Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-29
WASHINGTON.
Texas Invaded by Mexican Regulars.
A u. S. Revenue Officer Captured.
nr,IIions Of Propertx STOLEN.


WASHINGTON, March ga delegation
! from Texas, headed by Senator Hamilton,
/ waited on the President this morning in
relation to Mexican depredations on the
| frontier. The delegation represent that on
q recent date a party Of regular Mexican
| troops in uniform crossed the Rio Grande at
q point above Brownsville, arrested the
| United States Customs Inspector, together
with a number of citizens, and held them
until they had crossed into Mexico a drove
! of 500 or 600 stolen cattle.
It was further represented that the dep
relations on stock alone by the raiders from
Mexico into Texas in the last six years will
reach from six to ten million dollars in
value and the system Of brands prevailing
in Texas will enable sufferers to establish
legitimate claim against Mexico from the
various county records.
The President replied that the subject had
been one of frequent communications to
the Mexican government, which would no
doubt willingly afford relief but seemed
powerless, while internal revolutions con-
tinued in the Northern States Of Mexico.
The commercial phases Of the question
were also discussed, and it was suggested
that the order from the Secretary of the
Treasury prohibiting the clearance of YES
sells from points above Brownsville was a
virtual blockade of the Rio Grande and
therefore illegal.
The President took notes Of the CONVEX.
sation and promised to bring all the ques-
tons before the Cabinet.
The delegation subsequently, called on
the Secretary of the Treasury on the COM
mercia, questions involved. The Secretary
admitted that the order prohibiting trade
above Brownsville was of questionable le-
gality, and unless it was made the subject
of an executive order the order from the
Treasury Department will be revoked.
Negroes VS.. Greasers.
All disposable colored troops at Newport
barracks, KY, have been ordered 90 Calves
ton,
The FrancO-PrussfRn Row.
Marquis de Chambreau was to-day be-
fore the Senate Arms Committee. In the
course of his examination he read from
private note addressed to him by his uncle,
who is the French Minister of Foreign
Affairs, saying he had not prescribed any
into the Remington affair
that if Remington had committed any mis-
the Government would not
prosecute him in the United States.
The Chinese Subsidy.
The Senate committee on pOstOffiees and
post roads this morning agreed to move an
to the postoffice appropriation |
bill when it comes up in the Senate, author |
izing a semi-mOnthly mail service between !
California and China, and increasing the |
subsidy of the China mail line to 100000 |
per annum.
Japanese Normal Schools.
B. G. Northrop, of New Haven, State |
of Education, appeared be- |
fore the House Committee on Foreign AT |
fairs this morning in advocacy of the pre-
position to devote the Japanese indemnity |
fund, now amounting to over 500, 700, to
the purposes of education, under the pledge |
and control Of the japanese Government.
The plan urged contein plates a system of
normal schools for the higher branches Of |
education in the English language, and in
the lower grades of school instruction is to
be given in the Japanese language express
ed by the Roman characters of our al
phabet.
The Railroad War.
The friends of the Baltimore and Poto-
mac railroad depot site expect to pass it by
two thirds, on Monday, under suspension
Of the rules,