Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-11-07
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
! GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY. - Internal
revenue, $3c5. 40 co: customs. $296, $500.

j GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TODAY. - internal
revenue, sSc5. 5s6 60; customs. 500, ,s>3.69.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the four per cent. loan to-
day amounted to $500
A STAND OFF.-The Republican Congress
siOnal committee having lost its chairman
through HaleS defeat, the defeat OF Barnum.
chairman OF the National Democratic commit
tee. make honors easy iN the matter OF chair
maDShiPS.
SECRETARY THOMPSON surrounded by piles OF
paper and plenty OF ink. is deep in the prepara-
tiOn OF his annual report. The large number OF
daily callers at the Navy department would do
well TO remain away for a few days.
BENEFIT OF FEVER SUFFERERS Secretary
Thompson this morning received draft for
$50 contributed by the officers and crew o.
the L. =. s. Supply, at Havre France, for the
benefit OF the yellow-feSer sufferers.
THE SILVER BIDs.-The opening OF offers 10
the government of silver bullion yesterday
afternoon was the most successful transaction
Of the kind yet. There were larger number of
offers, and the mint bureau has purchased more
bullion than at any previous opening. Between
fve and six hundred thousand ounces Of bullion.
TO be delivered at the Philadelphia mint. has
been bought. Most of this amount was procured
from New York bidders. although there were
offers from nearly every bullion dealer on the
Pacific coast. The bureau got the bullion at 1t
cheap rate.
SENATOR'S PATTERSON, GROVER AND GARLAND.
TIE committee appointed unGer the resolution
OF senator voorhees, looking TO the establish
ment of the territory Of Oklahama. will meet at
st. Louis this Week, and next week with SEN
ator voorhees,. viii 90 down 10 the Indian terri
tory for the purpose of making observations.
taking testimony as TO the condition of the
Indians. dc. senators Patterson and Grover
left this morning. and senator Garland will
meet them in St Louis. Messrs. Morgan and
Nixon. OF the Senate. accompany the committee,
as also MeSSrS Aaron and Moses Bradshaw
stehographerS. and Mr.. Willie Patterson. CLERK.
SECRETARY EvARTs has come back from New
York much pleased with Mondays election re-
suits In that state and elsewhere.
PERsoNAL.-Edward OMeagheF Condor. the
recently released Fenian. registers at hotels as
from England" Ex-Gov. d. Fl. Chamber
lain. OF South Carolina. is in the city. Ben
lie Fevre, elected TO the next Congress. from
Chic. is in town. News has been received
Etre CT the death at RUGen. France. recently of
Tie wife of Marquis de Monthoion. formerly
well known in the social circles of Washington
.---Ihe family OF Mr.. X. T. Merrick have re-
tuned from their country seat in Howard
county. Nd, TO their Iesidence on street
DIPLOMACY AND DIABLERIE The Chinese
minister has accepted an invitation from Mana
ser Ford 20 WitEeSS Heller'S wonderful perform
anCe, and has selected this evening as the Occa-
sion. He VIII be accompanied by the fun lega-
all.
PROPOSALS for 10000 gallons Of lard Oil were
opened al the Office of the Light House Board
Yesterday. Tie bidders were:-Washington
Butchers sons. Philadelphia. Pa. 5l.S7 cents
Per gallon; W. X. Fairbank 4 Co.. Chicago, ILL.,,
81 cents; John II. Pool q Macy. New YORK
city. 52.s cents; The Manhattan OH CO. New
1oIk city. 81 cents.
SENATOR BEN HILL over six months AGO MADE
an application for Senator Conkhngs seat in
the Senate when il should me vacated nv the
1t ca statesman. reminding him that his state
he'd gone democratic. The "dTap' on Tuesday
last VIII remind the Georgia Senator that he
Will have Sin long years to wait before lie will
warm the seat he so much cOvetS.
CoNp0N AT THE WHITE HOUSE. - Edward
Oheagher Condor, the released Fenian pris-
oner, called On the President this afternoon He
was accompanied by Capt p. j. Condor, Cnas
A. Joyce, Patrick Cullinane D. A. Brosnan,
Captain Murphy and Bernard ConrOy. Mr.
Condon thanked the President for intefceding
With and procuring his release from the British
GOV ernment. The President replied that he
was pleased TO see his visitor, and hoped that
he wOnd recover his health. He also asked
about Mr.. Condon's father and the rest of tn
family. who were well known to him; and ex
pressed regret that his father should have died
in prison instead Of being liberated like his son.
LIECT. HALL AND DR.. KEYEs SPEAK THEIR
MIND ABOUT DIR. REIILy.-'ro-day Surgeon Cen
eral Woodwork, OF the marine hospital service,
transmitted TO the executive committee OF the
National Yellow Fever Commission copies of
letters of Assistant surgeon Keyes, of the NJ Fl.
kilograms sent TO the Secretary Of War and the
chairman OF the committee by DIR. F. w. Reilly
and others relative to the order directing the
relief boat TO proceed up the river.
DR.. Keyes gives statement that DR.. Reilly
accompanied the Chambers as representative
OF the Chicago relief committee and was allow
a 4.sr0 @ m on
shore when he visited the various relief asSOci-
atlons 10 ascertain what was needed, and in
this way gathered few things with which his
sensation articles were tinged with truth. He
says: AS regards Lieutenant Benner,
Dr. r. assisted me for a few hours
upon two occasions when was worn out by
sleep. All OF DIR. RS kilograms and those OF
tie Ficksburg parties influenced no doubt by
him. were without the knowledge or consent of
Lieut.. Hall OF myself. We hold him personally
responsible for them, and have so informed
him. Dr. X. did all this for his own glOrihca-
tlon and the sale OF sensational newspaper
My telegrams and those OF Lieut.. Hall were in
tie line OF duty and in obedience TO orders.'
Lieut.. Halls letter states that he concurs in
Er. keyes' report, and states further that Dr.
Reilly openly boasted that he 'Oniy came down
for reputation and did not care what the boat
did, and that when he Lieut.. H.) was taken
with a chill he promised not to say ANYTHING
about it and then teiegraphed the sensational
report that he was down with the fever.
COMMANDER T. o. SELFRIDGE has been ordered
TO report 10 Commodore W. d. Whiting. chief
CT the bureau Of navigation, Navy department.
His duty will be a temporary one, and will be
connected with the preparation of the charts Of
The Amazon and Madeira rivers, South America
Commander Selfr1dge, in the Enterprise, re-
turned month or so ago from a complete sur
Vey OF those rivers, which he had made by order
OF Secretary Thompson. The charts TO be pre-
pared Will be accurate and full, and will be most
valuable to commerce. Upon the completion
of his duties here Commander Selfridge will re-
turn 10 the command OF the Enterprise az New
York. The Enterprise will leave soon for the
Mediterranean squadron.
Posi- ROUTE MArs-The report Of the topo-
graphers Office for the last fiscal year has been
handed in TO the Postmaster General. The work
OF keeping up the maps and diagrams, with all
tEeir changes for the daily use OF the officers
clerks and other agents Of the department, and
OF preparing and publishing new maps and re-
S1sed editions Of those previously issued has
steadily continued. Revised editions or II maps
and compilations OF new maps, have been COM
pieted during the year. Three new maps are in
course OF construction. II is the duty Of the
Office 10 provide clear and accurate exhibit of
the postal geography and the supply OF the
mails i'll all parts OF the land.
L. s. NAVAL VESSELS.--The training ship
! Minnesota at Newport has been ordered TO the
| New York navy yard for the winter. The train
/ lhS ship Saratoga, which has been at Philadel-