Evening star., 1869-06-11
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL RkvENUE.-The receipts To-day
from this source were s757,oH.
THE PRESIDENT AND PARTY arrived safely
at New York yesterday, and lef. soon after for
West Point.
VICE PRESIDENT COLFAX and wife are a
Boonton, New Jersey, the guests OF Hon. John
Hill, NJ.
SECRETARY RAwLINs leaves here this eve.
ming for a brief visit to his family in Connec-
ucut
GEORGE N. SNALLwocD has been appointed
Mail Route Messenger between Harper's Ferry
and Winchester, Va.
GEN. q. "A. GILMORE, who battered down
Fort Pulaski during the war, has now been or
dered 10 Savannah to repair il.
THE TURKISH MINISTER Blacque Bey and
suite, have gone to the White sulphur Sprin IS,
in Virginia.
Hon. J. RUSSELL JONES has been finally
commissioned AS Minister to Belgium, vice
Sanford, suspended, and will sail on the s6.h
instant.
MAJOR H. b. FLEMING has been relic we'd Fl ON
duty as Major of the 5th Infantry, and Brevet
Lieutenant Colonel George Gibson assigned TO
that regiment in his place.
HON. WIN. H. SEWARD and party were In
Chicago yesterday, on their way by the Pa
clfic Railroad to San Francisco, where they
propose to take the steamer for Si:ka.
THE SECRETARY OP WAR has directed that
leave OF absence for one year with permission
TO 60 beyond sea be granted Major General
Daniel f. Sickles, United States Army,
(retired.)
DELEGATION OF THE TOBACCO DEALERS of
Philadelphia, called on Commissioner Delano
this morning with a view of having refunded
moneys paid for re.stamping tobacco manufac
tured prior to July "a, Is6s. The Commis sioaer
reserved his answer for the present.
VICE ADMIRAL PORTER having purchased
the comm odious reslden ce Oh II street, between
17tn and 18th streets. formerly occupied by
Lord Lyons, the British Minister it has been
thoroughly repaired, and the Admiral will
shortly remove his family here from Annapo.
lis and occupy ii.
MRssRs. SAMUEL HooPER, JAMES BROOKS
AND SAMUEL 5. MARSHALL, OF the Ways and
Means Committee, left Jersey City yesterday
in a sleeping car intending to 20 through to the
Pacific coast Other members Of the committee
are to be taken on at Pittsburg and Chicago.
Several ladies accompany the party.
COURT MARTIAL SENTENCE REMlTTBD-By
direction of the President, so much of the gen.
eral court martial order in the case of Captain
Marvin A. Parks, late commissary Of subsis.
tence, as imposed the fine of $1,000 has been
RENTED, and the disability to re.enter the
service been removed.
MISS WINNIE RRAM sailed in the Java from
New York on Wednesday tor Liverpool, on
her way to Rome, where the statue of MIR
Lincoln, as modelled by her, is TO be cut IN
marble. She is accompanied by her parents
and Miss Fuller, daughter of Colonel Perry
Fuller. Col. Fuller is the brother.in.law of
Miss Ream.
LINCOLN DEPOT will by the lst proximo be a
thing OF the past, as on the 10Th OF this mon tn
all the Government properly and stores now
there will be sold at auction, as also the build.
ings within few days thereafter The small
quantity Of stores desired TO be retained by the
Quartermaster's Department have already
been moved to Armory Square, whence after
the sale Of the Lincoln Depot buildings, few
OF the clerks now on duty at the latter place
will be employed.
BIDS FOR STATIONRRY.-Bids were yester-
day opened at the Treasury Department to
supply the Department and various bureaus
thereof with stationery for the year ending
June 80, 1870. The bidders were Philip Il Sol.
onions. Blanchard & Mohun, b. +. French,
and Coyle & Towers, Of Washington, ID. g..
f.. ID. Lockwood, OF Philadelphia; s. p, Dins.
more, p. w. Durham. ID. W. Bogardus, and
X. Esterbrook Il 20, of New York. The con-
tract will be awarded in the course Of day
or two.
EXAMINATION OF CLERKe.-Messrs. 5. A
Duncan and & NJ. Parks, OF the Patent Once,
and ]. b. Thompson, OF the Interior depart.
men', the board recently appointed to examine
the clerical force Of the Patent Office, com.
menced work yesterday, and examined ten or
twelve clerks. The examination comprises
history, geography, arithmetic, natural phiIos.
ophy, astronomy, mechanical arts, &C., and Is
very severe. 1t is thought that large number
OF clerks will fail 10 pass the examination:
hence they will be dismissed and their places
supplied by others.
THE ROBBERY OF GOVERNMENT FsNDs IN
NEW MExIco.-GeIeral Spinner, Treasurer OF
the United States, received another dispatch
Moneys al Santa Ee, New Mexico, stating the
loss oy the recent robbery at that place will
not exceed $4,000. il the books Of the late