Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-01-07
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

G0YERNNENr RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal
revenue. S'j-3- %. y: customs $5H$A73,
TIE PRESIDENTS RECEI.rIOxs-The Pre~i-
dent will hold his evening receptions on Tues
day evenings. January 18th, February , il and
10Th. from to 10 ocl0rk.
SENsToRs AND REIKEsENTATIvEs are re
tuning slowly To the Capitol. Wee President
Wheeler said last night that ht did moi au:i"i-
pate that th'r" would he u quorum al the Sen
ate III attendance "m Thursdays session.
Coz. w. Il. SHAFrEK and Lieutenant J. L.
Bulls. who have been stationed on the Texas
bOrdrr for some time past. arrived here YES
tcTday. to appear before the House committee
ON military affairs. To testify regarding the
b"lder troubles.
+. +. POisE> ANOTHER BEEyE.-Rcpr"Scnt /
tive Springer. nf Illinois. is authority for the
statement that Gen. Butler will Introduce
resolution directing an investigation into the
alleged Presidential bargain charged in the
ChaHd!Cr letter. !! such a resolution should
pas. bufIcr would of course he made chair
man of the committee. and the query would
then l." III order. " W no frow ed dat brick.
AMERICAN FILLER sTERs IN TRoUBIE-A
number Of American citizens from Baltimore
WHO had taken possession Of Morant keyS.
dependency of Jamaica. claiming to have dis
covered ,lfe ktvS and established = B3i.imarr
AHauo company. in spite Of the warning a. he
United STATES consul and tn" .Tamaira ni1iri&ls.
have been driven Uf by II. +. N. steamship
HIan"h and taken tD Kingston. The Amrrj-
ears protest against this action.
ARMY OEDrRs.-A>Sistant Surgeon W. F.
Waters. ordered to return to san Amtonio
Texas and report in person TO the command
ing general. department Of Texas. for assign
mcHt 10 du!y. Leave Of second Lieutenant
II. II. Bailey. .th infantry. tor disability j. eX-
tended Two months. Leave of Second Lieut..
Alexander Rodgers. It'll cavalry. is further eN-
tended one month. First Lieutenant w. \.
DinWid;ljr. I'll cavalry. WIiIaWait orders i'm fhi,
city LeaN t Of Assistant surgeon j. y. Finley
l. extended two months.
THE UNITED STATES SUPREME Court rraS-
Sembled to-day. The Credit M0bilicr cast WIZ
be argued before full bench at some early
day I" he agreed upon. The Charleston city
tax cases are - De ItarguCd III consequence
al the bench not beiH- full When argued about
month ago. The question to be decided is
whether municipal corporation can impose
q tax upon its own OBLIGATIONS in the hands of
noE-IeSideEt>. Ii is conten,ie,i that the impo>-
ing OF such tan is an act impairmg th" obligI-
tons of contract. and. therefore, Il violation
ol The Federal Constitution
The DISMISSAL OF GALPGN.-The report of
the board of inquiry into CHARGES made
against Mr.. ;. y. GalPin chief clerk 0i the IN
dian Bureau. gives view uf the general work
IIgN ui the Indian bureau far from credit rIO
10 him. But Secretary SchllrZ IN rem0viu.
him from the office bases his action especially
"n The iart that he has KEEP: information Of ir-
rcgul@riti"S III tn" FUWRrp agency from III,
know ;rttgc ri his superior officers OlEpr dis
mINNat> HIil1U.lOW shortly.
WI. r. CHANDLEK UNIoADS AGAI<.-Th,
letter "f Wm. +. Chandler charging = Prr>i
denItai bll rain. together with review nv the
same author OI The GUrtiUuL 'Onk inw EifI,l,a>-
aIilIrSN and letter on Wade Hampfun'S 5 Drr-
IIt. Htion % hepIb!raHS III South Carolina,
ms bee" gotten up in pamphlet form. and is
being IberalIy distributed throughout The
COUNTRY. The cover OF the pamphlet contains
the Nhdk>perIan words: Can Such Things hn
ara t|trCcmc IL like Il summer Cloud WITH
out cur Special W"nder::'
PARDoNED ~ TIE PRE~IDE>T.-The Prr,i-
dent has rard"ned James Levy. sentenced Oe-
tnler, l>-4. in New York to five wear, in the
Kings county penitentiary for perjury: John
~. lU0hlt'~. sentenced October 1876 in ken-
tucky. To IS months i'll the penitentiary for
using cancelled p0Sta@" stamps: Edward j.
