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Show GENERAL. WASHINGTON. Uiseliarffe of Female Eu)- .atloual It n ii fc Circulation. The Desert La ml Swindles. Waahington, 30. Secretary Snhurz has appointed H. H. Bates, B. Li. Catlin, B. O. Titling a hoard of examination ex-amination from the corps of let assistant examiners to the grado o! principal examiners of patents to fill vacancies. Two hundred aud fifty employe's, mostly females, in the bnreau of engraving en-graving and printing, were discharged to day. The bureau will be closed for threo days, when McPhersou will assume tho duties of chief. The comptroller of currency reports the amount of United State bonds on deposit as security for the circulation of national banks on the 1st of May, $0-40,732,000 ; increase, $3,000,000 since November 1st. inese securities securi-ties consist of $92,870,000 6 per cents., including $S, 330,000 issued to the Pacific railroads, $211,842,000 5 per cent, bonds, and $36,330,000, per cent, bonds. Since the first ol November there has been a reduo lion of $10,000,000 in 6 per cent, bonds, $12,000, 00U 5 per cent, bonds and an increase of $25,000,000 4 per cent, bonds. Amount of national bank circulation outstanding May 1st, J31S,3G4,G67; deducting from this amount the amount of legal tender notes on depoait for the purpose ol retiring national bank circulation, we have $302,926,249, which represents the national bank notes secured by bonds on deposit as above given. Net increase of national bank circulation circu-lation lor the month of April, $124,-000; $124,-000; amount of additional circulation issued, $1,452,250; national bank notes disposed of, notes fit for circulation, circu-lation, assorted and returned to hanks t for April $11,515,000; for the ten montha, Sill, 545, G00; notes unfit for rirculation, assorted aud delivered to ! the comptroller of currency for de-I de-I atruction and displacement, with new notes lor April, $5,248,600; for ten mouths, $19,334,500; notes of failed, ' liquidating and reduciog banks de-' de-' piwited iu the treasury for April. $1, 590,400; for ton months, $20,305,400 Totals for 1877: For April, $18,334,- 600; for ten months, $18-1.090,500. Totals for 1S76: For April, S12.S97, 500; for ten months, $154,476,355; increase for April, 85,437,100: for ten monthB, $29,414,145. - The president to day signed the commission of John King, collector of customs. New Orleans. The United States supreme court, to day, gave a decision ending the protracted oyster war between Maryland Mary-land and Virginia. The court holds that Virginia can prohibit citizens ol other Btatee from planting oysters in beds of tide waters within her jurisdiction, jurisdic-tion, while protecting her own people. peo-ple. Hon. Alexander H. Stephens ar gued a case in the supreme court today to-day for the first time in nine years. Tribune's Washington: The commissioner com-missioner of tho general land office believes the San Francisco dispatch stating that great swindles have been perpetrated in California under the act of last congress relating to the sale of desert land is exaggerated. The act strictly provides that land preempted uuder it shall be desert lands, and - before entries can be made at the laud oQlce tho preiimp-tor preiimp-tor will be required to prove affirmatively affirma-tively that no acre ia susceptible of cultivation except by irrigation. If any swindles have been attempted, therefore, the land office has power to defeat them. - if'eixoto, recently at Roumauia as consul general, thinks the war will certainly be general. He espouses the sultan's Bide. He doubts the reports of the impregnability of the Turkish fortifications of the Danube. Chicago, SO. Inter-Oceau's Washington: Wash-ington: A. L. Clapp, public printer, resigned to day, to take effect June 1st. His letter says tho resignation is in compliance with aa express wish of tho president, but he cheerfully rescued and thuuks the president for evidences of his confidence. J. D. Defrees was appointed to succeed him. |
