Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-03-29

NEN' ~ r" tohtlIlutS 20 improved slowly
INTERNAL RsvEEUE.-Ther receipts Frc m this
to- day were 1881 ,i97.
JUICE GoODINe is here prosecuting his
contest for the seat in the House OF Representa-
tives from the fourth Indiana district, now
held by the Hon. Jeremiah Wilson.
THERE WAS FULL ATTENDANCE at the Cab
met meeting to- day, and it was believed that
matters Of more than ordinary Importance were
considered. The President saw no visitors.
NAVAL OEpEEs.-Lieut. Samuel W. Very.
Surgeon VIM. Il. Hood, Paymaster Richard
Washington, Chaplain Frank e. Cox, and Chief
Engineer Francis Z. Da1le have been ordered to
the Lancaster.
PERSONS having i'll their possession memorials
to Congress requesting that the pending ''inves-
tigatiCH' of District affairs be terminated as
speedily as possible and that improvements be
continued, will send the same to Mr.. SoIomOns
on or before Saturday next
TIE SOUTHERN CLAIMS COMMISSION yester-
Gay heard the claims OF Aaron l.. Hendricks
late OF Washington county, Va, for s1I ,337 so:
Joseph b. Ficklen. Falmouth, Va, for $685.
%; Frank Slime, Clarke county. Va. for SO 90
and James Mccormick, Clarke county, Va, for
"a, jI3.
ANOTHER DARIES EXPEDITION PROJECTED
The Secretary of the Navy has under coDsidera-
ton the fitting out of another surveying expedi-
ton to the Isthmus ofDariep to examine another
point as the possible route for an iuteroceanic
canal. The expedition If organized will not
leave until next fall.
IMPORTANT TO SOAP MEN-The internal
revenue Office has decided that when manufac-
tuners of soaps claim for their manufactures
medical or cosmetic properties. and advertise
such manufactures as possessing the virtues re-
feTred TO. the same will be subject to the tax
which the revenue laws impose upon patent
MEDICINES and cosmetics manufactured and
offered for sale as such.
TEE SENECA STONE INVESTIGATION FIzzLF.
meeting OF the committee on public buildings
and grounds was to have been held to-day to
continue the investigation into the use of Seneca
s'one in the new State Department Building,
but only the chairman Mr.. Halsey) was present.
Inc committee on Thursday visited the
walls Tor themselves, and it is barely possible
the members thought no further investigation
necessary. Mr.. Mullett and Gen. Babcock had
been invited TO appear, but neither of those
ON GERS, or any other witnesses were in attend
ance.
GENERAL HUMPHREY MARSHALL, whose
death al his home in Louisville, Ky, last even
ing of pneumonia has been announced by tele-
graph, was born at Frankfort, KY, i'm 1872 and
,rGduated at West Point, but resigned his COM
mission in the army and studied law. He was
ton for military life. In the Mexican war he
was colonel OF cavalry, and in the battle Of
Buena Vista led the celebrated charge OF the
Kentucky volunteers. In 1s49 he was elected 10
Congress from Kentucky, and reelected in 1851,
and again in 1871. In the confederate army he
held the rank of brigadier general. Since the
close OF the war he has been engaged in the
practice Of the Law.
INTERNATIONAL COURTEsIgs.-A dispatch
has been received at the Navy Department from
Rear Admiral 5. p. Lee, commanding the At
lsntic feet, dated -" L. s. flag ship Worcester,
Havana, March 22d, : in which he says: Hay-
ing been notified by the captain of the German
frigate Gazelle that to-day, being the birth -day
OF the German emperor, would be observed by
the two German war vessels now here the YES
se-s under my command in this harbOr were
dressed, and salute of twenty-one guns was
freu a. noon from this vessel, in honor of the
occasion.
1.-THE Russian admiral informed me that the
2d OF March was the anniversary of the Access
sion Of the present Gar. On hosting the colors
or that day the vessels OF this fleet here were
dressed, and the Worcester fired a national sa-
lutte at noon, in honor OF the occasion"