New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-18
FLASHING TON.
TIE HOWARD UNIVERSITY AGAIN.

WASHINGTON, Thursday, July IT, 1873.
Gen. howard publishes his annual report Howard
University this morning Is total receipts including
those from the sale of land and loan OF $4,000
s92oo ana the total expenditures $4,000. The actual
income was SO7OO Upon this Gen. Howard says: Had
inc disbursement OF this fiscal year been confined TO
current expenses only the OF expenditures
a'e Deen but 81 $50 Our financial management
me tay mat The advice OF Of the best fnanoers
a few ,n country was to borrow money for
pass oyer aud our friends would in time aid
w exceed f dream OF permitting the institution
nlSht demand II. Dissatisfied and disciplined students
and other selfish men cannot permanently hurt our
cLea really feel since You have properly retrenched
that there no fear for the Of the institution
As1Or PRESIDENT has been assailed for receiving
pensaon permit him state that II you strike bal
hnJc octHeen what he has actually received from the
IHefsly and given TO INDECENT students and expended
bY virtue OF his connection with the University up
Hel, cate The balance against him IS 500 81 lilo
OOth siues VI the account.
DISCREPANCIES IN THE REPORT OF Tux RIO GRANDE
COMMISSION.
lue TEST OF figures In the last volume have been
appedt the report OF tho Rio Grande Commission and
brings ont some curious comparisons The Commission
reported to the State Department that the actual losses
proved before them at both sessions amounted to
tuOocOoo Tho losses both actual and consequential,
reported by the Commission s4s5OOOOO. The
tables show that the assessed value of all estate
in the entire State OF Texas to be and for the
tier OF couDties-two counties in width-alOng the Mex
can border the total assessed value Is only 5OOOOO,
and that tie true value Of all the real and personal
estate for some double tier OF counties is but
little over IS 100000
TIE YIRGrTUs AFFAIR.
The State Department had received no Information
this morning concerning the reported conveying OF the
steamer Vrginius out OF Panama by United States
steamer Kansas. The department is not inclined to
credit the statement to the course pursued by our
Consul or that Commander Reed would act rs Is repre-
sented he did upon the decision Of the Consul In the
event OF the dispatch Of this morning being confirmed
neither the Consul commander Of the Kansas will be
sustained Ia their by the officials Of the State De
partmcnt.
THE SINGULAR DOG SUIT.
The Hon Caleb Cushing suit against Thomas Kelly
for keeping noisy and vicious dog decided in the
Police Court to-day. The Court. regarding the dog
nuisance, ordered that 1t be killed removed, and d.
eced Kelly to pay s2j into court security that the
judgment shall be executed. Mr.. Cushing had claimed
$500 damages The dog belongs to the Hon. Fernando
Wood.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Posmasters throughout the country are writing to the
General respecting their authority to allow
Government officers who were not allowed to exercise
the frankng privilege to send their official correspond
now, by afixing thereto Official postage stamps.
Each Department ia responsible for the proper Of its
stamps ana N II furnishes sucn,
stance as storekeepers and gaugers anl others VINO
never entitled to the ranking privilege, with these
stamps II is matter for which the department. 80 Iur
nshng is answerabe and POsmastcrs cannot hold back
the mail as above mentioned.
Assistant Attorney General Spence OF the Postofice
Department decides in the Of dissolved partner
ship wherein the written articles forming dssoving
the same person IL duly authorized to receive after
the dissolution the correspondence addressed to such
firm the Department cannot exercise any judicial func-
uon and POsmasters shOu deliver such correspond
10 any member OF the late hn asking l0f IL unless
a cOurt OF competent jurisdiction shall designate the
proper person to whom II shan Do ueh'efed "A0h
contest arises.
Tho Secretary Of the Interior has affirmed the decision
Of the Commissioner of the General Land Office in the
case of the University OF California AFT Reynolds,
Green Ducharme, and tho state. The decision OF the
Commissioners it Will be Iemembered was in favor OF
,sos made au argument before the Secretary to nave
tue case reviewed but he refuses 10 DO So
The enera the request Of the military
ordered extension OF the mail service
rom Jacksboro', Texas, 10 Fort SILL Indian Territory
and has also increased the service the Missouri Kan
IA and Texas Railroad from Caddo TO Fort SILL three
lines a week 20 commence on the LIST OF August. rms
Increase is for the purpose OF facilitating cOmmuhca-
ion with the military posts on that frontier
This afternoon az $50 o'clock n schooner from George
own struck the draw OF the Long Bridge, carrying
norton OF il away and destroying tho working OF the
raw The vessel became badly enanged that 1t Will
require three tugs extrcate It, Travel on the rail-
road was interrupted and passengers were Obliged 70
walk over the bridge Tho damage VIII be repaired TO-
morrow and travel resumed.
II ia found on rearrangng the papers saved from the
ire at the Navy Department, that no papers or record
pertaining TO the current business OF tho Department
y destroyed
The Department Of Justice has not yet given any
order for the release Of Carl Vogt