The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-22
NEWS FROM NEW ORLEANS.


The CITY Debt-COntempIated Removal
of Omcials by General lSheridan-santa
Anna still I'm Prison The FiIibusterinB
Sensation.
new ORLEANS, July 19.-The Commissioners
OF the consolidated Debt have to-day announced
tue Withdrawal of $600,000 from circulation,
and propose to Issue eight per cent. bonds TO
cancel the amount. The city currency has re-
turned TO Its old standard value Of dive per cent.
discount. though it mas been as low AS seventy
nine within the past week with q prospect of
further depreciation. This rise is mostly owing
to the tact that IL Is understood that General
Sheridan Will soon Interfere and suggest, with
authority, some method of speedily redeeming
the outstanding municipal scrip.
General sheridan will positively begin making
removals OF Tecalcitrant officials as soon as he
shall receive official notification OF the passage
of the Congressional Interpretation of the re-
construction policy, and IL Is expected that
quick work will be made with the hardened
offenders. thorough washing OF the official
Augean stables is certain WITHIN few days; and
the sooner and more thorough the work the
better.
Santa Anna, 1t is learned from the arrival of
the steamer Wilderness, Is still in prison, hav-
ing transmitted certain documents to JuareZ for
his action aud that of the assembled Mexican
Congress. 1t is believed that the General will
be tried by military commission.
The sensation created here by the action Of
Congress seems to have wholly Oblterated all
interest in tilibustering expeditions, and In this
regard the city is quiet.
COntrOversy between the Old City OH
ciaIs and General SheridRn's ApPOIntess
-ReglstratiOn to Close on the 3Ist Inst.
Partial Returns.
New ORLEANS, July 20.--The controversy be-
tween the appointees OF Sheridan and the city
officials not yet displaced has assumed new
phase, In which General BTaXton Bragg, Super
lntendent of the New Orleans Water Works,
plays a prominent part. General Bragg hGs
written letter to Street Commissioner Baker,
in which he complains that Bakers subordinates
are wasteful OF the supply, and insists upon
economy or immediate prosecution. Baker
retorts that his officers are to be their own
judges OF the quantity of water needtul to cleanse
the streets, and insinuates the prosecution may
be followed by counter prosecution and removal.
Here ends the matter for the present, though
Bragg Is in no compromising mood, and some
litigation is likely to result.
General Sheridan has to-day issued an order
closing the registration on the 3lst of July. Tue
official returns OF registration in the State are as
follows:-The perish OF Orleans sho VS. an aggre-
gate registration of 29,l95 voters, of whom
14,663 are white, and the remainder colored.
The remaining tOrty-seven parishes give au ag-
g1egate OF 25, ,702 white and 62998 colored. In
several parishes, owing TO the fact that the
country mad been overlooked, registrars have
not been able to attend to their duties, and mail
communication has been cut of. The returns
to come In will amount TO about ten Thousand
votes, and will not materially alter the present
proportions between white and colored voters.