Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-06-09
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.


GovERSMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Inter-
nal revenue, $500 ,365 %; customs, S572, 53l72
THE CABINET Secretary Cam
cry Cameron was the only member absent
from cabinet meeting to-day.
SECRETARY CAMERON left washington
yesterday for Harrisburg, aud Will not re-
turn TO this city until after the Cincinnati
convention, to which he is a delegate.
THE LIVELY SCENE in the House yester.
day, when Messrs. Frye aud Blaine so do
cidedly snub0ed Mr.. Tai box, is described on
the third page.
IN Massachusetts, Tsrbox is kuowl as the
man who ran against PIll-box. and Ia Wash
ington as the man who ran ayaiost Blaine
and got himself in another box.
SENATOR CAMERON went 10 Harrisburg
on the O'Clock train this moraing, and will
be absent probably until Tuesday. When he
returns he will take quarters with his sou,
Secretary Cameron.
THERE IS CONSIDERABLE TALK in pollti-
cal circles In references TO the selection of the
president OF the Cincinnati convention. Elk.
Governor Ramsey, OF Minnesota, is men,
TONED for the position.
THE BILL offered by Senator Salisbury
10y request) on Wednesday, was merely to
correct an error In section ,5SS Revised
Statutes, and related not to the IS per cent.
list OF retired efficers OF the navy, but to the
81 per cent list.
WORMS. In the United States court at
Philadelphia, yesterday, Charles Worms was
found guilty OF forging the signature of Sec.
rotary Chandler to contract with the Inte-
rlor department for furnishing Indian sun
plies. Sentence not passed.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Commander Montyo-
merry Sicard, detached as inspector OF ord
nance at the navy yard, Washington, and
ordered to report to the chief of bureau of
ordnance for duty LIST July; Lieut. VIM. TT
briggs, from the Plymouth, and granted
leave OF absence for one month.
THE GLENwooD CEMETERY.-In the
Senate To- day, Mr.. Ingalls, introduced bill
repeating the act entitled Gan act to incor-
porate the proprietors Of the Gleuwood Csu-
etery," approved July 81, 1854; which was
referred TO the Committee on the District of
Columbia.
MARYLAND DELEGATES TO CINCINNATI
8. w. Chase, William Perkins, and VIM. T.
Gray, delegates TO the Cincinnati Conven-
ton from Maryland, elected at the Frederick
convention, called upon Mr.. Blaine this
morning and had short conference with
him. The Maryland delegates are all Blaine
men. The delegates then called upon eX-
Mayor Sayles j. Bowen.
ihh ChElGN AFFAIRS OFFICF
has published the correspondence relative to
the extradition treaty between Great Britain
and the United States. Earl Derby regrets
secretary Flsh's refusal to negotiate an ad .
ditlonal article to the treaty of 1872, and
expresses the hope that be will Withdraw his
oD1ectlon thereto. and thus enable a new
treaty to be signed Immediately.
SENATORS GOING TO CINCIN NATL
Among the Senators who are going to the
sg-,, NJ
Logan, West, Dorsey, Hitchcock, Sargent,
Jones OF Nevada, Clayton, Spencer, and
Patterson, and several others, who leave for
Cincinnati to- morrow morning at o'clock
Cay ton, Spencer and Patterson are dele.
gates from their respective states.
AN INDIAN AGENTS ROSE COLOR VIEW
OF THE SIOUX Waffle Commissioner of
Indian Affairs has received dispatch from
John 8. Hastings, Indian agent, dated Red
Cloud agency, reporting, from the best infor
nation, that only about four hundred Chey-
ennes and four hundred Sioux have left the
a. eucy, including women and children. The
agency Indians are all quiet, and show no
hostile feeling, aud there Is no foundation
Ter the outrageous false reports In circull-
zion.
CoNF1RMAr1oSs The Senate, yesterday.
confirmed the following nominations: VIM.
Writ Sykes, OF ". Y. to be U. 8. Consul at
U.S d.
Consul at Florence; Hedgeman Slack, to be
Y. 8. Marshal for West Virginia; Virgil s.
Lusk, TO be U. s. Attorney for the western
| district of North Carolina; Moses NJ. B@ne.
OF III, to be secretary OF Titan territory; Jno.
Tyler, To be postmaster at JackCon, Fla ::
James Mclaughlin, TO be Indian agent at
DevlIs Lake, Dakota; also, number OF army
promotions.
WEST VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS FOR THUR
Mantle following telegram was received
arla
| held: "
Examinations as Observation-Disclosures, gov
ernor; Robert White, OF Hampshire county,
attorney general; Joseph Miller, auditor:
| L. j. West. treasurer; PendletOn, of Brook
! superintendent of free schools; Raymond o.
Johnston ana Green, court Of appeals. Plat
Half of the candidates were federal SOL
diers, and the other half ex-confederates.
| Thurman delegates were elected to the st.
! Louis convention.
THE ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL-The
House Committee on Appropriations this
morning agreed upon a bill making appro-
| nriation for the army. The bill is substan-
! tally the same as the Banning bill, with an
increase OF salaries in some cases. The sal
airy OF the general remains at Sl2 900 The
army is TO be maintained at the maximum
| strength OF q, 600. To encourage reduction
| In the number of officers, those rendering
years additional pay. The regiments are to
oe consolidated to s regiments of cs vaIrv
and 16 or Is OF infantry, as the Secretary of
| war may elect. One of the important Tea-
| lures is the clause declaring that no discriu-
4 NATION shall be made In the army ON ac-
c, unt OF color. The committee is su6stan-
| tally In accord on the bill, and IL is under
stood the War department will make no
| special objection
SUIT AGAINST Ex-SKCRETARY OF THE
| INTERIOR Observation-Disclosures Attorney
Wells has entered a suit for u. 8. govern
| ment against Jacob Thompson, OF MIssis-
! sippi, Secretary of the Interior under Presi-
| dent Buchanan's administration, TO recover
| TIE value Of certain Indian trust bonds
stolen from the department while Mr.
4 thompson was in charge of it.
The first count is one In assumpsit "for
| money paid by plaintiff TO defendant at bis
| request and for money received by defend
ant" and plaintiff claims one million dol
lars with interest from the first day OF July,
| 1851.
The second count Is as follows: "And the
plaintiff kues the defendant for bonds re-
ceiv ed by the defendant while acting as Sec
rotary OF the Interior of the United States
| Cor the use OF the plaintiff, to the amount OF
one million OF dollars, the said bonds having
been con verted by the defendant to his own