Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-12-24

enGe, $L.5. 932.5!; customs. s3Gl 1913
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the four per cent. loan to-
day amounted to si,1la.9on.
THE CABINET MEETING TO-DAY. secretary
sherman. Secretary Evarts and Attorney u me
raj Devens were absent from the Cabinet meet
ing this afternoon. There was a very short
discussion on Indian affairs after which the
meeting adjourned.
MAIL TRAI>s DELAYED-The following dis
patch has been received at the p. D. department
from CHIEF clerk Dernutn, Of the railway mai
service. at Cieyeland:-" Trains ana postal cars
that left New York sunday have not Yet reached
Buffalo. can learn nothing"
ATTORNEY GENERAL DEvENs has left Wash
ingtOn for his home in Massachusetts, where
he VIII remain during The holidays.
CHIEF JUSTICE W AITE VIII preside at the trials
of persons indicted for outrageS at the recent
elections in South Carolina.
Two IMPORTANT MASSACHUSETTS APPOINT
MENTs have been determined upon by the Presi-
dent. T. l.. Peirce, of Boston, brother Of eN-
Congressman Henry l.. Pierce The present
mayor Of Boston. IS to be anunii,ted assistant
L. = treasurer ar Boston, vice Franklin Haven.
resigned. Mr. PeiTce was the intimate friend
OF the late senator sumner and his hiOsrap pilor.
The President will also appoint MI Nelson. Of
worcester Mass. Judge Of the /. :. district
court OF Massachusetts,, vacancy caused ~
the promotion OF Judge Lowell To the circulr
itd2eship. Mr. Nelson is the law partner of
senator Geo. F. H0ar.
An ORDER has been Issued at the Patent Office
TO tie effect that from and after January 1S1a,
letters raten; and certificates OF registration
viii be perfected ana ready for delivery upon
the day Gi their date, Oh Which their respective
terms VIII begin 10 run. Heretofore, patents
were signed and bore date Of issue two weeks
before tEcy were completed ana ready for de-
y. .l.lr In
patent will b4 completed and ready for delivery
Immediately after signing. This plan Will pre-
vent the lnconVenfences which have arisen
from the occasional necessity OF vithho1dnr
patent after IL had been signed through Tho
discovery or good reason for so doing within the
TWO weeks OF interval between signature and
deliVefy. lhe commissioner OF patents. who is
Hnflagg ne in reformatory measures. Is also ar
ranging 10 reduce the time between the grant
ing OF patent and its actual issue from two
weeks 10 one.
The SCRAMBLE FOR 4 DEAD MANS SHOES
The candidates for the Berlin mission, made va
cant by the death OF Bayard Taylor are as num-
erouS as candidates for the next SecretaryShip
Of the senate. The President Will decide upon
Mr.. TayIor'S successor before Congress re.as-
sembleS, but thus far no intimatiOn has been
given either by him or Secretary Evarts as to
VINO the lucky person Will Ire. Senator Arm.
strong and several members of the Missouri del
egation are pressing the claims OF ex-senator
>. y. Henderson for the position. It has been
stated that secretary EvartS sent for Mr.. ArIl-
strong Yesterday and asked him TO ascertain
whether General Henderson would accept the
position If rendered him. Inasmuch as Mr..
kNaltS was IN New York yesterday. ana Mr.
Armstrong was in Washington. ii Is difficult to
understand just when this consultation could
nave taken place. 1t IS said that Missouri has
not a single representative in the diplomatic
service Tue gosslps say that the President
Will tender the mission to +. B. WaShburne, ex-
minister TO Paris. Mr.. WaShbuYne would rep
resent the United states with ability at Berlin.
