Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-04-23

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WASHINGTON
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvKSUR.-The receipts from this
source to-day were $40 ,S35.27.
PARrTHs writing to the State Department
Tor passports are notified to transmit IS in pay
ment OF the internal revenue tax thereon.
Down PIArr says that the colored goddess of
liberty in the Washington amendment process
son, "went by, shaken up in the most lively
manner in gaily decorated wagon"
SURGEON e. M. STEIN has been detached
from the Marine Rendezvous in this city, and
ordered to the Naval Station at Mound City.
Illinois.
American commerce held q meeting this morn
ing, and after a general discussion of the sub
ject appointed subcommittee to prepare q
bill.
The TREASURY DEPARTMENT have haa en-
graved an excellent copy of the heads Of the ate
Minister Burlingame and General Thon as
which are to be placed ON the next new issu. of
bonds.
THE EsrINATEs Of the Engineer Departm mt
for Notifications are between four and five y all
lion dollars. The House Appropriation Com
mittee yesterday decided to reduce ETY. Der
ccnt. the amount asked.
SENATOR ANTHONY has carried an important
reform in the Senate. On his motion on FRIDAY
and Saturday all the bills on the calender not
objected to can be taken up and passed. This
will permit the passage of numerous deserving
bills which otherwise could not be reached.
THE FUNDING BILL-The House Committee
on Ways and Means, this morning, had a gen.
eral discussion on the funding bill, but did not
60 into the details Of the measure. The discus
sion, thus far, shows quite q diversity of opinion
among the members of the committee in regard
to the main features OF the bill.
The LINE AND STAPF OF THE NAVY BILL
The House Committee on Naval Affairs yester-
day agreed to amend the Line and Staff of the
Navy bill so as to increase the number Of Lieu
tenants to two hundred, and reduce the number
OF Lieutenant Commanders to eighty; also to al
low five thousand dollars to the inventor of the
torpedo boat that destroyed the rebel ram Abe
marie.
GEN. BUTLER got leave of absence for eight
days, commencing with to-day, and started for
Massachusetts last night. Unfortunately for
him, there was a call of the House last NIGHT
after he left, and summons has been sent for
him to come back and answer for his absence.
As he has an important case to attend to at
Taunton on Tuesday, it is hardly probable that
he will come.
SECRETARY boutwell, AND THE MUNICIPAL
ELEcTIoN.-Some Of our city politicians have
lately attempted to induce Secretary Boutwell,
TO declare his preference for one or the other of
the Republican aspirants for the Mayoralty,
and by so doing influence the Clerks in the
Treasury Department, but the Secretary per-
emptOrily and very properly declines to inter-
fere, and expresses the hope that good Re-
publican will be elected.
IMPORTATION OF SMALLPOX PROHIBITED
Department that large number of buffalo
robes, obtained from Indians who had been suf-
fering with smallpox, which robes were un-
doubtedly infected with the virus, were packed
with view to early shipment from some of tine
trading posts on the upper Missouri, instructions
have been given to the commanders of military
posts on the river to prevent the shipment, or
the passage OF any boat containing infected
peltries by their posts.
"GRACE GREENWOOD Mrs. Lippincott) seem.
to be achieving great success at the North as a
lecturer. The papers of Connecticut, where she
has been delivering her capital Indoors lee
ture, speak very enthusiastically of it, and of
the lecturer. Even the sedate Hartford Courant
has been won by our brilliant Grace, and tells
OF "the varying play OF emotions on the hand
some face, with the clear cut profile, and the
great gray eyes, one moment melting with pity
and pathos, and the next dancing with fun and
mischief" The Norwich Bulletin speaks of the
lecture as admirable in thought and delivery,
and as "well calculated to strike dismay into the
hearts Of all believers in the intellectual ineri-
ority OF women" Another paper thinks that
"no lady lecturer in the country so completely
annihilates the prejudices against women lee
turers as Mrs. Lippincott," and yet another de-
scribes her as ga grand looking woman, in the
full prime Of her womanhood, who seems her
own best argument for the cause she pleads"
The CHARGES AGAINST GEN. HowARp.-The
Committee on Education and Labor this morn
ing heard the crOss-examinaton Of X. H. Ste
vens on his testimony of yesterday in the case
Of Gen. Howard, after which Rev. DR.. BoyntOn,
late pastor of the First Congregational Church,
was called and his examination commenced
DR.. BOyntOn's testimony refers to Gen. How
ards connection with the church and its erec-
ton. Also the mapner in which the Howard
University had its origin, on which subject sew
eral witnesses have already been examined
The OHIO VISITORS, while at the navy yard
yesterday, called ON Mrs. Admiral DahlQren,
formerly of Ohio, At her residence. A formal
reception was given, and Gen. Robinson, Of the
Ohio State Association, introduced the visitors
to Mrs. Dahlgren. The Marine Band was In at
tendance, and an elegant collation. was spread
for the guests. A little after 4 O'Clock the COM
pany retired.
The excursionists left this city in a special
train At O'Clock this morning, for Baltimore
where they will visit the Bremen steamer Ohio
take q sail upon the Patapscs and Chesapeake
and visit places of interest and note around that
city. uf