Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-10-31
EVENING STAR.

EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
INTEESAL REvENUE.- The receipts from this
source to-day we've @951 9ItS2.
GIN. CHrPNAH is mach b ttsr to-day, we are
glad to say.
SENATOR sherman, OF Ohio, and Senator
CorbeIt. Or oregon, are is the city.
THE POSTMASTER GENERAL Is ousily en-
gagged in writing his annual report.
THE USUAL CABINET MEETING was held to-
day, at which all the members were in attend
ance.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY SAWYER, OF the
Treasury department, returned TO Wash ton
h.s morning from short trip TO New York.
The Crow DELsGArIoN left for tue west to-
day. They go via New York where they will
stop for few days. The ST tx chiefs are COR
valescent.
GOVERNOR SEEPHERD has been besieged for
several days past by applicants for office aud
their interceding friends. 1t is understood tina:
he will announce his appointments tomorrow.
REST FOR THE Wharf.-The Secretary of the
States steamer Junista, just returned from her
Arctic cruise, be given period of liberty. He
has also granted leaves OF absence to the officers
OF that vessel.
IHE Forthcoming civil service examinations
in New York city will be fixed and notified for a
date on or about the 18th of November; the ex-
animation in Cincinnati ii on about the 10Th of
November; and in st. Louis about the Doth of
November.
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nance department, has been reliev ed from duty
at the United States military academy, to take
effect when Second Lieutenant Wallace Mott
sth infantry, shall have reported for duty and is
ordered to report by letter to the chief OF ord
nance.
LEAVE of absence for six months has been
granted First Lieutenant e. $. Heintzalman on
surgeons certificate Of disability. The leave of
absence granted Captain James jackson ist
cavalry, from head ulrtcrs department of Co.
iumbia, has been EXTENDED five months.
AN INDIAN COUNCIL with the Indians of the
otoe agency was to have taken place to-day at
the Interior department. The Indians were on
hand at noon, but were notified BY the commits
s!Oncr Of Indian affairs that the council would
not take place until tomorrow.
The CALIFORNIA SENAToRsHIP.-The Sac
ramento Union declares that Gov. Booth viii!
certainly be elected United States Senator from
California, if there is such thing as good faith
among representatives, or strength in the pop
ular will. The San Diego World, democ ratio
paper takes tue same view.
IT'S STATED upon the highest authority that
Secretary Richardson and President Grant are
in full accord with reference to financial m at
tiers. II Secretary Richardson retires from his
office, which at present he does not cOntcm-
plate, IL Will be against the wishes OF President
Grant, aud only because he prefers the quiet OF
private life.
TIE PROGRAMME for the cpen-air concert at
the Presidents grounds tomorrow afternoon
by the Marine band, Prof. l.. Schneider, con-
ductor, is as follows: L. March, by Schneider;
= lie Cherment, by DoHizzetti; 3. Overture
Tampa. by Herald; 4. Emmeline Waltz by w
Nade; >. La Traviata by Verdi; g. GllOp. The
concert will begin at 4 y o'clock
Miss MINNIE SHERMAN, daughter of the
General, arrived yesterday morning at New
York in the steamer Algeria, her health COM
pletely restored BIZ her years s0iourn abroad
She will reach home this afternoon, in COMPANY
with her mother and sister, who met her In New
York. The General met her in the lower bay,
escorted her to the hotel, and came to Washing
ton by the train last night.
THE Senate transportation committee held
lengthy session in st Louis yesterday, during
which the Merchants Exchange committee
presented a report embracing a great amount
of information relative to the trade and com
merce OF the Mississippi valley, the means and
cost of transportation, and the capabilities of
the Mississippi river as an outlet to the sea. 1t
Is expected that several Changers from WiscOn-
SIN and surrounding states will have a consulta-
ton with the committee and present their claim
for cheap Transportation.
NAVAL ORDRRs.-Chief Engineer Montyo-
merry Fletche-, as inspector of machinery afoat
at the navy yard, Mare Island, California Sec
ond Assistant Engineer a. f. Dixon, to the
Benicia per steamer goth November next; AS
sistant Paymaster Robert Dickey, detached
from duty on board the receiving ship Potomac
at Philadelphia, anil placed on waiting orders:
Chief Engineer 5 5. Jones, from the navy yard,
sistant Engineer Il. G. Gowing, from the navy
yard, Boston, and ordered 10 the Kansas. First
Assistant Engineer, j. T. Kelly, from the Kan
sas, and placed on waiting orders.
PEEsoNAL.-Gen. Albert j. Myer, t"Old
Prob Las returned from Europe, and "sDell
of weather. may be expected. lie can't i'm
prove it much hereabouts. Senator Carl
Schurz, who has been travelling in Europe for
several months past, arrived by the Thuringia
IN New York on Tuesday night Senators
Dorsey and Hitchcock and Gen. Wright sailed
Tor New YORK from Europe on Wednesday in
f RI,.s steamship SPAN Spa Midshpman H. o.
factory examination for promotion to the grade
of ensign i'll the United States navy. ''Messrs
Freeman and Clarke members OF the Natio nal
in st. Louis, had an interview with President
Grant to-day.
The REPORTED RESIGNATION OF SECRETARY
RICHARDsoN.--The hatness of the news market
IN Washington can be pretty well gagged by
the speculative dispatches sent hence. The
latest sensation emanating from the magma
tive FANCY OF correspondent crops out in the
New York T,iI,tn of to-day. Topographic adj
vices say that the state ment is therein made by
lts WashiD yton correspondent that Secretary
Richardson is abou: to resign, and that Mr..
Morgan, of New FORK, is TO be made custodian
OF Uncle Sans snekels. In conversation with
representative of THE STAR to-day Mr. Rich
ardson stated that il he was about TO resign no
didn't know anything of it, and as he was di-
rectly interested in the matter, he ought to
know II he contemplated such a step. So the
whole story can be summed up as of that class
OF dispatches which have origin perhaps in the
nearness Of the sun to the "Earth's radius Vec-
tor which Is SAID according to Elliott, of sta
tlstcai fame) to cause spasmOdic ideas to work
upon the imagination, and il the patient is not
Immediately dosed with a multiplication table