New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-01
BY TELE G R AP II +.
WASHINGTON.
Personal

fer9Onal
WASHINGTON, July 3l.-Secretary Robe
son has gone.
Sella Martin (colored) has been appointed
treasury agent, and assigned 10 M'ss's-
sippi.
The Wealth of the Late Chief Justice.
The estate of Judge Chase nets rrlfie
over 100000.
The Postal Car Quarrel.
The POstotfice Department has arranged
to avoid delays in the mails should the
PHILADELPHIA and Baltimore railroad with
draw postal cars.
Mississippi Matters.
DESPITE the action OF the government in
refusing to send the military to Vicksburg,
the executive powers Of the State will per-
sist in the statement that the public peace
ia endangered.
Governor Ames, who has been away from
his post, has returned. and to-day tele-
grained to President Grant, reiteratlng IN
the main the apprehensiOns set forth in the
kilograms and mail advices previously tor
warded by Lieutenant Governor Davis.
He makes no formal demand tor troops,
but the tenor of his dispatch is such as to
intimate that he desires federal troops to
be called to Vicksburg on election day.
In the meantime almost every mail brln gs
protest from the reputable citizens Ut
Vicksburg denouncing the action OF the
executive officials as unwarranted and with
out cause, other than to intimidate voters.
A dispatch received yesterday was for
warded to President Grant, but up to the
close of the department no reply had been
received.
The correspondence and dispatches. on
the subject will be made public by the Wal
Department after the President has rem
dered hnal decision as to what course he
will pursue. They are quite voluminous.
Correspondence.
The following is the telegram OF Cover
nor Anes, of Mississippi, tU the President
| in re iation to the Vicksburg troubles:
|. JACKSON, Miss, July %, 1874
| To Pre- s:dent U. S. Grant, Washinston
regret to inform you that l find upol
| returning here that q serious and alarming
| condition of affairs exists at Vicksburg
Infantry and cavalry organizations exist
| and it is reported that a number OF piece
of artillery have been sent to the city
and these bodies are organized and armed
without authority, and in violation o
law assume to be the guardians o
the peace. This is q political CON
troversv. On the one side the Dem
| ocrats, represented by the whites, say the.
fear frauds on the part Of their opponents
The Republicans, consisting mainly OF tn
blacks. claim they fear frauds and ais
violence on the part of the DeroOcrats. A
one time a collision and bloodshed wa
feared by all; now by the Republicans; bu
by the Democrats, it is not believed Onl
because the, have became masters of th
situation. 1t is they who oppose tn
presence Of troops at this time.
OF the causes of this lamsntable state Q
affairs it is useless for me to speak. l onl
seek peace and protection tor all. Ca
there be any objection why troops shOul
not be sent there! No harm can result
Their presence may do great good. 1t ma
save many lives. Even one would NOR
than compensate Tor the harm, if any
which do not see. Will it not be the leas
of evils to have troops there for any emel
gencys ADELbEKL AMES'
Governor of Mississippi.
The following reply was sent to Governt
Ames to-day:
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 81, 1874.
| To Hon. A. Ames, etc.
The contents of your dispatch have bee
submitted to the President. He declines
move the troops except under call mac
strictly in accordance with the terms Of IL
constitution. w. w. BELKNAP.
Secretary Of War.
A Wicked Girl.
A girl of fifteen years, named Henriet
Wavel, has been arrested, having cOntesse
to setting fire to room at West Farms b
cause she saw the infant child Of the pr
prie:or asleep on the bed, as she states. an
wanted to see it burn up. The fire wa
however, extinguished but not until att!
the little one was somewhat burned. 81
appears to have the same devilish man
that affect the Pomeroy boy Of Boston.
| To he Paid.
Secretary BristOw will to- morrow gi'
notice that $50 100000 of coupons an
s., ,OOO. 900 of registered bonds, will be pal
at the Treasury on the first of Novemb he
The fall designates by numbers what bone
will be paid, and the interest thereon wi
cease on the date mentioned.