Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30
WASHINGTON.
A Prospective War on Cuba.
Our Fleet Odered to BOmbard Havana.

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4 NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Washington spe-
eials state that Admiral Lee, with his feet.
are ordered into Cuban waters, with instrlIc.
tions that if satisfaction for recent outrages
are not rendered, to open guns on the city
of Havana.
Composition of the Fleet.
4 WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-It is supposed
at the Navy Department that the Terror,
having yesterday been ordered to Havana,
viii arrive there to-day. The Worcester,
now at Boston, will be the flagship of the
North Atlantic feet, Admiral Lee having,
It IS said, left Washington to-day to Join
her. The Swatara, now at Norfolk, cam
not Immediately join the squadron, as her
Captain reported this morning that she first
requires repairs. The Severn is nominally
in commission, but will not be fitted for sea.
The Worcester takes her place. The Kan
sas and Neipsic will soon join the squadron.
The ShawmHt, which recently left for
Brazil, will be recalled for temporary duty
in the squadron.
The authorieties do not apprehend any
difficulties at Havana with American citi-
zens, but say the return of the squadron to
the North Atlantic is inaccordance with the
usage to have force convenient for the
protection of our citizens, should necessi-
ty for it occur. They look on the recent
disturbances in Havana as merely of local
character, and as significant of the assum-
ed Importance Of the volunteers against the
Spanish authorities.
Syndicating.
| WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-The Treasury
Department to-day received $16,000,000 of
the called-in 1862 bonds from London. Al
together the Department has thus far re-
ceived $53, 100000 of the $1000000O0 of
| called-in bonds, of which it will only be
requisite to redeem in coin between 81, 6,000,-
900 and $7,000,000, which have already
been provided for. The remaining portion
has all been offered in exchange for new
five per cents. 1t is confidently believed
at the Treasury Department that the negO-
tiations connected with the syndicate will
be completed without any unusual disturb
ances in the money market. The syndicate
operations will not affect in any way the
Secretary's usual monthly programmes for
the purchase of bonds for the sinking fund.
MuIIet.
The annual report of Supervising Archi-
tect Mullet gives full account of the work
with which his Office has been charged.
He says in reference to the customhouse in
Chicago, 81 believe the necessities of the
Government require the purchase of the re-
mainder of the block on which the custom
house building is located and the erection
| thereon without delay of a building of suf-
ficient capacity to accommodate all branches
of the Government service in that city,"
Mullet calls attention to the importance
of securing the whole or portion of the
Battery as a site for the erection of new
customhOuse and other buildings for the use
of the Revenue Department in New York
city and also Of erecting appraisers stores
in that city.
The report concluded with the quaran-
tine question, the Supervisor expressing the
opinion that if quarantine is to be main
tanned it should be under the direction of
the general government.
Distinguished Arrivals.
Vi1e-President COlfax and family, Sena-
tors Morton and Morrill,, of Maine, with
families; and Senator Sumner, arrived to-
day. There are now about thirty members
of Congress in Washington.
An Armed Fleet Ordered TO Havana.
Special to the Louisville COurier-JOurnal
Official advices received by the govern
ment yesterday and to-day, indicate that
we are involved in no inconsiderable diff
culties with Spain, whose officials in Cuba
have for some time shown an utter indif-
ference to the protection of American citi-
zens. The Cuban volunteers there have
maltreated Americans and driven them,
within a recent period, out of Havana. This
government, aware of this, has repeatedly
represented the condition of affairs to the
ar1th horitjoc of Madrid hut will bout INV
other 3sult than promises of early action,
which were never fulfilled. Yesterday af-
fairs became so threatening at Havana that
the United States Consul General telegraphs
that American citizens and officials needed
the immediate protection ofthe government.
The matter was brought to the attention of
the Cabinet, and an armed feet of four or
five vessels have been ordered with all pos
sible dispatch to Havana, to be placed in
immediate consultation with COnsul-Gene-
raj Biddle. The commanding officer has
received instructions, in case the Cuban
volunteers strike down the life and pro-
perty of American citizens, to first demand
an apology and reparation. If they are re-
fused, then he is required to open his guns
ON the city of Havana. The gunboat Nip
sic, now at Pensacola, viii leave, while the
Terror, at Key West undergoing repairs,
has been ordered into commission, TO be
dispatched at once to Havana. Also the
Kansas has been ordered from the
Brooklyn Navy Yard to the same
destination with all possible dis
patch, while the Severn and Natasket
are already on their way to Cuban
waters. Admiral Lee commanding the
Southern Atlantic squadron, is now in
Washington, but was active to-day by or
ders of the government in dispatching his
vessels, so as to be ready for any emergen-
cy. Owing to the rigid censorship over the
telegraph at Havana, but little is known
here of the immediate events which have
compelled Consul General Biddle to appeal
for assistance, but the condition of affairs
with Spain, arising out of the Hornet diff
Guilty and the treatment of Americans in
; Cuba, is sufficiently shown by the diplom
attic correspondence to warrant the govern
ment in the startling course it has taken.
Special to the Louisville Ledger.
A Sort of Cutting Request.
A prominent Representative has request
ed that the Treasury Department furnish tt
him a complete list of all money lost by de
falcation, embezzlement, and other irregu
, larties, since the present administration
came into power. The Secretary of the
Treasury, acting upon this hint, has ISSUED
instructions that the account of every dis
, bursting officer under the government bt
made up prior to the assembling of Con
gress.
FrauduIenL Cherokee Claims.
, Judge Wright, Of Indiana, who is badly
, mixed up in the Cherokee claim swindle, i
, out in a card here to-day, in which he says
! he has not yet been arrested, and that h,
, does not intend to run away. Nevertheless
the government is engaged in investigating
, these alleged frauds, with the intent to pun
} ish those who were engaged. This will in
f clude Senator Harlan, by whose order thes
4 claims were put on the pension list
Ten Eyck's Initiative PenmanshIp
, In the spring of 1869 it was discovere,
2 that one Egbert f. Ten Eyck, who hat
t been a clerk in the Paymaster General
I and Second Auditors office, was engages
1 in lettering forged bounty checks, and b
= was indicted in New York. 1t now tran
t spires that Ten Eyck was engaged for
y long time in putting up fictitious claims ol
forged discharge certificates and in forgin
public officers names and statements iron
: the pay rolls. The matter is now under in
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