Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-03
TROUBLE IN CORK
From Washington,


INDIAN NEWS.
WASHINGTON, d. C., Oct 2-Iudian Agent
Iatum reports that band of one thousand
ApachcS, living on the StakCd Plain desire TO
Join their brethren on the reservation The sec
rotary of the interior has ordered the necessary
steps therefor. The report of an Indian raid in
Gallatn valley, Montana, on the 2Sth ult is
unfounded.
THE PATENT OFFICE.
The patent office received $40, 500 during Sep
TENDER. The applications for patents numbered
l432; extensions granted twenty-five
CERTIFICATES OF RECORD.
the hIst certificate of record issued in the
United States for several years was given TO
steamer Rio Branco, OF Para, Brazil, lust built
at Wilmington, Delaware.
THE CLAIMS COMMISSION.
The commissioners under the treaty of Wash
ington have adopted rules and regulations for
the presentation of claims. Claimants must file
statement in the form of a memorial accom-
panied by twenty printed copies thereof, when
the claim is for less than S1000 memorials TO
be printed at the expense of the commission,
The full ZANE OF claimant, place of birth, and
the place of residence between April 10, 1861
aud April 8, 1860, must be given. NaturuliZcd
citizens must append an authenticated copy Of
the record OF naturalization. Firms or associa-
tons, other than corporations or Joint stock
companies, must state the name of each person
interested, with the proportion of interest
Memorials must state the particulars of the
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ed, and the amount claimed, properly verified
Objection TO the jurisdiction of the commission
or the Suff1cIcncy Of the case stated in Il memo
rial may be made in the form of a demurrer.
Claimants are allowed two months FROM the
ming OF the memorial TO complete the p1oofS
and thereafter two months are allowed for TAX
ing proofs of the defence, and the commission
may allow further time for cause shown The
commissioners may issue special commission
Tor taking testimony on application Of either
party, or order witnesses to appear before them
for examination. The argument for the claim.
ant shall be filed within fifteen days after the
papers have been printed by the commission
and all cases must be submitted on printed ar
gument containing all the facts proven and ref
erences to the evidence by which they are
proven. The counsel for the respective govern
ments will be heard orally upon any case
NAVAL.
Rear Admiral James Alden, assigned to com
mand the European fleet to relieve Admiral
Boggs, has resigned the Office of chief of the
bureau OF navigation, to which Capt. Daniel
Ammen is assigned. Commodore c. ?. Il. Rodg-
erS succeeds Ammen as chief of the bureau
of yards and docks. Admiral Alden sails from
Philadelphia in the Wabash about November I.
BANK REPORTS CALLED FOR.
The controller of currency has called upon
the national banks for reports of their condition
at the close of business to-day.
THE PROSECUTED CORRESPONDENTS.
The indictments against White and RamsdelI,
of the New York Tribune bureau here, charged
with refusing to answer the questions of fine
senate, touching the manner in which the treaty
of Washington was obtained for publication,
have been quashed in the criminal court, for
want of jurisdiction, and the case will be
brought before the police court.
TAMMANY AND THE WASHINGTON CITY COW
ERNNIENT.
The fact is perhaps unknown except to few
persons that the recent exposure of Tammany
frauds in New York has been of much practical
benefit TO the taxpayers of Washington. The
board of public works are pushing with great
energy the improvement Of large number of
our streets, and this neccssitates the use of a
large number of paving and curbing stones.
One OF the largest firms in New York, dealing
in these Materials made an offer to our board
OF public works to contract to deliver here a
large quantity of blue stone curbing at 81 90 per
lineal foot The same firm has been supplying
this same kind of stone TO the New York city
government at from S1.35 to S1.45 per lineal
foot.
The disturbance in the Tammany ring and
exposure of the frauds stopped all demand for
the stone, and so the firm turned their attention
elsewhere, and found that it swouId still be
profitable to ship blue stone curbing to Wash
ington, and dispose of 1t to our board of public
works here at from % to 80 cents per lincal
foot less than Tammany paid them. The action
of this one firm has since been followed by sew
eral Others in New York, until our city govern
ment here has been enabled to make contracts
for all the stone needed at comparatively low
prices TO what they would have had to pay if
Tammany still had matters their own way in
New York The fact that these firms can sell
stone so much cheaper TO the city of Washing
ton than they did to the city of New York,
seems to justify the suspicion that all has not
been right with the stone contracts made by
Tammany The matter, at least, is worth look
iDu into,