Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-10-25
WASHINGTON.
News From the National Capital.

The following appeal from the executive
committee of the National Garfield Me-
mortal Hospital has just been Issued, ad-
dressed to the pastors throughout the United
States and recommended with singular
unapimity by representa- i've clergymen of
every religious deromina ion who have q
place OF worship in Washington:
The executive committee charged with
the work of establishing ct the Capital a
Nationel Garfield Memorial Hospital as the
most enduring and bereficient monument of
our late President whose life was SO sadly
and tragically ended, assured that
the various organizations through
oct the country will be desirous
of contr: buting to such memorial do, there
fore, appeal 20 all ei.iZens and suggest that
Saturday and Sunday, November 5th and
9th, or the rearest available days, be Set
apart for discourses and collections in all
their places OF worship throughout the land
in aid of this fund, and that all contribu-
tions be forwarded 70 Hon. Jas. Gilfillan,
Treasurer of the United States, who is treas
urer OF the fund.
[Signed) w. 7. Sherman, chairman, Hen
ry Wise Garrett, Benz. G. Lovejoy, cores
ponding secretary.
We, the undersigned, pastors of various
denominations having places of worship in
the District of Columbia, do most heartily
join in the above appeal, aud recommend it
to the favorable ACTON of all religious bodies
of this nation.
[Sigredl. Revs. Frederick D. Power,
Christian church Jro, r. Patton, Presby-
terian church VIM. Para, Protestant
Episcopal church; Father Boyle, Catholic
church J. H. Cuthbert, Baptist church !;
B. Peyton Brown, Methodist church J..
Samuels Heel, Orthodox church; J..
George Butler, Lutheran church /;
.Rusn Il. Shippen, Unitarian church (;
J. E. Rankin, Congregational church
Jabez Fox, New Jerusalem church; Alexan-
der Kent, Universalist church: Louis Stern,
Hebrew Reformed church; Philip Il. Hall,
Method-st Protestant church; A W. Pitt
zer, Presbyterian South church, Arthur
Foster, Reformed Episcopal church
Since the 1st of July more than twenty
million dollars in bars manufactured from
! foreign gold have been transported from the
| New York assay Office to the Philadelphia
mint for coinage, which has nearly ex
hausted the appropriation for that purpose
| AS there is large amount of gold in the
| New York assay Office and more arriving al
most ealy, an additional appropriation will
| De necessary to meet the cost of its trans
por.ation. Director OF the Mint Burchard
had to refuse to make a transfer to-day on
accornt Of the lack of tunds
WASHINGTON: October 24-The
President to-day SEM III the nomina-
ton of Edwin d. Morgan, Of New
Yock, to be Secretary of the Treas
ury. This was the only Cabinet
nomination sent in to day.
The Senate confirmed Morgan as
Secretary of the Treasury.
The President nominated Henry
Highland Garnett, the colored prech
er, of New York, minister residant
and consul General to Liberia, and
the following postmasters: W. o.
Pierce Mashall, Tex; Clifford Stanth-
am. Lynchburg, Va; VIM. A. Brown
Macon, Ga.
General Walker, superintendent
of the census bureau has resiged and
his resignation has been accepted
It is understood that Colonel Seaton
Chief Clerk of The bureau will succeed
Walker.