Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-07-29


dds for the Alaska fur seal fisheries. conse
iueEtiy the contract has not vet been awarded.
MIR. KELLOGG, the artist, follows the wise ex-
ample at his brethren OF the palette elsewhere,
anu has gone on a summer excursion. He is
now rnsticating in the Highlands of New York,
1he scene OF come of his earlier trilmpbs.
lhE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY has purchased
a small job printing press, with the necessary
amount OF type, cases, furniture. &c, which
Will De located in the Navy Depar tment, and
hereafter all orders, circulars, and such small
JOBS VIII be printed there instead Of at the
government Office, as heretofore.
hhoEGANIzED.-TLe work of recognizing
ana consolidating the divisions OF the Secre-
'ary once, Treasury Department, was com
pieted to-day, and the fourteen divisions hereto
iofe In existence have been consolidated into
nine. as follows:
i. Appointments, Ii. S. Vanderbilt chief.
:. Revenue Marine, Steamboat Inspection
and Marine Hospitals, y. B. Devereux chief
j. Warrants and Warehouses, e. +. Conant,
chief.
a. Collection Of Customs, II. b. James chief
3. Custom Appeals, Remission OF Fines, Pen
alties, &c, ID. Lyman, chief.
q. Shipping, Tonnage and Miscellaneous, Geo.
Wood, chief.
s. L. 5. Dep0sitaries and ub-Treasurys, Geo.
Parneil chief.
s. Internal Revenue, f. p. Gaines, chief.
.. Stationery. Files and Printing, \. L. Stur-
teyant, chief
The divisions consolidated with others are
the law branch, w. f. Clark, chief; warehouses,
Mr. Goddard, chief; files, j. A. Lovcjoy. chief:
and printing, j. L. Meyers, chief. All of these
gentlemen, however, retain positions in the de-
partment, and will be assigned to duties in con-
nection with their former divisions.
The IMPROVEMENT OF THE PoToMAC.-The
river and harbor appropriation bill of the last
session contains clause appropriating $4,000
for the Improvement of the Potomac river be-
tween the Long Bridge and Georgetown, and
''en'l Michlcr, engineer in charge Of public
buildings and grounds, has been instructed by
Gen'l Humphreys, Chief of the Engineer Corps,
to prepare plans, estimates, &c, for the work
Gehl Mlchler Is now engaged in their prepara.
ton, and will submit them to Gen'l
humphreys for approval. About two wears
since survey Of the Potomac river was
made, With view TO ITS Improvement and
Gehl Michler, who had charge OF the work
then, recommended that the causeway OF the
Long Bridge should be removed on account of
its injurious effects to the Washing ton channel
ana be replaced by roadway upon piles: that
the bar in the Virginia channel should be
dredged TO depth of twelve feet and a yvidt;,
of two hundred feet, and the Washington chan
nei be oeepened to the same depth wherever
needed between the bridge and the mouth of
the Eastern Branch; also, that a new cut should
be made between Essby's wharf and the Mary
land draw OF the Long Bridge to restore the for
mer naylgabe condition OF the river and that
The distractions in tue vicinity OF Easby's Point
should be removed.
The estimated cost OF these improvements
was SIS GEO. but of course IL will be imnossib,a
TO carry out this plan under the approoriatio,
of $4,000. General Michler will report his
views, as TO the best manner OF expending the
appropriation, TO General Humphreys and as
soon as determined upon the work OF improving
the channel will be commenced.
CONGRRssiOEAL MoxUMRNTs-The Clerk Of
the House of Representatives has awarded the
contract for erecting 20 obelisks in the Con
gressional Cemetery TO the memory of deceased
members and Senators TO Mr. Richard RothweIl
OF this city at --il5 each. These monument,
are 10 lie OF Virginia free stone and similar .,
those already erected in the cemetery. Before
the war the ccst cf them was si2j each.
TBE WAR IL CUBA.-Two members OF the
Cuban Junta, who have recently visited this
Guy soy tHc WAT III tuc 1Sianu ~ not over, but
will be renewed as soon as the hot season is
ended. They profess great confidence in some
gam TO their cause from the European contest,
though no one is able to understand the ground
OF theiT confidence. The iunta to be re-nr-
saniZed during the summer and further viola
uGns OF cur neutrality law win not be ATTEMPT
Ell. Gereral Quesada has returned from En-
rope. and talks mysteriously about his inter
views with Napoleon and French and English
offciss, though so far rs members OF the junta
report, he got nothing from any OF them except
general declarations expressive Of a desire that
hat The war should be conducted with less
bloodthirstiness.
PRoMoTIoNs.-EdwardO -. Leech, Maximilian
Galody, and August Hoester have been promo
ted from first TO scconG-class clerkships i'm the
Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department.
The following appointments and promotions
have been made In the Patent Office during the
month OF July: Assistant commissioner, lin
accordance with recent act OF Congress- =. A.
Drncan; examiner in chief, j. NJ. Thatcher
vice Fesse nden resigned; examiner in charge OF
inteIferences, j. H. Adams; principal exanin-
ers. A. Schoepf, III. Ii. Bates, q. ii. Griggs; first
assistant examiners, w. Ii. Hodges, &. b. Park
hurst, W. A. Sutphn, and +. s. Lamson; second
assistant examiners, A. III. RAYMOND j. A.
Ashbey, l.. =. Freund, +. A. Schmauu and
Thomas Jewell; maehinist, Thomas ID. Bond;
fourth class clerks. G. T.. [ Cpperman, A. Moore
f. W. W. Griffin, and ID. f. Castle; third class
clerks, Thomas T.. Smith, j. ID. Patton j. s.
S-cttenius, W. II. Fuller; second class clerks j.
r. N: Bowen, q. q. Wilson, w. b. Cudlipp, j.
W. Clements; first class clerks III. G. Smith and
Il. w. Dom. Mrs. p. II. CIeaveland, Miss NJ p
Hastead, Miss Kate Sanderson: clerks at FL O0O
W. i. Seward and II. X. Walton; skilled
drsughtsmen at 81 go, II. +. Perrine and W.
Howard; copyists of drawings at 81 600, nj. A.
Sherwood, X. 5. Sayre, NJ. y. Baxter, M. ID.
Peabody; clerks at s:C0, j. G. KInk, F. H. ,Joy-
ntr, and w: Rutherford; skilled laborers ut