The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-06
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-A fire this morning
DESTROYED two frame shanties. Three coloret
children, aged TO- IL and Is years, wer'
burned up.
The Attorney General has dispatch tina
District Attorney Wells, whom he describes
as the Administration candidate. has beer
elected to. Congress from Mississippi by 9O0l
majority.
The Attorney General has no advice of the
indictment of Gen. Babcock and Orvllie
Grant at st. Louis. Gen. Babcock remarked
he did not care to take any notice OF the re-
port unless it should be verified.
The .4ar says Gen. BabcocB, Private Secre-
tary to the President, says, with reference to
the special dispatch from St Louis to the
Cincinnati Enquirer, stating that ne mas oeen
indicted by the Grand Jury at St. LOUIS Tor
consuming with the distillers Of that city to
defraid the government out OF the taxes on
crooked whisky, that he does not believe that
any Indictment has been found against him,
for several reasons
In the first place the news OF his indict-
ment appears in an opposition paper In tie
second place he never received any intlma-
tion from any source that his name was to be
presented to the Grand jury, and finally that
he knows nothing of nor has he ever had any
connection, directly CT Indirectly, with the
whisky ring.
OF the man Fitzroy, who, it is slated,
turned States evidence, he knows nothing, al
though he believes he did see him once. and
only once, in ST. Louis
John r. Valentine ba3 been appointed
United States District Attorney for the East
ern District Of Perm ylvania.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-The Signal Service
Observer at Barregat Inlet reports two
masted schooner ashore on North Bar. Wlnd
M Bartholdi, the umpire of the American
and Spanish Claims Commission for the set
Element of claims of citizens of the United
States az INST Spain for wrongs and injuries
committed against their persons and property
in the Island of Cuba slncei the commence
ment of the present Instruction, has re-
turned. The following are the cases submit
ted to him by the erbitrators, with his deci-
sion and awards thereon:
JOAQUIN G.. DEANGARY. Spanish au-
thorities were duly notified OF the American
citizenship of the claimant six months before
levying an embargo upon his property and
have acknowledged his innocence OF any
completely in the instruction. The property
was taken in 1869 and no. restored to him
before the years 1873 and 1874. The Spanish |
authorities are liable for the unjust detention
of it and for the injury it sustained while in |
their possession, The umpire awards the
sum Of $748, $50, with interest from the date |
of the decision until paie, at the rate OF Six
per cent per annum.
CASE OF PEDRO S. IsoLIEvE.-No damages
can be awarded claimant for injuries he re-
ceived in q private quarrel The proofs do
not show that he was guilty OF any offense, or
that there was sufficient power for arrest ting |
him. He was entitled to trial before com
potent tribunal, and was released from impri- |
comment only after detention OF Ii days, by
the exertions of the Consul General of the
United States in Cuba $4,000 damages, with
6 per cent interest from September l, 1870, to
the day of payment, are awarded.
The case Of Francisco G. Yzgimero was dis
missed fur want Of Jurisdiction. The case OF
Jose NJ de Ortega was dismissed, as the
proofs show that the claimant, who was Of
foreign birth, had not complied with the re-
auirements of the naturalization laws.