, 1876-03-10
LATEST NEWS
BY Telegraph and Mail

Gold in New York Jon the Sth inst,
1144.
A telegram from San Francisco of
the 9th says: The resignation OF
Capt. Bob. Waterman, as U. 5. in
spector of hulIs, is freely commented
upon. The Legislative committee
made an expose of his manner Of
making surveys. Steam navigation
will be benefited by the change.
The worst snow storm the Central
Pacific Railroad has met with this
winter occurred on the 4th inst. The
trains are blocked by heavy snow
slides near Emigrant Gap.
A special from Washington says
that evidences show that Belknap
sold FIVE other post tradeships be-
sides Fort Sill, for sums ranging from
$500 to S25OO year. Also an out
rageous fraud has been unearthed in
the disbursement of the million dol
lars appropriated for putting up head
stones over the graves of Union SOL
diers.
It's reported that Orville Grant,
brother of the President, is implicat-
ed with Belknap in the iniquitous
post leadership selling business.
Capt. Eads' plans for improvement
Of the channel at the mo outh of the
Mississippi river are proving very
successful; already the channel has
been deepened eight feet.
Samuel Hannah has been nomin-
ated collector of customs for Villa
mette District, Oregon.
Levi Luckey has resigned as pri-
vate secretary to the President to
accept a position in the Interior De-
partment. U. S. Grant, jr., is now
private secretary.
The Nevada and Northern Tele-
graph line has been attached by a
firm in New York for $4,000.
The London Telegraph in speaking
of the recent Belknap disclosure
says: Disclosures after disclosures,
charges. after charges, differing in
degrees of truth, but with the same
ugly and untoward character have
lately disturbed the commercial, re-
lligious, judicial and administrative
institutions of the United States.
Some were fAlR, others true, and
more await evidence; but the gen.
eral effect beyond denial has bcen
and is to bring the blush of shame
and anxiety into the faces of all hon.
est Americans and to make count
less friends of the Republic in this
country silent and sorrowful when
others rejoice over these recurring
revelations. Happily the countries
are few where so gross an abuse Of
trust would be possible.
Information has been received at
the War Department that Gen. Crook
has started with a force from Fort
Laramie, and Gen. Custar with troops
from Fort Lincoln, to be Joined by a
|detrchment from Montana to march
against Sitting Bull, near the mouth
of Powder river, in the Yellow Stone
country. Sitting Bull has l, 800 war
lriors, and sets at defiance the treaty
which requires his people to remain
on their reservation. The number
of U. S. troops in the expedition Is
about 1000.
A scow employed in removing oh
structions from the Umatilla rapids,
in Oregon, was blown up last week
causing the death Of IA men engaged
in the work. Cartridges had been
loaded and placed in the water.
Powder fuse and caps had been COM
pletely put away and the order had
been given "turn away on capstan,
when the explosion took place; il
was 50 terrific that it shook the
buildings in Umatilla, six miles of.
1t is semi-officially announced
that Gen. Babcock's connection with
the Executive Mansion has ceased.
The general inquiry in Washing.
ton is, who will follow Belknap into
disgrace? There is a panic, suspi-
cion and unrest of apprehended cor.
ruption there. The BEST men of both
parties are mournful and insist that
we have fallen upon a period Of greed
and that others in high places may
be brought low. Secretary Robson
is mentioned and two committees are
working at him. They have as yet
found no trace of crime, the most that
has been discovered isirregularity.
Oats command higher price in
San Francisco than in any other ol
the principalities of the United
States, while wheat is cheaper than
in the Atlantic seaports. The best
oats are 81 per GENITAL, little above
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