Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-29
WASHINGTON.
PrOsser Acquitted by the Postmaster
General.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S.-The Pos.mas-
ter General, who has for some days been
engaged in investigating the charge against
VIM. +. Prosser, to the effect that Prosser
received pay while member of Congress for
prosecuting claim against the government,
to-day dismissed the charges as entirely
without foundation.
The Cabinet.
At the meeting Of the Cabinet to-day all
the members were present except Belknap.
The session lasted one hour and half.
Checks.
Treasurer Spinner will this evening for
ward checks for $S,000000 in coin to par
ties in various parts of the country who have
sent their 500 bonds here for redemption.
Boutwell, ON the Defensive.
Secretary Boutwell, said to-day that in ne
gotiating the new loan he strictly followed
the line laid down in his circular of Aug.
10. He denies having violated the law
which authorized the payment of half of
one per cent. as the expenses of disposing
of the loan, and says after paying for the
engraving and printing of the bonds, the
compensation of agents does not amount to
one fourth of one per ceEt., while the ninety
days time allowed the banks to subscribe
gave bank depositors pecuniary advantages.
The Government did not pay cent more
than if the money had been deposited in
the Treasury proper, where it would have
lain idle.
Col. W. f. Stocking, of New York City,
and Miss Hattie Miller, daughter of Justice
Miller of the United States Supreme Court,
were married to-day at the residence of the
brides parents, Capitol Hall. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. DIR. Winter, of
Pittsburg, Mrs. Miller's father. Among
those present at the wedding were the
President and Mrs. Grant, the Chief Justice
and all Justices of the Supreme Court with
their wives.
A Carpet-Bag Senator's Story.
Special to the Louisville Ledger.
. Senator Osborn, of Florida, who lends his
Senatorial frank TO Alberger, for the purpose
of frankins letters and swindling circU-
lars throughout the South, has arrived here
full of venom against the Florida Ku-KluX,
and expresses his determination to use his
Senatorial influence with the government to
have martial law declared, in Jackson and
Calhoun counties especially, without delay.
He SAYS that citizens from jackson county
testified before the Ku-KluX Committee, Civ
ing the particulars of more than hundred
and fifty murders committed in that county
within the past year, and indicated the
names of many of the leaders of the Ku-
Klux, and that these witnesses are all at
Jacksonville yet, fearing the vengeance Of
the Ku-Klux if they returned to their homes.
Osborne says that among the documents Sc
cured by the Ku-KluX Committee during
the visit to Florida, was diary of the late
lamented Dickinson. Said diary contains
fearful record of Ku-Klux outrages, of
which Dickinson had personal knowledge.
The blood-thirsty Senator called on the
President to-day for the purpose Of having
the suspension of the hGbeGS corpus procla-
nation issued at once, but somehow or
other failed in his object.
Special to the Cincinnati Gazette.
Another Senator from North Carolina.
Late advices from North Carolina make
it probable that the Legislature there will
elect a third Senator to fill the vacancy
which now exists in the senatorial delega-
ton from that State. II will be remember
ed that ex-Gov. Vance was elected a year
ago, but his seat was contested by Gen. Alb
bott, who claimed that Vance was ineligible
under the 14th amendment, and that he
himself was entitled to the seat by reason
of receiving the next highest number of
votes in this ballot. The case was not re-
ported upon the last session, but will be the
first to come up this winter.
The Territorial Government.
The legality of the present form of gov
ernment for this district is about to be test
ed in a suit to be brought before the next
term of the Supreme Court. The persons
about to institute this suit hold that Con-
gress has no right to transfer any portion of
its legislative power to corporations, and
further, that citizenship, in the constitution
al sense, can not attach in this district, as
under the Constitution this territory is spec
tally set apart for government purposes.
A Certificate of Character.
The character of legislation and voting
in this District is illustrated by the action
giving six hundred thousand dallars to the
Piedmont and Potomac Railroad. At the
late election the proposition had a large ma
jority, but now that it is done, no security
for the money can be found, and the day
after the election the Legislature, which
had declared in the act authorizing the
that it was a measure calcu-
lated to greatly benefit the District, passed
a resolution inquiring whether the company
has been properly organized, and if so,
whether there has been any bona tide sub
to its stock, or any effort to obtain
any other than from the District of Colum-
bia, and whether there is any provision in
its charter or elsewhere requiring actual
payment on any subscription to its stock
other than that proposed to be made by the
District of Columbia, and what further
legislation is necessary to secure the inter
est of the District of Columbia in said road
in case the subscription to its stock shall be
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