The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-08
THIRD EDITION
T0-DkY'S WASHINGTON NEWS.
The Foreign Mail Service.
The Decrease of Duties.
Burning Ola
The Nathan Murder Inquest.
Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc.
WASHINGTON
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Special Despatch TO The EoeHiHg TeloeTepk
W~AsHINeToN, Aug. 6.-The Postmaster
General, in conversation on Saturday, expressed
doubts of the legality of using Government
vessels for the transportation of foreign mails,
and on account of the uncertainty OF the Cunard
line is DESTROYS of making arrangements with a
reliable American company. The difficulty is
that all the proposed American lines ask too
large subsidies from the Government.
knights of PythIas.
The O. B. N. branch of the Knights Of Pythiae
have incorporated in the District Court a
Supreme Lodge of the World with Samuel Reed,
of N. j., w. A.. Porter and W.. II. Myers, Penpa.,
and others as incorporators. It is held that this
organized by the anti-O. B. Ms. The case will
undoubtedly come up in Court on a question Of
title to certain property of the order.
War News In Washington.
The utmost enthusiasm prevails among the
Germans here on account of the recent PrGssiau
victories, and Germ an flags are literally dis
played.
Offices Going n-Besgtne.
Thirty vacant Consulships and commercial
agencies abroad cannst be filed because OF the
insufficient salaries and high expenses Of living
al the posts.
The Indians Peaceable.
Dispatches from Agent Painter, al the Omaha
Indian Ageacy, are very favorable, showing the
Indians peaceable and industrious and manifest
ing much interest in education.
California Coal.
Discoveries OF heavy coal deposits 10 Central
California are reported to the General Land
Office. The coal is OF good quality and the
veins easily worked.
Decrease of Duties.
The net decrease OF duties this year uuder the
tariff reductions is estimated at $23, 63G,S27.
The White House.
Despatch 10 the Associated Press.
W~ksHINGTON, Aug. S.-No business is
at present transacted at the Executive Mansion.
General Dent
left this morning for Harrisburg TO meet the
President, and accompany him to ST. Louis.
The severn,
the flagship OF Rear-Admiral Poor, arrived at
Hampton Roads on the 9th instant from Key
West.
Naval Matters.
The Congress, which relieved the Severn, ar
rived ut Key West on the 2Sth July.
The Saco, destined for the European fleet,
left the naval anchorage at Norfolk on the 9th
instant for the Compass Buoy, Hampton Roads,
preparatory to sailing.
Captain Thomas n. G. Moore, al his own re-
quest, under the provisions OF the act OF Con-
gress of July last, is honoraoiy discharged with
one years pay.
Surgeon John Moore is detailed for duty as a
member of the board to retire disabled officers,
convened at New York, vice Surgeon CuyleT, re-
lieved.
An order has been issued from the War De.
partment, appointing the ffty-eight cadets re-
Gently graduated at the Military Academy to be
second lieutenants, and respectively assigning
them to regiments in place OF those promoted
or resigned.
Custom House Appointments.
The following appointments have been con-
frmed at the Treasury Department:-Norman
Ettinge, weigher at New York; Israel Water
house, inspector of customs at Boston; James
L. Davis, foreman of the Weighers' Department
at Boston; and Nathan Golf, Jr., deputy col
lector at Providence, r. /.