Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-08-23
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
THE SUBSCRIPTIONS to the new loan to-day
were S1,O6l,0oO.
INTERNAL REvESUE.-The receipts from this
source to-day were $500 $3.50.
A. H. LINCOLN hrs been appointed to a first
class clerlShip in the Sixth Auditors Office.
DIR. II. II. MAYNARD has been appointed an
examining surgeon of the Pension Bureau at
TIP IN, Iowa.
John S. ARM, TRoNG has been appointed
agent for the Abiquin Indians of New Mexico,
vice c. S. Zevely, resigned.
Mrs. LINCoLN.-The n. Y. Moi saws: Z" Mrs
Abraham Lincoln looks like plaster image,
pale and vei wan. Her most intimate friends
OF ten years back wouldn't know her.
THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS to-day moved
their Office lrOm the corner of Eth street and
PeDr Syyania avenue - Morrison's building on
~ s.ieet, recently fitted up for the District Of
fees.
THE PRESIDENT is expected here to- morrow
morning, and quite number of Office seekers
have already arrived. 1t : by TO mears GER
tain, however, that he will come. rs there is
nothing OF great Importance requiring his at
tenuOn.
y NEW NATIONAL AEsENAL.-The Annapo-
lis Gazette understands that the Secretary of the
Navy will shorty issue propO ais for bids for
building an Arsenal on portion of the Straw
perry Hill farm, in the Naval School Grounds
at Annapolis, Nd
APPOINTMENTS. - The President has ap-
pointed JnO. A. Martin and George A. Craw-
ford, OF karsas, comm ssioners to represent that
State at the centennial exhibition at Phladel-
phia; Charles p. Blackman postmaster at West
Killingby, Conn.
THE LATEST ADvICEs from William H.
Seward state that he will return about Septem-
Der 10th. Mr.. Seward 9s declined an invitation
to remain in London as the guest of wn
M. Evarts, who is residing in that city. Mr.
Evarts children are at school in London, and
will finish their education abroad.
ARMY oRDERs.-As-istant Surgeon Charles
X. Whine has been ordered TO the Department
OfDakota. The resignation of First Lieut.. Jno.
MCCOY, 10th infantry, he's been accepted by the
President. Capt. Francis Beach, 4th artillery,
fas been retired on account Of sickness contract
ed in the line of duty.
FROM the National News Company we have
ScTibner's Monthly for September ian admirable
number) and batch of weekly papers From
Kervand We have the Edinburg Revieau tor july,
containing nine articles imainly upon modern
tOpicS-DarU inism, Commercial France, the
Vatican Council, the Military Policy OF Russia,
&c.
CRUISE OF THE PRACTICE SHIPs.-The prac-
tice ships Constellation and Saratos a. which left
Annapolis June 18th with AS miCShipmen ON
board for the usual practice cruise, are now at
Newport, K. /. Thus far the two yes. e's have
cruised in company, and have visited Halifax,
Cape Cod Bay, Portland, Maine, where the
citizens gave them ball, Gardners Bay, New
London, Long Island Sound and Newport.
Is THEREA VACANCY?-Commissione Doug
lass to-day adc-eSsed letter to Secretary Bout
well reques ing him to obtain the opinion of the
Attorney General as - whether there ia a
vacancy in the office OF first Deputy Commits
slOher ol internal Revenue, in view of the cir
cuDStances attending the suspension of the
Commissioners and the appointment OF the first
deputy TO that office.
INDIAN WAR FEARED IN MoNrASA.-Gover-
no. b. f. Potts, of Montana, writes to the Sec
rotary of the Interior, under date of Virginia
City, 18th inst, that large bodies of Sioux are
rathering on the Crow reservation, and that he
Iears that the settlers will flee the country in
anticipation of hostile demons. atiors He is
organizing the settlers, bur win not call them
mo active service until authorized by the War
Department
A GENERAL ORDER just issued from the War
Department directs that in advertising for con-
tracts Tor supplies o.. ar'mals, or of forage for
military posts, the conditions of competition
should be always such as - open d letters
formers, and stock raisers near the point of
delivery and consumption OF the supplies needed
the opportunity of selling their products directly
to the Urited States in such quantities as NAV
be convenient and advantageous for both par
tics.
MR.. BoUIwELL's SCHEME for negotiating the
five per cent. loan has proven completely sue
cess,ul. The seventy-five milliors allotted to
Europe were all taken before the close of busi-
Yesterday. and i'm %
this amount were offered. The American SUBJ
scrptions yesterday $500, 900, and il is very
probable that to-day the entire loan, 500 600 600
will be exhausted Applications have been r.
ceived at the Treasury Department for the con-
version OF hvc-twenIies into the five per cents
The eagerness with which these securities have
been taken in Europe is an immense testimonial
to the soundneSs of American credit, and per-
haps may lead the way to the disposal of the
bonds bearing lower rates of interest.
THE QUESTION as ID original packages was
some time since disposed of at the Internal Reve-
nue. Office; Mr.. Delano having decided that i'm
porters need not unpack the large casesrcceived
by them for the purpose of stamping the smaller
packages of pertumery, cosmetics, &C., therein
c0ntsined, but that the retail dealer Purchasing
the case should afix the necessary stamps. The
late Commissioner Pleasonton reversed this de-
cison, and directed that the importer should mn
pack each case received by him and afix the
stamps to all the smaller packages therein con-
tanned, hence suits have been instituted in New
York - determine the question of original pack
age and by whom the stamps should be affixed.
AT the solicitation of many dealers, Commits
sloner Douglass to-day suspended the decision of
Plea ont IN until the matter could be decided in
court; consequently importers will not have to
break their cases for the purpose of stamping
the contents for the present. The retail deal.
ers, however, must attix the necessary stamps to
the articles.
THE CoLoRED CADET AGAIN-The Wash
ington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun saws
nat Cadet Smith, of West Point, is again in