Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-01-10
EVENING STAR.
DOUBLE SHEET.
Washington News and Gossip.


INTERNAL REvKsuK.-The receipts from this
source to-day were s239.OS7.
JUDGE DURKLL, of Louisiana, yesterday
placed his resignation at The disposal OF the
President. No disposition has yet been made
OF IL.
ACCORDING to the naval appropriation bin
now pending in the House, nearly $50 900 more
Is required to pay the officers OF the navy than
the seamen.
TINE Committee of Ways aud Means has
instructed its chairman TO report adversely on
the bin to remove the tax on friction matches
in stamps.
Hon. Jos. SEeAR has been chosen by the
chamber of commerce of Norfolk, Va, to rep
| resent that body in the American cheap trans
portatlon convention to assemble in this city on
the 18th instant.
SENATOR EDMUE Os while in Europe last
| spring and summer caught what is called the
Amsterdam fever" He has been in rather
feeble condition ever since, and is rarely able to
remain whole days session in the Senate.
NAVAL ORDERS. Lieutenant Commander
| Chas. II. Craven detached from the receiving
| ship Independence and ordered to the Kear-
| ssge; Lieutenant Commander John j. Read
! from the Kearsage and ordered to the Rich
mOnd.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED BILLs.-Thus far this
session of Congress there has been introduced
in the House of Representatives ,Oi5 bills, and
five hundred in the Senate--enough work to
keep busy all the state legislatures Of the sew
eral states Of the Union.
PURSUANT to a call signed by large num-
| Der of members, there will be a meeting of the
members of the FOrty-third Congress who favor
cheap transportation at the room of the House
Judiciary Committee, at $50 O'Clock this even
ing.
THE VIRGINIA SENAToRsHIP.-At the eau
Gus of the conservative members of the legisla-
tuIe OF Virginia yesterday, ballots for United
States Senator were cast as follows: X f.
WitherS, %; X. NJ +. Hunter, 26; John GJode,
25 a. H. ii. Stuart, %; Robt. Ould, 20.
IT rs RUNoRED that b. H. Bristow, who was
nominated for Attorney General OF the United
States, and his name subsequently withdrawn
bv the President, has been rendered the Span
ish Mission, and that, in the event of his ac-
cePtance, his name will be sent to the Senate
on Monday.
PROPOSED BUREAU OF PATESTs-The House
Committee on Patents have been engaged on
lengthy bill, which proposes to separate the
Patent ONCE from the Interior department and
10 give 1t position as distinct bureau. The bill
also contains many changes of the existing req
uIatlOns, intended to improve and simplify pro-
cecuTe in patent and copyright cases.
The WEST VIRGINIA ELECTIONS MIDDLE
The House Committee on Elections is very
much divided on the case of the West Virginia
members. The chairman of the committee and
several others are inclined to ignore both sets OF
delegates and remit the whole matter to the
people OF the state for new election, although
not entirely decided. Mr.. Lamar of MississiD-
pi, and others favor admitting the delegates
who were chosen at the October election. The
committee have addressed a request to the gov
eInor OF West Virginia asking information as
10 the total OF the vote cast at both elections
c0mnQTpd al oIar 49,
Hon. CALEB CUSHING, who resides an has
his ONCE, when in this city, at the old
Michler mansion, at the corner of 2lst and
streets, was called upon by a host of
friends this morning, who came to Congratulate
him on his nomination as Chief Justice. The
General, who Is in excellent health and as brisk
IN his movements as a man of fifty, received the
congratulations in his usual pleasant manner
and said he had no intimaton OF the Presidents
intention until his name was sent to the Senate
lie was naturally reticent on the subject of his
c0nt nation, but was assured by several promi.
nent gentlemen who called that there was no
doubt on that subject.
fEUNCOMBE DAY."-To day is what is known
as "Buncombe" day in the House OF Rspresen-
tstives, and there were not over fifty members
present at the session. According to usage or
Parliamentary law, "buncombe'' day is a period
OF time specially set apart to afford an oppor-
tunlty TO modest members who do not care to
encounter the din of a full House to read batch
u
record OF debate, and then done up in pamphlet
form for distribution among their constituents
Inc usual dignity OF a parliamentary body is
SCI aside on this day, and members stretch their
legs upon the vacant chairs of their side part
ners, and smoke fragrant Havanas or proba-
bly, some brand not half so good.
HON. CALEB CUsHING's POLITICAL RECORD.
The question of Hon. Caleb Cushing's political
predictions having been raised in connection
with his nomination for the Chief Justiceship,
1t may be stated that he was during the late re-
belion what was known as a war democrat"
his earnest adherence to the cause of the Union
eating as early as April 81, 1861 when he deliv-
cred speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts,
on the occasion of raising the American flag
and pronouncing in behalf of the MON at the
commencement of hostilities in the southern
states. The following abstract of General Cush-
lngs speech on that occasion appears in volume |
OF Moores Rebellion Record
" General Gushing said that he cordially par
ticipated in the present patriotic mauifestations
Long may this glorious flag wave above our
heads, the banner of victory, and the symbol Of |
our national honorI Our dear country now
indeed demands the devotion of all Deople. for
the dire calamity of war is upon us. He had |
laoored hitherto for many years earnestly and |
~ gOod iath at least, first for the conservation
OF the mon, and then 10 avert the evils of frat
rlcidal war; and of what he might have said in |
ina. re, ,eistion he had nothing now to retract.
OF acnon had arrived. He had before him the |
question which had occurred TO public men in |
I where political cOnyulsiOnS |
divided friend from friend, and brother from
brother, and sometimes arrayed them against |
one another in hostile camps and in deadly
strlfe. what in such case is the dictate Of |
cuty? Should we retire into safe seclusion in a |
iorelgn country. return in better times to wear
The honor of freedom, like Hyde? Or should |
Eeremaln TO confront the perils of our lot, like
FALKLAND or ane? The latter course if not
the SAFER one Is at any rate the most courageous
one. he Mr. O. chose so 10 act. He was a
citizen of the United States owing allegiance
70 me Constitution, and bound by Constitutional |
DUTY TO support its government. And we should |
90 50. he was son OF Massachusetts, attached
70 ner by ties Of birth and affection. and from |
M WI neither friend nor foe should sever him.
ne would yield to no man in faithfulness TO the |
mon, or IN zeal for the maintenance of the |
isSs ana constitution OF the Union; and to that |
emo ne STOOD prepared, if occasion should cali |
10, ~, 70 TESTIFY his sense of public duty BY |
en.erlns une neid again at the command of the |
commonwealth or of the Union"
subsequently Gen. Cushing asked of Gov.
Andrew q commission In the Massacbusetts
volunteers. Gov. Andrew declined 10 grant il |
ON the ground OF his having been democrat, |
After that be served several terms in the Mae
sachusetts legislature during the war and vas |