New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-04-01

| Internal heNtDut
yerv Hi-Suryey of Lanes sold fol
Direct Taxes-Supreme Court Deci.
| sions-Decfsion in Favor of Mrs
| Gaines-soutnern Tour Of Postmaster
| General.
WASHINGTON, March 3l.-Internal reve.
nue. receipts for the month So l25, 600.
| James Brooks condition is unfavorable
| to-day.
| Commissioner Douglas has appointed an
engineer to survey lands III the South sold
| tor direct taxes, with view OF their resto-
| ration TO owners upon the payment of taxes,
costs, etc.
| Sherman that he thinks when the avenues
of escape are closed and supplies cut off or
abridged the Modocs will come in.
SuDIeme Court State OF South Carolina
ex rel. Wagner VS.. Weasner, of Charleston
county. The question was whether tax
officer was bound to accept bills of the
bank of South Carolina in payment of
taxes, the allegation being that its charter
made it's bills receivable for all public dues.
The county treasurer answers that the bills
were issued in 1861, and in aid of the re-
bellion; therefore are not legal tender;
and further the charter under which the
bills were rendered had been repealed.
The first question was found by the jury
in favor of the bank, but the court held
that the clause requiring the State to re-
ceive the bills in payment of taxes was
subsequently repealed. This ruling is sus-
tanned here and judgment affirmed.
City of New Orleans VS.. Myra Clark
Ganes-From the Circuit Court for Louisi-
ana.
The appeal sought 20 reverse decree of
the court below, in favor of Mrs. Gaines,
for $l25,226, as rents and profits Of lands
belonging to her which lad been in the pos
session and use of the city.
Mrs. Gaines brought her action to recover
possession under a former decision of this
court il her favor upon the general ques-
ton of ner rights. The report of the mas
ter to whom the case was referred was in
her favor, and tire court entered decree
| thereon III her favor.
This court directs the atfrmance of the
decree and dissolves the exceptions thereto.
Postmaster General Creswel, with Sena-
tors Howe and Cameron, will make a
Southern tour to inspect the postal car ser
vice These gentlemen also seek health
| from the sammy Southern breeZes.
Commissions to the Georgia postmasters
| are not issued. They have been referred
| to the Postmaster General for a full inves-
CATION of the Quest tions which led to the
| suuabble in the Senate. The commissions
| will probably not be issued tor some days,
| and if certain charges are verified they will
! be withheld.
The Postmaster General has made the
| following reply to the announcement OF rail
road companies of their purpose to con
| tiuue, for the present, the running Of postal
| cars:
PosTOPPICE DEPARTMENT, [
| Washington March 81, 1873. )
| To Isaac Hinckley President of the Philadelphia
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad:
SIR acknowledge the receipt of the
communication, dated the twenty ighth in
| stant. signed by yourself and the repre-
| sentatives Of several other railroad com
panies, requesting that the notice given me
| under date of the tenth of January last
relative TO the wiuhdra wal of railway postal
cars on after the first Of April proximo, be
considered suspended for the present.
| The announcement made in that cOmmu
ncation Of the purpose of the companies
| to continue TO run such cars until a suth
cient time shall have elapsed TO ascertain
| the views of the special committee charged
bv the Senate of the United States with
! the duty of considering and reporting upon
| the nature and extent of the obligations
| subsisring between the railroad companies
and the postal service Of the country is
| duly noted, and in The event that the com
panies obtain a hearing before the commit
tee, shall be happy to be present as they re
quest.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant
| A. j. CRESWELL.