Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-05-15
EVENING" STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

INTERNAL REvENuR.-The receipts from this
source to-day were s9oi, sss.5 Sc.
SECRETARY BELKNAP is expected to return
here on Saturday.
TIE OBsKouIEs of Gen. Candy took place at
5 O'Clock p. m, in San Francisco, yesterday,
and were solemn and imposing. There was a
large procession. The body was taken to Oak
land, and comes East this morning.
CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS. - The following
have been appointed to first-class clerkships in
the Second Auditors Office: James w. Brady
John III. B. Beck, and Edward w. Newman
Md True l.. Norris, Mass; Prof. G Gorge Ii.
Nashon, ID. Z.
NAVAL ORDERs.-wm. T.. Leroy has been
detached from duty senior officer of the
board of inspectors of the navy, and ordered to
duty as president of the examining and retiring
boards. Chief Engineer VIM. G. Buehler has
been detached from special duty and placed Oh
waiting orders.
THE FIRST PROMENADE CONCERT by the ma
rine band in the Presidents grounds will be
given on Saturday afternoon next, and con-
time each Saturday during the season. list
OF pieces to be performed each Saturday after
noon will be displayed at some conspicuous
point in the grounds.
AFTER A FOUR YEARS FIGHT with the Gov
eminent the New York Central railroad has al
last paid over the si6s 900 revenue tax on it,
scrip dividend issue. The money was handed
to Collector Bailey Yesterday, and the Commits,
sloner or Internal Revenue this morning re-
ceived certificate of deposit tor the amount.
UNDER THE NEW ISTERNAL1REvRNUR Law
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue yes
terday created a new division i'm his Office under
the new law to be known as the Division As
sessment, and appointed as chief thereof Mr.
Charles A. Bates. The work Of making as
h. I'LL
now be done in this Office, upon data furnished
rom the respective districts by collectors and
their deputies.
THE INDIAN CoNTRACTs.-The statement
that the President is :" indignant at the inter
ference of the board Of Indian commissioners
with the affairs of the Indian bureau" Sc,
and has ordered the suspension of all the con
tracts for Indian supplies recently awarded in
New York, is untrue. AS is usual in such
cases, some of tie disappointed bidders nd fault
with the awards, and several have complained
TO the Secretary OF the Interior who has simply
ordered their complaints to be investigated the
same as other matters are officially inquired into
by the Interior Department. It is also untrue
that Secretary Delano has called the attention
OF the President to the irreguarity of the late
awards in New York.
TIRE Sioux CoMNIssIoN-The Secretary of
the Interior yesterday appointed Mr.. Felix Bru-
not, +. g. Kimball, OF New York, and I'll. f. AL
word, of Virginia, a commission to visit the
Sioux and other tribes in Dakota and endeavOr
to secure modification of the treaty of 1865 50
as to withdraw from the Indians the privilege OF
hunting outside OF their reservation. Mr.. Kim
bal Is directed to proceed at once to the Red
Cloud agency and obtain all the information
possible az to the temper of the Indians and
ma Ike all preliminary preparations for "talk.r
| The Red Cloud agency win be removed from
its present location. The commission is also in
structed to interview the Grow nation. with a
view to carry out the act of March 3, 1873 look
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part of the Crow reservation, which is much
larger than the tribe need.
IMPORTANT TO SENDEEs OF Transient
PRINTED MATTER. Judge Edmunis, city
postmaster, desires it to be generally under
stood by the persons who send transient printed
the mails, that all such matter must be pre-
paid at the rate of one cent for every two ounces
or 1t will not be forwarded. large amount OF
matter OF this kind accumulates weekly at the
post ONCE, and il is finally destroyed as under
the revised postal laws pOstmasters are not al
lowed to forward it. Many persons fold two or
more papers in single package and place upon
it one cent stamp, thinking IL that amount is
insufficient II can be paid by the person recelv-
ing it. This is, of course, any erroneous idea
and persons who fail to place on such packages
the necessary amount of postage simply waste
their stamps as their matter never leaves the
Office.
| THR NORTH PACIFIC RAILROAD SURVEY
| ING ExPEDITIoN.-The Secretary of War
having decided to make thorough scientific
survey OF the North Pacific railroad to the
Yellowstone, the expedition under the com
mand OF Col; Stanley, which has been out two
| summers, will start again from Fort Rice on
l the 10Th OF June, with an escort Of 200 troops
| to protect them, and will be absent four
months. The following named scientific gen.
| the expedition: Prof. Leidy, archaeological
Penn University; Prof Leo Lesquereux, gecIo-
gist, Columbus Ohio; Prof. Lionel R. METRE,
uaGf Ma.
Prof Jas. A. Allen, zoologist, Cambridge,
Mass; VIM. X; Pywell, photographer, washing
h f0n d. a. Es DIVA Th Hu0Echy art Cam
Prof. Henry c. Chapman, volunteer ass slant
psieontologist; c. w. Bennett, general assistant
te members OF the scientific corps.
INDIAN MURDERERs DEMANpEp.-Indian
Commissioner Smith has addressed letter to
| Indian Agent Miles, of the Cheyenne and Ara
pahoe agency, approving his action relative to
his investigation into, the circumstances of the
murder OF the four Surveyors some time SINCE
and directing him to inform the Cheyennes
that they will be required to surrender to the
military the three men who murdered the sur
veyors, VIZ: the son of High Wolf, the son of
Sleeping Wolf and the son of Crooked Neck
The Commissioner further directs Agent Miles
marauders OF settling accounts for some of their
own number being killed by soldiers is not
admissible, as the soldiers fired upon them
while they were engaged in acts of hostility by
plundered cattle in their possession, and being
of the reservation.
THREE AMERICAN SEAMEN ARRESTED BY
THE CUBAN AUTHoRITIEs.-Captain T. Pat
tersOn, commanding the U. s. steamer Rich
mond off Havana, informs the NAVY depart
ment that he was at Santiago de Cuba on the
eth of April, when he was informed by the Con-
sui that three seamen who had deserted from
the American bark Union, of PHILADELPHIA,
were arrested by the Spanish authorities and
were being tried for their lives before Spanish
tribunal upon mere suspicion of crime, having
been picked up of the coast by the Spanish
supply ship "Cantabeo." The Consul had pro-
tested against this trial and demanded the
release Of the prisoners, but the Spanish au-
thorities refused to give them up. CAPTAIN
Patterson took the matter in hand, and after a
good deal of red tape business succeeded in
securing the release Of the prisoners, there
being no evidence against them except that of
deseruon. They are now on the Richmond.
THE EXAMINATIONS AT THE NAVAL AcAp-
HNY.-The annual examination OF the cadets at
the Naval Academy at Annapolis commences
on Monday next, and ends on the 10th of June.
when the diplomas 20 the graduating class will
be distributed, and tho exercises at the Acade-
my closed until the first of October mkt. The
graduating class this year has % members
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