Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-11-20
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvENuE.-The receipts from this
oource to-day were s7G+ ,s9i.11.
The CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION to-day con-
sidered the subject OF localities fof examinations
also, the clas sifcatiOn of offices.
SECRETARY BELKNAP LETT here on Saturday
for ten-days visit to Keokuk, Iowa. Secretary
Robson left on Saturday for Philadelphia.
j. C. BANCROFT DAVIS, ESQ. Assistant Sec
rotary of State and American Secretary to the
Geneva Commission, sailed from New York on
Saturday for Geneva.
THE COMMISSIONER OF THE GENERAL LAND
OFFICE has just issued pamphlet containing
brief description of the public lands of the United
States for the information of foreigners seeking
home in this country.
LUCILLE WESTERN commences her engage
ment tonight at the National, and VII appear
during The week in her most popular parts. She
does not suit all the critics. but for all that she
urque1tionably one of the most attractive cards
that the managers have on their lists.
JUDGE RICHARDSON, Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, writes from London that all bonds
subscribed for by the syndicate will be deliv-
cred during December, and that he will close
up his London Office and return home the first
week in January.
PRRsoNAL.-John W. Young son of Brigham
Young, and Delegate Hooper, of Utah, are in
town.....Hon. Stewart l.. woodford and George
H. Sharpe, of New York, and ex-Assorney Gen
eral HOar are at the Arlington. . f.. Jacobs of
the Cincinnati Commercial, and James p. Co
wardn, OF the Richmond (Va.) Dispatch, are at
the st. Marc.
MILITARY CHANGEs.-By direction of the
Dra liant tba
continued by General Orders No. &C, War De-
partment, of the LIST instant. is re-established
Brigadier General +. o. G.. Ord is transferred
from the Department of California ID command
the Department of the Platte, and in General
orders No. 40, just issued, is directed to proceed
TO the headquarters, Omaha, with as little DELAY
as practicable. Until another officer shall be
assigned to command the Department of Cali
exercised by the Division Commander. Major
General Schofeld. Paragraph 2, Special Orders
NO. 3So, so far as Major Ruggles, assistant adj
jutant general, is concerned, is revoked and
Brigadier General Augur, on assuming com
mand Of the Department of Texas, will tenn
Eorarily detail an officer to relieve Major H. e.
Wood, assistant adjutant general. Paragraph l.
Special Orders No 4i6, relating to Major Perry,
quartermaster, is revoked
ALEXIS CONES THE Grand Duke will prob
ably arrive here tomorrow or Wednesday even
ing with his suite and Minister Catacazy, and
proceed to the residence fitted up for him on l
street. No information has been received by
Secretary Fish as to the time he will arrive here
but 1t is expected that he will leave New York
on the morning succeeding his reception there.
Minister CatacaZy is too much impressed with
the responsibility of his charge to risk railroad
Journey from New York to this city at night;
hence he will leave that city by the morning train
In order that the trip may be by daylight. There
Will be two magnificent special cars for his use
Upon his arrival here he will be received by
Madame CatacaZy, and will afterwards be pre-
sented to the President, but will receive no calls
until his return to this city about January next
The arrangements for his presentation to the
President will be made by Minister Catacazy
and Secretary Fish, and the presentation cere-
mony will probably take place about noon on
the day succeeding his arrival. There will be
no formal speech making and no public display
at the presentation, which will take place i'm the
Blue Room at the White Hou.e. The President
will be ATTENDED by his Cabinet, and the Duke
by his suite and Minister Catacazy who will in
troduce him to the President and Cabinet; then
he will be escorted to the Red Room and
presented to Mrs. Grant, and, after a
s se6Ie an time rst spent in conversation will
The usual crowd of curious ones will be gath
cred around the White House door to get a
glimpse of the much talked-of Alexis, but none
Will be admitted to the interior of the building
He speaks English fluently but prefers French
His conversation, however, at the presentation
will be in the former language. 1t is customary
on such occasions for the visitor TO receive a
call from the Secretary of State soon after his
arrival in the city and prior to his presentation
10 the President. In accordance with this Gu
tom Secretary Fish will call upon him on the
evening OF his arrival or before noon the next
DAY.
HANDSOME DREssEs.-Our Society furnishes
the following description Of some dresses re-
Gently made in New York for the wife of one of
the cabinet officers and her sister, for the CON-
ing season:
"Among the beautiful dresses made in New
YORK tins winter, to be sent to Washington, are
some of faultless design and execution. The
first we shall describe was for Mrs Creswell, the
wife OF the Postmaster General. The richest gros
grain silk Of the palest shade of cafe Lait and
Lyons velvet a shade darker, were the materials
used in its fabrication. The skirt, cut en- tyaia
was trimmed with velvet tabs of an entirely new
design. The oyerskirt, also a new design and
drapery, was trimmed with velvet to correspond
Five boa6ants in the back swelled out under a
postilion of velvet. The front of the corsape
was finished with two deep and sharp points
falling on the apron-fronted tunic Two waists
were sent home with this dress, one cut a Ia
POmpddOur. the other tres decollete, so that the
dress could be worn either as a dinner and re-
ception or an evening dress. The trimmings
ioImed by an ingenious mingling of the silk and
velvet IN handmade trimming placed at the
head of a rich silk chenille fringe.
a SISTER of Mrs. Creswell, Miss Mcintyre, has
now in the artists hands two beautiful dresses
The hrst is blue-green silk of the shade called
peacock green. The iupon is trimmed with one
deep founce at the bottom, headed with three
very narrow lufies. The bottom of the deep
hOunce, which, by the way, is very scant is cut
in large scallops, and bound with a heavy
cord, which heads handsome silk fringe. The
polonaise, of new design, is vest fronted, Ia
LOuis XIV, and postilliOned in the back The
loopings, different on each side, display in the
most artistic manner the graceful fancy and in
genuiiy of the artistic. The second dress is of
blue grOs grain silk made with a court train of
new design. The trimmings OF the front
breadths, arranged taLlier with a wide cut
away founce at the bottom. Two waists also
accompany this dress-one cut tres decoilete, the
other a Ia Pcmpdd0ar. Both trimmed with fringe
TO mach the skirt trimmings, and filled in at the
neck and sleeves with fine point lace falling over
quillings of mechlin.
The OPERA.-A crowded house witnessed on
Saturday evening the farewell performance of
the Parepa-Roea Opera Troupe. The opera was
The Marriage of Figaro" BY Mozart, and the
performance was great success, notwithstand-
ing the fact that much was omitted. The artists
in the cast, Madame Psrepa-Rosa, Mira Seauin.
miss Doria, and Messrs. Campbell, whifin,
Segnin, and Han,-all sustained their parts with
credit, and each won we'll merited appisuse from
the large and fashionable audience present The