The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-15
WASHINGTON.
Special Dispatches to the Evening Telegraph.
WASHINGTON, February Is.

Newspaper Suppression.
The order emanatng from General Grant for
the suppression of the Richmond Erdntner, 1t is
said, will not be the only one of similar charac-
ter II the present course of Rebel journals is not
changed. II is notorious that many journals in
the South are as bold and defiant in reasonable
utterances as before or during the war. General
Grant is said to be determined TO put stop to
this firing of the Southern heart.
COnsuIs Recognized.
The President has recognized Heinrich Moser
as Consul of Hesse Darmstadt for the State of
West Virginia, and Frederick John Cridland as
Consul of II. B. NJ. for the States of Alabama and
Florida, to reside at Mobile.
Decision of the Court Of Claims.
The United States Court of Claims has decided
the case of Thomas w. Pierce vs. The United
States. The claimant sought to recover from
the Government the sum of $4,000 on certain
bills of exchange drawn by Russell, Majors Il
Waddell on John B. Floyd Secretary of War
during Buchanan's Administration, on account
of contract executed by the above named to
transport supplies to the army in Utah. These
bills are marked accepted" by Floyd, aud are
of the class Familiarity kno yn as the "Floyd &C
ceptances."
The Court is of the opinion that f lloyd had no
rightful power or authority 10 bind the United
States by the acceptances in suits, and that
even if he had, there is such knowledge of the
want and failure of consideration, and the
illegal character of the acceptances brought
home to the claimant before he became the
holder, as to render them unavailable and ire
coverable in his hands; and being of this
opinion, the Court find for the defendant, and
direct the petition to be dismissed. The case
will be carried to the Supreme Court for a
decision.
The Union Pacific RIA iIPOad Company
having filed map in the Interior Department of
the permanent location of the road west OF
Omaha, Nebraska, for the second one hundred
miles, the Commissioner OF the General Land
Office has instructed the local land officers to
withhold from sale the odd sections within
twenty miles on each side of the road.
Connecticut
Much satisfaction is expressed here by New
England men over the nomination of Major
General Hawley to-day as the Union candidate
for Governor of Connecticut.
Lands I'm Iowa.
The General Land Office has just prepared
patent in favor of the State of Iowa, for IL, 900
acres of swamp land, under the grant by act of
Congress, approved September rs, 1850, the same
| being selected in the former Iowa City, now Des
Mones land district. There has Just been pre-
| pared and submitted to the list No. of tracts,
containing in the aggregate 528,l4O acres,
selected by the State for internal improvements
through the instrumentalty of State warrants,
| the lands being situated in former Benicia, now
Humboldt, District. BY said list, which has
been approved by the Secretary of the Interior,
the title for these lands is invested in the State.
Equalization of OOunties.
There are two or three propositions pending
before Congress for the equalization of bounties
of soldiers, and the parties who are urging the
measure are lndustriousy at work in the lobby
endeavorinc to make votes for either of the pro-
| positions. From present indications it will
require more industry from the lobbyists, and
the payment of much greater sum to them
than was calculated upon by the real parties
| interested in order to get even one-fourth, to
say nothing of a majority of the members of
| Congress, to vote for a bill such as is
contemplated. So far there are not probably
twenty members of the House in favor of the
| measure, and when it comes to be known that
| after all the soldiers would not be in one case
out OF every twenty the recipient of the bounty
money, should such an act be passed. and that
about four-ffths of all bounties would go to
| speculators and claim agents, who have long
since bought the soldiers certificates, which en-
titles the holder to the bounty, we imagine that
upon vote being taken there would not be
found a halfdozen members in favor of the BILL
1t has already been shown by statesmen, and
from the Paymaster-General and Provost Mar
shal.General, that TO equalize bounties it would
require an appropriation of over six hundred
| million dollars.