lie would not he stranger at the German
Court, for his services In Paris during the
Franco -PrrsSlan war are well and thankfully
remembered by the German people. EX-GoV-
efntr Harfranfi is alsoa candidate for the place,
and Accompany OF Pennsylvania politicians wcr,
in Washington Yesterday TO lay Hartrihft'5
claims before the President. Ex-senator Ram
sey. OF Minnesota, is also mentioned rs cinili-
date. constituent OF Mr. Ramsey walked
along Newspaper Row a few evenings ago. AMI
left the following ii some Oi The Difit.;tS:-
IN Senator alexander Ramsey. OF Minnesota, is
a r Tasr "a s Tns at at r tn
iir. Gov. Ramsey reads and speaks tha ierma
the position" ~
THIS announcement NaS probably made with
OUT MI. Ramsey > knowledge. Gen. Ranks. OF
Massachusetts. is another candidate The
country will he deprived nI Gen. Banks ser
wees in t0hgreS, after the +th OF March next
Out he Is open 10 receive Il good foreign or home
appointment, and il is believed he VIII gel
either one or the other. II can scarcely he said
tnat senator ChIiSiancy is a candidate for the
German mission. brt il the post OF minister 10
6erlin should be tendere him he would, in all
past the President has known that Mr., Chris
tiancy would accept a foreign mission. The
name OF Eugene Hale, another Congressman
who will be out or Office on the 18th Of March
has been mentioned for the place In fact.
nearly every brOken-dOWn ofice-hOlder and
some who are not broken down. would be happy
10 undertake the responsibilities OF the Berlin
mission.
The HOT SPRINGS INVESTIGATION wa, re-
sumed this morning. II appears that the Wit
ness Hill had previously testified that Col.
Samuel $. Smoot, Of this city. had had a con
Feisation with him, in which Smoot rcctea
tnat King, the enrolling clerk of the House had
omitted the Hot Springs clause: that he had
seen him wilfully do it, and tina, he (Klng) was
alone 10 blame. To-day Col. SmOOt testified
That he had no recollection OF ever having had
a conversation with Hill on any subject, ana
mat IL ne had he merely told him OF street
I,ilEorS. Dut certainly never that he knew how
Tie MISSION occurred and who WAS blanlatls.
Ior it,. Benson. or the Treasury depart;nrn
was also examined. He defended the action he
TOOK in the premises by saying that ne merely
Investigated what Hin communicated to him
Inc committee has about closed its testimony.
ana VIII soon make its report. Eenson viii be
cenS'ifed for III, OflicousneSS. and ifil viii
oe presented as an adyenturrr unworthy OF
credeEce.
The APPROPRIATION BIIs-Thc sut,co,nm,t
W vi tiie ficuS' Is
engaged daily in the preparation of the legisIa-
tive, executive and judicial appropriation bin.
ana VIII have il ready to- report 10 the House ON
the day Congress meets after the holiday re-
cess. Mr.. Hewitt is also preparing the army
appropriation BILL ana viii endeaTor TO COM
pete II during the recess. While he VIII con-
FORM the Dill TO meet some Of the views sci
1orth In the bill presented by the Joint commit
Tee On army reorganization, he will not as n
Whole, De governed by the recommended iOps II
contains, Tor the reason that he does not Deieye
mat Congress Will accept IL. The apprOpria-
tons committee expect TO have all the ar1,,ro-
pllation hills passed and sent 10 the senate b.
Feb. .Vlh at tie fafthest
MOSES N Pi;iS0N-ESD OF The DIFFICULTY.
Inc following dispatch was receivel to-day at
the Indian oiice from Agent JAS II. Wilbur,
VINO was sent by the Interior department to
thlef Moses and his Indians 10 endeav0r 10 ar
range with them for their removal 10 the,
YAKIMA reserf alton, OF which he is in charge:
" Moses, with ten OF his principal men, have
Deen taken. Moses and three OF them are herr.
Ni akiha tify> In prison. brongiit in to-day The
Slii1oialia band are getting on the reservation
ae h,et as they can travel. Not gun has been
nftu. our police. WORKING in harmony with
thc SotuliiecrS. are doing noble" Moses is thus
IeteiN inS punishment Ter his refusal to deliver
UP the m'ndererS OF the Perkins family as h,.
h;ld promised, and Tor his resistance 10 their
arrest The question of the removal of th,.
ColuinDia River Indians To the Yakima r,Seryo
m tloh seems also unexpectedly settled II does