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CAPITAL NEWS. Warhinuton, July 18.- Captain Marehall1 estímate of appropriatlons for improvements at Chicago harbor and vicinity aggregate ♦1,285,00a Captain Marshall saya the route to the Mississippi river from near Chicago, via the Illinois river, is the most favorable that exista for a water route, and that a sevsn-foot channel can be carried from the mouth of the Illinois river to La Salie, 100 miles long, for $1,200,000. From La Salie to Joliet, where lt will be less than forty miles from Chicago, the channel can be extended for $3,500,000. Major Davis, In commandof the river and harbor improvementa in Michigan and Wiïcansin, subinits the followingestircates: Oseen Bay harbor, Wiscónsin, 110,000; harbor of refuge at Sturgeon Bay, Wis., B,000; Ahnapee harbor, Wtsconsin, 115,000; Kewaunee harbor. Wiscensln, (M.000; Two Rivera harfcor, Wisoonsin, (3,000; Mant towoo harbor. Wiscomin, J8.000; She boygan harbor, Wlsconsin, 150,000; Port Washington harbor, Wiscónsin, 17,000; harbor of refuge, Milwaukea bay, (300,000; Milwtukee harbor, {20,000; Kactne harbor, Wlsconsin. 150,000; Kenosha harbor, vVlsconsin, tM),009; Waukegan hírbor, Illinois, 175,. 000; For and Wisconiln rivsrs. tSO0,OOO. Washinoton, July 1&- President Harrison returned from Deer Park yesterday afternoon, but will go back again Friday or Saturday. The President is well pleased with Deer Park and no longer looks with favor upon the original plan of railroad trips to and from Washington once a week, especially as he feels that the admlnistration of public affairs for the next few weekB can be conducted just as well at Deer Park as at Washington. It looks now as though the President will eatablish his official headquarters at Deer Park for the Bummer; calling Individual members of his Cablnet there whenever their presence is needed, and perhaps coming himself to Washington now and then, but not at stated or regular intervals, or only whenever his presence here is iraperatively demanded. Washington, July ia- Specimens of the first paper money ever issued in Siam havo been sent to the Secretary oL State. lts issue is sanctioned by the King, and, it is thought, will be beneficial to the country. Washington, July 20. - Ex-Representative Nichols, of North Carolina, has been appointed chief of the mail división of the Treasury Department, vice Major Krete, resigned. Washington, July 30. - William Eule, editor of the Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal, has been appointed Pension Agent for the Bouthern States, with heartquarters in that city. Washington, July 20. -President Harrison has issued a proclamation restoring the Fort McDermot (Nev. ) reservation to the public domaln, it being no longer needsd for military purposes. Washington, July 20.- The following letter has been received at the State Department: "East Saginaw, Mtoh.. July 16.- flora. WMiam F. Wharton, AcHng Secrelary of Stat?, Kathinglon, n. C- Dear Sir: Your notlce of my appolntment by the President of the United States as Consul to Valparaíso, Chili, Is Just received. I most respectf ully deoline to accept the position. Yours, most truly. 'B. O. HOBR." Washington, July 22.- The President has made the following appointments: M. M. Hurley, of Indiana, to be Thfrd Auditor of the Treasury, and J. H. Franklin, of Kansas, to be Deputy Second Auditor of the Treasury. Consuls -Evans Blake, of Illinois, at Crefeld; Henry C. Fisk, of Vermont, at St Johns, Que. ; Jasper P. Bradley, of West Virginia, at Southampton; Èugene 0. Fechet, of Michigan, at Piedras Negras; Archibald J. Sampson, of Colorado, at Paso Del Norte, and Horace E. Pugh, of Indiana, at Newcastle, Eng.
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