Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-09-17

uoNERNMENT RECEIPTS IO-DAY.-1nternalre rev.
enue, s4SS, 79 customs. S731 ,359.14.
The TALLAPOOsA left the League Island navy
yard at $50 to-day for New York.
THE PENSACOLA arrived at Panama midnight
of the 4th having touched at Acapulco for coal.
The Richmond had not arrived and is not to be
expected at Panama before the Goth. The Off
GERS and men on the Pensacola are well.
WoRKMEN at the National Museum building
are engaged in laying the border of the tiling in
some of the unfinished rooms These border
tiles have just been received from the manufac-
turerS.
ARMY ORDERs.-The superintendent mounted
recruiting service will forward SO recruits to
Fort Smelling, Mnn., for assignment to the I'd
cavalry. Leave for eight months is granted
Captain Stephen G., Whipple, 1st cavalry.
is granted Capt Thos. Drury, I'd infantry.
On the mutual application of the officers con-
cerned, the following transfers in the 9th cav
airy are made Second Lieut.. Benjamin H. Chez
yer, jr., from Troop G to Troop B; Second Lieut..
Albert S. Bailey, from Troop to Troop G.
Chaplain Geo. w. Collier. U.S.A., is assigned to
duty at Columbus barracks. Ohio until October
81, 1881. Leave for one year, with permission
to go beyond the sea, is granted First Lieut..
Geo. E. Sage, 5th artillery.
SENATOR HILLS CoNDITION-Information re-
ceived here, in regard to the condition of SEN
ator B. H. Hill. lis to the effect that while the
recent and second operation performed in Phlla-
delphla for an affection of the tongue was tenn
porarlly relief and satisfactory in it's imme-
diate results, there has since been a change for
the worse. There is danger that the Senator
Will lose the.power of speech.
FIRsy ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL
TYNER has gone to Indiana for several weeks,
and Second Assistant Postmaster General Elmer
is now in charge of the department.
THE OMINOUs "SEvEN"-People who have
watched the Presidents case closely calculated
that yesterday was the nth day Of his suffering,
and it was 'crisis'' day.
AN ELECTRICAL ARGUMENT.-Durng Com
missioner Raum's absence one of the electric
cure men was put ON the list to pay taxes as a
medlcus. He came on to Washington last
night with his whole apparatus and lots of
pamphlets. To-day he converted Commissioner
Raum's room into an electrical laboratory. and
explained about his patent. He made all sorts
OF electrical experiments and tests, with view
to showing that he should not be taxed. The
electricity man also put in a word that he wanted
to try his electrical apparatus on the President.
POsTMAsTERs COMMISSIONED. - Commissions
were sent to-day to the following postmasters at
the places named: H. G.. Williamson Wise
Courthouse. Wise county. and j. H. Dickinson,
Bckley's Mills. Russell county, Virginia. D.
Goode, Newfound, Wyoming county, West Vir-
ginia.
NINE TILL Four AGAIN.-On and after Mon
day next the Interior department will resume
its former hours of business. opening at a. H.
and closing at p. m. instead of closing at three
O'Clock. as now. except on Saturdays. The de-
partment will close at p. m. on Saturdays.
PERSONAL---VERY.. Mr.. Shppen, pastor of All
Souls church. has returned to the city.-The
following WashngtOnians were at the o. S.
Hotel. Saratoga, September Is: Judge Miller, u
SIS. Court, and Mrs. Miller Mrs. Franck Taylor;
c. Kennedy and wife: Gen. W. NJ Dunn. U.S.A
and daughter. Mrs. Morrison: Gen. Schenck and
three daughters. F. B. Mcclure and wife,
Right Rev. Bishop Keane was in the city last
evening. much improved in health. He left for
Richmond last night.-Mrs. Gen. Mcclure re-
turned from Kentucky yesterday Assistant
Postmaster General A. d. Hazen, Commodore
Temple. Rear Admiral John j. Almy. Capt. T.
O. Selfrdge and Pay Inspector F. c. Cosby, U.
S.N:. are in New York.-Bishop Wightman. of
the M.E. Church South. is in improving health.
Affairs on the Virginia Side.
THE READJUsTER COALITION-NOT A HEALTHY
0NE-sAcRIFICE OF PRINCIPLE BY THE REPUB-
LlCANS-NlEWS OF AN OLD LINE REPUBLICAN.
of the EVENING STAR.
FALLS CHURCH, VA, Sept 16. 1881.
The readjuster primary meeting referred to in
my last, and for which the notices were posted
the same day on which the republican urinary
was held, met. Both primaries were called to
elect delegates to a county convention to nOm-
mate candidate for the house of delegates
The readuster primary. though called to meet
on the Tuesday following the republican pri-
hn FOG oh hot
elect were to attend a readjuster county cOnven-
tion to assemble one day before the republican
county convention. This was regarded as move
ment to f0restall the action Of the republican
county convention by our republican primary
meeting. and it was denounced as such by all who
spoke in it except the two cOlOred men. AS l
understand the u...ter, the Malone state
convention that nominated the state ticket
and which the republican state convention in
kind of halfway manner renOminated decided
that the house OF delegates, where the repub-
licans in district had more votes than the re-
adjusters. the republicans were to nominate and
the readjusters were to support the nomination,
but when the readjusters had the most votes
they were to nominate the candidate and the
republicans were to support the nomination
ihls arrangement was made by the readjusters
themselves, and the fact that it seemed about to
be dsregarded in our county, where the repub-
llcaD vote was some thirteen or fourteen hun
dred to the readjuster vote between two or
three hundred, was what gave rise to the rather
pugnacOus spirit in our republican primary
The delegation was instructed to vote for no
candidate for house of delegates except he was
known to be a republican.
The readjusters in the county evidently got
scared and their convention did not nominate a
candidate. but appointed committee to confer
with one from the republican convention if one
should be appointed by the latter, and their
committee of conference was prepared with a
candidate named Graham, who was of republ-
can antecedents, but now an officer in the DEM
Ocratic readjuster club in his locality. He was
not known to the republicans, and the commit
tee refused to nominate him, but nominated II.
Farr, the present democratic readjuster mem
ber OF the house of delegates, and a portion of
our Falls Church delegation violated instruc-
tions in nominating Farr. 1 must say for Farr
that he is very liberal democrat think, too,
that Farr was the democratic readjuster dark
horse in his county,
Now, what is the prospect? Some of the dem
ocratlc readjusters, l understand, have said that
they aim to use the republicans. and when they
iall TO do that, the thing is up. They all openly
say tina they are democrats and do not intend
to be anything else. They keep up their own
organization distinct from therepubcans. a cir
cumstance not favorable to enthusing both par
ties in this quasi coalition nor for success it is
simply an arrangement not arising from cher
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