Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-04-01

sill lying seriously Ill at his residence on q
street.
THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY has ordered
Commander Elias Owen to co mnand thu
Stminole on the i5th INST
LIEUT.. GovRRnog Dunn. {colored.) of
Louisiana, was upan the floor Of the Senate
ts.day, and r. ceiyed a courteous greeting from
many Senators.
The PRESIDENT has recogn iZed Mr.. +. G.
Squier. late United Sta'es commissioner in
Peru, as consul general of the Republic o.
Honduras resident in New York.
THE SENATE yesterday afternoon confirmed
the nomination of Charles s. Hamilton, mar
shal for Wisconsin, and Charles La Follett
superintendent of Indian affairs In Oregon.
1T is UNDERSTOOD that Secretary Fish has
rendered the mission to Mexico to General
Daniel E. Sickles. and that he has declined the
position.
H. II. TILLEY, Of Rhode Island. a ID class
clerk in the bureau of Provisions and Clothing
Navy Department, has been removed by Sec
retary Borie.
SENATORS FERRY AND BUCKINGHAM left
this morning for Connecticut TO be absent u q til
place next week.
PERsONAL.-Hon. Lyman Tremain Of New
York, Plutarco Gonzales of Cuba, and ]. w.
Eabens of ST. Domingo, are at the Ebbitt
House.
PRESIDENT GRANT received several men,
bers Of Congress and persons connected with
the Departments this morning. Outside of
these classes none others can obtain interviews
till past three O'Clock.
MRS. DR. LAUCKE. widow of the late Chief
Clerk of the Pension Bureau, will be appoint
ed as copyist in the Department of the Interior
by Secretary Cox, il is said, to take effect from
to-day.
TIE National InteHigencer and other Demo.
cratic papers are patting Senator Sprague on
the back at great rate. He is >loshing around
so in harness, however, that they will get
kick presently from bis lively heels.
s.ONE MOMENT, Mr.. Secretary" is one of the
commonest of phrases in Washington. 1t re.
Gently took Borie Just thirty. five minute to get
from the desk OF Wizards Hotel to the foot OF
the stairway, distance of thirty feet.
AT PARTIES in New York now-a-days, the
host ne longer supplies the gentlemen dress
ipg-room with cigars, as, in two many instan-
ces, the gentlemen have been known to take
weeks supply htme IN their pockets. Ditto in
Washington.
JOSEPH w. BRIGGS, Esq reappornted by
the Postmaster General Special Agent of the
Post Office department in charge OF the free
delivery system in the United States, this
morning qualified before Justice I.awrenson
and entered upon the discharge OF his import ant
duties.
PROMOTIONS IN THK TREAsURY.-The fol.
lowing promotions have been made in the
Treasury Department. since the 10 b inst:
Treasurers Ofhce-A. NJ Reid. w b. Nc.
X. lden and D. A. Pennoyer from list to cd class,
J. s Snowden, H. A. Moore, George W Cen
ter and H. "A. Whitney, from I'd to Sd class.
THE COUNSEL OF TwITCHELL, now under
sentence of death In Philadelphia for the mur-
der of his wfe's mother, yesterday filed mo-
ton in the Saprcme Court OF the United States
for a writ OF error, and the Attorney General
of Pennsylvania has been notified that argu.
ment on the motion will be heard Tomorrow
Mr.. NIBLACK announced yesterday in the
House that the alliance between the Democrats
and the ''repeal'' Republicans of the House
was dissolved. The Democrats, for a week
past, have designated the Chairman OF the Re-
construction Committee very respectfully by
his military title now they style him "Beast
Butler again.
| THE NOMINATION OF Emil Hochster, sent 10
| the Senate Yesterday, was for the position of
Consul at Barmen, Prussia, as ar nOunced in
the STAR. and not Bremen, prin ted by our
| contemporaries. In the bill making appropria.
tions for the consular and diplomatic expenses,
&c. passed by the last Congress, and publishe
in the STAR of yesterday, it will be seen that
SI,5Co per ann TIN is appropriated for the salary
| Of Consul at Barmen.
APPoINTKD.-Secretary Boutwell, has ap-
| pointed Mr.. Henry s. Vanderbilt (who was
| principal clerk OF the Congressional Executive
Committee during the campaign) to a fourth
| class clerkship in the Treasury Departmen ent
and he has been assigned to duty in the Ap.
| pointment Bureau as assistant to Hon. T. l..
| Tullock. Mr.. Vanderbilt is gentleman Of in
tegrity, and by his efforts during the campaign
won manv friends, he being a hard worker,
Jealous and energetic.
DISMISSAL OF FEMALE ECLBRKs.-Abou sixty
female clerks, who were some time since de-.
tailed from the Registers Oaice to the Third
| uditor's Once, in the Treasury Department.,
were yesterday directed to return to the Regis.
| ters Office and report for duty, as the work in
| the Auditors Office is not sufficient to keep
hem employed As the work in the Registers
| Office has also rapidly decreased. they cannot
be kept employed there; consequently they
| will probably be dismissed in the course of a
| day or two.
| CHANGRs AT THE ETRRAsURY.-About twenty
| temporary clerks were yesterday dismissed
| from the First and Second Comptroller's Office
and the Statistical Bureau of the Treasury De.
partment, but their places will not be filled for
| the present, as it is the desire of Secretary
| boutwell, to reduce the force in ali Of the bu.
| reaus, in order to see what number of clerks
may be actually Lecessary to conduct the busi.
| ness. No appointments will be made for two
or three weeks; but q large number will be d, s..
1 missed from the various bureaus OF the d..
partment within the ensuing fortnight.
SPRING NAIL LHrTINGe.-Postmaster Gen.
| eral Oress and his assistants this morning
commenced the regular lettings for mail trans.
porta,ion for four years from the lst Of July
| next The service under regular letting this
year is in New York State and to New Eng.
land States besides which there are routes to
Re let in almost every other State and Terri.
tory. The competition appears isreP, and
| there are probably over 15,t00 proposals, re-.
| quirine industry, great accuracy and quick
penmanship; for il IL designed to anaounce the
awards in ths latter part Of the present mon tn
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