Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-06-17


will be absent about week.
ASSISTANT SURGEON ALFRED DELoNe, U.
8. A., has been ordered TO duty in the Depart
ment Of the South.
PRoF. JOSEPH HENRY delivers the opening
address at the Inauguration of the new school
of kscience, at Princeton. N. j., On Monday
next
D1srrNCrIoN.-The Secretary of the Trea-
sury has decided that seal oil lie not embraced
under the term of fish oil so as to be entitled to
free entry under the Washington treaty.
ETHE DELIVERY SYsrEM.-The Postmaster
General has ordered the free delivery system TO
be established at Columbus, Ohio; Evansville,
Indiana; and Covington. Kentucky.
SECRETARY DELANo's FAMILY, with Miss
Julia Cox, daughter Of Col. d. @. Cox, pension
agent for the District of Columbia. leave for
Ohio to-day. Secretary Delano will remain in
the city.
THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION Is in receipt OF
private advices from Vienna stating that up to
May 31st last two hundred and sixty American
exhibitors had been entered in the educational
group Of the exposition. The articles shipped
by the bureau by way of Baltimore had arrived
at Bremen, and were being shipped to Vienna
THE TRIAL OF EX-SENATOR PoMERoY, in
Arkansas, for alleged bribery of State Senator
York, of that state, was yesterday, on motion of
Pomeroy's counsel, postponed until December
term in the the district court. Pomeroy claimed
to be ready for trial, but his counsel said they
had not time for preparation.
NEW BOARD OF CIVIL SRRvIcE EXAMINERS
FOR THR TREASURY DEPARTMENT.-The
President has appointed Stephen j. W. Tabor,
4th auditor; VIM. H. Armstrong, Internal
Revenue Bureau, and Charles Lyman, of the
Secretary's Office, as the board of examiners of
the Treasury department under the civil ser
vice rules.
PEEsoNAL.-Senor Louis Polo de Bernabe, a
son of the Spanish Minister, is among the latest
arrivals in New York from Europe. He is to be
one of the secretaries OF the Spanish legation in
this city. .'-- Hon. Leonard Myers, of Pa.
had an interview with the Secretary of the
Treasury to-day with reference to the printing
of certificates of stock in connection with the
Centennial Anniversary to be held in Phila-
delphia in 1876.
The PROGRAMME for the open air concert by
the Marine band, Prof. Fries, leader, at the
Capitol grounds to- morrow afternoon, is as fol-
lows:-1. Quick March, Piefke; q Fackeltanz.
Meyerbeer; 3. Galop-Battle of Inkermann-
Godfrey; 4. PotpOurri from Martha, Flotow;
D. Introduction and WatZes, Rosensteiner Ian
ner; 6. Selections from Huguenots, Meyerbeer;
I. Mill Polka, Strauss; g. Rage in America,
serin-comic fantasia, Ringlebein.
CADET MIDsHIPMAN O'KEeFE who, with
several other obliged" midshipmen, attacked
Cadet Midshipman Conyers lately, has with
four or five more, been dropped from the navy.
MIR. OK. received his appointment by COM
petitiye examination in his district. Ii is under
stood that cadets who have obtained their ap-
pointmen ts by snch examinations do not make,
as general thing. successful students at the
academy.-AHncioli s Cor. Bat. Gazette.
APPOINTMENT OF FKMALK CLKRks-The
fol wing ladies having passed satisfactory
examinations viii be appointed to $500 cleIk-
ships In the Treasury department.: Marian o.
Pyles, Mary j. Dean, Annie M Har well, Mrs.
T.. j. Z. Hibbs, Annie 4. Ober, Maria Richard
son, Annie E. Wheat. Mrs. j. j. Haugthon, C.
NJ. Raynsford, Miss Emma Lewis, Mary Rowles
Susan +. Andrews, Lucia s. Wells, and Mrs. l..
j. Sculer.
NEW APPOINTMENTS BY IHR PRKsIDENT-
The following appointments have been sent to
Washington by the President, for record: Geo.
w. Taylor, of Te ;as, % be consul at Port Louis
Maaritius; VIM. Prescott, of Illinois, register
of land Office at Springfield, H.; Isaac L. Ma
han, Of Indiana, Agent for the Chippewa In
master at Millersville, Pa; Robert J. Falcon,
.. s. marshal, southern district of Mississippi
Felix Brannigan, Z. s. attorney, southern dis
trict OF Mississippi.
NAVAL ORDERS. Command. James A.
Greer transferred to New ,rk il fitting out an
expedition to search for the Polai is. Master F..
Detached - Lieutenant Sidney A. Simmons
from tie Froiic and grated three months leave
Naval Constructor W. l.. Hanscom from the
navy yard, Boston, and ordered to the ma "
yard at New York as the relief of Naval Con-
structor b. f. Delano, detached and placed on
waiting orders. Naval Constructor Samuel H.
Hook from the navy yard, Mare Island, Cali
fornia, and ordered to the navy yard at Boston
Naval Constructor Geo. w. Much from the
navy yard, Washington, and ordered to the
sistant Naval Constructor T. D. Wilson from
the naval academy and ordered to the navy
yard at Washington.
GEN. BUTLER has at last announced hi mself
as candidate for governor of Massachusetts,, and
his second fight for the position may now be
said to have fairly begun. At a recent dinner
stanchest supporters, and at which were also
DIR. George B. Loring, Collector Russell, and
men from all sections Of the state, he said
81 ould not feel unkindly to those friends who
might oppose him though his heart would
heat little warmer for those who favored him.
he defended his course on the salary grab, and
denied being the author of the bill and stated
that he was at first greatly opposed to it. Later,
however, he became Convinced that it was
1t. He spoke Of the number of times Congress
had voted In favor OF similar bills in regard to
back back pay pay, and gave one instance in which
burn mad taken their back pay.
ANOTHER APPEAL IN BEHALF OF SArANrA
is in eceipt of a copy Of letter addressed to
James III. Haworth, Indian agent at Fort Sill,
L. T., by Thomas 9. Battey, teacher in the
camp o. the KiOwas, who urges the release of
Satanic I'D Big Tree. He relates numerous
instances where the Kiowas have not only re-
fused to join the Cheyennes in raids on the
whites, but have actually prevented predatory
excursions In conclusion he says: "They often
tell me that II the government does not return
Satanta and Big Tree at or about the time
specified by Beede in his council two months
SAGE they can put no further confidence in the
white mans word, and that they are waiting to
see the fulflment of that agreement before
settling down; that ii they are delivered up they
viii settle down, raise corn, send their children
to school and do just as their great father at
Washington wants them to do. provided thew
can have school home away from the military
post"
Cor. SrANLEY's EXPEDITION TO THE YKL-
Lowsr0EE.-Generai Terry is now mastering
an expedition at Fort Rice, on the Missouri
river, which is to move under Colonel Stanley,
through tine practically unkI IN territory be-
tween Edmontop, Dakota, and Montana.
Through this country, Q distance of7oO miles,
the Northern Pacific railway intends this sum-
mer to push its surveying and construction
parties, and there it Is anticipated resistance
Will be offered by the Sioik. THA exnadif finn