Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-04-15
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

1 INTERNAL REvKxUB.-The receipts from this
i source to-day were e15i .1246o.
POSTMASTER GENERAL CRRswELL Is ex-
| pected back within two weeks. When last
heard from he was AZ New Orleans.
SECOND ASSISTANT ENGINEER G. P. HOWELL
has been detached from the bureau of steam
| engineering, and ordered to hold himself in
| readiness for sea service.
INTERNAL REVENUE DISTRICTS CONSOLE
| DATKp.-The President yesterday issued an
| order disseminating the East Florida internal
| revenue district, and consolidating IL with the
| Tallahassee district.
THE CABINET MEETING to-day was attended
by all the members except Secretary Belknap
and Postmaster General Creswell. The latter
| was represented by First Assistant Postmaster
General Marshall. The session lasted from noon
| until half past two p. m.
COLLECTORS APPoINrEp.-Tae President has
| appointed the following collectors Of internal
revenue: Benjamin F. Wallis 9th district Mas
sachusetts; Louis H. Mayer, LIST district Ala
bame; and Thomas p. Fuller for the district Of
| Montana.
| THE CASE OF O'KELLY.-Mr. Stephen o KEEL
ly, brother of the Herald correspondent, now
| imprisoned in Cuba, had an interview with the
President yesterday. When the Herald O'Kelly
| was last heard from he was at Manzanillo, con-
| fined IN close, damp cell. He thinks if he can
| be tried in Havana his chances of acquittal
Will be much better than If tried in Gen. Mo-
| raie's department. Mr.. Stephen O'Kelly wanted
the President to do what he could to have this
transfer made, which the President promised
to do. The Heralds Havana correspondent saws
Okeilys case has been taken charge of by
British Consul Dunlop.
| AN AVALANCHE OF Free MAIL MATTER
Between fifteen and twenty-five tons of free
matter now leaves the Post Office in this city
for the States daily. Heretofore many public
documents belonging to members of Congress
have been stored at the Capitol, but as the
Thanking privilege cannot be exercised after the
LIST of next July, this accumulation of wears is
being transmitted to the Senators and Repre-
sentatiyes a roi.. httv to sixty bags of Door
ments addressed to members are forwarded
daily in different directions, and probably by
the list of July all dead head matter of this de-
scription VIII have been sent to Its destination
The CLAIMS awarded by the Southern Claims
Commission, and approved by Congress at the
last session, number nearly eleven hundred,
and most of the claimants have already received
their warrants. They are from the states of
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisi-
ANA, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. The
largest number from any one state is from Vir-
ginia-3T. Among the beneficiaries are Benz.
from Alabama, who gets "a 1892, and Richard
Wallach, trustee for Mrs. Margaret Wallach,
who gets 81 ,SG6.G6.
THE MURDER OF THE SURVEYORS BY THE
CHEYENSEs.-The Commissioner of Indian
Affairs has received letter from Friend Enoch
HOag, Indian agent of the central superintend-
ency, dated Lawrence, Kansas, April IL. III
which he says that IL the murder of the survey
ors, formerly reported, was done at all by Chey
ennes 1t was probably by some of their young
men, in the absence of their chiefs, and while
intoxicated. This view, he says, is strength
ened by the bodies being buried in sand, which
Is unusual among Indians who generally scalp
and leave the bodies exposed. Friend Hoag
says the investigation will be pursued, eSpe-
cially with the Indians on their arrival at the
agency to which they are moving, and no
further trouble is expected.
THE TWENTY Per CENT. CLAIMS OF 1861.
| The Court of Claims yesterday accepted the
report of the special commissioners-Hopkins
| Randolph, and Taylor-on the twenty per cent.
| additional improvisation voted by Congress in
1861 to civil employees of the government. The
decision is in favor of the claimants, and among
| them are the guards at the jail, workmen in
the public grounds, and various other civil en-
| ployes here, in all about five hundred, Who did
l not receive the additional compensation in 1861.
| The claims, il will be remembered, have been
l pending in the courts for several years past,
and went up to the Supreme Court or the
United States on appeal, when the decision was
1 in favor of the claimants. The award by the
Court OF Claims was in accordance with the
/ decision of the Supreme Court, and the claim
ants will now get their money.
| MISUNDERSTANDING Belknap and Gems.
1 Sheridan and Myers arrived in San Antonio,
Texas, on the 9th instant. Senator Boutwell,
and family returned to Washington city
l from Florida to-day. Senator Conover,
l of Fla, is at the Ebbitt house. .,..Gen n p
! Chapman will sail from New York on the
| steamship City OF London on the 10th Instant
| for Liverpool, accompanied by his wife, for an
about rs sE months s0p 5Ohn
| ano, chief clerk of the Department OF the In
i terror was at Austin, Texas, a few DAYS ago,
| and his health continued to improve. .Ex-
| Senator Pomeroy is in town, and is fire; emily
l at the departments looking after the interests
| of his ex-constituenis. .'..Gen John Eaton
| jr.. delivered an address at the opening of the
| Pennsylvania state normal school at ShIppens-
| burg to day.
CoNsTITUTIoNALIrY OF SANITARY LAWS
APFIRMED.-The Supreme Court OF the United
| States disposed OF a somewhat celebrated case
| yesterday. company was chartered by the
| Louisiana legislature two years ago for the pur
pose OF erecting an immense slaughter use,
| in the suburbs OF the CITY, and the act of incor-
| poration provided that all the butchers of the
| city must kill their animals in the sheds pro-
vided by this company. The Butchers Benev-
olent Association made up test case to try the
| constitutionality OF this enactment. 1t was con-
tended on the part of the plaintiffs that a law
which compelled the butchers to kill all
| their animals in particular place was I'm viola
| ton Of the thirteenth and fourteenth amend-
| ments OF the Constitution, and was a virtual re-
| establishment Of slavery. The supreme court
| of Louisiana held that the charter of the COM
| pany was for the declared purpose of protect.
ing the health Of the city, and that the object
| was within the lawful scope Of the legislation.
l An appeal was taken to the Supreme Court,
l and the decision of the court below has been
| affirmed In the opinion nled there Is a learned
discussion of the rights guaranteed by the
recent amendments to the Constitution. Three
| Judges dissented.
SASrANrA AND BIG TREE, THE KIowA
Il A fho A.
| Interior and the President, Gov. Davis of
| Texas, recently consented to release the
| kiowa chiefs Santana and Big Tree, ON condi-
| ton that the Kiowas and Camanches return
l all their white captivee and stolen stock and
1 give assurances of future good behavior. Under
| date of the It'll instant, friend Enoch Hoag, of
| the Central agency, informs the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, that the Indians referred TO
| have complied with the conditions named. and
| asks that Santanta and Big Tree be released as
soon - possible. He recOmmcnds that when thev
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