Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-07-22

to report at San Francisco have been revoked.
The RECEIPTS from national bank circula-
ton for exchange in legal tenders to day sggre-
gate S26i 1926.
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAMS returned
from Rawley Springs last night, and was at the
Department of Justice to-day.
TIE WIDOW of ex Congressman MeIlish, of
New York, was yesterday appointed a nine
hundred dollar counter in the currency diys-
ion of the Treasury department.
CADETS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. f. Sparrow,
LIST district Massachusetts,, and Eugene Cooper,
9th district Tennessee, have been appointed
cadets at West Point.
PRESIDENTIAL APPoINTMENTs.-TheP resi-
dent has made the following appointments:
Seth W. Macy, collector of customs, Newport,
X. L.; j. s. Jones. United States marshal
southern district of Florida.
MARSHALL JEWELL, the newly appointed
Postmaster General of the United States, has
arrived in Berlin from st. Petersburg on his
way home. He is engaged in inspecting the
German postal service, and says he finds some
arrangements which may be applied with ad-
vantage to the American postal system. He
leaves in few days for Paris.
NEws FROM THE SOUTH ATLANTIC SQUAD
RoS.-Offcial dispatches have been received
by the Navy Department from Rear Admiral
j. II. Strong, commanding the South Atlantic
station, dated on board his flagship, tho Mo-
nOngshela, at Rio de Janero, June 23d. He
reports the health OF the squadron good. The
Wasp was at Montevideo June 1st.
MAJOR j. f. FORD, of the 10th infantry,
commanding Fort PemOina, Dakota territory,
in late telegram to the adjutant general, re-
ports everything quiet at st. Joseph. He be-
heves that the Indians who committed the late
murder there q
ton, ard thinks for several reasons that they
are Sioux.
\ GENERAL COURT MARTIAL has been ap.
pointed to meet at Fort Porter, Buffalo, n. Y,
on the 9th instant for the trial of 1st Lieutsn-
ant Martin T.. Hogan, ed Infantry. The fol-
lowing is the detail OF the court: Majoi Gus
tayes A. DeBussy, Capt. Robt. n. Scott, Capt.
Edward K. Warner, Capt. John G.. TrumbuII,
LIST Lieutenants John l.. Tiemsn and Frank W.
Hess, Sd artillery; Assistant Surgeon Robert II.
White, medical department; LIST. Lieut.. James
chester, Sd artillery, judge advocate.
BIDS FOR THE NEW LeAN.-About eight bids,
principally from New York city, have been re-
ceived by this mornings mail in response to
Secretary Bristow's circular for subscriptions
to the new five per cent loan. A large addi-
honsl instalment is expected by tomorrow
mornings mail. The bids will be opened at II
O'Clock to morrow, but will not be made public
until the day after. On account OF to.morrow
being the day set apart for the opening OF the
bids, Secretary Bristow will not leave for Long
branch In response to the Presidents telegram
until TO- MORROW night,
PrRsoNAL.-Hon. Jasper Packard, Repre-
sentative in Congress from the 18th Indiana
district, has just started a weekly paper, called
the Chronicle, at La Porte. He formerly edited
the La Porte Union. DIR. Joseph TAbsr
johnson and family are at Ocean Grove, n. d.
Tor the season, ''''Grace Greenwood ant
daughter have gone to Mantou Springs, Cal
Senator BOWS residence
burgled few evenings since,-tbe thieves get
ting away with two gold watches, 800 in money
and few articles of iewelry. lin the death
OF Miss Poe, recorded in another column of this
paper, II Il believed that the last or the family
ard iner6d the last OF the immediate Telati yes
OF the late Edgar Allan Poe has passed away.
POSTAL CAR DECIsION.-Judge Spence, 50
hc'tor Of the Post Office department to whom
" IS referred the question as to what is comoli-
nee with the laws by the railroad companies
N relation To the postal car SCI vice, rendered
an opinion to-day, in which be takes the ground
that the companies are required by Congress to
furnish the requisite facilities for the distribu-
ton or the malls on the trains. and that no
thing less than the accommod atoms now fur
nished can be accepted by the department
This opinion was solicited in consequence of
the assertion of President Hinckley, of the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore rail-
road, that the railroad companies would COM
ply with the law by carrying the mails In ordi.
nary mail cars.
NAVAL ORDBRs.-Lieut. f. f. Strong, to the
receiving ship Ohio; Passed Assistant Engi-
neer H. Schuyler Ross, to the naval station.
New London, Conn. Detached-LIeut. Geo. r.
Durand, from the receiving ship Ohio, and or
dered to command the Mahapsc, at Pensacola
Fla; Medical Inspector John ii. Brown from
the navy yard, Mare Island, Cal, and ordered
70 the Pensacola as feet surgeon of the North
Pacific station; Surgeon Delavan BloofgoOd
from the Pensacola, and as feet surgeon OF the
North Pacific station, and placed on waiting
Co Lob, =
return home, having been detached from the
Omaha on the oath ult, and has been placed on
waiting orders; Passed Assistant Engineer j.
Is. Upham has reported his return home hay-
ing been detached from the Hartford. Asiatic
station, on the 26th OF May last, and has been
placed on sick leave; Passed Assistant Enyi-
neer z. d. Habighorst, from the naval station,
New London, and ordered to the navy yard at
Philadelphia.
TAE RECENT GRADUATES of the West Point
Military Academy have been assigned as fol-
lows; L. w. Lyman, corps OF engineers; A
Murray, III. NJ. Andrews, +. s. Rice and L. F.
honeycutt, list artillery; NJ. III. Macomb, James
Il. Wilson, q. l.. Anderson, Clarence Deems
and y. b. Mltcham, 4th artillery; A. II. Miller
W. p. Edgerbar, I'd artillery; L. Is. Robertson
u. a. Craig, 9Th infantry; f. X. Webster Chas
w: Rowell, "a infantry Russell Thayer, W. H.
Davies, 18th infantry; II. G. Otis, 4th cavalry;
q. ii. Cabsnies, q. l.. Turner, Eth infantry; f.
w. Sibley, "a cavalry; Charles C. Norton, Ist
". A.
Williams, 2lst infantry; l.. X. Hare, 7th cayaI-
~; Alfred REYNOLDS, 2lst infantry; W. l.. Geary,
18th infantry; =. q. Hewett, 19th infantry; a.
Z. Walker, 18th infantry; f. +. Hardin, I I'll in
fantry; q. X. Tyler, 10th infantry; NJ. P. Mans
LIST infantry; g. +. Lloyd, 18th infantry; Theo,
ii. Eekerson, 9th cavalry; j. H. French, 9th
cavalry.
SINGULAR TESTIMONY IN THE SAFE BUR-
GLARY CAsE-There was some important evil
dence presented to-day TO the grand jury In the
safe burglary matter. The evidence was mostly
against the officials In the secret service who
have been implicated In the AFFAIR. Among
other things, 1t was testified that the records
OF the Albany penitentlsry show that the par
don OF the mysterious principal mover in the
burglary was procured through the interview
ton of Chief whitly. The person pardoned is
understood TO be the prominent actor in the
actual burglary, when the Washington police
allowed TO escape. Solicitor Of the Treasury
Wilson has gone to New ork to have an inter-
view with this person, who, it is believed, has
been assured of a safe conduct. The report
that this long missing witness has left the
country is unfounded. There are persons now
In this CITY who have recentIv held inf