New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-08-11
WASHINGTON.

Chief Justice Chase Charges a West vIr-
gfEIa Jnry that the National Debt Must
He Paid, and They should nee thas the
Revenue Laws Are strictly Enforced.
Instructions from the secretary OF War
to General Observation-Disclosures of
the Troops under Bas OOmmand--CoIO-
mel Deane Assared that These Instrmc-
tiOns VIII Cover the Ground Presented
by the Governor and Legislature of
LouIsiaua. .l
WASHINGTON, August l0.-Mrs. Trumbun
is recovering. Mr.. Stevens is convalescing.
Austrian Minister Watts is daily expected
to receive his instructions. t
The President will not leave for his pro-
posed trip until the Revenue Commissioner
snip is settled.
Internal revenue receipts to-day S6sI 900.
Chief Justice Chase, charging the United
States Grand Jury of West Virginia, said in
effect: In order to suppress the rebellion it
was necessary to create large public debt,
and that the debt must be paid, for under
the fourteenth amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the United States the nation was
pledged to it. This amendment he recog
nized as valid, and therefore charged the
jury to see that the revenue laws which
were made to pay the debt were strictly
enforced.
Secretary Seward telegraphs that he will
return Wednesday.
1t is now thought that General Rose.
Grams will depart for Mexico next week.
naval court martial will convene at
New York on the twentieth instant.
Commissioner Rollins telegrsphs that he
will be here on Monday next to resume his
duties as Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARAry,)
.- Adjutant Generals Ohioe.
Washington, August 10. 1s68.1
| To Breyst Major General r. c. Buohenan, Conf
manding Department of louisiana, New Orleans
| GENERAL-The following instructions from
the Secretary of War are furnished for your
| government:
To the end that the necessary aid may be
rendered by the United States as promptly
as possible in any case of insurrection or
| domestic violence in the States embraced in
your military department, you will keep
! Yourself informed of the condition of affairs
| in said States and communicate promptly
| by telegraph to the War Department
through the headquarters of the army any
facts which may make it the duty of the
| President under the constitution and the
laws to employ the military force of the
| United States. You will also maintain such
disposition of the troops under your COM
mand that they may be ready to act without
delay on the receipt of the Presidents or
ders stationing them at or from time to
| time moving them to points where you may
have reason to apprehend necessity for their
4 use. .-.-. f
| TThe remainder of the instructions con-
sists of extracts from the Constitution and
laws of the United States indicating the con-
ditions under which the military force Of
the United States may be lawfully employed
to suppress ineurreetions against the gov
ernment of any State
By command of General Grant.
q. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General
1t is understood that Colonel Deane was
assured this morning both by the President
and by the Secretary of War that these
instructions Ia copy OF which was furnished
to him) were intended and expected to
satisfactorily cover the ground lately pre-
sented by the Legislature and Executive of
| Louisiana.
The following are the articles quoted in
the order to General Buchanan: Article four
| of the Constitution; section four of the act
approved February 20, 1909; sections one
and three of the act of March 3, 1907.
WASHINGTON, August 10.--Following is a
summary of European news by steamer.
The Paris Monitear says the French trans
Atlantic cable will be completed by August,
1863.
La Liberte says DR.. Pusey has been con.
yerted to Catholicism.
Osborne Wood, the delegate Of the New
York Workingmen's Association, has arrived
in Paris on tour of Europe, to study the
situation of the laboring classes and the de-
yelopment of the co. cooperative system.
The Italian parliament has passed an act
pensioning the widows and orphans of ply
sicians who died attending cholera patients.
Placards threatening Won Beust and IN
sulting the Emperor have been posted IN
Prague. Rumors of the Prussian and Aus
trian reconciliation are unfaVorably re-
ceived in Berlin. ss4sss
A famine threatens Spain. Entire prov
inces are suffering. ~ss3