Evening star., 1870-03-03
WASHINGTON. ID. c. THURSDAY MARCH r.

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EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
WE ARE AUTHORIZED to announce that the
Tuesday afternoon receptions OF Mrs. Grant
Will be discontinued until further notice.
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE on NAVAL AFFArRs
mas postponed all further consideration of the
bill in relation to staff rank fer one week or
until the return of Mr.. Stevens from New
Hampshire, he having had special charge of
that matter.
GENERAL BUTLER made an unsuccessful eff
fort to get the Georgia bill up in the House this
afternoon, but he was opposed by Gen. Schenck,
and upon the motion of the latter, the House
resolved itself into Committee of the Whole on
the tariff bill, and Mr.. Brooks, of New York,
proceeded to address the House.
A LETTER purpOrting to be from Admiral
Farragut, dated January, 1860, having often
been cited in the contest regarding Line and
Staff rank in the Navy, the Admiral has written
to Secretary Robson denying that he wrote the
letter, and asserting the signature to be for
gerry.
About THREE HUNDRED employees of all
branches of mechanism were taken on at the
Navy Yard to-day. There were double that
number discharged short time ago, it will be
remembered. Preference is being given in re-
employing men to those having honorable dis
charges from the Army and Navy, who are
found qualified.
DECREASE OF THE PUBLIC DEBT.-S5, ,250 900
in currency were taken from the vaults of the
Treasury Department on the last of February
10 pay pensions falling due on the 4th inst. This
sum added to the decrease as shown by the debt
statement makes a decrease of over eleven and
a half millions for the month of February Az
the disbursements for pensions should have been
charged i'm the accounts of the present month
$1,000 600 additional were paid for the same yes
terday.
IHE AIRLINE RAILROAD project to New New
YORK loomed up quite hopefully in the House
Today, and an amendment offered by Mr..
Swami, Of Maryland, designed to kill it, was
rejected by the decisive vote OF 4S to 1l5 The
morning hour having expired, however, the bill
went over until next Tuesday. The bill will
quite certainly pass the House without dfi
Guilty, whatever may be its fate in the Senate
Ihe strikers for the monopoly railroad lines
between here and New York we're on hand to-
day about the House halls and galleries, but did
not get much comfort, certainly, from the vote
on Swann's amendment.
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON ELECTIONS, this
morning, decided adversely to the claim of Sc
gar as Representative-at-large from the State
Of Virginia, by a vote of to5
The subcommittee, consisting of Messrs. Ste
venson, Burdett and Kerr, on the contested
Louisiana case Of Hunt against Sheldon, made
their reports. Messrs. Stevenson and Rurdett
report In favor OF MIR. Sheldon retaining his
seat, and MIR. Kerr reports in favor of ousting
Sheldon and seating Hunt. Under the new ar
rangement these reports 60 directly to the
House, and are not subject to revision by the
whole committee.
The NATIONAL THEATRE was never in the
memory of "the oldest inhabitant, so iammed
as it was last evening, every seat and every
available inch of standing room in all
parts Of the house being occupied. Tie
attraction was the first performance IN this
city OF Mozarts famous comic OPERA sequel
to the Barber OF Sevillc--entitled "The Mar.
riage Of Figaro which was sung by the Parepa
Rosa Opera TrOHpe in a manner which gave the
public better idea of the capacity of the COM
pany than either Of their previous performances.
but we have not space for a critical notice
MARTHA will be given this evening with
Parepa, Mrs. Seguin, Castle and Campbell in
the leading parts. Tomorrow night "The
Marriage Of Figaro" will be repeated.
The CADETsHIP BUsINEss.-It was ex,ected
that the Military Committee would report to-
day in the case Of Mr.. Butler, of Tennessee, but
up to 3 p. m. Gen. Logan had made no sign in
that direction. Contrary to the opinion about
town last night, that the committee would report
tor expulsion in his case, it seems to be thought
to-day that not enough is proven against
him to justify more than a vote of censure Mr..
Mungen's case is also said to look brighter than
it did. The vote against extending the inyesti-
CATION to the cases Of men not now in Congress
or in public life will cut down the labors of the
committee materially.
To-day, Professor NOrthrup, of Yale COLLEGE,
and other members of the National Association
of School Superintendents, now in session in
Washington, were before the Committee to urge
lin accordance with resolutions passed yesterday
by that Association that no person shall be an
pointed to the Cadet Corps al West Point, or TO
the Naval Corps at Annapolis, until proved
qualified after a publ; examination; the ap-
pointments to be made in the order of merit AS
slghed Dy the examiners.
The DISTRICT IN CoNGREss.-Mr. Hamlin in
trOduced in the Senate, this morning, a bill to
amend an act entitled .'An act to define more
clearly the jurisdiction and powers of the Su-
preme Court of the District of Columbia and
for other purposes" which is similar i'm its pro-
visions to the bill with the same title introduced
into the House by Mr.. Welker, on the 2Oth of
December last. 1t was referred to the Judiciary \
Committee.
CoNFIRMATIoNs-The Senate, in executive
session, yesterday confirmed a number of nomi-
nations Of COnsuls, U. s. Marshals and District
Attorneys, Postmasters, Sc, among them those
Of John Eaton, Jr, Of Tennessee, Commissioner
of Education; Jesse r. Grant, Postmaster at
COyington, ~; Harrison ,Adreon. Pension
Secretary of the Territory of wyoming: Geo
H. Hand, Secretary of the Territory of Dakota
Consuls-Thomas X. King, of Rhode Island, at
Cork; John +. Wilson, at Matamoras. Sur
veyor Of Customs-Chas. Clayton, San Francis
co. Paymasters in the Navy-GeO. l.. Meade,
W. W. Woodward.
Mr.. BRADIEY'e NOMIN ArION-The Senata