New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-10-03
BY TELEG GRAPH.
WASHINGTON.
Yelfoyv Feyer na PensA cola.

XeuOw ReVeH u TeuS0C010A
WASHINGTON, October 2.-The following
dispatch was received at the Navy Depart.
ment yesterday. from Captain Semmes, ex.
ecutiye officer of the Pensacola navy yard.
who is again on duty:
Commodore Woolsey is helpless1y sick.
Lieutenant Commanders Kellogg and Bar.
clay are seriously i'll; Aetiug Assistant
Surgeon Miller and Assistant Engineer Nc.
Ellwell are doing well: Assistant Engineer
Lauder and all the sailors and marines are
cOnvalescent.
To-day another dispatch was received
from the same officer, announcing the death
of Commodore NJ. B. Woolsey. commandant
OF the Pensacola navy yard, who died Of
fever this morning. The deceased had been
in command Of the yard about two years.
Commissioner Of Patentss
j. NJ. Thacher, assistant commissioner of
patents. was to-day promoted commissioner
OF patents. vice Leggett, resigned.
Ellis Spear, member Of the board OF chief
examiners, was promoted to assistant com.
mssionership. These promotions, though
not directly under the civil service segula.
!ations. are made in the spirit thereof.
Treasury Disbursements.
The treasury disbursements last month
mepts made on account of the public debt.
General Sherman.
General Sherman leaves for New York
tonight and will return Sunday or Monday.
He then takes his final departure tor the
West.
Archbishop Purcell.
Archbishop Putcell was exceedingly i'll
yesterday, and only his affection tor the
Sherman family caused him to persist in
celebrating the nuptial mass. During the
reception he was obliged to lie down in an
upper room at the Sherman mansion, great
ly 70 his disappointment, a. well a. that Of
the family and the many guests Who de.
sired to make his acquaintance.
Going 70 se. leufs.
The President and Mrs. Grant leave TO-
morrow for few weeks visit to st. Louis.
They will be accompanied by General Bah
cock and ex-Secretary Borie and Mrs. Borie.
The President may stop . day or two in
Cincinnati. He will be present at the we'd
ding of his son, Colonel +. d. Grant, in
Chicago this month.
Cabiues Nfeetins.
At the Cabinet meeting today all the
members were present except Secretaries
Fish and Robson. The Department Of
State was represented by Mr.. Cadwaliadeg.
Only routine business transacted.
Chief Of Secret Service.
Elmer D. Wasbburne, ex-chief Of police
OF OnlCaSO, was tO-Oay appointed CnieI O1
the secret service diyisloa Of yhs Treasury
Department.
lnseractions q Uaieed States MaYshals.
The Attorney General to-day sent the
following circular to United States marshals
in the Southern States in whose districts
armed bodies of men have committed or
are threatening to commit acts Of violence
and bloOdshed:
DEPARTMENT o. jrsricR,l
Washington. September 20. 1874
S1R-f would suggest that at those points
where United States troops are or may be
stationed in your district some prudent and
fearless person in whose Judgment you
have confidence. and whom the people re-
spect, may be appointed deputy marshal.
to act at once in the arrest OF parties com.
mitting outrages in the vicinity. SO that it
may not be necessary in such cases to send
to you before the troops can be used for
the purpose Of arresting those guilty CT vic.
lating the laws of the United States. This. Of
course, will not be necessary where you are
easily accessible. but where the troops ara
placed at remote points, before the neces.
sary communication as to the crimes com.
mitted can be made, the offenders, as gen.
eral rule. have an opportunity to escape.
You will give the deputies the necessary
instructions as TO procuring warrants. and
] need not repeat that it is important that
you should delegate this power to none but
careful and responsible persons.
Very respectfully.
GEORGE A. WILLIAMS,
Attorney General.