Evening star., 1869-07-13
EVENING STAR.



Warrington News and Gossip.
GBNHRAI p. H SaRRIDAH is at Willards'.
IxTIRHAx R.vsxUs.-Tbe receipts to-day
from this source were ss20,1l
GovKRsea- ELsCr WALKER, Of Virginia,
left here fast evening for New York.
THE Secretary OF the Navy and Admira'
Porter Will shortly make a tour OF ins pection
to the various Eastern navy yards.
THE FRssIDENr, this morning, appointed
Lyell T. Adams, Of New York, to be United
Statee Cons ul at Malta
GKN.:SHBRMAN will leave here on Saturday
next fer visit to New Hampshire, where he
will spend couple of weeks
SECRETARY RAwL,as will leave here to.
morrow for a visit to his family In Danbury,
Conn, where he will rema in about two weeks
NE. HENRY A. ALLEN has been appointed
superintendent Of the Eub-Treasury Building
in New York city.
THE CUBAN AGENT, ]. M. Lemus, and q.
York last evening.
ES-SRCRETARY SEWARD is confined to his
hotel, at San Francisco, Califor MIA, by an al
tack Of rheumatism.
TEE PRIsIDRHr viii not leave here for Lonr
Branch until Thursday morning, the pressure
Of important business necessitating q days
pOstponenent Of the trip.
TIE SECRETARY OF tbs TREASURY yester.
day refused the application of Dr. Mary E.
Walker for appointment to a position in the
Treasury Department
TIE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR yesterday
appointed q. A. Vedder ami W. Johnston, to
frst-class clerkships in the General Land
Once.
TIE WAR DEPARTMENT CLERICAL FORCE.
The work OF reducin the force In the W.r De.
par:ment and the various bureaus thereof has
been7inished, and about one hundred and fifty
employees in the several bureaus dismissed.
DDCLINIs SUPBRv vIsoRsHIP.-Secretary
Boutwell, this morning received q telegram
from General Francis A. Osborne, recently ap.
pointed Supervisor Of Internal Revenue for the
States Of Massachusetts,, Rhode Island, and
Connecticut, declining the position. His rea.
sons for declining have not yet been received
WA RICHARDS. Esq, formerly OF the Keo.
kuk DG:ly Gate City, and for over six years
connected with the Office of Internal Revenue,
having retired from that service, has entered
lntoa limited partnership with the well known
firm Of Ohipman, Hosmer & Co., of this city,
for the prosecution Of Internal Revenue busl.
ness.
JOHN u. BARCLAY, ESQ.,. of the Custom b.
reau Treasury Department, we regret to learn
is lying dangerously ill at his residence in the
First Ward Mr.. Barclay has been longer in
service In the Department than any other clerk
now there. He entered that Department in
1904. and eon9nued mp to the present time-G5
years. He is E:ow 79 years OF age.
DEATH OF NAVAL OFFIcRR.-Yhe Navy
Department has received inteliieereA of the
death Of Lieut.. Commander Rufus King Duer,
who died ON board the steamer Narraeansett
at sea, on the 18th Of June. He was a native
Of New Jersey. and graduated at the Naval
Academy in the class Of 1862. During the war
he was engaged in the capture Of Ply mouth,
N. O., ana also In the engagements with rebel
gunboars in the Savannah river in 1862.
JUDGE DENTS letter to Messrs. J. L. WoGord
"Washington, ID. C., July 0, 1863 69-Gentlemeu:
Your communication OF this date, requesting
permission to place my name before the
National Union Republican Convention is at
can In the least be instrumental in restoring
the 6tate Of my adoption TO her normal place
In the Union. and securing to her q good local
you have permission is TO use
National Union Republican party OF ysur
State. The platform adopted by your conven.
tion at Jackson on the s3d Of June last, most
have the honor to be your obedient sarvant,
with great respect. Louis DENT.
TIE TEXAS ELEcrIoN.-Governor Pease.
Of Texas, had q final interview with the Presi.
dent yesterday afternoon, and urged that an
early day be fixed for the election In that State,
but the President replied that the matter had
been definitely settled by the Cabinet, though
he would gladly fix an early day tor the elec.
ton were it in his power to 90 so. Gov. Pease
ia endorsed by Gen. Reynolds, comma nding
the State, and his reasons for urging an early
election are that the election may not interfere
with the agricultural interests Of the State by
taking the laborers away from the plantations
during the cotton picking season. Tue dele.
CATION has given mp all hopes now Of having
the time changed.
TIE YRRGRR CASE TO BE BROUGHT BEFoRR
CHIEp JUSTICE CHASE ON WHIT OF HA.
RBAs CoRPUs-Messrs. James NJ. Carlisle
and Philip Philips yesterday presented to
Chief Justice Chase petition Of Colonel f. NJ
Yerger, now on trial before military commits.
sion in Mississippi for the murder Of Colcnel
Crane, praying for writ Of Habeas Corpus to
take him from the custody Of said military
commission. The petition is In the usual form,
and represents that the petitioner IL ci william,
that he has never been In the military service,
that he is on trial before q military commission
In time Of peace, on charge Of murder, &c.
The Chief Justice received the application, and
fixed tomorrow Wednesday, morning at IL
O'Clock as the time for the hearing In the Su.
preme Court room At the Capitol. He also di-
rected Q notice to b served on the Attorney
General, and the latter intimated thst he would
be present to represent the intsrests Of the Gov.
ernmenk The point 70 b determined u wheth.
or SO much Of the reconstr action aots - per-
nits military commissions to try persons &C.
cused OF crime 10 unconstitutional.