Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-24
WASHINGTON.


What she War Departments Doesn't
Know About the 1ndiams.
WASHINGTON, April 23.--Tbe Wer De-
partment has received no accounts or dis
patches from the Modoc expedition.
Gen. Pope, commanding the department
Of Missouri, says all parties sent out by the
government will have protection while
within his Jurisdiction If they will report to
him. He thinks it possible, from the fact
that the bodies Of the Surveyors We're found
buried, chat they we're murdered by white
horse thieves, with motives OF plumber.
lhh4 dQ Statutory. A8aA III
The Joint Committee on Revision of
Laws, in session here, will adjourn th Is
week. The committee is providing for in
dexing the laws already codiied.
Legal tenders outstanding 1851, 907, 226,
The Trade DoIIar-Great Expecta.
rsssaE - afsui Hons e ~ s,sfs
The Director of the mint has fixed the
charge for coinage on the new Trade Dol
lar at one half cent per piecs, whichis the
lowest possible rate under the law. Great
expectations are entertained Of the trade
dollars, as means for home us5 of bullion
and keeping GOLD in che country. 90
The Republics 81 Hayti, and Ecuador an
other South American Republic are anxious
that their coinage shall be executed by the
United States, but as there is no law which
will permit this to be done, it is probable
Congress will authorize such services. .ar
New Orleans whisky Frauds.
Special to the Cincinnati Gazette.
WASHINGTON, April 2l.-Gen. Sewell,
Special Inspector in the service of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau, lately sent to in
quire into the alleged whisky frauds in New
Orleans, has reported that no valid grounds
for the complaints made exist, so far as be
could discover. The total production of
New Orleans, for some time past, has been
only ninety barrels per day, and complaints
IF manufacturers there are that st. Louis
has, by means of q railroad reaching to
Texas, cut off the market of the whole
back country from New Orleans.
A Petty swfndIe by Ohio Revenue
Agents.
Judge Lawrence, of Ohio, arrived to-day
TO bring the attention of the department. to
a practice which certain special agents of
the revenue service in Ohio have adopted,
as Is thought, TO give an appearance of bus
mess. Numbers of small dealers in cigars
and whisky have been arrested where by
csrelessness they have failed to cancel
stamps already broken by opening pack
ages. The persons have oeen arrested one
by one, and instead of taking them before
the nearest Commissioner, have been taken
off TO Cleveland from the center of the
State, aud bound over there-an explana-
ton being found in the matter of increased
mileage and fees. Tue Attorney-tieneral
has directed the Marshal for Northern Ohio
to see that hereafter the offending parties
were in all cases taken before the nearest
Commissioner.
Complaints Against an Indian Agent.
A petition asking for the removal of the
Quaker Indian Agent at Pawnee ReserVa-
ton, Nebraska, has been received here.
Various Irregularities are charged, among
others that he appointed his SOD, boy of
thirteen, as engineer at q mill called for in
the treaty, at an annual salary of $1,000,
when, in fact, there is no mill at the agen-
cy. The matter viii soon be examined.
Harlan Squirms.
The Chronicle, this morning, contains
the following denial of statement by Mr..
Filey, of St. Louis, that on one occasion
the Kansas Pacific railroad paid Secretary
Harlan $4,000, before be would recon-
mend the issue of bonds due the road:
"Falsehood travels mile before truth
can put on its boots. Wide publicity is be-
ing given TO a statement rejecting upon
Mr. Harlan, made by Mr.. Filley, of st.
Louis; but at the close the witness iugenu-
ously remarks: Il say do not know this to
be fact such testimony is ofno use, ex-
cept to crafty malignant appetite for