The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-31
FROM WASHINGTON THIS AFrERMuu N.

tPEo1AL DISPATCHES TO EVENING TELEGRAPH
WAsH1NGT ON, July 81.
Mr.. SlOanaker Appointed collector Of
Internal Revenue for the First Dis.
trtet.
Mr.. Albert b. Sloanaker has been appointed
Collector OF Internal Revenue for the First Dis
trict of Pennsylvania, vice Colonel John II. Tag.
gart, removed. The President handed the COM
mission TO Hon. Samuel J. Randall, NJ. @. for
the First District, this morning at whose solicit
tation!the appointment was made. MIR. Rankin,
Mr.. Flanigen, and others recommended Mr..
sloanaker for the position also.
The Customs Collector.
II is understood that the President has con-
suited Mr.. Attorneys General Stanbery relative to
the case of Colonel William B. Thomas, Col
lector of the Port of Philadelphia and he has
decided not to remove that official for the
present
COnRscatiOns.
1t is ascertained at the Treasury Department
that the amount of seizures and confscations
for the year ending June 80 exceed, by over
$3.50, 900, the cost incurred in protecting the
commerce and revenue from smuggling.
FarrRguts and POrter's Commissions.
The commissions of Admiral Farragut and
vice.Admral David d. Porter we're, on Saturday,
signed by the President and fhe Secretary of the
Navy, and forwarded to each respectively, to the
former at Long Branch, and the latter at the
Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland.
Customs.
The Secretary of the Treasury has directed
Collectors of Customs, who have rented private
property for the use of the Department, to re-
port the total number Of buildings and rooms
occupied, the amount of rent paid, and their re.
spective locations. 1t is the intention of the
| Department to dispense with all unnecessary
apartments of this character, and as soon as the
| reports shall have been received there will be a
| large retrenchment of expenditures for the
| above.named purposes. The Government annu-
ally pays over 500, 600 for the accommodation
/ of custom and other officers.
Financial.
The expenditures of the Treasury on account
of the War, Navy, and Interior Departments in
the week ending yesterday, were as folows:-
War Department, Ss4s,99G; Navy Department,
81, ll6729; Interior Department, $3.50, $50; total
$2,l99, ,4s5. The amount of fractional currency
received at the Treasury Department for the
ending week was S254,OO0. Amount shipped
$l77,500 Amount destroyed, $342, 400, large
| portion OF this being received from Portland
ruined by the late fire.
| COuIy1nR the Customs Laws
Under recent Joint resolution, General Gar
| field and Senator Creswell have been appointed
| by their respective branches of Congress to
codify the Customs Laws. third person is to
| be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury
| Naval Prize Claims.
| The prize list of the United States ship Mont
| gOnery for the capture OF the prize Pet has
been prepared, and is ready for payment at the
| OFt
that the claims OF the crews OF itty-dve vessels
for the Red river and Mobile captures are yet to
be settled this list will not come up for payment
tor five or six weeks yet
The Equalization Bill.
An opinion prevails that the Bounty Equaliza-
ton bill, which passed Congress on the last
| night of the session, will cost the Treasury
several hundred millions of dollars 1t is proper
to say that this opinion is based upon the bill
first introduced in the Senate by Mr.. Wilson,
which would have cost from $2C0, ,OOO 900 to
$3.50, 900, 600. The bill finally adopted is a COM
promise between the above bill and the one in,
troduced into the House by General Schenck.
The former provided for the payment OF Sl00 per
year to the soldiers who had served three years,
with Government bounty Of not more than
500, the bounty to be deducted from the amount
| mus TO De pald tnem
The latter provided for the deduction OF local
| instead of Government bounty. Tae bill as
passed is estimated to cost seventy-ive to eighty
millions, quite enough, but not so much as
stated by Mr.. Fessenden. The Paymaster.Gene
raj says that it will take three years to examine
the accounts of the soldiers to whom this extra
| bounty is due. The amount paid each year will,
therefore, be about $25,OOO,OOO. The clause in
the new Bounty bill awarding to two years
soldiers who have received a bounty of $50 a
sum OF $50 more, is imperative, as there is no
| such class
General ROusseau's Resignation.
General Rousseau states that whoever applied
to speaker Colfax to withdraw his resignation
did so without any authority from him; that he
would not allow it to be withdrawn. He is still
here and will return to Kentucky soon.
Tho Printing Bureau.
1t was the understanding here yesterday that
General Steedman had not accepted the posi-
ton of Superintendent of Public Printing, as
the law requires that the Superintendent must
be practical printer and binder, and he being
neither, is ineligible. An evening Administra-
ton paper states that Cornelius Wendell has
been appointed. Wendell was Public Printer
under Buchanan, and distributed the money
used in passing the Lecompton bill.
The Health OF Savannah.
SAVANNAH, July 30.-The total number of