Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-23
TELEGRAPHIC.
WASHINGTON.
FUNDING OF THE PUBIC
DEBT.
A Fast Treasury Officer.
Bad News from Florida.
Earthquake i'm Massachusetts,.
Revenue Frauds at Richmond |
The War i'm Cuba.
WASHINGTON.

~ SnWeIcOme Intelligence from Flor
lda---PubIic Debt 10 be Funded
charges Against a Treasury Off
cer---EOrfeitcd bonds of a Nation
al Bank,
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-Gen. Keygana-
walk, Supervisor of Georgia and Florida,
reports under date of October u that
jackson and Washington counties in Flori-
da are under control of an armed mob
which has risen to prevent the execution of
the revenue laws The leader of this mob
is one James p. Coker who is represented
TO be a wealthy and influential man. He
has threatened Assistant Assessor Low of
Mariana with personal violence and has
challenged him to fight; and that officer
writes TO the Supervisor that he only can
vases his district at the hazard of his life.
Assessor Wilson writes cOrroborating his
assistants statements. The collector of
customs at Jacksonville, Fla j. A. Dechrey
writes TO the supervisor that the State tax
collector and his wife had been brutuallv
murdered in Washington county, adjoining
Jackson that there had been seven muir
ders in jackson county since the Sd inst.
and that the deputy collectors and assist
ant assessors of Internal Revenue are in
imminent danger. The Supervisor has
called for troops
According to letters received here from
Senators and members no less than four
bills are prepared for introduction in Con
gress IN December providing for funding
the public debt into a four per cent. bond
coin interest Some of the bills provide
for a sinking fund in addition.
The Treasury Department has common
ced an investigation of the charges that As
sistant Treasurer Butterfeld, of New York.
has been specializing in gold, and if they
are sustained he is to be dismissed. The
President sent his private secretary over to
New York yesterday to confer with Collec-
tor Grinnel and learn Butterfield's story
The bonds. depositedin the United States
Treasury 10y the First National Bank of Ne
yada, for the security of its circulating
notes, have been formerly declared for
felted 10 the government and will be used
IN the redemption of the outstanding notes
Of the bank. These securities consist of
Sl55, 900 in five per cent. United States
0,onds
Secretary Robson gives notice that in
consequence of the extensive depredations
committed upon the public lands reserved
for timber for naval purposes in the States
"f Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and
Florida, naval officers and other persons
have been ordered 10 examine all the lands
referred to and cause all trespasSers to be
apprehended and prosecuted, employing
the civil power and where necessary the
military or naval forces to assist and bring
10 punishment such persons as may be
found culpable in this respect
JUstas soon AS it Is definitely ascertained
that Federal office-holder in Texas sup
ports Hamilton for Governor he Is at once
removed. The collector of the third Texas
district was to-day removed and in a few
days additional victims will be announced.
Foreign OuIr8geS on American Citi-
zens--The Charges Against COrbin
and HuIIcrTieId, etc.
New YORK, Oct 22.-The Congressional |
committee to take testimony relative to the |
outrages on American citizens in Paraguay
commenced its session here to-day.
- The grand jury this morning presented |
batch Of indictments to Judge Ingraham
The cases were of ordinary character. No
Indictment against Corbin OF any of the
gold Spectators
The Commercial says:
General Butterield, in a letter to Secre-
tary Boutwell, Indignantly denies the asser-
tons regarding his association with the
schemes of the gold ring, and repudiates
the idea that he has been in any manner
identified with it, and requests full and
searching official investigation.
Hon Thomas Ewing, Sr., became so ex-
cited to-day In an argument before the
Supreme Court, that he fell unconscious.
Every attention was paid him by those
near and he was soon restored TO con-
seriousness.
1t is said to have been discovered that
the newly elected Senator from Virginia,
Mr. Johnston. as well as Mr.. Gibson, one
Of the Representatives, from that State, are
laboring under disabilities imposed by the
18th Amendment.