Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-10-09
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip,
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-lntel nal
evenue, S509, 1911; customs, $593,G50.Sl.

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-lntel nal
revenue. s505,iS5.47; customs, s393,650.Si.
SUBSCRIPTIONS TO the four per cent. loan tc-
day amounted to sSS5,j
SECRETARY THOMPSON will not be back be-
fore Friday or Saturday.
TIE PRESIDENT, Mrs. Hayes, the Attorney
General Secretary SchurZ and Mr.. and Mrs.
Rogers left this morning on the 6:31 trlin for
Orange, Va. They will return to night.
IN VIEW OF THE FALLING OFF in the reve-
Dues of the government, the heads OF the
different departments will place their esti-
mates fOr the next fiscal year as low as posi-
bic.
PERsONAL-Hon Hugh McCulloch, ex-Sec-
retary of the Treasury, GOW of London, is at
the Ebbitt House, accompanied by his daugh-
ter: :Ex-Goy. Shepherd and John 7.
Mitchell have returned from st. Louis. 80.
Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury HaWley
returned to the city today and resumed his
duties at the department.
ALL QUIET AT SPOTTED TAIL AGENCY
The following dispatch was received at the
War department this morning:
CHICAGO, ILL, Oct. 5, 1SIS.-Adiutant Gen.
er0l, Washington, d. c.: Capt. Monahan, 81
cavalry, telegrapfs from Camp Sheridan yes.
terday that relia hle information from Spotted
Tail agency shows all quiet there on 5th inst.
No excitement whatever Red Cloud and six
chiefs arrived at White Clay on 7th inst.
(Signed) +. I'll. SHERIDAN, LIT. Gen.
The PRESIDENT MADISON ESTATE, which
the President visits to-day, is owned by Frank
Carson, formerly of this city, and is four miles
substantial building of brick and stone, with
spacious rooms lot unlike the Arlington man
sion, opposite Washington, and Monticello,
the home OF Jefferson uear Charlottesville.
WHAT RED CLOUD SAYs.-The following
dispatch has been received by the Secretary of
the Interior from Col. o I5eirne, at the forks of
Clay and Wolf creeks: Red Cloud with some
of his principal Chiefs, Red Dog, Little Wound,
No Flesh, Joined me at noon TO day. All are
very much pleased with the condition of things
here. AT a council he says in reply to your
then can do nothing, but if they come to my
village will use them very well. know them
very well l will keep them quiet and turn
into my camp; but i do not think they Will the
Great Father took our guns away and We
have nothing left but our hands knew this
some some time time ago; II | had guns would turn
them back. do not think the CheyenneS will
come near US, but il they do l will attend to
them as the, Great Father asks. Indian
cOullers leaye here at once to return to the vii
lage to tell the Sioux to be on the lookout, and
to warn them so that they will not be stam-
peded by the presence of the military in force
now pursuing the Indians. AS write the
wounded Knee, doubtless set on fire by the
lying Cheyennes to disconcert the pursuit.
INCREASED IMMIGRATION INTO NEW YoRF
An official report made to the Bureau of Sta
tistics shows that during the month of Sep
tember, 1873, there arrived at the port of New
YORK l6,b.S passengers, OF whom S,955 were
Immigrants, 6,9iT citizens of the United States
and 90 sojourners. OF the total number OF
Immigrants, 5,135 were males and 3,SlJ fe-
males There were from Germany 2,i2S, Eng
land 2O7, lrela land LIS During the CORE
spending month of 1871 there arrived at the
same port ,I06 passengers of whom 66I
were immigrants 1872 citizens OF the United
states and SO soj0urneIS. During the three
months ending september 30, 1913, there ar
rived at the same rOlt 13.OSS, of whom 25.2i3
were immigrants, 15Gf3 citizens of the United
States and ,, 81 sojOurners. During the cor
rC3Ionolng period Of 1871 there arrived at he
same p0rt 32,U2G Of whom y, 100 were immi-
grants, 1902 citizens OF the United SateS AMI
l,H5 soJouInerS.
NAVAL ORDERs.--Lieutenant T. Dix Boll9s
has reported his return home, having been de-
tached from the MCnOcacy, ASiatic station,
and has been placed on waiting orders.
TIE IMMORTAL j. y. has devised the follow
ing method OF paying off the national debt
without cost to the people: 1st. Convey to the
Indians the whole of the public domlin ID.
Ke4uiIe az creditors OF the United States 10
lock to the Indians for the payment of their
claims. Sd. Let the government do as it al
ways has done befOrc-steal back the public
! lands from the Indians.
THE U. 8. S. SPEEDwELL arrived at the
Washington Navy Yard yesterday, and has
been ordered out OF commission.
TIE REPORTS required by the Thurman Pa
cific railroad bill were furnished today to the
auditing bureau at the Interior department
by the Union Pacific railroad. Nearly all of
the Pacific railroads have sent in similar re-
ports. There is no reason to believe that any
visions of the act, except, perhaps, the Central
Pacific In response to direct request from
the chief OF the bureau to answer definitely
whether 1t Is intended to furnish. the report,
attorneys will shortly be prepared, and that it
will then make knownits determination in the
matter.