The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-12-31
GENERAL.


the Mound City association is to carry all its
policies.
The indications are that the house of
representatives will pass bill fixing the sal
ary of the members of congress at about six
thousand dollars year, with an allowance of
actual travelling expenses.
The ordnance and war material sent
from St. Louis to Pensacola consisted of
2G 13-inch mortars, 48 to 10-inch guns, 13
1OO-pound PARROTS, A, $50 10 and 2O-inch shells,
!. 800 9 to 20 solid shot, 4,5O0 hand grenades,
and ], $50 10O-pound shells.
The senate has confirmed the follow
ing nominations: Martin Welker, district judge
for the northern district of Ohio, vice Charles
T. Sherman, resigned; Geo. R. Maxwell mar
shal for the territory of Utah; Fl. c. Hall, of
Connecticut. council-general at Havana; Alex.
r. Shepherd, governor of the district of Co.
lumbia, and others.
Gen. Sickles being q retired officer,
with an annual salary of $5,625, was at liberty
to 20 where he pleased an in accepting the
office of minister to Spain in May, 1860, he
has drawn the actual salary of $4,000 for this
service, but nothing on army account, as the
law prohibits the drawing of more than one
salary. On his retirement as minister he will
draw his army pay.
A private letter from Gen. Longstreet,
at New Orleans, has been received at Wash
ington, in which he says: s. have gone about
as far as can at present in arranging and en-
rolling and organizing troops. Letters come
in every day, and from all parts Of the south,
offering companies regiments and briBades.
Gen. Bodge, chief of police at New Orleans,
is raising brigade of soldiers who served in
the Union army, and Col. Beahan brigade OF
ex-Confederates for the Cuban war"
AT Carbondale, ILL.,, Jno. M. Brush,
in registering his name at the Planters house,
spilled ink on the register which provoked the
clerk of the house. They got into quarrel,
in which the proprietor of the house, J. W.
Mcdonald, took the part of the clerk, and the
result was that Brush was shot and instantly
killed by a revolver in the hands Of Mcdonald.
The affair creates intense excitement, owing
to the popularity of Brush, and the fact that
the provocation was triaing. Brush was an
old army telegraph operator, and highly es-
| teemed by all who knew him.
The Louisiana delegation to the ma
tional civil rights convention, accompanied by
senator West, called on the president, who, in
response to al address thanking him for the
care and attention he had given the colored
people of Louisiana said he would always en-
deavor to secure for the colored man all the
rights which should accompany his enfran-
chisement. Certain rights were still withheld,
but he hoped that ere long they would find
themselves in full possessian of all the legal
privileges which belong to free men. He did
not know what congress would do in the mat
ter, but he thought it likely that body would,
at its present session, pass some civil rights
bill and that if such bill is defeated, it will
probably be because some extreme measure
will be urged by person claiming to be par
ticular friend of the colored man. After
general handshaking the delegation took their
leave.
Rear Admiral Scott, at Key West,
will have the strongest naval force under his
command that has been collected by the gov
ernment at any American port since the terrni-
nation of the war. The monitors saugus and
Mahapoc are there already, with the Assipec
and Worcester, the latter the admiial's flag
ship. The Colorado sails from New York;
she is screw steamer of 16 guns. The Flor
ida, carrying 16 guns, is expected to follow
her. The Franklin and Brooklyn, the former
carrying 80 and the latter 20 guns, will sail
from Boston within a week. Capt. Lowry, OF
the Canandaigua, had two hours consultation
with secretary Robson and chiefs Of bureaus
OF the navy department. during which details
and etiquette of salute to the flag was arran-
ged, 50 far as they could be at present. The
Spanish naval force on the coast of Cuba is
reported to consist of American gunboats,
which we're conveyed to sea two years ago by
vessels of our navy. Our naval force in the
harbor of Santiago is more than sufficient to
cope with it in belligerent emergency, and
should such an emergency arise, it is believed
that the British fleet in the West Indies would
render assistance to our forces.
The secretary of the treasury las
| written to the chairman of the ways and means
committee recommending additional taxation,
| that the revenues may meet expenses, and en-
closing bill for that purpose. The restora-
tion Of the duty on tea and coffee, which will
Weld about go, ,o00, 900 per annum, is included
in Recommendations, The secretary also
inclosed letter from Commissioner Douglass,
makingthe following recommendations In
creased tax Of ten cents gallon on distilled
spirits, which would yield several million dol
| lars annually four cents additional per pound
on tobacco, which would yield four millions
on Illuminating gas, $3.50, 900; on gross receipts
Of railroads from passengers and freights,
81, ,O0O, 600; on steamboat gross receipts from
passengers and freight, 5000, 900; on insur-
ance companies, 81 800, 600; on telegraph re-
ceipts, $3.50, 600; and on express companies
receipts, $780, 600 making in the aggregate
! S22, Isl, ,O00 This with the tax on tea and cof-
! fee would make forty two millions. The COM
missioner says if more revenue is wanted it
could be obtained to the sx ent Of ten millions
by restoring the taxes formerly in schedule
| B, which includes stamps on all legal instru-
ments deeds, mortgages, etc.
Captain. General Jovellar, Of Havana,
authorizes the statement that the entire island
is tranquil and has no doubt that all will be
arranged peacefully and satisfactorily without
the slightest difficulty. He now declares that
he does not Intend to leave Havana, or trans
fer his power into the hands of Gen. Merelo.
! TIE feeling Of tho people IN HsYana i quiet-