Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-15
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvKNuE.-The receipts from this
source to-day were si56, o61.53.
SIcK.-The Attorney General and Commis-
s.oner of Internal Revenue Douglass are still
unable to attend to their Official duties, on &C
count of indispo>ition.
SECRETARY robson having been washed
out Of his own room at the Navy department
by water from the fire engines, has made ar
rangements - temporarily occupy the room in
the building formerly the headquarters of Com
mOdore Ammen, chief Of the bureau of navi-
CATION.
THE SIGNAL SERVICE is to be extended to the
West Indies and the Wlndward Islands, and
along the eastern and western co9s SITS OF South
America. Stations have already been fitted up
Santiago de Cuba, Kingston, Porto Rico st.
Thomas, Antigua, Guadalupe. and St. Vim
cents, on the Windward Islands, from whence
the ob.ervers are sending postal reports Of their
ARMY ORDERS. Major Henry Goodfellow,
judge advocate, has been granted leave OF
Pear, on, 18th infantry, for six months, to take
eff, ct on the return of the Yellowstone Epcdi-
ton. Second Lieutenant III. @. johnson, ID
Infantry, has been transferred to the list infan-
VIM. p. Butler has been accepted by the
President.
PERsoNAL.-Senator Morton, who is at the
Hot Springs, in Arkansas, has much improved
in health, and is able to walk without his
canes. .."Senator Upton, of Nebraska, Is de-
voting himself to the welfare of his farm,
having set out 1900 apple trees and forest trees
In abundance. He is now planting two and
half miles Of hedge, has fifty acres of wheat,
twenty of oats and fifteen of corn, and has done
all this himself with the assistance of one
man. ''..George F. Richardson, brother of
secretary Richard.on, is spending few days in
this city.
A GENERAL CoUET-MARTIAL has been ap-
pointed to meet at West Point, New York, on
the 21st instant for the trial of Sergeant (now
privately George Leach, u. s. military academy
The following is the detail for the court: Cap
tain j. 8. Conrad, I'd infantry; Captain A. NJ.
Miller, corps of engineers; First Lieutenant
j. F. Stretch, 10 infantry; First Lieutenant f.
W. Be ., col ps of engineers; First Lieut. ,nant
Sedgwick Pratt, Sd artillery; First Lieutenant
j. NJ. X. Davis, LIST artillery; First Lieutenant
ETC Bergland, corps of engineers; Second Lieu
t2nant H. l.. Harris, list artillery, judge adyo-
cate of the court.
THE BOOK OF ASSESSMENTS for the District
of Columbia shows that in the early part OF
1872, Gen. BallOch, late of the Freedmen's bu-
reau, transferred the bulk of his property, in
trust for his wife, to three trustees, of whom he
Is one. This fact was probably the basis for the
following dispatch to the Boston Globe.
The property of Gen. Balloch, late disburs-
ing officer of the Freedmen's bureau, Is under
stood to be transferred beyond the reach of the
government. The Secretary of War will COZ
fer with the District Attorney here before de-
Gliding what to do under the opinion Of the
Attorney General"
A SPECIMEN OF THE NEW TRADE DOLLAR,
just coined in Philadelphia, was received by
Dinh or1, t.
inch in diameter. with thirteen stars around
the face, enclosing female figure seated on a
sheaf OF grain, with sprig in the right hand,
and streaIner boring the word "Lioerty'' in
the left, and 1883" at the bottom. The words
"Unit~d States of America" form q semi CIRCLE
around the reverse side, beneath which is q
scroll with the motto "E Pluribus Unum." In
the center appears the American eagle, and be-
meath it, in semi-circle, 1926 grains 800 fine"
and at the bottom, "Trade Dollar" in bold
capitals.
THE SRARcH FOR THE POLARIs.-Thes steamer
Tigress sailed from New York yesterday on her
voyage Of search for the Polaris. As she passed
the government battery one farewell shot was
bred as parting salute. The vessel was on
Sunday placed in commission by Secretary
Robson. The ceremony was brief and impress
sive. The officers OF the vessel-Commander
Greer, Lieut.. Commander White, and Lieuts.
Barry, Sebree and Wilkins-were mustered on
the poop deck, and the information was Off
rotary that he was now in command. The Sec
retlIy also expressed the hope that the voyage
would be successful. The American ensign was
then run to her peak and the navy peRnarit to
her mizzentop, expressing the transfer Of her
allegiance.
THE COMING DRAMATIC SEAsoN.-Manager
Ford was in New York most Of last week per-
fecting arrangements for the coming season.
He IVES extremely fortunate In securing all the
leading attractions of the country for his Opera
House in this city, embracing among others
Christine Nilsson, In grand opera; Salvini, the
logg, In English opera; Lotts, Maggie Mitchell,
Joan y. Owens, and Joseph jefferson In come
dy; Miss Nelson, in Shakspearian heroines;-
Madame Janauschek, in classical and dom s.
TIC characters; the Wallack Company, Miss
Clara Morris and Miss Carlotta Leclerca in
emotional drama; Mr.. E. A. Sothern, In his
peculiar NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.; Lydia Thompson
opera; Mr.. w. j. Florence, Mr.. Frank Mavo.
Mr.. Frank Chanfrau, the Black Crook Compa-
ny, the Lingard Company, with other attrac-
the scenic productions the beautiful spectacle
OF the Ice Witch Is contemplated, with remark
able and very costly effects.
The TWENTY PER CENT. CLAIas-The
ninety days allowed by law for the government
to appeal to the Supreme Court of the United
States from the decision of the Court of
Claims, on about five hundred cases of twenty
per cent increase allowed by the act of 1867 to
civil employees Of the government in the city of
Washington, expired on Saturday, and no APP
peal having been taken, the claimants will now
have their accounts audited. If the controller
decides that the claims are payable out OF the
appropriation OF this year, they will be paid at
once; but If he should decide that they are pay
able out of the appropriation of last year, Com
gress will be called upon to make up the de-
cheney, as the appropriation of last wear falls
short of the required amount to pay them
about s2o,0 600. On the five hundred cases re-
felred to, the Judgment OF the Court of Claims
was entered on the l4th of April, and on the
2lst of April Judgment was entered in favor of
seven hundred additional claimants. The
ninety days allowed to appeal on the latter ex-
pre- next Saturday, but the Attorney General
is OF opinion that the Supreme Court has COW
cred all the points In the cases already heard,
and there Is no use to appeal. Consequently
none will be entered, and those cases also viii
be audited and allowed. AS the ninety DAYS do
not expire until the present fiscal year, although
Judgment was entered during the last, 1t seems
to be the impression that they will be paid out
OF this years appropriation.
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