Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-03-31

WHITE HOUSE CALLSRs.-Ssnstors Pepdleton
Sherman, Blair. Logan, Sawyer, Cameroa (Pa>
representatives Joyce, Neale, Pettinone, Will
| liems Haskell and General Tyner and eX Rep
resentative Rusk called on the President to-
Gay. Mr. Bisbee also called.
NAVAL LORDERs-Paymaster A. S. Kenny to
report to the paymaster general for special
! duty. Passed assistant surgeon j. r. Wagge-
| ner has returned home from the Eandalia and is
placed on sick leave.
! IT is sAID THAT a number Of prominent dip.
! lomatic and consular appointments Will oe
| made after the New York collectorshtp nomlna-
ton Is disposed OF.
! GONE TO NEW YORK.-Secretary Of the Treas
! ury Window, Assistant Secretary Upton, Attor-
ney General McVeagh and lady, Postmaster
General James and superintendent OF Railway
Mail Service Thompson left this city on the
limited express train for New York this mora
| Ing.
MINISTER LONGSTRRRT TO BE RECALLED.-The
President has decided to recall General Long
street as Minister TO Turkey, and make him
| Us. marshal for Georgia. General Longstreet's
nomination to the latter place Will De sent to
! the Senate In day or two.
| PROF. OSCAR OLDBERG has resigned the posi-
! tion OF medical purveyor OF the Marine Hospi-
| tai service. and his resignation has been ac-
cepted by Secretary Window.
| APPROPRIATIONS RUN OUr.-The Treasury de-
| rartment will allow gas and supplies to be fur
| n1shed the public buildings-the appropriation
| for which is about exhausted-provlded the
gas companies and the furniSherS Of supplies
| DO so at their own risk with the expectation OF
| being reimbursed by Congress.
| 4 VESSEL Run DOWN AND SuNE.-The signal
| corps station at Kitty Hawk, N. c.. reports to
the Chief signal officer as follows A tHo-masted
| schooner was run into and sunk last night.
| She now lies abreast OF this station With her
! topmass above water. The vessel that run her
| down passed by here this morning, and the
| keeper OF life saving station attempted TO gain
| particulars, but the master refused to give
| any.
| MOVEMENTS OF e. S. NAVAL VEssELs.--U. S.
| Consul Molloy, at ST. Johns writes to the Sec.
| retary OF the Navy tnat during the recent visit
I of the Yant1c to that port her commander aad
| officers received many courtesies ffom tue
| governor, Sir J. 81. Glover, and the several
! heads OF departments. "A cable dispatch to
! the Navy department announces the arrival OF
| the Vandalia at Havana yesterday.
| GENERAL SHERMAN and Col Tidhal. who
| went to Auburn to attend the funeral OF Gen.
| Upton, returned to the city this morniog.
| Gen. sherman, accompanied by Coi Bacon,
! will leave next Monday night for Cincinnati, to
| attend the reunion OF the Army OF the Tennes-
| zee, which will be held In that city On the 5th
and ard 9Th Of next month; From Cincinnati they
1
Washington about ten days.
| TIE FREE BRIDGE QUESTION. Wright.
Chief OF engineers has directed Col S. T. Alert.
civil engineer, L. S. A.. to take into cons!dera-
| ton and report upon the question: under the
/ recent ect or Congress, whether & new brii,,e
| should be built across The Potomac or The Aqu6-
| duct bridge bought and mai 3 free HIGHWAY.
| Col. Albert is now examining into the suoject.
