New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-27
BY TELEGR A PHI
WASHINGTON.
Postal Contracts Revoked.


| WASHINGTON, April 26.-The Postmaster
| General to-day issued an order canceling
| all awards OF contracts heretofore made in
favor of Jerome j. H'Dds, Patrick Laughlin.
John w. Delaney, William Weiss and Viii
liam Z. lddings, these beng the names con
tanned in the proposals fraud ulently imposed
upon the department by the completely OF
clerks at the last regular letting.
The order directs the contracts to be I'M
mediately awarded to the respective bid
| ders whose proposals are next lowest in
amount to the proposals thus rejected. The
| routes referred to are all in the State OF
Texas. The fraudulent bids having been
made, with full knowledge of the amounts
| of the bona tida proposals, only a few dol
| occasioned by the present order, will be
very small.
Secretary Delnno.
| Mr.. Dclano will not resign until the cloud
resting over his department is dissipated.
| The Atlanta PostoHlce.
| Governor Bard has resigned the Atlanta
postmastership to take effect June l.
Sentence OF the Child Stealer.
| Sarah Walker, alias Pass Oakley, the
| child stealer, has been sentenced to three
| months imprisonment, with the understand
| ing that upon her release she return to
| Norfolk.
DOuOs IOf tno european MARKET
Eleven millions OF dollars in bonds have
just been sent to London, being the last of
the subscription by the syndicate.
Two more Paymnstcrs 10 be Appointed.
The President will appoint two paymas-
ters in the army, to morrow, vice those the
Senate failed to confirm.
A Texas Postofiice Piundered.
The Postmaster General has official ad
vices that the posf"tiice at Carrizo, Texas,
was plundered by MeXicaDs. and DR.. Lowell
killed.
Railroad Collision.
A collision occurred on the Baltimore and
Potomac railroad about five o'clock this
afternoon, just outside of tho tunnel, near
the eastern 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 injured, aud both trains bad
~ wrecked. careful inquiry gives no
Southern names, either in the incoming or
outgoing trains among the injured. 1t is
thought come will be delayed by the con
fusion of the baggage. The engines and
cars piled on them.
Slater Without Hope.
The President has declined to interfere in
the case of Hope II. Slater, recently con.
victed in ths city of mapslaughter in hav-
ing killed Michael I!ussey at a schutzen
festival two years age, and sentenced to
four years Imprisonment in the Albany
Penitentiary. The application for his par
don had been pending for several weeks.
Important Decision by the Treasury De.
partmenI.
The Treasury Department has decided
that when goods are imported under the act
of 1870 for transportation without appraise-
ment 10 an interior port, they are liable to
duty under tho tariff at the time of their
first arrival in this country. and not under
an act passed subsequently, thereto, but
before their arrival at the interior port
This decision may involve change in some
important decisions heretofore made under
the act of 1870.
Cotton Cases in the Court Of Claims.
The Court of Claims will take up the |
cases of Robert G. johnson and others for |
cotton seized in Mississippi during the re-
bellion to the value of nearly 81, 200, 900.
Most of the cotton embraced in these claims |
was captured with the city of Vicksburg. |
Among the claims is one for large |
amount preferred by Robert NJ. and |
Stephen "A. Douglas. The Douglas claim |
was referred TO the court by Congress for |
decision according to law and practice of |
that court in such cases and proceedings, |
and upon the law in the case. Mr.. Go |
forth, the assistant attorney general holds |
that the reference of that claim does not |
give the court Jurisdiction, the practice of |
the court having been not to entertain jur- !
isdictiOn in cases not presented within two |
years after the close of the rebellion.
These cotton cases will be continued by |
the court from day to day until disposed Of. |