Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-09-27

NEAR ADMIRAL RADFoRD, who was recently
relieved Of the command of the European fleet
by Rear Admiral Glisson, is in to .n, and was at
the Navy Deps' tment to- day.
DEATH OF AN AssEssoR.-Tbe Internal PAY
enue Office has received information the death
OF " m. X. Cummings, assessor for the first dis
trict OF New York, tBrookly n,) who died in that
city tlis morning.
The ARGENTINE MINISTER and family have
returned to Washington, and ere settled In their
residence on l street. On their way here, they
spent week at Long Branch, where they dinei
en- fdmiHe with the President.
GOING HOME TO NorE.-The Secretary of the
Treasury and the Secretary of the Interior have
both consented to allow the clerks in their De-
partments leave of absence to visit their homes
and vote at the ensuing election.
SHILLINGTON sends us Old and New and the
American Agricu tIrist for October The arti.
Gle in Old and Neio on "The Lessons of the Mac
farland Trial' is very severe on Recorder Hack
EFT, the jury, and the press, and shows a consid
erable leaning'toward the free-love side of the
question.
TIE L. s. STEAMER KANSAS now fitting out
at the Washington Navy-ysrd for duty with the
Iehuantepec and Nicaragua surveying expetli-
ton, was put in commission yesterday and her
officers are now on board. The Kansas will be
the principal vessel of the expedition.
TIE SOLAR ECLIPsE-The Navy Departm. .nt
will send two corps to Europe to observe the TO-
tai eclip Of the sun, which takes place Decem-
Der I'D, one from the Naval Observatory here
and the other from the coast survey. The Oh
erun will
18th.
PRESIDENT GRANT AND FAMrLY.-Mr Dent
Mrs. Grants father and Master Jesse Grant
Will return here this evening from Long Branch.
The President and Mrs. Grant, who are no " in
New England to place Miss Nellie and Master
Ulysses in school, will attend the Farragut obse-
quIes in New York on Friday, and will arrive
here Saturday or Sunday.
The CABINEr.-All the members of the Cabi-
net are now in the city, except Secretary Cox
and he willreturn the latter part of next week
The regular meeting Of the Cabinet will take
place on Tuesday next, as the President returns
on Saturday or Sunday, and the usual semi
weekly meetings will be held on every Tuesday
and Friday thereafter.
The FARRAGUT OBsKQUIEs-Secretary Bel
knap and Secretary Robson leave here on
Thursday evening for New York to attend the
Farragut obsequies in tfat city on Friday. The
companies Of U. 5. troops stationed at willets
Point and Governors Island, with the band at
tached TO the latter post, have been rendered t.
the New York authorities as a funeral escort.
PAYING FOR TEKRIroRY.-The Treasury De-
paItment has transferred to the State Depart
ment s325, GOO in coin for the purpose Of paving
the first instalment of the claim of the Hudson
Bay Company and the Puget SoOnd Agricul-
tural Company, as agreed by the commissioners
in their award, under the treaty of 1868, for the
property acquired by the United States on the
north side Of the Columbia river. The balance
due will probably be appropriated at the next
session Of Congress.
CLERICAL PRoAorIoNs.-The following pro-
motions have been made in the Quartermaster
Generals Office Ira 8. Allen, A. W. Latti-
more, from third to fourth class; b. A. Farless,
from second to fourth Glass; George w. PART
ridge and T.. w. Hills, from second to third
class; L. A. Scott, b. j. O'Driscoll, l.. r. Ran
from first to second class. Jno. II. Neely h rs
been promoted from first to second class clerk,
in the Second Auditors office.
"Zeta" writes to the Baltimore Sun that the
English mission was offered to and declined by
President White, of the Cornell New York;
University, before it was rendered to Senator
Morton.
3S1 ,09s immigrants arrived in this country in
the year ending June 3Oth, 1870. OF these about
10000 were from England and Ireland, l23,O 900
from Germany, and Is, 40 from China.
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The COAL MARKRT.-The Philadelphia
Ledger of yesterday says: There is little change
to note in the anthracite coal trade the past
there been fD
some sizes of coal there has been more for
othdrs, thus keeping the market nearly steady
and prices on the whole firm. The demand for
shipment, for domestic use, and on the lines OF
the seyeJal carrying companies, has ruled un-
usually itrong all the past week, and but for the
general tnxiety to sell as much coal as possible
at present prices for future delivery, we should
no doubt\have had to advance the figures Of our
auotatioIf. The shipping prices OF coal on
Saturdaytat Port Richmond, Philadelphia, for
Cape Henry, were, for Schuylkill red as S475
"A so, egg and stove S470a4.s0, steamboat $40
a4.40, broken $3.50, and chestnut S3.7Os3.9O.
ns broken egg S' stoys e.
limits above named the rates are forty cents
per ton higher than those given. Coatwise
vessels at the close Of the past week were not
in az good supply as they had been for a week or
ten days before, consequently freight charges
were nrm. To-day, it is understood, there will
be meeting Of parties interested In the trade
to nx the price OF coal for September by which
to adjust wages at the mines for the current
months work. II is generally expected that
the basis viii be lowered, to which the miners
will no doubt object, and trouble in some Of the
coal regions may ensue. At the present price
Of coal In the market, and the present high
and prospective higher, tolls. Operators say
their continuance to mine coal depends upon a
decline Of wages. The trade last week was
hardly up to that Of the previous week.
A PRACTICAL JOKER IN TRoUBLI.-Francis
5. kiplibg, who was arrested at Schuylkillha-
ven, Pa, Friday, on suspicion Of completely in
the Nathan murder, on his own representations
that he knew something about 1t, was arrsigned
before Justice Hogan in New York yesterday
afternoon, and committed for Q further exami-
nation to-day. The prisoner protests his inno-
cence and treats the whole affair as a joke, bat
the police authorities say they intend to detain
him until he proves his whereabouts on the
night OF the murder, and also AXE him an eX-
ample 10 others eeking not0riety in a similar
manner. kipliDg appears to have manifested
insanity for some time past, and to have lived
an aimless, dissolute life.
SThe downfall of Louis Napoleon recalls
the cutting repartee which he is said to have
received from Lady Blessington. The Countess
had befriended him when he was a poor adyen-
furer in London, and went to Paris to be near
him alter he had become pr0spe.ous. Much n