Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-05-04
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
DURING the summer the President will
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 INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS TO-
day were s4S3,7O1S9.
THE RECEIPTS from customs at the Trea-
sury department to-day were sos, $500.
THE AMOUNT OF national bank note cur
| rency received at the Treasury to-day for re-
demptiOn aggregated sl,0O7 1868.
GEN. AND MRS. BADEAU are in the city,
stopping at The Arlington. The President
| and Mrs. Grant give large dinner party in
their honor this evening.
| THE COURT OF CLAIMS rendered no de-
| cision in the Union Pacific railroad case to-
| day. The probabilities are that the case will
| be reopened for the admission of additional
testimony on the part of the government.
SHERIDAN CAPrURED.-The report comes
| from Chicago that Gen. Phil. Sheridan, after
| these many years of bachelorhood, has sur
rendered, and is soon to be married to Miss
| Rucker, the beautiful and accomplished
| daughter of General Rucker.
| CoMMIssARY CHANGFs-Captain Charles
| b. PenrOse, commissary of subsistence, mas
| been ordered to take charge OF the purchasing
| subsistence depot at Chicago, H., relieving
| Brig. Gen. Robert Macfeeley, appointed COM
| mlsSary general of the army.
/ THE SABINE, receiving ship of the United
States navy at Portsmouth, n. H, is, by di-
rection of the Secretary of the Navy, to be
used for the enlistment OF boys for service in
| the navy on the same conditions as those en-
| listed for the Minnesota at New York.
SENIOR ANTONIO MANrILLA, who repre-
sented the Spanish republic in this city
| as minister plenipotentiary and envoy ex-
| tTaOrdinary, to- day presented his credentials
to The President as the representative of Do-I
| Alfonso King of Spain. The usual congrat-
| ulatory addresses were interchanged.
PERsoNAL.-Judge TEACHER, Commits
| siOner of Patents, has left the city for a few
| weeks. 80" Gen. Cowen, Assistant Secre-
| tary OF the Interior, has returned to New
| York TO assist in the opening of bids for
| Indian supplies. 49, Commissioners Smith,
/ OF the Indian bureau is there ON the same
| duty.
| MOVEMENTS OF U. s. VEssELs.-The u. S.
steamer Shawmut arrived al Port Royal, S.
c., May I'd, from West Ind ess where she was
| Joined by Assistant Paymaster n. H. Stavey
| relieving Payma ter Jos. FOSTER and Pay
masters Clerk George w. Salter, of Wash
/ iDgtOn.
| The Ossippee expected to leave Vera Cruz
April nth for Tampico.
| How IT Is.-It is stated at the Indian bu-
reau in regard to the statement of Colonel
| Hatch, of the 18th cavalry, commanding al
Fort Sill that the Indians do not receive the
| full amount of their rations, that the con-
| tractor for furnishing supplies has been I'M
| able to transport them TO For; Sill for some
| time past owing TO the inclemency OF the
| weather.
| THE MEXICAN RAIDs.-The inability of
| the Mexican government to prevent raids
| across the Rio Grande border has impelled
| this government to take active military
| measures, in which the cooperation of the
state of Texas is invited, to repel these incur
| ions, and secure the arrest and punishment
Of the invaders. An additional cavalry force
| viii be ordered to the vicinity of the more
| recent raids.
| THE FARRAGUT CASE IN THE U. s. ST.
| PREME COURT.-In the United States Su-
| preme Court yesterday decision was
| reached in the case of the United States, ap-
| rellants, VS.. David G. Farragut, administra-
Tor, &c, ct al; appeal from the Supreme
| Court of The District of Columbia. Mr.. JUS
| tlce Miller delivered the opinion of the court,
| reversing so much of the decree of the said
1 Supreme Court as relates TO the Sl6,601
awarded as salvage, and affirming said de-
| cree IN all other particulars, and remanding
| the cause for fur her proceedings in conform
ity with the opinion of this court.
| STARVING INDIANs.-The War depart
| ment is in receipt Oft report from Lieuten-
| ant-COlonel John +. Hatch, commanding at
| Fort Sill, Indian territory, in which he
| shows that the supplies of provisions issued
| to Indians are entirely inadequate, and that
| the Indians are actually killing and eating
! their horses. Major-General Pope indorses
| the report, and says sit is idle to expect that
| these Indians will remain peaceably upon
| reservations with the prospect of starvation
| in doing sO.' Gen. Pope adds: 80 long as this
| maladminiStratiOn of affairs with these
/ indians exists the military @rthOrtiaS c1
not be and will not be held accountable for
any outbreak which may occur"
| ONE OF THE LATE CoMMIssIoSER
| BAKERS ORDERS REvoKED.-Mr. Atkinson,
the new commissioner of Pensions, has
| revoked the following order issued by his
| divisions, shall leave the Office bewean the
| lQurs or . a. m. and p. m, without permis-
/ sion htni the superintendent of the Seaton
| house. Employees will not be permitted TO
| receive the visits of friends ,and acquaint-
! ances during Office hours" In revoking this
order the Commissioners says: The various
employees of this bureau VIII be expected TO
I faithfully attend to their respective duties,
| and an improper abuse of the freedom given
| them by the revocation of this order will be
deemed sufficient cause for dismissal"
THE NEW ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF
| THE TREASURY. - The President to-day
| signed the commission OF Curtis +. Burn
| ham. of Kentucky, to be Assistant Secretary
| of the Treasury, vice Hartley, resigned.
Judge Curtis +. Burnham, the newly APP
| pointed Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury
| qualified to-day by giving bond and sub
| scribing TO the oath of office, which was ad-
| ministered by Chief Justice Cartier. of the
| District Supreme Court. He entered upon the
| discharge of his duties this afternoon.
| Concerning Mr.. Hartley's trip to Europe
| nothing can yet be definitely said. He can
go on an important mission ii he desires but
he has not yet made up his mind as TO his
future movements.
| ,,
] SOUND CONDITION or THE TREASURY
On April 80, one year ago, there was in the
| treasury $50 591 1852 in gold belonging to the
| government. Yesterday the government
| owned $40, ODD 1923 in gold. This is an ex-
cess of gold in the treasury, owned Alb
| sOlutely by the government, of more than
| 1851 900. The currency balance year ago
was 1926, 07402 This year ii is 81 096 1876.
\ The treasury has, therefore, nearly eleven
| and half millions of dollars more in its
| vaults than 1t had on the last day of April,
| 1874. This does not look much like Impend-