The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-09-02
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Prom Washington,
WASHINGTON, August 2

"""ht''ioH, august "a.
II IS said that Attorney General Evarts
VIII advise adversely to Secretary Schohcld's
decision that thp cghthour law involves a
corresponding reduction of wages.
The Agricultural Department. is installed
in its new building and thereby the Patent
Oiiico is given much needed room.
ihere was no progress to-day in the mp.
pointment OF fax supervisors Tho Exccu-
tlTo seems determined to have tho Offices
equally divided between tho two parties,
aud unless this compromise is accepted by
kollins's advisers no, supc,vi will be
commissioned till utter. the Presidential
election. The law Is generally rcenricd rs
unconstitutional and the commissioning Of
Rollinss nominees not mandatory upon Tho
Secretary Of the Treasury.
I.'Rolaims for captured and abandoned
property now come before Congress, ny the
law giving the Court Of Claims jurisdiction
has expired Assistant Attorney .Gcnernl
Dickey is in charge of these cases on behalf
OF the Government.
Experts have full details of ifty.tlmeo
1ases OF fraud in The negro. bounty payment,
and tho existence of extensive fraud is apaif,
asserted.
General Sherman has instruct cd Sheridan
10 drive the Indians beyond the Kansas
iine. Killing them if necessary. lie deems
further forbear0nce with them impossible.
1t Is understood the President approves this
rigid course.
Secretary We!cs has returned to tho
city.
A letter from tho White Sulphur Springs
IN the Herald says Rosencrnns has held his
conference with Generals Lee aud Bcaurc-
gard and Hon. a. III. Stephens, but its pur-
port is unknown. However, it was, accord.
ing to tho correspondent, satisfactory, and
ao nddrcss to the southern people will pro,
Eaoly" be issued soon in the name of the
leading spirits of tho Confcderacy.
WASHINGTON, August 25
The President has issued p1 exclamation,
declaring Sitka port of entry
The State Department has official infor-
nation that tho Venesucla coast trade is
open to all flags for six months, from July
last.
WASHINGTON, August 81.
IL has transpircd that McCuloch ordered
paid $500 gold note, and issued an cuui.
valcnt for 81 900 seven thirty bond, both
hcrct oforc pronounced spurious and dupli
Gates.
Custom receipts for the week ending tho
22d, nearly $i,000,000. Internal revenue
receipts to- day about s523,000
Revenue Commissioner Rollins has in.
structcd certain detectives employed by him
supervisors when circumstances have aris-
en-, or may arise, requiring supervisors ac.
ton.
WAsHINGToN, August &c.
General Grant instructs Generals Men,le.
Thomas aud Buchanan, relative 10 the use
OF troops in aid Of the civil authorities, rs
follows: ''Fhe obligations Of tho Federal
military officers and soldiers, in common
with the citizens, require them TO obey the
summons of the marshal or sheriff, must he
held subordinate to their paramount duty
ms members Of q permanent military body
Hence the troops can act only in their
proper organized capacity, under their own
officers, and III obedience 10 the immediate
orders of these officers. The officer com
manding troops summoned TO the aid of n
marshal or sheriff, must also Judge inr him
self. and upon his own official responsibility,
whether the service required of him is law
ful and necessary, and compatible with tho
proper discharge Of his ordinary military
duties, and must limit his action absolutely
to tho proper aid in the execution of tho
lawful prccept exhibited to him by the
marshal or sheriff."
WASHINGTON, August 20.
The Tennessee delegation had prolong
Cd interview with the President to,day, Tho
President referred the delegation to recent
S'"S'S ''ihllihB VIC IHcCullNC power, but
assured them that every power authorized
by The Constitution and laws, would be used
to secure freedom of ballot, without inttr-
ference from State or Federal /: oops. The
President takes the ground that the Consti
tuition forbids the maintenance of standing
armies in any State that tho Act of 1866,
disbandmg and forbidding the mil,ia and
volunteer force, is absolute in the South :;
that militia duty is incumbent upon every
ctSrn that it is an emergency force, sub
jeotto be called from the plow or loom at
any moment, and from which no citizen can
escape; but that standing army of paid
troops in any State, unless called for and
controlled by Federal authority, is rcpug-
nant to the Constitution and laws. Every
power of Government will be used to put
down standing armies Of paid troops.
It is generally conceded that there will
be no September session of Congress, as it
will be too late to arm tho Southern militia
and there being no other business in view.
Internal revenue receipts to day $780,.