Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-07-12

the report OF the COmeFence COMMITTEE on the
Funding Bill, and q new conference was
ordered. The Speaker designated the same
comuittee-Mcssrs ScAenck, Hooper and Mar
shsi-to act On the part of the House.
SENATOR SCHURz will, it is stated, return 10
Missouri after the adjournment Of Congress,
and lead the liberal Conservative sidetn politics
in that State in the coming campaign, sdvOca-
ting the universal amnesty and universal suf-
frage amendment TO the State constitution.
There sre over sixty thousand white citizens
disfrsschised'now by the State, tits represented.
INraAN ATROCITIES IN wsoxING-Gov. j.
A. Campbell, OF Wyoming Territory, has in
formed the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that
o party of Indians supposed to be Sioux, Chey-
ennes and Arapahoes, made . raid on South
Pass City, in the Sweet Mining District, where
they killed three citizens named ID. r. s. Barr,
Harvey Moran and jerome Mason, mutilating
them In the most horrible manner. The saw
ages stole large number of horses, mules and
cattle.
Hon. FRANKLIN STEELE, Of Georgetown, his
son, Frank Steele, and the two Misses Steele,
left yesterday for an extended tour Of six weeks.
visiting Minnesota, Lake Superior, LakeGeorge,
and other places Of interest.
The REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT
TEE has completed its organic alton by making
An executive committee, consisting of Senators
Wilson, Rice, Cameron, Chandler and Sawyer,
and Representatives Plat, Sergeant, Logan
man, and Representative Platt, of Virginia,
secretary; Col j. II. Clendenning, Of Missouri.
assistant secretary; w. 8. Huntington, OF the
District OF Columbia. treasurer.
ham introduced in the House yesterday a bill
to incorporate the Loomis Aerial Telegraph
Company, naming as corporators Mahlon Loo
mis-, Alex. Elliott, VIM. N. Chamberlain, OF
Washington city; p. X. Ammidon, of Boston;
and Isaiah Dukens, of Delaware. The capital
dollars, and its object is declared to be to utilize
the principles and powers of natural electricity
In telegraphiDg, gener ating light, heat and mo-
tive power Referred to the Committee on
Commerce.
NoNINArIoNs.-The President sent the fol-
lowing nominations to the Senate to-day:
Edward A. Shirland to be Collector Internal
Revenue Fourth District of California.
Leo kirchner to be Surveyor OF Customs at
Troy, New York.
Daniel Wann to be Surveyor of Customs at
Galena, Illinois.
Almost Cutter to be Register Land Office Re-
publican Land District OF Kansas.
Thomas j. Sternberg to be Receiver of Public
Moneys Republican Land District Of Kansas.
Commodore William Reynolds to be Chief OF
the Bureau Of Equipment and Recruiting,
Navy Department.
Second Lieutenant Albert ID, King to be first
lieutenant Sd cavalry; First Lieutenant Clinton
Lieutenant ID. Lynch to be first lieutenant 4th
cavalry; First Lieutenant John G. Turnbull 10
be captain Sd artillery, Second Lieutenant John
b. Eat0n to be first lieutenant Sd artillery; Sec
ond Lieutenant Charles s. Heintzleman 70 be
hrst lieutenant Sd artillery; Second Lieutenant
Henry b. Osgood to be first lieutenant Sd artil-
leIy.
Lieutenant Charles II. Pendletou TO be lien
tenant commander; Lieutenant Richard p.
Larry to be lieutenant commander; z. Taylor
J. O. Sullivan to be assistant paymaster in the
James Z. Cam to be assistant paymaster in the
Navy; Robert Dicky to be assistant paymaster
in the Navy.
The FUNDING BILL.-The conference COM
mittee OF the two houses of Congress, have
agreed upon a funding bill which provides
Tor funding fifteen hundred millions Of the
present bonded debt into three new classes
OF bonds, as follows Fust-A ten-year bond
at nve per cent. ot which two hundred mil
lions are to be Issued. Second-A fifteen
which three hundred millions are TO- to be es issueS q.
Third-A thiriy-year bond, of which one
thousand millions are to be issued, bearing
interest Of these bonds are to be paad in poiS
and TO be exempt from all taxation. The inter
% Is payable semi-annually, aud in this coun-
try-,he Secretary falling to have Inserted in
the bill what Is known as the foreign loan
clause The rates Of interest are the same as In
q Senate funding bill, which passed March H.
Besides the classes of bonds into which no Liers
the bill provides for the cancellation OF such
oonds a. are now, or may hereafter become re-
dsemable, by using coin in the Treasury de-
poeited there, As provided by the original ,use
b ii, or by using to q certain limit coin derived
fsom imports, 70 cancel said matured bonds All
tsnye NATIONAL banks are 10 be organiz on the se
measure which compelled the existing national
omitted.
CoNFIRMATIoNs BY THE SKSATE-THE New
YORK APPorSTxExrs CoNPrRxED.-As stated
In The STAR Of yesterday, the Senate went into
Executive session at two O'Clock p. m. They at
once proceeded 10 the consideration OF the New
York nominations. That OF Thos. Murphy to
be Collector OF the Port, was the first one taken
up, and Mr.. Fent0n spoke for about three hours
against the confirmation, declaring that AIR.
Murphy was not Republican,, that he had
recently acted with the Democrats He read
es ,hs i,om t1,rtyssyen Republican papers
ment on political grounds, but without conciud-
ing his remarks the Senate took a recess until
80 O'Clock in the evening, when, after the con-
hrmation of q number of Postmasters and
others, the romlnati0n Of Mr.. Murphy was re-
sumed, and Mr.. Conkling replied 10 Mr. Fenton
at some length. Mr.. Fenton then resumed and
finished his speech. The vote was taken at
about quarter to ten O'Clock, and the nomina-
ton Of Mr.. Murphy was confirmed by yeas AS
nays 3-Aeesrr. Fenton, Harris, and Upton.
he Senate then confirmed the nominations of
Thomas Hillh0use, to be Assistant Treasurer of
New York, Moses H. Grinnell, to be Naval
Offcer, and Noah Davis. TO be Attorney for the
Southern district Of New York. +. ID. Garcia,
Of Santa Martha, Columbia, now commercial
agent, to be Consul at that place; Charles l..
Fisher, citizen Of the United States resident in
Japan, TO be Marshal of the consular court of
Nsgasakie; ID. Atwater, of Connecticut, to be
Consul at Tahiti; c. B. Webster, Of Connect
cut. Consul at Sheffield; Samuel A. Duncan, to
be Assistant Commissioner Of Patents, and John
NJ. Shacher, OF Virginia, to be Examiner in
Chief in the Patent once, vice Fessenden, re-
signed.
~The ship VIM. Taber, Capt. Hutchinson,
which left New York May II for san Francisco
returned to that port in command OF Capt. VIM
Plummer. having been ordered home by the
United States consul at st. Thomas In conse-
quence Of Q mutiny among the crew, in which
the captain is Implicated.
81 Here is DIR. Mary Walker I'm her Summer
dress "A pair OF number two boots, tight
pants. o blue swallow tail coat, bespangled with
bI ass buttons, q 'shoo-fiy' cravat of the latest
and most approved style, her hair worn loose