Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-11
WASHINGTON.
ANOTHER LAND sWINDLE.

NEW YORK, August 1O.-A Wash
ington dispatch says Hon. ]. NJ. Ash
lev Yesterday presented an argument
to the Interior Department in behalf
of claims of Indians to the rights they
have in the property and school priv
ileges OF the Ottawa University. The
particular question will now be de-
cided a. to whether the present Board
of Trustees shall be given patents for
about 1000 acres trust lands, which
were bought for the University. This
question opens up the whole case, and
it will require considerable time to
examine all the evidence and make
up a decision.
PLEAsONTON'S SUCCESSOR.
A report has been published charg-
ing JnO. w. Douglass, Tax Collector of
the Nineteenth District of Pennsylva-
MIA, and Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, with being a defaulter to
the amount of three thousand dollars,
that sum being charged to him on the
books of the Treasury Department as
a balance due from him. On inquiry
to-day it was ascertained that when
Collector of the Nineteenth District
of Pennsylvania his deputy stole $17,-
900. Douglass recovered $4,000 from
his deputy's securities and paid this
into the Treasury, together with other
moneys which he realized by the
sale and mortgage of his own private
property. a credit has been given
him for $ll00 additional, thus reducing
the balance due the Government 10
1860. A claim for his relief il COW
pending before Congress.
Information has been received at
the Navy Department that within the
past few weeks at least six persons
have been practicing imposition on
the various ports of the country under
the false assumption OF being officers
of the navy.
NATIONAL BANKS.
The Secretary of the Treasury ad-
dressed the following to the National
Banks:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.,
August 10, 1871.
SIR take the liberty OfinfOrming
you that arrangements have been
made for the disposal of the remain.
der of the bonds offered by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury on the 28th of
February last, being about one
hundred and thirty million dollars.
The arrangement is subject to the con-
dition that the National banks of the
United States shall have an OppOr-
tunity within sixty days from this
date to subscribed for any sum or sums, |
not exceeding fifty million dollars in
all. The banks making or obtaining |
subscriptions in coin will be designa-
ted by the Secretary of the Treasury
as depOsit0r5 of public money upon
the usual condition of placing in the
hands of the Treasury of the United
States bonds of the United States for
the Secretary. Such deposit at the
commencement of each month, notice
will be given Of their redemption and
amount of bonds total to amount
of subscription i'll coin for the succeed
ing months. Interest to cease in
ninety days from date; such notice as
bonds specified shall then mature,
when the deposits will be withdrawn
from the several banks proportion.
A commission of One.eighth of
one per cent. will be allowed uuOn all
subscriptions made or obtained by
the National banks.
lSigned) BOUTWELL,, Sec'y Trs'y.
To the Cashiers of Nashionsl Banks.
The following letter was to. day sent
to the agents heretofore designated:
Negotiations having been perfect
ed for the sale of the remainder of
the two hundred millioas five per
cent. bonds, offered to the public by
the Secretary of the Treasury on the
18th of February last, the authority of
the agents heretofore designated is
limited to the sale of equal amounts
Of four and a half and five per cent.
bonds, or equal amounts of four and
five per cent. bonds"