New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-26

Leg1slo0ve Council OF Columbia Ter
ritory - Payment to Sisters Of Ou,
Lady Of lIercy-Weaaher Synopsis
and Prebabilities-Interese Cases /,
the Ceurt Of Clainls-The Late A. !
Atoeha.
WASHINGTON, April 25.-The Legislative
Council Of the territory of the District o.
Columbia has been called by Governor
Cook, to meet ON May Is.
Secretary Boutwell, has departed.
The representative Of the Sisters of Oul
Lady Of Mercy, Of Charleston, South Caro-
lima, received 81, 600 from the treasury to
Weather Report-7:3O p. M.-Synopsis for
the past twenty four hours: On the Pacific
coast tho barometer has continued to rise
with increasing southwest winds. The
cloudy and threatening weather reported
Monday evening as prevailing from Min.
nesota to Mississippi, had on Tuesday morn.
ing brought light rains to the regions south
OF Indiana and Illinois, with rapid diminu-
ton of pressure on the lower lakes; SOUTH
easterly winds have, during the day, pre-
vailed along the Atlantic and gulf coasts,
with cloudy and threatening weather and
occasional light rains in Pennsylvania and
the central Mississippi valley.
1t is probable that on Tuesday night the
barometer will continue to fall over the
lake district, and that on Wednesday
cloudy and rainy weather will be very gem
orally experienced from Wisconsin 20 Ala
bama and eastward, and brisk winds in the
Middle and Eastern States.
Two cases in the Court of Claims to-dav
attracted considerable attention. The first
was the case Of the late A. ]. Atocha, in
which he claimed damages for being uniaw.
fully expelled from Mexico during one of
the revolutions inaugufated in that country
by Santa Anna.
The claim was before the former Mexican
commission some years ago, out was not al
lowed. 1t then came into Congress and
was referred to the court of claims. The COM
pensation sought, if allowed, is to. be paid
out of fund now in possession of our gov
ernment and received from Mexico. The
trial was to take place to-day. but the As
sistant Attorney General moved for q con-
tinuance, on the ground that further testi-
mOny was needed from Mexico. The court
granted q continuance.
The other 60 ". Q the New York, New
and London Telegraph Company
vs. the United States. This is q suit for q
la-ge amount Of tolls on cable kilograms
. Mt BY the govei0me mt during Mr.. Sc Ads
term Il Office as Secretary of State.
motion to continue the case was urged
on the ground Of the necessity of obtaining
further. evidence from Mr.. Seward The
court held the motion under advisement.
and will decide it tomorrow. The amount
claimed to be due is 432,24O, the entire
amount of the bill for the ocean kilograms
sent from November 10, 1866, to October 5,
1867, being $45,54O.
Included in the Indebtedness is q dispatch
from Mr.. Seward to Mf. Bigelow amount
ing to SIS, $40 50, chargeable in gold,
there being forty eight words in English
and 36A in cipher. The largest amount,
apart nom that just mentioned, paid in gold
by the Department of State, was for q dis
patch from Mr.. Seward to Prince Gortscha-
kof;. St. Petersburg, about the Alaska
treaty, numbering 1853 words and costing
Itappears from the documents that Mr..
Seward could not sanction the items for
the unpaid kilograms upon any other prin-
ciple than that those kilograms be paid for
not as cyphers, but az words.
Peter Cooper, in his petition a. the presi-
dent Of the telegraph company, says:
The services were performed in the man
NED set forth and that the United States were
bound by Seward's acte in that behalf, and
should make payment for Transmitting said
by cable, according to the tariff of
charges then in existence, and which were,
posted in the telegraph Office of the
War Department, whence these messages
we're sent, and which tariff of charges was
Known to the Secretary Of State at the
lime Of sending the messages, and at the
lime Of sending and paying for other
messages similarly sent, and charged In the
accounts and paid for at the tariff rates as
,harged, * sT