The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17
FROM WASHINGTON.


The latest Washington report is that
there will he no change in the tobacco>tax.
Inventors are moving to have the cost
of obtaining patents reduced from one hun
dred to five dollars.
Six hundred applications have been
received for the position of commissioner to
the Paris exposition.
The president has pardoned John T.
Toombs, convicted of using cancelled postage
stamps for payment of postage and sentenced
to eighteen months imprisonment in the
Kentucky penitentiary.
BY direction of the president, Lieut..
Alexander Rogers, of the Fourth cavalry,
has been detailed for Outy on the staff of
commissioner General Mccormick, to repre-
senl the army at the Paris exposition.
The secretary of the interior has ad-
dressed a strongly worded letter to D. A
GaIPin, late chief clerk of the Indian bureau,
| informing him that his services are no longer
required; result of the recent investigation
| into that department.
The bark Liberia, Capt. Richardson,
sailed from New York recently, for Monro-
via, the capital of Liberia, with about seven
ty negroes, composed principally of families
| from Mississippi, North Carolina Virginia
Maryland and Pennsylvania.
| Senator Cockren of Missouri, late a
confederate brigadier general, was inter
| viewed by reporter in Washington, and an
nounced his intention to present at an early
| day constitutional amendment forever
! barring all schemes of secession, for the pay
ment of the confederate debt, or for the pay
| ment of pensions to confederate soldiers.
1t is understood that negotiations are
now in progress between leading representa-
| tives of both sides of the currency question,
having in view compromise measure upon
| which they both can agree. Certain features
| of the proposed compromise have already
been suggested and considered, but it has
| not yet reached stage where its provisions
| can be made public. 1t is thought that a
| bill on this basis can be drawn in time to
submit at the Oping OF congress.
Senator Beck, who has returned to
| Washington from Kentucky, speaks very
| emphatically of the injurious effects of the
| rigid resumption policy of the government.
| he says that in Kentucky, and he is informed
that the same will apply to other states of
| the west, If this course of the government be
continued, and resumption is forced, general
| bankruptcy will result. He says that as a
| rule, senators and representatives viii return
from their constituents even more strongly
convinced that some modification the act OF
1875 is imperative.
Lieut.. Bulls gave a circumstantial
narrative of the results of his raids into
| Mexico in the pursuit and punishment OF
Indian thieves. The total number of depre-
dating Indians is about 225, divided into
four different tribes. In reply to the ques
| ton whether it would be possible for suffi.
i cient force to aDnihilate them, he answered
that they are cunning; they hide their fami
lies in Businesses, and it is almost impossible
to Teach'and strike them. There were nc
offenses TO bring on q conflict between the
| two nations, unless without Just cause. The
thieving Indians have no fear of the Mexi
cans. They go into the towns openly, and
trade with them. The lieutenant never
knew the Mexicans to take any pains to re
turn stolen property. 1t was in the power
of the Mexicans to punish or exterminate
these Indians, who are the source of almost
| all tho trouhIas