New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-01
BY TELEGR APH
WASHINGTON.


WASHINGTON. August 3I.-The Market
Company of Paterson, New Jersey have
been ipjoined from doing further business.
Liabilities $250,000.
Commissioner Of Patents.
Tacher, commissioner of patents, has re.
signed. Duell, of New York, will probably
succeed him.
No More Clerks for Revenue Supervisors.
The authority for the employment of spe-
cial clerks to revenue supervisors is re-
vOked.'
Transfer OF Gold.
The Treasury Department has reconsid-
cred the determination regarding the trans
fer of gold to the Pacific coast; $4,000 was
transferred to San Francisco for the benefit
of the banks in Oregon. Treasurer New
says no further transfer can be made here
after.
Gauger's Fees.
Gauger's fees are to be computed upon
each days work-the first t sn gallons ten
CENTS the next 100 one cent; the next 200
half cent; tle Cayt 500 One-fifth cent.
All over 1886 gallons per day one-twelfth
cent. All spirits ithdrawn from ware
houses the tees will Je one-hfth of one per
cent per gallon.
A Newspaper Complaint.
The Postmaster General has addressed
the following letter to the proprie ,rs of the
Maine Standard, in answer TO- their com
plant that the paper had been tampered
| with in the mails:
GENTLEMEE-Your favor of the twenty
| eighth instant ia at hand and noted. You
| state that the Maine Standard, addressed
| to regular subscribers, has been opened in
| the postofiice and Republican campaign
documents folded inside and delivered 10
subscribers, and ask if such conduct is to be
| tolerated by the department
In 7 n, no fhaf ct1nhn tny
| is III direct violation of the rules of the de
partment, of decency, and of the proprieties
| of official position. If you will present to
| this department the proof that any officer
or employe has heen guilty of the offense
| charged, he shall be at once dismissed the
| service, and l hereby request you to do so
| in order that immediate action may be
| taken.
| Action of the Washington Printers.
The Columbia Typographical Union has
| suspended, at their own request, the down
town printers for six months, allowing
them to form a union of their own, and
| meantime 10 make any arrangement they
please with employers. By this action gov
| ernment printers cease to have voice in
| the affairs of outside offices.
An Appeal from Seminole Negroes.
| The War Department has transmitted
| to the Indian Bureau a letter from Colonel
| IldbCus al L OtI AOAd5s Ill ICldtiOu " tuc
| Seminole negroes, former slaves of the
| Seminole Indians. He says there are about
| 800 men. women and children of this race
living in Texas, and they desire to be sent
| to locality where they can earn their
own living. They ask for lands suitable
for cultivation upon some government re
servation, and if the government can not
furnish them they beg to be sent to Florida,
| where. without owning lands, they can OBJ
tain them to work until means are created
by their labor to enable them to purchase.
Colonel Hatch says that land in Texas,
not susceptible Of irrigation, is worthless
for the purpose OF cultivation, and that all
| of means, while there is much good land in
| Florida still vacant. When they were
transferred with the Seminoles from
| Florida to the Western Territories, their
women and children were kidnapped and
sold into slavery by Indians and bad
white men. This forced them to fee into
Mexico. They were induced to return
by promises which were never fulfilled.
They are now living in great destitution,
bordering upon starvation. A few of them
are employed by the government as Indian
scouts, which is their only means of sup
port. lie says they can easily be sent to
Florida at very small expense; if not,
they will return to Mexico, go to the noun
tains below San Carlos, about $50 miles
west of the Rio Grande, depredate on the
ranches of Texas and furnish an asylum
for deserters from the frontier. They are
distinct race from the Seminoles, and
are like all negroes, except they are
accustomed to bearing arms, are brave
and daring and superior to the Indians
in fighting qualities. Colonel Hatch ad-
vises that they be sent on the score of
economy. Rations could be issued to them
till they could find means for their own
living. and the old men say that the Florida
fisheries would furnish them abundance of
food. General Ord recommends that they
be sent. Lietenant General Sheridan in
forwarding the letters says: ~ have repeat
edly reported to the Indian Bureau the des.
titute condition of these Seminole negro
Indians, but without eliciting favorable
reply from the Interior Department, and
now forward this as a last hope that this
deserving people will receive some atten.
| ton