Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-07-23

ON, ID. c., FRIDAY, JU
| EVENING STAR
Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvINus.-The receipts to-day
from this source were s7i3,5is70.
SECRETARY RAwLINs is expected to return
| HON CHARLES SUMNER IS passing q few days
| with friends at Nahant.
SECRETARY BOUTWELL, has announced his
| determiu alton not to sell any more gold uE ,iI
| the premium Is greater than at present.
Ex.SrCksrARY STANTON had a long irtsr-
view this morning With Secretary Bout
well.
COMMODORE :. s LRK, bro'her of Gen. 4 f.
Lee, died at his hcne. 10 Stafford cJuuty, Va,
yesterday.
been concluded having In view the holding OF
Worlds Exposition of Manufactures, etc, In
Washington year hence.
JOHN G. WILKIN, Collector of Internal Rev.
enue for the tn District OF New York has
rendered his resignation, and it las been ac-
cepted.
GBE. d. U. HOWARD has returned to this city
af er "a brief abser c. at Portland, Name, where
he has teen attending the convention OF the Y.
NJ. q. A.
CAPT. JOHN Il. MARTIN, OF Louisville, has
been appointed Chief Route Agent of the Post
Office Department, between Louisville and
Cincinnati.
Hon. HORACE CAPRoN, Oomm;s sioner of
Agriculture, lett here this morning en route for
FlushIrs, N. Y. Chief Clerk McLsin will be
acting Commissioner during Gen. Cspron's
absence.
ORDRRRD TO RxPORT-Leuts. Muse, Allen
and O'Rrien, from the marine barracks here,
and sergeant, two corporals and ten private
marines, from the Philadelphia barracks, have
been ordered to report to Capt McLane TIL
ton, in charge Of the marine guard az the Ma.
val School at AnnaI OILS, for duty.
DECISION As TO BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS
Deputy Commissioner OF Internal Revenue, J.
w. Douglass, has decided that no special tax as
brokers or auctioneers shonld be imposed upon
the President or Secretary of Building Associ.
atoms VINO, by virtue of their constitution, sell
at public auction the loans OF the ASSOCIATION
COMMISSIONER FISHER, OF the Patent Office
expects to leave this ely early Kext week with
his family, for brief Trip to the Waite Noun
talns. Mr.. Hodges. the senior examiner, has
returned, and. under the law of the last Con-
gress, will act as Commissioner during the ab.
sence Of Colonel Fisher.
CUSTOM HOUSE EAPPOINTMRHrs-TheS Sacre.
tary OF the Treasury has confirmed the nomi-
nations of VIM. WIlssn and j. s Denman to be
Inspectors in the New York Custom House; O.
+. Battelle, Inspector, aud Isaiah Waterhouse
10 be Chief of Weighers in the Boston Custom
House.
ENSIGN JOHN l. LoRIaAN, OF the H ,yuen
Navy, who was killed in the early part OF June
last, while endeavoii ing TO suppress mutiny
which occurred among the siilors o: the
Haytien Corvette Salnave, was for nearly two
years clerk in the Surgeon Ganer Ms Office
IN this city, ana was highly esteemed here.
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD BONDS. order
of the Secretary Of the Treasury bonds to the
amount OF s6iC,gO were issued yesterday to the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, being the
ment's acceptance of the additional sections
completed between the l,OO0th and l,o2Sth mile
post west of Omaha.
APPoINTMRNTs-Sec Boutwell, has
confirmed the nominations Of VIM. q. White
to De chief clerk and cashier in the Off &c Of the
Assistant Treasurer, New York city-salary
SiaO per annum-vice VIM. II. Ferris, re.
signed; James H. Benson ana Jenn o. John.
IN ho tar
Brady 10 be watchman in the same Off ce.
THE CoRpoRAT ION TAxEs.-The Collector
Of Taxes, (Mr. Boswell,) not with standing tha,
the tax bill has become law, will not be ready
TO receive the taxes until the first or middle of
September. in consequence Of :he books not be.
ing up, and it is probable that the time when
the extra per cent will be charged will be ex.
tended.
SIvKRAL TEXAS POLITICIANS, representing
both the DAVIS and Hamilton wings OF the
Republican party In that State, who have been
here for some time past engaged in watching
the interests of their different organizations yet
remain here, although the order for the election
has been issued. They will, however, leay
here shortly to enter upon the campaign.
SUPBRINTRNDRNT CLAPP, OF the Govern.
ment Printing Oaice, has appointed Messrs.
Coffin as the board of examiners Of the quail
fications Of apprentices 10 be employed a, thai
establishment on the lst Of August, as men.
TONED in yesterdays STAR. The boys who
have applied were notified by letter to-day to
appear at the office for examination on the 29.h
instant. The examiners are employees Of the
Government Office, and the first named, Mr..
SchelI, has received the appointment OF in.
structor OF apprentices.
THE WAsHINGToN NATIONAL MONUMENT
We are informed by Mr.. John Carroll Brent,
the Secretary OF the Washington National
Monument Association, that the reports pub.
lished in relation to an accident at the Monu.
ment are incorrect In some particulars. The
watchman reports that one Of the wooden
beams Connected with the cover Of the column
having giyen way, It displaced two Of the
stones on the south side, and few days after,
in company with q rigger, he went to the top
and placed everything right. So far as the
Monument Is concerned shines dsfacine
fnger'' has not damaged it perceptibly. and the
shaft tc.dsy is as hrm and solid as when first
erected. .,y
TEE FRENCH ATLANTIC CABLE NOT SUE.
JRor TO PAYMIxr or DprIBs-DRcIsIoN or