Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-04-29
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
nURING the summer the President will
receive by card between the hours of eleven
and two, except on Tuesdays and Fridays,
which being Cabinet days. 10 one will be
received except government officials.
INTERNAL REvESUE.-The receipts from
this source to-day were s3GO,7l3.s5.
CUSTOMS RECEIPrs.-The receipts from
this source to-day were S325, sO0.l9.
SECRETARY BRIsrow returned from New
York to the city this morning.
POSTMASTER GENERAL JEWELL leaves
for New York tonight, and Will be absent
two or three days.
AHONG those who had interviews with the
President this morning were Senator Hitch
cock and ex-senator Ben. Wade.
THE AMOUNT of national bank note cur
rency received at the Treasury TO day for
redemption aggregated S7I9,95j.
SURGEON DALLAS BACHE, U. s. A., has
been relieved from his present duties, ani
ordered to return to Fort McHenry, Md.
CAPT. w. t. GENTRY, 18th infantry, has
been ordered TO report to the commanding
general OF the department of the south.
APPOINTED.-The president has appointed
First Lieutenant Fred. +. Whitehead, OF the
18th infantry, to be commisSary OF subsist-
ence, with the rank of captain.
NAVAL ORDERs-Lieut. Fl. G o. Colby
TO the naval rendezvous, Boston, ist OF May
next; Ensign w. A. Marshall to examiI alton
for promotion.
Mr.. THORNBURG, member elect TO Con-
gress from Tennessee, was married in this
city to-day to Miss PettibOne. They left
upon an extended wedding tour this after
noon.
THE PRESIDENT has declined an invita-
ton to attend dinner TO be given by the
New York State Society TO the General So
ciety OF the Cincinnati in New YORK on the
18th prOXlmO.
john w. VOLT has been appointed post
master at Fredericksburg, Va, vice Michael
J. Griffith suspended. Nh. Volt is at pres
ent clerk in the Post Office department.
The salary is $1,000.
SURG FON JOsEPHR r. SMITH and Assistant
Surgeons j. j. Woodward and j. $. Billings,
L. s. a, have been ordered 10 attend the an
nual meeting Of the American Medical AsSo-
citation to convene in this city on the sta
proximO.
CLERICAL PROMoTIONs.-The following
promotions have been made in the office of
the Sixth Auditor of the Treasury: Captain
Truman s. Post OfTcxas. from 81 TO 81 class
and VIM. y. Hughes, of Tennessee, from lSt
to I'd class.
NATIONAL BANK NOTES.-The Controller
OF the Currency has notified the Secretary of
the Treasury that the amount of new ma
tional bank notes issued since March aggra-
gates 81 ,466, 800. Up to date the total issue is
II ,.85 COO.
A NEW PLANET observation-disclosures
announces, this morning, to Prof. Henry
the discovery of a new planet by Perrotin, on
the 2sth of April. Right ascension, Is hours,
: minutes and 40 seconds; declinatiOn, - de-
grecs, 50 minutes; movement very feeble.
THE EVIDENCE in the case of Major Will
bur, an examiner in the Patent Office,
charged by w. f.. Sawyer with malieasance
in otiice, has all been taken by the commits
sion appointed to investigate the matter
and the plaintiff and defendant have beeh al
lowed Il few days in which TO present argu-
mCutS.
PERsONAL.-IIon. w. -. Kelley. OF Penn
sylyania, is III town. having returned from
an alligator hunt in Florida. -. 4 cable
telegram was received this afternoon from
Mr. VIM. 6. Metzerott, dated Southampton,
England, where he arr we'd on the steamer
EraunSchwcig at p m. to-day.
THE NEW COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS
missioner of Pensions, has arrived here from
Mexico, having fulfilled his special mission
by the Completion of satisfactory arrange
ments for the removal OF the rest of the Kick
apoOS from that country TO the Indian terri
tory. He will enter upon the discharge of
the duties of his new position on the list prox-
mO. when Gen. Bakers resignation takes
place.
y WARNING TO TREASURY EMPLOYEES
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a
circular order and warning in the following
words" Hereafter clerks 81 other en-
plOyes are prohibited from making recon-
mendations for appointments, or giving any
information relative to vacancies that may
exist or occur i'm any branch of the Treasury
department. \ violation OF the provisions
OF this circular will be sufficient cause for
removal"
FRANCE AT THE CENTENNIAL Show
The French government has communicated
To our government the fact that il has ap-
pointed commission to arrange for the dis
play OF French products at the Philadelphia
centennial exposition. AT the head of the
commission is grandson of Lafayette
Copies OF leading French journals have also
been sent TO this city, showing that great
deal OF Interest is being taken in the matter
throughout the manufacturing districts of
France.
+. \. SAWYER, late Assistant Secrataryof
the Treasury and ex-senator from South
Carolina, was a collector of internal revenue
for one of the districts Of that state before he
was elected 10 the United states Senate.
Having failed to satisfactorily settle his ac-
counts with the government as collector, the
internal Revenue department has directed
suit to be brought against his bondsmen for
the recovery OF $4,000, that being the amount
IN which his account is alleged 10 be de-
hcient.-WoSh. Cor. ". y. Times.
THE RECENT FIGHT WITH THE CHEY-
ENNES-The War department is in receipt of
detailed report from Major Thos. H. Neil,
|. s. A, giving the particulars of an engage
meDt between United States troops and hos
tile Cheyenne Indians, near the CHEYENNE
agency, on the 9th of April. 1t confirms news
previously received concerning the engage
ment, which came by telegraph. and which
has heretofore been printed In The STAR.