Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-05-28
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
THE TREASURY now holds sS7e, 1913. 400 in
bonds TO secure national bank circulation.
and sI59lI 200 TO secure public deposits.
THE PRESIDENT will leave Washington
with his family for Long Branch on Tuesday
next.
SAMUEL NJ. COLEMAN, secretary to Ad
miral Leroy, died on board the United States
steamer Monongahela, April %.
INTERNAL REvENUE.-The receipts from
this source to-day were 1901 900 6S-total for
the month 10 date, s10,TO6,ol2. The receipts
from customs to-day were S5l3, sol.
NATIONAL BANK NOTES received at the
Treasury to-day for redemption were $751;
S2l. Total receipts for the week ending were
II, 176,s56.
COMMODORE JEFFERs, chief of the bureau
ordnance Navy department, has improved
in health, and is expected home from Cali
fornia about Wednesday next.
THE Z. s. STEAMER ALERT was put i'm
commission at Philadelphia on the 9th in St
She will proceed to Annapolis by the 10th or
18th OF June 10 receive the cadet engineers
for practice cruise.
SOMEBODY MUST RISE AND EXPLAIN
Attorney General Pierrepont has requested
by telegraph an immediate report of the
facts connected with the escape of the noto-
rious cOunterfeter, Pete Mccartney, vino
recently escaped from jail at Waco, Texas.
THE BOARD OF NAVAL OFFICERS who are
charged with the revision of the rules and
regulations for the government of the navy
have taken a short recess, and on reassem-
bling, early in June, will submit their work
TO the Secretary of the Navy for his APP
proval.
NEW POSTAGE STAMP.-The Postmaster
General has approved the new design for a
foreign postage stamp. The stamp will be
printed in vermiliiOn and will bear the pic
lure OF cen. zachary Taylor. Above the
Vignettc are the words ~. ). Postage" and
below Five (5) Cents"
THE WHISKY RING PRosECUTIoNs-In-
structions have been sent by the Attorney
General TO the various district attorneys in
the west 10 commence prosecutions against
the members OF the whisky ring. In some
instances suits have already been entered.
and vigorous measures on the part of the
government are 10 be resorted 10.
THE NATIONAL BANK CIRCULATION out
standing amounts to $3.50, O2O 49, of which
amount S2,i59, 900 are notes issued to gold
banks 81 ,23i,7O0 additional national bank
circulation has been issued during the pres
ent month, and the Secretary of the Treasury
IL.
Of legal tenders, amounting TO S9S7 100.
THE CHANGES in the Office of the Attor-
ney General and appointments to the seve-
raj bureaus made in a recent order issued by
Judge Pienepont will be announced on the
LIST OF June. He also proposes to make eX-
tensive changes in the offices of marshals in
the south, which will not be completed, how
ever, until June 30th.
THE NEW MARINE UNIFoRM.-The Secre-
tary of the Navy has approved the report of
the board Of officers Of the Marine corps, APP
pointed 10 revise the uniform or that branch
OF the naval service. The new regulations
Will go into effect January lst, 1876, for the
officers, and July lst, 1876, for all others of
The corps,
NAVAL ORDERs.--Chief Engineer Albert
Aston, to take passage on the Powhattan to
AsplnWall, thence to Panama, AMI on arri-
val 10 report for duty on board the Omaha.
t-.c1ed-Chief Engineer Jackson Noel
well, from special duty at Chester, Pennsyl
vania, and ordered to the Powhattan 10th
on June next. Chief Engineer John b. Car
penter, from the Powhattan 10th June next
and placed on waiting orders.
INCREASED REVENUE RECEIPTs.-A sum-
mary statement of the receipts from the va
rious sources of internal revenue for the first
eight months of the fiscal year ending June
30, 1875, exhibits an increase over receipts for
the same period of the previous year of over
ten million dollars, The tax on LIQUORS OF
all kinds yielded nearly 81, 900, 900. that on
tobacco $50 600 900, the tax upon the circula-
tion and business of the banks about 5000.
co., and all other sources less than 5000 900.
THE PERPLENITIEs of official life are be-
ginning to be felt by Attorney General
Pierrepont. He is anxious to reform the ser
wee of the department in the west and south.
FROM prominent politicians he receives let
tefs strongly recommending certain appli-
cantS for office, and vet from equally potent
sources comes the information that the APP
/ plicant seeking the place TO which he is
recommended is not worthy 10 hold q public
office. The great trouble he finds is the want
of reliable Information as to candidates.
AN IMPORTANT PRIZE CAsE.-To-day, in
the District Court. Judge Humphreys the
prize case of the rebel steamer Florida. cap
tuned by the United States steamer Wachu-
sett on the eth of October. 1851. in the harbor
Of Bahia, Brazil, was heard-Gen. Butler and
Mr.. Hackett for the libellantS, and Mr. Cor
wine and District Attorney Fisher for the
government. 1t viii be remembered that the
Florida was under the cover OF a Brazilian
corvette, and protest was made against
any interference with her, but she was cap
tured Notwithstanding. The government
claims that the capture was Illegal and is
void and the libel cannot be maintained.
THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
says in relation 10 the statement OF Gen.
Bradley, commanding at Fort Laramie. in
the New York tribune of yesterday, to the
effect that he (B.) was shown seven herd of
cattle utterly unit for use, which had been
issued to Red Clouds band, that these cattle
belonged To the contractor, who had separated
them from his herd as unfit for issue and
mat said cattle We're not issued at all as
Gen. Bradley might have ascertained had he
inquired of any one else but Red Dog. Ret
Cloud concurS in this statement and saws
Red Dog told Gen. Bradley a lie in regard 10
the cattle.
THE lsTHNCs SURVEYING PARTY
Lieutenant Collins and others of the party
engaged in the survey of the Napipi route
for a canal across the Isthmus of Panama
have returned TO Washington, having COM
pleted their work in the field of exactly one
hundred days. The survey was very la
borious one, the men having suffered greatly