New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-10
BY TELEGRAPH.
WASHINGTON.

The President Going to Massac chusetts.
WASHINGTON, April 9.-The President
leaves to-day for Massachusetts.
Assignment Of Paymasters.
Paymaster w. H. johnson relieves Major
George L. Febigue as chief paymaster, De-
partment of the Gulf. Major e. Irving
Wilson, recently appointed, has been or.
dered to the Department Of Texas. Major
+. NJ. Coke has also been ordered to Texas.
Engineer Supervisor Of the Jetties.
Major G. B. Comstock, of the engineer
corps, has bsen detailed to report upon the
depth of water and width OF the channel
secured and maintained from time to time
in improving South Pass to the Mississippi
river under the Eads jetties. Lieutenant
Davis, OF the engineer corps, will assist
Major C0mstock in this work.
Tho Refunding of Duties.
Attorney General Williams in bis opinion
to Secretary BristOw regarding the refund
ing OF duties, says: Tue Secretary of the
Treasury has no oOwer to refund duties col
lected in accordance with any decision,
ruling or direction prior to the Passage of
the bill, unless modified or Overruled as
specified in the bill. Money collected since
can not be refunded except as provided for
in the bill for restricting refunding of
duties approved March 3, 1875.
The argument in the great Elgee cotton
case was opened to- day by Solicitor General
PHILIPPE, who will be followed by Mr.. Grow,
Of New Orleans, and General Butler for
the claimants. The argument will be closed
by the Attorney General. The case will
occupy the court until Wednesday. The
amount involved is $367 900, and accrues
from the capture of the cotton raised by
Elgee on his plantation in Mississippi, in
T,,lr a.: n
Lobdell, and in March, 1864, Lubdell con-
tracted to cell it to G. v. Woodruff & Co.,
of New Orleans. c. V. Woodruff e. Co.
recorded judgment for the proceeds in the
Court Of Claim in 1872, upon an agreement
by Woodruff 4 Co. that the proceeds should
BE- equitably distributed between the success
sion of John X. Elgee, C. s. Lobdell, and
themselves. The United States appealed to
the Supreme Court. The case has been in
litigation since 1863
McCartney's Escape.
The following additional information con-
cerning the arrest and escape OF the nOto-
rious counterfeiter Mccartney in Texas,
comes from an official source. Mccartney
was captured by United States deputy
marshal, but upon representations being
made to the Attorney General that it was
necessary to take him to st. Louis for trial,
the Attorney General gave directions to
Marshal Purnell to turn him over 10 the
secret service detectives OF the treasury,
who made that request.
The following telegram, received at the
Department OF Justice, refers to the escape
OF Mccartney, with other circumstances:
WACO, Texas, April 7, 1875.
Hon. George b. Williams, Attorney General, Wash.
ingtOn, ID. c.:
The following dispatch is just received
FROM Bremond, railroad town forty five
miles distant:
Mccartney escaped from Duckworth. l
have men out in all directions in search OF
him. NJ. o. CALLAHAN, Deputy"
Callahan Is one OF my most reliable depu-
ties, and the prisoner never could have
escaped it he had been permitted to control
him. THOMAS +. PURNELL,
United States Marshal