Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-04-27
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvKNUR.-The receipts from this
source to day were s4s5, 922,4I.
THE SUBSCRIPTIONS to the new loan to- day
q mounted to $4,000.
SECRETARY BEIKsAP has gone 20 Cincinnati.
where he was summoned in consequence OF the
ser ious illness Of his child.
PRESIDENT GRANT and Vice President Colfax
attended the Odd Fellows celebration in Laia.
yette, Ind, yesterday.
TRANSFER OF CoIN.-The Treasurer of the
United States has ordered, by telegraph. a
TIA lsfer Of $500 900 in coin from the Sub Treas
uTy in San Francisco TO the Sub Treasury in
New York.
TRRAsURgR SPINNER is much worse TO-DAY
than he was yesterday, when it was thought he
was rapidly improving. He had a severe and
prolonged chill last night, AMI this morning is
hardly able TO speak above whisper.
'THB suit of the Atlantic Cable Company for
the recovery from the United States OF the
amounts OF the telegraph bills incurred by Sec
Rotary Seward during the Alaska negotiations.
will be tried by the Court OF Claims on Tuesday
next.
APPOINTMENTS IN SECOND AUDITORS or
FiCR.-Appointed fTst-class clerks: Thomas NJ
jackson, Richard .. Adams, Asa NJ. Trimble.
James p. RAIDER, and b. W. Hunter. Assist
ant Messengers: De Roy EldIidge and A. j.
Leonard.
The SPANISH MINIsrEe last evening gave
dinner, which was attended by Earl de Grav
Sir Edward Thornton and Lady Thornton, Sir
John Mcdonald and lady, Sir Stafford North
cote, Professor Montague Bernard. Lord Ten
terdeD, Secretary Fish and wife, Mrs de Bile,
Secretary Robson, and Senior Roberts and lady,
The PRESENCE Of ex- Attorney General Evarts
IN town has raised report that he is to succeed
Secretary Fish in the State Department It
turns out, beweyer. that his visit TO Washington
i simply in the interest OF the Central U1ioa
Pacific Railroad TO advocate q claim OF th,t
road before the government.
NAVAL ORDERS To-DAY.-Csptain =. Nichol-
son has been ordered 10 duty as a member OF
the board relative to inventions OF which Cant
T. II. Patterson is president. Lieutenant o. W
Farenholt has been ordered to the harvard A.
Norfolk, and Lieutenant George w. De Long
to the navy yard at New York.
The JOINT HIGH COMMISSION having .ubstau-
TALLY agreed on the treaty TO be submitted 10
each government, has adjourned until Nav 81,
by which time ii is expected the British Com
missinners will receive from England advices as
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disspproves the protocols or basis OF settlement
agreed upon by the Commission.
THE ST. Louis ARSENAL TRASsFRREzD r,
JEFFERSON BARRACKs,-The Secretary OF War
directs that the military post Of Jefferson Bsr-
racks, Missouri, together with the lands apper-
tanning thereto, be transferred to the Ordnance
Department: The st. Louis Arsenal is trans
TERED to Jefferson Barracks, and the Old
arsenal site in st. Louis " III be known as the
st. Louis depot.
W. w. CORCORAN, Esq, is thought bv nj,
physicians TO be little better this morning. T.
appears the eTysipelas has extended from below
TO some distance above the knee, bu. Lis med.
cal attendants think they have arrested F:-
farther ana fatal progress. Mr.. C0rcoran re-
marked this morning in reply 10 COngratu}atio,t>
on his Improvement by Mr.. a. HYDE that the
told him he was better, but he didn't believe q,
CHANGE OF SUPERINTENDENT AT Wx-~
PoINT.-COl. ThOs. q. Pitcher has been r.,
leved from duty as Superintendent OF TIA,
Military Academy at West Point, aud Co
ThOs. ii. Ruger, 18th infantry has been detailed
in his place, the change TO take place on tba J.
military record, and is said to be one OF the
strictest disciphnarians IN the service.
MCRDER for A GovERNMRSr OFPIcEE ~
SOUTH CAROLINA.-C0llectOr x. ". wai!a,a.
Of the third South Carolina district, reports 20
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue that on
the 4th inst, james b. Sherman, deputy L :
Marshal and deputy collector OF internal reve-
nue., while making . seizure of eOutrahand
whisky at Greenyille, ). g., was approached
from behind and struck on the head with a
piece OF wood. His skull is thought 20 he frsc-
tured, and on the afternoon of the 2lst inst 1t
was not expected he would live twenty-fOur
hours.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM the &C. OF
March Sd the President is authorized 10 inaagu-
rate civil service reform in the appointments 70
DE made to Office in future, and sIU 600 were
appropriated last week to pay expense. of pre-
scribing rules and regulations for the adIn ssuu
OF persons into the civil service. The law Wa
promulgated yesterday, and a. IL is discretionary
there IL no little interest felt to see what courSp
the President will pursue in enforcing it. TIE
icea now seems to he to form a commission Of
three persons TO examine applicants for office.
The NEW STATE DEPARTMENT BUIIDlEs
TO BE OF GRANITR.-The Committees OF Public
Buildings and Grounds OF the Senate aud
House, after thorough inspection of the
samples of building stone for the proposed new
State Department building submitted TO them
unanimously determined yesterday afternoon,
that the new building shall be constructed OF
granite. a commission Of I'VE, OF which Secre-
ta.y Fish will be chairman. will advertise for
proposals and determine from what quarry the
granite shall be obtained. The south wing OF
the sew building Is 10 be erected just south or
the Navy Depai tment, 80 that the centre and
nCrih wing, when built hereafter. will occupy
the site of the present War and Navy Depart
ment buildings.
HARRIET HossER, WINNIE REAN. AND THE
NEW YoEK TiIBUSR-Hsrriet Hosmer, the
sculptor, OF whom all Americans are proud
both for her genius and her nobility of chsrac-
ter, writes q letter from Rome TO the New York
Tribune, defending her sister sculptor, Winnie
Resm, from the charge made in the Tribune
that Miss Ream did not do the work OF the Lin
coin statue, but employed skillful workmen to
do it. Miss Hosmer says:
81 knew Miss Ream personally when in
Rome, and lift up NV voice in her defence. [
believe her TO be a conscientious and hard
working artist, and a. much entitled to the
credit OF her worL as any artist / know. All
artists expect their works to be criticised but
we women artists will not hear that we are i'm
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