The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-09-25
From Washington.

SWALLOWS HOMEwARD FLY-AN M
PORTANT DECISION FOR SETTLERS
GOING wEsT-IMPoRTANT ARRESTS
| OF COUNTERFEITERs = SIGNS OF
HARD TTIEs-A BAJOR-GENERAL
| COMMANDED BY A CORPORAL = A
sELL-THE POTTER COMMITTEE.
WASHINGTON. D. c.. Sept. 9.
| To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
People are returning from their
summer loiterings at the sea shore.
among the mountains or the more
quiet attractions of some rural re-
treat, which is cheering to the home
brigade, who welcome the signs of
active life, in lieu of long closed
blinds, and merry voices of children,
well bronzed by their summer trip
coming back with a redundancy of
health and spirits, ready for the
opening school. The army of teach
ers, too, innocent of the contest
which has been waged over text
books during the summer, are again
on duty, re-invigorated by the re-
spite they have enjoyed.
Autumn preparation resounds on
every side. as if. like last season, we
were threatened with an early session
Of Congress. Especially has the spir-
it of renovation invaded our hotels.
Secretary Schurz has delivered his
decision on the motion to reconsider
entered by some of the railroad COM
panies affected by the recent decis-
ion in the DudymOtt case. This de-
cision was to the effect that public |
lands granted to certain western rail /
roads. which remain unsold at the /
expiration of three years from the |
completion of the road are, under the
provisions of an act of Con-
gress, open to the entry of $1.25 per
acre. 1t was also held that the lands
we're not disposed Of by mortgage.
as the provisions of the act granting
the land must have been understood
by the mortgages, and the company
could only mortgage such interest in
the lands as it possessed. In his de-
eisien the Secretary reaffrms his
original decision constituting the act,
overruled the proposition brought
by the railroad companies
to the effect that by the grant the
right to sell was vested only in them,
and to the effect that to mortgage is
to dispose Of" in the sense intend
ed by the statutes. The decision is
4 long and very able one. The Land
Office will be instructed to issue the
circular. setting forth the
method to be pursued in pre-empting
such lands.
The Secret Service division of the
Treasury to-day received information
that two farmers of Cattaraugus CO.,
Y. Y, named Kirkpatrick, father
and son, were arrested for counter
letting trade dollars and fifty cent
silver coins. Moulds for making the
same, with counterfeit oOin repre-.
,enting a face value of about 5000
we're seized. The farm of these par
les Is on the line between Pennsyl-
'ania and New York, extending into
10Th States. The son went to James
own, n. Y. to sell his coin and was
here arrested, while the father was
ound at work at his blacksmith forge
n that part of the farm lying in
pennsylvania.
II is somewhat surprising how the
ard times increases the army en-
stments. OF 15s men who have re- :
emily enlisted here. only twenty I
n were formerly soldiers. There {
as one lawyer, one merchant, three
ngineers, and one telegraph opera |
,r. Resides these, there we're car s
enters. draughtsmen. plumbers, four t
rinters, shoemakers, bookkeepers. I
cooks, machinists, and /
Venty-seven Iaborers. One of the t
umber was a graduate OF West |
oint. He was at one time a cap C
lin in the regular army, before the {
ar. At the beginning of the war {
e cast his fortunes with the other O
de, and before it closed he had ris-
q TO the rank of Major General in
le Confederate service. He is now Il
private soldier, though he is called il
eneral by all who know him. 1t o
i'll look strange for an ex-Maj0r il
eneral to be ordered about by e
but such is and will con- Fl
nue. to be the fact. In a couple OF d
ears he may be promoted. but the b
-my ring is SO powerful! that there t
no chance for him to rise very e
gh. il
For the past week a number of O
have appeared in the pa
srs of this city giving an account !;
the birth of fva chiIdran 'rho h