Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-12-17

nal revenue, S314 o6s 49, customs, S2S5, 1885, 50.
AFTER HOLDING an executive session to-
day The Senate adjourned until Monday next.
THE AMOUNT of National Bank note cur
rency received at the Treasury department
to-day for redemption aggregated S575 300.
POSTMASTER GEsEKAL JEWELL declines
to allow the use of his name as the republic
can candidate for governor Of Connecticut.
THE SECRETARIES of the Navy and Inte-
riOr were absent from the Cabinet meeting
to day. The latter started for Phtladel phia
this morning.
PERSONAL Senator Wright this morning
received dispatch from his home in Iowa
announcing the sudden death of his son, seven
years of age. He Immediately left for Iowa.
Hon. JOHN w. JOHNSTON was yesterday
reelected United States Senator by the Viz
ginia Legislature by strict party vote, the
republicans casting their full vote for GenI
w. G. Wickham.
"ALAsKA CoUNTY."-Senator Mitchell,
of Oregon, yesterday made a lengthy argu-
ment before the Committee on Territories in
favor of his bill providing q civil govern
ment for Alaska, by attaching 1t to Wash
ingtOn territory.
SENATOR LOGAN arrived in town last
evening. He stood the journey from Chicago
tolerably well, but is still suffering good
deal, and may not be able to take part In the
deliberations of the Senate for several days
or course Mrs. Logan is with him. They are
at sOS Twelfth street.
TWAS EVIDENT from the remarks of Mr.
Thurman and other democratic Senators to-
day, that the resolution of Mr.. Morton, pro-
viding for an investigation of the late cleo
ton in Mississippi, will provoke consider
BILE discussion, and that a vote will hardly
be reached until after the recess.
THE FRENCH SPoLIATIoN CLAIMs-The
agents of the heirs of James II. Causten and
other French spoliation claimants have me-
morialized the Senate to request the Presi-
dent to procure, through our minister to
France, the return of the evidences of loss
sustained by citizens OF this country, which
were forwarded to France, and which are
supposed TO still exist among the archives of
the French government.
ARMY ORDERs.-The leave of absence
granted Second Lieutenants Frederick w.
Kingsbury, I'd cavalry. Fort Laramie, Wyo-
ment of the Platte, is extended Ave months;
COmmissary Sergeant Charles Brown, u. 8.
A, now on six months furlough from Fort
Abraham Lincoln, Dakota territory, will,
person to the Commissary General OF Sub
sistence in this city.
RANK OF THE PAYMAsrER GENERAL
An effort to restore the Office of paymaster
general to the old rank of brigadier general
was made yesterday in the Senate by the
introduction of q bill by Mr.. Burnside pro-
viding that the rank Of the officer holding
the place be that of a brigadier general, and
further providing that the rank of General
AlvOrd, the present incumbent, date from
the day he entered upon the duties of his
office.
THE NEWSPAPER MEN of Washington
who will visit Philadelphia with the centen-
NAL excursion party, have been invited by
the journalists of that city to partake of an
delphia this evening. An Invitation was
also received from Colonel Alexander r.
Mcclure, OF the philadelphia Times, to dine
could of tbs
tion of the Philadelphia Press Club.
THE CASE OF AUDITOR McGREw.-The
nomination of Mr.. j. NJ. McGrew to be the
sixth auditor of the Treasury for the Post
Office department, which was referred to the
Finance Committee, has not yet been re-
ported to the Senate. An Independent re-
publican Senator to-day expressed the opin-
ion that he will be confirmed. 1t is under
stood that the Finance Committee are in.
vestigating certain charges against Mr..
McGrew, and that their report will depend
on the result of the Investigation.
OLD VESSELS WITH NEW MAJESTIC
House spent to days session in an effort to
change the name of the steamboat Tom
Jasper to "The Centennial" The opposi-
ton to the passage of this class OF bills was
from the fact that such legislation often oc-
casions vexatiOus delays in suits brought
which necessitates the amendment OF the
papers in the case. Old boats with new names
are SO often painted up, giving them the ap-
pearance Of first-class vessels, when they
are actuallv in an unfit condtfion 70 CO. -
passengers.
NoMINATIoNs-The President sent the
following nominations to the Senate TO- day:
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
to China; James Birney, of Michigan, to be
minister to the Netherlands; George E. Hos
kiDsOn, consul at Kingston; James NJ. Kerns,
vania; Edw. II. Roe, u. s.. marshal for south
ern Illinois; Joseph w. Fisher, chief Justice,
Wyoming; o. A: Hadley, register land office,
public moneys, Sprip gheld, Ills.
Postmasters S. B. Piper. Evansville.
Ohio Ohio Martin Haven Mich; J; s; Stevens.
Iowa; Albert Towie, Beatrice, Neb.
SPECIAL AGENTS OF THE PENSION
BUREAU.-The bill introduced by Senator
Ingalls, yesterday authorizes the Secretary
Of the Interior to appoint forty special
rect1On OF the Commissioner of Pensions, TO
Investigate suspected attempts at fraud in
connection with pensions, and to aid in the
prosecution of offenders. These agents are
TO have power TO administer Oaths, &c, anil
are to be paid $1,000 year, together with
travelling expenses, and four dollars per day
for subsistence. The Commissioner Of PEN
sions is also Authorized to detail clerks from
his Office for duty as special agents in case
its force should prove inadequate, and to
allow them the same additional compensa-
tiOn provided for special agents.
THE CENTENNIAL EXCURSION from this
city to Philadelphia left here at O'Clock
this afternoon. Some four hundred and dfty
gentlemen, Including the President, mem.
bers OF the Cabinet and OF Congress, and
representatives of the leading papers made
up the party. A ticket for transportation to
Philadelphia and return was furnished to
each one of the invited guest; also q ticket
securing accommodations at either the Com
tinental or Girard hotel and An invitation
from the citizens Of Philadelphia to dinner
to be given at horticultural hall, on the exhi.
bitiOn grounds, at I O'Clock p. m. tomorrow.
The invitations and tickets are handsomely
engraved. Upon the arrival Of the visitors
at the West Philadelphia depot, q committee
of citizens with carriages will meet them