Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-06

examination of the testimony. The
session of the Commission is to be se-
cret, and report will be agreed on, to
be transmitted to Washington before
its tenor will be made public. Harris
says the report will be long on all the
charges against the Indian Bureau in
regard to beef and flour. Each charge
made by Professor Marsh will be con-
sidered as carefully as possible.
Government Humanity.
WASHINGTON, October 5th. - The
sailing orders of the Sautawara, now
fitting out at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, have been forwarded to the
commander. She is ordered to Para,
Brazil, where she will take aboard as
many of the poor Southerners who
left this country at the close Of the
war for an asylum in Brazil, as may
desire to return to the United States.
The number is not known, but the or
der Is to take as many as the accom-
modati0ns of the vessel will permit.
4 horribic deed
MANCHESTER, n. II. Oct. 5. "A man
named Drew has been arrest ed at this
place charged with the murder and
outrage Of Miss Jessie Langmaid, and
there are fears that he will be lydched
The head OF the girl has been cut off
and was not found until this morning.
Intense excitement prevails.
The North Pacific squadrOn.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-Rear Admi-
raj Almy, commanding the North
Pacific Station, reports to the Secreta-
ries of War and Navy, under date of
Honolulu, Sept. 9th, that he would
sail from that point for Lower Cali
fornia and the Western coast on the
25th of Sept. to look after American
interests in that portion of his station,
where affairs seem to be in q sone-
what disturbed condition. Heexpects
to reach San Francisco on the first
of February. The officers and crew
Of his flag ship, the Pensacola, are in
good health. Out of a complement of
400 men, but few deaths had occurred
on that vessel in the last two years.
schafenburg's Frauds.
CHICAGO, Oct. "a Washington
special says that Treasury Agent For
ney, who was sent to investigate the
charges against Schafenburg, the for
mer Marshal of Colorado, gives a
graphic picture Of the enormous oper-
ations of the Denver ring. Forney
left here with the accounts that had
been submitted by Schafenburg at the
close of his Marshal's term. Forney
went out for the purpose of comparing
his accounts as submitted to the Treas
ury Departments with the original
recods Of the court, in order to discov-
er af to their falseness or correctness.
He found the accounts fraudulent, and
that they had secured payment of
large sums of money to Schafenburg
that amounted to practical robbery.
One ofthe principal swindling features
of the mans style of keeping accounts
with the Government was in the
charges for keeping pr isoners. Every
man who was arrested was made to
figure as q prisoner in his accounts,
whether he saw the isside of q jail or
not. Responsible citizens would be
arrested for some trivial infraction OF
the United States laws, and would be
perhaps released on his own recognlz.
ance, such persons were made to figure
under Schafenburg's manipulations as
prisoners In Jail from three to six
months, requiring the payment of ST.
SO each day for their subsistence. H.
C. Alderman, District Attorney at the
the time Schafenburg was Marshal,
made himself very unpopular by his
persistent arresting Of men for trifles
and carrying the cases up for fees, yet
he never arrested man but Schafen-
burg made Jail bird of him, and
\ q -
other means Of stealing from the Gov
ernment was over charged for mileage.
This was done to such preposterous
extent that, were 1t not for the i'm
portance of the crime, 1t could but ex-
cite levity on account of its barefac-
edness.