Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-09-08


ropean tour.
NAVAL OFFICERS DETAcHEp.-Lieut. Com
mander B. P. Smith frem ordnance duty, Navy
Yard, Boston, and placed on waiting orders;
Medical Inspector Edward Skippen from the
Naval Acadamy and ordered TO the Wabash as
heet surgeon OF the European feet.
Col. WIN. +. BARRY, I'd artillery. command
ing artillery school, Fort Monroe, has been
ordered to proceed to Fort wadsworth, New
York harbor, to examine the counterpoise gun
carriage there undergoing experiments, with
view to instructions at the artillery school.
Mr.. IGNATIUs DoNNELLY, who gained some
notoriety while a member Of Congress from
Minnesota as the foe of the /" washburne fami-
ly," is running for seat in the Minnesota Sem
ate. he has for several years been an "inde-
pendent" candidate for office, but now returns
to the republican party.
WALT wHITMAN.-The New York Post saws
that Walt Whitman was received very heartily
by the American Institute audience yesterday;
that she occasionally walked up and down the
platform while reciting, and seemed to be a good
clocutionist, but his delivery was sadly marred
by the noise OF hammering going on"
APPOINTMENT OF PosTMAsTERs.-The Pres
idont has appointed the following deputy post
masters:-J. ". Patterson, at Humboldt, Kan;
r. A. Hough at Collinsyille, CT; Vim. Weldon
Iowa Falls, Iowa; L. n. McAllister, Champaign,
ILL.,; }. II. Taylor, BoZemsn, Montana, and
Thos. Richardson, Port Gibson, Miss.
FOUR DAYS LEAVE FOR THE KNIGHTS TEN
PLAR-The President has directed the heads of
Departments to grant four days leave of absence
10 all employees who are connected with the
knights Templars in this city to attend the
Grand Encampment OF the United States at
Baltimore ON the 18th. 10Th, 2lst, and I'D insts.
sPoNDESr.-The Washington correspondent of
the Boston Advertiser says:-"M. Catacazy, the
Russian minister, is clearly convicted of the
authorship Of a letter printed in the New York
Herald on the 9Th instant, pretended to have
of the cnitv sctween ~ insr an a,'d Sn
rotary Fish. The conversation which that let
ter alludes to took place on the 10th of August,
days previous. The character OF the converse
ton reported, moreover, is only known to NJ.
Catacazy and Mr.. Fish"
THE REPUBLICAN TRIUMPH IN CALIFORNIA
The following private despatch from a we'll
informed citizen of San Francisco was received
here this morning:
Newton Booth republican, is elected Gov
ernor by more than five thousand majority fisk
thousand our Associated Press dispatch says.l
San Francisco elects the entire republican legis-
lative ticket. The anti-Gorham boilers kept
their ticket in the field, but il received less than
one hundred votes. Sargent and Coughlan are
certainly elected to Congress from the second
and third districts, and, possibly, Houghton from
The first. The Legislature is undoubtedly repub-
ican."
Two kilograms, addressed to the President,
were received at the White House from San
Francisco to-day, relative TO the election. Sem
tor Cole telegraphs as follows: California Is
fully righted up and Is in line for next year,
with all sails set" The other telegram Is from
Marshal VIM. Gouverneur Morris, who says:
We have elected our Governor and whole
state ticket. Two congressman sure; and proba-
bly, the third. Present adyices also indicate we
iority."
Commisson Douglass also received a tele-
gram to-day from Supervisor Foulke, of Cali
iornia, saying that the State has probably gone
Republican by 5000 majority; and that the
Legislature is secured and three congressman.