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NEW YEARS DAY.
Who VIII and Who Will Not Receive.

The following is an authentic list of those who
do and those who do not receive tomorrow,
New Years day:
The Presidents New Years Reception.
The following is the programme for the Pres
ident's reception on New Years day:
AT IL O'Clock a. m, the President will receive
the Cabinet and foreign ministers. AT I1.30 a.
In. the judges of the Supreme Court of the
United States, Senators and Representatives in
Congress, the Commissioners of the District of
Columbia, the Judges of the Supreme Court of
the District Of Columbia and OF the Court OF
Claims viii be received. At u NJ, the Offce
OF the Army and Navy will be received. at
l2eO the Assistant Secretaries OF departments
the Assistant POstmasters General, Solicitor
General and Assistant Attorneys General and
the hesds of the several bureaus will be re-
ceived. at II Is y. M the associated soldiers
of the war of 1872, the associated veterans of
1916, and members OF the Oldest Inhabitants
association OF the District of Columbia will be
received. The reception Of citizens will com.
menCe at O'Clock p. M, at which time the
gates OF the Enclosure will be opened, and will
fel m nate at y. m. Carriages will approach
the Executive Mansion By the eastern gate and
leave bV the western gate.
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NATIONAL BANK NOTES received to-day for
redemption, s6sI 40. The following are the
total amounts received each month since the
estahiishment OF the redemption bureau: July,
0539 POI; August. SIC, 1886; September
sI.s2l Acc; October, S5,6ls,3,6, November, So
3Zf 500; December, Sll,272, I5G. Total, S56,-
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EoE BALLS AND PAsTIEs.
MADAME C. BAsTIEE,
(FTum B3itimOTe,}
takes Tlessure II informing the Ladies' OF asbtrr-
tor tEat -he mss from this day taken charge Of TIE
bAlE DGPAbFnE al Oh As. BATH'S, suI
being experienced in this business for ths last
twenty aTs guarantees fUG -isf4ctiJG 10 EAIss
pkEeslhGs Oh POOlNG, add CUTTING
ChlLpRHH'S HAiB ard Z ) EAI2
DRESSING speciality. EstIes will bs attera \!
70 IN their own houses by leaving their orders -
CecI5 4cs -th street.
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TIE TRANsIT OF VENUs.-The Smithsonian
Institution received telegram yesterday, from
AiTey, astronomer, Royal Greenwich Observa-
tory, that the observations Of Peters, one OF tue
American observers Of the transit OF Venus at
New Zealand, are great success, and that two
hundred ana thrty-seyen photographs were
made OF the first contact.
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PRONlENADk

II 20 " C. E X 7
VIII be given AZ tHe
NEW NORTHERN LIBERTIES TAREET.
X street, between 9Th and 5th sts,
Fer tils Bgnent OF
The WOHRN's CHRISTIAN HOME,
ST. AIMS INPANT ASYLUM,
IHR PROTESTANT ORPHAN ASYLUM,
IHE FAMILY or JOsEPH MET
y no was unfortunately Etli-d 81 this 61ilding aud
THR WASHINGTON MONUMENT,
THURSDAY. jan. Il l2Ih. NacZi Il
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PBRsoNAL.-The following persons are regis
tered at Willsrd-. s. Secor, j. Seeor, n. y;
Hon. NJ. j. SOUthard, Ii. j. Baker and family.
=. Y; W. =. StymeDs, Geo. ID. McCrearv, Pail.
adelphia; T. w. Smith, St. Joseph, j. l.. LTCu
and wife, Toronto; j. e. Falier, Pa; Jay CJ5j5.
Pa Ii. Stanbery and wife, Geo. II. Ch0ma-
Norwich. 900 The property OF the late Repre-
sentative CrCcker Is estimated to Je worth
y CCG,gvO.
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SAYILLE's NATIONAL TaEATKR.

