Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-01-10

seat to. day.
NAVAL ORpERs.-Lieut. John j. Hunter to
torpedo duty. Passed Assistant Surgeon VIM.
j. Simon to the naval hospital at Norfolk, Va.
Mr.. CAssERLY, from the New York investi-
CATION committee, returned to this city this
morning, leaving only one democrat on the
committee there, Mr.. Baird.
MAJOR MERRILL. of the It'll cavalry, who is
now stationed at Yorkville, 8. O., has, at the
request OF the Attorney General, been ordered
to report here for conference on public matters.
The FAMILY of General Augur have left
Omaha for New Orleans, where they win meet
the General and proceed to San Antonio, their
future residence.
of Thos b. Hunt, assistant quartermaster,
charged with endorsing fraudulent vouchers
for forage, assembled yesterday at Newport
| (ky.) barracks.
JAPANESE IN THE MILITARY ACADEMY
The Senate by their vote to-day refuse to allow
Japanese to enter West Point as cadets. Mr..
Mori, the Japanese Minister, is busy endeavor-
ing to get the Directing senators to reconsider
their action in the matter.
THE NATIONAL WoMAN's SUFFRAGE Con =.
vENTION, in session at Lincoln Hall, elected
the following officers this afternoon:-Mrs. E. g.
Stanton, president; Mrs. Josephine e. Grifing,
secretary, Mrs. I. B. Hooker, chairman execu-
tive co mmittee.
The SENATE COMMITTEE to investigate the
New York custom-house will make up their
report and return to this city next week. 1t Is
thought the report win be called mp at an early
hour and acted upon. Sergeant-at-Arm French
returned from New York this morning.
AT THE WHITE HOUSE those who
had interviews with the President to-day, were
Senators Ramsey Cameron, Kellogg and Hitch
cock, Speaker Blaine, Representatives Farms
taries Of State, War and the Attorney General:
also. Mesers. John Rice and GenI Coils, Of
Philadelphia.
PRRsoNAL.-John Russell Young, of the New
York Stanford is in Washington, and is hob
nobbing confdentlally with various distin-
guished personages Horace Greedy, Of the
Tribune, il expected here to-day. ....COlonel j.
H. Taggart, Of the Philadelphis Sunday Morning
Times, is In town, looking well and in excellent
spirits.
A DELEGATION of twenty-eight prominent
Philadelphians arrived in this city last night
and are staying at the Metropolitan Hotel
tive Committee at the Ebbitt House to- morrow
morning, to lay before that body the reasons
why Philadelphia should be selected as the
Si the
they will wait upon the President in body.
JUDGE D. 8. GooDrKs, Of Indiana, ex- United
States Marshal Of the District Of Columbia,
under Andrew johnson, and who claims that he
was fairly elected to Congress from the Fourth
Congressional District Of Indiana, and counted
out by four votes In poll Of % 900, was before
the House Committee on Elections yesterday
INIT I'M ha iutt Of Han n n
publican, to the seat. -
MAJOR GENERAL HENRY W. HALLrcK, of
the United States Army, for a short time during
the early part Of the late war Commander-in-
Chief Of the federal forces, died at Louisville
yesterday evening, Of congestion Of the brain,
superinduced BY disease Of the liver, with which
he had been afhicted for some time. Gen. Hal
the Military Academy in 1889, and was appointed
second lieutenant Of engineers on the 1st of
July Of that year. = :
ATTORNEY GENERAL AKxRxAN. who leaves
the Cabinet to-day, was in consultation with the
President for some time this afternoon. The
President Ii engaged with many subjects of I'M
portance Just at the present time. The repreeen-
tatves OF the different departments OF tue gov
eminent have frequent and Lengthy consultations
with him uEon matters which belong to their
respective onices, and Senators and Repreeen-
t:tiSes, despite the lack Of pstronageon account
lie
occasion to request audiences very frequently
THO OF CoMMANDIR S.xx.s or tn.
NAvY.-The Navy Department pronulgates in
general orders the findings Of the court-martial
which convened at the Navy Yard here Oct. 31st
1871, for the trial Of Commander Alexander
8. Semmes, Of the navy, who was tried on SOW
eral charges Of nl-using men under his COM
mand, and of which he was found Ruiltv and
sentenced "to be suspended from duty and rank
for three years, and to be reprimanded I'm q rem
eral order by the honorable Secretary of the
Navy" In promulgating the finding Of the
understand and appreciate the fact that the
navy exists and 10 maintained by law alone; that
its omcers are superior In authority to the en-
listed men only because the Law has 60 elevated
we'll q their duty, to adhere with scrnpuIous
ndeiity to the laws enacted for their Guidance.
Inc court mas dealt very leniently with Com
mar ssmmes, led thereto BY the conviction
BY wrong traditions and false ideas of discipline
Mad II pronounced . much severer sentence. the
court would not hsve failed 10 approve it."
IxrERvIHw or LEADING CoroRRn M-x
WITH PREsIDxxr GRAxr-Ths Pfssidenf vas
visited this morning BY several Of the prominent
representative Of the colored race in this and
other localities, who desired to give TO hin the
formal oppression Of their views on the supple
mentaEy c!yil right MEASURE now pending in
city Measra John 2. Coz, jim q. JSSss M
Prof Lanfston, John A. Gray, Jas. A. Handv'
Lswb y. Dougias, DE-: furyis, John A. Brooks,
Mn. d: smith. Wsaker Lewis, Charles 81.
Dsss: . e f esc cs. Prof ne
celored high school, Mr.. Purnsii, Of tSe Freei.
mems Bank, and others were prooont frf,m
RhiladelPhia, yhns EsRssssstetiys. ware Also