Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-10
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Inter-
nal revenue, s47s,e5I ST; customs, s6o2 ,O63.14.
THE CONTRACTION of legal tender and ma
tiOnal bank currency since the passage of the
resumption act amounts TO s2o,7Gs,I52.
SENATOR'S Logan and Spencer and sew
eral representatives had interviews with the
President this morning.
ALL the naval vessels now at Key West,
Fla, have been ordered to Port Royal, s. c.,
and viii sail to-day.
TIE PRESIDENTS RECEPTION will take
place on the evening of the I'D Of February,
from TO 10 o'clock.
Col. FRED GRANT and Ulysses 8. Grant,
jr., are acting as private secretaries to the
President In the absence of Gen. Babcock
and Mr.. Luckey.
j. n. Gilbert. the fOrgeT, who was arrest
ed recently in San Francisco, arrived in
New York this morning, and was turned
over to the L. s. Marshal.
NEW MEXICo As A STATE.-The Senate
Committee on Territories further discussed
the bill for the admission of New Mexico
this morning. The bill will soon be finished
and reported favorahly TO the Senate.
THE DISTRICT investigators. - The
House District Committee will tomorrow
commence the investigation into the affairs
Of the District. The board of audit will be
first Investigated.
REAR ADMIRAL Reed Werden, command
ting the South Pacific squadron, reports to
the Secretary OF the Navy that the Rich
mond, flagship of the feet, took part in the
Gillian celebration of New Year day at the
port of Valparaiso.
THE STATEMENT that Col. Frank E. Howe
has been reinstated in his old position at
New York is untrue. Col. Howe has been
granted until the first OF March in which TO
settle up his personal and official business
preparatory to be transferred To other duties.
CASUALTIES among U. s. officers during
the week ending February 9Th: Captain
Henry A. Ellis, 18th infantry, died January
25th, 1876, at San Francisco, California. 1st
Lieutenant George W. Steele, 18th infantry.
resign ed February 1st, 1876. Post Chaplain
Hiram Stone, resigned January 3lst, 1876
REPRESENTATIVE LYNCH, of Mississippi,
a colored member, made quite ferclDle
speech this morning on the consular and
diplomatic appropriation bill. His remarks
were not germsne to tine pending bill, but in
depreciation of the organizations in the
south, whose members commit murders and
other Outlawries.
THE INTER OCEAN CANAL COMMISSION,
consisting OF Gen. Humphreys, chief OF engi-
neers L. s. A; Superintendent Patterson, OF
the Coast Survey, and Commodore Daniel
Ammen, L. S. N, waited upon the President
yesterday afternoon and presented their re-
port. The commission recommend, as has
been very generally known, the selection of
the Nicaragua route for the construction of
the int oceanic canal.
MINISTER SCHENCK AND THE EMMA
MINE-The House Committee on Foreign
Affairs has requested the Secretary of State
TO transmit TO it any correspondence which
he may have in his possession bearing on the
alleged connection OF Minister Schenck with
the Emma mine transaction and Machado
CAIN.
ARCHITECT MULLETT TO BE lNvESTI-
GATED. The House Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds has under consider
alton the proposition to investigate the al
legged frauds In connection with the building
of the Chicago custom house, so far as Its
erection was prosecuted under the admins
tration OF A. b. Mullett, late supervising
architect of the Treasury.
THE WASHINGTON MoNUMENT.-Mr. W.
W. Corcoran, who was appointed at the last
meeting of the Washington National Monu-
ment Society chairman OF the committee TO
urge an appropriation in aid OF the work
before Congress, has declined on account of
his advanced age. Admiral Powell will be
the chairman and Mr.. W. s. Cox will fill
COrcOlan.
EX-M. C.S IN OFFICE.-Morgan l.. Rawls,
who formerly represented the LIST Georgia
district in the House of Representatives,
was to-day appointed to take charge of the
document room on the floor OF the House,
vice John b. Clark, jr., removed. This
makes four ex-members of Congress en-
ployed in the Clerks office. First the Clerk,
Geo. NJ. Adams; then his uncle. the Chief,
Col. duff NJ. Green; next we have John b.
Rice, OF Kentucky, Librarian, and last Nor
gan l. Rawls.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Lieutenant Commander
Charles h. Davis, jr., detached from the
naval observatory and ordered to the navy
yard, Boston; Ensign NJ. A. Shufeldt, from
the Huron and ordered to the receiving ship
Potomac, at Philadelphia; Ensign William
W. iroP ,ne NGn ahp 0roera 70
u. Sanders, ordered to the Huron, at Nor
folk, Va. Lieutenant Commander Dewitt
L. kells, detached from the Canonicus, and
o dered 10 command the Pinta. Passed As
sistant Paymaster r. p. Paulding. from the
Huron, and ordered 70 settle accounts.
ALABAMA REFORMERs.-Thec commit e
appointed by one of the republican execur
tive committees of Alabama, consisting of
ex Governor Smith, Gen. Morgan, Judge
Rice, and Gen. Coon arrived here yesterday,
Ihelr OBJ CT Is not, they say, to contest the
seat of Senator Spencer, but simply to en-
deayoy 10 "a Sc the morale of the republican
arty in the state OF Alabama. In the
pr esent state of politics there the party is
broken up into fac lions for personal elds
they say, and ii is for the purpose of rene
dying this evil they Will present their case
AMI views 10 the Presi tent, members Of the
Cabinet, and the republica2 party in gene.
RAJ.
A MEMORIAL OF THE WASHINGTON
MONUMENT SoCIETY.-Mr Edmunds in the
Senate to-day presented a memorial of the
Washington Monument Society praying an
appropriation for the completion of the pres
ent unfinished shaft. The memorial, which
is signed by John Carroll Brent, late secre-
tary OF the society, gives history of the ef
forts to build the monument, and says that
their last appeal 10 societies and individuals
has been SO successful that with the aid of
Congress they feel confident of being able TO
finish the monument. The petition was re-
ferred to The Committee on Public Buildings
and Grounds.
SECRETARY BRIsTow was before the