Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-07-01
WASHINGTON d.. C. MONDAY, JULY L. 1872. TV


EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL RBvENUE.-The receipts from this
source to day were 81, 125.s6S2o.
of his daughter, Mrs. Sprague, in Rhode Island.
GEN. j. II. BAKER, Commissioner of PEN
sions, returned from his visit to Minnesota this
morning.
GIN. FRANCIS A. WALKER, Com missioner of
Indian Affairs, has gone to New York on official
busiress. He will return on Wednesday.
RETIRED AND RESPONSIBILITIES Lieutenant
Patrick Fitzpatrick, 18th infantry, has been re-
tired on account of faithful service and wounds
received. The resignation of First Lieutenant
j. l.. Rathbone, LIST artillery, has been accepted.
PRoMoTED.-H. N. Corp, E. A. Protois and ID
Kohr have been promoted from first to second
class clerkships in the General Land Office,
over fourteen other applicants in a competitive
examination.
"FEw DIE and none resign" said jefferson,
Il
of this city, third-class clerk in the Census
Bureau, has resigned, with the sensible purpose
of going into business on his own account.
POSTAL CLERKS APPoINTED.-wm. Deal,
VIM. II. Walker, X. C. Jones, and George
Haskins, have been appointed assistant railway
post office clerks, between this city and New
York.
TREASURY PROGRAMME FOR JULY.-The
Acting Secretary of the Treasury has directed
the assistant treasurer at New York to purchase
one million dollars of bonds on each W ednesday
and sell one million dollars of gold on each
Thursday during the month of July.
COMMODORE AMMAN, chief Of the navigation
bureau, Navy department, has gone north to
make arrangements for supplying the Pacific
surveying expedition with steam launches. He
will visit the Charlestown and Portsmouth navy
yards and return next week.
THE CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINING BOARD will
to- morrow examine fifty applicants to fill twelve
vacancies in the Treasury department, ten being
in the Sixth Auditors Office, and two being in
the Statistical Bureau. The vacancies are all
in frst-class clerkships, 81 200 per annum)
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS to fill ten va
cancies of frst-class clerkships in the 9th audi
tors office take place tomorrow. On WedneS-
day examinations will be held to fill five yacan.
cies of second class cerkships in the same Office
For the positions last named there are forty-six
applicants.
CAR PRDpLERs.-The commissioner of inter-
nal revenue has decided that newsboys who
travel through railway cars and sell tobacco are
decided to be peddlers. and must qualify as such;
and even then they will not be allowed to sell
anything but full and unbroken packages of
either cigars, tobacco or snuff.
LOAN CERTIFICATE CALLED IN.-The Acting
Secretary of the Treasury has called in 81 800 900
of the three per cent. temporary loan certif-
Gates, dated from August to September 1, 1868.
as follows $4,000 each, all outstanding num-
bers between 1851 and 1919, inclusive; and
$4,000 each. all outstanding numbers between
4151 and 1895, inclusive. Interest will cease
August 81, 1872, on the above certificates.
CONSUL GENERAL BgTLER ExoNERATRD.-
General F. A. Starring, our diplomatic agent,
has arrived here with a voluminous report of his
investigation of the accounts of George H. But
Ter, Consul General in Egypt, which has been
submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury. 1t
is understood that it exonerates Butler from the
charges preferred against his administration of
affairs at the Consulate.
THE WEATHER IN JUNE.-From a table pre-
pared at the Signal Office, it appears that the
average temperature of the month Of June was
&c degrees, the coolest day being the 4th and
5th, when the mean was each day CO., TIE
warmest day the Goth, when the average was
S1.2. The rain fall during the month aggregated
27S inches, about twoti fths of which or 1l6 fell
in one day, the 18th. The prevailing winds was
south-tOtal number of miles travelled 1902.
Promotions IN THEPAYMsATRRG RNERAL's
OFFICE.-The following promotions have been
made in the Office of the Paymaster General U.
s. A, as the result of the recent competitive
examinations: From second to third clasS-E.
A. Pratt, &. Ii. Eckhardt, l.. III. Drury, Il. NJ.
Exley, A. p. Eastman, M. NJ. Bartlett, b. p.
Murray and A. p. Dunlap; from first to second
class George Hickenlooper, James b. Boyce,
j. l.. Winfield, j. b. Driver, Z. insolvency, j.
S. CleverdOn, +. l.. Stone and G. l.. Chapman.
LATE INDIAN NEws.-An official copy of a
communication received at the War Department
from Lieut.. Pullman, of the Sth cavalry, dated
TERRA Amarillo, N. NJ, June 2, has been re-
ceived at the Department of the Interior. Lieut..
P. states that about fifty Utes have come in
with a number of stolen animals. A c0mmuni-
been received in which he asks the COM
mander Of the military division for an
additional company OF troops at the post.
The commander replies that he cannot at
quests that he, the agent, keep him posted re-
lative to the movements of hostile Indians in
the vicinity of Fort wadsworth.
The PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT-The re-
capitulation of the statement ct the public debt
OF the United States, July LIST, 1872, issued
from the Treasury Department this afternoon
is as follows:
Debt Bearing Interest in Coin.
Bonds at per cent ,3.i ,SS} so 90
Bonds at per cent.............. 41i, 567 800 90
Sl,7S9, AL 100 90
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Debt Bearing Interest in Lagfa Money.
Certifs Indebtedness at per Ct. 5000 90
Navy pension fund, at per cent 14,00O,OoO 90
Certificates at per cent........ 1866, 900 90
S25, 3i3 900 90
Debt on which interest has ceased
since maturity ................ 81 ,926,7N &c
Debt Bearing no Interest.
Old demd and legal tender notes, SOL ,5SS 296 25
fractional currency ......-...... i0,S55,S35 q
Coin ifcates.................. 32,0S6, 300 90