Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-07-17
EVENING STAR.
WASHINGTON News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.--Inter-
nal revenue, $500 .O62 %; customs, SSH ,OO6 10.

nal revenue, $500 O62 %; customs, SSH ,OO6.19.
NATIONAL BANK NOTES received to-day
for redemption, $40 900.
The REMOVAL of 8. G.. KimbalI u s.
surveyor general of Utah, has been deter
mined on, IL is said, and his successor Sc
locted for appointment at an early day.
THE OMAHA, flagship of Rear Admiral G
ii. Preble, commanding the South Pacific
station, arrived at Callao, Peru, June 18th,
having left Panama 5th May.
REsIGNED-Mr. j. H. Pierce, U. 8. mar
shall for The northern district of Mississippi,
has rendered his resignation, to take effect
on the 3lst of July, and it has been accepted
by The President.
a PARDON REFUSED BY THE PREsI-
DENT.-The President has refused to pardon
man named Ely, convicted IN New York
city OF assisting in procuring fraudulent nat
urallzatlon papers for use at the polls.
REQUIsITIONs for about 5000 .6Co postal
cards have been sent to the American Photo
type company, of New York, which, il is ex-
pected, will be ready to begin filling them
tomorrow.
THE REPORT of a morning journal that
Collector Arthur came here upon lobbying
expedition in his own interest, is incorrect.
he and his committee Were summoned here
by letter from Acting Secretary McCOr-
mick, written by direction of the President.
REVENUE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS L.
Stife has been appointed revenue gauger for
the fifth district of North Carolina; John j.
osborne has been appointed assistant
appraiser at New York. The President
has appointed Burt Van Horn 10 be collector
OF internal revenue for The twenty-e ghth
district OF New York, and Frederick Buell.
for the thirtieth district of New York (reap-
pointed.)
ARMY ORDERs-First Lieutenants John
F. Mount, battery l., and III. G. Dawes, bat
terry +, Sd artillery, will exchange stations;
Captain John Lafferty, sth cavalry, is as
signed 10 duty temporarily in charge of the
public property at Yerba Buena Island, Cal;
leave granted Second Lieutenant E. NJ
Weaver, jr;, 2d artillery, until the date he
reports for duty at Western Reserve College,
Hudson, Ohio
THfRE Is PAINFUL RUMoR af1oat that
President Hayes is revolving in his mind
whether the Secretary Sherman relation
rule would not be good one to apply to Of
fcers OF the army and navy. The result
would be II the two of a family rule was
strictly applied, that about half of the COM
missioned officers would have chance TO
Struggle for life in the open markets of the
world In store clothes, instead of blue and
brass.
CLERICAL PROMOTIONS, &C.-The follow
ing clerks in the Sixth Auditors Office have
been promoted from first to second class
clerkships:-W. p. LAWYER, of Illinois; An
drew Ii. Stamp, of New York, and Andrew
y. McBath, of Tennessee. The following
have been appointed first-class clel ks: "A.
New Jersey, and George A. Darling. OF South
Carolina. Mrs. Lucy B. Chandler has been
transferred from the Fifth to Sixth Auditors
Office, as first-class clerk.
POPULAR SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE FOUR
PER CENT. LoAN.-The Treasury depart
ent has not yet received full reports from
all the cities where the new four per cent.
loan was open Ia popular subscription. So
lar a heard from the amount fOOts up
St5,l5O,Co0, with San Francisco and New Or
leans yet to be heard from. Ii is EXPECTED
nat The entire amount subscribed Will az
gIegate between S65 COO 900 and SCI ,OJ0,ON.
Tie amount subscribed by tn residents of
this city is between $4,000 and $500, 900.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Lieutenant THEODORE
Porter ordered TO duty at the experimental!
battery, Annapolis, Md. Master Marcus q
Hyde 10 the receiving ship Independence a
the Mare Island, Cal, navy yard. Lieut.
Edward Woodman, detached from the re
ceiving ship Franklin, and granted two
months leave. Assistant Paymaster Frank
III. Clark has reported his return home hav-
ing been detached from the FrOIfc South
Atlantic station Goth May last, and ordered
to settle accounts. Sailmaker John Martin,
orders. Acting Sailmaker Herman Hansen,
from Boston navy-yard, and ordered TO the
Swatara.
WILL CONKLING SUPPORT HAYES
Marcus p. Norton, q lawyer of Troy, N. Y,
having been accused OF saying that Senator
COnkling would not support the administra-
ton, as he knew SO from a letter he had
received from the Senator, now writes to the
President denying the statement, and saying
that he never undertook to represent the
views OF Senator Conkling. In his letter to
Mr.. Hayes he INDUCES In much fulsOme
nonsense, after the styl OF an office-seeker,
and hopes the President will consult the
interests OF the republican party In New
York by allowing Senator Conkling to have
voice. There are three witnesses TO the
fact that he used the language attributed TO
him about Mr. COnkling.-[ Wash. Cor. Bait.
Caste.
Defence OF GEN. KAUTz The Secretary
Of the Interior received on Saturday through
the War department, a dispatch from Gen.
Mcdowell, commanding the military divi-
sion of the Pacific, defending General KautZ
against the charges made by Indian Agent
Cum and supported by inspectors Wander
veer and Kimball, Of the Indian service. Ii
seems that on the q III of jane, on account of
the representations made by the agents, that
kauiz was inactive In the prevention of In
dian raids and murders, General Sherman
had submitted TO General Mcdowell a prop
Osition that General Kau.z should be re-
lieved from the department of Arizona, and
succeed him. General Mcdowell asks the
Secretary OF War 10 delay action in the mat
ter until General kautZ can have an Oppor-
tunity of submitting his side of the contro-
versy 10 a committee OF inquiry.
MORE FIvE-TwENTIKs CALLED IN-The
Treasury department yesterday afternoon
issued the fifty first call for the redemption
of five-twerty bonds OF 1865, cousols or 1865
The call is for $40 OOO, 900, Of which 81 900 600
are coupon and SO 100000 registered bonds.
The principal and interest will be paid at
the Treasury on and after the 10th of October
next, and the interest will cease on that day.
The following are the descriptions Of the
bonds:-CoupOn bonds, dated July I, 1875,
nsme]y:-s50, No. l1,OOl TO No. 1000, both
ineIusive go" No e col to No; 800, bo.n
inclusive 81 600, No. 81, Oot to No 81 OOo, both
inclusive. Registered bonds" Redeemable
at the pleasure of the United States after the
LIST day of July, $780," as follOws-sjO, No.
1O1 to No. 800, both inclusive; sl0O, Nc. 6,4Ol
to No. $50, both inclusive; $50, No. 52)I
TO No. $50, both inclusive; 81 600, No. 16 sol
10 No. 10 $50, both inclusive; 5000, No. 5,O5i
10 No. $50, both inclusive; $1,000, No. 4, 473
10 No. 1884, both inclusive.
DAILY REPORT BUREAU OF ENGRAVING