Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-03-24

LIE kESEifTo trOm customs to-dayaggre.-
gate sS42,Iss.
FREDERICK BUELL. was to-day appointed
internal revenue collector for the 3Oth dis
trict of New York, and Thomas Berry, inter-
nal revenue gauger for the 1st district OF
Tennessee.
CAPT. J. ID. THORNTON, U. 8. N, COM
manding the United States steamer Monon-
gahela, was so seriously hurt by an acct
South Africa that he has been sent home.
He is sdfer;'g from ..mental alteration
combined with greas bodily weakness"
TIE VOTE in the Senate on the resolution
approving the PRECEDENT course on Louis
lana affairs will be found in the report of the
co ing proceedings Of yesterdays ses slon,
on the third pa e. 1t will be seen that Messrs
Christiancy and Cameron both voted for the
resolution.
THE BLACK HILLS SURvEY--The Secre-
tary of the Interior has written a letter to
President Barnard, of Columbia College,
New York, asking him to recommend a suit
Mines cOnnC cted with that institution for
the purpc &c of making the PROPOSE survey
OF the Black Hills country.
ORDwAY's appearance an the New Hamp-
shire legislature means Bill Chandler for
United States Senator, if so be il can be az
ranged. Chandler has been blessed in ba Sket
and sto.e: but Mr. Rollins is understood to
regaru that Senasorship as spoken for, while
Mr.. Crogin, the precelt incumbent, mas his
own views Oh the subject.-SprtRQieid Rep,sb.
NOMINATIONS To-DAY.-The President
sent the following nominations to the Senate
to-day:-Frederick Buell., to be collector of
internal ievenue Goth district, ". Y. POST
masters-Wm. II. p. Steere, Olaeyville, r.
l.; Chas I. Benrett, Fulton. N. Y; F. n.
N
Wintersmith, Elizabethtown, KY; Asa w.
Smith. Woodstock, Ill; Otto Funke, Lin
COLI, Neb.; Alex. Cree, Georgetown, Colorado.
CoNFIRMATIoNs.-The Senate, in execu-
tive session has confirmed the following
nominatioDs:-Henry NJ. Atkinson, of Ne
braska, to be commissioner of pensions;
oliver a. Patton, of West Virginia, to be
r gister OF the land Office at Salt Lake City
Utah. Postmasters-J III. Clendenning. at
Fort Smith, AK; III. Dwight Cutler, Still
water, MIMI; John B. Watson Pulaski, n
l.; Henry 8. Glover, Macon Courthouse,
THE RUNoR relative 10 Miss Waite's en-
gagement to DIR. Ruth is without foundat ion
so says the lady herself The gossip prob
ably arose from the handsome doctors fire.
quent visits at the house OF the chief justice,
where he is always a welcome guest. The
doctor, IL appears, has been engaged all win
ter to very pretty Philadelphian, whose
fortune in her own right amounts to a gen.
favors pinned on the gallant heart-killer this
winter by the hands of Washington damsels.
all TO no avail 90 Cleaner" in Ctacii,,oi Ga
zette.
THE SENATE went into executive session
Immediately aIter the reading OF the journal
to-day, ana resumed the consideration of the
nomination of Don Pardee to be u. 8. Judge
in Louisiana, vice Durell. 1t was still In ex-
~ ion q o nj
ally believed that the nomination would Ee
conn1 med by small majority sone time
during the after noon, and that the Senate
world finally adjourn this evening.
Ire Senate was still in executive session
at 2:i5. IL was expected that the doors would
be opened within half an hour, and a COM
mittee be appointed to wait ON the President.
A hack was In readiness at 2 o'clock to con-
vey the committee to the Executive Man
sion, and was still waiting when our report
closed.
RANK OF ARMY OFFICERS FIxED-The
War department has issued an order fixing
the rank Of the following named officers,
from March 3. 1875, (the date of the approval
OF the act OF Congress making the changes:)
1 a1i w 9r Is, J: WOOL Rich
generals) Colonies Joseph B. Kiddoo, VIM
+. Lynch, Samuel Ross, heretofore briga-
der generals.l Lieutenant Colonels-Geo
W. Gle. John Palford, heretofore colonels)
Mstor.Henry w. Freddy. heretofore colo
nell Captain, (mounted)-Thos. +. Maley
heretofore Lieutenant colonel.) Captains
fore colonels.) First Lieutenants, (mount-
ed Paul Quirk, David II Cortelyou (her
to.ore-captains, mounted) Second Lieuten-
ants-Robert Davis; Henry III. Kuhn, James
- Sinclair, heretofore captains,) Edward b.
Knox, heretofore LIST lieutenant, mounted.)
Second Lieutenant-James Dawson, thereto
fore I'll lieutenant, mounted)
THE SCHILLER CLUB.-Au exceedingly
interesting meeting of this organization
which has contributed so largely to the So
cial and literary enjoyments of the season,
was held iast night at the elegant residence
of SoGator Window, % lafayette Square
Mr.. and MIS-. Window received the guests
with easy cordiality, and the spacious rooms
were soon filled with pleasant, companion
able gathering OF agreea BILE people Of promi-
nenee in society, literature, art, or public
LIE. H0o. George Bancroft, with his sllyery
head and beard, sat next to Senator Morrill,,
OF ermolt. making his comments SOTO u0ce
Mary Glenn er and Phebe Cozzens. In the
bay window Senator and Mrs. Pomeroy:
near them Vice President Ferry and Senator
Kelly, while Senator Sherman's kindly face
was nor 49, 49, away. with Mrs. Sherman be-
side him. The Brazilian minister was also
present. Horatio King, with his wife and
daughter, DR.. Nichols and wife, Mrs. Hues-
ted; Hon +. b French, Mr.. j. Ormond
j..
Proctor. Rev. Mr. Hinckley, and scores
OF people more or less widely Known.
The feature OF the evening was an informal
talk about Russia by Postmaster General
Jewell, late u. s. Minister to that country
Nj. Jewell was introduced to tire audience
by Prof. Berkau, and he proceeded for some
thing over an hour 10 give his of-haad re-
collections CT matters and things in Russia.
with felicity of description, and underlying
fund of hunnor that delighted everybody II
Mr. Jewell ever gets tired OF official life and
will write a book about Russia half as
charming as his talk OF last night he will
make pile OF money and do the reaAing
public a service. For one thing, our ideas
OF the Irigidity of the frigid country were
slightly changed, for we were told that the
mercury never becomes so sadly depressed
IN Russia as in New England; that the snow
there does not come in tremendous sto.ms.
filling the air with flying flakes, but that
silently, inyisibly moisture which would he
due in q milder climate, crystallizes
amazing the traveller with only silyery
rhine at first upon the frozen earth. But
every night repeats this process
till there accumulates the mass of
snow which remains so long. Mr.
Jewell, Of course in his position of
American minister had peculiar opportuni-
ties of seeing much of Official and social life
at st Petersburg that would not be open to
an ordinary visitor, and what he saw In this
way he described with spirit but with entire
good taste. Charming as Mr.. Jewell found