The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-17
FROM WASHINGTON.


Secretary RawIIns Again Mt Work.
Despatch TO the Associated Press
WAsHINGToN, June 17.-The presence of
secretary Kawlins at his desk in the War De-
partment this morning renewed somewhat the
great anxiety which has been manifested among
the employees of the department concerning
the contemplated large reduction of the force,
put the secretary was engaged all the morning
In attending to business which had accumulated
during his short absence, and no further action
mas been taken upon the subject of dismissals
Naval Orders.
Master James A Christy and Ensign E. H. c.
Lentz have been ordered to the receiving ship
Vermont; Master G. b. Dill is detached from
the Ohio, and William j. Moore from the Van
dalia; Ensigns ECharles Belknap and Uriel
Lebree from the Vermont and Fernando p
Gilman from the New Hampshire. and ordered
to duty in the Pacific fleet.
President Grant
is expected tO return to Washington on Saturday
or Monday next
Marriage of Anna Surratt.
Despatch TO The K1ening Telegraph
WASHINGTON, June 17.-Miss Anna Surrant
was married this morning, in st. Patrick's
Church, to j. w. Tonley of this city John III.
Surratt acted as one of the groomsmen. The
party left on bridal tour North.
The Freedmen's Bureau.
General o. o. Howard has issued instructions
to all the late Assistant Commissioners of the
Freedmen's Bureau to forward Immediately all
reports OF themselves and their subordlnates
pertaining to the Bureau, and he is now engaged
In having them arranged and indexed according
to States, in order that there may be a complete
record of the workings of the Bureau since the
time of its organization in May 1865
The force of the Bureau has been reduced to
one superintendent of education and one clerk
in each State except the two largest States in
which one assistant clerk is employed. General
Bullock, in charge of the claim division has ten
clerks employed in settling up the claims for
negro bounties. Four million dollars of these
claims have been settled and paid. OF the forty
two hospitals established at the organization.
but two remain one in this city and one i'm
Richmond. The latter will be abolished in a
few months.
The city authorities of Richmond have re-
Gently established q common school system, i'm
which they seek the cooperation of the Freed
mems Bureau. By the new system both colored
and white children will be educated though in
separate schools, The desired assistance to the
Richmond authorities will be extended by the
bureau.
The Coming Solar Eclipse.
All the professors of the Naval Observatory
will be engaged In the observation of the ap-
preaching eclipse at different points on the line
OF totallty, under the directions of Commodore
b. +. Sands, Superintendent of the Observatory.
Professor Yanall will be the only one left at the
Observatory in this city, and he, with the three
aids will make the necessary observations here
Mr.. Curtis, of the army, is making his prepa-
tions at the Observatory for his Photographic
observations, for which he has the large eaua
torial telescope from the Naval Academy,
mounted in temporary observatory erected in
lhe Naval Observatory grounds.
Personal.
District Attorney Courtney arrived in town
this morning.