Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-21

tlmated that less IMAM ~ or cont. of the
60 per centum advalorem duts on silk is
collected in consequence Of the undervalu-
ton of that article
Indian Commissions: Price is informed
by Judge Edmonds, G aaagnan of the Sioux
commission, that zoe Yankton and
Ogaialla Sioux Inc ianS at Pine River
agency, Dakota, ha re agreed to separate
reservations OF II Adted proportions. The
Indians at Rose' ,ea agency had agreed to
separate reserve mons, and, as the Indians
at these TWO ag .sUcies comprise more than
half the Sioux ssation, the work of the COM
missioner is practically accomplished. The
object OF Il re commission in having the
Indians ag SO to select separate rcserva-
lions Is TO concentrate all the Indians in
about on eAalf the present reservation, in
order thi d The other half may be thrown
open to the PUBLIC. The Indians have not
located. their intended reservations, and
canno &, without authority from congress-.
Cong ness will be called upon to pay them
tor the land they surrender.
Indian Commissioner Price will to-mor-
| re ~ forward to the commission at Salt Lake
atty $4,000 for use in irrigating the Ute
country in the southern pertien of that ter
' Imitory.
An important departure in the policy of
the postofnce department will be inaugural
led on Jan. 1, next. It consists in trans
fsrring to the blank agency division, which
is under the supervision Of the first assis-
: tant postmaster general, the purchase of
q all supplies in the first and second class
O. postofices of the country. AS at present
conducted a postmaster at one of these
, Offices purchases stationery and furniture
for his own Office, selects such styles and
quantiries as may please his fancy, and
: sends his bill to the department, where it
is paid. 1t is thought by
J. supplying these officers with such material
Q as they may need, and have property uni
j. form, in size, etc., thatat least 25 per cent.
n over the present cost can be saved. With
this object in view prominent postmasters
;. from all sections of the country have been
;. requested to assemble here, when the ques-
I, ton of uniformity in blanks, size of paper
u and postofice books will be discussed.
Ex-President Pierola, of Peru, called on
t the secretary of state to-day, and had an
Q to the condition ofssPeru.
: Col. Cogswell, whose sudden death is an
: nounced this morning, was one of there
Union officers, prisoners of war, who were
}, held as hostages at Charleston in 1862 to
:. prevent the obstruction of rebel privateers
;, by federal troops.
:, The naval advisory board spent to-day
4 considering the report eff the late advisory
q board, submitted year ago.
: The secretary of war having been asked
' by telegraph to grant the use of the bar
racks at Chattanooga as a smallpox hos
a pital, has refused to do SO on the ground
y that such use would render them unfit for
5 other purposes, and probably require their
J., | destruction.
The German legation here has informa-
b ton that the proposed change in the treaty
t of naturalization which the new German
9 minister, en- route from Washington, has
= been directed to obtain, relate more to
: the general application of the present
+ treaty than to its provisions, which are
n pronounced quite satisfactory.