The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-05-05
6osernor Nichols Issues a Proclamation
Of Thanksgiving in Gratitude for the
Deliverance Of the People of Louis
lana The Past to Be Forgot
ten in Present Unity.
Judge John Il. King Appointed
Collector of Customs at New
Orleans.
A Little More of reform Within the
Party" Finds Light in the Consulate
Branch Of loyaity-ciapp Asked
to Resign the Partnership.
Peace and Confidence Restored i'm Mex
ico-ApPropriatfea for Rivers and
Harbors ExhRusfed-Its Southern
Allotment


Harbors Exhausted-Its Southern
Allotment
WASHINGTON, April Glowing to
the death of assistant treasurer Davis,
at Cincinnati, Secretary Sherman has
| sent Horace \. Whitney, of the treas
urer's office, and w. T. Barnes, of Of
| flee of secretary of the treasury. to
| take charge of the office there until
| q new assistant treasurer is appointed.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared a dividend OF twenty per
cent. in case OF the fourth national
bank of Chicago.
A. Estern has been appointed assist.
ant treasurer at Cincinnati.
The following dispatch was received
| to day by Lieutenant-G General Phil
Sheridan: 1.-THE following from Gen
erai Crook, dated at Camp Robinson
to-day, is just received. A courier
from Crazy Horse and Red Cloud have
just arrived, with positive information
that Crazy Horse and his people, with
few northern Indians, will he III
here in eight or ten days"
In the treaty between the United
States and Russia, in 1854, the two
parties recognized as permanent aud
nmutahle principle, that fres ship
make free goods. That is to say that
effects or goods belonging to subjects
or citizens of power or state at war,
are free from capture and confiscation
when found on board Of neutral ves-
sells, with the exception of articles
contraband of war, and that property
of neutrals on board of an enemy's
vessel is not subject to eonfiscation,
unless the same be contraband of war
They engage to apply this principle
to the commerce and raviIatioD
all such powers and states as shall
consent to adopt them on their part
AS permanent and inmutable. The
last treaty between the United States
and the Ottoman empire, negotiated
in 1882, contains no such declared
principles.
| A New Orleans dispatch says the
following will be issued tomorrow:
| WHEREAS, The political troubles
which have weighed upon the people
OF Louisiana for years have, under u
mercifnl dispensation of the provi-
dence of God, been brought to a happy
end. aud,
| WHEREAS, 1t is meet that in the
hour Of their deliverance and union,
the people should return thanks for
dangers past, and seek strength to full
fill the promises held out by an auspi-
cious future,
Therefore, I, Francis 7. Nichols,
governor of the state of Louisiana,
do hereby issue this my proclamation,
fixing Thursday, the 10Th of May, as a
DAY Of thanksgiving and prayer, and
do INVITE all good people Of this state,
on said day, to abstain from their sew
eral avoeations, aud to offer up their
hearts in thanksgiving to that divine
and merciful providence who has
vouchsafed to guide them to haven
of peace and union, and to ask at his
hands for the future the blessings of
his divine guidance, SO that all the
people OF the state, forgetting past dis
sensions, may be united In the full
tillment of common and happy des>
tiny. FRANCIS t. NICHOLS,
| Governor.
WASHINGTON, April 2s.-The state
department has advices of the state of
war between Russia and Turkey, but
no official notice will be taken of the
fact until notice has been received by
the ministers of the respective coun-
tries here.
Charges have been preferred against
Mr.. Van Buren,, American consul, at
Rauagarvs, for scandalous practices
and direlection of duty.
The president has not asked the pub.
lie printer, Clapp, to resign.
Judge John f. King succeeds Col
onel Casey as collector Of customs at
New Orleans.
John w. Easily relieves Issaih Hama.
colt, as chief of bureau of construction
Ia the navy department.
Mr.. George A. Gustin, for several
years private secretary to the postmas-
ter general, has been appointed stenog.
rapher to the president. Telegraphcrs
will remember Gustin's click from
Augusta, Georgia.
Dispatches received at the navy de.
partment from Commander Schley,
dated of Vera Cruz, April Is, on board
the Essex, reports that tranquility ex-
lists throughout the republic. Peace
and confidence seem restored with the
acknowledged election Of General Diaz
and that the interests of our country.
men on the coast are in no way
mensced. The governor and other
officers at Vera Cruz have been ex-
ceedingly courteous. The Essex ex
pected to leave the first week in May
for Key West for supplies. All are in
good health.
The appropriation for rivers and
harbors. was fiye millions, two millions
OF this sum was expended by order OF
General Grant, and since then, nearly
two millions have been allotted, leav.
ing q trifie over q million In reserve.
OF this balance the south gets-Miss
sippi, Missouri and Arkansas, balance
SIS, 900; Ouachita, Arkansas. balance
IL, 800; Tazoo, Mississippi. II, 900; Little
Kanawha, West Virgsnia, 1900; He.
wasse, 10000: mouth Of Mississippi
balance, 10000; Appomattox, Virginia,
I5.00O; New River, Virginia. 1890
Cape Fear river, North Carolina, g.,
600; South Branch, Elizabeth, Virgin
IL, 5000; Norfolk harbor, 5000; Pal
mico river, North Carolina. $4,000
PerquamAns river, North Carolina
$4,000, Nansmond river, North Caro-
lima, 5000; French broad, North Caro-
lima, 10000; and this exhausts the ap.
preparation.
4 Collector Kings commission wa,
! signed to-day.
i The ex-secretary Of the treasury lef
for Maine to-day.
Il Alexander II. Stephens appeared II
the supreme court to-day and argued
4 cause. <
Il Ciapp has resigned, and Defrees be
Gomez public printer. Defrees had thi
placs under Lincoln.
i TWO hundred ard a. hands wsr,
| DISCHARGED irom the bureau Of printin,
nd engraving to-day,