New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-25

Louisiana, IOc loss OF property sOlu 10 MIN
by the United States. This involves the
Benjamin estate.
House adjourned to Monday.
WASHINGTON.
The Currency Question.
WARRINGTON, March 24-There is Q
growing disposition ON the part of both
parties to take the currency question out Of
politics.
General sherman at the White House.
General Sherman visited President Gran
to-day.
Cabinet Meetiag.
There was full Cabinet meeting to-day
Minister Seward Explains.
Mr.. Seward, minister to China, has made
explanations of his conduct satisfactory to
the administration.
Hoffman Atkinson, of West Virgins, sec
retsry of legation at st. Petersburg.
Supreme Court.
In the Supreme Court the question of tine
validity of the retrocession Ut Alexandra
from q citizen of Alexandria refusing to pay
the tax levied by Virginia.
What the Marsh Family Say.
Marsh, before the committee to-day.
stated he read the Fort Sill exposure in the
Tribune to Belknap in 1872. They both
wondered who wrote it. Beiknap thought
| it was General Hazen. Marsh fed to Canada
| for fear of criminal prosecution.
Mrs. Marsh knew Mrs. Bowers since 1861;
resided ct the Burnet house, Cincinnati,
four years. She and Mrs. Bowers were in
company three weeks in London; Mr..
PendletOn went out with them; did not
return with Mrs. Bowers; knows nothing
about the Kentucky railroad claims; her
husbands original understanding about
| Fort Sill was with Belknsp. The evidence
| goes to show that nearly every trading post
| from Senator Harlans assessments for
political purposes.
| General Schenck writes Mr.. Faulkner he
left London on one days notice, and is sick
from the hasty journey. He has beon
given until Tuesday to appear.
General NcCook ON the Stand.
A special to the Times says General Nc
Cook testified that in 1872, while ON an il
spection tour in Texas, his attention was
directed to practices of officers in that de-
selves and ecandal0us to the military ser
vice. Charges were made against General
Reynolds, which he investigated and made
the subject of Q report. He found that
REYNOLDS had accepted, in the name Of his
wife, house and lot from certain contract
ors who were furnishing supplies to his do
partment. The property is mentioned II
the deed IS being worth SIC. .OCO.
Tho epencer Iuvesrigatien.
In the Spencer investigation, continued
by the Senate committee to-day, Mrs. j. J.
Moulton testified that her husband gave H.
Ray Meyers and other parties $4OO to pay
their expenses when they went to Washing
ton to secure his appointment as postmaster
a. Mobile, and that when he got the Office
ne was in debt $4,000.
j. Reagan, cashier OF the Montgomery
postoffice, testified that Moulton gave him
draft for $225O, indorsed by Spencer; that
he kept it two days, and that Moulton then
took it up and gave his personal check for
$4,000, to make good his stamp account
witness knew of no postofice money being
used for political purposes, or for the elec-
ton of Spencer.
George L. Putnam testified that Moulton
was his money and stamp clerk while he
(PutDam) was postmaster at Mobile. Be-.
fore MOulton succeeded him he removed
Moulton and reported the action to tho
POstofice Department., because Moulton
was short in his accounts about $1,000.
Moulton. however, made the deficit good.
!. He also told Senator Spencer why he re-
| moved MOultOn. After MOultOn's appoint
ment Senator Spencer, in . conversation
with witness in Washington City, said he
had been deceived by Myers in regard ia
him (Putnam), and that his removal was .
bad job.
Moses S. Foote, banker of Mobile, tes
titled he had discounted only one note for
.. ). j. Monlton; it was for $4,000, and the
negotiation was made by L. H. Myer, as.
SCISSOR of internal revenue; witness refused
to discount it until Moulton and Myer got
Caleb Price and G. F. M0ult0n to ind0rso
it; they told him that Senator Spencer
would got $500 from the Republican Ns-
tional Executive Committee to carry Ala
bama for that party =. :nd Iai.s secure Spsnoers
; get his money; after they got the $1,000 on
This note they remarked that troops would
7 | ha ordered into the State and they were
| bound to carry it. Witness said if they
bad told him this before they got tho mo-
ney, he would not have let them have it.
He was 10 politician, and voted mixed
ticket. He was conservative, but did not
vote for Greeley for President. The Dem
ocrats in Mobile called him id Yankee
and the Republicans called him q id
rebel. Laughter
The Cabiaet Discusses Mexican Affairs.
There was another extended Cabinet
meeting to-day, the session lasting fol
nearly three hours, and quite . large
amount of the usual routine business wHl
disposed of. 1t is learned that the revo
luton in Mexico was the subject of conver
satior, the attention of the Cabinet being
: brought directly thereto by the application
r Of the local Mexican authorities, who an
| endeavoring to suppress the insurgents, fol
q | the purchase of arms from this government
Q The application was matter of dis
: cussiou, but without definite action.
: may be that the matter will receive fur
, ther attention from the War Department
I There was also some consideration givez
. in the Cabinet to an application FROM tn,
officers of the army stationed at Fort Sill
and the administrative council of that post
Q for the retention there of Evans A pos
q trader. No action was taken bevond
+ reference of the subject to the Secretary o
). War.
d General Sherman to 'Remnin I'm Washi,a
= General Sherman will probably remai
< in this city several days.
Tho Impression here 10 tho army hoe,
, quarteEs win b restored to this city. It
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