Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-08-02

LIEUT.. COMMANDER GEORGE G. RENEY, U.
s. N, hFs been detached from the Naval OBJ
seryatory and ordered II staff duty on board the
Worcester, North Atlantic station.
MAJOR Il. d. CLARKE has been relieved from
dutyin the Department of the Platte and or
dered TO this city TO report for duty to the Pay
master General.
CAsHIERED AND DisMIssED.-Captain Henry
Imam, resistant quartermaster, Uuited States
army, has been cashiered, and Second Lieut..
Thomas Z. O'Reillv, twenty-second infantry,
dismissed the service.
The PRESIDENT was in Utica last evening, the
guest of Senator Conkling. Daring the day. in
company with the Senator, he visited Trenton
Falls, where the people gathered in large num-
bers TO see him. An informal reception was
held al Senator Conkiing's residence last even
ing. and. subsequently, the President was
serenaded.
PERsoNAL.-General Hari ranft, the republi
can candidate for Governor in Pennsylvania
and Ex-Governor Bard, OF Tenn, are in town.
...Secretary Belknap visited the Schue zenfest
last evening ''-'SeDators SchurZ and Upton
arrived here this morning direct from the south.
The latter expects to leave for his home in
Nebraska tonight.
CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS.
The following persons have been appointed to
office: w. G. Salt, o.; Il. A. Wetmore, n. Y;
John T. Coughlin, Md; Albert l.. Smith, n. ";
Johnt I. Clokey, D.; T., and Mrs. Margaret r:
Gray, Mass; John II. NJ adden, Owen Riley, and
Joseph Burroughs have been promoted to
second-class, and j. F. Billiard, j. II. Falconer,
and Themes T. Page have been appointed to
firstclass clerkships in the Post Office depart
ment. Schuyler Duryer has been appointed
first class clerk in the engineers Office, and
Oliver l.. Hart frst-class clerk in the Quarter
master Generals ONCE.
CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENCE DAY AT
CALLAo-Afairs n Peru.-Commodore Stembel
was at Callao on the 9th of Jnly in his flagship,
the Pensacola. He reports that on the 4th of
July the Peruvian squadron, the French gun
boat, the steamers of the Pacific navigation
company, the French mail steamers, and many
merchant vessels in the harbor united with the
Pensacola in celebrating our national anniver-
sary. The manner in which citizens ofCallao,
Americans and others observed the day was
particularly hattering. The city was decorated
with flags, many OF the stores were closed, and
gala day made of it. The grand national ex-
position of Peru opened on at Lima on July 1st
1t was to be closed on the Sth and formally
opened by the President on the 28th, the ami
versary of the national independence Of Peru.
American Minister to Peru arrived az Callao on
the evening of July I'd, and proceeded on the
following day to the capital.
REDUCTION OF TAxATIoN-The New Tariff
and Revenue Ldws.-The new tariff and internal
revenue laws passed at the last session OF Con-
gress went into effect yesterday, with the excep-
ton of q few sections, which will not become
laws, as therein provided, until the first of
October. After yesterday the tax on distilled
spirits will be 10 cents, instead of 30 cents, per
gallon. The special and barrel tax heretofore
imposed on distillers is abolished after August
LIST. The number of supervisors is reduced from
twenty five to ten. those legislated out of Office
having already been published. The new law
also dispenses with notifies to informers, but in
lieu thereof 100000 was appropriated to be ex-
and Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
in particular cases. The new fermented
liquor law also took effect yesterday.
The section repeating the stamp duty on all
documents except blank checks does not take
effect until October LIST.
THE CASE OF SMITH, THE CoLoRED CADET
A Aisstatement Corrected.-The letter of David
Clark, of Hartford, Connecticut, the friend Of
Smith, the coored cadet at West Point, to Sayles
j. Bowen, of this city, recently published Is a
misstatement of facts in charging that Gen. o. O..
Howard said there was great disappointment in
Washington on the part OF the President and
missed when ne was court martialled. Smith was
tried Tor conduct unbec0ming an officer and
gentleman, foun guilty and sentenced to be dis
missed the service of the United States but the
President in general court-martial order No. 8,
dated June ID, 1871, says: "The proceedings,
findings, and sentence are approved; but in
view OF all the circumstances surrounding this
case, and believing that the ends of public JUS
tice will be better subserved. and the policy of
| the gOvernment-Of which the presence OF this
cadet in the Military Academy is q signal Illus
| tration--be better maintained by Communication
| of the sentence than by its rigid enforcement,
| the President is pleased to mitigate it by sub
| shutting for dismissal from the service of the
| United States, reduction in his academic stand
ing one year. Cadet Smith will join the succeed.
| ing fourth Class at the commencement Of the
next academic year"