Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-01-07
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.


INTERSAL REvENuE.-The receipts from this
slurce to-day were sloO.o2s.46
The CABINET MEETING to-day was attended
by all the members except Secretary Delano,
whowasrerresentedb by Acting Secretary Cowen.
SENATOR'S Howe, Logan, Hitchcock, Robert
son, and Spencer, and Representative Hawley,
were among the Presidents visitors to-day.
SECOND ASSISTANT ENGINEER G. f. DRINEy
has been ordered to the Terror as the relief o.
I'd Assistant Engineer j. P. Mickey, ordered
home. ~
JAMES maxwell, republican, will contest
TIE right of ID. M. Dewitt, democrat, to take the
seat in the House as the representative Of the
eth congressional district of New York.
Il. J. WALLS, colored, is to be run by the col
gred members of the Florida legislature rs can
didate for the United States Senate on the race
issue, and lively time is anticipated.
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON NAVAL AFFAIRS
this morning again had under consideration the
claim of Mr.. Wheeler Hubbel for 500 900 for
bis patent fuse and percussion caps, but came
to nO conclusion.
The WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE will to-
morrow hear the statements Of Joseph Patter-
son, president of the western national bank of
Philadelphia, and Mr. Duncan, of the firm Of
Duncan, Sherman & Co.. Of New York, in rela-
ton to the syndicate and the funded loan.
SENATE COMMUNICATIVE Senate, in
executive session, yesterday confirmed large
humber of promotions in the regular army made
during the recess of Congress, and also the ap-
pointment of all the cadets of the last GRADUATE
Ing class at West Point to be second lieutenants.
The KANSAS INvEsT1GATIoN-About twen-
ty-fve persons have been summoned already
Il and iS nt,a1 10 haf laao
enty-fve more viii be called before the Senate
committee to investigate charges against Sena-
tor Caldwell OF that state.
THE AIM of our government i'm the visit of the
L. $. steamer Yantic to Zanzibar is to lend aid
TO Great Britain in obtaining the abrogation OF
a clause giving to the subjects of the Imaum OF
Muscat the right to trade in slaves between
points in his dominions.
THE EXECUTIVE ORDER announcing that the
interests of the public service demand that feder-
al office holders shall not be connected with state
governments, is now being prepared, and will
be issued i'm few days. 1t will not take effect
however, until the 4th of March next.
/ THE U. s. VESSEL GUARD, one of the ships
detailed to carry goods from the United States TO
the Vienna expedition, will he really for her Of
| fieers on the 18th inst. and they will doubtless
he ordered TO her without delay. as her COM
mander, Babcock. las been directed to report
on the day mentioned.
|. THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPRoPRIA-
TIoNs this morning heard the statements of Df.
Cox, DIR. Bliss and Mr.. LangstOn, of the board
of health, and agreed TO give the board S39 900
for the purchase of ambulaAces, erection of
hospital, and proper care OF smallpox patterns.
and provide for universal vaccination and the
adoption OF such measures will prevent the
spread OF the disease.
THE SITUATION IN New ORLEANs.-The Sec
rotary of War received dispatch this morning
from Gen. Emory stating that everything was
quiet in New Orleans. The Attorney General
received two dispatches dated yesterday, from
United States Marshal Packard, i'm one of which
he says that he believes it is not the intention of
the State authorities to interfere with the Old
Fellows hall gathering, unless some overt act
is committed against the legitimate state gov
eminent.
PRESIDENTIAL NoNINATIoys.-The Presi-
dent the following nominations to the Senate
to-day: 4. b. Wood, consul at Rosario; NJ. Gar
fias, consul at San Bias; j. Thornton consul at
Aspinwall, Mexico; G. F. Horn, register of land
office at Austin, Nevada; ThOs. A. Cummings,
agent for Flathead and other Indians in Nor
tana territory; Frank Reeder, collector OF inter-
nal revenue 18th district PENNSYLVANIA; ID Lieu
tenants Wm. p. Rogers, A. Z. Paul, II. c. Danes
and w. Il: Dunton, to be LIST heutenants in the
army; and LIST Lieutenants III. W. Vessels, Jno
X. Myrick and JAS. X. Kelly, TO be captains in
the army; Midshipman Jas. NJ. Gore to be 2d
lieutenant in the army. -rr
THE OWNERSHIP OF THE YOSEMITE VAL
LEY.-In a case decided by the Supreme Court
ofthe United States yesterday, the question was,
whether the plaintiff, one Hutchings, who had
settled the Yosemite tract before II was grant
ed by Congress to California, as public reserva-
ton or park, was entitled to have his title con-
frmed to him, notwithstanding the grant to the
state. Hutchings had entered ON the lands in
tending to purchase under the presumption
laws, and claimed that Congress could not divert
done. The judgment below sanctioned the grant
to the state. That Judgment is affirmed, the
supreme court holding, in substance, that q set
Element upon the public domain does not confer
such rights upon the settler as will prevent Con-
gress, in its discretion, from disposing of the
land for other purposes.