Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-22
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
| INTERNAL REvENuE.-The receipts from thi,
source to-day were s4o7 .22,.
SECRETARY boutwell, returned here on Sat
Urday from Groton, Mass, with his family.
SENATOR SHERMAN left for New York las,
evening, to be gone several days.
CHARLES AsToH BRIsrED ("Carl Benson,
and family are at the Ebbitt House.
| PRESIDENT GRANT and family attended ser.
| vice at the Metropolitan NJ. E. Church yester-
| j7y.
PERsoNAL--Ex-Governo Lowe, of Califor-
MA and Hon. James +. Wilson, of Iowa, are al
| Wizards
! GEORGE DEIwAN has been promoted from
first to second class clerkslIip in the Second Au
ditor's office.
AT TESNALLYTowN, d. c., W. T. Beach ha,
| accn appointed Postmaster, vice VIM. o. Harry
resigned.
SECRETARY RoBEsoN has approved The old
order directing that vessels of the Navy do thei,
cruising under sail alone, and forbdding the us
OF steam except under urgent circumstances
THE QUESTION of repeal or modification of tn,
income tax will cause excited and prolonged dis
cussion in the approaching session Of Congress
it is thought
In REGARD to the removal Of the Capital pro.
| ject, it is said that Attorney General Hoar ex-
presses the opinion that il is no more possible
for Congress to wipe out the District of Column
bia than to wipe out any State Of the Union.
NAVAL COURT MARITAL DIssoLvRp.-Tbe
Secretary Of the Navy has telegraphea to the
naval cOurt-martial convened at Boston to re-
view the sentence, &C., in the case of Lieut.
Commander Seely.
THE MEMBERS OF THE CUBAN JUNrA who
were here last week, to the number of a dozen
or more, left 1or New York on Saturday evening.
1t is understood they failed to accomplish the
purpose of their visit to Washington.
THE PRESIDENT was busly engaged to-day,
and received but few visitors Among those
who had interviews were Secretaries Fish and
Boutwell,, Postmaster General Cresswell, Ex-
Senator Wade and Senator Morton.
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT MULLETT, Of the
Treasury Department, will return here from
New York Tomorrow, where he has been for
several days past attending to the work upon
the new post office building there.
GENERAL SHERMAN, Third Assistant Post
master General Smith, Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Dickey, Col. Dayton, and others, who have
been in Louisville for several days past, attend
ing the reunion of the Army of the Tennessee
in that city, returned here on Saturday
DE. X. j. SoUTHwORTH, of Georgetown, ID.
c., son of Mrs. +. d. L. y. Southworth, is deyo-
ting the time which he can spare from his med-
cal practice to writing drama, which Is said by
those who have seen it to contain many good
points, and gives promise that he will achieve As
wide reputation as dramatist as his mother
has won as novelist.
THE REPORTED ENGAGEMENT of Miss Winnie
Ream to noblenan in Europe has created a
great hntter in Washington fashionable circles.
Exchange.
Guess not. The fashionable circles were tolcr-
ably calm at the latest advices from the West
End. But if the sensation paragTa pliers are to
be believed they are always on the futter about
something.
SUIT FOR sLANDER has been commenced in
New York by Mr.. Paul Gerard, of this CITY,
u, ~.
Levein, Samuel Glenn and John Doe, of the
Evening Telegram, OF that city, laying damages
at $40 900. The SANDER was i'm a publication
connecting him dsreputably with an octoroon
named Mademoiselle Belle, whom he alleges is
his afianced wife.
THAT APPoINTMENT.-The Washington cor
respondent Of the New York Journal of Commerce
says:
"Judge j. H. Embry, of Kentucky, was last
week appointed Minister to Ecuador. AS soon
as the appointment became known, certain poll
ticians set to work to stop it, After the COM
mission was sent, note was addressed to Judge
Embry, in which il was limited that the Presi-
dent would like to recall the appointment, and
that there was a good opening for a resignation
in his case, with little doubt Of its acceptance
He resigned, and +. Rumsey Wing, Esq, of
Kentucky, is already his successor
The WORK of printing the national currency
has not been fully resumed in the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing at the Treasury De-
partment on account of the small supply daily
received from the bank note printing companies
in New York. The recent investigations into
the affairs Of these companies has caused a de-
crease in the amount received each day, but it
is thought that by the latter part of this week
full supply will be ready, when the work will be
resumed here and the usual amount turned over
to Treasurer Spinner daily.
On DIT.-That the troubles in st. Johns
Church will eventuate in the withdrawal of those
espousing the cause of the rector, Mr.. Lewis,
and in the building of a new church for him,
which will be a gathering point for Episcopa-
lians throughout the city who entertain what
are familiarly called high church views. 1t was
noticed that Mr.. Lewis did not oficiate at st.
Johns either on Thanksgiving day or yesterday
Moreover, in view of the questions Of veracity
at issue between him and the vestry it is thought
his connection with the parish cannot be much
longer continued.
SENATE CoMNITrEEs.-Ac caucus of Senators
will be held as soon as Congress assemblies, it is
said, and revision of the Senate committees
will be discussed. 1t is probable that Mr.. Nor
rill, OF Maine, who succeeds Mr.. Fessenden, will
fill his place on the Committee on Appropria-