Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-12-12


PERCEPTIONS UNDER THE CHEROKEE TREA-
TY.-It is held in the Departments that
claim for the vafuatfoR of pre-emption IN !
der the 18th article of the Cherokee treaty of
1856 stated by valuing agents appointed by
the Commissioners under that article. is not
valid without the adjudication and certificate
of the court of Commissioners as provided for
in the 18th article of the treaty.
COMMANDER TNGRAHAM-. We learn that this
gentleman's friends have very recently ap
piled to the Secretary OF the Navy, to induce
him to order n commander to the Mediterra-
mean to relieve Commander Ingraham, whose
health is in such condition as justly to alarm
them The application does not come from
him. we apprehend though he, too, conceives
that his health requires his speedy relief from
his present duties. We take it for granted
that, under the circumstances Secretary Dob
bin will comply with the request of his friends
as soon rs his successor in the command of the
St Louis can be selected.
CLERICAL CHANGES IN THE TREASURY DE-
PARrNENr.-Mr. Benz. L. Began has resigned
his I'd class (Sl, 200 per annum) Il ,rkship in
the Third Auditors office, and Wythe DENLY
has been promoted to the position thus made
vacant. Joseph B. Cummings of Indiana, has
been appointed to the 81 600 clerkship made
vacant by Mr.. Denbyss promotion.
A New Consul FROM HEssE DAHMsrADT.-
The President has issued an Exequatur to c.
Frederick Hagedorn, as Consul from Hesse
Darmstadt for Pennsylvania New Jersey and
Delaware, to reside at Philadelphia.
NAVY OFFICERS DETACHED, ORDERED AND
DISMISSED Third Asst. Engineer Kimball
detached from office of Engineer in Chief, and
ordered to the steamer Fulton.
Carpenter Hugh Lindsay has been dismissed
NEGLECT OF Posi- OFFICES We understand
at the Department that some Of the postmas-
tiers Of the cities and large towns put the mail
agents to great unnecessary trouble by failing
to write legibly on their packages Their adj
dress They also, many of them, omit the
comfy and State thus forcing the agent to
open the packages to learn where on his route
to leave them.
DISTINGUISHED STRANGERS AT THE CAPITOL
THIS MORNING Among the visitors attending
the Halls of Congress to-day were Sarni Ell
fendi, and Safi Effendi, Turkish officers com
missoned by Abbus Pasha the Viceroy of
Egypt to make tour of observation over this
country They were habited in rich and taste
full uniforms, and being fine looking men Of
elegant manners withal. attracted great at
tcnti0n. Both these gentlemen speak English
with fiueEcy and correctness.
EXCITEMENT IN THE House HALL.-For half
! an hour before the meeting of the House this
morning, the Hall was much more thronged
; than usual with members, and also persons
! not Of the House, who are interested in some
/ thing or other to come before some committee
! in the course Of the session. Their conversa-
! ton was, for the most part, upon the proba-
! BILE complexion OF the committees about to be
| announced. The Speaker was spoken of in
much milder and more complimentary terms
! than are being applied to him just us we are
writing after this reading off has been con
! cluied. There are only eleven committees on
+ which it is considered desirable. by ambitious
! gentlemen, to be placed, and the chairman
! Shit? Of each Of them is the prize for which
perhaps twenty members contend. Perhaps,
out Of all these places, not more than forty
! are considered worth having. So, at least one
| hundred and fifty out of the one hundred and
! ninety three, who are not appointed to desira-
! BILE PAGES, may be fairly written down to be
! anything but perfectly satisfied with the
| places assigned them. However, we may not
| appropriately add, that the Speakers cast
on this occasion, gives quite as much satisfac
! ton az usual. Such an event never occurred
without occasioning far more dissatisfaction
! than comfortable feeling among the members
! for perhaps week; after which time, they
! generally come to realize that it is a matter OF
| impossibility for the presiding officer to give
| every gentleman, of two hundred and thirty
| three, a prominent position out Of some forty
such places.
! TIE CURRENT OPERATIONS OF THE TREASURY
| DEPARrMESr.--O Saturday the 10th Of De
cember, there were of Treasury Warrants en-
tered on the books of the Department
! For the redemption Of stocks. go. SIS ,G97 "a
For Treasury Department. exclu
sive of stocks .................. 41%3 81
Covered into the Treasury from
| Lands .................... 9512l 81
| Covered into the Treasury from
miscellaneous sources. ......... l2774 81
| For the War Department.......... $50, 30 j.
For repaying for the War Depart
mont ..................... 15,482 81
For the Interior Department.. 5lIJ 0.
| For repay in the Interior Depart
ment. ........................ % o.