Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-08-29
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

washington news ana GOSSIP.
INTERNAL REvENUE.-The receipts from this
source to day were s40' .sii5O.
THE PRESIDENT and General Porter will re-
turn to Long Branch On the late train this even
ing.
SECRETARY DELANo left here last evening
for his home N Ohio, where he Will spend week
or ten days.
SENATOR WILSON was knocked down by
runaway team at Portland, on Tuesday night,
but escaped with few slight bruises.
TIE U. S. STEAMER YANTIC sailed from
Fortress Monroe yesterday for the East India
squadron. She will touch at Gibraltar, and
pass through the Suez Canal.
TIE L. S. STEAMER PowHATAN. which is
about to leave on a surveying expedition in the
Pacific, under command of Captain Skerrett,
will be absent from this country for three years.
GENERAL JACOB zEILIS, chief officer of the
Marine Corps, officially visited the Charleston
(Mass,) navy yard yesterday, and Portsmouth
to-day.
Col. HARRISON GRAY OrIs was yesterday
promoted and assigned TO special service as
chief of corps in the Patent Office, at q salary
of 81, $50 per annnm.
The U. S. STEAMER TALLAPoosA arrived
here yesterday from the eastern yards, where
she has been with fret ght and stores. She leaves
again with another load for Portsmouth, n. H.
and New York in few days.
ST. LOUIS POST OFFIcE.-The acting Score.
tary of the Treasury yesterday decided to pur-
chase, under certain conditions, block 129, in
st. Louis, for the site of the new post office and
custom house in that city.
OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM AT VIENNA. - John
Jay, our Minister at Vienna, has forwarded the
request of the Minister of Education OF Austria
for the United States to present at the Vienna
Exposition perfect representation of the sys-
tenn OF common school instruction adopted in
the United States, and urgently recommends
compliance with the request.
TIE CABINET met at IL O'Clock to-day, bu,
no business Of Importance was transacted
There were present Secretaries Fish and Bel
KNAPP, Postmaster General Creswell, Attorney
General Williams, Assistant Secretary Richard
son and Acting Secretary Smith. The session
did not continue long.
THE KUKLUx PARDoNs NOT TO BE ISSUED
UNTIL ANOTHER EXAMINATION IS MADR.-In-
formation has been received at the Attorney
Generals Office from official sources in North
Carolina which makes il necessary to give the
kuklux cases another and more particular ex-
animation. The President therefore has decided
hot W AesuC thC poiUohs at ptCScut.
THE DIAMOND FIKLps.-In compliance with
the request of the Secretary OF the Interior
Attorney General Williams is preparing an
opinion on the question, "Has miner the right
to enter on, stake Off. and work a claim where
diamonds are supposed to be, on the same
conditions and terms upon which mining claims
are entered where gold exists?"
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRRsIDRNr.-The
President to-day made the following appoint
ments:-Isaac II. Sturgeon. of st. Louis, Mo-,
g. W. Dimes, of ID. c., and ID. Ii. Willard, OF
Lansing, III ich., to be commissioners to examine
and report to the President upon the road con.
structed by the Kansas Pacific Railway Com
pany. W. II. Smith. solicitor Of the Interior
Department, to be Secretary of the Interior
during the temporary absence of Secretary Del
ano and Assistant Secretary Cowan.
NAVAL OFFICERS TRANsFERRRD.-First As
sistant Engineer W. s. Neal ordered to the
bureau ofsteam engineering, Navy department.
Chief Engineer Harmon New ell ordered to duty
as me- mber of the board of examiners, Phiia-
delphla navy yard. Commander George T..
Morris detached from the Pensacola navy yard
andplaced on waiting orders. Assistant Surgeon
henry Steward detached from the Canandaig qua
and placed on waiting orders. First Assistan.
Engineer =. Audrada detached from duty at
League Island and ordered to the Bencia
Second Assistant Engineer H. n. Stephenson
detached from the bureau of steam engineering
and placed on waiting orders.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, on his
return here will make preparations for reducing
the force of the Internal Revenue department,
az provided by the recent act of Congress. The
number OF collectors and assessors will be re-
duced from two hundred and thirty to eighty OF
each. The reduction of bonded officers will ne
cessitate the increase OF assistants in order tina,
the work of the bureau may be properly per
formed. Some few collectors have alre adv re-
signed, to take effect OH the LIST Of January next
when the new law goes into effect. The ne W
law will be applied to Tennessee, Kentucky and
Virginia first.
THE INDIAN OUTRAGEs ON THE RIO GRANDE
One OF the commissioners appointed under the
recent act of Congress to investigate outrages on
in this city, dated at Brownsville, Texas August
10. says =" We are taking great mass OF testi-
mony of grave and important character, which
think will be satisfactory to government
allow us to take one-third the testimony that We
could get had we the means TO send for persons
or to visit various localities Those citizens who
are able to reach us are very grateful for what
we are doing. There is no doubt but what there
have been many serious depredations com.
mitted upon our people by MeXicans and Mex
lean Indians, but il will require more money
than Congress has yet appropriated to enable
the commission to investigate the matter fully
and pave the way for a complete suppression OF
raids by these marauders. The people here are
suffering very much for want Of rain. Thou
sands OF cattle are dying upon the plains for
want of water"
THE VIRGINIA ELOPEMKRT.-The examina-
ton of the witnesses in the Clark case, which
was to take place in Fredericksburg on Tuesday
was cut short by the illness of Miss Jewell, who
had to be examined at her room by the court
and counsel. and during the examination was
attacked so severely with hysteria that the ex-
animation was suspened. Her health not ad-