The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-30
FROM W:4SHLNGTOM:
Administration of the Naval Service.
tdi Despatch % The EpenfalQ Tslecrnph

speetai Despatchto The Spentag Telegraph I0
WAsHINeToN, Aug. 30.-The Navy Depart
ment to-day promulgated the following order
GENERAL ORDER No. 159.--NAyY, DEPART
MENT, WASHINGTON, ID. c., Aug. 80, 1S7O.--For
the more economical administration of the naval
service, and in &C cordance with the spirit of the
act of Congress; entitled IAN act to further pro-
mote the efficiency of the navy,nit is hereby
ordered that: Ftrst-From and after the 1st Of
October next no retired officer of the navy shall
be assigned or remain upon duty except as a
member of the Light House Board for the exa-
mination of officers for promotion, and for the
retired list, and at the Naval Asylum; and all
such officers not coming within the above exl
ceptions, now on active duty, are relieved from
that date. Is are
Second-Should either of the bureaus of the
Department require at any time the services of
any retired officer for any special duty, on ac-
count of his peculiar experience or fitness for
the same special application will be made to
the Secretary Of the Navy for such assignment
by the President. et Pr F
y Ihird-The position of port-admiral is hereby
discontinued from and after the first of October,
except at the port of New York
~ -st GEO. NJ. RoBEsoN,
5a .s3eH Secretary of Navy.
lf.r .. Army Orders.
Despatch to the Associated Press.
.WAsHINeToN Aug. 30.-The superlntendent
of the general recruiting service in New York is
ordered to forward 200 recruits from any dis
posable force at Fort Columbus, New York
harbor, to Galveston, Texas for assign-
ment to the 18th United States Infantry
Second Lieutenant Patrick Fitzpatrick, 18th
United States Infantry, is relieved from duty on
recruiting service and ordered to join his regi-
ment in the Department of the Platte. $3.50
Captain James N. McElroy, 9Th Cavalry, and
First Lieutenants Charles s. Newin and Andrew
NJ. Frolinger, are honorably discharged the SER
vice at their own request
DistNiers' Bonds. s -st|
Special Despatch to the EUe1ing Telegraph
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-In several instances
recently, sureties on bonds of distillers who
have suspended business, have applied to the
Internal Revenue Department for cancellation
of their bonds on the ground that the same
constituted a lien upon their property and pre-
vented its sale. Acting Commissioner Douglass
rules that such bonds do not constitute liens
until made so by attachment and judgment, and
then only for the amount of the judgment rem
dered, and not for the full amount of the bond.
Also, that bona Jfde purchasers of property,
before attachment and Judgment cannot be dis
turbed in their titles. 'b a.. s4r6sJ 3oR
what Soldiers are Entitled to Bounty.
Soldiers discharged by reason of being rem
dered supernumsrary by the consolidation of
regiments are not entitled to bounty unless they
served two years.
Fobacco Stamping.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue de-
cides that stamps on kegs, barrels, or drums of
fnecut tobacco must be placed on the side Of
the same rather than on either end or across
junction of cover and the body of the drum.