Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-11-04

SECoNp LIEUT.. GKoRGR e. SMITH, sd L. =.
infantry, has been ordered to Fort Columbus,
y. Y, for duty.
LIErT. W. j. BEEBE, ordnance department,
has resigned his commission, to take effect the
first of January next.
The COMMISSIONERS OF CUSTOMS has submit
ted his report TO the Secretary OF the Treasury,
showing total receipts from all sources $780,
e3s 400; total expenditures for collection, &c,
S2l ,lO7 1888.
CARDS are out for the marriage OF Represent
alive W. II. H. Stowell, of Virginia, to Miss
Emma, daughter of Representative John t
Averill, ef Minnesota. The ceremony takes
place at Christ church, ST. Paul, on the 18th
instant.
PROFESSOR OF TAcTios.-By direction of the
President OF the United States, Captain James
Thompson, L. s. A, retired, has been Diet allied,
at his own request, professor of military science
and tactics at the Indiana university, in Bloom
ington.
NAVAL ORDERs-Second Assistant Engineer
John L. Smith to the navy yard, Washington,
ID. G. Detached-P assed Assistant Surgeon II.
n. Beaumont from the Kansas and placed on
waiting orders; Assistant Surgeon s. A. Brown
from the Powhatan and ordered to the Kansas.
Sioux TO Re sTEcK.-Roving bands of
Sioux Indians having recently raided on the
o." NJ &C anu OtutT iFltnu1y ulDes, the matter
has been made the subject OF consultation be-
tween the Interior and War departments as q
result OF which orders were given by the latter
That all Sioux found OF their reservation, with
hostile intent to other tribes, be struck and
punished.
SECRETARY BELKNAP TO BE MARRIED
Those who know all about what is going on in
society, say that Secretary Belknap, (who is
now in New York, } Is to be married some day
thls week to Mrs. Bower, sister of his late
lucky belle, beautiful, sprightly, amiable, aud
accomplished, and the match, according to the
friends on both sides, will be an exceedingly
happy and brilliant one.
SPRAGUE INVESTMENTS IN wAsHrNGroN.-
In the detailed list of assets of A. & W. Sprapue.
submitted by the committee at the meeting in
Providence on Saturday, appear two hundred
and fifteen sharesin the Washington & George
town railroad company. This stock is esti-
mated at $40 per hare, IL, $50 in the agpre-
gate. In the individual assets of w Sprague
his real estate in Washington is valued at
$4,000. This includes his residence at the
corner of and 9th streets, and the valuable
square OF ground lying between l. and NJ and
9Th and 9TH streets.
THE PACIFIC MAIL COMPANY, which failed
to furnish the facilities for carrying the China
mail according to contract, has filed a state
ment with the Postmaster General setting forth
the reasons for the failure. The contract re-
CURED semi monthly service in American built
IRON SHIPS which should be turned to the
Navy department in time of war. The com
pany represent that they have furnished four
ships, and that two more are building, which
a six months extension Of time to excGanse
their wooden ships for the iron fleet now
building.
SITE FOR THE NEW NAVAL MAGAZINE PuR-
CHAsRD.-In accordance with the act of the last
Congress appropriating 500 900 for the pur-
chase of site and the removal OF the present
Navy department has purchased a portion OF
the farm of Bellevue, about two miles below the
Arsenal point, on the east bank of the Potomac,
1or $4,000. The tract purchased has a water
front of two thirds of a mile, extending back TO
the branch line of the Washington and Point
Lookout railroad, leading to Marbury's Point
forced removal by keeping future buildings be-
yOnd the possibility of damage in the event of
an accidental exp osioD.
The STORY OF THE LOUISIANA OUTRAGEs
FABRICATION FOR PoLITiCA AL EFFEcT.-Attor-
ney General Williams this morning received
the following dispatch:
New ORLEANS, November A. Associated
cate that account of outrages alleged in Grant
Parish, published in PicayuRe here, has been
telegraphed north BY Associated Press. The
posse in aid OF the civil authorities to arrest the
perpetrators of the Colfax massacre did not ar
rive until after the outrage is alleged to have
taken place. Advices just received indicate
that the whole thing is fabrication for political
purposes. w.P. KRLLoeG.
PRKsoNAL.-Gol. j. W. Forney and Governor
Mccormick, of Arizona, had interviews with
President Grant to-day. Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, neatly clad in black silk, was
among the promenaders on the avenue to day,
as straight as belle of seventeen, owing per-
haps to the fact Of her wearing suspenders as
she recommends them for young girls. The
Marquis de Noailles, the French Minister here
IN q nj oh nf tha AZ II
by President MacAiahon. ....aIrs Ann Eliza
Young, the latest wed of the wives OF the
Mormon Prophet, whose suit for divorce last
summer will be remembered, announces her de
termination to tell what she knows about Nor
monism from the lecture platform. She intends
starting for the east sometime this month. 80
j. NJ. Van Buskirk. Esq, of Lansingburg, n.
u, Is In town, the guest Of Jno. o. Evans, ESQ.
STILL ANOTHER INDIAN CouNcIL.-The otoe
chiefs in Washington had another talk with
Commissioner Smith, of the Indian bureau to-
day relative to the sale OF $4,000 acres of their
reservation In Nebraska. These Chiefs whose
tribe numbers but about $50 souls, want to sell
the whole Of their reservation and move to the
Indian territory. They demand their pay, how
ever, in cash, and when told by the commits
sloner thar the government would not pay them
in that way, but would expend the purchase
money In improving the remainder Of their
reservation, and, further. that hereafter their
penSed bT hsy would t,.r be s1
ett, Medicine Horse and the other chiefs
expressed great dissatisfaction, and said that
under the circumstances they could not sell any
OF their reservation. The Commissioner informed
them that they had already agreed to the sale
and would not be allowed to recede from their
contract. Medicine Horse plead earnestly for
modification Of the terms, and when informed
by the Commissioner that no other Arrangement
could be made asked that they be allowed to
think over the matter and have another talk
at come future time, Their request was grant
ed. The Commissioner takes the sensible view
that by giving them money the government is
simply perpetuating barbarism. IL is his iuten-
tion to expend whatever moneys may be due
them in instructing them In agriculture, build
ing mills and school houses, AMI in other WAYS
encoui aging them to adopt . civilized mods OF
life.
CONVERSION OF THE NATHAN MURDER
irving, who has been confined on the charge of
completely in the Nathan murder, has at last
made confession, which Is now in the hands of
superintendent MAtsell, of the New York po-
lice, who has perueed Il and datailed aaxeral