Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-10-05
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
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SECRETARY .DELASo LETT for Ohio yesterday.
INTERNAL REvENuE.-The receipts from this
source to-day were s52s, 1926.
COMMODORE A. s. CASE, Chief of the Ord
nance Bureau, is acting Secretary OF the Navy
during the absence of Secretary Robson.
GOVERNOR COOKE, and Captain Brison, U. s.
N, sailed for Europe from New York yesterday
in the steamer Russia.
GEN. CowEN, Assistant Secretary of the In
terror, who is at sent in Ohio when last heard
from, was rapidly recovering his health.
The PREsIDRNT.-A telegram received at the
Executive Mansion this morning announces
that the President will arrive in Baltimore to-
morrow morning and remain there portion o.
the day; reaching here to- mo row afternoon.
Mr.. yixc.-sT CoLYER has been heard from
again. He was at CAM Apache, A. r., on the
9Th ult., endeavoring to induce the Indians there
to 60 on the White Mountain reservation, and he
was to leave In day or two for Camp Graut.
The NAVAL BOARD (of which Vice Admiral
Rowan Is president) to investigate the claims OF
naval officers who deem that they were unjustly
dealt with and passed over i'm the list of promo
tions, is in session at the Navy Department.
THE DEAD LITTER OFFICR-During the
month of September last, 310,O9i letters, from
all sources, were received at the Dead Letter
Office. About 100 900 letters were in that period
returned to the writer's. The amount of money
returned to forwarders Of letters was IS, 49, 5.
MAJOR CHARLES T. LARNEp has relieved
Major Rochester of the special duty assigned
him at the office of Paymaster General Brice,
and has assumed the duties of chief dsbursing
ohcer, the position recently occupied by Major
Hodge.
HANDSOME vIGNETTE of the late General E.
ID. Baker, who was killed a. Balls Bluff early
in the war, has been prepared at the Bureau of
Engray ing and Printing, Treasury Department,
and will be placed upon either the new four or
four and half Per cent. bonds.
THE FIRST Al pIroR OF THE TREASURY has
sent to the Secretary his annual report for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1871, which exhibits
a statement OF accounts settled i'm that Office
within that period amounting to 81 "a 1922
The Auditor recommends an increase Of COM
pensatiOn to his clerks.
THE PRINTING Of the new internal revenue
stamps for tobacco, distilled spirits and beer is
now progressing at the printing bureau of the
Treasury Department, and the first instaIment
will be turned over to the Commissioner about
the latter part of the week. The new stamps
are much neater than the old ones, and are
printed i'll different colors, according to denomi-
nation.
THE SCIENTIFIC LECTURE COURSE BEFORE
THE Young MEMS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
We print to-day the schedule announcement of
the regular annual scientific course Of lectures,
before the Y. NJ. G: A., and our readers will be
greatly interested in the programme set forth.
With such names as Prof. Morton, Rev. DR..
John Lord, Prof. Hillman, and, above all, the
accomplished Prof Tyndall, of England, the
course Is destined to be one of unusual merit
Prof Rohde, of Hamburg, is comparatively new
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geology and the progress of civilization are
highly commended by such men as Prof. Agassiz
as possessing great and unique merit, and as
being especially adapted to the entertainment
and instruction of teachers and advanced
scholars. We are also glad to see that the scale
OF prices is unusually low and that 1t is possible
reserved seat, at a rate equivalent to Is or 80
cents for each lecture. 1t must be a success.
Gen. Meigs' Refutation of the Seneca
Stone Scandal.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., October 5, 1871.
Editor Star The Daily Patriot of 4th instant,
calls attention to the fact that the correspondent
ofthe New York Sun, of the ID Instant, accused
the Quartermaster General of requiring Seneca
sandstone to be used, to the exclusion of all
other stone, in the national cemeteries and
works in the vicinity OF Washington which he
controls; and coupled this assertion with the
statement that the Quartermsster General owns
So, eco in stock of this quarry.
Both assertions are untrue. Seneca stone is
not exclusively used, as the contracts and pro-
posals Oh file at the returns office and elsewhere
will show. -
The Quartermaster General does not own and
never did any stock or interest in this quarry
or in any other, and, moreover, no one ever Of
Tered him any stock, or solicited, or even advised
him to take stock or interest i'm the concern.
Seneca stone is and has been used in the con-
tracts for works Of the national cemeteries
under charge OF the Quartermaster's Depart
ment in this neighborhoOd, and so have BEEN
and are, used Manassas stone, blue gniess of
the Potomac, cut sandstone coping from
wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, and blue stone
coping from the Hudson river.
NJ. Z. MEIGs, Quartermaster General,
Breyet Major General, U.S.A