Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-07-15
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

" oeAiHS WI NOWo oAo SVnSiP'
INTERNAL REvRNUE.-The receipts from tbi'
source to-day were s557 ,Ols.7o.
SENATOR MORTON has gone 70 his home in
Indiana.
President GRANT leaves Long Branch for
Washington this evening ID attend 10 official
business.
MR.. JOHN s. DELAEo, chief clerk of the In
terror Depal tment, returned Iiom Salt Lake
City yesterday.
SECRETARY boutwell, left here this morn
ing for North Carolina,i to take pslt in ne po-
htical campaign there.
SECOND LIEUT.. JOHN PiTMAN, JR., ordnance
department, has been reviewed from duty at the
West Point Military Academy, and ordered 70
report to the chief of ordnance Tor duty.
SENATOR WILSON left Long Branch on Satur-
day for North Ce-olina. He will speak In the
principal cities and towns of that state during
ne campaign.
GENERAL o. o. HOWARD spoke on Indian
affairs last evening At the South Reformed
Church in Fifth avenue, New York. Addresses
were also made by some OF the Indian chiefs
now visiting that city.
An IMPORTANT DECISION AFFIRMED.-The
Secretary of the Interior has affirmed the deci-
sion of the Hon. j. II. Baker, Commissioner of
Pensions, denying fees to attorneys for the pre-
sentation of applications for increase of PEN
siops under the act OF June Sth, 1872 The ap-
peal was taken by q. A. Haviland, of Chicago.
THE SOLDIERS HOMESTEAD LAw-An In
portaat RGlin9.-The commissioner of the gene
raj land office has decided that soldiers who
entered homesteads prior t. the passage of the
recent act of Congress, Familiarity known As the
soldiers homestead law, are entitled to have the
time they served in the army deducted from the
time heretofore required to perfect title to
homesteads, the same as those who made entries
afer the passage of said act, and therefore that
.oldiers who made homestead entries under the
Old law, may receive their patents by making
proof OF service and showing compliance with
law and regulations without waiting the expi-
ration OF 1--WE years from the date of entry.
CALL FOR CONVENTION OF ARMY yRrR-
RANs.-Gen. Ambrose +. Burnside, chairman
OF the veteran national committee, and Gener-
ais Powell Clayton George E. Spencer. Sol ID.
Merethth, n. Z. Banks, N. p. Chapman, Jos. X.
Hawley, and others, have issued a call to the
SOLDIERS and sailors who served in the Union
army and navy during the late war to meet in
mass convention at Pittsburg on the 18th of
September next. The call states the object OF
tne convention to be "for the purpose of express
ing our unreserved belief that the destinies of
TINS county for the ensuing four years should
be under the protection of men who never
danger"
AhE United STATRs NAVY at present con-
sists Oh 6S steamers, % wooden sailing vessels,
81 monitors or iron clads, and % tugs or the
steamers "a are doing duty on our various fleets
carrying In the aggregate 3S2 guns; 46 are laid
up at the various yards, is on the lakes 6 are
unasssigned, and the others are being repaired,
uSeo as receiving ships or on some special service.
Inc monitors are all laid up at League Islard
New orleans, and w ashington, ex ept the Ter
a TOT, attached to the North Atlantic fleet. The
70 tugs are used about the various nayv wards
ana naval stations. OF the &c vessels laid M
majority OF them can be prepared for sea at a
small expense, but as the number Of seamen IS
HinlteG oy act OF Congress they cannot be sent
ABROAD, as no fu, ther enlistments can be made
The North Atlantic feet has vessels the South
a.. Atiantlc Z, the European Z, the Pacific ., and
the Asiatic 8, making the { otal number of United
States vessels abroad "a.
LATEST PROM HE SIoVx-RED CLOUD KEEPS
HIS PROMISE AND WORKS FOR PEACE w.
Daniel, Indian agent for the Sioux, forwards a
letter to Gen. Walker commissioner of Indian
aHalrs, stating that when Little Wound left for
washington he sent men north to speak with
tne INDIANS on the Yellowstone in behalf OF
peace. One or these messengers has come in
ana reports their mission generally successful
Dr Daniels was 70 start for Fort Peck TO meet
snd R SO%en Oh tee sth OF the present month,
10 accompany him. About sixty lodges of
OF Spotted Tails people have crossed the MOI Ga
r tiatte going south Several lodges attempted
20 leave the Red Cloud agency, but were turned
back by their chiefs and the soldiers. Red Cloud
sent letter to the Northern Sioux, in which he
says; 81 carried on the war against the whites
until went to see my Great Father two yesrs
ago. My Great Father spoke good to me. 1
told my people his words and they have listened
10 me- L went to see my Great Father
second time; he gave me good ad.
vice. L asked for many things for nv peonIe:
ne gave me those things. All the whites spoke
wei to me. shall not go to war any more with
the whites. shall 10 ss my Great Father saws,
and make my people listen. Listen to me and
not go to war any more. You must carry on
the war yourself. am done. = Make
no more trouble for our Great Father His
heart is good; be friends to him, and he will
provide for you. You old people and children
VII not StarYR. Take q md hnId