Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1853-08-10

WASHINGTON News. The Republic of Monday
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Mr. Daniel E. sickles has been appointed Secretary
Of Legation to London, as supposed he would be-
He is an accomplished gentleman, an eminent lawyer
and will undoubtedly make an able officer Mr. Buch-i
anan positively sails for Liverpool Saturday next
and Mr. Sckles hopes to get off with him, although
it is not certain that he will do So r
Mr. Marcy left the city yesterday afternoon for the
Berkeley Springs. Es'ssse-1
Mr. jackson, of Georgia is expected here this week
on his way to Austria, as United States Charge.
do not believe there is ashadow of foundation for
the rumor that Col James Gardner editor of the Au-
gusta (Ga) Constitutonalist, will get the mission to
France p 80
A contract was sometime since made with How
land Aspinwall to purchase and transport to the
China Japan seas supplies of coal for the Japan
squadron, for which they received commission Of
ten per centum on all expenditures. These commits
sions will amount in the aggregate to about $25 900.
There is probability that the Navy Department viii
change entirely the system of purchasing coal for the
navy, saddling that duty on the Navy Agents, and
thus saving the commissions. A good move, truly,
if it works. understand in fact that the coal agenl
cy heretofore so plenteously filed by Col Jamson
has been abolished. ~itt - .ssss
turned to the city from his western trip. sae,e
The Evening News Of Saturday has the following
items: -
Army Resignation Lieut. Henry Dcvenne, of the
First Artillery, U. s. A,) has resigned. q
RemordL Mr.. John Hawks, 81, 600 clerk In the
Third Auditors Office, received notification Of his
removal to-day.
.WAsHISGroS, Aug. ], 1853. During the last quar-
ter of the year there received the Dead Let
ter department of the General Postofice, two fho-
sand and eighty-one letters which contained money
| The aggregate amount was SIS, ,60S 81. -
The correspondence was invariably transmitted on
the very day after the letters received but su
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great proportion has been returned to the owners
hands There is no doubt, however, that the usual
per cent. from seeen-eights to ninetes win finally
be restored. -Fs-aass--s-
Under the present able administration of the a.
nance bureau, this per cent has been greatly In
i creased. 80 -
In the General Land Office, between the '2nd and
Goth July, 2,275 patents were sold for cash1 The
number of military patents issued under the act of
1850 is 8, 74s. Under the act of 1S47 the number
of patents issued is 63S. TFs-
These duties have been performed with rcmarka-
be accuracy, and show but mere part of the labor
of that important and responsible branch Of the
ernment The reading and consideration Of the num-
beress letters brieng their contents with
action on each case, well as the examinations of
every patent prepared, are duties which command
capacity, mind of research plain chirograpi,y and
the most undoubted perseverance. Fidelity IS the
watch-word of the Land Office, as, indeed Of III the
departments Of the government. sssesss = .
During the month of july about ten thousand
persons visited the Patent Office and Gallesx The
public will be gratifed to learn that in each of these
popular places of resort there is considerable I'm.
provement now in progress In the former all models
which have accumulated for years and to which lit
tie attention has been paid, being classified
cleaned, and put in good order for exhibition Then
the almost numberless specimens of the !" " s. El.
ptoring Expedition and National Gallery " are be
ing re-arranged cleansed, and fitted up in the mos
approved style
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