Evening star., 1877-09-21

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THE COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN AF.
FAIRS has provided quarters for the Sioux
dele cation al the Continental hotel.
PERsoNAL.-Gen. Ellis Spear, Commits.
sioner of Patents, has gone to Maine. and
Will be absent about a week. -..Postmas-
ter Ger eral Key is expected to return early
next week.
BLACKwoop's MAGAZINE for September,
received from f NJ. Whitaker 4 Son, has an
intelligent Though rather partisan Tory and
anti RuSsian1 review of the Eastern situa-
tion and the fighting of the campaign.
THE U. 8. s. TALLAPoosA, Lieut. Me-
Ritch e comma Idinr, left New York We ter
day, bound south. She will touch at League
Island navy yard. Pennsylvania. and at
Norfolk, and then proceed To Washington.
CONTRACTS AWARDED The Secretary of
the Treasury has awarded contracts for fur
nishing a quantity of cordage TO 81 life saw
ing stations on the Atlantic coast and 80
stations on the lakes to Edwin II. Filter *
Co, of Philadelphia. at SASS per station on
the Atlantic coast, delivered AT New York,
ard s15.75 for lake coasts, delivered at spe.
cited points.
MUCH INCONVENIENCE has been eXpe-
rienced by Americans travelling in Belgium
on account of the peculiar postal regulations
L
at Antwerp advises that ali letters TO Ant
werp, or 10 any other city in Belgium should
have " iften on the face of each envelope the
words pOSte reSfunte. in which case they will
be retained at the post Office until called for.
A NEW COUN TFRFEIT five dollar note on
the First NatiOnal Bank of Tamaqua, Pa,
has been discovered. 1t was circulated hi
New York yesterday after banking hours.
1t is very finely executed; the engraving is
said by experts to ba superior to genuine.
Ii is safe TO reject all five dollar notes on that
bank, which are not printed on fibre paper,
and which do not have the number 1919 in
broad red type in two places on the face.
SENATOR MORTON MUCH BErrER-The
following telegram was received In this city
last night, dated Richmond, Indiana, Sep
tember 2Oth, ard addressed to Col. Edward
Bangs" Senator Morton much better to-
day; has fully recovered from the excitement
OF last week; Tyner left here last night.
JOHN A. BURBANK"
Another dispatch received in this city from
Governor Burbank this afternoon says that
Senator Morton is better and evenly and
steadily improving
Loss OF AN AMERICAN WHALEsHIP-
The United States consul at St Johns. New
fOundland, has Informed the Department of
State OF the loss OF the American bardue A.
Houghton, of New Bedford. James a. Sin.
clair, master. She was lost on the 18th OF
u IL. .
sons Bay. on a rock twenty five miles south
east OF Cape Fullerton, and fifteen miles
southwest of Depot Island. The captain and
crew, thirty one i'm number, arrived at st.
Johns on the morning OF the l1th instant on
board the whaling schr. Abbie Bradford.
THE UNION PACIFIC BONDs.-Hon. Jas.
F. Wilson, a director of the Union Pacific
railroad, has had an interview with Sacre-
tary SchurZ, with a view of coming TO ~ome
agreement TO be submitted 10 Congress a. the
hrNt session, il Ie;ereECe 10 the establish.
meLt of a sir king fnni ~ reimburse the
United States for he Interest an priDcIpal
OF the bords guaranteed by the gpvarnrna ant
At the last session of Congress an eff Jr, W Is
made 20 pass bill with this object in vie Y
hut the various opposing interests could no
he rfconciied. and the effort failed Under
the deci ion OF the Supreme Court, the p.
ciffc rs ilrOad companies are not required tn
reimburse The government for interest % Ill
on their bonds until such bonds become p sy
able, which will Bot be until 1892.
GEN. SrURGIs' VICTORY OvER1HE IN
DIANs-NO particular, of the fight OF Ge 3
Sturgis with the Nez Perces on the 18th ins. .
have been received at the War depaI tment
yet. IL * the general opinion a thn army
headquarters that General Surgis Is follow
1ng up the hostileS who retreated, and this
causes the delay in his reports; for If this ia
The case, the more he folio VS. them the farther
be is from any point from which he can send
communications II is thought, too, that no
officers were lost in the fight, or a special re-
port would have been sent at once. Sturgis
victory must have been q substantial one,
dred head of stock in possession or the SOL
dfers. Whether General Howard is on the
heels Of The enemy or not Is not known.
NAVAL ORpERs.-Lieut. Commanders E.
T. Woodward, Geo. w. Wood and Yates
Stirling, Lieuts. r M. Berry, Tho mas III.
Stevens, John j. Hunkei, Gotfield Block
!inger and James Franklin, Masters William
Kilbqrn and Frank Ellery, Ensigns Villa m
Winder. B. A. Fiske and F. w. Danner de
tached from duty at the torpedo station on
The 3nth instant and placed on waiting
orders; Lieut.. r Selfridge from the tor
pedO station on the 30th instant and ordered
to ordnance duty at the WASHINGTON navy
yard, 1st November; Lieut.. JOS. N. Hamphill
from fhe coast survey and ordered 10 the
Swatara at New York; Lieut.. VIM. Swift
from dnty at the torpedo station on the 3lth
instant and ordered to the Plymouth. 81 of
October; Cadet Mid hipmen Henry NJ. Dom
baugh and PhilipJ Jarsdale ordered To the
Plymouth st New York; Sailmaker Garrett
Van Meter 10 the Hartford at Norfolk, Va.
RTFoRM OF THE LAWS OF NATIONS
The L. s. consul at Antwerp has forwarded
to the Department OF State an account OF thu
fifth annual Congress of the Association for
the Reform and COdificatiOn of the Laws of
Nations, which closed its sittings in that
city on the 3lst instant. The congress was
composed OF about 100 members, represent
iTg nearly every nation in Europe. Tue
United States was represented by DR..
Thom pson, Of Berlin, ]. Z. Leonard, OF l. H.,
Rev. Mr.. Malcome. secretary of the Peace
Society of the United States and Rev. H.
Bokum, of Philadelphia. Lord O'Hag an. In
his opening address, referred to the mOiifica-
tion which had tn ken place IN the once lead
Ing peace idea OF the association. and said
that the discussion OF treaties of peace and
arbitration would not be then In keeping
with the logic of present events, SO the most
practical thing 10 be done was to take up
certain subjects of private International
laws, and by attempting TO cOdify these pre-
pare the way for the great questions which
gave origin TO the association. Reports were
read upon various subjects.
THE MARYLAND REPUBLICAN CoNyRN-
TION.-The MARYLAND republican state co..