The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-01
BY TELEGRAPH.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3l.-Tacher, Commissioner
of Patents, has resigned. Duell, OF New York,
will probably succeed him.
The authority for the employment of special
clerks to the Revenue Supervisors, is revoked
The Treasury Department has reconsidered the
determination regarding the transfer OF gold to
the Pacific coast. $50 00J was transferred to San
Francisco for the benefit Of the Bank of Oregon.
Treasurer New says no further transfer can be
made hereafter.
Gauger's fees are to be computed upon each
days work. The first 10 gallons 10 cents, the next
100 cent, the next 200 u cent, the next 500 is
cent all over 1880 gallons per day l-12 cent. On
all spirits withdrawn from warehouse, the fees
will be LIS of per cent per gallon.
The Postmaster General has addressed the fol-
lowing letter to the proprietOrs of the Maine
Standard in answer to their complaint that the
paper had been tempered with in the mails:
Gentenen-Your favor of the 2Ssh inst. is at
hand and noted. You state that the Maine
Standard addressed to regular subscribers has
been opened in the Post-Oftice and Republican
campaign documents folded inside and delivered
to subscribers, and ask if such conduct is to be
tolerated by the Department
In reply have to say that such action is in
direct violation of the rules of the Department;
of decency and of the prophecies OF official posi-
ton.
Ii you will present to this Department the
proof that any officer or employee has been
guilty of the offence charged, he shall be at once
to do SO in order that immediate action may be
taken. Very respectfully,
MARSHALL JEWELL.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3l.-l he Market Company
of Paterson, N. j., have been elJoloed from
doing further business. Liabilities, S250.000.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-The Columbia Typo
graphical Union has suspended, at their own re-
quest, the downtown printers for Elk months,
allowing them to form Union of their own, and
meantime to make any arrangement they please
u,;f Rv thia action N
printers cease to have voice in the affairs Of
outside offices.
WAsH1SGroN, Aug. 31.-The War Department
has transmitted to the Indian Bureau q letter
from Col. HATCH at Fort Texas, in relation to the
Seminole negroes, former slaves of the Seminole
Indians. He says there are about five hundred
men, women and children of this race living in
Texas, and they desire to be sent to locality
where they can earn their own living.
They ask for lands suitable for cultivation
upon some government reservation, and il the
government can not furnish them, they beg tC
be sent to Florida where, without owning lands,
they can obtain them to work until means are
created by their labor to enable them to pur-
chase.
Col. Hatch saws that land in Texas not sus.
ceptible of irrigation is worthless for the purpose
eff cultivation, and that all good land is owned
by capitalists or linen Of means, while there is
much good land in Florida still vacant.
When they were transferred with the Semi
noes from Florida to the Western territories.
their women and children were kidnapped and
sold into slavery by Indians and bad white men.
This forced them to flee into Mexico. They
were induced to return by promises which were
never fulfilled.
Jhev are now living in great restitution, Dor.
dering upon starvation. A few of them are en-
ployed BY the government as Indian scouts,
which is their only means OF support. He says
they can easily be sent to Florida at very small
expense if not they will return to Mexico, go to
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