The examiner., 1882-02-11
From Washington.

SECRETARY HUNT has telegraphed to Leuten- | ant Danenhower and party to return to the United States and to Engineer Melville to eon- | tinue the search for Lieutenant De Long. THE annual report of the commissioner oi 1 patents shows thst the total receipts of the office during the past year were $853, .89 and the expendfture s605, l73 2S. During the year there were issued f7,e26 patents and designs, as against 16, 5S4 for the year etEdins December 31, 1880.
 THE commissioner of pensions, in reply to House resolution calling for information as to what amount would be required annually to pay pensions during the next twenty-five years, estimates the amounts which will be required for the twenty-five years ending with 1906 at s1, S47, ,651, 595.
 DURING January the public debt was de- creased $12 97S, S36.S6. Ths decrease of the debt since June 30 18S1-the end of the last fiscal year-is $SS, ,OS5, ,931.25. The cash in tho treasury is $246, O25, 468.59. The total re- ceipts last month were ss9, 444, 1s7, against $29, 473, 07O in January, 1881, and the total OK penditures were s12 800, 900, against SIS, 5G0, GOO in January of last year.
 Mn. SeoV1LLE is reported to have considered favorably the offer of some speculator for the purchase of Guiteau's body for exhibition pur- poses.
 LAST month the various United States hints coined 1, 193, 900 gold pieces worth 8,061, ,O00, 2,5O0, GOO silver dollars, and 5,s92, ,o0O minor coins worth $S7, being total of 9,365, 010 pieces worth s1o, 449, loo.
 A WASHINGTON paper publishes report of an interview with the assassin in which he in- dulges in the usual amount of blasphemy and bravado. The reporter adds: " He is begin ming to show much nervousness and irritability. He is suffering from severe cold, which has inf1amed his eyes, One of the jail officials who has observed the prisoner closely, said he would not be surprised if Guiteau did not live to be hungi as his health appeared to be failing rapidly" The sssas- sins attention being called to the reported arrangement made by MT. Scoville with Philadelphia firm to exhibit his body, Guiteau said: 'sI won't have anybody meddIing with my body. This thing has been done without my consent. I don't want my relatives to make any money out of it. Scovlle had no business to do it. I intend to will my body to some in- stitution, but will have use for it myself for B long time."
 
 the course of the newspapers in bis case, ad vertising his photographs and autographs and eondemling the scheme for putting his body on exhibition.
 MR. BLAINE has written an open letter to President Arthur protesting against the revoca- tion of the invitation to the North and South American republics to attend American Congress "for the purpose of agreeing on such basis of arbitration for international troubles would remove all possibility of the Western Hemisphere.''
 THE congressional library now numbers 420,092 volumes, as against 396, 78S volumes one yoar ago. The accessions during 1881 em- traced 23, 304 volumes and 12, 934 pamphlets
 HE Jefferson school building, of tho finest educational structures in Washington, has been destroyed by fire. It accommodated 1,60O pupis and was valued at s135, 900.
 SECRETARY HUNT has telegraphed to Lieu tenant Danenhower, at Irkutsk, Siberia, that owing to the condition of his health the order to remain and continue the search for the Jcannette survivors is revoked, and he is com mandod to return home with the other in valids.
 NOMINATIONS confirmed by the Senate: Will liam II. Armstrong, of Pennsylvania, to be commissioner of railroads; Fred A. Trittle, of Nevada, to be governor of Arizona.
 TIE secretary of the treasury has sent to the House of Representatives report from the controll,r in response to Representative Bucllncr's resolution in regard to the national banks. From July 1 to Decem- Der 31, 1884, sixiy-seven new national banks were organized-five of them in Dakota. The charters of 392 national banks will expire between. this time and the expiration of the Forty seventh Congress, March S. 1883, and of these the charters of 292 will expire on the same day, February 9, 1883.