Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-10-05
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and GOSSIP,

INTERNAL RXvENUE.-The receipts from tbs
source to-day were :51S,29ioi.
SECRETARY RoBEsoS returned TO the CITY !
this morning.
POSTMASTER GENERAL CREswELL has |
returned from Ohio, and thinks the state good |
for heavy republican majority.
GEN. o. l.. BABCoCK, commissioner OF pub
lie buildings and grounds, left last THURSDAY
night Tor Madison, Wis, to be absent about ten
DAYS.
TIE INDIANS visited the Capitol yesterday
and some CT them went on the dome. They
will have an interview with the Secretary OF
the Interior and the President some time next
week.
NAVAL CADETs.-The following additional
candidates for Cadet Midshipmen have passed
their examinations: William s. Meginnis, of
Illinois, and Robert G. Raw, Presidential APP
pointee from this city.
The JAPANESE EMBASSY MIDDLE. The
japan Herald says that Iwakura complained
formally that he was unable to accomplish at
We 5hingtOn his own treaty desi gns on account
of the opposition of MOri, the Japanese charge
d'affairs. Uyeno has been appointed the sue
cessor of MOri.
Coz. JOHN s. MosBY is out in a card deHyiug
the statement which appeared in the Patriot of
the I'd inst, that he is the agent and proprietor
of a marble quarry situated on the left bank of
the Potomac, and in that capacity is about ID
put in bid for furnishing headstpnes TO the
national cemeteries. He says: ''This state
ment is a lie from beginning to end, and known
TO be such by the cowardly slanderer who
wrote it,"
How THE DEMOCRACY CARRIED GEORGIA.
Henry z. Farrow, chairman of the Georgia re
publican state central committee, telegraphs to
this city from Atlanta, saying "Telegrams.
letters, and special messengers from all parts OF
the state show such universal and outrageous
interference with freeimen'S suffrage that the
state central committee is called to meet Tues
day next tor consultation. Freedmen were
almost universally prohibited from voting"
THE REPORT OF the engineer In charge OF the
survey OF the propo ed canal connecting the
Tennessee river with the Atlantic Ocean at
Savannah, Ca, which reached the War deaart-
ment TOO late to prepare and present to Congress
at its last session, has been put in proper order
and Will be sent to Congress early in December
next. 1t is very probable that the President in
special message on the subject will recon-
mend favorable action on the matter The
projectors OF this canal desire government aid
10 the extent OF seventeen million dollars.
Masonic EMBLEMs CANNOT BE USED AS
TRADE MARKS. - Acting Commissioner of
Patents, Thacher, has rendered decision on
An appeal from the decision OF the examiners
affirming the action of the latter in refusing the
registration of a Masonic symbol as a trade
mark. In his decision Judge Thacher saws:
"A mong Masons, with whom this token has
moral significance, its use in that capacity would
undoubtedly be regarded as base prostitution
OF IL TO mercenary purposes, while with others
It's mystic force would often dissipate its virtues
as trade mark, and, perhaps in some instances
place the article 1t appeared upon under ban"
NAVAL OFFICERS TRANsFERRRD-Ordere
Commander Lewis A. Kimberly to duty in the
bureau OF equipment and recruiting; Midship-
men Frank A. Sawyer, Daniel +. Baker James
n. Winlock, and Howard 5. Waring, to the
hartiord Mate A. X. Bayler to the recruiting
snip Potomac, at Philadelphia; Paymaster
George W. Beaman to the hayward at Norfolk
Va, 10Th inst Gunner Samuel ID. Hines TO
naval station Mound city, Illinois. Detached:
Master Frederick Singer from the Michigan
and ordered to the Benicia, 26th inst; NJ ate L
H. Wing from the receiving ship Independence
Mare Island. CAL, and ordered to the Benicia
Revoked: The orders of Paymaster Edward
roster 10 the navy-yard Norfolk, Va.
CONNECTING THE Two OCEANs-Surreys for
a Ship Canal Bejceea he Atlantic dnd Paci fc.-
No orders have been issued by the Navy depart
ment regarding the fitting out and sailing of the
Nicaragua surveying expedition. Ii is well
known, however, that Commander Edward P
Lull has been selected 10 command the eXped-
ton. Commander Lull has had great expe-
rience in iHter-oceanic canal surveys, having
been second IN command OF the two Darien
eXpeditions-of 1870 ana 1911. In the survey of
the Nicaragua route Commander I.ull will have
the assistance OF some OF the most experienced
officers in the navy, including Lieutenant Com
mander Schultz and Lieutenant jefferson p.
Moser, both OF whom served on the Darien ex-
petition. IL is not expected that this expedition
Will ind a feasible canal route in Nicaragua
Still the government Is anxious to establish by
accurate surveys the practicabity or impracti-
cabIlity of the different routes. The last Darien
expedition, under command of Capt. Thomas
U. Sefridge, 1t is generally believed, found
the only practicable route on the continent, and
there seems to be little doubt but what the
board of engineers authorized to examine the
surveys OF the different routes will decide in
favor OF the Napipi route. Commander Self
ridge thinks he can even better the route by a
location just few miles below the SURVEYED
route, and for this purpose will make a recon-
nolssance from the Atrator river to the Pacific
during the coming winter, Congress at its last
session having appropriated five thousand dol
lars LOT that purpose. The Colombian govern
ment Is very anxious to have a canal route
fixed and the work commenced, in order that
the resources OF the country bordering on the
AtratOr river may be developed, it being con-
sldered about the finest portion OF the United
states OF Colombia. The weakness of that gov
eminent and the hostility OF the Indians to
immigration has prevented any attempts in the
way or agricultural or mining operations. Even
the old Spaniards failed to subdue the Darien
Indians.
A VIRGINIA SNAKE SToRY.-Mr. Joe Huff
man, OF Shedandoah (Va.) killed last week n
snake measuring eight feet in length and the
body propOrtiOnally large. 1t was black for