, 1879-02-16
n. S. GOVERNMENT.

| Five hundred and fifty barrels of alcohol we're
exported from this city yesterday.
The 4-per-cent subscriptions at tho Sub
Treasury yesterday amounted to s, 1,750, and
the currency disbursements to $4,000.
Collector Harvey's acknowledgements receipts
Yesterday amounted to S25,G63, Of which $21,-
903 was for tax-pad spirits, $22,998 for tobacco
! and cigars, and 5552 Tor beer.
| Collector Smith was delugcd with dispatches
[ from Stock-Y ards people yesterday Indignantly
denying the statement that there is pleufo-pneu-
monia among The cattle there, or, in tact, any
other disease.
John Sylvester and Frank GRAY we're before
Commissioner HoYne yesterday on the charge
| of selling liquors and cigars without possessing
alicensc So to do. AS it turned out, there was
no evidence against them, and the case was dis
| missed.
Chief Deputy Marshal John Stillwell sold to
the representatives of the Connecticut Mutual
| Lifc-1nsurance Company yesterday for the sum
of $3.50 the trunk which once belonged to
| Elisha C. Sprague and which contained certain
papers that the Company loneed to possess.
| The Sub-Treasurer has received the following
circular from Secretary Sherman, dated Feb u,
| in relation to the redemption of $40 bonds Of
| 1865 and consols Of 1867:
By virtue OF the authority given By the &C: OF
Congress approved July II. 1870. entitled - An
accrued interest of the bonds herein below desig
1865, eonsols Of 1867, viii be paid al the Treas
I ury OF the United Stutes in the City OF Washing
ton, On aud after the 18th day Of May, 157o, and
day Coupon bonds. dated July1, 1s67---s50-No.
50, ool to No. g, 600: both inclusive; S1oo-So.
H oo5 to 20 g., g So 00a oo peHfss 5ss
Inclusive; 81, ooo-No. 100. o0l to 10. IL, 900,
10Th tneInsiye inch a Totsl so9pon IS SO; ooo ooo
the United States after the 1st day Of july, lS7'
| S50-No 3. l0l to No. g. l70. both inclusive; 500
No. e, 951 to No. 2a 20o. toth inclusive: $500
No, e, Sol to No. a. 400, both inclusive S. 900
No. L. 151 to No. l3, 400 both inclusive; $40, 600
2 o 1o NS oo2 10th nsla5g s; na ts5
The amount outstanding, included in the numbers
above, il $40 900, 600. All Un1ted States bonds
the Loan Division; Secrctary's Office" and all
registered bonds should be assigned 10 the Sec
retary Of tho Treasury for REDEMPTION Where
parties desire checks in payment for registered
| bonds drawn to order Of any but the payee,
they should assign them to the Secretary Of the
treasury @ ios REDEMPTION account o. the owner or
owners giving name OF names tneFcof-
| Postmaster Palmer was in receipt of tele-
| grams yesterday from the Post-Ot1ice Depart
| lnent at Washington requesting his presence in
that city, for the purpose OF consulting with the
| Postmastcr-Hcueral in relation to the proposed
occupancy bV the Chicago po5t-O1ficc Of a por-
! receipt OF the kilograms he visited the new
| building, and, under the guidance Of Assistant
| Superintendent King, went over the basement
| and the first story, saw how much room could
| be placed at bis disposal, and obtained all the
| other information necessary to tull report
| upon the subject at headquarters. The space
| which eau be given him. without interfering to
| any great. extent with the completion Of the
I building. is nearly two~thirds OF the basement
and four rooms at the north end OF the first floor,
| together with the entrance on the Adams street
front. Ciphered cut, this means an area o1 $4,000
square tcet, or about tFice the space at present
Occupied in the basement Of the Singer Build
ing. The proposed new quarters can be gotten
ready for occupancy by April !, and at an, ex-
pensc somewhere in the neighborhood of $780,
oW. Ut the necessary work to he done ID fitting
ncnt character, for which the regular building
appropriation fund can be 1esitflnate1y drawn
upoa. The BALANCE, OF course, will have to come
out Of Post~O Office monevs. sfr. Palmer intend
cd to leave for Washington last night. in accord
ance with the aforesaid telesraphic instructions.
THE posrMasTERsHIP.
The rurnor tlnt there might be change in the
Chicago Postmastersnip before the ldes of
March was subject Of no little street gossip
s ;t and Ind naturally enough bn1 tonnS tf
the usual difference of opinion as to its prob
ability prevailed. There were those who didn't
beiieve Charley Farwell had signed petition
Tor The appointment OF Alu. HaWlelrh to the
seat now Rlled by Frank ". Palmer. and there
were those who did. Others scotFed ut the
whole thing, and insisted and somebody bad put
up a huge stiff on Rawlcigh, who, uususpectins,
had taken It all H. Others again, believed that
Rawleigh bad been offered it, but had declined,
aud that the movement to displace the present
Postmaster and give the office to somebody else
was anything but dead, the two gentlemen who
were most ''in the hands OF their frienls' for
this OCCASION only being Aid. Gilbert and
ex-Ald. Gill. The excuse for change,
as generally given, was that the present
occupant OF the office had succeeded
in filing up the shop with lot Of politicians
or another, particularly during the late Sen
atorial aght, and that, in view of the import
ance OF Chicago as one of the largest mail cen
tres in the country, it Was necessary to have
and less fna Thnt af1 fhir