Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-18
EVENING STAR.
Waship .gton News and Gossip,

A.
"aship gton News and Gossip.
ERF.AL REvENUE.-The receipts from thi.
f0orce so-dsy we're 1855 ,2ns.43.
C"sEsUL APPoINTED.-The President TO-DAY
!" de the following appointment :-George A.
- Morris, to be consul at Amapols, Hon IN az.
The BOARD of Indian commissioners have
made arrangements for holding a conference
with the Ute Indians some time during the
present month.
As SOON as the day is announced for tn,
funeral OF VIM. NJ. Meredith, late Secretary of
the Treasury, (who died in Philadelphia yester-
day, as stated elsewhere in The starr An
order VIII be issued closing the Treasury de-
partment on that day.
The PRESIDENTS TRIP to Mount Desert
Me-, had to be given up on account of a den.e
fog, and he retuI ned to Augusta and attended
divine service at the Granite church Yesterday
morning. He was to leave for Portland bv a
special train this morning
SENATOR CARPENTERS CONSTITUENTS IN
DIeNANT.-The Ecsning Republican, Published
at Milwaukee, Senator Carpenters home, init
mates that the New York Tribune and the
| Chicago Times will be held responsible for
| recent publications concerning the Senator's
| private character. Contained in the Long
Branch correspondence of those papers char n2
HIM with appearing in public in company with
a cOurtezan.
COURTS MARITAL ORDERED.-The following
general courts martial have been ordered: WIZ
let's Point, New York, August 10Th; Fort
Bridgcr, W. T., August 18th; Mobile, Alabama,
August 18th; Columbia, s. c., August 18th;
Fort Adams. X. L., August Goth. These courts
martial will meet on the day designated or as
soon thereafter as practicable, and for the
trial OF such persons as may be properly brought
before them.
PERsoyAL.-Secretary Delapo and Indian
Commissioner Smith have gone to visit the
SssitOn Indian agency 1t is said that Sem
ator Jones, OF Nevada, has an income from his
mining property of $500, 900 a year. Bishop
Simpson, OF the Methodist church of this coun-
try, has been presiding over a German Amar-
lean Methodist conference in Wurtemburg
FIRED. Douglass, while in Boston, is pre-
pairing lecture ON the life and times of John
Brown.
A DILEMnA.-Under the state temperance
law Of Massachusetts, manufacturers OF fer
mented liquors have had seized and coufiscated
property upOn which the United States had de-
manded ana received taxes. A large number
OF letters have been written by brewers asking
II mere Is no federal authority to protect them
after they have complied with the Internal
revenue law. Upon the reassembliny of Com
gTess, dealers will ask that the federal taxes
paid on the articles seized and DESTROYED by
state authority be refunded.
K,
of the 5th cavalry, reports to General Sherman,
from Camp Apache, Arizona territory, under
date Of June %, that on the 10th of June, with a
company of thirty-twO men and eighteen
Apache soldiers, after following the trail for
seven days, he overlook a BODY of Apache
Indians in the mountains near Toito creek. A
night ensued, during which fourteen Indians
were killed and five women and a child c up
tured other camps were found on the same
day which had been abandoned in a hurry.
ErHArrr.r -. =. 4,
In the course Of letter to H. Osterberger, ed
itor Of the German A merican Economist.
FrankfOrt-on-the-Ma Main, Germany, U. S. Treas
user Spinner says" The conversion of gov
eminent stocks from higher to a lower rate of
interest IL now progressing quite as fast as the
present available force of the Treasury depart-
ment can comfortably manage it, and the pros
pect or Its continuance seems to be pretty well
assured. 1t Is now a question with the Secre-
tary whether he will continue the exchange for
a hye per cent. stock, or wait until he can place
the new stock at four and one-half or even at
four per cent" Gen. Spinner's main idea in
this letter is that Congress should pass a law
ordering the resumption Of specie payments on
a a, hxed day" say three years from the passage
currency would Immediately become the equiv
alent OF coin.
INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CONGRESS-
Mr. Edward Young, chief Of the bureau of
statistics, official delegate from the United
States to the session held at ST. Petersburg has
Just received q letter from Monsieur Somehow
president or the organizing committee of the
last congress, in reference TO the place for hold
ing the next meeting. After acknowledge the
lnvltsnon, rendering the hospitality of the
great republic OF the new world for its ninth
session." Mr.. SemeDow continues: "While
fully appreciating the sentiments of sympathy
which dictated this invitation, the committees
on organ zation could not accept il without con-
sulting the members OF the permanent commits
sion as to the difficulties which the organi cation
Of the ninth session IN America would present
0HlAQltRR Enrnnaan D
The permanent commission, of which Mr.
Young is a member, but which he was unable
to attend, being now in session in Vienna the
place for holding the next session will soon bs
known.
SARATOGA GOSSIP ABOUT WASHINGTON
PgoPLE.-The Saratoga correspondent of the
Louisville Courier Journal in a recent letter
SAYS "There are quite a number Of stylish la
dies seen, but only i've young ladies that l
would call beauties. Miss Hart, Of New York.
Is very tall young lady, with tiny foot that is
much admired, and which every one tries to get
a peep at She is blonde, with brown eyes
and lovely. Miss Morgan is still the beauty and
belle of the Congress. Miss Scott, OF Erie
Pennsylvania, is also a fair blonde with such a
variety Of choice, elegant dresses that she ex-
cites the greatest admiration wherever seen.
Miss Wallsch, of Washington, who accompanies
Miss Scott, Is foil TO the blonde beauty, for she
Banks is a great belle here. She is stylish but
not regular beauty, though some say she has
captured the valiant Yarmouth. Many are the
rumored engagements which are discussed here
For instance, we are told that the Secretary of
War is about to wed widowed sister of General
Hancock; Miss Lucy Worthington is to marry
the New York banker, Henry Clews, and lovely
Miss Mary Campbell, of Washington, whose
engagement to Mr.. Oswald Charlton of the
English Legation. was announced last winter,
is TO be married in December. The wedding
will be brilliant affair, for there are TO be ten
bridesmaids, all of them Washington bellies
The happy pair will leave the United States in
Feb or their N and la-a
Charlton will join an embassy to another coun-
try"
NAVAL ORDERs.-The following orders were
issued from the Navy Department to-day:
Ordered.-Captain s. p. Quackenbush to COM
mand the receiving ship New Hampshire LIST
September. Lieutenant Commander Louis |
kempf 10 the naval rendezvous, San Francisco,
California Passed Assistant Surgeon George
>. Culhrett TO the naval hospital, Chelsea,
Massachusetts. First Assistant Engineer Geo.
Z Tower to the Naval Academy, LIST Septem-
Der. Second Assistant Engineer j. A. b. Smith |
to the Saugus, 1T Key West, Fla, per steamer |
OF sd instant.