The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-27

the Chicago Custom-House
A remarkable discovery is said to have been
made in Washington. It is to the effect that
the enforcement of an order issued by Secre-
tarv Stanton in 1862, and continuing until 1865,
levyng tax Of SIS per month upon the wages
of each colored attaohe of the military service,
designed to create fund for the temporary
maintenance Of freedmene amounting to an en-
ormous sum, of which $15 OO0, 900 were never
expended in the manner contemplated, but re-
| NAMED in the hands of Quartermasters, who,
| being under no legal obligation to turn over or
account for the money, have had it ever since.
The Secretary of War refuses to entertain
/ claim for the restoration of the money to the
| EMPLOYEES from whose wages it was deducted,
having no funds wherewith to pay such claims,
| if allowed, and so an appeal is to be made to
Congress for an appropriation
| Some of the Indian Chiefs from the Chey-
enne River Agency had a pow-wow with the
President on Wednesday last. Lone Horse,
the principal Chief, made threatening speech,
which is supposed to presage trouble unless the
demands are complied with. The President
interrupted his oratorical outburst, saying that
ject further.
The investigation into the New York Custom
House frauds promises some startling develop
ments.
The noble savages Red Cloud, Lone Horn,
and others now on a visit to Washington, are
very much dissatisfied with their reception.
They prefer dealing with the President directly,
but as he turned them over to the Secretary of
the Interior, in whom they have no confidence,
they threaten to go on the war-path when they
return.
Postmaster General Jewell has ordered the
reletting of the mail-contracts in which the
frauds were discovered.
The Sioux chiefs at Washington were dissat-
isfed because they were quarted at temper
ance hotel and wanted to go where fre-water
was more plenty but their wishes were not
complied with.
Spotted Tail, one of the big injuns at Wash
ington, 'did" that city last Sunday in blue
blanket, blue flannel pants, and dome-crowned
felt hat of the latest fashion.
Attorney-Ge Pierrepont is stated to be
putting a sharp edge OH his official ak.
The Commissioner of the General Land Office
decides that the benefits extended by law to
pre-emptors who, by reason of the ravages of
grasshoppers, are compelled to leave and be
absent from their lands, may also be extended
to pre-emptors whose crops have in like MANNER
been destroyed, but who, nevertheless, con-
tinued their residence upon their respective
claims. Those whose crops were destroyed or
seriously injured in 1874 will be entitled to an
extension of one year from and after July 1,
1875, and when the injury occurs in 1875, the
extension will date from July 1, 1876.
The South.
The colored people of Tennessee have started
an emigration movement, and met in conyen-
ton at Nashville the other day to discuss the mat
ter and adopt measures necessary for removal
to some other State. Great Inducements are
held out to them by parties DESTROYS of securing
the settlement of the colored colonies upon
occupied lands, and the movement appears to
have assumed shape which means exodus.
fire at Waco Texas, last week, destroyed
1925, 600 worth of property.
The Centennial of the Mecklenburg Declare
ton of Independence (May 2o) was very gener-
ally and heartily celebrated in the principal
cities of the South.
Jesse D. Bright, formerly United States Sen
ator from Indiana died at Baltimore few days
ago. aged SO. His disease was an organic affec-
ton of the heart.
The notorious counterfeiter Pete Mccartney,
has again slipped from the custody of the Off
GERS of the law in Texas
Gray Beard, one of the most troublesome of
the Indian prisoners recently taken from Fort
Sill to Florida, met his death in rather un-
heroic manner the other day. The noble brave
jumped from the train near Lake City, Florida
and attempted to escape by running, but we'll
directed shot from one of the guards brought
| him to the dust. He died cursing the soldiers
and the white tribe generally, two hours after
being shot.
Indians in Texas are both numerous and
troublesome. A white woman was recently
killed by them, and by way of retaliation a
party of rangers killed five of the savages and
one renegade white man, and carried their
heads to Jacksboro.
/ Baltimore stands chance of securing the
Inman line of twelve or fourteen steamships,
! to ply between her harbor and Liverpool.
! Ferdinand Dudenhofer, Receiving Teller of
the Germania National Bank, New Orleans, has
been arrested charged with embezzling $15 600.
CeneraI.
! The Mexican banditti are again raiding on the
Rio Grande border. They are reported to be
committing depredations daily, capturing cattle
and driving them across into Mexico, besides
committing other outrages.
| Advices from Havana report that highway
robberies and murders are so frequent lately in
the streets of that city that the Acting Captain
/ General, who was himself robbed in the street
of his watch and jewelry, worth $4OO, has
ordered all culprits hereafter to be tried by the
military authorities
4 At Nashville Tenn tha other day the Chew