The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-11-05
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Gen. Howard publishes letter this morning
in the Chronicle, repudiating the statement
that the coored vote the late election in the
South IS too large in proportion to the negro
Major General Schofeld, commanding the
First Military District, has issued an order
convening the State Convention on the Sd
proximo. Many of the Generals friends in
Virginia insist ON his becoming candidate
for gubernatorial honors but he declines to ac-
cede to their request, expressing himself bet
ter satisfied with military than political
life. ia GIll} naG kfE0 So -,
The special committee ON Southern Rail
roads has concluded its labors. Representa-
tive McClung is on his way here to prepare his |
report. 81. 81 fs5...l gssisf ~ a. - /
The committee ON the Kentucky election ca
SEES has not yet concluded its labors. ~ aa4
From the first of January last to the twenti-i
eth, the retrenchments inaugurated by Gen
Grant amounted to $50,000,O00. They are as
follows: Pay--twenty-fve million five hun
dred and ftty-hve thonsand; Bounty--ten
million five hundred thousand dollars: Quar-
termasters Observation-Disclosures six million and
twenty-four thousand dollars: Subsistence De-
partment-ten million nine hundred and forty
seven thousand dollars; Miscellaneous-tw
ty-six million seven hundred and eighty-one
thousand dollars Making total, one hundred
and nine million eight hundred and seven
Thousand dollars. 81
The Commissioner of Patents, for the week
ending the 18th inst, will issue 26O patents
X. j. Walker, to-day, on behalf of Joseph III.
Bradley, Senior, filed his answer to the rule
laid upon him by the District Supreme Court
last week to show cause why bis name should
not be erased from the roll of attornies of the
Court. 1t is supposed that the paper will be
considered in chambers, when the Court win
determine what course it will take in the mat
ter. The answer is to the effect that the action
of Judge Fisher, in directing Mr. Bradley's
name to be taken from the roll as practitioner
at the Bar, was based on a misapprehension of
the facts in the case that the regular time for
the term of the Court to adjourn having passed
by, the language used by the respondent upon
hearing the decision of the Court did not tech
nically come under the definition of contempt;
that the letter written to Judge Fisher and de-
ilvered by the respondent to him was not a
challenge; that if the Court is in doubt as to
the correctness of these and other statements :.
an opportunity is asked by the respondent to
produce evidence to substantiate them, such
evidence to be submitted to the Court before
rendering its decision.
The receipts from the internal revenue to-
day were $2,067, 900. 1872
All mutilated national bank notes sent to
the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
for destruction and exchanged for new notes
should be in packages of five hundred dollars
and should in all cases be cancelled before SO
doing, by cutting off the signatures of the
officers. Otherwise the notes will be returned
at the expense Of the bank for cancellation.
There are no indications OF an immediate ap-
pointment of Solicitor of the Internal Revenue
Bureau. The applications for the position are
few In number, the most prominent probably
being that of Mr.. Sloanaker, late Collector OF
the Internal Revenue for the LIST Pennsylvania
district. The probability is that the appoint
ment will be made from the western section of
the country. 8 1lTGI aaGHF