Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-06-29
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
| THE RECEIPTS to-day were, from internal
revenue, s225969; from customs, s3i2,7 6s.
THE AMOUNT of national bank notes re-
ceived to-day at the Treasury for redemp-
| ton aggregated S1l7 500.
GEN. CowEN. Assistant Secretary of the
Interior department, says he knows nothing
| in regard to the foundation for the report
that Secretary Delano is about TO retire
from the Cabinet
TWENTY THREE APPOINTMENTS of assis-
tant surgeons in the army were made yes
terday. Among the number were James
ChestOn, Washington; George Henry Torrey.
John de Bartle, Walbach Gardiner, ali of
Maryland, and Roland lee Rossan, Va.
MOVEMENTS OF NAVAL VFssELs.-In-
formation received at the Navy department
reports that the Shawmut was at Sand Key
on the 21st instant, from Belize via Havana.
The Tennessee got to sea from Sandy Hook
on the morning of the 9th. Her machinery
was working satisfactorily. Rear Admiral
Reynolds expected the ship to reach Gibral-
tar In 10 or 20 days
LEGAL TENDERS TO BE DEsTRoYED.-The
Secretary Of the Treasury to day directed the
retirement and destruction of 81 800, 1870 in
amount OF new national bank circulation
issued during the present month. This re-
duces the amount of legal tenders Outstand-
ing TO S3T5,711 $50.
SECRETARY BELKNAP leaves Washington
tonight for West Point, where he will re-
main until after the 18th of July, and then
proceed to Chicago. He will leave the latter
place about the 10th of July. accompanied
by Inspector General Marcy, General j. w
FoISythe, OF General SheridanS staff, and
ore or two other gentlemen, and visit all the
military posts on the Union Pacific railroad;
after which The party viii go TO the Yellow
stone Park via Fort Ellis, and will return
eastward via Fort Abraham Lincoln and
tue Northern Pacific railroad.
MOVING THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE
The work of removing the archives of the
department of State from the hospital
building on Fourteenth street to the new
building on the southwest corner of EXecu-
tive Square has already been cOmmencei
At present the wOTt.men are engaged with
the bound volumes Of newspapers and other
bulky documents. hut in a few days the
whole establishment viii be transferred and
the Department will be permanently located
IN Its new and elegant quarters. In many
respects the new Building is the finest in the
United States. and i'm every way worthy the
uses to which 1t is to he devoted.
PARTINGToNIAN SPELLING AMONG THE
CHIEFs.-E3tor Star: Reading your article
headed "Nrs. Darlington in office" reminds
me of chief of division in the Treasury de-
rartment who spells 'furlOugh,' "furlOw;"
actually" "actuly;' mileage" ''milage;"
substitute" Substitutes" "decisiOn," ode
ciSsion;" ''revisiOn," 'revission;" and who
speaks of the physical" for Fiscal" year;
OF diseased for deceased soldiers, and of
the 'depTecatlOn' fol the depreciation" OF
the currency. In the same department NAV
be found chief clerk who spells "Canady''
for ':Canada;" 'arrainge" for arrange"
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Presentation. VI. |. Southland, of Ohio,
is at Wizards. Hon. \. @. Cattell, of
New jersey, is in the city. I'VE learn
from st. Louis that George Alfred Townsend
that city and will probably return to Wash
ton secretary DelanO, who went to New
YORK last saturday morning, has not yetr
turned. ''''O OF course Mr.. and Mrs. Fitch ar
very proud that it's a bOy,-bOrn last week.
but at the same time the baby must he a
little sorry, If its mama is not. that it isn't
girl, so that il can bye and bye sport tn
khedive diamonds that were presented to
the mother when she was Bride. &c go
Robert Williams. L. <. A. is I'm the city on n
brief business visit from Fort Leavenworth
where he is at present stationed. The ONLY
regret expressed by his friends on seeing him
l. mat he Is not accompanied by his lovely
aad m nfI wife ~ Hon. G. w.
schnheld, of Pennsylvania. and Hon. l.. A.
Sheldon, of Louisiana, are at Wizards.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Capt. Ralph Chandler.
at Boston, 18th July next. Assistant Pay
master James f. Cam, to duty in the bureau
OF provisions and clothing, July LIST. Can't
y. a. SemmeS, detached from the command
OF the receiving ship Ohio on the 18th July
next and ordered 10 command the Alaska
European station, per steamer 18th July
from Boston. Lieut.. Theodore NJ Fitting
from the receiving ship Potomac and ordered
to the Swatara. LIST July next. Lieut. John
j. Hunter, from the Swatara, 1st July next.
and granted three months leave. Lieut. W.
H. BTOWnSOn, nom the naval academy, 30th
instant. and ordered To hold himself in read
mess for duty on the Asiatic station Master
w. +. Low, from the Canandaigua and or
dered 10 the Kansas Ensign J. a. III. Nick
els; rom the Lackawanna on the 10Th ult.
and from duty in bringing the crew of that
vessel 10 New York, and placed on waiting
orders Cadet Engineer Asa Mattice has re.
ported his return home, having been de-
tached from the Brooklyn, south Atlantic
squadron, on the 22d, and has been placed on
waiting orders.
CHANGES IN QUARrERMAsTER's STA.
TIoNs-The following changes in the sta
tons and duties of officers of the Quarter
masters department have been made Colo
mel Stewart Van Nliet, assistant quarter
master general, relieved from duty in the
department of the Missouri, and ordered TO
relieve Lieutenant Colonel Rufus Saxton,
deputy quartermaster general. of his duties
al Philadelphia; Lieutenant Colonel Saxton,
on being relieved by Colonel Van VIiet is
ordered TO report TO the commanding gene
raj, department of the Missouri for assign
ment 10 duty as chief Quartermaster of that
department. Captain II. j. EckerSon as
sistaDt quaItermaster, has been relieved
from duty in the department of Dakota and
ordered 10 report to the commanding gene
raj, military division of the Atlantic. for as
signment, to relieve Captain j. V. Furey,
assistant quartermaSter, of his duties at
Fort Adams, Rhode Island; Captain Furey,
on being relieved, will report in person to
the quartermaster general for assignment TO
duty in bis office. Major NJ. Il. Small, COM
missary OF subsistence, has been ord cred TO
Washington To report 10 the cOmmissary
general of subsistence for temporary duty,
upon completion of which he will return to
his proper station.
a NICE POINT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.
Attorney General Pierrepont has given an
important opinion TO the Secretary of State
Involving very nice point of International
law. A German who had become naturalized
Ia the nited States in 1854 had a son born to
him in the following year. Four years after
wards the family returned to Germany and
became domiciled in Wiesbaden, where they
have since all continuously resided. Nassau,
In which Wiesbaden is situated, became in
corporated into the North German confede-
ration Ia 1866. The son is now twenty years