Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-09-21
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvENUB.-The receipts from this
source to- day were $3.50, 1860.

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INTERNAL REvESuE.-The receipts from this
source to- day were $3.50, 1860.
TIE INDIAN DELEGATIONS visited the Smith
sOnan Institute to-day.
EE1fMPTIoN OF UNUSED REvENUE STAMPS.
Regulations for the redemption Of adhesive
,tamps, for which the owner may have no use
on account OF the repeal of certain stamp taxes
are about to he issued from the office OF the ON
missioner of internal revenue.
DEAD.-we regret to learn that Victor, the
little OF Gen. Cowen, died at Belleaire.
Ohio, yesterday, after a pr0strating sickness OF
nearly three months. In their sore bereavement
the afflicted parents will have the earnest
sympathy CT large circle OF friends and ac-
qsintances.
MAIL CoNTRAC S \ yARDE0.-The 20 i'mls-
ter General to-day awarded the contract for
carrying the British mail to the White Star
steamship line, and the contract for the CONT
mental mail to the Bremen line. These lines
will commence carrying the mails on the first
Saturday in October.
PERsoNAL-Attorney General Williams will
soon take the stump in New York and Penn
sylvania. 81. III. Sagille, chief clerk of the
Treasury department, has returned. MIR.
ii. V. O'Conner, formerly attached to the Herald
bureau in this city, was in the city yesterday
en- route to Mexico. Secretary Robson is
Delano speaks at Cincinnati TO night First
Assistant Postmaster General Marshall has re-
turned from his home at Paris, Va.
TIE KU-KLUx PRISONERS. It is stated
that the President refused to pardon certain
ku- klux prisoners in the Albany penitentiary
who had been recommended for executive
clemency because of protest coming from the
district where the criminals were convicted,
from those who would be most endangered by
the release. The character of most OF the con-
victs Is very bad; some OF them are ignorant,
lawl6ss, desperate men, who, il is believed,
would not hesitate TO wreak their vengeance
upon all who testified against them.
NAVAL OFFICERS TRAEsFRR.ED.-Liewte
ant Commander f. NJ. Shepherd, Lieut.. E.
Mccormick, Master A. B. Wykoff, William p.
Potter and John Garvin, and Chaplain j. r.
Lewis, ordered TO the Hardiord. Medical Di-
rector George Maulsby has been ordered to duty
rs Elemher of the examining and retiring
boards of Washington; Lieut.. q. Il. Gill has
been detached from the receiving ship Sabine
and o. dered 70 the Hartford; Lieut.. A. II. NaIl,
from the receiving ship Ohio, and ordered to the
Hartford.
NEWS FROM THE SOUTH ATLANTIC SQUAD
RoE.-Despatches have been received at the
Navy Department from Rear Admiral Taylor,
commanding the South Atlantic squadron, dated
flagship Lancaster, Rio de Janeiro, August 81.
On August I'D the u. ). steamer Fuscarora ar
rived at Rio, 81 days lfrom Portsmouth, n. H.,
and would sail in two weeks for Valparaiso.
The Ticonderoga was at Para August 7th,
and expected to be at Rio on September 9TH
The Wasp was at Rosario, in the state of Santa
de Fe, On the 10th of July, on the way to As
cunsion, with our minister Hon. j. L. Stevens)
on board. The health of the officers and crew
on the station continues good.
ARREST OF TWO WOMEN CHARGED wIrHsA
SO COO SwINDLE.-A case has just come to light
in Philadelphia whereby the city has been
swindled out of $4,000 in Philadelphia Skies.
The certificates belonged to Mrs. Charlotte s.
Parker, and mysteriOusly disappeared from the
treasCrer's office, and turned up in broker s
office, where they were presented and sold bv a
woman calling herself Charlotte 5. Parker. The
transfer was made through the Farmers and
Mechanics Bank, the loan and transfer agent of
the city, and the cash obtained wealthy lady
of Philadelphia, named Mrs. Furey, is said to
have vOucht q for the identity OF Mrs. Parker.
She and Mrs. Parker are in custody.
LIBEL SUIT FOR FIVE MILLIoNs.-Nathaniel
Niles, eX-Speaker of the New jersey Assembly,
his been prosecuted by the New Jersey Railway
Company, and suit for libel was commenced
against him yesterday in the Supreme Court.
the damages being laid at 5000. 900. The
Tlleged libel is an article which appeared in the
Nation over the signature of Jersey" and the
company intends to have the case brought
speedily to trial. Attorney General Gjlchrist,
CouTtlandt Parker, j. ID. Banghsrt of New
Jersey, and Cole & Murray, of tits city, appear
as counsel for the company.-N. Y. Herald, 2OA
EFFECT OF A CORNER" IN wHEAr-The
effects of corners in the grain market are some.
times far more widespread than the ruin and
rectly in them. 1t is feared, and with grea.
probability, that one effect of the late corner In
wheat in Chicago will be TO deteriorate the quail
ity Of large amount of that grain to be rece ed
in Chicago this year, owing to the haste with
which farmers harvested their wheat at the time
Of the corner, in order to hurry it into market
before it was fully in condition.
SAN Francisco is in q ferment concerning
railroad subsidies. The majority of the voters
OF the city petitioned for a grant OF ten million
dollars TO the Atlantic and Pacific Road, but
the City Council refused to entertain the prop
ositOn; in lieu thereof they have passed to print
an order to submit TO vote a proposition to
grant subsidies of two and a-half millions to the
Central Pacific, ten millions to the San Fran
cisco and Colorado Road, and other amounts
TO the Northern Pacific and Santa Cruz Rail-
road.
| CONDUCTOR CRUSHED TO DEATH UNDER CAR
| WHkELs.-On Tuesday evening Captain L. r.
Swift, who was formerly conductor or Freight
train on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad.
took passage on the accommoJ alton train of
that road. When near Beaver Dam station he
when he missed his footing, fell under the
wheels, and was crushed to 6t ath, his body be-
ing terribly mutilated.
PRIVATE PROPERTY AT SEA. During the
| recent meeting of the Emperors here the subject
OF he invoability o. private property at sea in
tnc VI war was considered Dy Prince Gortsscha
koff. Count Andrassy, and Prince Bismarck. II
wse regarded as good omen for the final es-
| blishment Of the principle that the govern
ments OF the United States, Austria, GERMANY,
Russia, Italy, and Holland were united in It's
support.
SALE OF A COPPER MINE. The valuable
copper mine in Floyd county, Va, known as
the Turkey mine, has been sold by Mr.. F. A.
winston to Baltimore company for sc, 600.
The company have six months to test the ore
and hvae row gone to work cleaning out the
tunnels, shafts, &c.
- Mattress ide-killing bugs that infest bede
Irish potatoes are go cheap In Kansas as
not TO be worth digging.
ga Peoria farmer has died Of hydrophobia
from bite Is years old.
- seventy five year Old North Carolinian
challenges the State to q foot race.