Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-10-27

against the First National Rank OF this city.
SENATORS WINDOW. sherman, Conkling
Norwood and Davis, the senatorial committee
on transportation, arrived in Cincinnati last
night from Huntington, W. Va, and will 60
from thence to Louisville and St Louis.
THE CROW INDIANS will have another inter.
view with Commissioner Smith before they
leave the city. Bear in the Water, Bear Wolf
and Old Crow have been quite sick at the Wash
ington house, but are better.
THE POSTAL CARDS now furnished by the
Morgan Envelope Company, of Springfield
Mass, are fully up 10 the standard in regard to
the printing and weight. The supply of cards is
greater than the demand, the government
having several millions in reserve.
INVITATION ACCEPTED. - The delegation
from the Maryland Institute exposition, headed
by Hon. Carroll Spence, called upon the Presi-
dent this morning and gave him pressing in D..
yitation TO attend the exhibition. The Presi
dent accepted the Inyi tation, and will visit the
exposition on Thursday, of the present week.
LOOKING FOR THE SILvRR-Up to 2o'clock
p. m. to-day no silver had been paid out by thl
cashier of the Treasury. There we're many in
quiries concerning such payments by those who
had business to transact with the government,
bat no orders had been received from Secretary
Richardson up to the hour named to make pay
ments in silver.
DEsTITUTION IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Gen
eral Williams has received a letter from Mont
gomery, Ala, saying, in consequence of the
heavy rains and the destruction of the cotton
crops by the army worm, great restitution ex-
lists in several counties, especially in Sumpter
and MareDgO. In some places there is actual
starvation, and unless help is rendered during
the winter months many persons must perish
for want Of food.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Capt. j. w. A. Nicholson,
n no of no
Washington, ID. c., Oh the 10Th inst; Lieut.
Commander Yates Sterling to the Canandaigua
4th November next; Assistant Surgeon Charles
l.. Cassin to duty at the marine rendezvous at
Boston, LIST November next; Lieut.. Commander
CT aries ID. Sigsbec from the Canandaigua and
ordered to the photographic Office. Mdsiip-
shipman W. A. l.. Masser has reported his re
turn hOne, having been detached from the Ian
caster on the 10Th ultimO, and has been placed
on waiting orders.
PERsoNAL.-Postmaster General Cresweu
will return to Washington this evening. den.
j. H. Baker, commissioner OF pensions has gone
west for a few days. ...' Private Dalzell is
candidate for the Iostmas tership OF the House
OF Representatives. EX-Secretary McCullOch
had an extended conference with Controller
Knox this morning, with reference to the Eng
lish banking system and other financial mat
tiers, suggested by residence among the Eng
lsh "bulls and bears" '''' Mr.. W. G.. MetZe-
rott and family have returned from Europe
where they have spent some months. Mr.. Met
zerott is in improved health his large circle OF
friends Will be glad to hear.
The TREASURY DEPARTMENT has been much
encouraged during the past week by the receipts
from customs and internal revenue, there being
an Improvement in both from the week IRE
viOus. They have not fallen of from the es-
Inmates as much as was expected they would
from the effects of the panic. The receipts of
the year will be suf9 cient for all purposes pro-
yiaed Congress does not appropriate money
est ma Tha
Gry departments estimates for the fiscal year
l-I4 were S1l ,339 1888 less than was appropriated
by Congress, and S1sy0O0OO0 more than the es-
Inmates for the preceding year. The estimates
from all the departments and bureaus, with the
exception of the public printer, are now in pos
session OF the Treasury department. They will
aggregate about the same as last year namely
about S161 900 coo, irrespective of the perma-
nent appropriation of SIN ,3G6 ,0i3, not now to
be acted on, for the payment of the interest on
the public debt.
THE REPORT OF THE SIXTH AUDITOR to the
Secretary Of the Treasury shows that the
amount of the quarterly accounts of postmasters
settled during the year was s22, 1891 sos. The
number OF changes of postmasters, reestablish-
ment and discontinuanceo of post Offices, amounts
to 1882. The present number of accounts of
posmasters is 80 ,065, being an increase OF 1,741
during the year. In the department OF foreign
mails the amount of quarterly accounts equals
81 800 i6. The expenditures during the fiscal
year have been as follows For Contractors
to pOstmasters, IS ,0l3 .9l6; m2il-messenger
service, S5li, 1l6; railroad postal clerks and
route agents, q $50, s9i; miscellaneous accounts
81 ,002 ,095; letter carriers and special agents
81 ,422 ,495. The number of domestic money
orders issued during the year Is 1855, CSC
amounting to e51 ,jl6,214; British money orders
issued, 69592, amounting to Sl,36i,i76; Swiss
money orders issued sol, amounting to SIS, 313;
German money orders Issued, Is, 454, amounting
TO S42O,I22.
THE UTE DELEGATION of Indians had a final
interview with the Commissioner of the Indian
bureau this morning when the Brunot treaty
was acquiesced in and the Ute chiefs promse1
that the Utes now in New Mexico, (some 500 or
600 in number), should be moved to the Los
PiRos reservation in Colorado. The Utes were
10th to consent to this arrangement, but the
Commissioner assured them that ii their people
in New Mexico did not move to Colorado, the
government would compel them to do so. The
Ctes leave tomorrow morning, provided the
Arrapah0e delegation arrive here to- night with
OuTay's only son, who was captured some
twelve years ago. He is now about nineteen
years OF age, and having lived so long with the
ArTapahoes may elect TO remain with them
instead of going with his father. Just before
they left the Commissioners ofiice a delegation
from the Maryland Institute Exposition in
baltimore, consisting of Hon. Carroll Spence,
k seae s S ss@gs = R r Perne Samuel W.
kins called to request the Indians to attend the
exhibition to- morrow. The Indians, however
9echhed the lnyltation, saying they had been
west" They will go to Boston to coRfer with
the Unitarian Society under whose charge they
are, and will stop one day in Philadelphia and
one day in New York. From Boston they will
return direct to their reservation in Colorado
Fort JEFFERSON, FLORIDA, DAMAGED
100000 WORTH BY HURRIcANE.-An Official
dispatch received at the War department from
Fort jefferson, Florida, gives an account of a
severe hurricane which occurred there on the
9th instant, lasting 10 hours and causing con-
siderable damage to the public property. Nine
teen beef cattle were washed into the sea and
drowned, the cattle-yard damaged and the
stable undermined and frames loosened. The
dingy, or small boat, and the house that Gov
cred it were swept away and lost. The roof OF
the clothing room was opened so that the rain
beat in and damaged the clothing and camp
equlppsge. The roof of the older portion
of the oficer's quarters was torn of and the
rooms below flooded; blinds were torn of,
and so many windows broken carried
away bodily, that from this cause alone
many rooms IN the officers barracks are unten-
able, and also in the squad rooms below. The
roof of the hospital was torn of entirely, and
rain poured into the storeroom, completely wet.
ting the hospital stores and flooding the ward
rooms. The sick men were moved into the
bakery mess, the worst case having died early
in the morning before the accident occurred
The dispeDsarV was flooded INIT the lei az