Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-04-30
EVENING STAR.
washington News and Gossip.

EY ENlNG STAR.
washington News and Gossip.
TIE SUPREME COURT Of the United to-
Gay adjourned until the last Monday in October.
INTERNAL REvKNUE-The receipts from thi
source to-day were $50 ,667.2o, and for the
u NTH ending this date si3, ,3O6, 1854.
THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEES did not
consider the Funding Bill this morning being
engaged all the forenoon on the tariff.
ME-. wx. ORION, President of the Western
MIN Telegraph Company, was before the
House Postal Committee this morning in refer
ence to the government postas telegraph.
DECORATION DAY-The General Committee
OF the Grand Army Of the Republic met in New
Yoak city yesterday, and designated May 3oth
as the day on which soldiers graves shall be
decorated.
FRoU-FRou.-Laura Keene and company
open at Wallis Opera House on Monday ev;-
ming next in the new drama, Frou-Frou, which
has been creating q sensation in the principal
cities OF the North and West.
The INDIAN WAR.-General Sherman states
that Indian hostilities have not vet commenced
in the Sioux country, but he is expecting dis
patches to that effect. General Sheridan has
gone to the front, and will communicate at once
in detail the state Of affairs.
CHIEF CLERK IN THE TREASURY DEPART
nEsr.-Secretary Boutwell, has appointed Mr..
Saville Chief of the Treasury Department, in
place of Mr.. VIM. H. West. Mr.. Saville is at
present Chief OF the Warrant Division Of the
Secretarys ofhce, and viii enter upon his new
duties on Monday.
SUPERVISOR FULTON announces that the re-
ports OF the assessors Of the income returns for
District Of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware and
New Jersey, which comprise his district, SO far
as ascertaiRed, are favorable to an increase of
receipts. The increase in the Third MARYLAND
District, which is in Baltimore, win be about
5000.
REMOVAL AND APPOINTMENT AT THE TREAS
URY.-Walter H. Coleman, for some wears past
ebisf Of the Division Of sub-Treasures, National
BANKS and United States Depositories in the
office of the Secretary Of the Treasury, was this
morning removed by Secretary Boutwell,, and
George Parnell, late Second Deputy Commis-
sioner Of Internal Revenue, was appointed to
I'LL the vacancy.
A COMPROMISE BILL.-The various contend
ing parties in relation to the Trans Continental
Railroad, several bills for which have been in
roduced in the House, are about harmonizing,
1t is said, and will probably agree upon one of
the bills, and urge its favorable consideration
by the Pacific Railroad Committee. The bill
upon which the compromise will be effected was
prepared by Senator Howard
THE PROPOSED INCREASE OF THE CURREy-
CY.-Gen. Garfield, chairman of the Committee
on Banking and Currency, reported to the
House yesterday bill to increase banking IA
cilities, which contains twelve sections, and
provides for the issue of ninety-five millions of
dollars national currency to the States having
less than their proportion, and for the redemp-
ton and cancellation of forty millions of legal
tenders.
ITALIAN OPERA-General Sherman, Senators
Sprague and Nye, Speaker Blaine, and other
distinguished persons were among the audience
at Walls opera House last evening, to hear the
Brignoli troupe in "ll Trovatore." Brignoli as
"Manrico," and Miss McCulloch as "Leonora,
sang their respective roles in a manner which
greatly delighted those present, and the "Mise-
rere" elected prolonged applause as demand
for its repe,i ition, which was refused. Petrelli
as the Count and Gebelle as "Azucena" were
acceptable. The weakness of the company is
in the chorus and orchestra, and the attempt to
give the anvil chorus, which requires a large
number of singers to make it effective, was a
failure. Otherwise the performance was very
good indeed.
Tonight we have a pleasing opera, and one
which will not tax the company so severely
"Lucrezia Borgia-"
NOMINATIONS CoNPIRMED-The Senate yes
terday afternoon confirmed the following nomi-
nations Mrs. A. A. Brigham, Postmistress,
Natick, Mississippi; Benjamin j. Waters, Asso-
ciate Justice Supreme Court Of New Mexico;
John 5. Nixon, Judge United States District
Court for New Jersey.
LIEUT.. JOHN X. HYNEs of the oath infantry.
now on duty at San Antonio, Texas, leaves there
for his home in New Hampshire next month,
under orders to appear before the Retiring
Board, in consequence of ill-health, caused by
active service. Lieut. Hynes will be well re-
membered here as having been on duty as cap
tam and assistant quartermaster in the Depart
ment of Washington during the war, most of
the time at Convalescent Camp, and subsequent
to duty at Richmond, Va, in connection with
the L. 3. Burial Corps, and was then trans
TERED to the infantry, and went with his regi-
ment to Texas.
The B. & o. r. X. COMPANY DEFEATED
The bill granting appeals from and authorizing
the issue OF writs of error to the Supreme Court
OF the District of Columbia in certain cases
therein mentioned, which recently passed the
Senate and which provides that where by the
final judgment, sentence or decree Of the Su-
preme Court of the District Of Columbia any
person, body polite or corporate is deprived of
any right, property or franchise, or the use of
any right, property or franchise exceeding in
value $1,000 such judgment or sentence or de-
error to the Supreme Court Of the United
states in like manner as is now provided
by law in reference to other final judg-
ments or decrees Of said court, came
up in the House ot0-day, when Mr.. Inger-
SOIL said no one could judge from the title Of the
bill what its provisions we're. 1t was, in fact A
bin to allow the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, under the name Of Q corporation to
sue ont vrits Of error from the District Supreme
Court to the United States Supreme Court, q
thing unheard Of before. He moved that the
bill be laid on the table: which motion was
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