Phdien. sentenced in Ma>~acfu~ettS Dacam-
Der, 1879. to three years imprisonment for en-
heLLlement from the mails, and Samuel T.
Steele. sentenced in Mississippi May. lS77. 10
u months Imprisonment fOr cmheIIIpmeut
from post office.
ENOUGH CRIMINALS HERE ALREADY-Thc
Department Of State has received through the
consulate general at Frankfort an account of
2 recent correspondence between the grand
ducal government of Baden and the United
States consul al Mannheim. relative to thi.
ease Of the priest LrUthncr who VIS con
utmh"d 10 several years imprisonment in The
house OF correction Tor immoral actS commit
ted with the pupils of his school at BreiS3ri
IL haVlhG been reported that the convict WAS
TO Re pardOned on condition of c!nigratlu9 To
lht United States. the consul asked al eXpIa-
nation OF the report, and received the written
ana personal assurance of the grand ducaI
munster OF justice that the rumOr was untrue
amt that IN no case would the Baden govern
Iltilt permit the >ehHlng OF 1t, criminals to the
nlteu States.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Lieutenant Commander
VIM H. Whiting. ordered aS executive Of th..
Constitution. Lieut.. \. b. Speyers 10 duty at
The Naval Academy. Isl February. Chaplain
+. II. RawSun to the navy ward. Norfolk lStj,
instant Chaplain J. X. Lewis. to the Phila-
delphia Naval Asylum 18th instant Captain
'srar e Badger. detailed from special duty at
The Washington navy ward on Sth instant and
ordered 10 command the Constitution Com
mander 4. L. Cook, from the command of
constitution. Nth instant. and ordered TO com
mand the receiving ship ST. Louis. at League
Island navy yard. Commander Byron wilson
from command of the st Louis 9ili instant
and placed on waiting orders. Lieutpnam!
charles y. Nchctky. from the Constitution
and placed on waiting orders thaDIIin J \
Wallace, from The Philadelphia Naval ASvlun.
LIN instant. and placed on waiting orders.
GOVERNOR MCCORMICK left last might for
New York. While here he had numerous in
tcryieWs with the President and Secretary
ENaTtS relative To the appointment OF the y
assistant commissioners To act as experts az
the rams exposition. Ii was at first Intended
to appoint all of Them lust in time Tor the opan-
ing uf the exhibition. but the Commissioner
General has found that he will need the As
>l>lance OF some. and the President has drSig-
mated 1bree-iTOfr>SUr Maliet. professor of
chemistry in the University of Virginia Hon
ore>te> cleveland, OF New Jersey AMI Mr.
DySart. of Illinois. They will 90 t6 New York
as soon as possible. 10 assist in the arrange
menfS Of This government. Lieutenant Buck
mgllam, OF the navy, and Lieutenant Rogers
9l the army. have been designated by the
PRESIDENT rs staif ni the Commissioner Gene
raj. and accompanied him To New York last
night.
GENERAL DIN. the lively ccnteuaTiar does
not agree with the family OF Mr.. Thomas Lord
III IN" view they take Of that geuleman's mar
rage do not regard Mr.. Lord As such un
Iaiot as people are trying to make him ont
nc fehGtfHS. " as 1t was not often thai 4 man
oI hiN age got chanre to marry fine locking
WOMAN like Mrs. Hicks
1HpEN : INCOME TAN.-The snft AGAINST
SdmuTl J, lIiden 10 recover his income. tan
was called this morning before Judge Blatch-