Evening star., 1869-12-31

EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
EX-SENATOR DIXON, of Connecticut, and fam
lily arc spending the winter in Rome.
GENERAL SHERMAN will receive tomorrow
after one O'Clock at his residence on street,
between list and I'd.
THERE WAS NO CABINET MEETING to-day, and
the President vas in his Office but a very shert
time this morning.
SECRETARY boutwell, returned here last
evening from his visit to Groton, Mass. and was
at the Treasury Department to-day.
The FRENCH CABLE AND HAssoN's AGENCY
seem to be beating the old cable and the Asso-
oated Press in foreign news.
COLLECTOR CASEY, the Presidents brother
in-law, arrived here last night from New Or
leans.
INTERNAL REvENUE.-The receipts to-day
from this source were s2i6,S52; for the month
ending December 31st, S1I 400 $50; and for the
fiscal year to date, Ss5 ,9s7 ,5O2.
SPEAKER BLAINE has gone home on account
of the sudden illness of his mother, and will not
be here on New Years Day; and consequently
Mrs. Blaine will not receive on that day.
GENERAL GEORGE A. CUSTER was dined i'm
Detroit on Monday evening by the members of
tha m N uhO he baa
made many valuable additions.
Mr.. A. L. MCLLETT, Supervising Architect of
the Treasury Department has gone to Hartford,
Conn, to see about erecting a United States
Court and Post Office building in that city.
The VACANT Iowa SENAToRsHIP-The Gov
ernor of Iowa telegraphs that he will not ap-
point a successor to Mr.. Grimes to the United
States Senate because of the near approach of
the meeting of the Legislature of that State.
PERsoNAL.-General Mcclellan and wife ar
rived here last night, and are at the Arlington
Hotel.
The wife and children of the late Secretary
Stanton have left here for Steubenville, Ohio.
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON AUTHORIZATIONS
has adjourned until Monday. The Committee
has nearly finished the Legislative and Execu-
tive, Pension and West Point bill. The former
| appropriates about twenty-five millions; the
Pension bill abont thirty-two millions, and the
latter about one million dollars.
PREPARING FOR THE LEvEE.-The carpets
| have been removed from the ante room at the
l Executive Mansion, and the hall carpet COW
| cred, preparatory to the reception tomorrow.
| The platform from the window adjoining the
ha1 hx Si1 NJ fha I,
| erected, over which the crowd will pass ou
| from the East room.
The STANTON FUND.-It is understood that
the movement TO raise a fund Of slOO, 900 for the
benefit of the family OF the late Secretary Stan
ton is progressing very favorably, and that a
large amount has already been subscribed
Senat' Chandler is reported to have subscribed
5000, and other gentlemen eminent in political
life have gwen equally Iarge amounts.
A PROTEST ENTERED.-Colonel P. p. Pich-
lyn, chief OF the Chocataw tribe of Indians, YES
| terday entered protest before the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs on behalf of his tribe against
a violation Cf the treaty made with that tribe.
by collecting internal revenue tax in that coun-
| try. This was induced by the seizure of to-
bacco factory there few days since, stated i'm
| THE STAR day before yesterday.
COMMISSIONS READY.-There are over one
| hundred commissions in the Office OF the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to be issued to Internal
| Revenue Collectors and Assessors in various
| parts of the country during the coming week,
and new bonds are to be filed by the Collectors
| with new Oaths from the Assessors. These ap-
/ pointments were made during the recess, and
| were therefore ad interim appointments only,
Having now been confirmed by the Senate, they
will be regularly commissioned and iile the pro-
i per bonds.
| A COMMITTEE TO VISIT THE WESTERN Dis
TILLERs.-At the urgent request of the distillers
Of spirituous liquors in Cincinnati to Commis-
sioner Delano for the appointment OF a commit
tee to visit their distleries to witness the pro-
cess of MASKING under the 4s hour system, and
| hear arguments in relation to the assessment
| Hereunder. Mr.. Delano has designated Deputy
Commissioner Douglass and Third Deputy Com
| missioner Given as a committee te visit Cincin-
natti. They will leave here on Thursday or
Friday next to discharge the duty assigned to
them.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
RICHARDSON will llcave here on Sunday even
/ ing for his home i'm Massachusetts,, and he has
| no expectation Of returning here to resume his
duties as Assistant Secretary. 1t will be remem-
bsred that he rendered his resignation some time
since, but at the urgent request of Secretary
Boutwell, consented to remain until the close of
the year. Although he has been solicited BY
both the President and Secretary Boutwell, to
| withdraw his resignation Judge Richardson
declines to do SO on the ground that his private
| matters i'll Massachusetts, demand that he should
| retire from the Treasury Department and re-
| sumo his position on the bench i'm his native
| State.
IT IS STATED by the Catholic Mirror that ssex-
| Secretary Stanton, some months before his death
bad turned his attention to the subject of reli-
| gion, and was but recently engaged in an inves-
| tigation of the doctrinesof the Catholic Church
under the instruction of Father O'Connor,
formerly bishop Of Pittsburg, with whom he
lately had several conferences. In all human
probability, had the life Of Mr.. Stanton been
| spared little longer, he would have become a
| Catholic"
Contrariwise, the intimate personal friends of
| Mr.. Stanton say there il no ground whatever
| for tie supposition that he was inclined to
Catholicism-that he was baptised by Rev. DR..
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