Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-24

day. amounted to $4,000
THE TREASURY BALANCES to-day are: Cur.
rency, 81 ,7SS GAG; coin, s236, ,322 ,95S.
ORDERS for $93, ,s69, in silver ,liars, were
received at the Treasury up to noon to day.
THE PRESIDENT and party will return to the
city tomorrow morning. at o'clock.
A NEW TREASURY ORDER-Secretary Sher-
man has decided to make the senders of ma
tional bank notes to the redemption agency
in this city prepay the express charges on
them. A circular to this effect was issued
late this afternoon by Treasurer Gilfillap.
charges and reimbursed itself out OF the five
per cent. fund allowed by the banks to pay
expenses incurred in the redemption of notes.
The government has also. had special rates
with the express companies. 1t is thought
that hereafter banks and others sending notes
for redemption will have to pay full rates.
SECRETARY SCHURz will speak in the Music
hall, at Cincinnati, on Saturday evening, not
on Friday evening as was at first intended.
A HEALTH OFFICER BURNS THE MAILS
Information has been received at the P. O.
department today that twenty four sacks of
newspaper mail have beer burned by the
health Office at Mesquite, Texas. AS the mails
have not been forced by the department past
any point where quarantine has been eStab-
llshed, the question arises by what authority
the mails We're burned. The department. viii
investigate the matter.
The EIGHT HOUR LAWN view of the fact
that the administration has at last taken cog
niZance of the eight hour law, the democratic
congressional campaign committee has de-
clded to have printed and circulated the
opinion of Attorney General Devens, delivered
in March last, against the enforcement of the
law. The committee seem to think that the
law is now enforced to propitiate the votes of
the laborlDg men.
THE HAYDEN SURvEY-Irlteres.ing Dis
coueTy Cf Gdciers.-Mr. Ecces. an English
geologist, who accompanied the Hayden ex
nlOring expedition, reached Cheyenne last
we, MT,ednesday. He reports the party doing we'll.
They apprehend no further troubles from
Indians and intend to complete their field
WoIk. The party discovered a number OF
genuine & &glaclersi one In the vicinity OF Mt.
Moran, fully mile in length The disc0yererS
completed their work, and on return to camp
found things scattered generally The IN
dams had carried off every thing they could
ma make use OF, including all the good clothes of
the party.
THE PRESIDENT AND PARTY arrived at
Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday, and were wei
coined at the depot by some 800 ladies and
gentlemen: The President and family dined
party then proceeded via Cleveland and Pitts
burg Railroad to Alliance, where large
crowd greeted them and the Alliance battery
fired salute SO near that all the glass on one
side OF the Presidents car was broken. No
body, however, was injured. Here thev We're
net by the Pittsburg reception committee,
rived at Pittsburg at p. m. A salute was
fired and the party were escorted to the Mo
ppongahela House by the Grand Army OF the
city was gaily decorated. At the hotel the
President was welcomed to the city by John
H. Hampton: President Hayes responded
DIlehy, excuslng himself on account OF fatigue
PERsoNALs.-Dr. Basil Norris, U. s. A.,
family physician of Gen. Sherman, has been
summoned to Atlantic City, N. j.. to attend
Mrs. Sherman, who is seriously ill at that
place. Col. VIM; II. McCardle, of .Vicks-
burg, who has been here for some weeks has
announced himself as candidate for the posi-
tion of secretary Of the state of Mississippi to
till the vacancy occasiOned by the death of Col
klnloch Falconer by yellow fever. A.. Chief
Justice Cartier is looking remarkably well
after his summer vacation, the most Of which
odG ne passed s,5 near Cleaveand and near Cotton
correspondent Cincinnati Gazette, has re.
turned from a months visit to Rye Beach, N II.
.Ex-Speaker c. Il: Grosvenor, of the Ohio
Washington tO. night on an important political
mission. Col. Tyler, of the warrant divis-
lon, NJ, Treasury department., has returned from
ACCIDENT TO A CONGREssMAN-Mr N. A.
Strait, Of the pension Office in this city, has
received letter from Wellsboro', Pa, giving
an account of an accident to Representative
John l. Mitchell, OF the 10th Pennsylvania dis
!flct, whose horse ran away with him, throw
ing MIN out OF his buggy. His ankle was
padly spralned, and he was made so helpless
that he had to withdraw from the active cam
paign he was conducting in his district.
PROFESSOR AsAPH HALL has pursued his
studies Of the moons of Mars which he dis
covered year ago, so far that he is now able
to present, in pamphlet, published by the
and Orbits of the Satellites Of Mars" a pretty
full account of the observations made of the
satellites and calculations for ephemerides
in 1879.
VICTIMS OF SHIPwRECK.-The commanding
officer Of the United States squadron on the
coast OF Brazil was telegraphed few days
since by the Navy department to send the q.
S;a =, steamer me Essex to Tristan d'Acunha to re:
lleye the crew OF the wrecked ship Mabel
Clark. The Essex is now supposed to be on
her way to the island. Information through
q the sas Msg gyss hs
dispatch has been received from the consul of
the United States at Singapore, from which it
apReaFS ar ht dnat the BLUSH ship Cambrian Mon
SURVIVORS Of the wreck Of the Mabel Clark;
that two others OF the survivors were carried
ship Mousdean, of Glasgow, Thompson, mas.
ter, while the following persons were left on
the island, viz: Henry Williams of Mass. Jno.
johnson and Q: Aflsen Of Norway. Peter
Peterson, Dane, Alex. jenkins Of Nova
Scotia, and Frank Smith. said to be German.
lit seems there were two Frank Smiths on the
vessel) The cOnSul'S report furnishes the
pleasing intelligence that the treatment exDe-
rlenced by the crew of the Mabel Clark from
the islanders was, for the most part hOnOra-
Die and generous in high degree, while the
exeItions put forth by the Inhabitants to save
the lives OF the crew. are described as heroic.
ARMY ORDERs.-Second Lieutenant Alfred
NJ. Fuller. I'd cavalry. will repair to the re.
cruiting rendezvous New York city, to con-
duct recruits to Jefferson Barracks, Mo. :after
tendent mounted recruiting service to accom-
pany recruits to the department of Dakota.
On the completion of this duty he will join his
proper station. First Lieutenant Ira Mac.
Mutt, ordnance department, on being relieved
from duty at the U. s. Military Academy will
report in person for duty to the commanding
officer, Rock Island arsenal. Illinois.
NAVAL ORDERs.--Lieut. ChaS. O. Allibone is
ordered to.the navy yard, League Island. Pa;
Chief Engineer A. Aston, to the receiving
ship Franklin, at Norfolk, Va, 1st October;
Chief Engineer George w. SenSner, to duty
on board the irOn-cladS at Brandon, Va, 1St
October; Cadet Engineers 81. W. Spangler, f.
Il I, fso to II ISiob