Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-01-27

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EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL RRvEsuK.-Ths receipts to-day
from this source were siIO,56J.19.
PLAcorH BHY the Turkish VI mister. gave a
E nail ar d select musicale on Monday evening at
b residence, on II So q.
DERsoNAL-Charles Allen Perkins. ESQ
= ere 1ry Of the Amer.CG1 L",l;iou at Stock
holm, is stopping al the Eoot: housc, being
tome on sho =: fave of abss1Ca
CARL SCHURZ rc"rivCi a grand ovation
Saturday, night. at 81. Louis. 20 n his German
feIlow-ciuzens, In honor OF his Senatorial tri
unph.
PATENTS To BE- Iss JED.-For the week Cad-
ing Tus sdsy, r orda-y ID there will be issued
from the Pat"ns Office 30 pI-a1ts. Daring the
past week 53j applications aud 13O cave Its were
filed
T5E WHITE HOCsE-A large nun Ger OF VS.
iio"s called at the W mite Ho use 10 iav, but no
oleof any speclr note was announced. Bnong
tho-e admitted 10 al interview with the PresI-
dent were a delegat .oh OF four q uaker;.
PACIFIC RAILROAD got a black-eye IN the
S-na.e to-day. Senator Saerman's motion 70
gave it the go-by and take up the Funding bill
prevailed by vote of % to 26. A two million
subsidy got hurt that time.
Personals cretary McCulloch and Gen.
eral John Cochrsne, of New York. were on the
Holse floc- to-day. John B. Baldwin,
joan A. Cambell, ]. T. Campbell, aud J. H.
Williams, of Virginia, are at The Eboitt House.
MR. CUMBACK, coming back 10 his home a.:
Greensburg Indiana, after his defeat. was
yeI5 NJ ied and Grated by his neiehbors. In his
reply be eulcgized the newly elected Senator.
Hon. ID. ID. Pratt. and preticted that he would
be the peer OF tr cir greei .sates esman, U Iver p
Nor On.
CARDS are out for a grand hop at Willards'
tomorrow evening, given by the proprietors TO
the guests Of the house and their friends A
most excellent time may safely be anticipated
if similar entertainments in times past are to
be relied on IL forming judgments as to the
.u;ure.
COL. BALDWIN and q. II. Whittlecay, Esq,
of Va were before the Reconstruction Com
mite 3 this MOI ming relative 10 the plan of ad-
hitting the State proposed by the committee of
nine now in this city. Col. Baldwin spoke for
some time in Iivor OF the plau. and was op-
posed by Mr.. Whittle1ey, who had not con-
cludsd his a-s dmc 1t when the comm ttee ed
JoIrn; d.
JOHN W. GARREIT. Esq, president OF the
Baltimore and Ohio RaIlro:.d Company, was
before the House COnmitt"e on Roads and
Canals this morning relative TO the bridges
over the Ohio r.ver, aud in his t -timony gave
II as his opinion that il was OF but lille i'm
POI tahce whether the sp1u OF the bridge be
three or five hundr, AZ st, but they should b.
so ere, ted as ID be no obstruction ID nav.ga-
tIOn.
WAS GEN. BANKS twi"a ordered TO super.
sede Gen. Gl iIt," IS a question shll agitating z
the press. We now see that the Lawrenc',
Mass. s.AmeTicca-published in General Bars
dislric.- -1ys:
.ItIs auite useIces for tie New York Sun or
the Bo '1n Ad7e.i,ser - sne er at TIE matter 70
fc % j. for. as we haOps per onally 10 know.
TIE offiCi-' autogropDi orders are now in the
rr IDS o; Gsrsrai GIsnt, and put the whole
mater feyoId qu'sticn or controversy
WE HAv. ADVICE, from Wheeling, as Iate
as y: zterday mornip-, 10 the effect that le
contest Cor the Urit~d State Senatorship from
West Virginia is narrowed down TO pret v
even lace between Ex.Gov' rnor Foreman, A
W CampteII aud Hon. Ch: ster ID. Hubbard.
IN the c1an.ts app rently .vor Of the
first ramed &c n'lem N, although the r -ult is
conceded y be in great doub.. The elc ction, t
is expo ctCd. will take place in a few days.
ANTI-MAsoNIC PErIrIoN-In tre Senate,
mis- morning, Mr.. Wilson prssen' d ptttion
signC by f..sen persons. who sign themselves
as citizens of Ooio, esking a repeal OF the act
gIdntirg cnarter TO the Ma onic Hall AssO-
,fi,ion IN the District of Columb.s. Their
petition states that they believe all secret asso-
g. atoms are dangerous 10 Republican govern
ments; that Ms -onic societies have for Ion z
Ine direc ed their efiorts towards the support
OF slavery and the inception of the rebellion,
&c.
TEE AIR LINE RAILRoAD.-The bill cr7r.
tering the air line railroad from Washington to
New YORK has been before the COmmittae on
Roacs and Canals for some time past, and is
now ready to be reportcd TO the House. several
important amendments TO il having been made
one of which prohibits the colporators from
seliirg their franchise 10 any competing line
Il
in the original bill INTRODUCED by the Ia NJ.
Stevens, of Pa. The committee will soon ne
called anon 10 report, and this will be the first
bill reported 20 the House.
IS THE Hot thIs morning, Mr.. W3sh-
burnr Of Illinois, dur.ry debate, saii there
were but th'r;y-one working days remaining
ior this session, and six OF the most important
appropriation bills had not yet been act,d upon
BY the Houce. The committees having these
bills IN charge had performed their duties, and
1t was now for the House to say what the v
would DO, whether they would go 10 work aud
transact the public business, or devots them
selyts 70 all sorts of schemes and thus make
an extra session of Congress necessary, which
would last until July, and break down the in.
coming administration.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN THE DISTRICT OF c.
LrNBIA-The Senate Committee on the Dis
triet of Columbia held meeting his morning,
and had before them rhe woman suffrage ques-
tion for this District. Mrs. Josephine 5. Grif-
fpg addressed the committee, advocating the
passage Of bill granting the right of sufrrage
y women in the District. memorial by Mrs
stanton, chairman of the committee appointoi
by the late National Con vention, was read, and