Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-08-07
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvEN pE-The receipts from this
source to-day were s7S2 ,921.SS.
THE SUBSCRIPTIONS to the new loan to-day
were S22,65O.
GENERAL SHERMAN returned here Saturday
evening.
SENATOR CRAGIN is summering at Salisbury
Beach.
REPRESENTATIVES, HENRY L. CAKE, of Penn
sylvania, is travelling in Colorado.
SENATOR STEWART, OF Nevada, is IN town at
his former residence on Massachusetts, avenue
Gov. COOKE received intelligence on Satur-
day of the safe arrival of his family, and Mr.
VIM. S. Huntington, at Queenstown, Ireland.
LIEUT.. COMMANDERS j. d. MARVIN has been
ordered to report to the Chief of Bureau of Ord
nance at the Navy Department for duty.
THE L. S. STEAMER NIPsIc arrived at Pensa-
cola on the I'd inst, from a cruise on the Mexi-
can coast, but brought no news Of Importance
therefrom. All well on board
THE KU-KLUx INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE
on Saturday concluded their examination of
witnesses in attendance from the South, and
took recess until the Goth of September.
VINCENT CoLYER, when last heard from was
at Hays City, Kansas, en- route to Santa Fe.
From the latter point he was going TO Camp
Grant.
PARDoSEp.-The President has pardoned
John Wilkinson, convicted of violation of the
Internal Revenue law in Virginia on the oath OF
June last, and sentenced to pay a fine OF $500.
Mr.. ROBERT Stockton was married last
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Zeilen, and left with his bride, accompanied by
Senator and Mrs. Stockton, for New York this
morning.
PRESIDENT GRANT, with Secretaries Bout
well and Robson, Postmaster General Cress-
well, ex-Secretary Borie, and Senator Freling-
huysen, visited ex-senator Cattell, at his coun-
try seat at INTERCHANGEABLE, New Jersey, Satur-
day.
EPosTMAsTER GENERAL CRRsswRLL and First
Assistant Postmaster Marshall returned to the
city this evening. Gen. Terrell, Third Assistant
Postmaster General, was at st. Johns, New
Brunswick, a few days since. He will spend his
entire vacatian in the British provinces.
ASSIGNED TO THE SIGNAL SERvIcE.-First
Lieutenant Charles +. Kifbourne, ID artillery
and First Lieutenant Crosby p. Miller, 4th ar
tillery, have been ordered TO report to the Chief
Signal Officer Of the Army for assignment to
duty.
GEN. SPINSER.-A letter received at the
Treasury Department to-day from Gen. Spinner
dated Main, July 22d, states
that his health had improved and he was on the
eve Of going TO the Alps. He makes no mention
of the new loan, but states that he will return
home about the LIST Of September.
PROFESSOR BAIRD, of the Smithsonian Instr
tute, who was commissioned recently By the
government to make full and minute examina-
ton Of all the species of fish occurring in Ameri
csnswaters, and TO report thereon, is now Occu-
pied with researches in the neighborhOod of
Newport, Rhode Island.
DISPATCHES have been received at the Navy
Department from Rear Admiral John A. Wins
low, commanding the Pacific Fleet, dated July
Vancouver Island. Since leaving San Francisco
in May last, he had visited in his flagship the
Saranac, Port TOwnshend, Port Madison, Olym-
pla, Steilaco0n, Seattle, TOngas Island, Fort
Wrangen and Sitka. The TOngas Islands are
situated at the southern extremity of Alaska
Territory, and Fort Wrangen was formerly
military post. The visit of the Saranac was re-
ceived with much satisfaction by our citizens in
the Territory.
The ARMY OF LETTER WRITERS INCREASING
The report OF the Auditor Of the Post Office
Department to the Postmaster General Of the
receipts and expenditures of the Department for
the quarter ending March 81, 1871, Just rendered
shows an increase in the item of postage stamps
soia over the corresponding quarter of 1870, of
SS6O,Oc0. The report also shows large increase
OF receipts over those of the quarter named, with
small increase OF expenditures. The deficiency
OF the Department for the fiscal year ending
June 80 last viii be less than 81 900 600, which
does not include credit for free mail matter
which amounts TO several hundred thousand
dollars. -r- 20. -'-.-- ------