New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-09-28
WASHINGrON NOTES.

wAsHISGros, Thursday Sept. %, 1877
The PostmasterG does not expect to be obliged
IN AJAX Congress for any deficiency at the special
sion.
The Controller OF the Currency gives notice that the
Chase National Bank Of the City OF NewYork, has paid
In IFS whole capital. amounting to S3OO,OOO
Mr. Hayt the new Commissioner Of Indian Affairs, was
svorn in this afternoon by ChefJustice Cartier and Will
to-morro enter upon the duties OF his office.
General Sheridan teegraphs that the Nez Perces were
last heard from Camp Lewis going north rapidly but
nothing has been heard from General HOWARD OF COOheI
sturgis since my last telegram"
The vecolar circulating notes Of the First National
Bank OF TamaGua being retired on account Of the
issue OF dangerous counterfeit ana no more nYe-d0Iar
notes will be issued to that bank
The report in dispatches from this city that William
Stone had been removed from the Office OF Dstrict-At
orpey OF South Carolina incorrect Mr. Stone sent in
H. re,gnaon a. Dstrict-AtOrney month ago 10 take
effect as soon as his successor should he appointed
Fx-Representatve Caldwell Of Alabama, Is on the
track A. rival Of Mr. Adams for Clerk OF the House.
His friends are proceeding the theory that Mr. Ran
ds viii have the speak -rship and Mr. Thompson tie
acc of SergeantaArms Granting these % the North,
tey claim that the least which can be done Tor the south
"a be 10 concede the Clerk 10 that Std te
On Saturday last the superintendent OF the Treasury
hudng reported that there great danger from fire
from paiDs and oils stored the upper part Of the
buding for use in the printing division. They were
urorlptly removed To-day wOrEmen were engaged III
removing the railing of the extensive porch on the east
front N consists NJ wooden ldth attached u pine
time there has becn dry wood enough in this space,
which could not have been reached BY the hremen, to
make "a hot IRE tor several hundred feet directly under
tine exposed edge Of the main roof Of the building and
adjacent several OF the largest file rooms IN the build
ing
The Commissioner Of Patents having received reports
from all the chiefs OF divisions ia his bureau in regard to
losses by the recent fire IN that building makes the fol
lowing official announcement: Apart from the damage
to the building the pecunary loss Occasioned by
the fire OF the Oath inst is not great No files Of
pending applications Of patents or OF rejected appca
tons were lost damaged, and original drawings
except very few cases, destroyed by the fire
Those drawings destroyed only OF issue iseD
tember g. 1870 and OF those ph0toh0graphlc copies
had been made, that no Inconvenience viii arise from
their destruction. considerable number OF pnOtO-ithO
graphic copies burned, but Of these IN
all the burned Of patent part OF the
copies having been by storage In another
OF the building which uninjured by The fire. The
library was unniured. There disturbance OF the
original flies Of the rec0rdroOm, which contained the
bound Volumes specifications aud drawings and Of
the assignment records. Some Of the examiners rooms
we're damaged by and temporarily disturbed by
tho removal Of the papers but the examiners all at
work. and all the other employees. with tho exception OF