The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-04-27
BY TELEGRAPH.
WASHINGTON.


WASHINGTON, April 26.-The President will
appoint two paymasters in the army to-mor-
row, vice those the Senate failed to confirm.
MORE MEXICAN DEPREDATIONs.
The Postmaster Gsneral has official advices
that the post-office at Corrizo, Texas, was
plundered by Mexicans and DR.. Lowell killed.
FINANCIAL.
WASHINGTON, April g. - $11, 600, 900 in
bonds have Just been sent to London, being
the last of the subscription by the syndicate.
The President has declined to interfere in
the case of Hope 81. Slater, recently con-
victed in this city of manslaughter in having
killed Michael Hussey at q schutzen festival,
Imprisonment in the Albany Penitentiary.
The application fer his pardon had been
. .nding for several weeks
POsT-OrFlCE ITEMS.
The Postmaster General to-day issued an
order canceling all awards of contracts here
tofore made in favor of Jerome J. Kinds,
Patrick Laughlin, John W. Delaney. William
Weiss and VIM. c. Iddings, these being the
names contained in tho proposals fraudulently
imposed upon the department by the COM
plicity Of clerks at the last regular letting.
the order directs the contracts to be i'm
mediately awarded to the respective bidders
the proposals thus rejected The routes re-
ferred to are all in the State of Texas. The
fraudulent bids having been made, with a
full knowledge of the amounts of the bona
tide proposals, only q few dollars below them.
the loss to the government occasioned by the
present order will be very small.
Mr.. Delano will not resign until tho cloud
resting over his department is dissipated
Gov. Bard has resigned the Atlanta post
mastership, to take effect June l.
Sarah Walker alias Puss Oakley, has been
sentenced to three months imprisonment.
with the understanding that upon her release
she return to Norfolk.
RAILROAD COLLISION.
A collision occurred on the Baltimore aud
Potomac Railroad about S o'clock this after
noon just outside OF the tunnel, near the east
ern branch, between the 4:53 train from this
city and the New York train due here at 5:l3
P. NJ. Eight or ten persons were severely in
| iured and both trains badly wrecked.
Nine persons were severely injured and
others slightly. A careful inquiry gives NO
Southern homes, either in the incoming or
outgoing train, among the injured 1t is
thought some will be delayed by the confu-
sion Of the baggage The engines tenders
were demolished and the baggage cars piled
on them.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT DECISION.
| WASHINGTON, April 26.-The Treasury De-
partment has decided that when goods are
imported under the act of 1870 for transpor-
tation without appraisement to an interior
port they are liable to duty under the tariff at
the time of their first arrival in this country
and not under an act passed subsequently
thereto bat before their arrival at the interior
port. This decision may involve n change in
some important decisions heretofore made
under the act of 1870.
| THE COURT OF CLAIMS.
WASHINGTON, April 26. - The Court of
Claims will take up the cases Of Robert G..
johnson and others for cotton seized in Mis-
sissippi during the rebellion, to the value of
nearly 81. 600. 600. Most of the cotton en-
braced in these claims was captured with the
city of Vicksburg Among.the claims is one
for large amount preferred by Robert N.
and Stephen A. Douglas. The Douglas claim
was referred to the court by Congress for de-
clsion according to law and practice of that
court in such cases and proceedings and upon
the law in the case.
Mr.. Goforth, tho Assistant Attorney Cen
eral, holds that the reference of that claim
does not give the court jurisdiction. the prac-
tice of the court having been not to entertain
Jurisdiction in cases not presented within
two years after the close CT the rebellion.
These cotton cases will be continued by the
court from day to day until disposed of.