San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-12-21
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WASHINGTON, November 2.-The New Or
lean. mint will be- re-openedabout the hrss Oh
January.
Commissioner Raum received telegram
from Collector Brayton tlstcl Columbia Nov
slst, that Captain Huffman tlesraPhS that ms
detachment Of revenue forcewas Surrouhaea
last night in a house where thy were stopping
in Abbevillc county, near the Georgia line, ny
band of armed men, stleastforty, ana ordei-
ed them to leave the country their lives threat
cned, and several shots fred The officers ther
withdrew to Abboyille court house to await re-
nforcements, which Brayton ordered ne
says the warrants for the arrest OF tho ohehd.
ers he obtained and executed. also the spcc'a'
Deputy Landlord reports seizure near spar'-
onsDurg of two horses, wagon, and seventy
gallons of whisky, and also arrested TWO DOCK
aders. The Compissioner replied lnstrae''ns
Brayton to reinforce Hoffman sufficiently 10
overcome all resistance, and make oil proper
seizures and arrests, and concludes: i WISH"
distinctly understood that i will oppose any
further amnesty in your State Offenders must
expect to be prosecuted to the full extent Oh
the law"
In his report to the War Department Gen.
Gibbon, commanding the department OF Dako-
ia, after describing the murder OF Edward FRA
zer by Indians, tenders his contribution to the
literature of the Indian department, in ques-
ton holding that any attempt to place the con-
troll of Indian affairs under two departments
80 radically opposed in principle M is the mill
tary and Indian, results in a flashing OF authori-
ty and State affairs which il working to the
detrimcnt of the Indian. The average Indian
agent, he says, while preparing the red men for
heaven, as he thinks, is actually making hell
upon earth for him by leaving him unclothed
and unfed, while frequently the price OF his
clothing is put in the agents pocket. The
army, on the ether hand, who had been educat-
ed to account for every cents worth of proper
ty received from the Government, ia anxious to
feed the Indian to keep him peaceful, gains
credit in the minds of well-meaning people II
the system of responsibility which prevails in
the army existed in the Indian Department
much of the now we'll founded charge of loose
ness or fraud would be avoided, but he says
under the total lack of system in that depart
ment, the responsibility is SO loose and fraud
40 easy, that wonder is not that population
should sometime occur, but that it does not
happen in all cases.
The Mint Bureau received information from
the Denver assayer that he is purchasing for
greenbacks one hundred thousand dollars gold
bullion. The purchases at Charlotte arc from
three to five Thousand dollars per month.
The total estimates Of the Secretary OF the
Treasury for the fiscal year ending June 18th
are s275. 137, 250M; the aggregate for 1878 was
$50, 6sS, 1858, showing reduction for the
next fiscal year Of 1851 ,545 "A.
A warrant for the fishery award was to-day
drawn at the Treasury for five and half mil
lions and placed to the credit Of the Secretary
of State.
WAsmNGToN, Nov. 2l.--The bureau OF en-
ghecrs, upon the request of representative
Gibson, has directed the board upon the i'm
proyement of navigation of the Mississippi to
consider the effect of n permanent system be-
low the mouth of the Ohio upon the low water
navigation of the Mississippi, and also the
benefit 1t would confer in affording protection
and giving needed facilities to shipping, com
merce and navigation. 1t is deemed probable
that the War Department will favor the sys-
tenn rs essential to the improvement OF the
lower Mississippi.