Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-03-22
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

| Nh. CALDWELL, the new SenatC. from Kan
sas, is 80 years OF aye, and ia reported to be
worth s3, OO0,Oco.
Mr.. FoRNRY NOMINATED The President
this afternoon sent to the Senate toe nominal
| ton of John W. Forney to be collector OF cls-
toms st Philadelphia, Pa.
| TIE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS of the Dis
.rict Of Columbia have d; ,ided to elect one of
their own memoe-s secretary o. tn, board; so
al applications fOr thai p oli lion Will be labor
| lost.
ILLNESS OF TIE JAPANESE MTNIsrER-Lord
Mori, he Jap an e Minist-r, WAC has for come
days been under the clre of DR.. Mo. gan having
/ been c)rhr' l to f's bed nee his arrival with a
severe att-ck o. lin 5, = now recovering.
| EX-SENATOR RICHARD YATES returned to his
home in Jacksonville H., on Frid ~ evening
'Hst, and was cordially welco med by bis old
| ne.ghbors and ..ieTts. He has been twenty
| eight years in pIbl C life.
| On OFFICIAL BUSHES Gen. MichIer, Con .
| missioner o. Pubic Buildings, Gen. Schriye.,
| U. s. A, aud Surgeon General Barnes, left
| this city for New York on Monday night on
| official duty by order OF the Secretary OF Mar.
| They Will be absent Iew days only.
Nor TO BE PUBLIsLED.-The old order of the
Internal Revenue Office prohibiting the pub
tcation of income re ui ms is still in force and
revenue officers throu ,hout the country have
been cautioned not TO Idrni lssy for publca-
uon, or allow TT EN- to be copied. rom The records
OF their Offices.
TIE BILL appropri lting $4,000 for the exc
cution OF Mills q Dup of st .tusry, commemora-
tive OF the lite epoch IN American histor y, and
to adopt the slme to the tympapum of the
southeast pO.tico OF the Capitol building was
taken no in TIE .enate this morning and its
fur'her cor ider lion indefinitely postponed.
Hon. WILLIAM X. ROBERTS, accompanied by
-IsJors Hover'y and Horgan, and olonel War
red, called on the President Yesterday to
request the appointment by him OF the son of
General Thomas r. Meagher as a cadet to West
Point. The Pr dent said he would give the
matter his favorable consideration.
MINISTER BANCRoPT.-As special to the New
York World from Pottsdam says: Hon. George
Bancroft will resign the off ce of United States
minister to Prussia, and 90 to Italy in October
A Berlin dispatch says IL Is rumored that Nr.
bshcroit viii retire IN October and be succeed
NAVAL ORDERS Notwithstanding Edward
b. Bell and Carpenter Joseph G. Myers have
been ordered 10 the receiving ship Vermont
Lieut.. Samuel W. Very has been detached from
Tue onward and placed on waiting orders
Mldshipman Z. 5. Hickman has been detached
mOQths'
leave. Lieut.. Commander Ira Harris, Jr., has
resigned.
NOMINATIONS To-DAY.-The President sent
the following nominations - the Senate TODAY:
George H. Holt, Consul at Gaspe Bssin: DIR. @.
Y. Cox, member Board of Health District of
columbia; F; L: Mapniry 2, Collector of Internal
Revenue, oath district New York Also. a large
number OF pc tmaatars including the Following:
VIM. F. ProsZer, Nashville, Tenn David
Brown, NebraskI City, Neb.; A. j. MCCLURE
wooster Ohio; Z. IL. Hopkins, Utica, Ny.
JURORS FOR THE DIcrRIcr OF COLUMBIA.
The bill recently introduced in the Senate au
thorizing the Supreme Court Of the District of
Columbia to designate officers to select iuro-s
for the District OF Columbia, which was intro-
duced q few days since ard referred to the Ju-
dietary Committee as published in TIE STAR
by MIR. Trumbull, and parsed with an amsnd.
ment authorizing the court to designate the Off
c-rs until the Legis alive Assembly of the Dis
trict shall otherwise provide.
SAN DoMINGo.-The steamer Tennessee. with
the San Domingo Commissioners board, arrived
at Key West yesterday morning. five days DAYS
and six hours from Kir gston. The whole partv
including the Ulcers and crew, 10 in excellent
ne alth MIR. Wade has the report finished. 70
when mr. Howe las agreed MIR. White wishes
10 add to 1t, but may agree to it with few
amendmen 3. The report is, in the man
favorable to annexation. The chief features
deemed somewhat un.avorable, are Connected
with the questions OF debt, boundary and grants.
CLAIMS OF LOYAL PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH
Mesns. Adds, Ferris and Howell the commission
ers TO determiI upon claims of loyal people in
the South for stores or supplies furnished to the
United states army, have issued the rules And
regulations to govern claimants. Each CLAIM
ant must set forth the full particulars AZ 70 the
time and place OF taking the goods, BY whom
affidavit as to its truth, and also one that the
claimant has never been in the rebel army nor
voluntarily furnished stores or other material
TO the rebel government.
BARON GRRoLT, the Prussian Minister, and
his wife, will return to Prussia early in NAV,
after residence In America for nearly thirty
years. Their departure, sad enough after 90
ong residence, will be rendered the harder TO
,nen as they will leave both their daughters in
washington The elder daughter will be mar
I n to Mr.. Kangabees the Charge d'Affaires OF
SAID, purposes entering the convent in George
town. Both of these young ladies ara nati1es
Snv n Other bom sta.fs and have never known
tic Corps.
THE DISTRICT In C0NGREss.-Mr Patterson
introduced in the Senate this morning a bin to
confer certain powers upon the Board of Pub
nc works OF the District Of Columbia. 1t au-
thoriZes the board to cause Pennsylvania ave-
nue. to be paved with the most approved pave
mlent from 18th street to the east side of Rock
Creek, the expenses thereof to be paid by as
sessments as provided in the act creating such
board, excepting that portion Of 81 aid avenue
upon which pubic reservations abut, which
shall be paid by the United States. Ali the
powers now held BY the commissioners for the
improvement of N sire ct, and the com uiseiOn-
efs tor the improvement Of the Washington
canal, are transferred to the Board Of Public
WORKS, and the commissioners above re-
te-red to are directed to turn over
all books, papers, &C., to the board
Assessments and payments for improvements
on d street and on TIN street, from street
south to the river, shall be in proportions and
manner prescribed In the act Of February ri,
creating government for the District Of Go,
lumbia. The power given to the commissioners
1or the Improvement OF the canal By Congress
saall be construed to apply to either or both
branches Of the canal south OF Virginia avenue.
e iaid down upon the original map Of the city,
and the Board Of Public Works is authorizoCfto
suAghten the line or bed of the canal from or
near the point OF Intersection with eth street to
point at or near in intersection with MARI.
land avenue. Referred to the COMMITTEES On
the District OF Columbia.
Mr.. Patterson introduced in the Senate this
morning q bill donating lot No. II, in squsre
l41, with the improvements, and the public
reservation between 9Th and 9th streets, X
street and VirgiDia avenue southeast, and tn
improvements thereon kn0wu aa fha no ecst;.