Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-07-18
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

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Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL RKvExuE.-The receipts from this
s,uree to-day were s5a,9i7 81. .
Gov. COOKE and Judge Humphries arrived
heee in the early rain this morning.
Po5TMAsrER GENERAL CREsswELL has rc-
turned from MARY land, and was at the Post o.
fee Department fo-day.
THE Boar in session at the Navy Depart
ment ID examine officers Tor promotion, yester-
day ojourned for the heated term.
TEE Total PoPuLA TON OF the United States
States and organized misunderstanding to
the latest revised tables of the Census Once is
81, 549 ,SG7.-
PRESIDENT GRANT aud family, Gen. Porter
and wife, Hon. A: j. Drexel and family and
Gen. Ingalls, visited Fort Hamilton, In New
York harbor yesterday.
No CHANCE FOR AMERICAN GfRLs.-The
Grand Duke Alexis, third son OF the Emperor
Alexander, says German paper, is engaged to
marry the eldest daughter of Prince Frederick
Charles. - ~
THE Louisville Courier-Journa, laments
because the good natured j. Proctor CDuluth)
Knott is not among the great departed. 1t tells
him he is. on the wrong road, If he expects to
reach the United States Senate.
1T is EXPECTED that the District Legislature
will take action upon the appointment bill this
week, and the forty-ive day appointments,
which expire to-day, will be continued until the
bill making provision for the regular appoint
ments shall be acted upon.
REV. DIR. NEWMAN, of the Metropolitan ON
II \ 81 in lie off vii sail Yah
on the U. S. steamer Worcester, which vessel
leaves New York shortly for the Bay of Disco,
coast of Greenland, with a cargo Of coal for
Capt Halls Arctic expedition.
PERsoNAL.-Register Allison, of the Treasury
Department, is at his home i'm PENNSYLVANIA.
where he will spend couple of weeks. .....Mr
w. W. Corcoran and DIR. Grafton TYLER left
here yesterday for the Greenbrier White Sui
phur Springs.
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT MULLETT has re-
turned from Richmond. He visited the granite
quarries ia the nelghberhood of that CITY, from
which samples were furnished to compete for
the contract for the stone for the new State De-
partment building. He is understood 10 have
been favorably impressed with the VIII,
granite, as q handsome and .,.Inrable bniid;na
material.
KENTUcKY's LITTLE BILL. Secretary
Kentucky for reimbursement for equipping vol
untetrs during the recent war; Tomorrow or next
day. This claim, ii will be remembered, was al
lowed previous to the LIST INST, but the warrant
difficulty about the approval of the Third Audi
tor, the chief clerk of that office having signed
il instead OF the auditor.
SUCCESSFUL NEGOTIATION OF THE TEMPO
RARY LoAN.-Gov. Cooke returned here this
morning from New York, having been entirely
successful i'm negotiating the temporary loan of
S.Ti.oO0 recently authorized by the Territorial
IL gslature He negotiated the loan at par, with
interest at the rate Of ten per cent per annum.
and the money viii be applied only to the cur
rent expenses of the new government as au-
thorized by the act and not ID the Indebtedness
Of the old corr Grafton.
SECRETARY boutwell, AND COMMISSIONERS
PLEAsoNToN.-The published statements TO the
effect that the New York Central tax case lin
which the Commissioner OF Internal Revenue
made an order that the tax be paid, and upon
which the company appealed from the decision
Of Commissioner Pleasonton to Secretary Bou.-
wel) had been referred back to the Commits
soner upon the order of President Grant for ac-
ton upon his original decision in the case is
entirely erroneous.
President Grant has taken no action in the
PleasantOn upon his order. 1t having been de-
cided that the tax should be paid, Mr.. Boutwell,
himself referred the matter back to the Com
It settled The secTetars does not ste 70 nase
go into all the details to how, and when and
where, Il shall be settled, bat instructs General
Pleasanton the same as he does other of his
bureau officers in matters concerning the adj
ministration OF the Treasury Department.
RESIGNATION OF COMMISSIONERS PARKER.-A
correspondence is just published between Gen.
Ely s. Parker and President Grant, in which
the former resigns the Cemmssionership or
Indian Affairs, Tor the reason that "the Com
missioner, under present arrangements, Is nearly
supernumera-y officer of the government his
principal duties being simply those of a clerk to
Board of Indian Commissioners, operating
wholly outside OF and almost independent Of the
Indian Bureau" The Commissioners adds that
he would gladly and willingly do anything in his
power to aid in forwarding and promoting to a
successful Issue the Presidents wise and benef-
cent Indian policy, but cannot, in justice to
himself, longer continue to hold the ambiguous
position OF Com missioner of Indian Affairs.
The J, PRESIDENT IN his reply dated Long BRANCH,
"seyers official relations which have existed
between US for eight consecutiye years, without
either Of the important places which You have
msnagemeSt Of the Indian Bureau S has been p in
viii tend to the evIiaafiaS Of the indian n race.
1t has also been able and discreet" -
Contracts Far NAVAL SuPPLIRs.-The con-
tracts for supplies TO the various navy yards bids
for which were opened at the Bureau of Con-
struc ton and Repair, at the Navy Department,
about two weeks since, have been awarded to
the following persons WIN. Ballantyne, S. lP.
Brown 8 Son, I. Edward Clarke, WIN. Guinand,
George p. GOT, Jos. L. Savage, and Dempsey q
O,To0le, of Washington, ID. c.; Theodore Mdslsr
of Georgetown, ID. c.; David Babcock s. Co.,
George IA. Creed, Deyoe 81 Co., Hyatt a. Spen-
eer, Judd Linseed Oil Company, K. A. Quin-
tard s. Co., +. A. Southmayd, and James Sym
ington, of New York; Adams s. Chute, Tricky
& Jewett, w. g. Haskins, and Mullett & Brad
bury, OF Boston; Paul j. Field, and Baldwin &
Liverzey, of Philadelphia; Samuel Adams g.
Co., of Portsmouth, n. H.; James Bigler 4 Co.,
q NewbuTgh, y, Y; M Cook s Son, I. ).
De Hart, J. d Farwell 8 Co., John G. Hodge,
ufacturing Company, b. A. g. j. MCKINLEY,
Henry Wetherbee, and Whittier, Fullers& CO.,
Of San Francisco; Huntington, Hopkins 8 Co.,
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