Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-07-22
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL REvENUE.-The receipts from this
SURGE to-day were ~ S343 40.


INTERNAL REvENUE-The receipts from this
SURGE to-day were S7ls,3i3 40.
THB PRESIDENT will return here from Long
Branch on the early train tomorrow morning,
and Cabinet meeting will be held at noon. All
the members are in town except Secretaries
Delano snd Robson.
OFF FOR NORTH CAEoLINA.-Hon. Columbus
Delano, Secretary of the Interior, and Gen. j.
II. Baker, Commissioner of Pensions, leave for
North Carolina this evening TO take an active
part IN the pending campaign In that state.
The Secretary will speak at Raleigh on the 2ith
ard at Fayetteville on the 25th inst
REAR ADMIRAL JOHN A. wINsLow, COM
manding the Pacific fleet, has been condemned
by board of medical survey. and has left Pan
ANA in the mail steamer for San Francisco.
The Secretary of the Navy will assign a rear
admiral TO the command without delay. Capt.
Davenport, OF the Congress, is seriously i'll at
Southampton, and Capt. Shufeldt has been put
in temporary command.
THE CONVICTED CALIFORNIA PosTMATER.-
A correspondent writes so inform us that the
widely-published item in reference to one ID. Z.
George, deputy postmaster at San Francisco,
"havipg been convicted Of robbing the mails"
Sc., was incorrect, as " said George never was
in the employ of the San Francisco post office :,
but was clerk in the post office Of an interior
town in California"
PERsoNAL.-Gen. VIM. Ii. H. Terrell, Third
Assistant Postmaster General is in New York
on official business. Mrs. General Sherman
and children are at Islip, Long Island. '...Col.
John Potts, chief clerk of the War Department,
is quite ill. Lieut.. Fred. Grant arrived in New
York yesterday. ''''Commissioner Douglass
leaves on months vacation in the north about
the middle of the present week. ....Gen. Sher
man will return to the United States in Septem-
Der. ''''Secretary Boutwell, will leave Wash
iDgton for Groton this week
10, loo- -
dered to meet at West Point on the 2ith instant
for the trial of private Bradeen and such other
prisoners as may be brought before it. The
court will be composed of Capt. Alex. Piper, 81
artillery; Capt. Jno. Egan, 4th artillery; LIST
Lieut., j. w. Reilly, Ordnance Department.; 1st
Lieut.J. M. Marshall, 4th artillery; LIST Lieut.
.Jno. f. Stretch, 10th infantry; LIST Lieut.. F. A.
Mahan, corps engineer, judge advocate.
OUR FLEET IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC
Dispatches received at the Navy Department
from Rear Admiral Taylor, commanding the
South Atlantic feet dated Rio de Janeiro, June
2ith, announces that on the 10th of June the
United States vessels Portsmouth and Supply
arrived from New York with officers and men
for the feet. Both ships were to be sent back
to New York at the earliest possible moment
cruise to the northern ports of Brazil, and the
Wasp was at COlonia on the 18th of June. The
health OF the officers and men OF the fleet is
good.
TRANSFER OF NAVAL OFFICERs.-The z. s
steamer Nautasket, which recently arrived
home, has been put out of commission, and most
Of her officers have been detached rom her and
ordered to the Yantic, now fitting for sea at
THAN, Lieut.. Z. W. Bridge, Masters F. A.
DeBlois and Il. A. Breck, Passed Assistant
Surgeon j. b. Parker, Assistant Paymaster
VIM. M. Preston, Lieuts X. l.. Edes and W. ".
Fitzpatrick. Lieuts George w. belong and F.
q. Hyde have been ordered to the Frolic. Lieut..
Commander G.. G. Schulze has been detached
from fro 8 the NeT York navy yard and ordered II
Omaha. Surgeon p. s. Wales ordered to duty
at the naval hospital at Annapolis, Md. LieutS
W. ID. Parker, e. Woodman, j. F: Meigs and
Duncan Kennedy; Masters G. A. Stone, L. G.
Pa.. ...c. -. me- .-esn :@d ,Soyes have been
ordered to report at Newport, l., on the 10th
of August next, for torpedo instruction.
THEMARoUIs DE NoAILLRs, the new French
Minister, now en- route to Washington, and
taking New York in by way of the Brevoort
House, is described by newspaper man as "tall
and spare ia form. He wears a full beard of a
reddish hue; his hair, 1t is unnecessary to saw is
of a like color. His face denotes good nature
and has the sleepy and studious look of a savant.
HIS dress is as simple and unpretentious as his
manner" Minute, but hardly complimentary.
The Marquis Is the second son of the Duke of
that name, and was born in 1880 at the Chateau
de Maintenon: His great granduncle-a Mar
quis de Noailles-waS brOther-in-law of La
fayette, and took part with him in the Ameri-
can war of independence. The new French
Minister is also descendant from the celebrated
Nine. de Maintenon. He has written histori-
cal work in three volumes entitled "Henri LII ct
la Prologue en- 1892" besides many pamphlets
and literary contributions to magazines and
newspapers.
ARRIVAL OF SPOTTED TAIL AND HIS DELE
GATIoN.-SpOtted Tail, ief of the Brule-
Sioux, accompanied by d. K. Rsley, agent for
that tribe. Messrs. Jules Ecoffe, Chas. f. Guern
oraAT n.t [nh xphA ok4Iu A.
White River agency; Iron Shell, Swift Bear
and Two Strike, subordinate chiefs, and
sixteen Of the prominent young men
town this morning, and took up their
quarters at the Washington House. The main
body OF the Indians occupy a large room at
the hotel, and this afternoon were lying Oh
the cots in their usual airy costume, engaged
in tanning themselves or smoking Spotted
Tail and his favorite wife, c0mely- looking In
dian woman about twenty-five years of age,
have a room to themselves. and the chiefs Iron
Shell, Swift Bear, and Two Strike occupy
bedroom on the same floor. When the
afternoon he found him lying on the bed wrap
ped in a red blanket. He at once rose, and ex.
tending his hand with a smile said, g How :"
alter the usual Indian fashion. He is fine
Cloud, and not near so dark in complexion.
Mrs. Spotted Tail was squatting on the
floor, Turkish fashion, engaged with a
her Dolly Warden. The object of Spotted Tails
visit is to settle questions in reference to the
location OF his agency. In the year 1868 he
made treaty with the whites, which he has
kept fnviolate. Should the President arrive to-
morrow 1t is probable that they will have q
conference with him at the White House.
OUR BLUE JACKETS IN JAPAN.-Dispatches
received at the Navy department, from Rear
Admiral Thornton A. jenkins, commanding the
Asiatic feet, dated flagship Colorado, Yokoha-
ma, Japan, June 18th, announces that on the
oath Of May, the anniversary Of the birth of
Queen Victoria, the Colorado, Benicia and
Idaho, at Yokohama, dressed ship, and the two
first named vessels fred q national salute at
noon, joining in the celebration with II. B. N.
ship Rinaldo and the other vessels of war living in
that port. On the 10th Of June he proceeded
to Yedd0 with the Colorado and Benicia and on
the 14th had an audience with His Majesty the
Ternno, at the Imperial Palace. His Majesty
expressed himself pleased with the accounts
received from his embassy now in America,
and especially referred to their reports
upon the URited States navy-yards visited
by them. Admiral jenkins further states that
1t was his inteztion to sail in few days for Ha-
kodadi. Gen. Capron, commissioner Of agri-
culture In Japan, being about to proceed to
that place upoa.duties connected with his office,
had been invited to take passage on the Colora-
do. The admiral was to remain but few DAYS
at Hakodadi sad then return to Yakohama,