Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-07-14
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

H
ISTsRNAL REvESUE.-There receipts from this
source to-day were s273.6s245.
SECRETARY BELKNAP will return to Wash
iDgton next Thursday.
THE AMOUNT advanced to date for the nav
meDt of the Indebtedness of the District of
Columbia lie s4I3, O46 of which sl54 800 was paid
in coin.
The Court of Commissioners Of the Alabama
Claims will occupy rooms In the Department OF
Justice building, and expect to be in working
condition early in August.
PRESIDENT GRANT, accompanied by Mrs
Grant, Jesse Grant, Vice President Henry
Wilson and Gen. Babcock, left Long Branch
on the IL O'Clock train yesterday morning. TO
Saratoga.
THE AMOUNT RECEIVED thus far by the re-
demption agency of the Treasury of national
bank note circulation to be exchanged for legal
tenders aggregates 50, 2l6, 268. The amount re-
'eived day foots up 1882 $50.
THE COLUMBIAN BANK NOTE COMPANY
whose business was somewhat interrupted By
strike of the plate printers in their employ,
resumed full operations yesterday, having Sc
cured the required number of first-class men in
New York city. This establishment EMPLOYS
over two hundred hands.
INDIAN AGENTS APPoINTRD.-The President
has made the following appointments of Indian
agents: Samuel b. Parish, for the Malheur
agency In Oregon; John A. SImms, Coyille
agency In Washington territory; James Irwin,
tor the Shoshones in Wyoming; Thomas j
Jeherds, for the Cbiricahuas In Arizona; John
James Z. Roberts, for the Camp Apache agency
in Arizona.
1T is EFFECTED that all the members of the
Cabinet will be here by Friday next; while
there has been received no intimation of the
return OF the President Ii is thought he will be
here and that Cabinet meeting will be held on
IN at day, with view of considering the ap-
polntment or successor to Marshall Jewell as
ID Mister to st. Petersburg. 1t is asserted in
this connection that the mission will be ten
dered to General Longstreet.
IN REGARD to the moving of buildings in our
streets, to the destruction of the pavements,
referred to in yesterdays STAR, Lieut.. Hoxie
says that he has issued but one permit to
remove building since he has been office. As
we suggested yesterday, the parties engaged in
moving these buildings probably did il without
authority, dd interim, between the time of the
OLD government going out and the present one
coming In. We are glad to see that Lieut.
HOxie is disposed to give a vigiIant eve TO ali
operations of the kind calculated to damage
public or private property.
Mr.. A. G. RIDDLE, who has been appointed
to assist the Attorney General in the legal in
vestigation of the Harrington safe burglary
ease in Washington, is a lawyer OF high char
acter and conceded abilities. Fifteen years ago
he represented in Congress the Cleveland o.
district. He was one OF the strongest leaders of
the old Liberty Guard, the friend and eulogist
81 Giddings, although the admrer of Giddinys'
great conservative opponent. Tom CorGin,
whom Mr. Riddle prOnounces the greatest ora
TOT who ever spoke the English language. Mr..
Riddle las received recognition in the republic
or letters, having recently written two excellent
novels.-N z. Graphic.
PERsoNAL.-Mr George Riggs and family
are at their delightful country home. '....Mrs
General Meyers and Miss Selix are travelling
In Canada. Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren has
rented cottage at BerkIey springs, and will
occupy 1t with her daughter, Madame Won
DyeTbeck, lately returned from Europe.
Colonel and Mrs. i. 5. Sedgwick will also spend
the summer at Berkley springs, the Colonel
having purchased a home near the springs.
MIS-. Commodore Boyle and daughter have left
town. and Will trayelfo for the summer. ....Gsn-
eral and Mrs. Beale, with their daughters will
spend some months at Long Branch. Mr.
Montgomery Blair and family left early, a. il
their Gus ON, for their country seat, near Wash
iDgtCn.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Lieut. A. H. Fletcher to the
rpedO boat Intrepid; Midshipman VIM. H.
Slack to the receiving ship Sabine. Detached
Commander A. 2. Cook from the torpedo sta
tien and ordered to the torpedo boat Intrepid
at Boston; Lieut.. Commander Horace T.. Null
Ian IRON abe Colorado and placed on waiting
ORDERS Lieut. Commander A. ). Baker from
the torpedo station and ordered to temporary
duty as executive officer Of the tOrpedo boat
Intrepid; Passed Assistant Paymaster Henry T.
Colby from the receiving ship indie pendence
and ordered as assistant TO Pay Inspector Full
ton, at the navy yard, Mare Island; Passed
Assistant Engineers W. A. Winslow and r. d.
Taylor special duty connected with the Ten
nessee AID ordered to the torpedo boat Intrepid
2lst instant; Passed Assistant Engineer John
Lowe from special duty connected with tue tor
pedo boat Intrepid and ordered to duty on board
that vessel.
LONE WOLF AND OTHER BRAVES on THE
WAR PArH.-Indisn Superintendent Enoch
Hoag, Of the Central SUPPLEMENTARY, ansas,
In forwarding report from Agent Haworth to
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs states that
Satanic Is still firm in his friendship for the
whites. He has suggested to friendly disposed
Indians to separate from disloyal ones. He
thinks the Indians will behave themselves if
treated well and protected by the military from
buffalo hunters, whisky sellers, aud thieyish
outlaws In his report Agent Haworth
leads one wing and has determined to
join with the Cheyennes and Commences.
ON the war path. Kicking Bird, Satanic, and
twelve or fourteen other chiefs have decided
TO come in near the agency and remain peace
able. There remains 10 longer any doubt of
the fact that the Cheyennes and Comanches
or part CT each tribe now are on the war
path. Agent HawOrth mentions q report of a
fight between Cheyennes and Comanches and a
party of hunters near the line of New Mexico.
or AT place known as Adobe Walls, in which
seven Indians and three white men were killed
The REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL. COMMIT
TEE has issued an address TO the people of the
United States, reviewing the history OF demo-
cratic administrations up to the 4th of March,
1861, and, by comparison with the record of the
republican party since that date, asks the peo-
pie OF the United States to send no more demo-
Gratis to Congress, but true and able republicans,
in principle as well as In name. The three issues
OF the campaign are: First, the civil rights bill:
that by appropriate legislation celored peo-
pie may have all the rights implied by the 18th
amendment; second, the currency question; as
the party - divided on this subject, no peculiar
views are advanced, but the assurance is ri ven
that when the solution is found the faith of the
republican party Is pledged to put Ii into opera
ton. The third and most important question,
or cheap transportation. is reviewed at length
and this, toe, Is to be LETT to future discussion
as to how far national legislation shall control
railroad corporations, or whether the govern
ment will assume the building Of highways of
CON CON merce or opening up more water courses.
The proposed reciprocity with Canada receives
It's quietus in the address. but nothing Is said
about Increased taxation, internal CT customs.
FILIAL OBEDIRHCR.-There il, now q DAYS, a
good deal of complaint about the want Of obed-
ence to parental authority on the part OF the
rising generation, especially on the part of the
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