Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-16
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.


Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvENUE-The receipts to-day
from this source were S4iS,161.63.
THE CABINET met at noon to-day, and re-
manned in session most of the afternoon.
SENATOR MORTON was at the Executive Man
sion this morning, and had long interview with
the President.
JUDGE DENT will leave here for Mississipp
on Friday next, to resume his campaign for the
Governorship OF that State.
THE PRE- DELIVERY SERVICE went into opc-
ration in the San Francisco Post Office yester-
day for the first time.
MASTER EMMETT MCCORMACK has been or
dered TO the L. s. steamer Nipsic, at the Wash
ingtOn Navy Yard.
COLLECTOR CLARK, of Charleston, $. c., has
been authorized to increase the force in the Gus
tom House there, on account of the increase of
imports at that port.
GEN. TERRELL, Third Assistant Postmaster
General, was prevented from attending the Re
union OF the Army Of the Tennessee by the
pressure Of official business.
FRANK r. ERNST has been appointed tenn
rorary clerk in the Contract Otfice of the Post
Office Department, vice Hugh A. Ernst re-
signed.
PEoMoTIoNs.-The following promotions have
been made in the Bureau of Statistics:--.James
Bolton, from First to Second Glass. Philip
ii. Rheinhard, from Second to Third Glass.
REDUCING THE FoRCE-Secretary Boutwell,
has determined to reduce the force OF special
agents employed by the Treasury Department,
and no more appointments will be made for the
present.
SHORT, AND To THE PoINT.-Commissiouer
Delano's report is now prepared, and makes it
is said, barely fifty pages. This is the shortest
report made yet from that Office, but will doubt
less convey all that needs to be said
PERsoNAL.-Hon. VIM. ID. Kelley, Philadel-
phia, and Hon. jeremiah s. Black, Pa, are at
Wizards. 90. Clcon X. Rangabe, Charge DAT
faires for Greece, and John L. Van Wyck are at
the Ebbitt
THE Hon. ROBERT j. WALKER leaves widow.
ters, one of them married to a brother of Mrs
Slidell, and two sOns ithe eldest OF whom is mar
ried TO a niece Of the late Edwin a. Stevens, the
Hoboken millionaire.
IN THE SUPREME COURT yesterday Chief jus
tce Chase announced that the Court would ad-
iOurn from Wednesday the Eth, to Monday the
Odd, and that Thursday, the 25th, would be set
apart for motiOns-the Court adjourning OH that
day to Monday, the 18th.
THE L. ). STEAMER YANTIC, which arrived AT
New York a few days since from the Gulf with
yellow fever OH board, has been discharged from
quarantine at that port, and her officers and
crew have been detached. She will be thor
oughly oyerbauled and repaired before she is
again put in comm issiOn.
THE EPAEAGUAYAN INvEsTIGATIoN.-Gener
McMahon, ex-Minister 10 Paraguay; General
Webb, ex-Minister to Brazil, and MIR. Wash
burne, his successor, were yesterday before the
Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs. Their testi-
mOny concluded the investigation OF the Para
guayan difficulties, and the committee adjourned
sine die.
The NEW LEGAL TENDER NOTES.-The new
five dollar legal tender notes. it is expected will
he ready for issue early next week. The new
fifties will he ready about the 1st of December,
and the balance of the seres-twenties, and one
and five hundreds and one thousand dollar
notes-will be ready about the 18th of December
GOLDEN WEDDING.-To-day Hon. Reverty
johnson, will celebrate his golden wedding, at
his residence in Baltimore. The honorable
gentleman is now in his seventy-fourth year. and
his wife siXty-seven. She is a daughter of the
late Robert Boone, Governor Of Maryland in
1912. Mr.. and Mrs. johnson have twelve chill
drenSiving, fOrty-eight grand children, and four
great grand children.
COMMERCIAL RELATIONS with Canada, it is
said, now form the subject of deliberatiOn in the
Cabinet. The Canadian authorities have nOti-
fed our Government that unless the trade be-
tween the two countries is so arranged as to be
somewhat reciprocal, they will abolish the fishery
license system to American fishermen and estab-
lish duties Oh many articles Of commerce now
imported from the United States free.
AT THE Til ANKsGIvING DINNER AT THE Ey-
ECUT1vE MANSION on Thursday next there will
be present. the President and Mrs. Grant and
MIR. Dent, the father OF Mrs. Grant, General
and Mrs. c. B. ComstOck, General and Mrs. F..
4. Dent, General and Mrs. Horace Porter,
Judge Louis Dent and wife, General Babcock
and wife, DIR. Alexander Sharpe and wife, and
Masters Dent, Sharpe, and Jessie Grant and
Miss Nellie Grant. ::
Nor Sc.-The paragraph telegraphed from
this city to the effect that Mr.. Mullett, super
yising architect OF the Treasury, had been COM
pelled to furl0ugh large number Of artisans
and laborers, on account of the appropriation
for repairs to the Treasury having been ex-
hausted, was without any foundation, as the ap-