Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-20
TELEG RAP HIC.
WASHINGTON.
A Note from Minister Motley
Accident TO Hon. c. c. Clay
Yellow Fever at New Orleans
WASHINGTON.

A Female COmPOsitOr Admitted as a
Member of Columbia Topographic
al Union.
WAsHINGToN, Sept. I8.-Miss Mary c.
Green, of Ohio, who is employed as q
compositor in the Office Of the public
printer, was last night, by an almost
unanimous vote, admitted to membership
in the Columbia Typographical Union.
Minister Motley Explains Prussia's
Attitude toward the Republic.
WASHINGTON, Sept. ia dispatch
from Minister Motley, dated London,
Saturday evening, is received at the State
Department Mr.. Motley says the state
ment that Prussia refuses II treat except
with the Regency, and intends to reinstate
Napoleon as the Emperor of France, is
false. Prussia, he says, objects to recog-
nizing the present government, not be-
cause of the proclamation of the Repub-
lie, but on the ground that it is unautnor-
lied. unstable and incapable of giving
lasting guarantees.
The dispatch adds that favorable re-
ply was hoped for, but that it had not
been received, to the proposition for an
interview between Favre and Bismarck.
Revenue Receipts.
The revenue receipts from the dIstilla-
ton of brandy from fruit in North and
South Carolina will this year exceed $3.50,
900, as against about $40, 900 last year.
extraordinary Seizure.
When the practice ship Savannah,
reached Annapolis on the 18th inst, the
Collector of the port, acting under in
struClions from custom official late at
Fortress Monroe, seized all the walking
sticks, Canary birds, ETC., brought home
cruise. The employees of the Govern
ment known as special agents, or,
otherwise, deliveries" are causing
immense trouble here, both in the
Treasury and Interior departments, the
agents having rowing commissions, and
during theirt term receive from five to eight
dollars per day, and all expenses paid, of
course. 1t is 10 their interest to apes ar
as busy as possible, aud many 1l-sdyis ed
and illegal arrests are made. The Interior
and Pension Bureaus suffer most from
the actions of these deliveries. Pensions
are suspended, for no cause whatever,
and great trouble is caused in the office
by the complications arising from such
suspension.
HOrdes OF office Seekers at the Cap
itaI.
The Third Auditors Office yesterday
lost two clerks by death, an unusual &C
currence; but vacancies, strange to say,
never exist. So great is the number
of applicants for positions in the
departments that the present clerical
force could die off in six weeks and yet
every position be filled without going out
side of the petitions already on file. 1t
might seem harsh to people away from
Washington to know that there actually
exists what is knowns as the ''retiring list,
on which is placed the names of such
clerks as are likely to ''peg Outn within
a reasonable time, and persistent sppli-
cauts are assured that when that takes
place there viii be room for them, but
not until then.
Payment of Southern Claims.
A large number Of claims for pay have
been filed in the Fifth Auditors Office by
parties who acted as assistant assessors in
the South during the years $50 and 1866,
but who were unable to take the prescribed
oath. For such Congress made provision
at its last session, and as fast as the &C
counts can be examined they are
ordered to be paid. Not so, how
ever, with the assistant marshals of the
CENSUS of 1860. OF this class there are
quite a number who were cut off from
receiving their pay by the bresking out
of the rebellion, and only those who can
take the oath required by the Secretary
of the Interior are enabled to draw the
amount due. Possibly Congress may pass
a relief act at its next session.