Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-09-21
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip,

VasuluStUH NEWS duu OOsslp'
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY-Inter-
ual revenue, s163.344.73; customs, si99 81 .O3.
PRESIDENT GRANT and family leave Long
Branch on Thursday for Colorado.
SECRETARY DELANO is out OF town for a
few days.
THE AMOUNT of national bank note cur
rency received at the Treasury to-day for re-
demption aggregated S5s9i;239.
TREASURER NEW leaves this week for In.
dianapOlis, Ind, to spend few days with
his former friends and associates.
MARCUS HOPKINS, examiner -in-chief OF
the United States Patent office, has rendered
his resignation, which has been accepted.
IT Is NOT EXPECTED that the newly APP
pointed Commissioner of Patents, Hon. r.
Holland DUEL, will assume the duties of that
Office until the 18th proximo.
JAMES A. WATERS, of Oregon. has been
appointed a f1rst-class clerk in the finance
office, Post Office department, vice III. l.
stiles, of Wis, resigned.
NONE OF the new postal cards have yet
been issued, and no issues will be made until
the old ones on hand (about a miiliOn) are
disposed of, which will probably be within
two weeks.
SECRETARY BRIsTow will, in a few days,
commence the preparation Of his annual re-
port to Congress. He will take decided
ground in favor of the carrying out to the
letter the specie resumption act OF the last
Congress.
THE STEAMER City of Dallas will sail for
Nassau, N. p, with the U. S. mails for the
Bahama Islands, on Saturday, 25th instant,
instead of the steamer Zodiac, scheduled for
wrecked.
IT'S NOW STATED that the resignation OF
IUdiap Agent SaviIIe, rendered some time
ago, will not be acted upon until after the
report of the Red CiOud investigating com
mission, and that Mr.. Hastings, who was
recommended for the position, will not he
appointed until Mr.. Saville is dismissed or
his resignation Is accepted.
THE PROGRAMME OF MUSIC by the Ma
rine band at the Smithsonian grounds to.
morrow evening will be as fOllows:-1. Ma
tional air; 2. March, Reeves; 3. Overture,
Brassem di Preston, Adam; 1. Chorus, TrO-
vatOre, Verdi; 5. Waltz. Ariita, Arditi; 6.
anne AngOt, LecOcq: 3. Fantasia, Ringleben;
.. Selections from L'Africaine, Meyerbeer;
10. National Sir.
THE UTEs GETTING SAUCY.-A telegram
from Indian Agent Miles to the Commits
sioner Of Indian Affairs says the Ute Indians
refuse 10 accept the southern boundary of the
San Juan reservation as located, and that
pensatton guaranteed by the treaty of 1873
until the lines are properly established. The
Utes denounce as outlaws the band who at
tackled portion OF Prof Hayden's surveying
party, and will furnish guides for the troops
who may be sent To punish them.
THE u. s. STEAMER PowHATAN, now at
New York, will soon sail from that port TO
Port au Prince, in accordance with request
from the State department that a vessel of
war be sent TO that place. 1t will be recOl-
)ected that recently troubles were reported
II consequence Of threats of rescuing refugees
AZ that roI. named under protection of the
American Minister and In consequence of
these proceedings one e.. our men-Of war
should be at Port an Prince 70 rese2t any ~
dignity 10 our representative there.
To SAVE UNNECESSARY ANNOYANCE to
the appointment clerk of the Treasury de-
par imeDt, and the chagrin which usually
follows the refusal to appointment to office
IF thousand aspiring applicants, il may
be well II state that at the present time
there is not single vacancy TO any Office in
the department. The death rate among the
public employees is exceedingly light, and
the voluntary REIMBURSEMENT of a public
trust is some thing which occasions as much
surprise among ofiicehOlders as does the
transit of Venus among scientists.
AIRY ORDERs.-Flrst Lieut.. Alexander
Wishart, Goth infantry, is ordered to report
to the president of the retiring board in New
York city for examination. The leave of
absence granted I'd Lieut.. w. B. WetmOre,
eth cavalry, Fort LeavenwOrth, Kansas, has
teen extended one year, with permission TO
go beyond sea. Leave OF absence for one
year, with permission to go beyond sea, has
been granted Assistant Surgeon W.. Will
son. Fort Bayard. New Mexico The orders
OF July seth, 1875 directing Lieut.. General
Sheridan tovisit the Pacific coast, have been
confirmed by the President.
1T HAVING BEEN STATED that the new
regulations for the examination of the bag
gage of passengers arriving from foreign
ports were unsatisfactory to the Urea sury
depa rtment on the contrary, the reports re-
ceiVed from the customs officers show that
the lew regulations fully meet the expecta-
items of the department, and that their en-
IL is also stated that the Secretary is in re-
ceipt of letters from manufacturing and
journey men tailo1s and firms importing
piece goods and articles of clothing approx
Ing the regulations adopted by the depart
ment for the purpose of breaking up the
smuggling heretofore practiced by ocean
passengers.
PERsoNAL.-The family of Secretary Fish
will leave their country seat on the Hudson
in a few days for their residence in New
York, where they will remain a few weeks
prior TO returning TO Washington. PROF
Hayden. chief of the Colorado surveying ex-
petition, returned TO the city yesterday.
- Ben. Holiday was registered at the AstOr
House, New York, last evening. Geo Il.
Williams, esq, who was for some time one
of the deputy commissioners OF internal
revenue, and afterwards accepted an APP
pointment under the government of Japan,
will return to the United States next month
IL is understood that he will not go back 70
Japan. Hon. X. c. Mccormick and wife
left san Francisco last week on a trip to
Oregon and Puget Sound. Countess de
la Rochefoucauld, wife OF the new secretary
OF the French legation, has been much
courted by the fashiOnables at Newport this
season She is regarded as a desirable ac-
QUESTION 10 Washington society. ..'-Gen.
Butler was in Chicago last Saturday.
Katy Mathew, one of WashingtOn's favor
ties, has been carrying the San Francis
cans away by her charming PRESENTATIONS