Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-03-26

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EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvKNUH-The receipts to-day
from this source were s36O,3i2 ~.
PRRsoNAL.-HonsL.H H. Chsndler ana joseph
Joyne., of Virginia are at the Ebbitt House.
THE CABINET was In session to.day till a
late holr.
Ex-PRgsIDEST JOHN SON has been very in az
his home in Tennessee, but according to a dis
patch TereIved here last night was much better
yes erday evening.
SECRETARY FISH has rented the house OF
ex-senator Morgan, at the southwest corner of
Fifteenth and streets, furniture included, for
his Iuture residence.
THE HOUSE Distric; COMMITTEES, at ITS meet.
ing this morning. agreed to report Hou sc bill
No. -, crga1izpg Police Court for the Dis
'rict OF Columbia.
THB NOMINATION. of J. q. Bancroft Davis, 10
he Assistant Secretary OF State, and James II
Ca ey, to be Collector of Customs at New Or.
leans, were yesterday con nfirmed by the Senate
JESSE r. GRANT, Esq, and Miss Jenn lie
u r; nj, the father and sister of toe President
left for Kentucky yesterday, accompanied by
MIR. Pease, friend of the IA nily.
Col. w. g. MOORE, Pavmaster United States
army, Iate secretary to Presiden. Johnson, has
been assigned to duty in the Pay Department
in this city.
MISS L. ]. KR.CHAM, Of Philadelphia, has
been appointed to a clerkship in the Treasury
department. Mss KetJham is the first colored
womfn appointed to clerkship in any of the
dep .r.ments.
1T Is w. H. CHASE, Councilman from the
Second Ward, who Is on the slate for Police
Commssionership of this District, and not w.
b. Chase, of the City Registers office, as here.
tofore published.
THE SENATE to-day passed the bill, men
toned in the STAR Of a recent date, continuing
the frs. and sixth sections of the act extending
tie charter Of the Corpor alton of Washington
for one year.
BEEvET MAJOR G KH. WAGER SwAYNs has
been ordered by the Secretary OF War to pro.
ceed without delay to Newport Barracks, KY.
and relieve Brevet Msjor General Charles r.
Woods, in command OF that post. Gen. Woods
has been ordered to the Department of the Mis-
souri.
In THE SUPREME CoUET yesterday the case
of Frank r. Blair, Jr., against the State of
Missouri, for re.usjng to receive his vote was
resumed, and Senator Drake concluded his
argument on behalf of the State. He was fol-
lowed by Ex-Attorney General Evarts for the
plaintiff, and the court ad iourned until Monday
THERE WAS some lively sparring in the
House to-day over General Buffers propo-
sitlon to amend the bill repeating the Tenure
OF Office bill, TO require the President to
send IN his nominations made during the re-
cess to the Senate within thirty days after the
meeting of the Senate.
PAVEMENT OF PKNNsYLvASIA AVENUE
The Senate to-day pa ed the bill constituting
General Michler, A. B Muliett, Mayor Bow
en-, Edward Clark, and q. H. Nichols, es a
board to have Pennaylva1ia avenue paved
from the Capitol gate to 18th street. The pro
vi. IONS the bill were publ he'd In the STAR
a few days since.
NONINATIoNs-The President to-day sent to
the Senate the following nominations:
Geo. q. Symes, to be Associate Justice for
Montana.
Aubrey II. Smith, TO be U. S. Attorney for
the eastern district OF Pennsylvania.
Thomas Sieel, 10 be Surveyor of Customs ar
Pa.
VIM. Kapus, to be Collector of Gus toms for
Alaska.
SECRETARY BORIR AND PARTY r-turred from
their Annapolis trip at a late hour last pigh..
The arrangements made at Ar rnapolls for the
comfort of the distinguished guests were admi-
Table, and the representative Of the STAR
returns his thanks TO Admiral Porter and lady
for courtesies extended. The drill, the review.
and the reception were alike unexceptionabIe,
ana the trip was pleasant one TO all partlci-
patipg. The Secretary expressed himself as
much pleased with the d scipline and efficiency
be observed at the Academy, and regretted that
his visit was necessarily SO brief.
THE MORMON vIsIroRs.-The published
: atement that twenty OF Brigham Young's
W YES had arrived in the States, en- route TO
Washington, is probably without any fOunda-
ton, as no information Of the fact has been re
ceived here. Mr.. Hooper, the delegate from
city up to the 1ith instant, bnt no mention is
made of any intention on the part of
any Of Brigbam's family to visit Washington.
MIR. Hooper thinks it probable that some Of the
merchants of Great Salt Lake en- route
East and may be accompanied by their fami-
lies, but if SO nothing is known of the tact here
REDUCTION OF FoRcs AT THK ARsRNALs.-
The following order has Just been issued:
HEADQUARTERS OF THk ARMY,
ADJUTANT GENERALS OPPICE,
WASHINGTON, March IS, 1869
GENERAL ORDERS, No "a.
BY direction of the President, the command
ing officers Of the following named Arsenals,
Ind OF the Military Academy, will at once re-
duce the number OF enlisted men of the ord
nance department thereat, as designated below,
md grant discharges to all men whose services
Are dispensed with under this order:
Allegheny arsenal, 50 men; Watervliet ar
'enal, SO men; Washington arsenal, 81 men:
arsenal, 81 men; ST. Louis arsenal,
~ men; Franktord arsenal, 81 men Benicia ar
enal, 50 men, Rock Island arsenal, 100 men,
Leaven worth arsenal, IS men; Baton Roug- a.
enal, 25 men; Charleston arsenal % men: In
Iianapolie arsenal, IS men; Olumbus arsenal,
s men; Fort Monroe arsenal, Is men; Augusta
lrsenal, 25 men; Vancouver arsenal, 25 men;
kennebec arsenal, 81 men; Mount Vernon ar.
enal, 10 men; Fort Union arsenal, 10 men:
Detroit arsenal, Is men; West Point, military
&c .demy,) ~ men; PIkesville arsenal, men;
Champlain arsenal, men.