Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-10-06
EVENING STAR.
OOU BILE S hEET.
Washington News and Gossip.

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY-Inter-
nal revenue $685. 81; customs, s479 O07.71.
NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR STEELE has been
PLACED on Gufy at the navy yard te nporsrily
until The porting of his relief
APPOINTED Robert s. Auder sou has
teen appointed to be United States Attorney
for the territory of Montana, vice Theo
Gaines, resigned.
ARR ST OF EX-CoSGEEssMAN SMALL
A special dispatch from Beaufort, s. c., says
that Robert Small, an exCongressm man, was
arrested there yesterday and carried to Co
lumbia.
THE KERsHIP-There is moth ng Of
interest to report about the speakership race
to day. Members arrive slowly, ard 1t will
be the middle OF next week before any very
accurate estimate of the strength of any of
the candidates can be arrived at.
PERsoNAL-Gen. Benjamin AIvord, pay
master general of the army, has removed his
residence from Georgetown to 1911 street
northwest. MFR. A. B. Cor vine. q native
kentucky, but now resident of New York,
is an applicant for the poStmaStership in that
city. PROT. kemper, professor of zoology
In the university of WurZburg, who has been
in this city for several days, left to-day for
Boston.
GONE HOME.-Sir Joseph f. Hooker of the
Royal Botanical Gardens OF Kew, sailed
from Boston to day for home. He was of the
scientific party who recently male ex plOra-
lions through the western part of the country,
and takes home with him a collection of fif-
teen hundred species of plants of that region.
The collection will be deposited in the royal
herbaT1um or the Kew gardens. He will pre-
pare paper on the flora OF the western terri
Tory.
NAVAL NOTES.-The training ship Sara
toga arrived at Norfolk on the 5th inst from
Hampton Roads. Commodore Hughes re-
ports officially tn the Navy department the
existence of yellow fever at Port ROYAL, s. T..
lie has adopted strict quarantine and san
lfary measures to protect the officers aud
crews of the New Hampshire and Pawnee,
lying four or five miles distant. The Adams
expects to sail from Montevideo about the
INST OF November for the south Pacific sta
ton.
Col. LEWIS PORTER, assistant postmaster
| of Washington city, has been removed, or
rather he has resigned, in accordance with
| an intimat1on that such action would be
| acceptable TO the authorities, II appears
4 that certain testimony adduced before a com
| mittee of the AID Congress reflected upon
| certain business operations of Porter in con-
nection with Elk Gov. Bullock, of Georgia.
| Judge Key lnvitet the attention of Judge
\ Edmunds To the record. and Edmunds re-
| quested Porter 10 step dOwn and out, and
| he did.
| THE NORTH CAROLINA WHISKY Pros
| ICUTIoNs. - Internal Revenue Commits
| iioner Raum yesterday sent a telegram to
tie u. S. district attorney at Greens boro'
1 y. T., a. follows" learn that the tOb aero
manufacturers have all plead guilty. II is
/ expected that suitable punishment will he
| 1neted ont To these men. Toe offers in com
! i. omI.e were rejected amer due consultation.
| III prominent and We llthy violatoTs of the
| Jaw are brought To punishment now, have
1 high hopes that IL will be I ne cOmmpDc mt
Of a new era In the enforcement Of the Inter
| nal revenue laws in your ato."
L TUT
| The commission appointed by Secretary
Sherman 10 investigate the Secret Service Of
| the Treasury department holds daily ses
sions. Chief Brooks ami Assistant Gale
Benson have been examined at length. an I
| other witnesses Will he called. The commits
| sion has q cide3 10 limit the investigation
| excepting as To the character OF the en-
| plo! ers, - he cordItjOn and operations O.
| me secret Sel vice Division since the ith O
| March last, and 10 au inquiry into wha i'm p
Irovement, If any, can be made in it's eff
| cheney.
| THE SJEZ CANAL.-The vice consul gen.
eral of The United States at Cairo has SUBJ
nttted 10 the State Department statement
showing the traffic through the Suez canal
lor seven years past The number OF yes.
| sells carrying the British flag which pas sed
| through the canal during those years was
| 03H, with tonnage OF $3.50 80, being m ore
nan Twice &c inc tonnage OF all o.hef nations.
| lumber of SCI, with q tonnage of 639 81
| The number of vessels Carrying the A meri-
| can flag was only eleven, with a tonnage of
10 $40. The number of vessels of ali nations
was I,5si, with tonnage of L, 52l, 1853.
| ARMY ORDERs.-By direction OF the Secre-
tary OF War, a board of Office rs, to consist of
Col. Alex. Med. McCook, aide-de-camp;
Surgeon Basil Norris, u. s. a; Major Geo
U. HUNT, LIST cavalry; Major Samuel n.
Ben Jamln, assistant adjutant general, is
appointed &c meet in Washington city, on
| Wednt Sday, the 10th instant, or as soon
| tfereaIte as practicable, for the examination
OF candidates who have been selected for
| appointment a. ID 1ieuteDants in the army.
| The duties OF the medical officer will be con-
| nnef To medical examination. Leave OF
Major Thomas c. Sullivan, commissary of
subsistence, u. =. A., from headquarters de-
partment OF the Gulf, is extended one month.
THE UNRooFED PATENT OFFICE.
heavy roof, sloping from the inner to the
outer walls, with n fall of about ten feet, has
| been agreed upon, for the temporary protec-
ton OF the Patent Office from rain, instead OF
me moe elaborate plan of Architect Clark
and Mr.. /. +. q. Morsell, who has beel in
charge of the work since the a re- has bean
direct d TO procure the timbers lumber and
oiber material, employ the workmen and go
| 10 wOIk al once. The new roof will be very
heavy and substantial, consisting OF OF ne
boards covered with telt, and resting upOn
!aitsrs supported by six upright posts ex-
water will be received by q trou On Inside the
| wall and carried from the cent err either way
| olscnaIsins at tne corners. week or ten
days, and perhaps more, will be required 10
complete the work, which has been com
menced already.
THE CREDITORS OF FRANK LESLIE met
| in New York yesterday. The report of the
| committee 10 devise plan of settlement sets
| forth the lOOseness of Frank Leslie's man.
agement AMI his extravagance. showing that
| he drew $4,000 per annum from his bust
| Dess, which was In excess OF his prod,s. Toe
| plan proposes that Leslie have supervision
/ of his business and be allowed tWantv Nor
| cent. OF the profits as salary, 80 PEI cent to
| be divided pro rata among the creditors. The
| plan was adopted. IL Is thought that in rec
| years the Indebtedness can be paid OF.
| THE DIRECTORS OF the Brewers and NAL
| sters IRE insurance company held a meet
ing In New York yesterday TO consider the
| acton CT the insurance department OF the
| state suspending them from transacting bust
ness until the deficit In their capital ha been
made good. II was resolved to pay In an as
sessment OF 60 per cent, (si20 yO0O.) Twenty