Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-09-20

from the Bank Note Printing Companies in
New York.
Charles o Neill, of Phila-
delphia, is at Wizards. ....Hon. George q.
Gorham, Secretary of the U. s. Senate, Is at
the Ebbitt.
Mr.. N. A. ROBBINS has been promoted to a
fourth-class clerkship In the office OF the Sec
retary Of the Treasury, vice II. p. q. Wilson,
resigned.
MR., JOHN JAY KNOX, Deputy Comptroller
Of the Currency, has accepted the cashier ship
Of the Union Square National Bank. which has
recently been organized in the city of New
York.
SMALL NoTEs.-Arrangements have been
made by the Treasury Department, oy which,
after the 1st OF October, $500, 900 a day can be
furnished of one, two and ten dollar notes, to
be increased soon after to half a million day.
THE PRESIDENT, it is expected, will remain
in Washington, Pennsylvania, to attend the
county fair on Wednesday, and arrive in this
city on Thursday evening. All of the members
Of the Cabinet are now here.
THE u. S. STEAMER SHAMoKrN, iron doubI-
ender, now at Washington Navy Yard. has
been up for sale for some time past, but no bids
have been received. She is the only naming
vessel Of this class In the navy.
GEO. b. MCCARTRE, Esq, Chief of the
Bureau Of Engraving and Printing at the
Treasury Department, left here last evening for
New York, TO push forward the work upon the
fractional currency and new legal tender
notes.
APPOINTMENT AND RRsIeNATIoNs.-NIessrs
Ma~~
the Second Comptroller's office, Treasury De.
partment, have resigned.
James W. Moore has been appointed to a
first class clerkship in the same Office
MR. WIN. +. Lee. OF this city, mas been an
pointed Mate in the navy, by Secretary Robe.
son. Mr.. Lee for some time past was EMPLOYED
Company He has been ordered to the rece1v-
ing ship Potomac, at Philadelphia.
GOING TO THE GEORGIA STATE FAIR.-Sec-
retary Boutwell,, Commissioner DeIano, and
Colonel Capron have accepted invitations to
visit the Georgia State Fair, which takes place
at Macon on the 10Th OF November next.
steamer will leave here early in November
for Savannah, where the party will take
special train for Macon. Other prominen,
Government officials will probably attend the
far.
BIDS FOR CoAL-Bds were opened to-day
at the Agricultural Department for 2JO tons of
white ash coal as follows IS. r. Brown &
Son s7.33 per ton; Gleason & Glenn, IS;
A. Wood & Bro, $40; w. Warder & Co.,
s7.s3; John B. Turton, ss.27; George Bogus,
s7.3s; T. T. Fowler, S7.4; w. H. MARROW,
s7.5s T E. Clark Co., s765; William G uin-
and, 1856; J. B. Thomas, S7I5; ]. E. Miller,
s7.5oas7S9; J. B. Warder Il Uo., 1924
NOT So.-lt having been published in the
Washington correspondence of a Baltimore
paper this morning that sail the clerks in the
departments from Pennsylvania have been as.
sessed to cary on the election and some OF them
are grumbling at the amount assessed" we
are authorized by the Committee OF the Penn.
sylvania Republican Association having the
collections in charge to say that it is untrue.
The committee make no assessments, but RELY
only upon voluntary contributions from clerks
and other Pennsylvanians favorable to the
Republican cause.
MINING ARPAIRs.-Agreeably to the decision
OF Commissioner Wilson, the General Land
Office has issued a patent to the Silver Bend
Mining Company, for their claim to 1900 feet
OF the Transylvania Lode, In the Philadelphia
Mining District, Nye county, Nevada. The
silver bearing lode, a continuous vein having
been developed throughout Its whole extent
varying in thickness from three to six feet,
lnelosed in walls OF slate, having all the
characteristics Of q true fissure vein. The
Companys improvements costing about $4,000
in gold.
WITH this cool autumn weather our Wash
ington absentees are rapidly coming back
vacation OF some weeks, during most Of which,
we regret to say, he has been laid up with
illness. His system was deeply affected in
1854 by hospital malaria, and the results Of the
virus yet show themselves at intervals, in an
affection Of the head and short spells of ex.
treme prostration. With all this, however he
generally enjoys robust health, is quite wei,
at present, and has resumed his duties as clerk
in the Attorney Generals office. We NAV add
that we hear of Mr.. Whitman's dryly an.
swering to a friends inquiries that his most
serious work is yet to be done, namely, the
rounding, compacting, and bringing out q
final edition OF his poems with the religious
pieces, and that he cannot afford to be really
sick till this is done.
PROTECTING GovIRNMRNr PmsIoNlRs.-
An appeal was recently taken By certain PEN
sion attorneys in Pennsylvania from instruc-
tons of the Commissioner Of Pensions with
regard to the mode Of paying pensioners, and
also the lawful fees 70 pension attorneys or
agents, which Is now by check on the United
States Treasury. The attorneys want both
their fees and the pensioners money to be paid
in currency. The Secretary Of the Interior in
reply says that q check ON the Treasury is be.
lieved by the pensioners to be as good as cur.
rency, and that the Department is in possession
Of proof that pensions are so often sadly re.
duced in the hands Of mlddlemen that il feels
bound 70 use every measure in its power to
abuse. These reports are so frequent that at.
torneys have fallen under the ban. The Sscre.
tary agrees with the Commissioner that the
request of the applicants should not he aIloved.
II any agent shall decline to receive and trans.
NIT such checks drawn TO the order of the pen.
Eioner himself, the Commissioner Of Pensions
will be instructed to regard all powers Of At.
torneys given by pensioners to such agents as
annulled, and shall seek Communication with
the pensioner himself.
NAvA ORDERs.-CaptaiL chn q. Febiger,
u. s. Navy, has been ordered TO special duty
under the Bureau OF Yards and Docks.
Commander Robert W. Shufeldt has been or.
dered to command the Miantouomah.
The orders Of Chief Engineer Z. s. DsLuce
10 the Naval Academy have been revoked