I with the report he viii suomit there Wi!i be
estimates OF The cost OF new bridge.
| HON. W. r. FISH, OF louisiana. died In tlls
| city at one o'clock this morning. or street,
! t; ON hemcrrhage OF the bowels. He had been
| sick three or four days. Mr.. Fish vas prom.
| inenJ Lohlsiana republican, and was aJ one
| time editor OF the New Orleans Rci,utlic1n. lie
| was in Washington on personal business. lie
/ was member OF the state convention and was
flied upon in the riots OF IS66. he has been the
| republican candidate for mayor OF New Or
| leans several times. He was born n L0ui 5ani
| and was 4S Or so years CT ag5. He will ne
| buried here. His wife was with hun when he
| died
| TEE SESSION CT TIE SENATE yesterday after
our report closed was devoted to political de-
| bate, in which MesSrS. Hill and Beck were the
| principal speakers On the democratic side and
| MeSsTS- Hoar. Dawes and Logan on the reDub
| ncan side. Reconstruction times In the south
| were reviewed, and charges Of fraudulent
carpet Peg rule and democratic fraud, yio-
| The democrats held that free ballot and fair
| count we're assured in the south while their
| party was In the ascendancy, aud the repuoli-
| cans held that the colOred men were debarred
| from voting and kept in state OF terror, and
| that the returns we're not honest While the op-
poslte part party ~ vas as In power. Nc No progress vas
! the election o. Senate officials, and there was
10 Indication that either party proposed soon
! to withdraw from the struggle.
A DELEGATION OF CoLoRED MEN OF Louisiana
| presented an address to President Garfield yes
| terday afternoon. A. j. Dumont was spokes.
| man. The address sets forth that the colorei
property, and by their labor raise seveIl.eghths
! OF the COTTON crop; that they ask no new le,s-
| laton. only the honest enforcement OF existing
| laws for their protection, especially an equai
participation in the advantages OF the public
! school system and the freedom and protection
| OF the right OF Suffrage. The President express
| ed mis- qualification at the progress and material
| prosperity OF the colored race as evidenced by
. the statements OF their address, renewed the
assurances OF his inaugural add ess aud urged
upoa their consideration the Importance 10
| their race OF education and personal ownership
| OF the soil upon which they live and toll.
ARMY OKDBRs.-The following changes 10 the
, stations and duties OF officers OF the Medical
; Department are made: Assistant Surgeon j. C.
| Worthtpgton will report to the commanding
! general department. of the east for duty. AS
! sistant Surgeon F. c. AinsWorth VIII report TO
the commanding general department OF Texas
| for duty. Assistant Surgeon Ezra WoodruI
! relieved frOm duty In the department OF Texas,
ana ordered TO proceed TO New York city aud
report by letter TO the Surgeon General Act
, ing Assistant Surgeon Z. c. Carter. U. S. Army,
| from Beaver Dam Depot, Va. to Willet's Point,
! New York harbor. The resignation OF Captain
! L. b. Hubbard, assistant quartermaster, OF his
commission as 1st lieutenant, I'd artillery, only,
! has been accepted by the President, to take
! effect March %, 1881. Chaplain George G. Null
! lps, 25th infantry, having completed the duty
| assigned him in this city, Will return TO his
| proper station (St. Louis. Missouri Leave
! granted Capt. Frederick Whyte, ordnance store
! keeper, is further extended one year on sur
| geon's certificate OF disability.
| PKRsoNAL.-M. Martinez, the new Chiiian
Minister here George Jones, OF the New York
Times. and William McMichael, OF the Phiia-
, delphia North American are at the Arlington.
| -Represe entative Tucker mas accepied an In
vttation TO deliver lecture in Richmond In
May for the benefit Of the Yorktown fund OF
| the Governors Guard, 1st regiment Virginia
| volunteers-A son OF President JeWett, or the
! Erie road, is talked OF as the democratic candi-
date for governor of Ohio.-Senatof Hill. OF
colorado, ex.Yice President Wneeler, ex-Attor-
| ney General Devens and AdJutant General
I Drum were registered In New York last night.
| Mrs. and the Misses Greatorex, the mother
| ard sisters OF young GreatOrex who was mnr-
GeIed In Colorado Short time ago, are now In
Algeria, but will return to this country soon.
| DIR. j. NJ. Toner, President suit, Of the W.
| and P. L. r r., X. Whtterly and II. T. Bank-
| ert, of WaShin gtoD. were registered in Phlla-
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