New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-21
ATLANTIC CABLE REPAIRED
HEAVY LAND CLAIM IN DELAWARE
OFFICE HOLDERS AFTER GRANT
WASHINGTON.

Witnesses Before Ku-Klux Committee
Agricultural Bureau Wheat Statement
100000 Acres Increase-Cash Amounts
Due from Internal Revenue Officers
Limit of Claims Offered TO Southern
Claims Commissioners-TrOubl in the
Indian observation-disclosures ON Mag
netism of Vallandigham.
WASHINGTON. June 20.-The present Uni
ted States District Attorney of Mississippi
and his predecessor, General G. Gordon
Adams, are here to testify before the Ku-
Klux Committee. They were summoned by
Mr.. Blair.
The following is the Agricultural Bureaus
statement regarding wheat: Acreage has
increased four per cent or nearly 10000
acres. The increase is mostly west of the
Mississippi.
The following is the reduction in acreage:
Maryland 8 per cent, Kentucky 2, In
diana 2, Mississippi ., South Carolina per
cent. The condition of the crop in Virginia
is 8. North Carolina Is, South Carolina q,
Georgia 25, Alabama %, Misslssippi4, Texas
IA, Arkansas 13, Tennessee 26, Kentucky 90
and California AZ per cent below the aver
age The other States show fairly, should
no disasters occur, crop fully equal to last
year.
The amounts due in cash from ex-internal
revenue officers are:
Georgia, 81 600; Kentucky, $42 900; Louis
isiana, Si,l96,OO0; North Carolina. $74, ,000
Texas, $4,000; Virginia, $l5S,OO0. The
aggregate for all the States is nearly
$3000,000.
Louisiana is the only State exceeding a
million, which is partly attributable to the
cumbrous machinery for collecting the cot
ton tax.
Suits were commenced in every instance,
n ,.,Ao to how hany
already rendered.
ONLY claims under three thousand dollars
will be offered to the commissioner ap-
pointed by the Southern Claims Commission.
Considerable excitement has been Gre
ated in political circles here, growing out of
the resignation of Colonel Clifford ThOmp-
son. chief of supervisors and detectives of
the internal revenue office, concerning
which an assertion is made that it was
forced by Grant, because of information
that Thompson sold to the Office of the New
York Central Railroad Company, two days
in advance of the PRONUNCIATION of the COM
missiOners decision on the great scrip tax
case such information about it as enabled
those officers to save themselves from loss.
The sum received for this information thus
sold was stated to the President to be $4,000.
There is a renewal of the difficulties be-
tween Indian Commissioner Parker and the
Board of Indian Commissioners, who are
experimenting, as far as they have power,
his official actions. The dispute grows out
of the award of bids to convey Indian sup
plies to the frOntier-Parker giving it to the
New York Central railroad, while the others
claim that the Pennsylvania Central was
agreed upon, and entitled to the award.
The case will probably be presented to
Congress.
The Tribune to-day says the power and
the vital maonetism of VallandiUbam were
never more clearly shown than in the ease
and rapidity with which he drove into line
the Democratic party of several States to
take new departure, which had already
been timidly urged by dilettante organic
ers, which now claim to have originated
the movement. Unquestionably he has
been during these few weeks past more
kindly spoken of by the great mass of the
people than ever before, and now his piiful
death will gain for his memory tender
consideration which once seemed impossi-
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