Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-02-27

to provide for the allotment of lands In sever
atty to Indians. The bill has been under con-
ments have been suggested, having for their
object the protection OF the white settlers, and
to aveid any conflict of the rights under the bill
of the whites and Indians. It is thought the
essential features of the bill will be agreed upon
by the committee at their next meeting.
THE MooNsHINE WAR IN GEoRGIA.-In a re-
port by mail as to the moonshine war in Geor-
gia Collector Clark writes to Commissioner
Raum giving the details of five seizures not
heretofore reported. Eight arrests were made
in these seizures. Among the arrests were John
Self, operating still on the line of Lumpkin
and Union counties. Self is the reported leader
Of Illicit d1stillers in upper Chestatee, who
stopped citizens on the highways few days
since, suppOsing them revenue officers, and de-
tained them until satisfied that they were not
such. Jesse Staucie, Sells partner, who was
also arrested, confessed that the 'illicit disti-
lers were combined to whip out the revenue
officers Collector Clark reports that there is
no perceptible change in the attitude of the
GIVING A HEARING TO THE INDIANS The
Senate committee on territories to-day gave
audience to w. P. Affair." assistant principal
chief of the Cherokee nation; P. Porter and John
F. Brown, representing respectively the Creeks
and SeminOleS; and Charles Bluejacket and
Charles Tucker, Shawnee representatives, in
opposition to the bill which was agreed upon
by the committee last week, providing for the
establishment of United States court in the
Indian territory and for other purposes" Col.
Adair read to the committee the published
memorial that was presented to the Senate on
10th instant, and several other delegates made
oral arguments againoe the bill in the same
general line of argument. The report to the
Senate has been delayed in order to hear this
delegation, but the committee, at the conclusion
of the hearing. decided to adhere to their pre-
yious action, directing the measure to be re-
ported with recommendation for passage.
PERsoNAL-sir Alexander T. Gait, Of Canada,
is in the city, the guest OF Sir Edward Thorn
ton.-Gen. Charles Ewing and wife, OF this
city, are in Philadelphia Hodges and
z. L. Windsor, both well-known citizens of
Montgomery county, died last week.-Repre-
sentative Monroe, OF the seventeenth Ohio dis
again, and the Indications now are that Capt.
A. S. Mcclure editor of the Wooster Republican,
will be his successor. The district as newly ar
3,5O0.-The lecture on Spiritualism delivered
in Rockville, on Tuesday evening. by Rev. DR..
Harrison, of Mt. Vernon NJ. E. church in this
city Is highly spoken Of py the al
Col. a. K. Mcclure, OF the Philadelphia
Times, is at the Riggs.-Among the Washing
I. T Davidge, in si Paris MIS- Mrs Justice t nj NH l.
Ter and daughter, in Florence, and Mr..
c. A. Bristed, In Rome.-Ex-Represen
Mr.. Longfellow is 7s years old to-day, and the
event is to be formally celebrated In one of the
Cincinnati public schools
Van yorhis was registered in New York last
evening.-Col. w. F. Shaffer, Ex-GoV. McCor-
mick, Ex-senator Chaffee, Ex-senator Latham,
Ex-Delegate Elkins, and Drake De Kay, who
writes his name with marking brush,-all wen
known In Washington are among the trustees
Of the newly organized mining exchange in
New York.--It is said that MI. Theodore Mar
tin, author OF the Life of the Prince Cons0rt, is
to be knighted sOon.-Mr. Augustus Schen OF
New York, has rented for the season OF 1850 the
cottage on the Cliff at Newport, owned by Senar
tor Pendleton. Police Commissioner Wheeler,
OF New York, is lying very Ill 1t the Gilsey
see. It is thought, how his fields and fences look
after the winter thaw.--vanderbilt the rail-
Way king who has been here for few days
past, left for New York last night