Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-08-24
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.


nal revenue, 1892 9O6 81; customs, $3.50 ,Os6 GO.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY THOMPSON
Will make trip to the west next week.
REvTNUE AUGMENTATION C. An
derson has been appointed revenue gauge
for the Cd district of Georgia.
RIMovED.-Mr. Geo. W. Smith, a cousin
Of O. Smith, Commissioner OF Indian AT
fairs, has been removed as chief OF the divi-
sion of accounts in the Indian bureau.
HAYES AND HAzEN.- When the Presiden.
was shown the charges preferred against
Gen. Hazen, U. 8. A, he Endorsed the papers
in substance under his own autograph a
teing too frivolous to demand serious attel-
tiCn.
THE PRESIDENT will leave here for Free
mont, Ohio, on the 9TH proximo to attend a
rerniOn OF his old regiment, to be held at
that place on the 18th of September. He is
having made number of medals which he
will present 10 each officer and soldier OF his
old command.
j. MADISON WELLS, it is stated, will de-
mand the removal of Collector King at New
Orleans and his own appointment TO the
place. He is still in Chicago and has with
him Col. CAN'T, who is Collector Kings
PRINCIPAL bOndsman and who will also unite
win wells In requesting his removal.
Presentation. Henry w. Hilliard, the
ewly-appointed minister TO Brazil, has ar
rived in this city, making preparations to
depart for his post OF duty. 1t is und rstoDd
that he sails next week. DIR. Jos. Taber
Johnson has returned from his Adirondack
and Green mountain trip, greatly improved
in health.
NAVAL NEws.-Dispatches received at the
Navy department announce that the Sara
toga sailed from Boston yesterday fo- New
port, r. I. The Tallapoosa left the Wash
VeStQrdaV aftprnODn
supplies for eastern navy yards. The Van
dalia was at Tripoli, coast Of Syria, August
LIST.
DAILY REPORT BUREAU OF ENGRAVING
AND Observation-Disclosures August %, 1877:
To Comptroller of the Currency-National
currency notes, 1915, 600. Secretary of the
Treasury-4 per cent; cOnsols, 5000 900; mis-
cellaneOus, s25 ,O29 $50. Total, 800 ,629 SD.
Balance on hand at the close Of days
work, s279, Al $50.
LIECT. HoxIE AND THE DISTRICT CON-
MASSACHUSETTS, published statements that
an Investigation is being made into the OFF,
cial acts of Chief Engineer Hoxie by the Dis
trict Commissioners are erroneous. There
have been at times differences OF Opinio.i be-
tween the Commissioners and thai Off GER as
might be expected, but nothing to require
what Is generally understood 10 be implied
by an investigation.
ARMY ORDERs-By direction OF the Presi
dent, First Lieut.. VIM. P. Van Ness, Ist ar
tillery, is at his own request relieved from
duty as professor of military science and
tactics at Cornell University, Ithaca, n. Y,
and will proceed to Join his reg iment; First
Lieut.. Chas. Shaler, ordnance department,
is relieved from duty at the U. s: Military
Academy, West Point, y. Y, and will re-
port by letter to the chief OF ordnance.
GEN. SHERMAN Can't MAKE our VINO
Is AHEAD-HowARD Or JosEPH.-The fol-
lowing dispatch from Gen. Sherman was re-
ceived at the War department late last C yea
ing;
HELENA, MONTANA, August 81.
AdjlFdM Gent, Washing on, ID. c.. Report
my arrival here. Accounts from Indians
and Gen. Howard too confused to make any
thing out Will ascertain and report at
earliest moment. w. 7. SHERMAN.
DON'T WANT AN OkGAN.-Ex Secretary
Robson has been in town for day or two
Oh private business. Having been aske re-
gaIdtng his connection with the Na'ionI Re
publican, he said that he has not now, never
had, never expects to have, and has no de-
sire TO have, any relation with or any con-
troll over that paper; that his only connection
with Ii is that he has loaned money 10 the
proprietor and taken his property as security
for the debt.
NAVAL ORDERS-Lieutenant John X.
Winn ordered to the receiving ship Wabash,
at Boston, Mass; Lieutenant l.. G. Logan to
the Naval A cademy, 18th Septe mber, Lieu
tenant Commanders & II. Chester aud Saml
II. Baker detached from the naval academy
3lst inst, and placed on waiting orders; Mas,
ter George w. MentZ from the Huron, st
September, and ordered to the MOnOngahela;
Wabash al Boston and ordered to the Huron,
LIST September; Ensign w. II. Southerland
from the naval academy, 31st inst. and or
dered to the Hartford, 18th September.
Mr. E. l.. SrANroy.-The report that Mr..
E. l.. Stanton has been sent to an insane
asylum is wholly without foundation. He Is
now quite Ill and confined TO bed at his resi-
dence in this city where he has been since
bis return TO the city from Mountain Lake
Va, about three weeks ago. His symptoms
indicate serious disease of the brain, but he
has been rational throughout his illness
except that like other sufferers from infiam-
matory ailments his mind has sometimes
wandered while the fever was at its height.
His symptoms are to-day more favorable
than they were day or two since, and he is
now as well as he was a week ago. His
physicians are DR.. W. w. Johnston aud DIR.
Lincoln.
THE CONDITION OF SENATOR MORTON
Acting Postmaster General Tyner received
the following dispatches from w. r. Hollo-
way, at Richmond, Indiana, at about noon
tod day: "Dr. Bliss has arrived. The Senator
passed a comfortable night, and was much
better this morning; but at O'Clock the
pains returned to his side, and he IL now sur
Iering." The other dispatch read as follows:
The Senator Is coming out of his paroxysm.
His ply siclanS feel encouraged" General
Tyner thinks there must have been some
mistake in transmitting the last dispatch, as
the first simply represents him as suffering
from pain in the side. The general impress
sion is that the condition of the Senator Is
much more serious than his friends care to
admit.
The SITTING BULL CoMMIsSIoN.-Gen.
John McNiel, OF st. Louis, having declined
TO accept q commissionership on the Sitting
Bull commission on account of illness, Gen.
Schurz, Secretary Of the Interior, yesterday
telegraphed TO General Francis A. Walker,
of Yale College, requesting him to serve
General Walker declined on account of the
pressing nature of his duties at the college,
and Gen. Schurx has rendered the appoint
ment to another gentleman whose name he
does not at present care TO disclose. The
trouble seems TO be that there In more glory
connected with the mission than pay. There
IL no compensate attached to IL, there being
no provision OF law for the payment even OF
the expenses of the commissioners. Sitting
Bull 10 repre- seDtet As being in Strengthened
ciIcumstan ces, short OF supplies, arms and
TOR les and app0reutly willing tn treat for