Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-01
WASHINGTON.
The Postal Car Trouble Postpone
Look Out for Lively Lobbying.
The Treasury Programme.


American Tract Society was celebrated this
evening in the Metropolitan Presbyterian
church. Vice President Wilson presided.
Senator Ferry, of Michigan, Judge Strong,
Rev. DR.. Seibert, and others, made adj
dresses. Ete4 rFnFfF
The report of the Secretary shows dona-
tons and legacies for the year, $126, S33;
missionary colperteurs commissioned, 262;
grants of publications amounting TO 1863;
cash for printing abroad, $1,000; expendi-
lures exceeding receipts by few hundred
dollars.
The Pacific Railways.
1t is understood that an order has been
issued from the Treasury directing the re-
tention of the whole amount OF earnings
of the Union Pacific aid Central Pacific
railways for mails and transportation, in
order to carry out the recent law of Con.
gress on the subject.
The Carolina Cherokee Frauds.
A clerk in the Indian Bureau has been
arrested, charged with being implicated in
the North Carolina Cherokee frauds. This
fraud has very extensive ramifcstions, and
as many as forty persons are said TO be i'm
plicated.
VIII the States Act i'm Concert?
Gov. McEnery's statement of the out
RACES practiced upon the State of Louisiana;
and the subversion of her State govern
ment by Grants soldiery, has been receiv-
ed by the Legislature of Virginia, and will
doubtless be taken into early consideration.
The Richmond Dispatch invokes protest
| by the Legislature in strong, dignifed
words, such as those which, in 1889, by
Kentucky and Virginia, resulted in the re-
| peal of the infamous alien and sedition
laws. 1t is proposed to put the Radicals
in the bodv, who are now seeking to get
control of Virginia, upon the record for or
against resolutions which shall denounce
the usurpation of the President in the
strongest terms.
The Postal Car Hitch.
NEW YORK, March 31.-It is reported
from Washington that Postmaster General
Creswell is to start in day or two on a
Southern tour, in company with Senators
Howe and Cameron. His principal object
will be to inspect the postal service. The
postal car difficulties he now considers
settlement till the next Congress.
WASHINGTON, March 31.-The Post
master General has prepared a letter to
railroad presidents, expressing his readi-
ness to appear before the Senate Special
Committee at the same time as they sh all
be present to state their arguments on the
postal car question.
The Postmaster General has authorized
| the publication of the following:
POsT OFFICE DEPARTMENT, WASHING
TON, March 31.-Isaac Hinckley, ESQ,
President of the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad Company-Dear
! Sir: acknowledge the receipt of the letter
communicated on the 29th inst, signed by
yourself and the representatives of several
ether railroad companies, asking that the
notice given me under date of the 9th of
January last, relative to the withdrawal Of
| the railway post Office cars after the 1st of
April proXimO, be considered suspended for
the present. The announcement ma de in
that communication of the purpose of the
companies to continue to run such cars I'M
I'll sufficient time shall have elapsed to as
certain the VIEWS of the special COM
mistee charged by the Senate of the
| United States with the duty of considering
and reporting on the nature and extent of
the obligations sul>sisting between the rail-
road companies an ID the postal service ofthe
the country is duly noted, and in the event
that the COMPANIES obtain hearing before
committee, L shall be happy to be present,
as they request. Very respectfully, your
JOHN A. ]. CREswELL,
Postmaster General.
The Senate special committee on trans
portation routes to the seaboaTd will meet
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New 7 ork, Tues
day, April 8, in order to consider the sub
ject of railroad postal cars service and to
near statements.
Condition of James Brooks.
1t was thought last week that the condi-
ton of Hon. James Brooks was improving,
but yesterday and to-day 1t was not so
| favorable.
Ku Klux Under Grants Nose.
A young colored man named Harry
Young alias Charles Williams has been ar
rested in Alexandria, charged with the muir
| der of Mr.. Hahn. The evidence against
| him is strong. He had been seen talking
to the deceased on the night of the murder,
and exhibited a draft which the deceased
obtained on a Baltimore bank for 1920. He
seemed to know Hahn was intoxicated on
the night of the murder. There are numer-
Gus threats of lynching.
Going this Time.
The President, with Mrs. Ora Mt, Miss
Grant and Gen. Babcock, will leave on the
noon train tomorrow for visit to New
York, where they will remain the greater
part of this week.
Comparative.
The comparative receipts of internal rev.
| enue for the six months ending Jan. 81,
1872, aud those to Jan. 1, 1873, show
an increase in the latter, on spirits, of
$2,617,902; fermented liquors, $690,234;
penalties, S6S,512.
u. $. War Taxes.
Commissioner Douglass has sent civil
| engineer to South Carolina to complete the
surveys of lands for direct taxes to the
| United States, and authorized to be re-
| deemed under certain conditions, in order
that an accurate map may be made for the
use of the Internal Revenue officer, in max
| ing deeds, and for future use in the event
of legal controversies growing out of
| United States sales IS to boundaries and
titles.
| The IMOdscs.
| Gen. Candy telegraphs to Gen. Sherman
that the commission to the Modocs works
well. He says on the 9th inst. the Mo-
docs invited a conference, and Col. Gillem,
with party examining the approaches to
the lava beds, had a short interview with
two Of the most intelligent, both however
of the peace party. He is of the opinion
|
able to reasoning than at the last inter-
view. Gen. Candy thinks when the ave-
nues Of escape are closed and their supplies
cut off or abridged, they will come in.
Three Per Cents.
The Comptroller of the Currency to-day
notified the Secretary of the Treasury of
the issue of $500, 900 National Bank notes
during the mouth of March, and the Secre-
| tary will tomorrow call in the balance of
| three per cent certificates remaining unpaid,
which will simply complete the retirement
| of the whole of the $45,0r0,O00 Of three
per cents as provided in the act OF July II,
1870, which authorizes an issue Of $54 ,OOO,-
| 900 of National Bank notes.
| Myra Clark Gaines.
| Supreme Court decisions: In the case OF
the city ofNew Orleans against Myra Glars
Gaines from the Circuit Court of Louisi-
ana, the appeal sought TO reverse the de-
cree of the court below, in favor of Mrs.
Gaines for S125, 2G6, as rent and profits on
lands belonging to her, which have been in