Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-07-24

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WASHINGT(
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL RRvRNUE.-The receipts from
this source To-day were Sj27.iS!.5l.
GEN. SHERIDAN is visiting Senator Sprague
at Narragansett Pier.
EX.PRRsIDENr JOHNSON was successfully
operated on at Fayetteville. Tenn, ca the 18Th
inst, for cencer on the temple.
BREv. LIEUT.. Col. A. MoRDECA Al, Ordnance
department, has been relieved from duty al
the Military Academy at West Point. aud or
dered TO the arsenal at Rock Island. Ill.
SENIOR LRNUs claims through his friends
lutionsry government OF Cuoa, and is their
agent IN this country.
HON WM. y. DOLE ex-C,mmissionsr of
Indian Affairs, has gone - Berkeley Springs
Va, where he has purchased an elegant sum.
mer res Idence.
MAJOR THEODORE Epson, Ordnance De-
partment; Capt. a. F. Bates. 3d cavalry, and
Lieut.. . NJ. Mitchell, i.h artillery, bSye been
ordered TO report for du'y az West Point.
A ELOoN OF GERANIUM and two or three
leaves OF the same in the button hole o. the coat
lapel are affected by nearly all the young
bloods in this city.
BREvET COLONEL ]. Mel. TAYLOR, Com
missary OF Subsistence, has been ordered ID
Headquarters Military D.vIslon of the South,
al Louisville, as Purchasing and Depot & CIm-
missary al that place, relieving Brevet Brig
General NJ. +. Small, Of that duty.
JUDGE FISHER, Commissioner OF Patents
left Washington this morning for his home at
Gil cinna,i, where he Will remain for a month
with hls family. During his absence the duties
of the Office Will be attende TO by Hon ). H.
Hodges. senior officer of the Board Of Exami.
ners.
CHANGE THRM RoUND.-The Commissi oner
Of Internal Revenue is Of opinion that the good
OF the service may i've promoted by changing,
occasionally, supervisors from one district to
another. ltis not improbable that sucn changes
may be made soon, and perhaps IN the Stlta
OF Pennsylvania.
THB VACANT SUPERvIsoRsHIP.-A strong
influence is being brought 10 bear upon - ,ra-
tary Boutwell, for the appointment of l. y. .
Barbour, as Supervisor OF Internal Revenue
for Massachusetts, Rhode Island, aud Con-
necticut. Commissioner Delano is said to
favor the appointment OF Mr.. b , and II Is
probable that Secretary Boutwell, will agree TO
il.
THE ERGER CASE Information has been
Received here 10 the effect that the lergar
(Mississippil habeas corprs case is in form tor
hearIng al the next meeting of the Supreme
Court of the United States. The next session
OF that court Will be held here in October, and
shis class of cases has the precedence over all
other matters. The probability, therefore, l.
thai by the first OF November a decision will be
rendered.
THE DEATH OF COMMODORE LEE We have
already noticed the death, at his home az Rich.
land, Stafford county, Va, Thursday evening
OF Sidney Smith Lee, formerly g >m der in
the United States navy, and Commodore in the
navy of the late Confederate States. Commo-
dOre Lee was the elder brother of Gen Robert
+. Lee. The Commodore leaves a wiie-the
daughter of the late General John VI ison, OF.
Fairfax county, and grand dau ghter OF gorge
Ms SOD, CT q Gunst0n-ands several sons, The eldest
OF whom Is General Fitznugh Lee His body
was brought 10 alexandria la-r evening, and
buried from Christ Church.
The OPENING FANCY AND MASQUERADE
BAIL of the season, given by the p-oprietors
of White Sulphur Springs 10 their guests, 10 x
place last night with great eciat. All parts Of
the Union were represented, and the ball
room was crowded with gay masquersders.
From 6O0 10 7g persons We're present, anon
whom We're Blacque Bey, the Turkish minis
ter and his wife; w w. CorcOran, General
Pickett, Messrs. Merrick, Thayer, Lyons aud
Kenner, Generals Thomas Ewing, Wise and
Conner, Ex-Mayor Berret, Judges White,
Belts and Burnham. At twelve O'Clock the
guests sat down 10 a sumptuous champagne
supper.
THE NEW CURRENCY.-TEe Printing Bureau
at this Department is now fairly at work print
ing the new ten and fifteen cent currency notes
The machines cut the notes as fast as they are
produced, each machine cutting 1850 sheets per
day. IN each sheet of ten cent notes there are
twenty notes. and on each OF the fifteen ceLt
sheets there are fifteen notes. Four OF these
machines are now at work, each one OF which
VIII average, in cutting ten cent notes 9O,tMG
notes per day, or $4,000, the four machines fur
nishing The Treasurer, daily, with S3j,OOO IN
ten cent notes. In fifteen cent notes the same
machines Will cut SiO,50. 1t is expected that
the twenty-five cent notes will arrive next
week, and, as they can then put 10 work two
additional machines, the currency will De
given 10 he public much faster.
IMPORTANT REVENUE DECIsIoN.-The Com
missioner OF Internal Revenue has decided
original packages OF spirits of different man
ufacture INTO a cistern for the purpose OF equal
iZipg the proof, they become rectifiers, not that
the whisky is rectified or compounded by this
process, but under act OF April 10th, l36J, every
compounder is made a rectifier. SO there can
only be rectifers and wholesale dealers as the
law now stands, and under section IL, act July
2m b, 1865. a wholesale dealer can only change
the packages where the distiller's name serial
numbers, &c, are preserved. The COmms.
sioner was shown the impossibiliy OF this
thing IN the case Of well.known firm in
Louisville, where they empty spirits from the
original pao kages INTO q cisteIn, rqua!iz ng the
proofs and then draw of into other aud larger
packages for shipment. In this case IL vas
.AaA hot tho