Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-07-15
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.


THE RECEIPTS to-day were, from Internal
revenue, $500, LBS; from customs $3.50, 6i637.
THE New POSTAL CARDS will probably
be ready for issue on the 5th proximo.
POSTMASTER GENERAL JEWELL was
c!oseted for a long time with Secretary Del
ano at the Interior department to-day.
j. SHILLING TON sends an advance copy
of the excellent August number OF The Ca
ldTy; also, Frank Leslie's and Harper's
Weeklies for July a.
DEATH OF AN ARMY OFFICER-The War
department has received information of the
death ofSecond Lieutenant Robert 7. Lyons,
18th In fantry, which occurred at st. Paul,
Mimi, on the 10th inst.
THE COUNTING of the funds in the reserve
vaults of the Treasury has been completed,
and everything found to be correct The
committee is now engaged in counting the
bonds deposited by national banks as secu-
rity for circulation and public deposits.
They will report the full result of the count
! on Tuesday next
CLERICAL PRoMoTIoNs.-The following
promotions were made to-day in the sixth
auditors office:-John Z. O'Brien, of New
York, from third to fourth class; Z. w. New
man, of Maryland, r. n. Saunders, of Vir-
gnia, and ID. l.. Burnett, of Iowa, from first
II
diana, from 1000 TO first class clerkship.
OUR CLAIMS AGAINST VENEzUELA.-The
United States has claims against Venezuela
which at one time were supposed to amount
TO over Si,O00,0Oo, but which were cut down
TO II -3j3 $40 by commission selected by the
two nations to settle the matter. Venezuela
never paid the award, however, although the
United States have been demanding the
money ever since the commission determined
the amount. The matter was discussed in a
conference of Cabinet officers Tuesday.
RELICS OF THE "SFoNE AGE."-Dr. Jar
row, OF Lieut.. Wheeler's exploring expedi-
ton, has arrived at San Francisco from
Santa Barbara, zen route to Washington
with several tons ofSpecimens OF relics of the
''stone age" of the Pacific coast for exhibit
t1on at the centennial. Mr.. Schumacher. of
the Smithsonian Institute has been ma king
equally interesting discoveries on the Santa
Barbara Is lands, and will continue DIR. Jar
rows work.
GEN. LoNGsTREET, of Georgia, late of the
confederate army, called on Secretary Bris-
tow to-day. 1t appears that ne has been
charged by some of the local Journals in his
native stare with having lost TO the COME Ter
ate cause the battle of Gettysburg, Penna.
The object OF his call on Mr.. Bristow was TO
be granted permission to have access to the
archives OF the ebelliOn in order 10 enable
him. by means of certain transcripts there
from To refute the same. The desired per-
mission was granted.
PERsoNAL.-Mrs. l.. E. Metals and fam
lily, of this city, have left for Rawley
Springs, Va. Mr.. John III. Semmes and
his two daughters, Misses Mittie and Bessie,
left last night on the 9.OS train for Boston,
from which place the young ladies will sail
for Europe on the Eth instant with their
uncle, Captain A. A. Semmes, and family
70 be absent one or two years. .'..Dr. Toner
stay In the mountains, entirely restored To
hea tn his large circle of friends will be glad
TO learn. PAY Inspector Cunningham
was on the special select stand, among the
| favored few, at Saratoga regatta Yesterday
Col and Mrs. VIM. Wall left town thi
morning for Atlantic City, where they will
1equa springs. '.'' General j. s Neglev, OF
Penn, arrived in the city this morLing for
brief stay.
| DISPATCH was received by the Post
master General to-day, saying that the
Nicksburg packet company has agreed t.
| carry the mails between New Orleans and
Nicksburg at the price originally offered b,
the department, viz, SO, 9S0-the old con
tract price. AS was stated in THE STAR
| few weeks since, the contractor who recei we'd
| the contract at the last letting JAILED to per
| form the service, and the old contractor 1.-THE
| PACKET company above referred tor was
| offered the service at the old rate. They de-
| clined the service, and in consequence all
| mail communication between the points
4 named has been suspended for two weeks
past. The Postmaster General maintained
firm attitude and refused to give more
| than s29,gsO, while the company demanded
| $4,000. The company finally yields, and
| Will carry the mails for the sum named
until October list, by which time a new let
| ting will be made.
POLITICAL AssEssMENT.-Fo The EE,or of
The Ereniig Stdr-Sir: One of your morning
| contemporaries attempts TO Justify the AS
sessments for political purposes recently
| made by Judge Edmunds, secretary of the
Congressional committee. If q Presidential
| election were pending or If it were the year
| for the general election of representatives i'm
| congress, there might be some argument to
| sustain the action of the judge in this mat
ter. AS neither is the fact, his course is sim
\ ply piece of unwarranted interference
| which the various states holding elections
ought To resent, and believe will resent
We have no election in my state this year at
| all. Is this postmaster to dictate TO me how
| snail give my money, If any? The repub-
| Leans OF Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa, and other states where
| elections are to be held must be presumed 10
| have sense and spirit enough to carry on their
| own domestic campaigns without the aid OF
l post official eeneralissimo at Washington
| If the individual states holding elections
| want money-but the best campaigns are
| carried on without assessments-let them
| say So II is not the business of Congress
committee TO elect governors and state legis-
latures. Let the judge dry up his assess
ONE OF THE People.
Washington City, July IS. 1875.
1hE w lSkf RAUD IMBROG LIO.-De-
| string to hold the scales of justice with per-
feet evenness, We give what is said pro and
| con in regard 10 the charges made against
Ire various parties whose names have been
connected with the whisky raid operations
AS we have already mentioned, Mr.. q. w,
Flshback makes a sweeping denial of the
charles duplicating him in the whisky
| frauds at St Louis, and says that the story
Is a :" most absurd fabrication from begin
ming TO end, all its parts Ringing upon a GER
tain document signed by Messrs. Mckee and
HOuser, OF the Globe, and myself of the Dem
ocrdt, concerning negotiations for the consol-
tdat1on OF the two newspapers, which had no
| relation whatever TO the whisky frauds or
the seizures of distilleries and rectifying
houses in st. Louis"
The Globe Democrat, of st. Louis, notices
the " certain document of which Mr.. Fish
back speaks about, and adds:
at is an agreement entered into between
Messrs. Mckee Houser, on the part of the
Globe. and Mr.. Fishback, on the part of the
Democrat, at the beginning of the negotia-
tons which endSd In the purchase OF the
| Democrat, binding each to secrecy respecting
the business standing of the other. Its in
tent was simply to prevent use being made
ofthe facts revealed during the negotiations,
In case those negotiations failed. That is to
say, II no sale had taken place, neither party
was to be at liberty to make use of the facts
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