Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-10-03
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

dSuluStOu NEWS anu uUSSlp'
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY-Inter-
nal revenue, s199 367 90; customs, s5i9. 80.
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATION. B. W.
Harris (rep.), I'd Massachusetts, district.
SECRETARY CHANDLER has bsen de.
tanned in Washington, owing to important
business, and he will not start for New
York before tc morrow or Thursday.
BONDS WITHDRAwN.-s 1896, 900 bonds
he'd To secure bank circulation, were with
drawn from the Treasury to day, and Ak per
cent. bonds substituted.
BY DIRECTION of the Secretary of War,
Captain Charles Mcclure, commissary of
subsistence, is detailed to inspect supplies
for the Indian Bureau at St Paul Mimi. He
will report by letter 10 Hon. J. q SMITH
Commissioner OF Indian Affairs, for instruc-
tiOns.
Col. RICHARD NJ. JOHNSON, OF st. Louis,
U. s Consul to How Kow, China, now on
leave OF absence, has been In the city for a
week past, looking after the interests of the
consulate corps OF that country In the differ
ent departments. He left for New York and
st. Louis last night. after having completed
the task assigned him.
INTERNAL REvENUE AND CUSTOM hE-
CEIPTs.-So far as reported to the depart
ment, the customs receipts for the month OF
September foot up 81, $50 1872. IS, and for the
nscal year TO date, $50, 62S ,709 81. Internal
80 1898 ,934 IS, and for the fiscal year to date,
S2S, Cos $50 II. These figures will be consider
ably increased when full reports are re-
ceived.
NAVAL ORDERS. Lieut.. Commander
Dennis w. Mullen ordered as executive of
the receiving ship Worcester at Norfolk, Va.
Lieut.. VIM. II. Webb to command the
SSangus at Port Royal, 9. C.; Midshipmen
c. Rogers, Anthony W. Rollins, aud Steven
son B. Mallory to the Plymouth At PhiIa-
delphia; Assistant Paymaster Thomas d.
Hoxsey as assistant to Paymaster Billings
at the New York navy yard; Lieut.. Com
mepder Cbas 8. Cotton deta ched from the
receiving ship Worcester, and ordered to
New York navy yard; Lieut.. Joseph Mar
thon from command Of the Saugus, placed
on waiting orders; Chaplain z. W. Hager
from the navy yard, Norfolk, and ordered to
Ine Minnesota at New York, 10 h inst!
PERSONALITIES Alice Hosmer Is home
on brief visit, before commencing an ex-
tended Engagement with the Strackosh-
Corbett English Opera Company, which
opens the season In Philadelphia, Those who
have heard her recently say that she has
made great strides In her profession, and
predict for her q brilliant musical career
Admiral Rowan and eX-Attorney Gen.
eral Akerman are at the Riggs House.
''''"Col. Starbottle" Robson, the star
used to be compositor in THE EvKNrNe
STAR office. That accounts for IL. Mr..
U. = Grant, jr., has returned to the city.
ing Mr.. j. W. Hogg, chief clerk of the
Navy department, has gone to California on
official business, TO be absent about month.
What the CamPs.sn Committees are
The dissemins ton Of political pabulum
has become necessary in modern politics; q
conclusion at all events To be arrived at by
reason OF the tons CT 1t sent broadcast over
the land. In all large cities the two great
opposing parties have estab iIshei hsaiquar-
teTs, and from thence is sent the wisdom
which escaped the lips OF the wiseacres who
Presumably adorn the nation aud them
selves in our national legislature. a. the
starving hgure OF 81 800 per annum, AID
stationery, corkscrews, feather busters, and
jack knives thrown In. Ordinarily this class
OF litera ture Is drug on the market Other
than the gems which fell from the lips of
congressman snxioIs TO be returned, not
lightenment. In q Presidential year, how
ever, the market booms. The people are
stuffed with Congressional campaign
speeches. The mails are burdened. Armies
OF clerks are at work circulating the docu.
ments."
THE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.
In our own city both parties have agen-
cies. The democrats on r street, near the
Ebbitt House, under the charge OF James f.
Harvey, formerly of the defunct Patriot.
Here are daily employs ed three clerks, and
the Capitol. The documents more notice
ably circulated by this committee is the
speech OF Representative Hewitt, OF New
York. In reply TO Kasson's, of Iowa, attack
on Tflden; the speech OF Senator Davis on
defalcatiops In the Treasury Department,
nnes sse Of the on
Bayard. The reply OF Ben. Hill to Blaine
on the amnesty question Is sent only South.
This COMMITTEES has performed an arduous
LABOR; has circulated upwards of q million
documents. "Tbe more recent advices re-
ceived by the committee are quite cheerful
said one OF the clerks; "two weeks ago we
felt little blue, but for the past ten days
the tide in the west has been drifting to our
side. We shall carry Indiana by q good
majority; and possibly Ohio Those in
wisconsin which they deem hopefully en-
couraging.
THE REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE
Is headed by Judge Edmunds, our city post
master. The general headq uarters Is on r
street, between 9th and 10th streets. Over
forty clerks labor from early in the morning
until late at night mailing to all quarters OF
the United States speeches. reports, financial
exhibits &c. The fist OF republicans in each
city, village and hamlet is furnished by the
mlttee brought closely in contact with q
large proportion of the voters OF the country.
Inc list l Ior the democrats are supplied by
| OF The pOstmasters. Judge Edmunds SAYS
| .hat II Is BOT the policy OF the committee to
make public its advices and Information, as
| IL would thereby give the enemy informa-
| ton, but, said he, you may say 1--WE have
no discOuraging reports; every thing is en-
couraeing." The speeches more generally
circulated are Blaine and Garfield on the
amnesty questsou, Morton on southern out
RACES, the report OF the special committee
which investigated affairs I'm Mississippi,
Blaine's attack on Proctor Knott, Grants
communication to Congress on the appro-
priat'on bills. &C.
The democrats, In addition to the speeches
circulated, send largely of the reports OF the
several investigating committees, and par
ticularly the Belknap post traders testi-