Last Appearance of the World-renowned
JANAUSGHkk.
edne5day, December Sth-DEBO2AH, ,t Leah
the FCIsssen)
T ursdsy, December rSist............... MEDIA
Friday, J8nUsTy lst, ls75.-... GHESpEg WOLp.
es,uTdsy-Ouiy JanAusCntk Matine-....... MARY
STUART, AID COME HERE.
-
Popular prices will prevail. Secured sea.s oaiy
fe cents, e. and s lZ5. General admission IS. 50
and IS cents. PiaC-s to bs had az the Box Offic.
and Bras Adsms', gsn and SITS.
tGN YEARS DAY, 81 = O'Clock, Grand Spe-
clal Matinee, hen, for The special benefit Ct he
little folks, will be scted OINDESELLa, or THE
LITTLE GLASS sLIPPER-Msy' Gallagher as
Cinderella. sec2n tr
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ADJUSTMENTS.

i lSCOLS HAIL. MLLf ALBANA
IL mOHDA ENEhIHG, JANUARY 4,Is7S,
First aud only ppsaranCs OF the
ILLUSTEIUUS AN MERIJAN PRImA DONNA,
MILE. EMMA AIBANI.
hessrs. Max aai Maurice S-rskOscu beg laa-a o
EnrOuDCs 10 the public Cf Washington fha. u 'Ir
EMMA ALBANI will give
ONE GRAND CONCERT
On MONDAY EVENING, J an. 1, ISIS, a o'clock,
Assisted By the following elyineGE arIi-rs II the
SIRAkUSCH GRAND OPERA COMPANY
From the New NsIk ACadsm1 Of hEs5c:
MILE ALICE MAbESI,
- The lSmous Drs0lbtic sopraao.
SIGHOB BENFRATHLLT,
Primo TepOre.
SIGSOB G. TAGLIAPIETRA r. A., =,
- - Primo Baritone Hssu.n ~ 10
sIGEOB FIORINT, lens Paris
Primo BassO.
NIX. a. n. PEASE -.... .. p IA NJ-T
h1sIcsl Director and Oonductor...~.sg E. MUZlu
ADMISSION 81; Reserved Seats g / extra
. - Seats nCw az netzerOtF x Co.'S Music
etCTe. ,ec3-
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Army and Navy.

WAR DEPARTMENT, AdiUtaat Generals Dbcs,
WAsHIEGToS, December 81, 1S.4
lCTTcUlcr. l-UtticeTs of the Army in THIS city
viii assemble, in full uniform, AT the Al juta II
GeneTaiS Office, at II O'Clock a. IN, on Friday
January !, 1875, to pay their respects to the
President OF the United States.
BY or Ter at the Secretary of War:
T., ID. Towns EED, Adiutant General
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The Cabinet Receptions.

The members of the Cabinet Will receive on
New Years day from enc to three O'clock p H.,
SIS follows:
The Secretary OF State, 1900 / street.
The Secretary of Treasury, 1923 II street.
The Secretary OF Navy, 1887 X street
Postmaster General, Highland Place, corner
of lith street ana Massachusetts avenue.
Attorney General, 17l9 Rhode Island ave
nue..
Secretary Of the Interior, WOrmley's, 18th and
II streets.
The Secretary Of War and Mrs. Belknsp will
not receive on January ISt.
The Speaker Of the House and Mrs Blaine
will not receive Oh tomorrow.
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NAVEL ORDEIs.-COmmaude b. +. TAYLOR,
detached from tie Command Of the WaChusstt
and placed on waiting orders. Lieut.. Com
maIder Frank Wildes Lieut.. A. B. Wycllt.
ia asteTs Wm. a. Hadden, and T.. II. Hughes.
Ensign W II. Il. Mas-er, Surgeon George W.
Weeds, Assistant Surgeon James W. Busil,
Chief Engineer Albert Aston. and Cadet En-
giDesTs "A. Y. zane, j. r. Edwards, and G 80.
b. Ramon, frCm the Washas5t.s and plac d on
Mating CIISr-
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BROWHIEG MIDDLKT
Loysl s0t 6lO PeplsJiYAnia ay
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THE ALAsEA SEAL FIsHsRIEs.-Mr. ". Il.
Elliott, who, by joint resolution OF Congress,
was requested 10 proceed to Alaska AMI inyes-
tgate the condition OF the zeal fisheries, hes
made a report 10 the Secretary OF the Treas
uTy. Mr.. Elliott IS OF the opln-on tn At the an
nusl crop of seal skins is all that makes Alaska
valuable possession, and that il the killing O.
seals is carried on subject to strict regulations
and limitations, the number will not bs mate
rally diminished. There must be better iOc Il
government, however, TO enforce the laws anI
protect the rshpTieE,
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GREAT DISTRESS has been Occasioned in the
families Of the four hundred employees recently
dismissed from the bureau OF engraving anI
printing, owing to the work heretofore done in
tIat bureau having been transferred to New
YORK bank note companies under contracts. The
Superintendent, Mr. MCCartee, l. bsseiged
both ii hls house and at the department, to DO
something for them, but though his sympathies
are with tue eN-eEplOyes, lie is pOWerless 10
assist them, and states tGat unless Congre.s
soon takes acton in the matter OF printing =
further reduction of force viii become nsces-
saTy.
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THERE ARS IMPORTANT cHANGEs to be made
in he Treasury department after the 1st pros-
ino, but for reasons OF policy it is not deemed
prudent to announce them in detail az present.
In this connection It may be stated I'll Il in de-
teTmlnIng upon the changes yet to be made,
Secretary BristOw has not been influenced IN
the least by tie cl2m0Ts OF parties Inside or Ous-
sics OF the department who have lost their
influence IN the control OF certain bureaus. The
changes III Ce made IN the interest OF the GOV
eminent service, and after they are made, tie
inside and outside ciiques will ind that they
lave not gained N the least.
National Republican., 1874-07-08

