The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
Despatch to the Assocsoted Prees.

Despatch to the Assoc1Gtsd Press.
WASHINGTON, Aug. II.
The United states steamer shenandoah,
Commander Wells, which was put in commits
sion at Boston on Monday, will reinforce the
feet in European waters.
Important Army Order.
The War Department to-day issued order
quoting paragraph 996 of the revised regulations
for the army of 1868, as follows
"If any disbursing officer shall bet at cards.
or any game of hazard, his commanding officer
shall suspend his functions and require him to
turn over all the public funds in his keeping
and shall Immediately report the case to the
proper bureau of the War Department"
The order adds:-'In every case where an
officer intrusted with the care or disbursement
of public funds shall violate this regulation, he
will be brought to trial before general court
martial by the department commander, and will
not be assigned to duty or again put in posses
sion of public funds subsequent to his trial, y
without the approval of the Secretary of War.
Cabinet Changes.
Special Despatch 10 The EUening Telegraph
WASHINGTON, Aug. H.-Rumorsyof Cabinet
changes are again afoat here, and are to the
effect that Secretary Fish is to retire. and also
that Secretary Cox, OF the Department of the
Interior is to go to Berlin, vice Bancroft, to be
recalled. OF course these rumors lack c0nfir-
nation, but there appears to be an understand
ing in official circles that changes of some cha
racter will be made within the next month or
two.
Reduction of tho Debt.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury has
written q letter stating that the aggregate re-
duction of the interest-bearing portion of the
public debt from March 1, 1869, to August 1,
1870 was s147, ,257 245 &c. The letter says that
hxy IF fhn dahf fota MT of
March /, 1869, and July, 1870, the bonded debt
bearing interest in coin might appear to have
increased, because up to that time bonds pur-
chased and held by the department had not been
deducted from the outstanding debt but were
called funds on hand and deducted from the
sum total of the debt. In the August statement
these bonds do not appear in the account of
bonds outstanding, having been cancelled and
destroyed.
Indian Affairs.
Despatch TO the Associated Press.
WARRINGTON, Aug. 17.-The agent for the
Pueblo Indians, of New Mexico, writes to the
Indian Bureau that they are quiet and generally
engaged in the cultivation of their lands. TIE
agent at Fort Craig, New Mexico, July 81, says
he has not heard of the commission of any
depredations during that month by the Indians,
who are yet on the war path. The agent at the
Kansas agency says during the entire month the
Indians have been quite destitute of provisions
of all kinds.
In consequence OF this they have become
very restless, and therefore it was impracticable
to keep them on the reservations. Two compa-
nes of them paid visits to the Osages to trade
for or beg ponies, but had very poor success, as
the Osages were not at home. Another COM
pany went on a visit 10 the Iowa Indians, and
returned with twenty-tbree ponies and colts
These and some of their former stock they have
traded for provisions. The wagons purchased
have been a help to them in procuring subsis-
stance, cutting and hauling wood to the town
and ON railroad.