Washington telegraph., 1851-08-06

THE Pension OFFICE Bounty Land Warrants
under the net of 1850 The Washington Republic,
referring to complaints about the irregular issuing
Of warrants at the Pension Office under the act of
1850, says the general rule of the Department is
that all appIicatos for bounty land shall be finally
acted on IN the order Of time in which they
presented, and this rule has always been observed,
except in a few extreme cases, when its observance
impossible. 'rhe Republic adds
awe are authorized to say that applications for
Bounty land for services i'm the war of 1912, which
were filed or received in the Pension Office from
the third to the seventh day Of December, 1850,
are now IN course of examinations; also
claims for services in the Florida and other Indian
wars which were filed from the thrtieth of Novem-
ber to the sixth Of December last; so that claims
for services ia those several wars nearly in the
same state for fo;wardness The applications by
;he officers Il. the late with Mexico some
what 10 arrear in consequence of the misapprehen-
sion of clerk by whom they were registered; but
they will be brought up for examination in the
course Of few days. We understand that, not
withstandng the sickness and necessary absence
always occurring at this season Of the year, when
some of the Government employees compelled
TO have their families in the country the warrants
issued in full proportion TO the force in the
Pension Office, and hat the zeal and industry OF
the clerks not surpassed in any Of the bureaus.
The number Of applications for bounty land under
the act Of 1850, We are informed, is now upwards
Of 100000, and may possibly reach the number Of
25O,OO0, as estimated by the Secretary of the In-
terror. There doubtless many old men and
widows claiming for services in the Of 1879,
to whom the bounty would be acceptable, espec-
ally if it escapes the vgilance Of mercenaries until
Congress gives it assgnabIe quality; but when
it is recoected how ,ardy Congress was in grant
ing the boon, miraCl les ought not now to be ex
pected of The Pension Office in favor of these
NJ G. f...l 81,
mlefs rule, which custom makes the common
law of the country for all classes and in all kinds
of business"
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THE Texas DEBT-Gen James Hamilton, o.
South Carolina, John w. Houston, of Delaware
and Charl-s Ellis, OF Virginia, a committee ap-
pointed by the creditors of Texas last February,
at meeting in Washington City, have issued
circular the subject of their interviews with the
President and The Secretary of the Treasury.
They had been nsti ucted to obtain answers to
The inquiry, what class Of creditors entitled t"
the benefit of the five million reservation, anG
what release they are required to sign.
The Secretary has decided that the power of
determining these questions lies exclusively with
the President. The President has called upon the
Secretary for full report TO be made as soon as
he returns from Ohio, and will render his decision
in time to be laid before the meeting of all the
creditors of Texas which is to be- held at w ash
ington the 18th of September next, and from
which a memorial is expected to emanate, ad-
dressed 10 the Legislature of Texas, praying d
final sett element Of the public debt.
1t appears that the Secretary has distinctly in
formed the committee that not one dollar even oil
the reserved five millions i'm the Treasury OF the
United States can or will be disturbed, except un-
der the specific orders of the constituted authorI
ties of Texas.
This decision, coupled with the immunity which
belongs TO every State in its exemption from all
coercion for the discovery of debts, places the
creditors OF Texas incontestably at the mercy oi
the State, and leaves them no other means OF Sc
curing their debts than by appeal to her magma
| nimity and sense of justice.
The committee impress upon the creditors the
necessity Of pursuing IA conciatory course, whence
we infer that at the meeting in September some
terms Of compromise will be offered on the part OF
tho creditors TO the State.
The meeting is announced for the second Mon
day in September next.
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The jealous man poisons his own ban
quet, and then eats Of it.