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T E N E W S From the National Capital. Ex-Senator Chandler has been appointed to the office of Secretary of the Interior, vice Delano. October 19 he was sworn in by Chief Justice Carter of the Supreme Court. Information of great success in the prosecution of the St. Louis whisky frauds has reached the Treasury Department. Four out of five distillers, and four out of five rectifiers, surrendered at discretion, pleading guilty to criminal indictments and in the suits for forfeitures. The following are these distillers: G. B. Bingham and J. W. Bingham, forming the firm of Bingham Bros.; Lewis Teuscher, R. W. Ulrici, Alfred Bevis and C. B. Frazier, of the firm of Bevis & Frazier. The rectifiers were F. C. Fosterer, G. Bensbaugh, Z. L. Beresker, B. H. Engelke, L. G. Quinlan, B. A. Quinlan, and Wm. H. Wadsworth. All these parties, at the time of pleading, also withdrew all claims to property seized by the government. This amounts in value to over five hundred thousand dollars. The civil suits on the bonds of distillers will be pushed to a judgment for the collection of unpaid taxes due. Western Items. Mr. Hoag, Central Indian Superintendent, states that his report for 1875 to the department will show greater advance in civilization and wealth by the Indians of the Indian Territory than in any previous year; better crops than ever before, and nearly double the acreage, which is more than tenfold greater than in 1869. A general state of good feeling prevails among all the tribes, and satisfaction is felt by all that they are now progressing finely, and desire to continue the experiment toward becoming self-sustaining without molestation Major Knox, of the Interior Department, is at present in the Pottawattomie Nation allotting their lands to individuals, they having decided to take them in severalty. The tribe is more mixed with the white largely element than any other tribe in the Territory; many of them have good farms, farming implements and stock, and they are building five thousand-dollar school-house out of their tribal=fund.. It is reported that the Indians at Lower Brute Agency and at Fort Thompson are much excited because the Government has ordered a survey of land in the neighborhood of those posts. Crimes. A party of boys playing ball near the St. Joseph Orphan Asylum, on Clark avenue near Fifteenth street, St. Louis, the other afternoon, got into trouble with the boys of the asylum, and there was a general battle between them, in which stones and other missiles were freely used during the melee. James Duffy, a boy about seventeen years old, was hit on the head with a chunk of coal, thrown by Michael Henlehan, one of the and his skull orphans badly fractured, from the effects of which he died in a few moments. Henlehan was arrested At Hackettstown, N. J., recently, James Ricker shot and killed his two sons, aged six and ten, and shot at his wife but missed her. He then shot himself in the head, but the wound is not serious. Ricker was arrested. Domestic troubles led to the crime. John A. Wilson, James Davidson, and two Italians named Carlo Cavino and Giovanni Petroni, were arrested in Philadelphia recently on a charge of counterfeiting the postage stamps of Greece, Guiana, Bavaria, Hanover, and Nicaragua, and were examined before the United States Commissioner. A most atrocious murder was unearthed in Denver, Col., recently. A small tenement house in the eastern portion of the city, which had recently been vacated by some Italian musicians, was visited by a policeman to detect the cause of a stench that appeared to issue from it. He discovered in the cellar of the building the dead and putrid bodies of an old man and three boys, all Italians In the civil suit brought in New York by Samuel C. Archer against Theodore Davis, the receiver of the Ocean Bank, for the recovery of ten thousand United States bonds in the bank when robbed in 1869, Mr. Morris, council for Archer, said that they would prove that Stevenson, who was then cashier, and subsequently President of the bank, planned the robbery and shared in the proceeds. It will be remembered that the burglars obtained about $450,000. Disasters by Fire. In Charleston, W. Va., a few nights ago, a fire broke out in Dangridge's restaurant on Capitol street, which swept from the Cotton Opera-house to Virginia street, totally destroying seven store-houses, including Gates' photograph gallery, the Hale House livery stables, and the Kanawha Valley marble works on Virginia street A fire at Anderson, Texas, destroyed fourteen stores and dwellings, Odd Fellows' Hall and Wilson & Howell's furniture, two store, warehouses, the Post-office and valuable mail matters. The losses are estimated at forty thousand dollars; partly insured. Wagner's lager beer brewery, Stapleton, Staten Island, was recently burned. Loss Insured. $50,000. Items in General. In the Ohio election, returns have been received from all the counties of the State, which are considered as correct as can be obtained until the official returns are received by the Secretary of State. These show Hayes' majority in the State to be 4,753. The official returns may vary this count by three hundred either way. The Republicans have a majority of seventeen in the House of Representatives, and three majority certainly, and possibly four majority in the Senate Writs in civil suits were issued in the United States Court at St. Louis, recently, against the various distillers and gaugers lately charged with violation of the revenue laws, and their securities. The distillers' bonds amount to $615,000, and those of the gaugers to $60,000. Many of these securities are said to be irresponsible, but from others the Government expects to realize a large proportion of the revenue of which it is claimed the principals have defrauded it. The Comptroller of the Currency has declared a dividend of fifteen per cent. in favor of the creditors of the First National Bank of Topeka, Kansas: also, a dividend of forty per cent. in favor of the Gibson County National Bank, of Princeton, Ind., payable the 20th inst. Moses S. Herman & Co., of No. 22 Walker street, New York City, the principal member of which is a brother of A. S. Herman, who recently went into bankruptcy, have also failed. The firm's liabilities are stated as $200,000, and the assets: $95,000 $50,000 being stock and $45,000 bills receivable. United States District Attorney Dyer has entered suit at St. Louis, in the United States District Court, against the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company to recover sixty thousand dollars, alleged to be due as unpaid revenue tax on the net earnings of the road from January, 1868, to January, 1872 special telegram to the Chicago Times says that Secretary Bristow is of the opinion that he can now, at an early day, an make the for arrangement successful placing of the three hundred million dollars four and one-half cent. bonds fiveper V mile scull race, for one thousand dollars and the championship of America, between Evan Morris and Henry Coulter, was rowed over the Hulton course at Pittsburg, Pa., Saturday afternoon, the 16th, and won by in one Morris, length ahead. Time, coming
