Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-07-03
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT. RECEIPTS To-pAY.-Inter
nal revenue, s2si ,SOi; customs, sSoS ,9ss As.
| NATIONAL BANK NOTES received for re-
dempiiOn to-day amounted 10 1885, $50.
THE PLYMOUTH arrived at Port Royal OF
the LIST inst.
| THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT intendeS
| to issue late this afternoon bond call for
| least ten million, on account of the new fou
| per cent. bonds taken by the syndicate.
GEN. FRENCH, for a long time command
| Ing officer of the 81 artillery, has been pro
| mot colonel of the 4th artillery, vice Gen
| Rober s, retired.
| AMONG THE CALLERS at the White Hous
this morning were Senators Wadleigh AM
| Patterson: Representative Bridge; Commits
| sioner OF Internal Revenue Raum, and Gen
| eral Sheridan of New Orleans.
| A YEARS CoINAGE-The following is tn
official statement of the coinage of the L.
minis during the fiscal year ended June 30ih
1877: Gold, S44 ,O7S. 1873; trade dollar, 40, l62 go
| So, C90,.J9
| THE REGULAR CABINET MEETING wa
| held to-day, all the members present eXcep
| Secretaries Sherman and McCrary. Th'
former was represented by Assistant Score
| larry Mccormick. Nothing was done in re
Saru 10 foreign appointments.
SENATOR BLAINE left Washington yes
| terday morning for Trenton, n. J WHERE
one of his sons is at college. He will pro-
| coed thence to Woodstock, Conn, where he
| Is expected 10 take part In the 4th OF July
celebration,
THE EIGHT HOUR LAWN accordance
with the recent decision of the Supreme
Court, officers in charge of public work have
been directed to make contracts and have
| the work performed upon the basis OF ten
hours 10 day's work, and all persons VINO
des ire TO work Ell ht hours will be paIu Tor
that number of hours only.
LOOK OUT FOR THE FRAUD-A man who
calls himself James t. Porter has been repre-
senting himself as an officer of the secret SER
vice division of the Treasury, and imposing
upon L. s. Commissioners by inducing them
| to employ him in working up cases, and
| when he had a warrant out for arrest would
| use IL 10 induce the culprt 10 dlvy, ana then
jump. He was last heard OF In Harrisburg
where he was practicing bis frauds. He is
being looked alter.
PERsoNAL-A letter received from Mr.W.
W. Corcoran. at Rock Enon Springs, Va,
states that his health has considerably i'm
proved since his arrival there. ...'Senator
WadIeigh, OF New Hampshire, arrived in
the city last evening, and will remain for a
few DAYS ..'Gen. Ellis Spear, Commits
siCner of Patents, who has been indisposed
for a few DAYS, is again on duty. ....Secre-
tary Eyarts returned to the city this morn
ing.
ARMY ORDERS.-COl Jos. Roberts, 4th ar
t'lIery, having served faithfully until be is
over % years of age, embracing AZ years
continuous service, is, by direction of the
President, retired from active service. He
is relieved from his present duties and will
proceed home. The resignation of First
Lieut Geo. r. Griffith, 10Th infantry, has
been accepted, to take effect July /, 1871.
Leave OF absence for one year, with perm!s-
sion 10 90 beyond the sea, is granted Major
j. j. Upbam, 9Th cavalry, to take effect
June Is, Ia.
THE NEW POSTAL CARDS.-The Ameri-
can Prototype Company, of New York, TO
whom the contract for supplying the posa
cards was awarded yesterday applied for an
extension of ten days, before commencing
The delivery OF the cards. Yesterday was the
dsy designated for the delivery. PoItmaster
General Key has extend d the time for the
ten days asked. He was some time ago a
itt'espprehensive that the Prototype Com
rany would rot be able to proc ed with the
contract On time, and in order TO proven,
any Embarrassment to the public he ordered
LON the Old contractors several milIio
cards which are now on hand.
THE APPROPRIATION for the support of
the navy during the fiscal year ending June
80, 1875, amounting in the aggregate to nearly
s13, 900, became available yesterday, and
officers of the navy, all of whom have not
received their pay during the past three
mouths, will after this date be paid as usuai
but they cannot receive the back pay due
them for April, May and June, until Con-
gress shall make an appropriation for that
purpose Paypasters have already sent in
their acquisitions for funds out of the new
demands made upon them, and they are
being honOred at the department as fast as
possible.
The debt statement for June, issued yester-
day, shows very fiattering state of the pub
lie finances, as compared with the CORES
pOndipg period OF last year. Within the year
the principal OF the public debt has been de-
creased S39,2s1 ,12l13, and the interest account
a little less than two million per annum
There has been a decrease IN the volume of
legal tender notes outstanding of ten million.
and The currency balance in the Treasury is
over S3,OO0OOO greater than 1t was one year
ago; the coin balance in the Treasury June
3Oth, 1876, less coin certificates was IS 900 600
yesterday IL was S7i,GOO OOO-an increase of
Sc9,0C0,OtO. The fractional currency has been
reduced over z Is 900 600. Secretary Sherman,
before leaving the city yesterday, expires sed
gTatihcation al the more than healthy condi-
ton OF The national finances, and said that
resumption of specie payments on the LIST
of January, 1879, would now be an easy ac-
complishment.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Passed Assistant Sur
geon Geo. p. Bradley, ordered to the Hart-
ford, at Norfolk, Va, 18th instant; Passed
Assistant Surgeon Jas. III. Gaines, to duty
In the bureau of surgery, Washington, ID. c.;
M: deal Inspector Philip s. Wales, detached
from special duty at Washington, ID. c., Oh
the 10th instant, and ordered to the Pow
hatan, and as fleet surgeon OF the north At
lantic squadron, 10Th Instant; Medical In
specior Richard T.. Dean, from the Hartford
on the eth instant, and ordered to special
duty in attending officers of the navy yard
marine corps, at Washington, 10th instant;
Surgeon c. II. Burbank, from the POwhatan
on The goth instant, and placed on waiting
orders; Passed Assistant Surgeon W. s..
Dixon, from the bureau Of medicine, &C.,
and ordered to the POwhatan on the 10Th in
slant; Pay Inspector Edward May, from the
Hartford, and as fleet paymaster Of the
north Atlantic station on the 26th instant,
and ordered to settle accounts; Paymaster
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