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Show R:-ss won the 5:. John?, N. B..' race with PiaiitcJ, Time '27 minutes, ; 7 1 seconds, - latest wmmi GENERAL. Vl'AMMNUTOJf. Washington, C Secretary Sher-i Sher-i man hou asked W. P. Titcoinb, deputy regiaUr of the treasury, and diaries- Warren, chief clerk of the bureau of education, to act aa an investigating in-vestigating committee of bureau statistics, sta-tistics, and inquire, first, concerning ttio organization, number ol clerks, grade, salary, etc., and see if the1 number is unuecediarily great; second, sec-ond, the system of conducting business, busi-ness, collecting, preparing and publishing pub-lishing statistics; third, what additional addi-tional information may properly bn collected through it, whether any labor is duplicated, and what remedy may be applied ; also what reports should be made, printed, published or left imprinted. The stale department is in receipt of information that tho Spanish government gov-ernment has promulgated a decree opening to free trade ail parts ot the archipelago of Sooloo. Tho report that the administration hnti decided to make a change in tho missions to Portugal and Italy is ftilthnrilolivnh. .to,,!;,! The Button telegram that Banks has been invited to confer with the president n the subject of the French mission is untrue, hocause Governor Noyes already has the papers for that mission in his pocket, and leaves lor Europe in July. . Secretary Evurbi, alluding to tho alleged outrage of the whaler Ellen liiseph by Spanish embers, said that while ho was sensible of the lrieodly relations bittween Spain and the United States, tie did not intend to allow an outrage upon our flag, and while Spain would be held responsible for any insult to the United States, he would see that tin's government fulfilled all its obligations to Spain. Tho L'reedman's bank property was offered (or sale to-day. The highest bid was $100,000. Tho properly was then oflered (or bale in parts, but there was no bid at all for the bank proper, find for the other, only S100,-000 S100,-000 was ofiered. Tho value of the entire property is about $'260,000. Chicago, G. Tribune's Washington: Washing-ton: The bolicf that Ohio hai received an undue number of official favors ia discovered to be erronoons upon an examination of tho lists of appointees. In fact, tho proportion id largely against Ohio. A delegation of intelligent representatives repre-sentatives ol Louisiana, colored republican?, repub-lican?, presented to the president, today, to-day, tlio nairtos of three of their race whom they desired to have good government gov-ernment positions at" New Oilcans. Their wishes will probably be respected. re-spected. It is expected that n prominent Union soldior will be given a prominent promi-nent place in New Orleans and that Wharton will replace Pitkin as marshal, mar-shal, who will be suspended. There is an animated contest for tho Rotterdam consulship. |