Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 8, 1871.


The board of visitors 10 West Point milf
tary academy have presented their report TO
Secretary Belknap. In addition TO the corps of
cadets the board also examined the ninety APP
plcants for admission to the academy, of whom
ten were rejected for physical disability and
twenty-five for defective scholarship. Among
the recommendations of the board are the fol-
lowing: That the Office of chaplain of the post
be made distinct and limited to tour years, each
denomination to take its turn in filling the po-
sition; that more prominence be given to Span
ish in the course Of study; that q preparatory
course of one year,-the method and
standard of admission to which be the same
as they now are for the academy
established, no person to be admitted TO the
academy who does not pass a satisfactory ex-
animation in the studies of the preparatory de
partment, and is eighteen years old; that the
professor of ethics and belle lettres be selected
from civil life; that the professors of ethics,
law, engineering, and drawing, be retired with
provision for comfortable support, in view of
long and faithful service; that the professor
ship of drawing be abolished, and that this
study hereafter be restricted to mathematical
drawing and be consolidated with engineering,
and that the stricter discipline of twenty years
ago be resumed
On this point the board say: "With a view
to this end, the superintendent and commandant
cadets should always be officers of higher
rank, who, by age and military distinction, can
command, not only repect, but the implicit ODE
dence of all cadets" Reference is made to the
rigorous discipline of West Point twenty-five
years ago, when the officers and cadets stood in
relation to each other as officers and soldiers at
any military point, when the cadets only visited
the officers quarters Saturday afternoons, and
seldom then, because of the distance maintained
by the superors. All this, it is stated, had a
tendency to put the sons of the rich and the
poor men on common footing. The present
condition of affairs, resulting from great in
f1uX of fashionable life a tbp ie commented
upon, among other things, as causing relaXa-
ton OF the rules aud former rigorS Of the acad-
envy.
FINANCIAL.
A comparative statement of the amount ex-
pended from the appropriation for assessing and
collecting the internal revenue for the first six
months of the years 1870 and 1871 is as follows ::
For six months ending June 3d. 1s7O. 81, O06 $50
For six months ending June 30, 1S7l.... 3,-JS,436
Balance in favor of 1871. 70S 423
similar statement of the amounts expended
rom the appropriation for detecting fraud is as
follows:
For six months ending June 30, 1870. S49, ia
For six months ending June 80, 1871, ..... 14,523
Balance in favor of 1871. ................. IS 100
Total saving from both sources. ........ .743584
THE KUKLUx COMMITTEE.
The democratic members of the kukluX COM
lhltlSS nave ouLuuloH6u inc lOllOWlHS represent
tatiye men of Georgia to testify before it: A.
r. Wright, of Rome; N. L. Angler and Judge
Hiram Warner, of Atlanta; Thomas Halde-
man, of Macon; Gen eral A. w. Sumton and
eX-Mayor Anderson, Savannah; Peter W.
Alexander, Columbus, and General A. r.
Wright, Augusta.
NORTH CAROLINA KUKLUX.
letter, received at the executive mansion
from the United States district attorney Salem,
North Carolina, states that the grand jury of
that county has found bills of indictment against
twenty-one persons engaged in kuklux outrages
on MIR. Justice, member of the legislature and
eighteen indictments against persons engaged in
outrages on MIR. Biggstoff. He writes that the
persons indicted are all in Jail awaiting trial,
BOwRN's CASE.
There seems to be no doubt that the presi-
dent, on Thursday, decided not to pardon
Bowen, and when Mrs. Bowen called, in the af-
ternoon, instead of seeing her, he referred her
to Attorney General Alderman for an answer.
District Attorney Fisher, who prosecuted the
case before the court, declined to recommend a
pardon. The attorney general had prepared a
paper in accordance with The presidents view,
but it appears that Mrs. Bowen was successful
at Long Branch. The pardon is expected here
tomorrow morning, and Mrs. Rowen is
! anXiOusy awaiting its arrival