Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-08-14
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

T" uSA4ASs WI &sOWo oAu 0OooIps
INTERNAL RKvENUE.-The receipts from this
source to-day were SOS, 1916
THE SUBSCRIPTIONS to the new loan to-day
were $4,000.
POSTMASTER GENERAL CREswELL is expec-
ted here this evening.
GOVERNOR COOKE will return here from
Philadelphia to- morrow morning.
MAJOR ALEXANDER j. PERRY, Quartermas-
ters Department, has been ordered 10 this citvon
public business.
The U. s. STEAMER NIPsIC, late Of the
Tehauntepec surveying expedition, and recently
laying at Pensacola, FIa., expecting orders to
return home. has been ordered to San Domingo
for duty in the waters surrounding that Island.
Mr.. VINCENT CoLYER who has gone to New
Mexico TO induce Cochise, the head chief of the
Apaches, TO come to Washington and have
..big talk with the Great Father and the Indian
Commissioner, was heard fro m on SATURDAY.
lie was then at Santa Fe.
CASH. ON HAND.-Secretary Boutwell, now
has on hand coin balance Of sss,7s3 900, and
currency balance OF a, 139, 900. On the first
of September the semi-annual instalment of
interest due on the ten-forty bonds amounting
to q, 1854 .1s2-5o, in coin, win be paid
PARDoNED By THE PREsIDKNT.-The Presi-
dent has pardoned VIM. II. Childs, convicted in
Massachusetts, for retailing liquors without pay
ing the required special tax, and sentenced TO
2x months imprisonment and a fine of 81 900.
bis pardon was recommended by Secretary
Boutwell, and U. 8. Attorney Mason.
The NARRAeASsETT-Ad dispatch received
at the Navy Department from Commander r.
W. Meade, Of the Narragansett, announces his
arrival at valparaiso, Chill, on the 2Sth of June
eva route TO San Francisco-all well on board III
was expected that she would reach the latter
pace about the 10Th Of August.
CLERICAL CBANGEs.-The pay of John M.
Hurley, messenger in the Census Office, has been
increased to s72o per annum. In the same office,
B. B; Gray, c. Deybar, .Chas Anderson, and
Ralph r. kanney have been promoted from
copylsts to frst-class clerkships. De W. Hanes
has been promoted to a third-class clerkship in
the Fifth Auditors Office.
THE STATEMENT of the receipts and expen
ditures of the government by warrants for the
year ending 80 June, 1871, shows net receipts
amounting TO 1888 1913 944.s 80. Net expenditures
ordinary expenses, S2s2, III 1885; purchase of
total expenditure, SD efs as g; SaISnee E,
Treasury July /, 1871, SiO9, 9I7 .4I7.24 In con-
sequence of the change Of the law of July Sth,
1870, whereby the payment Of pensions was
made quarterly instead of semi.annualIy, fine
expenses of the past year were increased about
SS,OOO,OoO on account of the payment of an extra
BShSiOhs uuc Wlthln the year.
4" LET Us HAVE PEACE."-For some time past
there has not been hearty cooperation between
various Internal Revenue officers, and the result
has been somewhat detrimental to the public
service. Commissioner Douglass has lust adj
dressed letter TO assessor in New York
stating that 'fthere should not and must not be
any antagOnism in this matter between the diff
terent classes of revenue officers, equally and
especially charged with the duty and responsi-
bllity OF seeing that the government revenues
are thoroughly and faithfully collected. With
out the united and most hearty cooperation of
all the revenue officers there Is reason to fear
that large per cent. of the tax imposed upon
the manufacture and sale of cigars will fail of
reaching the Treasury"
WITHDRAWAL OF THE NEW LoAN-Secre-
tary Boutwell, to-day issued the following circu-
lar, Withdrawing the new loan from the mar
ket:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., August IL, ISL
GSnuemen have deemed it advisable, upon
further consideration, to withdraw the loan for
the present, from the market, with the excep-
ton OF the i've per cent bonds, as offered TO the
national banks by the circular letter of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury, dated the 10th inst.
This communication relates to the four per
cent. and Az per cent. bonds, in combination
with the hFe per cent Very respectfully,
GEO. s. BOUTWELL,, Secretary Treasury
To Agents designated by the Secretdryo of the Trens-
UTy TO negotiate the net0 loan.
THE TAX ON BORROWED CAPIrAL.-The
decision of the late Commissioner Pleasonton
aboiishing the tax on borrowed capital used in
business was never promulgated In the usual
way, as Secretary Boutwell, would not approve
the order for printing copies OF it TO be mailed
to assessors throughout the country. General
Pleasonton thereupon put large force of clerks
In his bureau at work making copies of it; but
while they were so engaged the President sus-
pended him. One or two copies of the decision
however, were sent in great haste to several dis
tricts in New York wherein a large amount OF
borrowed capital is employed. The new Com
missioner, Immediately upon taking charge of
the office stopped the clerical force from making
these copies; hence the old decision, made wears
ago, imposing tax on borrowed capital remains
IN iorce: Mr.. Pleasonton acted in this matter
in direct opposition to the opinions of the solicitor
of the bureau and the head Of the division
having the matter in charge.
HON LOGAN II. Roors AS BESEp,cK-
gentleman, marriedin Arkansas on the 9th inst.
and has arrived in this city with his charming
bride and is stopping at the Metropolitan. An
Arkansas paper gives the following particulars
OF the wedding: "Hon. Logan III. Roots and Miss
Emily M Blakeslee were married at 1890 O'Clock
this morning, at Devall's Bluff. by Right Rev
III. N. Pierce, Bishop of Arkansas. The cere-
mony was very impressive, and largely attended.
special train was chartered by Colonel Roots
to bring over from Little Rock the invited
guests, and take him and party to Memphis
Among those present from the Capitol were
Senator Rice and lady, Judge Caldwell, Gen.
Bishop, Auditor Berry, and great many others
partaking of an excellent lunch, the whole
crowd left on the special train, arriving here at
one p. M, where dinner had already been pre-
ON his place through which the road runs this
side Of the Bluff, a barbecue. The train STONED
for a short time at his place, where the colored
people gave three cheers for Colonel Roots
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The Wharton Poisoning Case.