Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-11-12
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

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INTFRsAL REvESUE-The receipts from this
urce to-day were sl75,s1C.24.
GENERA JOHN EATON, commissioner OF
eIHcatiou, arrived home In good health from
his European tour yesterday.
The SENATE COMMITTEE on TRAYsPosTA
TON which will meet In this cisy on or about
the 18th instant, will leave here for Atlanta
and from thence go to New Orleans.
TEE EXPECTED COUNCIL with the Arrapahoes
and Cheyennes IN this city by the Comm ssioner
of Indian Affairs to-day has been postponed.
II will probably take place TO- morrow or next
day.
The WIDOW OF the late Captain Hall visited
the Tigress at the Brooklyn navy yard yester-
day to obtsin, if possible, any re,'cs ( the Arc
tic voyage. She was greatly affected when
shown the prayer book OF her husband.
DIPLOMATIC PRoMoTroNs.-The secretary OF
state has jnst made the following promotions in
the diplomatic service: NJ. Gerrish, consul at
Nantes. promoted to be cOunsul at Bordeaux,
vice Glitch, resigned; Mr.. Alcott. consular
clerk at Nantes, promoted TO be consul at
Nantes, vice Gerrish, promoted.
The ANNUAL REPORT OF the commissioner of
agriculture shows the distribution by the depart
ment over one million packages of seeds during
the past year Of over five hundred packages
The expenditures of the department have been
SlSS,O4G13. The appropriations for the current
year was S25I $50, of which S5l 900 has already
been expended and s2OG6 s9 is still on hand.
In DEATH They WERE Nor DIVIDED
kilograms received here to-day announce the
the death at Boston, of MIS-. Mary Catharine
Baury, Telict of the Rev. DR. Barry, and at St
Louis, at the nearly the same hour, the death
OF the sister of the frst-named, wife OF the Rev
DIR. Post, OF st. Louis. By the demise of these
venerable ladies, sisters of the late Bis!lop Hem
ton.
AN CSHRALTHY PLACE FOR L. s. MARSH
ALs.-The United States marshal for the west
elm district of Texas informs Attorney General
Williams that Deputy Marshal John p Frier
was assasslnated at Bracketsyilie, in that state,
on the 18th of October, by a man named
McWeber. who had been convicted of murder
ana sentenced to be hanged, but made his es-
cape from prison. This is the fifth deputy
marshal assassinated in this district.
PERsoNAL.-Senator Sargent, of Cal, had an
interview with President Grant day. Gen.
Smith, supervising inspector general of steam
boats, returned this morning from the recent
boiler expert ments at Sandy Hook. Lady
Thornton, wife of the British minister accom-.
panied by her two daughters and Capt. Gore
Jones, OF the British legation, were in New York
OH Monday. Alfred H. Young, L. S. consul
at Santiago de Cuba, sailed from New York
yesterday for his post.
The REPoRT OF THE PAYMAsTER GENERAL
l. 5. A, shows that the total receipts and dis
bursements for the year ending June so, 1873,
were $40, % .629.59. It contains several recon-
mendations, among which may be mentioned
the imperative necessity of more paymasters
sixteen vacancies exist at the present time, two
OF the rank of lieutenant colonel and fourteen
OF the rank OF major. The paymaster general
recommends that the number of paymasters
be established at ffty-two instead of siXty a.
provided by the act of July Is, 1856, and that
the interdict upon future appointments and
promotions be repealed; that greater period
than thirty days be allowed to an officer on
leave of absence without reduction of paw, and
that the pay of paymasters' clerks be increased.
The number OF assertions in the army during
the past year was five hundred less than in 1877
and one thousand less than in 1871.
TnE CONDEMNED MAN, YOUNG, REsrIrEp
FOR Two WEEKs.-President Grant to-day
directed Attorney General Williams to prepare
respite for two weeks in the case of Henry
Young, sentenced to death for the murder OF
the drover Holm, and who was to have been
executed on Friday of this week. Tharespite
Wal be onicially read to the condemned man
tomorrow. This extends the time for the exc
eutton to the 2Sth instant. The prisoner a few
days ago sent word to his counsel, Messrs Mus
sey and Garnett, that he would like to have a
repr1eve or Representatives, for the purpose
OF making more preparation to meet his death
and yesterday they called on the President for
the purpose os presenting the application, but
bnSS "OiC uudDlc u see nlrn. IO-UdN Oeuerai
Mussey went up alone. MIR. Garnett being en-
gagged in the Criminal Court, and the President
at once ordered the respite postponing the exc
cution OF the sentence to the 2Sth instant.
GETTING READY FOR SEA SERvIcE-GeTSa
TO CUBA, OR WBERE?-The following officers
have been ordered to the iron-clad steamer
Manhattan, now being got ready at the Phil
adelphta navy yard Tor Immediate service as
stated in our telegram elsewhere:-Commander
4; X. owen, detached from the navy yard, Nor
folk, and ordered to command the Manhattan;
Lieut.. Isaac Hazlett, from the naval observa-
tory, and ordered to the Manhattan. Also the
following:-Lieut Commander Rich'd p. Leavy
as executive officer; Lieut.. Thomas Perry, Mas
tiers Nathan T.. Niles and Newton f.. Mason,
Assistant Surgeon T.. Z. Derr, First Assistant
Engineer Henry Snyder, Master A. b. Speyers.
iron the Nermont,) and Paymaster A. Deer
ing, from the receiving ship Sabine;) Assistant
Engineer John Lowe and Second Assistant En-
glneer John L. Smith, from the navy yard,
WashingtoD0 Second Assistant Engineer II E.
Rhoades, from the Juniata) All Of the above
officers are 10 report for duty on board the Man
haitian next Monday, the 18th inst.