Daily globe., 1882-11-07
WASHINGTON.
IN INTERVENING BUDGET OF NEWS
FROM THE NITIONAL CAPITAL.
The Charges Against Clerk McKenny-
News of Importance from the Arctic
Ocean-Treasury and POstoffice Notes,

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.-During the week
dollars were put in circulation by the
United States mints. The same period
last year but 36O,4O were circulated.
Mostly ali the annual reports of the
treasury department are ready for the
secretary. Generally speaking the reports
this year are comp tratively unimportant
owing to the liberal appropriations of
congress for the last fiscal year. The most
interesting reports, those of the comp
| troller of the currency and United States
| treasurer, will not be ready until late. 1t
is the order of the secretary that no reports
be made public until after they are care
fully considered by him, and it will have
Com nptroller Knox says his report will be
comparatively unimportant, and confined
to routine business.
Very little business is being done in the
executive department to-day. Every one
having q legal residence outside TIE Dis
trict of Columbia, where an election oc-
ours tomorrow. have gone home TO vote.
1t is rumored that large number of
colored men from here have been import
ed into Virginia, to vote against the
| ''straigt+ outs The following self -ex-
explanatory letter Of general interest, has
| been sent to sugar firm in New York, by
Acting Secretary French, of the treasury
| department.
This department. is in receipt Of your petit
| tion of 3Oth ult., with enclosure, relating to
| the admission of sugar, from the Sandwich
islands, and requesting that some other tr;-
| bunal than the collector OF customs at
| San Francisco decide as to what sugar
may he imported free of duty under the
| treaty with the Hawaiian government. In
|! reply have to state that rerort upon
i the subject has been requested from the
collector Of customs at San Francisco,
but that he is in no wise authorized by law
or instructions from this department to
decide whether the sugar to which you
| refer, imported at New York, shall be
treated as covered by the provisions of
| the treaty, and decision viii be made
| By the department after the facts in re-
gard to the matter have been ascertained.
| The rumor Of. Postmaster General
Eowe's intention to resign is again re-
vived. A person claiming to know, said
the resignation Of his son Frank as chief
clerk of the department is evidence that
the old gentleman contemplates following.
| The attorney general decided in regard
to the Office of assistant surgeon general
of the army. made vacant by the appoint
ment of Col. Crane as surgeon general, that
none of the officers in the rank below have
an inchoate right to it, but that the senior
! surgeon who now holds the rank of lieu
| tenant colonel Is entitled to the rank of
| colonel, and any of the surgeons of the
rank of colonel may be designated to act Is
| assistant surgeon general.
The Jeanette board began the exam
! ination of Melville this morning. He be-
| lieved the vessel entirely seaworthy, and
fully capable of making the voyage. Re-
| ferring to belongs discipline, he ind;cat-
| ed that it was very severe. He related in
cidents of the cruise up to the date when
the Jeanette became blockaded in ice.
The revenue marine serviceof the treasury
department received advices this morning
from the commander of the revenue steam
er Corwin. The communication is dated
Ounalski. It says the Corwin had steamed
within a short distance of Point Barrow,
in the Arctic, and found clear water as far
as they could see. The commander ven
lures the opinion that if he had been pre-
pared and had any object in making the
attempt, that he could have taken the yes
sci directly through to New York.
| The president has designated w. P. Com
stock, OF Utica, N. Y. commissioner to ex-
anime completed section of the Northern
Pacific railroad, vice Garfield.
From official reports received by the ma
rine hospital service to-day, it Is learned
that there have been twenty three cases of
yellow fever and no deaths at Brownsville
during the week ending November 4, max
ing total of 1000 cases and ia deaths
since its first appearance. A dispatch from
Brownsville dated the 4th says the mails
start to-day, and dispatch of tbs same
date from Laredo, Texas, says that owing
to the extreme heat prevailing the authori-
ties here refuse to permit the Pena mail
from Brownsville to be forwarded, even
after fumigation. The thermometer
ranges as high as ninety-two degrees daily
AS soon as change of weather occurs the
delayed mail will be fumigated and for
warded. The total number of cases OF
yellow fever at Pensacola during the cpl
demic to date have been 1886, while the
deaths have been but $50.
| Among the decisions handed down
in the supreme court to-day was one
in the case of VIM. n. Reynolds against
the executors of the late Cornelius
Vanderbilt, owners of the steamship North
Star. which collided with the steamer Ella
Marley in 1868. The judgment of the cir
cult court of New York was sustained,
which was thai the actual loss must be ag-
gregated and divided according to the
damage to colliding vessels,providing both
be equally at fault. The case of w. H
Jessup against the United States,. in the
matter of bonds for match stamps, an ap-
peal from the circuit court of California.
the decision was sustained, the court hold
ing that the bond was good and forfeited
as soon as the payment was not made. In
the case of the independent school district
of Steamboat Rock against Joel Stone.
Judgment was reversed and the case re-
manded for special verdict to be entered
for the district. Bonds were issued to the
amount of S150,0OO, while the assessed
value of property was only $4,000. 1,
was held that the issue was in conflict
with the state constitution, but Stone was
given permission to sue again for the pro.
rate amount the county was authorized to
| issue.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 8. Hon. John
B. Stickney, district attorney for the north