Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-11-19

President GRANT was writing his annual
message to-aay, and has not receiv ed any yis-
tiers except Secretary Fish, who called in the
forenoon and had a long interview with him.
lieut. C,NNAhIsR HENRY C. WHITE, who
was executive officer of the Tigress during her
cruise in search OF the POlaris, has reported TO
the naval academy at Annapolis for duty.
TEE NORTHERN CBxYKsNEs AND ARRApA-
HOES left the city for their home in the wes-
THIS afternoon. They will visit Philadelphia
and New York ca route.
GIN. CHIPnAs did not walk out yesterday, as
stated IN a morning paper. Although quite
convalescen; and able to sit up most of the day,
he is yet unable to leave bis room but hopes 10
be well enough To d" so m a week or two.
NAVAL ORpERs-J. Q. A. Zeigler to tempo
rary special duty at Key West, Florida; Mid
shipman Hugo Osteroaus to the Powhattan,
and to report 10 the commander OF the North
Atlantic station, upon falling in with him.
TEE VIRsINIUs.-The chief Of the bureau of
statistics desires TO say, In reference to the
omission Of the steamer Virginius from the last
list OF merchant vessels of the United States,
the Virginia, paddle wheel steamer; tonnage,
441Si; home port, New York. The Off fial
number, $3.50, was awarded February u, 1872.
TIE FUNERAL Of the late Mrs. Ellen H. Stan
ton, relict of the late Secretary of War, Edwin
N. Stanton, who departed this life at her home
in Germantown, Pa, on the 18th instant, as
stated IN yesterdays STAR, will take place to-
a. m. from the Baltimore and Potomac depot,
at the corner Of 9Th street and Pennsylvania
avenue, to the Oak Hill cemetery In George.
town, where the remains will be inferred
WHAT GIN. SHERMAN DID SAY ABOUT THE
ARMY.-The paragraph going the rounds Of the
nr al her ail
States could not 60 to war, as the military force
Is Inadequate, places that officer in false DO.
sition. What General Sherman did say was
that the present army was peace, and not
peace establishment would have TO be Increased
to meet the emergency.
TIE DEATH OF COMMODORE PERRY's Son.
Capt. Matthew c. Perry, L. S. navy, son
the famous Commodore Perry, who died on
Sunday in New York city, was born in New
York, and received his first appointment in
1858, serving In the first three years of his naval
career as an officer of the frigate Potomac, at
tached to the Mediterranean squadron He
served also in the Mexican war, and was in &C
tive service during the rebellion. He received
his commission as captain in 1861.
THE GREAT TELESCOPES, for the construction
of which Congress male an appropriation OF
$50 900, and which has now been mounted at
the National Observatory here, rests on a pier
OF stone and brick work extending eighteen feet
below the surface, and the pier is capped by
single block of sandstone, weighing about two
toDs. On this stone rests a heavy iron casting
weighing one and a quarter tons, and this sup
ports the instrument. Although the weight of
the moving parts is about four tons, the immense
mass can be moved by slight pressure of the
hand. The length of the telescope is thirty
two and half feet, and the tube is of sheet
steel, riveted together. The important part OF
the instrument, the object glass, is twenty-six
inches IN diameter, and was made in England,
at cost of 81 900.
PERSONAL. F. X. Pangborn, editor of the
EreRing Journal, Jersey City, Hon. ID. A.
Num-, Tenn Gen. j. F. Rushing, Pa; Com
mod0re J. Il. Jouett, L. S. Navy, and Judge
W. W. Brooking, Dakota, are at the Ebbftt
y and Hon. II. III. Harrison and family have
engaged quarters at the Ebtitt House. AT
torney General Williams has moved into his
new residence, on Rhode Island avenue, be-
49, Senator Oglesby, Of Illinois, was married
yesterday TO Mrs. Emma Rays, Of Elkhart in
that state. - 1t is announced in Boston news
papers that Senator Sumner will introduce
early In the next session of Congress q bill for
the resumption OF specie payment. .'.'E x-
Senator Trumbull expects to be appointed cor
poration counsel for Chicago. ''':H Hon. Lloyd
Lowndes, Congressman elect from the sixth
Maryland district, has arrived in the city and
has taken house on X street. 80 Gov. GIL
80. Gen. B. F. Butler has again rented the
residence occupied by him for the past four
years, corner Of 18th and streets. .'.' Hon
ID. W. voorhees,, Of Indiana, has announced his
the new questions to arise new men will be
needed. 800 Sidney Andrews, heretofore Wash
ington correspondent Of the Boston Advertiser,
but OF late secretary to the governor of Massa-
Miss sarah l.. Washburn, the ceremony to take
place in Boston.