Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-14
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

IL 1ZAN AAN ~ ~
Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvENUE-The receipts from this
source to-day were s236, 03s SO.
THE LEAVE OF ABSENCE granted First Lien
tenant A. f. Smith, 9TH cavalry, has been ex-
tended five months.
Col. ORLANDO q. WILCOX, 18th infantry, has
been detailed as superintendent of the general
recruiting service at New York city.
LIEUT.. C. II. WEST, U. S. Navy, has been
detached from the Wyoming and placed on
sick leave.
CHARLES M. Cook has been appointed sur
veyor of distilleries for the fourth district of
North Carolina.
SPECIAL AeENT HENRY S. MARTIN, of Can
tor, Ohio, trusted officer of the treasury de-
partment, was to-day ordered to report In per-
son at the Treasury department for special duty
In matters pertaining to the steamboat inspec-
ton service.
COURT MARITAL ORDKRED.-By direction of
the President general court martial has been
appointed to meet at For. ID. A. Russell, wyo-
ming territory, on the 18th day of August, 1873,
for the trial of Captain A. Ii. Cain, 4th infan-
try, and such other prisoners as may be brought
before IL.
TRANSFER OF QUARTERMAsTER.-Ont the
recommendation of the Quartermaster General
Lieut.. Colonel A. Montgomery, deputy quarter.
master general, has been ordered, after settling
his accounts. to report in person to the COM
handing officer, department. of Arizona, for
duly as CHIEF quartermaster of that department
relieving Major j. j. Dana, who has been or
dered to report to the Quartermas ter General
TOR orders.
THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE Mopoo COMMITS
Turu.
prise communicated the intelligence that the
proceedings of the Modoc commission had been
received at the War department, various tele-
grams have been sent from here to papers else
where some affirming and some denying the
fact. Now the truth is gentlemen, The STAR
as, it always is, Is right. The papers have Come
ana are now being reviewed by the Judge Adj
vocate General. We would rather be Ri ht on
such matters, than be President.
THOMAS JEFFERSON IN AN INDIGNANT Ar
TITUDE.-Editor Star: Some heartless yags-
bonds have surprised Thomas Jefferson last
night in front of the White House, and he
stands this morning pinioned with ropes in an
indignant attitude, with hand TO heart and
only waiting until your reporter shall arrive on
the ground, to astound him and the country by
a set-speech against the Improperly of the
whole transaction. Send him up Immediately.
August II, 1913. II. A. c..
THERE is deficiency of ten millions in the
cash of the Treasury. How did it occur? L. 1t
n AtiC Ill DOOk-keeplngG has tile
money been paid out properly without being
charged to the right account? or has it bee n
stolen? The subject will have to be thoroughly
explored by Congress at the next session, and
no whitewash will answer.-4Nelo York paper.
The above paragraph was shown to Secre-
tary Richardson to-day. He Estates that che
don't know anything about it," other than that
sit is false"
SAFETY ON STEAM VEssELs.-A proposition
from one of the prominent officials of the Trea-
sury department will be submitted to Secretary
Richardson in few days for his action. 1t
contemplates IN aking pilots of steam vessels Of
officers, attached to the Office of the super yising
inspector of steamboats,, and requiring them,
before taking a vessel out Of port, to be fully
satisfied that in all respects as to equipment
and hfe-saving apparatus, she has fully com
Piled with tho law. A refusal of pilot TO take
q vessel out of any port, owing to non-reQuire-
ment with existing law, shall be deemed by the
owners sufficient cause for detention, until a
personal inspection by the inspector of the dis
uict shall have been made.
THE STORY OF YELLOW FEVER ON THE
CANANDAIGUA.-An Associated Press dispatch,
printed In the morning papers, states that
seventy Of the crew of the United States war
steamer CanaDdaigua are sick with the yellow
tever." From Information received this morn
ing at the Navy Departmental Is well to receive
this statement cum grdno sails. Commodore
Reynolds, acting Secretary of the Navy, has
few days from the commanding officer of the
vessel, who does not report a single case of vel
low fever, but mentions that the sick list is ex-
tremely large, the men suffering with what is
known as the Isthmus fever, and that he would
leave Aspinwall in order to secure q change of
climate for those afflicted. The dispatch, 30
discredited at the Navy Department..
THE wAwAsEr INvEsrIe ATrox-ghe fol-
lowing telegram was sent by the Treasury de-
partment to day:
John MenshdV, Supercising Inspector, Baltimore,
Ad:-Where are the inspectors who are to con-
duct the "Wawaset" investigation? The in
vestigatlon must no longer be delayed.
Secretary Of the Treasury.
No information has yet been received at the
depa rtment of the arrival of Commodore Rose.
IL is thought he has arrived In Baltimore and Is
delayed on account OF the prevailing storm. 1t
is ardly probable the investigation will be be-
gun to- morrow, although the department. win
pursue all possible expedition after the arrival
OF the examiners. George w. Taylor, esq.,, the
acting supervising inspector general, is taking
deep interest in the matter, and Is doing his
utmost to secure rigid and speedy investiga-
ton into the causes of the calamity which re-
suited in the loss of so many lives.
"THK MoDoc CouRT-MARTIAL PAPERS
have not, according to the expires statement of
Secretary Belknap, been received at the War
department up to date. The insinuation made
by contemporary that they had been received,
nOtwithstandlng the denial OF the Secretary of
War, is regarded by that official as bosh unjust
and discourteous, there being no reason for
Withholding them from the public."-Chronicle,
this morning.
The Chronicle has been imposed upon by some
bogus reporter. We did not credit the state
ment 1t makes in regard to the Secretary of
War, and this morning that official took occa-
SION TO repudiate 1t, and to express mis- surprise
TO representative of The STAR that he should
be made to figure in q light so foreign to his
nature. Instead of complaining Of the pleasant
paragraph in THE STAR in regard to the mys-
FERROUS where bouts Of the proceedings of the
Modoc commission, he expressed himself as
pleased with it. Thought 1t was decidedly a
good thing" 81 Had no exceptions to make to
It," "Read 1t, laughed at 1t, and slept happy"
TIE PRRsIDENT's TRIP TO NEW ENGLAND
special dispatch to the New York Times from
Augusta, Me-, thus speaks Of the movements Of
President Grant and party in New England
"There were, as usual, large crowds In the sta
ton lat BOSTON,, when the President arrived,
who followed like Q rabble after his carriage
when he rode, hung about the hotel when he
was at breakfast, and pressed into the Eastern
Railway station when he went away again; but
they we're less obtrusive than heretofore, and