Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-20
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and GOSSIP.

Washington News and GOSSIP.
INTERNAL RivKNuB.-The receipts from
this source to-day were s25i,9i5.21.
JAMES CRAWFORD has been appointed super
intendent of Il mint at Cars, IN City, Nevada.
TIE PATlNr OFFICE was closed to-day in
respect TO the memory OF the late ex-Commis-
sioner Fisher, whose funeral took place to-day.
THE AMOUNT of national bank note currency
received at the Treasury to-day for redemption
foots up s239, GOO.
THE U. s. STEAMER wAcHUsRTr was at Sam
ana Aug. 5th. Commander Taylor reports that
the officers and crew are in remarkably good
health, only two persons being on the sick list.
CALVERT s. FoAD has been appointed by the
President inspector of gas and meters for the
District Of Columbia, under the late act OF Con-
gress.
In PURSUANCE of an act of Congress, regula-
tions have been issued by the Commissioner of
the General Land Office for the sale of the
Kansas Indian laLds In the state of Kansas.
RBAR ADMIRAL LEROY arrived at Rio July
21st, and as soon as the court of inquiry on re-
pairs Of the Lancaster is completed will relieve
Rear Admiral Strong of the command of the
South Atlantic station.
DocKRAY's SENTENCE CoMMurKp.-TheD De-
Iartment of State has received official notice
from the Spanish authorities Of the commuts-
ton of the sentence to imprisonment for life of
Dockray, an American citizen who was sem
fenced to death by the Cuban authorities.
PERsoNAL.-General Cowen, assistant Sec
rotary of the Interior, has gone to Northern
New York, where his family will reside for
several weeks. He will return in three or four
days. MIR. Jewell, the new Postmaster Gem
eral, arrived In New York last night.
TIE U. s. STEAMER SwATARA arrived at
Bahia, Brazil, July 18th, having sailed from
New York Jan. It'll. She had good weather on
the passage. Mr.. Louis Ssebohm, photogra-
pher, has been condemned by medical survey,
and landed at Bahia to return to the United
States.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Lieu,ensnt VIM. b. New
man, to the Roanoke. Midshipman John w.
Beane to the north Atlantic station per steamer
Goth instant. Observation-Disclosures A, A,
Nicholson, from the Roanoke and ordered to the
North Atlantic station, per steamer Goth inst.
Boatswain VIM. Jones, from the receiving ship
Sabine and ordered to the Ossipee, per steamer
18th inst.
NEW DESIGN for registered package en-
velope has been adopted by the Post-Ofice de-
partment The new envelope is Of the same
size, is red edged and lettered, and has a pecu-
liar fastening intended TO prevent the pack age
from being opened by unauthorized persons
without detection. Proposals for one years
supply COCO, 000) of these envelopes will be
opened on the 2Sth inst.
THE DISMISSAL of Col. Whitly, chief of the
secret service division of the Treasury depart
ment, and his assistant, Nettleship, has been
decided upon by the Secretary of the Treasury,
who Is now looking about for a successor to the
former. The Secretary has been DELAYING his
m III rarn walls tr,fiI tba
subject OF the Harrington safe burglary is taken
up by the grand jury. The secret ser vice sys-
tenn Will be reorganiTed.
THERE WAS SOME UEEAsIsKss at the Navy
department yesterday for the safety of the
United States steamer Lancaster, flagship of
the South Atlantic station, until the dispatch
was received by the associated press (printed in
Yesterdays starr announcing the presence of
that vessel at Rio. The Lancaster left Key
West on the 18th of May last for Rio, and her
arrival there not having been reported to the
department, 1t was feared that some acciden.
had happened to him.
TIE NATIONAL BANK REDEMPTION AGENCY
Of the Treasury department has about one mil
lion dollars in national bank notes assorted and
prepared for delivery to the controller of the
currency. Treasurer Spinner will within day
or two make the call upon the banks by which
tue notes have been issued to deposit with him
an equal amount OF legal tenders to make good
me Eve per cent. deposit for the redemption of
circulation required by the act of June 20, 1874
This call will embrace banks in Boston, New
York, Philsdelphis and Providence.
RELIEF FOR GRAssHoPPER SRrrLKRs.-The
Commissioner Of the General l. md ONCE has
directed that the regulations respecting final
proof of homestead settlement in the grass
hopper region Of Iowa and Minnesota, be so
modified as to permit settlers to go before the
clerk or their county court to make their depo-
stions instead of before the local land officers.
fat ION 0e
liable parties, that many settlers remote from a
local land Office can ill afford the expense OF a
long journey, especially in their present impov-
erished condition.
CANDIDATES FOR CHIEF OF THE SECRET
SERvICE.-There are several applications for
the position of Chief of Secret Service, in place
of Col. Whitly, in case the Secretary OF the
Treasury shall determine to remove the latter
officer. They are chiefly persons more or less
prominently connected with the detective ami
police force OF the country. North Carolina
has one candidate; Mr.. s. Felker, Of Chicago, Is
another candidate, who has some strong politi-
cal support. The chief Of police OF Milwaukee,
Wis, is also candidate for the position, and it
Is understood that he is recommended by Sena-
tor Carpenter, who is now here.
The FIVE PER Gent. TAX ON THE PACIFIC
RELATIONSHIPS chief clerk OF the Treasury
Is busily engaged in gathering data to be en-
braced in the demand now being drawn up by
the Solicitor OF the Treasury on the Pacific rail-
reads for the payment OF the withheld five per
cent tax on their net earnings, as required by
the original charter. The draft of the demand
will he finished within q week, and at once pre-
sented. Should the companies not respond
within sixty days, the case will be sent to the
Attorney General for prosecution, as required
by law.
GRN. JOHN G. FOSTER is lying at the point
Of death in Nashua, N. H., and all hopes of his
recovery have been abandoned by his ply
sicisns. Since the war Gen. Foster has been on
duty in the engineers department in this city,
During the rebellion he was with Gen. Auder-
soD at Fort Sumter, and was Burnside's right
hand man at the capture of Roanoke aud New
bern. He subsequently commanded the 18th
army corps In North Carolina, which included
many Massachusetts, troops, and was greatly
esteemed by the soldiers Of his command At
the time of the investment of Little Washington,
on Tar river, he performed one Of the most
gallant deeds in the annals OF the war, by run
ming In q small steamer past the rebel bat
teries commanding the channel, for the pur-
pose Of hurrying forward re-enforcements to
relieve the little garrison. The daring act was
not unobserved by the rebels, who sent q solid
shot through the stateroom Of the general, but
se he happened to be on deck, he escaped
harm, reached Newbern In safety and ac-