New-York tribune., 1882-03-05
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WAsHINGTON, saturday, March ., l9SZ'
The Controller Of the Currency has authorized the City
National Bank Of South Norwalk, Conn, to begin Dusl-
ness with a capital Of 100000.
In the Criminal Court to-day the bail of A. e. Boone in
the straw bond star Route cases. was hred al Slooo III
each case. The bail was furnished
Passed 4 ssistant Engineer John f. Bingham has been
detached from duty in the Navy Yard Boston, and or
dered to report for duty in the Coast survey
Surgeon H. W. Austin Of the Marine Hospital service,
has been ordered from Washington TO Cincinnati, relev
Ing Surgeon Walter Wyman who has been ordered to
Baltimore.
AT the close Of business to-day, Uunted StaieSbOnds
had been redeemed the Treasury follows Under the
1O5th call SI9,6ll.95O; 106th call $l765425O; l07th
call, el,l94,l 100
Mr. Johpston OF virginia has filed in the Senate pct
tion Of General John c. Fremont in which he claims to
he the owner in feesimple OF Alceraz Island and asks
that his claim be referred TO the Court OF Claims TOT
adjudication.
senator Fair gave dinner tonight at his rooms at the
Arlington Hotel His guests were Senators sherman,
SLATER Teller Aldrich Cameron Wis) COnger, Dawes,
Edmunds Hale, Harrison, Hawley, johnston iaphah'
McDnl. Miller N ", MITCHELL Saunders and HILL
The President approved to-day the act making an ap-
propratton for continuing the Improvement Of Galveston
harhor Texas the the relief of the Eastern Shaw
nee Indians at the Quapaw Agency lniah territory,
and the act for the relief Of William II. Gill
The Contract Division OF the Post Office Department
to-day sent out nearly three thousand notifications to
successful Route contractors informing them OF the
official acceptance of their proposals for service Inc
gr,y9re these bids Is about clOUOoJO. a IL
oonp one of the contractors under indictment Tor
conspiracy has secured large number OF these award
Colonel Albert the engineer appointed to examine the
ulans for the construction OF free bridge across the
Potomac above this city, has made an adverse report
70 the Chief Of Engineers the bid of the Corrugated
Metal Company. which the only one that came
within the appropriation OF $4,000 as not equal to
the rcaureucuts and recommends that the matter he
referred back Congress for additional appropra-
tion ~ 10000.
There is considerable speculation to what were the
OF the Court Martial the Of Sergeant Mason
There il an impression that the Court has acquitted the
prsoner on the ground that Mason had not actually
entered on duty at the time did he fire at Gitean'
for at the time admitting that Guteau was at tn9 WIN
dow he could not be from the point where Mason
fired II IS generally believed that even II the prisoner
had not been acquitted the punishment Is not severe
The President to-day signed the following commits
siona; A. A. Sargent to Minister TO Germany; Theo-
dor. n WILSON, to be Chief Of the Bureau OF Construc-
tiou Navy Department Thomas Wilson, 70 be Consul at
Jnntz. bruuo T. Zschek Consul at Vera cruz; GCorst
GiT,rd Conaul at La Rochelle, and the following COZ
rrtoIs of Customs j. A, p. Allen, at New Bedford,
Mass: G. F. Marchant. at EdGarton, Mass" Augustus
putnam nj Middetown, Conn; Henry /. Herl9t, at
Ceorgetown S. C., and james r. Jolley, at Ieche, La