Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-07

for a visit to the Navajo Indians i'm New Mexi-
co. The military posts on the route will be
inspected.
PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTs-TheP Presi-
dent has made the following appointments:-
Asa e. Prindle, of New York as consul
Para VIM. Thomson, of the District of Co
lumbia, as consul at Southampton; and Eu
gene j. Ball, OF Indiana, as consul at Pestb.
CONDITION OF THE NATIONAL BANKs.-Re-
ports to the Comptroller of the Currency,
giving the condition of the national banks
June 10Th, show loans and discounts to be
$s31, 1850 specie on hand, $29,250,000; and
the total resources $l,754, ,064,0O0.
EXEMPTION FROM CoUNTERFEITING-It ap-
pears that the Columbian Bank Note Com
pany of this city is equally entitled to credit
with the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
for the security which the present legal ten
ders afford against cOunterfeiting since that
company has executed the engraving and
printing of the backs of all the last issues of
greenbacks. 1t Is not less creditabe than
gratifying that our local company as well Us
the government is able to turn out such work
as defieS all the arts and ingenuity of cOuu-
terfeiters, and it deserves to be congratulated
accordingly.
THE RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS
draws rapidly on. The calling in to-day by
the Treasury of five millions of the five-twenty
bonds of 1865 is the third call of the kind
q
meanwhile the subscriptions o the four per
cent loan are piling in. The subscriptions to
that fund to-day footed up one million six hun
dred and sixty-two thousand dollars.
AFTER SThMPs.-A committee of gentlemen
waited on the Postmaster General to-day, to
request permission to obtain from the depart
ment an exhibit similar to that made at the
centennial Exhibition, for use at the coming
exhibition of the Maryland Institute. A full set
OF United States stamps, dead letter curiOsi-
ties, &c., are the articles desired. The visitors
were referred by letter TO Mr.. Hazen. third
assistant postmaster general, who is north in
connection with the plan for registering third
class matter.
PERsONAL.-SenatOr Blaine is sitting for his
portrait to Willard, the Boston artist. &C.
M. Matthews, esq, of Georgetown, has gone
TO Talbot county for brief vacation Prof.
j. Norman LOckyer, of England, the dstin-
gulshed scientist and editor of Nature, who
the total eclipse of the sun, is spending few
days i'll the city as the guest of General Myer,
chief signal officer of the army. SECOND
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury French,
who has been spending his vacation at his
home IN Massachusetts, returned to Washing
ten this morning. 90. Col. Frank Taylor, of
the U. s. artillery. has just arrived here from
Newport. He viii return to his station on
Friday.
MRS PRESIDENT HAYES arrived at Newport,
Mrs. Justice Swayne at Cliff Cottage.
RAILWAY POSTAL CLERKS KILLED-A dis
Patch has been received at the z. o. depart
ment from railway superintendent French, at
Cincinnati. reporting an accident ON the Pitts
burg, Cincinnati and st. Louis (Pan Handle)
railroad, this morning. Two of the railway
postal clerks, +. b. Graham and w. X. John
Ston, and one assistant local agent are report
ed killed, and another clerk, G.. w. L MOreai :,
has his leg broken.
SENATOR BUTLER president of the Ameri-
can branch of the national convention to
adopt Franco-American treaty of commerce,
Will not be able to 60 to Paris owing to his
duties on the committee for the reOrganiZa-
tiOn of the army. Mr.. Ernest BrulatOur. the
:.ecretary general OF the convention, sails on
the eth Instant by the steamer Canada as
bearer OF documents relating to the conven-
ton.
CAPTAIN FADs, of the Mississippi ietties.
who arrived here yesterday, comes to arrange
Tor the payment of the first monthly install.
ment of the additional half million voted him
by an act of Congress at the last session,
Owing to the fact that the engineer officer
whose duty it is to inspect the work has left
New Orleans on account of the yellow fever,
he will experience some delay in accomplish.
ing his mission. Secretary McCrary also
previous to settlement. When this is reached
capt. Eads expects to go to Long Branch.
AT MEETING OF GREENBACKERs, held in
this city last evening, ex-senator Fowler, of
Tennessee, presided The meeting was for
the purpose OF organizing a central national
eeommittee. 1t was well attended. Colonel
NJ r. Jeferds, of Texas, presented declara-
the belief that the two great political parties
are solely under the control OF office seekers
professional politicians and money mOngers |:
former party associations, should iI ali 1os 81.
tons OF trust and responsibility; opposes third
terms OF public offices; declares that the right
fhs Oh states TO tax their property nyoabe
full legaltender currency is favored, and the
repeal OF the resumption act demanded; also,
the liberation OF the coin boarded in the Trea
coinage of silver, the, issue of Treasury
nOtes-Of full legaltender character-tO an
extent sufficient for all requirements of rrade
The substitution OF greenbanis,s for national
cations and bonds in legaltender notes. ex-
cept where otherwise provided; the further
issuing OF interest bearing bonds, monopolies
ana SUBSIDIES are opposed. and internal i'm
provements favored; also the construction of
one or more lines of railroad to Mexico. The
declaration concerning labor is, that the in
terest OF the industrial, wealth producing
classes IS the paramount interest of the peO-
pie of the United States, and the Warnlest
sympathy is given the labOring classes thrown
out oil employment This declaration of prin-
proved.
The Science Gossip of London for last
month speaks in complimentary terms of
Prof.. Lesguereux'S Contributions to the
Fossil Flora of the Western Territories'-a
government publication, In connection with
our western surveys. The English paper says !:
In everything-type, lithOgraphy, quality of
paper, and even bfnding-these publications
shoot far ahead OF our own Memoirs of the
Geological Survey, whose small type seem in
tended TO deter people from reading" Refer
ence is made to the niggardly way in which
publications of the English survey are dOled
out to the authors, and to the plan adopted of
sending none out for review, and the writer
then SayS:-"In this respect the United
States government is the very opposite of our
own. Their Splendidly got up volumes are
sent over to the scientific Journals of Europe
without stint, and so the American geolOgists
obtain recognition which the unaccOuntable
stinglness of the British government denies to
ours"
Our SQUADRON IN AsIATIC WATERs.-Rear
Admiral I. H. Patterson, commanding u. s.
naval forces on the Asiatic station, reports to
the Navy department, dated Yokohama,
Japan, July IL. 1873, that on the 4th of July the
Japanese, English, French, German and Rus
sian men-Of-war united with him in cele-
brating the day by dressing ships and at noon
hrlng national salute. The disposition of
the vessels of the squadron is as follows
The MonOngahela, Captain FitZhugh, remains
at Shanghai, where the repairs upon her
boilers will be completed, as authorized by the
bureau, which will require at least five weeks.
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