Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-04
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

INTERNAL REvENUE.-The receipts from this
source to-day were 1851, ss3.s5.
REAR ADMIRAL A. LUDLOW CASE, command
ing the European station, was at Trieste in the
wabash on the nth ofJuly last.
ASSISTANT SURGEON GEORGE P. BRADLEY,
U. S. N, has been ordered to the naval hospital,
Washington, DC.
KU-KLUx PARDoNs.-By direction of the
President, the Attorney General has issued
psrdons to two ku-klux convicts, X. A. Shot
well, of North Carolina, and William NJ. Full
ton, OF South Carolina.
THE TREASURY PROGRAMME FOR AUeusr.
The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the
Assistant Treasurer at New York to buy half
million Of bonds on the second Wednesday, and
TO sell one and a half million of gold each
Thursday during the month of August
Army ORDERs.-On the recommendation of
the Surgeon General Assistant Surgeon VIM.
ID. wolverton has been relieved from duty in
the department of Dakota and ordered to pro-
coed to New York city, reporting from thence
by letter to the Surgeon General. The leave of
absence granted Capt. Herbert \. Hascoll has
been extended six months
To BRING HOME THE AMERICAN ARTICLES
FROM VIENNA large number of the articles
sent to the Vienna exposition having been sold
or otherwise disposed of, it was determined that
one store. ship would be sufficient to bring home
the remaining articles. The war vessel Supply
has been ordered TO sail for New York the latter
part of July, and the Guard will remain at
Trieste.
PERsoNAL.-Secretary Richardson left for
Long Branch on Saturday evening, where he
will remain for a few days. Adjutsnt
General Hewitt, of Kentucky, is in town.
'''' General Sherman has gone to Cape Nav
' Senator Sumner was in Boston on Saturday.
Senator Ramsey, of Minnesota, left for his
home on Saturday night, having previously had
an lnservlew with the acting Secretary Of state
IN behalf OF the American prisoners confined in
Manitoba for kidnapping :" Lord" Gordon.
REPRINTING OF NATIONAL BANK NorEs.-
The Controller of the Treasury has issued a
circular to the effect that no new notes of the
old denomination of ten dollars will be ordered
printed from the old plates, but that national
bank notes of other denominations will be
printed and furnished as heretofore without
expense to the banks, until otherwise ordered
The ten dollar notes already on hand will be
delivered to the national banks as usual for the
present.
BUTTON, BUTTON, WHO WANTS THE But
TONI. Butwell, East Schodiack, NY, in
forms the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics
that he is desrous to sell a button of conner l.
inches diameter. The initials &c. W" are IN
the center, surrounded by a wreath with the
words "LOng live the President" This button
was purchased by the son of the notorious par
tsan leader, Capt. Frost of the ROYAL Grays
"a tory company that flOurished in Rensselear
county, \. Y, in revolutionary times, J who cat
II rom the coat Of wing prisoner"
THE COUNTERFEIT HALF EAGLE of 1872 which
recently made its appearance so closely imi-
tates the genuine as almost to defy detection
In weight and color it corresponds with the
legal coin. and is made of .Sis gold allowed with
copper and minimum of silver, intrinsic yaIne
SOL. The outlines of the letters and eagle on
the counterfeit are not as sharp, square, and
1g h. MI.
the United States secret service offers a reward
OF So 600 for information leading to he CAPTURE
OF the dies from which the coin Is made and to
the arrest of the parties guilty of making and
putting them on the market.
WHITE WOMEN MURDERED BY INDIANS
JUST PROM PEACE CoUNCIL.-An official
dispatch was received at the headquarters of
OF the army to-day, dated " Headquarters
camp Stambaugh, W. T., july "a, 1873" and
addressed to :" the assistant adiutant general
headquarters department Platte" which saws:
:" have the honor to inform you that the In
dams made an attack upon the settlement AT
Old Camp Brown yesterday or day before and
killed Mrs. Richards and Miss Hall First
Lieut. Wheelan, with company b, second cav
airy, has gone In pursuit of the murderers /
VIII inform you at once should receive anv
news" The dispatch is signed by A. G. Brack-
EFT, lieutenant colonel second cavalry, com
mandlng post, and in forwarding il Gen. Sher-
idan says sc The Indians who depredate in
the Mud river valley belong to the northern
man, and were recently represented in the
peace council at Red Clouds agency"
ARREST OF A POSTAL CAR CLRRK.-Re ent
rumors in regard to trouble on the railway
postal car service between Washington and
New York, has deepened into authentic infor-
nation that the chief clerk, Bryson Mcclellan,
has been arrested on charge of robbiug the
mails. Mcclellan is the son OF Hon. George W.
Mcclellan, formerly Second Assistant Post
master General, and has heretofore enioyed an
envlable reputaton.-BdH. American, to-day.
The above report has not been confirmed by
any official information at the Post Office de-
Partment, and it is hoped that it is incorrect
There are some suspicious circumstances how
ever, surrounding the case, and many officials
at the department are disposed to believe that
there is something in the rumor. Letters,
some Of them containing drafts and
money, have been missed for some
time between Washington and New York.
and Chief Special Agent Petherbridge has
been working up the case for several weeks
past On Thursday evening last he sent word
to Mr.. Turpin, superintendent of the mails at
the city post Office, to send some one TO New
York in MIR. NcLellan's place on Friday rs he
wanted too see him (McLellanl in Washington
1t was too late, however, to make the change
and MIR. Mcclellan made his usual trip. The
basis of the report seems to be the message of
Petherbridge, who, as before stated has not
been heard from. although he may have report
ed direct to the Postmaster General, who is at
his home in Maryland.