Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-07-24
Washington News and Gossip.

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Intarnal reve-
nue., s7ss, Al; customs. s1,0s7,.s496.
NATIONAL BANK NOTES received to-day for re-
demption, sziS coo.
PRESIDENT BARRIos called upon the President
this morning and took official leave. He was ac.
comp lnied by Secretary Frelinghuysen and Gen.
Sherman. The visiting party will leave this after
noon for New York.
GALLANT CoNDUCT OF ASALoE-Commander C.
E. Clark, commanding the sNew Hampshire,
reports from Newport, r. /. July 18th
to the Navy department, the gallant con-
duet Of seaman Jno. F. Mountain. On the
New Hampshire. containing three men and two
bcys. The last two and two of the men were
steam launch OF the New Hampshire attempted to
reach and pick up the other. Seeing that they
were going to pass hin. and that the man was
sinking. Mountain jumped overheard and tried to
save him. He did not succeed, but the attempt
was gallant one, and merits colnmendation.
DEATH OF AN ARMY OFFiCER.-Information has
been received OF the death OF DR.. Carlos Carvallo,
assistant surgeon United States army, which oc-
| Cured near Boston, Mass, yesterday morning.
DR.. Carvallo was the andSOn of tie late James
Causten esq, of this city, and was we'll known
here, his father, Emanuel CarvaIlo having repre-
sented the Chilian government at this capital for
many years. He leaves widow, formerly Miss
Emma Bayliss, of Washington, and two young
children.
BRITISH WHEAT CRoP.-A note from Sir James
Card, president of the London Statistical Society,"
TO Mr.. Dodge, statiStIcian OF the Department OF
Agriculture, under date of July II, says: ''There
Is a heavy crop on the ground In this country on
the whole, but the weather IS not favorable at
present, though no serious damage has yet arisen"
NJ. Card Is probably the best authority on the
statistics OF British agriculture.
MOVEMENT OF NAVAL yESsELs.-The practice
steamer May1lower arrived at Boston yesterday.
nnIo
Friday evening from Fortress Monroe. .Commo-
d0re Up5hur, commanding the New York navy
yard, reports the arrival OF the Constellation Fri
day afternoon from her anchorage off Tompkins-
Vile, Richmond county, II. Y.
SECRETARY FoLGER was unwell to-day and was
not at the Treasury department
THE ISSUE Of standard silver dollars for the week
ending July 2ad was s1s6,499. For the correspond
Ing period last year S2iS, ,e9S.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Assistant Engineer j. P. g.
Lawrence has been ordered to the receiving ship
PasSaic, and in charge OF the monitors Wyandotte
and Montau&. Cadet Engineers w. B. Day, c. T..
Rommell, to the VaGdalia. Commander Louis
kempn, detached from the command OF the Alert,
and placed On waiting orders. Lieut. Commander
". NJ, Folger, Lieut.. r. G.. Peck, Masters W. P.
Clason and \. G. Dabney, Ensigns F. II. Holmes,
and r. H. Townley. Cadet Mids:lipmen j. F. ,Luby,
+. Swift, A Creaman, NJ. n Eyre, and Jos. Beale,
Mate T. c. Van Buskirk, Passed Assistant Engi-
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and II. p. Norton, and B0atSwain Timothy Sheean,
from the Al ert and placed on waiting orders. As
ordered to settle accounts, and then wait orders
Chief Engineer James ButterwOrth, from the
Alert and ordered to the Wachusett, on her arrival
at the navy yard, Mare Island. Chief Engineer G..
II. White, from the Wachusett, on her arrival at
the navy yard, Mare Island. Assistant Engineers
Ii. X. Ives and F. c. Bowers, from the Vandalia.
and placed On waiting orders.
ARMY oRpEEs-Capt S. T. Hamilton, second
nv afv1-
for two months on surgeons certificate. Post
Chaplain E. S. Baldridge has been relieved from
duty in department Texas and ordered to report
to the commanding general military division Pa
chic Tor assignment
g~COMMoDORE SHUFELpT was in Yokohama, July 6,
On his way to Washington with the new Corean
treaty. He Is reported to have declared emphat-
i3ally that his letter to Mr. Sargent which created
Such stir In diplomatic circles, was not intended
for publication, and that Mr. Sargent violated
confluence In publishing 1t.
THE NEW NATIONAL BANK NOTES to be issued
by the national banks that have had their charters
extended are now being printed by the bureau OF
engraving and printing. Their backs are printed
vita brown ink instead OF the usual green ink
Trey VIII be known as brown backs, which will
Indicate money issued by banks whose original
charter has expired and been extended. In every
other respect they are ike the ordinary national
bank note
FLIGHT OF AMERICAN CITIZENS FROM CAIRO
The acting consul general OF the United States In
Egypt te,egraphs Secretary Frelnghuysen from
Alexandria follows: 81 remained at Cairo uD to
| the last moment Our records and my personal
effects there are lost. All American citizens are
saved. Gen. Stones family insisted on remaining
at Cairo and their d"stny is unknown. COmnu-
nication is now interrupted.'
THE CHINESE AMBAssADoR.-The steamship Ger
manic, which arrived at New York early yesterday
IN, ha1 har (tip
ambassador. Chin Tsou Tu: Chin Chi Yung, Sec
retary OF the Embassy; Chi K0O Wal, Lou Gau
Chung and about twenty servants. Lee Ia sun
and Cheng Hon Ping, members OF the Chinese le-
CATION at Washington, escorted the ambassador
u the Grand Hotel, where the entire second story
o! the 31st street wing has been hired for his use
He Will net come to Washington for a day or two.
CHARLES LEWIS has been appointed acting chief
clerk OF the Pension division, Third Auditors Of
flee, Treasury department, vice W. II. Whitney,
transferred to other work in the same Office.
How He Cor THE TITLE.-Pcopla who suppose
that Admiral Nicholson is called the g War Horse
OF the Navy" because he sent word to Arab Pasha
that II fred upOn he would shoot back, are very
much mistaken. The history OF the title as told
When laced and buttoned lieutenant, young
Nicholson was once in company where the term
what lt meant, the future hero promptly and
proudly replied. "a war horse" and "War Horse
-NicIoisOu ne was at once duDOed, ana has been
so styled ever since.
CAPT. CHAFFEE's INDIAN FIGHT.-Adiutant Gene
raj Drum has received n dispatch from Gen.
Mcdowell, commanding military division Pacific,
under date OF the 21st inst, stating that fourteen
dead hostiles were found on Capt ChafTees battle
field, two OF whom are recognized as Cibica mutt
neer scouts One hundred and twelve head Of
stock were rccaDtured. forty-twO Of which have
been reclaimed and were returned to the owners
Iwenty-four of the hostiles horses were killed and
seventy captured. Troops are scouting for the
fugttives. 1t was only the rugged character of
the ground, the broker edge OF Magollou and
Red Rock Canon that permitted any Indians to
escape. Lieut.. Morgan and the other wounded,
under charge of Lieut. Scott and DIR. Ewing, are
on their way Tito Fort Verde. The bullet has
been extracted from Morgan's back after fractur-
Ing left arm and rib and penetrating chest Lieut..
| ConverSe'S wound is slight and In the right eye
Privates Millico and VIII, OF troop X, 9Th cavalry,
| are probably mortally hurt