The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-05-01

President Grant has pardoned Joseph
Hartnen. sentenced last March to ten years
mprisonment, for embezzling letters from the
New York Postofice
The Secretary Of the Interior has decided
that the Northern Pacific Railroad Company
is entitled to lands along the line laid down on
its maps Of preliminary location, as against
all persons who made settlements on such
lands after said preliminary map had been ac-
eePted by the Secretary OF the Interior, but
before the lands had been formally withdrawn.
This decision is adverse to several hundred
claimants, and involves about 2OO sections of
land in Minnesota, Washington Territory, and
elsewhere. el-.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
-Halifax-E Mcdonald, Of the custom
house, gave judgment in the Atlantic inquiry
in open court. He commended the conduct of
the officers after the ship struck, but codemn-
ed her management from the time she bore up
for Halifax, at P. n. on the 31st OF March
especially, and the Captains conduct in leav-
ing the deck at midnight. His certificate
might be cancelled, but in consideration o.
his efforts to save life, it shall be revoked for
two years. John Brown, fourth of5cer, is to
be suspended for three months.
The Vienna Exposition building is in a
backward state, and can not be finished by the
first Of May.
Late advices state that the Imperial Gov
ernment viii spend half million sterling Oh
fortifcations in Halifax this year.
News having inpaltant bearing on the fu-
ture OF the Khivan Expedition has been re-
ceived. Internal dissentions have broken out
in Khiva. The reigning Khan has executed
his Chief Councillor and imprisoned his uncle
and other influential Khivans who were enc
aies of Russia. He has also released the
Russians long held as prisoners in Khiva, ana
sent them to meet detachment of the expe-
dition, which is advancing from Orenburg. An
American correspondent and the Secretary Of
the United States legation at this city have
left st. Petersburgfor Khiya.
-Havana-The new Captain General OF
Cuba, Pieltain, has issued proclamation ad-
dressed to the soldiers people and volunteers.
To the soldiers, he says, they viii be called on
to operate in the field, all the time that it Is
possible He wants them to make another en-
ergetic and decisive effort to crush the insur-
rection. To the people he says his mission is
a different one, viz: restore peace, so that
you can fully enjoy liberty, which az great
nation now also free, because it has become
Republic, you have the right to enjoy. He
will require the cooperation of everybodythaE
justice may be realized everywhere. To the
volunteers he says, I appreciate your patriot
ism, loyalty and sacrifices, and count on your
active cooperation. viii always act as a loy-
al Spaniard, and give you my confidence, con-
sequently You must trust me, until our Difficult
ties Will decrease, and we will soon restore
peace. If the Insurgents repent, we will re-
ceive them with open arms as friends If they
prefer to be enemies, we will combat them un-
ceasingly.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
The salary of members OF the Dominion
of Canada Parliament, Tor the session, is to be
raised from 5000 to 81, 900.
--Advices from Adelaide say the wheat crop
OF South Australia is satisfactory. 1900
tons will be available for export.
Mr. Corcoran has sold two hundred acres
of land near Washionton to the government
as an addition to the Soldiers Home, for the
sum OF 1876, 900. He will donate the money
to an endowment to Louise Home, charity
created by him for impoverished ladies who
are unable to support themselves.
Superintendent Hoag has Informed the In
dian bureau that he has ordered thorough in
into the murder Of the surveyors
by Indians. In his communication he en-
closes letter from special agent Jno. f. Viii
liams, who says it appears if said outrage was
committed by Cheyennes it was proba y done
by some OF the young men in the absence Of
their chiefs, and while intoxicated. This view
is strengthened by the bodies being buried in
the sand, which is unusual among the Indians.
The scalp and leave the bodies exposed. The
investigation will BE pursued especially with
Indians on their arrival at the agency to which
they are moving, and we expect no further
trouble.
The third section Of t postal appropr-
alton act of last session repeals all laws per-
rafting the transmission by mail of any free
matter whatever from and after June 30th.
Under this law, quarterly prepayments of pos
tage will be required on all newspaper ex-
and county newspapers, the same as
now, and will be then required in the case of /
all mail subscriptions, namely: five cents per
quarter for weekly newspapers; thirty cents
per quarter for papers published six times per /
week, and thirty-fiVe cents per quarter for
daily papers-prepaymsn per quarter or per
mailed or at the office where delivered. In /
other words the same rule will be applied to
all newspapers by whomsosvsr sent or re-
ceiyed.
The Washington Star has an article on
tho O'Kelly case, which is believed TO reflect
the opinions and feelings in official quarters
In the case of O'Kely. it must be remember
ed that he went to Cuba as an independent
American citizen, not as q parti-
san, and that lac has never disguised nor at
tempted to disguise his true character. He
permission TO go into the Cuban I
lines as q newspaper correspondent, and the
Spanish authorities gave him leave to GO but
also gave him the comforting assurance that
he would be shot il he returned. Subsequent.
" the Spanish General. in whose Jurisdiction
O'Kelly WAS modified his threat, sud said he
would Danish bin If lie returned. OKely re-
turned, was arrested, and orders given for his
trial as = spy by court martial. A late dispatch
saws that two letters from President Cespedes
we're found on his person, and If this is true,
his case is made considerably worse. There
is no Disgusting the fact that O'Kelly has been
guilty Of a serious ofTense, that the Spanish
authorities would be justified in sending him
out Of the country, but they are not warranted
by the fact in treating him Rs a spy, for the
reasons that he lacks the distinctive features
Of spy, viz; a disguise. We trust that Gen.
rorbett the American Consul-General at Ha-
vana, has taken firm stand in the matter,
and has placed O'Kellys case in such light
to the Spanish authorities that they will con-
tent themselves 10y sending him out OF the
country. As matter Of policy they would
and it great blunder to execute him.
THE last English files contain the par
ticulars Of the trial at Durham Of Mary
Ann Cotton. the West Auckland
pOisoner, who, in order to obtain an in
surance of from S25 to $50 on the life
Of each victim, poisoned during the last
twelve years three husbands, her moth
or, all her children and those of her
numbering in all thirty per
sons. The woman Cotton appears in
Court with her two months old child at
her breast, the only one of her offspring
that has been spared the fate of the