Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-03


hold no reception Tomorrow, January 4th
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.--!nternal rev.
enue, s19S, ,144.3o; customs, s269, ,1s,.05
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the four per cent, loan to-
day amounted to s2,6l3.1s0.
AT THE WHITE EHOUSE.-Representat Davis
(Cal.), Stone Qowa), and Jorgensen, Commis-
SiOner of Patents Paine and Rev. Dr. Lanahan
called on the President to-day
IT Is EXPECTED that all OF the Congressional
absenteeS will be on hand when Congress re-
assemblies. Senators Jones and the long lost
Senator Sharon are already en- route and Gen
Eutler will soon arrive, to remain until ..the
trouble IS over"
COIN vs.. LEGAL TENDERs.-As stated in THE
STAR yesterday, very few government bond
holders calling at the Treasury take the coin
check On New York for interest instead of the
legal tenders. It is rather curious, however,
that one among that few should be an employe
in the Treasurer'S Office, who demanded his
coin check, which amounted to S3-Gi.
REAR ADMIRAL LIE Roy ORDERED HoME.-An
order issued by the Navy department detaches
Rear Admiral VIM. Z. lie Roy from the com
hone. Capt. John l.. Davis viii have charge of
the station until successor TO Admiral lie Roy
is designated. The Richmond VIII proolb!y
leave for the East Indies toward the close Of
neXt week.
But LITTLE DEMAND FOR GCLD II W.sHINf-
ToN.-There is 20 incident or this. the second
day OF resumption, to note among the Washing
ton banks. There is no demand for gold. o.
CGSfOnally there are calls for twenty or fiffv
dollar pieces, and fves and tens BASS over the
h2Ik counters in limited numbers. The gold
dollar, however and the tWO-and-a-haIf gold
pieces seem to be objects OF special avoid l?nn
BdEk customers do hot want them and show
decided preference for greenbac6S. l. is feared
a lR p9sHI lal Z hot
gICtted with the small coin. and Will eventually
have TO send them to New York for a New YORK
credit. The aversion to the gold dollar will ia-
Cease the circulation of the silver dollar and
the latter will hencefOrward be no small factor
IN the plan OF resumption. Everything to-day
is moving along as quietly as ii specie pay.nents
lad never been suspended.
THE BERLIN BLACK HoRsE-It is stated Pres
ident Hayes has made up his mind as to whom
the vacant mission TO Berlin will be given b 1t
that the name will hot be made public I'm |
sent 10 the Senate for confirmation.
WANTS TO GO TO MEXICO.-The editor of the
EIle (Pa) Dispatch. q Mr.. Brewer, has filed his
claims for the vacant consul generalship to Mex
leo. The place having once been held BY a new.
paper man, the fourth estate again claim it,
JUDGE THURMAN leaves here for Ohio on Mon
day night next, to attend the gathering OF Ohio
democrats at Columbus on the Sth of January,
when he Will make speech. He will take ad-
vantage OF the opportunity to publicly state
the reasons why he does not desire his name 10
DE used as the democratic candidate for the
executive chair OF Ohio, and will also, it is said
demonstrate In his OWN way, that the reSump-
tlon OF specie payments, now an ACCOMPLISHED
tact, is in accord with the mode designated in
his famous Hamilton, OHIO, speech
WHAT WILL THE GREENBAcKERs DO ABOUT
IT:-Now that the opponents Of the resumption
of specie payments have lost the string upon
which they have 50 long harped, the disposition
among them IS TO make the silver question
prominent one. The old enemies of resumption
contemplate making a fight for the free coinage
OF silver. and to give the people who have the
silver, either in pots or bars, the chance to cart
theln to tie mint and have dollars OF the dads
cast therefrOm. Another project is to s.inflate'
by compelling the coinage of more silver. and
taking OF tie limit which is now fixed at four
nlihoIS per month. The postal savings bank
scLeine VIII also be pushed, and may probably
Pass. Secretary sherman is not antagOnistic to
IL. though such law might somewhat retard
the very favorable refunding OF our debt into
1our per cents. now going on just what the
cfcaEer5 VIII linaly concentrate upon in Op9o-
SltlCn 10 Secretary SheI man they hardly vet
know. but II is the intention to do something
else, the national party will sink into hole
Smaller 'h'+h that Iiom whence 1t emerged.
DETECTIVE DISTRICT (BowEE) BoNDs.-Trea-
uer Giifiiian yesterday began the redemption
of the ten year District OF Columbia Bowen}
bonds. Up to noon to-day about s51 900 of the
bonds had been received examined and cheers
issued for the amounts represented by them
In Tedeemlng the bonds a very serious omission
IN issuing large number of them has been dis
covered. The act creating the Bowen securities
GirectS that they shall be signed by the mayor
eoCnteEsIgned by the register, and have affiyed
the seal Of tue corporation of Washington Be
tween eight and ten thousand dollars in the
bonds presented for REDEMPTION have so far
teen discovered as wanting the seal of the cor
pofat.oh Iney were returned 10 those present.
lrg them. The Treasurer can not redeem them
unless TIE seal IS affixed, as required by law
and consequently bonds wanting In Tho reSDect
are returned. Mr.. Giliillan made inquiry of the
DistSlct commissioners If they could correct the
mistake. lie received reply this morning say
Ing that the Commissioners have no power TO
correct such errors or omissions, and requesting
that they be furnished tie numbers and de-
sGripti0DS OF defective bonds In order that the
records OF their Office may be examined and re-
port made Of such facts as may appear Some
OF tie bonds so far discovered to be defective
were issued when Mr.. Roswell was collector and
register OF the District; bat most OF them came
out under the present register and collector,
MI John +. Cook. The ONLY recourse tnat hold
ers OF tie bonds with missing seals have is 10
call on the District Commissioners to have the
seals AFFIXED 10 the bends now.
THIRD INsTALLNEST OF THE MEXICAN IN
DEMNITY.-it is said at the State department
that TIE Mexican government has made az
rangementS foT the payment of the third in
Stallment-three hundred thousand doiarS-of
the indemnity To American citizens due this
month. he previous instalments are being
distributed. The department is now engaged
III the examination OF the Wen and La Arb a
awards, involving about million and half of
dollars, to the payment of which the Mexican
government objected On account of alleged
frauds, and which awards, by q law of Con
gress, were excepted from distribution until
they could be examined by the department
Various papers have been furnished by the
Mexican government to support its allegations,
the Wen case being the first to pass under re-
view. THIS is the larger Of the two awards.
THE INVESTIGATION OF THE GOVERNMENT
PRINTING OFFICE.-The report OF the special
committee appointed by the House to inyesti-
eate The government printing Office has been
completed and will be presented to the House
al tie first opportunity. The results OF the in
VeStiSatiOn, as embodied in the report, assert
that the accounts of the Office are loosely kept;
tnat since 1869 three quarters Of million dol
lars drawn from the Treasury has not been ac-
counted for, and that the cost of materials
used in the Office has averaged 3315 per cent
above the market prices. The committee re-
port that assessments have been levied ON the
employees in the Office for political purposes
THIS Information may be of interest 10 the mi
norify OF the Blaine committee. 1t is said tha5