New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-30
BY TELEGR PHI.
WASHINGTON,
The Isthmus shin CaraI.

Ahoy hAo VI OpiulOu, hlLcE llutobtlRdllOU
that the Nicaragua route is the best.
They estimate the canal from the barber
OF Brite, on the Pacific, to Greytown, Oh the
Atlantic. can be constructed at cost not
to exceed &66 100000.
There are objections of an almost nsur-
mountable nature in all but the Panama
and Nicaragua routes, and notwithstanding
its greater length, is6 miles, they gave The
preference to it. Lake Nicaragua is ON this
route.
The canal commission, after alluding to
the importance and feasibility Of the canal,
say it is now regarded as OF the highest i'm
portance that the United States take some
action at once to carry out the feasible
plans of the ship canal, in order to prevent
either France or England from coming in
asd taking the honor and profit of this
great enterprise. The commission consists
OF General Humphreys. Captain Patterson
and Commodore Ammen.
ConGressmen Arriving.
Members of Congress are arriving rapidly.
Fernando Wood Out of the Field.
Hon. Fernando Wood declines further
use OF his name as a candidate for Speaker
The withdrawal of Mr.. Wood from the con-
test for Speaker created a sensation to-day.
In authorizing the withdrawal of his name
Mr.. Wood declined to say for whom he
would cast his influence. The respective
friends OF Kerr, Randall and Cox are still
confident.
The CIerkship.
The contest for the clerkship is active.
Major Wedderburn, of Virginia; Major
Banks, of Mississippi; Mr.. Adams, of Ken
lucky; Mr.. Archer, of Maryland. and Mr..
DuBose, of Georgia, are on the ground.
Each will undoubtedly have the support OF
his State.
1t is thought the election OF Kerr will
throw the nIprkahin In IA Soufhaoat
the election of Randall to the Southwest.
The Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court to day confirmed the
decision of the Court of Claims in the case
of the United States VS.. the Union Pacific
railroad. This confirms the proceedings in
favor Of the road, and allows it to retain
One-half of the amount paid by the govern
ment for transportation The case decided
is only for $500,000, but the decision will
hold for the future and may involve a large
amount.
The opinion on the constitutionality of
the enforcement act, involved in the appeal
from Judge B! B!adley's decision in the Grant
parish cases, was not delivered.
The opinion of the Supreme Court to-day,
affirming the decision of the Court OF
Claims in favor of the Unisn Pacific Rail
| road Company, was unanimous. The court
fully sustained the position of the company.
RepeIiins Cruel SANDER.
The conclusion of card addressed to the
Ecentr9 Star by John r. French, Sergeant
at-Arms of the Senate, is as follows:
when your reporter saw the room in
which the Vice President died, it had been
put in preparation for the occupancy of the
men who were to take plaster cast of the
face and the men who were to make a post
| mortem examination of the body and the
men who were to prepare the same for the
funeral casket. 1t was put in order but, as
one not aware OF the purpose might think,
in disorder, by covering the carpets and
furniture with rugs and loose cloths. This
care your reporter msto0k for neglect,
and upon his own error he builds
his suppOstiOn OF other mems neglect of
the Vice President through his sickness and
death. Nothing could be further from the
truth, or more cruelty unjust to the kind
hearted and loving men who gave their
days and nights, through all that anxious
fortnight, to gentle and untiripg ministra-
tions by the bedside of their dying friend,
or to unbroken watchings at his door, and
it is also very cruel to the Vice Presidents
many friends through the country, whose
wounded hearts will gather new pain from
such rumors of base neglect. A more COM
Portable room or more careful and faith full
attendance could hardly be furnished sick
and doing IAN than was provided to the
late Vice President"
Extracts from General sheridan's Report.
The troops stationed along the Rio Grande
have had the humiliating duty of attempt
ing to protect our citizens and their prop
erty from raids by the people Of a foreign
country, who come over the boundary in
armed parties to steal cattle, and do not
hesitate to attack and kill our citizens when
necessary to accomplish their purpose.
The low stage of water in the Rio Grande,
nnfh
make the duty of protecting it difficult, in
fact almost impossible, with the few troops
available for this purpose. In speaking of
this duty as humilating one, l do not
mean that it is not perfectly legitimate, for
any duty is such which has for it's object
the protection of the lives and property of
the people on an international boundary line;
but when it is considered that these armed
parties, as soon as they are pursued, take
refuge on the opposite bank of the river,
and there, in sight of our troops, which
dare not GROSS, Craze and slaughter the
stolen cattle with impunity, the sight is
very mortifying to those engaged in the
protection Of that frontier This condition
of affairs has been going on for the last
twenty years.
In the Department of the Gulf everything
seems 10 be getting along quietly. Last
winter, when the department came under
my jurisdiction, thought it best to call
halt in forcible way on much lawlessness
from armed bands, which action brought
the attention of the government and the
law abiding and good people of the country
to growing and inhuman evil. Peace has
been the result, and prosperity, hope, will
follow.
General Crook, in his report concerning
the Black Hills, thinks the settlers border
ing the Sioux reservation have just ground
for complaint When they claim that the
Sioux violate the treaty time and again
every summer, stealing their cattle, and
absolutely breaking up their business,
and this violation of the treaty is by the |
Indians who are fed and clothed by the |
government, and supported by taxes paid |
by the frontier men as we'll as other tax
paying citizens; when these same settlers,
impoverished by the raids of the Sioux, 60 |
to the Black Hills, a country by the way the |
Indians seldom visit on account of terrible |
thunder storms in summer and deep SHOWS |
for mines, they are charged with violations |
of q treaty the main features of which the |
Indians have never regarded. Crook says
there are two sides to this story, and the |
should be heard as well as the |
Indian. The settler is really the weaker as |
compared with the Indian, and most de- |
serving of sympathy and protection.
General Sheridan, in his annual report to |
the Secretary of War, recommends that |
some immediate action be taken that will |
settle this Black Hills question and relieve |
us from an exceedingly dissgreeable and |
duty. II feel quite satisfied" |
he adds, "that oil the country south of Yel. |
lOwstoue river from the Black Hills of the |
Cheynne as far west as Big Horn valley,
and perhaps as far west as Clark's fork of |
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