Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-09-17

nal revenue, SIlS, I52O4; customs, $45o ,lyI 20.
RUMeR now has ii that Mr.. Anil Pretori.
Gus, of st. Louis, is TO be the new Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs.
JOHN A. HIESTAND, naval officer at Phil
adelrhia, requests to be heard in reply to the
report of the investigating committee on his
Office.
COLLECTOR ARTHUR, OF New York, ar
rived here this morning 10 consult with Sec.
rotary Shei man relative TO certain special
Investigations r. Gently made in the New
York custom house.
THE CUBAN REvOLUTIoNIsrs received
very recently, ii is reported, a cargo of arms
ard munitions of war, which were landed on
sn uufTequented part of the coast by a
schooner which sailed from one OF our south
ern ports.
THE ANNUAL COST OF postal service in op-
Grafton up to and including August 81, shows
al increase since the Isl of July of S5} .O91 81
New service, amounting 10 aboat $50 900,
went into operation under advertisement OF
April 10, 1871, on the lst of September, and is
not Included.
UNITED STATES TIMBER ROBBERS Sec
retaIy Schurz has written a letter to the AL
tOrney General in reference To the timber
frauds in Minnesota. He says there must
be TO sort OF compromise about tue matter:
tlat the timber seized must be turneI into
cash at rec liar market prices and the cash
turned into the Treasury, and this whole
matter of unauthorized persons cutting aud
Seilir or apprOpriatiug timber from the pub
tic lands must De summary anu promptly
stopped.
THE COTToN CROP.-The statistician of
the Department of Agriculture reports the
condition of cotton during the first week OF
September as averaging for the whole cotton
bell the same as i'll September OF last year.
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, louisiana
Arkansas, end Tennessee maze higher aver
ages than IN 1876. the CarolinaS, Georgia,
and Texas report less favOraoly. The cater
pillar is present in all the Gulf States ami in
SOnth Carolina, but mas done little damage
as yet except in Texas.
PAPER PULP AwARD.-Bid, which have
been asked CT all the principal paper manu-
facturers of the country for the purchase of
the pulp produced from the destruction by
maceration OF government securities at the
Treasury department., We're, on Saturday,
opened by Mr.. Mcpherson, chief of the Blu
reau of Engraving and Printing, and the
total amount, EN- bracing about two tons now
on hand was awarded 10 Mr. E. McCready,
OF Commerce street, Philadelphia at IS 50
tract hat the department has yet made for
the disposal of this material, being at an
average OF $3.50 per ton in excess of what has
heretofore been received.
PERsoNAL-Mrs Gov Denison returned
10 this city last Thursday, from her summer
home among the mountains of western
Maryland. The governor has leased for sew
eral years fine house at the corner OF /.
street and Vermont avenue, which is nov
being fitted up and furnished. The dis.
tinguished scientists, Sir j. d. Hooker, Gen.
Richard Strachey, of England, ami Prof
Asa Gray, OF Harvard college, who acc )m-
panied Professor Hayden, L. S. geOlogist,
through the western states and territories,
are en- route east, and Will visit Washington.
Chief Justice Cartier, who has been on
his = ace. near Cleveland, Ga o, AM in Kan
saS duIlng part Of the Summer, returned
yesterday in robust health '...First As
sistant Postmaster General Tyner leaves for
Richmond, Iud ana, tonight on a visit TO
Senator Morton. He will bs abSen. about a
week.
The NEW REvIs, d STATUTES The new
edition of the Revised Statutes will be COM
pleted in manuscript by the LIST of January
Commissioner Boutwell, (the ex-S snator) has
Tie WOfk Well advanced. Under the law the
Secretary OF State has two months in which
TO revise IL with the amendatOry acts, "A nd
then be can certify TO It's accuracy and order
the printing of $1,000 copies at the Govern
menl Printing Office "witnoIt unnecessary
delay" By May next. therefore, we may
expect TO have the new edition covering all
the laws, with the revlsions made by c w
gress since 1873 incorporated, down to the
FOrty-fO Congress The new edition will
include the Articles OF COnfeiera alton, the
Declaration OF Independence, the Ordinance
OF 1881 and the Constitution OF the United
States, with foot notes referring to the dici-
s1ons OF the federal courts thereon.
LOOKING AFTER GENERAL REAL Es-
TATE.-Within the last twelve years the
government has accumulated large amount
of real estate in various parts of the country,
aud particularly In the south, by reason of
the violation by the owners of the provisions
of The internal revenue laws, and IL nov APP
pears that the accumulation OF that class of
COVER Dment property makes very valuable
aggregation. Attention has not been gwen
TO the matter, however, that the interests OF
The government require, and some time ago
the Commissioner Of Internal revenue APP
pointed two agents TO make personal exanii-
nation OF the subject to ascertain and report
uTOn The localities OF such real estate, the
condition OF the titles thereto, the value, &c,
aid To solicit purchasers. Mr.. f.. ID. Web
ster, ore OF the agents OF the department TO
prosecute this business, has mad consulta-
! ton with Secretary Sherman and Com mis-.
hlOneT Raum.
NAVAL ORDERs.-LIeut. Commander IL
c. Neilds ordered 10 the the temporary COM
mand OF the Fortune, al Washington ID. G
on Goth inst; Master Chas. ID. Galloway aud
Ensigns j NJ Roper and Frank Guertin 10
Temporary duty on board the Fortune, 9th
inst; Surgeon K. S. Matthews to- the Ply
mouth, Al New York, Sd October; Lieut.
Commander Edwin White has reported his
return home, having been detached from the
Tennessee, Asiatic station, on l2h August
last, and has been granted three months
leave OF absence from the 18Th inst; Surgeon
Somerset Robinson, detached from the Ply
mouth, Sd october, and ordered to the train
Ing ship Minnesota, at New York; Surgeon
Sam'l +. Shaw from the Minnesota on 81
October, and granted one years leave of ab-
Sence from 18th October, with permission 10
leavethe United States; Assistant Surgeon
A. A. Austin from the MayhOwer and or
defed TO temporary duty on board the For
tune, 9Nh inst; Midshipman &. Mccartney
Is in the city. having been detached from the
Swatara, at Norfolk. He will remain here
about a week.
INV PAPERS HERE.-It seems pretty GER
tain that we are TO have one II no. two new
daily papers in Washington. Ex-Represen-
tative John Lynch, OF Maine, will bring out
his paper on the LIST of October and the old
GLOBE office is now being put In shape for its
issue from that establishment. Among the
journalists OF experience and capacity men
toned as engaged upon the editorial forcs
are Mr.. Clarence n. Barton, Ar. Peters aud
Mrs. Briggs "Olivia." The new paper will.
II is said, he Independent in tone, but will
support "the policy" and will keep a par
ticularly vigilant eye upon Mr.. Blaine, with
whom II is understood Mr.. Lynch does not
"hitch horses"
On the other hand the plans for an anti
administration paper, to be issued by ex-
Public Printer Clapp, seem to be taking
some shape, and, according to rumor the old
Chronicle establishment is likely TO be utiI-
lied for the venture. Mr.. Clamp is reported