The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-06

Iwenfy-Scvcn Members PAY i'm SIN 900
MAsHINGToN,M May 5-The aggregate amount
pald ID the treasury up to noon to-day by z
members OF Congress, it being their return of
extra compensation, is Sill 200, including the
eheck OF Senator Sumner for 81 All
Naval Matters.
Under the recent act of Congress retiring
naval officers at the age of sixty-two years, tour
rear admirals will be retired this year, namely:
George f. Emmons in August, Charles Steed-
man i'll September, VIM. Rogers Taylor IN NO
vember, and Thornton A. Jenkins in Decem-
Der. The retirement of these officers will pro,
mote Commodores Almy, Strong, Parrott ana
Reynolds.
Commodore Case sails Wednesday to relieve
Admiral Alden of the command OF the Euro
peau squadron at Nice.
Capt. A. A. Fengar, of the revenue marlne
service is detached from command OF the Del
aware at Mobile and ordered to Philadelphia
to report thence to the department.: flrst LII.
G. w Smith from the command OF Guthrie at
Baltimore to duty ON the Chase at Ogdensburg,
N. First Lit. Russell Glover from waiting
orders to command of the Guthrie. Second
1t. A. d. Littlefield from duty on Moccasin at
Newport to wait orders. I'll. S. Sturgis from
Campbell at New London to Moccasin. L. d.
Walker from the Petrol to the Campbell w.
II. Roberts from the Racer to the Washington
City. III. ID. Smith from the Dobbin to the
Racer Robert Barstow from the Nansemond
to the Perry. L. j. Simmons from the Relief
to the Nansemond.
Important to Pensioners.
The Commissioner Of Pensions to-day an
nounced the following highly important ruling:
Section 8 OF the act of March 3, 1878, provides
for no increase of So in any case. 1t is q con-
solldation of section of the act of July %,
1866, and sections and 5 of the act Of July q,
1868, with an amendment to the former sections
SO as to give the same increase to the widow OF
the soldier or sailor for children by a former
wife as for children by herself; to the widow of
an oficer as well as soldier or sailor 1t also
gives the increase to all the children under the
age Of l6 of officers as well as soldiers and sail
ors instead of all but one where there IS no
widow, or where she has died or remarked in
other respects 1t embodies the provisions of
the three sections named. It's proper to add
that such was the object of the section as held
by the Commissioner of Pensions in both Houses
OF Congress.
Treasury balances.
The following are the Treasury balances to-
day: Currency 81, 474, 615: special deposits of le
gal tenders for redemption of certificates of de-
post $685. 100000; coin $751; .S74; including
$25,997, 100 in coin certificates; legal tenders
outstanding 1857, lS0,919.
The NHodoc Fighting.
A letter from Capt Hendley of Washington,
who participated in the lava beds fight of April
10th, as volunteer says it was the
mortars which drove the Indians out. Five
thousand infantry could not have done it in six
months without the loss of half of the COM
mand, 1t is impossible to ascertain what dam
age we have done to the Indians as they con-
cealed OF burned their dead, and the former is
very easy as all they have to do is merely to
throw the bodies into crevice and then fill it
up with rocks. We have, however, found
eleven dead bodies. To give some parent idea
of the sharp rocks, half of ourmen went in with
new shoes and came out mostly barefocted and
with feet bleeding.
Mexican Depredati0ns.
Corpus Christi letters to April 21st says that
two bands of Mexican robbers numbering thir-
ty each are operating in Nuces county, Texas,
sackng stores and robbing travellers. Farm
ers were compelled to leave their work to pro-
tect their homes A party of fifteen citizens
pursued one gang and discovered evidence that
over two hundred cattle had been stripped of
their hides. They caught up with tho band
and after fight captured seven horses whose
saddles were empty.
New Light.
Notices given by light house board that the
fixed light at Reedy Island, Delaware Bay, will
be changed to fixed red light on snd after the
18th inst