Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-29

examination OF the river ana tne general
interests connected with 1t. The committee
consists of Senators Alcorn (Chairman),
Clayton, West, Schurz and Gordon The
committee will prosecute inquiry diligently,
and at the next session will urge that the
general government take charge OF the
levee system, as a matter of great national
concern. r-.tist -l
The Greenback Bulletin.
Legal tenders outstanding, 1858, 429,912.
Untaxed Foreigners.
The Secretary of the Treasury has in
formed the agents of the various British
lines of steamers running TO this country
that the treaties between Great Britain and
the United States do not support their
claims for the exemption of their vessels
from the tax on tonnage imposed by law.
IncOmers.
Al official statement shows that the total
number If persons in the United States who
were assessed for incomes during the years
1871 and 1872, under the act of July IA,
1870, were 74,775 and "a ,337, respectively.
The Richmond POstmisfress.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
WASHINGTON, March 26.-The defeated
Virginia politicians who sought to make
change in the postoffice at Richmond, are
now put to their wits ends to explain their
discontinue. A Petersburg paper in the
interest of Senator Lewis endeavors to &C.
count, in TIE following manner, for the
Presidents action, 1t says: "The reap
pointment and confirmation of Miss Bette
| Van Lew as Postmistress of Richmond,
ought to have been expected, when it is re-
membered what faithful service she Ien-
dered Grant when he was besieging Rich
mond. She established daily communi-
cation with him, and kept him informed as
! TO the progress of events in the Confeder-
ate Capital. And then she sent him fow-
ers. Nosegays clipped in her garden in
the morning have been known to be on his
supper table at City Point at night. When
| Richmond fell, Grant sent trusted member
of his staff there with instructions to see
that her property was protected and her
wants supplied"
Pneumatic Tube Fraud.
Among the frauds sanctioned by the
Forty-second Congress, during its second
session, was an appropriation of fifteen
thousand dollars to allow one Brisbane to
| experiment upon a pneumatic tube, be,
tween the Capitol and the Government
| Printing-office. Last summer Brisbane
caused to be dug up and put in impossible
condition the avenue leading to the Print
ing-office. He laid a sort of barrel sewer
of thin boards and then covered it up. As
might have been expected, the earth fiat
tened the boards, and the thing is a stu.
pendous failure. AL there is TO show for
the fifteen thousand dollars # the peoples
money is an unseemly hole in the embank-
ment on the north side of the Capitol, and
a ditch running therefrnm to the Govern.
ment Printing office. Even the Senators
who are partially responsible for this waste
of the public money, thought it necessary
to pass q resolution to-day, before adjourn.
ing, authorizing the Secretary of the Int
rior TO make inquiries about it.
Members Refusing the Back Pay.
/ Correspondence of the New York Tribune
WASHINGTON, March 24.-All CT tn.
members of Congress from Connection
have notified TO Sergeant-at Arms Ordway
that they do not wish hin to draw the SUM
que them out Of the famous 'salary steal,
as It is their intention not to take the
money. This officer has also received 9th
er notifications of like character from mem
bers whose names viii be kept secret, anC
he says other members have drawn the
money and deposited it in the Count!
Treasury of their county, to b.
applied in payment Of taxes
About thirty members will TAX
this course, and keep the fact to themselve
for the present. This appears to be the on
ly manner in which members can refunt
the money equitably. Ii it is returned Il
the Treasury it becomes the property G
the Government, going to the whole peOpl
and not to the taxpayers in the member
district, even to such extent as to he'll
make up the sum paid to other member
who refuse to make restitution. Their
? will be at least dozen bills introduced ol
the first day of the next session, reducin
the salaries of members Of Congress to tn
old figure, when those who have quietl,
disposed of their portion of the steal a
above indicated will have chance to
heard. Nobody supposes, however, tha
any such bill will pass.
Applications for Pardon.
Three hundred and seVenty-one applicS
tions for pardon have been filed in the De
partment of Justice during the past tgelv
months, and about 0ne-half of these hav
been granted. a large number were case
| of violation of the Revenue laws, wher
} fines were remitted on account of the ina
} bility of the convicted persons to pay then
The excuses made by men sentenced TO
illicit distilling are often amusing. A ma
in Kentucky, applying for pardon for thi
) offence, recently said iu bis petition that b
r distilled the whisky during the late politics
! campaign, and used it to help elect the Re
publican candidate for Congress. Th
!, Democrats had bought up all the whisky
= the county, so that the Republicans coul
y not get a drop. Under these circumstance
: be thought it no crime to borrow a sma
= still and make fifteen gallons, all of whic
v he used TO help the party. Of course /
}; was granted full parcon.
e The Kansas Politicians Preparing 70
! Battle.
From the Washington Republican, March 26.
The political gossips interested in the a
: fair were disturbed yesterday by runC
: that Gov. Osborne, Of Kansas, had determ
i ined to appoint ex-senator POmeroy to d
- the vacancy occasioned by the resignation
of Senator Caldwell, Immediately. The al
i nouncement in these columns yesterday thi
: no appointment would be made until d,
n cember had the best authority for its asseT
ton. The fact that Gov. Osborne himse
is a candidate for the succession is q sufl
clenJ reason Wng no appO1AtueHJ VIII
made. The Kansas Legislature meets
4 January, and in the opinion of the Cover
nor there is no necessity for al appOintmel
e before that body will have an Opportunit
= to complete a formal election. Sensto
Pomeroy's friends are confident Of his SUI
less. but the result is made doubtful by u
complication of conflicting interests, sine
4 Caldwell himself is formally announced :
a candidate, and Representative Lowe al
2 ex-Representative Sidney Clarke are ais
in the field. The contest will present man