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Show WASHINGTON. Government itntl SHier ltul-lion ltul-lion huU (om. I'll tec u TliotiKunil Applied-Mourt Applied-Mourt fur Ulliee. T li e Fooler and .11 u 1 1 h e w . Aureemcul. Nuutlicru .Notes. Washington, 27. The regulations allowine the treasurer lo furnish silver coin on certificates of deposit of the assistant treasurer and national bank depositories, have hcen modified modi-fied to permit shipments of silver directly lo parties making the deposit. de-posit. The expense of transportation is paid by the department to points in the United titate readied through establiohed press lines, by continuous railway or steamboat communication; the deposits lobe in sums not less than $1,000 or its mulliyle, aud not exceeding $10,000. The treasury department has been a large purchaser of silver on the recent re-cent decline in price which followed the liberal sales in London by the German government. The director of the mint, who, under instructions instruc-tions of tho secretary" of the treasury, buys silver for coinage, emphatically denies that the slightest lavor has been shown any sellers of bullion, all purchases having been made on the best attainable terms for the government. govern-ment. Tbo director further states that fiilvur, since July last, has been mainly an article for speculation, some operators purchasing and hold ing lor a rise, acu ouieis sciimg iur luture delivery in anticipation of a decline; that ordinary quotations iu New York and San Francisco are generally thoao at which bullion dealers purchase silver arriving trom the mines, and not at which they Bell. first Assistant Postmaster General Tyner is acting as postmaster general and has been acting almost constantly since Judge Key's appointment. Judge Key has been and is still fully occupied in aiding to solve the southern south-ern question and in the transaction of other important public business. Nearly fifteen thousand applications tor office have been received by the postmaster general during his brief incumbency aud filed away lor possible possi-ble future reference. The southern gentlemen who have the letters of Matthews and Foster decline to take any stens towards their publication unless the request is made directly by tho writers themselves. them-selves. It appears that Packard underStood the order given to Augur yesterday aB involving a restoration of the statu quo as it existed at the time of the presidential inauguration, which would eflect, among other things, the release ot Packard's rccruiliug ;ollicers, now held by the Nicholls government on tbe charge of inciting msurreotion. Tbe proceedings of to-day comprise a letter from the Louisiana delegation to Governor Nicholls, first submitted to the president aud secretary of war, in which JS'ichollB is informed that the order to General Augur was for the purpose of obtaining information and involves no action on his part in the way of undoing anything that has been done since the inauguration. Chicago, 27. Tribune's Washing-1 ton : There is no longer doubt that I the great noise over the Foster and Matthews agreement has been made by democralB, who fear they will be unable to organize the next bouse. Northern democrats and the secession element of the south alone seem concerned. Tt is a curious fact that but few of the opponents of filibustering, who, if a pledge had been broken, would have bad ihe best right lo complain, have had nothing to do with the late charges of bad faith, and do not charge that Hayes has changed his southern policy. Upon inquiry of tho president, at a late hour to-night, it was ascertained that tho Louisiana commission was not yet complete. New York, 27. The Times' Washington Wash-ington correspondent has interviewed Chamberlain. Ho came lo Washington Wash-ington determined to maintain by every power he hB the position : which be now legally holds. He will hold that position not only for his own sake but for the sake of the men who have risked their lives and everything every-thing they bold most sacred to place him in it. While he came to Wash-: ington in this spirit, however, he has no desire to place any unduo obstacles in the way of the reconciliation . policy adopted by tho president and prominent members of his, cabinet. ! His only desire is now, a; it has always been, to secure a g'Aovern-ment g'Aovern-ment for the atate, and, wo he will continue to assert his rights to the last, he will also continue, before everything else, to consider how such good government may be best so-cured. so-cured. During the day the president had extended interviews with Chamberlain Chamber-lain and others recarding the South Carolina case. Iu each instance he manifested the greatest sympathy with southern republicans, and a desire de-sire to stand by them and socure their political and personal rights; at the same time he appeurd to be equally anxious to do this iu such a way as to command the approval of reasonable men of both sides. His conciliation plan is based on Ihe idea of justice to both parties aud not the surrender of the rights of southern republicans, nor for the sake of obtaining peace which the democracy promiue to give. His attention scorns lo be directed 1 most of all to ascertaining in what way justice to southern republicans can be combined with conciliation towards southern democrats. Tbe president's object in bringing Chamberlain Cham-berlain and Hampton to Washington seems to be to put them upon their patriotism with a view of discovering some possible solution of the di mail-ties mail-ties which will not be regarded as a surrender of ils right, and which will still make it possible for the national administration to take uo active part in the settlement oi the affairs in South Carolina. Tho president presi-dent believes that a selllemeut mad in this way would be not only bcue-ficial bcue-ficial to Ihe state of South Carolina, but more satisfactory to 'the people of the country generally, than would the recoeoition by him of either Chamberlain Cham-berlain or Hampton. There is reason to believe lhat the president's feelings towards Hampton and his southern advisors have undergone under-gone considerable change recently. Ho haB made every ellort in bis power to conciliate tho friends of both Nicholls aud Hampton, aud gone out of hia way to find some means to help them out of their difficulties, iu doing this he has invoked genuine and adverse criticism of his own party and in every case the men whom be was Irving to aid have met his advances" ad-vances" with the almost insolent assertion as-sertion of what they are plumed to call itieir rights. |