Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-07-18

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EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvESuE.-The receipts TODAY
f.om this source were SLIT ,29.
MP- wuITTYNORE is said to be making ar
ran tmens to take the field a. a candidate for
election next fall to the Forty-second Congress
I'VE SPANISH MINISTER, Don Lopez Robert,
Is. IL Is said, shortly to marry Miss A. Terry, of
New York, wealthy and highly accomplished
lady, formerly Of Cuba
JOHN NICOLAT, formerly Private Secretay to
President Lincoln, and late United States
Consul AZ Paris, has accepted the position of
managing editor OF the Chicago Republican.
THE TELEGRANs in the morning papers re-
porting battle at Forbach are not credited in
Official circles here. Neither the President nor
Secretary Fish have received any information
in relation TO a conflict at that point.
MONEY ORDER OFFIcEs.-On the first day of
August the Postmaster General will put in
operation 37S new money-order offices which
will be distributed about equally over various
sections of the country.
TIE BRITISH MIssIoN.-The London Daily
Nstrs expresses sorrow at the recall of Mr. Mot
ley, and says Mr.. FTelinghuysen will lind the
EDgfsh government is ready to settle all dis
PUtes with America at any time.
ASSESSOR SHAW, of the second district or
Ohio, reports an increase of the receipts in his
District, from May ist, 1859, to June 3oth. 1870,
fover S2,e00, 600, of which sI.6lS,259 was ON
spirits.
CONAIssIoNER DELANo will leave here this
evening for Ohio, where he will spend most of
summer, visiting Washington at intervals Of
tive or three weeks, to look after the business of
his department, though he will not resume his
duties permanently until September next.
The NEW TAX BILL abolishes the stamp duty
on an receipts for money, and upon all promi-
sory notes of less sum than 500. 1t also abol-
schedule e. The bank check and documentary
stamps are retained.
WHEN THE CABINET OFFICERS LEAVE Town
Secretary Fish viii leave here about the latter
part of this week for his Summer vacation; Secre-
tary Boutwell, goes to his home in Groton, Mass,
on Wednesday; and Secretary Belknap will
leave for Iowa, in the course of a few days.
Mr. BERTHEMY, the late French Minister
who has resided in Washigtpn for several years
and made many friends, left here to-day, to re-
turn ID his native land. Mr.. Berthemy, it will
be remembered, was relieved by NJ. Paradol.
on Saturday last.
GAIT. HALL, who will have charge of the
Arctic expedition authorized by the recent act
of Congress, left here on Saturday, for New
York, where he expects to meet Lady Franklin,
now on her way TO New York, from San Fran
cisco.
THE NEW BoNDs-Secretary Boutwell, is
confident of his success in negotiating without
difficulty in this country the higher rate bonds
provided for in the new funding bill. He will
await the result of pending questions in Europe
before actively engaging in the work of carry
ing out the provisions of the bill. 1t il his de-
sire to negotiate the three classes of bonds to-
gether, as far a. possible, thereby making one
class help the other.
OFFICE ABOLIsHED.-In the legislative. exec
utiye and judicial appropriation bill the clause
making appropriations for the Office of superin-
tendent of the Treasury building, now held by
Mr.. G.. c. Rice, was stricken out; and that Office
abolished, as it was created, by a clause in an
appropriation bill. The care OF the building
therefore, devolves upon the supervising archi-
teet or chief clerk, and Mr. Rice will have to be
Irtfn1
partment.
COCRT-MARTIAL SENTENCE MIrIGA1Ep-
The Secretary of the Navy has mingated the
sentence of the naval court.martial in the case
of Passed Assistant Paymaster Henry G. Ma
chette, Of the L. s. steamer Wasp, recently tried
and sentenced to two years suspension on half
pay, to six months suspension from March last
hence he will be restored to duty in September
next
THE CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY has, under
the able editors.ip Of Major Ben Perley Poore,
clerk to the Senate Committee on Printing,
grown within the last few years from a mere
list Of the members of Congress and their places
of residence, into q valuable compilation, 50
that journalists and others who have TO consult
it, pages, would find il hard to get along with
out II. The second edition for the Forty-frst
Congress, just issued, Is even an Improvement
much additional matter. The biographies of
Senators and Representatives, contained within
NJ pages, Is very interesting and useful p0r-
ton Of the work.
LARGE INCREASE OF THE TOBACCO INTEREST
IN NIRGINIA.-As an evidence OF the prosperity
Of Virginia and the rapid advance beng made
by that State, Supervisor Presbrey reports that
the collections from manufactured tobacco in
the State for the fiscal year ending June 80,
$50, amounted to "a ,1+6 0s7 .65 being an excess
over the previous fiscal year Of =, ,6i3 ,593-54-
nearly $50 per cent. The total revenue from
the same source collected by tax paid tobacco
stamps for the sixteen months from March 1,
1s69, under the present administration, was
S5,lii,5 ,5217s, while the collections from the
same source for the fiscal years Of 1S66-'d-'6s
and eight months of 20 was 81 ,4iO, ,129.51, show
ing that 6, ,674, ,401.A more was collected in the
last Is months than in the nraYi0ns a Months