Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-29
WASHINGTON.
Kentucly's War Claims Denied.
L..
The Ku-Nux Investigation
Werk of Sub Committee In
NJ South Carolina.
Territorial Officers liable to In
come Tax.
Bentucky,s IsootIess Loyalty.


| NEw YORK, July 2S. "A special from
Washington says that Secretary Boutwell,
has decided not TO allow nentucky's war
claim 10 be paid. SIR enatfEs<1 4
WAsHNeToN, July % Gen. Hewitt,
Quar.ermaster General of Kentucky, will
file a brief To- morrow in order 10 meet the
point rSisei by the Secretary of the Tress-
ury, namely, as to whether the troops
were scluslly employed in the UDit,d
States service, and will ask an immediate
decision on the Kentucky war claim, 10
wnich tie brief hiss reference.
Postal Treaties with England and
Il Argentine.
Postmaster General Cresswell has re-
turned from Long Branch, where be went
to obtain the signature Of the Presi6en
to the tresty for an interchange of money
| orders between the United States and the
united kingdom of Great Britain; also the
postal convention between the United
States and the Argentine Confeder alton.
The latter treaty establishes direct ex-
change between the United States snd
the Argentine Republic, by means of q
line of mail steamships plying between
New York and Rio Janeiro, and between
the latter point and Buenos Ayres. The
rate of postage established by this con-
ven'ion, which takes effect on day to
be designated by the respective postal de-
partments of the two countries, is on let
tiers of half ounce or under fifteen cents.
The Southern Pacific.
The Secretary of the Interior to day
nominated Robt. Lii, of GAINESVILLE,
Ohio; George Outten, of San Francisco,
and Mr.. Wilson, Of Minnesota, Commits
sioners on the part of the Government in
the examination of a section of twenty
miles lately completed on the Southern
Pacific Railroad of California.
Territorial Unfortunatcs.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that the officers of territo~
rial government are not entitled to ex-
emption from the income tax, as are the
officers of State governments, under the
decision of the Supreme Court in the case
of Burlington against Day.
AIl-Exccpt.
All the members of the Cabinet are now
here, except Robson, who is expected TO-
morrow.
German Celebrities.
Secretary Boutwell, hss received from
Consul kreissmsn at Berlin, sn imperial
photograph of the celebrities in that
country who took part in the late war.
The stamp Act.
The number of adhesive stamps issued
by the Commissioner of internal Revts
nue. for the year ending June 80, 1871,
is I'll, 663, SIS, representing a vslne of
$50, l90,74l, [? as follows: Docu-
mentary stamps 100. 1876, ASP, value Sl0,-
$50, o66. Proprietary stamps for matches,
patent medicines, etc, so, AT, 476, value
81, lS9, 007. The result as compared
with the previous fiscal year is as follows
Decrease in the number of documentary
stamps issued IS, oil, 2SS, and money de-
crease on the same 81, 096, 100. Increase
in proprietary stamp, 7,1Si, $40. value in
money increase S24, 047.
JuIcs Ferry,
Secretary Fish denies that any infor-
nation, Of any character, is at hand an
nouncing the appointment of Jules
Ferry IS minister from France 10 the
L nited States.
COnfIscaIed BIStIIIcries.
WASHINGTON, July 2S-The number
Of ds.illeries coming, into the possession
of the Government by purchase in cases
where property iGs been destrained for
the non-payment of taxes is very large.
The Internal Revenue Bureau, however,
refuses to give any information respect
ing the property, and is extremely re-
ticeat concerning the exact number of
distilleries st present in possession of the
United States. Il is understood that a
party of SPECTATORS are negotiating with
the Bureau for the purpose of getting
possession of portion of this property,
therefore information respecting the
game is denied outside persons.
Ku-kIux Testimony.
The Ku Klux Committee to-day exam
ined II. w. Guion, a leading lawyer of
Charlotte, n. G., who testified 10 the
past as well IS the present condition of
the State, saying, among other things,
that the people have taken the law into
their own hands only in cases where
criminals had been pardoned aud public
protection demanded such action against
outrages.
Ooly one more witness is here, Giles,
of North Carolina, who will testify to
the Robson county outlaws. Eight or
ten are on their way here from North
Corolius, Georgia, Alabama and MissisS
sippi, respectively.
The Sub Committee I'm South Caro-
lima
Senator Scott and Representatives Van
Trump sHd 5 evensOn are expected 10 re
turn from their sab committee work in
South Carolina tomorrow morning, when
the committee will determine whether
they will take recess until next Septem-
Der.
The subcommittee examined about one
hundred and fifty witnesses in South
Carolina When at Spsrtansburg Senator
Scott invited the leading citizens without
respect to parties TO call on him, talk over
the condition of affairs, when he in
formed them that if witnesses were as
saulted or molested because of their hsv-
ing testified, he would rep 1T the fact TO
the President ia order that they might be
projected by the military. Whereupon he
was assured that the witnesses should not
be troubled, aud further, that they would
personally make an appeal TO the people
to preseIve the peace and to break up
any unlawful combinations.
The Financial Failure
The receipts at the Treasury of sub
scription 10 the new loan are generally
small figures, the average being below
five thousand TO Gay. No official CON-
munications have been received from
Judge Richardson for several weeks on
the subject of The loan.
THE FISHERIES.