Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-13

Note.-This estimate does not cover the amount
required for the sinking fund for the 1865 Dis
nent annual appropriation Of March 3d. 1879, 90
statutes, 41O). The face value of bonds to be
purchased under that appropriation for the fiscal
year 1881, is S122, 5652I, at an estimated market
value Of 911i, or Sill, ,S40.SO which was the as
sumed rate at which the sinking fund for the
loan in question will give per cent. per annum
upon the investment.
IT SHOULD BE STATED, as a matter of justice
to Representative Blackburn, that the action
taken by the committee on rules with respect to
calls of the roll ard House, as given in yeSter-
days STAR, was not obtained from or author
lied by him. THE STAR has way Of finding
these things out without necessarily going to
headquarters.
AFFAIRS IN PALEsTINE.-Mr. Wilson, US. con-
sui at Jerusalem, in dispatch to the Depart
ment Of State reviews at length the present con-
dition and future prospects of Palestine. Its
government affairs are in a state of diSorganiZa-
tfon. Great Britain is pledged before the world
and is pressing upon turkey certain reforms
which Turkey is unable to carry out. She has
neither the men nor the means required to sup
port Just and equitable administration. The
future of Turkey is among thoughtful persons
here the question Of questions. The lord chief
justice of Cyprus remarked recently that Con-
stantfnople must go to the Greek, or it will fall
into the hands OF Russia. The reason it has not
been given to the Greek, he said, is because of
ease Of hs oc e of se eeS e
a trust, not having yet demonstrated any great
administrative ability. The consul says that
Jericho is dead. Tiberias might as well be.
Damascus is declining. Nazareth and Bethle-
hem are improving. Lebanon Is the summerre-
sort OF cyprus people.
QUESTION HAS AEEN RAISED as to the eligi-
bility of General Halbert E. Paine to a District
Commissionership, he having voted in Wiscon-
sin last year, thus asserting himself to be ctti-
zen OF that state, and not Of the District of Co
lumhia.
them, are helping themselves quite freely to
STAR news without credit.
GENERAL DRUM, assistant adjutant general,
returned to-day from visit OF inspection to the
eastern recruiting stations.
Presentation. S. s. Cox left New York yes
terday for two weeks lecture tour in New Eng
land ....Mr. Allen McLane and family, Balti-
more, Md, and Col. r. Cerero, Cuba, are at
Wormley's. f. P. Gilmore, U: s. A, is at the
Ebbitt 49,. Hon. James O. Broadhead, St Louis;
New York, and Hons. A. Bockus and J. NJ.
Davidson, Saratoga, are at Wizards. ....Demas
Barnes. editor Brooklyn Eagle; Henry F.
Wing. Brooklyn, and Charles c. Soule, Boston,
are at the Riggs. ....Hon. ]. s. Newberry, the
richest man in Congress, is at the Riggs House.
:...Speaker Randall Ex-Attorney General Will
and Count DaenhOf, OF the German legation at
Washington, were registered In New York last
evening. ....Senator Window is in town for
the season. Judge Field looks like the poet
Tennyson. This may console him somewhat if
his presidential boom doesn't boom. Mrs.
Victoria woodruff has changed her name to
Woodhall. Hon. Schuyler Colfax delivers his
lecture on Lincoln in Philadelphia this evening
Hon. c. P. Conant, Of Boston, is at the Ma
uonal. L. U. Reavis, of st. Louis, is at tn
Metropolitan.
AT THE WHITE HoUsE.-Senator Morrill, called
on the President to-day; also, Mr.. j. Maxwell
Carlisle, England, James Biggar and George
Curran, Scotland. Messrs Biggar and Curran
are agricultural delegates from Scotland t.
Canada.
NOT HERE-The current rumor that Governor
Dennison, eX-District Commissioner, has been In
this city in the interest OF any asprant for tn
District COmmissionership, is erroneous. Gov
ernor Dennison has not been in this city since
last May. He is now at his home in Columbus.
ERRORS IN THE RETURNs.-The commissioner
OF internal revenue has issued circular to the
collectors of customs. calling attention to the
fact that in making their monthly returns as to
the average capital and deposits of banks, in
Guiding savings banks and bankers, numerous
errors have been detected. Instructions to
avoid these errors in the future, and directions
how to do SO are given by the circular.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE FIRST AUDIroR.-Gen-
eral Reynolds, first auditor OF the Treasury de
partment, has submitted his annual report to
Secretary Sherman. 1t is almost entirely devoted
to a tabular exhibit Of the work done by his
Office during the year. In conclusion General
Reynolds says: Under the act Of June 20, 1878,
providing for the payment Of certain claims of
workfngmen against contractors under the late
board of public works of the District OF COlum-
bia, eighteen hundred and fourteen Q,S1D
claims were filed, aggregating the sum OF one
and ninety-four dollars and thirty-seven cents
(s146,594.3O. Claims amounting to eighteen
thousand five hundred and twenty-siX dollars
andtwenty-ive cents (s1S, ,526.25) were allowed by
this Office and certified to the first comptroller.
The remainder, aggregating one hundred and
twenty-eight thousand and sixty-eight dollars
and twelve cents (s12s, 6S.12) were rejected as
not coming within the provisions of the act
above cited. In the settlement Of these claims
four hundred and twenty-stx l426) letters and
circulars were mailed, and schedules Of every
claim allowed by this Office were prepared and
sent to the District government for examina-
ton. The accounts OF the commissioners OF the
made by them on account OF said District for
the months of July, August and September
1875, were examined and ready for statement,
but were delayed, owing to a change in the
manner of entering up advances to the Com
missioners upon the books of the Register of the
Treasury. would call your special attention
additional clerical force. 1t Is very important
that the force necessarily employed in this Office
should be borne upon its rolls. Without this
great efficiency cannot be hoped for in the list of
temporary assignments required for the lncreas-
ing work Of the of1ice. AS stated in my last
annual report, the additional force estimated
for is actually employed in this Office, and is
necessary for the proper performance OF the
work Of the Office. The deputy auditor, II. x.
Leaver, esq.,, and his chiefs Of divisions deserve
honorable mention for intelligent and faithful
performance OF arduouS duties and take plea
sure in commencing them and the clerks and
employees of the office for diligence and cheerful
attention to duty
Political Notes.
The latest rumor OF political intrigue is that
the democrats and greenbackerS Of Maine have
conspfred to count out the republican candi-
dates recently elected Since the election in
vestigatiOns haye been set on foot, and the state
of1icers, so the rumor goes, who have the final
counting OF the vote will be convinced that tn,
returns electing republicans are fraudulent. 1t
Is also said that Senator Blaine has asked for
detachment Of .. S. troops to be stationed at
the state capital during the count, with the
view of preventing by force the successful issue
of the conspiracy. 1t is not likely that there is
much truth in any Of these rumors but they
nave had the same effect upon the public mind