Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-07-11
Postmaster.


Postmaster.
NorR.-Postmasters will fill up, address,
and frank the above notice, without the use of
an envelope, to all persons in the United
States for whom unpaid letters shall have been
deposited in their Offices; and may dispense
with the former practice Of posting up notices
in their Offices that such letters have been
deposited therein. JAMES CAMPBBLL,
Postmaster General.
A Loan.-We are glad to hear that the
Mayor of Washington, under the authority
vested In him by the City Councils so to do,
has succeeded in borrowing $4,000 at six
per centum, to meet the most pressing obliga-
tions Of the Corporation. Although by no
means sufficient to relieve our municipal af-
fairs from all other current debts, this sum
will nevertheless, prove god-send indeed to
the mechanics, tradesmen and laborers around
US, who have for some time past been kept
out of their hard earnings by the condition in
which the Encouragement of our municipal
affairs, for the last two years, has involved
the financial matters of the Corporation. We
are inclined to believe that our useful and
spirited fellow citizen, Alderman Riggs,
is the gentleman who has stepped forward in
this-W sshington' s-hour of need.
The Examinations.-We regret to hear
that the interest felt by our fellow citizens at
large in the current annual examinations of
the public schools of Washington is not as
great as it should be, if their attendance
thereat is a fair criterion by which to judge
of the depth of their sympathy with those SO
useful institutions. This is truly unfortunate,
and reflects discredit upon the soundness Of
our city's public spirit We call on all those
who can spare the time to show themselves in
side some Of the school houses in the course of
this and the next week. They may rely on it
that no better plan can be devised to inspirit
both teachers and pupils to honorable emula-
ton, than by large attendance Of evidently
interested citizens at the examination of each
school, primary and district.
An Important Decree We have seen q
copy of the Hat -Houmayoun, or Sublime
Writing, by which the Sultan Of Turkey has
granted entire religious liberty and equal
rights to all the christian subjects of his em.
pire. 1t Is document of the highest interest
and value, and one which has never been
equalled, either in Importance or sublimity
For the first time the principles of civil and
religious liberty have been enunciated in the
East. The document is considered by chris
tians as the Magma Charta Of the Turkish en-.
pire.
Clerical Changes.-Mr. T. bearing has
has been appointed to q second.class clerkship
in the Pension Office, in the place of Mr. Gal
pin; salary, 81 400 per annum.
Mr.. Fielding A. Patterson has been appoint
ed to a frst-class clerkship, in the same Office,
in the place of Mr.. William R. Wilson salary
s., 200 per annum.
We also hear that Mr.. r. c. Morgan, Of
New York, third class Isl, 800 per annum)
clerk in the office of the Secretary Of the
Treasury, has resigned.
Surveys in Utah.-We learn at the Gene1 al
Land Office that, in consequence of the recent
hostilities of the Indians in Utah Territory,
it was considered unsafe for the surveyors to
go ON with their work, unless accompanied by
an escort to protect them in case of an attack
being made upon them
The Current Operations OF the Treasury
Experimentation yesterday, the 10th of July,
tders were Of Treasury warrants entered on
the books Of the Department
For redemption of Texas debt.... S476 IA