Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-06
EVENING" STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL. RKvKSuK--7iGh he receipts from this
source to-day We're s2s..,s25.Es '.Eii E.
1 PosTMAsrER BURT; of Boston. arrived here
to-day. 80 . rf.... l-a
2 TEE PREsIDKSr being absent, there were no,
visitors at the White House to day except few
curious people inspecting the carpets and fur
niture. I'D II.
SECRETARY boutwell, appeared before the
committee on appropriations yesterday in refer
ence TO an additional pay fund for the employees
OF the Treasury. l-r p,
SENATOR CALpwELL.--In the Kansas House
Of Representatives yesterday a resolution re-
questing Senator Caldwell TO resign was laid on
the tabis - .Otc % .s.,Iy swo 10 one.
THE NEW LoAN-From information received
here, il is believed that the efforts of the new
syndicate to place the balance Of the new five
per cent. lOan-S300, 600 ,OO0-will prove entirely
Successful. .4H. -HrH.
IT 10 UNDERSTOOD that Mr.. T.. r. Chapman,
OF the internal revenue bureau, has passed the
maximum examination for head Of the division
Of stamps, recently vacated by the resignation
Of w, p. Sherman, Esq. 3
SPECIAL AsENTs APPoINTEp.-Ei +. Jen-
rings, of Ala, and Gen. Albert NJ Barney, Of
New York state, recently collector Of customs
az Brownsville, Texas, have been appointed.
special Treasury agents. p ,t',-'- - V
NAVAL GHAssEs.-First Assistant Engineer
". W. Heaton detached from the navy yard at
Virginia and ordered to the Wasp, per steamer
II ed instant, relieving First Assistant Engi--
iieer b. G. Gowing, who il granted permission to
return to the United States
Stir AGAINST GEN. FRrNoSr.7Information
that proceedings are to be begun Immediately
in the criminal court OF Paris against Gen. John
c. Fremont in the matter of the placing Of the
bonds of the Memphis and FL PasO railroad.
COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS CASEY and United
States Marshal Packard, Of New Orleans, are
expected to arrive here to-day. The latter
brings large amount of documentary evidence
in the Louisiana election case, which will be
presented to the Senate committee Of investi
CATION to-day or to- morrow. tt
CIVIL SERVICE PooLs.-In the internal reve-
nue. Office to-day competitive examination was
held, at which seven or eight clerks were the
applicants for promotion, and while the canii-
dates were before the board, some OF their fellow
clerks established pools i'm another part OF the
building as to the prospects of the competitors.
SUITS wITHDRG wN.-The Attorney General
has directed the United States district attorney
at Savannah, Ca, to discontinue the suits pend
ing there to compel certain persons to pay the
United States custom taxes that they had once
Paid - the confederate officials during the war,
ander compu)siQn. These suits are twenty-six
IN number.
The JOHN MINOR Boris APPROPRIATION.
The President having declined to sign the bill
appropriating 81 $1,000 TO the children Of the
late John Minor Bolts, of Virginia, for iniuries
alleged to have been done by the United States
troops to his property during the war, and not
days from the time Of his receiving it, it has
become law without his signature.
GEN. SWEET, first deputy commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, who has been absent for some
time on business connected with the Internal
Revenue bureau has returned, and resumed the
duties Of his Office. Gen. 3. Is chairman of the
committee recently appointed by Commissioner
Douglass 10 prepare plan for the reOrganiza-
ton of the bureau in accordance with the inter-
nal revenue law, and it is ex pected the committee
perfect and report their plan in few days.
DISPATCHES received here to-day state that
the Boston Journal, which has been supporting
Mr.. Dawes for the United States Senate to sue
ceed Mr.. Wilson, came out last night in favor
OF Secretary Boutwell,. The Secretary has now
the support of a majority of the republican
papers in the state, AMI there seems to be no
doubt of ms election. IL is thought that Sena-
tor Wilson viii tender his resignation TO- day or
tomorrow.
EXAMINING THE Books, OF THE L. p R. R.
Representative j. NJ. Wilson, chairman Of the
credit mobiher committee, No. 2, began an ex-
animation Of the books of the Union Pacific
company, in the Office of the treasury, IN Bos-
ton, yesterday evening; but found that little
progress cOuid be made until another set Of
books, now in the custody of the sergeant at
arms, were in their hands for comparison, and
they were telegraphed for. The investigation
will be pursued in other directions, however,
until they arrive; but the chief object of the
search-the cost Of the road-cannOt be male
up before Friday night, when the books are eN
pected.
SUSPENSION OF THE CAMPAiGN AGAINST
THE MoDocs.-orders have been issued to the
comman6ant OF the United States forces now