Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-10-17

AN $50 ccNsCIENcE.-The Secretary Of the
Treasury to-day received a contribution OF $50
to the conscience fund from New York.
SEcRsrARY FISH will return here to- morrow
morning from New York, where he Us been
for several days past.
TIE WORK upon the two torpedo boats, for
which 5000 600 were recently appropriated by
Congress, is being vigorously pushed at the New
York and Boston navy yards.
MAJOR JOHN HAMILTON, 1st artillery, ha'
been ordered to the department of the south,
and Major c. L. Best, OF the same regiment, to
the department of the gulf.
ALL the cadet engineers recently appointed
(seventeen) have reported to the Naval Acade-
my, at Annapolis, excepting Asa Mu,tiZe, of
Ohio.
GENERAL CHIPMAN leaves here to- night for
the west to take part in the Presidential cam
psisD, and will not return until after the
election. He goes first to Missouri and from
thence to Iowa and Illinois.
FUNERAL EXPENSES OF ARMY OFFICERS
Second Controller Broadhead decides in favor
of paying vouchers for reasonable funeral
expenses of offc who die at posts or else
where when ordered by the Secretary Of War.
TIE CIVIL SERVICE BOARD of the Treasury
department yesterday concluded the examina-
tons for the forty-five vacancies now existing
in the department. There were 225 contestants
examined by the board during the three DAYS.
The names of the most meritorious ones will be
reported to the Secretary in day or two.
TEoMAs X, CREE, secretary of the board OF
Indian commissioners, returned II the city to-
day, after An absence of four months. During
that time he visited most of the Indian tribes in
Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado. He
InHi of in q la h.
tied in very hopeful condtion-the Indians
being not only at peace, but making consider
able progress in civilization.
The REMAINDER OF THE NEW LoAN.-Sec-
eetary Boutwell, will urge upon Congress the
necessity of additional legislation to enable him
to negotiate tie remainder of the new loan,
consisting OF four and four and -a-half per cent
bonds. Under the present law he is allowed
but one half OF one per cent. for expenses of ne
EOtating the loan, but this sum- is not sufficient
He will devote considerable portion of his re-
port to show that he can accomplish the placing
Of it at a comparatively small expense.
THEExTEEsIoN OF tbs CAPITOL G ROUNDS
The Supreme Court of the District having af
firmed the appraisal of the property on square
6e7 and portion of square Gss, which will be
embraced i'll the extension of the Capitol
grounds, the Secretary of the Interior today
notified the e owners Of property on square $50
prepare their deeds for approval by the Attor-
ney General. The owners of the property will
be paid when they shall deliver deeds duly az
proved to the Secretary of the Interior, and
give the United States full possession.
THE STORY ABOUT BAD TREATMENT OF THE
CoLoRRD NAVAL CADEr.-No official informa-
ton has been received at the Navy Department
of any improper conduct towards the colored
cadet COnyers by his fellowca cadets, and it Is be-
lieved there tat the whole story is a malicious
falsehoOd, concOcted to influence the colored
he "a a ri mis-
on Friday of last week, but nothing confirms
that statement. Commodore Almy wfs at Au-
nopolis Saturday and Sunday, and he and other
naval officers who were there since, heard moth
ing OF the affair. One of the cadets who
dismissed some time since for misconduct, was
at the Navy Department to- day and stated that
Conyers Is treated the same as any other cadet.
ANOTHER PROJECTED CUBAN EXPEDITION.
1t is reported that another Cuban expedition is
being fitted out, and that already some SEQ
volunteers and 1O, 900 stand of rms with several
pieces OF artillery have been secured. 1t is
also reported that the expedition will sail from
either Baltimore or Boston. but this announce
ment Is regarded as blind to throw the authori
tics Off the track. The supposition among those
we'll informed is that the expedition will sail
from some port south OF Baltimore. The vessel
Will clear as regular trader with cargo, and
will receive her arms and men after putting to
sea. The authorities, however, are on the alert,
and the probabilities are that the expedition
will be nipped in the bud
PBRsoNAL.-Attorney General Williams has
returned to the city. Mrs. Schurz, wife Of
Senator Carl Schurz, is at the Hotel Belle vue,
Wiesbaden. with her family. MIR. and Mrs.
Bancroft Davis will make a short trip In the
eouth OF France previous to their departure for
the United States. ....Mrs. Miller, wife of
Justice Miller, of the Supreme Court of the
United States, has arrived in Paris, after spend
ing the summer at the German watering places
in search OF health. The New York Star
says Hon. Horatlo G. King has removed per
M nntn ov.A Aalxa A.
on Brooklyn Heights. IT. H. Dudley has
resigned as consul at Liverpool. ".."Ex-Gov-
esn0T Ma1sus Gso Ward Of New Jersey and
district OF that state, are in the city to-day
.''-"Gen Doyle, Of Nova Scotia, is at Worm
Of has
y. j. Martin, 9Th auditor, leaves tonight for
Alabama where he will take the stump for
Grant and Wilson, remaining until after the
Presidential election.
1T HAS BEEN GOOD FUN to-day Observing the
groups gathered around Shillngtsn's, Beal's,
Parker's, Robert Reill's, Bishops, and the
other periodical stores of the Avenue and eth
street, to look at Nast's latest comic pictures,
80 The Tidal Waye' and the irresistible I" Do
you see anything green in my eye?n Both are
strokes OF genius, and judging by Washington
city, the appreciation OF this sort OF thing Is
complete: The motley crowds. by dozens and
scores, big and little, old and young, white,
black and brown, learned and illiterate, all
made it plain enough .where the laugh came
in In fact 1t was one general smile varied by
outlaws, grins, and every known form of eachin-
nation. Here ives q stray Senator or repre-
sentative. there a head bureau or even De-
partment ,swarms of cleg ks up to clock, visi-
tors, the coiored people, the Z" kngh's," me-
cha1ics-the whole mas put in merry Euuor
by enese amusing cartoons. Among the rest OF
the tolly heads in one group on the Avenue, We
saw tie white locks and rec face OF Walt " hit
man, growing that he car, on due provoeaticn,
laugh enormously, Notwithstanding same OF
his foreign critics. and was,aow doing the same.
The general pictorial illustration business, aud
especially the original comic line. is certainly
going to developer Is already developed-into
great American institution. Already we COM
pete with the best English sld German wood
eERrayines, and their artists and designs; the 4
Ercnch onssr are ahead OF us. Eut we shall vet
And soon, eutstrip tkewhole world. We have
more Of the spirit of fxn in US. q people, than
Anyt other. 1t Is racy. q perennial product Of
the soil, the breed. Naet is the Noses who has
smitten the rNck, and the waters are already
beginning to gush forth. Several OF she inferior
comic papers also show talent or the first order
in every number. Then kere is something in
the pictorial art taat affords Q subtler, juictef,
more appropriate oedium far the expzession of