Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-07-30
THE EVENING STAR,

THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
GOvERNMENT RECEIrTs TO-DAY.-Internal
revenue, slsS, 1852: customs, sl59,142SO
SUBSCRIPTIONS TO the tour per cent loan to
day. s4l3,15l.
MORE CIRCUI ATION.-There was issued
during the month of July, ssh, 800. additional
National Bank circulation.
SECRETARY SHERMAN will leave for New
York within day or two, on important busi-
ness.
DIsCHARGED.-All of the force in the mode
room Of the Patent office, employed under a
S5,LCJ appropriation OF Congress to restore the
burned models, was discharged yesterday.
COLLECTOR THOMAS EXoNERATED.-Assist
ant Secretary Hawley, to whom the matter
was referred, after thorough and careful
examination OF the charges made against Hon.
John l.. Thomas, collector of customs at B IL
timOre, Nd, OF alleged interference by him in
the late primary election held in that city,
finds that there is no evidence showing that
Collector Thomas had any ching to do with
such primaries.
The SOLAR ECLIPsE.-Gen. Meyer tele-
graphs from Pixies Peak: observations sue
CeSsful. Corona traced several diameters
from sun, and seen for five minutes after TO-
tality.'
Col. GEORGE WALLACE, OF the Treasury
department, will sail from Baltimore to-mOr-
row for Halifax, y. s. 1t is known that he is
going on an important mission, but Treasury
officials are reticent as to its nature. The
orders Of Major Jack Stockton. who was to
have accompanied Col. Wallace, owing to the
great pressure in The Loan Division, have been
revoked.
PERs0EAL-Major Ben PerIey P00re will
leave here for his rural home, Indian Hill
farm, near Newburyport, on Thurday next.
The major has been hard at work since the
adjournment of Congress on the closing pages
OF the Centennial Congressional Directory
i16-lS,7" which will be ready for the press
early the coming autumn. Congressman
FaSsett is putting the finishing touches on her
picture OF the electoral commission. She goes
to New England this week. Supervising
Architect Hill left Washington for San Fran
cisco on public business last night DIR.
Linderman, director of the mint, is ill, and
confined to bis residence. Bishop E. r.
Ames, of the Methodist Episcopal church, who
has been seriously sick for some weeks past in
Baltimore is now cOnvaleScent. .'''ASSOci-
ate Justice Miller, OF the Supreme Court of
me United States; was out yesterday for the
formed on the 22d of June last and is in better
health Than for some time past. ''''J. Milton
Turner, eX-mlniSter to Liberia, was in the city
yesterday, and has made final settlement with
the government.
SENATOR PATTERSON said yesterday that he
believed the administration would back out of
its position it has assumed with reference to
the revenue agents imprisoned in South Caro-
lima. He says the President told him that
there would be no use in resistance if the state
courts refused to give up the agents, because
the army could not be used as posse conf
balipVp
be posse raised In South Carolina in Oppo-
SltlOn to the decision of its state courts. Pat
ters0n added II told Hayes he would yet see
the necessity for troops in the south"
MORE NOTARIEs PUBLIC APPOINTED.-The
President today appointed the following
to be nOtaries public for the District of Colum.
bio: Geo. Ii. B. White, Albert B. Ruff, Jos. c.
w Ferguson, A. G. Bradley, VIM. p. Bell H.
I. Crosby and j. HOldsworth Gordon, each for
the term OF five years.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE for twenty-five DAYS,
from August I'd. is granted Captain E. B. Saw.
age, Sth infantry: also leave of absence for
six months is granted Captain Thos b. De
wess, ID cavalry.
ACTING CHIEF OF ENGINEERs.-By direction
of the President, Lieutenant Colonel H. G.
Wight, cornS of engineers, will. during ths
temporary absence of Brigadier General A, A,
Humphreys, act as chief OF engineers.
A DANGEROUS ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR
COUNTERFEIT NOTE on the Pittsfeld National
Bank. PittSfeld, Mass, has lust been dis
covered by the national redemption division
OF the TreaSurer'S office. No notice of any
kind has appeared of this counterfeit It is
evidently made from the same plate as the
recent one hundred dollar counterfeit, but is
better printed
PREFER PAPER MONEY TO SILVER. - The
Treasurer of the United States has received a
letter from the cashier of the First National
Bank Of Galveston, saying as far as that bank
/ing association has been able to ascertain.
there is no wish among the people there to
have the standard silver dollar put in circula-
ton. They much prefer paper as being more
which it is telieved in Galveston are intrinsi-
caIly equal in value to the standard dollars
are only worth 80 cents in that market, and
pass al that rate in retail transactions
THE ARMY REPRESENTATION COMMISSION.
which has been In session at the Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs, sadjourned to meet
IN New Ork, November Is: the work Sc far
has been harmonious, il is said, and the main
features OF a bill have been agreed upon.
EMIGRATION FROM LIvERPOoL.-HOn. Lu.
cius FaIrchild, U. s. consul at Liverpool, sends
to the Department Of State some encouraging
statistics regarding emigration. The num.
port during the six months, ending June 90,
lslS, was - III. In the same period in 1877,
the number was 26.555. an increase of 1922 in
1873. The number OF ships in 1877 was $50: in
1873, 40l The number OF the same class of
passengers arriving in Liverpool during the
same period in 1878 was IS 307; in 1877 l9 iS6, a
June, 1878, II ships left Liverpool with 1915
emigrants-5,79l TO the United States. 1,27l to
Canada. The English emigrants were 3,033;
Irish, 79I: Scotch, 76. OF the English, 1894
went to the United States; 627 to Canada 81
TO Australia; 49 to South America OF the
Irish, US to the United States 9 to Canada. or
da- OF other nations there were 1898: to the
United States, 2,676; to Canada, 6l5; to Aus.
traia and 8 TO South America,
AMERICAN PORK IN GERMANY.-H Kriess'
mann, consul general of the United States at
Berlin, informs the Department of States un.
der date of july 9, 1S7S that ministerial de-
cree has been issued discOntinuing the micro