The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-21
Domestic Affairs.

Gold closed yesterday at l341s.
--S100000 in specie arrived at New York from
Liverpool, yesterday.
The government of Lower California has
been changed and all is quiet.
Generals Stoneman and SaXton left Omaha
for San Francisco yesterday.
The new organization of the Internal Reve-
nue. Bureau went into effect yesterday.
The French Atlantic Cable will be landed at
Cape May, says the New York POST
"A band of Indians captured the horses of
wagon train near Fort Laramie on Friday.
The damage by the hail storm at st. Louis,
on Monday, is estimated at from $4,000 to
100000.
The shafts of the Crown Point and Ken
tuck mines have been reopened. The fire has
subsidized.
The Senate yesterday confirmed James Pol
lock as Director of the United States Mint in
this city.
The present incumbent of the New York
Postmastership has been renominated by the
President
The Western tornado of Monday passed over
Dubuque in the evening, doing considerable
damage.
The streams in New Hampshire are very
high. Bridges are being swept away by the
swollen currents.
General A. w. Dennison, the new Postmas-
ter of Baltimore, entered upon the duties of his
office on Monday.
The National Executive Committee of the
Union League of America will meet in New
York on the 30th instant.
Colonel John Ely will enter upon his duties
as United States Marshal of the Eastern District
of this State to-day.
1t is probable that the Northern Superinten-
dent of Indian Affairs will be selected from the
Society of Friends of this city.
The name of General A. L. Russell, nomi-
mated for Minister to Ecuador, has been with
drawn from the Senate at his own request.
Charles Lyman, of Vermont, has been ap
pointed Superintendent of the o Dead Letter
Office in the Post Office Department.
The Senate will adjourn without day to-
morrow, with the understanding of having
session on Friday, if deemed necessary.
Secretary Boutwell, has decided to prohibit
national banks changing the securities which
they have deposited for their circulation.
The track of the Central Pacific Railroad
will reach Monument Point to-day. The Union
Pacific is laying from two to three miles of
track every day.
The thirty-ffth anniversary of the Maryland
Bible Society was held in Baltimore on Monday
night. Its total receipts for the year amounted
to $1,000.
One hundred clerks have been discharged
from the Third Auditors office, and forty-three
new appointments made. Two of the new clerks
are colored men.
Prominent Bostonans are taking active
steps to establish a financial and commercial
Reform League. Boston, probably, is the best
Judge of what it needs most.
"A fire occurred in the business portion of
Mitchell, Canada, on Monday, which destroyed
property to the value of $4,000. The loss is
partially covered by insurance.
"A corps of wOrkmen has been sent to Mount
Vernon to put in repair the Washington man
sion. Seven thousand dollars were apprOpria-
ted for this purpose by the last Congress.
The national banks are officially notified to
forward, Immediately, to the Comptroller of the
Currency, reports of their condition as shown
by their books at the close of business on the
18th inst