New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-28
WASHINGTON.
Army Movements.

WASHINGTON, July G.-The two bat
talons of artillery which have been or.
dered to report to General Pope, command
ing the Department Of Missouri, will be
composed Of the following: Two compa-
MES Of the Second Artillery, from Fort Nc
Henry. Maryland; one company of the Sec
ond Artillery, from Charleston, South Caro-
lima; one company Of the Second Artillery:
from Fort Macon. North Carolina; two COM
panies of the First Artillery, from Fort
Adams, Rhode leland: one company of the
First Artillery from Fort Warren, Massa-
chusetts, and one company Of the First Ar
tillery, from Fort Trumbull, Connecticut.
Colonel O:is has been ordered to Join his
regiment, the Seventh Cavalry.
The Trade Dollar.
The coinage of trade dollars has been
suspended at all except the San Francisco
mint, where it is confined to actual demand
for export.
Caperton's Successor.
1t is thought that Representative Faux
ner will be appointed to fill the unexpired
term of the late Senator Caperton.
Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill.
The President will allow the sun0ry civil
appropriation bill to become law without
his signature. This will occur simultane-
Ously with the expiration OF the extension
of the present appropriations and POSTPONE
it's economical features for few days.
Bluford Wilson's Testimony.
BlufOrd Wilson, ex-sollcitor of the treas
ury, testified before the whisky frauds COM
mittee to the effect that the President CO.
operated with Bristow and himself in the
whisky prosecutions up to the time when
Babcock's connection with the frauds be-
came manifest but then ceased to do so.
Wilson also said that during the pendency
of the prosecution Babcock obtained pos
session of letter of his to Henderson,
urging activity and watchfulness, and in
terpolated o. got interpolated an expression
which dstorts the meaning, and made it
appear that he, Wilson, was trying to con-
meet the President with frauds.
Bluford Wilson testified that in CONVEX
sation with General Horace Porter, after
the discovery that the Sylph telegram was
in Babcock's handwriting, Porter gave an
explanation to the'etfect that it related to
the movements of certain parties going to
st. Louis on bridge business and that the
signature arose in this way: There was a
certain woman who had given the Presi-
dent much trouble Babcock and Mcdonald
being together in Washington one day saw
her, and Mcdonald recognizing her ex-
claimed, "There goes the Sylph;" Bah
Nc Donald replied, II know her very we'll +"
:'Then," said Babcock, wish you would
! get her away from here; enc is annoying
the President. Certainly" said Melon.
aid, "that is very easy; can manage her,
! and he did. So the term Sylph became
standing Joke between Babcock and NC
| Donald; they signed their communications IN
that way. When charged with setting spies
| over the President, Wilson, in self-defense,
told the President his suspicious OF Ban,
cock, and related the explanation o.
"Sylph' as given by Porter. The PresL
| dent Indignantly denied the etOry, and
brushed it away with q contemptuous ges
| ture, and proceeded with his remarks on the
frauds, saying he believed Babcock limo
cent, but if guilty, he was the most guilty
wretch in the country, and no punishment
| could be too severe for him. Wilson tesii
fed when he first heard this story from Por
ter he believed it false, and he still believed
| it 60. Wilson will be further examined to
morrow.
| spanish Consul Recognized.
The President has recognized Enriqu
| Vedia as vice consul of Spain at New Yorl
I Honest, but Ignorant.
The evidence in the case Of Judg
humphreys, of the Supreme District COur
shows incapacity. No judicial corruptlo
was developed.
Chinese Immigration.>
Chinese immigration to the United Statt
for the year ending June 80 was 22,572. II
cluding2259 females, an increase over Ia
year Of 6lS5. -"t.75 St.
The Diplomatic Bill. ...-
| The conference on the diplomatic bi