Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-04-30
WASHINGTON.
The Freedman's Bank Swindle.
Report that Fish VIII Soon
Retire.
The Freedman,s Bank sWindIe.

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/ three hundred thousand dollars in the
! United States Treasury. 1t would require
i six hundred thousand dollars in hand to
declare a dividend of twenty per cent. A
/ large number Of debtors have paid TO the
/ institution small amounts. The Commis-
siones have offered the real estate Of the
debtors for sale at auction, but
owing 70 insufieiency of bids,
/ have bought in the property
themselves. The question has been raised
! that the commissioners have not the power
! to acquire real estate, but that their duty is
/ to realize money only, to be distributed
among the depOsitOrs. Many Of the de-
| posItors are selling their bank books at ten
cents on the dollar. The Attorney General
has decided that the commissioners cannot
resign their Offices, as they proposed doing
several months ago.
Jewell stm Pudding on the Small
Leaks.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
For some years there have been charges
that the waste paper at the Capitol was
! disposed Of in very curious way. By or
der Of the Postmaster General, Special
Agent Henderson recently investigated the
charge that such material was conveyed to
Junk shops in the United States mail sacks.
On Monday he discovered the fact that one
fudge, an emplOye at the Capitol, hauled
matter away by the cart load TO a junk-shop
where 1t was disposed Of for little or
nothing. Mr.. Henderson questioned him
as to what he received for Mondays load,
and fudge replied about seventy dollars.
He asked him if that was one Of his peTqui-
sites, and he replied in the negative, saying
that he TUNED the money over TO the
clerks, doOrkeepers, ETC., and they gave him
fifty cents per load TO convey the waste
paper TO the junk shop (in q government
wagon duly marked as a United States mail
wa9on). Henderson founda large number
of United States mail sacks al the junk
shop.
Another Railroad Monopoly.
The compromise between the Union Pa
cifc and the Kansas Pacific railroads is
likely to be brought to the attention Of
Congress. Some of the Western Senators
who are here state that this agreement is a
manifest violation Of the charters Of both
these roads, and that it will certainly be
broken up in some way by Congress. They
claim that 1t creates monopoly, and ln-
creases the rates in a manner forbidden by
Congress.
The New Attorney General.
Mr.. Pierrepont's nomination gives salts
faction to the Cabinet, and surprises the
politicians. There are several Republican
Senators here, and they tonight state that
they fail TO see wherein the selection OF
PieTepont will give the Administration
political stength. The friends of the Force
bill viii be much discouraged by the ap-
pointment Of PieuepOnt. He is known
not to be in favor of that kind Of legisla-
ton for the South, and in his Louisiana
speech at the Sheridan indignation meet
iEg, in January, was very severe upon Whist
he called the policy Of Attorney General
Williams toward Louisiana. 1t IS this
feature in Pierrepont's political record
which the Senators here are unable to
understand. They consider PieTepont's
speech against Williams as non
seguittT, since Williams never did do any
thing in Louisiana without the approval Of
the President. They say that in selecting
PieTepont It seems to be putting the Presi-
dent In the position of choosing man
who has been hostile to a prominent feature
in the Administration policy. Oth8s
maintain that this fact OF Itself shows thai
the President has not the political ambition
with which he is credited, and that he
could in 10 way have more torclbly ended
the third term sensation than by choosing
Pierrepont. who is known to be hostile to
such a policy. Among other rumOTs, it is
said that Conkling and Pierrepont are IN
friendly.
Special 10 the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mr. Pierreoont acted here as Assistant |
Government counsel in the celebrated case |
of John Surralt, whom he prosecuted with !
unusual energy and professional skill on |
the charge of being concerned IN the |
assassination Of Lincoln. Mr.. Pierrepont |
contributed twenty thousand dollars to |
help Grants reelection in 1872, but though i
a strong party man, his public utterances
have been far more moderate than those OF |
Mr.. Williams.
Special to the Cincinnati Gazette.
The attempt Of Gen. Buffers friends TO |
stop the appointment Of Mr.. P.errepont as |
Attorney General failed, and to-day the
latter gentleman notified the President that |
he would accept the position.
secretary Fish.
There is authority Of one of the most |
prominent officials here that the under |
standing at the White House is that this |
will soon be followed by the retirement OF
Mr.. Fish.
VIM. =. King.
The grand jury to-day took up the case
Of Bill King, and began an inquiry as to |
the charge Of perjury, and Mr.. Dawes and /
Mr.. Kerr, members Of the Ways and /
Means Committee of the FOTty-secOnd /
Congress. were examined as to Kings tes-
timonv during the frEt Pacific Mail inves-
ticafion, and various New y orb parties as 1
TO the paymeut of money to King.
The Case Of BuelI,
charged with libel by Senator Chandler, /
will soon be considered by the Grs nd Jury. |
The desire Of the prosecution is to procure /
another Indictment in which the defect OF |
the first as pointed out by Judge Treat, |
shall not appear, and which shall supply /
the fatal omission Of not charging that the |
libel was uttered in the District Of Co /