Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-03-22

AMONG THE PRESIDENTS CALLERS to-day were
Senators Cameron, Kirkwood and Kellogg, aud
Representatives Butterworth, voorhees,, Pound
and McCook.
ANOTHER NoTARY.-The President has ap-
pointed Joseph W. Howell notary public for
the District Of Columbia.
THE RESIGNATION of Second Lieut.. A. B. Crit
tenden. 4th infantry. has been accepted by the
President, to take effect March 18th, 1880.
MOVEMENTS OF [. S. vEssELs--The Nlpsic
now repairing at Portsmouth, Va, will be ready
for sea on the 1st proXimo. She will go TO the
Mediterranean. The training-ship Constitution
sailed from ASpinwali March 1St, and arrived OIL
Havana March 10th.
Mr.. A. C. BUELL., printing clerk in the office o
the Secretary OF the Senate, has resigned, and 1t
is said that Mr.. Harris. OF Tennessee, mas re-
ceived the appointment in his place. Mr.. Buells
resignation was in the hands OF the Secretary
for two months, and was recently accepted 10
take place to-day.
BY TyroGRAHICAL ERRORS in Saturdays STAR
the amount Of the appropriation passed by the
House TO keep the Government Printing once
going put at 80, 900 instead of SlO0000 as 1t
Should have been, and The payroll OF the public
printer should have been $500 day.
A DELEGATION OF CROW INDIANS is on its way
to Washington to confer with Secretary Schun
respecting certain lands in their reservation,
discovered TO be mineral in character, upon
which settlers are pressing. 1t Is thought that
the Crows Will agree TO cede the land TO the
government.
NAVAL ORpERs.-Passed Assistant Engineer
B. W. Wood, from the New York navy yard,
and ordered to take passage in the Nipsic for
duty on board the Newton. relieving Passed
Assistant Engineer j. L. d. BorthWell, who VIII
return home. Boatswain Edward kenney, 10
the training ship Minnesota, relieving Boat
swain Robert Anderson, who is ordered to the
League Island navy yard. Boatswain John 4
BTlsco, to The New York navy yard. April 1st:
Carpenter Henry Rigley, from the NipSic, and
placed on waiting orders
PENSION APPEAIs.-Judge Shields, of Ohio is
preparing bill looking TO the establishment of
q court of appeals in pension cases. The bill
contemplates court, to be composed OF three
lawyers, who shall pass upon the equities OF all
pension claims filed with Congress. and which
have been rejected by the Pension Office.
THE OHIO REPUBLICAN CONVENTIONAL tele-
gram was received here last night from Chair
| man Robinson, OF the Ohio republican central
committee, stating that Congress Mckinley, of
the Canton (Ohio) district, had been selected to
preside over the Ohio republican convention,
which is TO be held in Columbus ON the 2Sth of
April. Mr.. Mckinley is pronounced Sherman
man.
THE House this morning was opened without
prayer This ought not to imply, however, that
IL Is past praying Iof.
SENATOR VOORHEES, is confined to his room by
indisposition, and there was report in circula-
tion at the Capitol to-day that he was danger
ously i'll. This was not true. He received
| telegram this morning announcing the death OF
| his father, aged 81 Years. in Indiana. While
| preparing to go out there he felt indisposed
| and was advised by his physician to remain in
| his room and rest for several days.
| GENERAL GRANTS STEAMER OvERDUE.-There
| s a rumor afioat here to-day that the steamer
City Of Mexico, on which General Grant is a
| passenger, has been disabled, and another that
| she has been lost at sea- The only grounds for
these rumors seems to be that the City OF Mex
| leo is overdue and that she has not yet been
| sighted by pilots. She was due at Galveston
yesterday. Inquiry at the Executive Mansion
and Signal Office fails to confirm the rumor.
dispatch from Galveston this afternoon
says: 1.-The steamer with General Grant on
board is not due here until to-day"
Mr.. SEwARD's NEW CHINESE TREATY.-THE
STAR announced last week that treaty had
been negotiated by Minister Seward modifying
our existing treaty with China. Various denials
of the fact have been made. They are simply
denialS OF fact. 1t is further learned concern
ing the treaty that its principal restrictions
to Chinese emigration to this country concern
the class of emigrants. No lewd women nor
criminals could under its provisions leave China
| for the United States. The Chinese authorities
at first made stout opposition to this, but finally
consented, apparently very reluctantly. No re-
/ Str1ct10nS, or, II anY, very material ones, are
/ placed on the great body OF Chinese emigration.
! A letter received here by government official
| from another government official in Pekin, says
| The Americans here are inclined TO laugh at
! MI. SeWard'S new treaty. He does not gain so
| much for the United States as | at first under
stood. The Chinese officials do not conceal their
delight at what is considered victory for them
THE REMOVAL OF THE PONcAs.-The Senate
committee On the removal of the Poncas on
Saturday examined Col. Z. j. Brooks, chief clerk
OF the Indian bureau, whom, in reply to ques-
tions why the Indian Office removed the PoncaS
TO the Indian territory. in the face OF the treaty
stipulations guaranteeing to them their Dakota
reservation, showed that the department re-
commended their removal to the Omaha reserve.
where they wished to go, and that Congress
thereupon directed their removal to the Indian
territory conditional upon their consent; and he
explained that the department felt obliged to
obey the law, although in contravention Of the
treaty stipulations, because the United States
Supreme )urt in the Cherokee tobacco case mad
so decided. Being then asked whether the Pom
cas- consent was given, he replied, Hardly such
consent as ] myself should wish to be re-
| moved under"
| TIE EXODUS Observation-Disclosures Langs-
dale, publisher of the Greencastle, Indiana,
| BaHItfa', and postmaster at Greencastle, testi-
| bed before the exodus committee this morning
| that he had conversed with many colored emf
grants coming to and passing through his town,
they were unable toget fair living in the south
on account or bad laws and cheating, and for
this reason desired TO change their residence.
There was some complaint that their political
! rights were interfered with. One OF them
named Bunn from. North Carolina, explained
| the exodus as the result Of desire on the part
OF the negroes to first seek In the western states
an opportunity to become men, as they
| termed II, and, II this attempt were unsuccess-
| ful, TO endeayor TO get TO Liberia. Bum settled
in Indiana, and was well satisfied with his earn
| 1ngs and treatment there. Witness read memo
randa or statements made to him by large
number OF other emigrantS to the same effect.
| Some poor whites" were among the emigrants
and received the same treatment as the negroes.
The negroes paid their own way, and no politi-
| cal purpose was served by the exodus. Witness
| also read large number OF extracts from let
| tiers written to him by farmers and manufac-
| turers In Indiana asking him, as one interested
| IN the exodus movement, to get them colored
laoorerS. The substance OF all these letters was
| that labor was scarce and wages high. Some OF
| the writers were well known democrats. He
| also read two letters addressed to Congressman
Cowgirl OF Indiana, stating that the democrats
| were 'going into the colonization business
| themselves" that Frank Arthur had brought
| so white men from North Carolina to Indiana,
evidently to secure their votes for the demo.
cratic party, and asking that Mr.. Window look
into the matter. Mr.. LangSdale and others had
interested themselves as far back as 1877 In en-
couraging emigration into Indiana
THE SPANISH CLAIMS COMMISSION is holding