The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-30
Ex-Uaeen Isabella to Return to
Spain.
Mexican Border Troubles.
General News.
Foreign and Domestic Markets.
Etc, Etc, Etc.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Collector of Inter
NAL Revenue Sh&ughnessy, at jackson, Miss.
sslegraphs the Commissioner of Interna
Revenue that his deputy, w. B. Redmond
had been driven from his Office and home
IND from county to county in his division
while dIscharging his official duty, by armed
Bodies who publicly defy the authority of tn
United States, and threaten to resist. II Red
naond can not discharge his duties withou
military interference, instruct me in the prem
Uses. In reply the commissioner telegraphed
" Is your evidence positive of Redmonds
nnrsuit by armed bodies How numerous
nTe they, and how large a force do you re-
Guire y
Shaughnessy replied by telegraph, "Evi-
9ence positive; Redmond notified by Mayor
GE Summit, Pike county, to leave at once, as
No and the peace officers could not protect
aim. Armed bodies numbering from fifty to
seventy. five assert that he can not remain in
the division. A commissioned officer and
twenty-five soldiers, if stationed at Liberty,
Amite county, and instructed to support him
Tor thirty days, or until the offending parties
ars arrested, would be sufficient Cavalry,
preferred as an escort, could accompany him
Gn tour through the bad counties, and have
good effect"
The papers in the case were transmitted to
President Grant who directed the military
Oficer commanding the Department of the
Calf to furnish sufficient force of cavalry to
enable he proper officers to collect the reve-
nae
ghe report Of the Fort Sugg commission
wiil not be published until Bristow takes time
30 read it.
IL is true, as stated in special dispatch
from Vienna, that the Secretary of State has
addressed q circular to all the European gov
ayyn,n artr IN tho bian If Iuhon ffai in
/. ending a copy to Spain. Its contents can not
De obtained from official sources here.
WASHINGTON, Dec 29.-The Navy Depart
nent has q report from Commander j. N.
Miller, commanding United States steamer
Ruscarora, dated off Honolulu December A,
2s75 The Tuscarora left San Francisco on
ahs Sd of November and arrived off Honolulu
en the Goth. Capt. Miller says: ~ will
seaye here on the 9th inst. to carry out the
departments orders of October IA, in running
line of deep sea soundings to Australia,
Aoping to reach Brisbane, Australia, by the
middle of February or before.
81 have made inquiries at this place,
where there is constant communication with
The South Sea Islands, in regard to the kid.
mapping of natives, and the impression is
that the practice has been broken up by the
English Government. Capt Hayes, who
has been engaged for many years in kidnap-
ping, has been arrested by the Spanish au-
tAorities at the Ladrone Islands"
The Commissioner of Patents to.day de-
eided the interference case OF Watkins, of
Sew York city, VS.. Mccullough, of Richmond,
xnd., both claiming the patent for the fro and
police alarm telegraph which is now generally
m use throughout the United States. The
commissioner awards the priority of inven-
hon to Watkins.
Dispatches from many points North say the
authorities of their' respective cities intend
ashering in the centennial year with great
eclat. by firing cannon. Ginning bells at mid
night, illustrations, decorations, etc.