New-York tribune., 1868-09-08
WASHINGTON.

THE PROPOSED SEPTEMBER sEssIoN-THE PUB
LIC DEBT-REIGN OF TERROR IN ARKANSAS
PEACE IN EUROPE-INDIAN DEPREDAIIONs
MAINE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
WARRINGTON, Monday, 80 pt q 1893.
The Rerubljcan Congressional Committee is in
yeceut of many letters, principally from the South
with reference TO a session of Congress this month
The State Republican Committees and nearly all the
members of Congress from that section favor II.
From other quarters the opposition is earnest, many
members of Congress having made engagements 10
speak during the canvass. No direct expression Oh
the subject has been made by Senator Morgan ana
Representative schenck, whose recommendation j.
% determine the question. The impression is In"'
Congress will not meet in September. q,
The official report of the Public Debt puoi''nou
to-day shows a considerable excess upon 'ilo esu
mates heretofore made the increase amounting :"
s12OOOOO The s7,2OOOO0 in gold paid Tor Alaska
an ,bo stb of August is the principal of the
increase enhanced by the large issue of bonds to the
paci6c Railroad Company. If the receipts from the
Internal Revenue reach the amount estimated the
next report of the Debt viii show a decrease. The
civil and miscellaneous expenses OF the Government
fer August were $l3OO0OC0 and for the war and navy
tI2OO0600
Private advices are received here daily, giving
frghtfnl pictures of the situation in the South gen
orally The following is extract from letter
dated Little Rock, Arkansas, Sept l. winch was
shown me to-day
Do the large counties where the RePnDcaW arc ~ to %
rnaority they resort sOpbstry ana persuasion IN ~
counties where they the Democralsl are H. ~ % hen Secd
svsfem az has DquesOnaOy Deeh aSte
.n3n and is being carried out Two members Vi tne
sate Senate have escaped nd IRON nns member of the lower
Uonse was brutay murdered all TINS Witllh o "a 'S @
49, Negroes have been shot down by dozens N miny
contts and loyal sleep In the forests rather
than I'M their houses for fear OF assassination.
rot and intimidation are daily praciood III many PAX
Of the state.
Gov. Reed of Florida arrived here to-day for the
purpose of consultation with the authorities relative
70 the condition of the State.
number Of prominent tobacco manufacturers M-
rived here to-day from Richmond to request the sec
retary Of the Treasury and Commissioner OF nteIhal
Revenue TO establish bonded tobacco warehouses III
Richmond over one million pounds of tobacco are
in that city waiting shipment The owners are una
bic TO paw the full tax but willing to have their
tobacco bonded 50 that it can be shipped as required
"a tbe tobacco brokers in New York and other cities
Commissioner Rollins and Deputy Haland sui
nav no heed to the writs which the cOnsprators have
sued out against them; nor is 1T probable that the
United States Commissioner viii require them 10 ap
pear
Secretary Schofeld has received dispatch from
the Hon Schuyler COlfax dated Denver CITY, sept
G. in which he says that the Indians are committing
fearful ravages in that section Of the country even
as near as 20 miles from Denver City.
member of one of the foreign legations received
Information to-day from an official source in London
expressing the greatest astonishment at the Gable
news in the American newspapers announcing dan
ser to the peace of Europe. His informant adds that
tbe publication is based upon no facts known there
and that as far il may relate TO Napoleon II IS
absolutely untrue in every respect.
Itis very probable that several important changes
may be made within few weeks in the Kittery
Navy-Yard Constructor Thomas Davidson is TO be
srdered TO Kittery Constructor HanscOm is to bC
transferred TO Charleston.
meeting was held this evening of the RepuDl-
can clerks in the departments from Maine and meas
ures were taken TO enable them to attend the eiec-
tiOn on the 14th.
Dr. Boynton Chaplain of the House OF Representa-
tyee has resigned the pastorate of the First COnge
gationa Church here. to take effect at the close o.
the present Congress.
An evening journal here says that Montgomery
plair has received letter announcing that +. y
blair. IT, will be in Philadelphia next week and il
shis city on the 18th inst
Between the third and fourth acts of the Blacl
Crook" played to a packed house in the NatiOna
Theater, tonight, the cry of fire was heard benin
the scenes caused bv the burning of piece OF gauz'
The MANAGEMENT and audience behaved admirably
and the rush was checked almost instantly. N
serious injuries reported
Gen. Banks is IN this city.
The ceremony of baptzing the infant daughter o
Sehor Luis Auguste DE Spadua Fleury Secretary o
the Brazilian legation took place this morning II
a. Matthews Roman Catholic Church. The cere
mony was performed by the Rev. DIR. Cohte, th'
Councillor DOmngos DeMogulhaens, Brazilian
Minister, and his wife, acting as sponsors The
infant was christened Januara Eleury.
The force in the Naval Construction Department
of the Navy-Yard has been increased by taking on
nearly 100 additional hands, complete the rehtne
of the Neipsic which the Government has ordered 10
be finished by the first of October.
Last week 270 applications for patents and 81
caveals were entered, and $40 patent-Iights were
granted.
Revenue appointments have been made as follows
etorekeepers: Samuel Johnson and X Hamilton. ONO
Rufu- MotIer, Lancaster Ohio; Wm. MckOnkey, New
York City. Gaugers David Funk and J. CrisInon f0r
the seventeenth Pennsylvania District, and L. W.
Maehar for the Twelfth Ohio District.