Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-20

| Oarle V. Fisher, a c0lOred school teacher
Of Mississippi, has brought suit against the
Pullman Palace Car Company, claiming
$4,000 damages for refusal to allow her tc
travel on palace car from Cincinnati tC
Washington.
Prof Janney's Report 20 the Indian
Bureau.
Prof. Janney in letter to the Indian
Bureau dated Black Hills, July 81, says he
| found gold in placer deposits on both Spring
and Rapid creeks, from their headwGter 10
where they emerge from the hills, and more
| extended prospecting and exploration
| shows that in localities in the valley of
these streams, gravel bars, especially those
of older formation and elevated above the
present level of the streams, con-
tain gold in quantities sufficient
to Weld fair remuneration
for labor economically and skillfully ap-
piled, assisted by proper tools and mechan-
ieal appliances, at least a moderate
amount of capital or its equivalent, and
such system Of working as experience of
twenty-five years has taught miners of the
Pacific Slope to employ. While valuable
placer deposits as far as discovered are by
no means rich or very extensive compared
with those Of California, still there is
Enough OF the Precious Metal
to develop the country, and stock raising
and agriculture viii do the rest. In test
ing deposits on Spring creek, worked out
particular rich spot, where an old channel
has been cut across by the present bed Of
the creek, and in two hours work with q
small sluice, obtained five-siXths of an
ounce of gold, or about $3.50. The soldiers
had previously panned ont Of the same
place not less than two ounces Of coarse
gold, and on measuring the amount Of
gravel washed, l found that the total yield
was at the rate of four dollars per cubic
yard, or about three cents to the pan, as an
average for the whole thickness Of deposit.
1t was truly said Of this region that there
was
Gold I'm the Very Roots OF the Grass,
but it was not the gold of gravel bars or
quartz ledges, not the gold Of miners or Of
biologists.
Indian ETRuds-AssasslnRtiO in the
Air.
Special to the Chicago Times.
A few Gays since NJ. James A. William
son, clerk in the Interior Department,
but assigned ID duty in the Attorney Gen
erals Cffice because Of his knowledge re-
Carding the accounts in the celebrated
Judge Wright Indian frauds, paid a visit to
Cumberland, to his son, and TO attend to
some private business. Last evening he
was on his way back to tins city, and the
train Of cars had just stopped at the Harper's
Ferry depot, when Mr.. Williamson was
shot in the right eye by what he thought 10
be an air gun, and his sight thereby de-
strOyed. Before he could have the con-
ductor informed of the unfortunate affair,
the cars again started, ana his eye received
no surgical attention until he arrived at his
home, IS Gay street, Georgetown. There
medical a tentiOn was summoned, but
no effective examination was made till
this morning. II was then discovered
that there was nothing to be done
that could restore the sight Of
the wounded eye. The Times couespOn
dent called on Mr.. Williams, who was
found in very low condition of mind, suf-
tering f,Om extreme nervousness and de-
preston, combined with the severe pain Of
his wounded eve. Even since he has been
at work on the Judge Wright case, be has
been threatened with trouble. When he
went to the Indian Territory to seek eyi-
dence in the case, at the time that Judge
Wright and Attorney General Williams
were fighting one another, be was threat
ened with death. So great were the diff
culties that surrounded him theIe, that be
did not venture out after dark during his
whole stay. He is very reticent about the
nature Of the recent attack on him, and its
causes, seeming to speak under dUress. He
says that two rough ch racters followed
HIM from Cumberland, and that they got
of at Harper's Ferry, where the shot was
fred. Who they are, or for whom be thinks
they acted, Mr.. Williamson would not say.
VIII the $4,000 Thieves Escape?
1t is asserted by some that the arrest Of the
three Treasury thieves was premature, and
that there is not sGfficient evidence to con-
vict all of them. It is quite generally con-
ceded that Peg-Leg Brown viii not be i'm
plicated enough TO be convicted. The
whole point Of the prosecution IS to be made
OH the conviction of Ouman, the mOneyed
man Of the trio. He will make very Wig
OTOus effort to escape, and will contest very
vigorously the right OF the COVE rument to
attach his property. Through his counsel,
be raises the point whether the govern
ment has right to PREJUDICE him as guilty
and, in attaching his property, take away
his power tn defend himself. The court
reserved its decision. The points involved
in the argument awakened more than Ordi-
nary interest, from the importance Of She
question whether the United States had the
right 10 seize the property Of a suspected
man in so summary manner.
1t is said here tonight that Halleek has
been invited TO turn States evidence to Sc
cure the conviction of Ottman.
ChicagO's Fast MALTA Slam at st,
Louis
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
q. S. Bangs, Superintendent L. r. Postal
Service, leaves TO night for Saratoga, to meet
the officials of the New York Central, to
arrange the details Of the timetable for the
express mail train to the West. Il Is still
expected that the train will leave New
York on the morning Of Sept. 10. The
complaints Of the Postmaster at st. Louis,
that this fast express mail will not be as
advantageous to St. Louis, as 20 cities
fur her north, are not well founded in fact.
The country tributary to st. Louis is very
illiterate country when compared with the
Western and Northwestern States, which
receive their mail through Chicago. The
statistics of mail distribution for a series of
years show that the mail received at and
distributed through Chicago and St. Louis
are ten 70 one in favor Of Chicago.
killing the Golden Goose.
The experiment of shipping large guam
titles of peaches to Western cities seems to
have resulted disastrOusly TO the forward
ers. because Of the high rates charged for
transporting peaches by the railroad com
panies. All the shippers to the West have
lost money, some of them considerable
amounts.
LIIIPutian Cattle.
Advices from the Red Cloud Indian
Commission show that great number of
the cattle furnished by the contractors
were under-sized. a quantity Of hides Of
cattle used a; this agency have been found.
They showed that the gross weight did not
| exceed from two hundred to four hundred
| pounds each. For a considerable period
| this summer the Indians were without
supplies. The coffee was poor, the sugar
coarse; the tobacco very poor, and looked
! much like mOlaSSps II ba1 baap diSoou-