WHY DON'T the New York journals
which are so deeply interested in the alleged
misgovernincnt of the District of Columbia
turn their attention TO their own city? A
statement Just published shows that under
its boosted reform government its indebted
ness was increased five millions Of dollars
last month, and for the first six months Of
the present year nearly eighteen millions,
or one half Of Its annual expenditure.
New York seems to be ambitious 70 run up
a debt as large as that of the General Gov
ernment and she is succeeding at q rate
that must be cOnsOling to those who have
to foot the bill. Seventeen millions of dol
lars have been expended here in two or
three years, but we have the best paved
city in the world to show for it. New
York can show nothing for her seventeen
millions, gone, nobody seems to know
where, in six months. The strange thing
about it is that her newspapers are as dumb
as q statue about it. Day after day we have
columns about fraud in Washington; de-
tectives and spies have been set TO watch
our officials. Why don't there be little
of the same energy shown at homer Are
the highly moral Journals in the so-called
reform ''ringT' The whole thing is, to
say the least, strange and peculiar.
National Republican., 1874-07-08
DEPOSIT RESER YES.

In commenting upon and constituting the
new currency act some Of our contempo-
raries seem to lose sight of the fact that
there is no requirement in the act that the
deposit reserves shall be kept at home. 1t
does provide, however, that the five per
cent. redemption deposit required to be
kept at the Treasury, may form part of the
reserve to secure deposits. Beyond this the
deposit reserves are untouched by the new
act. The reasonable construction must be
that this five per cent. may form portion
of that reserve which the old law required
to be retained at home, because that banks
having but a short line of deposits might
not otherwise be able to avail themselves of
this privilege without keeping double re-
serve which would be preiudicial to their
interests. 1t will be remembered that the
bill which was vetoed required the deposit
reserves to be kept at home, within the
vaults of the bank. 1t is clear that this
provision would have been retained by the
Conference Committee in the present act, il
such had been.the design of Congress. II
seems to us, therefore, that the construction
given to this act by the Comptroller of the
Currency in his recent letter to Mr.. Otis,
which we have already printed, is the cor
rect and only one which it will reasonably
bear.
National Republican., 1874-07-08

