New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-06-11
BY I Ell E GRAPE
| MASSACRE OF THE MOD0cs DENOUNCED
THE GENEVA AWARD
YOUNG wA1WoRTH INDICTED
STOKES GRANTED A NEW TRIAL
FIGUERAs AND THE OLD MINISTRY
VOLUNTARY NATIONAL LOAN PROPOSED
DISORDER IN THE CORTES
SANTA CRUZ ABANDONS CARLOS
ANOTHER BATTLE In CUBA
VOLUNTARY NATIONAL LOAN PROPOSED
DISORDER IN THE CORTEs
SANTA CRUZ ABANDONS CARLOS
ANOTHER BATTLE In CUBA
CHOLERA INCREASING IN MEMPHIS
THE MODOC TRIALS
EXAMINATION AT WEST POINT
WASHINGTON.

Postal Treaties with Sweden and Norway
-InternattOnal Patent Law Proposed
The Massacre Of ModOcs Severely De.
nOnnced-The Geneva Award-Twenty.
three Tons Of Goid-HOw TO Get the
Money Here.
WASHINGTON, Juno lO.-The Postoffice
Department has been notified Of the ratifi-
cation by Sweden and Norway Of the postal
convention recently concluded between the
United States and those Kingdoms.
Two OF the former officers of Mosbys
battalion have been appointed postal clerks.
Judge Thatcher, formerly Commissioner
of Patents, has been appointed to repre-
sent this government at the convention
called by the Emperor Of Austria for dis
cussing the feasibility Of an international
patent law.
Tie massacre of the Modoc prisoners ia
severely denounced here. The military and
civil authorities will both use every means
to nunish the culprits.
NO official information has been received
by this government from that of Great
Britain in reference to the payment of the
Geneva award. but intimatOns have been
made from other sources that Great Britain
is making arrangements to meet the re-
quirements OF the treaty.
1t will be recOilected that the treaty of
Washington provides, the gross sum award
ed fifteen and half millions shall be paid
in coin at Washington. As this amount in
gold would, according to weight, be twen-
ty-three tons, the question arises as to
whether the coin itself, or its representa-
tive, should be received in satisfaction
A number of American bankers some
time ago proposed to cur government to
transact the business in manner which
would satisfy the treaty, but as the govern.
ment had heard nothing whatever from
Great Britain on the subject, they were in
formed that these proposals could not be
entertained, ard further, that it was the
business Of Great Britain to take the initia.
tive on that question.
There is no doubt the money will be de-
posted in the Bank OF England, and that
the United States will at the proper period
be paid in accordance with the spirit of the
treaty. 1t may be done in this way, viz:
by the purchase in England through desig-
mated banking firms, some Of them con-
nected with the syndicate of the FIVE
twenty bonds, to the amount of the award,
these to be sent to the United States
accruing to be deliverable in Washington
without the necessity and risk of t..ans-
pOrtation across the ocean to this city.
The equal amount Of gold in the Bank of
England having been previously used in
tie purchase OF bonds, those who conduct
the transaction receiving gold certificates,
could place them in the hands of the Secre.
tary OF State. and this would be equivalent
to the coin for which they could imme-
diately be exchanged. Such, there seems
to be 10 dobt, will be the mode of payment.
Several days ago the Secretary Of the
Treasury gave notice that the principal and
interest of $20.000,000 of the fve-twenty
bonds will be paid at the treasury after the
fixth Of September next. 1t is said in well
informed circles that this course was
adopted in view Of the arran cement for the
payment of the Geneva award in the man
ner above stated, and to render easy the
process Of payment by the British govern
IGeUt.