Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-06-08

Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
IsTERsAL REvENUs--The receipts from this
source day were s7ss, 2Os44.
THE colored aristocracy of Washington have
Lotus club. One white ball rejects-Rich-
E'ond Enquirer.
NEW STAR FOR THE FLAG.-The House,
BY vote OF 10 yeas to 65 nays, over txo-thirds
this morning passed the bill admitting the ter
rtoTy OF Colorado as a state of the Union.
GRIEF JUSTICE WAITE has gone to Raleigh
TO cit with Judge Bond in the great "tAx-boDd
sui, >" now per ding in the United States Circuit
Court. The trial will begin to- morrow.
THE PRESIDENT will visit West Virginia after
he adjournment OF Congress and then return
20 Washington, and will resume his summer
residence at Long Branch about the Fourth OF
July.
The Senate Committee on Railroads to-day
agreed 70 postpone the question of the terminus
Of the Pacific railroad as between Omaha and
Council Bluffs, until the next session of Con-
gress.
A SALE Of the minor personal effects of Mr..
Sumner, taken to Boston. will be held in that
city on Wednesday, the 10th inst. The catalogue
comprises over two hundred lots, mostly small
articles.
The TIcONDRRoGA arrived at Kew West
June 5, from Norfolk. The board, of which
Commodore +. A. Parker is president, for the
examination of midshipmen preliminary to pro-
motion, organized at Annapolis on the 9Th inst.
Mr.. HOLMAN, of Indiana, has been called
home by reason of the dangerous illness of a
member of his family. Mr.. Niblack announced
this morning in the House that he (Holman)
might not be able to resume his seat during the
present session.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.-The House this
morning by vote of 1s6 years to Sc nays, mot
txo-thirds, y refused to adopt a motion made by
yr. Butler to refer the civil rights bill, now on
me Speakers table, 20 the judiciary Commit
zee, and giving that committee leave to report
q at any time.
THR HOUSE Committee on Elections this
morning began the Investigation of the charges
of alleged bribery made against Mr.. Hynes, OF
Arkansas. The accused appeared before the
committee and denied in toto the statement set
'orth in the affidavit OF Bradley, who was his
contestant for Congressional honors.
The REPUBLICAN MEMBERS of the Senat,
and House of Representatives will meet in
caucus in the House of Representatives this
evening at O'Clock. The object of the meet
ing is for the purpose of determining what
measures are TO as and what are to be allowed
TO fail.
THE WASHINGTON EVENING SrAR.-Goy-
eTnor Shepherd has sold his stock in TaK STAR
newspaper. The other members of the com
Vany bought mp his interest in equal propor-
tons. Tie price paid was at the rate of 80 per
cent. premium on the par value OF the stock
lt has long been an Influential and profitable
paper.-ihiiadelPhtd City ITEM.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Lieuts. F. W. Croker and
Edward ID. Taussig have been ordered to New
port for instruction in the torpedo service;
Lieut.. VIM. Watts is detached from the Torpedo
statlGn and ordered TO the BROOKLYN; Lieut.,
Chas. W. JarbOe is detached from the HYDRO
graphic Office and ordered to duty In the nayi-
CATION departmet at the Mare Island navy yard
TIE OBSERVERS OF THE TRANSIT OF VENUS
she L. S. steamer Swatara was to leave for
iew York for the southern hemisphere yester
iay, with five OF the parties of astronomers to
make observations Of the transit of Venus
che three other parties will proceed to their
hree stations in the northern hemisp here via
san Francisco.
DELEGATION Of bookbinders and printers
IN the employment OF the Government at the
Congressional printing Office was before the
House Appropriation Committee this morning
protesting against the action of that COMMITTEES
"a fixing the pay at a definite sum. 1t appears
hat the committee, in considering the item of
expenditure for public printing in the sundry
'lVi-servlce appropriation bill, fixed the sala-
ries of printers and bOokbinders at a sum OBJ
taxed from the average of prices paid nv the
cities OF New York, Philadelphia, and Balti-
more.
THERE rs NOW in the Corcoran Art Gallery a
new painting, by Mr.. Thomas Moran. 1t is
called the "Chasm Of the Colorado" and is
view of portion OF the Grand Gorge Of tn
Colorado river, which was first explored anu
mapped few years since by Mai. j. w. Powell
rhe scene lies in Northern Arizona, a,olt four
hundred miles south Of Salt Lake city. The
painting is OF the same size as the Yellowstone
and hac =, m
visitors to the Gallery, in the room east Of the
stairway, adjoining the main picture hall.
The PRESIDENT ACCEPTS AN INVITATION
TO VISIT MOUNT VERHoN.-On Saturday last ,
Mrs. Bouligny, president Of the centennial ex-
scutiye committee for the District Columbia
accompanied by Miss Olive Risley Seward
ehairmsn Ior asninston; Mrs General Emory,
others, visited the White House, and extended
20 the President an invitation to join them on
June. The President accepted the invitation,
and promised the ladies the Marine band should
accompany the excursionists.
THE COLLISION ON THE PoroMAC TO BE In
vEsTIGATED.-The supervising inspector gene
raj OF steamboats, has proposed to Secretary
Roteson that there shall be joint investi ga
tId4 &c 10 the cause of the collision on the Poto-
mac last Saturday between the United States
steamer Gettysburg and the passenger steamer
Lady OF the Lake. The Navy department has
concerned, but the bureau of steamboat inspec-
zion service must inquire concerning the Lady
oI the Lake. The Gettysburg has returned to
Warrington from New York.
PRRsoNAL.-Mr. f. w. Barber, Third As
sistsnt Postmaster General, Is at his home In
Michigan on q brief leave of absence. ....Hon
L. W. Harvey, commissioner of common schools
FOR the state OF Ohio, ana who was appointed
chairman of the committee on statistical forms
at the meeting OF the National Teachers, asso
" Last foil hos haaxx
for several days past for the purpose OF confer
ing with General Eaton, mmissioner of Edu.
cation, in reference to his (Mr. II. 's) report
association in Detroit In August next. SEN
ator Brownlow, in q second letter on the civil
rights BILL reiterates the objections to it which
he mentioned In his former letter to the Col
ored Mems convention, and calls tue section
providing for mixed schools can oppr essiye and
abominable usurpation." Hon. M. X. Arm
strong, of Dakota, who is now ser wing his fourth