Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-09-18
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Inter.
Eal revenue, $3.50, 2s9.15; customs, s26i, 27462.
No OFFICIAL INFORMATION regarding
the reported Indian fight has yet BEEN re-
ceived here.
ATTORNEY GENERAL TAT returned from
New York this morning. He expects
start for Ohio in few days.
CHIEF JUSTICE CARrrER, of the District
of Columbia Supreme Court, has returned
to this city after his usual summer vacation
In Ohio.
JAS. II. WATSON, OF Iowa, has been ap.
pointed major and paymaster In the U.
army, vice A. ii. Seward, who died Sept. IL,
1876.
$500, 600 IN U. 9. BONDS were withdrawn
from the Treasury to-day and Az per cents
deposited. or the bonds so Withdrawn,
500 eco were new SIS, and $4,000 were
10-iO's.
THE POTOMAC RIsING.-Mr. G. E. Kill
bourne, OF the Signal once, sends us q CON-
munication to day, stating that "the signal
service observer at Harper's Ferry reports
thst the river rose eight feet last night and
Is still rising"
ACROSS THE Information
indirectly received at the War department
reports General Sherman and Secretary
Cameron somewhere In the neighborhood of
Denver, Colorado, on their way across the
continent
ARRANGEMENTS for the reunion of the
Society Of the Army of the Tennessee In this
city next month are progressing satisfac-
tOrily. A large meeting Is anticipated. The
statue of Mcpherson will be placed in posi-
ton about October 4th-
THE WAsHISGToN MoNUMENr.-Secre-
tary Cameron has notified Mr.. Corcorsn,
the president of the monument commission
that the chief Of engineers has been directed
foundation of the Washington Monument
The announcement that the appointments
have been made has not yet been received
AT the War department., but II Is daily ex-
pected.
PRICAUTIoHARY-Th chief OF the bu-
reau OF medicine and surgery of the navy
has instructed the commanding officers of
vessels Of the North Atlantic station to have
their vessels thoroughly dfsinfected, SO as TO
prevent the appearance OF yellow fever on
toned 10 Keep their vessels isolated nom
merchant vessels, so disease cannot be COM
municated from any vessel hailing from an
infected port.
NAVAL ORDERS. - Midshipmen Luciau
Flynn aud Charles w. Haskell have report
ed their arrival at Annapolis, having been
detached from the Kearsarge, Asiatic sta
ton, on the 31st July last, and have been
placed on waiting orders; Midshipman F.
w. Danner has reported his return home,
having been detached from the Franklin,
European station, on nth August, aud has
been placed on waiting orders: Passed As
| sistant John A. Scott mas reported his ar
rival home, having been detached from the
Ashnelot, Asiatic station, 22d August and
has been placed on waiting orders.
A MISSING PAYMAsrER.-The officials OF
the Navy department. are somewhat alarmed
as 10 the safety of Passed Assistant Pay
master John Breese, VINO has been ON duty
In The Asiatic station for the past four years
but returned home in the United States
steamer Saco. which arrived at Mare Island
IN July. He promptly reported his arrival
10 the department, and Announced that he
would proceed to his home, at Newport r.
L. On the 9TH OF August he was in ST. Louis
en- route 10 his home, and since that time
neither his friends at home nor the Off cials
Of the department have been able To Learn
any thing OF his whereabouts He had two
or three thousand dollars with him. and IL ia
feared he may have been robbed and muir
dered.
A GENERAL ORDER has been issued from
the War department., by command of Gen.
eral Sherman, applying to the travel OF ofi &.
GERS OF the army. 1t states that mileage liz
the only money allowance, OF whatever Kind,
which can be paid for travel on and after
July oath. 1876; and specifies when this allow
ance win be made. The order also includes
regulations for officers baggage. Actual
expenses can be paid to persons other than
ofncers Is follows: To paymasters' clerks
and citizen witnesses before military courts:
to citizens employe ed at arsenals and armo.
ries, public works and forttdcatious; to COM
missarfes clerks and agents, and otner citi-
zens employed with the army, when travel
Ing on public service under orders from mill
ttary authorities.