Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-06
ESTABLISHED MARCH 80. 1851 IA 10
WASHINGTON.
satapsa and Big Tree

New York, Aug. 5.--A Washington
special says the council at Fort Sill, upon
the question Of the release Of Sstanta and
Big Tree, hss been postponed till October
owing to the absence of the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, among tribes Of the
Northwest. In the meantime Satanta and
Big Tree will be taken to Fort Sill, there to
await the result of the council, to satisfy
the Kiowas that their distinguished chiefs
are living, of which they noY inssinuate
grave doubts.
what's i'm the wind-Grant and Nor
ten in CotinefEs
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.--The President
returned early this morning and will re-
main until tomorrow night. Senator Nor
ton was an early visitor and remained In
consultation with tho President for some
time. Several other gentlemen had inter-
views with the Presideni, including Gov.
Cooke and Gen. Gowan, Assistant Secretary
of the Interior. The usual Cabinet meet
ing was held at noon. Messrs. Robson
and Richardson were the only absentees.
New so Cent Notes.
The first installment of new so cent notes
have been delivered to Treasurer Spinner,
and were issued to-day.
Southern Ciaims-Total Amount Paid
and to be Paid-InferestingF Facts.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 ALI the claims
presented TO the Eouthern Claims Commis-
sion, sitting at Washington, under the act
of March 81, 1871, have now been num-
bereG and registered, and their number is
found 10 be 22,295, snd their aggregate
amount, as claimed, something in the ez-
cess of $56, 100000 In their last report to
Congress, the Commissioners estimated
the total number of claims to be filed
under the act at 10000, and the amount to
ba claimed at $50,000,000 in round num-
befs. The ex' raordinary exertions of the
claim agents, however, when they fouD
the time for filing claims was not likely to
be extended for the present beyond the two
years originally fixed by Congress, resulted
in considerable addition to The estimated
number and amount OF the claims to be
fled. No less than 1,27S claims repre-
senting, according to clsimarts' figures,
considerably more than s., 3,000,e 600 were
filed under date of March Sd, the last
day allo wed by law for the presentation Of
claims. Many more were put ont from
present consideration by the somewhat un-
expected termination of the right to present,
and there are believed to be several thou
sand persons yet in the late insurrectiouary
States, who, despite the exerLions of the
Government SCENTS and the Attorneys, have
not even heard ofthe act of Congress passed
for the benefit of such of them as were not
adherents of the Confederacy. Claims are
presented daily to the Quarterm aster Gen.
eral and Commissary General, By residents
ofthe better informed loyal S ates who have
lust learned that Congress passed special
act nearly ten years ago, to pay for property
taken for army use in the States not in re-
bellion. Gen. Meigs, the Quartermaster
General, will not recommend that the stat
ute of Limitation be pleaded for claims
coming before him, as in the case of claims
before tie loyal Claim Commission, and
the Commisssry General, believing from
bis daily experience, that such a statute
whenever passed would be certain to ex-
clude some meritorious claims against the
government from just settlement. In the
case of the Southern claims, Congress must
either extend the time for filing them before
the Commissioners or submit to the alterna-
tive of receiving and considering them sing
ly, under the Constitutional right of reti-
ton. A small number of excluded claim
ants have already signifed their intention
of prosecuting their Gains directly before
the claims committees Of the two branches
of Congress. Under the settlements so far
made by the Commissioners about 81, 20O,'
900 has been distributed among some
fourteen hundred claimants scattered all
over the eleven InsurrectiOnary States. The
awards, except in comparatively small
number of cases, being for few hundred
dollars each. At the comming session OF
Congress they expect to award about ST.
000,00 TO be similarly distributed, and will
then have disposed of about "A per cent. ol
the number of Gains fled, and 20 per cent,
of the amount claimed. Now that al the
claims are before them that can be pre-.
sented under the original act of Congress
the Commissioners have had prepared, ant
| have in press, q full dig ct of the claims
| giving, by States and count es, the names
| of claimants and the amounts claimed, &C
companied by the explanatory statement
that the names are those of citizens o
| Southern States who hSve within the past
two years declared themselves to have been
| devoted adherents of the Union cause
| throughout the late war, and th'
amounts the values set by claimants upon
| The supplies contrib uted amicably or other
wise for the use Of the union force opera
ting in the South, and will not consider thC
damage, loss or destruction of real and per.
sonal property suffered through the casual
ties of war or the authorized spoliation ant
depredations of the troops and camp follow
ers. This list of claims and claimants hai
been prepared chiefly to meet the applica
tions of former officers and soldiers of tn
Union army, curious to know who anon
their Sou ,hern acqusintances of the war ar
row claiming to have been both loyal an
opulent ten or twelve years ago. But th
Commissioner, for the sake of the informa
ton to be obtained, intends to send the pam
phlet free of charge to all who apply il
person or by letter.