Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-01-01

THE government will sell one million dollars
of gold in New York on the second and fourth
Thursdays Of this month, and purchase one
million bonds on the fist and third THURSDAYS
Gov. wAsHBURN, OF Massachusetts,. has Sc
lected Mr.. Sidney Andrews, formerly Washing
ton correspondent of the Boston Advertiser, and
lately OF Every Saturday, to be his private secre
tary-an excellent choice.
The wEATHER.-The meteorological obser-
vatiOus at the signal Office in this city show the
following general result for the month of Dc
cember barometer, monthly mean, 80, I42:
thermometer, monthly mean, 323; total rain
fall, 1.36; prevailing wind, northwest.
Saturday, making about a hundred dismissed in
the last two months. There yet remain about
two hundred and fifty or two hundred and
seventy-fve, besides the heads of the divisions
Other discharges will soon take place, as the
work from time to time shall be finished in Sec
'ons.
X. c. DE LARGE publishes a card in the
Charleston papers denouncing as false and ma
licious the statement that he has abandoned all
claim to his seat in Congress and compromised
with the contestant, g. G. Bowen. De Large
says that he intends to defend his right, not
outstanding his attorney, c. W. Butts, has per
fdiously sold out to Mr.. Bowen.
Col. r. j. HINTON, of this city, who Is prob
ably as well informed on the various question
involved as any person in the country, is warmly
urged by the friends of labor reform as one OF
the commissioners to be appointed under Mr.
HOar's bill, I'm case it passes the Senate, as II
undoubtedly will. The appointment of Mr. d. A
Wells, formerly commissioner of revenue will
also be asked in influential quarters for the
same service.
1T is UNDERSTOOD that there is a strong prob
ability that Mr.. Alderman will, on his retirement
from the Office Of Attorney General, be invited
TO undertake the active management Of the
will dispose OF the stories heretofore circulated
Of bad feeling between Mr.. Alderman and the
administration, and at the same time serve 10
Of the government toward the Perpetrators OF
the outrages. There is also Q Htness In the seiec-
tion OF Mr.. Akerman on account of his being a
southern man, and closely familiar with the
subject and the laws and practice bearing on It.
Now AND THEN the Treasury girls get of
something too good to be lost. This is sample:
The economy practiced in small things is a n,
sTS,ect TO, IoIes: One girl very grsvely asked
reply, elf you will return it." The pin wus re-
turned; neatly done up in brown paper, with a
large Treasury seah This was though decidedly
honest, and as the other received il she said: si
will send this to the Secretary to add to the CON
science FUND, under the head Of pin money"
II has been observed that some OF the Treas
ury girls are all the time growing handsomer
and the theory Of one Of them Is that arsenic
is great beautifer, and that she abeorbs ouan-
titles Of 1t through the tips Of her fingers while
handling 90 many greenbacks. We hope this
Perhaps this compensation IL considered suffi-
cient, and that is the reason the girls are k o. on
their small salaries. There h Q hope now ex-
cited that they viii be allowed to enter the list
for competitive examination, and many ar
studying. One Of the examiners has stated tia
thus far the females pass better examination
than the males.