Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-03

TREASURER SPIyNKR has received 800
conscience subscription from New York, with
no name attached.
THE POSTMASTER GENERAL has decided to
give Philadelphia thirty additional letter car
riers and a wagon service for the free delivery,
at an extra expense of $4,000 annually.
SECRETARY BELKSAP left to-day on the 12:45
train for Philadelphia. to be present at the CEN
tennial exercises to take place in Paramount
Park tomorrow. He will go TO Long Branch
before returning to Washington.
Col. j. MADISON CUTS and Miss Mary E
Wheeler will be married at st. Aloysius Church,
on the evening of the 10th instant, and will re-
ceive their friends on the evenings of the 18th
and l1th.-Wdsh. Cor. ". Y, Times.
THE EXAMINATION for promotions in the 9Th
auditors, which was commenced on the 10th
ult. and which was postponed, will now take
place on the 9th instant. The examination is to
ill one vacancy of class four, eleven vacancies
OF class three, and twenty of class two.
DIED OF HIS INJURIEs.-The signal bureau
has received information that Private Seeley,
of the Mount Washington signal party, died
on Tuesday afternoon from injuries received
by falling from the trestle-work OF the railway
on Saturday last.
NAVAL -Ordered-Assistant Surgeon
d. n. Butolette TO the naval hospital at Nor
folk, Va. Detached-CommanderJ Jas. A. Greer
from the naval academy and ordered to COM
mand the Tigress. Lieut.. John G. Solely from
the naval academy and ordered to the Wabash,
European station.
WORK upon the new national bank currency
will be commenced next week, the appropri-
alton of SGGO,OO0 being now available. The
plates for the new notes will be engraved in the
departments. The backs will be printed by the
Continental, American and National bank note
companies of New York, but the faces will be
printed and the numbers put on i'll the Treas
ury department.
THE CALIFORNIA CENTRAL PACIFIC RAIL
ROAD COMPANY having refused to deliver gov
eminent freight at San Francisco without the
prepayment of charges accruing on railroads
west OF Omaha, the Attorney General decides
that the act Is I. violation of law, and that suit
may be brought against the company for the
recovery OF the freight without the payment OF
such charges.
THE CASE OF MAJOR GENERAL Q. o. How
ARD.-Thc Attorney General has completed the
opinion in the Howard case, and will probably
transmit it to the War department this after
noon. 1t will not be made public until the re-
turn to Washington of Secretary Belknap, who
gave orders this morning, before leaving, that
it should be turned over to General Vincent
upon its receipt at the War office, and not be
published until he returned.
Tayloe of Washington city, have Published Tor
private circulation volume containing his
recollectiOns of the men of more than forty
years of his time, and also letters from Europe
in 1861. We AVE here sketches OF Madison,
Monroe, Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Van
Buren,, Harrison, Webster, Fennimore Cooper,
John M. Bolts, Gen. jackson, Mrs. Gen. Jack
son, and many others.-Phila. Press.
STEAMBOAT REFoRM.-Gen. d. D. Smith, SUI
pervising inspector general of steamboat, leaves
tomorrow on q tour in the northern, eastern
and western states to visit all the local boards
and institute experiments on boilers and boiler
iron. 1t is the intention to enforce the law and
license only such persons as are skilled in the
management of steam vessels and Of temperate
habits. Licenses already granted to unskilled
or incorporate men will be revoked. General
Smith goes first to New York and thence -
Pittsburg.
CLERKS TO BB DRoPPEp.-Ten clerks OF the
General Land Office, having been requested to
do so, to-day resigned their positions, TO take
effect one month hence. AZ many more will be
called upon for their resignation within q day
OF two. This course Is rendered necessary by
reason OF the failure OF Congress to renew the
special appropriation made for the employment
Of additional clerks. Those who resign receive
a months leave with pay. In this connection
it may be stated that the work of the land office
since much Of the business OF the office was six
Or seven years behind.
ARMY ORpERs.-The leave Of absence grant,
ed LIST Lieut.. W. H. Fleming, 18th infantry, has
been extended three months. The following
changes in the stations and duties Of office of
the ordnance department have Just been made:
Capt. w. II. Rexford from duty at Mt. Vernon
arsenal, Ala, and ordered to BeIiicia arsenal,
Cal; LIST Lieut.. George ID. Ramsay, jr., from
Charleston arsenal and ordered to Springfield,
Mass; Paymaster David Taylor has been re-
lieyed from duty in the department of Missouri
a NJ ri RI tn enp av,At
eral Of the military division Of the Pacific.
INCREASED sALARIRs-The new law passed
at the last session Of Congress, increasing the
pay of certain heads OF bureaus, went into eff
| feet on the LIST inst. Hereafter the supervising
architect OF the treasury will receive $1,000 per
snnum; the examiner Of claims in the State de-
partmeut, solicitor of the treasury, commission
ers Of agriculture, general land Office and pen
sivns, auditors OF the treasury, assistant post
master general, superintendents of money order
| system and suPerintendents Of foreign mails
| 81, 600 each; the two chiefs of the diplomatic
/ and consular bureaus in the State department
and the chiefs of the bureaus, accounts, indexe
and Archives, 81, 400 each.
| acknowledgements John Hill, OF
New Jersey, has been presented with set OF
| solid silver by the leading manufacturers and
| citizens Of Patterson, Nj. .''Ex-Congress.
| long speech defending himself for voting for the
| salary increase bill, and justifying the whole
proceeding. Mr.. Blair is a democrat. ''.'Gen
| l.. +. York died suddenly at the st. Nichola.
hotel in Cincinnati, Tuesday afternoon. De.
| ceased was a native of New Jersey, at one time
| during the war was Gen. LOgan's chief of staff
| Levi p. Luckey, the Presidents private
| secretary, leaves for a short trip to Peekskill
| y. Y, tonight. Holmes E. Offiey, CHIEF
| clerk of the Navy department, arrived home
/ from his New York trip this morning
| GEN. W. II. SIDELL, U. s. A., who died in
| New York city Monday, after long and
| painful illness, contracted in the service, wa
| born on August 21st, 1910, was sent to the
\ Military Academy at the age of 10, and grad
uated in 1888, near the head in class which
| numbered among its members Gen. J. @. Bar.
nard, Of the engineer corps, General Shriver
| inspector general, the late Uol W. W. 8. Bliss
secretary TO President Taylor, and many other:
who Afterwards attained distinction either in
military or civil life. He left the service t.
| engage in civil engineering, but returned and
l served through the late war. At the close OF
the rebellion he was assigned to duty at Fort
Leavenworth, where, In 1910, he had q stroke OF
l paralysis, which led, in December Of that year
to his being placed on the retired list.
l Mr.. CoLPAI AND TIE CREDIT MoBILIRR.-
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