New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-21
GAMBETTA AND PRIVATE LETTERS
ELECTORAL MEETINGS PROHIBITED
TRIUMPH OF JUAREz CERTAIN
WASHINGTON.

=" SustOmnOubC ACCOuULS-SOl-
IectOrship to be Observation-Disclosures
DefaIcatiOn-Govern Alcorn-Japa-
nese Legation to Frank Dispatches
Berlin Mails-Governer BulIock's Let
ter-Three Foot Gauge for Texas
Pacific Railroad.
WASHINGTON, July 20.-Secretary Bout
well, Special Treasury Agent Nudge and
Collector Robb thoroughly Overhauled the
accounts OF the Savannah CustOmhouse to-
day.
A defalcation of $4,000 is found, which
Deputy Collector Whitman, under a sworn
statement, confesses was appropriated by
himself.
The confession concludes: His (Robb's)
only fault has been in representing de-
gree of confidence and trust in me, which
have abused, as before stated"
Secretary Boutwell, exonerates Robb and
there will be no change in the collector
ship.
Governor Reed, of Florida, is here, look
ing after defalcation of about $4,000 in the
Jacksonville postofice. The money was
taken by a money order clerk. The post
master has made the amount good to the
government.
Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, is here.
The Postmaster General gives permission
to the Japanese legation here to send
official dispatches to YOkohoma, via San
Francisco. in the United States mail, free of
charge.
Information from the general postoffice at
Berlin announces that the steamer which
was to leave Stetin for New York on July
was delayed, and the mails intended for
that route were sent by Hamburg.
Governor Bullock of Georgia writes
letter to Senator Scott, which is published
in the New York Times. The letter includes
protest against the action of the con-
gressi0nal committee, in requiring informa-
ton concerning the needs, requirements or
condition of the State, other than can be
made known by her own representatives in
Congress. 1t also contains a. semi-offcial
statement of the exact financial condition
of the State.
The following is furnished by well
posted railroad man:
The Texas Pacific Railroad Company
have adopted the three foot gauge, subject
to the approval of the Secretary of the In
terror, who must decide whether that
gauge is a first class road.
The controlling advocate of the gauge is
Mr.. Thomas A. Scott, of the Penn sylvania
Central, who is building that gauge on the
Denver and FL Paso road
If the Texas Pacific adopts the three foot
gauge, then all the business from the Pacific
coast will branch off at Ell Paso, across to
DCnNOI OfcI EcCOIJS Ou 10 Uut
Union Pacific, which road will soon be in
the hands of the Pennsylvania Central.
This is a sharp move of the railroad king.
Scott, as it makes him, with the Union
Pacific and Pennsylvania Central, indepen-
dent of the Central Pacific, which. while
Huntington lives, can not be absorbed by
the Pennsylvania Central.
The move is not likely to meet with favor
in Texas, nor the South generally, as it
violently takes away from the line of the
road the through business of the Southern
Pacific. Besides it is seriously questioned
whether three foot gauge is wide enough
economical and convenient to carry the
light bulk cotton freights of the South and
the stock of Texas.
tits generally conceded that the present
gauge of roads in this country is too wide
but is not the three foot gauge an extreme
the other way2 is asked
Colonel Mann, who is building the Mobile
and Northwestern road, advocates four
foot gauge for all new roads South, as
adapted for the demands, and as combining
cheapness in construction and operation.
He says light rails and rolling stock can be
used on that gauge as well as on the three
foot, and greater room and speed can be
secured.
The Democratic members of the Ku-Klux
committee regret the hardness of their wit
nesses, including Generals Wright and Cor
don, Colonel Christy and Hon. Thomas
Hardeman.
Chap Norris, Sheriff of Warren county,
to-day, giving terrible account of
affairs in Georgia.