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

asnilStoG news ana GOSSIP.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-pAY.-Internal
revenue s299, 5l0.1s: customs. $40.
! SUBSCRIPTIONS to the 1our per cent. loan 20.
| day amounted TO Sol0510.
THE PRESIDENT and party returned from
| Virginia last night.
THE POSTMASTER GENERAL and party leave
| San Francisco for the East tomorrow.
JUDGE WYLIE, of the District Supreme
| Court. called on the President today.
THE INDIANA ELEcr1oN-Gen. Brady, who
has returned to the city from Indiana, has
| teleeraphic information from that state tina
Orth, Sexton, Grose and Hunter are defeated
| and that Holman is elected; that the demo
| cratic majority in the house is at least two;
that the senate is tie: and that the demo-
Gratis claim ten majority on joint ballot.
THE GRERNBACK CONGRESSMAN FROM Iowa
The following telegram was received by Col.
| Geo. B. Corkhill to-day:
BURLINGTON, Iowa, Oct. 9. 1S7S.-General
j Weaver, democrat and greenbaek, elect
no
by Hon. J: B. III. Cummings, blican, is in
doubt. Majority on the state ticket about
twenty thousand Heavy Eep1blifan nrTd9 gain.
Chm State Central Republican Com"
GGen. Weaver has been republican, was
an officer OF the Union army, and has been
candidate for office before the republican
Congressional convention for years. He was
republican delegate to the last state conven-
ton Tor H. mination for governor.l
The WEST VIRGINIA ELECTIoN.-General
John S. Witcher pension agent in this city,
has received from a friend at Union, West
Va, a letter dated yesterday. from which the
| fOlOwingiS an extract: Il nave the gratify-
ing intelligence to give you that Walkers
majority in the county is estimated at 80.
Tie official returns will not vary much from
| this. The whole democratic ticket with one
| exception, is beaten by a majority which
| and / alone have assumed for Monroe the last
i've years. The cause OF the solitary excep.
| himself on our ticket for cir. clerk, against
the democratic candidate, (keston) one OF the
best clerks in the state. The vote for Walker
| Eere 1S | trust, an augury Of like result
| IN the Congressional district
| Walker was the candidate of the repuoli
| cans and nationals against kenna, dem. This
county (MOnrOe) has heretofore given five to
| seven hundred democratic majority. Cabell
| county, which now gives 200 ajority for the
| repuDllcan-natlOnal ticket. has heretofore
! given about seven hundred democratic ma
| jority.
| MARSHAL PITKIN, of Louisiana, who had a
severe attack of the yellow fever and is here
| recuperating, says that up to the time he left
| New Orleans there had been but little politi-
| cal work dOEe in the Congressional districts
| He says that the republicans in New Orleans
have dislntergrated, and that there is cOnsid-
! cradle of greenback element in that city
but that it does not extend TO any other por-
| tiOn of the state.
RED CLOUD AND HIS CHIEFs.--Colonel j.
| r. OBeirne, at White Clay Creek, reports to
! the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that
| Red Cloud and other chiefs are with him ROW
at their new agency. and that the Indians of
| Red CLOUDS band will arrive in a week He
adds "All are well pleased, aud everything is
| moving splendidly. There is no fighting news
| yet All is quiet here, but the chiefs are very
| sOlicitOuS and serious
Hon. EUGENE HALE, of Maine, chairman of
! the republican Congressional campaign com
| miltee, is expected to return here from Ohio
| tonight. Hereafter the committee will devote
| itself TO the circulation of documents adv0cat
| ing hard money. and it is thought by some
that IN view OF secretary Gorham'S detection
| on the financial question that he may have
| to step aside as secretary of the committee.
FOUR MORE NOTARIES.-The President has
appOinted the following notaries public: o
T. B. Wall, John A. Clark, j. H. Soule, Henry
| j. Ennis.
| GEN. kETCHAMS NOMINATION. - An un
! usually large republican convention in Pough-
| keepsie, N. Y, on Tuesday unanimously and
| by acclamation renominated John H. Ketch-
am for Congress from the 18th district, as was
briefly mentioned in yesterdays STAR. Gen.
| ketcham was elected by 2, ~ majority in 1876.
a.
ess and Putnam counties He has long taken
| part IN public affairs: He was born at Do.
| yer, n. Y, in 1882. and became supervisor of
l ms town 1 when only y years old. He was sub
Sequently sent to the state assembly, and in
| 1860 and 1861 he was elected member of the
state senate. and in this body rose rapidly as
a politician and man of affairs: The war for
the union ion enlisted his sympathies, and in Oc-
tober, 1866, he took command of the l5Oth New
| loik volunteers and remained in active ser
wee VICE 1or three years BY the spring OF 1Sj5 he
| ne1ghbOrs having elected him to Congress- he
| then resigned to take a seat in the national
legislature and served his district in the 39th,
! 4OIh, I'D and 18th Congresses. From July
lA'4. 10 july. 1877, he was Commissioner Of
the District of Columbia. and meanwhile was
a delegate to the national convention ana
otherwise took part in the practical political
work of bis party.
Two DowN.-Those who are felicitating
themselves upon the fact that Ohio has left
Senator Thurman in the lurch as Il preSiden-
tial candidate, should likewise bear in mind
that another distinguished son of the Buckeye
state, who had like aspirations, namely, Gen
tleman George" has also been laid low.
SO FAR as elections have been held no men,
Der OF either political party assigned to the
Potter investigating committee has been de.
feated; McMahOn and Reed have been rc.
siecteSd, Ell @ S and Blackburn, Springer, and Hunton
material candidacy threw him out of the con
greSSlOnal race, and Gov. j. ID. Cox of Ohio.
did not seek denomination. 1t is quite prob
able that Chairman Potter and Representa-
tive HiscOck will be renominated if they
| wish it.
THE SUBSIDIARY SILVER COIN in the mints
and sub-treasuries at the time of the passage
| of the law authorizing the coinage of stand.
| ard silver dollars amounted to nearly $s OOO,-
600, and the issue has been fully up to the limit
placed upon it by act of Congress, which pro
| vides that the outstanding issue of fractional
| paper notes and subsidiary silver coin shall
| not at any time exceed $50000,000 There has
! been redundancy as to what are termed the
minor coin-copper, nickel and brOnze-and
| very few have been coined during the last
| three years. The Treasury has been called
| upon to redeem and has redeemed and iii
holds large sum in these coins. which is
| available to meet the demands from all parts
| OF the country. The law requires the Secre-
| tary OF the Treasury TO intermt the manufac.
| ture OF minor coins whenever they are pre-
! sented at the Treasury for redemption in such
| amounts and in such sums as to show that
| they are redundant. The reduction at the
| Philadelphia mint made recently was for the
! reason that the appropriations made by Con
/ Sress was not sufficient to meet expenses.
| The Loss OF ACKLEN of La, to the i6.h
| Congress will be felt in the ladies' gallery of
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