The New York herald., 1869-07-14
Expected Proclamation OF
the President.
Election in Mississippi and Texas to be Or
dered for November 30.
Deserters Decided Not Entitled
to Bounty.
The CUBAN ENVOY DISCOURAGED.

WASHINGTON, July 10, 1869.
No Effort Being Made to secure Recognition
of Cuban Independence.
II is not the intention OF the Cuban envoy now
here to make any effort at present TO obtain recogn
tion from our government. Mr.. Lenus proposes to
remain quiet and await the turn Of afiars in Cuba
He does not expect anything decisive to take place
until lall, and as he has hope or making any I'M
preston on Mr.. Fish, he will lot bother him.
Elections ia mississippi and Texas.
The President Will issue his proclamation in q
few days ordering an election in Mississippi and
TeXas-bOth to take place on the same day, the 30th
OF November. The constitutions of each state win
be submitted IN the same manner as the constltu-
Of Virginia. The President has utterly refused
to change The day for nodlng the election, though
he has been repeatedly appealed to IN that behalf
The Pacific RaiirOad-Attorney General
HOar's Opinion.
The Attorney General has rendered the following
decision 10 the Secretary of the Treasury
ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE,
WAsHNGToS, July IL, 1862
GEORGE s. boutwell,, secretary of the Treasury
SIR-By your letter of the 25tn OF June, 1862 you
submit 10 me the consideration OF the eleventh Sec
tlon Of the act OF Congress emitted IAN act TO aid In
the construction OF a railroad and telegraph line
from tie Missouri river to the Pacific Ocean aud 10
secure to the government the use OF the same Tor
military postal anu other purposes, approved July
than s0 m wneh a SAID IS for hat no Srs
shall be paid under this act to aid in
constructing the main line OF the said
my opinion is to what constitutes the main line OF
said railroad and telegraph indicating the point OF
its commencement In the east and its termination
In the west.r | have given the question careful
consideration and am OF the opinion that the true
construction OF the statute referred 20 te nam line
OF the Pacific Railroad Intended in the eleventh
ton thereof commences at the one huDdredth
meridian OF longitude west from Greenwich and ter
inmates al the eastern DounuaTy Of The state OF Cali
fOrHIa, Very respectfully.
E. X. ROAR, Attorney General
The Decatur Cotton Case-DecisiOn Against
the Government.
The great Decatur cotton case, involving the value
OF 500 bales cotton has just been decided against
the government at Memphis, Tenn. Secretary Bout
well telegrsphed to-day to the United States counsel
at that city carry the up either to the United
States Supreme or to the United states Circuit Court
on appeal or writ OF error.
T. j. KinseIla ReappOinted.
Secretary Boutwell, has reappoiuted T. ]. Kinsella
Special Agent OF the Treasury Department. This
is the gentleman who recently investigated the New
Orleans customs fralfas
Supervisor Osborne Resigned.
Secretary Boutwell, this morning received tele-
gram from General Francis A. Osborne, recently ap-
pointed supervisor for Massachusetts, Rhode Island
and Connecticut, declining the appointment.
Consular Appointment.
l.. Il. ADAMS, OF NeW lOrk has been appointed
Consul at Malta.
The McGarrahan Clams-Sccrctnry Cox Re.
fuses Issue Patent.
The representatives OF Mr.. McGarrahan waited
upon Secretary Cox to-day and rendered him
$50 00O In payment or the amount OF 81 rs per acre
| ON the Panoche Grande claim. The District Court
ordered Mr. Cox some days ago to grant MeGarrahan
the patent tender OF this money. Mr.. Cox howev-
err refused to accept 1t to-day that ahhe pro-
ceedings in the District Court were irregular and Of
no binding force.
Vincent Colycr Among the Intkans-Thc
Tribes Advancing In Civilization-R eIigi GUS
Feeling Among the Snvagcs.
Vincent Colyer, secretary 10 the United States
dian Commission, organized at Cooper Institute a
year ago. left the city OF New York on the 18th OF
February and has been absent five months. He says
he visited and inspected thirty-on tribes In their
wigwams and native homes, numbering nearly
5000 souls located in Kansas the Indian Territory
Texas New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado
He has travelled 400 miles on foot, 2sO
on horseback, i, 400 by stage and 3,I0s by rail-
road total 5 754 miles. Some OF tire tribes are the
mostiwarke and troublesome in the country; Others
the more civilized. Among them all he was well
received, and in many cases with marked hospitality.
In nearly all the tribes visited school teachers and
farming tools were iound and in all the journey he
did not see a caseof drunkenness witness scene of
violence hear a blasphemous word by an Indian.
He believes that by patient efforts ali the tribes can
be civilized, and that In less than two years we Will
have heard the last of ''Indian outrages." A deep
religious feeling pervaded nearly all their converse
ton and councils.
Deserters Not Entitled TO BOuniies-Bomnties
to be Paid Only Honorable Dis
chargc-Opinon by Comptroller Brodhend.
Second Comptroller Brodhead mas Just made the
following opiDion:-
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
SECOND CoMPTRoiIER'S OFFICE, June 2s, 1869.
SfR-in reply to your communication of the I'D
inst. have respectfully 10 state that has uniformly
been held by this office that soldiers right to
bounty Il forfeited tpsO JdCt0 by desertion-(S (See
digest OF the decisions OF this oce, edition OF 1862
herewith, pages i0i to i03 paragraphs Tl3 TO
-, aa inclusive; ~ M also , copy cl consre Letter G om
May H. 1886, in which 1t is held that by the regula
tions OF the army having the force OF law, deser
ton ipsO TdctO forfeits all pay, &c, due the de-
serterl-and vests the money in the United states,
and that even a pardon cannot give him what he
has by his own act virtually placed In the Treasury;
that he can claim nothing under the contract OF
lisment he violated that under the act Of July q,
1861, soldier can have title To the bounty on only
an honorable discharge after two years service,
or for wounds received, &c; that the document
itself not saying whether the discharge was
honorable dishonorabie, the lact must be
determined by proof; tnat When 1t fully appeared W
the papers in the that during tue time Tor which
he was enlisted he had been guilty OF the most dis
honorable crime soldier can commit, viz, assertion
it not an honorable discharge. and bounty could
not be pad; that the b0unteS p2ld by lnstalments
are subject TO the same general conditions as bounty
due under the law Of 1861, ana instruments reman-
ing unpaid desertion forfeited aud cannot be
earned by subsequent return and service and that
even If there be doubt rpou the subject the benefit
of the doubt ought .lo TO be gwen to the man who
hour ofneeh. In addition the accompanying letter
ana decisions, / have merely 30 suggest that the