Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-27
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal
revenue $5l7, ,403; customs. $50. 749.
SUBSCRIPTIONS TO the four per cent. loa n to
day amounted tosei3,00o
SECRETARY ScHURz' SPEECH to be deiv
cred in Cincinnati to morrow night will make
over 10000 words or ten columns OF an or
dinaTy sized newspaper.
IF ALL the department clerks who knocked
off work at II o'clock to-day to attend the
tournament, actually attend the yellow fever
fund will be increased quite handsomely.
SECRETARY EvARTs has accepted an invita-
tion from large number of prominent gentle
men in New York to make an address there
The speech will be delivered in about ten
days.
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, to the
credit of Chinese embassy, has been deposited
in the San Francisco Subtreasury, and tele.
graphic transfer of this account to this city
has been made.
PERsONAL.-Ex DOorkeeper Polk is now a
resident OF Kansas City. Tom jerks, hus
band of the Mrs. jerks, is reported to be in
The city. The general SuppOSitiOn is that he
has some sort OF position under the govern
ment
BOSTON CONSCIENCE QUICKENED.-The
Secretary of the Treasury this day received an
anonymous communication from Boston,
Mass, enclosing S, $50 to be placed to The
credit OF the conscience fund.
THE YELLOW FEVER INvEsTrG ALTON TO GO
oN.-The Merchants Exchange Relief COM
| mittee of st. Louis, has appropriated $50 for
the proposed commission to investigate the
yellow fever epidemic, and urges immediate
organization and action. Surgeon General
hnS t.llyn OK,
commission at once.
CONTRADICTION.-Sta have re-
Gently been published that on the recent trip
.of the President TO Minnesota there were oc.
currences of such a disagreeable character on
the part OF Gen. LIE Due, the commissioner of
agriculture, who accompanied him, that the
PRESIDENT expressed his wish that the commits
Sloner should leave the party: and further,
that the latter would be removed from Office
Commissioner LIE Due himself and Mr. Rogers
private secretary to the President, deny the
truth OF these statements.
THE MEMBERS OF THE CHINESE EMBASSY
upon the occasion of their presentation TO the
PRESIDENT o-morroW, will be clad in the urien-
fal costume.
1T IS CONSIDERED LIKELY that the successor
CT Hon. Edward Mcpherson as chief of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing. will be
Col Irish, the present Assistant Chief OF the
Bureau. and If it turns cut so there will be
MUSIC Ill tLe alr.
En- SENATOR CAMERON ON THE POLITICAL.
SITUATION.-EX-Senator Simon Cameron. who
was also in Baltimore yesterday, stated that
the greenback sentiment prevails in the min
ing and oil regions of Pennsylvania but he
thinks that the republicans will carry the state
in the fail. The. greenbackers will make
larger lnroads in the democratic than in the
being the champion of honest money. It Is IS
reasonable to expect that it is in the ma OIity
IN the country, it will supply fewer followers
to the greenback movement than the demo.
crat party. He expects the republican paTfy
| to hold its own and perhaps gain at the fail
elections: In 1880 the people will have recov-
cred their senses, and the republican party
| viii receive a strong endorsements at the Presi
| dentlan election. The greenbackers will not
| obtain any more than temporary advant re
| in some localities 1t will not be fornida bic
as national party.
GOVERNOR WADE HAMPTON has made no
formal proposition to the government that the
collection of internal revenue tax in the state
OF South Carolina should be turned over TO
the governor and the state held reSponsi Die
for the amount OF the tax. The district att ~
ney for that state. in letter to Commissioner
Raum few days ago, suggested that Gov.
Hampton thought such q course would be an
excellent. one. Such proposition could not
If formally made; be entertained by the gov
ernment. The laws have fixed a tax for
internal revenue, and directed how that
tax shall be collected. Nothing but an act of
Congress can change that method. Governor
Hampton, If such proposition could be enter
tanned and should be granted, would prOba bly
draw on the state treasury for the amount of
money which the department should state as
que 1or internal revenue taxes, and then leave
the manufacturers Of tobacco and the whisky
dlStilerS alone.
RIDGE PAsCHAL, collector of customs at
Corpus Christi, Texas. has been removed, and
sam. M johnson, deputy collector at San An
tonic, appointed in his stead.
COMMANDER L. o. SELFRIDGE, U. S. n, re-
ports the arrival :of the q. s. steamer Enter
prise; under his command, at New York on
the 2othlnstant, nineteen days from Para Off
was engaged have been satisfactorily COM
pleted, and the Enterprise is in condition for
further service with the exception of Slight re-
pairs required to machinery.
Mr. MCCONNELL, whom eX- d oorkeeper FItz-
hugh says ne put upon the soldiers roll OF the
House of Representatives of his own volition.
and and against whose appointment Fitzhugh al,
leges Judge Holman, Ind, protested, denies all
and singular the statements set forth in Fitz-
hughs recent letter. Mcconnell says he is in
de6ied an}ied to - Judge Holman for his place Judge
was made IN my presence and at my earnest
request, Nr: Mcconnell entered upon the du.
ties OF the office and remained on the soldiers
roll While l remained in Congress. On the
meeting OF the present Congress last fall, MIR.
Mcconnell wrote to me that he had been re.
moved Inu announcer soldier appointed in his
place. Immediately wrote to Several of the
members OF the House of Representatives in
his behaif, and soon after Mr.. Mcdonnell
wrote to me that he had been restored to the
soldiers roll, and he is still, as am informed.
on that roll. The statement of Fitzhugh that
told him that l did not desire this disabled
soldiers appointment Is absolutely untrue.
Mr.. Mcconnell was the only soldier of my dis
trict who applied to me, before Fitzhugh was
dismissed from the dOOrkeepership, for an
appointment. He was my personal friend,
although differing with me in politics During
J0hnSOn'S administration had secured him
the appointment OF StOrekeeper under the
revenue system in my district He was a
worthy man who had suffered greatly in the
service OF the country, and possessed INV
earnest friendship" A 'D'
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Plague; the Political Situation: Lively LEGAL
Notes Agricultural Matters White House and
Department News; Proceedings of the Courts:
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POLITICAL NOTES.-The following congress
SlOnal nominations are announced: -Jere
HARRISON, rep, tcOlored,) fourth Alabama.
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