Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-04-23

and two, except on Tuesdays and Fridays,
which being Cabinet days, no one will be
received except government officials.
INTERNAL REvENUE.-The receipts from
! this source to-day were $3.50, 1910.
THE RECEIPTS from customs to-day at the
Treasury department were s4i9, 1854.
THE AMOUNT OF national bank note cur
rency received at the Treasury to-day for re-
demption was ss57 ,s2i.
WELL EXECUTED COUNTERFEIT FIVE dol
lar notes on the First National Bank of Pax
ton, Illinois, have made their appearance.
One of these notes was received at the Treas
ury department to-day.
PRESIDENT GRANT has been invited by
the Bunker Hill Monument Association to
be present at their celebration on June Il tn.
but has given no definite answer. General
sherman has announced that he Will be pres
ent.
THE CABINET MEETING to-day was at
tended by all the members, including Secre-
tary DelanO. Attorney General Williams
did not remain to participate in the delibera-
tons. owing to the press of business demand
ing his attention at the Supreme Court.
IT IS STATED to-day that Secretary Delano
Will retire from the Ca binet next week; not
from any causes arising out of the recent
puDllcdtlOnS, out IN accordance with q desire
TO retire to private life expressed to the
President two months ago. The name of
Henry +. Blow, of Missouri, is mentioned as
ms probable successor.
SIR EDWARD THORNTON. the umpire of
the American and Mexican Mixed Claims
Commission, has now over one hundred cases
before him for decision and the test case in
volvin2 the question which OF the two ma
lions is responsible for the losses OccaSiOnel
by the sacking OF Bagdad, at the mouth of
the Rio Grande, cannot be reached for q coa-
siderable time.
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAMS stated
to-day that his retirement from President
Grants Cabinet, by means Of his resignation
there1rOm had no reference to any proSpoc-
tive o. political preferment as coming
Senator from Oregon, his native state He
says that he resigned solely because he
desired 10 establish himself i'm the legal pro-
feSSiOn in this city, and viii make speciality
of Supreme Court practice.
PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS. The
President yesterday appointed Joseph NJ
Livermore, surveyor Of customs at EaStport
and for the district of Passamaquoddy
Maine; Elias Root collector of customs for
the district of Oswego, n. Y: Robert RartS-
tow, first lieutenant in the revenue marine
service; Adam COOns, internal revenue store
keeper for the 18th district OF Pennsylvania:
r. Hardy, gauger in the 9Th district of Ken
lucky.
DESIGN for the new - life saving medal"
10 be presented to persons i'm testimony of
heroic deeds in saving life from the perils of
the sea has been selected by the director of
the mint. 1t is bout three inches In diam
eter, and has on one side a representation of
three persons in a boat in an angry sea. res
cning shipwrecked persons, and on the other
the figure of history inscribing heroic deeds
ON monument surmOunted by the Ameri-
can eagle.
HON. REvERDY JOHNSON gave dinner TO
he Cabinet, judges of the Supreme Court,
their officers, and other invited guests, at
Wizards hotel last night. The President
could not attend on account of a cold.
Among those present were Secretary Bris-
tow, Attorney General Williams, Chief JUS
ice Waite, Justices Miller, Swayne, Hunt
jeremiah S. Black. Mr.. d. w. Middleton,
clerk Of the Supreme Court, and Mr.. John
w. Wallace.
THE MAIL CONTRACT FRAUDS.-The in
Vestigation of the mail contract frauds is
still in progress by the Postmaster General
and Judge Tyner. Second Assistant Post
master General. Judge Tyner this morning
discovered a fraudulent bid among those .or
mail routes ii Louisiana. About six clerks
have already been discharged for completely
in the frauds, and il is understood that at
least dozen more are Implicated. Judge
Iyner states that he is determined TO make
thorough investigation, If it takes all
summer.
ALL THE HEADS OF THE SEVERAL BU-
REAUS of the Interior Department, accom-
panied by Assistant Attorney General
Smith, solicitor for that department waited
IN body on President Grant this morning
Each OF them made a verbal statement to the
effect that the published statement convey
ing the impression that Secretary De,ano in
tiuenced the decisions OF the bureau officers
was false, and all united i'm the assertion that
no decision of any head OF a bureau of the
department had al any time been reversed
by Mr. Delano, except after a full and free
conference concerning such revision. Presi-
dent Grant informed the callers that both
their visit and several statements were I'M
garded Mi Delamo as an honest and efiiSia re
executive officer.
COMPLAINTS are being made to the
Treasury department by New York bankers
that the coin disbursed by the Sub Treasury
at that point is under weight, much of ii
averaging from one quarter to one-half per
cent below the standard. This percentage is
lost TO The exporter of gold. Section 9. F15 of
the act of February, 1873, provides chat any
gold coins of the United States if reduced in
weight by natural abrasion not more than
one half OF one per cent below the stan lard
receipt prescribed by law, after a circulation
OF twenty years az shown by the date of
coinage, and at a ratable proportion for any
period less than twenty years shall be re-
ceiyed at their nominal value by the Unitej
states Treasury and Its officers" The Treas
ury does not propose 10 disburSe coin the
WelSnt oil Wnlcl mas Deen reduced 10 a greater
extent than one-half of one per cent. and
every effort is being made by re-coinage to
bring all coin up to the full standard. Until
this has been accomplished the discrepancies
complained of will necessarily continue.
CLOSING PROCEEDINGS OF TIE Ma
TioNAL ACADEMY OF SCfENCE.-At the con-
clusion OF Prof Newbury's paper on the re-
latlOns of Some of our fossil fishes to living
forms, before the National Academy of
Science yesterday, Mr.. VIM. McMurtie, of the
department of Agriculture, read a paper on
The influence of arsenical compounds on
vegetation. On invitation of the pre- sident
OF the academy, Prof Sheldon j. Coffin of
the Lafayette college, Pa, read a communi-
cation, numerously illustrated by charts in
reference to tine winds of the GLOBE" the
Posthumous production of his father, DIR.
James III. Coffin, a member OF the academy,
,naaffely deceased; The next paper was by J.
dligard, GA preliminary account of the mag
netic survey of the United States.D The next
paper was by Gen. j. d. Barnard, son the
Interpretation OF a change of sign by passage
through infinity." The next papers real
were '.NeS formula for the detection of rec
n