New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-19
WASHINGTON.

Fort BascOmb Surprised-CatIie and
Ponies Killed and Captured-Ken-
lucky Republican COnventiOn-NOmi-
nntiOns-The Recusant Correspond
ents-They Refuse to Betray their
Friends-TripIe Alliance TO Control
Coal TranspOrtation-Wher the Sem
ate Prisoners are Confined.
WASHINGTON, May 18.-General Gordon
Granger telegraphs from Santa Fe, that
Fort BascOmb was surprised by twenty-five
hostile Indians, and 700 cattle and ponies
captured.
The Kentucky Republican Convention
adopted resolutions censuring the refusal to
grant charter to the Cincinnati and South
ern railroad.
Secretary Delano has returned to this
city.
The following nominations were made to-
day:
William A. Pile, Minister to Venezuela;
Willard Warner, of Alabama, Governor of
New Mexico; James X. Partridge. of Mary
land, Minister to Brazil; Franz Sigel, Col
lector of the Ninth New York District
Commodore B. f. Sands, Rear Admiral;
Captain Reed Worden, Commodore; Captain
Stephen D. Trenchard, Commodore.
Senate-Messrs. White and Ramsdell re-
piled in effect in writing his excuse for not
answering the question of the committee,
was that to do so would be in violation of
his professional honor; that it is uniform
practice of members of his profession to re-
gard as confidential their sources of in
formation; and even if such confidence had
not been pledged it was implied, and if he
should violate that practice, he believed he
would render himself infamous in the esti-
nation of his associates.
The questions of the committee, which
Mr.. White had refused to answer, were
again put to him by the Vice President, the
Secretary reducing his answers to writing.
Mr.. White answered that he first saw the
treaty in print. and telegraphed it to the
Tribune immediately on receiving it. The
questions as to where he got it from
whom did he pay for it etc. were then
asked, and Mr.. White replied: respectfully
decline to answer.
The motion to commit the prisoners to the
common jail was amended to place them in
the custody of the sergeant-at-arms and
the committee. which their silence placed
in contempt, continued during recess,
which machinery makes the confinement
perpetual however, should the prisoners
notify the sergeant-at-arms of a willingness
to purge. and the committee to which they
are amenable shall not assemble within ten
days thereafter, the sergeant-at-arms may
discharge the prisoners.
The barometer has risen somewhat on the
Pacific coast, accompanied by a slight in
crease in the temperature. The weather re-
mains unchanged at the Rocky Mountain
stations. Light rains followed by clearing
weather have been reported from Southern
Illinois, and the rain prevailing at New Or
leans is now apparently confined to North
ern Florida. Clear weather has generally
prevailed on the lakes and Atlantic coast,
a light rain was reported last
night on the Carolina coast. The area of
highest barometer is now Western Pennsyl-
vania, and the pressure has fallen decidedly
on the upper lakes.
A slight disturbance is apparently develop
oping in Alabama and Georgia, and will,
probably, moved eastward. A similar dis
turbance, probably a severe thunderstorm,
is also apprehended in Minnesota. Pleasant
weather will probably continue on Friday
on the lakes, Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
The Kentucky Republican convention
nominated John w. Harlan for Governor,
and George NJ. Thomas for Lieutenant Gov
ernOr
The election Judges of Hammonton, New
Jersey, have all been arrested upon the
complaint of a woman whose ballot they
refused.
1t is reported triple alliance has been
formed, composed of Gould, Vanderbilt and
Scott, TO control the coal transportation,
to a practical consolidation of
the three great lines.
Three of Nanderbilt's men have been ad-
mitted into the Erie directory as compensa-
ton for certain concessions.
The Senate prisoners were at their offices
md homes this evening, to close their bust
ness and family arrangements, under the
custody of a Senate officer. They are con
lined III the committee room of the Pacific
"A dreary room