Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-10
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

IHE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS ToDAY.-Internal
revenue s246, 1856; customs. s552,9i3.56.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the tour per cent. loan to-
day amount, / to $50 00O.
ORDERS for 10000 standard silver dollars
were received at the Treasury day.
!ngs, M1nn, yesterday, and were enthusiast
:al'y received. They reached Red Wing,
kllnn.. in the evening.
THE FITz JOHN PORTER inquiry was re-
sumed at West Point today when several wit
neSSeS were examined The same board is
also charged " it'll the investigation of ex-Sur-
geOn General Hammond's case, which, for the
purpose OF savIrg time, it will take up in the
intervals OF the Porter examination.
can to-day, which the result of the elections in
Maine and Vermont has made plain, and that
is that the national banks must contribute
literally to the republican campaign fund
The intel asts OI both are Identical, and If their
officers cannot read the lesson of the green
back victories in New England they are too
0btuSe to deserve consideration.
to be absent for few days. Gen. Brady is
acdng Postmaster General.
HON. SIMON CAMERON passed through Wash
ingtOn last night on his way to the White Sui
rhnr Springs where he viii spend several
had paid but little attention to political affairs
recently, as he had been a long time In the
service, and thought 1t was better that the
younger men should now take their t1rn at
20
in the ability OF the republicans to carry the
pennsylvania state and legislative tickets, and
thorght there would be a gain in the Congress
gr' enback element is strong in cerGain aec-
hons of the state, and that they may ell ct
enough Of their candidates to give them the
balance OF power in the legislature.
Mr.. w. F. FORSYTH, chief superintendent of
tie money order branch of the Post Office de
partment at Ottawa, was at the Post Office de-
Paa9tmGenat en- to-day, calling upon the various
tiOn with DR. Mcdonald on the subject of the
money order system of Canada and the United
States.
MAIL TRAINS STOPPED BY QUARANTINE
The following dispatch from superintendent
of the railway mail service Terrill, at Atlanta,
Ga, has been received at the p. o. depart
ment: " Mail trains between Cairo and New
orleans ore have discontinued and postal cars are
Meridian and Jackson, Miss, have been
stopped and agents ordered out of the
state. Mobile has quarantined against trains
vile against Cedar Keys, Fla Quarantines
are becoming so numerous in Alabama and
Mississippi that am almost powerless to do
anything with the mails
THE STANDARD SILVER DOLLAR.-The totaI
number of standard silver dollars now in cir
culatiOn aggregate three million, two million
OF which have gone out since the order of the
treasury department to pay out silver to indi-
pies thereof on deposit of national notes at the
assista MT treasures and depository banks. The
principal demand for silver has thus far come
from the western states. Ohio and Indiana
hearing the banner in the amounts taken.
After next Monday, when the paying out of
sllver f9r legal tenders without any restriction
lafs Will be greatly Increased. They will not
exceed the Sln,Coo00 Of the coin in the Treasury
as the greater part of the silver taken will
@ dulles Sur per m cep S1nds q tens
tration OF how far tie silver dollar and silver
cerflfcateS enter iatO the payment of customs
dudes It may be stated that the sub-Ireasury
at San Francisco has thus far i"sued five and a
hdif mill1t ms in silver certificates, and that
four and half millions of this issue is now in
me su6-treasury at New York, having been
shlpped east and used in payment for those
duties
INTERNATIONAL POSTAL CARD CHESS TOUR
NEY.-F. Fl. Curtiss, of Wyoming Territory,
has drawn game by perpetual check with D.
M. Latta, OF Leith, Scotland, and H. RreWer,
ct BOnrnemouth, England, has won game
from E. Delmar, of New York city The score
now stands-Great Britain, 8; United States,
Z; drawn, 2
MR.. j. HALE SYPHRR, of Louisiana, who is
now in Washington on business, says that he
is not and never has been counsel for Ander-
son, the Potter committee witness, as pub
With h@ had N.Y. r sznbep %
phia, was one Of the counsel before the Potter
committee, and Mr.. Sypher, of Louisiana,
COUPLING his aS sh hs IN s
article complained of.
FUMIGATED D1sPATCH.-A day or two ago
Dr. Baxter, medical purveyor of the U. s. A.,
was sitting in his office, busily engaged in
SAID, doctor, here is communication from
New Orleans, what shall do with it?" With.
Out raising his eyes from the work upOn which
ne was engaged the doctor said, HAS it been
1umlgated?' The Clerk rep ed that it had not,
WhereupOn the doctor rather tartly direc teG
that II should be fumigated and then brought
handed the doctor, when his surprise can be
maglned to find 1t was telegram. The clerk
not being given to practical joking the doctor
credited 1t to his stupidity, whereas the clerk
asserts that he cannot see why DR.. Baxter
wanted telegraphic dispatch fumigated.
THREE SAILORS DRowNED.-The signal SER
vice observer at Tybee Island Georgia reports
to the chief signal officer at Ills pm, as fol-
lOwS:-Three sailors from the German bark
were drowned opposite this station in the surf
to-day while trying to leave the island i'm a
boat during the storm, contrary to the advice
OF the observer.
THE PROMOTION OF ONCoMMIssIoNED
OFFICERs.-The recent order from the War
department prescribing the formula of exami.
nation of nOn-cOmmiSsi0ned officers in the
army for promotion to lieutenacieS, under the
law OF June Is last, having provoked consider
aDie criticism, on account OF its rigid require
mients, iian the subject was brought to the atten:
tlOn OF Secretary McCrary, who has directed
mat the order shall be modified. In English
grammar, to the soldiers ability to read and
write with facility and correctness in arith-
metlc, to his ability in the application of its
rules to all practical questions in geography
particularly in reference to the northern con.
tlnent OF America in history particularly in
reference to- his own country, and to his
knowledge OF the constitution and organiZa-
tlOn OF the government and of the general
principles which regulate international inter
course.