Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-12-11
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
RAILROAD LANDS FORFEITED
WASHINGTON. Dee. Q.

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In the Senate, during the morning
hour, u resolution was reported by
Dorsey, i~nstrucling the COMMITTEES on
the District Of Columbia to inquire and
report by bill. or other wise, the proper
form OF government for the District.
It ~as agreed tn.
A number Of bills were introduced
and referred; among them, one by
Plumb, tn declare certain lands here
tofore granted to railroad companies,
forfeited, and to open The same for set
Element.
Bv johnson, q bill amendatory OF
supplementary act to incorporate the
Texas Pacific RAILROAD, aid to aid in
its construction.
Al the expiration Of the morning
hour, Wadleigb, Chairman of the
| Committee on Privileges aud Eiec-
tons, called up the resolution reported
| from that COMMITTEES last week. de-
| clHred that j. b. Eustis was entitled TO
his seat Ms Senstor from Louisiana.
General John NJ. Harlan, newly ap-
| pointed Associate Justice OF the United
States Supreme Court, met the other
| Jus icss ia the robing this morn.
ing. and had . cordial welcome, and
subscribed to the iron clad oath.
Judge Harlan then, after tho usual
formalities. tool a seat on the bench.
The Secretary Of War was before the
Committee on Military Affairs to-day.
He said the order to General Ord, TO
pursue the Mexican Taiders across the
RIO Grande, On a fresh trail. was based
principally upon information given In
the report of Colonel Shaffsr, hereto
fore published; and being asked by
what authority the War Department
had to make such an order, he cited
the order given to Col. Robert f.. Lee.
in 1860. TO follow Mexican depredators
into Mexico. il necessary; and that
given by John T.. Calhoun. as Secretary
Of War, in 1917, to General Gaines. to
pursue the Seminole Indians into
spanish territory-which order was
vigorously carried out by General
Gaines successor, General Jackson.
Captain Clause, of the Twenty fourth
Infantry, stationed at Fort Brown,
confirms the current statement that
several large ranches in Texas had
been abandoned, IN consequence of the
danger to property and life from Mex
ican raiders.
Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury,
Hawley. took possession of his Office
this morning.
The Treasury Department refuses o
permit the suspected steamer Estelle
10 be removed to New York.
Case and wesnaore again Indicted--
Peter b. sweeney Pays the Inst
Of N 500, OOO.
NEW YORK. Dec. o.
Robert Case. president; T. P. Wet
more, vice president. and Isaac II. Al
len, secretary, of the Security Life In
ursnce and Annuity Company. have
been again indicted-this time for con
spiracy, and as security against their
possible escape in other proceedings.
Peter b. Sweeney, to-day, paid the
last instalment of the $500 900 and in
terest. which he agreed to pay this city
in the settlement of the Tweed ring
snits against him. At noon. Judge
Noah Davis vacated the attachments
upon Sweeney's property. and i'm
mediate transfers Of it were made to
Jay Gould and other purchasers. who
furnished the cash for the settlement
of this arrangement. Sweeney's friends
declare tha: this strips him entirely of
his real estate, and leaves him to be-
gin q new search for the future.