Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-12-22
TELEGRAPHIC.
WASHINGTON.
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Unusual Bustle at the State De-
partment.
Adjournment OF Congress to the
9Th OF January.
Greeley ON MOrtOR'S Specie Pay
ing Policy. rs8EF
Fair Promises OF the Vice PresI-
dent Elect.
gqss62 T-
RumOred Disaster to Sheridan
on the Plains.
ft 80 7t
The Grecian Bend on Turkey.
The War cloud Almost I,lspeIIed
WASHINGTON.

Basile ms the state Departments sun
day-EnSItsh and American AfAirs-
Report on Ghe Revenue Frauds. etc.
NRw York, Dec. 2i.-The Herald's
Washington dispatch says there was great
hustle apparent at the State department.
Yesterday, notwithstanding its being the
Sabbath day. The cause of the unusual
stir is supposed to have been the prepare
tion Of dispatches for Minister johnson.
Il Is suspected by members of Congress that
The firm of Laird g. Co, builders Of the
Alabama are trying to obtain the proceeds
of The sale of the blockade runner, which
they are supposed to have built, and which
wss captured during the war and sold.
A clerk in the Registers Office Of the
Treasury Department is missing, his &C.
counts show adefcit of several thousand
dollars.
Van Wyek 8 report Of the Committee on
Retrenchment, on the subject of Revenue
Frauds, is printed. 1t says, concerning
the investigation commenced more than
year ago: This committee find many
frauds yet existing in the Revenue De-
parImeni, In kind as heretofore, but not to
the same extent, by the reason Of reduction
of the tax on whisky, and making the esti-
mated capacity one Of the Tests Of produc-
ton. WheE the capacity system shall be
improved and modified as experience has
already demonstrated TO be necessary,
frauds will be lesseBed and the revenue in
creased. The greatest want is undoubtedly
If honest officials, but improvement can
hardly be hoped for in that direction un-
der the present executive, q fact Congress
should have realized and acted upon long
ago, aud then devised system which hui
man ingenuity could not easily circum-
vent.
WASHINGTON, Dec 2l.-Tbe Committee
on Reconstruction to-day examined the
additional witnesses in the Georgia and
Mississippi cases, and without and definite
action adjourned until January s.
The Supreme Court will adjourn on the
oath Of December 10 the 4th of January.
The President has approved the bill
giving cannon for the erection Of monL-
menl 70 Ger. Kearneg.
The Senate bill providing that any Su-
preme Court Judge Of seventy years OF age
may resign and receive his salary there
after until death, was referred TO the Ju-
dietary Committee.
A member Of Congress has received from
a military officer in the South q photograph
Of two members OF the ku-kluK Khan. lie
explains that the band from which they
we're taken was one hundred and hily
strong, and is the same that seized Hunter
Vile, Ala, surrounded the Courthouse and
murdered Judge and some others. The
men captured were not more than eighteen
years old.
The bill recently introduced in the Sen
ate By Mr.. Trumbull, to prevent the rePetl-
ton Of such crimes by popular violence as
that recently committed at New Albany,
Ind has, it is understood, the approval OF
the Secretary OF State.
Gen. Grant is at headquarters to-day at
tending to official business.
The Supreme Court to-day affirmed the
decision of the lower Court in the case ofthe
Rock Island Bridge Company vs. Andrews
The court adiourns Thursday till January 4.
Secretary Seward replies as follows to
telegram from a New York firm making
inquiry as to whether the United States
government will protect American vessels
bound to ports in Hayti held by rebels
there from seizure by the Haytien govern
ment The government of the United
States will protect no United States vessel
which shall attempt TO carry on trade IN
l1aYlen Doris III NlOidllOh tl SAAbblhb
blockade, or any lawful decree of the gov
eminent of the Haytien Republic which
has been duly recognized by the United
Ststes. All persons trading in insurrec-
tionary ports in Hayti will be liable to be
dealt with according TO the process and
principles of international law.
The main walls of the new hospital build
ing belonging to the Howard Military,
gave way this afternoon. The workmen
about fifteen in number, one-third white,
the others black, who were roofing the
structure fell 10 the ground, distance ct
ffrv feet and were all injured, several
seriously if rot fatally.
Several delegations of Indians, repre-
senting the Miamis, Creeks, Cherokee
and other tribes are expected in Washing
ton during the winter for the purpose o
occurring additions to the existing treaties
between them and the government RELATIVE
10 cessions Of lands and improvement o
,l.;r domestic condition