Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-03
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
THE PRESIDENTS EvEs1ye RECEPTIONS
will be held on the second and fourth Tues
days in January and the fourth Tuesday in
February, from to Top. m.
Mrs. Grants Saturday afternoon recep.
tions will begin next Saturday, January s.h,
from 5 TO ) p. NJ, and continue until Lent.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Inter-
nal revenue, 81 ,2d9.O2S 90; customs, 1858 ,O352J
THE AMOUNT Of national bank notes re-
ceived at the Treasury to-day for redemption
aggregated 81 ,O6i,7
SECRETARY BELKNAP has gone to Iowa.
and ii is announced that be will be candi-
date for the United States Senate in the
place of Judge Wright.
AN ADDITIONAL MAIL fCom this city to
Philadelphia was put on at 457 O'Clock this
afternoon. 1t will go out at this time every
day hereafter, and will close at TIE post Office
at p. m.
THE COMMISSIONERS OF Indian Affairs hos
received telegram from IGdian Agent Ha-
worth, at the kiowa and Comauche agency,
prOnOuncing mistake the report recently
telegTaphed from Texas that several hundred
Comanches were on the war path. He says
they are all at the agency, and are peace
able.
THE MOVEMENT TO GUST Mr.. FERRY
from the Vice Presidents chair has received
considerable additional strength recently by
changing of purpose on the part of certain
prominent Senators who were previously
disinclined TO aid the scheme, and there re-
mains little doubt as to the success of the
acknowledgement Gin. Com.
MES are represented here by their attorneys,
with Instructions to resist TO the uttermOst
the demand made upon them by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury for the payment of the
five per cent. on their net earnings, as pro-
vided by law. They claim that they have
no net earnings, and yet by some means
manage 10 declare dividends.
PEEsoyAL.-Senator Logan is in town,
quite unweu. Hon. Samuel Randall,
chairman of the House appropriations Com
mittee, will return here to morrow. ''''Ex-
Senator Carpenter visited the Secretary OF
the Interior Today. THE health of Hon.
Alexander H. Stephens instead of improv-
ing, is growing worse. A gentleman from
Georgia states that he is confined to his bed
and threatened with pneumonia.
THE AMOUNT awarded by the Mexican
and United States Claims Commission Is
about two million dollars 10 Mexican citi-
Zens and between five and six millions TO
citizens of the United states. According to
the terms of the treaty appointing the Com
| mission, the United States will give credit
| TO Mexico for the amount finally awarded
| its citizens. while the sum due by Mexico
| will be paid in annual instruments of
100000, gold or its equivalent, until the
l whole is paid. This arrangement, however,
| will cause no DELAY in the payment OF claims
of citizens of the United states.
MRS. JoYcE.-The announcement OF Mrs
l Joyces departure for Washington was pre-
l mature. She will 60, however, in day or
| two, as she informs Times correspondent
for the purpose of asking Secretary Bristow
10 give her back her old place a. Treasury
clerk. She reasons that she has right 10
l this, as the Secretary has deprived her of the
l means of support by driving her husband to
i the penitentiary. She denies the possession
of any documents inculpating Babcock, bul
says, significantly, That Joyce "would not
ing such papers or betraying anyboiy's con-
fideHce.
/ THE MARRIAGE at Xenia, Ohio, of miss
Kate Hivling to Mr.. Lee Funk chief clerk OF
| tn Third Auditors Office of the United
States Treasury al Washington is the sub
ject Of special dispatch to the Chicago
L Hon. VIM Lawrence, Representative TO Con.
L gress from this district, wife and daughter
l fIom Bellefontaine. Mr.. and Mrs. Funk left
mail at $50 a. m. They will take up their
1 residence In Washington during the ensuing
month, aud the society of the national CAPT.
Il ia will have q valuable accession In the per
l son OF last evenings BRIDE
THE COURT of Commissioners OF Alabama
/ Claims will resume its session on the 18th
| instant, when an important opinion in the
| clse Of the Texan Star will be delivered
| me vessel was destroyed by the Alabama
| sh rly after the captain, by advice of hel
/ her name TO the Mortaban and transferred
l her to the British flag. The claim is made
i principally under a subsequent mortgage
The case involves some very peculiar points
/ and, in view OF the recent international arb.
i tratiOn looking 10 the establishment of pre-
l cedents, the decision is awaited with great
/ interest.
THE TREASURY Gov.
ernor Carpenter, OF Iowa, who was rendered
| the vacant Second Controllership OF the
i Treasury department, has accepted the ap
/ pointment. and so signifed in a dispatch re
l eeived by Secretary BristOw to-day. 1t can
be stated authoritatively that up TO the close
CT business hours to-day, .: II. Irish, of Ne
l bi aka, had not even been offered the position
| OF Third Auditor, nor had Mr.. Williams, Of
i Indiana, been invited to come here ana q A.
cept the Deputy Controllership. Mr.. Irish is
pr ssed as Gen. Rutherfortl's successor by the
I Nebraska delegation, and while the name O,
1 Mr.. Williams has been mentioned Ia coppec.
l tion with the Deputy Controllership IL is
not yet been settled that he will be appointed
| WE LEARN that early in the new year
| Walt Whitman Will issue small edition oil
his complete works in two volumes. '.Leaves
] of Grass" will be one, The other, "Two
| Rivulets," alterations of prose and Verse;
1 the themes about as diverse as they can be
/ poetry, politics, the war. &c. Mr.. Whitman
| kept diary from 1862 to 1866 Of scenes in
l Virginia, Washington; and the hospital,
l camps, battles, are given almost verbatim
| A great part of 1.-TWO Rivuiets," prose and
/ poetry, is fresh matter, hitherto unpublished
| Mr.. Whitman will publish and sell his book
| himself. We are sorry to say that the health
/ aud strength OF this poet are probably IRE
\ liant as ever, and his spirits good. He is