Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-06-21

GENERAL GRANT has advanced from ID.
c. 10 ID. G. l..
GIN. SHERMAN will leave on the 18th inst.
for the Black Hills and Yellowstone region
NATIONAL BANK NOTES received to-day
at the Treasury for redemption amounted to
81 ,342. OOO.
ABOUT SIXrY-rHREE MILLION dollars
six per cent bonds are in the Treasury ready
for the macerating tub.
THE PRESIDENT to-day appointed Albert
Hart, of California, to be pension agent at
San Francisco.
Mr.. A II. BROWN. of Washington, u. G. q.
has received the contract for carrying the
mail between Hot Creek, Wyoming, and
Deadwood, Dakota, at S2l.120 per annum.
d. I. BoYNToN, the former pension agent
at X knoxville, Tenn, has been designated as
agent for the consolidated district, composed
of Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina
and Tennessee.
CIVIL SERVICE RULEs-Several gentle
men who We're connected with the commits
sion on civil service reform under President
Grant are now engaged, by direction of Pres
ldent Hayes, in the preparation OF rules on
the same subject, to operate in all public
offices throughout the country.
BOWLING, the Toledo postmaster, who
refuses 10 resign by invitation Of Judge
Tyner, will, in all probability. be retained
as he is SO thoroughly entreuched with en-
dorsem ents from the people of Toledo that
the intention 10 remove him has about been
recon Sidere6.
ARMY ORDERS. Leave of Captain Arson
Mills, Sd cavalry, is extended five months.
Leave of First Lieutenant j. II. Mahuken,
regimental adjutant, Sth cavalry, is EXTENDED
SIN months. with permission To go beyond
TIE tea. Leave for four months is granted
Major j. a. Potter, quartermaster U. s.
army.
PERsoNAL.-HOD. Stanley Matthews, SEN
ator-elect from Ohio, was in Baltimore yes
terday. President Hayes promises to stop
over between trains next Tuesday. Miss
Ada Sweet, the pension agent at Chicago is
here to protest against the consolidation in
the agencies by which she will be left out in
the cold. ''-' Senator Dawes, of Mass is in
town.
CONSUL AT LEEDS APPOINTED The
President Yesterday signed the commission
OF Alfred V. DOckery, OF n. c., TO be consul
at Leeds. Mr.. Dockery mas heretofore held
The position OF consul at Stettin and al
Oporto. This appointment fills the last of
me vacancies among the Salaried cOnSulatas
Very few vacancies are likely TO occur in
the salaried cOnsulateS between this time
ana the meeting of Congress.
INDIGNANT The
statement is made that the Rothschilds I'm
London have cabled Joseph Seligman in
New York. and the latter has advised Secre-
tary sherman that if the refusal of the les
sees of the Grand Union hotel at Saratoga To
entertain Mr.. Seligman as n guest is TO be
construed as prescription OF the IsraelteS
IN thlS country, they the ROthSchilds) will
her' after refuse 10 have anything to do with
American credit.
The LATEST APPLICANT for The va
cancy on the L. s. supreme bench is Hon
John Baxter. Of Tennessee. He il endorsed
by Senator Stanley Matthews the late Par
son BioWnI0w, the full democratic supreme
bsnch of Tennessee, and numerous public
men IN North Carolina, South Carolina
Kentucky and Ohio Judge Baxter was a
union man during the war, but was never
prescribed by the confederates for opinions
sake.
GOVERNMENT TELEGRAPH RATES
Theodore n. Vail, superintendent of railway
mail service; VIM. A. Knapp, chief clerk OF
the ost office department. and j. b. Min
nick. OF the office OF the First Assistant POST
master General, were yesterday appointed a
commission TO revise the rate of tolls paid
Dy me government to telegraph companies
pnd hX them for the ensuing year in accord,
ance with the law which authorizes such re-
vision to be made annually.
THE ILLINOIS PENSION AGENCY,-Hon.
WIN. Aldrich, of Chicago, had an interview
win the President this morning, and en-
deavored to have the pension agency located
at chicago, instead of Springfield, ILL.,, as
wa, was Iecommended by Commissioner Bent
the pensioners in Illinois reside in Chicago
and vicinity. The President did not give
MN ~ aennlte reply, but will probably ask
him TO take ride.
GEN. HOWARD PREPARING FOR ACTION
The following dispatch was received at the
headquarters OF the army this morning:
~ San FRANCISCO, CAL, June 20, 1877.
Howard reports Lieut.. Theller DIST infan-
tr! killed in action of Eth inst. that he is
coilectlhg enough force to make sure work
EefCre pushing final Indian position That
the country is the rOaghest possible between
Little Salmon and Snake rivers Trains
single, stop through deep canons. lie has al
Lewiston and Lapwai four companies cav
airy, 259 men, and three companies 80 men,
Ihere are en- route for Lewiston from the
Two departments, six companies cavalry,
37S men, five companies artillery, 100 men
ana three companies infancy, 80 men-totai
force Will be go men. Troops from Harvey
McIermit, and Halleck will probable move
VIA BOISE mcdowell, Major General.
IHE MAIL LETTINGS, under advertise
ment OF April 10, were closed yesterday at
the contract Office, Post Office department.
and Will render the service complete i'm
every state and territory: There We're in all
-.
Mary land had six routes, for which there
were 133 competitors, with results as fol-
lows: Route Washington city to Upper MARI
3or0', SIX times week, ]. c. Thompson, of
L. b s639; Laurel to Rockville, six times a
week, Lewis Harman, of Mill Brook, Va.
$50; st. Michaels to Bay Hundred. three
times week, James w. Jackson 5000; Eas
Ton TO fredericksburg, six times a week, Eliza
Jane Pritchett, OF Bethlehem, si97; XIII
miiiers Mills to Altamont, once week,
walt for office; Upper Marlboro to Prince
rreueflcKlown, SIX times week, ]. j. Gro
.ver, OF Sunderlandsville, 1910.
THREE MARYLAND DELEGATIONS IN
ONE DAY.-The President and those who ac-
companied him to Annapolis yesterday, re-
turned last night. His absence for one dav
had the effect OF giving additional zeal 10
me army Of office seekers who thronged
the White House this morning Thr q
delegations from Maryland were on hand
before noon. The first was from the Supreme
Council OF the reform party of MARYLAND.
who 0stensi IDLY desired to have cool nien. i'm
the abstract, appointed TO Office I'm their
state, but in reality they were advocates of
the appointment ut, Of ]. 1. Thomas TO be col
lector or the Port OF Baltimore Tnis della
CATION was composed of T. F. HaSEeII Noah