Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-07-22

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| EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
IxrlRNAL RsvENuE The receipts to-day
from this source were sIl5.1il.
SUPERVISOR CoNKLIN, OF louisiana, is here
to obtain additional counsel in the prosecution
| Of revenue frauds in New Orlaans.
SENIOR LEMus, agent OF the Cubans ID this
| county, left here last evening for New York
| city.
WILLIAM w. wHITILEsRY has been pro.
| NOTED from a second TO third class clerks hip
| in the Pension Office.
ADMIRAL FARRAGUr and family arrived In
Chicago yesterday, and left in the afternoon
| for California.
REAR ADMIRAL CHAs. ii. DAVIS has been
d-tachfd from the command of the Sou,h At.
1antic Squadron aud placed on waiting orders
HENRY D. Cooks, Esq, now aSss.ii from the
CITY on pleasure tour, writes to f.iend here
that be v Ill extend his trip to the WI hite Noun
tains.
TIE PRESIDENT talsgIaphed General Ames
| military commandant of Mississippi, TO visit
him at Long Branch. General Ames left here
last night for that point.
ID. r. WHIrTAKBR, late Auditor in the Gus
tom House at New Orleans, has been appoint
ed to a clerkshp iu the Treasury Department
by Secretary Boutwell,.
COMMISSIONER DsLANo returned to the city
yesterday, and was at his Office to-day, where
he was kept busy in disposing OF the business
which had accumulated during his absence.
: COMMANDER FRANCIS NJ. RAMSAY and the
officers of the II i,gship Guerrero. which ar.
rived at New York on M1nd ~, have b-en de-
tached and placed on waiting orders.
BRRvBr MAJOR GEN. X B. MARCY, Inspec-
tor General, has been ordered to proceed to
make special inspections at For, Porter, Plarts.
burg Barracks, Madison Barracks, and X ouse's
Point
IHE PRESIDENT this m )rning transmitted a
dispatch 10 the Secretary OF the Interior TO
have Egypt and Cincinnati, his two ftvorite
carriage horses, shod and sent on imm 'dia,ely
10 Long Branch. The order has already been
complied with.
THE PRESIDENT is not entirely free from the
cares OF official life while at Long Branch, as
number OF papers requiring his signature
are forwarded to him from the various Depart.
ments daily. He will sign no commissions
until his return to this city.
RECEIPTS FROM CUsToMs.-The receipts from
customs at the ports below named, from July
10th to 18th inclusive, were as foIlows.-New
York, s2,3.5,6is 81; philadelphia, S23s,1l5 81;
Baltimore, sos, ,2O5.3 IS; New Orleans, S5522S.7I.
Total, >3,lU9,5i4.97.
APPoINTMENTs.-TheS Secretary of the Inte.
rior yesterday appointed George NJ. Holmes, OF
Missouri, and F. A. Smith, of California, first
class clerks in the Pension Ofice also, Patrick
McDevitt as temporary watchman In the Gen.
eIat Land Office.
SENATOR MORTON, it is reported, il prepar.
ing an elaborate argument in favor of the re.
cognition OF the beligerent rights of Cuba. He
proposes to show that such a srep would not
compromise the position OF our government
towards England on the Alabama CLAIMS
THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS has ex
tended the patent of Kingston Goddard, OF
New York, for bride rein. In the interfer-
ence case Of Barttel Erbe, of birmingham, Pa,
vs. Albert M Hill. Of Brandford, Conn, Judge
Fisher, OF the Supreme Court, has affirmed the
decision Of the Commissi oner, il avor OF Hill.
HON. EDWARD MCPHERSON, Clerk of the
House of Representatives, will leave for Eu.
rope on Wednesday next. Mr.. Mcpherson
sails from Baltimore in the Bremen line. He
has been ID bad health for some time, and it
is hoped by his many friends that the trip
will prove beneficial.
CoMMODoRE CHARLIE s. BosGs has been de.
tached from duty as member OF the board of
which Rear Admiral 4oldsborough is Presi.
dent, and ordered to duty as Light. House In
spector for the I'd and Sd lighthouse districts,
(Boston and New York; in place of Commo.
dore A. L. Case, detached and ordered to duty
at the Navy Department.
THR NEW YORK INCOME sRETURNs.-The dis
cussIon Of the returns Of incomes by citizens OF
New York, has brought to the notice of the
revenue bureau some remarkable facts. One
merchant on being overhauled was found to
nave evaded the tax to such an extent that be
owed the government seventy.slx thousand
dollars. and had to disgorge; another owed
twenty six thousand dollars; several had eva
ded to the extent of twenty and twenty-five
thousand, and so on for quantity.
PRESIDENT GRANT yesterday morning re-
manned at the StetsoD House, Long Branch,
smoking and conversiDg with his friends and
reading the morning papers. In the afternoon
he drove out to Shrewsbury, on a visit to a
friend, and later, General Williams, u. s. A.,
dined with the President. Among those who
paid their respects to MIN were Horace Greeley,
and ex-Secretary Borie. To-day the President
made short visit TO New York, and will
return to Long Branch this evening.
DEArH or PR ssIDsxr GRANTS TRorrrxe
MARE "ADDII."-The Presidents favorite
trotting mare "Addie," valued at 80 900, died
this morning, it is supposed from the effects OF
some poisonous substance eaten by her in the
pasture. She was blooded Morgan mare,
nine years old, and could make her mile IN
about $50. The President has owned her about
tour years, and priced her more than any other
horse in the stable. For some time past his
pprsss have been pastaring in the White Lot.
where 1t thought The mare ate some pois0hous
article. as she was taken sick about O'Clock
th,s morning and died about IL. al
Col. WARRIN, representing the cause Of
General HAlpine and other Fenians Imprisoned
in England, called yesterday upon Secretarss