Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-07-10


nal revenue, s2I3 ,6l1.3I; customs, s516, $50 80.
NATIONAL BANK NOTES received for re-
demItion TO day amounted 10 81 100000.
1T IS DENIED at the Treasury that ex- Con-
gresham Hoge, of s. c., has been offered
the charge of an important division In that
department.
PRESIDENT HAYES is to attend the cele-
bration of South Mountain day by the Ohio
Sd regiment, at Fremont, Ohio, September
u, and expects to spend a week in New
Hampshire and NeimOnt in that month.
CONTRACT AwARDED-Mr. NJ. X. Chase.
of Blue Hill, Maine, has been awarded the
contract for furnishing the cut granite for
pedestal for the Thomas statue his bid
sI,;t0-being the lowest
AMONG THE CALLERS at the White House
to-day were Commissioner Raum, Repre-
sentatives ONeill and White, and DR.. F.
De Wolf of the Western Reserve College,
Ohio. The Cabinet met at II.
THE RUSH OF APPLICANTS FOR OFFICE
has been stopped at the Treasury department
by the formidable display of placard on the
door leading TO the Secretary's office an
nouncing that no application will be consid-
cred until further notice.
JEROME LEE, OF OHIO, has been appoint
ed chief of the paymaster's accounts divI-
sion of the Second Controllers office, vice
Taylor, deceased. Lee is a resident of Mans
neiG, Oh1o. the town in which Secretary
Sherman resides.
GOVERNMENT SUIT.-The government
has, by District a ttOrney Wells, entered a
suit against j. c. Howells, late clerk to the
governor of Idaho appointed I'm 1869. and
his sureties (E. s. Stevens and J. w. Wellsl
TO recover - $50, in when, it is claimed, he
is in default.
DIAZ TO BE RECoGNIZED.-There is ex-
cellent authority for the statement that
Secretary Evarts will advise on the part of
the Cabinet the recognition of Diaz as de
JdctO the president of Mexico, and the re-
ception of the credentials of Senior Mata as
the accredited minister from that republic.
JUDGE LEvIssE, OF Louisiana, denies
that he failed to sign the electoral certificate
from that state, and says the certificate now
on file at the State department bears his
genuine signature, and that in every respect
he complied with the requirements of the
law relating to the duties OF Presidential
elections.
Presentation. Charles O'NeiIl, NC
Of Pennsylvania, arrived in town last night,
got what he wanted, and left for his home at
LEO p. m. to day. .'"Gen. Harry White, NJ.
C.-elect from Pennsylvania, and a distii.-
guished republican politician, left for the
Scott, U. 8. consul at Chihuahua, Mexico,
has arrived in Washington on leave OF
absence.
DIR. WIN. w. GODDING.-The Fall River
Mass, Ne'rs of Saturday says: "Dr. VIM.
W. GOdding yesterday resigned his position
as superintendent of the lunatic hospital at
Taunton. to accept the appointment rendered
him by Secretary Carl SchurZ, as superin-
tendent OF the Government Hospital for tue
Insane, at Washington. DR.. Godding has
served the public III his present capacity for
more than seven years with eminent salts
faction, and has merited and won the repu-
tatfOn OF being the foremost man I'm the COM
monwealth, in his speciality. Ii was, there
fore. with great regret that the trustees &C
copied the resignation"
NAVAL EMANCIPATIoN-TheS Secretary
Of the Navy celebrated the Fourth of Jlly
by liberating all the prisoners, some thirty
confined for various offenses in the prisons
at Weathersfield, Conn; Mare Island, Cal;
New York city and other places as well as
on board of various vessels. The Secretary
is OF the opinion that the sentences of naval
courts martial are in many instances too
severe. and has recently appointed q board
ROdg RS, Captain John III. Russell and Sur
geon Kirdleberger, TO devise a system of
appropriate punishments.
APPLICATION FOR THE RESTORATION
OF A WORTHY OFFICRR.-A delegation of
prominent citizens waited upon the Secre-
tary of the Navy yesterday with largely
signed petition asking for the reinstatement
OF Mr.. William Talbert as foreman OF ship
wrights at the Washington navy yard. Mr.
Talbert, who is an old and much esteemed
citizen, filled the position in question with
notable ability during the trying years of
the war, and up to the time when BOrie came
in as Secretary OF the Navy, when he was
removed TO make place for somebody else.
The government has had the use for years,
without cost, of the ingenious invention of
Mr.. Talbert for the moving OF vessels coming
to the yard for repairs.
THE RETURNING BOARD QUESTION
The sensational statements now being
printed in connection with the ind ictment of
the members of the late returning board I'm
Louisiana seem TO be born more OF the zeal
OF the writer's as TO what they hope may be
the ult than what is candidly anticipated
will be. If the prosecutions against the
board are vigorously pressed, there is, of
course, every reason TO believe that the Lou
ate ndaDt scandals. There is the best reason
for the belief that the movement was in
itiated against the board by Mr.. Tilden. The
pointed republicans on the . one hand. Who
have lost their offices in the state of LOuisi-
ana and want to get even by disclosing their
own shortcomings, and the Bourbon element
of the democracy, who hope to make little
party capital.
A COFFIN THAT IS TO BE UTILIZED Po-
tered at Willard's hotel, has really been
since he arrived here the guest of Gen. B +.
Butler. He brought with him rather neat
present for the Essex statesman. II will be
remembered that recently President Hayes
appointed a colored postmaster at Bayou
Sayra. He accepted the office, but subse-
Quently abandoned IL unceremOniOusly. 1t
appears that the white league sent him a
miniature coffin with appropriate death
trsppings, accompanied by q letter warning
him that he would fill such q death box If he
continued TO exercise the functions of the
ONCE to which he was appointed. BY some
means Pitkin secured the CHASTITY box, and
yesterday presented 1t to Gen. Butler with
his compliments, not as menace, but as q
good thing for Butler TO exhibit In the House
of Representatives when he makes q speech
upon the workings Of the Presidents pacif-
cation policy in the south.
PRIVATE USE OF GOVERNMENT NAIL
BAGs.-Col. Parker, chief OF special agents
OF the Post Office department., having dis
covered that, in violation OF the law, the
mail bags of the government are in posses
sion Of numerous persons within the District
OF Columbia, who make use OF these bags in
various ways, for their pri vate business, the
facts were submitted to the Post Master