Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-05-29
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rrOm tho Texas AssocInfcd Frcss DIspnIch,s
Deferred Dispatches.

Deferred Dispatches.
WASHINGTON, May ll.-Mrs. DR.
Mary Walker has applied Intellectual
y at nearly all tho departments
Tho Postmaster General Informed
her that he had places for both male
and female clerks, tho FORMER draw
ing better pay. She demanded
male position and male pay for her
self, and offered to inform him at
the end of tho mouth how many
rebels there were in tho department
The Postmaster General declined
all her offers.
Thomas ]. White, mail agent from
Nashville to Decatlr, is the only
black Federal appointce in Tennes,
sec.
Admiral Hoff. commanding the
fleet in Cuban waters, has been Motif.
cd by tho Secretary of the Navy tc
look out for Spanish vessels which
are in the habit of searching Ameri-
can merchantmen, in spanish and
neutral waters, for dcscrters and
contraband war material, and to
prevent hereafter any infraction OF
international law. Ho is directed
to protect not only American citi-
zcns but American commerce.
The cabinet considered Virginia
very fully today, and finally deter,
mined to issue the order for an cleo
soon, and submitting the test oath
and disfranchisomcnt clauses to a
separate vote. Possibly county and
township organizations may bc i'll
cludcd in exceptions before tho or
dcris finally issued. This was strong
ly urged to-day, but the opposition
was stubborn.
CINctNNArr, Mny 12.-An cxplo.
sion of kerosene lamp, resulted in
the burning to the waters edge, OF
the steamers Darling, Mary Erwin,
Westmoroland, Mclusth, Cheyenne
and Clinton. Loss on steamers and
cargocs, 100000. Five dock hands
on the Cheyenne were burned to
death. OF four or five who jumped
into the river from the Darling, but
ono was saved. A full cargo of cot
ton Just discharged from the Darl-
ing was lost. The passengers sleep
ing on tho boats were also lost.
Nrw ORLEANS, May 13.-Thc
steamship Mexico, which has been
lying at the warf for several weeks
took fire at two o'clock this morning
and burned till she sunk at 6, A. NJ.
No cargo, or any combustible was
known to be on board. The fire was
undoubtedly the work of an inccn-
diary. Tho Fire Inspector reports
that the vessel was recently sold, it
is rumored to Cubans; no insurance.
The crevassc reported several days
ago at tho Villicre plantation below
the city, has been Abandoned as hope
less. Repairs by negro soldiers and
plantation hands are washed away
as fast as constructed. Tho opening
in about SO feet wide, 8 feet deep,
and at last accounts was increasing.
Another crevasse occurred only half
q mile below the city limits last eve
ming, but a company of negro SOL
dicrs promptly sent from the bar.
racks, closed it up and strengthened
the leveo. The water is about two
inches below high water mark, but
is driven by lTigh north west winds
sometimes above the mark.
The wharvcs at the head of Poy-
dras and Lafayette streets are sub
merged. Considerable alarm is felt
and strict watch kept on the ievees
on the city front. Steamers Virginia
and Louisiana report that d serious
crerass occurred Sunday at West Ba-
ton Rouge parish nearly opposite
Port Hudson. The Baton Rouge
Advocate of Monday says this ere
vase caused sudden fall of two
inches in the river at the point; also,
that all attcmps to close it will be
Intellectual, owing to sandy soil and
extent of break, which was then
sixty yards wide.
RICHMOND, Va, May 13.-The
United States Circuit Court, today,
in its proceedings against the Uni
ted States Marshal of that District,
in 1861, for funds turned over TO the
Confederate Government, the dcfen-
dants plead United States statute of
and the plea was admit
ted by Chief Justice Chase, presid-
ing. The Unitd States being non
suited, this is an Important case, the
plea put forward being the same
that will be put m BY all postmas-
ters in the Southern States at the
breaking ont ofthe war. who made