Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-27
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS ToDAY.-Internal
revenue, s4G9, 40; customs. $556,s6S.7S.
SECRETARY THOMPSON will return from In
diana tonight or tomorrow.
PERsoNAL~-Pay Director John s. Cunning
ham has returned to Washington, looking in
superb condition that tells well for the
healthfuness of the Pacific coast.
AN EFFORT will be made on Monday to have
an evening session for the consideration OF the
bill to provide a permanent form of govern
ment for the District of Columbia.
WOODS TARIFF BILL. - Representative
Harmer of Pa. has made careful canvass of
the House on Woods tariff bill, and says that
it will be defeated by q votes,
SILVER DOLLARS TO BE PAID OUT-The
amount of United States notes retired during
the present month in consequence of the issue
OF national bank notes will be about ST 200 900.
lhe secretary OF the Treasury has ordered
that this amount shall be replaced by silver
dollars, to be out in the current course of buSi-
ness. This sum will be distributed among the
various sub-treasuries and public depOsitaries
throughout the United States, SO that to this
extent the silver dollar will be paid out for eur
reDcy obligations. This payment of silver dol
lars will not interfere with procuring silver
dollars in exchange at par for gold coin at any
time,
WHATEVER other reasons the President may
have had for asking the resignation of Mr..
Simon Wolf, register of deeds, it is entirely
charge OF inefflciency i'll the management of
his office. Mr.. VOLTS administration has un-
doubtedly given general satisfaction.
MORE ABOUT SELKIRK, THE FLORIDA Con-
FEsSOR-The STAR yesterday afternoon gave
the record of Selkrk, one of the Florida con-
fesSOrs, as far as the records of the Depart
ment OF Justice show. He also has a record
with the Treasury department and with the
Police Court of this city. He was appointed to
clerkshp in the Treasury in july last al
though his average at the competitive examin-
alton was only, 55 while the minimum
department was 90 His appointment appears
TO have been gained by outside influence. He
had strong letters of recommendation from
Assistant Secretary of State Seward, Colonel
Rodgers. the Presidents private secretary,
and ThurlOw Weed. He was suspended from
the department for intemperance, and rein
He remained in the department nearly two
months and was finally discharged for intem-
perance. After this he stated that he was
actdr Eren eer 6y secretary Sherman to Co.
his appointment to position in the custom
house there This position he.failed to obtain.
Prior to his first appointment in the Treasury
ne was, on the 18th OF April 1871 arrested in this
city, as THE STAR of that date will show. and as
the police records show: for obtaining money
under false pretenses from a grocer. He ex.
hiblted letter at that time from Colonel
Rodgers and others, which on the day OF his
arrest were considered fOrgereS. THE STAR
OF the day after, the 20th, stated that these let
ters proved to be genuine. Judge Smell dis
charged him as - dead beat"
AN ORDER issued by the War Departmental
day directs Colonel Il. G. Drum, assistant ad-
Jutant general, on being relieved from duty at
st. Louis by Colonel w. d. Whipple, aide de
camp TO General Sherman to report for duty
to Adjutant General Townsend in this city. No
detail to fill the vacancy on Gen. Sherman's
stan, caused by the departure OF Gen. Whipple
will be made.
THE NOTES OF the Union National bank of
LeWisburg, Pa, are being rejected for lack of
funds when presented to the Treasury for re
dempIOn. The bank has failed to keep good
It's redemption fund as required by law.
The SYNDICATE formed to assist the Secre-
tary OF the Treasury in preparing for specie
resumption will take fifteen millions of the AZ
per cent. bonds during the month of May.
By A TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR in yesterdays
STAR, the amount paid Selkirk the Another
Florida COnfessOr'i under the present admin
istrati0n, for services in Florida, was made
SolS. 1t should have been SIS.
GEORGIA POLITICs.-Gentemen here from
Georgia represent that the reelection of Hon.
Alexander II. Stephens to the next Congress
is settled fact. Hardly any opposition to
nm has been developed. Senator Hill is not
they say by any means so popular. He has
not been forgiven for his opposition to the
silver BILL Senator Gordon is represented as
pelng certalnot re election, although his inti-
macy with the administration has resulted i'm
making some of his hackers dissatisfied.
Mr.. GLOVER being questioned about the
story in the New York Tribune that he
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OF Col. Mcneil, Of Missouri, as Indian agent.
and that he did so because Mcneil succeeded
him in command in Missouri during the war
says say the story is both false and ridiculous. He
dld not originate the opposition to Mcneil
senator Coke, as member of the committee
70 which the nominatiOn of Mcneil was re-
ierred, called on Mr. Glover, the latter says, at
the suggestion of the members of the Mis-
souri, delegation, for information about Nc
Neil, which Mr.. Glover furnished from know
ledge OF the 1acts, and also obtained for Sena-
OF the parties concerned a responsible gen.
tleman under McNeils command. This is the
letter which has been called abusive, although
it simply goes into the details of McNeil's
conduct while in command of the home
guard, from which Mr. Glover had been pro
mOted to brigade. This letter is said to make
very interesting reading.
THE POST OFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL,
which passed the House yesterday, appropri-
ates 81, $50, ,OOO This makes seven of the regu
lar Appropriation bills which have passed the
House, but only one has become law. Two
are in the Senate five are in conference, two
are pending in the House, and three are yet to
be reported from the committee on appropri-
atoms The general sentiment among mem
pers IS that congress can adjourn easily by
business.
THE PRESIDENT IN THE QUAKER CITY,
Among the notable events of the Presidents
movements in Philadelphia yesterday, was a
visit to DisstOn's saw works in KenSingtOn.
where the party partOOk of collation. At its