PRIVATE MOTIF from Mr.. Rayner. the Mis-
sissippi member Of the Alabama claims CON-
mission, says he will be in the city in few
days to organize the court. Mr.. Rsyner, ac-
cording to the Memphis appeal, read law un-
der the late chief justice Of North Carolina,
coming to the bar when nuilidcation was at its
height. ellis talents soon attracted the pub
lie attention, and he entered on public life as q
member of the Legislature from his county.
Possessed of q handsome independence, and
having married the daughter Of Colonel Polk,
aud sister Of General Leonidas Polk, and now
enjoying an afiuent fortune, hn Rsyner ex-
changed the profession Of the law for seat in
Congress, being repeatedly elected to the House
Of Representatives from bis district. In the
stormy period of Van Bren's administration,
when Wise and ByDdm, and Prentiss and
Graves, and Stanley we're acknowledged lead
ere, Mr.. Rayner vas no less distinguished as
an able chamvlon of the Wing party. Subse-
ouently he came within one vote Of being elect
ed 10 the Senate of the United States, and in
1856 his name was prominently associated with
tho candidacy tor the Presidency, and when Sc
cession occurred, notwithstanding that he had
been Union man, he gave his sympathies at
once 20 the South, and shared, by the entire
loss Of his fortune, the disasters Of the war.
Mr. Rayner is a sound lawyer and ripe scholar,
and will all the post to which he has been as
signed with distinguished ability. And his
appointment is an act of consideration on the
part of the President which gives assurance
that the era Of reconciliation is indeed approach
ing" .-f gf--.4 -. -....
National Republican., 1874-07-08

AT THE Iammany demonstration on the
Fourth of July that pure and spotless pa
triot, the Hon. Fernando Wood. who
wanted to make New York a tree city dur
ing the war; who shipped arms to the
Southern Confederacy and in innumerable
ways showed himself to be a dishonest,
dangerous demAgogue, made a speech which
will be laughed at from one end Of the
country to the other. ' Brothers, - be
shouted, " we must meet them soon again
in battle p OF course, he meant the Radi-
Gals with big R. Now, we have faint
recollection that the only battles Fernando
and his brothers were engaged iR were q
few draft riots in New York about the year
1862-'3.when police officers were murdered
and the houses Of peaceable citizens broken
into and robbed. Let us, Z" he continued,
" prepare for great fight. Every red man
" must be ready for the saddle. Every
90 true Indian must seek the war.path. y
These true Indians, it must be remem-
bered, are Tammany Democrats; but there
is not SO much difference between them and
some of the real Indians as might be sup
posed. A large number Of the tribes 20
upon the war-path purely for purposes ol
plunder. Fernando's bands have no Other
object Whatever in view. He went on
II Myself an ancient warrior (plunderer)
' of many hard fought battles, viii be with
you. shall take the tomahawk and The
National Republican., 1874-07-08

THE St. Louis Globe, which told US few
days ago that the third-t discussion was
an entirely ''superfuous question, " comes
along again with another column upon the
same subject, in which it declares that the
newspapers do not treat 1t intelligently, and
adds, "a mere negative does not suffice in
''politics, and unless those who are opposed
'to a third election Of General Grant can
''mould the opposition to him into a more
'tangible shape than mere negative, and
concentrate their support upon some other
candidate, we might as well settle down
'to acknowledging Grant as President for
'1ife" Mem.-The Globe is offering SenG-
tor Morton its support in 1876.
National Republican., 1874-07-08


SUFFRAGE IN THE DISTRICT.
The New York World has busted itself
lately with -surmises, arguments and false
statements regarding the right of suffrage
in the District of Columbia. 1t claims that
" the first blow at negro suffrage has been
" struck by the same hands which created
" it in the interest of the Republican
party" This is all very well as piece
of political demagogism, but the World
forgets that the majority of the voters dis
franchised in the District by the recent act
Of Congress are not black citizens The
truth is that they are white, and that they
enjoyed the ineffable right Of voting for
mayor and Aldermen for years and genera
tions before the pending unfortunate mud
die occurred. The ''interests Of the Re-
publican party" had no more to do with
the origin of negro suffrage here than the
temporary abolition of all suffrage, Those
interests reside in constituencies which are
enabled to obtain voting representation in
the halls Of Congress or in legislative coun-
ellis which are supreme unto the localities
which they represent In the District we
have had Territorial government subject
to the supervision Of Congress the same as
that in Wyoming, and while it may have
been a matter of party pride that the Re-
publican candidates should be elected in the
few campaigns occurring under our Terri.
toriai form, the result either way
did not and could not have. affected
the interests. of either party. Without q
vote for President, with bare aeknowl-
edgment Of our existence in national con-
ventions, and virtually without direct rep
resentation IN Congress, our condition has
been described tersely, though not elegantly,
as political eunuchs." At the same time
it must be remembered that the World, the
Tribune, and other journals Of like Demo-
cratic. kidney, were mainly Instrumental
in forcing Congress to make the temporary
suspension of governmental functions, and
that as the result Of their labors gentlemen
have been appointed as a Commission to
govern the District ad interim who are not
citizens or even denizens. 10 ..'~'''- .-'-
We do not refer to these facts in COM
planning spirit, but merely for the purpose
of answering the Worlds argument and to
show that the Republican party has in no
way sacrificed one jot or title Of its ale.
glance TO the principle of equal rights and
universal suffrage. It is possible that in the
elections which occurred under our late
government bad men and careless men
were elected to Office; but in the Demo
cratic city of New York Tweed and his
confreres carried things with such high
hand that gamblers, barkeepers and men
who had been srraigned for the vilest Of
vile crimes were repeatedly chosen to rep
resent the people. John Morrissey came to
Congress with the Worlds support, and
Fernando Wood, who escaped the peRiten-
tiary through the statute Of limitations is
an acknowledged leader Of the opposition
in that city, and claims an apparently end
less title to a seat in the House Of Repre-
sentatiYes.
National Republican., 1874-07-08

