Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-03

SUBSCRIPTIONS TO the tour per cent. loan to
day sl4i.0OO.
Mr.. LEW. WALLACE has been appointed
G vernon Of New Mexico, in place Of Governor
Axtell, removed.
THERE WAS ISSUED during the month o
August $50, $40 additional national bank cir
culation. Amount Withdrawn during the
month, s9l4 SIT.
SECRETARY SHERMAN expresses much Plea.
sure at his cordial reception in Ohio He
states that the interruptions Of his speech in
Toledo came from about twenty five person
In the gallery, and did not seriously annoy
him.
TROOPS IN PURSUIT OF THIRvING BAN
NoCKs.-A dispatch to the War department
announces that party of Bannock Indians
were struck on Sunday near Henrys Lakes
six head of stock. Colonel Miles reports from
the Crow Creek agency that the BannOckS,
With large herd OF stolen stock are moving
through the park. The troops are in pursuit.
PERsoNAL.-It was DR.. Basil Morris, U. S.
Army, who was invited to accompany the
Presidential party west, and not DIR. Morris,
OF the Navy, as enormously published, there
being no such officer in the service.
PLATE PRINTERS and their assistants have
been employed for the twenty-five additional
craving and Printing, and there are now No
vacancies in that bureau.
A BOARD OF NAVAL OFFICERS will meet in
Philadelphia on the 14th instant to examine
cadet engineers for promotion to assistant
engineers. A large number Of civilians have
also been granted permits to be examined for
the same position to I'LL a few vacancies.
SECRETARY SCHURz REAFFIRMs HIS DECI-
SION In THR DUDYMoTT CASE Secretary
SchurZ today delivered his decision on the
motion to reconsider entered by some of the
railroad companies affected by the recent de-
cislon in the DudymOtt case. This decision
was to the effect that public lands granted to
certain western railroads which remain un-
sold at the expiration of three years from thu
completion of the road are. under the explicit
pl loyi-iOns an act of Co lgress, open to entry
at sl25 per acre s,. 1t was also held that the
the provisions of the act granting the
land must have been understood by the
mortgages, and the company could only
sessed. In his decision of to-day the Secre-
tary. reafflrms his original decision con-
STRUNG, the act: overrules the PROPOSE
compaIi les to the eff, ct that by the grant the
right to sell was vested only in them and to
the effect that to mortgage is to dispose Of
in The sense intendtd d by the statutes. The
Land Office will be ins ructed to issue the pre-
pared Gil cular, setting forth the method to be
puiSutU III pIo-eU pllilS Sucn laQQS.
The GERMAN PATENT OFFIcE.-The Com
missioner of Patents has received through
the German minister here, full set of speci-
fcatiOns and drawings of patents issued by
The Imperial German Patent Office at Berlin
They number 1916, and the first is dated July
z, 1873. A parcel containing IA plumbers of
weekly publ cation of the same Office was for
Warded With the specifications and drawings
THERE is LIVELY SCRAMBLE going on for
the Office Of bank examiner in Indiana, in
which Secretary Sherman desires to make
thai ge. A dozen or more applicants wan
the place.
w. j VANCE, appointment clerk OF the
Treasury, has gone into voluntary bankruptcy
When the Western papers catch up with III
item tley will probably display it under tn
heading, "ShelmaniZed.'
PROPOSED NEW TERRIToRY.-The Senat
committee on territories will, in few weeks
make trip to the Indian territory to inqulr
into the expediency of recommending the for
nation of new territory out Of the presen
Indian. Territory.
ENLIsTMENTs IN WAsHINGTON.-ColonelH n.
c. Corbin. recruiting officer, U. S. A., for the
District OF Columbia, has during the last six
months enlisted at this station l5S men, OF
these there were soldiers. q; lawyers, mer
chants, !; engineers, 3; telegraph operators,
clerks, 49,, conductors, /; timers. 8; iron
makers, 5; blacksniihs, s; printers, /; spin SPIN
ner, / cooper, 1: Okkeepers, 8; bakers, 3:
seaman. 2; polisher. cooks, 2; bOilermakers,
Il aSUress 6eas ash1sts IS oS r.
average about ten applicants day. Not half
of the number presenting themselves are ac-
seP,ted; The men presenting themselves for
nation by DIR. Barnes, son OF the surgeon gene
raj, and it is credtable to his skill in analyzing
anatomy and diagnosing the peculiarities of
the human system to say that out of the 15S
enllstmentS only one man passed by him was
rejected by the supervising surgeon at David
island, New YORK harbOr. 1t is noticeable like
wise that the character of those seeking en-
l1Stment Is far above the average in point of
intelligence and general morals. An incident
Illustrative Of this is the fact that among the
recent enllStmentS as private soldier was
graduate OF West Point, captain in the United
States army before the war, and major gene
raj in the confederacy. OF four applicants ex-
amined to day only one was accepted by the
surgeon. After the men are enlisted thev are
sent every Friday to the harbors around New
YORK city, and from thence distributed among
the several regiments as requisitiOnS may be
made for them.
ARMY ORDERs.-MajOr G. N. Lieber, Judge
advocate, is assigned to be professor OF law at
the military academy, First Lieut.. ]. NJ.
conduct detachment Of recruits to the Pa
cific coast. First Lieut.. H. W. Hubbell is
transferred from Battery to Battery A. 1st
artillery, and First Lieut.. 81. M. Anderson
from Battery A to Battery E.
NAVAL ORDERs.-COmmOdor Edw'd Simp.
son is ordered to command the naval station
at New London. Conn.,, October 1st Lieut..
VIM. P. Randall to the Ranger, Asiatic sta
ton, per steamer from San Francisco lst Oc-
tober Passed Assistant Engineer w. w. Haa-
ton to the receiving ship Colorado at New
York; Commodore d. Men. Fairfax is de-
tached from command OF the naval station,
New London. Conn, l,t October, and placed
on waiting orders; Capt. Francis NJ Ramsay
from present duties on the 10th instant and
ordered as Inspector of ordnance and In
charge OF torpedo station at Newport r. l.:
Capt. h. X. BreeSe from duty in charge of
torpedo station at Newport, X. l., 10th in.
stant, and ordered to report to chief of bu-
reau OF ordnance for special duty; Lieut.. Com.
Horace Elmer from duty at the torpedo sta
tlon, 10th instant. and placed on waiting
olders; Lieut.. JAS. NJ. Grimes from the Ran.
ger, Asiatic station. on the reporting of his
relief, and granted permission to return home;
Lieut.. Albert X. Conden from duty at the tor
pedo station on the 10th instant, and ordered
to duty at the Asiatic station per steamer of
10th october from San FradciScO, Cal
The ARKANSAS ELECTION Yesterday passed
on very quietly. The democratic state ticke
had 10 opposition. The greenback labO
party had a ticket in Pulaski county Th
vote Is very close, but no definite returns hav,