New Orleans Republican., 1875-12-30
BY TELEGR P H
WASHINGTON.
The Fort sugg Commission.

The Fort sugg Commission.
WASHINGTON, December 29.-The report
of the Fort Sugg commission will not be
published until Bristow takes time to read
it.
The Cuban Question-Repsrt Confirmed.
1t is true, as stated in q special dispatch
from Vienna, that the Secretary of State
has addressed circular to all the European
governments on the subject OF CuOan
affairs, including a copy to Spain. Its con-
tents can not be obtained from Official
sources here. H-.
Whnt the lafe Election has Done for
NIississippi
Collector of Internal Revenue Shaugh
messy, at Jackson, Mississippi, telegraphs
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue that
his deputy. W. B. Redmond, had been
driven from his Office and home, and from
county to county in his division, while dis
charging his official duty, by armed bodies
who publicly defy the authority of the
United States, and threaten to resist. II
Redmond can not discharge his duties with
out military interference, instruct me in TIE
premises. In reply the commissioner tele-
graPPhed; sPi ed, sn,a.no. no.,.,v. ., p.s,ons,.
pursuit by armed bodies How numerous
are they, and how large force do you re-
quire2" +'
Shaughnessy replied by telegraph: "Evi-
dence positive Redmond notified by mayor
OF Summit, Pike county, to leave at once,
as he and peace officers could not protect
him. Armed bodies, numbering from fifty
to seventy five, assert that he can not re-
main in the division. commissioned off,
Ger and twenty-five soldiers, if stationed at
Liberty, Amite county, and instructed to
support him for thirty days, or un.il the
offending parties are arrested, would be
sufficient. cavalry, preferred as an escort,
could accompany him on q tour through
the bad counties, and have good effect.
The papers in the case were transmitted
to President Grant, who directed the mill
tary officer commanding the Department Of
the South to furnish o sufficient force of
cavalry to enable the proper officers to col
lect the revenue.
APatenr Right Controversy Settled.
The commissioner of patents to-day de-
cided the interference case of Watkins, of
New York city, versus Mccullough, of
Richmond, Indiana, both claiming the
patent for the ire and police alarm tele.
graph which is now generally in use
| throughout the United States. The com.
missioner awards the priority Of invention
| to Watkins.
Ringing in the Centennial Year.
Dispatches from many points North say
| the authorities OF their respective cities in
l
great eclat by firing cannon, Ginning bells
at midnight, illumin atione, decorations, etc
| Commander NIiller's Report.
! The Navy Department has reloct from
| Commander j. N. Miller, commanding
| United States steamer Tuscarora, dated OF
Honolulu, December 4, 1875. The Tus
carora left San Francisco on the third o
November, and arrived off Honolulu on the
twenty ninth. Captain Miller says:
II will leave here ON the sixth instant tC
carry out the departments orders of Oeto
Der IA in running a line of deep sea sound
ings to Australia, hoping to reach Brisbane
4 Australia, by the middle of February O,
before. l have made inquiries at this place
where there is constant Communication will
the South sea islands, in regard to the kid
mapping of natives, and the impression il
that the practice has been broken up by tn,
| English government. A Captain Hayes, VIII
has been engaged for many years in kidnap
ping, has been arrested by the Spanish au
thorities at the Ladrone Islands.