Evening star., 1869-09-13

SECRETARY Cox, Of the Department OF the
Interior, who has been absent from the city
SINCE last Tuesday. is expected home tonight
HON. WIN. II. SEwARD and party left Port.
land, Oregon, on the 10th instant for San Fran.
cisco.
]. HENRY TRUMAN, a third. class clerk In th
Secretary's Office Treasury Department ha
resigned.
GOVERNOR HOFFMAN, has transmitted to the
Secretary Of State his official certificate that
New York has ratified the fifteenth amend.
ment
THE PosTNAsTBR GENERAL has appointed
ID. 5. Gregory route agent between Washing.
ton, ID. o., and Lynchburg, Va, vice Isaac
Newton, resigned.
b. w. KRYsER, for many years past CHIEF
clerk of the Light House Board, has resigned
bis position, and A. b. johnson, formerly
Chief OF the Internal Revenue Bureau, has been
appointed as his successor.
tn. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE
will hear arguments in cases pending before
the Department on Wednesdays and Saturdays
of each week. On these days Deputy Commits.
sioner Douglas will act as Commissioner.
CAPTAIN JAMES BURHss, company X, fifth
United States cavalry, has been ordered to Vir.
ginia with detachment Of twenty men, to aid
the internal revenue officers in enforcing the
revenue laws.
PROP. MARINI has returned from his Euro
pean trip, bringing with him find budget of
novelties from Paris and Vienna, in the way Of
new dances. He will open his dancing acade.
my on the 2lst, as will be seen by the announce
ment elsewhere.
THB PURCHASE OF CUBA.-Private Letters
from Minister Sickles express a sanguine hope
that the Spanish Government will accept the
proposition Of the Uited States relative to the
purchase Of Cuba. The Regent is personally
10 favor of it, but his Cabinet are slow about
accepting 1t.
REVENUE DETECTIVE OFFICER BRooKs.-A
letter received at the Internal Revenue Office
this morning from Supervisor Fulton, at Phil.
adelphIa, announces that Mr.. Brooks, the
o1icer who was assassinated few days ago, Is
still in q very critical condition, and that his
recovery is doubtful.
BAPTIST NATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL Con.
NsNiioN.-This meeting, the first Of its kind
| Is TO be held at st. Louis, Mo-, in the Second
Baptist Church, on Tuesday, November p to
continre three days. The exercises will in
clude Sunday School Institute, showing the
best methods Of managing and teaching in the
Sunday School.
CONVENIENT RBcB1Prs AND Expxrpr.
TpRRs.-The actual expenditures Of the G oy-
eminent during the past fiscal year were
S32l, 100000 and the receipts S3IO, 900. The
recent statement that the expenditures were
over S50O,OO0,OOO, included the entire cash
transactions, as shown by the Treasurer
| books, but the whole Of this sum was not ex-
pc ended.
WHO is to be Secretary Of War is still the
| mooted question in political circles. Many
l look upon Gen. Dodge as the most likely to
| a the vacancy; but others, who are generally
| regarded as pretty shrewd and safe guessers,
l consider Gov. Fairchild, Of Wisconsin, the
l coming man. They ere able to give, TOO, what
| under ordinary circumstances, would be
| thought good reasons for their faith.
IT Is reported in Paris that General Sickles
| in his late note to the Spanish Government de.
| clares that, though the United States have not
| yet recognized the insurgents In Cuba as bel
| ligerents, still, il the situation there is not
| modified soor, they will take steps to that end
Spain il about TO dispatch "a, 600 renforcements
| to Cuba. The first detachment, 5000 strong,
| embark during the present week.
THE U. s. SrRAMIR ALGONQUIN, previously
| reported as sold by the Government to the
Hayt1en Charge d'Afairs, Mr.. Evariste La.
roche, Ii to be delivered to that gentleman at
| the Brooklyn Navy Yard to-day. She Is to be
| put under the command Of officers of the
United States Navy, detailed for that purpose
and will sail for Port-au.Prince about the end
l Of the week.
PRESIDENT GRANT visited his son at West
Point yesterday, returning to New YORK In
| the evening. The President has received few
| or no visitors, though there were many call
ers, both on public and private business. Gen.
Grant is said to feel the death of Secretary
Rawlins very poignantly, and often repeats
his regrets that circumstances prevented him
| from being at his bedside before he expired
The President is expected to return here on
Wednesday, 22d inst, to remain.
FINAScIAL.-The amount OF fractional cur
rency received by the Treasurer OF the United
States during the past week from the Printing
Division was S3lS,9OO.
The shipments OF ira actional currency during
| the same period were as follows UNITED
States Depository at Pittsburg, go 600; Nation
al Banks and others S376, ,i06. Total, S396,4O6.
The amount Of securities held by the Treas.
urer Of the United States, in trust for National
Banks, reported to-day, were as foliows:-For
circulation notes, S3i2, ,S93,O00. For deposits Of
public moneys, sl9, 900. Total, $780,, u 1900.
THE NATIONAL THRATRI.-Messrs. Spald.
ing & Rapley very judiciously open the season
with sprightly, amusing entertainments, and
the large and fashionable audience Saturday
night testified their satisfaction unmistakably.
Ths LefnngweI Burlesque Troupe appeared
In ~Oiorinda, the Girl Of the Period," and in
"Too Much For Good Nature" Mr.. Lemng.
we'll IL new In Washington, but has been an
established favorite in New York for some
time and has lately had . brilliant starring
engagement on the Pacific slope. He comes
in very opportuneiy TO supply comic material
at time when our stock Of talent In that way
appears to be getting exhausted. His humor
is very rich and he has that L,ston like
solemnity Of face, and mobility OF feature tina
are such irresistible aids 70 the comic
artist. He il capitally supported by Mrs
IemngWell, Miss Belle Hewitt and MISS
Millie Sackstt, Of his troupe. To.nigh. hs ap-
pears again - the "0ushing Clorinds" and as
Romeo Jafier Jenkins" IN which he gives
some excellent limitations.
NAVAL OlDHRs.-Lieut. Commander Rich'd
g. Chew has been ordered to ordnance duty a.
the washington navy yard, from the 1st o.
passed Assistant Paymastsr DanT A. Smith