Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-30

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Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal
revenue, 1868, ,4s2; customs, S522,35
CAPT. MILLER, commanding the Marion, re
ports by cable the arrival of that vessel at Glib
raltar, March 80. All well.
REAR ADMIRAL ENGLISH reports to the Navy
department from Dalgar,. Sengal, west coast
Africa, March 29th, that he will leave on the
o1st for the Congo river.
THE SHENANDOAH left Callao March 29th for
Panama
THE TENNESSEE AND SwATARA will probably
leave New Orleans May LIST for Key West and
theAce will sail for Central American waters.
COVERED INTO THE TREAsURY.-The disburs-
Ing officer of the Department of Justice has
the amount realized from the sale Of the horses
ana carriages OF the department.
THE STEAMER ALBATRoSs expects to leave
Key West on Wednesday next, April list, and
will be due In Washington about the 10th.
THE RESCUED AMERICAN WoRKMEN.-Com.
mander Wiltse, of the Swatara, has forwarded
report to the Navy department, through Ad-
miral Jouett of his visit to Livingston, Guate-
mala, to rescue distressed American workmen
In that vicinity: Seventy-eight were found in
need OF medical treatment and were taken on
board the Swatara. WOrkmen complained of
1li-treatment and nOn-payment of wages by the
contractors of the railroad being constructed
The contractors denied the allegations. Com
mander Wiltse is Of the opinion that there were
grounds for complaint on both Sides The chief
thing would be done in Behalf of the workmen.
A better hospital is soon to be constructed for
SICK workmen. If they are not likely to recover
they will be sent to New Orleans at the COM
pany's expense.
THE MORAL EFFECT OF AN AMERICAN WAR
NEssEL.-Commander Ludlow, of the Quinne-
baug, has reported to the Navy department his
arrival at Constantinople, Turkey, the 10Th
inst. he says: General Wallace requested
me TO remain here for the present. Iunder-
him and the Turkish government are now under
discussion, and that the moral effects produced
by the presence Of an American man-of-war at
this point, and at this time, is likely to be of
some benefit to our government"
GEN. JOSEPH E. JoHNsToN..-The new rail-
road commissioner, is q brother-in-law to the
Hon. Robert NJ. McLane, the new minister to
France. The brothers-in-law were both West
Point cadets, and are about the same age Mrs.
Johnston is the eldest daughter of the late Hon.
Louis McIane, who after filling senatorial cabi-
net and diplomatic positions was president of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in its early
days, when it was struggling for the right of
way to the Ohio river through either Pennsyl-
vania or Virginia.
THE RECENT ECL1PsE-Rear Admiral Frank
lin, superintendent of the United States Naval
observatory, has issued circular showing the
results of the observations of the first contact of
the partial solar eclipse of March 16, 1885,
made at the observatory. The observers were
Professor A. Hall, Professor E. Frisby and
Assistant Astronomer H. Nj. Paul. The differ
ence OF right ascension of the second limbs of
the moon and sun was observed by Lieut.. C. G.
Bowman and by Assistant Astronomer w. c.
Winlock. Ninety-nine photographs of the
various stages of the eclipse were taken with
the photo-heliographic apparatus of the transit
OF venus commission by q party consisting of
Commander Brown, Ensigns Taylor and Win
terhalter, and Mr.. w. +. Gardner.
THE COPPER RIVER EXPLORING ExPED1-
TIoN.-Lieut Commander Nichols, command
ing the Pinta, informs the Navy department in
report dated Sitka, Alaska, March H. that
Lieut. Allen, in charge of the exploring expe-
d1tlOn to Copper river, will be landed with his
party at Port Etches. From there Lieut.. Allen
will take canoes until he reaches the ice in the
river, over which he expects to make rapid pro-
gress. Commander Nichols says: 1.-The miners
are beginning to arrive in the country, and the
question OF the position of the boundary line
VIII probably come up. owing to the great diff
ference DetWeen the mining laws OF British
Colombia and the United States."
New REGIMENrAL ADJUTANT.-Gen. R. B.
Ayres colonel I'd artillery, stationed at Wash
fngton barracks on Saturday designated First
Lieut.. Eli Hoyle, I'd artillery, now stationed at
w West Polnf, n. Y, as rcgimental adjutant OF
the 2d artillery. vice First Lieut.. Geo. Mitchell,
lately promoted captain.
CHIEF ENGINEER PHILIP INCH has been de-
tached from special duty in the bureau of steam
engineering, and ordered as member of the
board of inspection April /, to relieve Chief En-
gineer James A. Thompson.
COMMANDER A. G. KELLOGG who is still in
this city, has been granted six months addi-
tional leave.
THE PRESIDENT has directed that during the
absence of Brig. Gen. S. V. Benet, from the city
Lieut.. Col. James NJ. Whfttemore. ordnance
corps, act as chief of ordnance.
WHY GEN. LEE REsIGNED-It is stated that
the reason Gen. Fitzhugh Lee has resigned as
commander of the Virginia state militia, is be-
cause he proposes to be a candidate for governor
OF the state.
WANTS TO READ THE FINDINGs.-Judge
Mackey, counsel for General Hazen, has re-
quested the War department to furnish him
with copy OF the findings of the court martial
before they are submitted to the President for
his approval and that in making this request
Judge Mackey asserts that an accused officer
has an unquestionabe legal right to submit an
argument TO the reviewing authority against
an adverse finding.
THE RESIGNATION OF the us. S.defaulting Mar
shall Hughes, of Richmond, who was arrested in
Texas, is in the hands of the President but has
not been accepted. His apparent discrepancy
is $4,000.
EX-PREsIDENT ARTHUR, accompanied by
Senator Cameron, Marshal and Mrs. McMichael
and Miss Wallach, left Washington by the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad at 4:3O o'clock Satur-
day afternoon for Fortress Monroe A large
number of friends gathered at the railroad sta
tion TO see the party of.
SOUTH AMERICAN CoMMERcE.-It is under
stood that DIR. De Meza, of this city, who has
authority from the people of Colombia to nego-
tiate valuable concessions in that country has
submitted a proposition in writing to President
Cleveland, by which the United States could
acquire the commercial supremacy in the South
American states now possessed by European
powers.
DECLINES TO REVOKE THE ORDERs-Secre.
tary Whitney has declined to revoke the orders
issued by Secretary Chandler, which send Rear
Admiral Earl English and the flagship Lancas-
ter to he South American station, as well as all
other requests of similar nature. In making
the decision Secretary Whitney issued notice
in which he says: 'It is palpably unfair to my
predecessor in office for me to pretend to re-
view, and it is impossible, in point of fact for
me to know the causes which induced his Or
ders."
The Hazen Trial.
THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER TO BE PUBLICLY
REPRIMANDED.
The record of the Hazen court martial was re-