Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-06-30
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
THE FRACTIONAL CURRENCY outstandiu
is $50 ,523, li2 IS.


is $50 ,523, 1i2 IS.
NATIONAL BANK CIRCULATION out
standing, 3l6,290,662 ulrency notes and
81 AS, 625 gold notes.
THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF SILVER Corn is
sued to date is s33, l2i ST. of which ISL 53s
was issued on account of currency obliga.
tons, and S21, no. 6t in the redemption of
fractional currency.
GOVERNMENT RECEIprs.-InternaI reye-
nue. receipts to-day, SSH 1926, making a
total for the fiscal year ending to-day, of
Sis, $50 I49 20. Customs to-day, S32z ,453 50;
total for the fiscal year, sl29 10000.
NEw GOVERNOR OF SOLDIERS HONE
Colonel j. III. Potter, 9th infantry, will re-
lieve Colonel Thomas G. Pitcher, of the gov
ernorshp of Soldiers Home, District of CO.
lumbia, tomorrow morning.
THE LEAVE OF ABSENCE OF 1st Lieu
tenant j. f. Quentin, t4th infantry, from
headquarters, depot recruiting service, CO.
lumbus barracks, Ohio, is extended seven
days.
THE" Summer Excursion Routes" via the
Pennsylvania railroad, for 1877, issued by the
Pennsylvania railroad company, is splen-
didly illustrated and very convenient publ.
cation.
Mr.. KENNETH RAYNER, the newly ap.
pointed Solicitor of the Treasury, took the
oath Of office this morning, preparatory to
entering Immediately upon tle discharge of
his new duties.
THE TIME 10 be occupied by Gen. Sher-
mans investigation through the Yellow
stone and Black Hills regions has not been
decided, but he will probably be gone two or
three months.
a CIRCULAR will shortly be issued from
the Treasury department making some
notifications of the special Treasury agency
service, the most important of which will be
consolidating the interior ports, mostly Oh
the Ohio river, into one, with headquarters
at Cincinnati.
CoLoRED REVENUE OFFICERs.-John T.
Wigeinton, Elias T. Haynes, Edward Smoot
and Jordan Jackson have been appointed
revenue storekeepers and gaugers for the 9Th
district of Kentucky. SmoOt and Jackson
are coiored men, aud are the first colored
men that have received appointments OF this
character.
BREVET MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM B.
HAZEN, in command of the 9Th infantry,
who has been selected for the pc sition of
military attache TO the American legation
at Vienna, for the purpose of observing the
Russians, is now stationed at Fort Buford,
Dakota territory, but will soon come east
preparatory to sailing for Europe.
PERsONAL.-M. Outrey, the French min
lister, has returned from Newport to WASH
ington for few days, and called on Acting
Secretary Seward, at the State department,
yesterday afternoon. 49, ommiss ioner Will
hanson, OF the general land Office left here
yesterday for visit of q few weeks to his
home IN Iowa. Chief Clerk NJ. j. Baxter
Will act as commissioner during his absence.
cit Is SAID in Washington that the highly
euloglstlc biography of the new Commits
sloner OF Agriculture, which appeared in
THE ENENING STAR, was written by his in
Innate fr end, Private Secretary Rogers" ~
". \. Irtt.n ne.
The ait is said" gentlemen are mistaken
as usual. Mr.. Rogers did not write word
of it.
DELEGATION of eight South Carolina
colored men are preparing TO come TO Wash
ington TO insist upon the recognition of their
race in the distribution of federal appoint
meDtS In that state. EX-COngresSman Eli
OFT is their leader, and their special grievance
Is understOCi 10 be not so much that the col
or; men have been ignored as that the col
Ored recipients of federal offices thus far have
been exclusively mulattoes, showing preiu-
dice against the black men.
THE PRESIDENTS SUMNER HoME-AIl
of the inmates of the White House, with
servants, horses, and necessary effects, have
been removed to the Presidents cottage at
the Soldiers Home for the summer. Upon
the Presidents return to the city this evening,
he will proceed Immediately to his summer
home, which is the largest cottage on the
grounds, the same as was formerly occupied
% PRESIDENT Lincoln, directly adjoining the
Home building.
SPAIN APoLoGIzEs-The Secretary of
State has received a reply TO his note to the
Spanish government, complaining OF the
boarding OF the American whaling schooner
Dy Spanish cruiser. and the detention of
Captain Durham sometime since. The reply
assures Mr.. Evarts that Spain will make all
hnn 10 dc ircf
Cation of the facts can be had, and promises
that 1t will spare no effort to prevent a repe-
luton OF similar outrages In the future. Mr.
Evarts will hand in his bill of damages
against Spain when he receives Captain
Du1hams sworn statement
THE AWARD FOR PRINTING THE TAX.
LIsT.-The District Commissioners to-day
awarded the contract for printing the tax
list to the proprietors OF the Daily Nation,
theybeing the lowest bidders for the work.
In making this award the bids of newspa-
pers published exclusively on Sunday were
excluded under the opinion of Acting AItcr-
ney neral Phillips and the Attorney OF the
District OF Columbia, which was to the effect
that such publication would not be legal.
ON the same authority IL was decided that
the law OF Congress required the contract 70
oe gwen 10 the '.lowest bidder without re-
gard to circulation.
LIEUT.. w. w. FLEMING, of the 18th infan-
try, convicted at San Francisco of appropri.
otAus Iuuos entrusted 10 MIN Oy prisoners,
has been sentenced to be dismissed the sery-
Ice OF the United States and confined at hard
LABOR for three years, and TO be further con-
hned until he pays the United States fne of
$1,000; provided that the whole period of con-
nnement shall not exceed five years: also
that the crime, his name and place OF abode
shall be published In the papers of the state
from where he came. The President has an
proved the sentence, and the penitentiary or
Iowa has been designated as the place OF con-
fnement.
CLAIM ALLowED-The counsel represent
ing the Orange AID Alexandria railroad were
In cosnultation with the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue yesterday with reference
To the liability Of that road to taxes from,
various sources. The company claim it lis
their right TO be allowed to use ali the net
earnings that were accumulated tmfnedi-
ately after the war for restoring the diiapi-
dated condition OF the road, so as to bring II
up to the condition where IL was found when
the tax law went into effect. The Question
Is not q new one, having been before the
internal revenue Office on several previous
occasions, though no decision has been rem
dered until now, when Commissioner Raum
has decided to allow the claim.
THE BRITISH LEGArIoN.-Hon. Francis