Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-10-30

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-lnternMr rev.
enue, $3.50, 254.2s; customs, s55s, ,253.a4
THE INCREASE in the national bank circulation
for the present month will reach three ana
a-half million. The demand for additional cir
culation is speedily increasing.
PERsoNAL--Sir Edward Thornton and family
vacated their summer residence at "Moulton
Castle" Mass, yesterday. for their home in this
city.
SECRETARY MCCRARY returned to the city last
evening. He was overrun by visitors at the
War department to-day.
SECOND LIEUT. GEORGE ANDREWS, 25th infan
try, has been directed to report to the superin-
tendent of mounted recruiting service to ac-
company recruits to the department OF Texas.
SECOND LIEUT. Jos. RICHARDSON, U. s. M. c.,
has been detached from the marine barracks
here and ordered to command the marine guard
of the Nipsic now at Norfolk.
SECRETARY SHERMAN will return to Washing
ton this evening.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY HAwLEY, of the Treas
ury department. leaves town tomorrow for an
absence OF ten days or two weeks.
GovENNET PURCHASE OF SuvER.-The Treas
ury yesterday afternoon purchased $4,000
ounces of silver for delivery at the Philadelphia
and San Francisco mntS
MUST VOTE IN THEIR OWN TIME.-In giving
employees permission to go home to vote, Secre-
tary Schurz follows in his department that plan
adopted when he first took charge of it; that is,
the time the employe is absent Is deducted from
his annual leave of thirty days.
GEN. ADAMS the special commissioner, will
hold council with the Utes at Los Pnos agency
to-day. He will telegraph tonight the result.
Commissioner Hayt thinks he Will receive the
information telegraphed by tomorrow night.
THE STARVING HUALAPAIS-It is stated at the
Interior department that the subsistence Of the
Hualapai Arizona Indians, whom Gen. Mcdowell
reports to be starving, was provided for by the
Indian Bureau several months ago by means Of
an official letter authorizing the War depart
rnent to issue rations Of beef and -four to those
Indians, and to present the accounts for pay
ment by the Indian Bureau. The term for
which the authorization was given will not
expire until the 10th Of December; but Commits
sioner Hayt yesterday extended the time for
sixty days from that date Before the eXpira-
tion of this period Congress will have an OppOT'-
lapais They are not Agency Indians, and no
appropriation has ever been made Tor them
specifically.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Lieut. Nathan H. Barnes to
the Nipsic 7th November; Passed Assistant
Surgeon VIM. A. Gown to the Kearsage 5th No
yember: Lieut.. Commander C. H. Davis and
Lieut.. j. A. Norris from present duties and
ordered to special duty at bureau OF navigation
connected with the determination of lOngitudeS;
Ensign j. A. Sherman has reported his return,
having been detached from the Yandalia on the
18th inst, and has been placed on sick leave;
Surgeon r. Woolverton from the KearSage and
ordered to hold himself in readiness for duty on
board the POwhatan; Assistant PaymaSter A. K.
Michler from present duties and ordered to settle
accounts.
WHY VICTORIA LEFT HIS REsERvATION.-The
Indian Commissioner to-day received from In
dian Agent Russell communication dated
Mescalers Agency, N. NJ, Oct. IS, 1879, saying
ssIn accordance with Mr. Fountain, an attorney
of Mesilla, n. NJ, l learned what believe to
be the true reason why Victoria left the reSer-
walton at the time he did. Victoria heard of the
Indictment against him in Grant county, or. as
they say that paper was out against him.
Three days afterward Judge Bristol, Mr.. Foun-
tain, prosecuting attorney, and others passed
through the reservation (past the agency to a
point 1s miles beyond the agency on pleasure
eXcursion-hunting and fishing. The Indians
were acquainted with those persons, knew thei
official positions, and connected their visit her.
with the paper referred TO, and believed t.la
Victoria, and perhaps his people, were to be ar
rested. Mr.. Fountain, who has been in tn
country for eighteen years, is personally ac
quainted with many of the Indians, and learned
from them, as he tells me, that these circ,m
stances induced Victoria to leave at the time he
did