The Portland daily press., 1873-05-07
WASHINGTON.
Louisiana AGairs.

| - WASHINGTON, May 6-Senator West and T.
b.S. Pinchback, who have just arrived here
from New Orleaus, had long conversation
with Attorney General Williams on LOUISIANA
| affairs. No official intelligence has been re-
| celved from St. Martinsville, notwithstanding
the statements of resistance to tax collectors s
These parties report that the collections SO far
are larger than those of last year.
Treasury Balances.
The following are the Treasury balances to-
day: Currency $4 3S9 6S6; special deposits OF Ie-
gal tenders for redemption of certiicates TN OF ae-
$26, ,062, 100 in coin certificates; legal tenders
outstanding $357, ,3l7, $50.
Suit agpiusr the Union Pacific h. Il. Co.
and Credit MObiller.
Messrs Perry and Ashton, together with Mr.
Jencks of Rhode Island, lately associated with
them as counsel for the government, having OBJ
tained all the necessary information from
Brooks of the Union Pacific Railroad Company
and Credit Moblier, have substantially COM
pleted the bill in equity against these organiza-
tions to be filed in accordance with act of the
late session of Congress. Mr.. Ashton to-day
submitted to Attorney General Williams
draft of the paper
Sailors Lost in the Wood.
Commander George e. Belknap, command
ing the United States ship Juscord, informs the
navy department. by q letter dated Chirl-chlrl
Bay, United States of Columbia, March II,
that James Turner of that ship, who was re-
ported lost while on an expedition, was brought
alongside the ship in canoe by some natives OF
Capica on the 10Th inst. Turner states that at
tel struggling through the woods in north
westerly direction twenty-one days, living on
nuts, roots, and tender shoots and plants, he
nnally reached the beach near Capica, where
he was found by the natives and kindly cared
for, until strong enough to return to his ship,
period OF fourteen days,
Special Revenue Agency in Maine.
n .l~o..
an additional special agency, the district en-
bracing the collection districts of Aroostook,
Passamaquoddy, Machias, Frenchman's Bay
and Castine, to be known as the 10th district
with headquarters at Eastport, and under
charge of special agent NJ. H. Hall.
Claim Paid.
The Treasury to-day paid $2S, ,723 to the Gov
ernor of Michigan on account of per cent. of
the net proceeds of public lands lying within
the limits of the State for the purpose of educa-
ton or of public roads and Improvements.
The whole amount paid for this purpose to the
several States during the last fiscal year was,
$115,164.74.
The report that Mr. Sydney Webster is to go
to Vienna in connection with the affairs of the
Commission, is entirely without foundation.
Mr.. Webster goes abroad on private business,
and has not and will not have any relation
whatever, direct or indirect, with the Vienna
Commission or their affairs.
Various Matters.
A gang of Baltimore rufians have been
amusing themselves several days in attacking
soldiers found outside of the limits of Fort Nc
Henry Yesterday ten of them were arrested
by the city athorties and the soldiers declining
to prosecute them they were bound over to keep
the peace.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
ordered levy on nearly half million dollars
worth of material in the shops of the New
York Central Railroad at Albany.
The Texas Pacific Railroad Company has
formally adopted the route from San Diego to
Fort Yuma. 1t will cross the mountains to
San Drazonia Pass, the next surveyed route
with that of the direct route.
Official returns made to the Bureau of Statis-
tics show that there arrived at the port of New
York during the quarter ending March 31st,
1873 27 ,055 immigrants, of which 9,1S4 were
males ard S,0S6 females.
The Navy Department will tomorrow issue
proposals for supplying machinery for the
sloops of war authorized by the late Congress
Commissioners will shortly be sent to nego-
tiate with She Sioux and other Indians on the
reservation in South West Dakota for the mod-
fication Of the treaty of 1868 so as to withdraw
from the Indians the privilege of hunting out
side their reservation.
James Lindsay, Pension Agent at St. Louis,
for irregularities is suspended, and A. R. Stone
of ST. Louis, is appointed to succeed him.
Over 200 Congressman have accepted invita-
tions to participate in the excursion planned by
the ST. Louis Chambers of Commerce to leave
the city on the 10Th inst for Texas after the
adjournment of conference.