Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-06-21
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

INTERNAL REvENuE.-The receipts rom this
source to-day were s564,43i6i.
SECRETARY BOUTWELL, is expected here to-
morrow or next day.
The CONSCIENCE FUND of the Ire asury was
further increased to-day by contribution of
SIS from York, Pa.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN CLARK, of Texas, has
been appointed postmaster at Galveston, vice
James A. Mckee, suspended.
VIM BmTToN has been appointed by the
President marshal of the western district of
Arkansas, vice ex-congressman Logan H. Root.
JUDGE WE. NIBLAoK was renomiuated for
Congress by, the democrats of his district at
Evansville, End, yesterday.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY RICHARDSON will
leave here Sunday night for a two weeks visit
to his home in Massachusetts,, and will bring
his family with him on his return.
TRANSFER OF NAVAL OFFICERs.-Rear Ad-
miral Joseph Lanman, detached from the COM
mand of the South Atlantic fleet and placed on
waiting orders; First Assistant Engineer James
Assistant Engineer Wilson X. Purse, detached
from that vessel and placed on sick leave.
EXTENSION OF THE MoNEy-oRDKR SYSTEM
According to the new postal code, which goes
into effect on the LIST of July, there will be
established throughout the country some three
hundred new money-order post offices. With
the offices now in operation this will make Alto
gether about 5000 money offices.
COMMISSION TO SELECT A SITE FOR PuB-
Lie BUILDINGs.-The Acting Secretary of the
Treasury has appointed Messrs. II. H. Bingham
John W: Forney, james Gillingham Fell,
George Cadwalader, Joseph Patterson Seth j
Comfy, Charles l.. Borie, Stephen A. Caldwell
and Thomas A. Scott a commission to select a
site TOT the erection OF the new public buildings
in Philadelphia.
DE b. RANDOLPH KRIM, well-known news
paper correspondent, and United States con-
sular agent to report upon the consular system,
will be married TO Miss Jennie A. Owen, of
hartford, Conn.,, on Tuesday afternoon, June
18th MI. Keim, as newspaper correspondent
and consular agent, has probably Travelled more
miles than any other man in the country, but
II he travels in the future, he will, as the poet
says, only " drag heightened chain," sc.
swINDLING CIRCULAR, which has been Cir
culated over the signature OF Thos. d. Thorpe,
7S7 Broadway, n. Y, proposing to furnish 800
worth of revenue stamps for $50, has been in
veshgated by the revenue officials and no such
party has any Office at the above number
Thorpe represented in his circular that his
cousin had charge of printing the stamps at the
treasury, and furnished him with any quantity.
The green ones who applied to him OF course
received a box OF sawdust, or something of the
kind.
IMPORTANT RULING OF THE SECOND Con-
TRoLLER-Pardoned Rebels Cannot Recorer Com
fsedted Property Second Controller Brodhead
does not construe the recent decision of the Sn-
preme Court to restore a rebel who has been
pardoned, to the full right of recovering con-
nscated property. But waving all such ques-
sions he declines to consider such cases until,
first, Congress shall have made specific appro,
priation, or, second, shall have repealed or
modified the joint resolution of March . 1861
forbidding any officer of the government to nav
any claim Of the character presented