,leIphia Lcdaer says that the Democratic
leaders are making an effort to induce Gov
ernor Seymour to make at least one soeech
there before the election. The Goyerroras