Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-03-09

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bureau OF construction and recruiting, Navy
department, will shortly be ordered to the
training ship Portsmouth.
THE TRAINING SHIP SARATOGA, now at the
yard here, will leave in two or three days for
Hampton roads, She will shortly after sail on
a cruise for Europe.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Passed Assistant surgeon II.
E. Ames from the Washington navy yard and
ordered to the training ship Saratoga, relieving
Passed Assistant Surgeon A. F. Magruder, who
is ordered to the Washington navy yard.
RESIGNATION AccEPTED-An order issued by
the Navy department detacheS Ensign WinSlow
Allderdice from the Wachusett, South Atlantic
station, and accepts his resignation, to take
effect on his arrival in the United States.
AT THE WHITE HoUsE.-Senators Logan, Tel
Ter, Baldwin, Saunders, Burnside and Davis,
IlL) and Representatives OConnor, White,
Garfield. Harmer, Marsh, Bingham and OterO,
called on the President to-day.
GEN. GRANT TO GO TO THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.
A correspondent of the Ohio Slate Journa',
writing from Honolulu, under date of February
10th, says Gen. Grant was positively expected to
visit the Hawaiian Islands. and that extensive
preparations were being made at that time by
the authorities to receive him. The program
as understood there, was for the eX-President
to so TO Acapulco, alter making his tour through
Mexico, where he would take an American naval
on or about the 18th of March.
THE NEW HOUSE RULES as interpreted by
Doorkeeper Field, greatly restrict the facilities
hitherto extended to the press, and limit the
field OF operations of the press to the corrodOrs
| which, for the most part, are occupied with tel
egraph Instruments peanut stands, trampS, pie
women and lobbyists.
COUNT De LESSEPS and party left the city this
afternoon at 1880 for Philadelphia. After short
stay there De Lesseps will proceed westward,
his wife remaing in Philadelphia He has sent
the following dispatch to his son in Paris "a
member OF the Corps Legslatif of France, and
| it will be read in the French assembly to-day:
1.-The message OF the President assures the
political security OF the canal.
FERDINAND DE LEssEPs."
ENFORCING THE NEW HOUSE RULEs.-The new
rules went into effect yesterday, and the door
keeper vigorously enforced the one relative to
the admissions to the hall OF the House, except
so far as thereon on the east side is concerned.
This room is specially reserved for the accom-
mediation of the female friends OF members, and
is peculiarly adopted for the purpose. An as
sistant doOrkeeper, at salary of 81 500 per an
| mum, is stationed at this room.
COTTON GOODS IN AFRICA AND ARABrA.-Th
Navy department to-day received from Commo-
dore Schufeldt, commanding the Ticonderoga, a
| large number Of samples OF cotton goods used
| by the tribes of Africa and Arabia. The price
| list of them as furnished by foreign dealers has
| not yet been received. When 1t is manufactur-
| ers In this country who apply will be furnished
| with small pieces from each of the samples with
| the price now paid for the goods by the ma
| tlves.
| BRAZILIAN TARIFF CHANGEs.-A dispatch from
the [. S. Minister to Brazil forwarded to the
State department gives information concerning
the recent changes in the tariff of that country
In respect to those articles in which the dealers
OF this country are striving to build up trade
with Brazil there is general increasein in duties.
though On some important articles, as lard and
kerosene, reduction OF rates has been made.
The increase over the old tariff is about 81 per
cent.
PERSONALLY. D. Todd, formerly of this city,
and who was the secretary of Vice President
Colfax, is now prominent member Of the Col
orado legislature, and Is spoken of for lieutenant
| governor OF that state.-Mrs. Hicks-Lord, who
has been visiting in Fort Wayne recently, tells
reporter OF that place that there is no truth in
| the ruInor of her prospective marriage with
! Charles O'Conor. She says their relations are
simply those OF attorney and elient.-Repre-
| Williams were registered in New York last eve
| ning-With possibly one exception, ex-Sena-
| tor Alcorn Is said to be the largest and most
| successful cotton planter in MiSSiSSippi.-W.
ID. Wilson and wife. and G. N. Kent, of New
York, are at the Arlington, on their way home
from Florida, where they have been for some
time. Mr.. Kent will be joined by his wife to-
morrow and together they will spend several
days in Washington is announced that
Col. ThoS. A. Scott will soon go TO Europe
again, accompanied by his wife, for an extended
stay.
SETTLERS ON THE PUBLIC LANDs.-The bill for
the relief OF homestead settlers on the public
lands, passed by the Senate yesterday, provides
that any settler who has settled or shall here
after settle on any OF the public lands OF the
United States, whether surveyed or unSuryeyed
with intent to claim the same under the home
a no oil xE-Sld I'M
to file his homestead application and perfect his
original entry In the L. S. land Office as is now
allowed to settlers under the pre-emption laws
TO put their claims on record, and his rights
shall relate back to the date OF the settlement
the same as II he settled under the pDs-emption
laws. Where lands have been applied for and
original entry made under the homestead laws
and where such entries have not been made In
good faith, or where the lands have been aban-
doned after original entry and before final entry
such lands shall be subject to the claim under
the homestead or pre-emption laws, OF the first
settler who has or shall thereafter settle on the
same provided that such settler has or shall
hereafter, within six months from the time of
his settlement, take the necessary steps to have
said homestead entry Cancelled and the same
Snail be properly subject to cancellation, and
shall pay the land office fees In said contest
When a homestead or timber culture claimant
shall hle a written REIMBURSEMENT of his claim
in the local land office, the land covered by such
claim shall be held as open to settlement and
entry without action ON the part OF the Com
missioner OF the General Land Ofice in the
same manner as 1t would have been If no entry
under the homestead or timber culture laws
mad ever been N ade thereof.
WHY TILDEN STICKs.-One of Tildens friends,
and whose advantages for being In the secrets
OF Grammercy Park, says that anterior to the
holding OF the Pennsy yIvania republican conven-
tlon that Iilden had absolutely made up his
mind TO withdraw from politics, and that he
iu nad a letter written addressed to the public
making ilI formal announcement OF such 1nten-
1i0n. His original plan was to have made the
letter public in advance of the Pennsylvania
convention, but that he was persuaded to hold
ft by his friends, on the ground that he should
at least give them the opportunity to arrange
matters so that they could still control the
machine and they urged that If he with
drew .precipitately as he wanted to, that it
would leave his friends In the lurch, and would
loose to them the known hold they had in the
democratic machine. Yielding to this argument
Ttlden did withhold the letter. After the hold
ing OF the Pennsylvania convention Tilden's
friends agreed with him that the outlook was
that Grant would certainly be the republican
nominee; that there was enough opposition to
a third term in the republican ranks TO offset
the diSaffection in the democratic ranks to his
CIflden'S candidacy, and they Thought it would