Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-12-15
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.


NATIONAL BANK NOTES received to-day
for redemption amounted TO sese,iS7.
CONVENIENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY AND
GEsTERDAY.-Internal revenue, 500 ~. Is;
customs, s465.659.SI.
THE House. committee ON foreign affairs
has agreed TO recommend that n new Vene-
zuelan commission be appointed.
AMONG THE CALLERS at the White House
to-day were Senators West, Logan and
Hitchcock, and Representatives Plat,
Smith, Jacobs, McDougall, Davy, Hancock
Rusk, Phillips, and Governor Mccormack.
PERsoNAL-Senator Morton left last eve
ming for Indiana. Hon. Ben. Wade was
on the floor of the Senate to-day. Hon.
VIM. :. GrOesbeck. of Ohio, has been an at
tentiVe listener to the debates i'll the Senate
for several days past.
SENATOR CoNKLING was interviewed last
night as To the TumOr that he proposed to re-
tire from political life, and said" have
thought of it, there is some foundation for
the rumor." Further than this he essayed
no information.
THE House committee on appropriations
this morning begun the preparation of the
legislative. executive, and judicial appro-
pTiatiOn bill. This does not look as il the
House intends To delay the appropriation
Il
is solved.
CONFERENCE.-The Senate yesterday
confirmed the following nominations: Alex.
NJ. Blair, to be collector of internal revenue
for the district of Kansas: Charles Rehfield.
TO be receiver of public moneys at Colfax.
Washington territory; james l.. Dyer. to be
receiver of public moneys at Wachita, Kan
sas; also, a number of pOstmasters.
THE SITUATION IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Some members of Congress think that as
Hampton's attempt to exercise gubernatOrial
functions will necessarily bring him in con
tact with the Chamberlain government, the
President will interpOse by dispensing any
body of men claiming to exercise legislative
functions under Hampton.
The STORY Is REVIVED that in ease the
southern men show disposition TO accept
the situation and make noactive antagonism
10 The Inauguration of Gov. Hayes, that L.
q. T.. Lamar, OF Mississippi, is To be accorded
cabinet position. This is as near the truth.
perhaps as the report telegraphed away last
night that President Grant is 10 be Hayes
Secretary of War.
DEATH OF GEN. HARDIE.-Inspector Gen.
eral James A. Hardie, U. s. army died at
his residence in this city, at half-past seven
O'Clock last evening. He was q native of
New York. and was a cadet of the military
academy at West Point from 1879 TO 1875
Among his classmates We're President Grant,
ptlitIdlS W ID. II Tditklln. w In. r. ReNnOJiS.
c. &. Augur, Rufus Ingalls,, j. c. Mcpherson
and others as prominent During the war of
the rebellion he served As aid-de-camp to
Gen. Mcclellan.
An INDICTMENT AGAINST CHARLES A.
DANA, found by the grand jury, November
IN, was filed to-day in open court. Ii charges
that he on the 9Th of October charged A. n.
Shepherd with having Mrs. r. +. Morsell as
concubine, who was put into the bureau of
printing and engraving by Shepherd and re-
taintd there by Grant when he well knew
she was Shepherds mistress, and rendered
10 service whatever. There are six counts
and n r. Shepherd and a. 8. III. White are
witnesses.
/ ECoNONY.-When the House APPOINTED
| its southern committee an appropriation was
made OF S2l 600 to meet the expenses of the
| same. IL went to the Senate, and that body
| amended II by apprOpriating $4,000 for the
| Senate committee. 1t came back, and this
| morning Mr.. Holman, chairman of the House
l appropriation committee, added SO 900 for the
| House, To cover the expenses OF the COM
| niitiee subsequently appointed TO go to New
| York. Philadelphia and elsewhere, and iu-
l quire into election frauds. But while adding
1 10 the House appropriation he cut the SEN
| ate appropriation down from $4,000 TO
s:O.OEO.
THE AVE To FALL AGAIN-The bureau
of engraving and printing was closed yester-
| day afternoon, for the purpose of making
some necessary repairs upon the boiler and
/ in consequence, all the employees were grant
H., Ic;I nnIi tonorrow morning, when
Them, however, will not come to work again
i after to- morrow, for the list of decapitatfons
which are necessary for want OF work, has
/ already been made out, and the death SEN
4 tences will be issued tomorrow or Monday
/ IL is not known exactly how great the reduc-
| 1on VIII be, but IL must necessarily be a
L large one.
| No SESSION of the subcommittee on priv
| ileges and elections, remaining in Washing
ton, was held this morning, owing 10 the
L failure OF certain witnesses from New Jersey
l To report and testify in regard to the alleged
| lneligibility OF Benjamin Williamson, one
or the democratic presidential electors. Mr..
Charles u. Stifel, republican elector in Mis-
souri,, contests the seat of ID. NJ. Frost a DEM
ocratic elector, on the ground that the latter
was ineligible for the reason that his politi-
cal disabilities had not been removed. Mr..
Stifel will be ready TO testify as soon as he
receives copies of the protest and other papers
| filed with the secretary of state of Missouri.
4 NAVAL ORDERs.-Pay Director j. III Wat
| mOugh, ordered to resume duties as general
1 inspector of provisions and clothing; Com
| mander Henry A. Adams, detached from
command OF the receiving ship Potomac and
Orderd 10 command the training snip Con-
/ stituJion; Lieutenant H &. Nielas from the
| receiving ship Potomac and ordered to the
Constitution a. executive; Lieutenants A
IL. IA. Lille, +. III. Green and &. f.. Callahan,
| Ensign W. G.. Heacock, Mates Harry Setly
4 G. III. Thorn and Frank Holler, Surgeon W.
HI. Jones. Assistant Surgeon Robert Whit
/ ing. PaynaSter &. 4. Mcdaniel, Chaplain T..
| d. Rose, from the Potomac and ordered To
1 the Constitution.
ARMY ORDERI-By direction of the Pres
| ideRt the follow ng officers will be relieved
| from duty as professors of military science
and tactics at colleges, as follows to take
effect July LIST, 1871, and will then join their
| respective regiments First Lieut. Frederick
Robinson, 9Th artillery, at the university OF
| Vermont, Burlington, VT; First Lieut.. Jas.
1 NJ Lancaster, I'D artillery, at the Bishop Sea-
4 bury mission, Fairbault, Mimi; Second
Lieut. j. =. Rogers, list infantry, at the De-
4 troit high school, Detroit, Mich; First Lieut..
/ A d. Schenck. I'd artillery, at Iowa state
| university, to take effect upon the arrival OF
First Lieut.: James Chester, I'd artillery. who
l is ordered there. BY direction of the Secre-
| tary OF War, Capt b. H Gilbreth, ordnance
1 storekeeper, IN relieved from duty at the
/ Watervliet arsenal, New York. and will re-
/ port for duty at the WATERFOWL arsenal