New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-21
WASHINGTON.
INVENTIONS FOR REFINING IRoN-MEETTe8 or
THE KU-KLUx OOMMrrfRE-DIsL0YAI DEM
ONSTRATION IN TEXAS.


THE KU-KLUx oOMMrfEE-DIsLoYAL DEM
ONSrRATION IN TEXAS.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO rHy TRJBuEA,
wAsnncToM Wednesday,, Sept - is1L
There at the present time ssee number Of ap1ira
tions pending before the Comssasr Of Patents feen
daily in rccep< Of applications and Interference claims
The most common inventions ere those which Jsasss On
improved process for removing tAs suhnr fsom rse an
Ingredient which most bo dispaaetd iron I'll thsk sls Of
metal which Be polshed or turned, ctherwiss the
sulphur which forms hard particle n ths frsss would
prevent such AnisAing. The comisoner, whs gees to
Ohio In few days, WIN upon HI return tahs ~ sAese
applications ana interference cases In regular ofdef and
mako disposition Of them. Tho fact 10 established TO
certainty tAas inventors have made end nakDa great
improvements IN their inventions for refining iron, and
turning that metal fsto steel Tho following patenS
issued citizens Of NewYesk City during the week
ending the 10Th inst;
for steampumps; Joshua Kidd. manufacture Of iumi.
mating gas Orwell ". Needham, combined breastpump
MAGAZINE hreasrm Matthias Kab, screw propeller, He
man Luls, childs carriage Emile Provost galvanic bat
sery and eiectro-magnei; Thomas d. Rsndell. medical
q anmsnt sgmund schoenbrum attachment
Inc Joint Congress KuKlux Committee had meeting
to-day. Senators Scott, Pool Blair. and Bayard, with
Representatives Poland Maynard Stevenson, COburn,
sconed, Buckley, Lansing. g. Coz, Beck. and wsddcl
were present Senator Chandler arrived at Aessr
hce Pratt Van Trump. and voorhees, teegraphed that
they were detained by failure to make railroad conpec
lions. but they arrived this evening Mr. Robson Of
Ilineis Il the only member not reporting. vacancy
exists by the resignation Of the Hon. Burton G. Cook
At the meeting to-day but little business was dOue the
subcommittee Of eight which left here last May to pro-
coed with the not being quite ready to
port. Their report will be presented tomorrow In eli
probability they will recommend the appointment OF
subcommittee to visit Mississipp Alabama and por
tons Of Georgia and Tennessee The only point of dis
cussion to the locality to be Waited The Coguntes
is probably unit on the sending Of nl,re Sub
Committees South but differ to the States 70 be in
vesgated. The testimony, far printed, nils
than 100 octave pages and reports on the financial con
don Of some of the disturbed States will swell them to
about lo In all probability tho report, when presented
to Congress, win Ill nearly 5000 pages.
At recent political meeting In Texas, addressed by
Gen. W 7. Clark, renomnated for Congress by the Re
pubcans Of the hid District, the Democrats were
cited to disoyal demonstrations by exRebel captain
and manifested their feelings in pulling down and tear
Ing to pieces Largo United States nag and threatening
violence to the Republicans
In accordance with the circular Of Sept 49, OF Acting
Secretary Of the Treasury Hartley, diving notice that
tho principal and accrued interest on certain Five
Twenty registered and coupon bonds would be peid on
after the first day Of December next and that tho in
Prcst ceaeo Oh tu6t tucoo
are rapidly sending them In for redemption. few
have expressed willingness to exchanges them for the
Five Per Cents but the larger portion, expected
will demand gold payment
Applications have been made 10 the Secretary Of the
Treasury TO bond the following steamship lines: The
Ssxorlssp. and B. LOUIS PasEes Company S.'' ~" ~.
special agent Of the Treasury Department writes
from Florida that . malignant epidemic, similar TO the
yellow fever has recently carried of largo number OF
the citizenAo Of Cedar Keys.
It sppesr0fron returns ct the Internal Revenue Bu-
Ing their business largely for the Fall trade While
not many III operation In former years. chose
that have commenced operations are In PROSPEROUS
condition.
The case Of the Boston and Albany Railroad for Ii re-
fund Of taxes will be reargued In few days Thicase
and the claims Of number Of other large corporations
coHesup for rehcAring upon appeal from the desion
Of their dues In accordance with his decisions on the
ground that they have facts to and addnal
points OF law governing their respective cases.
soldier entered q private In December, 1851, was
discharged for wounds and after an interval OF some
months, reensted as veteran and discharged for
. wound received during his first enlistment HE
claimed that under the fourth section Of the act OF
March 1865, providing that when soldiers dis.
charged for wounds they shall receive bounty as they
had served their full term he entitled to the whole
veteran bounty for the the three years term The Second
was discharged received during former contract OF
enlistment, for which he had already received bounty
he could not receive two bOunes for the wound,
but entitled to the matured insaments only at the
time Of bis second discharge.
IGgNE1AL PRESS DIsPATcHl
Tie following naval officers have detached Rear.
Admiral shubrck Chairman Of the Lighthouse Board