Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-10-19
WASHINGTON.

! Government Relief for the Northwest.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S.-The Secretary
of War has authorized Gen. Sheridan to
afford such relief as may be in his power to
the sufferers by the fires in Michigan and
Wisconsin.
The Civil servicers.
The Civil Service Commissioners were
to-day engaged in the discussion of a gener-
al system of examination preparatory to
appointments.
Cotton Crops.
The official report of the Agricultural
Bureau says. Cotton reports for October
are unimproved. The average of Septem-
Der is sustained in no States, being for the
first week in October seyenty-siX against
eighty per cent. in September. The injuries
reported are from rust, shedding OF bolls,
prematurely cool weather in northern lati-
tudes, floods and foundations in Florida
and Georgia, and boil and army worm in
portions of Mississippi and more Western
States. Losses by insects are not very seri-
Gus or general. Drought occasions more
depreciation than any other cause. From
present indica tions the crop will not exceed
three million bales, and with the remainder
of the season unfavorable must be smaller.
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Bureau.
Special to the Louisville Ledger.
The friends of Gen. Bullock, the default
ing disbursing officer of the Freedmen's
Bureau, have been busy with all sorts of
personal explanations to-day. They do not
deny in the first place that Gen. Bullock
was poor man four years ago, and that he
is now worth S150,00O, although engaged
in no other business than simply appertains
to his official position, nor they or Gen.
Bullock himself deny that the sum of $25e,-
600 of government funds, in his hands, was
converted into bonds contrary to law, de-
posted in place which the law did not
authorize, and that the interest upon the
same, amounting to $4,000 per annum,
was Illegally appropriated to his own use.
The only justification pleaded is that of
the General, by reason of fraudulent impO-
sition practiced upon himself, by negro
bounty claimants, wished to indemnify him
self for moneys that he claims he was COM
PEELED to pay twice. There is nobody con-
nected with this transaction who seems to
have any account of the number of fraudu-
lent claims which are asserted to have been
paid twice, nor have any names or other
dates been put forth. @
Gen. Bullock, when this transaction first
came to light, attempted to shelter himself
under pretended authorization of Treasurer
Spinner and Comptroller Brodhead, and fl
nally of letter Of exculpation from Secre-
tary Boutwell,; but the two former officers !
are swift to clear their shoulders from any
share of responsibility, and the letter of the |
latter, written to Gen. Howard few days |
since, charges irreuglarity upon the whole |
transaction, but does not attribute improper |
motives to Gen. Bullock.
There is one queer thing about this de-
falcation which does not appear clear. The |
parties who are in position to know, state |
that the deficiency was really half million, !
and that after the S260,000 were found in |
the Treasury Department on deposit, the |
same amount was also found in the safe |
deposit company.