Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-12
WASHINGTON.
From tine Summer Seat of Govern.
meut.

ment.
LONG BRANCH, Aug 1.-THE President
left for Maine to-day.
NEW YORK, Aug. 11.-Gov. Austin and
Mayor Crockett, of Minneapolis, have had
two interviews a. Long Branch with the
President regarding the MaAtouba affair
and explained the whole matter from be-
ginning to end, dwelling especially on the
cruelty with which the prisoners are
treated by the Manitouba authorities. They
also sought to impress upon the President
The necessity for speedy action, as they
feared the people in Minnesota, unless some
thing was done at once, would take the
settlement of the case into their own hands.
The President according to the dispatch
gave the Governor and tie Mayor to under.
stand that unless the matter was disposed
of within reasonable time, q demand in
unmistaksble terms would be made on the
British Government snd would be followed
by further action. The President then
asked the Governor and Mayor to reduce
their statements to writing, which they did
and the paper was forwarded TO Secretary
Fish who will be visited to-day by its au-
thors.
IA dispatch from Minneapolis says his
lldU ucu ktN IiIO IUChH
tains to escape the pecuniary demands of
his lawyers. The Sheriff will not now al
low the wives of the American prisoners to
visit their husbands but twice during the
week.
At the Winter Capital.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-Gov. Austin
and the Mayor of Minneapolis to-day bad
another interview with Secretary Fish rela-
tive to the Manitouba difficulty. All the
President said to them was that the subject
should receive the prompt attention of the
Government, and re would see the rights
of Americans protected; that it was too
early to give a more definite assurance.
The Secretary of State was charged with
the conduct of such affairs, and would
doubtless place him in possession of ell the
facts at the earliest moment.
Gov. Austin, on being interrogated by
private parties, was reluctant to talk on the
subject. 1t can be truly stated that the
matter has not assumed a diplomatic as
pect, although Sir Edward Thornton and
Secretary Fish have had several informal
interviews concerning it. The proceedings
now in progress are of judicial character,
and do not Justify diplomatic intervention.
Grantism Ignoring Loyalty.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
WASHINGTON, Aug. S.-Many COM
plants reach this city relative to the con-
duct of persons recently appointed Consuls
10 Europe. Within a few weeks there has
been a summary removal of rome Of the
Oldest and most efficient Cansuls. This
removal has been followed by the appoint
ment of persons from the South, many of
whom have been conspicuous for their dis
loyalty to the Government. The fact is
known here that the person recently ap
pointed TO succeed DR.. Rea, f Springfield,
ILL.,, late Consul at Belfast, refused to reply
to toast to the United States Government,
while on the passage to bis consulate, and
that he gave frequent expression 10 dislOysl
sentiments.
There have also been some recent ap-
pointments in the Departments here of per-
SONS distinguished for their disloyalty. One
of the more prominent of these is the case
of Maj. Elias Griswold, who is now assist
ant to the law offices in the Posto1ice De-
partment, on q salary of 81 800 year.
This Maj. Griswold occupied prominent po-
sitions in the Confederate army during the
entire war. He was in command of the
prison camp at Columbia, S. c.; also in
command of the prison pen at Tuscaloosa,
Ala, and was subsequently Provost Mar
shsl of Richmond, Va, and had Libby
prison within his jurisdiction.
Big Paddock Job.
Special to the Louisville Couriar-Journal
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 10.-A party
OF persons, amongst whom it is alleged are
the necessary number of Treasury clerks,
are now at work striving to bring about q
change in the lock used on bonded ware
houses and railroad cars. The one now re-
cognized by the Government, and what is
known as the glass-seaI and movement, is
to be set aside in favor of a worthless pa
per seal lock. The manner of reaching
this end is to induce the Secretary to ap-
point commission to investigate the
Subject. 1t is then intended to
select commission previously committed.
A number of the leading railroads over
which bonded goods are carried, and which
pay for the locks, protest
against any change. They say that the pa
per seal is useless in wet weather; and be-
sides, it would put them to an unnecessary
expense. 1t il estimated that a change |
would cost the railroads upward Of $780, |
900.
Gen. HOward's Accounts.
Later developments in the investigation |
Of the accounts of the late bureau of freed |
men and refugees show thst the frauds
were principally perpetrated by taking ad-
vantage of the ignorance of the negro. 1t |
seems that the agents who DISTURBED the |
money, in connivance with their clerks, |
kept the amounts due a secret, or misrep |
resented them, and by payirg few dollars |
secured the marks of the negroes. The &C
counts and vouchers, there ore, have all the |
appearance of regularity. The negroes,
1Owever, are beginning to find out how
hey have been deceived, and demand the |
amounts still due.
Cholera.
COLUMBUS, o., Aug. 11.-One fatal case
,f cholera oecnrrad here to-dav The victim |