Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-06-11

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EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL RKvKNUE.-The receipts from this
source to-day were s2s7 ,5O4.6s.
SECRETARY BELKSAP he expected to return
here from West Point, n. ", next Monday.
Gov. CAMPBELL, of Wyoming, has been ap.
pointed one Of the commissioners to negotiate
with the northern Sioux on the 18th inst.
SECRETARY robson was at the navy-yard
to day engaged in the Polaris investigation.
He expected to conclude it this evening, and
will prepare his report Immediately.
Mr.. y. c: Fox, OF New York, and Mr.. VIM
ii. Appleton, of New Hampshire, have been
appointed principal examiners in the Patent
Office.
The SOUTHERN CLAIMS COMMISSION has sus-
pended oral examinations until the second week
in October. and will then resume them and con-
time until the middle of November.
GEN. GEORGE b. WILLIAMS, special financial
commissioner from Japan to the United States
and Europe, arrived in New York last night in
the steamer Algeria.
TIE U. s. STEAMER TALLAPoosA, from
Washington, with the Esquimaux brought here
by the Frolic on board, arrived at New York
yesterday.
COMMISSIONER DRUMMOND, of the General
Land Office, arrived at Salt Lake City on Mon
day night. He was received at Ogden by ex-
Delegate Hooper and committee of Mormon
magnatcs, who show him every attention.
PRESIDENT GRANT and family arrived at
West Point last evening, and will remain there
till Friday. Gen. Sherman left here for the
military academy last night. The diplomas
will be awarded to the graduates on Friday.
TIE TREASURY has redeemed all the out
standing three per cent. certificates excepting
the amount of $4,000. When the first call was
made in November, 1870, there were outstand-
ing forty-five millions.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Second assistant Engineer
ii. T.. Rhoades has been ordered to the Juniata
to relieve First Assistant Engineer b. F. Wood,
who has been detached from that vessel and
ordered to the Santic. Asiatic fleet.
A DIsPATCH.frOm Topeka, Kansas, says the
reports in circulation that the case of ex-Sena-
tor PomerOy was presented to the grand jury
and the bill OF indictment ignored are entirely
untrue. The case was never presented to the
grand jury. but will be prosecuted by inforna-
ton, and not by Indictment.
Col. ABNER DOUBLEDAY has been relieved
from duty as a member Of the general court
martial ordered to meet at Ringgold barracks,
KY. tor the trial of Lieuts. Chas. l.. Davis, of
the 10th infantry, and Henry F: Leggett, OF the
oath infantry, and Capt. F. NJ. Crandai, 9th
infantry, has been detailed for duty as mem
Der of the court in his place.
ScunprrT I, hos tall beI fran, ,o,J
quarters, in San Francisco, to General Davis
at Boyle's camp to appoint a commission on the
spot for the trial of the Modoc prisoners. Tom,
a Piute Indian prisoner, having attacked the
guard at Fort Alcatraz, the latter fired upon
and killed him, putting six bullets in his body.
Oregon papers denounce the massacre of the
Modoc prisoners in unmeasured terms.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRRsIDKSr.-The
President has made the following appoint
ments, and forwarded them here for record -
Joseph G. Moore, Of Miss, consul at Trinidad
de Cuba; Walter Watson, first iie1sssnaut Eeye-
nue. marine service; Frederick A. O'Conner
second lieutenant do. do; Frederick L. Rock
wood third lieutenant do. do.
Postmdsters.-JamesE p. Dem, Fishkill, n. Y;
Daniel A. Beckley, Bloomsbury, Pa; 3. G.
Silsby Idaho city, Idaho territory; Robert P.
Mcknight, Virden, Ill.
PROMOTIONS THROUGH COMPETITIVE Ex-
- Commissioner Drummond, Of
the General Land Office, has written letter in
response to an inquiry from Mr.. j.. B. Thomp-
SON, chairman of the examining board of the
Interior department, as to the working Of the
civil service rules in his bureau, tn which he
says, that in his opinion the head OF q bureau
who conscientiously administers the af:irs of
an office, and keeps . closs oversight over the
tons or bis clerks, and deter mine who amongst
them are entitled to promotion better than any
board OF examiners whtse decisions must be
l~as oA sNfov
certain questions. The Commissioner remarks
that 1t was said of certain statesman that he
could give twenty-five different names for a
grind chisel. After giving his reasons at
length the commissioner concludes by saying.
that while competitive examinations appear
believes the rules requiring such examinations
for promotions should be revised or revoked.
.i-- Send 'em t. Alaska.
or the many ideas advanced e. to what shall
be done with the Modocs who are not to be tried
by the military commission, there 10 ono view
which meets with much favor among army
officers, and that is to send the whole gang to
Alaska. The Seminoles were q constant source
OF trouble in Florida, but since they were
transported to Arkansas, fifteen or twenty
years ago. they have been sSs5 The trans.
beneficial effect. Ii IL argued, upon other hos.
tile tribes, and serve to keep down any trOuble-
some spirit among them. Some very severe
measures must be adopted 10 punish the unruly
Indians, which 1t the same time will have its
effect as warning to other tribes. There are
the Sioux, for instance, q powerful nation, en-
bracing many tribes, and having probably
eighteen or twenty thousand warriors. They
now roam over some nine hundred miles or
territory from the Republican river in Kansas
to the British possessions, and should they get
on the war-pAth 1t would require thousands OF
troops ard millions OF money to subdue them.
TEE CANAL RATES ON CoAL.-Yesterday
morning the announcement that several other
coal companies were about to follow the exam
Pile OF the Maryland company and reduce the
freights on coal to s1.25, created considerable
excitement among the boatmen, many Of whom
EXPRESS the determination to turn out their stock
rather than accept the reduction, Will others
sugsessed the application Of blast Of rock
powder to the l0cks, - they said the canal wss
Of NO further use when b0atmen could no longer
make living on it. During the day, however,
the companies about &c make the reduction,
consented to ship ct the old rates, e135, for the
present only, notifying their men that unless
these rates were paid BY all shippers the reduc-
ton to uniform rate would be made. On this
understanding boats were loaded and yester-
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