Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-02-28
WASHINGTON, ID. C., WEDNE. DAY FEBRU AIRY D. 1872
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL RKvENUE.-Tbe receipts from this
source to-day we're sIlo. ii528.
Mr.. SUMNER had a large audience in the
Senate to-day.
The JArANEsE EMBASSY left Chicago last
evening tor Washington direct.
DELEGATION representing thesilk manufac-
tIrsrs 1as before the ways and means commit
tee this morning ia reference 10 the duties on
ras silk.
TIE CHIcAsc DEL EGATIOT 20 urge the pass
zsc O. the relies bill for that city, had a Snsi
Gearing before the Senate finance comRittee
this morning. The cOmnHstsee will report 10 the
Senate te-1rGFrOw or nextSiay.
NOAIEAVsONs.-The President to- day sent to
the Sen&ee the nominations of Robert N. Wal
lace, TO be United states marshal for South
Carolina Thomas d Meads, pestm sster at Han
cock, Michigan.
TIVE HOUSE CoNEfTTEs on APPEoP RIATIoYS
this morning agreed TO report in favor Of an ap-
preparation Of SD 600 for the Ofs eial Gasete OF
the Patent Office mentioned in The STAR OF
yesterday.
HOME AGAIN.-Messrs. A. G.. Mills, H. B.
3smes and j. W. Porter. of the Treasury De-
partment, who were sent to LenGon with bonds,
returned on the Baltic and are again on duty at
the department..
TRANSFER OF NAVAL OFFlckRs.-Second
Assistant Engineer II. f. Rhoades has been
ordered to the Ossippee. Passed Assistant Sur
geon F. NJ. Dearborne has been detached from
the Wasp and placed on waiting orders.
THE SOUTHERN CLAIMS COMNIssI yesterday
beard the cases OF Miss Maria NJ, Eloise G., and
Amelia j. hi ckens, Of this city, daughters Of the
late Asbury Dickens, for many years Secretary
OF the Senate, who claim 81 $40 for property
taken in Virginia.
Attic WHITE HousR-Quite large num-
Der of visitors were at the White House to-day.
Among those who saw the President were SEN
ators Morton, Pomeroy, Sherman, Cole and
Buckingham, Representatives Epson and But
Ter and Gov. Oglesby. Ex-Attorney General
HOar was also at the White House, but did not
zee the President.
Mr.. W. W. CoRcoEAN was last heard from on
the 10th inst, at which time he was still in
Cannes. His general health seemed TO be slowly
improving, but his eve sight and iameness we're
no better. His sOn-in-law, Mr.. Eustis, who
resides at Cannes, was in q critical state OF
health. Mr.. Corcoran will probably return to
the United States sometime in March, unless
Mr.. Eustis should be worse in which case he
will main longer.
IMPROVEMENT OF OUR WATER FRoNT.-The
House OF Representatives this morning passed
the bill in relation to the water front of WASH
ington and Georgetown, and it now only needs
the Presidents signature 10 become law.
This Is a very important measure for the pro-
motion of our commercial interests. 1t provides
for the organization of q board OF survey Of the
water front Of Washington and Georgetown,
who are TO report plan Of improvement. The
board cOnsistsOf the Chief Engineer Of the army,
INV of II .frs.x 4E r>lw
Superintendent of Public Buildings and
Grounds, the Superintendent Of the coast sur
vey. Capt. e. p. Patterson and Alex. X. Shep-
herd, Esq.
NATURALIZATION KEcoID.-The bill which
has been introduced in Congress for a record OF
naturalization in the State Department provides
that the department shall keep a book in which
all declarations OF intention to become citizens
and actual naturaliz atoms shall be systematcal-
ly entered and kept fer reference, and that the
process OF naturalization shall in case be
complete until the entries have been made. All
courts are required to forward the naturaliza-
tion papers they issue to the State Department
tor record and the department is to give certi-
he'd copies of naturalization certificates to
persons who may have lost them, and to publish
every year a list OF all the naturalizations
granted. The alleged necess ty of this asure
naturali zatiOn and the imperfect manner i'm
IN which the records of courts authorized to
grant such certificates are kept, and from the
are issued in some Of the large cities just before
important elections.
PROBABLE FAILURE OF THE TREArv or
WAsHISGToN.-It may now be safely assumed
that the correspondence in progress between the
governments OF the United States and England
VIII end IN the total reputation by England Of
the scheme for arbitration by the Geneva con-
ference In any event II may be most positively
stated that this government will continue to
hrmy insist on its rights to present the claim for
indirect or consequential damages, and unless
the English government recedes from the posi-
ton it has taken and agrees to submit the whole
matter to honorable and impartial arbitration
All efforts on the part OF the United States to
subject in controversy left precisely as it stood
prior to the meeting Of the Joint High Commits
lion. 1t is, OF course, unreasonable to suppose
Tor moment that Gladstone and the other
leaders OF English public opinion will recede An
inch from the unfortunate position in which
they have placed their government and there
Washington will be nullifed solely through the
obstinacy and ig-headedness Of our British
cousins.
REV. l.. ID. HUSTON HEARD FRox-The Gin
einnat Commercial publishes the following:
"A CARD-Will the conductors of ncwsoapers
ana sianccrous in every particular and in every
sense, the shocking statement contained in n
note which appeared in an evening Journal of
baumore about me, and to ask q suspension of
public opinion till An investigation can be hal
The loss of my voice, and the failing health OF
q member OF my family, had determined ne
weeks ago, to leave Baltimore.
Cincinnati, Feb. %, 1872. Id. HUsrox
CUMBERLAND MD CANAL BOAT BUILDING
Considerable activity prevails at the yariOus
boat yards in Cumberland, Md. From each a
number OF fine new boats have been launched
curing the winter, and more are on the stocks
neihg rapidly hurried to completion. The addi-
tion OF new boats to the coal trade the coming
season VIII be upwards Of fifty from the Cum
seI,snd yards alone, besides q large number
Cumberland Netcs