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and publishing statistics OF the country.
They also recomm end the employment of
two or three additional clerks In the New
York custom house, to assist in the prspara-
ton OF The reports from that important COM
mercial center.
The District in Congress
The House Committee on the District of
Columbia, at its meeting to-day heard juice
Jere. Wilson, who represents the Executive
Committee of the Citizens Committee of
OEe Hundred, asking that day be set
wherein the Executive Committee could
have hearing. the committee set Weines-
day next, at ten o'clock. The petition of
Joseph Williams 10 be paid S3 800 for work
done ON pennsylvania avenue, between 8 h
street az list street and which is the subject
OF dispute with the Washington ard q sorse-
town Railroad Company, was taken up, but
no action was reached.
Pharmacy AND ITS PRACTICE.
The bill Introduced in the House yesterday
TO regulate the practice of pharmacy in the
District OF Columbia, ma kes Ii uula yful for
any person, not registered pharmac.s;, 70
conduct any pharmacy or store for the pur-
pose OF retailing compromising or dispens-
ing medicines or poisOns for medicinal uSe
IN The District OF Columbia, a ID that il shall
De unlaWful iOr the proprietor Of any store
or pharmacy TO allow any person. except a
registered pharmacist, 10 compound or dis
pebse The prescriptions OF physicians, or 10
retail or 0lkpenst p0Eons for medicinal use,
except as an aid TO, and under the immeIi-
ate supervision OF reg g!stsred pnarnacist.
Ihe ViOlatOr OF tn law II sub,c ctei II a fine
OF L OF less than So for each offence. The bill
also provides for national college Of piiaT-
macy tp be comp Sc OF ten pharmacists who
Shalt oXa mine every perspJ who desires to
corduct tie retailing and cUnpouuding OF
drugs.
JOIN NJ. LAEGsToN, United States min
lister 10 the republic OF HaYti and Adreon
ii. Ii Z ire, secretary OF legation, sailed from
New York yesterday in the steamer Anies
for POTt-au- Prince.
THE POSTAL DhFiCIfNCY BfLL.-The
only bill now remaina.g 10 be disposed
OF by the House appropriation com mitJ e is
ihe post office deiiciency blll. M5ssrs. At
FinH, SPARKS and Smith have been ap-
pointed Subcommittee 10 arrange the
details OF The bill.
A CAUCCS OF DEMoCaArIC SENATORS
was held yesterday afternoon at the Capitol.
Tor the consideration OF the contested cleo
ton case Of Batter vs. Corbin, from South
Carolina, and the admission of Eustis. The
caucus was In session for sometime, but no
definite action was Ia ken by IL.
CONTRACTS AwARDED.-The Secretary OF
Il e Treasury has awarded the contract for
furnishing the new furniture for the post Of
fee buildir at Boston to Messrs Manson
and Peterson, OF that citv, aud for the court
house al Parkersburg, w. Va, to Messrs. ..
X. Ware Co, of Nav York, those firms be-
Ing The lowest bidders.
BIDS INvITED-The commissioner OF In.
ternal revenue has invited proposals aor fur
nishipg the internal revenue bureau with
about 2i5OC0 pounds ofdistinctiye paper. I
be used In the printing of United States iu-
terDal revenue stamps, for the balauce of the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1873. BIDS Will
be opened at noon on the 18th instant.
THE MExICAN QUESTION IN THE SEN
ATE.-SenatOr Maxey, at the expiration of
the morning hour in the Senate to day, callei
upa resolution introduced by him a few days
since requesting the President 10 inform the
Senate or the facts In his possess ion concern
irg the forcible release OF prisoners from the
Siarr county (rexas) jail by a body OF arm 81
Me2icans in August last. Senator Maxey
III carefully prepared speech, gave a his
tory OF some of The outrages said to have
been perpetrated on the Texan frontier by
Mexican marauders within the past year.
PERsoNAL--Supervisin Architect Hill,
of the Treasury, left yesterday for New York,
10 he absent few days. George Alfret
The Cincinnati Eagaire:' - Y '...George % Per. eg.
kins. OF the Cincinnati Times. Is here on a
Tying visit. ',EX. Delegate Csvanaugh, of
ner is in The CITY on his wav sontb opIhs Ho
called at the Treasury department to day
MI Gibson, correspondent of the New
absence south. He intends visiting Vera
Cruz, Havana, and the Mexican borders
During his travels he will keep up q CORE !
pondence with The paper with which he is
connected.
THE PoNCA CHIEFS we're at the Interior
department yesterday afternoon, where each
received from the hand OF Secretary Schurz
a medal. White Eagle and Standing Buff
falo made speeches TO the same effect as
those made at their conferences with the
President The Secretary's answer was
similar TO that OF the President: that they
might select the best government land in the
Indian territory, and that they should nave
houses, agricultural implements and fdrni-
reservation, schools for their children and
cattle and drapght animals when money
should be appropriated by Congress for that
The name of the Great Father.
The chiefs made final visit to the Interior
department to-day, and will probably leave
this city TO morrow.
PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS. - The
Presidents Private Secretary brought TO
the Ser ate to-dey long list of appoint
m'nts, among item being the following
Manuel Gown, Of Fla, u. $. consul at Leg
horn; Daniel Fort, collector of customs,
Oswego, \ Y; Burt Van Horn collector of
internal revenue, 2sih district OF New York;
John l.. Thomas, jr., collector of Customs
district OF Baltimore, Md, VIM. Corkran,
naval officet, Baltimore; Robert F. Camp
bell. collector OF internal revenue Sd district
or Texas; Efipgham Lawrence, collector of
customs New Orleans; Major John Camp
bell, surgeon, 10 be lieutenant colonel sur
geon; Captain JoDn w. Williams assistant
surgeon, to he major surgeon: Major Nat
Miehler er ginger corps, lieutenant colonel;
Captain VIM. j. Twining, engineer corps to
oe major Cheney Ames, postmaster, Oswego,
y. =; Alexander Reed. postmaster, Toledo;
J. F. X. Hayward, postmaster, HannibaI.
MO-; VIM. q. Stewart, postmaster, TaIla-
hassee, Fla Chauncey j. Filley, ST. Louis;
and the following Indian agents: Samuel T..
Ely, Otoe agency, Nebraska; Isaiah Light
ner, Santee agency, Nebraska; John f.. Pyle
Navajo agency. New Mexico; VIM. Il,
Brown, Unatiila agency, Oregon; Francis