Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-09-18

Gil cece - the Usised Ste ses, has been trans
'errcd - st. Petersburg, in similar capacity.
BARON ALvENsLEBEN, who has been first
Secretary to the Prussian Legation here, is about
TO re,crn to Berlin.
ROM s. STUART has been appointed re-
OevCr o. public moneys at Olympia Washing
ton Territory Slice F. W. L .mper, removed.
SENATOR TEUgNAN he's rentsd a new and
spacious house on New York avenue for the
coming Sc sion of Congress.
GETTING PARTICULAR.-The acting Secre-
taly oct In cTior the other DAY dismissed from
ore Of the hrreaus OF that Department a gem
teman who had been a iJISt ID lieut. rnant under
Mo by during large part of the late So-called
unple?s dntnc --ThOm9S by name. 1t IS uuder-
stood that other removals of like character are
10 follow Fs Don as the facts i'm regard u the
several cases are sufficiently established.
MAJOR Jos. NJ. BROWN has resigned his posi-
ION as Secretary of the Board of Public Works.
and has been made chief Of the Bureau of Com
tracts. Holmes e. Ofiey, Esq, now cher
clerk of the Navv Department, was Yesterday
appointed to fill Major Brow MS vacated position
OF secretary of the board. TT.
Mr.. CbarlSs ). John, on, recently clerk II the
Board Of Public Works, has been appointed as
II tant secretary.
FREDERICKSBURG Delano. accompanied
by MIR. John s. Delano, Chief Clerk of the De-
paTtmeEt of the Interior, and wife. returned TO
The city last evening. Tine Secretary has been
on his farm in Ohio during the sum mer vacation,
while his son has been on an extended tour
through the interior territories and the states
wing on the Pacific slope. ..-.Second Comp
roller brodhead has returned to the city from
ais trip northward. MIR. 4. NJ. Gangwer
Chief Clerk of the Third Auditors Office, re-
,Grned TO the city ON Saturday, much improved
III lac alth, after his vacation campaign among
he mountains OF middle and western Pennsyl-
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morning from a western tour. He will take for
nal control Of the Assessors Office on the 1st
| proXimO.
NEW RESERVATION FOR APACHEs.-S1ecial
Indian Agent Vincent Colyer advises the Secre-
tary of the Interior by telegraph from Camp
Talarosa, ria Santa Fe, that, assisted by Super
lntendent Pope and Agent Piper he had ex-
amined the valley of Talarosa. with the view OF
making 1t an Indian reservation. He found IL
remote from white settlements, surrounded by
mountains, filed with game, and containing
plenty OF wood and water, With sufficient arabic
land. Accordingly, under the authority pre-
yiOpsly given, he has declared the valley twenty
mics wide and thirty miles long, reservatO on
| :Or the southern rowing Apaches, and instructed
Agent Piper TO remove the Agency from Cavado
Alimosa as soon as practicable.
| THE CASE OF MA-CUs p. NoRroN.-The
commission, consisting of Examiners Connolly,
| Spear and Parks, recently appointed by the
| commissioner of Patents to examine testimony
L
| L. Norton. suspended IRON practice in the
| Patent Office for irregularities in the prose
| eution OF claims, have Just rendered their
| report. Fight charges were preferred against
Norton, the principal ones of which were that he
| imposed upon the Office a spurious assignment of
| patent, and that he attempted TO withdraw GER
| tain caveats which had been surreptitiously
placed among the files of the Patent Office The
| commission report that they find him guilty
Of all the charges except the third, and guilt of
| he fourth except the words Z" purloning from
| alu MES = said Tho
| Commissioner has not vet taken final action in
he case, although there is but Ii tie doubt that
Norton VII he suspended from further practice
| before the Office.
| General Spinner's European Experi.
| enccS.
TRIBULATIoNs OF THE GENERAL AND
| HIS "FEMALE WoMEN"-EIIs OPINION OF THE
| FRENCH ASSEMBLY AND AEMY.-A letter re-
| celved at the Treasury Department this morn
| ing lrom General Spinner, dated Wesi minister
| Palace Hotel, London, September 3. announces
| the arrival O. himself and party there on the
| way home. He failed ID secure berths on the
| Scotia, which sailed the I'd, but succeeded in
getting Indifferent ones on tue China, which
| sailed on the 9Th.
| The General says We are all in excellent
| health, but just row in a very bad state OF feel
| nG towards all the world, and against British
| revenue laws and the government officials who
| administer them IN particular. We arrived here
| last evening about seven O'Clock, and in ten
| minutes all our trunks were taken in charge by
acuSt ON house enlploye and locked up. Nothing
| hey say, can be done to-day. We came in light
| summer clothes that became very much
| >Oiled on the route, and We have now
| 10 alternative but to lie in bed all day
| 0ng. We have other trunks with MessrS
| Jay Cooke, McCullOch X Co., but although
| Mr.. McCulOch called upon us, both last even
| ing and this morning; he can DO nothing for Us
| as he cannot get at the trunks. l think / Will
be able 10 stand II, but my female loOHasn are in
Mr.. M.CullOch informed me that they re-
| ceiyed and locked up the last parcel OF
| BONDS of the last arrival last evening at six
| O'Clock.
We saw Judge Richardson, Mr.. Bigelow and
| Mr.. Coon at several and various times while i'm
| Paris. They have all been in Switzerland, more
| N less, but somehow they were scattered. and
| always just little ahead a day or two behind
| us. Paris, like Switzerland, is fun OF Ameri-
| cars One meets them everywhere, from the
cold, ice bound sum mits OF the Alp and through
| the Jura mountains down to the sweltering at
| moSrbere o. Paris. Last Wednesday, Mr. Wash
| burn, our Minister TO France. took Governor
| seward and his lady friends, and me aud mine
| out TO Versailles, TO visit 1.-THE court" The
| Governor and myself were introduced TO NJ
| ihlerS, the President, and on his comm and were
| given seats in the diplomatic gallery 10 the
4 exclusion of some OF the foreign ministers
| There was great pressure for admission as if
| was the great day on which il to be decided
| whether the term of the President and of the
| Legislative BODY as well, was to be prolonged.
| The debate i'm which the leading men
| OF the House anticipated was very angry and
stormy one. Much as l have been ACCUSE omed
| 10 the want OF proper decorum in our own Con-
gress, was moi prepared for the almost ruff
anisn of the leaders OF the nation that lays claim
10 being the most polite and refined upon earth
have seen the German Richstag and the
French Corps Legislatif in session, both on
great occasions and under trying circum-
stances, and have good opportunity to Judge
how far the one is the superior and the
other the inferior of the Congress of the
United States 1 have also seen great numbers
of the soldiers OF both the nations With these
two our own must be assigned an intermediate
grade. Discipline OF the individual and of the
masses is the rule in Germany, Decentralization
IN France. Where Legislators cannot control
their feelings and their passions, can it be ex-
pected of the common people who compose the
army that they shall conduct themselves bet
ter than their rulers. The French army of to-
day is great mob. The Legislature Is another.
rot 20 big, but more intensified-boiled down
rs Yankee would say. There are but twenty
three eats in the diplomatic gallery. LordLyons,
The late British minister at washington, but now
accredited here, sat directly in front of me, and
Prince Metternich, the Austrian minister, on
my right, and other high dignitaries all around.
did not feel as proud of my then position as
DO when at home, surrounded by the Treasury
clerks, nor half as happy either"
Genarai Spinner gives an interesting descrip-