The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-07-04
WASHINGTON.



WASHINGTON, July 3-There is reason to be-
lieve that the President designs appointing
new Englander TO the office of Postmaster
GENERAL IL is known that telegram has been
sent TO Europe, rendering the position to gen.
tleman now there, and although the name is
not automatically mentioned, Minister Jewell.
at OF. petersburg, is thought to be the person.
The District Commission will Organize
Monday.
zen. ketchum, who arrived this morning,
called ON the PRESIDENT and formally accented
ms appointment as one of the District of Col
uiho la commissioners. He was selected after
the PRESIDENT had eonsultat on with Messrs
Dennlson and Blow, the other commissioners
VINO sad the appointment would be very agree
apie 10 Them. They Will take the oath Of office
Monday
mere Is much anxiety among large class of
cl!izens for that event, as the commissioners
VIII nave the disbursement of about million
o u. collars among the unpaid employees of the
District government
The Postmaster GeneraIship.
Marshall Jewell Minister at St PETERSBURG
mas accepted bv cable the Postmaster General
s 81 tehqefed him by cable this morning Mr.
Marshall. First Assistant, will be appointed to
serve untli The arrival of Mr. Jewell
Indian Commissioners.
Inc secretary of the Interior appointed to-
uay as members of the Board of Indian Com
inissloners, to fill vacancies which have recent
y occurred, Messrs. Sheron r. Butler, Presl-
dent OF the 9th Avenue Railroad Company.
New New YORK city, Gen. H. Sibley of st. Paul,
the Sioux in 1862, aud Clinton B. Fisk of ST.
LOUIS a gentleman of great wealth and prom
lneht during the war in all sanitary and beney-
oieht enterprises. These appointment increase
che hGhoef OF members of the commission
from four at which it was left by the recent
designations, to seven. Secretary Delano will
soon Ill The remaining three vacancies.
Cabinet Affairs
The Attorney General has decided that tba
State OF Nebraska is not entitled to five ner
cent. upon tue value of the reservations for
Indian tribes in that state; he also decided up
on question submitted to him BY the Treasury
Department., that in the disbursement of mon
ey for the new State, War and Navy Depart
ment building, the Secretary has control of
the same.
Secretary Bristow to-day announced the fol-
lowing appointments of principal clerks in
charge OF divisont in the office of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury: Ccstoms, H. 3, James:
navigation, d. Lyman; appointments, H S.
vanderbilt; internal Revenue E. p. Gaines;
stationery and banks, A. L. StaFtevant; war
rants and appropriations, r. H. s. Leopold;
loans, ). z. Bigelow; revenue marine, S. j.
Kimbal
Thieves Discovered.
Mention has been heretofore made of the
discovery of forgeres of orders for firemen's
Comptroller for the District of Columbia. To-
day Albert Underwood and Thomas B. Wanick,
both cOlored, were arrested on information and
charged with the forgery. Several other par
ties will be arrested. Underwood has been
messenger ia the Comptroller's Office some
months He was member of the late District
Legislature, and is well known local polti-
clan. Wanick graduated from Howard Uniyer.
sity as lawyer and has since aced as clerk in
the Collectors office
Various Matters.
Secretary Belknap leaves here tomorrow
with his family tor New London, Conn, and
will remain there several days.
The Five Per Cent. Bonds.
New YORK, june 3-The leading bankers of
this city to-day received from the Secretary Of
the Treasury circular as follows:
Treasury Department, Washington, July 2,
1S74.-Seaied proposals will be received at the
Treasury Department until - o'clock noon, on
the 23d inst, and opened Immediately thereat.
ter for thewhole balance of $179, 100000, or any
part thereof, of the funded loan bearing inter-
est payable in coin, and exempt from taxation
as authorized by tie act of July IA, 1870, and
the act amending the same, approved January
20, 1871. Parties whose bids are accepted Will
be allowed three months from the date of sub
scription to make partial and final payments,
provided that any bonds delivered to them prior
to said final payment shall be secured either by
Collateral either in coin, 5-20 bonds, or matur-
ed coupons, sufficient to cover the priucipal
and all the interest accrued, and which shall
accrue on bonds so delivered, to the expiration
of three months. Payments can be made IN 6
per cent. 500 bonds to be called in on the date
of the acceptance or bids which mature three
months thereafter, or in coin, or matured Unit
ed States coin coupons.
the principal topic of conversation in Wall
StIeet to day was this circular. AS the Secre-
tary declined the proposals of German bankers
yesterday for about sixty millions. tits presum-
ed he expects general purchasing movement
for these securities all over the country.