Evening star., 1869-09-04

VOL. XXXIV.
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvsNUK.-The receipts to-day
from this source were S542,9s2 81.
MAYOR BOWEN is expected TO return this
evening, aEdat O'Clock his friends will com.
riiment him with a serenade, at his residence,
on stree. n IT 7th.
SENATOR r. fssLNDEN last evening was still
lying in Portland, Me-, IN the s,ue critjcsi
oondi'ion reported in yesterdays STAR. His
complaint is s:oppage OF the bowels
THE FAMOUS YACHT "AMKRICA" which has
been awaiting repairs some weeks at the Navy
Yard, was to-day hauled up on the ways for
that parpo ?.
Two CLERKS Were discharged from the Sec
Ond Auditors Ohfcs, on the 1st instant, for
making short time-,rr.virs too lats in the
morning and eplrnng too soon in the after
Icon.
TIE PRESIDENT, Mrs. Grant and A. I. Stew
at held public reception IN the parlor of the
Urion Hossl AZ Saratoga, last evening. Large
numbers of eitizsns from that place and other
Sc lions of the country were present.
TIE CONTRACT for supplying the envelope
fer custom poUses throughout the country has
been awarded by Actirg Secretary Richards on
to f ID. Lockwood, of Philadelphia, and Mar.
tin Taylor, of Buffalo About 100000 will be
required 10 fill the contract.
THE STEAMER NIPsIC was yesterday after
moor hauled of the marine railway where she
has teen undergoing extensive replirs. Sn.
has received a new bowsprit, and will r.
eed With three mssts hereafter instead OF
Oas heretofore.
WESTERN PACIFIC RAILEoAD.-Yesterday
the Secretary of the Treasury issued ID tue
W: Stern Pacific Railroad Company OF CaIifor-
nis, bonds to the amouut of s32O.CO0 as q sub
sidy provided for by an act of Congress, thct
oCmpany having completed another twenty
mil: of its road from point near the Ameri-
can river bridge, on the Central Pacific rail-
road.
THB CAMPAIGN IN TEX xAs.-It is stated that
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eastern district OF Pennsylvania, has been ia
vited by prominent Texsns to canvass that
State in behalf Of the regular Republican can
didate for Governor. Gen. Gregory was Tor
some time in charge OF the Freedmen Is Bure N
in that State, and is thoroughly acquainted
with the political state Of affairs.
| MAJOR BEN PERLBY PooRR ga I. an enter
/ tainment at his residence In Newburyport,
/ Mass last week, in homer of the fifteenth
| birthday of his younger daughter. The great
| barn was carpeied and hung with Chinese Ian
terms, fitted up for a ballroom, and the tables
We're furnished with all sorts of delicacies, in
clucing iruit from California. T. wo hundred
| guests were present.
| FOUND IT.-Commissioner Deiano has. we
are glad TO hear, recovered the $500 lost by him
a lew days ego, as mentioned the STAR
While i'm conversation with the President i'll
the lIorsry at the Executive m lnsjon on Tue
day, AIR. Delano took a number OF papers from
his pocket, in doug which he dropped the en-
velope containing the money, and it was fourd
in the library alter the departure OF the Presi-
dent
! A ACoURr-NAETIAL has been appointed 10
meet at w st Point, New York, to try e. .det
Henry p. Kingsbury and other prisoners. The
| Brevet Lieufcnt Colonel Alexander Piper,
| BreSet Lieutenant Colonel J. Ford Kent, Brs-
4 We. Lieutenant Colonel Peter 5. Niche Cap
| tsin alexander ). Clarke, Capt. X Robert Ca;tep.
| First LieuteD Clinton Il. Sears, BreySt
| Lieutenant Colonel Charles G. Parsons.
TEE BoGART COURT NJ RTIAL.-T records
| and proceedings of the naval court martial,
" Dich has been in session for several weeks in
ew York for the trisl OF Bogart, paymasters
clerk, charged with fraud, theft, and desertIoa,
were received al the Navy Department yester-
| day. The alleged emeezZlement amounted 20
| $4,000. The findings aud sentence are now
teng examined by the Secretary and cannot be
| n 1de public.
TIE ALLEGED CRUEL1Y ON THE U. ) SHIP
PAwNEE.-The particulars of the alleged
1 cruelty on board the United States ship Paw
ne, which reformed about q month ago from
| the South Atlantic squadon, have been already
| published, as well as tue fact that a coprt OF
| inquiry bad been ordered at Portsmouth, N.
| II. The evidence taken by this court b as been
oIWarded TO the Sscretsry of the Navy, aud it
| "a believed that court martial VIII be ordered
| immeG lately.
JANIS a. HAMILTON, ESQ, aged years,
son of Alexander H1m'ItoD, arrived here thIs
morn ing, ard IS az NItlarO's. HIS WISH IS ICr
the purpose of viewing the statue OF his Illus
irons Iather recently placed in the Capitol
This statue = The work o. HOratio Stone, and
II worthy OF me artist and of the great man
whose memory it is INTENDED 20 perpetuate
although those acquainted with our early his
tory need no marble 10 remind them OF bis
virtues and his timely end, (being killed by
Aaron BUR- in duel.)
PRRsoNAL.-Senator Pomeroy, OF Kansas,
arrived here last evening. '-'Col. X. NJ. Doug
las, private secretary to the President, left
here yesterday for a short visit to Virginia
.-..Col. Stokes left here last evening for his
bcme in Tennessees .".Gov. .. p. Morton,
U. :. Senator from Indiana; Lieut.. Com'r
NJ. Miles, U. s. Navy; H. G.. Cavanaugh,
U. :. Army; Hon. Thomas f. Bowie, of Nd;
p. Simms and Z. T. T. Schenck, OF New Or
leans Triestore and E Z. Simpson, OF Pensa-
cols, are at the National Hotel.
APPoINTMENTs AND PRoMoTIoNs.-The fol.
lowing promotions have been made in the
Third auditors Once.-U Avnola f.or.