Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-05-03

tONTEACTS AWAEDED.-NdNy faEmaSter
q. q. ] csson has awarded contracts to the fol-
lowing named persons Tor certain supplies to
be delivered at the Washington Navy Yard,
the bids for which were opened on Saturday:
White lead, 10 George Ryneal. Washington
al I3 cents per pound. White zinc to David Bab-
COCK d Co, New York, at n 1-5 cents per
pound. lngot copper. AZ u i4-lOo cents per
pound; straits tin, at II 3 per pound; box TN,
at ~l5.5O per box: gum shelac, at ~ cents Der
pound; fuse paper, $50 per ream; straight fire
bTlck, S53 pes m wedge fire brick, $40 per M,
to Jos. l.. Savage. Sperm oil, TO Manhattan
Oil Company. New York. at 500 per GAL
Ion. Pine Wood, To VIM. q uinand, al Sj.iJ per
cord Alcohol, TO George Ryneal, AZ Sl.94 per
gallon.
SOLDIERS BoUNTIEs.-The Second Comp
troler has given instructions. under the late
bounty law, that hereafter in paying soldiers
claims two checks shall be gIven-one to the
agent or attorney tor the fee allowed by law
remainder due. The fees allowed in claims of
white soldiers are ten per cent. when thu
amount due Is under S200 and five per cent. on
any additional amount less than $500 and $50
on claims IN excess of $500 In coIored cases
the fees are SIS, $50 and 80, according as the
amount due is less than $50, between $50 and
SlOO, or over SlO0. In the colored cases, out
not in the white cases, advances and .iotarial
expenses are included in the amount paid to
the agent.
GENERAL LEES INTERVIEW WITH THE
PRESIDENTIAL Washington correspondent
speaking of the interview Of General Lee with
the President on Saturday says That the
President bad solicited the visit for the pur-
pose OF talking over Virginia affairs and the
South in general. In the matter OF submitting
the constitution 10 vote OF the people, NJ
General Lee.) thought that separate votes
should be taken on the DISTINGUISHING clause
and on several clauses relating TO questions OF
local nature. He was also Of the opinion that
IL was OF the utmost importance that the several
States should be brought into practical rela.
tons with the federal government at once. In
Crder to secure representation in both branches
OF Congress, and when that was accomplished
ne was sure all other questions wonld readily
adjust themselves He said he had informed
the President that he did not look upon the
adoption of the fifteenth amendment with such
fearful forebodings as had been done by leading
men OF the North and South. He said the inter.
view was an exceedingly pleasant one. and
that the President -sured him he would
always be glad to see him"
TIE INDIAN WAR IN ALAsKA-DIsCovRRII
IN THAT TERRITORY, &c The Navy Depart
ment to-day received dispatches from Rear
Admiral T. I. Craven, commanding North
Pacific squadron, dated Mare Island. Cal
March 3lst. enclosing reports from Commander
X. W. Nerd, lr.. of his operations in Alaska,
where his vessel (the S'ginaw) has been sta,
toned Among those reports is one relative to
the d. structlon of certain villages and stockaded
forts belonging To the Kake Indians, as a pun.
ishment for the murder OF two American ira
ders-Ludwlg Maager and VIM. Wa,ker-In
IL cember last, whom the Indians claimed TO
have killed in revenge for the murder OF
an Indian killed by United States soldier
The expedition which destroyed the villages
and forts was under Major Gen. Davis and
Captain McIntire and consisted of Il soldiers
The Saginaw first destroyed settlement on
hon Island, and on the 10th of February she
destroyed the villages at Kupieauof Island,
and on the next day the salmon fisheries and
Two stochaded forts at Security Bay. The
kakes have long been motor ious as a bad tribe,
and their murder Of Mr.. Ebbey u. 5. Collec.
tori and the crew OF the Royal charlie had
never been avenged.
Commander Meade reports that during this
expedition he entered a bay on the north west
end OF kon Island, which, rom its advantages
as harbor, he named Security Bay, au excel.
lent rendezvous for a whaling fleet. He also
discovered fresh fields Of coal at Kootz-na-boo,
one seam being five feet wide. 1t can be worked
only AZ low water. He feels perfectly satisfied
that kOotz-na-boo Archipelago is q vast field of
coal. Owing to its being highly charged with
resinous material, the ceal is considered dan.
gerous on ship board, and great care has to be
exercised with it.