Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-02-26
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvENUE.-The receipt


'osrce to-day were sis5,525.23.
TEK JAPANESE EMBASSY is expected a.
Chicago this evening.
HERR HENGELNuLLsR has been appointed
Secretary OF the Austrian legation in this city.
Tue WAYS AND MEANs COMMITTEES this morn
m agreed TO report a bill abolishing the stamp
tax en- canned fruits. isl'ies. &c.
TuR CHICAGO pKLse ALTOS to srge the passage
CT the relief iii for that city had hearing
before the Senate finance committee this morn
ing.
TIE TEN FoRTIEs.-The payment without
rebate of the interest dine the ten-forty bonds
OF the lst OF March, was commenced to-day at
tie Treasury.
PsEs oNAL.-SeIator buckingham, of Connee-
uout, is expected here on Wednesday. .'..Col-
hector Casey, of New Orleans, is in Washington
on official business.
GENERAL SHERMAN, Admiral Alden, Lieut.
Grant, and party OF other Americans, went to
Pompeii Saturday, and had picnic among the
ruins.
The New York custom house investigating
committee did not meet this morning on account
Of the abser ce Of Mr.. Buckingham, chairman,
and the continued illness OF Senator Howe.
TRANSFER OF NAVAL OFFICERs.-Lieut.
Robert +. Impsey has been ordered to the
Iroqu, is. Chief Engineer VIM. HI. Rutherford
has been detached from the navy-yard at Pen
sacola and placed on sick leave.
THRPREsrpRNTs vIsrToRs-Secretary Bout
well, Postmaster General Creswell, Senators
Scott, Sawyer, Rice and Hitchcock, and Repre-
sentative washbuTne, called on the President
to- day.
SENATOR NYE had an INN ense audience in
the Senate to-day, the crowd being larger than
il was few days since when Mr.. Schurz spoke.
Not only were the galleries crowded, but the
tOoI was filled with ladies'
TEE RAIIRo Nd TRACK At TIE FOOT OF The
CATIToL-Gen. Banks offered ia she House to-
day a resolution instructing the District of CO.
iumba committee to inquire what measures are
ne cessary to cause the removal of the railroad
track along the west front Of the Capitol grounds
AN AUTOGRAPH AND A SENTIMENr.-In re-
spending to request from New York for his
autograph, Gen. Spinner to-day wrote: ..You
ask for my autograph with a sentiment NV
sentiment is this When q gentleman writes an
other on his own business he should enclose a
post age stamp"
PATENTS FOR PUBLIC LANDs.-Mr. Kerr in
uoduced in the House to-day bill proyitidg
that hereafter the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia and the Supreme Court of the
United States shall have jurisdiction to try and
decide questions concerning the right to issue
any atent for public lands, and to restrain the
issue Of any such patent.
The POINT LOOKOUT RAILRoAp.-Mr. Pome.
roy introduced in the Senate to-day bill to
authorize the Washington City and Point Look
out Railroad Company, chartered by the lepis-
lature Of MARYLAND, To extend a railroad into the
sey Is aSs such
town as may be designated by the Board of
Public Works. The company is allowed to
.rge cents per ton per mile for transporting
freight, and 10 cents for passengers conveyed
shorter distance than four miles. Referred to
District of Columbia Committee.
The NEW COLLECTOR OF PuILADrLrH,A-
Mr.. Seth 1. Comley, who has been nominated
for collector Of the port of Philadelphia is a
well-known merchant OF that city, and OF ash
dent Of the Commercial Exchange. Although
many OF the merchants of Philadelphia urged the
appointment Of Deputy Collector Houston, thew
were willing to accept one Of several other gem
tlemen whose names they gave the President.
Among those names was tn Ut Of Mr.. Comley,
factory to the great majority Of the business
men Of Philadelphia.
NONINATIoNs.-The President sent the fol-
lowing nominations to the Senate to-day:
Seth i. Comfy. to be collector Of customs at
Philadelphia, Pa; James Atkins, collector of
customs at Savannah, Ga; G. p. Davis, COL
lector OF internal revenue, 18th district Penn
sylvania; Perry Hannah, receiver of public
moneys, Traver,e City, Mich; VIM. F. Good
will, register of land Office, Lincoln, Neb.
Consuls-R- 8. Kendall, OF Conn.,, at Brindisi:
Robert Ii. Leese, Of Pa, at Tarants, Italy; III.
L. Hall, Of Mich. at valenc ., Spain; j. Maurice
Duke, at San Salvador.
Postmasters-E.W W. Houghton, at WELLINGTON.
Ohio; b. y. Thomas, Circleville. Ohio; 8. n
Holmes, Wichita, Kar sas; A. j. Sherwood,
Thayer. Kan. g; Mrs. 8. Z. Edwards, Shawnee.
Cotton, Belvidere, H.; WIN. Ombenstock, Mar
shall, Texas; X. N. Mills, Sherman, Texas; V.
Colwell, Navasota, Texas; A. NJ. Wheeler,
DanVlle, Va; Davis Goddard, Orange, Mass.
GENERAL BABCoCK AND Hrs Four POSI-
TIoNs-The New York World of yesterday as