Evening star., 1869-09-11

| EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
THE PRESIDENT has recognized Julian De-
| court as Vice Consul Of France at Baltimore.
Hon. CRaRLEs O'NsILL, M. O. from Phila-
| delphia, is in this city.
TBB CUSTOMS RECKIPTs from the principal
ports for the past week amount to over four
millions of dollars.
1T HAS BKRN sUGG RsTRD that a yignette of the
la e Secretary of War should be placed upon
one OF the denominations of the new legal ten
der notes about to be issued.
THB father and mother of General Rawlins
are bo'h living at Galena, Ill. He was one Of
nine children-eight sons and one daughter
all OF them now living but two Of the sons.
PRESIDENT GRANT has arrived in New
York, and is stopping at the residence Of his
brother-in-law, Mr.. Corbin, where he will re-
main for some days. The Presidents family is
with him.
SECRETARY BOUTWELL, is engaged in pre-
pairing his annual report, and will probably be
here about the 18th instant, when it will be
placed in the hands of the printers. His close
application to this important task prevented
his attendance at the funeral of the late Secre-
tary Of War.
HON. @. H. VAN WICK, of New York, is to
be married to Miss Kate Il. Broadhead, at the
Presbyterian Church, at Milford, Pennsyl.
vania, on Wednesday morning next. The
wedding party, consisting of six or eight per-
sons, Will then start for California and remain
there for several weeks.
MR.. MCCARTRR, Superintendent of Curren-
cy Printing, has gone to New York to push
forward the work on the one and two dollar
greenbacks. The National Bank Note Com.
pony is to print the backs of the "ones,r aud
the American the backs OF the etwos" The
faces will be printed at the Currency Bureau,
Treasury Department.
THE REMAINS OF THE LATE SECRETARY
RAwLINs.-Nothing has been settled yet as to
whether the remains OF General Rawlins shall
te removed to Illinois or remain in the Con-
gressional Cemetery. Mrs. Rawlins wants
them taken to her home in Danbury, Oonnec.
ticut. 1t is understood, however, that they
will not be disturbed until the return of the
President.
MR.. A. b. MULLRrT, Supervising Architect
OF the Treasury, left here last evening for
california, to examine the custom house In
process Of erection at San Francisco On his
way ont he will stop at Chicago, to examine
the work on the marine hospital now under
construction, and will also stop at Omaha to
select site for the custom house building to be
located there.
DIsrILLERIEs SRIzED.-Supervisor Fulton
ielegraphed from Wilmington, Delaware. vas.
'erday, that he had seized large distillery and
three rectifying establishments at that place
Inc Collector, j. y Prettyman, has for Soma
time past suspected that Illicit distillation was
being carried on, and the investigation of the
Supervisor fully confirmed the suspicious of
the Collector.
RESPECT TO THE MEMORY OF SENATOR FRs.
sENDEF.-In accordance with the order of
Acting Secretary Richardson, the Treasury
Derar ment " as closed to-day in respect to the
memory of ex-Secretary Fessenden. A few
clerks were at work in the Treasurer's Cffice
to prevent the work getting behind hand, bu
the doors Of the Department Were closed to the
public.
CAPTAINS FAUNCR AND SLICRR AND LIRgT
BARR members of the board of examination
Of the revenue marine. arrived here yesterday
afternoon, having conn pleted the work of IN .
specting the revenue cutters on the lakes az
Ogdensburg, Oswego, Erie, Detroit, Cleveland
and Milwaukee. They will now proceed to re.
wise the rules of this branch Of the service,
and expect to finish their Iabors about the 10th
Of October, when the the examination OF officers
OF the marine cutters commences.
THE MOBILE WHISKY FRAUDs.-David Glib.
son, Of Cincinnati, who was arrested some
time since on charges that he was connected
with the Mobile whisky frauds implicated in
the case Of the schooner Ann D., through which
the government lost nearly S2OO,OOO arrived here
yesterday and visited the revenue bureau. 1t
| is alleged that there is an effort to compromise
the matter, but the department declines, having
determined to hold all offenders to a strict ac-
countability.
GEN. SHRRMAN's COMMISSION AS SRCRR-
TARY OF WAR.-The commission issued by
President Grant to General Sherman as Secre-
tary OF War bears date OF the 9th September,
and supersedes the ad interim commission dated
the day before. 1t was issued to obviate the
requirements Of the law, which requires that
ad interim appointments OF cabinet officers shall
not last longer than ten days. 1t is probable,
however, that as soon as, if not before Con
gress meets, the President will select some
other person for the permanent nomination
INCOME TAX ON SHAKER COMMUNITIES
General Durbin Ward has been employed as
attorney to represent all Shaker communities
in the country, to argue their case before Com
missioner Delano, upon his ruling that in
making income returns each society is to be
treated as one person, and only allowed single
exemptions Of $1,000. The claim Of the Shakers
Is that fair construction Of the law should
allow $1,000 exemption for every five indi-
viduals, five being considered the average
number of family, SO that they should not
be taxed unproportionally. The case was ar.
gued at length by General Ward before the
Com missioner yesterday.
RAISING HIS PAY.-Commissioner Dslano
has renewed the commission Of J. J. Brooks,
the revenue detective who was recently shot
in Philadelphia, as special detective, to con.
tinue during the pleasure Of the Commissioner.
and raised his pay from % to $40 per day He
has also been granted leave of absence until
he gets perfectly well. Mr.. Brooks, it seems
had made demand for the books, for inspec-
ton, at the liquor establishment of Keenan,,