Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-07


NATIONAL BANK NOTES received for re-
demption to-day, sI630
TIE L. s. STEAMER DISPATCH, with the Sem
ate Committee on Naval Affairs on board,
arrived at Philadelphia yesterday Afternoon.
SECRETARY BRIsTow, with his family, LEFT
for Cspe May last night. The Secretary will
return on Tuesday.
OFFICIAL REcoGsITIoN.-The President has
recognized Moritz Won Baumbach as vice
consul OF the German Emperor at Milwaukee
Wis.
THE POSTAL CARS run between New York
and Washington as usual. There Is not likely
to be any interruption in the service. Mr..
Hinckley has not been heard from now for
several days, and 1t lie inferred that he will con-
tinue to carry the mails as usual.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PREsIpRNr-The
President has made the following appoint
ments:-John G. Kegley, collector of internal
revenue, Sth district of Virginia; Wallace w.
district of New York; Benz. II. Franklin, col
lector OF internal revenue, LIST district Of North
Carolina.
AN INDIAN SCARE NEAR FORT SILL Col.
Davidson, commanding Fort sill, Indian terri.
tory, reports that two men were recently killed
near Elm Spring Station, and that divers of
trains are abandoning their wagons on the road,
and that the farmers in the Washita valley are
frightened and many of them are leaving their
homes.
CHAEGKs IN SPECIAL AGENTS OF THE TIE As
URY.-The first batch OF removals of special
agents Of the Treasury department was deter
mined upon yesterday. Those dismissed are III.
A: Brown, 3. q. Trotu and Charles A. Merrell.
has been ordered to be reduced in COMPENSATION
from eight to six dollars day. The folio wing
new appointments and changes have been
made:-Gouverneur Morris to succeed Mr.. Nor
rell, for duty at present in California; E. God
dard, at present assistant chief OF the customs
division, secretary's Office, and Henry S. Martin
raised In compensation from Six to eight dollars
day.
The NEXT PREsIDENT.-The New York Her.
aid is not alone in its anxiety about third term
for Gen. Grant. Two southern gentlemen now
N this city, who, residing In different states
and of different political associations, both OF
whom are we'll known, socially and politically
as uen OF character, offer to bet equal sums Of
money on the three following propositions, all
to be taken together, to wit list. That, life
and health permitting, Gen. Grant will be a
candidate for the Presidency in 1876; ID That
Gen. Grant will be a nominated candid ate for
the Presidency in 1876; 80. That IL candidate
Gen. Grant will be elected President in 1S76.
PERsoNAL-Gen. o. o. Howard, with his
family, left on the Baltimore and Potomac rail-
road at $40 p. m. yesterday, en- route for Port
land, Oregon, to take command of the depart-
ment of the Columbia. go. Congressman j. x.
Hawley is spending few weeks with his wife
at Fortress Monroe. ''-' Senator Mortons
health has again become so poor that he ha,
been obliged TO alter his plans and make a trip
south. $50 Mr. Olaf Stenersen, Swedish Min
lister at Washington, had apartments at the Ho
tel Brunswick, in New York city YESTERDAY
''.'hr. Amedee Van den Nest, Secretary of the
Belgian Legation at Washington, was at the
BTevoort House, in the same city, YESTERDAY
800 Judge j. j. Martin, Och Auditor, has gone
to Loudoun county, Va, where his family is
domiciled, to spend week. Secretary
Delano goes north to- night with his family.
DECISIONS AS TO CONGRESSIONAL LAND
GRANTs.-Attorney General williams decides.
first, that the operations OF conditions subse-
quent in Congressional grants of public lands
does not depend upon the rules of the common
law applicable to such conditions, but upon the
intention Of Congress, as gathered from the
language employed in the grant itself. Second
that the grant OF lands made by Congress TO the
state of Wisconsin by act June, 1866, to aid in
construction of certain railroads, in which il
was provided "that If said roads are not com
pleted within ten years no further sales shal be
made, and the land unsold shall result to the
United States" il determined as TO the lands
unsold at the time by the failure to complete
he roads, as specified in the act, and that no
Congressional action or judicial proceedings are
necessary, but that such unsold lands will be
reunited TO the public domain by the publica-
ton OF an order by the Secretary of the Interior
restoring them to settlement and market.
The Indian HOstfIittes.