Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-09-16

burg tomorrow.
GENERAL SHERMAN arrived a. New York
yesterday in the steamer Ralic from Liverpool
SENATOR GARRETT DAVIS vas carried 70 hi
home in Paris, Ky, on Saturday last, aud i
lying there in dangerous condition. He has
been deliriou US for several days.
MAJOR GORGE G. Hunt, 1st cavalry. has
teen ordered to duty in charge Of the discussing
oftsce OF the Freedmen's bureau at Natchez
Mississippi.
TRE PRESIDENT AND HIS FAMILY will return
here from Long Branch next week. The repairs
to the White Horse, mentioned in The STAR a
few days since. are nearly completed. and some
new furniture is now being put in. BY the time
the FAMILY return everything will be in order.
SENATOR WILSON arrived here yesterday,
and took rooms at his old home, the wsshin gtoa
House. In consequence of pressing business en-
gagements he was unable to leave for the Pitts
burg soldiers and sailors convention with the
National Veteran club yesterday afternoon, but
will leave here To- mo row morning.
CAPTAIN WIN. F. SPIcER hes been ordered
~ command the Hartford and Lieut.. Com.
mander JnO. W. Phillip has been ordered to her
as executive officer of the ship. The Hartford
IT will be remembered is being fitted out at New
lork and Will sail in month or two for the
AsIatie feet to relieve the Colorado as flagship
HISS SLIDELL, the youngest daughter of the
late John Sidell, was married on Saturday, It'll
inst, TO Baron Pfeffer, OF Lucerne, Switzerland,
at the house of her brother-in-law Baron Erian-
ger, Boulogne SUR Seine. The witnesses were
Messrs. Drouyn de L'Huys and Francis p. Cor
bin. Amongst the guests at the dsjeuner were
the Papal \uncio, Mr.. Washburn. Prince de
fohgnac, &c, &c.
THE COTTON MANUFACTURE of the United
4 ~
OF age, Gg,G37 females above fifteen years of age
and 22,9i2 children Of both sexes; the value OF
materials used is Al ,737 $50, aud the value of
the production is StI1 .fS9 100; the annual wages
pald 20 employees is $50 Oh ,l32, which leaves n
Iroht OF S2i,IU' ,32l To the manufacturers.
TIE EXAMINATION OF APPLICANTS for adj
mission into the Cadet Engineer Corps of the
navy was commenced this morning at the Naval
Academy At annapolis, and will end on the 18th
instant. Between 30 to so permits have been
given boys to appear for examination, and from
this number about fifteen of the best will be
selected for appointment in the class. The
cadet engineers have TO remain at the academy
two years Tor Instruction, and upon graduating
they receive the appointment Of second assistant
engineer il the navy.
AN EXPLORING PARTY SrorPRD BY In
pIAks.-PIivate advices received from menu
bers of Lieut.. Wheeler's exploring party, dated
Fillmore Utah, September g. state that THAR
operations are delayed by hostile Indians. Lieut.
Dinwiddie, Second United States cavalry, in
charge OF the escort accompanying the party,
had an engagement with Utes Indians on the
1st instants, near Beaver, in which nine Indians
were killed and many wounded When reach
ing Deseret city, town of about 40 hopses on
the "a instant, they found that place deserted
by tie inhabitants, they having fled with their
live stock TO regions of safety. The party ey-
pected to return 10 Salt Lake city, an not 90
further south at present.
PERsoNAL.-Secretary Belknap left the city
Saturday evening for New York. He will return
tomorrow. I'D. Ii. Parker, U. s. Marshal
for Virginia, is at the Arlington. ....Ex-Senator
Clriie, OF West Virginia, is at the Imperial
hotel. The little of Gen. Cowen as
sistant secretary of the Interior, is no better,
but the ply icians 90 not despair Of his recovery
Gen j. II. Baker, Commissioner of PEN
isOns, leaves this city for Ohio, Indiana, and
Minnesota in which states he will make speeches
for Graut and Wilson. -..-Gen. Lepgett Conn
missioner OF Patents, who has gone to Pittsbure
10 attend the soldiers and sailors convention
Will go to Ohio from Pittsburg for the purpose
OF making several speeches for Grant and Will
son.
TRE UTE INDIAN COUNCIL. - The specia
United States commission consisting OF Hon.
NJ M Cook, Hon. John d. Lang, and General
John Mcdonald, who were sent out to purchase
one-third OF the reservation of the Ute Indian
reservation, covering the San Juan mining dis
trict and the larger part of their tillable land,
failed to accomplish their mission, as heretofore
stated. The councilw held at Los Pinos, and
was attended by some fifteen hundred Indians,
representing the TaheQuache, Denver, Capote
Manche, UncOmpagre, and White River Utes
IRE, the head chief, who has always been
peaceable, said his people did not wish to sell
any of their lands; that the government had
promised to take care of them. and to keeep the
white people off their reservation, and all thev
ask is that 1t should fulfill its part of the
agreement. Every speaker expressed himselfin
favor of peace. Over a hundred miners have
been at work on the reservation for more than
year, and during the past month quartz mill
has been placed upon 1t, while the government
by treaty promises to keep all whites off the
reservation. Not one of these miners has been
mOlested by the Indians, although thew have
req eatediy notified the authorities of the presence
OF the miners and asked that they be expelled.
A CORNER IN ERIE.-Commodore Vanderbilt,
familiariZing remark of the elder Roth schild
gave his advice once to a victim:-"Never sell
what you haven't got, Sonny" Some parties,
ignorant OF, or reckless Of, this device, have
been selling Erie for q decline-that is thew
intended re versing the usual me- thod on specula-
ton by selling first and buying afterwards.
But two many of them did the same thing, and
there wasn't enough stock to go around. The
consequence was corner in Erie. which pre-
vailed up 10 the time the Board adjourned
Satur day.-N. 7. Herald.
The DISCOVERY of q new "Mammoth Cave"
in Boone county, Ky: isreported, and is csus-
that the neighborhood has been the resort for
Picnics for years; and yet, until July Is, Ii has
remained entirely unknown. The cave. so far
as explored, is said to be more than two miles
lorg, and contains single chambers no less than
hundred feet in length by forty feet in width
and twenty in height.
AN EXTREMELY YOUTHFUL MURDERER
Sunday evening, Sth inst. In johnson Town
ship. Scott County, Ind, an eight year old bow,
named LOTUS, became angry at a little girl OF
years, daughter Of Jerry Chandler, and, tax
ing up shot gun, fred the contents into her
stomach The gun was l0aeed with slugs. The
girl fingered till morning. when a
EVIDENCE AGAINST THE TAMMANY RrNe.-
It is reported that County Auditor Watson, OF
New York, at his death, left book entries of the
disPosition OF the Tammany ring stealings, and
received them. 1t is In safe keeping, and will
probably be produced on the trials Of Tweed,
Connolly and others.
KING AMADEUS opened the Spanish Cortss
yesterday Sunday according to the telegraph;
the efforts of the Ministry to re-establish diplo-
matte relations with the Papal See have proved
unavailipg; reform In Cuba lie promised; de-
felt in the Budget 10 announced.