Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-09-08


nal revenue, 1892 9O2. 50; customs, 1851 ,O6i.12.
RECEIPTS of National Bank notes for the
week ending to-day, as compared with the
corresponding period of last year 1876,
SIS $4,000; 1877, So 5g7 COO. Bank notes re-
ceived to-day for redemption, $500, 900.
MANY NEWSPAPERS have refuse to pub
lish the advertisement soliciting proposals
for carrying the mails at the rates prescribed
by the law, and IL is supposed that special
contracts will have to be made to secure the
publication in one state capital journal in
each state
PERSONAL---VERY. Controller Taylor, of
the Treasury department, is quite i'll at his
residence, in this city, with a low form OF
typhoid fever and ervsipelas. Assistant
Adjutant General PelOuZe has returned from
his trip TO Rock Enon Springs. REV. DIR.
Elliott, of Ascension Church, has returned
10 the city.
DAILY REPORT BUREAU OF ENGRAVING
AND PRINTING.-Deliveries September eth,
1871: To Comptroller of the Currenoy-Na-
tiOnal currency notes, 1892 500. Secretary of
the Treasury per cent cOnsOls, S37O, 200;
miscellaneous, SIS ,0o0. Total. $500, $50. Ball
ance On hand at the close of days work,
1926 ,672 ,535.
THE TREASURY now holds 1897 sos $50 In
q. s. bonds to secure national bank circula-
ton, and S15, pa 900 in u. s. bonds for public
uepOSiJS. u. >. DOl0S deposited Tor clrcula-
ton week ending to-day, So, 500;'U. s. bonds
Reid for circulation Withdrawn for the same
period, S1G5,5OO. National Bank circula-
ton outstanding: Currency notes, S3l5, 49,
sol; gold notes, Il ,i25,ii0
A MARK OF RESPECT TO THE MEMORY
RI TBIERs.-The flags on the different ex
ecutive departments of the government were
at half mast to-day, which led to the circu
latiOn of a report that Senator Morton was
dead. The flags were put at half-mast how
ever, as mark of respect 10 the memory OF
eX-President Theirs, of France, whose fune-
raj took place to-day.
THEW WISHES OF CITIZENS TO BE CoNsID-
ERED.-A member of the cabinet, in abiding
TO the action of the government in regard to
the proposed removal of the three leading
Officers of customs at New York, authorita
lively announced yesterday, said that the
delay In making the appointments is to en-
able the citizens of New York most Interest,"
ed TO make their own selection.
SENATOR MoRroN's HEALrH.-Tbe
friends of Senator Morton in this city insist
that the dispatches persistentIy miSrepresent
his condition, and continue to assert that he
is steadily improving. A letter dated the 9th
instant, received by Mr.. Edward Bangs, OF
Thompson says" Assure Bliss that he is a
little better than when he left"
The following dispatch has been received
RICHMOND, IND, Sept I, 1877.
DR.. ID. W. Bliss, Washington, ID. Ex-senator
passed the best day since his attack.
w. X. HOLLOWAY.
SENATOR Combines ATTITUDE. "A
Saratoga dispatch TO the Philadelphia Times
says Senator Conkling is undoubtedly on
the war path. The next state convention of
The republican party In New York, soon to
be Assem- bled in Rochester, will contain q
large majority Of Conkling men-two thirds
to three-iourths. Senator COnkling will APP
in Ali
Oneida county or Utica. He never goes to
conventions in this way, except with a de-
termined purpose TO speak and carry his
point. / am informed that the platform OF
the convention will be tart upon the course
OF the administration, and will explicitly de-
nounce the order fOrbidding Office-holders t.
take part In partisan and public things an
that the southern policy OF the administra-
tlon Will not be criticised so much as the
civil service policy"
ONE OF THE THREE-HOwARD, SrURGIs.
OR STINKISG WATER.-Thc following dis
patch was received at the War department
last evening:
CHICAGO, Sept. 7-Adjutant Geaercu II S
a, " oSt,ngton, u. c.: The following dispatch
Just received from General Terry Captain
Renbam, commanding Fort Ellis states
that a courier, just in, reports Howard on the
Yellowstone, opposite the mouth OF East
Fork, yesterday. Hostiles passed Soda Butte
mines the day before, and are moving slowly
down Clarks Fork. Sturgis, with six com
PanleS OF caCairy, moved up Clarks Fork
from The Old L. r. Smith road on the 3D. The
mines are about twenty miles up the East
Fork, on the north fork of the stream. They
must now either fight Howard or Sturgis, or
strike for Sinking Water"
(Signed) p. II. SHERIDAN, Lieut. Genl
THE CUSTOMS SERVICE ON DELAWARE
BAY AND RIvER.-The report of Special
Agent Williams Of his tour of inspection of
the operations of the customs service on the
delaware bay and river was received ~ the
treasury department to- day. The following
are the recommendations made: LIST. That
the office OF deputy collector and inspector at
me ports OF Chester, Pa; New Castle and
Seaford, Del, and at Delaware City, as al
present established, be discontinued, and the
Office rented at New Castle be given up. 81.
That one boatman at Lewes, Del, be dis
charged. 80. That there be established nj
Fort Delaware, off Delaware City, a board
lnspt ctOrs, with four boatmen to attend TO
the boarding of all vessels arriving from
foreign ports, and the searching, but more
particularly the sealing OF The same, and that
they be required 10 report daily their official
acts In the manner berainbefOre explained
4th That the port of Philadelphia be prop
and 1893 of regulations, and that the distr ct
oflcers be required to report daily the YES
sells from foreign ports upon their district
, pn; Ih MAJ put one Inspector be detailed at
Ihat district officers be placed on duty at
Camden, N. j., for the same duty as the dis
uACt OiuCers az fQllaQelpnla, and under the
same Instructions, and that q night watch
man De stationed there, or at Gloucester
Just below Camden, to watch vessels arriving
AT night. II Camden is patrolled In this
manner. am Of the opinion the services of
the deputy collector there could be dispensed
with, II there be no legal obstruction TO yes
sci owners obtaining their papers in Phila-
delphia.
QUESTION AND ANSwER.-EGiitor of The
Erc,,ing Sidr. In your issue Of Thursday you
PROFOUND the following interesting conun-
drum:
After all, does Il make much difference to the
country whether the President Of the United States
spends bis summers at Long Branch or in junkstipQ
tours ell the landS just where the reform
come In, is what the innocent voter will be wanting
TO know senty'
President Jefferson seems to have antici-
pated and answered this coDundrum In q let
ter TO Governor Sullivan, OF Massachusetts,
as follows:
WASHINGTON June 10, 1907.
" Dear SIR: With respect to the tour
my friends TO the north have proposed that
should rake in that quarter, have not
made up final opinion. The course Of life
which General Washington had run, civil
and military, the services he had rendered,
and the space he therefore occupied in the
affections of his fellow Zens take frou,