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EVENING STAR Washington News and Gossip. INTERNLRRVENUE-The receipts from this source to-day were $579,750.10. THE PRESIDENT 18 not at home to-day to visitore excepting members of his cabinet. SECRETARY BELKNAP had an interview with the Presid nt to-day. CENTENNIAL COMMISSIONER-The President has appointed Stephen B. Eikins, of New Mexico, a centennial commissioner. THE AMOUNT of national bank notes received at the Treasury to-day for redemption 10018 up $272,573. The EXTENSION of leave of absence granted Captain Robert P. Wilson, 5th cavalry, from headquarters military division of the Pacific, has been extended four months. THE RESIGNATION of Second Lieutenant Quincy O'm. Gillmore, 10th cavalry, has been accepted by the President, to take effect November 12th, last. MRS. A. W. RANDALL. widow of the late Postmaster General, who will be pleasantly remembered in Washington society, has made her debut as a public reader with gratifying success. PORTMASTER GENERAL JRWELL orders that bereatter certified checks deposited as security with the department by stage line bidders for mail contracts shall be returned to the depositors by mail instead of personally or by agent. THE ARKANSAS MudDLE,-Senator Dorsey of Arkansas, called on Attorney General Williams this morning in connection with the Arkansas muddle. The Attorney General has as yet taken DO action in the matter. VINNIE REAM'S STATUE "The West" was exhibited in the St. Louis fair and is now at the Mercantile Library in that city. The St. Louis papers praise it warmly, and 8 project is on foot to purchase it for the Mercantile Library. SATANTA AND BIG TREE have been sent under a strong guard to Texas, to be turned over to the civil authorities of thatstate. Unless the general government again interferest to save them, it is pretty certain that they will be hung for their crimes. THE NAVAL COURT-MARTIAL appointed to try Captain Truxton on the charge of carelees ness in allowing his ship, the Broo klyn, to run aground in Key West harbor, ret urned a verdiet of "not guilty." " The indings of the court have been approved by Secretary Robesoa, and the court dissolved Prof. SEELYE, of Amherst College, will be the only elergyman in the Forty-fourth Congrees. He is a doctor of divinity, and was pas. tor of the First Reformed Church of Schenecrady when he accepted the professorship. As a rule "christian statesmen" haven't done very well in Congress, but we hope for better things 18 this instance. ME REAY'S CREDITOES.-I is stated that the principal creditors of Mr. Geo. H. Reay, whose assignment is said to be due to the fact that he failed to get the post office envelope contract, are Parsons & Co., paper makers of Springfield, who furnished paper for the envelope contract, and the Messrs. Piere, of Paris. The remaining accounts are believed to be small. THE FREEDMEN'S BANK.-Mr. Cresswell, one the commissioners of the Freemen's Bank, says it will require $600,000 to enable the commissioners to declare a dividend of 20 per dent. and as yet they have collected but $70,000. With careful husbandry of the resources Mr. Creswell estimates tnat the bank will eventually pay 40 per cent. THE SECOND NATIONAL BANK of Lawrence, Kansas. having failed to meet the call of the Redemption Agency to reimburse the Treasury for its notes redeemed, and its deposit of five per cent. being exhausted, the Treasurer gives notice that from and after to-day its notes will be rejected when presented for redemption at the agency. THE UNSIGHTLY PARTITION, which was made of rough pine boards, in the rear of the Senate ladies' gallery, and which was converted into a Extempore room last winter for the use of the Joint Special Committee investigating District affairs, has been removed. On the walls which this partition formerly enclosed are placed the two paintings by Moran of the Grand Canon of the Yellowstone. PERSONAL.-Dorman B. Eaton, of the civil service commission, left for New York last night. Mr. Eaton has been entrusted by the joint special committee of Congress to prepare bill for the future government of the District of Columbia. Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, is in town. Secretary Delano was to-day engaged in preparing his annual report and refused to see visitors. THE DEATH OF HON. RUMSEY L. WING. A private letter, dated Quito, Octobeo states that Hon. E. Rumsey Wing, United States minister to Ecuador, died at Quito on the Monday preceding. This makes the date of his decease the 5th of October ins ead of the 11th, as at first reported. The death was sudden, and, as a post mortem examination showed, was caused by cerebral congestion. THE AMOUNT covered intothe treasury arising from cotton and other captured and abandoned property was $26,818,938. Deducting the awards to claimants there remains $10,414,000. There were about 800 claimants, and awards were made in cases. The various classes of claims remaining aggregate four or five times more than the amount remaining
