Evening star., 1869-10-07

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EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvENUR.-The receipts from
this source to-day were S592.sil.
HON. AMOS KENDALL is still very sick, but
is NO worse than for the last day or two.
SECRETARY BOUTWELL, will leave here to-
morrow for Philadelphia to address the meet
ing there to morrow evening.
PBRsoEAL.-Hon. VIM. f. Prosser, of Ten
nessee. and Hon. T. l.. Clingman, Of North
Carolina, are at the Ebbitt.
SKCRRrARY SHERMAN this morning received
a letter from Chicago enclosing s27 conscience
money, which the writer desired to be placed
to the credit OF the War Department.
M. M. GREEN, Of this city, was to- day ap.
pointed railway post Office clerk on the line
between Washington, u. e., and Weldon, N.
e., vice W. T. Hurlbut transferred.
COMMODORE A. NJ. PRNNOCK has been order
ed TO duty as a member of the Board, in session
al the Navy Department for the examination
OF candidates for promotion.
APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT Presl-
dent this morning appointed VIM. L. Hobson
to be Assessor Of Internal Revenue for the Sd
District OF kentucky.
THE report that the American Cuba Diplo.
matte difficulty has been terminated, and that
Minister Sickles has Withdrawn the tender of
friendly meditation between the Spanish and
Cuban people is confirmed by dsspatches at
the state Department
THE BOARD OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF the
Navy, in session at the Naval Academy, at
Annapslie, of which Surgeon J. S. Messers.
mith is President, having concluded its duties,
mas been dissolved by order OF the Secretary
OF the Navy.
RELIEF TO SOUTHERN MRRCHANrs-Ap.
plication from New Orleans and other South.
ern merchants has been made to Commissioner
Delano to allow the shipment OF tobacco, pur.
chased In Virginia. in bond, and 1t is stated that
the course Of the Commissioner promises relief
not only to snch merchants, but to southern
manufacturers.
NAVAL ORD8Rs.-Chief Engineer A. Hen.
dersoH has been detached from duty as a mem.
ber Of the Board in session at the Navy DE.
partment, OF which Rear Admiral Strioling Is
President, and ordered to duty at the Boston
navy yard. Ensign George S. Davol has been
detached from duty as recorder of the above
Board and placed on waiting orders.
RECEIPTS FROM CusToMs.-The receipts
a n q fho hall
September 27th TO 3Oth inclusive, were as fol.
lows:-Boston, 1927 ,057,7I New York, si,67o,.
5i0-3e; Philadelphia, sS4,l69y65; Baltimore,
s119,S41si; New Orleans, Qeth to 25th,) sI4e,.
5S3 81; San Francisco (Sth to 25th,) sIs7, $3.50.
Total, s2,5i6,6l2.79.
THE WHITE HoUsK.-Matters were very
quiet around the Executive Mansion this
morning on account Of the new rule made
one O'Clock p. m. The President was in his
office all OF the forenoon, and busily engaged
upon his official duties, without being impor.
tuned by office seekers. Between one and
thrse O'Clock this afternoon number Of visitors
were admitted, among whom were q large
number of ladies. No interviews will be
granted tomorrow, 1t being Cabinet day.
MILITARY COMMISSION CASE IN THE SU.
PREME CoURT.-ln the United States Supreme
Court yesterday in the matter of Benjamin
Brown, Eli Wood, John Halligan, Granville
Rose, VIM. Andrews and Philip Stonemetz.
W. W. Boyce, formerly member OF Congress
from South Gar olina, asked leave to file mo.
tion for writ OF habeas corpus. The matter
was directed to be argued on Friday next. The
prisoners are charged with murder In Texas,
in June last, and it is alleged that they are be.
ing tried by military commission.
MARK TwAIN's NEW BOOK, "The Innocents
Abroad" has reached Washington, and goes
of like hot cakes here, where Mark has sum-
mered and wintered and has a pretty wide
parish OF appreciatIve friends.
s.The Innocents Abroad gives the history OF
the steamship Quaker City's pleasure excur-
SION TO Europe and the Holy Land. 1t has the
paradoxical sort of merit of being at once
about the best book of travels yet written, and
the funniest book in existence. Very dreary
residing, indeed, is the would-be comic de-
scriptive writing Of some travellers who have
made books, but with Mark the fun makes
ITSELF and the narrative never halts or takes a
bend 10 afford an opportunity to bring in a
sorry Joke by the head and ears. There are
some three or four hundred illustrations TO the
book-good, bad, and Indifferent-some very
good, and some almost as absurdly bad as
"Arlemus Wards" panoramic Salt Lake City
pictures. There is one test that Mark Twain
can stand that is fatal TO most American
humorous writers-his drolleries are worth
Teperusal. Take, for instance, his solilCquy at
the tomb Of Adam: II can be read an hundred
times, with a fresh perception every time of
the wonderful grotesque humor of the thing
But, though Mark is never fiippantly funny at
the expense Of truth, his book abounds in
sagacioUs and telling hits at the humbug and
fraud extant in the way of "received opinions"
concerning the places visited. 1t is rsfresh hing
TO see a traveller with independence enough to
kick the guide-books to the dogs, and sturdiIy
insist upon depending upon his own eyes and
ears to tell him what to admire and what to
censure. The book is published by the Amer.
lean Publishing Company, Hartford, Connec.
ucut; and for the benefit OF those here wanting
it-aHd who will notl-we may add that 1t is
supplied In this District by Mrs. Kate d. Bar.
stow, who is the only authorized agent heze.
\ CoNFIpDFC1 CANS SPoILRp-A bright
young man named William II. Eilison planned
q splendid confidence game in winch two Jew.
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