Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-09-07


VoL. 36-No. 5.456.
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL RKvENUR-The receipts to-day
from this source were s37e.4l5.57.
yICK-PREsIpRNr CoLYAx.-The Brooklyn
Union prints letter from Schuyler Colfax, an
NO Incing his definite and unslterable retirement
from public Lie.
PRoNorIoEs-J. f. Mcguire has been pro-
NOTED from first to second class and j. s. Sharpe
from second to third class clerkships in the
Sixth Auditors Office.
FIRST LIEUTENANT GUSTAV Won BLUCHER,
T.. A, has been honorably discharged the ser
vice under the provisions OF the late act of
Congress.
TINE ExfENDED.-The Acting Commissioner
OF Inter nal Revenue has extended the time for
attaching the Tice meter to distilleries sixty
days from this date.
RECOGNITION OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
The New York Commercial Advertiser says that
the President has instructed Secretary Fish to
sue a proclamation recognizing the new
French republic.
EUGENK A. FIsKB, OF Mass, has been ap-
pointed Assistant Secretary to the President to
sign Land Patents temporarily, and Mr.. Chas.
White, the Secretary, who is in feeble health,
has been granted two months leave OF absence.
THE FUNERAL of Jennie Corbin, a niece of
President Grant, took place at Elizabeth, n. j.,
on Sunday. This daughter was an only child,
and the President relegraphed that he would be
present, but was unable to reach Elizabeth In
time. He, however, paid a visit OF coincidence
to his sister on Monday.
SECRETARY Cox yesterday issued an order
prohibiting Judge Geo. W. Paschal from prac-
ticing before any OF the bureaus in the Depart
ment of the Interior. The cause of this order
is said to be letter written by Paschal in rela-
tion to the McGarrahan claim, addressed to the
Commissioner of the Land Office.
CIVILIAN INDIAN AGKNTs.-The late act Of
Congress prohibiting officers of the army from
number of appointments to ill the positions
now held by military men, and Secretary Cox Is
in correspondence with various missionary and
religious organizations in relation to the selec-
tion of suitable persons for the position OF Indian
| agents.
CENSUS BUIHAU.-The following were day
appointed first class clerks in this bureau:--I.
N. f.. Cooke. James II. Rainey, j. W. Brown,
Thomas e. Lynch, j. +. Powell, and A. ID. Van
Eeveer, of the District of Columbia; W. II.
Doolittle, of Minnesota; j. b. Wilson aud b.
A, Brennan, of New York; j. b. Motley. OF
Kansas Samuel Bates, Of Massachusetts,, and
j. Il. Patterson, OF Pennsylvania.
NEW MILITARY Posr.-An order Just issued
from the War Department directs that Bedloe's
Island New York harbor, be discontinued as
depot or rendezvous for recruits, and that it be
garrisoned under the orders of the General com
manding the Department OF the East. The su-
perintendent of recruiting service at New York
city will make proper disposition Of the recruits
and recruiting property on the island.
The MrDsHIPMKS on board OF the practice
ship Savannah, which arrived at Hampton
Roads on Monday, will be granted leave of
| absence for ten or twelve days after the 18th
inst to visit their homes. The Savannah has
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vicinity of Fortress Monroe for practice for the
present. She will be ordered 10 Annapolis
about the middle of next week.
The WORK To Go ON-Acting Attorney Gen
eral Talbot has in response to an inquiry of the
Acting Secretary of the Tre asury, Hon. w. A
Richardson, decided that appropriations for
public orks and other appropriations for speci-
| fc oil jects not annual appropriations within
In, aar,fx nft Ia,
\ that Of the First Comptroller Of the Treasury
| and Commissioner Of Customs, and relieves the
Department Of serious embarrassment. 1t viii,
also enable the Lighthouse Board to continue
| work on many of their most important struc-
| tuIes, and will prevent the suspension Of work
| on the New York and Boston post offices.
THE NCGARRAHAN CAsK.-To-day, in the
Equity Court, the case OF McCarrahan agt.
| the New Idris Mining Company and others, was
| argued by Mr.. Paschal, for McGarrahan, and
\ Mr.. \. Wilson for defendants; and Judge wyle
made a decree denying the application for in
| junction, and resembling and setting aside 80
much Of the order made few days since as re-
| strains or eDjoins defendants from receiving
| land patent, for the reason that the New Idria
Company has not been brought in or found with
| in the jurisdiction of the Court.
/ AWARD OF TBK TREASURY LOCK CONTRACT.
Acting Secretary Richardson yesterday award
| ed the contract for furnishing locks FOR bonded
| warehouses, cars, &C., bids for which were
opened short time since. On cars containing
bonded goods, he has determined to have two
locks. The outside one simply secures the car
which covers the opening in the car by which
| access is had to the inner lock, upon which the
| government relies for security. The outside
lock is that proposed by Mr.. James +. rhomp-
son, being without key, and fastened simply BY
a lead real. They are furnished at fifty cent,
each. The inside lock, and also for bonded
warehouses, will be that Of the American Seal
Lock Company, OF which Mr.. 8. p. Brown, OF
this city, is the agent. This lock has been
adopted by the express companies, and by many
| banks and prominent merchants here and else
| where, and is considered an excellent piece OF
mechanism. being at once strong, simple, and
cheap, and, when supplied with the seal, per-
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