As WILL be seen by reference to our
news columns the Commissioners Of the
District have, by their first official procla-
nation, abolished and consolidated a num-
ber of offices. 1t was to be expected, in
view of recent events, that they would
economic as far as possible in the expenses
of the government, which, with the light
before them, they seem to have done. No
doubt there are many Of our citizens who
will be dissatisfied, and will argue that the
Commission, being unacquainted with our
municipal forms and customs, have made
mistakes; but we are confident that they
will manfuIly and honestly correct such
errors as may be exposed in the progress of
their investigations. They impose rather
an onerous burden on the Comptroller of
tie District, and evidently reckon with
out their host" when they anticipate that
the United States Treasurer will disburse
the small sums required to be paid the
many employees of the different branches
of our government
National Republican., 1874-07-08

An EXCHANGE not altogether above sus-
picion, 50 far as railroads are concerned
says: I'VE have advocated the completion
''of the Northern Pacific and the Texas
''and California railways in the interest of
''our mechanics and manufacturers, &c,
&c Now, is it MOI about time that news
paper editors should stop nonsense of this
character? Nobody believes it; the dis
guise is entirely too thin. We have nothing
to say so far as the roads in question are
concerned, but this business Of advocating
every job and scheme and project to take
money out of the Treasury in the interest
Of the mechanics or the workingmen, when
it is really in the interest of the railroad
monOpolists, is so transparent as to bring
contempt upon its authors.
National Republican., 1874-07-08

rifle, and it will be well for the youngest
" and stoutest chief of our tribe if he will
"bring back as many scalps, if he will take
20 as many prisoners and bear back to our
:. great lodge as many trophies as the vete-
"ran who makes this tall" This is some
what grotesque, but we have no doubt OF
it. Fernandos success in the salary grab
business is proof pOsitiEethat he can plum
der public treasury as well as any other
man. The last grand warrior of the Tam
many tribe is now Number SO" upon
Blackwell's island.
National Republican., 1874-07-08
FOR COAL.
-----ai.. 1NAvr PAY OFFICE,

... ..----. 10 l..a ENAvY PAY OFFICE,
WARRINGTON ID. c., July 7, 1874. (
Sealed proposals. % be ind9rsgd Proposals for
the tn day OF j ny, 1874 for tn bel Iw-d be
coal TO be dsliyeEed, free OF expense to the Gov
nment, At the " ashington NAVY Yard, subject to
FfTREAu Of ,EQuiPIIENT- AND RECRUIT
y "a F..---.a- ING. ....
1, on Zone thousandl tons CumberlAnd coal.
To lie or the best qually, free from dirt or slate,
70 be delivered into carts provided by the GoTern-
ment on tile Navy Yard wharf aud to be paid for at
thu we ght Of the Navy Yard scale', at 2O pounds
10 the ton The cUAlis to be delivered In snch guam
IL from time to time, as may be CALLED for by
the Colnmand4nrp Of the Washington Navy Yard,
d aRk forms Tor bids 70 be had at this once.
RESPONSIBLE, security wid be equirGd for the
prompt aud faithful delivery q the coal when
not considered Advantageous to the Goyernm mt.
- : T--.-.- "a q, z. .THORSTON,
Tvs Pay Inspector United Strtes Navy.