Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-07-24
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and GOSSIP.

INTERNAL REvEEUE-The receipts from this
source to-day were s326.s79.57.
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAMS left for Long
Branch this morning.
TRE AMOUNT received to-day of national
bank note circulation in exchange for legal ten
deIs aggregates s556.9i5
1T Is EXPECTED that Gen. Babcock will ar
rive from Long Branch to- morrow, and remain
in Washington over Sunday.
. A COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION will be held
on the 18th inst. to fill two vacancies OF class
four, and two of class three, In the Off ce of the
supervising architect of the Treasury.
A DECIsIoN.-The Attorney General decides
that auditors and other officers who are empow-
cred to settle accounts have the power to ad-
minister osths.
SECOND LIEUT.. II. W. HowGATR, 10Th infan
try, acting signal officer, has been appointed to
act as inspector on certain clothing and COM
missary property on hand at Fort Whpple, Va.
DROPPED FROM THs RoLLs.-By direction of
the President Second Lieutenant John Aspin-
wall, eth cavalry, has been dropped from the
rolls as a deserter.
No ADDITIONAL INFORMATION concerning
the bids for the new five per cent loan opened
yesterday was made public at the Treasury de-
partment to- day.
COMMISSIONER DOUGLASS, Of the Internal
Revenue bureau, authorizes q denial Of the
publication in q morning paper that he con-
templated resigning, to accept the judgesnip Of
Pennsylvania district.
TIE ORDER directing Capt. A. F. Rockwell.
A. Q. NJ, to report for duty at Buffalo, n. Y,
has been amended so as to direct him to report
20 the Quartermaster General for duty In con-
nection with the national cemeteries.
ORDERS REvoKKD.-The recent order assign
ing Colonel Stewart Van Vliet, as sistant quar-
termaster general, to duty in the Quarterm&ter
Generals Office, has been revoked. The order
assigning Lieutenant Colonel Saxton, assistant
qnarteTmaster general, to duty at uffalo, has
also been revoked.
MR.. BANCROFT DAVIS, Minister to Berlin.
has completed his business at the State and
Treasury departments, received his instr uctions
and will sail for his post Of duty on Thursday
next. Mr.. Jay, Minister to Austria, who has
been home on leave, will sail at the same time
for Vienna.
PERsoNAL.-Mr. Hunter, Assistant Secretary
Of State, has returned home frome his Euro
pean trip. The wife of Senator Cragin i.
reported to be lying dangerously ill at her resi-
Cence In Lebanon, n. III. .''.Stephen soph
has been appointed a chief engineer in tue
revenue marine service.
DISCHARGE OF CLERKs.-Twenty-two assort-
ers of money orders in the Sixth Auditors office
were discharged to- day on account of the fail
ure Of the Congressional appropriation for their
salaries. Hereafter there will be in the money
order efiice but fifteen female assorters of NON
ey orders at $500 each, and ten assorters a,
1000 each.
NAVAL ORDRRs.-Pay director Edward G.
Dorsn TO duty in charge of stores at Honolulu,
Sandwich Island. Detached-Paymaster Ed
ward May, from duty in charge of stores at
Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, and ordered to
return home and report arrival. Passed Assist
ant Engineer James l.. Vanclain, from the
navy yard, Philadelphia, and placed on waiting
orders: Assistant Engineer W. A. Mintzsr, from
the navy yard, Norfolk, and granted leave OF
absence until the 3lst December next, with par
mission TO leave the United States.
The FOLLOWING OFFICERS, who have been
selected for transfer to the ordnance depart
ment, have been ordered to report in New York
city October let for examination: 1st Lieut.. ".
Smith, 4th artillery; ist Lieut.. Stsnhope s.
Blunt, 18th infantry; I'd Lieut.. Frank Heath
I'd artillery; I'd Lieut.. Daniel nj. Taylor, Isl
% Lieut.. VIM. 3. Weir. 9Th artillery ID Lieut.
James U. Ayers, 81 infantry; ID Lieut. Marcus
w. Lyon, 18th infantry.
AN OFFICIAL VISIT TO THH INDIAN Cora
TRY.-Mr. Frank H. Smith, secretary of the
Board Of Indian Commissioners, will leave
Washington in about week for a two-months,
tour among the Indians He will first visit Fort
Sill, Indian Territory, for the purpose OF inves-
ugatiDg the case of Agent Miles, who has been
asked to resign by the Friends. From Fort sin
he will go TO the Grow agency In Montana
stopping at other agencies en- route, after which
ne will return home. 1t is possible that before
his return he will visit the Indians OF New Mex
leo aid Arizona.
SECRETARY BRIsrow yesterday confirmed
the nomination Of Mr.. VIM. Bshrens by Gen
Spinner as chief clerk in the Treasurer Office
IL seems that when the civil service groups
were established the salary Of the chief clerk
was less than the heads or divisions, but the
office was placed in group "A," together with
the heads Of divisions and principal book keep
ers. 1t is held by Mr.. Graves, the cher ex-
aniner in the civil service, that, although
recent legislation increased the salary OF the
chief clerk, 1t did not remove the Office from its
existing group, and as MIR. Behrens was a prin-
cipal book-keeper, classified in the group with
the office of chief clerk, his transfer TO the
new duties is not in the nature of a promotion
and hence no competitive examination was re-
quired.