Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-12-13
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

INTERNAL REvENuE--The receipts from this
source to-day were s235, 2ss.s3.
CAPTAIN FGBERT THOMPSON, U. s. ", has
been ordered 20 command the Canandaigua on
the Sd of January next.
COMMANDER A. Z. X. BENuAM has been de-
tached as lighthouse inspector OF the first dis
trict, and ordered to be ready for sea service.
COMMODORE THOMAS o. SELFRIDeE has bes n
detached from special duty connected with the
Darien expedition, and ordered as lighthouse
inspector of the first district.
THE House NAVAL COMMITTEE, Hon. G
W. Schofeld, of Pa, chairman, called to pay
their respects to Secretary Robson this morn
ing. The visit was not an official one.
CHRISTMAS being legal holiday, the Com
missioner Of Internal Revenue has notified dis
tilers that if they will observe it by suspension
of business they will not be taxed for that day.
IT IS BELIEVED here that Benjamin j. Sweet,
OF Illinois, now supervisor OF internal revenue
for that state, will be nominated by the Presi-
dent for the position of first deputy commits
sioner Of internal revenue.
THE SENI-ANNUAL INVESTIGATION of the
Bureau of Printing and Engraving, Treasury
Department, by the Secretary of the Treasury,
will probably take place during the holidays.
The investigation is not special one.
UPON the retirement Of Hon. VIM. b Wash
burn, elected Governor of Massachusetts, and
General c. c. Washburn, elected Governor OF
Wisconsin, there will be no washburn in Con-
gress, for the first time in eighteen years.
HORACE A. wHITNEy has been appointed as
sistant paying teller at the Treasury, vice Seth
johnson, dismissed, and Southwick Guthrie
chief of the division of accounts in the same
bureau, vice Marden, also dismissed.
THE TREASURY INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE
was to-day engaged in examining the condition
of the division of loans, the division OF redemp-
ton and the cash division OF the Treasures
Office. No further discrepancies have been dis
covered.
Mr.. HENRY FRIES received orders this MORN
ing from Secretary Robson to report to Gene
raj Zeilin at the Marine Barracks, in order that
he (Fries) may be assigned to the leadership of
the Marine Band. Mir. Fries is a musician OF
acknowledged merit.
To SEE THE PEEsIpENT.-Secretary Delano
and Assistant Secretary Cowan, of the Interior
Department.; Attorney General Alderman, Sem
ators Sherman, Carpenter and Caldwell, Rep
resentatives Farweli. Seldom, Sypher and Scho-
field, and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
called to see the President to-day.
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON AUTHORIZATIONS
this morning agreed to report a bill appropri-
ating S23 COO to cover the deficit of F. A. Mozart
ney, late disbursing clerk of the Post Office
Department. The committee will sit during the
Holidays, so that by the time congress re-
assemblies quite a batch of work will be ready.
AKRRMAN.-Itwas telegraphed from here last
| night that Attorney General Akerman's resigna-
ton had been sent in. This was probably a
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doubted that 1t is thing to happen.
Ex-senator Williams has been much talked-of
for the place. but the south seems to want either
Solicitor General BristOw or Horace Maynard.
THE U. S. TREASURES OFPICE.-The re-
| port in q morning paper that the United States
Treasurer's Office is to be reorganized, Assist
| ant Treasurer futile and the cashier permitted
to resign" SC, is entirely without foundation.
no such reorganization being contemplated.
Gen. Spinner has every confidence in his chief
assistants, and it is not at all probable that they
| would 10 removed without his sanction.
THE WORK OF RKoRsAHIzING the Internal
Revenue Bureau will soon be commenced, and
a considerable reduction will be made, not only
in the force of collectors and assessors, but in
the clerical force of the Office as il is the inten
ton OF the Commissioner to make the experse
of collecting the revenue as light as possible.
There are at present go collection districts
throughout the country, each one employing a
assessors. By the contemplated reorganization
the collection districts will be reduced to less
number than 200, by which action an annual
| saving Of many thousands of dollars to the gov
eminent will be effected.
NATIONAL ASYLUM FOR DISABLED voLuN-
TEERs.-The regular annual meeting of the
Board of Managersof the National Asylum for
disabled volunteer soldiers was held at the Sur
| geon Generals Office yesterday; present. Pres
/ fdent Grant, General Butler, Gent j. H MAJ
] tindale, of New York; Gov. Fred. Smyth, of
New Hampshire; General Thomas o. Osborn,
of Illinois; Hon. Lewis b. Gunckel, of Ohio;
| Surgeon General Wolcott, of Wisconsin, and
/ Gen. John S. Lavender. of Missouri. Reports
from the different branch asylums were read,
which show that over 1900 disabled soldiers are
l now cared for, which number is 900 more than
were supported last year. The number apply
l ing for admission is about 100 per week, and
| thusfar all applicants have been accommodated.
| The CAUCUS To-pAY.-The republican Sena-
tors reassembled in caucus this morning, for the
purpose Of acting upon the Retrenchment Com
mittee proposition of Mr.. Trumbull After some
debate the motion of that gentleman was voted
down by large majority, and resolution was
agreed upon providing for a standing Senate
| committee Of seven to act upon subjects of in
| yestigatiOn and retrenchment as such matters
| should be referred to them by the Senate. The
| resolution. however, does not contemplate that
| the committee shall be q joint one, as proposed
by Mr.. Trumbull, nor that It shall have tire ex-
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pers, which the proposed joint committee of Mr..
| Trumbull was to be clothed with. As will be
seen by our regular report, when the caucus res
olution was reported it led to quite a debate.
| NOMINATIONS BY THE PREsIpENr.-The
President sent the following nominations to the
Senate to-day:
Coasuls-Arthur Morrill,, n. Y, at San Jose,
| Costa Rica; Stewart Barnes, Conn.,, at Rio
| Negro; John Wilson, Pa, at Brussels.
| Cotectors Internal Rerenae-y. j. Mott, 9Th
district North Carolina; G. s. Rich ards I'd dis
trict Virginia; Andrew Williamson, 9th district
New York.
l Assessors Internal Rerenue--A. B. Carroll. I'd
district Missouri. II. w. Taylor, Sd district Texas;
T. H. Brooks, LIST district Virginia; j. Hogan, Sd
district Louisiana; j. W. Ross, 9Th district
Indiana. -
Charles Williams, surveyor q customs, Fred
ericksburg, Va.
Postnasiers--J:S. Pollack, Little Rock, Ark;
c. +. Coffin, Madison, Ind.
s. II. Alban, Register Land Odice, Stepheu's
Point, Wis; ID. L. Quaw, Receiver, ditto
Appoistnents in Rsreass Marine Servjcs-Third
Leutenants-N.G G. Woodward, Of Maa.; II. n.
Rogers, Mich; W. X. Orcutt, Mas; j. Morris-