The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-10-12
INTELLIGENCE BY THE MAILS.
Our Washington Cory..pondence.

Our Washin9tO ton Correspondence
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 1919.
President Tayior-His Drpurfws from the CITY
Mr.. Bounty Land-God Mines, 3e.
General Taylor, to comply with his promise, left
the city this morning, TO aueBd the cattle show,
and the fair at Washington Hall, BALTIMORE He
was accompanied by young lushman, Mr.. Law
renee Smith, a porter in the White House. He
took only small trunk remaiking he left the
dwelling, :" that he expected To return to WASH
ington in two or three days" 1t has been reported
that he will reach New York next Monday but
this is by means certain, as we learn from Gre
dtabe authority il is only among possibilities
that he may He has a desire go North before
the commencement OF Congress and IT the news
from Europe be not too unfavorable, he will travel
as far Boston.
The Secretary Of State was sent for by telegraph,
and has arrived from Delaware IN safety but he
does not seem 10 be IN good humor since his re-
turn. Something with hlm has gone, or Is going,
wrong.
The Pension Office is crowded with business
TO such an extent as TO confuse the brain OF the
commissioner. His decisions are frequently up
set by Secretary Ewing, and, IN the case now re-
Ter ed 10, be was overruled VIA young man
enlisted in Baltimore, TO serve until the So termi-
nation OF the ar with Mexico" and was sent to
New York. In five or six months from that time
peace was declared, aud n asked for his dis
having been fraudulenty altered so as to continue
HIM IN The service tor hive years. lie made COM
plant TO a court in New York, and the Judge, after
a patent hearing, directed his discharge, on the
testimony of The orderly sergeant, and gave him
certificate of the fact. The pay master Withheld
the money due to him by me government, and, as
a consequence, he was obliged TO work his way
back To Washington on board at vessel. Poorly
| and thinly clad, he was attacked with violent
cold, which settled on his lungs; and when he
| reached his mothers roof he was Frustrated
with sickness, and never again rose from his
bed An agent employed TO procure his
| bounty land, but the comns soner refused to
recognise the claim The agent took appeal to
| Mr. Ewing, who reversed the decision OF MIR. Ed
! wards. Before the warrant Was Issued by the de-
| partment, the young man Uecrntly) died OF con-
sumption. His widowed mother, however, has OBJ
| tanned the warrant and the arrearage OF pay. As
| Mr. Ewing has been repeatedly accused OF buy
| ing up, at a nominal sum- the bounty land scrip
belonging 10 the widows and heirs of soldiers OF
the revolution, il hut act at justice to hun that
his prompt action secured To the mother OF a sol
der ready to fight in the Mexican war, that which
was his lawful night.
The gold mines, fifteen miles from Ere 'erlcks-
burg, Virginia, owned by MAJOR Hess and Com
modore Stockton, have not been worked since
| June last, owing TO the decrease of water which
propels the machinery. Some of the ore is so rich
that il is kept in the NINE in preference To beng
brought out, for fear people may be charmed, and
help themselves