Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-04-09

source to-day were S2S6,6I39.
At THE WHITE HousR.-There was a yery
large crowd OF visitors at the White House to-
day and nearly all of them saw the President
Secretary Richardson, General Sherman, ami
some Of the heads of bureaus had interviews.
PosTNAsTERs APPoINTED.-The President
has appointed the following postmasters: David
w. Low, Gloucester, Mass; Lueius whitney,
Morris, H. b. F. Emigh, Pittston, Pa; David
Wakefield, Bath, Me; William Tracy, Flint,
Mich; John S. Wilgus, Brownsville, Pa.
ARMY OFFICERS RHsIGNRD.-The following
is a list of casualties in the army during the
week ending April 9Th, announced by the
Adjutant General to-day: Captain James L.
Putnam, 18th infantry, resigned March S1st;
dismissed March 2Sth; Second Lieut.. Edward
s. Holden, resigned March 18th; Assistant Sur
geon Morris J. Asch, resigned March 3lst.
GONG TO SAIL FOR EUROPE ON SATURDAY.
Mr.. j. P. Bigelow, chief Of the loan division of
the Treasury, who goes to Europe to represent
the government in connection with the new
loan, leaves for New York tonight, and will
sali from that port on Saturday. Messrs. Coon,
Noyes and Uttz, of the Treasury, who 90 out
with Mr.. Bigelow, will also sail on that date.
MIR. Cattell does not leave untihthe 18th instant.
THE MONTANA WAR CLAIMs-Cn der regu-
lations prescribed by the second controller, the
Montana Indian war claims, for the payment of
which Congress appropriated S513 900, are being
settled: The claims were taken up and ex-
amined simultaneously by the second controller
and third auditor on the basis of Inspector Gen
eral Hardie's report, and the amounts found
due are Row being paid on Treasury certificates
payable by MajOr Bell, who was designated by
the Secretary OF War to perform that duty.
THE PACKAGES OF PARTIALLY BURNED
BONDS, notes, &C., received at the Treasury a
pan,
which the insane cashier Anderson ATTEMPTED
TO destroy before committing suicide, have not
yet all been examined. The most promising OF
The contents were first examined by Gen.
Spnner's female experts, who report that they
have already identified $4,000 i'm United
States bonds, $50 600 in railroad and other
bonds, and few dollars worth of grecnbacks.
The greatest loss will probably be m bills as
many OF them were burned to ashes.
NAVAL OFFICERS TRANsFERRED.-Second
Assistant Engineer George s. Gates has been
detached from the Iroquois and ordered to the
shuelot, in place of Second Assistant Engi-
neer II. NJ. Fulmer, detached from that vessel
and ordered to return home. Second Assistant
Engineer William Row batham, deta ched from
the Monoeacy and ordered to the Palos, in
plnce OF Second Asst Engineer F. l.. Cooper
detached from that vessel and ordered home.
Second Assistant Engineer j. p. Mickley or
dered to the Lackawana, in place of Second
Assistant Engineer VIM, T.. Sibley detached
from that vessel and ordered to return home.
THE Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT AND THE
RAILRoADs.-The Senatorial committee to in
vestigate the difficulties between the Post Office
department and the railroad companies met in
New York Monday and organized. The follow
ing were present: Senators Davis, Sherman
Casserly, Conover, Mitchell, and Window,
chairman. The Post Office department was
represented by Mr.; James \. Davis. Mr.. Isaac
Baltimore railroad; j. s. Kneass, of the Penn
ssylvania railroad; and III. ID. Bishop, of the New
York and New Haven road, addressed the COM
mlttee, Claiming more compensation.
Presentation. Butler still fingers among
US. 49, Walt Whitman goes to his office for
short time every day, but has not yet fully re-
covered his health. Judge j. j. Martin,
Sixth Auditor of the Treasury, and Mr.. john
Lynch, principal clerk of the money order d.
vision OF the Sixth Auditors office, leave for
Mobile, Alabama to- mOrrOw to appear as wit
nesses IL the case OF the government against
John j. Moulton, formerly postmaster at Mo
bile, who is charged with embezzlement
MI John ). DelanO, chief clerk of the In
benefit Of his health, which is slowly improy-
ing.
SoCIETY.-The first fashionable event after
the close OF Lent will be the grand ball for the
benefit OF the Children's Hospital, which is
announced to take place at Masonic Temple on
tuesday evening next. From the list published
elsewhere, 1t will be seen that the management
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are assured that every effort will be made to
render it even more brilliant and attractive
than that OF last season, which was pronounced
one OF the most elegant and agreeable ever
given in Washington. But, aside from induce
ments of this character, the object for which
IN tne t entertanment is gwen should commend it
very large and fashionable attendance.
CoCHTsE KEEPING THE PEAcE-Special In
dian Agent Jefferds, of Arizona, in late let
mis- nf Ind a A;o;-
that neither COchise or any OF his sub-chiefs
have left the reservation upon which they were
placed by Gen. Howard, since they made
peace, five months ago. Cochse has manifested
no disposition to leave; but on the cOntrarv
has informed the Indian agent when other In,
dams were leaving their reservations with the
to prevent their gsfng. He says if the treaty he
made is broken 1t will be by the government,
and not by him. This statement contradicts
the stories telegraphed here from the west that
Cochse was raiding in New Mexico.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PREsIDRNT.-The
President has made the following appoint
ments:-Charles Gilpin, surveyor OF customs at
Baltimore, Md; II. G. Carter, surveyor of Gus
toms at st. Joseph, Mo-; Edward r. Roberts,
agent for the Indians, Creek agency, Indian
territory.
The President also signed the commissions OF
the following postmasters tO-day,-Luther
Mrs. Clara L. Nichols, Fort i.eavenworth. Kan,
sas; Augustus I. Jones, North Bridgewater,
Mass; Louis +. Klosterman, Cape Girardeau,
No.; Daniel F. Braultwiger, Louisiana, No:
Lothario b. Cockern, Carthage, H.; Eliza
Jane Graves, Onarga, H.; Benz. p. Crocker,
Cambridge, N. Y; il. g. McPheeters, Blooming
ton, Ind. James NJ. Watts, Delphi, Ind; VIM
McKenna, Shreveport, Ind. Robert Shields
Neenah Wis; Jasper H. circuit, NOrthfeld VT
Thomas Z: Milstead, collector Of customs at
Yorktown, Va.
No BOUNTY TO Observation-Disclosures
having been made by an attorney for bounty
for deserter, founded upon the decision of the
United States supreme Court in the case OF
Kelly, "a deserter who claimed to have received
an honorable dscharge,) the second controller
has made the following decision in the case =
1.-THE accounting officers will never recognize
the principle that discrimination shah be
made in favor of q deserter. On the construc-
ton for which the attorney contends, a man
who enlisted for three years under the law of
July 70, 1861, served one, then deserted was
apprehended and returned to duty after a wears
absence, and was discharged with his regiment
at the expiration Of its time, would receive for
two years service just the same bounty that
his faithful comrades received severalfy for
three years service. This, a. have had occa-