Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-09-04


THE AMOUNT OF national bank note circula-
ton received at the Treasury To- day for re-
demption foots up s3i9.sOo.
THE PAYMENT OF PENSIONS commenced this
morning at the agency on street. and things
are pretty lively in that quarter in consequence.
The CONSTELLATION, United States practice
ship, sailed from New London, Conn, yester-
day, for Hampton Roads.
TIE REMOVAL of Col. whitley as chief of the
secret service division OF the Treasury depart
ment was determined upon to-day. at q consul.
tstion had between the Secretary, Assist
ant Secretary, and Solicitor BufOrd Wilson
Up TO p. N. no successor had been designated.
SUPERVISOR COBB. OF NORTH CAROLINA
President Grant has advised Secretary Bristow
from Long Branch to withhold for the present
any contemplated change in the matter of
making new appointment in the place of Su-
Pervisor Of Internal Revenue Cobb, Of North
Carolina.
ANOTHER ASSASSINATION IN ALABAMA
Senator Spencer, Of Alabama, received a tels-
gram this morning from Mobile, stating that
W. A. Lipscomb, an old Union citizen, a native
Of the state, and an orderly aud peacesble re.
publican, was recently shot in Marengo county,
on account of his politics.
NAVAL ORDKRs.-Ensign wn. G. Babcock 10
from San Francisco; Medical Inspector VIM.
t. Hood as member Of the medical examining
board at Washington, ID. G.; Surgeon VIM. X.
Van Reypen to the naval hospital, New York.
from the naval academy on the 30th inst, az d
ordered to duty on the European station in Feb
ruary next; Surgeon b. Il. Gibbs from the navy
yard, Norfolk, Va, and ordered to the Rich
mond, and as fleet surgeon of the south Pacific
station, per steamer Of 10th inst; Surgeon Jas
X. Tyron from the naval hospital, New York,
Surgeon Geo. X. Brush from the naval rendez-
vous, New YORK, and placed on waiting orders.
PERsoNAL.-ControllerK Knox, of the Treas
ury department, is visiting his relations in west
ern New York. Senator Hitchcock, of Ne
braska, and Col. W. F. Shaffer, of New York.
are at WIZARDS. MIR. II. NJ. Hutchinson
and family, who were at Wiesbsden at last ac-
counts, expect to sail for home on the LIST of
October. DIR. Ames, the new superintendent
OF documents in the Interior department, ar
rived, with his family, this morning. Pay
Inspector Gilbert T.. Thornton, of the United
States navy, who is on duty at this station, left
Washington last night on q leave of several
weeks, to be passed principally in New England.
b Il. Fuller, dis bursting clerk, Agricultural
department, has gone on an extended tour
through the west, on business connected with
that department ''''Senator Cameron had All
interview with Secretary Belknap this morning.
Gen. n. p. Chapman and wife arrived in
this city last night. after an absence of about
two months among the mountains and lakes or
llic DOrlEWtsI. Inc tfeneraIS health has bean
much improved by his trip.
CoIoRKD EMPLOYEES CALL UPos PosTMAs-
TER GENERAL JRwRLL.-By previous arrange
mept the colored laborers connected with the
Post Office department called UPON Postmaster
General Jewell and were formally introduced
to him this morning a. 10 O'Clock. One OF their
number, Mr.. Garrison, prefaced the ceremony
with brief speech. abiding to the tsalty o.;
the colored man TO the government. Postmas-
ter General Jewell replied that he was glad to
meet them, and Was not unmindful OF their de-
vOiion TO the government, and said that the
government would always be found a friend TO
them and would afford them all necessary Aid
and protection. They were then introduced
and shook hands with the Postmaster GsneraI.
Major Kramer, superintendent OF the building
was locker on or the scene, and at its close
General Marshall introduced him to Mr. jew
ell, and remarked that the major hal a good
war record, earned with the army OF the Poto-
mac before coming into the department. "I
am glad OF that and wish could say as much -
said the Postmaster General. "Addsd to his
ether qualifications he Is Methodist preacher, :"
said Mir. Gordon. ale is none the worse for
that replied Dir. Jewell