Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-09-18

nal revenue, s22f.93 60; customs, ~ 80 %.
SECRETARY SCHCRz Is expected to return
from Louisville to morrow morning.
REVENUE APPOINTMENTS Moore C.
Blackwell has been appointed revenue
stoTekeeper AID gauser for the 9Th district
of Virginia, and Brin Jolly and q Gorge
| Myers gaugcrs for the "a district of Ken
lucky.
NAVAL OFFICE. CORNEL of New York,
in his letter 10 Secretary Sherman concern
ing The reorganization of The clerkships in
Eis flee, sa that he does rot think that il
Is for the il terest of the government TO m Ike
al ) Changes al present.
SENATOR M,RToS Nor SO WELL.-Act-
ing POtmaster General Brady to-day re-
ceived a dispatch from Ex Gov. Burbank, a
brother in-law Of Senator Morton, saying:
1.-The Senator l. hardly so well this morn
ing, bus IOlLiug serious"
THE BOARD OF INQUIRY vestfgafing
charges against the Indian bureau VIII re-
convene some time this month, to continue
taSng testimony. Tpe report, which viii be
voIumiuoIs, will contain many sugz -stIOns
lockif 10 Tie reform 81 the indian seryIc
THE NEW INDIAN COMMIssIo> ER.-It IS
NJ officially a>certaii Ell that Nj +. A. Ha It.
p retired merchant OF New York, and Tor
meriy on the hoard Of Indian commits sion rs.
who was rendered tie position Of Ini'sn
NJ On hIs duties III but the lSt of October.
THE STATEMENT that Sir Josep Hooker
aud panty were n 'O1'ts ea~I was premature,
"a California papers OF that date mention
Prof "a Gray aud wife, Prot. Hayd an a I'd
Sir JOSep at Chico aS guests OF Gen. Biiwell,
under whose auspices the party, inc'uiiug
Mrs. B!dwell and Miss Kennedy, OF Wash
il gtCn, were 70 start for a somewhat Pro
tTscted camping expedition to- the SIeTrds
a. Mount Shasta.
STURGTs' SHARP FIGHT WITH THE Me-
PERCEs.-The following telegram was re.
ceived at the War department last night:
CHICAGO. Sept. L..
General f. ID. To'rnseHd, AJutdnt General,
Washington, ID. e:
Col. Sturgis, commanding the 9Th cavalry.
under date of Near Y eilow stone, Montana"
Sept. Is, reports as follows: We have Just
had a hard 4 ght W it'll the NeZ PSrceS, lasting
nearly all day. We Killed and wounded u
coed many and captured several hundred
head of stock Reports not yet in, and cin-
not give our loss, but IL is cOnsiderable-a
number k u ed ard goOt many wounded:
iSiened,) =. II. SHERIDAN, Lieut.. General.
THE LATE ST FROM STANLEY.-The fol-
lowing cablegram has been received, Sep
TENDER IS at the Department of State from
the United States commercial agent al s..
Paul de Loando.
ultimo August. Reached Bona river,
Gorge. Jth, with rs men. Complete sue
cess. Passed 81 catsrac.s or rapids. Frank
PoCock drowned above Bona.
NEWTON, Commercial Agent"
st. Paul de LoaLdo, the place above men
toned at which Stanley arrived on the 21St
OF August is the capital of the Portuguese
settlements on the west coast OF Africa.
Stanley has therefore passed from Zanzibar
on the east coast Of Africa to Lower Guinea
on the west coast a distance OF nearly 400
miles las the crow tlies'-ED. STAR.
YELLOW FEvER IN FLoRIDA.-The fol-
lowing fI' m 81 gent man In florida 10
friend in this city shows the dIeed felt there
in ri gard To- The yellow fever:
GAINESVILLE, FLA. Monday nj ght, l0ih.
FTioHd Hn,.-StOp Johns coming 10 Fl nj
da just now, as yellow fever Is a Fernan
diI as the port is to-day that 1t is spre l.
ing rapidly :, aad it is not safe for any Que ID
ride on railroad or steamers A. this place,
To show now strict the authorities are, there
is depot full Of goods belonging 10 IN r.
chants here, from New YORK, came bv way
Of Feinan6ira. and delay ell 1T same plaoe
1--WE or six days before they ar lived here, and
the merchants are not ailOyet Ia take the N
will be deserted, and ali "! go 10 the pines
ard camp out until fros. III y " -nIosr.
JOE.
THE COTTON STRIKE AT BoLTOv, ENG
LASD.-The United States consul at Liver
| pool informs the Department of Stale that
| the operatives in the cotton mills OF Bolton
and vicinity, 10 the nun Der of ten to twelve
thousand, struck on the first OF the present
month rather than submit to a reduction OF
five per cent. on their wages. One buadre1
| and six mills are closed in consequence. II
| is stated that the men are in good financial
condition 10 sustain the strike aud that large
| contributions will be supplied by other aSsO-
Citations. These operatives struck also In
1874 against a reduction OF five per cent, but
submitted TO arbitration, which decided
| against them. The five per cent. was lfoS-
| ever restored I'm 1915, and the present strike
| Is Occasinned by the attempt 10 take il Off
| again. Unless arbitration il again reSOrted
| To, the present strike is likely To prove a
! stubborn one, for, while men assert their
ability TO remain out an Indefinite time. the
mill owners, on account OF the continually
decreasing American markets for th~ir
goods, The famine now ragiIg In India, and
to Lave their places closed for some time.
/ EAvE WE A LEGAL GOyERNNENT Or THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA w INGToN,
ID c., September IL, 1s77.- EIitor Ersaing s. ar:
| The Revised Statutes of the United States
! besr date of 22d June, 1874, and repeal ali
| laws Inconsistent with them. On the 2oJh o.
| June, 1874, the law was approved which es-
| iablished the joint District government by
Comm issioners and abolished the old system
| OF q Governor, Board of Public Works, q nd
legislature. But in the Revised Statutes
| printed in Statutes at Large, ed CoBgres s.
16'3-I5, at p9 &c 2, is the whole esta blishment
OF the old Di>tTi t governmental overnor,
legislature, Assembly, aud Board OF Public
Works-al1 legislated into power on the -
Jure, 1874, two days after the approval Of the
law establishing the Board of Commissioners
which now actually governs the District, md
this law, being OF earlier date, seems to he
repealed. How is il that the later law-22i of
June-has not in It's practical application
OVerridden the law of both June, and restored
the Governor, Legislature, and Board Of
Public Works to power embraced i'm It's pro-
visions? pee second page Revised Statutes
District OF Columbia. NJ
References: K g., 1092, sec. 5G0l, Ju %,
1874.
II. 6. ID. c., page 2. Jupe %, 1874.
Vol. Is, Part 3, chap 331, june 20, 1874.
How CRAZY HORSE DIED.-The Commits
siOner of Indian Affairs has received q co n
municatiOn from Lieutenant w. p. Clark,
first Lieutenant I'd cavalry, commanding the
scouts at Camp Robinson, Nebraska In rela-
ton 10 the dt ath of Crazy Horse. Lieut.. c.
says that Crazy Horse was a "bad Ingin.n