Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-07-03
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.


THE RECEIPTS to-day were, from internal
revenue, siO2 1852; Customs, s5l5,34.6i.
THE NATIONAL BANK CIRCULATION ont
standing amounts to S5i9 2S5 800, of which
81 $4,000 are notes issued TO gold banks.
SECRYTA BELKNAP and family arrived
in New York from West Point last evening,
ard took rooms at the st. James hotel.
SECRETARY BRIsTow went to New York
this morning. He will return on uesday
next.
CONSUL APPoINTED-The President has
appointed Jose Enrique de Guerra Consul at
La Paz, Bolivia.
d. ID. CONE has been appointed private sec
rotary to the Pre- .ident TO sign land patents
in place of Williamson, resigned.
GEN. JOHN EATON, commissioner of edu-
cation. will by invitation, delivers an address
before the cOnvOcatiOn of the University OF
New York at Albany next week.
THE TREASURY now holds S375.735. 800 in
L. s. bonds TO secure national bank circu-
lation, and S15,7 100 to secure public de-
pos1ts.
TREASURER NEW devoted a great deal of
his time to-day to an examination OF the
method of conducting business in the cash
room of the Treasurer's department.
THE SUSPENSION PAPERS in the case Of
the ObstrepOrous Sam Bard came back this
morning from Long Branch with the approx
ing signature of L. 6. Grant.
PERsoNAL-Among the passengers for
Europe by the steamer Nuremburg. from Bal
timore, to-day. were Mr.. NJ. william o. this
city. and Mrs. F. X. Phillips and Miss Mirl-
am Phillips, of San Francisco.
pT-rEr in, III, rroaS,r,- TIL,
only discharges to-day were fifteen messen-
gers and watchmen. The commissions of
those appointed as deputies 10 the au tors
nave not yet been returned from Long
Branch.
PRoNOTFD-IIenry w Cragin. y H.; Ed
ward W. Cady. y. Y: Ferry b. Pierce, y. Y;
Charles J. Hodrick, n. c.; Isaac p. LIONS,
Mass; Noah Hayes. Ind; and VIM. II. Sin
gleton, ID. C.. have been promoted tlirl as
s!stant examiners i'm the Patent Ofic3.
THE SARANAC SURvIvoRs.-A dispatch
received at the Navy department from Adj
miral Rodgers, dated Vallejo, Cal, July %,
! announces the arrival of the officers and crew
of the lost L. <. =. Saranac at that station on
the steamer Pacific. that morning.
CHANGE OF COLOR-To avoid liability to
mistake, caused by the similarity in color
between the two-cent and ten-Cent postage
stamps, the former will in future be printed
In vermilliOn, the old color OF the seven-c aut
stamp, the use of which has been discon-
tinued.
RELIEVED FROM SPECIAL DUTY-By
direction of the President. 1st Lieut. Eli l..
Higgins, ID artillery. has been relieved from
duty as professor of military science and
tactics at the Minnesota State University
st. Anthony Falls, Mimi, and ordereI. TO
JOIN his proper station.
ELECTION OF A SQUATTER-A communi-
cation from the agent of the Nez Perces In
dians at Lapwai, Idaho, TO the commissioner
OF Indian affairs, says that the agent of VIM.
I. Ian2tOn, who claimed and had obtained
possession Of that reservation, had been
elected by detachment of United states
troops. The act had given the Indians mach
qualification.
IT's HAED.-On Saturday last an employe
Of the navy yard who has been on duty at
that station continuously for forty years,
was discharged. He now walks the streets,
and meeting his friends informs them that
working for Uncle Sam is very uncertain
employment" Another wall comes from a
Treasury emplOye who has been discharged
alter service of thirty years. He has come
To the conclusion that republics are un-
grateful.
THE PROG RAMME for the open-air concert
| by the Marine band, Prof Schneider. leader.
! at the Presidents grounds this evening, is
as follows; National Air; march. New Wine,
J'etalS Roi, Adam, arranged by l.. Schnei-
der; cavitana Manadina. (altO solo, Verdi:
waltz, Blue Danube, StrauS; pOtpourri Lu-
| cla di Lammermour, DOniZetti; finale La
Nestale, Mercadante; pOtpOurri, GerOfic- Gil
rOi3, LecOcq; trumpet solo, American airs
Schultz; NOtional Air.
NAVAL ORDERs-Passed-Ass Paw
master John Mac Mahon to temporary duty
| at the navy-yard at Pensacola, Florida.
Detached Lieutenant seth Mackley from
The Richmond On the reporting of his relief
and ordered 10 return home and report ar
rival. Lieutenant +. w. CrOcker from the
receiving ship Colorado, and ordered To the
Richmond, South Pacific station, per
steamer, 30th instant, from New York. Lieu
tenant Fred. Singer from the Ben icia, North
Pacific station, and ordered home and to re-
port himself on sick leave. Pay Inspector
lanes n. Carpenter from the navy-yard ut
Pensacola on the reporting OF his relief and
ordered TO settle accounts.
| DEMANDING MORE PAY FOR CARRYING
UNITED STATES MAILs.-The Post Office
department has been advised that the Ma
rietia, Pittsburg and Cleveland railway COM
parry had refused to carry the mails over It's
line between Marietta and Cavdl, Dover,
Ohio. because the Postmaster General would
not increase its pay for service beyond what
The law allows. The compensation was re-
Gently adjuS ted on this road by the weight
of the mails and car space uSei. precisely as
the law allows, aud no more can be lawfully
paid. Information 10 this effect was con-
the company, pOpulous country. over Loo
miles in extent, VIII he almost deprived of
mails, ard yet IL is stated a and believed by
the Postofiice department that the company
was paid more for e-third of n ca occupied
with the mails than was realized from the
other two thirds.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE COM
MITTEE OF THE NATIONAL GRANGE To-
DAY.-The executive committee of the Ma
tional Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, con-
tinued their session to-day at their head
quarters i'll this city. Mr.. WorralI, manager
of the Mississippi Trading Company, was
before them, and presented at length his
views on the subject of an exchange of pro-
ducts between the co-OperatOrS of Great
Britain and the grangers of the United States.
A sub committee, consisting of Mr. Chase,
n. Hampshire, and j. Il. Jones, of Arkansas
Unsupported to takethe whole subje( under
consideration, and report the next meeting
OF the committee on Monday next. The com
mittee also had under considerat on the
removal of the headquarters of the National
Grange, but reached no conclusion. Four
cities, Nashville, Louisville, Indianapolis,
and Cincinnati, offer special inducements,
such as the rent free Of buildings for head
quarters and other facilities. Cincinnati is
especially anxious TO secure the head
quarters, and proposed TO send a delega-
zion OF prominent citizens to Washing
ton to confer with the executive committee
but the latter notified them by telegraph
that they must submit their proposition in