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Show It nshiugtoii lviee. Washington, V. President Grant is not going to St. Louis to be present nt the lonnal celebration of the bridge opening on tho 4th of July, as had been expected. An execution having been issued in the case of a furniture dealer against . the District of Columbia, a bail ill pro-i pro-i cceded to the House ol" Delegates today to-day and made a levy, taking posscs-I posscs-I sion of the furniture and ellects of the House. Some property had previously pre-viously been taken from the hall by retiring members "in a joke," as they said, but which they were seriously seri-ously required to return. I At the instmeo of Sirgent, the , Secretary ol the Treasury has directed the supervising arclrtectof theTrea-: theTrea-: a iry to make the now Sin Francisco I appraisers' building lire proof, ftl- j though tho cost will be thereby in-1 in-1 cr ased about $ 1 00,000. i A steamboat daily mil service is ordered on Lake Tahoe, to-day, to continue until October. Assistant Postmaster-General Routt writes to Sargent informing him that in accordance with lus (Sargent's) personal request of to-day, an order has just been issued increasing the mail sorvice between Y'roka and Shasta, Cal., from a tri-weekly to six times a week from the 1st proximo. |