Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-07-20
WASHINGTON, d. c, TUESDAY, Nc

WASHINGT,
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL RRvKNuK-The receipts frcu
this source to-day were s255, 9o6i.
CHEF JUSTICE CHAss arrived at Boston
yesterday.
COMMANDER WIN p. BUCKNBR, U. s. n,
died a; bis residence in Brooklya, Sun4ay.
A CoNrLIMENTAkY BALL WILL be given at
Long Branch, on the 10th, in homer Of the
President.
GEN. HOWARD WAS in Portland Ne, taking
an active part in TIE proceedings o. The Int.rns-
uonal Convention ofthe Y. NJ G. A.
COMMISSIONER VAN AEGNAN. OF the Pen.
sion Ottc" has returned to this CRY after an
absence of ten days 10 his home in New Yerk
CLERKS TroINTED.-H. }. Shultes ard
John l.. Husbands have been appon'ed tem-
porary clerks in the General Land Office.
SECRETARr BoUTwELL will PROBABLY visit
his home ia Groton, Mass, in the course of
two OF three weeks.
VICE PRESIDENT CoLFAX, in n letter 10 a
friend IN this city, states that he Will start for
the Pacific coast early next month, and return
in November.
THE SUPRRINTENpENTS OF RsCRuITINa
SERVICE at Car Isle, Pa, New York City and
Cincinnati. Ohio, have received orders from the
War Department 10 for ward Immediately all
recruits TO the west for frontier service.
MANUEL FRHYRR, the Peruvian Minister.
returned TO this city last evening from New
York, and is at the Ebbitt House He will
reside here sow permanently, having taken the
house lately occupied by Monsieur Berthemy
the NJ mister from France.
COLONEL WHITLEY, of the Treasury Depsr,
ment, captured gang OF coUnterfeIters of
United States tobacco stamps at Snake Hill
n. j., on Saturday last. He also seIzed large
lot of well.executed stamps and ali the tools
Of the counterfeiters. The parties captured
have all been imprisoned.
In TIE CASE Of SmIthsor against ex.Secre.
tary Stanton. for illegal imprisonment, Judge
Hughes, on behalf Of the plaintiff, has filed the
replication, in which he alleges that the letters
relied upon by the defendant, and Sc, forth IN
his pleas, are forgeries. The defendant asked
and obtained leave 10 file additional pleas
CoNMoDoRE BUCHANAN, IN command of the
Washington Navy Yard al the breaking out OF
the war, who went South, and after its close
took charge OF the Maryland Agricultural
COLLEGE has lett that Institution suddenly, on
account OF certain disagreements with one of IT'S
professors.
MORE REVENUE FRAUDs.-Oficials OF the
Treasury Department IN New Orleans report
continued discoveries of frauds on the revenue
lery valued at $1,000, and a store, we'll stocked
with cigars and tobacco valued At from ~I5,OOa
TO >25.O1. The appraised value OF the recent
seizures of sugar s SIsOOOO.
TROUBLE FOR SOMEBODY ABOUT THE NsW
SOkK INCOME LIsT.-The Ac.ing C,mmIs
sioner OF Internal Revenue has gwen his in.
structIons To the assessors in New York 10
thoi oughly investigate the charges OF defrauG
ing the revenue made against cergaIn promI-
nent business men in consequences Of their
names not appearing in the recently published
list OF persons making income returns in New
York City.
MR.. JOHN w. CLARK, nominated by the
Mayor and confirmed by the Aldermen last
night rs Trustee OF Public Schools for tn.
Third District, Is not a colored man, as was
reported on the streets to-day, but is a nephew
Of ex-senator Clark, of New Hampshire and
has been a resident Of this city for about twelve
years. He is at present a clerk in the Third
Auditors Office.
LOCKS FOR STILLs.-The committee OF the
Internal Revenue Bureau, appointed BY the
Commissioner TO examine locks for use in stills,
have carefully examined all the specimens
submitted. (about one hundred and fifty,) and
have decided in favor of the lock Of James f.
Thomson, of Buffalo, N. Y. This is substan-
TALLY the same lock as heretofore used by the
bureau, with TWO improvements recently made
by The patentee. The award Is yet to be made
by the Go mmiss ioner.
POSTAL TREATY WITH FRANCR-The State
department has received communication
from Minister Washburne, at Paris, enclosing
petition signed by several hundred citizens OF
the United States here tofore and now sojourn.
ing in France, asking that an effort be maas by
our government to have the rates OF postage
between France and the United States reduced
to something like the present rates between
England and this country. The petition Is
signed by well-known citizens, such as Park
Goodwin, of New York, Drexel Il Leland, OF
Philadelphia, &c. Mr.. Washburne accompa-
nies II by note signed by himself, making a
strong appeal that the suggestion be carried
out. The State Department has sent the pa
pers to the Postmaster General In the mean.
time ii may be stated that the Post Ufii &c DE.
partment has commissioned Senator Ramsey,
now In Europe, to accomplish the very pur-
pose urged by the petitioners.
THR SRw FIPTRRN.CRNT MOTIFS are in circu.
lation to-day, and bear some resemblance to the
new ten.cent notes recently issued, though
they are nearly an inch longer than the ten.
cent notes. In the lett hand upper corner is q
fine vignette Of the head Of the Goddess of Lib.
erty, with a head. dress some hing like that on
the bronze figure surmounting the Capitol
dome. This is surrounded by wreath with
the fasces at the base. In the right hand up.
per corner are the figures Is legioly printed.
The face bears the words, "Fractional curren-
cy, United States: fifteen cents; furnished only
by the Assistant Treasurers and des gnated de.
posi ories of the United States" In the lower
margin are the words, National Bank. Note
Company, New York" The back is green, and