Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-01

SECRETARY BELKNAP will return here on
Tuesday next.
THE POSTAL coNvESrIon with France goes
into effect TO day. The postage on a letter to
France will be nine cents a half ounce.
THE United States steamer Canandsigus A..
rived ct Key West yesterday from Santiago de
Cuba. All well on board. The Osslpee left
Key West for Punts Rosa.
The TOTAL ordinary expenses of the govern
mant for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1874
were S2sI ,133, sI3.17, being sS,2I1,312.l6 less
tba for the previous fiscal year.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE for one year on surgeon
certificate OF disability has been granted lst
Lieut. Louis V. Coziaric, p artillery, with per-
mission to go beyond the year. The leave OF
absence granted LIST Lieut.. Charles l.. Davis
10th infantry, has been extended two months.
AT THE WASHINGTON NAVY YARD. The
Gettysburg arrived at the Washington navy
yard yesterday with the Nipsic In tow. The
latter is to be thoroughly repaired. There Is now
quite an array Of vessels at the yard: the De-
sPatch, Wyoming. Nipsic, Fortune, Gettysburg,
tors. The Fortunes crew are to be temporarily
transferred to the receiving ship Relief.
THE NATIONAL THsATER during the season
Of T4-'75, under the management Of Mr.. John
g. Sayille, promises great treats to the lovers
Of frst-class opera. Among the many engage
mens made by Savllle are Strakosch's Grand
opera company, Aimee's Grand French opera
bouffe company, and q stranger to us-Emiiy
Soldine-vho for months has been the senss-
Ion Of London, supported by her unriv
English opera bouffe company.
HON. A. II. STEPHENS ON SPEAKER BLAINE.
Hon. A. H. Stephens remarked to a friend
during the late session Of Congress, that
aEar oil
and energetic in the dispatch Of business and
possessed more thorough knowledge of the
complicated rules OF the House, than any one
he had ever seen in the chair" As Mr.. Stephens
has been familiar with all the Speakers since
James X. Polk, and personally served under
Winthrop, Cobb and Banks, this compliment to
Speaker Blaine is one worth having.
THE NEW BoKDs.-The bureau of engraving
and printing is busily engaged on the final
printing OF the bonds to be issued under the re.
cent placing Of portion of the five per cent
loan. The printing bureau had received the
backs some time before from the bank note
companies, SO that the entire work will be com
pleted In few days. A number of the bonds
have also reached the Register of the Treasury,
who Is at work signing them. The entire
amount will be ready to be- delivered when
called for.
The WEATHER AT WASHINGTON IN July
The meteorological summary Of the signal Of
fee for the month OF July at this station, Theo-
dore Mosher, jr., observer, shows Barometer
fur the month, 30021; highest, 80 ,2S7 inches
(19tb) lowest, 20 81 inches, (ith) me an temper
allure for the month, 1S.4o; highest, 9S50, 18th y
lowest, 6lOo, 18th, 30th and 3st;) prevailing di-
at the rate OF co miles per hour, July 4th; total
number Of miles, 5,645; number of clear days, 5;
oo cloudy, I; do. rainy, 2; number of days on
which rain fell. II; comparative Temperature
July, 1871, "a %; July, 1872, S17s; July, 1873.
S0.30; July, 1874, IS A; comparative precipits-
tion-July, 1871, 6.1O inches; July 1872 O.s2 do:
July, 1873, 4 80 do; July 1874, "a do.
PRRsoNAL.-Assistant Secretary Cowen re-
turned TO Fire Island last evening, leaving As
sistant Attorney General Smith Acting Secre-
tary of the Interior. '.''Bishop Pinckney is at
W Llte sulphur springs. Mr.; HI. j. RamsdelI
Senator Morrill,, Of Maine, will leave hi
home In few days for Saratoga, where the
Copgre ssional Committee on Lew government
for the District OF Columbia, of which he is
chairman, will meet for consultation. Phil
adelph Van Trump, ex-member of Congress
from the 12tb Ohio district, died at Cincinnati
yesterday, Of heart disease. General John
Eaton. Commissioner of Education, and Gen.
NJ. ID. Leggett, Commissioner OF Patents, have
returned from their summer vacations the one
from New Hampshire and the other from Ohio.
The CALL FOR FIvE-rwKNTIEs.-The Sec.
rotary Of the Treasury has Issued a call for the
following numbered outstanding fve-twenty
bonds Coupon bonds-s5O, No. 122O1 to No
o.
$500, both inclusive; $500, No. 1891 to No.
2sIO0, both inclusive; 81 900, No. 1891 to No.
10000, both inclusive. Registered bonds-S5O,
No. 1i61 TO No. 1850, both Inclusive; 500, No.
10I01 to No. 1890, both inclusive; $500, No 6I0l
TO No. ilO0, both inclusive; $1,000, No. 26l67 to
No. 3l609 both inclusive; 5000, No. S304 to No.
1880, both inclusive. OF the amount outstand-
ing, embraced in the numbers above } $50 600
600 are coupon bonds and $1,000 600 are eyis-
tered bonds. The interest due Nov / 1874 on
rpQlstarai hDuns ami ra Pad in ft,a
be paid with the principal of the bond. Nine
tenths Of these bonds are supposed to be held
in Europe.
APPOINTMENT OF PosTMAsTERs.-Commi
sions arrived at the Post Office department to-
day from the President for the following post
masters: VIM. K. Remington. Canton. n. Y;
John Mitchell, Addison, n. Y; Geo. n. Brig
ham, Rockville, Conn; Chas. X. Brsyton, Prov
ldence, r. L.; Henry b. Jaeger, Hudson, Wis;
John II. Brinkerhof, Waupsn, Wis; Thos. n.
Stone, Elko, New; Mrs. Betsy A. Mower,
fredericksburg, Va; Calvin r. Taft, VIII
jamestown, Mass; Joseph K. Hood, Dan
veIs, Mass; John w. Dereen, DemOp-
James Robb, Ottawa, Kan; Thomas Kneil,
Westfeld, Mass; Albert B. Chamberlain, Ash
land, Nee:; Lorenzo w. JOY. Northampton,
Mass; John w. Marshall, Plsttsmouth, Neb.;
III. U. Paine Fremont, Neb.; Peter A. Johns
uniontown, Pa; James b. Slower, Akron, Ohio;
Henry P; Strong Beloit, Wis; Hirams. Towne,
v,
Mas; Jonathan Jessop, York. Pa; George f.
Crowningshield, Central Fails, Rhode Island:
George j. Lsngsdale, Green Castle, Ind; Rob
ert Cruikshank, Salem, n. Y; VIM. II. Merrill,
warsaw. n. Y; Ogilvie II. Sheldon, Burlin-
game, Kan; and Thomas IL. Thompson, Oxford,
Penna.
The POSTAL CAR QUESTION AS 1T Now
Standardization Hinckley, of the Phila-
delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore railroad,
did not carry out his expressed threat of with
drawing the postal cars on his line to- day. He
has generously concluded now to wait until
Monday next, hoping in the meanwhile that the
Post ONCE department will realize the folly of
Its course In persisting to refuse his and for
Q compensation larger than that allowed by
law. Assistant Railway Superintendent Cum
mings had an interview with him yesterday in
Philadelphia, when Mr.. Hinckley said he would
continue to perform postal car service until
Monday, the Sd instant. IT Ia still generally be-
heved that he will not withdraw his ears at
All, and 1t Is regarded a. remarkable at the
Post Office department that he should persist
in demanding more than the department. IL
allowed BY act OF Congress to pay him. Certain