Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-05-14

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receive by card between the hours of eleven
and two, except on Tuesdays and Fridays,
which being Cabinet days, no one will be
received except government officials.
THE RECEIPTS TO-DAY were. from internal
revenue, SAG, i5lTs; from customs, S5il,42L
THE AMOUNT national bank notes received
at the Treasury to-day for redemption ag-
gregated Ss33, 200.
THE NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL. Edwards
P;errepont, will enter upon the discharge OF
his duties tomorrow.
PRoNoTIoNs.-J. u. DurnaU Of Colorado,
and II. c. Saunders, of New York, have been
promoted TO be principal examiners in the
Patent Office.
MAJOR W. p. GOULD, pa master, has been
relieved from duty i'm the department of
Missouri and ordered TO Charleston, ;. c.. for
assignment to duty at that post.
Hon. HAMILTON FISH was yesterday
elected President of the New York state
Society of the Cincinnati, and presided at a
banquet given by the society last night in
New York city.
EX-SENATOR PRATT, the newly-appoint-
ell Commissioner of Internal Revenue. will
take charge of the internal revenue bureau
tomorrow morning. 1t is not cOntemplat ted
10 ma ke any immediate changes in the Office
force.
COMMISSIONER SMITH, of the Indian Blu
reau, has returned from New York. where
he went 10 attend to the opening OF bids and
the making of awards for Indian supplies
The awards have all been made, and the
usual number of protests have been received
rom disappointed bidders.
THE COMING SIOUX.-Agent Bingham.
with ten of the Cheyenne river Indians,
#Iff O.
evening. They will by Joined a few DAYS
later by the Brule and Ogalalla Sioux, under
Spotted Tail and Red Cloud. They will
quarter at the fremont House.
THE PRESIDENT CANNOT ATTEND THE
BCNKER HILL CENTENNIAL-A delegation
representing the Massachusetts Legislature
called on President Grant to-day and extend
Ell 10 him an invitation TO attend the ami
versary exercises To take place at the Bunker
Hill monument. The President said he re-
GREETED that owing to prior engagements ne
would have TO decline.
PERsoNAL.-The engagement of Mr.. ].
Alex. Tyler. son of the late President John
Tyler, OF Virginia. TO Miss l. Y. Gardiner,
of Gardeners island, has been publicly an
noUnced in New York. .'''Colonel Fred. ID.
Grant leaves for the plains tonight, and will
return in July. '''' X-GOVernor Gilbert &.
Walker, of Virginia, is at the Metropolitan,
THE LEAGUE ISLAND COMMISSIONERS
have decided to .ay the Philadelphia navy
yard property off in lots, and at a meeting
held to-day at the Navy department APP
pointed commissioners TO appraise the lots
and report at an early day as possible the
result OF their labors, after which the property
will be offered for sale.
PROTECTING THE FooLs-The Postmaster
General to-day ordered the postmaster at
Cincinnati not TO pay any money orders
sent to one l.. ID. Sine. a blind man, employed
IN the lottery business in Cincinnati. but to
return them 10 the senders. Sine has been
IN the lottery business for number of years
past. and complaints have been SO frequent
OF late from victims of his operations that
the Postmaster General deemed ii necessary
10 take action as stated, n order TO protect
the public.
MATCHING SHAD FOR WESTERN RIVERS.
Prof Spencer F. Baird. u. s. fish commits
sioner, has located a shad-hatching estab-
liShment at Point Pleasant. on the Potomac.
about thirty miles from Washington. and
although the season has been backward, the
work thus far has been very satisfactory. II
Is expected that six or eight million young
Shad will be Matched out by the 18th of June
AT the establishment above mentioned, and
they Will be transported west as fast pos
siEle, for the purpose of stocking the r. VerS
OF the Mississippi Valley.
THE CASE OF SECRETARY DELANo-The
following dispatches were sent from this city
last night to the Chicago Tribune: Ever
since the announcement was made that the
Pres mad requested the resignation of
Secretary Delano, because of charges affect
ing his integrity, there have been efforts
made in certain quarters TO obtain the con-
tents or a statement of the contents of the
papers said to have been placed in the hands
% the President, your correspondent has been
aDIe 10 obtain history OF the case from q
thoroughly reliable source, and the follow
ing facts, which cover the whole ground
cannot successfully he controverted:-In the
hFLt nj o. I'm
President do not contain any charges against
the Secretary, but refer wholly to his SON
John =. DelanO, who for some time was chief
clerk in the Department of the Interior but
resigned IN the summer of 1873 on account of
Ill health. He went far south as Texas
and as far north as Minnesota in search
OF health, and returned to this city
some months since, considerably improved
During his absence, year ago, he visited
wyoming territory, where ne met the sur
Eeyor general, DIR. Reed, q personal friend.
Sometime afterwards young Delano, of his
his own accord, and on his own response
bility. wrote to DR.. Reed, saying that as he
was then out of public service, poor and IN
bad health, he saw 10 interest in his having
n contract in the survey OF public lands; but
for prudential reasons he thought il best 10
nave that interest in the name OF another
party. This request was acccted to and the I
contract entered into and the work done
John Delano subsequently received the pro I
ceeds thereof in two checks, aggregaiing !
about 81 500. one of these checks was for /
500 and the other for 500. the prices |
for all these public surveys originally /.
liked by law. and there is no evidence /
or allegation Of fraud in the contract ]
After these events had occurred there arose /
violent disturbance among the office hold /
ers of Wyoming. Read, the surveyor gen !
efal, and Glaefcke, secretary of the ter /
fitory, were removed. IL was soon 4
ascertained, however, that their removal .
was an act of injustice, melted by local jea- |
lousy and intrigue, Reed was restored, and |
his successor absconded to Japan. Glaefcke |
was not restored, but was made postmaster |
at Cheyenne. This dlspleased Walcott. the 1
United States marshal, who has been in |
triguing against his associates ever since |
Subsequent 10 this time, Reed. the surveyor
general, had occasion to discharge a clerk /
named Stevens, who had knowledge of the /
DelanO transactions. This, DIR. Reed had |
made matter of regular business, and he /
took the letter and checks and ons or two
other papers bearing on the matter from the /
Office and placed them in the hands of Wal |
colt, who in due time forwarded them TO Sec
retary Bristow, who, about the 5th of April |
last, handed them to the President |
Secretary Delano at this time was wholly |
Ignorant of the transaction. When the Pres
ident had examined the facts thus brought to |
ha Ia ,,,a5 To