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information that the action OF the Civil Sery-
ice will encourage the growth and render
more efficient the contemplated reform. They
believe, after their consultation with the
President and members OF his Cabinet Satur-
dav, that the Administration is determined to
give it the support whichis needed. 1t is gen
erally agreed that some notifications are de-
manded as the result of experience, but while
the changes in details will be slight, the
main feature and scope of the system will
not only remain improved, but will be invig-
Grated The Board will in n few days COM
plete the work of revision, when the changes
will be made public. Assurance is given
that they will contain nothing which true
friends of reform will dissent to, while it is
believed that the greatest need is better in
structed and more discriminating public opin-
ion upon the subject.
The official postage stamps and stamped
envelopes are not to be used before the 1st OF
July, when the act abolisling the franking
privilege goes into effect. Those stamps and
envelopes are furnished for postal business
only, consequently they must not be sold or
used in private correspondence or busl-
ness, or applied to any private purposes
whatever Under no circumstances must they
he sold. loaned or given to any officer, agent
or clerk of any other department Of the gov
ernment. A violation of these prohibitions
will be held to constitute good ground for re-
moval
Until further notice, stamped envelopes OF
the special design will be furnished to first
class offices only. Other offices will be sup
piled as now with official unstamped enyel-
Opes for use with the official stamp.
The President contemplates trip to New
York, Petersburg and Richmond early in
June. to be absent from Washington about
three days.
WASHINGTON, May 23.-The Secretary of
War has received telegram from Gen. Sher-
idan at Chicago in relation to raid by Col:
Mckenzie on a camp of the Kickapoos and
Lipon Indians on the 18th, about eighty miles
from Fort Clark, Texas. The Indian loss
was nineteen killed and two'wounded. The
former chief of the Lpons and forty lone wo-
men and children were captured, besides two
villages and their accumulated property de-
stroyed COL McKenzie's loss was three men
wounded, one mortally.
A dispatch from Gen. Custer, dated Fort
Randall, Dakotah, May Nth, contains the
following: Falles, guide sent to me from
Randall, reports positively that 300 warriors
and young men belonging to the Yankton
Agency left their reservation a few days ago
to join the hostile Indians OF the Upper Mis-
souri, and that the Indians will muster 5000
warriors in the field this summer.
WASHINGTON, May 24.-The Attorney Gen
eral has received dispatch stating that the
Supreme Court of Louisiana has decided two
cases of contest for Office under the intrusion
act, and in both the legality of the Kellogg
officers was sustained.
WASHINGTON, May 26.-The President, ac-
companied by Gen. Babcock, left this morn
ing for Harrisburg. He will return Wednes-
day.
Indian Agent ingalls, reports the Bannocks
and Shoshones off their reservations and near
the Idaho settlements, but says they have
strictly peaceful intentions.
Professor G.. F. Peters discovered this
morning new planet of the eleventh magnl-
tude; right ascension, 161 deg. "A min.
south; and 211 deg. 18 min. declination; mo-
ton, due west.
CHICAGO, May PA Washington special
says: The Government has no official infor-
nation concerning an engagement between
COL McKensie and the Lipon and Kickapoo
Indians on the Mexican border, except brief
dispatch received to-day from Gen. Sheridan,
in which nothing was said of the precise To-
cality where the fight occurred, and no men
ton of the fact that the Indians were pursued
into the Mexican territory. At the War De-
partment there is little doubt that Mckenzie
lOuOWcu TIC GulCNluS 4uOlSAo dOAOSo wv
border and classified them on Mexican soil.
It is thought that the Indians are in league
with bands of thieving MeXicans, who are
acting in defiance of the law. To a peace COM
mission sent to negotiate with the Kickapoos
some time since, they said they were about
making raid upon Texas, and when they
returned they would be prepared to talk
peace. Senor Mariscal, the Mexican Minis
ter, is represented as saying that if it was the
imperious duty of our troops to pursue the
savages into Mexico in his opinion the Mexi-
can government would not complain. In re-
ply to numerous protests against the raids
made by Mexicans and Indians upon the citi-
zens of Texas, the Mexican authorities replied
that, while they did not approve of them, they
were powerless to prevent them. The ground
is taken that our Government is bound to
protect its citizens, and, if the Mexican gov
ernmen cannot restrain its citizens, they must
take the consequences.
In conversation to-day with prominent
public man, the President remarked, in re-
gard to the Chief Justiceship, that no man
should receive the appointment who, by
reason of his political convictions, would in
any way jeopardize the elegitimate fruits of the
rebellion. He was of the opinion that this
consideration outweighed all others.
WASHINGTON, May S7.-Secretary Belknap
received the following telegram to-day from
Chicago, dated May 9th: Gen. Anger tele-
graphs that the Mexicans on the border are
well pleased with the punishment given the
Kickapoos by McKenzi The remainder of
the Kickapoos threaten retaliation, but we
are ready for them if they come.-Signed, T.
II. Sheridan, Lieut.. General.
The Funeral Of General Candy.
1ND1ANAPoLls. May 23.-The funeral OF