The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-01-09
GENERAL.

The President has approved the bill
removing the political disabilities of E. j.
Hoorie, Thos. s. Bacock and Daniel Trigg, of
Virginia, and John H. Reagan, of Texas.
The attorney general recomends that
pardons be issued by John NJ. Wright and
George W. Waters, convicted at Pittsburg
over six years ago of eounterfeiting and i'm
prisoned at Allegheny city in the Western pen
itentiary.
Charles Wilson, grand chief of the
brotherhood of railway locomotive engineers,
has written letter pronouncing the strike
against the Pennsylvania Central railroad as
unjustifable and in violation OF the rules of
tho brotherhood, and advising all those en-
gagged ia it to resume work at once.
The secretary of the treasury speaks
more hopefully than heretofore of the condi-
ton of the national treasury and expresses a
belief that with the continued increase in the
amount of receipts and large reduction in
public expenditures the necessity for addi-
tional taxation may be lessened.
The payments made from the treas
ury by. warrants during December 1873, were
as follows On account of civil and miseel-
laneous S6217, 654; ON account of war S4,-
663,614 on account of navy, $4, ,esS, O55 on
account of the interior, Indians and pensions,
S4,75S, ,9O3; total $40, 76S, 226. Tho above
does not include the payments made on ac-
count of the interest or principal of the pub
lie debt OF the United States.
The United States district attorney
says that no further proceedings will be taken
in the case of the Virginius. 1t is not likely
tho vessel Will ever be raised, and it is deemed
requisite the vessel should be produced before
she could be hbeled. Government officers
say that whate may have been the relations
of Mr.. Patterson TO the Virginius as the time
of her register. there is abundance of proof
that he was not her owner at the time os her
capture.
No official information have been re-
ceived eonfrmatory of the report from Mad
rid respecting Indemnity to be demanded by
the Spanish government in the case of the
Virginius, nor is it probable that any such
claim win be presented. II at any further
time bill of damages should be presented,
payment would, we have good grounds for
stating, be refused on the principle established
by the Geneva tribunal in the disallowanee OF
indirect and consequential damages.
A Key West dispatch says that Capt.
W. D. Whiting, chief of stan of the north
AtihnJlc squadron Lieut.. AdOlph Marx, flag
lieutenant, and cl EFF engineer Harris. of the
dispatch boat Despatch, have been summoned
to Washington to testify in the investigation
in regard to the sinking Of the Virginius.
Capt. Whiting received the Virginius Marx
brought her to the Tortugas, and Harris made
the engineering survey before she left Bahai
Honda. The navy department has received
telegram from Key West announcing the ar
rival of the steamer Wabash, from the Euro
pean squadron.
Gen. Belknap, Secretary of War, is
disposed TO cut the estimates Of the war de-
partment down to the lowest possible limit.
Those for military services proper received his
personal attention, and were calculated as
closely as possible, but he proposes TO read
just them and reduce them as far as the sctual
requirements Of the service viii permit. The
estimates of appropriation for fortifca tions,
armament of forts, and for rivers and harbors.
amounting in the aggregate to about twenty
nj lien dollars, can be very materially reduced.
J'neress ca decide as to the lacations where
appropriations are. needed.