Evening star., 1869-12-10

EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
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which affords an ample profit at that price,
and with the understanding, also that no more
shall be asked or charged for it, so that those
who pay more merely aid in perpetrating an
imposition upon themselves and fraud spon
the office.
INTERNAL REvENUE.-The receipts to-day
from this source were S2si ,3e3.
SECRETARY RoBEsoN and Hon. Mr. Hooper.
of Mass, dinevl with Senator Sumner YESTERDAY.
IHE HOUSE is still pegging away on the CEN
sris bill, but will hardly get through to-day as
had been hoped, as at p. m. they were ONLY
about half through the % sections of the bill.
ihh PRESIDENT mas appointed V. Milah of
n. Y, steward at the Executive Mansion, vice
Iabor, resigned. He will enter upon the dis
charge of his duties on Monday.
"MARK TWAIN" is Sam Clemens, and not
"Clements;" and the groom i'm the recent West
End wedding is Paul Gerard, not "Geraud," :" as
all the papers have it.
By AN ODD BLUNDER OF THE WIRES, Speaker
Coifax figures in place of Mr.. Syphax, in the
Cincinnati Commercials account OF the Paul
Gerard wedding.
PERsoNAL.-Alexander Mcdonald, ESD. of
the Mining Association of Great Britain, is at
the Ebbitt. ''George Butler, of New York. is
at Willards.
IHE THREE most widely read writer's of fiction
in this country are Southern women-Mrs. Ter
hume (MariOn Harland), Mrs. L. ID. E. n,
Southworth, and Mrs. Augusta j. Wilson, nee
Evans.
A CONVENTION OF Pension Agents from va
rious sections of the country, assembled to con-
slider the best means to prevent frauds upon the
Bureau, and the safest method of conducting
business, has been in session here since Monday.
GENERAL BUTLER has been consulting with
the Postmaster General, and will introduce a
bill In few days to abolish pension agencies
and pay pensions through the money order
offices every two months. This will protect
pensioners from claim agents, &c.
BARON EoN GERoLT, the North German
Minister, has seen Governor Geary at Harris
burg, Pa, relative to the DIR. Schoeppe case, and
the Governor, it is stated, has declared himself
willing to revise the case from a memorandum
which is being prepared at the Office OF the
North German Embassy.
REAH ADMIRAL ROWAN, in command of the
Asiatic fleet, is to return to the United States and
be succeeded by Commodore John Rogers
now I'm command of the Boston nayy-yard.
Commodore Charles Steedman is ordered To suc-
ceed Rogers at Boston. Commodore Rooors
sails about the list ofJanuary, from New York
in his flagship, the Colorado, to Singapore.
ON DIT that General Butler will soon reply 70
Horace Greeley. Also, that General b. saws. in
reference to Greeley's remark, that he has
travelled good deal aud never heard the Gen
eral called fool, that he (B.) has also Travelled
some ,'and that since Greeley's amnesty and jeff
Davis bail business he has never heard him
called anything else Very likely Butler never
said this, but it sounds amazingly like him.
SALE OF SToREs.-An extensive sale of Quar-
termaster's stores took place a few days since at
Armory Square, nnder the direction of Can
tain ID. q. Thomas, military storekeeper.
Eighty-three thousand KNIT shirts were disposed
of, at an average price OF thirty cents apiece. A
large lot of condemned stores, consisting of old
harness, lumber, &C., were also sOld the former
heing disposed OF at very small prices, and the
latter at an average of 2H cents per foot.
ITw mentioned in Tur Sr.p Of lac. 49,
ming that Senator Sumner introduced Mr.. John
n. Reavis, the Capital-mover, to the President
yesterday. MIR. Sumner announced him as the
gentleman who proposed to carry the Capitol
of on his back. The President pleasantly re-
marked that he did not care to move at the
present time, and he hoped Mr.. Reavis would
not be too hasty in carrying the public build
ings away.
THE CApIToL.-The House shortly after meet
ing this morning resumed the consideration of
the Census bill in Committee of the Whole, with
Mr.. Dawes in the chair, and a large number of
amendments were made to the bill.
Ihe Senate was not in session to-day having
adjourned over until Monday. The committees
of the House and Senate have talked over va
rious matters preparatory to blocking out the
work OF the session, but have had no formal ses-
sions.
PAUL GERARD AND THE PRETTY OcToEOoN-
ARE THEY LEGALLY MARRIED?-The WASH
ington correspondent of the New York Post
says:
The marriage or Mr.. Paul Gerard a
brother-in-law Of the Portuguese Minister, to
Miss Wormley, an OctOrOon GIRL on TUESDAY
last is not, it seems, considered legal under the
French law, the groom being at the present time
a French citizen. Under the laws of France no
person can marry without the consent of the pa
rents, if these be living, or if this be refused
legal notice must be served on them announc-