Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-04-13

SECRETARY BRIsrow is expected to return
TO Washingt IN tonight.
IT'S UNDERSTOOD that Speaker Kerr will
decline re election to Congress.
SIR EDWARD THORNTON has been selected
10 repre-ent Her MsjeJty's government at
the opening of the CentePutal.
GOVERNOR DENNIsoN, of the District
Commissioners, will leave this city to night
for his home in Ohio, and will be absent
eight or ten days.
AMONG THE CALLERS at the White House
to day were Senators ConOver, Sargent, aud
Logan; Representative Notion, Farwell,
Burchard. and KIdder, and Governor Rem
iUgton, o. DaRot1
GENERAL Irwin Mcdowell, who Is in
charge Of the u. s. army, division OF the
south, has not yet been ordered to succeed
General Schofield in command of the divi-
sion CT the Pacific, although it is probable
thaS Cn order 10 tnat effect Will soon be
iss uC1.
THE PRESIDENT will not be able tOattend
the .LneraI of the late Mr.. Alexander T.
Stewart, on account of the pressure of public
business. He h as sent a dispatch to Judge
Billion conveying bis regret that ne car1ot
do so.
THOMAS B. CONNERY, of the New York
Herald, having refused 10 divulge TO a Con-
sressiOnal investigating committee the key
10 his cy pher correspondence with that pa
per, the committee has decide not to fur
Their press the question.
CoNFIRMATIONs.-The Senate yesterday
confirmed the following nominations: An
drew Cone, of Pennsylvania, to be U. s.
consul, Para; John ]. Turtle. of Delaware,
L. 3. consul at Port Louis; Charles PaysOn
To be chief of the diplomatic bureau in the
state department.
THE PURMAN INvEsrIGA TIoN.-Twow wit
Desses yesterday testified before the Com
mittee on the Civil Service, in the Purman
case, that they had received their appoint
mems as timber agents in Florida through
that gentleman, received $40 per month for
which they never performed any service,
and did not even know where the timber
reservations were located
GOING TO MEET Dom PEDRo.-The Secre-
larry OF State, accompanied by the Secreta-
Ties OF War and the Navy, will leave here
tomorrow on the limited express for New
York, to await the arrival of Dom Pedro,
The Emperor of Brazil. The U. S. steamers
Alert and Minnesota have been detailed ID
receive the distinguished visitor. The Min
resOta will fire the salute.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Lieut. Commander f.
NJ. Shepard detached from ordnance duty at
the Bellevue depot, Washington, ON the sth
May next, and ordered to navy yard, Port
smOuth. n. H. to report 18th May. Lieut..
Herbert WinslOw, from the Lackawanna,
North Pacific station, and orderC 10 return
home and report arrival Lieut.. Seth NJ.
Ackley, from the navy yard, Washington,
and ordered TO the Michigan at Erie, Pa.
SECRETARY robson was examined yes
terday by the Committee on Expenditures
in the Navy department in reference 10 the
financial transactions of the department
abroad through It's agents, the Seligmans, OF
London. His attention being called to the
section of the Revised Statutes which pro-
vides that no one shall be appOintCt as the
fiscal agent OF the department abroad except
~ and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, be said the Seligmans had been
acmi-Iated by the President during the past
week, but tine Senate had not yet acted uo1n
tie matter.
Army ORDFRs.-By direction OF the Secre-
tary Of War, the order directing Colonel
Rufus Ingalls,, assistant qusrtermaster gen.
eral. 10 resume his duties as chief quarter
master, military division OF the Atlantic, is
suspended until further orders. Major ID.
ington city, after completing his payments
for April, TO attend 10 the settlement OF his
accounts, and will return to his post in time
TO make his payments for June The leave
of absence granted Captain William A.
Marye, ordnance department, (ROck Island
arsenal, IllinOis,) February 23th, 1876, is ex-
tended two months.
SMITH, the Journal Clerk OF the House of
Representatives, from New Hampshire, is
liable to lose his head. 1t appears that hav-
ing faith in the passage OF a bill equalizing
the bonnties OF soldiers, he has caused to be
lrinted a circular, and sent to the town
clerks in each town in New Hampshire, in
Wiling all entitled TO bounty under an equal
ization 10 send him their claims TO Wash
lDgton. The town clerks, having the records,
are TO find out who would be entitled 10 the
benefits Ofthe bill, and Smith was to put the
claims through, he having, as he claimed, by
virtue OF mis- position here peculiar facilities
The Town clerks were TO get q percentage
and Smith was TO get the balance of % p5r
cent fee. The attention of the House will be
officially directed to ii TO morrow.
Ex-SPEAKER BLAINE, as early as March
22d, wrote TO a friend in Michigan concern
ing the story about his receipt OF money
from the Union Pacific Railroad company,
saying: II beg you Will not be disturbed by
Washington rumOrs respecting myself. The
story of my ever having received money or
anything else of value from the Union Pacific
Railroad company or any OF Its officers or
agents is not only false, but absurd. There
is not the remOteSt foundation for IL, and /
can scarcely conceive that any one would
be credulous eAough to believe II. IL has
been circulating in Washington for some
weeks past in an indefinite, Rrespousi bIe
and intangible way. Whenever 1T Shall as
sumo form and shape and publicity il Will
receive a conclusive answer. Meanwhile /
trust you will hold peaceful mind. | shall
never be injured by stories OF this kind.
REPRESENTATIVE PURMAN, Of Florida,
who has unpleasantly figured as a cadetship
broker, was assistant clerk in Quartermas-
ter Captain E. l.. Harris department in 1862
and lS63, and was employed in warehouse
No. l, on street, Washington. He after
wards obtained a position IN the quarter
master generals Office. 1t is stated that the
pay roll OF these departments show that he
signed his name at that time as "William
j POorman," which he mas since changed to
Purman. He Is Pennsylvania by birth,
aDd had very limited means when he OBJ
tanned the clerkship in 1862. His father was
employed for some time as watchman in the
quartermaster's department. Purman went
south Immediately after the war, and has
been very successful politician. He was
prominently mentioned last year as United
| Stats Senator from Florida. He haa been
| IN Florida but few years when he was elec-
| ted CongressInan.-IWd Wash. Cor. Bat. San.
THE SILVER BILL, as passed by both
houses OF Cor gress, reeds as follows:
"Be Il enacted. DC, That there DE and here by
| Is appropriated out of any money in the
| Treasury not otherwise appropriated the
| sum OF si65 Goa, 10 pro Tide for engraving and
printing and other expenses of making and
5sSuing United states notes, and the further
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