Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-07-13
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.


GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal
revenue, s433, ,44i.7S; customs, 1886, 1928.
| SUBSCRIPTIONS to the four per cent. loan to-
day amounted to $l,2l7.650.
PM KEY, his third assistant, MI A. d.
Hazen, and DR.. Mcdonald, superintendent OF
money order system. leave this evening for
| Fortress Monroe, where they will spend the
| Sunday.
| MR.. w. ID. CHAPMAN, postal clerk under
Superintendent Vail, to-day resigned that po-
| Sition, having been appointed to place in
| the internal revenue service in Virginia. Mr..
| Chapman's appointment is due to Col. Mosby
| ONE OF THE Most unavailable packages
that it was ever attempted to send through
| the mails has been received at the Dead Letter
| office 1t contains the detached teeth of a
! reaper. One of the railway postal clerks in
handling it cut his hand badly on the sharp
| edges.
PAY DIRECTOR THOs. S. LOCKER, U. S. NJ
having been appointed acting paymaster gen.
eral of the navy, &C., has been relieved from
in the navy. Pay Director j. b. Murray has
been ordered as president of SAID board in his
| stead.
CHIEF CLERK BUREAU OF STATISTICS
Under the recent change in the Bureau OF
| Statistics, Mr.. j. N. Whitney, long one of the
most valuable attaches of that Office, has been
designated by Secretary Sherman as Acting
Chief Clerk, until otherwise directed. 1t is
altogether likely that Mr.. W. will receive the
permanent appointment on the reOrganiZa-
tIon OF the office on the 1St proXimO
GEN. HowARD's PURSUIT OF THE INDIANS
The following dispatch was received at the
War department this morning:
PREsIDIO, SAN FRANCISCO, July 18th, 187S.-
Gen. Sherman, WASHINGTON d. O. Follow
ing dispatch Just received from Gen. Howard
at Walla W4la this date" Hostiles, after
along the Blue Ridge. ! crossed Meacham's
road in the night, Sanfords three companies
of cavalry and Miles infantry to follow. Egg
against return by trail between him and
Puites lakes. Bernards column, now com
manded by Lieut.. Col. Forsyth, moves with six
companies OF cavalry nOrthWard toward Lew
lst0n: am en- route TO Lapwai, Mount Idaho
and the vicinity, with infantry force, to head
the enemy ar the Sualle crossing. ThrockmOr
ton is near PendletOn, and will be strength
ened by MINERS companies to quiet an ex-
cited pOpuace. Attempts to cross the Colum-
bia by hOStileS have ceased.
"HoWARD, Gen. commanding dept"
PERsONAL.-Mr. Ernest Brulatour, general
secretary of the national convention of Franco.
American treaty, leaves this evening for
Louisiana, and will sail early in August for
France With the president of the convention,
Senator M. G. Butler, s. c. ''''Our we'll known
fellow citizen, John W. Thompson, sails for
Europe on Wednesday of next week: ID.
leaves on Monday with his family for a pro,
lOnged stay at Mt. Desert and Moosehead
Lake.
SENIOR MATA.-Unoficial advices received
at the Department of State, from Mexico, an.
nOunce that Senor Mata has been appointed
the Mexican secretary for foreign affairs.
Senior Mata was here for some time before the
advent of SenOr ZamacOn2, representing the
Mexican government, though not Officially
recognized by the United States. While here
was much esteemed by this government He
always expressed himself as strongly oooosed
to the Mexican Rio Grande raids. HIS ap-
pOintment as minister of foreign affairs is
taken as further indication than the central
government of Mexico deprecate these raids
and wants to prevent them if possible.
FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL
TYNER and Mr.. Blackfan, the representatives
on the part of this country to the International
fostal Congress are expected to return about
August lst. The return of Mr.. Tyner will give
Judge Key an opportunity to take little
vacation.
THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL EXECU-
TIVE COMMITTEE will meet in this city on the
18th instant, if Representative Black burn, of
Kentucky, who is the chairman, arrives by
that time The committee will formally open
the 1a'l campaign, and arrangements will be
ture and the apportiOnment Of Campaign
funds where they will do the most good.
ILLICIT DIsTILLING IN GEoRGIA.-Andrew
Clark, internal revenue agent for the district
OF Atlanta. Ca, reports to Commissioner
Raum that during the fiscal year ending June
81, 1875 there were seized in that district 1863
Illicit distilleries l6S8 gallons illicit spirits 10
oxen oxen, 9mules, horses, IS wagons and I guns.
There were destroyed about 100000 gallons of
mash and beer, about 1,500 gallons of low
wines and about 365 bushels of corn meal, &c.
The office had realized over and above the
expenses OF seizure and sale of forfeited prop.
erty, over 1880. During the year Mr.. Clark's
deputies have not been personally assaulted,
although the deputy marShals have On several
occasions met with formidable resistance in
serving warrants, and have been assailed
with firearms
IN THE BUSINESS OF CoUNTERFEITINGi in this
country the western states carry OFF the palm,
with the middle states second. New England
is comparatively free from counterfeiters
While the southern states are at the foot of the
list. The particular section of the country
where counterfeiters flourish most prosper
0uSly are the large SeabOard cities and the
border states. There have been more import
ant convictions for counterfeiting obtained in
Philadelphia for the past ten years than in
any two states OF the Union.
CHEN HAN PIN, ambassador to the United
States from China, will arrive in San Fran
CISCO, with his suite in the steamship CITY
OF Toxic due ON the 18th inst, and will re.
main IN California about two weeks before
coming TO washington. He is accompanied
by consular corps accredited to Cuba Peru
and San Francisco. He visited this country
some years ago to arrange for the education of
Chinese students.
MIR. EUGENE SCHUYLER has been appointed
to the consulate at Birmingham, which, at the
request of the Secretary OF State, was declined
by Mr.. Seyellon Brown. Mr. Schuyler recently
returned to this country from ConstantinOple
where he occupied the position of U. s. consul
general.
INTERESTING DECISION IN PENSION CASE.
The Secretary of the Interior Yesterday rem
dered decision affirming the action of the
Commissioner of Pensions in regard To a
Florida Indian war claim of Philip Happel of
augusta, Ga, for bounty land, rejected by
the Pension bureau under section 3,iS0 of the
Revised Statutes, which prohibits the paw
ment OF ANY account, claim or demand
against the United States that accrued or
existed prior to April Is, 1861, in favor of any
person who promoted, encouraged, or in any
manner sustained the late rebellion Or was
not known to be opposed thereto and dis
tinctly in favor OF its suppression" The
claimant declares that he opposed secession
up to the commencement of the war with ali
his strength, thereby incurring the enmity of
his neighbOrs, and that he never served IN the