Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-07-31
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

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GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY-lnternal
revenue, $3.50, ,60i 81: customs s365,644.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the tour per cent. loan to-
day amounted to S1,561,650
THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY is expected
to return to Washington within week or ten
days.
PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENT.-The Presi-
dent has appointed John r. Penning gton COL
lectOr OF internal revenue for the district of
Dakota.
AT THE WHITE HoUsE.-Among the distin-
guishCd callers at the Executive Mansion to.
day were Generals Burnside, Hunter and
Scribner, and Capt. w. j. Vance.
ALASKAN APPoINTMENTs.-Congre having
made provision in the sundry civil bill for two
additional Treasury agents at the fisheries in
Alaska, Gen. B. F. ScrIbner. of Indiana aud
Gen. Vladimir keZyZanOWSki were today
appointed TO the positions.
AFTER OFFICE.-The Interior department
has been besieged to-day with those who had
taken part in the recent competitive examina-
ion, anxious to learn whether they are
among the fol tuDate twenty who are expected
TO obtain situations.
AN NORDER will soon be issued by the foreign
mails division of the Post Office department
CdlDUS tO lue CndUSoS III lntcFnd
tiOnal postal arrangements made by the recent
postal treaty at Paris, and giving directions in
accordance with its provisions.
SUCCESS OF GEN. HOwARD's INDIAN CAM
PAIGN.-The following dispatch has been re-
ceived at the War department:
PREsIDIO, SAN FRANCISCO, July so, 1873
GEM Sherman, VaShtngton, D. C:-General
2Sth inst, via Baker City, as follows: The
crisis of the campaign has certainly passed.
The check at the Columbia serves to keep the
peace north of that river. The Bannocks and
rated but divided their trails, and run over
the toughest mountain country. am moving
my troops so as,to pick the hostiles up in de,
as possible. Forsyth has eight companies of
cavalry here Green the three near mouth of
Weiser To-day Crook has been telegraphed
to watch that they do not stop on reservation
and escape arrest.
tSigned) MCDOWELL, Major General.
The WASHINGTON RELICS PAID FoR-Major
Dangerfield Lewis, of Clarke county, Va, who
recently sold the Washington relics to the
United States, to-day received the $l2,0O0 ap-
preparation voted therefor by Congress. At
hf Sherman WAS inclined to With
Lewis could sufficiently establish the identity
of painting in the collection, claimed to be a
portrait Of Washington. Major Lewis as,
in time, and upon this assurance he was paid
the full amount. 1t may be added that the
painting in dispute has no resemblance, to
what is generally accepted as counterfeit
ktfseR.%sh' Gs ~" Oh 'ns features 0' the immortal
PERS8NAL-SenatOr Thurman is visiting
Hon. r. T. Merrick, at the country residence
of the latter, near Ellicott City, Howard co.,
Md. ''''Mr. and Mrs. Henry A Willard and
son sailed from Baltimore this morning on the
Liverpool steamer Caspian. Mrs. Fasset
visit, after which she will return to Washing.
ton and resume work on her painting of the
Electoral Commission. ''''Chiet Clerk Up
tonight for three weeks vacation on the
coast of Maine. During his absence Maior
Power, chief clerk of the warrant division,
will perform the duties of chief clerk. Gap
tain w. X. Brown, librarian of the Navy de-
Partment, and wife leave tonight for Oak
Bluff, Martha's Vineyard. Col Audenreid,
OF Gen. Shermans star. leaves here tonight
Senator Burnside arrived in town this morn
ing from White Sulphur Springs. He goes
north tonight. Mr.. BuShrod Robinson,
son and daughter are SummeTing at Ork
ney Springs.
SITTING BULL wants to come back to this
country and overtures in his behalf have been
made to the government, but consideration of
them has been declined. At the same time
that he has been endeavOring to obtain per-
mission to return, his runners have been at
tempting to arouse the Sioux in the United
the sneering message that 1.-The bucks have
become SquawS." The Indian authorities will
give him no encouragement whatever to
return. 1t is his turn to be snubbed this time.
FRAUDS BY MAIL.-InformatiOn has reached
the Post Office department that certain par
ties in the state of Massachusetts, are engaged
in defrauding the public by issuing Illustrated
eataiogueSs S for tsiESerWare jeWelry and an in
can be accomplished at cost not exceeding
four cents per pound. Orders containing
money for the purchase of these articles have
already been detected by post office officials
and returned to the parties forwarding the
same, together with an Enforcement to the
effect that the advertisement to which they
have replied is fraudulent; such action being
required by law when postmasters are assured
that the business is bogus. 1t is said that the
parties engaged in this work, as soon as dis
another, and issue additional circulars an
nouncing the same. The business is confined
TO the smaller towns OF the state.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Leutenant A. B. H. Lille
is ordered to duty at the navy yard, New York,
5th August. Lieutenant E. A. Field to the re-
ceiving ship Wabash, at Boston, on the 10th
August Passed Assistant Engineer James
Fl. Chasmar to special duty in connection with
engineer stores at the navy yard New York.
Lieutenant George g. Clay, from the navy
yard, New YORK, 0th August, and placed on
waiting orders. Lieutenant n. j. X. Tatch
from the receiving ship Wabash, on the 10th
OF August, and placed on waiting orders.
Col. CoRBIN, 9th United States infantry,
formerly on duty as one of the Presidents Sec
retareS at the White House. arrived here this
morning: He was in Ohio attending the Clear.
mont College reunion. when he was apprised
of the death of his son, Phillip Swing COrbin,
an interesting little fellow of 4 years, who con-
tracted the Texas fever, while with his
parents, when his father was on duty on the
Rio Grande. The remains will be taken to
Wilmington, Ohio, for interment tomorrow
morning, previous to (which funeral services
viii be held at the house.
THE MAIL REGISTRATION SYsrE MIN con.
nectiOn with the question of the extension of
the registration system to third-class mail
matter, some points touching its condition as
at present constituted may be of interest. In
the last fiscal year the total number of letters
and packages registered was 4,3iS, ,l27, and
S36I, ,iSS.SS was collected in fees. The percent.
age of ordinary letters lost was only about
One-fftieth of one per cent; 1882 packages
OF stamped envelopes and postal cards. valued
at 1862, ,S56.4T, and 81, ,S11 packages of U. s.
bonds currency and internal revenue stamps,
valued at sl24, ,l47 ,04O5i, were forwarded for
the government without charge for registra-
ton. Out of the large sum carried for the
Treasury, not penny was lost, and out Of that
carried for the Post Office department, only
two packages of small yalue The Sacurity of