Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-11-11

source to-day were $3.50, 1862.
The United States and British Claims Com
mission meet again on the 18th inst.
CONSUL APPoINTED.-The President yester-
day appointed Fisk p. Brewer, of Conn.,, consul
at Piraeus, Greece.
GEORGE WIN. CURTIs, President of the Civil
Service Commission, was before the Cabinet
Yesterday, and submitted, with explanations,
the rules adopted by the commission for the gov
eminent of the civil service.
CAPT. VIM. G. HODGES, U. a, tried at New
Orleans for embezzling and misapplicatlon of
public moneys, has been found guilty, and SEN
fenced to be cashiered, which sentence has been
approved by the President.
THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION resumed
Their session to-day, all the members present ex-
cept Mr.. Medill. The subject under considera-
ton was the necessary exceptions to general
rules in the matter of appointment.
JUDGE EDMUNDs, city postmaster, says there is
no truth Whatever in the telegram from this
city, published in the Philadelphia Press, that
one o. his clerks is de .aulter to the government.
The Postmaster General states that the accounts
OF the city post Office are correct to a penny.
MR.. W. w. CoRcoRAN, whose health con-
tinues to improve slowly, sails in the Cuba, on
the 22d inst, for France. In Paris he will meet
his grandchildren (by his daughter, Mrs. Eustis,)
and thence, accompanied by them, will proceed
TO Cannes, in the south of France, where he will
pass the winter. George Peabody Russell and
family VIII 60 out in the Cuba with Mr.. Corcoran.
SPEAKER BLAINE writes that he will not
reach here till after the 30th instant, and will
not be able to announce the standing commit
tees OF the House before the second week i'm De-
cember. He adds that there is no authority
whatever for the newspaper statements in refer
ence TO proposed changes of Craftsmanship of
several OF the committees.
INTERNAL REVENUE CHANGEs.-Franz Sigel,
collector of internal revenue, 9th district of
New York, has resigned his position, having
been elected register for New York at the recent
election. Simon j. Slime, collector for the 10th
district OF Pennsylvania, and s. III. Wiley, col
Iector for the 9th district of North Carolina,
have also resigned, and their designations have
been accepted.
PERsoNAL.-Cyrus W. Field, of submarine
cable renown, is in town, and is about to take
his departure for Rome, where the great con-
yehtion of the principal telegraph companies of
the world is 10 be held next month. Mr. Field
is moving actively in behalf OF his grand project
OF girdling the earth with his wires, the only
link in the communication now needed being
that between San Francisco and China, via the
Sandwich Islands.
HIRAM PowERs-By a letter from friend
in England, we learn that Mr.. Powers has, by
the advice OF his physician, been taking a re-
spite from his labors, and has been spending
some months at Scarborough, England, with his
and Mr. Ibbotson. Els restoration to health en.
ables him to return to his busy studio IN Flor
ence. The Franklin statute for New Orleans
has been completed and is now on its way to
that city.
AN IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION, in
charge of Prof. Agsssiz, is about to leave Bos-
tn, frn,.
rugged propeller, destined for coast survey duty
in the Pacific, he's just been prepared for sea at
Philadelphia, and through the liberality of the
government, will take out the Professor and
coudngs, making observations on the ocean
currents, and investigating general physical
problems. The vessel has been fitted up with
out the most complete scientific apparatus. ''
PERsoxAL.-Gen. W. T. Clarke, member
elect from the third district of Texas to Con-
gress, and j. p. Newcomb, Secretary Of State
ator Morton and w. nj. Murray, U. 8. NJ are at
the National. - Gen. b. X. Cowen, Assist
ant Secretary Of the Interior, is expected to re-
Allan Rutherford, Third Auditor of the Treas
ury, and lady, have,gone on a trip to Whining
ton, n. G., for few days. Capt. Geo. B.
Baleh, the exective officer of the Washington
navy yard, is temporarily in command, Admiral
Goldsborough being confined to his quarters by
an attack Of rheumatism.
EDUCATION AND CRIME.-Gen. Eaton, Com
missioner Of Education, has prepared statistics
showing the relation Of education to crime
in the New England States, from which it an
pears that eighty per cent. of the criminals In
tnose states nave no education, or not sufficient
10 serve them valuable purpose in life, that
eighty to ninety per cent. Of the criminals have
never learned any trade, nor are they master
OF any skilled labor; that not far from SEVENTH
nf 4hn a~s.~
ersons of foreign extract, born themselves
abroad, or their parents; that eighty to ninety
per cent OF the criminals are intemperate:
ana that ninety-five per cent. of the juvenile
Offenders come from idle, ignorant, vicious, and
drunken homes