Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-04-30


receive by card between the hours of eleven
and two, except on Tuesdays and Fridays,
which being Cabinet days, no one will be
received except government officials.
LIEUT.. Col. F. T. DENT is in the city, the
guest OF Marshal Sharp.
THE AMOUNT OF national bank note cur
renoy received to-day for redemption aggrc-
gated $50, ic2.
JACOB z. SCHLEGELNTLCH has been APP
pointed internal storekeeper for the eth
Pennsy lvania district.
VICE PRESIDENT WILSON arrived at Gin
cinnad yes tariay, and after staying few
hours departed for Louisville, whence ne
will go 10 st. Louis and Denver.
COMMIssIONED.-The President to-day
signed the commissions of Peter Whaley
agent for the Indians of the Flathead agency,
in Montana, and w. s. Baldwin, second lieu
tenant in the United States marine service.
THE OSHKOSH FIRE.-The Commissioners
of Internal Revenue has received a dispatch
from Oshkosh, Wis, announcing that the
revenue office at that place had been de
Stroyed by IRE. The loss TO the government
is tritiing.
THE INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS to-
day were s362,517.A1. The receipts for the
month amount to 81 go, 331.0j. a COMPARE
son of the receipts for the first four months
OF the present year with the corresponding
period of 1874 shows an increase OF receipts
this year amounting to 22,5}0,09l.sS
THE u. S. SUPREME COURT, which will
close its present term early next month, viii
dispose of all cases that have been argued,
with the exception of three, which require
more deIiberation than can be given this
term. One of these is the case involving the
constitUtionality OF the enforcement act.
News FROM THE OssIPEF.-COmmander
:. l.. Breese, commanding the Ossipee,
reports his arrival at Vera Cruz. April 18th.
Affairs are quiet, and none of our country
men were IN political distress Two eases Of
yellow fever had occurred in the city duTirg
the week. The Ossipce left April ITtn Tor
Iampico. All well on board.
GENERAL FITz JOHN PORTER-The ap-
plication Of General Fitz John Porter for a
rehearing OF his case has not yet reappcared
before the President and Cabinet. 1t was
referred TO the Secretary Of War for a report,
and that official in tIrn referred il II judge
Advoca te- General Holt tOr brief 81 his rec
ord. This has not yet been completed.
Mr.. THOMAS MORRISON, late contractor
for repairing the mail pouches at st. Louis,
and against whom charges of mutilating
mail bags FOR the purpose Of Increasing his
compensation, were recently made by Spe-
cial Agent Henderson. of the Post Office de-
partment, has arrived in this city To refuta
laid charges He claims that he is the vic
tim of a conspiracy, and that the story of his
mutllatlng mail bags. &c, originated with
one OF his wOrkmeu whom he had given no.
tlce TO quit He says this man himself mu-
ulated the pouches in order To work him al
injury. II would appear that the depart
ment is inclined to believe the charge against
him, since the workman referred TO has been
made foreman of the repair shop at Indian
apolis.
a LONG COMMUNICATION is printed in last
evenings STAR, over the name OF one j.
Lord, explaining his views as to the cause of
the withdrawal of the Union printers from
the Chronicle Office last week. His statements
OF facts as far us they agree with the nara
tive heretofore printed in the GiTOa,.ie, are
correct, and so far as they differ are untrue.
But Mr.. Lord agrees with tn. members of
the company. however, in One essen tial par
tlcular, viz, he does not want to work for
them, and they do not want his services. He
appears 10 be worried over another point,
VIZ: Since they will not permit nifn to work
Tor them, although he dOn't want to, ne is
anxious that nobody else shall =sist them.
On the other hand. the members of the CtrOl-
totc company are perfectly willing that a "
body else NAV hire him or his associates on
Their own terms, without consulting them.
provided that they viii pay their bills
Chronicle 10 ddY
RELIC OF 'Gl.-The following letter was
eNhumed to-day in the Post Office depart
ment from large number of letters which
found their way TO the dead-etter Office in
| lobi Inc writer VINO - we'll Known IN New
YORK, evidently believed in taking time by
The fetlock,' and had an abiding fai th in the
ability OF the arch leader of the rebeiliO ion TO
possess himself Of the capital within n short
tlme AFTER the opening OF hOStilitieS. The let
ter IS dated May /, 1861, and is addressed ITO
his EXcellency, Jefferson Davis, President {.
s. A.
AS soon as you take possession of the
White House should like 10 receive the job
ior feiGfnlshlng the same, Va. I guarantee
TODD on The most liberal terms.
Yours respectfully,
CONRAD BREWSTER.
tpholster, No. 500 Broad wav New York
The envelope is addIesseI TO His Excel
lency, Jefferson Davis, President G. : 4
for"
JUDGE KELLEY ON THE SOUTHERN SIT
rATIoN.-Hon. VIM. u. Kelley. of Pennsyl-
vania, who left here shortly after the adj
Journment OF Congress, for Florida, with a
view To recruit his health, returned yestnr-
Gay, and left this morning for Philadelphia.
Although he spent the most of the time he
was absent in Florida, the Judge Travelled
extensively through the states of Georgia.
North AMI South Carolina and Virginia,
keeping, as he says, his eyes and ears open
10 ascertain for himself the condition OF
afalrS IN the south. Avoiding The Pullman
Palace cars while travelling, he mingled
freely with the people. black AMI white.
questioning them upon their cond Itioa. their
wan Is and thcir expectations. A a result of
iils observations and researches. Judge kel-
ASy say tAioI iiG lDlilt every pltk vi Tue
SOnth visited by him extremely depressed
The financial legislation of the last Congress
ne says, is driving the south into insolvency
and not until its repeal by a new Congress
Will there be any recuperation in that see
ton.
Touching the outrage business, Judge
Kelley states that the reports which have
been received here are not only gross eXag-
geratiOns. but in many cases deliberate false
hoods. "In all my fourteen years in Con-
sress," said Mr.. Kelley, " the only vote |
vi yuaS fort
bill last session" So far as he could ascer-
tain there was no occasion for such measure
in the south. He conversed with negroes of
every grade, and the universal testimony is
that where cOlored man is Industrious
minds his own business. and avoids whisky
ne is lot only prosperous, but is rapidly
accumulatlng property. 1T was only when
1 reached the political centers, such as CO.
lumoia, South Carolina, and mingled with
me negroes who have made politics trade
that heard complaints against the whites
and IN nearly every instance investigation
showed the same to be uufOunded."
what the south wants, says Mr.. Kelley,
sis money" AS is the case with n lorSe