Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-10-15
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.


GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To.DAY-Inter-
nal revenue, $3.50 .3s5 GO; customs, s4S2, 9J1.49
THE AMOUNT of National Bank note cur
| rency received at the Treasury department
to-day for redemption aggregated si97 ,23l.
the PRESIDENT AND MRS. GRANT, &C
cCmpanied by General Babcock, arrived in
| his city this morning at O'Clock. The
President directed notices to be sent his
Cabinet officers to meet with hun at Il
q clock.
COMMISSIONS SIGEED.-The President has
signed the commissions of the following
pOstmaStcrs: Luke Marvin, Duluth, MINI.
Julius \. Wilcox, Berlin. Wis; Samson S.
Sparks Nirden, H.; and William $ AleXan-
der, Jacksonville, Ala, vice John A. De Ar
man, suspended.
GOOD SIGN.-During the first fourteen
days of the present month postage stamps
stamped envelopes, and postal cards, have
been sold by the Post Office department
amounting in value to -, coz. 900. This sale
il probably the largest ever made by the de
partment within the time mentioned, and
may he regarded as one of the indications of
revival OF business throughout the country.
THE NEW 50-CENT FRACTIONAL CUR
RENCY NOTES will be ready for issue on
Monday or Tuesday of next week, the delay
IN their preparation having been caused by
the rejection of badly printed backs fur
nis he'd by the Philadelphia contractor. There
has been no issue of 50-cent notes since March
last, in order that the old issue, which has
been cOunterfeited considerably. might be
retired before the new notes are issued.
INDIAN AGENT SPERRY dispatches the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs from Bis
marck, Dakota, October 18th, pronouncing
recent publications in the New York Herald
and other papers charging him with dishon-
oraole conduct of agency affairs, malicious
U ia tIa ,oIs
hedly ard emphaticaliy, that any and every
report charging him with fraud is absolutely
false. MI Sperry was appointed on the rec
ommendatiOn of the American Missionary
Society Of New York.
THE U. s. STEAMSHIP MISNEsoTA, now
anchored in New York bay, has on board a
couple of hundred young men whom the
government is educating for the higher
grades OF non commissioned naval service
A special examination of them in seaman
ship and navigai ion was held last Monday at
the instance of Mr.. /. s. Barron, who offered
two prizes of SIS and SO. The former Was
Won by youth from Maryland, nameI
ESterbIOOk. and the second by one named
Riley, from Australia. All the pupils were
afteTwaTd treated To a dinner, and then pre-
scented with theater tickets.
THE ALLEGED Boston p. o. FRAUDS
Secretary Bristow has examined the report
OF Special Agent Church upon the alleged
corruption of Flood and others in the con
sirrctiOn of the Boston post Office building
and referred il To the Solicitor Of the Treas
ury, with instructions to take The necessary
legal steps To protect the government. The
solicitor Will, ii is said, forward the report
and the evidence tn the United States dis
trict attorney at Boston, with directions i'm
mediately to institute legal proceedings
against Flood. II Is ascertained that this re
port does not implicate POstma ster Burt, of
Boston, in any of these Transactions as was
at one time alleged. General Bristow has
nottfied Burt of this fact. The report. it is
" = ~ Gf.x~,., IT.
or of criminal negligence.
s.. O'Clock last evening the
marriage OF Mr.. Philip F. Larner TO Miss
Fannie d. Lyman, both of this city, took
place al the house Of the brides father, 11l2
NJ street. The Rev. s. s. Mitchell, OF the
New York Avenue Church, OBLIGATED, and
MIR. VIM b. Jones, of Baltimore acted as
srOomsman. and Miss Mae Wilson (daugh-
, , Of j o Wilson, Esq, Superintendent of
Mr.. +. +. larner, is a young lawyer OF
promise, the son OF our much-respected
townsman. Noble ID: Larner, Esq, and the
daughter of Mr.. Charles Lyman. for many
years the efficient head of the Dead Letter
Office After the marriage ceremony the
gue.ts passed very pleasant hour in enjoy
ing the elegant Inequalities OF Mr.. Lyman's
laDle, ana IN admriDg the display of bean
uful and useful bridal gifts, the exonisite
noIai decorations of the rooms, &c. and
pressloDs OF good will to the welded couple
on their leaving TO take the O'Clock train
on their bridal trip northward.
REPORT OF THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAP
ITOL.-Mr. Edward Clarke, architect OF the
Capitol, has forwarded the following syno~
sis of his forthcoming annual g. ~.
b r. Cowen, Assis .,ant sec-etayv ~ the In.
terror -. Tue architect states that the steam
boilers OF the Senate wing have been thor.
Ougnly repaired; that additional rooms in
the center OF the building have been fitted up
for committees; that both the library of Con-
gress and the law library have been supplied
win a large amount of shelving; and that
pair. He also states that the fire engine
house and the stables for the mail wa CONS
of the Senate have been completed
the act approved June "a , sHnH Re hass m w1e
plans for building for the Womens Chri5-
tian Association of the District of Column
bia, and that contract was made for the
erection OF this building at a sum within the
limit prescribed by Congress. The building
will be ready for occupancy this winter. The
Improvements of the Capitol grounds bsye
made fair progress under the direction of F.
Law Olmsted, esq, landscape architect"
ARMY ORDERs.-The order from the War
Department of September %, in regard to
stations of quartermasters, has beer nodi-
fed to read as follows: Lieutenant Colonel
eral, on being relieved by Lieutenant Colo
mel Perry, will proceed TO Louisville, KY,
and rel ort to the commanding general, mill
tary division of the south, for assignment To
relieve Lieutenant Colonel James A. Ekin.
deputy quartermaster general, of his duties
simI ly rs CHEZ quartermasrer of that tivis
ION Lieutenant Colonel Ekin will retain
charge OF all his prescott duties with the ex-
cen,ion above mentioned. Major c. A. Rey-
nolds, quarterrnaster, will report TO the COM
handing general. department of the south
or assign ment 10 relieve Captain c. A. ALI
good, military storekeer, OF his duties at
Columbia, =. c., in place of Captain j. H.
Eelcher, assistant quartermaster, who will
remain in his present position. Captain
AlligOOd, on being relieved by Major Rey-
holds, will report TO the commanding gene
raj, military division of the Atlantic, for as
signment to duty at some post In the harbOr
~ New York. First Lieutenant Edward d.
Wheeler, 1st artillery, has beea ordered To
report in person 10 the Secretary of War.
SOUNDINGs FOR PROSPECTIVE PACIFIC
CABLE.-The United States steamer Tusca-
rora, now at San Francisco, will sail from
that port about the list OF November on a
cruise among various groups or Islands in