Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-07-18
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

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Washington News and Gossip.
INTENAL REvESUE.-The receipts from this
source to-day were si93 .3Si.5o
EJUDGE j. j. MARTIN, 9th auditor, has gone
to Alabama on few weeks leave OF absence.
IANCoLN.-Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is a patient
at the Waukesha (wis.) Springs.
POSTMASTER GENERAL CREswELL yesterday
returned to the city from his trip to Boston
and his home in Maryland.
ALEXANDER W. RANDALL, Ex-Governor of
Wisconsin, and Postmaster General under An
drew johnson. is critically i'll at Elmira, n. Y.
TnE STEAMER PIoSEER is still in the Gu
toby Of the Treasury Department awaiting an
investigation by the judicial authorities.
LIEUT.. COMMANDER W. X. WHEELER has
been detached from the Colorado and placed on
waiting orders.
GOV. DE BILLIE, of The Danish West India
islands, formerly Danish Minister here, arrived
at New York on the steamer Henry Chauncey
yesterday.
REAR ADMIRAL JOSEPH GREEN has received
preparatory orders to take command of the
North Atlantic feet, and will relieve Rear
Admiral Lee at Hampton Roads, about the 18th
Of August
The CHICAGO PUBLIC BUILDINGs.-T The
Treasury department will soon advance to the
collector Of customs, at Chicago, 81 200 O00 for
the payment of the site for the new custom
house in that city. The money will be disbursed
On the order OF the commission appointed to
select the site.
ANOTHER SPECIAL INDIAN COMMISSIONERS
APPOINTED. DIR. Joseph Parrish, of Philadel-
phia, has been appointed by the Secretary OF
the Interior special commissioner to visit the
kcwas and other hostile tribes of Indians in
Texas and the Indian country, and negotiate
for peace. DR.. III. j.. Alvord, of Virginia, will
be associated with DIR. Parrish in his mission.
TRANSFER OF ARMY OFFICERs.-Colonel A.
X. Eddy, deputy quartermaster general, has
been ordered 10 duty temporarily as chief quar-
termaster of the division OF the Pacific.
Major Jno. Mel. Taylor, subsistence depart
ment, has been ordered to relieve Capt. Thomas
Wilson as purchasing and depot commissary at
Baltimore, Md.
Presentation. Charles II. Lewis, U. S.
Minister to Portugal, is at the National. He
expects to leave tomorrow evening for New
York on his return to Lisbon. ....Gen. Ruther-
ford, Third Auditor, leaves here Saturday for
North Carolina. to take part in the state cam
paign. ''''Ex-Senator Abbott left here for
New York last night, to attend the meeting OF
the national republican committee.
To BE RE-EXAMINKD-The Secretary of War
has granted denomination in September to
the son of the late Gen. Thos. Francis Meagher,
who failed to gain admission into the Military
Academy. This privilege has been granted the
youthful cadet in recognition of the eminent
services OF his father, at the request of many OF
the members of the old Irish brigade com
manded by Meagher.
A"JoHNNY BULL" WANTS TO KNOW You
KNow."-General Eaton, Commissioner of Ed
ucation, received a letter to-day from an
English gentleman residing in GlOucestershre
asking for particular information in regard to
the American system OF educating the deaf and
dumb. From what he has already learned he
thinks our system an excellent one, and desires
to send his son "a mute) to America to be edu-
Gated at one OF our institutions.
MILITARY VIEWS OF THE INDIAN QUESTION
General Sheridan writes a spicy letter con-
demning the present system OF dealing with the
Indians and concludes as follows: "H white
man in this country commits q murder we hang
him; If he steals q horse we put him in the PEN
itentiary. If any Indian commits these crimes
we give him better fare and more blankets. L
think L may, with reason, say that under this
policy the civilization OF the wild red man will
progress slowly"
1t is General Augul's opinion that the tribes
ia IeHas need to be whipped into peacefulness.
DIPLOMATIC PgRsoNALs.-The diplomatic
corps are now pretty much scattered, the Span
ish and Prussian representatives and Sir Ed
ward Thornton being the only Ministers i'm
town. The Honorable +. j. Pakenham First
Secretary of the British Legation, has obtained
leave Of absence and will sail for Europe short
ly. Hon. =. IL lie Poer Trench, second secre-
tary, has returned from 'Laurel HILL" New
buryport, Mass, where Lady Thornton has been
pending the summer with her children. This is
the same pleasant situation near Newburyport
occupied by Sir Edward Thornton's family in
the summers of lS69-10. Captain Cameron, r.
A, the British commissioner for surveying the
commissioner, sailed out by the Parthia aud is
expected here the first OF next week.
INDIAN OPPOSITION TO THE NORTHERN PA
CIFIC RAILROAD.-Commissione Walker, of
the Indian Bureau, is in receipt of a report from
VIM. III. Forbes, United States Indian agent
dated st. Paul, Mimi, July 10th, of which the
following is an extract: 81 apprehend no diff
Guilty or direct opposition from the Indians on
our reserv ations, Lac Traverse and Devils
Lake. Still am satisfied that the wandering
hordes will gather and will attempt to prohibit
the railroad from crossing the Missouri river,
and a large military force should be kept con-
stantly on the lookout. My estimate for what
would appear to be large amount ofprovisions
for the use OF the agency for this year is with
hope OF drawing many of these hostile Indians
to peaceful lite on the reservations where the
first season they must be supplied with food,
and until they can learn to raise crop for
themselves. An Indian, like a wolf, when hun
CRY is ferocious, and now that the railroad is to
pass daily through the last of the Grange" of
them reckless. If they once could be made to
understand that they would be taken care OF
until they had learned to work for themselves
many among the hostile could yet be re-
claimed"
INTERESTING FIGURES OF THE NEW CEN
sUs.-A table showing the area OF the states and
territories of the United States, and the number
of families and dwellings, giving the totals by
states has just been prepared at the Census
once. The total area of the United States and
territories is given as 3,60S ,SH square miles,
and of the states 1884 ,467. The number of per-
sons to the square mile is 10 701GO for the states
alone 10 2l-100. The number of families for the
whole country is $40 1863, and persons to each
family 59-100. In 1860 it was 8 2s-lOO, and in
1850, $1,000. The number of dwellings for the
whole country is ], 042 ,S33, and persons to each
dwelling were E-1o0: In 1850 the persons to
each dwelling were 81 100, and in 1850, 95-lOO
The largest state, Texas, has an area Of 274,356
square miles, with So 100 persons to each. The
smallest state, Rhode Island, has 1 500 square
miles, and 166 AZ 100 persons to each. Massa-
chusetts has 1S6 S4-100 persons to the square mile
Connecticut, 113 1870, and New jersey, 10s o.
100. No Others have over 100, and only five
others have 30. In only two or three OF the
states the average number of DersOns n n fa mi