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Show GENERAL. THE CAl'lTAT. Trcusury Sews Homy, Tho Wunliiiitfloti iTEouiiuioul I-'oiiiilaUou. IU'1u111'iium wlio will Fiuhl ihu l'rositlent. Itulltloxcr HclloRrt lueeu-tllury lueeu-tllury Tl it in Kt-uurd to KouiMuua. Washington, 12. Tho secretary of tho treasury has instructed Assistant Secretary French to make a list of twenty special customs agents for aeBiunmeut to duty in various portions ol the country under immediate control. con-trol. From this it would seem that tho secretary has abandoned the idea of consolidating customs agents and the Bccret service force of tho trcasuiy ivnd internal revenue agents into one organization. Assistant Secretary French reported ttiat it would be highly inexpedient to adopt that idea. Tue number ot customs agents was reduced by the last congress from fifty-thrco to twenty as the maxi mum. Conant, exaesistant secretary or tho treasury, and Bigelow, who is to be his assistant in London in business with the syndicate, left to-night for New York en rvnte for England. M. H. Hale of Massachusetts, C. C. Adams of Kentucky aud E. F. Jennings Jen-nings of Alabama, formerly special agents of the treasury department, have been reinstated, tho record ol their services being of a character to assure the secretary that there was no just reason for their removal. Cap tain Adams was formerly chief of tho bureau, but was reduced and subsequently subse-quently removod by tho influence ol Supervising Ageut Moore, because of Adams' friendship with Bristow. The board of engineers appointed to investigate me sumciency ui iuc foundation of Washington monument, have completed their report. There is good authority for stating that the report will condemn the foundation as insufficient to warrant the completing complet-ing of tho monument on tho present site. Chicago, 12. Tiibime'e Washington: Washing-ton: Tho president is likely to encounter en-counter serious opposition to his southern policy from extreme republicans. repub-licans. - Blaine'a letter this morning is regarded as another notice ol stormy times to coma in Washington. Ben Wade has written a letter, in which he is represented to havo arraigned ar-raigned tho president and his policy Martin L Townsend is also said lo have prepared a similar letter. Judge Taft is reported to havo reduced to writing some conversations . with Hayes at Columbus, in which Tafl claims that Hayes opposed his present pres-ent southern policy. The president himself is undisturbed, though warned of the threatened opposition, and says he in confident he is acting for the best interests of tho country, and will maintain his policy and not swerve on account of any opposing factions. Governor Kellogg bitterly complains com-plains ol Chamberlain's abdication, , aud declares forcibly that Packard would never surrender in a like caso. I Ho, said: Suppose now he had hjs headquarters in tho Piaqusmiue where the colored element predominates; predomi-nates; why, ho would have 15,000 colored men with white officers in tlio field to sustain him. I tell you the. white league there would have enough , to do to look out lor their homes. Why, every colored servant m the employ of members of the white, league would havo their little bottle of coal oil ready for the match, and wheu the collision occurs, if it docs come, the leaguo will not have time to be lighting Nicholls' battles in New Orleans, but will be neoded at home fn nt fnr llmir nrnnwlv. Puflf. ard moans to deleud his title and the rights of those who elected liira. An intelligent obsoiver writes to the Baltimore Sua from New Orleans: There are indications of a split in the conservative party after its hold on the state is assured. Tho carpetbaggers carpet-baggers havo consolidated against them all tho wealth and intelligence of the state, but ma,ny diaintegraling elsments will be set actively at work when the outside pressure is removed. Political and- personal rivalries between be-tween old whigs aud democrats are already started over the United States senatorial questions, for which there are forty or fifty aspirants. Old whiga put forward Governor Penn. Nicholls and his judges arc determined deter-mined to punish to the extremity of the law negro murderers. James II. Moulton, formerly an officer of the California volunteers, has been appointed treasury agent for service in Alaska. The secretary of the treasury has deckled, in response to a question submitted to him by the commiesioner ot the general land office, that silver coin tendered in payment for government govern-ment lauds cannot be received in any one payment to ft greater amount than $-3, |