Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-06
THE EVENING STAR.

THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS ToDAY.-Interna!
revenue. s364. .670.27; customs. 1851, 1861.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the four per cent loan TO
Gay amounted to sl22-siO.
THE TOTAL AMOUNT of six per cents retired
by the Treasury to the first instant is $730 5i3-
co. and the total interest saved thereby $2S,-
lG0,64299.
THE PRESIDENT will not return to Washing
ton until the 2lSt inst. On the 18th Of the
present month he is to attend meeting Of the
board OF managers of the National Asylum
for Disabled Soldiers at Dayton, Ohio.
SATISFACTORILY SETTLED-The question
at issue between the District Commissioners
and the Treasury officials in relation to money
accounts, have finally been settled in a man.
ner satisfactory to all parties concerned, and
there is not likely to be any more dead locks
The warrant for $50, 600. mentioned yesterday.
was placed to the credit of the District Com
misSioners to-day, and Treasurer Gilfillan Is
paying the checks for funds as fast as pre-
sented. Commissioner Dent telegraphed that
Commissioner Twining could sign for him.
DEMAND FOR SILvER.-The director of the
Treasury department to send him as many
boxes and kegs for shipping silver as possible.
The assistant treaSurerS have been notified to
ship him all the spare articles of the kind they
have on hand, and the department will do
likewise.
THE RECENT EXAMINATION of candidates
for the position of third assistant examiner in
the Patent Office has resulted in the appoint
ment of Frank Macarthur, Wis. PhilipG. Rus
sell, Conn. Wallace st. G. RedmaD, ID. c., and
Chas. G.. Kintner, Ky. These gentleman
headed the list in the competitive examina-
ton.
A STATEMENT of the receipts and exDend-
lures of the government from 1856 to 1878 has
been issued by the Treasury. The net revenue
for 1856 was $74,656, ,699.A and net expenditures
$69,571, ,025.79. The lowest revenue for any year
included in the statement was in 1S6l-s4l,-
5O9930.39. The largest was in lS66-S55S.O32,-
62N.C6. The revenue for the fiscal year ending
fore s269oOO, S6 g. in 1876 $S, ,iS2 039l6, and in
1870 S2SS, ,CGo,o5l. 10, The lowest expenditure of
statement were in ls6c-s63, l30 SOS. SO. The
greatest were in 1851, 20, pap. In 1856
they were $69,57l ,025.79. For the fiscal year
ending June 10th last last they the w were So
ta.1G7. 3D.
PAIGN COMMITTEE will forthwith take the
necessary steps to secure Photographic re-
port of the speech made by the President in
Minnesota yesterday reported on the third
page of this paper, and will give it the widest
circulation. The speech is generally accepted,
the President, to be an able one, full of sound
logic and incOntrOyertible facts. The repub-
lcanS recognize in it a speech which will en-
list the interest of the average reader, and for
this reason it will be extensively circulated.
THE CONTRACT OFFICE of the Post Office
weeks busy in handling sub-let contracts
which, under the law passed at the last ses-
sion OF Congress for the protection of sub
contractors must be filed at the department.
In previous years the amount OF mail service
performed by Sub-cOntractOrS could not be
discovered as the department had nothing to
do with the matter The present system gives
basis for calculation. 1t is estimated that at
least half Of the present mail service be per
formed by subcOntractOrs, and the real pro-
portion is probably much larger.
THE POTTER CoMMITrEE.-Represent
Blackburn last evening received a letter from
Chairman Potter, OF the committee investigat-
ing frauds in the last Presidential election
Mr. Potter says that nothing has been deter
mined upon as TO when the committee Will
next meet. Mr.. Blackburn says that the gen.
eral understanding among its members is that
the next move by the committee will be the
sending of a sub committee to New Orleans to
take some additional testimony there thought
TO be necessary.
THE HAMMOND CAsE.-Maior Asa Bird Gar
diner, Judge advocate, U. S. A., is relieved
from duty as recorder of the court ordered to
assemble at West Point at the conclusion of
the court to examine into the FitZ John POr-
ter case, to re-examine and report upon the
evidence on which DR.. w. A. Hammond, ex-
1854. 1t is believed that Col. Guido N. Lieber,
who has Just been detailed as professor Of law
at West Point, will be recorder in the Ham
mOnd case Major Gardiner will be ordered
to duty in the department of Dakota on con-
cluSiOn OF The Porter case.
REGISTRATION OF THIRD-CLAsS MAIL MAT.
TER.-The Third Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral issued today the expected circular to
of third class mail matter, fixing the first of
October as the date when this extension of
the , registry registry IS system viii 80 into effect, and
lar postage as the registry fee on each pack.
age. To afford a public convenience aud to
promote the efficiency of the postal service are
plan. The regulations given are the same as
those for registered letter matter, modified in
conformity cont with the the rules governing third
system is thus extended embraces s''siii all
pamphlets, occasional publications, tran
ers,, unseafed circulars, prospectuses, books,
book manuscripts, proof sheets, corrected
proof sheets, maps, prints, engravings, blanks,
flexible patterns articles of merchandise,
sample cards. Photographic paper, letter en-
velOpes, postal envelopes and wrappers, cards,
plain and ornamental paper, Photographic re-
presentations of different types, seeds, cut
tingS, bulbs, roots, SciOnS and all other matter
which may be declared mailable by law, and
all other articles not above the weight pre-
scribed by law, which are not, from their form
or nature, liable to destroy, deface or other
wise lDjure the contents OF the mail bag or the
person OF any one engaged in the postal ser.
vice. Weight OF packages are not to excead
four pounds.
GODLoyR ORTH's CHANCEs.-Congressman
Michael ID. White, of Indiana is in the city,
Whites district is the one in which GodlOveS.
Orth is candidate, the latter having defeated
him for the nomination. White thinks Orth
will be elected, Notwithstanding the opposition
TO him within the party.
Col JOHN G. THOMPSON, Sergeant-at- arms
of the House of Representatives, arrived in
Washington at O'Clock this morning, and
took rooms at the Riggs House. He was
called for by Senator Barnum, chairman of
the national democratic committee, when
both hied away to some quiet nook to discuss
the political probabilities, fix up things and
pre- pare for a good OldfashiOned ''whOOp up
at once. Col. Thompson. who is always san