The Osceola times., 1878-01-19
FROM WARRINGTON.

The latest Washington report is that
there will be no change in the tobacco>tax.
Inventors are moving to have the cost
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 strongly worded letter to ID. A.
GalriD, 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 Cockrell OF Missouri, late a
confederate brigadier general, was inter.
viewed by a reporter in Washington, and an.
nounced his intention to present at an early
day a 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.
The cabinet discussed the report of
the board of engnress appointed by the
secretary OF war to examine the Eads i'm.
rrovement of the Mississippi river, and ap.
proved ofthe same, ,whereupon il was decided
that Captain Eads shall receive the amount
OF money appropriated by congress for his
payment upon compliance by him with the
provisions of the law.
1t is understood that in the postmas-
ter-generaPs office the opinion held by the
law officer that complimentary papers can
not go at pound rates is not entertained but
that it is there held that a person receiving
free paper is an actual subscriber The
law officer, however, without having had the
matter submitted formally to him, expresses
the decided opinion that deadhead papers
can only go at transient rates.
1t is understood that negotiations are
now in progress between leading representa-.
tives of both sides of the currency question,
having in view q 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 ma de rublic. II is thought that
bill on this basis can be drawn in time to
submit at the oping of congress.
Senator Beck, who has returned te
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 will return
from their constituents even more strongly
convinced that some modification the act OF
1875 is imperative.
Lieut.. Bulls gave 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 il would be possible for 4 suffi-
cient force to annihilate them he answered
that they are cunning they hide their fami.
lies in Businesses, and it is almost impossible
to reach and strike them. There were no
oflenses 10 bring on 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 Mcxicans to take any pains to re.
turn stolen property. It was in the power
of the Mexicans to punish or exterminate
these Indians, who are the source of almost
all the troubles.