Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-03-04

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THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAy.-Internalr rev.
enue. S3O6, 1885, customs. $685., ,626.5S.
THE PoNCA INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE yester-
day examined White Eagle, head of the Poncas,
who testified that his people were unwilling to
remove from their reservation, and that they
were very badly treated in the matter by In
SpectOr kemble
FIRST LIEUT.. II. G. ELLSWORTH, marine corps
has been detached from command of the marine
guard of the jamestown, and ordered to the
command of the guard Of the Lackawanna, at
Mare Island.
AT THE WHITE HOUSE Senators Dawes,
Ferry and Burnside, and Representatives
OrNeill, Downey, Ryan, Herbert, Jorgensen and
Oten and Gen. Terry called on the President
to-day.
GOV. DREW, of Florida, is In the city. In
company with ex-senator Conover he called on
the President to-day.
JUDGE KELLY, OF Pennsylvania, says that he
does not believe any funding bill will be passed
at the present session OF Congress.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Co Commander c. C. Carpenter
to duty at the Boston navy yard April 1st, re-
Ieving Commander o. A. Batcheller, who will
be placed on waiting orders. Boatswafn A. w.
Pomeroy from duty at the New York navy yard
and ordered to the Naval Academy, relieving
Boatswain c. E. Hawkins, who is ordered to the
training ship Saratoga. Boatswain j. T. Choate
from the saratoga and placed on Nv waltlng lung
at New London, Conn.,, and placed on waiting
orders.
SENATE CONVERSATIONS AND REJECTION
The Senate in executive session yesterday con-
firmed the following nominations: Jas. Kerns,
United States marshal for the eastern district
Of Pennsylvania; f. s. Kearney, United states
marshal for the district OF oregon. Supervisors
of Census-N II. Creager, for the 1st district of
Maryland; j. II. Graham, for the I'd district OF
Maryland; VIM. H. Moore, for the 1st district of
Alabama; VIM. Handy, for the I'd district OF
Mississippi. The nomination OF Edward Y.
GOldsboro, as supervisor of census for the Sd
district of Maryland, was rejected.
CONFEDERATE REcoRps.-Postmaster General
Key is in communication with parties who
want to sell the government certain records OF
the late confederacy showing the amounts paid
mail contractors during the war. 1t Will be re-
membered that in the last Congress this SUBJ
iect came up, when the bill to reimburse GER
tain of these contractors for work done for the
United States before the war was pending, and
it was then settled as principal that where
confederacy they should receive nothing from
the government. These records contain all
payments made by the confederacy under this
head and can be purchased for $4,000.
THE CHISHOLM TRAGEDY.-The trial of Virgil
Gully for the murder of eX-State Senator John
p. Gilmer. one Of the victims of the Chisholm
massacre, will commence at De Kalb, Miss, on
Monday next. District Attorney Ford will con-
duct the prosecution. assisted DV Judge Ware.
United States district attorney for the southern
district of Mississippi Mrs. Gilmer, the widow
of the murdered man. leaves Washington to-
night to attend the trial as witness.
RETIRED ARMY OFFICERs-The President has
sent to the Senate an answer to a resolution in
troduced by Senator Rollins some days ago ask
ing statement of the retirements made in the
army within the last year, the rank of officers
retired, &C. The object OF the resolution was to
draw out the truth of complaints that have been
very widely made that the retired list, which
and permanently disabled officers, had been
filled up with captains and lieutenantS, and
that the aged officers of the army had been kept
in active service. The list sent to the Senate
shows that there were retired last year one
hundred and sixteen officers; that two of them
were brigadier-g generals, namely, Gen. Hum
phries, chief OF engineers, and eX-Surgeon-Gen.
Hammond (retired without pay by act Of Con-
gress.) nine colonels, six iicutenant-colonels,
nineteen majors. forty-one captains, thirty-one
first lieutenants, three second lieutenants and
five chaplafns.
THE INDIAN TERRITORY RAIDERs.-The re-
ports from Indian territory indicate that squat
tiers are determined to enter the forbidden land,
and say that on account of the thin line OF
troops around 1t that they cannot be prevented.
This is as possible now as it was last year, when
the first attempt on the territory was made.
Then the SquatterS got in but were put out af-
forwards. They can doubtless enter the terri
tory In bands, taking for their points OF ingress
parts OF the line where there are no troops.
When they get in though, they have to separate
in order TO build cabins and prepare for occupa-
ton. Then it is that files of soldiers go around,
and picking the squatters up drive them from
the land to which they have no right. This was
the experience last year, and General Sherman
has no doubt but that 1t will be repeated In the
pesent attempt. Squatters may get in. That's
one thing; but staying in Is another.
ARMY ORDERs.-A board of medical officers,
consisting of Surgeons Basil Norris and j. j.
Woodward, and Assistant Surgeon NJ. X. Tay-
lor, will convene in this city at the call Of the
senior officer for the examination of Second
Lieutenant Palmer Tilton, Goth infantry. Capt
j. C. Bates and First Lieutenant j. B. Rodman,
10th infantry will reioin their proper stations.
Capt. Henry johnson, medical storekeeper, will
relieve Lieut.. Col. S. E. Cooper, assistant medi-
cal puryeyor, temporarily in charge OF the med
ical purveying depot in San Francisco, Cal.
THE FUNERAL OF COUNT LIrrA, first secretary
st. Matthew's church. Count Litta was about
50 years of age, and died in New York on Tues
day from the effects OF an operation for a can
Ger. He had gone to New York for treatment.
st. Matthew'S church was crowded this morn
ing. One OF the last requests OF the deceased
was that his funeral should be unostentatious.
All OF the diplomatic corps now in Washington,
Secretary Evarts, officers OF the army and navy
and Judge Davis, of the supreme Court, were
present at the funeral. The remains were
under the immediate control Of the Italian Be-
nevolent society, of this city. The Marine band
was in attendance Father Boyle delivered a
short funeral address. The music in the church
was furnished by the organ and portion OF
the Marine band in the gallery. The remains
were inferred In Mount Olivet cemetery. Sir
Edward Thornton, Baron Blanc the Mexican
minister, the French minister, Baron Del FoSSe
and the Chilian minister. were the pail bearers.
THE HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION reported from
the Senate committee on appropriations to-day,
amendatory OF the sundry civil appropriation
act Of last year, provided, as 1t passed the
House, that the director OF the geological survey
should be expressly authorized to extend its op-
erations Into the states" The Senate commit
tee have amended this clause so as TO make 1t
read as follows: I" And he may extend his exam