Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-07-29
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

INTERNAL REvENuE.-The receiptsfrom this
source to-day were s411 1889.
REJECTION OF FoRcE.-The force OF assistant
assessors in the second district of New jersey
has been reduced from eleven to seven.
SENATOR WILSON at the last accounts was on
his way TO Munich. His health had much i'm
proved.
Postmaster GENERAL GREswELL left for his
home at EI1ton, Nd, to-day. He will return
early next week.
The FOLLOWING PREDICTIONS have been made
in the Pension Office George W. Evans, D. l..
Git and George A. Livingston from second 20
thiTd-class.
THE CENSUS BUREAU to-day received final
returns from Texas. This completes the returns
Of the United States with the exception of one
small township in Western Arkansas.
ALL THE MEMBERS of the Cabinet are in town
except Secretary Robson and Postmaster Gene
raj Cresswell. Mr.. Robson is expected here on
Monday.
CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE is expected in Chicago
next week, bound to Waukesha, to drink
Bethesda water and lay the foundation stone OF
Water Cure Asylum.
THE KANSAS INDIAN LANDs.-None of the
bids thus far opened for the Kansas Indian
lands are above 81 per acre. They range from
$50 to So Many of the four hundred bidders
are here in person waiting for the awards.
An ARTICLE on Walt Whitman and the poetry
of democracy. in the Westmirister Rerieu for
July, is directed to show how that writer actually
fnlfils many of the literary predictions of de
TOcqueville.
WAYNE MACVEAGH, United States Minister
to Turkey, arrived in Harrisburg, Pa on Thurs
day, with his wife, who is the daughter of Sena-
tor Cameron. She is in attendance at the bed
SIDE OF her sister, Mrs. Burnside, who is thought
to be dying.
NAVAL OFFICERS ORDERED-Chief Engineer
VIM. W. DUNCAN has been ordered to duty as
inspector of machinery afloat at the navy-yard
in this city. Master Alfred Elliott, of this Dis
triet has been detached from the Guard and or
dered to the photographic Office.
AN AWAKENED CoHscIENCR.-A letter was
received at the Treasury Department this morn
ing, from Mr.. George A. Hall, General Secre-
t2ry Of the Young Mems Christian Association
enclosing 81 300, forwarded through Mr. Hall
''for credit to the conscience fund, by young
man greatly proftted in a recent religious ser,
vice.
RIGHTS OF MAIL CoNTRAcToRs-Inr esponse
TO letter OF the Postmaster General relative to
the act OF March 3, 1871, making appropriations
for the service of the Post Office Department
the Attorney General, under date of the 2tth
instant, says that the check deposited by the
accepted bidder (for the transportation of mails.
where the bid exceeds S5,O0O,) for 'not less than
i've per cent. on the amount he would receive in
any one year under such bid" is merely a secu-
rlty for the required bond, and had completed
its Office and should be returned to the bidder as
soon as such bond is fled, no matter how long
this may be before the commencement of the
service.
"
GEN. SHERIDAN's OPINION OF KIowAs.-In
forwarding to the headquarters OF the army a
letter from Lieut.. Davidson, of the 10th United
States cavalry, expressing the fear of war be-
tween the Cheyennes and the Kiowas, Gen
Sheridan endorses il as follows: "Much of
what you hear may be set down as Indian talk
1t is well known on the plains, that the Kiowas
are the most cOwardly and at the same time the
most noisy and troublesome of the tribes DO
not anticipate any hostility from them, nor do /
think they can get any special sympathy from
any Of the other Indian tribes. If the agents
will only hold out stifflly TO the policy that
when the Indian commits crime he must be
punished, the Indian question will soon pass
into thing of the paStD