Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-05-17
EVENING STAR.
DOUBLE SHEET,
Washington News and Gossip.


INTERNAL REvKNUE.-The receipts from this
source to-day were s425, 1924.
SECRETARY RICHARDSON will remain here
all the summer, with the exception of a few
| days absence to attend the commencement of
Harvard College, about the 18th of June.
SECRETARY BELKSAP returned to the city
last evening, and was at his Office to-day. He
looks remarkably we'll, and seems to have en-
joyed his trip very much.
FoRTY-FIvE persons competed at the COM
petitive examination to I'LL three vacancies OF
class four in the Pension Office at wrights
building to-day.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Assistant Surgeons H. C..
Eckstein and +. X. Hartzell, U. s. N, have
been ordered to special duty at Washington, ID.
G. Master John A. Norris has been ordered to
the receiving ship at New York.
Mr.. GEORGE H. STUART, of the board of in
dian commissioners, has written letter to
Secretary Delano, inviting full and thorough
examination into the charges of unfairness and
irregularities in the recent awards of contracts
Tor Indian supplies.
The MANUFACTURERS of the postal cards at
Springfield, Mass, are running 500 ,OO0 per day.
but that number is insufficient to supply the
present demand. The manufacturers promise
TO increase their facilities so as to turn ont
0Do,G00 cards daily.
A GENERAL CoURr-MARTIAL has been or
dered to meet at West Point, New York, on the
Goth instant, for the trial of Cadet Frederic c.
Bishop, on a charge of characterization. The
following officers Will constitute the court:
Maj. Geo. p. Andrews, 5th artillery; Capt. Lo-
r rena Loaaln, sd artillery; Capt; o. H. Ernst,
rance department; LIST Lieut.. f. H. TOtten, LIST
artillery; LIST Liemt W. F. Reynolds, jr, LIST artil-
lery; I'd Lieut.. w. f. Birkhimer, 81 artillery;
LIST Lieut.. Jno. P. Story, jr., 4th artillery judge
advocate.
APPOINTMENTS By THE PREsIDHNr-The
| President made the following appointments
this morning: Vim. E. Davis, assistant treas
urer of the United States at Cincinnati, vice
Hayes; Robert y. Mclean. u s. Marshal II
Minnesota; John NJ. Z :kfeldt, melter and re-
inner U. s. mint at San Francisco; jefferson r.
Batcox, coiner of the San Francisco mint; Ed
ward Palmer, of District of Columbia agent
for the Indians of the Grand River agency in
dakota territory; John Tillson, collector OF in
ternal revenue 4th district of Illinois; Alya A
Knight, collector for Florida.
INDIAN OPPOSITION To THE ". PR R
Messrs. John p. Williamson and j. W. Daniels,
| who were sentout several months since to Red
Clouds agency to prepare the Indians for the
building of the Northern Pacific railroad
reau that they have had a big talk with the rep
resentatives Of a large number OF savages, and
while the latter do not exhibit decidedly hostile
disposition they are opposed to the project.
Ihey say they VI ant no white settlers on their
lands, except traders, and that they will coun-
sci with their people relative to the railroad
through their country.
A MAEDAMUs ON THE SECRETARY OF THE
INTEEIoR.-Mr. W. b. Webb has filed in the
Equity Court petition for a mandamus on the
Secretary Of the Interior to compel him to issue
land patent for certain lands in Kansas to a
settler. The party claims that he regularly
entered upon the land lived upon, and improved
1t. complying with all terms of the law. and APP
pied TO the land Office for patent. The Sec
rotary of the Interior refused to grant the pa
tenn, claiming that before the settler had com
plied with all the terms of the law the title to
the land IN question was vested in Kansas
railroad company in a grant of lands to aid the
road. This land is part of the Usage coded
lands. and II Is said that this case is test One
IN which hundreds, IL not thousands, are inter-
ested to the extent of two or three hundred
thousand cases.
PERSONAL---VERY. Whitman, who has been
confined to his room for some time past, from
The results OF his late severe attack and bad
weather combined, manages to get out pretty
regularly in the warm sunshine of the last few
days, and hopes to fully recover his health with
the return of summer. We much fear, how
ever, that he will never again be his old self,
notwithstanding evefybody's wishes that he
te he badly shattered. Sturgeon General
Barnes was one of the three nominees for a
vacant corresponding membership in the Paris
Academy OF Medicine last month. The ballot
however, resulted in the election OF Mr.. Pres
colt Hewett, British surgeon of eminenc
who was probably better known personally to
the members of the Academy, but hardly more
worthy the honor. Mr.. ID. X. Locke, better
known as Petroleum V. Nasby," has given up
his Kentucky post Office and gone into the adj
verts ng agency business in New York with
Mr.. Bates, formerly Of Pettengill & Co. If he
secures as good prices for his advertisements as
he got for his Nasty letters he will be good
will leave here in few weeks for his summer
home at In dian Hill. Mass, where he will en-
| writing his forthcoming history of the District
/ of Columbia.