New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-14

CEN. PLEAsONTON GE"OyED-DHPUTY Co,iMrs-
SIONER DOUGLAS APPONTED TO THE POSI-.
TIOE-THE SOUTHERN MIL CONTRACTS.
by TELEGRAPH 10 TIE TRlBJNE.I
WAsHISCroY. Thursday, July 70. 1871.
There the best authority Tor the report that the In
ternal Revenue mudGlo was sctticd yesterday, Will,
Secretary Boutwell, was at long Branch. By the appoint
ment of Mr.. J. W. Douglass, Depuiy Commissioner. 10
be Commissioner in tho place OF Cen Pleasonton. Tie
appointment viii be made public In a day or two
Gen. Pleasonton!put endEesterday to all coectures
as to his In conversation in regard to the
reports current here he said that he DID Intend
resign because he believed that he in Tie right He
says he does not want a foreign mission, aud Will not
have one, and that he would DO nothing to relieve Mr.
boutwell, Of any sensitveness he may feel II the Priest
dent wants him to leave the Internal Revenue Bureau
his must he named, for lie WI take no inna
lions.
1t has been decided by the Postmaster General al
vertise Sgsin FOR proposals for carrying the mails In all
the Southern States excepting Tennessee and Kentucky
for the fiscal year just begun THIS action u rendered
necessary by tie refusal II those 20 whom contracts hid
been awarded to accept the awards hasng tI refusal
the assertion that they had fixed the amount OF
| pensation at too low l,qre.
II Ia reported that four members OF the Civil Service
Commission before leaving the city. yesterday, drew
from the Treasury ;5oOeach payment for their services
thus far. THIS is at tie rate Of $50 a day.
Ex-CommsIoner OF Agriculture Clpron LEFT this city
this evening for san Francisco, from which city he viii
sail tie 1t OF August for Japan Previous his de-
parture, this afternoon there gathering Of the
plOyes Of the Department about 80 In number, IN tho
Commissioners ROOM and complimentary address
given by Chief Clerk Mclean series OF resolutions
congratuating Gen. Capron his ia tho De
paItment and his present good fortune alec passed
Gen. Capron appropriately responded and a formal
leave-talsiug followed.
report is going the rounds that the Cherokee indiana.
in Western North Carolina, have filed claim against
tho Government for all the lands lying between he Blue
Ridge and Cumberland Mountains, and extending from
Bristol Chattanooga. II is said that when f treaty
was mado cedng this land the Cherokee Chief failed to
sign IT. and that Is, therefore, OF no value In e1pa-
nation Of this report it may be said that these Cherokee
Indians are frequently finding that portions Of their
land east tho Mississippi River has never been eeded
to the United States Some country lawyer generally
employed but when no comes TO Washington TIA claim
IS found TO worth than tho paper which IL IL
written. This is probably Ike all Of the others
During the fiscal year ended June 80, 1871 the Third
Auditor issued l,2c4 certificates OF nonndobteancss 10
the United States to army officers prior to their final
payments.
The Attorney-General, Col Douglass, the Presidents
private Secretary; Senator Abbott, the Hon. John r.
French and other gentlemen will leave here tomorrow
for Weldon N c., where III immense Republican mass
meeting IL 10 be held Saturday, IN opposition to tho
proposed Constitutional Coayenonin that state. The
Attorney General will be one OF tie speakers