The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-01-24
FROM WASHINGTON.


there will be no change in the tobacco>tax
Inventors are moving to have the cos
| of obtaining patents reduced from one hun
dred to five dollars.
Six hundred applications have beer
received for the position of commissioner t.
the Paris exposition.
The president has pardoned John T
Toombs, convicted of using cancelled postage
stamps for payment of postage and sentenced
Kentucky penitentiary.
BY direction of the president, Lieut.
Alexander Rogers, of the Fourth cavalry
has been detailed for duty on the staff o
Commissioner General Mccormick, to repre-
senl the army at the Paris exposition.
The secretary of the interior has ad
dressed strongly worded letter to d. A
Galpin, 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 M0nro
ty negroes, composed principally of families
u Olh 4hIoslcoIppl) 4NOlbi NhiuIluuJ VII SInitj
Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Senator Cockrel of Missouri, late 4
confederate brigadicr general, was inter.
viewed by reporter in Washington, and an
nounced his intention to present at an early
day a constitutional amendment forever
barrine 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 enginreSs appointed by the
secretary of war to examine the Eads i'm.
prOvement OF the Mississippi river, and ap.
proved of the same ,whereupon it 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
nOtgO at pound rates is not entertained, but
that it is there held that person receiving
a 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 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 resumstion policy of the government.
He says that in Kentucky, and he is informed
that the same will apply to other states of
the west, II this course of the government be
continued, and resumption is forced, general
bankruptcy will result. lie says that rs
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 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.
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
ofienses to 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 Mexcans 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 the troubles,