Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-04-04
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

washington news and d0sSlp.
INTERNAL REvENUE.-The receipts from III G
to-day were sIO9,eas.
THE only nomination sent TO the Senate to-
day was that Of Charles Herr, to be P0stmaste
AZ Buchanan, Pa.
GEN. SEAMS was renominated as a candidate
for Congress from the 9Th district of Indiana, a
primary election held yesterday.
THE SOUTHERN CLAIMS COMMISSION will
resume the. taking OF testimony on the 9th
instant, and will examine witnesses from that
date TO the end OF next month.
US. GRANT, JR., the son of the Presilen
now pursuing his studies at Harvard will spend
hisvscation in Germany, leaving this country in
June.
THE WHISKY AND TOBACCO TAx.-The ways
and means committee at its meeting TO-DAY
decided upon a uniform tax of 20 cents per
pound on all kinds of tobacco, and a cousol;da
TED tax on whiskey OF G5 cents per gallon.
PERsONAL.-GeneraI Sickles will leave for
Madrid on the 10th. ....Admiral Polo de Bar
nabe, the new French Minister, will be officially
presented to the President to- morrow. ....Hon
Fernando Wood gives a dinner to his personal
and political friends this evening.
The CASE of Bowen VS.. DeIarge was argued
before the House Committee on Elections this
morning on motion to dismiss, on the ground
that Bowen accepted state Office pending the
present contest. Mr.. Hoar said the case was
novel and important one. The motion to dis
miss Is against Bowen, and its decision does NOT
confirm DeLarge in his seat.
PRINCE NAGAoKA, who formerly ruled one
of the provinces OF the north of Nippon, has Just
arrived in New York from San Francisco, and
is shortly to join the Embassy in this city. He
will remain in this country until he has gained
good knowledge of the English language and
OF our institutions.
THE POSTMASTER GENERAL ExoNERArEp
Mr.. Farnsworth in the house to- day, from the
Committee on Post Ofices and Post Roads
made report on behalf Of the majority of the
committee upon the charges against Postmaster
General Cressweil OF accepting straw bids, &c.
July generating the Postmaster General from
all the charges. The minority of the committee
will report at some future day.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN CINCINNATI AND
TRENTON The Secretary of the Treasury yes
terday appointed AlpbonsO Taft and W. s.
Grosbeck, A. Ii. Stephenson, Enoch T. Carson,
and Thomas HI. FOulds. commissioners to
arrange for the selection of sites for public
buildings at Cincinnati; and J. T. Nixon, John
l.. Murphy, and Israel Howell, commissioners
for the same purpose, at Trenton. New Jersey.
MR.. ". W. CORCORAN writes from Cannes
France, March 10, to the effect that his general
health continues to improve slowly, but the
sight of one eve had been entirely DESTROYED bv
cataract which he intended to have removed
IN Paris. Mr. CorcOran does not give the exact
date Of his return to this country, but II is
believed he will leave France for the United
States during the latter part of the present
month, or the beginning of May.
THE PRESIDENT returned to this city in the
early train this morning, having lost only one
day in his trip to New York to bid alden to Miss
Nellie. Several visitors were at the Executive
Mansion during the forenoon, including Sena-
tors Morton and Pomeroy. There was also a
delegation consisting of Col. B. +. Hawks Hon
d. y. Holloway and six others. who called OF
the President with reference to the app0nt men,
of a new Metropolitan Police Board for this
District. Who are Hawks and Holloway?
The CONCRETE PAVING COMMISSION, com
posed OF Messrs. J. Y. Culyer, of New York,
Kellogg, of New York; EasterbroOk, Of Phila-
delphia; Gen. o. f.. Babeock, and Messrs A. B.
Mullett and s. p. Brown, of the Board of Pub
lie Works, OF this city. met at the governors
Office this morning, and held a short consuita-
ton. The committee OH examination OF con.
crete reported progress and desultOry discus
sion ensued; after which, the commission ad
journed to meet TO- morrow morning at 10 O'Clock
to make final report.
THE CASE OF EX-CnNTRoLLER HULBURD.-
The committee Oh banking and currency inves-
tigating the charges against Controller Hulburd
examined Messrs. Cate, WoOiwOrth, and Cherry
clerks in the Controllers office, to-day in refer
ence to alleged Irregularities in the bureau
The charges that Dir. Hulburd had messenger
in his office who acted as his private coachman:
that he carpeted his house at the EXPENSE of the
government; and that he gave his nephew
Sinecure in his bureau, did not seem to be sus.
tanned by the evidence adduced.
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