Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-08-20


VOL Sc ne. 5.44I.
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
MAYOR EnEgr is expected home this even
in.
LEAVE oP ABsKNCE.-Over two hundred
clerks in the Treasury Department have been
granted leaves Of absence since the LIST instant
CAPT. SoMERyILLE NICHOLSON, z. 8. N, Of
this city, has been detached from the command
OF the Benioia, and ordered to return home.
MAJOR GHS. ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK, who
died at Hancock, Georgia, on the 5th instant, In
the seventy-se second year of his age, was, on his
mothers side, q grandson of Ethan Allen.
A SPECIAL ORDER just issued from the War
Department directs that ninety enlisted men in
confinement at Alcatraz island, Cal, under SEN
tence OF court-martial, be transferred to the
general service Of the army.
PAYMENTS AT WEST PoIsT.-ColoneI W. W.
Brown. Assistant Paymaster General, has been
directed to make all payments at the West
Point Military Academy in person, and visit the
post for that purpose once each month.
THE sErrI ENHNT of the reconstruction ex-
peDses for Mississippi and Arkansas has been
completed in the Psymaster Generals office
For Mississippi they were S3.5.0oe, and for Ar
kansas, s125, 900.
FOUR THOUSAND APPLICATIONS for appoint
me pts in the Treasury Department are on file,
and as the force is being reduced instead OF in
creased, the chances of applicants are not very
encouraging.
Mr. JOSEPH A. WARES position is not, as has
been published, identical with that Of Judge
Hale. who had entire charge Of the "cotton
cases, The .uperlntendence Of this business Is
retained by the Attorney General, and Mr..
Ware is simply assistant counsel.
SENATOR TRuMBULL, now in this city, states
that he has no idea OF leaving the Senate, and
consequently the reports about him entering
the Cabinet are unfounded. He is now in very
campaign in his own State, Indiana and Ohio.
INCREASE OF THE POPULATION OF WAsHfyG-
ToN.-The census returns for the Second, Third,
Fifth, and Sixth Wards OF the city Of Washing
ton give total population for those wards, for
1870, of 5,s44. The same wards In 1880 con-
tanned q population of 81 ,l53; showing an in
crease OF 7eH per cent in ten years
PRKsRNr STRENGTH OF OUR NAvY.-The
United States navy at present consists OF 1s4
vessels. 81 OF which are iron-clads- or the
whole number - only are in active service, the
others being laid up at the various navy yards.
There are but three iron-clsds in active service,
the Dictator, Saugus and Terror; all of which
are attached TO the North Atlantic fleet.
The CKNsUs.-The assistant marshals in the
principal cities of the country have experienced
much difficulty during the past month or tive in
taking the census, on account OF the large
number of persons out of town. The servants
in charge OF the houses are generally unable to
answer the necessary questions; consequently,
those residences have to be revisited at a later
date In order to see some member Of the fam
ily and obtain the desired information.
THE PHILADELPHIA SUB-TRKAsURY GOLD
FRAuDs-A few weeks since the Sub-Tressury
at Philadelphia was defrauded Of several thous-
ands dollars in gold, by parties altering checks
which they received In payment OF the July in
terest. Since then detectives have been werk-
ing up the ase, and a few days since one OF
the officers of the Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing succeeded in arresting one Of the de-
frau iers and secured about az 500 Of the money.
The CHINESE Ma ssACRK.-TheS Navy Depart
ment this morning received dispatches from
Commander Z. p. McCrea, commanding L. s.
steamer Monocacy, enclosing Chinese and ia
paIee papers giving accounts OF the recent
mas acre Of French residents and others at
Tientsin, China, by the natives at that place,
particulars OF which have heretofore appeared
In our columns. The u. s. steamer Ashueiot,
Commander Taylor, had been sent from Hong
Kong to the scene Of the massacre.
PHRsIDENT GRANT, accompanied by Mrs.
Grant, Mr.. Dent, ex-Secretary Borie and
daughter, rode out at Long Branch yesterday
and paid visit to the Ninth Regiment camping
grounds. The President and Mrs. Grant, will
visit Secretary Fish at his residence on the
Hudson about the latter part Of this month.
and attend the closing ball at the West Point
Military Academy. They are not expected to
october.
A FRENCH MAu.-Application has been
made to the Postmaster General by W. HI.
Webb, of New York, to despatch a French mail
to Havre on Tuesday next, per steamer Guiding
Star, and has been granted. This mail Will
take both letters and printed matter, the com
pensation being the aggregate sea and inland
postage, but no subsidy. This Is the first Ameri-
can steamer that has carried . European mail
for several years, and II Mr. Webb desires TO
continue the service at the same compensation
the Post ONCE Department will agree to It
APPouTMxSre IN THE CENSUS OPyICB.-The
following having passed satisfactory examins-
ton were yesterday appointed to first class
clsrkships In the census onice:-J. g. Bigelow.
Me-; John Miller, MI; Frank Best, Penn; r.
II. Sprague, r. l.; E. B. Cottrell, Pa; Edward
Remand, \. Y; W. b. Thompson, N. j.; 8. ID,
Charles, n. II j. Quinan, Nd, c. b. Bryant,
Va; G. e. Armstrong, Pa; G. wierman, Pa.
". II. Bsbcock, j. w. Clarke, James Gosler, T.