New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-08
WASHINGTON NOTES.
wAsniSGTos. Tuesda,

WAsHlSGTOS. Tuesday, May y 1873
The subscriptions 20 the per cent loan to-day
amounted 10 $4,000.
The House Committee on tho judiciary decided 10 re-
port favoraby General Buffers bill repeating the Zen
ure-OfofiCe Act.
The President has signed the amending the act to
aid in the construction OF railroad and telegraph line
from the Missouri River to the Pacific Oc.a
The House Committee Naval Affairs Ngreed unan-
mousy to-day upon bill appropriaing 100000 for the
purpose Of erecting drJ-dOck at the League Is!ahd
Navy Yard
The Post Office Department has ordered increase OF
mail service between Bisnark the terminus OF the
Northern Pacific Railroad, and DcadWood, Dakota,
from tri-weekly 10 daily.
The Piesident signed pardon to-day for Ferdinand s.
winslow OF Chicago, who convicted OF completely In
the Treasury robbery IN 1877 and sentenced 10 eighteen
months imprisonment In the Albany feniontl31 lhls
pardon docs shorten WlnslOw's term OF inprison
men but siuPly relieves him from his subsequent disa
billties as n citiZrn.
Consul General Kreisnann reports TO the Department
of state that general international Exhibition Of paper
and stationery and the industries relating thereto will
be held at Berlin from the 10th Of July TO the 3lst Of
August OF this year. American exhibitors are cordially
invited TO contribute ana the opportunity In Regarded
a good one for making known the excellence Oi Amer
lean products in that Held.
DeputyCollcctor T. g.. Hoffman reports that with a
posse Of ecnt men he started from Walbaa recently
in pursuit Of the outlaw Redmond who broke open aja
aud released eight OF his friends who had been engaged
IN Illicit distilng. They searched Rocky Bottom tor
two days but Redmond succeeded III GLIDING them The
pursuit has been given up but fears entertained that
the two guides Will be Killed.
The bill introduced in the House yesterday by Repre-.
sentative Ewing, Of ohio, creating new judicial dis
trct in Of Ohio provides that the counties Of
Mcigs, VntOn, Hooking Athens, Washington, Monroe,
Noble Morgan. Perry, Fairfield Pckaway, Franklin,
Licking Muskngum. Guernsey, Belmont Jefferson, Har-
ripJn fugcurawas, Holmes COsEOciOu. Knox, Morrow,
RichlaHd, Crawford, MyandOte, Hardin. Marion, Della
ware UniOn Logan, Champaign, Clarke and Madison he
detached the judicial districts and shall hereafter
compose and be known the Central District OF ONO
The Senate Committee Foreign Relations decided to-
day TO report and recommend the adoption Of concur
rent resolution, taking the ground that the treaty pro
visions which allow unrestricted Chinese immigration
10 this country might wisely DO modified, and inviting
the attention OF the President Of the United states 10 TIE
subject This concurrent resolution reported as
substitute Senator Sargents Joint resolution, when
provided express terms that the President should be
requested to open gOtiaOns with the Governments OF
China and Great Britain, with view TO restricting chi
ncsc immigration 10 this country.
The Post ONCE Department has received a cable dis
patch from Mr. Backfan, from Paris, announcing that
France reduced her rate OF postage prepaid let
tiers, take effect the 1st inst follows: For Eu-
rope generally, % centimes per grammes
for the United States Brazil the Argentine Republic
Japan, the French, Dutch. Spanish, Portuguese and
centimes. The Of postage prepaid letters from
the french Colonies for postal union countries not re-
during a transit Of over 300 nautical miles, are also
reduced from May J. from 80 to % centimes aud Tor
those requiring transit OF That distance from ~
TO IS centimes