Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-09-17

source to-day were Il S.Shto,
FIvF-EIe HrHs AS GOOD AS THE WHOLE
Gen. Spinner, the United States Treasurer
decides that when q mutilated note he's FIVE
eighths left it shall be redeemed atits fall value.
GEN. SHERMAN aud son, and Col. Audenreid,
G. his staff, will arrive here this evening from
New York, where they arrivedcn Saturday from
Queenstown on the steamer Baltic.
COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL Revenue
DOUGLASS will return here about the first of
next week To-day he - At P.ttsburg, from
whence he goes TO Erie - attend the state fair
and make few spe, chcs. He will r yume the
discharge OF Lis OF cial duties about the Isl
proxino.
NAVAL OFFICERS TRANSFERRED. - Lieut.
W. w. Rhoads, detached from special duty in
his city and placed on waiting orders. As
sistant Surgeon y. A. Hawke, detached from the
navy hospital at Philadelphia, and ordered II
the nav = yard in that city. -sistant Surgeon
CharlcsA Siegfried, detached from the Phila-
delphia navy yard, and ordered to the naval
hospital in that chg.
The GRAND RIVER INDIAN DELEGATION
visited Gen. Cowen, late special commissioner
to the Indians Of the upper Miss )uri, this morn
ing, for the purpose of finishing talk which
was interrupted during the journey of the dele
| infoI NAL one, and the General gave them some
| coed advice relative to their coming council
II.
| Grand river delegation left, the Teton-Sioux
! party paid Gen. Cowen brief visit.
| TIE STAMP CANCELLING COMMISSION
| The commission appointed by the Secretary 0
| the Treasury to examine plans for cancelling
stamps for tobacco, snuff, cigars. distilled spirits
| and iermented liquors, decided this morning to
| hold the last public meeting on next Tuesday,
| after which time no further devices will be re-
| ceived. Ten twelve different devices have
| been submitted to the commission, out of which
| the best ones will be selected. They will report
| to Secretary Boutwell, as soon after closing their
| sessions as possible.
| PERsoEAL.-Secresa airy Fish is expected to
| return TO Washington on the LIST proymo.
| Senator Wilson and Gen. Butler left for
| Pittsburg this morning to attend the National
| Soldiers and Sailors Convention, after which
the latter will take The stump in the western
| states. Mr.. Il. L. White, chief of the Wash
| ington bureau of the New York Tribune, has
returned 10 his post Senator Osborn, of
1 Florida, and Hon. w f. PrOsser, of Tennessee,
| are at the Ebbitt house. ..'Senator Hitchcock,
| OF Nebraska, is at the National hotel. Maj
| ". F. Dow ms, superintendent Central Branch,
/ Pacific railroad, is at the Arlington. ''.' sir.
and Mrs. John Jay Knox have returned to the
| city frcm their soicurn in the northern states
| OlForney left here oday for Philadelphia
| NEWS FROM THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAIL
| ROAD misunderstanding Belknap this
| morning received the following telegram from
| Adjutant General James B. Fry, giving in
i
| expedition and its military -cOrt:
| "CHICAGO, Sept. l6.-Capt. Kellogg, Of the
| Lieutenant Generals staff, left Col. Stanley's
| command on the 25th of August and errIved
here on the 18th instant. The expedition had
| been TO the mouth of the Powder river, making
| only general examination going out. On the
| return they We're making an instrumental sur
| vey, and had located "a miles coming Efst from
| Powder river, and were so working e9st-
ward at the rate of about four miles day.
| They found a very practical route for the rail-
road, part OF it being entirely new to white men.
| They were threatened by Indians, and there
| were some slight skirmish-s, but no one hurt.
| The expedition, up ID the time of Capt KEEL
| logg's leaving it, had been entirely successful
| the Indians being completely thwarted by tn
| skill and vigilance OF Col. Stanley. Some news
| papers, probably c0ntounding this with the
| petition under Major Baker, have published
| entirely erroneous accounts of it."
| Major Bakers expedition accompany Prof.
| Hadtn in his geological survey.
DEATH OF THE ORIGINAL PROTECTOR OF
| TIE PACIFIC RAILROAD.-Mr. Asa Whitney,
one of the first projectors of the Pacific rail
| road, if not the original agitatOr of that great
| enterprise, died this morning at his residence on
| hitney avenue, HopetOn, near the Soldiers
| Home, OF typhoid fever, after an Illness OF
| several weeks. The deceased has resided in the
| District OF Columbia for twenty years past,
| coming here in the year 1852 from New York
| city, where he had been engaged in
l the mercantile business. As early as 1s45.
| MIR. Whitney began agitating the project
| OF railroad across the continent, He petit
| Toned Congress, visited state legislatures and
| explained his enterprise, and finally visited
| Europe for The purpose OF enlisting capitalists
in his scheme. Through his influence, it is
| stated Great Britain agreed to give the right of
/ way for such railroad through her dominIons
| in America, provided the United States refused
| to indorse the project. MIR. Whitney, however
was never connected with the present Pacific
| railroad which he regarded as arepublican war
measure, and being democrat of southern
it. While in Washington, about forty years
ago, agitating his favorite project, he became
acquainted with South Carolina lady who was
l temporarily residing here, and soon after
| married her and bought the estate which he
| owned at the time OF his death. He leaves
wife, but no children, to mourn his loss. The
deceased was about 10 years Of age.
/ AMERICANS AT The RUSSIAN STATISTICAL
CoNGREss.-We learn by private letters from
| St. Petersburgh that the American members Of
the statistical congress now in session at St. Pc
| tersburg are treated with the greatest consider
l alton by the Representatives OF the Russian gov
| eminent, and that Nj. Edward Young, chief of
| our Bureau of Statistics, has been the recipient
| OF many special attentions, including o private
| reception by the Grand Duchess Helen at her
| country palace, where he was presented by the
| Grand Duke with a cabinet size photograpbic
/ portr ait and autograph. There are seventeen
| different nationalities represented and among
them all II is conceded that the Amer leans and
| with the very first, and from his Official posi-
ton, Mr.. Young is regarded as its head, and is
| RESP ected accordingly
| Ike first royal demonstration in honor OF the
| delegates present was a dinner at the Tzarskoi-
| Selo palace, presided over by the Grand Duke
| Constantine (brother OF the Emper0r), whose
/ attentions to the Americans present and par
| ncularly to Mr.. Young, were SO marked As 10
be noticed by the other delegations. This was
| followed by q visit to Peterhoff and Crorstadt in
l two of che royal yachts wiki the accompani-
! mepts OF music, parades, l6ncbeOns, Sc, and,
/ as our correspondent says, champagne by the
/ tub iull." Next came grand reception al the
/ Michael palace, where many ts2ors were paid
1 to the Americans pre- sent.
i In short, the stay Of the Congress in
| ST.. Petersburg has been Q continued
series of ovations, and on all occasions the rep
i resentatives Of this country have been the re-
/ cipients of marked attentions at the hands Of
i the Russian officials and people.
These marks ct respect are very gratefully
accepted by their recipients, es being not only
pleasant In Themselves, but as evidences Of the
I good feeling existing between +he txo coun-
tries.
/ MATT MORGAN, ERANK LEsLlEs ARfIsr,
ARRESTED FOR RupGIAR-In Eassan