Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-05-10

here on Tuesday evening for New Haven to at
tend the reunion of the Army of the Potomac.
1T rs SAID to-day that no appointment OF
Chief Justice will be made until after the next
meeting of Congress.
ADMIRAL WINsLow was better this morning,
and is improving. DR. Cox, his attending ply
sician, does not apprehend any serious results
from this attack.
APPOINTMENTS By THE PRRsIDENr.-The
President made the following appointments to-
of the United States; Edward Hancock, Consul
at Patras. Postmasters: Thomas ii. FOuds, ut
Cincinnati, o., and others.
JOSEPH P. BRADLEY, associated justice OF
the L. $. Supreme Court, arrived at Savannah,
Ca, Thursday night. On Monday, the 10th i'm
slant, he Will open the adjourned term of the
United States c rcuit Court in Mobile. Alabama,
that court having been adjourned to that day
by the order Of the jury.
END OF THE WAR AT ST. MARTINsvILLE,
LA private dispatch from Governor Kel-
logg. received here this morning, says:
" Dispatches just received from General
Badger, at st. Martinsville, SAYS that De
Blanehes' forces have disbanded and gone home.
Court quietly in session. Badger Is master of
the situation. Several have been indicted for
treason. The U: s. troops are still at Brashear,
81 miles distant"
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT from the books
of the Internal Revenue department, showing
the receipts from cigars in the several leading
tobacco districts for the first six months of the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1872 and 1873, shows
an increase OF from to 131 per cent. in the re-
ceipts. In Baltimore the increase was Ii per
cent. The largest increase was in Camden, ".
j., where it was 131 per cent, and the smallest
in ST. Louis, Mo-, and Allentown, Pa, where it
Was per cent.
| ARRIVAL of the President in this city yesterday
afternoon hewas waited upon by Gen. Sherman,
who presented for the Presidents consideration
the various dispatches received from Gen.
Schofeld. The latest received here Yesterday
states that Gen. Davis had made a thorough
examination of the lava beds, and would
make a sOrward movement as early as practi-
cable. Gen. SchOfield hesitates about enrolling
good men from the Department of the Platte,
or ether contiguous departments, would prove
more effective.
THE SIOUX ExPEDITIoN,-T military expe-
ditiOn, which will 60 into the country OF the
| Sioux Indians to establish two military posts
| there, in accordance with the act Of Congress
| of last session, will consist of 1000 men and
officers, and will be accompanied by large
| number Of civilians. There will be several
| scientific men with the expedition, who expect
| the most valuable scientific results from an
examination Of the great interior basin, which
/ terra fncognitd to the white race, and the
uDdisturbed abode of the most savage and pow
erful Of the Indian tribes. The expedition will
| probably be begun about the middle of June.
| CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE AS PoEr.-The
late Chief Justice Chase was not only a lover
| of poetry, but he wrote it with considerable
| taste and feeling. Three pieces are known to
have been written by him, entitled "The Sist-
ers, !" ITO Star" (given in another column, }
and Themes" The Sd and 4th Of the latter run
as follows:
How eft does seeming worth that thornless rose,
shoot ont. when by affection nurtured,
The gentle hand that tends IL.
''How shifts the varying scene The great to-day
Are by the turn Of fckle Fortunes wheel
Tomorrow mingled with the general mass"
PERsoNAL.-Harris, formerly "Brown's
Young Man." of the Capital, is now cashier OF
the new Queen City Hotel at Cumberland
..--HOn. j. T. Walls. OF Florida, has
been admitted to practice in the several
courts of that state. -...HOn. A. T.. Sands
of Ohio, and G. +. Baldwin, ESQ.,, special
L. s. mail agent, are at the Ebbitt House
Mrs. Candy, the wife of the late General
Candy, is in very feeble health. She will leave
Portland for San Francisco with Capt Haw-
kins, who has charge of Gen. CaRby's remains
After the burial of Gen. Candy at Indiana polls
Mrs. Candy will 60 to Detroit Rear Adj
miral John A. Winslow, Of Alabama and Kear-
| sarge fame, was stricken with paralysis at the
Ebbitt House last evening.
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