Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-10-09

OF the tOuble-sheet issue of THs STAR to-
morrow.
INTERNAL REvxNUB.-The recsiPts from this
source to-day were 327,126 O5.
THE L. S. SuPREME CoURr meets on Mon
day next.
sG25 100 in national bank notes were received
at the Treasury to-day Tor redemption.
sJO.OcO called 5-2Os were received by the
Treasury department to day for redemption.
GEN. ELLIS SPEAR has been assigned to duty
for the remainder of the present month
Assistant Commissioner OF Patents.
TIE THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GRS-
ERAL yesterday issIeG TequisitiOus on the con
tractors tor postage stamps, stamped envelopes
and postal caTds, amounting to over S477 ,O00.
This u the largest days work in this line ever
done by the department.
APPOINTMENT OF AH INDIAN COMMISSIONERS.
The President has appointed Hon. Charles q.
Hammond, of Chicago, Illinois, a member OF
the Board Of Indian Commissioners. Mr.. Ham
mOGd has aCct pied the appointment. He il.
We learn, a gentleman OF high standing aud in
tegfity, and eminently lifted for the position.
SUICIDE IN SAN FRANCIsCo.-A, B. Mullett,
supervising architect of the Treasury, has re-
ceiN cd q dispatch from San Francisco annOunc-
ing the death, by suicide, of John NJ. Eckfeldt
melter ana TefHer OF coin in the mint of that
city. Temporary insanity is assigned az a
cause fer the rash act.
NAVAL ORDRRs.-Lieut. b. S. Richards, to
temporary duty on board the exercising ship
Independence, Mare Islsnd, Cal. Dstdchsd-
Acting Assistant Surgeon W. j. CrOnyn, from
the Constellation and placed on waiting orders
Pay master J. a. Smith, from the Constellation
ard ordered to settle accounts.
THs TESTIMONIAL NUIsANcE.-Editor Star
Examiner MunsOn, of the Patent office, is busy
to-day drum ming up subscriptions in that Office
tor testimonial 20 Commissioner Ieggett. Has
The vacancy OF Examiner of Interference, TO
which MunsOn is in the line Of prompotiOn any
thing TO DO with his using the government tir,s
IN whipping in subscribers? y. Y. Il.
TaE ATTORNEY GENERAL has decided upon
the questions, as TO whether the votes given iur
and against the removal of the capital in Mon
tsRa territory at a recent election there were
legally canvassed or can be recanvassed. are
questions of local concern over which dpp4rt-
ments o. the government have no jurisdiction,
and that the appropriate place for their deter.
1niration is in tie courts OF that territory.
PRESIDENT GRANT. General Sherman, and
large par'yCf prominent business men aud
capitalists from New York were on the fair
grounds in st. Louis several hours yesterday.
The President ard party, accompanied by
General Sherman. will leave St. Louis Satuf-
day morning tor visit to the Indian territory
ana VIII go as far a. DeBnisOn, Texas. Re
tuning, the Presidential party will 20 to EaE-
sss City aud Leavenw0Ith, and thence To
Springfield H., where they will assist At the
inauguration OF the Lincoln monument.
The ATTRMPT made by the Washington cor
respondent OF Baltimore paper to create the
impression that an unpleasant scene occurredin
the office OF the Postmaster General between the
after and Senator pencer yesterday, is untrue
Senator Spencer, il i true, requested the ap-
p1intmeDt OF another special agent for A la
bama, but the Postmaster General regarded il
a. unnecessary. The conversation throughout
was OF the pieas8ntest character, as Senator
Spencer or the Postmaster General will testify.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND THE WHITE
LEAGUERs.-Ihe Attorney General said to- day
with reference to rumOrs prevalent in New
orleans yesterday, as Geographically reported
here, that be had instructed maTshals TO arrest
and prosecute white lesguers throughout Lou
islana, that he was not inclined either to con-
tTm or contradict such reports. There is very
little doubt expressed in the best Informed cir
cles that such action has been determined Upon
by the Department Of Justice.
THE CHATTANOOGA CONVENTION. call
for convention Of the republicans OF the recon
structed states TO be held on the 18th instant In
Chattanooga, Tenn, has been extensively circu-
lated through the southern states Is is expected
that MaTylsn District OF Columbia, and Vlr-
glnia will be well represented in the convention.
Arrangements have been mSde with HT. Bro
dus, passenger agent OF the Great Southern
mail route, for rOu nd-tTip tickets from Wash
!Dgton to Chattanooga, to delegates ana Others
who wish to visit the convention, for So. 81, TO
be obtained at COS PENNSYLVANIA avenue and
good till the 25th instant.
PBRsONAL.-Justlce Field, of the United
States Supreme Court, arrived in Washington
yesterday. Gen. Whipple, chief of General
Sherman's staff, leaves here tonight for st.
Louis. "A private dispatch has been re-
ceived by friends or the family announcing the
IAngeTOuE in
New York city. DIR. Lindeman, superin-
tendent OF the mint leaves for San Francisco
tomorrow. 80. The Lieut.. Commander, kel-
iogg, L. s. N, who died OF yellow fever at PEN
saCOla a short time since, was T.. NJ. and not II.
r. Kellogg who IL at present on duty on the
lakes.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES OF THE Posi-
OFFICE DEPARTMENT. The payments made
by the Post Office department for the fiscal
ended June 50, 1874, amounted to s32.-
l2G,4li.5S, which includes steamship subsidies
amounting to SCOT, 80, and payments male
during that year tor expenses Incurred in pre-
yiOus years The revenues of the department
for the same period were S2Gi1I, ,0TI.S2, show
ING an increase over the fiscal year ended June
80, 1873, OF IS, A. 330.Z5. The increase in ex-
penses this year over last was - 04l 1881. The
amount OF deficiency appropriated by Congress
for the department for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1874 was SIS ,396 G02, OF which Sf,g13,-
0'2tt was actually used by the department.
The ANNUAL REPORT of the Commissioner Of
Pensions will show that the maximum as to
numbers on the rolls has been reached ana
passed. The diminutIon of the year will be
quite marked. AT the same time the sum paid
tOr pensions will be largely increased, owing 10
the advance of nearly ali rates by the last Con-
gress. The decrease IN the number of pen
sioDers Is owing chiefly TO minor children reach
ing the age OF sixteen. Mari ages among widows
are growing rapidly less each year. The addI-
ton TO the various rates made at the last session
have increased the disbursements to a greater
extent than was expected. The addition to the
pension appropriation for next year. in spite of
the large reduction in numbers, will be over
~ ,00 600. This year no defalcations have taken
place among pensiOn agents.