New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-09
WASHINGTON.

| Mail Route Agent Arrested-Seizure oI
Distilleries, Fixtures and Land-Gen.
| eral sherman to the Herald-His An.
tipathy to POlitics-He Never will be a
| Candidate-Argumento on Withholding
| Bowers Sentence-BOard of Super.
! vising Inspectors - Committees on
Steamboat Machinery-Weather Syn.
Opsis and Probabilities.
| WASHINGTON, June S-Walter T. Shift.
route agent from Norfolk to Raleigh, has
been arrested on a charge of violation of
| the postal laws.
Two stills with fixtures, and one hundred
and seventy-tlve acres of land in the fourth
North Carolina district, were seized for a
| violation of the revenue laws.
General Sherman, writing to the New
York Herald from Fort Sill, says:
| Fort SILL, COmanche Reservation, Nav
| 25.-TO the Editor of the Herald. | have
been skirting the Texas frontier for the
| past month here. For the first time met
| files of Eastern papers, by which see quite
| an unnecessary muss has been raised by
purported speech made by me at a supper
OF the Union League Club of New Orleans
the night preceding my departure from that
city. whoever reported that as speech by
me committed breach of propriety, for
Governor Warmoth presided, and before
consented to respond ts a call l was assured
by the president of the society that no re-
p0rters were present and that whatever
was said would be sacred and confined to
the persons present.
Now as to politics, think all my per-
sOnal friends know my deep-seated an
tipathy to the subject. Yet as you seem
not to understand me, hereby state, and
mean all that l say, that l never have been
and never will be candidate tor President:
that If nominated by either party, | should
nRrnmnfnnIlU II ay,A
mOusly elected, l should decline to serve.
Ii you can find language stronger to convey
this meaning, you are at liberty to use it.
am your obedient servant,
w. T. SHERMAN, General.
Work has been resumed at some points
at dollar and half per day The work
men have been unmolested A strong force
OF police, however, are in readiness. MANY
still hold out for two dollars and eight
hours.
Judge oliver will hear the argument on
Monday whether he can withhold Bowen's
sentence until the motion for a new trial is
decided.
The ku-Klux investigation committee ex-
amlned General Eggleston, of Mississippi:
Mason, of South Carolina, and Cherry, of
Alabama; Governor Parsons, of Alabama,
will be examined tomorrow
The board of supervising inspectors of
steamboats,, which is now in session here.
Will tomorrow appoint number of COM
mlttees TO consider steamboat machinery.
etc. No business of Importance has vet
been transacted.
Weather RepOrt.-The barometer has
fallen on the Pacific coast, and decidedly
so at the Rocky Mountain stations and in
the Missouri valley. 1t has risen on the
Gulf and South Atlantic, and on the lakes
and middle Atlantic, and remains sensi
bly, unchanged and quite low in the extreme
New England States. The temperature re- |
mains cool north of the Ohio valley, and |
has fallen decidedly on the Carolina coast. |
Northwesterly winds are very generally re- |
ported from Lake Ontario to Tennessee and |
westward to the Mississippi Southwesterly |
winds have prevailed on the Atlantic coast. |
The rain of Wednesday evening had this |
morning ceased in the Middle and Eastern |
States. That which prevailed last nicbt in |
Northern Florida is now extended to Cheso- |
peake bay Clear and partially cloudy |
weather has very generally prevailed in the |
interior. - wv
1t is probable that on Friday light winds
with warm and pleasant weather will pre-
vail from the lakes to the gulf Partially
cloudy and clear weather with WESTERLY
winds are probable for the interior of the
Atlantic States. No serious disturbance
any extent is apprehended east of the Mis-
sissippi.