The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-06-07

l.ost Ttver'murderessrstan in. iotsd
in the Circuit Court of Jackson County,
deliver them into the custody Of the
Sheriff OF said County. Deliver all
other captives to the commanding officer
OF the United States forces in Lake Ba.
sin. Return the volunteers and muster
them out. Assure your officers and men
OF my highest appreciation of their bril-
liant conduct. In behalf Of the Stnte, I
congratulate You on your success.
L. T. GROVES,
Governor Of Oregon.
New YORK, June Ga special to the
World, dated London, says the Govern
ment has decided to authorize the Bank
OF England to increase its circulation
$4,000. 900, under restrictions not yet
determined.
Leet. Stocking & Co.. who had mo-
nopoly OF the general order business,
have dissolved.
Among the successful candidates for
admission to West Point, are Flippsn
and Frederick, of Georgia; Penn and
Gatewood. OF Virginia: Glenn, White
worth and .Kirbey, of North Carolina;
Stern, of Alabama; Walker, of Florida.
HAVANA, June 6.-Spanish telegrams
Say that an encounter has taken place in
Beeraja Mountain, in which seventy-four
insurgents were killed. The Spanish
loss was nineteen killed aud iorty-two
wounded.
RAIa1aH, June GA large crowd had
assembled, and Grilfioe aud hfordecai
we're dressed for the ecaffold, when
communication TO life imprisonment came.
MATAMoRAs, June 6.-The complete
defeat OF Lesads ia announced.
ALBANY, June 6.-The prasiding Of
hcers of the Legislature refuse to sign
the annual supply bill, believing that
jobs were inserted after the bill left the
Committee of Conference.
WASHINGTON, June The President
is gone.
The following is an important decision
by the Secretary OF the Treasury, with
after June 80, 1865. TIE lag directing
the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the
|'net proceeds of cotton unlawfu!ly seized
after June 80. 1865. was approved May
1S. 1872. and required that all petitions
should be fled within six months there
after, or on or before November Is, 1872.
Many petitions which had been duly
signed, sworn to aud placed in the mail
before November 18. did not reach
Washington until after that date. They
were, however, sent TO the Secretary Il
the Treasury. and recorded as OF the date
when received. In reply to an inquiry
and argument OF the point involved,
whether in two important cases SO filed
the petition would be regarded ns filed
in time, the Secretary has given the fol-
lowing decision:
| TRREAsURY DEPARTMENT, WASHING.
TON, d. O., June 4, 1S73.-1o j. Madi-
son Cuts, Esq. AHorneyef Z. D. Hende,.-
son ct al, Washington. D. C.-SIR: I
have received your letter OF May oath,
alt. requesting to be informed whether
the olaims Of L. D. Henderson and Lucy
A. Hopkins, FLED by you as attorney, on
the 29d day Of November, 1872, under
| will be considered as filed within the
time limited therein, viz: within six
months after the passage of the Act.
In answer, would say that after care
full consideration OF the subject. and of
The matters suggested in your letter, 1
am OF the opinion that no petition or
claim, under the Act, which was not re-
ceived In the Treasury Department on
or before the 18th day of November,
1872, can be regarded as having been
fled within six months after the passage
| OF the Act. and that any such claim re.
oeived in the Department, after Novem-
Der 18, cannot be considered by the
Secretary of the Treasury. Respectfully,
VIM. a. RICHARDSON,
Secretary of the Treasury.
It's the opinion OF the best informed
| lawyers here that the time for fling petit
tions. both in cotton cases, before the
Secretary, and for stores and supplies,
before the Commissioners of Southern
Claims, will undoubtedly beextended by
! the next Congress. The above decision
furnishes strong argument in favor of
snch extension in the cotton cases, as the
six months given by the statute was
manifestly too short time to enable
Southern claimants, exercising all dill.
gence and despatch, to file their peti
tions. II is to be observed tina. the
Southern Claims Commission did re-.
ceive petitions which reached them after
March 8. 1878; provided, they had been
mailed, signed and sworn to before that
date whereon the time for filing petitions
before them expired. But their decisions
are not finsl, bnt are reported to Con-
gress. The Secretary being authorized
to pay money on his own decision. hos