The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-27
SECOND EDITION
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
The New Greenbacks-Sumner on the
Cuban Question Virginia
and Mississippi Radicals
Experimenting with
the French Cable.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The New GreenbncIss.

Despatch 10 The Evening Telegraph
WASHINGTON, July 27.-The Chief of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing in the Trea-
sury Department, Mr.. G. b. hcCartee, has re-
turned to this city from New York, where he
has been to push forward the work upon the
new United States notes of the denomination of
one and two dollars, which will be ready for
circulation about the list of September The
new one dollar notes will have a viguette of
Washington and a representation of the dis
covery of America by Columbus on the face, in
stead of the vignette Of Chief Justice Chase, as
on those now in use. The new two dollar notes
will have a vignette of jefferson and view of
the Capitol, instead of the vgnette of Franklin
on the present ones. The plates for those notes
have already been engraved at the Treasury De-
partment. The backs of the Zones" will be
printed by the National Bank Note Company of
New York, and those of the ''twos' by the
American Company of the same city The de-
signs for the new flves, tens, twentes, and
other denominations have not yet been deter
mined upon.
Senator Sumner on the Cuban Question.
Senator Sumner has written q letter to friend
here from Nahant, where he is now recruiting
his health, in which he expresses an earnest
desire that the administration should continue
to pursue its present neutral course regarding
the Cuban question He adds that his sympa-
thies are warmly enlisted in behalf of the
Cubans, but insists that the Importance of our
negotiations with Great Britain, which would be
compromised just now by the slightest conces-
sion to them, are paramount to the interests of
the revolutionists. He is understood to endorse
Secretary Fish's proposition to negotiate through
General Siclles an opportunity for the Cubans
to buy the island for themselves, with the under
a..
bonds issued for the purchase money, or other
wise assist in raising the necessary funds for that
purpose.
The Virginia Radicals.
The Wells radicals will have a committee in
Washington until after Congress meets, to get
ready for the contest against the Walker party
They already claim to have got one-half of the
Cabinet with them, and they also claim that
they have ex-Secretary Stanton on their side.
The mississippi Radicals.
The radical Mississippi delegation now here
have prepared statement to show that the con-
servative movement is supported solely by the
Democracy of that State. They are determined
to get the administration to use it's patronage
against Dent.
The Retrenchment Committee,
having concluded their investigation of affairs
in the New York Custom House. will leave that
city August l for San Francisco, via Pacific
Railroad, where they will spend one week in an
examination of the management of the custom
house there The committee have decided that
each member shall bear his own expenses of the
trip, in order that no accusation may be brought
against them of travelling at the expense of the
Government and to keep up their credit as ad-
yocates of retrenchnoent The railroad compa-
nies will furnish the travelling economists with
a Pullman sleeping-car, which is to take them
through to the Pacific coast without change. 1t
is expected that the entire committee will go.
1t consists of Senators Patterson, Schurz, and
Thurman, and Representatives Welker, Sheldon,
Reading, Jenckes, and Benton.
A Consolidation Movement.
Despatch to the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, July PA memorial has been
prepared and will soon be circulated through
out Washington and GeorgetOwn for signatures,
and presented to Congress, asking that the two
cities be consolidated under one municipal gov
ernment to be called the city of Washington.
Death of Revenue Collector.
Horatio S. Flint, Collector of Internal Revenue
for the District of Columbia, died this morning
of consumption.